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Using Cox Cloud Drive Mobile for iOS Devices
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Learn how to use the Cloud Drive Mobile application for iPhones.
The Cox Secure Online Backup service and applications have recently been updated and renamed Cox Cloud Drive. If you are using the Cox Secure Online Backup app, please visit the iTunes App store to update to the latest Cloud Drive app. The outdated Cox Secure Online Backup apps are no longer supported by Cox.
You can use your iPhone to access and manage your files within the Cox Cloud Drive vault. You can find information and steps on the following topics.
Getting Started
To access and use Cox Cloud Drive on your iPhone or iPod Touch, complete the following steps.
Important: Your Cloud Drive account must first be activated by visiting drive.cox.com. See Activating Cloud Drive for more information.
- Download the Cox Cloud Drive app from the Apple App Store.
- Once downloaded, tap the icon to open the app.
- Sign in using your Cox User ID and Password.
Note: Your Cox User ID is the primary account holder's Cox email address without the @cox.net included. Refer to Understanding Digital Identities and Account Types.
To accept the Cloud Drive Software License Agreement and Terms of Use, tap Agree.
All sections of the Cox Cloud Drive Mobile application are accessed from the Main Menu screen. Clicking any of the icons will launch the selected section. The Main Navigation screen displays as shown below.
Access and Preview Files and Folders
- From the Main Menu, tap Online Files.
Result: Uploaded files are displayed.
- From the Online Files screen, tap the filename you want to preview.
Result: The file opens in the Previewer. From here you can Share, Manage (Rename, Move, or Delete), or download the file to your iPhone.
Note: To preview files in a different folder, tap the folder to view all files within it.
Add a Folder
- From Online Files, tap the Add Folder icon in the lower task bar.
Result: A screen asking what would you like to create displays.
- Tap Folder.
Add a Photo or Video
- From Online Files, tap the Upload icon in the lower task bar.
Result:A screen asking what would you like to upload displays.
- Tap Photo, Video, Audio, or Any file.
Share Files and Folders
- From Online Files, select the file or folder that you want to share.
- While previewing the file or folder, tap Share File Player.
Result: The Share File Player screen displays.
- To show a list of contacts, tap the plus (+) sign.
- Tap the circle next to each contact you want to share the file or folder with.
Result: A checkmark displays in the circle next to each contact.
- Tap Accept.
Rename a File or Folder
- While previewing a file or folder from the My Files screen, tap the Manage icon in the lower task bar.
Result: The File Management menu displays.
- Tap Rename.
- From the Rename item screen, enter a new file name and tap Accept.
Move a File or Folder
- While previewing a file or folder from the My Files screen, tap the Manage icon in the lower task bar.
Result: The File Management menu displays.
- Tap Move.
- From the Select Destination folder screen, select a folder and tap Move.
Delete a File or Folder
- While previewing a file or folder from the My Files screen, tap the Manage icon in the lower task bar.
Result: The File Management menu displays.
- Tap Delete File.
- Tap Delete to permanently delete the file.
File Player
The My File Player Section contains all File Players stored in your Online Files. They are listed in alphabetical order.
Access the File Player
- From the Cox Cloud Drive Main Menu, tap File Player.
Result: The File Player screen displays.
- Tap the file player that you want to view.
Note: While viewing the file player files, you can choose from the following options
- Refresh
- List/Thumbnail View
- Share File Player
- Play
- Management
- Add to File Player
Add Files
- From the File Player viewer, press the Add Elements icon in the lower task bar.
- Select the items you want to add to the current File Player.
- Tap Done.
Play Files
From the File Player Viewer, tap the Play icon.
Result: A File Preview slideshow launches. Each file in the File Player will play in sequential order in which they are listed.
- Tap Pause, or Previous and Next to move backward and forward through the File Player slideshow.
- Cox Backup Mobile organizes your backups that are scheduled automatically from the PC or Mac backup client. Backups are organized by date.
- Backups gives you the ability to see all their previous and current backup sets organized by computer name.
- Files can quickly be searched and located. Easily view the details (size, modification dates, and sharing history) of each file that is stored in your account.
Complete the steps below to back up your files.
From the Cox Cloud Drive Main Menu, tap Backups.
Result: The Backup screen displays.
- Select the folder(s) you want to backup. Follow instructions.
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text: I picked up on that little girl's discomfort as well. She really didn't want to be there, did she? And the "close up" of the doll "breast feeding," the doll wasn't really "latched on" to anything. So basically it was just holding up the doll in the vicinity of the child's breast, and the doll made sucking noises. So why even have that little smock with a fake nipple covered by a flower in the first place?


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I think that my little computer setup here cannot get any worse. Ok here it is:
Computer manufacturer: It's a "white box"
OS: Windows 98 first edition
Hardware: CPU= AMD Duron ~600mhz; GPU= NVIDIA Riva TNT2 32 mb; RAM= 64mb; Hard drive= 30gb; motherboard= ???
Internet: Dial-up. connection speed= 19.2kbps - 26.0kbps; Download and upload speeds= <0.1 kbps - 4.0 kbps
I use this thing everyday. It's not just some computer that my Dad use to have and I have a dell that I use, this thing is my life. I am posting on it right now. My dad refuses to get us faster internet or get me a new computer. He has everything he needs at his office, and when he's home, he uses his laptops. Yes it is plural. He has more than one and will not give any to me. For internet he uses his Sony Treo and connects to his computer and he has a little Verizon wireless internet card that he sticks in there. We aren't poor or anything, it's just that my parents insist on spending all their money on themselves. My mom just bought two $6000 granite counter tops for our kitchen. My dad has numerous computers and phones. I have a pre-paid phone and he has at least 3 Treos. I hate them.
EDIT:Oh yeah I forgot. I asked for a new computer last christmas, guess what they got me. An iPod. :mad: I sold it to a kid at school for $100


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|by smandell
|Date Added: Saturday 30 January, 2016
the skirt was nice and will become a pretty awesome skirt when I fix it
|by Red
|Date Added: Friday 17 August, 2012
Received this item with several others from OpenTip. I've ordered from them in the past and been very satisfied. This skirt is no exception! Lightweight and elegant and flowing - It fits perfectly, and the slits up the sides are super sexy. Would definitely buy again!
|by Maria Cruz
|Date Added: Monday 19 December, 2011
I am so happy with my skirt. It is light but not too sheer.Perfect length for 5'3". It has ties in front so you can adjust waist.And the gathering on each side of the waist makes it ideal to practice hip drops and shimmies without a hip scarf. The cute tote bag is a plus. Thank you.
|by Elise
|Date Added: Wednesday 21 September, 2011
I ordered the blue one. It has gold highlights. It was thinner and poorer quality than I had imagined. There is no hem at the bottom and it is jagged and uneven. I ordered this cause it said 35 inches long and I am short so this would have been perfect. However when I tried it on it was dragging on the floor. So after measuring I found the shortest layer in the back is actually 37 inches long from the bottom of the waist's elastic casing. The SHORTEST length on the sides near the two slits is 35 inches and it is up to 38 inches in front and back. It looks like I can just cut it and wear it without hemming. It actually looks really nice while dancing if you like this style. Not sure how long will last though without getting holes and snagging or washing - I will be really careful with this one cause seams very fragile material.
|by Holly Ward
|Date Added: Friday 22 July, 2011
This skirt is absolutely lovely. It is light weight and fun to swish around! :) I absolutely love it! The picture accurately depicts what you're getting, and the price is pretty great. I am very happy with this skirt!
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By Chris Harris
Arsène Wenger is delighted with Gervinho's start to life at Arsenal but he admits that the Ivorian is no Robin van Persie in front of goal right now.
Gervinho has set up a number of goals for his team-mates - especially Van Persie - and his direct running and flair in the final third has caught the eye. But he has scored just twice in 15 appearances for his new club and squandered a golden chance against Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday.
