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GOP to Romney: You're no Reagan
A handsome former governor faced a vulnerable incumbent, a weak economy and a crisis in the Middle East.
The description is of the 1980 presidential race between President Jimmy Carter and challenger Ronald Reagan. And it's become the Mitt Romney campaign's go-to analogy as he struggles in the polls in the final stretch of the campaign, insisting to donors and strategists that the election is still winnable in the final weeks.
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But 2012 is not 1980, when Carter lost to Reagan in a landslide.
The 32-year-old comparison just doesn't hold up well under scrutiny: the electoral map for Reagan was friendlier, the 1980 economy feebler, the incumbent more vulnerable, the crisis overseas worse and Reagan's campaign skills were simply better.
( Also on POLITICO: Paul Ryan: '12 race like Carter vs. Reagan)
"It's a stretch," said Reagan biographer Lou Cannon, who covered the 1980 campaign for The Washington Post. "It's hard to make a Carter out of [President] Obama, and it's even harder to make a Reagan out of Romney. I don't mean any disrespect to Romney, but I think he's run a poor campaign. You can't say anything within this close a margin is over. I don't do that. But he's got a lot more to do at this point to win than Reagan had to do."
One big problem for Romney is that despite a tough economy, Obama's personal popularity has remained steady, and even gained a few points in recent weeks following the Democratic convention in Charlotte.
Obama's approval rating is now 50 percent, according to the most recent week of Gallup tracking. At this point in 1980, Gallup pegged Carter's approval at 37 percent.
And Obama had a free pass in the primary season, while Romney — never a favorite with the conservative base — faced a tough GOP primary in which he had to repeatedly prove himself.
( Also on POLITICO: Mitt Romney uses Jimmy Carter as campaign weapon)
In 1980, Ted Kennedy challenged Carter from the left in the Democratic primaries, even as the president's liberal policies alienated Southern Democrats on his right. So Carter's approval rating among those in his own party at this point was actually slightly lower – 48 percent — than Obama's overall approval rating is now.
Reagan, meanwhile, was the overwhelming favorite of the Republican base. Considered the heir apparent after his narrow 1976 loss to Gerald Ford, he marched to the Republican nomination after losing the Iowa caucuses — which he'd blown off.
"You have to look at it like a French impressionist painting," said Reagan biographer Craig Shirley, an adviser to conservative causes. "If you stand way back, you say, 'There are maybe some similarities between 1980 and 2012.' But the closer you get to the painting the more it separates."


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No WWE '13 on PC, Wii U or Vita
For you RAW and SmackDown wrestling aficionados holding out hope that WWE '13 would make its way to Wii U, PC, or handhelds, don't hold your breath. THQ's creative director for the series has confirmed the game is strictly for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
THQ's Cory Ledesma tweeted a simple "no" when asked if the game would be coming to PS Vita. He has tweeted the same response to similar questions about PC and Wii U. THQ has traditionally had its WWE titles on console and handhelds only, but its most recent fiscal report released on May 15 listed the game for console and PC.
The game is scheduled to hit the ring on October 30, but it's disappointing that I'll never be able to put Daniel Bryan's head through a table or deliver an RKO to the Big Show on my PC.

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Debate Over the Admissibility of the Defense's Psychiatric Testimony & Ruling by Judge Caverly
William White, psychiatrist and defense expert:
Walter Bachrach: Will you please state your name?
White: Dr. William A. White.
Bachrach: And your place of residence?
White: Washington, D.C.
Bachrach: What is your profession?
White: Physician.
Bachrach: What is your age, Doctor?
White: Fifty-four.
Bachrach: Will you please state your professional connections, both present and past.
Robert Crowe, prosecutor: Just a moment. I object to that, if your Honor please.
Judge Caverly: Why?
Crowe: It is incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial.
Bachrach: Why?
Crowe: The only purpose of it would be to lay a foundation for him to testify as an expert on the question of the sanity or insanity of the defendants. On a plea of guilty your Honor has no right to go into that question. As soon as it appears in the trial, it is your Honor's duty to call a jury.... I want to be heard on that, your Honor, because if there is any testimony introduced in this trial as to the mental condition of these boys, any act or any order that your Honor enters in the case is a nullity. In other words, if your Honor, at the conclusion of this trial, after having gone into the sanity proposition, should sentence these boys to hang, your judgment would not be worth the paper that it was written on. The Supreme court would set it aside....What is the purpose of entering a plea of guilty and then maintaining that you have a defense and you have a right to hear it, when the law says that that defense has got to be decided by twelve men. What is the defense trying to do here?
Caverly: Have you got any authorities sustaining your position?
Crowe: I have got the Geary case, your Honor.
Caverly: The Geary case isn't in point. I know the Geary case. . . . But that is not on all fours with this case. That was a trial for insanity, in which counsel waived the constitutional rights of the defendant to a trial by jury, and the Supreme Court said, "you must go back and try the insanity case with a jury." There was no question about that.
Crowe: [After quoting language from the Geary opinion of the Illinois Supreme Court] Can language be more explicit, more mandatory and more direct than the language that I have just read? But here is a cold-blooded murder, without a defense in fact, and they attempt, on a plea of guilty, to introduce an insanity defense before your Honor, and the statute says that is a matter that must be tried by a jury.
Caverly: Has anybody said that they are going to introduce an insanity defense?
Crowe: Well, what is the purpose of putting an expert on the stand?
Caverly: They have a right to, in my opinion.
Crowe: Aren't they going into his mental condition?
Caverly: Well, suppose they do? The defense hasn't said they are going to put on alienists to show that these men are insane, and I don't think that they are going to attempt to show that they are insane.
Crowe: Well then what is the evidence for, what are they going to show?
Caverly: You will have to listen to it.... Will you cite one authority?
Crowe: I have cited, Your Honor, and I believe they are in point.
Caverly: The Geary case?
Crowe: The Geary case and the statute itself, your Honor.
Caverly: If you are relying on the Geary case you might as well end the argument. The Court will overrule you. . . .
Crowe: Your Honor misses the real point. You have not the power to determine whether the evidence that has been introduced constitutes insanity or not. Just as soon as evidence of a mental condition is brought in the case, that is a question, as the Courts have stated, peculiarly for a jury.
Caverly: They never said it.
Crowe: We just read it to you.
Caverly: [After thumbing through a copy of the Illinois criminal code, the judge begins reading] It shall be the duty of the Court to examine witnesses as to the aggravation or mitigation of the offense.'' Now, then, under that wording of the statute. . . the Court permitted eighty witnesses to testify to every detail to show an aggravated murder; and after the State is through the defense come in and. . . they wish to put on certain evidence to show a mitigation of the crime. Now then, supposing I were to say no, and then should impose the extreme penalty. Would not the Supreme Court say that if the Court had listened to mitigating circumstances then he would not have imposed the death penalty? . . . Would not the Supreme Court say that I should have listened to what the defendants had to say rather than have made an arbitrary ruling and sentenced them to whatever it might be?...
Clarence Darrow: The State's Attorney ought to tell us what we could offer in mitigation. What kind of evidence would be in mitigation? . . .
Crowe: I don't think you have any evidence here.
Darrow: Well, is there any such evidence in any case in the world?
Crowe: Yes.
Darrow: What?
Crowe: Evidence that grows out of the transaction itself. In other words, as I explained yesterday, after a murder has been proved, it is competent, in order to mitigate the punishment, to show, for instance, that the man who was killed had seduced the daughter or the wife, that is mitigating evidence.
Darrow: Why would that be competent?
Crowe: Because it is in mitigation.
Darrow: Why?
Crowe: Because the law would not hold a man who had a reason in morals. . .
Darrow: Oh, that is nonsense.
Crowe: . . . for killing for the same strict accountability that the law would hold a man who had absolutely no justification in morals. . . .
Bachrach: He [Crowe] says he was trying to show that it was a cold-blooded murder. Upon what does a cold-blooded murder depend if it does not depend upon the mental condition of the man who is committing the murder? How are you going to tell whether it was a cold-blooded murder if you don't know what the mental condition of the person was who committed it?. . . .
Caverly: ....Under that section of the statutewhich gives the court the right, and says it is his duty to hear evidence in mitigation, as well as evidence in aggravation, the Court is of the opinion that it is his duty to hear any evidence that the defense may present, and it is not for the court, to determine in advance what it may be. The Court will hear it and give it such weight as he thinks it is entitled to. . . The objection to the witness is overruled, and the witness may proceed.
Testimony of Dr. William White
Walter Bachrach: From the result, Doctor, of your examination and observation of the defendant, Richard Loeb, are you able to form and have you formed an opinion as to his mental condition at the present time and on the 21st of May 1924?
