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December 6, 2006
The "Stupid" Dialogue.
A: You forgot the part about how I said it was "an admission that you have no substance."
Q: Yeah, well, then, that too.
A: And you forgot the part where I called Glenn Greenwald "such an idiot" and a "moron." ("Disreputable slimeball" is another matter altogether.)
Q: Yeah, yeah, yeah, all that too. So you admit, don't you, as you must, that you are a hypocrite?
A: First of all, if this was a contradiction, I'd own up to it. It provides an occasion to look appealingly self-deprecating and to quote Walt Whitman. (I am large. It's the blogs that got small.) But it's not a contradiction, for two -- at least two -- huge reasons. First, you have to see the two statements in context. I said "calling your opponent stupid is incredibly lame... an admission that you have no substance" in response to someone who made no argument other than to call me stupid. It was the sum total of his argument. I called Glenn Greenwald an idiot and a moron in the context of a 152-word paragraph that stated a substantive argument. You can object to the epithets because they were epithets, but not because they revealed a lack of substance. The substance was also there, and the substance established the stupidity of what Greenwald had written. Second, Greenwald's post was titled "The meaninglessness of tenure" and intended to be personally insulting to me. My retaliation with cheap insults was meant as a taunt, as a way to say "same to you, &*%#!" It was ironic, a way of saying -- not that everyone got this -- I don't normally stoop to your level, but today I feel like making an exception, &*%#!
Q: I don't get it.
A: That's not a question.
Q: Yeah, but I don't get it.
A: You're an idiot.
50 comments:
- michilines said...
You've just read the galley for Chapter 4 in Althouse's heroic novel. Working title: I am Large.
- Revenant said...
It's kind of sad that so many people need the obvious explained to them, but I'm glad Ann's willing to do it. :)
- Tibore said...
And the sad thing is, that exchange is not just found in this blog, it's seen in most of the blogs with traffic out there.
- Disgustipated said...
Ann #5: kudos where kudos due. . .
You explained the apparent contradiction. Whether I agree with your rathered tortured distinction or not, I applaud your intellectual honesty for at least addressing it.
I agree that epithets are epithets and are just not persuasive regardless of "context." However, do not fret because it is really not your use of epithets that I read as "an admission that you have no substance."
. . .tis mostly the "substance."
- d said...
Splashing a bunch of words on the page is not "substance," just as inventing facially absurd hypotheses to explain why Jose Padilla might have been deprived of his senses does not "meet the burden" of refuting a serious argument.
- stephenb said...
If I never hear the name Greenwald again...
Sounds like you and someone are`nt getting along; work on it.
- dave said...
Give it up, lady.
You're. Fucking. Toast.
And the biggest fucking joke on the internet. The fact you can't see that makes it doubly hilarious.
Delete away!
- Simon said...
Ann should get toasted? What? ;)
Anyway, come back when you've been the answer in a New York newspaper's crossword puzzle.
- Garage Mahal said...
Ann will get a damn link from Sullivan if it kills her.
I think what happened is Ann confused two different Sullivan posts. The "Religionists", and the "Mormon Undergarments" post.
Ann Althouse wrote:
AND: Glenn Greenwald is such an idiot. Am I supposed to respond to this foolishness? Glenn, you moron, in case you didn't notice, Sullivan is mocking Mormons in general. That's what bothered me.
This has to be referring to the Mormon undergarment post. But this isn't what GG was objecting to in his post -- GG was alleging hypocrisy from Althouse when she used term "Islamists" on occasion, while at the same time criticizing Sullivan for using "Christianist".
Ann Althouse continues...
I don't object to the word "Christianists" if it is used fairly to refer to something that is the equivalent of "Islamists." I use the word "religionists" myself. See here, here, here, and here. Words like this mean something and have a place. The key is to use them in the right place. I criticize Sullivan when he shows a hostility toward ordinary religious people who aren't trying to bully their way around the political world.
Again, it must be the Mormon underwear pics again? Because he clearly defined "Christianist", and the term isn't remotely connected with "ordinary religious people who aren't trying to bully their way around the political world."
You've also never cited if, or where Sullivan used (improperly) the term "Christianist" when describing "ordinary religious people" (as you yourself later said you didn't object to the term Christianist, if used fairly)
- Ann Althouse said...
Garage: I wasn't confused. Try again.
Ann, I feel bad for you. I have noticed a trend in your behavior toward Greenwald ever since one of his posters called you out for beginning your New York times Op Ed on the warrantless wiretapping decision by attempting to point out that the Judge who ruled against the Bush Administration in that case wrote a poorly worded and hastly edited opinion because among other reasons, she referred to a Chief Justice as simply a Justice. That clearly was a big thing for you, since you blogged about it before your op ed was published, and it was the big oepning to your op ed. Greenwald and his reader called you out for it because in another op ed written for the New York Times approximately a year ago, you made the same "gaffe," you also referred to a Chief Justice as simply a Justice. Oh... the irony..