Gervinho's one-on-one with the keeper was the kind of opportunity that Van Persie is snaffling with ease at the moment and Wenger sympathises with his otherwise impressive summer signing.
"At the moment Gervinho is a fantastic provider and he creates space for the other players because he always goes behind [the defence]," said the Frenchman.
"The problem with Gervinho is he is in the opposite position of Robin van Persie. He is desperate for a goal and once you are in that situation… well, you could see the other night he had the chance to score but he started to think.
"When you start to think you are already finished but for the rest his game is absolutely fantastic. He works hard for the team, provides, creates space and makes great runs and I'm personally very happy with his game.
"His goalscoring record was good last year and this year is a bit less but his assists are fantastic and in every single game you think he will score and at the moment he just misses a little bit but that will come.
"Overall his attitude, his work-rate, his technical quality, the intelligence of his runs is fantastic."
Wenger has seen plenty of forwards go through scoring droughts before and he will do his best to help Gervinho over this particular hurdle.
"For a long time you don't talk about it, but at some stage you have to say 'don't worry – try to be natural'. I spoke to him today about that, but he is not obsessed with scoring goals, it will come naturally.
"On the quality of his game he has settled very quickly. After that, the other aspects in the English game were where he had problems. He got sent off in the Newcastle game for a mild reaction after being provoked by Barton.
"He got the learning process of three games out and then the intensity of the challenges here is higher than anywhere else. He adapted quite quickly."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Report: Jessica Simpson Confirms She's Expecting!
It's been a hot topic around the gossip mill for weeks now, and Jessica Simpson has finally confessed that she's indeed pregnant with her second child.
According to an insider, the "With You" songstress admitted she's with child during her father Joe Simpson's Christmas party earlier this month.
The source snitched, "As Jessica and her husband were about to leave the party somebody asked her, 'How's the baby?' and she boasted, 'Which one?! I'm pregnant again!' She was so happy, smiling and giggling."
"It was a private affair for around 50 people made up of friends, family and producers. Joe uses it as an opportunity to showcase all his talented artists by playing all their music, and they can mingle and have some fun. Joe's really cool. And he's really proud of all of his artists."
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Arsenal travelled to Upton Park on Sunday afternoon to take on West Ham United in the FA Cup Third Round.
Arsenal TV Online subscribers can now choose from the following FOUR highlights clips:
- The first is a two minutes long BITESIZE HIGHLIGHTS package and features the key moments from the match. Click on the PLAY button above to watch this clip for FREE.
- The second is a 12-minute long EXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS package.
- Watch the ENTIRE FIRST HALF in its entirety and see the game 'as live'.
- Watch the ENTIRE SECOND HALF in its entirety and see the game 'as live'.
If you don't subscribe to Arsenal TV Online, sign up now for highlights of every Arsenal game in all competitions.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Game Name: BatMUD
Game Description: BatMUD is built around a medieval fantasy theme in which magic is common and orcs, elves and various other creatures roam the streets. The Game is loaded with quests, scenic areas, diabolic monsters and unfathomable treasures. The world is constantly being developed and the players themselves can build majestic cities and engage in trade.
Publisher: B.A.T.Ry
Platforms: PC, MAC
Genre: Fantasy/RPG
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New Look Heels Rout Carson-Newman in Exhibition
Freshman forward Stephanie Mavunga led all scorers with 18 points and added 14 rebounds for Carolina. Sophomore forward Xylina McDaniel added 16 points on 6-of-9 shooting, while junior guard Brittany Rountree had 15 points.
Freshmen guards Diamond DeShields and Allisha Gray each tossed in 14 points and sophomore guard Megan Buckland added 13 points in the runaway victory.
Head coach Sylvia Hatchell may not have been on the bench to open the season as she works through her leukemia treatments up the street at the Lineberger Cancer Center, but her team looked and played her fast-paced brand of basketball.
Carolina forced 32 turnovers and had 16 steals and scored 38 points off those turnovers.
"I think our size and athletic ability gave them a lot of trouble," said Associate head coach Andrew Calder. "I thought we did a good job pushing the basketball, finding open players, and sharing the basketball.
"A lot of plus one passes, which was good teamwork. We had a pretty good balance of getting the ball inside and outside. We need to do a little better on rebounding. Even though you say we won [the rebounding battle] by 20, a lot of that was because of our size and athletic ability."
DeShields canned back-to-back three-pointers in the opening minutes to fuel a 14-6 lead for North Carolina at the 16:45 mark of the first half.
After a called timeout by the Lady Eagles, buckets from McDaniel and Mavunga extended the lead to 18-6 by the first media timeout at 15:20.
A 15-0 run made it 27-6 with under 13 minutes left until halftime. The lead grew to 31-8 after a short jumper in the paint from N'Dea Bryant.
The lead expanded to 37 points, 59-22, after DeShields stopped on a dime and swished a jumper from the top of the key at the 2:09 mark.
Buckland put an exclamation point on the opening half with a three-pointer with 44 seconds left to give Carolina a 64-25 lead, and would go into intermission leading 64-27.
Carolina held a 53-35 rebounding advantage, led by Mavunga's monster effort with 14 caroms. The Tar Heels also had 20 assists on 37 made buckets, led by a superb seven assists with zero turnovers for point guard Latifah Coleman, who also scored six points on the night.
With the game well in hand by halftime, Carolina extended its lead to 40 points on a three-pointer from Gray at the 13:57 mark.
The lead ballooned to 51 points, 97-46, on another three-ball from Buckland with six minutes to go.
Freshman guard Jessica Washington knocked down a 3-pointer in the corner late in the second half to put all 12 Carolina players in the scoring column tonight, and give the Heels a 108-48 advantage with just over two minutes remaining in the game.
Carson-Newman received eight points from Taylor Peterson and seven points each from three other players.
"I think they [Carson-Newman] have a chance in their league to have a pretty good season," added Calder "They're a well coached team. I thought they did some really good stuff out there tonight."
The Tar Heels shot 50.0 percent (37-of-74) from the field and 13-of-31 from three-point land. The Lady Eagles were limited to 26.2 percent shooting.
Carolina will play its final exhibition game Tuesday against Wingate at 6 p.m., at Carmichael Arena.


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These classic cookie recipes from Gooseberry Patch are perfect for holiday entertaining and gift-giving, but also a welcome treat in a lunchbox or as an afternoon snack.
Old-Fashioned Sugar CookiesClear the kitchen counters and carve out some time with your kids this holiday season to make these Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies. You'll have just as much fun cutting the festive shapes as you will enjoying their flavor!
Sugar Cookie MittensCozy up with these fun and festive mitten-shaped cookies for the holiday season. Pour a glass of milk, pull up a seat by the fire, and prepare to indulge in a fabulous sweet treat.
Gingerbread BabiesEveryone wants to go younger these days, so we suggest that, instead of gingerbread men, you make gingerbread babies this year for Christmas. Tuck them in a little box and they make a perfect gift.
Simple Scottish ShortbreadButtery and sweet, these classic cookies are perfect for the holidays and you only need 4 ingredients.
Santa Claus Cookie PopsAdorn your home with some jolly ole Saint Nick. These cookie pops make a fun and festive table setting and a delicious after-dinner dessert.
Peppery Molasses CookiesThese cinnamon-and-molasses cookies really do have a spicy kick from the black pepper. We think it's a perfect flavor combination.
Chocolate-Dipped Crispy BarsThis over-the-top version of Rice Krispie Treats gets extra flavor from peanut butter, and then the bars are dipped in dark chocolate and drizzled with white chocolate. Oh, my.
Waffle CookiesThese rich chocolate cookies are cooked on a waffle iron then topped with chocolate frosting. We think it's OK to enjoy them for breakfast with a tall glass of milk.
Frosted Turtle CookiesThe holidays are not complete without these classic cookies featuring a basic sugar cookie sitting on top of pecans that resemble the feet and legs of a turtle and topped with a thick chocolate frosting.