William White: ....Emily Struthers [Loeb's governess] pushed him tremendously in his school work, was apparently very ambitious with regard to him and stimulated and pushed him ahead, further than he would have gone without that sort of stimulus....[To meet her demands, he began a pattern of lying.] For example, in college he lied about his marks. He lied about all sorts of things. He lied to Babe Leopold, his comrade, about his attendance in college. While his marks were on the whole pretty good he made them a good deal better. . . . He was continually building up all sorts of artificial situations until he himself says that he found it difficult to distinguish between what was true and what was not true....
He considered himself the master criminal mind of the controlling a large band of criminals, whom he directed; even at times he thought of himself as being so sick as to be confined to bed, but brilliant and capable of mind. . . [that] the underworld came to him and sought his advice and asked for his direction, and so he directed this whole group of criminal conspirators from his sick bed.
In a well-rounded, well-integrated, well-knit personality, emotion and intelligence go hand-in-hand. . . . Dickie is in a stage which if it goes on further is capable of developing that kind of very malignant splitting.
Walter Bachrach: Doctor, will you now address yourself to Nathan Leopold, Junior, and state what you have obtained as a result of your examination of him?
William White:Nathan's pathology, the psychiatrist replied, had begun in early childhood. His classmates at the Douglas School had teased him relentlessly; his estrangement from his peers had begun when he was seven or eight years old and had continued through his time at the Harvard School and into the present. Nathan had always been a lonely, unhappy child, ever the outsider; and to protect himself from further pain and hurt, he had retreated into an inner world where emotion counted for nothing and intellect was all.
Nathan, like Richard, was trapped inside a world of fantasy. Nathan imagined himself as a slave, subservient yet physically powerful, who had saved the life of his king and had thereby earned the king's gratitude. It was an elaborate fantasy, played out in innumerable ways, yet it always allowed Nathan to imagine himself as superior.
Babe fancies himself as being a slave, in which case he has saved the king's life, and the king is very grateful, and the king wants to recompense him by giving him his liberty, which he refuses. However, he is a very unusual slave. He is not an ordinary every-day slave. He belongs to the social grade of slaves, to be sure, but he is very powerful, physically powerful. The various kings, when they are in dispute with one another, if they want to settle their differences, each pick out one of their slaves to fight in single-handed combat. He is always the one that is picked out. He always wins. Sometimes, he says, he has found himself fighting many, many men in his phantasies, to save the king. At times it was getting where he was fighting a thousand men, single-handed; and then the thing would get so utterly ridiculous that he would shake himself out of the phantasy and perhaps begin over again.
Walter Bachrach: Now, what findings did you arrive at . . . with reference to each of the defendants in combination with the other?
William White:Nathan and Richard complemented each other. Richard needed Nathan's applause and admiration in order to confirm his sense of his own self.
But Nathan also needed Richard to play a role; Richard took the role of a king who was simultaneously superior and inferior. Richard had suggested the murder and had taken the initiative in its planning-in that sense, he had been the king. But at crucial moments, when Richard had appeared to falter, Nathan had assumed command. For example, on the day following the murder, Thursday, 22 May, Richard had wanted to abandon the ransom attempt as soon as they had learned of the discovery of the body-Dickie would have let it gone by but Babe. . . insisted upon sending the last telephone message and taking such chances to bring the whole thing to a successful combination.
It was a peculiarly bizarre confluence of two personalities, each of which satisfied the needs of the other. Nathan would never on his own initiative have murdered Bobby Franks.... I cannot see how Babe would have entered into it at all alone because he had no criminalistic tendencies in any sense as Dickie did, and I don't believe Dickie would have ever functioned to this extent all by himself, so these two boys with their peculiarly interdigitated personalities come into this emotional compact with the Franks homicide as a result.
Walter Bachrach: As a result of your examination and observation of the defendant Richard Loeb have you formed an opinion as to his mental condition on the 21st of May, 1924?
William White: Yes, sir.
Walter Bachrach: What is that opinion?
William White: He was the host of anti-social tendencies along the lines that I have described; he was the host of an infantile make-up which was a long way from the possibility of functioning harmoniously with his developed intelligence. . . . The main outstanding feature was his infantilism. I mean by that these infantile emotional characteristics. That is the outstanding feature of his mental condition. He is still a little child emotionally, still talking to his teddy bear. . . .
Walter Bachrach: Now, have you an opinion as to the mental condition of Nathan Leopold, Jr., on the 21st of May, 1924?
William White: Yes.
Walter Bachrach: What is your opinion?
William White: Well, he also is the host of a relative1y infantile emotional aspect of his personality but . . . he has reacted by a defense mechanism, which has produced the final picture of a marked disordered personality make-up in the direction of developing feelings of superiority, which places him very largely out of contact with any adequate appreciation of his relations to others.
Walter Bachrach: You may cross-examine.
Robert Crowe: Now, how many persons--From how many persons did you get any information in reference to Nathan Leopold, Jr. that you base your opinion on? . . .
William White: I did not get any information from anybody except Nathan Leopold, Jr. . . . I beg pardon. I want to supplement that. I had read--There is one other thing I did have. I had read the so-called Bowman and Hulbert report.
Robert Crowe: Do you think that Nathan Leopold would attempt to mislead you?
William White: I don't think he did. . . .
Robert Crowe: He has not lied to you at all?
William White: I don't remember any particular instance at this moment where I believe Nathan lied to me. I think he was frank, as frank as he could be.
Robert Crowe: You are satisfied that he has been absolutely truthful, that is, Nathan has, with you all the way through? . . . Don't you think it is strange that he lies to Loeb and he lies to everybody else except you? . . . The fact that Nathan Leopold has lied to every other person that he has talked to except you, doesn't make any impression on your mind at all? Does it?....
Robert Crowe: [What did Leopold and Loeb tell you about their previous crimes?]
William White: They set fire to several buildings. Three instances I think they gave me of having set fires. . . .
Robert Crowe: Now tell us what Loeb told you about these fires? . . .
William White: Well, this shack was set on fire, this particular one. . .
Robert Crowe: When and where was it?
William White: I don't know where it was.
Robert Crowe: Didn't you ask them?
William White: It was out in the middle of a lot somewhere.
Robert Crowe: Can you give us any information that will enable me to check up and show whether this actually happened or whether they had just imposed on you?
William White: No, I can't give anything to satisfy you. . . .
Robert Crowe: If you were able to tell me the date on which it happened and the location don't you think I would be able to obtain proof as to whether or not they were lying to you or telling you the truth?
William White: You probably would be able to tell whether such a thing happened in the city.
Robert Crowe: And your conclusion depends entirely upon the fact that you believe what these boys told you? . . . If they have fooled you and consistently lied to you then your conclusion isn't worth anything, is it?
William Healy, psychiatrist and defense expert
Clarence Darrow: [What did you learn about the relationship between Leopold and Loeb?]
William Healy: As far as I can find out from the account given by the boys themselves and from their relatives, their association began at fifteen years of age. They just barely knew each other earlier, but that is the time they first came together. It is very clear from the study of the boys separately that each came with peculiarities in their mental life. . . . Each arrived at these peculiarities by different routes; each supplemented the other's already constituted abnormal needs in a most unique way. And in regard to the association I think that the crime in its commission and in its background has features that are quite beyond anything in my experience or knowledge of the literature. There seems to have been so little normal motivation, the matter was so long planned, so unfeelingly carried out, that it represents nothing that I have ever seen or heard of before. . . . In the matter of the association, I have the boys' story, told separately, about an incredibly absurd childish compact that bound them. .. . For Loeb, he says, the association gave him the opportunity of getting someone to carry out his criminalistic imaginings and conscious ideas. In the case of Leopold, the direct cause of his entering into criminalistic acts was this particularly childish compact.
Robert Crowe: You are talking about a compact that you characterize as childish. Kindly tell us what that compact was.
William Healy: I am perfectly willing to tell it in chambers but it is not a matter that I think should be told here.
Robert Crowe: I insist that we know what that compact is," Crowe replied, "so that we can form some opinion about it. . . . Tell it in court. The trial must be public, your Honor. I am not insisting that he talk loud enough for everybody to hear, but it ought to be told in the same way that we put the other evidence in.
[Judge Caverly, after a discussion with the attorneys at the bench, told William Healy to whisper his answers so that only the judge, the attorneys, and the stenographers could hear his words.]
William Healy: This compact, as was told to me separately by each of the boys, consisted in an agreement between them that Leopold, who has very definite homosexual tendencies was to have the privilege of--Do you want me to be very specific?
Robert Crowe: Absolutely, because this is important.
William Healy: --was to have the privilege of inserting his penis between Loeb's legs at special rates; at one time it was to be three times in two months, if they continued their criminalistic activities together. . . then they had some of their quarrels, and then it was once for each criminalistic deed.
Clarence Darrow: I do not suppose this should be taken in the presence of newspapermen, your Honor.
Judge Caverly: Gentlemen, will you go and sit down, you newspapermen! Take your seats. This should not be published.
