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Best of all, the FX2 delivers the style that today's truck buyer is
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The Ford F-150 FX2 is a sample of the bold, new offerings coming
this fall.
"We keep a close watch on the market and look for trends," says
Sarkar. "We work hard to predict the needs of the consumer and be
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SNOW HILL – With draft legislation in hand on the tax credit for Jolly Roger Amusement Park, the Worcester County Commissioners voted to support the bill at their March 4 meeting.
However, not all the commissioners felt that this was an appropriate time to pursue a tax credit.
"We heard the impending doom and gloom from the legislature. We don't know what's going to happen," said Commissioner Judy Boggs. "I think this is the wrong time to open the door to this, this year."
Boggs voted against supporting the legislation, the lone dissenting vote among the commissioners.
The bill does not obligate a dollar amount, Commissioner Bobby Cowger pointed out.
The bill also does not require either Worcester County or Ocean City to give the Jolly Roger Amusement Park a tax credit.
"It's simply enabling legislation," said Commissioner Linda Busick.
It is up to the municipality and the county to look at their budgets and consider the request for a tax credit from Jolly Roger Amusement Park and determine whether that is feasible or desirable.
West Ocean City is home to other amusement parks that would like tax credits as well.
Commissioner Bud Church, who represents that area, said amusement park owners who would like the same chance to save on taxes have already approached him.
"Why did we just limit it to Ocean City?" he wondered.
Because Trimper's Amusements and Jolly Roger Amusement Park came before the commissioners and asked for tax help, county attorney Sonny Bloxom said.
"We are opening the door," said Boggs. "We already have seen another park operator asking for similar consideration."
This bill is the only way to give Ocean City the power to help the Jolly Roger Amusement Park, said Commission President Virgil Shockley.
"They would need it to give a tax credit to Jolly Roger Amusement Park because there's nothing in the law now that allows them to give a tax credit to Jolly Roger Amusement Park," Bloxom said.
"I still have a concern we're doing this for Ocean City and not for the county," said Church.
Shockley said later that the county needs a study of the high costs of the amusement park operation that the park owners are referring to.
"Quite frankly, we may not be able to afford to give anything to anybody before this is over with," Shockley said.


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By Emma Brennan, Editorial Director and Senior Commissioning Editor: History, Art History and Design
Academics often find themselves confronted with the task of editing a volume of essays, sometimes following a conference, and sometimes simply because a state-of-the-field volume is overdue. Not all publishers like them, but a high-quality essay collection can work well as a book and in some cases make a valuable intervention in a field.
The first question a prospective volume editor should ask themselves is whether they can do (and want to do) what commissioning editors do all the time:
- persuade busy people to spend time writing for your volume
- keep them to a strict timescale
- impose specific house style guidelines
- critique, edit and even cut the work of friends, colleagues and senior figures in your field
The things a publisher will look for in an edited volume proposal are these – the 4 Cs:
- coherence (how well does it all fit together as a book?)
- contribution (what is this book going to do, as a collection, and why does that matter?)
- coverage (is it as broad or as focused as it needs to be do that job well?)
- contributors (who's in it?)
Coherence and where to begin
The best way to begin is by defining an overall purpose for the volume. The book as a whole must amount to more than the sum of its chapters.
Ideally, you'd start with research questions, commission essays to explore them from interesting angles and then prepare a perfectly coherent proposal for something that has always, in the minds of everyone involved, been a book.
Back in the real world, you're probably going to start with a conference. My advice would be to start work on the book well before the event itself.
- tell your speakers that you're planning a volume
- give them all a set of questions that any piece that ends up in the book will have to explore
- tell them that some (but not all) papers will be used
- be clear that you'll decide based on the book and its coherence as you put it together
After the conference, choose your chapters wisely, and if there are any glaring gaps or biases in what you're covering, it can be a good idea to commission further essays in order to fill the holes or provide balance.
You will need to answer the 'so what?' question convincingly, and 'highlighting themes' or filling a gap is rarely going to be enough – some themes and gaps remain unexplored and unfilled precisely because nobody is very interested in them.
You as the editor have a difficult job because you have a group of different writers with different ideas and approaches and sources, but this is precisely the strength of an edited volume – so really think about what those different approaches, backgrounds, sources, areas of interest and so on can bring to the subject your volume will explore.
Here are some things the book could usefully do, from a range of angles to be determined by your range of authors and what you ask of them:
- challenge the existing thought/literature (it should definitely do this)
- advance an underexplored area or open up a new approach to a much-studied area
- compare something across cultures, empires, industries (or whatever is appropriate to your area of study)
- work the chronological angles to show changes or continuities over time
- compare methodological or theoretical approaches
All of your chapters should contribute explicitly to what the book as a whole is doing. A generic chapter structure can be a good way of making things very clear for the reader, so that (for example) everybody starts with a little piece on how their chapter relates to the book overall.
Balance is essential. Some would argue that different essays should be different lengths depending on the subject matter. I would say that if something is really important, have more than one chapter cover it, and have all your contributions roughly the same length. If it's not important enough for a full-length chapter then replace it with something that is. It's part of the editor's role to do this work.
If there are different kinds of chapter (for example in art history, you sometimes get dialogues between artist and scholar) then varying the length makes more sense. Afterwords and forewords can be much shorter, too.
If you are grouping your chapters into themed sections, then match them well, explain the rationale for the grouping in your introduction, and make the sections of balanced size or thereabouts.
Try to cover all the angles in sufficient depth to do so usefully. Eight chapters on the British empire followed by one on the German empire and one on Goa will not convince any peer reviewer that your book is either global or focused, unless you have a very strong reason for following that pattern. It's important to aim for chronological coherence, too, and if your volume should cover a period, then do it properly.
On the other hand:
- Not every angle can be covered in one book
- Some angles invite more to say than others
- Your volume does need limits, and these should be outlined and justified in a substantial introduction to the volume
Experience says that your book will be best and your life as volume editor simplest with no fewer than eight contributors, and no more than fourteen.
Any publisher will be attracted by a contributors list that's glittering with eminent names. It's more likely though that you'll have a mixture:
- one or two 'keynotes' (or equivalent figures in the field, if no conference papers were harmed in the making of this volume)
- some mid-career names who have published on the subject
- some up-and-coming early career researchers and PhD students
It will help if the publisher recognises some of the names, because readers (and therefore buyers) will too. There is no reason not to include post-graduate student contributions as long as they fit the book well, and are balanced by and in dialogue with those of the more established scholars in your book. You might also want to think about getting a big name in the field to do a foreword or an afterword of 2000-4000 words – this can help both coherence and name recognition.
A lot of editors team up so that we see a combination of one senior and one junior scholar, or a mix of three or four. While collaboration can be a great thing, we've all heard tell of the junior people ending up with the majority of the work in those situations, so be careful about what you are signing yourself up for. A share of the credit should imply a share of the work.
Try to make sure that you have a geographical spread of contributors and that all the voices that should be included are heard.
Think about:
- What's being studied. Does your book on colonialism include enough indigenous voices? If it's on South Asia, how many contributors are working with South Asian primary sources? Again, these might come under limitations of the book to be discussed in the introduction
- Where the book will sell. If the subject is mainly studied in the UK, do you have any UK names in there?