Giant Chocolate Malt CookieMake your kids happy with the giant cookie version of a malted milk shake.
Chocolate Chip-Oatmeal CookiesOats give these cookies their crunch, and a whole package of chocolate chips give them their chocolate punch!
Soft Peanut Butter CookiesIf you're a peanut butter fan, these cookies won't last long. You'll enjoy every last crumb! Don't forget to serve them with a tall, cold glass of milk.
Chocolate Cappuccino BrowniesThese chocolatey brownies get their deep, rich flavor from the addition of brewed coffee and get a little bit of crunch from chopped walnuts.
Pecan Pie BarsAs an alternative to pecan pie this year, try these easy-to-pick-up pecan pie bars.
Grandma's Soft Sugar CookiesThese classic sugar cookies will bring back sweet memories of Grandma's kitchen.
Italian Cheese CookiesThese delightfully decadent cookies are made with sweetened ricotta cheese and topped with a rich vanilla icing.
Hannah's Oatmeal CookiesWith the addition of chocolate covered raisins, this recipe takes oatmeal cookies to another level.
Buttermilk Sugar CookiesButtermilk gives these sugar cookies a tart, irresistible flavor. Decorate with different colors of sprinkles to fit the occasion.
Brown Sugar-Apple CookiesSavor the flavors of fall with these cinnamon-spiced cookies filled with chopped fresh apple.
German Chocolate Cake Mix CookiesStart with a box of German chocolate cake mix to create these moist chocolate cookies, and add oats, raisins, and chocolate chips.
White Chocolate-Cranberry CookiesDried cranberries taste surprisingly sweet. When paired with white chocolate, they'll make these cookies a favorite choice.


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Bradley Cooper: "Silver Linings" London Promotions
Taking care of some promotional duties for his new film "Silver Linings Playbook," Bradley Cooper made a television appearance in London on Wednesday (December 19).
Dapper in grey pants and a navy-blue trench, the 37-year-old hunk waved to waiting fans and photographers as he left the ITV Studios building.
The handsome actor stars in the David O. Russell-directed flick as a former teacher who moved back in with his parents and attempts to reconcile with his ex-wife after a stint in a mental institution.
Mr. Cooper is currently across the pond to attend a special screening of the film, as well as to take part in a question and answer session about his new work.


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Discussion in 'The Trash Can' started by angelflies, Jul 24, 2013.
I voted for Kwan because she is the better overall 'skater'- regardless of whether she won the OGM or not. Yu na is a stronger jumper but Kwan had better spirals (no comparison there), better MIF (they expressed the music better), and the intangibles like connecting with the audience and bringing them emotionally to the ice with her. I would also say that she had softer edges when watched live.
Miki and Kim both landed 5 triples in 2011 and Kim had a triple-triple. Kim's performance was much more artistic and the program way better. I have no idea how Miki won the long and came from behind to win the title. I have no idea how Kim won the short though, as Miki clearly had the better skate there. I could have seen either winning, but felt the opposite skater should have won each program. Weird judging at those Worlds.
2008 Mao slid across the ice on her stomach. Kim was definitely hosed there. She should have easily passed Kostner and didn't. I think the judges knew after the crowds reaction to Kims placement the judges knew the crowd was onto their game (gifting Kostner the title no matter how she skated), and their assumption since it was in Europe the crowd would be all behind it and they could get away with it were wrong, and now knew they had better place Mao over Kostner if they wanted to get out alive. Kim should have won the long program there by a bigger margin and the title. Sonia Bianchetti a highly respected figure skating expert said so in her blog as well. At absolute worst no less than 2nd. Nakano was also hosed, and even Rochette a bit. Kostner should not have even been on the podium. That was a farce since her free skate had like only 2 clean jumps, and she wasn't even considered the level of skater of Kim or Asada around then in the first place.
I was thinking the same thing. If you don't like the subject of a thread why bother commenting on it? Just ignore it!
I voted Kim.
I voted for the Kween simply because she's the most decorated skater in US history.
Kim is not an American though so what would "something U.S skater" have to do with Kim.
Wouldn't most decorated and successful U.S skater be Carol Heiss by far anyway. 5 straight World titles, Olympic Gold, and Olympic silver. Even if I was the biggest Kwan fan alive I would rather than career than Kwan's. I am not saying Heiss is the best U.S skater or even close to it, but she definitely had the best career and set of titles/achievements.
Both are overrated.
Carol would destroy Shizuka in "figure" skating
Get out of my sight. Go on!
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You're right. It doesn't have to do with Yuna. It has to do with the Kween and why I voted for her.
Thank you for observing. I also like Yuna but my vote was for the Kween.
Good point about 11 worlds and 08 worlds. Kostner was highly overscored there, and Kim shouldve won at least silver. In 2011 I see how Ando won, but loved Kims program actually, and think its one of her most underrated.
I thought Ando should have beaten Kim by atleast 3 points in the short program so if Kim had won the LP by 2-3 points I would be fine with Ando winning, but there is no way Ando should have won the LP over Kim. Just like there is no way Kim with a fall and no 3-3 try should have won the SP over Ando's gorgeous skate. So in that way I just found the judging wierd and inexplicable. Probably some more COP sticklers like backloading, too many combinations, levels, code whoreing done better that casual fans have no patience for, even trying their hardest to understand COP.
Koster at the 2008 Worlds was one of those awful moments alot of people probably stopped watching skating. Fortunately there hasnt been a judging decision quite that bad since then.
I dont like when people say outright so and so would have done so and so more if they were from another country either, but it also would be silly to deny skaters coming from bigger and more powerful federations like Russia, Japan, U.S would have a natural advantage over someone like Kim coming from a country with no skating history and no strong federation. It would be silly to think this has no effect. It makes her achievements all the more impressive, and another reason I would pick her over Kwan.
Lets say Kwan was from Korea, would she have the same career she has now or even close to it? Sorry I cant imagine, although I am sure she would have won atleast 1 World title at one point, but nothing like the success she had. Kim being from a stronger country with a stronger federation probably would have achieved even more, I wont say specific events, but in general this is a boost to any skaters chances. Yet even with this Kim still has managed to have a similar or slightly better career than Michelle, and if she wins next years Olympics distinctly better.
It's all conjecture. Nobody knows what Kwan could have done had she been given the same opportunities and push Yu Na Kim had that contributed to her early training and success. Again, I think it makes no since to compare eras since Kim benefitted from the technical and artistic strides the skaters in Kwan's era made just as how Kwan definitely benefitted from the likes of Yamaguchi, Ito, Harding, etc. I think coaches (especially the developmental ones) observe the direction in which the top skaters of that time are taking skating and are finding ways in which their up-and-coming skaters can not only succeed the way the top skaters are succeeding but also stand out and maybe improve on what the dominant skaters are doing. I mean Kwan was undeniably a source of inspiration for Kim.
This is not meant to take anything away from Kim because she's obviously an extremely rare case in that she really is technically so sound that she's nearly unbeatable with this scoring system if she skates well.
I do agree with you on one point though. I really did almost quit watching skating due to the ladies results at 2008 Worlds despite being so happy that Buttle and Delobel/Schoenfelder won. After seeing Nakano score and place the way she did, and seeing that mess Kostner put out win a medal...I could not gel with COP (and I still have lingering animosity towards it). Of course, now I love Kostner and actually want her to win gold over Asada and Kim (though I do like Asada even if I don't like her LPs as of late).
I can't believe Kwan is not winning. It's true her jumps are not as good as Kim's but she had qualities of line that Kim does not. People also cried during Kwan's performances. Are folks choosing technical difficulty and speed over elegance and art? I guess it is the age old competition that dates back to the 80s of the artist vs the athlete. Both Kwan and Kim embody aspects of both archetypes, but Kwan arguably achieved more with audience emotion.