Robert Crowe: What other act's, if any, did they tell you about? You say that there are other acts that they did rarely or seldom?
William Healy: Oh, they were just experimenting once or twice with each other.
Clarence Darrow: Tell what it was.
William Healy: They experimented with mouth perversions. . . . Leopold has had for many years a great deal of phantasy life surrounding sex activity. . . He has phantasies of being with a man, and usually with Loeb himself . . . He says he gets a thrill out of anticipating it. . . . Loeb would pretend to be drunk, then this fellow would undress him and he would almost rape him and would be furiously passionate. . . . With women he does not get that same thrill and passion.
Robert Crowe: That is what he tells you?
William Healy: Surely. . . . That is what he tells me. Loeb tells me himself. . . how he feigns sometimes to be drunk, in order that he should have his aid in carrying out his criminalistic ideas. That is what Leopold gets out of it, and that is what Loeb gets out of it. . . . When Leopold had this first experience with his penis between Loeb's legs. . . he found it gave him more pleasure than anything else he had ever done. . . . Even in jail here, a look at Loeb's body or his touch upon his shoulder thrills him so, he says, immeasurably....
Robert Crowe: When Leopold began to plan with Loeb this murder, what was acting then, his intellect or his emotions?
William Healy: His intellect, but always accompanied by some emotional life, as it always is.
Robert Crowe: Which was in control, the intellect or the emotions, at the time they planned to steal the typewriter, so that they could write letters that could not be traced back to them?
William Healy: I think the intellect was the predominating thing there probably.
Robert Crowe: And when they rented the room in the Morrison Hotel, intellect was still walking in front?
William Healy: Yes.
Robert Crowe: And so on through all the details of this murder?
William Healy: Yes, sir.
Bernard Glueck, psychiatrist and defense expert
Bernard Gluek: ....I then took up with Loeb the Franks crime,and asked him to tell me about it. He recited to me in a most matter of fact way all the gruesome details of the planning and execution of this crime, of the disfiguring and the disposal of the body, how he and Leopold stopped with the body in the car to get something to eat on the way. He spoke to me in a most matter of fact way about his doings and movements immediately following this act. As his recital proceeded, I was amazed at the absolute absence of any signs of normal feeling, such as one would expect under the circumstances. He showed no remorse, no regret, no compassion for the people involved in this situation, and as he kept on talking. . . there became evident the absolute lack of normal human emotional response that would fit these situations, and the whole thing became incomprehensible to me except on the basis of a disordered personality. . . . In the course of my conversation with him he told me how his little brother. . . passed in review before him as a possible victim of the kidnapping and killing. Even in connection with this statement, he showed the same lack of adequate emotional response to the situation.
Benjamin Bachrach: In the conversation with Richard Loeb, did he say anything about who it was that struck the blow on the head of Robert Franks with the chisel?
Bernard Gluek: He told me all the details of the crime, including the fact that he struck the blow.
Benjamin Bachrach: If you have reached any conclusion with reference to his mental condition, you may now state it.
Bernard Gluek: My impression is very definite that this boy is suffering from a disordered personality, that the nature of this disorder is primarily in a profound pathological discord between his intellectual and emotional life.
Benjamin Bachrach: Now then, doctor, are you ready to begin with your examination of the defendant Nathan F. Leopold, Jr.?
Bernard Gluek: Yes.
Benjamin Bachrach: You may proceed. . . .
Bernard Gluek: I started out with him by asking him to tell me about the Franks murder. .. . He argued with me that for many years he has cultivated and adhered to a purely hedonistic philosophy that all action is justified if it gives pleasure; that it was his ambition and has been for many years to become a perfect Nietzschean and to follow Nietzsche's philosophy all the way through. . . . He told me of his attitude toward Loeb and of how completely he had put himself in the role of slave in connection with him. He said, "I can illustrate it to you by saying that I felt myself less than the dust beneath his feet." . . . He told me of his abject devotion to Loeb, saying that he was jealous of the food and drink that Loeb took, because he could not come as close to him as did the food and drink. .. Nathan F. Leopold, in my estimation, is a definitely paranoid personality, perhaps developing a definite paranoid psychosis. I have not seen a definite psychosis of this sort in as young a person as he is. His aberration is characterized primarily by this abnormal pathological transformation of his personality and by the delusional way of thinking.
Benjamin Bachrach: Doctor, from your experience in dealing with persons of disordered mind, state whether or not it is common and ordinary to find in such persons a high degree of' intelligence existing at the same time as the abnormality or diseased condition?
Bernard Gluek: If I should give an answer to this question in a general way,I should say that it is quite characteristic of paranoid individuals to have along with their disordered mental state a highly developed intelligence.
Benjamin Bachrach: Have you observed among other such persons under your care the ability to plan like ordinary intelligent people without abnormality?
Bernard Gluek: I have observed the most ingenious and great capacity to plan among paranoid patients. . . . Patients suffering from mental disorder and 90 percent of my patients in private practice do suffer from mental disorder-carryon their activities while they are under treatment for their mental disorder.
Benjamin Bachrach: You may take the witness.
Harold Hulbert, defense expert on endocrinological evidence
Walter Bachrach: As I understand you, you say you took [Loeb's] blood pressure?
Harold Hurbert: Yes.
Walter Bachrach: Tell us the result of that test.
Harold Hurbert: Systolic, 100; diastolic, 65. Blood pressure, 35. Pulse rate, 88 to 92.
Walter Bachrach: Did the result of that test in any way indicate a deviation from normal, as far as blood pressure is concerned?
Harold Hurbert: It is below normal.
Walter Bachrach: You said you took a basal metabolism test. State what that is and its purpose.
Harold Hurbert: The basal metabolism test is a chemical test to determine the rate at which the body tissues oxidize the food which the body has and gives us an indication of the vital forces of the body. The test is done in a technical way by having the patient appear without any breakfast and lie quietly for an hour in loose clothing, breathing into an apparatus which has been clamped to the mouth, the nose having been shut tight, to measure the carbon dioxide of the breath.... This has all been carefully tabulated in thousands of cases . . . We are able to contrast the results obtained in any one patient with what would be normal for that patient considering his age, weight, etc. The metabolism test, in the case of Richard Loeb on June 14th, taken under ideal circumstances, was minus seventeen percent, which is abnormally low.
Walter Bachrach: What does such an abnormally low basal metabolism result signify?
Harold Hurbert: A disorder of the endocrine glands and the sympathic nervous system. It is one phase of medical evidence to indicate that there is such a disease of the endocrines and sympathetic nervous system.... [Loeb's] urine showed "clear transparency and amber color--no albumin, no sugar, no indican . . . but there was mucus present, and a few epithelial cells.
Robert Crowe: That throws considerable light on this murder, does it not?
Walter Bachrach: I object to counsel interrupting! Did you make an X-ray examination of Richard Loeb?
Harold Hurbert: We did...[The results for Loeb were normal.]
Walter Bachrach: [Did the X-rays for Leopold reveal any abnormalities?]
Harold Hurbert: The X-ray of the skull revealed the most pathology. The tables of the skull, the bony tables of the skull, are of normal thickness, but the union between the various bones of the skull has become firm and ossified at the age of 19.
Walter Bachrach: What in normal life is the time at which ossification takes place?
Harold Hurbert: It varies, but usually at full maturity or when a man is in his prime.
Walter Bachrach: In terms of years when does that usually take place?
Harold Hurbert: I would say from thirty to thirty-five....The pineal gland in this x-ray throws a definite shadow, typical of a calcified pineal gland.
Walter Bachrach: What is the pineal gland? What is the function of the pineal gland so far as it is known to science?
Harold Hurbert: [Hurbert said the gland controlled sexual desire by inhibiting the libido, and it stimulated mental development. ]
Walter Bachrach: What relation is there between the abnormal functioning of his endocrine glands and his mental condition?
Harold Hurbert: The effect of the endocrine glands on the mental condition is definitely established in the minds of medical men in certain points and is still a matter of dispute in others. . . . I would say that his endocrine disorder is responsible for the following mental findings. His precocious mental development, his rapid advance through school, his ease of learning, are of endocrine origins. . . . The early development and strength of his sex urge is obviously of endocrine origin. His shallow mood and his good bearing are of endocrine origin and particularly his mental activity and early mental development are of endocrine origin.
Walter Bachrach: What would be the effect of that upon him, where there was not a corresponding maturity of his emotional life and judgment?
Harold Hurbert: The effect of the intellectual drive of endocrine origin. . . and [his] emotional shallowness is that he now has mentally a decided degree of discrepancy, a diseased discrepancy, between his judgment and emotions on the one hand and his intellect on the other hand.
Walter Bachrach: What, if any, effect, did the diseased condition of Leopold on May 21st, 1924, have in connection Franks kidnapping and homicide?