- Gender balance. Even in this day and age, we get book proposals with all-male line-ups
- Where are your contributors based? Six people from one university might not win your book as broad an audience as six people from more dispersed locations, who go to different conferences and events
Within reason, the book should draw together a range of diverse perspectives to speak to as broad an audience as possible.
The book proposal
Any book proposal has to contain information relating to the length and general parameters of the book, and these are the factors that affect the cost to the publisher of producing the book.
- 80,000-100,000 words is ideal but a longer book with all its 4 C's firmly in place could be attractive. Longer books will usually require discussion with the commissioning editor
- As a rule of thumb, chapters should be 6000-8000 words, including all notes and references. Too short implies superficiality; too long implies bloating. The introduction can be longer or shorter as needed
- Illustrations – these will depend on the publisher but for us, black and white are easier and cheaper to produce than colour and it's wise only to include them if you're working with visual material that has to be shown. You as the editor will have to do all the to-ing and fro-ing if there are problems with quality or copyright
Some publishers will ask to see the full manuscript before offering a contract. As a minimum, you'll have to provide detailed chapter synopses and a couple of sample chapters. It's essential to include a very detailed summary of the introduction you plan to write. This is the key chapter.
Try to avoid falling into the trap of two introductions – a short volume introduction listing all the chapters to follow, and then an essay from another contributor that sets up the context. That's hard on the reader and lets all your introductory glory drain away into someone else's pocket. If you have to, why not collaborate with that contextualising contributor?
The introduction should do all of these things:
- articulate the current state of the field
- place the volume within the relevant literature
- outline its many clear contributions to the field
- explain what each chapter will do to further those contributions
- also, if there are gaps you're aware of, say what it won't do and why
In your synopsis of the introduction, go into some detail about each of these points. Readers (and peer reviewers) want to see what you feel the relevant literature is and will need to be convinced that this book hangs together sensibly. Essentially, an introduction synopsis should be a mini-introduction, in draft form.
Your draft chapters should be standardised to the point where the peer reviewers and the publisher will be reassured of your ability to do the work required to get a whole volume into shape. This means addressing the styles used for headings, references, punctuation and so on – even if they aren't in the publisher's house style, it's good to be consistent.
The same goes for chapter synopses – don't just paste unrevised abstracts into a list – when one is three pages long with its own referencing system and the next one is a vague 150 words, it's not going to give the right impression of your editing skills.
Put the synopses in the order that the chapters will appear in the book, so that the reader can see how the volume builds. Always provide a contents list to show that you have thought about the order of the chapters, and if you change their order in the course of revisions, change your chapter numbering, your synopses and your contents list so the peer reviewer will not get confused.
The approach
Pick your publisher carefully, based on the fit with their publishing strengths and what you want for the book (format, price and so on). It can be a good idea to send a brief outline to the commissioning editor (or series editor) to see whether they'd like to receive more. Approaching editors at academic conferences can also be a good way to gauge interest and to see who you'd like to work with.
Good luck!
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Despite the popularity of The Shoes' upbeat and appropriately named 2012 track "Time to Dance", the accompanying beautiful and macabre music video has a surprisingly low number of views, even with Jake Gyllenhaal as its leading man. And while half a million views is nothing to sneeze at, the creepy short film deserves to have a lot more eyeballs on it.
Clocking in at almost 10:00, the short illustrates a grisly killing spree through the eyes of a detached-looking Gyllenhaal. And though 10:00 is like two hours in YouTube Time, the video manages to stay captivatingly creepy throughout. We see him take bloody revenge on his hip-looking victims at various parties, then methodically grooming and planning his next attack. Throughout the video, Gyllenhaal keeps a quiet insanity in his eyes that is almost creepier than the murder scenes themselves.
The song itself is an interesting foil to the horror movie like scenes of the short. The French synth-pop duo had been gaining speed remixing already established pop artists, but their album Crack My Bones is their first venture into the spotlight. "Time to Dance" is a rewarding jam with meandering beats reminiscent of LCD Soundsystem.
Sample the entire Crack My Bones album at the band's Last FM site, and make sure you let me know what you think of the album and what other creepy music videos you like on Twitter!


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I've only had my Fuji X10 for a couple of months and it's an excellent bit of kit but it's not without its flaws. Aside from the known issue with white discs (blooming) in highlight areas and slow boot times if you don't format the card in the camera I've now got a bigger and much more annoying problem dust inside my lens.
I checked the camera thoroughly when I received it and there were definitely no dust traces inside the lens when it was new. The other day I was cleaning it with my trusty Lens Pen 2 and noticed there were some stubborn spots of dirt I couldn't shift. On closer inspection I was shocked to find there is what I consider to be a large number of dust particles clinging to the inside of the front lens element and also to one of the inner lens elements.
It seems that this is quite a common problem with many other Fuji X10 users reporting the same. It is, however, reassuring to know that Fuji have been cleaning dust from inside the lens for other users free of charge under warranty. I will be getting this done but since Fuji have announced there is a new sensor replacement program on the horizon this month (May 2012) to combat the white orb sensor issue, I think I'll wait until I send it off for the sensor swap and ask them to clean inside the lens at the same time.
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Here, again, is a paragraph from a Feb. 15 story in The Heights, the student-run newspaper at Boston College:
On the other hand, Dunn stated that the University made no such promises, and in fact informed Moloney and McIntyre of the risk of subpoena and the danger such a situation could pose to the archives. He admitted that the language "to the extent that American law provides" was not found exactly in the donor agreement, but stated his belief that the contract was drawn up by Moloney, not BC.Ed Moloney -- a journalist, not on faculty, hired as a contractor to run a research project under BC's aegis -- supposedly wrote the contracts between BC and its research subjects.
So the claim here, made in the university's defense, is that Boston College funded and sponsored a research project that it then didn't run or manage. The university hired outside researchers to conduct research in its name, calling the researchers employees, but left to these subordinate outsiders the task of framing the relationship between BC and the human subjects of sensitive research.
Trying to defend his university, Jack Dunn hollows its core; his defense is that Boston College conducts research without standards or oversight. It was just, you know, the researchers did their thing, man, and we were just here doing our thing, and like whatevs. Oh, that Moloney guy didn't put that stuff about the legal limits of confidentiality into the contract with the interviewees? Oh, man, maybe we should have had some kind of involvement in that!
Now, look: I don't believe him for a moment, and as Ted Folkman has written ("I should add that I would be surprised if BC would allow a BC researcher to draft a contract that binds the University without putting it through a legal review."), it's an awfully strange thing to claim.
But the striking thing is that this is Dunn's idea of a defense, of a claim that puts the university on safer ground. He doesn't appear to notice the devastating implications of the claim that BC had nothing to do with the relationship between its researchers and its research subjects.
So over the weekend, I sent an email message to the provost of Boston College, adding the vice-provost for research to the CC list:
Dr. Garza,No response, which is what I expected, but also no public retraction or clarification of Dunn's exceptionally destructive claim, which is surprising and disappointing.
I have written about the Belfast Project subpoenas in the Chronicle of Higher Education Review, the Irish Times, and the Irish Echo, as well as on my own blog. I direct this message to you, rather than to BC's public affairs office, because I have a question about research and academic affairs that relates to statements the public affairs office has recently made. I don't see the point of asking the public affairs office about the public affairs office -- the matter in question relates directly to the academic standards of the university.