I think people are also considering the titles and the domination Kim has. It's hard to deny Kim since she has won the Olympic Gold medal and has won it in a pretty dominant fashion, and recently won 2013 Worlds in a similarly dominant way. People are acting as if Kim already has the second gold medal in the bag, but with the way she's scored and actually rises to the occasion compared to her closest competitors, I'd say it's a pretty educated guess.
If Kwan had two more judges go her way in Nagano, then I think she could have had a stronger argument in her favor. I still voted for Kwan though for reasons outside titles.
Believe it or not, people also cry during Yuna's performances.
I have no intention of knocking Michelle (I am proud of myself for holding out so far and not voting on this perfidious poll ), but Yuna is just as strong artistically, IMO, as she is is athletically. Even Michelle acknowledges this openly. For sure, Michelle was a formative figure in the young Yuna's life, which Yuna also openly acknowledges. They are not contemporaries, so this is not a zero-sum game; to say Yuna is a complete skater should not be seen as detracting from Michelle, which is, it sometimes seems to me, how some of Michelle's fans choose to take it.
And how about Jeffrey Buttle, an artistic skater if there ever was one, and one of the up-and-coming choreographers on everyone's radar. Here are some of the things he had to say about Yuna in his recent interview on The Skating Lesson (from about 50:00 to 50:30): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3Vr6_rb7iRc
"...when she started working with David, he really brought something out of her, like a passion, really managed to get her heart on her sleeve, her soul became more visible..."
"...she just moved so naturally..."
"...her arms are hypnotic...I don't know anyone who can move her arms like she does...I don't know how she does it..."
Particularly when listened to rather than just read, these are not the words of someone hemming and hawing (curiously, Jeff does his hemming and hawing when describing Mao, with whom he has presumably worked more closely; the best he could come up with was that Mao was really really (really) nice, not a mean bone in her body...). His comments describing Yuna's aesthetic qualities strike one as spontaneous, fluent, enthusiastic, dare I say, even impassioned? Almost like a uber, in short. Welcome to the club, Jeffrey.
not by her fans..
The way I made the decision was-
The question is who is the better skater, not who has the OGM. In terms of world titles Kwan is still ahead of Kim (5 vs 2). In terms of Olympic medals Kwan is still at a 2-1 advantage (that will change in 2014). IMO the only things Kim has over Kwan are- 1) An OGM, 2) a 3Lz-3t combination. Kim is an amazing skater and when her career comes to an end (or even before that- say in Sochi with a second OGM), she could surpass kwan. However, right now, in terms of career alone, Kwan has an advantage. She had a much longer career, more championships, and 9 US title in a very competitive field (unlike Kim who has an easy title in her home country).
On top of that, Kwan had an amazing ability to connect with the music and with the audience. She had many signature moves (e.g. COE spiral, falling leafs). Right now I can't think of one for Kim, although she is a beautiful skater and artist too.
Barring a skating order in 1998, Kwan would have been the undisputed queen- she did deliver a clean SP & a clean LP- and we wouldn't be seeing a lopsided win for Kim in this poll.
One could also say the only thing Kwan has over Kim is more appearances at Worlds (and as a result more titles). Kwan has 5 World titles to Kim's 2 but she appeared in 12 or 13 Worlds. Kim in 6 Worlds has 2 titles, 2 silver, 2 bronze, so about same success rate, and is probably the only skater who had a long career to never fail to medal at Worlds. Kim has also won the long program 4 times at Worlds, and the short program 4 times, so is a bit unlucky to only get 2 titles out of htat. So Kwan has more titles and medals but isnt anymore productive. In such a long career Kwan could only defend her World title once. OK Kim never has thus far, but she did win Worlds and Olympics back to back which is more important.
The biggest event in skating is the Olympics. This is indisputed. Second is Worlds. Third is U.S Nationals for Kwan but Kim couldnt compete in that so we cant count that. Next biggest for both is the Grand Prix final. So Kim is much better than Kwan in both the biggest event of all and the next biggest event both can do after Worlds, with Kwan only better in the second biggest event due to having a longer career. In the general grand prix and smaller scale events, Kim is also more dominant than Kwan, even though both were irregular participients at both points in their career.
Overall Kim has the better career. She dominated everywhere- Olympics, World, Grand Prix final, regular grand prix. Kwan only dominated one place- Worlds, that and U.S Nationals. I would rather Kim's career than Kwan's.
As for who is the better skater Kim is a much better technical skater and almost as good an artistic skater so that would be her too. Prime to prime Kim would win most confrontations between them under either scoring system. I dont think Kwan could have ever beaten a clean Kim. She would have had to wait for Kim to make mistakes to hope to beat her, it would be like Butyrskaya or Hughes or Lipinski facing Kwan, except Kwan would be relegated to being Lipinski or Butyrskaya or Hughes.
Kwan was just 14 when she first competed at worlds (1995) and narrowly missed a bronze (only because she was a little girl, even though she skated the cleanest program). She never failed to medal at worlds until 2005, when injuries finally caught up with her. So let us see how Yu na does 10 years after her first appearance.
No, Kwan could not have beaten Kim because they trained under two completely different systems and two very different times in FS history. Had Kim skated when Kwan was at her peak, quite possibly Kwan would have beaten her. She was one of the best competitors in ladies FS history. Also she never took a break from worlds. Kim did, to recuperate.
Well, to be fair, Jenny specifically asked Jeff to speak about Mao's personality because "little is known about Mao's personality off the ice, so what can you tell us about Mao's personality and your relationship with her?" He stuck to the question asked and gave his impressions. No one ever asked Jeff to talk about Mao's skating abilities or how she compares to Yu-Na.
That is, formally speaking, a fair point. But as we know, these types of questions almost always serve as jumping-off platforms, in which the commentary quickly evolves and broadens out in a discursive way. It's not an interrogation with the IRS or the police ("stick to the facts, ma'am...").
The question regarding Yuna was also typically broad (something along the lines of 'how did you get involved and what was it like working with her'), but through the usual chain of free-associative-speaking-out-loud, Jeff started moving away from the original question, barely touching on what it was like working with her, to, instead, talk in detail about the changes he saw after she started working with David Wilson, the particular aesthetic qualities that he quite clearly admires in Yuna, and so on. This pattern is par for the course for interviews as a format, and makes for interesting commentary.
While acknowledging your point, Jeffrey answered the Mao question in a very narrow way, although it was quite evident from the way Jenny built up the question at the beginning that this was also supposed to be a highlight moment. He kept circling the same point, that she was polite and kind ("everything you'd expect a Japanese woman to be", or something to that effect), really nice, and actually I don't really know her at all, and doesn't have a mean bone in her body, and, hardworking, and sweet, and, oh, did I mention she was nice...? At the end, both Jenny and Dave were looking away somewhat awkwardly.
I just thought that the almost "no comment" nature of the comment, and the lack of any evolution and development in the response, was somewhat curious.
What I really got out of that is that Mao, despite a sunny and friendly public persona, is probably just as hard to get to really know as the supposedly (if we are to believe the descriptions of some of her detractors) more imperious Yuna. Which makes sense to me. They are both superstars, and a bland sunniness is just as serviceable (and is sometimes better) as armor against a prying world as a seemingly aloof reserve.
My main point, though, was that, by comparison, Jeff's recounting of Yuna's aesthetics was full-throated, done with pith and point (by way of contrast with some of the opinions on this thread).
Michelle first competed at Worlds in 94 when she was 13. She finished 8th.
Absolutely ! With a fantastic 7 triples LP (6 of them clean). Good start !
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Both are great champions. Kwan's career proves several things, including that the Olympics are overrated. I do not believe that all OGMs are created equal. For example. Oksana Baiul's OGM is not equal in weight to Tara Lipinski's or Sarah Hughes' OGM, because Oksana's competition was not as great as Lipinski's and especially Hughes'. Also, I think Kwan's 98 Olympic performances were better than the ones Oksana or even Shizuka won Olympics with. That said, it takes a whole lot of intangibles for anyone to skate the best in an Olympics. Where am I going with all of this? Yu Na's performances in the 2010 Olympics were amazing, but I wonder if it would have been any different had she faced more pressure from stiffer competition a la Kwan.