Harold Hurbert: A very great deal. . . . His mental condition or disease at that time would not primarily have caused him alone to have carried out any such kidnapping or homicide. It caused him to ignore the ordinary restraint which individuals impose upon themselves because of their consciousness of their duties they owe to society; it caused him to react in the non-emotional way he did at that time and subsequently; caused him to justify his own actions to himself, so that he is uncritical of them; and his mental condition at that time is one of the predominating factors in this homicide and kidnapping.
Walter Bachrach: Would Leopold on May 21st, 1924, have been able to commit the Franks kidnapping and homicide but for the presence of such mental disease?
Harold Hurbert: He could not have done it.
Walter Bachrach: State whether the diseased mental condition of Richard Loeb on May 21st, 1924, entered into the Franks homicide and kidnapping?
Harold Hurbert: It did.
Walter Bachrach: Will you tell us how?
Harold Hurbert: The mental condition of Richard Loeb on that date was a direct factor. . . . He was impelled by motives which had been nourished in his subconscious mind, his judgment was childish and uncritical and did not restrain him. . . . His emotions are definitely immature and childish, and he had only an academic realization of what he owed to society, his feeling on the matter being too slight to bind him or modify his conduct and his mentally diseased condition at that time based on his experiences and based on his constitution was a definite factor in this kidnapping and homicide.
Walter Bachrach: Could Richard Loeb but for the existence of the mental disease existing in him on the 21st of May, 1924, and which you have described in your testimony, had committed the Franks kidnapping and homicide?
Harold Hurbert: He could not.
Cross-examination by Robert Crowe
Robert Crowe: Who made the basal metabolism test?
Harold Hurbert: Dr. Moore, Dr. Bowman and myself. On Leopold we repeated the test three times, and took the average of the three, and on Loeb we took the test twice, and took the average of the two. Those tests were continued one right after the other.
Robert Crowe: Don't you know you have no machine in Chicago that can accurately make this test?
Harold Hurbert: I was quite satisfied with the machine we used.
Robert Crowe: What kind was it?
Harold Hurbert: A Jones.
Robert Crowe: Is it not a fact that there is no machine that can accurately take this test, but they take a great many and average them in order to arrive at some conclusion?
Harold Hurbert: I don't know whether there is a perfect machine or not. Now, this machine was good enough.
Robert Crowe: If it was not perfect, then the result would not be perfect?
Harold Hurbert: It might or it might not.
Robert Crowe: If it is not a good reliable test, it is not of any use, is it?
Harold Hurbert: I would not use an unreliable test.
Robert Crowe: Describe the X-ray apparatus and the techniques by which these x-ray pictures were taken.
Harold Hurbert: The apparatus we used was a portable machine furnished by the Victor X-ray people, one of the largest X-ray manufacturers in America, brought to the jail by Dr. Blaine, of the National Pathological Laboratory, former radiologist at Cook County Hospital for a number of years, and by Dr. Darnell, research pathologist of the Victor Company… Triplicate films were taken in all cases. The parts of the body pictures were studied by me through the fluoroscope for the purpose of identification, and the films were identified with my Veterans of Foreign Wars insignia, which I wear, so that there would be no doubt as to their identity. The pictures were carried to the laboratory by the technicians in the same taxi with me; they were never out of my sight. I went into the dark room at the time they were developed, and stayed there talking with Dr.Blaine while they were being developed.
Robert Crowe: Do you know the name of the machine you used?
Harold Hurbert: A Victor portable.
Robert Crowe: What kind of a current, direct or alternating?
Harold Hurbert: I don't know.
Robert Crowe: What kind of a tube?
Harold Hurbert: All I know is, it was a new tube suitable for the portable machine, a Victor tube.
Robert Crowe: What transformer was used?
Harold Hurbert: I don't know.
Robert Crowe: Where was the transformer located on the machine?
Harold Hurbert: I don't know.
Robert Crowe: Is it possible to see a calcified pineal gland through a fluoroscope?
Harold Hurbert: It may be.
Robert Crowe: Did you see it?
Harold Hurbert: I did not.
Robert Crowe: Did you ever see one through a fluoroscope?
Harold Hurbert: I don't think so.
Robert Crowe: Can you see the sella turcica through the fluoroscope?
Harold Hurbert: Yes, sir.
Robert Crowe: Did you?
Harold Hurbert: I did.
Robert Crowe: Did you use cassettes in taking these films?
Harold Hurbert: I beg pardon?
Robert Crowe: Did you use cassettes in taking these films?
Harold Hurbert: I don't know what you mean.
Robert Crowe: If you don't know what I mean, then you would not know who furnished them, would you?
Harold Hurbert: It I don't know what you mean, I don't know what you are talking about.
Robert Crowe: What screens were used, do you know?
Harold Hurbert: I don't know, sir.
Robert Crowe: Was the Bucky diaphragm used?
Harold Hurbert: I am not a radiologist.
William Krohn, expert witness for the prosecution:
On Richard Loeb:
In my opinion, as a result of that examination,
[Richard Loeb] was not suffering from any mental disease, either functional or structural, on May 21st, 1924, or on the date I examined him....[T]he stream of thought flowed without any interruption or any break from within. There was not a single remark made that was beside the point. The answer to every question was responsive. There was no irresponsive answer to any question. There was abundant evidence that the man. . . was perfectly oriented as to time, as to place, and as to his social relations.....Not only that, there was excellence of attention. . . . There was not a single evidence of any defect, any disorder, any lack of development, or any disease, and by disease I mean functional as well as structural.
On Nathan Leopold:
There was no evidence of any organic disease of the brain, as would have been revealed by the Argyll-Robertson pupil. . . . There was no evidence of any toxic mental condition resulting from any toxicity of the body, because the pulse and the tremors that would have been incidental thereto were absent at this examination.....[H]e showed remarkably close attention, detailed attention; he showed that he was perfectly oriented socially as well as with reference to time and space...[There were] none of the modifications of movement that come with certain mental disorders.
Archibald Church (chair of the department of nervous and mental diseases at Northwestern University), expert witness for the prosecution:
Joseph Sbarbaro: Have you an opinion, doctor, from your observation and examination, as to whether the defendant, Richard Loeb, was suffering from any mental disease on that day, at that time?
Church: The young man, was entirely oriented. He knew who he was and where he was, and the time of day and everything about it. His memory was extraordinarily good; his logical powers manifested during the interview were normal, and I saw no evidence of any mental disease.
Sbarbaro: Now, doctor, have you an opinion from your observation and examination of Nathan Leopold, Jr., as to whether he was suffering any mental disease at that same time?
Church: I have.
Sbarbaro: What is that opinion?
Church There was no evidence of any mental disease.
Sbarbaro: Will you state your reasons again, please?
Church: Because he was perfectly oriented, of good memory, of extreme reasoning capacity, and apparently of good judgment within the range of the subject matter....Phantasies, are day dreams. Everybody has them. Everybody knows they are dreams. They have an interest in relation to character and conduct, but they do not compel conduct nor excuse it.
Cross-examination by Clarence Darrow:
Darrow: Now, there were, some fifteen people in the room while you were talking to these boys?
Church: I think, hardly that many, but there were many, I know that.
Darrow: Too many, for a thorough consultation?
Church: Too many, for an ideal consultation.
Darrow: You never had anybody bring you a patient to treat where you called in any such number of people as that, did you?
Church: Occasionally it is very difficult to keep all the members of the family out.
Darrow: I asked you a specific question.
Church: No, I never treated a patient in private practice--examined a patient before as many people.
Darrow: You have laid down the rules yourself as to how a private examination should be conducted, have you not?
Church: Well, I control the situation under those conditions.
Darrow: Did you ask any questions?
Church: Yes.
Darrow: Who did most of the questioning?
Church: Really, there were very few questions asked. Dr. Patrick asked a few and Dr. Krohn asked a few and Mr. Crowe asked a few, but most of it was continuous narrative on the part of Mr. Loeb and some questions asked him by Leopold and some back and forth conversation between them…'
Darrow: Did you ask any questions to find out evidence of mental disease?
Church: No.
Darrow: Did anybody else that you know of?
Church: Well, all of the questions and conversations were for the purpose, as far as I was concerned, of determining their mental status....
Darrow: [Showing Church a copy of a book he had co-authored called Nervous and Mental Diseases] This is your latest on this subject and you have said here: "The examination of a patient with mental disorder is a much more complex process than that of a case of physical disease. . . . For it is necessary in the former not only to ascertain the present physical condition, as with ordinary patients, but also to investigate the mental state, which involves the employment of unusual and new methods and brings us into contact with a novel series of psychic phenomena, and moreover to attain our end we need to study the whole past life of the patient, his diseases, accidents, schooling, occupation, environment, temperament, character; nor can we stop here; for it is of the greatest importance to inform ourselves as to conditions among his antecedents to determine the type of family from which he sprung, and the presence or absence of an hereditary taint. There is therefore much to learn even before seeing the patient in person." And you did not learn that before seeing them, surely? .