A Feb. 15 story in The Heights, "Researchers Weigh In On Belfast Project Legal Drama," contains this paragraph:
"On the other hand, Dunn stated that the University made no such promises, and in fact informed Moloney and McIntyre of the risk of subpoena and the danger such a situation could pose to the archives. He admitted that the language 'to the extent that American law provides' was not found exactly in the donor agreement, but stated his belief that the contract was drawn up by Moloney, not BC."
Dunn's claim is that Boston College agreed to be bound by a human subjects contract written by outside researchers in BC's name, without BC's participation or review. In other words, his claim is that Boston College sponsors research projects that are not governed by BC's research standards, deferring to the standards of subordinate outsiders and contractors in those research projects. Do you agree with Jack Dunn's description of BC's relationship with its Belfast Project researchers? More generally, do you agree that BC allows itself, as a matter of policy, to be bound in research projects by contracts BC does not write or review? Does BC generally oversee research projects sponsored and funded by the university, or does BC generally allow such projects to take place without oversight or internal standards?
I suspect Jack Dunn has misspoken, and I hope you will clarify.
Thank you for your time.
Chris Bray
One guy at Boston College, who is not an academic or part of the academic life of the university, said something stupid and damaging. But the university did not set the record straight. The academic center of the institution allowed its spokesman to say that BC doesn't run its own research projects, and doesn't have standards for outside researchers hired by the university.
Passive in the face of absurd lies made on its behalf, Boston College now owns those lies as an institution. Bert Garza, the academic standards of the university are your responsibility. This is your job. And you didn't do it.


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St. Patrick's Day is coming and so the kids and I made these cute four-leaf clover bouquets. The idea for this paper roll shamrock craft struck me when I was making a Valentine's Day heart wreath. All you will need are toilet paper rolls, green paint, green chenille stems, scissors, and finally, a hole punch.
Have your little one paint the toilet paper roll with the green paint. Be sure to get it covered inside and out.
Once dried (we let ours dry overnight) bend the roll in the shape of a heart.
Use your scissors (big kids can cut this, but little ones will have a very hard time) to cut slices a little less than an inch wide.
Next, use your hole punch to make a hole very close to the bottom tip of the heart.
To finish, you can have your little one thread a chenille stem through the holes on four hearts. Then, turn the end and twist it to the stem tightly. Be sure to fold the exposed tip over which prevents the metal poking your child.
This is the final result. I wanted to get pictures of my daughter threading the hearts and holding the clovers, but we were having a toddler meltdown moment about getting our picture taken.
This paper roll shamrock craft makes great four leaf clover wands, you know to turn things green or make rainbows appear. You can use them for decoration. You can always use your four-leaf clovers for something more fun. Like maybe something to diffuse a toddler meltdown…a silly mommy.
Kim is a contributing writer for No Time For Flash Cards, a mom to a toddler, a preschooler, and a foster parent, too. She juggles her day by trying out fun activities and crafts with the kids. After all, she is just a big kid herself. See what she has been up to over at Mom Tried It. Want more great ideas for preschool activities? Check out our Build Preschool Thematic Curriculum Units!


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Vancouver, Canada – WWF's Earth Hour City Challenge (EHCC) has awarded Cape Town, South Africa, the title 'Global Earth Hour Capital 2014'. The city is recognized for its ambition and pioneering actions to combat climate change in its effort to bolster quality of life for its citizens. Cape Town succeeds last year's winner Vancouver, Canada.
Cape Town stood out as a role model for the global South with a showcase of green programs and actions other cities can replicate. Cape Town also demonstrates how city strategies to reduce carbon development and battle climate change can also help tackle other development priorities such as food, energy and water security.
"Taking the baton from Vancouver as WWF's Global Earth Hour Capital 2014 is an exceptional honour for Cape Town and is international endorsement of our comprehensive efforts around sustainability," says Patricia de Lille, Executive Mayor of Cape Town. "We are overjoyed that Cape Town has been selected from among so many great cities striving to create attractive, smart cities while tackling a multitude of urgent environmental and social challenges. We know we have a lot more work to do and the Earth Hour City Challenge is a great way for our city and our community to be inspired to continue moving forward."
The city has taken bold steps towards transitioning its energy system away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy with its roll out of a solar water heating program. Community engagement on sustainability issues and strong progress with energy efficiency, especially a large-scale retrofitting program for its buildings stock, were other pioneering actions highlighted.
"Cape Town serves as an excellent model of how a city in the global South can take urgent and concrete action on climate change, despite its country's dependence on fossil fuels," says David Miller, CEO and President of WWF Canada, host of the award ceremony. "Our international leaders, who have the responsibility to conclude an international climate agreement in Paris next year, must now provide the ambitious framework to help all cities and nations bring about climate action at the required scale and speed," adds Miller.
Over 160 cities from 14 countries joined the competition, more than double the participation from last year. This year, the jury paid particular attention to each city's level of ambition and innovation for low carbon development in relation to the local context.
The EHCC jury of experts selected Cape Town after a shortlist and final review of 14 city finalists. Finalists included Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Brussels Capital Region, Belgium; Chicago, United States; Coimbatore, India; Copenhagen, Denmark; Edmonton, Canada; Lappeenranta, Finland; Mexico City, Mexico; Monteria, Colombia; Muangklang, Thailand; Semarang, Indonesia; Seoul, South Korea; and Stockholm, Sweden.
"The increased number of city participants in the City Challenge reflects a strong demand by local communities to be recognised for their bold climate actions – and to step up action to reduce dependency on fossil fuels to secure the well-being of their citizens," says Carina Borgström-Hansson, WWF's Earth Hour City Challenge Project Lead. "The EHCC initiative has once more shown how cities from across the world are willing to lead the transition to a renewable energy-based, sustainable future, and that such a transition can also help them meet other development challenges."
The City Challenge also invited people around the globe to voice their support for renewable energy and for 33 green city finalists through the social media platform 'We Love Cities'.
The online voting campaign collected more than 300,000 votes from people who truly love their cities and want to see them become more sustainable. Tied for first place were Medellin, Colombia, and Khunhan, Thailand. Both cities successfully engaged their citizens in contributing votes and online feedback, including hundreds of suggestions on how their lovable cities can be even more sustainable.
Following the award ceremony, finalist cities joined together in committing to WWF's 'Seize Your Power' pledge calling for the redirection of investments from fossil fuels toward renewable energy sources.
WWF worked closely with ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability in mobilizing cities to join the challenge. ICLEI provided the use of its carbonn Cities Climate Registry (cCCR) as the reporting platform for the initiative. The Swedish Postcode Lottery is the main financial partner.
For more information on Earth Hour, visit www.earthhour.org.
Source: WWF.


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Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a new animal model for studying hemophilia A, with the goal of eventually treating people with the disorder. Hemophilia A, a hereditary defect that prevents blood from clotting normally, is caused by a variety of mutations in the factor VIII gene.
Published online in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, the study aimed to provide a better understanding of hemophilia A, according to first author and veterinarian Carmen Jane Booth, assistant professor of comparative medicine, and co-director of Mouse Research Pathology at Yale School of Medicine.