One thing that's apparent when watching them skate side by side: Kwan is better at moving fluidly. Her movements emanate from her core. Kim is fluid too, but not to the level that Kwan is. Imho.
I'm say Mao with 3 triple axel plus great artistry as well is extremely difficult competior to beat, let alone all of the pressure/ expectation from her country, these are more greater than any pressure Kwan has faced
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Nels writes:
Dear Vincent,
A note of gratitude to you and your crew for generously "interrogating" my recent paper on the experimental evolution of vaccinia virus.
BTW, it was evolutionary biologist Leigh Van Valen (not Richard Dawkins) who proposed and coined the Red Queen Hypothesis in 1973. Leigh was a true character and early advocate of open access publishing. His original manuscript on the Red Queen was published in Evolutionary Theory, a journal he created and self-published at the University of Chicago; still available free and now online at leighvanvalen.com, along with some interesting stories about this unconventional and brilliant scientist who recently passed away.
Count me as a new listener and fan of TWiV!
Best wishes, Nels
Nels Elde | Ph.D.
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Mario R. Capecchi Endowed Chair of Genetics
Department of Human Genetics
University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT
Marian writes (re Red Queen's hypothesis):
from Wikipedia,
"Originally proposed by Leigh Van Valen (1973), the metaphor of an evolutionary arms race has been found appropriate for the descriptions of biological processes with dynamics similar to arms races. Van Valen proposed the Red Queen's Hypothesis as an explanatory tangent to his proposed "Law of Extinction" (also 1973), which he derived from observation of constant probabilities of extinction within families of organisms across geological time. Put differently, Van Valen found that the ability of a family of organisms to survive does not improve over time, and that the lack of correlation between age and extinction is suggestive of a random process[3]. The Red Queen's Hypothesis as formulated by Van Valen provides a conceptual underpinning to discussions of evolutionary arms races, even though a direct test of the hypothesis remains elusive, particularly at the macroevolutionary level. This concept remains similar to that of a system obeying a self-organized criticality.[4]"
Tommy writes:
Dear TWiV crew,
I was listening to TWiV 198 and the Red Queen hypothesis of antagonistic coevolution was brought up. I thought I should make a correction regarding the originator of the Red Queen hypothesis. You attributed it to Richard Dawkins, however, the term "Red Queen hypothesis" was actually coined by the evolutionary biologist Leigh Van Valen in 1973*.
*Van Valen, L. 1973. "A new evolutionary law" Evolutionary Theory 1: 1-30. Link to full text here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18310184/evolutionary-theory/vol-01/Vol.1%2CNo.1%2C1-30%2CL.%20Van%20Valen%2C%20A%20new%20evolutionary%20law..pdf
You can read more about Van Valen in this obituary here:http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-10-24/features/ct-met-obit-van-valen-20101024_1_extinction-journals-modern-biology
Love the show, keep up the good work
P.S. I listened to the end so I know that I shouldn't be hanging out for a show this week.
Adam writes:
Howdy TWiVites,
Loved the recent episode (TWiV 198) in which you discussed Nels Elde's paper investigating 'genomic accordions' of poxviruses. Elde describes in his paper a mechanism of transient gene family expansion that allows poxviruses to rapidly generate variation in genes whose products interact with host proteins, thereby overcoming host defenses. He goes on to refer to this evolutionary game of cat-and-mouse between viral and host proteins as a classical Red Queen conflict.
In the episode there was some musing about the term 'Red Queen Hypothesis' and it was decided that the term was coined by Prof. Richard Dawkins in his book of the same name. 'The Red Queen' was indeed the title of a popular science book, of the general flavor that Dawkins writes, however it was authored by Matt Ridley and entitled 'The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature' (an excellent read and available from $7.99 on Amazon).
The Red Queen Hypothesis itself was first proposed by yet another great scientist and communicator Prof Leigh Van Valen (University of Chicago). In his 1973 paper 'A New Evolutionary Law' Van Valen used the analogy of Lewis Carrol's Red Queen – forever running just to say put – to explain a self-perpetuating fluctuation in fitness between two or more evolutionary units (species or genes) arising from mutually incompatible optima.
I have to thank you for making this mistake, as it has led me to actually read Van Valen's paper in full – which I had not done before, despite having cited it in a number of undergrad essays. There is something really enjoyable about reading old papers where the authors wax philosophical (sic) on their topic, and it is a nice change from the dense, ultra-concise papers that are standard these days. Whether this was because they had less data to cram into figures, fewer authors, or the journals were less pressed for space back then I do not know. Maybe all of the above in this case seeing as this article was the first, in the first edition, of a journal that Van Valen founded.
Probably because I have more pressing uni work I should be doing I spent quite a bit of time reading about Prof Van Valen, who died in 2010. He was a pretty amazing guy who wrote on many subjects, taught and was beloved by his students, contributed several original ideas to his fields, founded journals, and even wrote explicit songs about dinosaurs.
I would like to nominate Leigh Van Valen as a pick of the week – by way of his memorial site at Leighvanvalen.com.
A few choice links: Sex among the Dinosaurs –http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18310184/songs/sex%20among%20the%20dinosaurs.pdf A New Evolutionary Law (Van Valen, 1973)- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18310184/evolutionary-theory/vol-01/Vol.1%2CNo.1%2C1-30%2CL.%20Van%20Valen%2C%20A%20new%20evolutionary%20law..pdf
Kind Regards, Adam
Melbourne, Australia (18C with a chance of rain)
PS: If nothing else, go check out the Acknowledgements section of Van Valen's 'A New Evolutionary Law' (1973).
Josh writes:
Dear TWiV Doctors,
I have a question about the paper discussed last week on the Emergence of Fatal Avian Influenza in New England Harbor Seals.
What I cannot figure out is if they were looking for an Influenza virus from the start. I mean, I assume if you sample a bunch (5 in this case) of seals, you are going to get a bunch of viruses. Did they report the detection of any other viruses in the seals? I listened to your segment again and read the paper on mBio. The paper says this:
Nucleic acids extracted from lung, trachea, liver, kidney, thoracic lymph node, mesenteric lymph node, spleen, skin lesion, and oral mucosa were tested by PCR for the presence of a wide range of pathogens, including herpesviruses, poxviruses, adenoviruses, polyomaviruses, caliciviruses, paramyxoviruses, astroviruses, enteroviruses, flaviviruses, rhabdoviruses, orbiviruses, and influenza viruses.
They looked for a wide range of pathogens, but I can't find something that says we found ONLY H3N8 Influenza. Am I reading it wrong? It just seems odd that they found nothing else. However, I'm not a scientist, so maybe I've misunderstood.
Simon Anthony replies:
Hi Vincent,
Thanks for the question! Your listener is quite right, we did find other viruses in those animals. I have a strong interest in the ecology of co-infection, so was very keen to see what other viruses might be present. We also found herpesviruses and adenoviruses in addition to the influenza, though none of these viruses were found in all five animals, and none could be linked to the observed pathology. Interestingly, we found three different adenoviruses. Two of them were known seal adenoviruses, and one was actually an avian adenovirus!! So it would seem that avian influenza was not the only avian viruses that spilled over. In addition we performed deep-sequencing and identified some novel picornaviruses. We're working those up now, but would love to chat more about them with you at some point.
Hope all is well over the road! S.
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New 'Heartland' Virus Discovered in Sick Missouri Farmers
Dear Vince,
I'm a fan of your pod casts and thought you might be interested in the article if you haven't heard of it yet.
with respect,
Mark writes:
Could you please discuss the relationship between HPV vaccine and GB, also it would be interesting to know what causes GB and its relationship to Polyradiculoneuritis (coonhound paralysis) and MS. Do these diseases have any viral relationship, thanks. i listen to the show while gardening.