Church: I did not have the opportunity....
Darrow: You would not question what I have been reading as being correct, would you, that is, as being proper in the examination of a patient, would you?
Prosecutor Robert Crowe: Just a moment. I object to cross examining upon a textbook, a portion of which-and the portion that he is being cross-examined on-he did not write, and disclaims any responsibility for. . . . You can only cross-examine him on something that he has based his opinion on in this case.
Hugh Patrick (professor in the department of nervous and mental diseases at Northwestern University), expert witness for the prosecution:
Cross-examination by Benjamin Bachrach:
Bachrach: How many people [had been in the room when Leopold and Loeb were interviewed]?
Patrick: I suppose there were about ten people there or something like that. There may have been more.
Bachrach: Don't you think, there were about fifteen?
Patrick: No, I shouldn't think there were fifteen, but it was possible.
Bachrach: Let us count them. There were the state's attorney and three assistants. That is four.
Patrick: Four, and the two prisoners make six.
Bachrach: Six. [Weren't there also three psychiatrists and one physician present, as
well as several police officers?]
Patrick: And four doctors are ten. Well it might go to fifteen. . . .
Bachrach: And two stenographers?
Patrick: Yes, two stenographers. I guess it would reach-
Bachrach: About seventeen?
Patrick: Well, I don't think so, but I don't know.
Bachrach: Did you ever in your life make an examination of any person, as to his mental state, under circumstances of that kind before?
Patrick: I think not.


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We really have been spoilt for choice in May. I know, we (I) may have expressed very similar sentiments back for this same feature in April but that was over-enthusiasm at a decent-ish month for music. This month, however, has genuinely been filled with fantastic records. It's hard to narrow it down too much, but here's a pick of the best.
Our top eight of May 2009
The Field - Yesterday And Today
Says William Grant: "The pulse in a human body is a vital sign. It's proof of life; a rhythm that every other part of the being works around, not to mention a metronome for the dance-loving masses...'Organic' is a word that has influence and is often applied, but hardly does justice to so otherworldly a record as Yesterday And Today. A pulse very rarely makes you feel this alive."
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Says Charles Ubaghs: "For now, Primary Colours is a reminder that young British bands can actually progress to brilliant new heights, and perhaps, just perhaps, the occasional surprise in these media saturated times isn't as endangered a beast as previously thought."
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Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Says Milton Savage: "By cutting themselves off from a hurry-everywhere-and-everything society, Grizzly Bear have successfully realised their most rewarding record yet, and the first to truly feature the four in perfect harmony – with bassist Chris Taylor producing, the band has been able to indulge as many whims as they've felt right, without a secondary perspective corrupting their vision."
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Says Milton Savage: "The flow of Wavering Radiant is a natural one, its cadence fine-tuned to the circling of celestial spheres, as if designed by a greater power than the electricity that courses through transistors and transducers. It's a proper album, in the sense that a divide is made at four of seven, the title track a segue between halves – its makers clearly bear download culture little respect, constructing their latest so that it's best experienced as a whole, bridging arrangements as vital as the blustering bombast and constitutional inflections of grandly designed standout pieces."
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Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Says Dom Gourlay: "Journal For Plague Lovers is a strident comeback that would have been a worthy direct successor to The Holy Bible had circumstances been different. That the origin of its lyrics circumvents arguably their two finest bodies of work is of no surprise either, and as with their previous reincarnation against all the odds (Everything Must Go), it's a worthy two fingered salute to those who thought their time was up many moons ago."
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Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Says Sean Adams: "Let this record be a high watermark album of the decade. Let it be a pull-yer-socks-up communiqué to all those New Yorkers stealing our European heroes unworn crowns. If this doesn't ensnare the doubters, I don't know what will."
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St. Vincent - Actor
Says Chris Power: "For all the darkness of Actor's concerns, however, it remains an exceptionally pleasurable album to listen to. But that isn't to say that its songs, which cluster around the themes of dishonesty, unhappiness, hurt and doomed dreams of rekindling past loves, are ultimately unsuccessful in conveying what they're about. It's more the case that, like any truly engaging artwork, they satisfy even as they perturb."
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Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Says John Doran: "For the internet-damaged and terminally short of attention to the myopically conservative, to those who choose music merely as a lifestyle accessory, this album will upset, confuse or bore. For anyone interested in music that works both as art and an intensely new exciting experience - this is easily the best album that has come out this year."
DiScover album of the month
Alessi's Ark - Notes From The Treehouse
Says Richard Wink: Notes From The Treehouse is a confident debut that strides with a certain class. Containing songs that are destined to go down well in intimate settings, as well just before the sun sets on a summer festival side stage; Alessi needs to be wary not to suffocate her audience because the pacing of the album though steady and effortless makes for a fatigued listen. But there are moments of brilliance that are most encouraging.
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What's gonna be on our stereo speakers this coming month? Probably Let's Wrestle's first record, the amazing cricket concept album from the Duckworth Lewis Method plus Beck and Eels for the nostalgia and the proof that you don't have to be under 30 to be good.


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By modern American sports standards, the single-elimination NCAA basketball tournament has remained relatively exclusive.
It started as eight teams, and stayed at that number from 1939 to 1950.
Then it expanded to 16. Then to 22. Then to 32. Then to 40.
In 1980, it expanded to 48. Four years later, it expanded to 52. A year later, it expanded to 53, due to another play-in game.
From 1985 to 2000, the brackets held 64 teams, with a play-in game added in the year 2001 to push the total to 65.
And even at that size, it wasn't easy to get in.
This season, for instance, 347 schools participated in Division I competition.
That means that only 18.7 percent of those schools got to celebrate on NCAA Selection Sunday.
Compare that to the country's professional sports. The NHL and NBA each allow 16 of 30 teams into the playoffs. That's 53.3 percent. The NFL grants postseason access to 12 of 32 teams. That's 37.5 percent. Even Major League Baseball finds room for eight of 30 teams. That's 26.7 percent, and that number may expand to 33.3 soon, as owners consider whether to add another wild card team for each league.
And, while the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision still has no playoff system, it does have 34 bowls, meaning that 68 of 119 teams get to play in the postseason. That's 57.1 percent.
That's one of the arguments you will hear in favor of expanding of the NCAA tournament as soon as next March, perhaps to 68 teams, but possibly to as many as 96, with 32 getting first-round byes and then facing the winners of 32 play-in games. You'll hear that argument made not just by NCAA administrators but also by college coaches, many of whom are in full support of the idea. The NCAA has been exploring expansion since 2004, but the whispers have grown louder in recent weeks, as the organization considers opting out of its $6 billion television contract with CBS, three years before its conclusion.
Greg Shaheen, the NCAA's senior vice president for basketball and business strategies, has made it clear in repeated interviews that fans, coaches and administrators should prepare for change. He has spoken about the need for the NCAA to determine what is best for its revenue stream, and that means working with television partners to produce the most lucrative event. The current basketball deal, even in its current form, is so lucrative that it allows the organization to hold events in many other sports. Expansion could lead to even greater riches.
"It's money," said John Feinstein, author of numerous college basketball books, including A Season on the Brink, about Indiana University's program under the leadership of coach Bob Knight. "It's all money.
"There's not a single other reason to expand the tournament, other than that NCAA wants probably the Disney dollars from ESPN."
Or perhaps Turner Broadcasting.
The thought turns Feinstein's stomach.
"It's the worst idea since New Coke," Feinstein said. "The NCAA is uniquely gifted at taking one of the few things they do right and screw it up. Sixty-four is the perfect number. They went to 65 when they had to go to 34 at-large teams when the Mountain West (Conference) came on line."
If they expand again?
"Selection Sunday would lose all its magic," Feinstein said. "You'd have a bunch of first-round games nobody would want to see. And you'd have very mediocre teams in the tournament. One of the things that makes the tournament fun is that when you make it, you feel like you've accomplished something, because are a few good teams that get left out every year. Not that many, but a few. So if they came in and said, 'We want to go to 68, and have four play-in games, and play one day at Dayton, and sent the bottom at-large teams there,' I'm fine with it. But 96 is ridiculous."
Others share that sentiment.
Just visit an NBA arena, and talk to players who participated in the NCAA tournament in all its 65-team glory.
"I think it's cool like it is," said Mario Chalmers, a Miami Heat guard who helped Kansas win the 2008 championship. "You've got your at-large teams, and you've got your small schools, where the conference champion gets in. I think that's good enough."
"Don't do that," said San Antonio Spurs forward Matt Bonner, who played in the NCAA tournament during all four of his seasons at Florida. "Besides the fact that the level of participants would get watered down, there's something special to me about the exclusivity of the 65 teams, and all these small schools that their only shot at making it is winning the conference tournament. I like it the way it is. If you start adding teams, it makes those conference tournaments a little less special. It takes a lot of the pressure out of your regular season."