Booth and her team studied an inbred colony of rats that lived healthily for many years before spontaneously exhibiting symptoms similar to those of humans with hemophilia A, including hemorrhage, spontaneous bruising, swollen joints, prolonged bleeding from minor wounds and unexplained deaths among pregnant and postpartum rats. The team ruled out environmental factors as being responsible for the bleeding disorder in these rats, showed that it was inherited, and conducted diagnostic tests to identify the specific coagulation factor and underlying genetic defect responsible for the disorder.
The team found that the affected animals had a decreased amount of factor VIII. They sequenced the rat factor VIII cDNA and identified a mutation in this gene that was similar to mutations in some people with severe hemophilia. The factor VIII gene is located on chromosome 18 in rats, in contrast to its location on the X chromosome in mice and humans. "The larger size of the rat and the gene location difference makes the rat a unique model, well suited to developing novel therapies for acquired and hereditary factor VIII deficiencies," said Booth.
When we get a minor cut, bleeding should stop in about 20 to 30 seconds, but in hemophiliacs, the bleeding is prolonged because the blood cannot form or maintain a proper blood clot. This can lead to bruises, injured joints and even life-threatening bleeding from everyday activities. The research team found that treating the affected rats with human recombinant factor VIII corrected their coagulation abnormality and stopped the prolonged bleeding.
"This is the only spontaneous rat model of hemophilia A," said Booth. "Rats bruise and bleed similarly to humans with hemophilia A. Ultimately, we plan to translate this model for use in developing gene therapies and evaluating novel therapeutics for treating people with hemophilia A."
Other authors on the study included veterinarian Marjory B. Brooks, and Sara Rockwell, James W. Murphy, Henry M. Rinder, M.D., Daniel Zelterman, Michael J. Paidas, M.D., Susan R. Compton and Peter W. Marks, M.D.
Citation: Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostatis doi: 10.1111/j. 1538-7836.2010.03978


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Neither side in a bitter patent battle is satisfied with Apple Inc.'s $1 billion jury verdict over Samsung Electronics after a three-week trial this summer.
Samsung wants a new trial. Apple is seeking an additional $707 million in damages and interest.
The two companies filed a blizzard of legal papers late Friday and early Saturday with their demands that a federal judge in San Jose significantly amend — or toss out altogether — the jury's Aug. 24 verdict.
The jury found that 26 Samsung products ripped off Apple's technology at the heart of its iPhones and iPads.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has scheduled a Dec. 6 hearing to discuss the myriad issues raised by both companies. Samsung says it will appeal if Koh turns down its demands.


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How to stand out at or among art fairs: Art Basel Miami, Aqua, Seven
Works, visitors, galleries, memories: it is easy to get lost in the ubiquitous sprawl of an art fair. As if in collective punishment for the sins of modernism, all are victims of the grid.
Events like Art Basel Miami are staged in vast convention centers which are bizarre equalizers: top galleries that ordinarily inhabit swank, architecturally distinct real estate are barely distinguishable from country cousin private or provincial dealers willing to rent a booth of the same size. Visitors, meanwhile loose their bearings. There are few visually meaningful landmarks. You make a brash artwork into one and next thing you know, its gone.
The organizers of New York's upcoming, 2012 Armory Show are savvy to this problem: they have contracted architects Bade Stageberg Cox (of National Academy Museum make-over success) to "spatially contextualize" the piers' fairs next year, which means creating memorable sightlines and trails.
Art Basel Miami know they have a problem too: they are victims of their own success. Miami-goers just love the overload, but still suffer its consequences. Basel opts for neat Swiss taxonomy. Their "sectors" help chop up the sprawl, either conceptually or geographically. Art Positions and Art Nova function as mini-exhibitions within the exhibition and get their own corner quadrants and placard color-coding. But their discreteness is more evident on the map than on the ground. Positions has booths for single artists presenting work on a singular theme, such as Sven Johne at Klemm's with three circus projects in different mediums: photos he took of empty plots once the circus left town, pictures he found online of sleeping (or dead) circus animals, and an enticingly rousing video of an actor announcing acts that on't actually materialize. Nova is for new work by small groups, such as Murray Guy's complementary presentation of Barbara Probst and Lucy Skaer. Art Kabinett, meanwhile, is a trail you can follow of space delineated within participating booths for solo concentrations. It is more an honorific – like landmark status from a monuments commission- than a tangible display within the display. And Art Video (to be reviewed here soon) is a segment of film work from participating galleries, curated by Artprojx of London's David Gryn.
And yet, however much such sub-categorizing tries to negotiate overload, it actually contributes to it, sorcerer's apprentice-style. Rather than dividing the mass is creates a matrix of intersecting grids.
One way for booths to defeat the white cube effect is to wallpaper their way out of the problem. As luck would have it, two spectacular efforts in this direction ended up next door to one another, almost defeating the purpose of the exercise. L&M Arts used Warhol's legendary cow and self-portrait wallpapers inside and out for their mini-drawings retrospective while Mary Boone had Barbara Kruger "textorate" their exterior with an excoriating statement about money making money worth less. Although both visual statements yearned a sea of white to help them pop, the sightlines of one to the other were actually amusingly sumptuous. Another way to subvert the ubiquity of the white walls – besides painting them black, as London's Alison Jacques Gallery did to exquisite effect for her moving two-woman Lygia Clark/Hannah Wilke display, or inviting one of your artists to make a wall drawing, as in the case of the Viennese Galerie Nächt St Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder and Ernst Caramelle – is to have your artist puncture holes in your walls. No one does that more artfully than Sarah Oppenheimer at Annely Juda.
And yet, however seasoned a fairgoer one is, the booth effect is draining upon aesthetic experience. The pleasures of getting lost in the stacks wears off after a while. The Seattle-based boutique fair Aqua offers an antidote. Recalling "The Waves" in it name and "A Room of One's Own" in its organization, it achieves a stream of consciousness. This courtyard-accessed two-story motel on Collins Avenue is perfect for Aqua's 45 domestically-oriented galleries. Each gets a similar, nicely-proportioned, emptied-out deco bedroom. And this means they get what no one paying exponentially more in a convention-center fair can wangle: real walls and natural light.
As if in emulation of the modest modernism of these surroundings, stand-out exhibits at Aqua included McKenzie Fine Art's salon hang of Don Voisine; the subtle understated architectural white reliefs of Sarah Bostwick at San Francisco's Gregory Lind Gallery, who was also showing Sarah Walker and others; precisionist matchbox-sized grids based on Artforum ad page layouts by Norwegian Lisa Liedgren at Seattle's Prole Drift; and the funky abstractionist stable of Conrad Wilde Gallery of Tucson, Arizona, amongst them the sensual encaustic monochromes of Joanne Mattera and the biomorphic reliefs of Ruth Hiller.
But some dealers are determined to go yet further in their bid to beat the grid with its relentless compartmentalization. For some years Soho gallerist Ronald Feldman and Brooklyn's Pierogi Gallery shared warehouse spaces in the Miami Design District. This year, for the second year, they have expanded to form Seven, with Postmasters, P.P.O.W., London's Hales Gallery, BravinLee programs, and Winkelman Gallery. In a raw, sprawling industrial space on the North Miami Avenue gallery street (Diana Lowenstein, Bernice Steinbaum, Hardcore et al.) the seven galleries have created a show where the labels alone identify gallery affiliation. Curating is by "passive-aggressive consensus" according to one participant. The fortuitous juxtapositions that arise by serendipity in a big grid fair are aesthetically composed here: the way a painting by Veteran West Indian-born abstract expressionist Frank Bowling sets off a dialog with a Fabian Marcaccio, for instance, or a Ward Shelley speaks to a David Diao.