[see http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Vaccines/HPV/Index.html
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Hey TWIV team!
I have been listening to your podcast for only a few months but listen with rapt attention on my way to work each morning. I was shown the podcast by my professor in my intro Virology class during my last semester of my undergrad in Cell and Molecular Biology. I have recently graduated and decided not to immediately re-enter academia for several reasons. The first being I have no idea what type of degree I am going to pursue (MD PhD or hopefully both). Also and largely I am training as an Elite trampolinist with my sights set on the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Unfortunately that means I plan to put the vast amount of my focus in effort in that venue of my life for the next four years and after I retire would like find a school with a good program without worrying where I will be training. Since, that could put me out of school until 2016 I am terrified I will lose my edge for applying for school when the time comes. I am trying to stay sharp with your podcasts and reading articles that pique my interest, but I don't think it will be enough. My most recent idea is to take the GRE this year and then apply for a masters program in either the biochemistry department or the biology department which includes cell biology, molecular biology, immunology, and virology research areas at a local university. I flip-flop between the two departments because I've heard on your show the importance of chemistry education for virology and that my research adviser previously advised me to not educate myself in solely one discipline. My questions to the TWIV team are whether this is a good plan considering my goals and which department you would most recommend for me? Thank you so much and keep putting out the viral podcasts!
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Greetings, Twividese
In episode 191, the subject of working smart and not long came up. When Rich mentioned multitasking, I couldn't help but think of the lifehacker article on the subject.
It goes on to explain why multitasking (as most people do it) reduces your over all productivity. It's a great read, and is changing the way I work.
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Probable cause statements for the three cases cite separate cabin break-ins that took place in October 2012. In one case, the owner of a cabin in Fairview Canyon complained that his cabin had been broken into, and when a Sanpete sheriff's deputy inspected the building, he saw an upstairs bedroom had been inhabited. There were no signs anything had been taken, but it looked as if someone had rummaged through dresser drawers, and a closet door was broken.
In another case, a cabin owner complained that food, pliers and a flashlight had been stolen from his Fairview cabin, and a bottle of liquor and box of Oreos had been consumed.
In the third case, a Fairview cabin owner called police after their cabin was burglarized and a hatchet and GPS system were stolen. Ammo and guns were moved around the cabin, according to court documents, but none were taken.
Knapp complained to the judge Wednesday that he has reached out to his attorney with questions about his case that have gone unanswered. He said he was also concerned about federal charges coming that he felt would be "double jeopardy."
Sanpete County Attorney Brody Keisel said after Knapp's arrest in April that federal charges may be filed against the "Mountain Man" regarding crimes he allegedly committed during his capture, when police say he fired a rifle at a Department of Public Safety helicopter and pointed the weapon at Emery County Sheriff Greg Funk, one of about 50 law officers who converged on Knapp near Ferron Reservoir.
Knapp is expected to be in court again Monday for a preliminary hearing.
Sanpete is the fourth county to file charges against Knapp. In 2012, Iron, Kane and Garfield counties filed their own burglary-related charges. As of Thursday, Knapp had 19 felonies and 10 misdemeanors mostly burglary and theft filed against him.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by himat, Aug 16, 2007.
I agree. If he stays free of injuries, he will be a very pleasant surprise to most on this forum.
Jarvis has been on Joe's radar for an awfully long time. The impact potential of this signing is HUGE. Thumbs up all day long from me.
PISTONS: Nice Pickup
Wow, I didn't know Delfino was such a burden for the organization.
Delfino was indubitably a lightning rod for criticism if nothing else...from what I gather Jarvis Hayes got the same treatment in Washington. Change of scenery will be good for both...indubitably.
I don't really know this guy, but based on sprocket points per minute played, and more or less matching the number of minutes last year, he was pretty similar in production to... Maurice Evans Flip Murray Quinton Ross Jason Kapono
That's why some have a problem with this guy because he reminds them of the guys listed there, but I think he can improve here. He won't be playing PF and he should become healthier.
He actually only had one injury, so we can't really label him as injury-prone.
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He had two kneecap fractures in two years.
It was the same knee that he didn't let heal properly the first time: Pistons grab injury-riddled small forward Jarvis Hayes from Wizards
I think it is a little much to expect a guy with two good kneecaps for a low cost, one year deal.
Well, same knee, it doesn`t matter. If it keeps you out for most of two seasons it may as well be multiple injuries. Especially when it happens in two of your first three years in the league.
If he'd have two good kneecaps, he'd have some kind of ankle issues for sure.
Grant Hill made a lot of money off of a bad ankle. Rethinking this, I think we got Hayes cheap. Two broken kneecaps are not easy to find in a player. I'm guessing that Joe's credibility and the overall attractiveness of Flip Saunders as a coach allowed us to land this guy at an affordable price.
Of course. The only way a team will get a steal is if their is some sort of issue with that player. Chauncey (can't play a specific position) Sheed (emotional issues) Hayes (injuries) Ben (not good enough)
Maxiell - too short Rip - no defense Blalock - can't shoot (oh wait, he really can't)
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PBS NewsHour Omits Obama's Support for Blasphemy Law
posted at 1:18 am on September 27, 2012 by Matt Vespa
During the September 25 broadcast of the PBS Newshour, anchor Gwen Ifill invited Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haas and former U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns to discuss President Barack Obama's foreign policy and his recent address to the UN. Reporter Judy Woodruff also had a segment on the president speech. Yet none of the segments dealing with the address mentioned the fact that the Obama administration has expressed support for anti-blasphemy measures that are completely incongruous with the freedom of speech as protected by the U.S. Constitution.
Woodruff's segment featured President Obama addressing the UN saying:
The attacks of last two weeks are not simply an assault on America. They're also an assault on the very ideals upon which the United Nations was founded.
If we are serious about these ideals, we must speak honestly about the deeper causes of the crisis, because we face a choice between the forces that would drive us apart and the hopes that we hold in common.
Given the power of faith in our lives and the passion that religious differences can inflame, the strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression.
It is more speech, the voices of tolerance that rally against bigotry and blasphemy and lift up the values of understanding and mutual respect.
That doesn't sound like a policy aimed at supporting "more speech" in our civil discourse. You'll recall that the Los Angeles Times reported on September 13 that the Obama administration had flagged the trailer for "Innocence of Islam" and reported it to YouTube to see if it violated the Terms of Service agreement on the site. As the Times noted, that complaint was filed on September 11, before it was known that Amb. Stevens and three other Americans had been murdered by violent extremists with ties to al Qaeda.
And as John Hayward of Human Events wrote on September 14:
This is not an entirely new development. The Heritage Foundation recalls that 'As recently as December 19, 2011, the U.S. voted for and was instrumental in passing 'U.N. Resolution 16/18' against 'religious intolerance,' 'condemning the stereotyping, negative profiling and stigmatization of people based on their religion.' While this may sound innocuous, it was the latest incarnation of a highly controversial 'anti-blasphemy' resolution that has been pushed by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) at the United Nations since 1999."
Patrick Goodenough of our sister organization CNS News wrote back in December of 2011, that "the resolution, an initiative of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), is based on one passed by the U.N.'s Human Rights Council in Geneva last spring [of 2011]. The State Department last week hosted a meeting to discuss ways of 'implementing' it." After all, "U.N. Human Rights Council Resolution 16/18 was negotiated between the Obama Administration and Egypt, a prominent member of the Saudi-championed Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)."
Obama's critics on this front are not just conservatives. Liberal law professor Jonathan Turley wrote back in October of 2009 in USA Today that:
around the world, free speech is being sacrificed on the altar of religion. Whether defined as hate speech, discrimination or simple blasphemy, governments are declaring unlimited free speech as the enemy of freedom of religion. This growing movement has reached the United Nations, where religiously conservative countries received a boost in their campaign to pass an international blasphemy law. It came from the most unlikely of places: the United States.
Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute also wrote on September 13 that:
the…administration was earlier criticized by legal scholars for effectively endorsing anti-blasphemy legislation. UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh and George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin lamented the Administration's support for proposals at the United Nations to restrict 'hate speech' against Islam and other religions.
At his inauguration, like all his predecessors, President Obama swore to "preserve, protect, and defend" the Constitution of the United States, including the First Amendment. Actions of his administration that undercut that protection deserve to be covered thoroughly by the media, especially taxpayer-subsidized media like PBS.
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If John McCain Is Wise…
posted at 8:54 pm on January 21, 2010 by Dafydd ab Hugh
…He'll swallow and admit his lousy bill was already dead yesterday.
The Supreme Court — narrowly and bitterly divided along the usual lines — has finally put the nail in the heart of Sen John S. McCain's (R-AZ, 63%) worst and costliest error: the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002, a.k.a. the BCRA, a.k.a. McCain-Feingold. Its core is now deader than a clam:
Sweeping aside a century-old understanding and overruling two important precedents, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections….
"If the First Amendment has any force," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority, which included the four members of its conservative wing, "it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech."
Justice John Paul Stevens read a long dissent from the bench. He said the majority had committed a grave error in treating corporate speech the same as that of human beings. His decision was joined by the other three members of the court's liberal wing.
It's hard to imagine any response to the bolded quotation above from the majority opinion that doesn't depend upon the overt or implicit rejection of freedom of speech. I haven't read Justice Stevens' full dissent — it's 90 pages — but from what I have read, it's just a long-winded exercise in sleight of tongue, dancing around his core disagreement with the very idea of universal freedom of speech. It boils down to "free speech for me but not for thee."
You can find the opinions here; for your reading pleasure, here's the breakdown of authorship:
- Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority: pp. 1-64 (of the pdf);
- Chief Justice John Roberts: pp. 65-78;
- Justice Antonin Scalia: pp. 79-87;
- Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the minority: pp. 88-177;
- Justice Clarence Thomas: pp. 178-183.
Here is, I think, the crux of Stevens' dissent; in this and all quotations from the opinions, I omit all citations and references:
In the context of election to public office, the distinction between corporate and human speakers is significant. Although they make enormous contributions to our society, corporations are not actually members of it. They cannot vote or run for office. Because they may be managed and controlled by nonresidents, their interests may conflict in fundamental respects with the interests of eligible voters. The financial resources, legal structure, and instrumental orientation of corporations raise legitimate concerns about their role in the electoral process. Our lawmakers have a compelling constitutional basis, if not also a democratic duty, to take measures designed to guard against the potentially deleterious effects of corporate spending in local and national races.
But freedom of speech is not restricted to "eligible voters;" we've always considered it universal and fundamental (though not absolute, of course).
First , a liberty is only fundamental if it applies equally to all; otherwise it's a government-created privilege, revokable at will.
Second, we're not talking about a "corporation" broadcasting speech, some alien entity with no existence apart from a legal fiction for convenience. The corporation comprises its owners, each of whom is a legal person; it's not the corporation that speaks, its the all-too-human owners.
When the owners of a corporation — or their representatives on the board of directors — use corporate funds to pay for an advertisement saying "vote for Joe," it is functionally identical to the same people broadcasting the same advert, but paying for it out of their personal checking accounts. The only difference is legal, and it's a distinction that was created by previous laws and the judicial intepretation of those laws… it's not a natural or obvious distinction to ordinary people. If I incorporate and pay for this blogspace out of corporate funds, do I no longer enjoy freedom to say what I want here, without government looking over my shoulder?
It's preposterous to argue that these six guys have a fundamental right to speak if they pay for it out of the money in their home vault… but they can legally be silenced if they use funds of a corporation they own — at least silenced in the final two months of a campaign, when political speech would be particularly effective.
If they can be so silenced, then we have no fundamental right to freedom of speech; we have a conditional right under the control of the federal government. Once freedom of speech is no longer fundamental, the feds can suppress it on almost any ground; see a previous post of ours about Geert Wilders, currently being criminally prosecuted in the Netherlands for insulting Islamism.
Stevens devotes a great many pages complaining about the "scope" of the decision (the majority should have decided the case on narrow, crabbed grounds), and singing paeans to "stare decisis," the principle that "settled doctrine" should be respected. He admits he's not an "absolutist" on that issue; indeed, it would be hard for a justice who supported the Hamdan decision, giving constitutional rights as a criminal defendant to an unlawful enemy combatant captured on the battlefield, to portray himself as anything but a judicial radical (yes, I include Anthony Kennedy).
So evidently, stare decisis applies only to precedents that Justice Stevens happens to like, such as Roe v. Wade (and McConnell v. FEC or Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, the cases the Court overturned today). Sadly, Stevens is actually the best of the usual suspects on the left side of the Court: I doubt that Justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer, or Sonia Sotomayor would even bother pretending to respect judicial restraint or settled law, when precedent is confronted by their own revolutionary aspirations.
Roberts put the fundamentality of freedom of speech as starkly and clearly as I've ever seen in a Court opinion:
The Government urges us in this case to uphold a direct prohibition on political speech. It asks us to embrace a theory of the First Amendment that would allow censorship not only of television and radio broadcasts, but of pamphlets, posters, the Internet, and virtually any other medium that corporations and unions might find useful inexpressing their views on matters of public concern. Its theory, if accepted, would empower the Government to prohibit newspapers from running editorials or opinion pieces supporting or opposing candidates for office, so long as the newspapers were owned by corporations — as the major ones are. First Amendment rights could be confined to individuals, subverting the vibrant public discourse that is at the foundation of our democracy.
The Court properly rejects that theory, and I join its opinion in full. The First Amendment protects more than just the individual on a soapbox and the lonely pamphleteer.
Or to put it into Saul Alinsky's terms, freedom of speech is universal: It applies not only to the "have-nots" (rather, their spokesmen) but to the "haves" as well. It's both a danger and a signal of American exceptionalism that until today, the law did not recognize that universality, instead advantaging the have-nots. Would any real American argue that if a rich man were arrested for a crime, he shouldn't be allowed to hire an attorney? That he can be forced to testify against himself? That he could be tortured into confessing, just because he has money? It's facially absurd.
Next, Roberts brilliantly disposes of Stevens' claim that today's decision was unnecessarily broad, that the majority should have decided the case more narrowly, rather than striking down the heart of the BCRA. Roberts first notes that, since the minority agreed with the circus court that Citizens United had no case, they must necessarily have found, as did the majority, that the "narrower" defenses put up by Citizens United were without merit.
Citizens United's attorneys did the usual good job: They argued a host of narrower issues — such as the idea that the law wasn't meant to apply to a group like them, that the anti-Hillary Clinton movie wasn't "express advocacy," and so forth; and they also argued that the law itself was unconstitutional. Once the Court had disposed of the lesser, narrower defenses, it was duty-bound to consider the final defense as well: whether the BCRA itself violated the First Amendment.
Here's Roberts:
The dissent advocates an approach to addressing Citizens United's claims that I find quite perplexing. It presumably agrees with the majority that Citizens United's narrower statutory and constitutional arguments lack merit — otherwise its conclusion that the group should lose this case would make no sense. Despite agreeing that these narrower arguments fail, however, the dissent argues that the majority should nonetheless latch on to one of them in order to avoid reaching the broader constitutional question of whether Austin remains good law. It even suggests that the Court's failure to adopt one of these concededly meritless arguments is a sign that the majority is not "serious about judicial restraint."