Quentin Richardson, a Heat forward who made the tournament while with DePaul, wasn't in favor of expansion, but tried to look at the other side: "I guess it would be good that more kids would get to experience the tournament."
"Well, then, why don't you just have every team in the tournament?" said Steve Blake, a Los Angeles Clippers guard who won a national championship with Maryland in 2002. "Someone's not going to make it in one way or another, so why are some kids more important than other kids? To me, that doesn't make sense."
San Antonio Spurs forward Richard Jefferson, a former Arizona Wildcat, thinks that Cinderellas will have a harder time, because they'll likely have to play another game (five rather than four) to get to the Final Four.
You get the point. It's a tough sell, particularly to those who played for elite programs and rarely had their bubbles burst.
Still, it looks like many college coaches may get what they want, even as early as 2011, and even after a college basketball season that, by most accounts, featured fewer quality teams than any in recent memory.
Even CBS broadcaster Jim Nantz acknowledged that "the talent's not there (this season). It doesn't pass the eye test. ... This is not college basketball as we used to know it."
That manifested itself on Selection Sunday. The controversy mostly centered on where the chosen teams were seeded, and where they were sent, not which teams were snubbed entirely. Yes, Virginia Tech, Rhode Island and Alabama-Birmingham had cases to get in. But it's not like anyone was arguing that any of those teams had outstanding seasons.
So if it was difficult to find 65 worthy teams, imagine the trouble finding 96.
As ESPN's Jay Bilas said, "This is the weakest at-large field in the history of the tournament. If you can't make it in this year, you probably can't really play."
Which teams might have made the NCAA field, if the expansion had occurred this year?
Just look at the National Invitational Tournament, if you dare. It takes 32 teams that the NCAA can't accommodate.
This year, that field includes North Carolina, which finished tied for ninth in the ACC with a 5-11 conference record, and stands at 16-16 overall. The Tar Heels are 8-point favorites in the first round against William and Mary.
While some coaches — notably Kentucky's John Calipari — are against expansion, the majority have expressed support. The most notable proponent is Syracuse's Jim Boeheim, who certainly wouldn't have needed the help this year, as his Orange are a No. 1 seed. For other coaches, though, expansion means as many as 31 more spots, and grabbing one of those could be the difference between a contract extension and a plank walk.
Miami missed both the NCAA and NIT despite a 20-13 record and a strong run in the ACC Tournament. (OK, the Hurricanes did finish last in the ACC with a 4-12 mark in the conference's regular season.)
"I think it's something that we need to explore because there are so many mid-major conferences now that you see a lot of those (leagues) getting multiple teams in the tournament," Haith said. "I don't know if we need the 96 that everyone's talking about, but I'd like to see them explore it."
It appears they will. And that's fine with former college basketball stars Clark Kellogg and Greg Anthony, both of whom are now CBS analysts.
Both were against it at first.
"Change is always uncomfortable, for anybody, or any organization," Kellogg said. "And when you don't know exactly what the plans are for change, it's even more uncomfortable."
Now it looks unstoppable.
"I think the winds are blowing in that direction," Kellogg said.
And he's willing to go with them.
"My posture has changed to be open-minded about it," Kellogg said.
So has Anthony's.
"When you really think it through, the tournament has expanded from 32 to 48 to 64 and 65," Anthony said. "Every time, it's proven to be the right choice, and the tournament has continued to thrive and even prosper. You are also going to create a scenario, where you are going to start having better teams in some of the non-power conferences. Now these kids are going to go to schools because they know they are going to have the opportunity to play on the national stage. Whether or not it happens, who knows? But that potential does exist, and if the possibility does arise, I still think the tournament will continue to be what it is."
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I'm going to get a bit personal this week in my article. I know it won't be the type of piece readers usually find in a sports column. It may bit a little less factual and a bit more opinionated than some people care for, so I apologize if you don't like it.
As a coach, I get to see things a bit differently than the average person. Coaches see the little things through a season that make up the big picture most of the rest see on the game field or court.
I wanted to start off with a little observation I've made over the past few months, as well as recaps this week's competitions.
Many people around the state and even those in Blanding had their doubts about this year's editions of the Broncos volleyball and football teams. Some even wondered why anyone would want to be part of either team in a year when both programs weren't supposed to achieve much.
Both teams fell short of their ultimate goal of winning a 2A State Championship in their respective sport. However, what they didn't do was listen to the "experts", doubters and in some cases friends and family members. Instead they pulled together and achieved many successes.
In my book the most important achievement both these squads made was that of putting aside personal agendas and becoming true teammates and teams, putting the good of their teams above personal glory.
Congratulations to both teams on your great seasons and thanks for letting me tag along.
Things started out great for the San Juan Lady Broncos at the 2A Volleyball Tournament.
In the opening round, the Broncos dispatched Maeser Prep in three sets, 25-8, 25-12, 25-15.
In the second round, San Juan faced a sold Beaver High team. The Lady Broncos won the first two sets 25-22, 25-20, before dropping the third set to the Beavers 21-25.
In the third set San Juan seemed a bit flustered, but they quickly regrouped to win the match in the fourth, outscoring Beaver 25-20.
On day two of the tournament, the Broncos matched up against the Rabbits of Delta. San Juan played a great match and looked to be on top of their game against last year's 3A State Champs. The Broncos beat the Rabbits in three sets, 25-18, 25-15, 25-17 to move onto the finals.
In the finals, San Juan met Enterprise, a familiar foe. In 2010, the Broncos beat the Wolves in the 2A title match to claim their 11th state championship. Enterprise wasn't to be denied this time around as the downed the Broncos 25-22, 25-12, 25-19, to claim their first volleyball title in 23 years.
The air was crisp and cool in Kamas, UT when the Bronco football team arrived for a quarter-final matchup with the South Summit Wildcats on Nov. 1.
San Juan was looking to push their all-time record against South Summit to a perfect 8-0.
However, the Wildcats had different plans and the top-ranked team in 2A was all business from start to finish as they notched their first win over San Juan.
The Broncos struggled on offense and defense. The few times things started looking up for the Broncos, they were struck with a turnover, a penalty, or a big play by the Wildcats.
South Summit started out the first quarter by scoring 21 points. They added another 15 in the second to take a 36-0 lead into the half.
In the second half, San Juan managed to make some adjustments and moved the ball a little better, but the Broncos were bit by the turnover bug and promising drives ended without any points being put on the board.
The Wildcats would score one more time in the second half to make the score 43-0, where it would remain until the final whistle blew.


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Hoogerheide 2: The Course
This drop off is about 350 meters before the finish line.
But this run-up (as steep as Northampton's run-up but shorter by say 10 meters) is right before that drop off.
This is a photo from the 2009 Worlds at Hoogerheide and ashow the expected crowds this Sunday.
This is inside that double-decker VIP area.
These guests will have a killer view of the riders, but not in the key areas.
The guys are tacking down a foamy carpet on the two-way fly-over.
The course doubles back on itself twice, right in front of the VIPs. The view will be like watching the escalators at Macy's!
You can see the roped-off sections for racing versus pre-riding. The result will be a wide-open course on the race days.
There a few hard-packed gravel sections that will be fast in all weather.
Some of the wide open grass sections.
The staff and volunteers, some here joking around on the podium, are perhaps the best I have ever seen. Professional, but fun.
For you race nuts, I'll give you the quick rub on the Hoogerheide course. It's not too hard. But any course is only as hard as the riders racing on it.
There are no barriers, as only Adrie Van Der Poel would have it.
There are four surfaces: two paved stretches; a gooey mud that can get deep; a thick grass; and some gritty hard-packed gravel pathways. There is neither sand nor major mud stretches ... yet. They have roped off much of the course to force the pre-ride to one side to preserve the key grass stretches. Again, Adrie Van Der Poel wants a fast course.
There is nothing on it that is SO technical that any decent amateur could not ride. After all the hub-bub from American riders saying our courses are not hard enough, this is a course event I could ride.
The final 500 meters has a tough run-up (some claim they saw one guy ride it), a drop-off, and a punchy little up hill before the sprint.
The sprint is long; long enough to allow a strong rider to wind up a big gear and come past a "quicker" pure sprinter.
This course favors the strong and fast over the quick and nimble.
The first turn is super dangerous; but after that stack up the first lap will not be that selective. The course is really, really wide.
The second lap will allow a lot of riders to come back from mistakes.
Everything about this course will favor the fast Lars Van Der Haar over the nimble Sven Nys.
But consequently, Katie Compton will not have to worry about Marianne Vos' quick start; the course favors the strong like Compton. One can come back from some mistakes.
It's a really good course for Jeremy Powers.
Patience. Patience. Patience.
This should be a far more tactical race than recent editions ... which I like.
Zdenek Stybar will play a key role in the men's race. I doubt he will win, but he will be strong enough to chase down a lot of early moves. He will be the glue in the lead bunch.