Writing these notes prompts an observation about journalism that relates the strange equalizing power of fairs to the ubiquity of booths: Fairs are like states in the UN or the senate. However much the critic reminds himself that Art Basel is the main event and Seven is, well, just seven, one unit gets at least a paragraph the way Seychelles or North Dakota get a desk in the plenum. But really, does Red Dot even warrant observer status?


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Why? Bassam tends to attract the client who wants it done right the first time. That's because Bassam sells a much higher percentage of homes listed compared to the average agents in the area. If you hire the wrong agent, after weeks or even months go by without your home being sold, you have to get rid of that agent and start all over again. Many sellers go through three agents before getting their home finally sold – and by then they tend to compromise their price severely. The homeowner who is determined to get it right the first time compares Bassam's track record to others and makes the obvious choice.


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[Master P]
Yo C-Murder
Keep your eyes on the rollers nigga.
Pass the weed (ok)
We gon' head up interstate 10
We gon' pick up Pimp C, and Bun B (that's my niggas there)
We gon' get rowdy rowdy and bout it bout it
We gon' handle our business
We gon' smoke
We gon' make it back to the N. O.
'cause you know whut?
Us South niggaz don't playa hate
We got love from the South, East, West, to the Nizorth
But it's your time baby
We gon' handle our business
And we gonna do this shit like g'z
We gonna represent the gizame
Ya heard me?
[Pimp C]
This game fucked up
I ain't got no friends
I done spend my last 70, 000 dollars on a drop-top bienz
Ugh, and I'm a real nigga
Down to put a forty-five to his hilfiger
Lay it down muthafucka because I'm bustin' for mine
Take them out everytime and I ain't try to dine
Niggaz dyin' port authur (huh nigga what?)
Thank that I'm playin? (huh nigga what?)
Bust 17 times and let 'em feel what I'm sayin'
Ugk and C-Murder
Cadillac and a Tank (Master P)
Bout to fade the platinum
Smoke some dank and some drank
But bitch love me when I come to your city
Serve my dick out her pussy
And bust my nuts on her titties
Ugh, it's just a matter of time before I'm up in your house
With my mask on my face and my thang in your mouth
Now get your mind right nigga (mind right)
And make a pimp bitch
And never put trust in a trick ass bitch
[chorus x4]
I'm fingida pull akickdoe! (ugggggggghhhhhh!)
Lay down on the flo' (flo')
Want the cheese and the money or everybody gotta go (gotta go)
[Bun B]
They try to run up in the manger (run up)
Now hold oon Bun B
I see me P and C in danger (danger)
Just like the atf, hpd, and Texas Rangers
Fuckin' with me and my middle fanga.
But to this shit nigga we ain't strangers
But I Gotta bust my magnums
Gotta gage these pistols
Hand grenades, and land mines
Chopper smoke bombs and missiles
Some of them bitches whistle
Some of them bitches silent
But all them bitches handle business
All of them violent
Bout it bout it and dangerous
Soldiers that wanna gang with us
Bang with us, hang with us
Get that No Limit slang with us
I came to bust every ass in my way till it's over
So get the chip off your shoulder
Fix your lip
I done told yah
We own 5 on your bitch in your bumpin' conflicts
Nigga I can see that you got plicked
Sit down and take a time trip
This ain't nothin' ta sneeze at
The fear in your eyes I see
Bitch where's the key's & g'z at?
[chorus x2]
Lay it down muthafucka
Everybody gotta go
Give me the loot is what I tell 'em
When I kick in the doe'
Nigga I'm mad at the world
For my lack of havin' papers
Fuck the law and the cops
'cause I'm down for a caper
[Master P]
Some say we dangerous
Especially when we broke
I'm mo daily than a dope fiend fiendin' for dope
I just live for confetti
You see I'm deadly like Freddy
I run through your house and leave it messy like messy
I got to much stress in my head
I wanna take my own life
My last chance is a 211
But it got me thankin' twicee
It's a drought right now
So these drugs ain't happenin'
And if it wasn't for No Limit
There would be no money or rapping.
[Master P]
You see my boy had a bumper full of keyz and g'z
The word on the street is his homie told his baby momma to freeze!
You see you can't trust nobody in this dope game
Keep your eyez on your enemies
Stack some chips and get out man.
Give me a ski-mask, a 9
I'll be a down ass nigga
And watch me pull a flee-flicker
And make my cheese get bigger
If I get caught it's 25, but that don't mean shit
'cause if I go to jail it's gotta be better than living like this
Nigga 2 shots in the air
'cause I ain't bout bein' broke
And if you bout I make a move
Nigga, everybody gotta go
Just some bout it niggaz from New Orleans
With tapes hooked up
C-Murder, Master P, and ugk
[chorus till fade]


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Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory on the south coast of Spain known for the Rock of Gibraltar (a major landmark of the region), a 426m limestone ridge at its centre. It is a very unique place for the curious traveller. You can take the time to explore the caves and tunnels. The inside of the rock is an absolute labyrinth with secret internal roads and tunnels four times longer than those on the surface. Military presence and security in this otherwise deserted area is strong but almost invisible. Also, at the Apes' Den (Queen's Gate) and in the area of the Great Siege Tunnels there is the rare opportunity to see semi-wild primates at close quarters. If you let them, the monkeys will be their captivating selves and behave in their everyday natural manner.
Palma is a resort city, the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situated on the south coast of Majorca on the Bay of Palma. As of the 2009 census, the population of the city of Palma proper was 401,270, and the population of the entire urban area was 621,000, making it the twelfth largest urban area of Spain. Almost half of the total population of Majorca live in Palma. The Cabrera Archipelago, though widely separated from Palma proper, is administratively considered part of the municipality. Its airport, Son Sant Joan, serves over 22 million passengers each year.
Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of land area and also the island group's historical capital. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the South Aegean administrative region. It is located northeast of Crete, southeast of Athens and just off the Anatolian coast of Turkey. Rhodes' nickname is The island of the Knights, named after the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, who once conquered the land. Historically, Rhodes was famous worldwide for the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Medieval Old Town of the City of Rhodes has been declared a World Heritage Site. Today, it is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe.
Haifa International Airport
Haifa is the third-largest city in the State of Israel. It is home to the Bahá'í World Centre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a destination for Baha'i pilgrims. Built on the slopes of Mount Carmel, the settlement has a history spanning more than 3,000 years. The earliest known settlement in the vicinity was Tell Abu Hawam, a small port city established in the Late Bronze Age (14th century BCE). In the 3rd century CE, Haifa was known as a dye-making center. Today, the city is a major seaport located on Israel's Mediterranean coastline in the Bay of Haifa covering 63.7 square kilometres (24.6 sq mi). The city plays an important role in Israel's economy. It is also home to Matam, one of the oldest and largest high-tech parks in the country. Haifa Bay is a center of heavy industry, petroleum refining and chemical processing. Haifa formerly functioned as the western terminus of an oil pipeline from Iraq via Jordan.