This approach is based on a false premise: that our practice of avoiding unnecessary (and unnecessarily broad) constitutional holdings somehow trumps our obligation faithfully to interpret the law. It should go without saying, however, that we cannot embrace a narrow ground of decision simply because it is narrow; it must also be right. Thus while it is true that "[i]f it is not necessary to decide more, it is necessary not to decide more," sometimes it is necessary to decide more. There is a difference between judicial restraint and judicial abdication. When constitutional questions are "indispensably necessary" to resolving the case at hand, "the court must meet and decide them." [Bold emphasis added]
Finally, Roberts knocks down the "stare decisis" red herring… Stevens' view that precedent should always be respected when he agrees with it:
Fidelity to precedent — the policy of stare decisis — is vital to the proper exercise of the judicial function. "Stare decisis is the preferred course because it promotes the evenhanded, predictable, and consistent development of legal principles, fosters reliance on judicial decisions, and contributes to the actual and perceived integrity of the judicial process." For these reasons, we have long recognized that departures from precedent are inappropriate in the absence of a "special justification."
At the same time, stare decisis is neither an "inexorable command," nor "a mechanical formula of adherence to the latest decision," especially in constitutional cases. If it were, segregation would be legal, minimum wage laws would be unconstitutional, and the Government could wiretap ordinary criminal suspects without first obtaining warrants….
Stare decisis is instead a "principle of policy." When considering whether to reexamine a prior erroneous holding, we must balance the importance of having constitutional questions decided against the importance of having them decided right. As Justice Jackson explained, this requires a "sober appraisal of the disadvantages of the innovation as well as those of the questioned case, a weighing of practical effects of one against the other."
In conducting this balancing, we must keep in mind that stare decisis is not an end in itself. It is instead "the means by which we ensure that the law will not merely change erratically, but will develop in a principled and intelligible fashion." Its greatest purpose is to serve a constitutional ideal — the rule of law. It follows that in the unusual circumstance when fidelity to any particular precedent does more to damage this constitutional ideal than to advance it, we must be more willing to depart from that precedent.
But apart from the fundamental right, there is another here that the Court could not address, as it has nothing to do with the Constitution or the law per se. The fact is, McCain-Feingold has been a manifest failure from the very beginning.
Its avowed purpose was to get the money out of political campaigns; but more money is spent now than ever before. And the legal distinctions crafted by the BCRA merely spawned a labyrinth of newly created entities, such as "527s", whose sole purpose is to circumvent all the rules and regulations on political speech that Sens. McCain and Russell Feingold (D-WI, 100%) thought would "control" speech — when that speech came from corporations, i.e., the "haves." Both McCain and Feingold, as well as most of the members of Congress who voted for it, and even the president who signed it, have pretensions to "populism;" they love nothing more than to bash the "privileged" on behalf of the masses. (I can say the same about the Obamacle's proposed tax on banks and punitive regulation of banking pay and practices.)
Critics of the decision say it will "open the floodgates" of campaign funding. Well what the heck did they see during the 2008 presidential election? Barack H. Obama alone spent more than half a billion dollars.
The idea that the BCRA would curtail spending was idiocy on stilts; and I hold it very much against McCain for writing it, and against George W. Bush for signing it. The only people really hurt by it were legitimate issue-advocacy groups, who had to lawyer up and waste money on defensive legal strategies, just to promote their own political issue without running afoul of some authoritarian tyrant at the Federal Elections Commission and his draconian interpretation of McCain-Feingold's "restrictions."
The BCRA is mostly gone; the Court upheld the reporting requirements and limits on direct contributions to political campaigns, but that much could probably have passed without controversy in 2002, or even today. On the call of the issue, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY, 100%) is right: The ruling in Citizens United v. the FEC absolutely "guts" the free-speech restrictions that were at the heart of the controversy over the BCRA.
And I say good riddance to bad rubbish.
If John McCain has a functioning brain, he should put on his manly gown, gird his loins, and pull up his socks: He needs to admit the BCRA was a gross violation of liberty — and a colossal failure to boot. If he does, my respect for him will grow; if instead he pounds the table and denounces the Court's majority as elitists and corporate apologists, he will lose a great deal of the good will I felt for him during the 2008 campaign.
As many have noted, this has been one heckuva week for anti-liberals:
- Scott Brown won in Massachuestts;
- Erroll Southers withdrew as the nominee to head the TSA;
- The U.N. finally admitted that the glaciers in the Himalayas are not about to vanish anytime soon, as they had claimed for years;
- ObamaCare appears to be dead, at least for the forseeable future;
- Air America filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy;
- And now McCain-Feingold bites the dust.
So what will we do for excitement next week?
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Prior to becoming a keeper with the Live Exhibits team at Melbourne Museum, my knowledge of grasshoppers was quite limited. Locusts were probably the type of grasshopper of which I was most aware, due to their high numbers during the warmer months. They are also responsible for the must-have car fashion accessory adorning the front of vehicles, in the form of flywire to stop cars from overheating. In truth, locusts are just one of an estimated 700 species of grasshopper in Australia.
The Common Toad Hopper (Buforania crassa) is an inquisitive creature.Image: David PaddockSource: Museum Victoria
Live Exhibits keeps many different types of grasshoppers and I am quite intrigued by them all, but the species which first caught my attention was the Common Toadhopper (Buforania crassa) from Central Australia. They are not particularly big - females are approximately 60mm long and males 40 mm long - and contrary to their name they rarely hop or jump, preferring to walk around. They have been described as an inquisitive grasshopper and that is what drew me to them. As with pets at home, if you are looking after an animal and you buy it a new toy or feed it a new food then you hope that they will enjoy it or get a reaction from it. I found that not too long after I added food they would be on it or in it. This included pollen, orthopteran mix (made up of muesli, fish flakes and other ingredients), and various forms of foliage, such as abelia, emu bush, acacia, and callistemon. You soon find out that they have their favourites - I would say that callistemon is in the top two.
Common Toad Hopper (Buforania crassa) eating callistemon, one of its favourite foods.Image: David PaddockSource: Museum Victoria
Like most grasshoppers, Common Toadhoppers use camouflage to hide from predators. As you can see from the picture, once they are perched on a rock or stick during the daylight hours they can be very difficult to see. If they are brought up on a light sand substrate then their colours will reflect that.
Common Toadhoppers are masters of camouflage. Their colours can vary depending on what colour substrate they are brought up on.Image: Patrick HonanSource: Museum Victoria
Toadhopper perfectly disguised to match the branch it's sitting on.Image: Alan HendersonSource: Museum Victoria
Their reproductive cycle is very interesting. Grasshoppers generally breed in the summer months with the male perching on the female's back, either mating or guarding her from other males. The female then deposits her eggs in the soft sand and plugs them with a foamy substance. Our toadhopper populations here at Melbourne Museum vary seasonally and in some enclosures we currently have none at all, but we can see where females have deposited their eggs. Grasshopper eggs are good at withstanding drought periods. Normal incubation time for Common Toadhoppers is 1-3 months but it can be as long as 1-2 years, the eggs simply waiting for the right conditions. We can recreate those conditions, simulating warmer days with longer heat and light periods, and heavy rain through flooding the enclosures with water. Then hopefully not too long afterwards, little toadhopper nymphs will appear and even though they may not live up to the second part of their name, these grasshoppers certainly love eating grass.
A young Common Toadhopper.Image: Alan HendersonSource: Museum Victoria
In the meantime, come along to Melbourne Museum and visit our male Common Toadhopper, featured in the arid section of our Habitats display in Bugs Alive!.
Toadhoppers are in the arid habitat display in Bugs Alive!.
Image: David PaddockSource: Museum Victoria
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6 Ways To Overhaul Your Love Life
Age: 17
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Hey everyone,
Just a quick heads up to anyone that may have purchased decals in the last week. I will be on vacation this coming week, and will obviuosly not be shipping any decals while i'm gone. I will have email access, but that's about it. I will try to get as many out as I can before I leave, but there will most likely be some that will not be shipped before I leave. My apologies for any inconvenience .
Thanks guys.