Keep a start list handy and a second computer; you'll want to look up a lot of names you may not know during the first half of this race.
But what the the hell do I know?


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How do I find out the last login time of a user when they log into their Gmail account?
I don't see this information at all.
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I don't see this information at all.
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If it's your own account, there's a line in each page footer reading "Last account activity: 0 minutes ago at IP 111.222.333.444. Details" — click the "Details" link.
If it's a Google Apps account and you're a domain administrator the last login date/time of each user is displayed in the Apps control panel ("Manage this domain" in the top right hand corner of any GApps service page).
Otherwise, this information isn't available to you.
I don't believe this is, or is ever likely to be, publicly available information.
If you are logged in, one of the last lines of the web interface is "last account activity" or something. I guess that's what you are looking for.
Scroll to the bottom of your Gmail page. At the bottom-right corner, notice the Last account activity: X ago. You may click details to know about the devices you have used. Although, you can see the exact time only for the logins done today.
Um...depends. I suppose you could look at your proxy logs if you have it. Maybe there's a log setting for DNS records. If you're just asking this to find out when a friend or relative last checked their mail, you'll probably get migrated to SuperUser.


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Vatican City, Oct 5, 2012 / 10:43 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A spirit of prayer will inspire the work of the forthcoming Synod of Bishops as it aims to create a roadmap for a new evangelization of historically Christian countries.
"Prayer accompanies and animates every Synodal activity,' said Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, at an Oct. 5 media briefing.
He observed that every Christian is "invited to pray constantly, following the example of the Lord Jesus," which is "all the more reason, (for) a meeting of bishops, representatives of the episcopate of the whole world, around the Bishop of Rome and the President of the Synod of Bishops" to be carried out in a context of prayer.
The 13th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will bring bishops from all over the world to Rome from Oct. 7-28 to discuss the theme of "The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith." In total, 262 Synod Fathers will participate in the three weeks of discussion, held at the Vatican's Synod Hall.
Archbishop Eterovic said that the synod will begin its first meeting by invoking the Holy Spirit who is "the main protagonist in any Synod."
Every morning after the synod has opened, the bishops' deliberations will begin with mid-morning prayer, while their afternoon sessions will be prefaced by a "brief oration" of a spiritual nature. Each session, morning and afternoon, will then conclude with "a cordial invocation of the protection of the Holy Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church and the Star of the New Evangelization."
A chapel with the Blessed Sacrament is located next to the Synod Hall and will be open throughout the gathering to offer to participants "the chance to rest in mediation before the Master who continues to send his disciples along the road throughout the world to proclaim the Gospel," the archbishop said.
Archbishop Eterovic explained that the work of the synod will be accompanied by four papal liturgies.The opening Mass for the synod on Oct. 7 will involve Pope Benedict XVI declaring St. John of Avila and St. Hildegard of Bingen as new Doctors of the Church.
The Pope's next Mass will take place on Oct. 11 and will serve to launch the Church's Year of Faith.
On Oct. 21, Pope Benedict will canonize seven new saints at a Mass in St. Peter's Square. This includes two new American saints, Blessed Marianne Cope and Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha.
Finally, the synod will conclude Oct. 28 with Pope Benedict celebrating Mass, joined by all the participating bishops and priests.
As well as a spiritual dimension, Archbishop Eterovic said the two other "mutually interlinking aspects" of the synod will be "theological pastoral reflection" and "technical and organizational preparation."
The agenda for the gathering is laid out in its working document or "Instrumentum laboris." It was published on June 19, following consultations with the worldwide Church for over a year.
"Each Synod Father should make reference to it in his speech," said Archbishop Eterovic, "in this way the Synod should be able to elaborate on themes already outlined, shedding new light on subjects of great current ecclesial and social importance."
He also revealed that contributions will be made by representatives from Churches and Christian communities "not yet in full communion with the Catholic Church." This includes an address on Oct. 10 by Dr. Rowan Williams, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury.
The 262 Synod Fathers are comprised of 103 participants from Europe, 63 from the Americas, 50 from Africa, 39 from Asia and 7 from Oceania. Among their number are 6 patriarchs, 49 cardinals, 3 metropolitan archbishops – one of whom is a cardinal – 71 archbishops, 120 bishops and 14 priests.
During the synod there will be 23 General Congregations in which all members will participate. There will also be eight smaller sessions that are divided up by the 12 different official languages of the synod.


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Kent Thompson announced Friday the directors for the Denver Center Theatre Company's 2012-23 season. Marcia Milgrom Dodge ("Ragtime") will direct and choreograph the world premiere production of "Sense & Sensibility The Musical," set for January.
Sam Buntrock ("Sunday in the Park with George") will direct the world premiere of Michael Mitnick's "Ed, Downloaded."
Lou Bellamy, founder and artistic director of Penumbra Theatre in Minneapolis, will direct August Wilson's "Fences," (opening Sept. 20).
Art Manke will direct an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' "The Three Musketeers," Christy Montour-Larson will direct Lois Lowry's "The Giver," Mike Donahue will direct Lauren Feldman's "Grace, or the Art of Climbing," (set for Jan. 24).


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USA: Bush Cabinet Ties to Tobacco Lobby
As governor of Wisconsin, Health and Human Services Secretary-
designate Tommy G. Thompson received more than $70,000 in
campaign donations from the Philip Morris Cos. in the past seven
years, and traveled abroad at least three times with company
As a member of the Senate Commerce Committee in 1998,
Attorney General nominee John D. Ashcroft was the only member
to vote against a bill that would have curtailed the marketing
activities of the tobacco industry nationwide.
And when Interior Secretary nominee Gale A. Norton was attorney
general of Colorado, she resisted calls to sue the tobacco industry
to recover health care costs, saying it would be costly and difficult
to win. Although she later became involved in national settlement
negotiations, other participants said she frequently took positions
at odds with the public health groups.
Thompson, Ashcroft and Norton are among a number of figures
in the Bush administration who have been relatively helpful to the
tobacco industry and who could take positions that would signal a
marked change in the federal government's approach to cigarette
"The tobacco industry has connections to many Cabinet nominees
and to top White House advisers," said Paul Billings, a spokesman
for the American Lung Association. "They will have a lot of access
to this administration, and we have to wonder how that will affect
administration policies. There's not much here that's encouraging
to us."
In addition to concerns about Thompson, Norton and Ashcroft,
activists point to political strategist Karl Rove, who worked as a
political consultant for Philip Morris from 1991 to 1996 and will
become a senior White House adviser.
The Clinton administration aggressively supported anti-smoking
efforts, most notably for the first time allowing the Food and Drug
Administration to assert authority over the regulation of tobacco
products. The Supreme Court overturned that assertion last year.
The administration also filed and funded a lawsuit against the
industry over strong Republican objections. A federal judge threw
out some of the charges in August, but allowed the racketeering
charge to go forward to trial.
George W. Bush voiced discomfort with the suit during the
campaign, and tobacco control advocates fear it won't survive long.
"During the last election, the tobacco industry spent millions of
dollars in direct and soft money contributions, and the issue is what
they want in return," said Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign
for Tobacco-Free Kids. "Since Bush was elected, the stock market
has pushed up tobacco stocks dramatically. That means people
think the administration will be doing their bidding."
While Vice President Gore campaigned as a tobacco-control
advocate, Bush said little on the subject beyond his opposition to
youth smoking. The tobacco industry donated almost $120,000 in
hard and soft money in the past two years to the Bush campaign,
according to the Campaign Study Group, a nonpartisan watchdog
group. (Philip Morris also donated $100,000 for the inaugural, the
company said.)
The Study Group also reports that the National Republican Senate
Committee received almost $1.4 million from tobacco interests in
the past two years. (Former senator Spencer Abraham (R-Mich.),
sworn in yesterday as secretary of the Department of Energy, also
received $26,000 from tobacco interests, the group said.)
Although Norton would have no apparent role to play regarding
tobacco in the Bush administration, Thompson and Ashcroft would
both be major players.
Ashcroft voted consistently with the tobacco industry in the Senate,
and has voiced strong opposition to the federal government's
racketeering lawsuit against the industry, anti-smoking activists say.
A nonsmoker, he has, however, refused direct tobacco industry
contributions for some years.
But anti-smoking activists are most concerned about Thompson
because as head of HHS he would have the most direct role in
tobacco issues.
As governor, Thompson has had especially warm relations with
executives from Philip Morris -- a major employer in Wisconsin.
Thompson resisted many anti-smoking efforts, and Wisconsin has
relatively high smoking rates as a result, the activists say, though
he also ultimately signed some measures they applauded.
They point with particular dismay to his veto of a bill requiring the
state to spend money from a national tobacco settlement along
guidelines established by the federal Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, because the head of HHS oversees that agency.