Funchal is the largest city, the municipal seat and the capital of Portugal's Autonomous Region of Madeira. The city has a population of 111,892, making it the 6th largest city in Portugal, and has been the capital of Madeira for more than five centuries. Because of its high cultural and historical value, Funchal is one of Portugal's main tourist attractions. It is also popular as a destination for New Year's Eve, and it is the leading Portuguese port on cruise liner dockings.
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe. Residents of the old city are known as Hamiltonians. The city is home to the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, the Bruce Trail, McMaster University and Mohawk College. McMaster University is ranked 4th in Canada and 94th in the world and has a well-known medical school. A growing arts and culture community, the city is Canada's largest steel producer and a major Great Lakes port.
Miami is a major city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625. The 42nd largest city in the United States, with a population of 433,136, it is the principal, central, and most populous city of the South {Florida} metropolitan area, the most populous metropolis in the Southeastern United States. According to the US Census Bureau, Miami's metro area is the seventh most populous in the United States, with an estimated population of 5,547,051 in 2009.
Sorrento Neapolitan: Surriento is a town overlooking the Bay of Naples in Southern Italy. A popular tourist destination, it can be reached easily from Naples and Pompeii as it is at the south-eastern end of the Circumvesuviana rail line. The Sorrentine Peninsula has views of Naples, Vesuvius and the Isle of Capri. The Amalfi Drive, connecting Sorrento and Amalfi, is a narrow road that threads along the high cliffs above the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Cartagena is Colombia's most famous tourist destination on the Caribbean coast. The city is renowned for its colonial and colourful architecture. With a tropical climate, the city is also a popular beach destination. The city was founded on June 1, 1533, and named after Cartagena, Spain, itself after the original Carthage in Tunisia. However, settlement in this region around Cartagena Bay by various indigenous people dates back to 4000 BC. During the colonial period Cartagena served a key role in administration and expansion of the Spanish empire. It was a center of political and economic activity due to the presence of royalty and wealthy viceroys. In 1984 Cartagena's colonial walled city and fortress were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Limassol District
Civitavecchia is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Rome in the central Italian region of Lazio. A sea port on the Tyrrhenian Sea, the name ''Civitavecchia'' means "ancient town". The modern city was built over a pre-existing Etruscan settlement. The massive Forte Michelangelo was first commissioned from Donato Bramante by Pope Julius II, to defend the port of Rome. The upper part of the "maschio" tower, however, was designed by Michelangelo, whose name is generally applied to the fortress. North of the city at Ficoncella are the Terme Taurine baths frequented by Romans and still popular with the Civitavecchiesi. The modern name stems from the common fig plants among the various pools. And also next to the town is the location of the cruise ship docks. All major cruise lines start and end their cruises at this location, and others stop for shore excursion days that allow guests to see Rome and Vatican sights, which are ninety minutes away.
Argostoli is a town and a former municipality on the island of Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece. It has been the capital and administrative centre of Kefalonia since 1757, following a population shift down from the old capital of Agios Georgios (also known as Kastro) to take advantage of the trading opportunities provided by the sheltered bay upon which Argostoli sits. Argostoli developed into one of the busiest ports in Greece, leading to prosperity and growth. The 2011 census recorded a population of 10,633 in the Argostoli municipal unit. Its largest towns are Argostóli (pop. 9,748), Razata (507), Dilináta (496) and Kompothekráta (449).
Gytheio is a town and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality East Mani, of which it is a municipal unit. It was the seaport of Sparta, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) north. Gytheio used to be an important port until it was destroyed in 4th century AD, possibly by an earthquake. Today it is the largest and most important town in Mani. It is also the seat of the municipality of East Mani.


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200 people gather in front of SF's City Hall
On a day of protest that saw Web sites around the world go dark in opposition to the restrictions Stop Online Piracy (SOPA) bill would enact, more than 200 people gathered in San Francisco to rally against the legislation.
Dozens of hands went up when organizer Jonathan Nelson asked the crowd who would rather be coding. Start-up founders, programmers, and those just starting fledgling business are worried the legislation might cramp the creativity and growth of the Internet.
Tech celebrities like Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, and representatives from Mozilla were on hand, along with MC Hammer, who urged lawmakers not to stifle artists and hinder creativity, but instead to "solve problems with technology, not against technology."
Decrying restrictions
A few of the signs seen at SF Civic Center Plaza's rally Wednesday.
Ron Conway speaks
Ron Conway, a well know angel investor who has advised and helped build the web infrastructure alongside companies like Google, Twitter, Digg, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, and Facebook, speaks at the anti-SOPA rally in San Francisco on Wednesday.
Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake speaks
Hunch and Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake spoke Wednesday at the anti-SOPA rally in San Francisco.
Anti-SOPA activists rally
An eye chart-like sign reading "Censorship causes blindness," (with Flickr and Creative Commons attribute footnotes), is seen among the crowd of about 200 people who gathered at San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza this afternoon.
MC Hammer energizes the crowd
Hammer urged lawmakers to review other potential solutions to Web piracy, saying restricting free speech is not the answer, nor is it a good idea to attempt to legislate creativity, undermining the Internet. "Solve problems with technology, not against technology," he said. The former entertainer launched a search engine last year called WIREDoo.
Rally organizer Jonathan Nelson
Jonathan Nelson organized the rally against SOPA and PIPA that was held Wednesday in San Francisco and featured notable figures of the tech industry.
Harvey Anderson
Mozilla's Harvey Anderson spoke at Wednesday afternoon's rally, saying SOPA employs dangerously powerful remedies to piracy problems based upon unproven assertions and little due process, and on top of that, no one thinks it will do any good to actually stop the piracy.
'SOPA will break the Internet'
A sign at Wednesday's anti-SOPA rally in San Francisco.


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Plausible deniability is not a security strategy
Beware, you may have been instructed by a lawyer to not read this article.
Recently I became aware of several attorneys and legal departments advising managers to stay unaware of control system cyber vulnerabilities outside of specific information provided by their vendors. Why? If the vendor states that a system is secure, then the asset owner and operator may be able to claim ignorance and avoid legal liabilities associated with loss of life or the unavailability of a critical asset.
This plausible deniability approach is not a security strategy for several reasons. First, many ICS (industrial control system) protocols (e.g., Modbus/TCP, DNP3, Profinet, EtherNet/IP, BACnet, etc.) are highly vulnerable due to no authentication, poor authentication, the owner's chosen implementation, and poor vendor implementation within the cyber asset. Consider recent vulnerabilities identified by Adam Crain and Chris Sistrunk with DNP3 (ICSA-13-291-01 and others), and expectations of more to come with Modbus/TCP. Second, a quick Google search of "control system vulnerabilities" yields 2.4 million hits. Third, new ICS cyber asset vulnerabilities are coming to light with ICS-CERT notices increasing rapidly.
So ask yourself, are you better off pursuing due diligence and trying to build adequate levels of protection, or should you hope to hide behind the plausible deniability defense? Your vendor might not help you with the latter. Many now issue disclaimers pushing responsibility back on you. They warn that their system must be placed within a secure zone of your facility and point at standards and organizations like NIST 800-82, ISA 99 / IEC 62443, IEEE, NEI, AGA, NNSA, ISO 27001, API, ChemITC, individual governments, and several more that I probably missed.
Hide, or defend yourself?