A spokesman for Thompson, Kevin Keane, rejected the criticism
and said the gvernor "is very much anti-smoking, particularly with
"He's a man known to walk up to a young person smoking and take
the cigarette out of his hands," Keane said. "If he sees a staff
member with cigarettes, he crumbles them up and throws them in
the garbage."
As governor of Wisconsin, Thompson was supported by tobacco
interests, receiving almost $100,000 from 1993 to 2000, according
to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. More than $70,000 of that
came from executives at Philip Morris -- which owns Oscar Mayer
Foods and Miller Brewing, both major state employers.
"Obviously, there has been a very close relationship between the
governor and Philip Morris, and tobacco interests generally," said
Mike McCabe, president of the Democracy Campaign, a nonpartisan
group that tracks campaign spending.
Peggy Roberts, spokeswoman for Philip Morris, said that it was
"incumbent on us to have a good relationship with Governor
Thompson because we're the second largest employer in the state.
We pay a lot of taxes there."
Thompson spokesman Keane said of the governor's relationship
with Philip Morris: "The anti-tobacco critics can live in a pure and
ideal world and support a policy of never having to deal with Philip
Morris. The governor didn't have that luxury because Philip Morris
is such an important employer. And we think some positive things
came from that relationship."
Thompson was criticized in Wisconsin for trips he took to Australia
(in 1996), to Southern Africa (1995) and to England (1992) with
executives and lobbyists from Philip Morris. The trips were
organized through the National Governors' Association, but were
financed largely with money from groups sponsored by Philip
Morris. Thompson later said that he didn't know the trips were
substantially paid for by Philip Morris and that he wouldn't have
gone if he had known. But critics note that Thompson was aware
that Philip Morris officials were on the trip and sent letters of thanks
to them.
A study by the Saint Louis University School of Public Health in St.
Louis concluded that in 1996, Wisconsin ranked 49th in legislative
action to control tobacco use, according to information from the
National Cancer Institute. The high school smoking rate in Wisconsin
is 36 percent, just above the national average, according to the
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Wisconsin is now 13th in terms of funding tobacco control, following
recent legislative approval of $23.5 million annual funding for state
anti-tobacco efforts, according to the group. Thompson signed that
appropriation but had initially proposed spending only $2.5 million
yearly for that program.
The question of how much of the $246 billion national tobacco
settlement states should spend on anti-tobacco efforts has become
a contentious one. Mississippi Attorney General Michael Moore,
who helped negotiate the settlement, said that Texas has spent
little of its tobacco money on anti-tobacco programs and that he
hopes the Bush administration in Washington will have a different
"The states have a great opportunity to change public health
dramatically, and I'm afraid that some states and many people
will be missing the boat," Moore said. "This is an issue where
Tommy Thompson can now have a big impact" by encouraging
states to fund anti-tobacco programs aggressively.
Staff researcher Madonna Lebling contributed to this report.
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|Research and Conservation
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|About the J. Paul Getty Museum
|Museum Home Research and Conservation
Dates: Friday and Saturday, April 30 and May 1, 2010
Time: 10:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m. on Friday with reception to follow, 10:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. on Saturday
Location: Getty Villa, Auditorium
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire on view at the Getty Villa from March 24 to July 5, 2010, this symposium considers one of history's most momentous confrontations, an encounter between two cultures, European and Mesoamerican, and two empires, Spanish and Aztec. In unexpected yet significant ways, this conflict was also a meeting ground between Mexico and the ancient Mediterranean.
Distinguished international scholars examine the contexts in which classicism mediated a dialogue between Mesoamerica and Europe in the 1500s–1700s, when parallels were routinely drawn between the Old World past and the pre-Hispanic cultures of the New World. Speakers will address cross-cultural analogies in the early modern period, as well as current comparative approaches to the archaeology of empire. Topics include the Florentine Codex; the notion of parallel pantheons and classical paradigms for Aztec culture; the representation of Aztec life in postconquest Mexico and Europe; and monumental art as an imperial strategy.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Elizabeth Hill Boone, Tulane University, New Orleans
- Thomas B.F. Cummins, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Guilhem Olivier Durand, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City
- Jonathan Edmondson, York University, Toronto
- Eulogio Guzmán, Tufts University, Boston
- Cecelia F. Klein, University of California, Los Angeles
- Andrew Laird, University of Warwick, England
- Leonardo López Luján, Museo del Templo Mayor/INAH, Mexico City
- David Lupher, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma
- Anthony Pagden, University of California, Los Angeles
- John Pohl, University of California, Los Angeles
- Alessandra Russo, Columbia University, New York City
- Walter Scheidel, Stanford University, California
- Emily Umberger, Arizona State University, Tempe
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This symposium is presented in association with the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is made possible by the generous support of Chase.
Nahua Artists and the Aztec Legacy in the Florentine Codex (public lecture)
Presented by Diana Magaloni Kerpel, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City
Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Getty Villa, Auditorium
Created by Bernardino de Sahagún and a group of Nahua scholars between 1575 and 1577, the Florentine Codex is an encyclopedic study of Aztec culture in the wake of the 1521 Conquest of Mexico. Accompanying its Spanish and native Nahuatl language texts are some 2,500 ink and watercolor drawings. Diana Magaloni Kerpel, director of the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City, shares her research on this unique historical document. The Codex's illustrations can be read as a third hidden text, reflecting both the pre-Hispanic tradition of painting-writing employed to record human history and the classical legacy of Renaissance Europe.
The exhibition The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire is organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum in collaboration with CONACULTA-INAH.
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With California continuing to wrestle with a budget deficit of nearly $20 billion, one might be surprised to find out that the state's lawmakers missed the June 15 deadline to pass a state budget. Then we are reminded that last year's was the only time in the past 20 years when it was passed on time. Even so, that one didn't fly because of the ocean of debt where California continues to tread water.
When it comes to getting a budget passed, timing isn't everything. Just ask Democratic Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg who seems to sum up the mood of the members of his party. While he says he takes deadlines seriously, he thinks it's more important to pass a budget that preserves what he calls "key programs". Which takes us back to where we've been all along. Many Republicans, including Governor Schwarzenegger lean toward fixing the budget problem by eliminating funding for in-home health care for the elderly and blowing up the state's welfare program all together.
The Dems lean the other way. Home care for the elderly and welfare fall into the "key programs" Mr. Steinberg referred to. Their plan wouldn't interfere with programs they say deny the most needy in the state. Instead they propose borrowing $9 million by committing future revenue from the state's container recycling program. They also want to hang a tax on oil production and hold off on $2 billion worth of corporate tax breaks. They also suggest another $4.9 billion could be realized through additional taxes on vehicles, corporations, income, and alcohol.
A spokesperson for the governor said Tuesday, "Our deficit grows every day we don't act and the governor has been clear that the Legislature's inaction will not be solved with more taxes or risky borrowing schemes." Democratic Senator Denise Ducheny of San Diego points out that the June 15th deadline is unrealistic because the state doesn't get solid revenue figures until after May 15. Whatever the case, the math equation begins with a negative sign and is followed by $20 billion. The new fiscal year begins July 1. If there's no budget by then, payments will be delayed to vendors, local governments, Cal Grant student aid, and legislators.
Legislators? We may have suddenly found a sense of urgency.


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IBEW Local 110, a union of electrical professionals covering St. Paul, Minn., and the Eastern Metro is celebrating 100 years of commitment to excellence. Chartered on July 29, 1912, IBEW Local 110 started with only dozens of electrical workers. Over the years, St. Paul electricians have successfully promoted reasonable and safe methods of work, cultivated professional relationships in the community, settled disputes fairly and equitably, and assisted each other in times of need. Through continued solidarity, IBEW Local 110 has secured a high standard of living, security and safety for their 3196 members and families.
"The 100 year anniversary asks us to look back at the rich history that has kept this organization strong," said Joe Lubitz, veteran electrician and anniversary organizer. "Thinking back on the working conditions of our founding fathers and the sacrifices they made, it makes me proud to be a part of this milestone celebration."
"These early days set the tone for a genuine caring and concern for our members," said Jamie McNamara, IBEW Local 110 business manager. "Local 110 continues to work diligently to provide them with the best possible wages and benefits, to secure safe working conditions, and to offer training to keep us the safest, most highly trained electrical professionals in the industry. We look forward to serving our members into the next 100 years."
IBEW Local 110 is also proud of the strong connections it has with the community. As the title sponsor of IBEW Holiday Lights in the Park, members have volunteered and assisted in providing over $170,000 to local charities. Contributions from Holiday Lights provide childcare services, family counseling, food, shelter, education, and much more. In addition to Holiday Lights, Local 110 members also contribute to Habitat for Humanity and Toys for Tots.
The anniversary celebration will begin at noon on July 28 at Harriet Island with a color guard opening ceremony honoring Red Bull military veterans. Special guests include union leadership, retirees, and elected officials. After a brief program, a moment of silence will be observed at 1:10 p.m. for deceased members.