Think about your role at your facility. Most companies want to ensure a level of profitability through a safe, reliable, and available operation. Your personal desire is food, shelter, and a safe environment for you and maybe a family. The world has changed with threat agents increasing in number and capabilities. Some are sponsored by major military powers. You may have to be the change agent that brings about a cultural shift toward a serious defensive strategy.
I recall when that responsibility fell on me many years ago. My early attempts to sell cyber security at a U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory failed horribly. I did not connect my efforts to the mission of the laboratory or convince our Nobel Prize-winning scientists. The scientists wanted high availability of their research so that they could collaborate with the world, and my firewalls were interfering. Eventually, we put security in terms they understood. Instead of just focusing on cyber attacks, we explained, "What if someone were to manipulate your data, release your data early, or under a different brand?"
The thought of personal discrediting got their attention and they asked for security controls. The lesson: Every control system environment is different based upon corporate motives and ownership. You need to identify what will sell security in to your organization. Don't wait for somebody else—you do it, and do it now.
This very minute, somebody is preparing cyber attacks against control systems. Your company and your livelihood may be at risk if someone does not step up. Seek out an opportunity to start a change, if not at your work, maybe where you live. Many control systems impact your environment: fresh water, natural gas, electricity, traffic control, your automobile, and the food supply. Attend a city council meeting and ask what is being done to protect your local water supply. Ask your auto mechanic about the latest firmware update to your ECU or ABS.
Cyber space is now a battlefield, and there is no plausible way to deny that ICSs are vulnerable. Take steps to protect yours: inventory your assets, document their communication patterns and the logic operating them. Look at the people accessing and managing them. Are there reasonable restrictions to operational, cyber, and physical activity? Establishing baselines of normal operation helps you determine when there is something unusual.
Basic security principles apply whether you're dealing with physical or cyber security. Once you have the tools, you will begin to develop a sixth sense about what's happening in your networks. Overcoming budgetary restrictions and political resistance may take some doing, but you might be the thing that makes a difference.
Matt Luallen is founder of Cybati, a security training and consulting organization.
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What finally brought Senate Democrats to a breaking point today – forcing them to change Senate rules to allow a simple majority to break a filibuster of most federal judicial nominees – was Senate Republicans' blockade of President Obama's three nominees to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Republicans admitted that they blocked these nominees not because of objections to the nominees themselves but because they didn't want to allow President Obama to fill the seats at all .
This was an extreme abuse of the filibuster, especially coming from senators who had previously claimed that blocking judicial nominees for any reason was unconstitutional and un-American.
But the D.C. Circuit showdown was just the latest, most public, example of the Senate GOP's abuse of the filibuster under President Obama. We look back at some ten of President Obama's nominees who found themselves caught up in the Senate GOP's shameless obstruction.
1. Goodwin Liu – Ninth Circuit
Goodwin Liu was a brilliant Berkeley law professor on the fast track to a Supreme Court short-list. So naturally Republicans tried to stop him in his tracks. Liu had plenty of support from conservative legal leaders – Bush administration attorney Richard Painter called him "exceptionally qualified, measured, and mainstream" – but that didn't stop Republicans from trying to paint him as an extremist. Republicans filibustered Liu's nomination for more than a year before he withdrew his name from consideration in 2011, citing his family and the fact that the seat he had been nominated to was a designated "judicial emergency" and needed to be filled. But there was a happy ending for Liu, and for California: Later that year, he was confirmed to the California Supreme Court.
2. Dawn Johnsen – Office of Legal Counsel
Dawn Johnsen was President Obama's first nominee to lead the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. Johnsen, a professor at Indiana University's law school, had support from across the ideological spectrum, including from representatives of every presidential administration since Gerald Ford's.
But Senate Republicans didn't like that Johnsen had criticized the OLC's handling of torture cases during the Bush administration and so accused her of being weak on terrorism. Johnsen was forced to withdraw her nomination after she was denied a Senate vote for more than a year.
3. John McConnell – District of Rhode Island
A public interest attorney, McConnell had led lawsuits against tobacco companies and lead paint manufacturers. So, when President Obama nominated him to Rhode Island's district court, he quickly gained a very powerful enemy: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The behemoth lobbying group had never before campaigned against a trial court nominee, but made an exception for McConnell. The Senate was forced to hold a cloture vote to end a Republican filibuster of McConnell – only the third time in history that a cloture vote had been held on a district court nominee. The filibuster ultimately failed and McConnell was confirmed.
4. Mel Watt – Federal Housing Finance Agency
The Republican filibuster of North Carolina Rep. Mel Watt's nomination to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency – which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – went hand-in-hand with their blockade of the D.C. Circuit three, but it was special in its very own way. Watt became the first sitting member of Congress to be blocked from an administrative position since before the Civil War – at least, that anyone digging through congressional archives has been able to find.
Republicans said that Watt, who in his 20 years in Congress has served on the House Financial Services committee and been immersed in housing finance issues, was unqualified for the job. But the more likely explanation is that they wanted the agency's Wall Street-friendly acting director to hold on to the post.
5. Caitlin Halligan – D.C. Circuit
Before there was Pattie Millett, Nina Pillard and Robert Wilkins , there was Caitlin Halligan. Republicans filibustered Halligan, President Obama's first nominee to the D.C. Circuit, for two years, defeating two attempts to invoke cloture on her nomination. Halligan's main opposition came from the National Rifle Association, which attacked her for a case she had argued on behalf of the state of New York when she was its solicitor general – in other words, a position she took as an attorney on behalf of a client.
The White House was forced to withdraw Halligan's nomination, and her filibuster achieved its intended purpose: Obama became the first president since Woodrow Wilson not to have a single nominee confirmed to the D.C. Circuit in his first full term in office.
6. Robert Bacharach – Tenth Circuit
Senate Republicans under President Obama haven't just thought up flimsy excuses to filibuster nominees for being too liberal; they've also filibustered plenty of nominees to whom they've had absolutely no objection.
One example of this is Oklahoma's Robert Bacharach, whom President Obama nominated to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals with the resounding endorsements of both of Oklahoma's very conservative senators. Making up a "rule" that presidents cannot be allowed to fill circuit court seats even with consensus nominees before an election, Senate Republicans blocked Bacharach's nomination – with the help of "present" votes from Coburn and Inhofe – forcing President Obama to renominate him. Finally, after making him wait nine months for a yes-or-no vote, the Senate confirmed Bacharach unanimously.
7. Richard Cordray – Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Republicans' filibuster of Richard Corday's nomination was perhaps the perfect expression of their new method of governing in the age of Obama. As with many of the president's judicial nominees, Senate Republicans couldn't point out anything wrong with Cordray himself. But they really didn't want anyone to fill the position to which he had been nominated, head of the newly-created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
President Obama skipped over now-Sen. Elizabeth Warren to nominate Cordray to head the consumer protection agency that was Warren's brainchild, in what turned out to be a futile effort to ease the confirmation process. Instead, 45 Senate Republicans sent a letter to Obama informing him that although they had no problem with Cordray himself they would not allow a vote on his nomination until the president severely weakened the CFPB's oversight power. In the meantime, without a permanent director, the CFPB was legally unable to exercise its full authority.
After denying CFPB a director for two years, Republicans finally allowed Cordray's nomination to go through as part of a larger executive nominations deal this summer, which meant that the agency could finally start doing the full job it was meant to do.
8. Adalberto Jordan – Fourth Circuit
Adalberto Jordan of Florida is another nominee to whom the GOP had no stated objection yet chose to filibuster anyway. President Obama nominated Jordan to the Eleventh Circuit, where he would become the court's first-ever Cuban-American judge, a big deal for the circuit that includes Florida. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved him without objection. Yet Republicans blocked a vote on his nomination for four months before finally allowing him to be confirmed in a 94-5 vote … but not before Sen. Rand Paul postponed his confirmation vote for an extra two days to make an unrelated point about foreign aid to Egypt .
Then there are the "silent filibusters" – ones where Republicans abuse the rules to stymie nominations but not in ways that necessarily lead to cloture petitions. These silent filibusters have slowed down numerous Obama nominees – leading to enormous wait times for Senate votes. Here are just two examples:
9. Louis Butler – Western District of Wisconsin
Louis Butler, the first African American to serve on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, lost a retention election in 2008 after big business groups poured money into a campaign opposing him.
President Obama nominated Butler four separate times to the Wisconsin District Court. He was approved by the Judiciary Committee. But Republicans kept blocking him, so his nomination was repeatedly returned without a vote. Butler's nomination isn't counted in tallies of filibusters because a cloture petition was never filed on his nomination. In 2009 and 2010, Sen. McConnell refused to consent to a floor vote. President Obama renominated Butler in 2011, but by that time Democratic Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold had been replaced by Republican Ron Johnson, who took advantage of the currently generous "blue slip" policy (see below) to prevent the Judiciary Committee from even voting on Butler. We count his nomination here because it is an example of the diverse ways Republicans have used to block votes on a nominees.
10. Edward Chen – Northern District of California
Another day, another science lesson from the GOP: In Edward Chen's hearing before the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Jeff Sessions accused the ninth circuit nominee of being afflicted with the "ACLU chromosome." This condition had caused Chen to work for several years at the ACLU, where he specialized in fighting language discrimination cases, before becoming the first Asian American to sit on the federal district court based in San Francisco.
Chen's work to fight discrimination proved to be just too much for Senate Republicans, who made him wait two full years for a confirmation vote. Finally, a few days after Republicans failed to defeat the cloture vote on Rhode Island's John McConnell, they agreed to allow a confirmation vote for Chen without forcing a cloture vote.
Blue Slip Bonus
A number of President Obama's judicial nominees haven't even gotten the chance to be filibustered. That's because there's a way Republicans can hold up nominees before they even get a committee hearing. Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, won't proceed with a hearing on a nominee until he receives "blue slips" from both of the nominee's home-state senators signaling their go-ahead for the nomination process. In this way, a senator can hold up a home-state nominee before he or she even gets a public hearing.
Oklahoma's Sen. Tom Coburn refused to return his blue slip on the nomination of Arvo Mikkanen to an Oklahoma district court, not because he had anything bad to say about the nominee, but because he was upset that President Obama supposedly hadn't consulted him before making the nomination. Mikkanen, who would have become the third-ever Native American on the federal bench, never received a hearing.
Nevada Sen. Dean Heller blocked the nomination of Elissa Cadish to the Nevada district court under pressure from the NRA because Cadish had once on a questionnaire correctly described the state of Second Amendment law before it was changed by the Supreme Court. Cadish never got a chance to defend herself in a public hearing, and withdrew her nomination after a year of delay.
Georgia's Jill Pryor was first nominated to the Eleventh Circuit a year and a half ago, but still hasn't gotten a hearing because her home-state senators would prefer that she be on a different court. Neither has raised questions about her qualificiations.


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The Homer City Council on Monday amended a request for proposals to limit inquiries of its use to only the southeast two-thirds of an 11-acre lot zoned marine-industrial on the Homer Spit. That lot also contains Pier One Theatre, which leases the lot and an old warehouse building, and a city campground. Earlier, the council had proposed soliciting ideas for use of the lot so as to gauge commercial industry for activities such as a barge haul-out facility.
In an amendment by council member Francie Roberts, the council removed Pier One and the campground — the northwest one-third of the lot — from a resolution seeking requests for proposals.
In his report, City Manager Walt Wrede said Pier One could not make a proposal on using the lot for recreational uses. Only marine-industrial uses would be considered, he said.
"It was a shock to see that probably we won't be able to make a proposal to stay there, and that probably it will all be marine industrial, and there is no ability for it to be open-space recreational," Barb Petersen for Pier One Theatre said at the meeting.
Petersen mentioned as historical background that in 1985 Pier One had been asked by the city that if an old warehouse became available, would the theater want to use it?
"We decided to give it a go. It must still have been marine industrial property at the time," she said. "Anyway, they said we could be there."
The conundrum with the lot is that it was purchased by the Port and Harbor Enterprise Fund, with the idea the lot would raise revenues for the fund. If the lot was subdivided and rezone to allow open-space and recreational use, Mayor Beth Wythe and others have said the enterprise fund should somehow be compensated.
In making her amendment, Roberts said the request for proposal shouldn't be seen as driving Pier One and the campground off the lot.
"Let's get realistic and say 'We have this area available.' We need to delineate where this will be," Roberts said.
The council also approved resolutions awarding $11,000 each to Moose Run Metalsmiths and Melisse Reichman for art to go on the extended Homer Spit Trail. Moose Run, which also did the metal sculpture of the Kenai Mountains hanging behind the council desks, will build a sculpture of a halibut circle hook while Reichman will make a sculpture of a humpback whale.
In other action, the council:
• Accepted Alaska State Legislative grants for $4.2 million for harbor projects and $2 million for a Port and Harbor building and a Skyline Drive fire station;
• Passed on first reading an ordinance appropriating $181,000 received in oil and gas property taxes from the Buccaneer Alaska jack-up rig Endeavour-Spirit of Independence to the Homer Permanent Fund. Some council members disagreed if this should be defined as a "windfall" and go to the Permanent Fund or into the general fund, but agreed to give it a hearing and second reading.
• Passed on first reading an ordinance dedicating port and tariff fees of $576,000 from the Endeavour's stay last fall and this year to the Port and Harbor Depreciation Reserve Fund.
• Approved a resolution granting a land sale and easement and driveway agreement to Harmon and Pauli Hall, owners of the Pioneer Building and lot on Pioneer Avenue;
• Authorized $12,000 in funding for phase 1 of the Tidal Energy Incubator Project;
• Authorized the city manager to dispose of used and surplus Deep Water Dock fender units;
• Awarded a contract for $1.8 million to North Star Paving and Construction, Soldotna, for the Homer Deep Water Dock and Spit Trail Extension project, and
• Advised the city clerk to schedule a vote on whether or not to repeal the plastic bag ban at the next regular city election on Oct. 1. City Clerk Jo Johnson had asked for guidance on if the council wanted to hold a special election earlier at a cost of $4,800. The council voted not to hold a special election.
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I'll Stick With Golf
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In Zimbabwe, Africa, you will find the magnificent Victoria Falls at a height of 128m. The location is known as 'The Devil's Swimming Pool'.
During the months of September and December, people can swim as close as possible to the edge of the falls without falling over! These falls are becoming well known amongst the 'radical tourist' industry as more and more people search for the ultimate experience.Would you dare?