Ever since then, you have been doing one blog post after the other about Greenwald and what you view as his shortcomings. First you wondered how he could have so many readers with his writing style. I recall you recommending Strunk and White and trying to be genuine in your complaints, but in the context of the whole Justice vs. Chief Justice Op-Ed, the whole writing style post and the what has followed just comes off as bitterness.
I do agree his posts may be a bit long, but he does have more readers than you, and they must find the length and detail refreshing from the other bloggers who don't go into as much detail and just link to something else. Deal with it.
By the way, was he a slimeball, an idiot, or just plain evil for calling you out for that? You are a law professor, correct?
- Ann Althouse said...
"Ann, I feel bad for you..."
Spare your sympathies for a worthy cause. GG is promoting me. I have no problem with that. Whatever his individual demons are... they are too boring to get my attention. Why not do some volunteer work if you find yourself running over with charity?
- -Peder said...
Your explanation makes complete sense to me. It did in context when it originaly happened but I understand that some people need complex things explained to them.
- Davebo said...
"Garage: I wasn't confused. Try again."
Wow, that certainly doesn't leave many other options to salvage your credibility.
Oh well, you'll always have tenure right? Although it's hard to determine who is more detrimental to the perception of legal academics.
So scratch my last, you'll always have instapundit.
Oh goody, another Althouse dick fight. Ann sure luvs her dick fights, she dick fights with those on the left, and she dick fights with those on the right.
- stephenb said...
Why not do some volunteer work if you find yourself running over with charity?
Now that's funny.
Humpty Dumpty: When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
- Xanthippas said...
Well now wait a second, Greenwald's post was also pretty long, and on a substantive issue, so didn't he do what you claim you're doing here when you call someone stupid? (Or did there, I mean. It's a little confusing to keep up.)And to be fair, after he updated he wasn't calling you stupid, so much as he was calling you incoherant and dishonest, which I regard as more substantive claims than saying someone is "stupid" at least.
Anyway this is all a rather minor argument in the blog proxy GWOT, but it's amusing at least.
- Ricardo said...
Is there a mud wrestling pit somewhere, where bloggers could go and work out all these interpersonal problems, and provide some real entertainment for the viewing public?
- The Exalted said...
It was ironic, a way of saying -- not that everyone got this -- I don't normally stoop to your level, but today I feel like making an exception, &*%#!
except that you "stoop" to this juvenile level of silly name calling quite often. . .
- TLC said...
Ann, thank you for once again championing simplicity above complexity. Simplicity is so non-partisan, which is true because complexity is very partisan. Complexity must be partisan because it is difficult to understand and things that are difficult to understand are bad and anything that is bad is partisan so complexity is partisan. If complexity wanted to be non-partisan it would simplify itself like our Dear Leader has and do everything He says and think exactly the way He thinks about everything.
- Ann Althouse said...
TLC: You've really got that parody thing down pat, except for the part where it's not like anything I've ever said. Reading the actual person you think you're parodying is kind of key.
- Alpha Liberal said...
Actualy, Ann, you didn't respond to the substance of Glenn G's comments. you distorted what he said, and basically engaged in a highly emotional venting. Nothing rational about it.
Good effort to explain it away, but, again, he responded to your name-calling post in a methodical and logical way and you never engaged a substantive debate. (Exactly like your winger fanbase who've I've yet seen offer a substantive reply above the playground level).
And that's what's disappointing, as a Wisconsin taxpayer. You could at least put up a good effort at a rational argument before ducking behind name-calling and false representations of others' statements.
And for all those defining entertaining, snarky prose as "good writing," that's not what Greenwald does. He does rational, with a dash of snark. You want vacuous snark, well, I guess you've found your blog home.
- Alpha Liberal said...
Geez Louis, Althouse. You repeat the same behaviors you engage in with Greenwald with commenters here! You don't address anything with substance and, instead, just get snide and snarky (and rude).
It leaves one with the impression that you don't have much depth behind your postions or respect for people who disagree with you.
You've definitely got an axe to grind against Greenwald. I think gail grimmel has nailed the reason why. He blew your NYT op-ed out of the water.
Academics can be so petty. Maybe it's time for a sabbatical?
- Alpha Liberal said...
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- ChurchCommittee said...
Ahhh... if only you had a shred of Glenns intellect and skill you'd be worth reading. Unfortunately, you don't. And the mere suggestion that Padilla was blinded for fear that he might communicate by blinking was perhaps the dumbest thing I have ever heard. When even your own kind (read: right-wing, Bush-apologizing idiots) calls you out on it, you know you're really worthless.
- Zeb Quinn said...
I disagree. Sometimes "stupid" aptly says it all. Not always. But sometimes. In those instances it's a waste and wrong to try to gussy it up.
The blogosphere runs on fights. They help the collective site meter spin and get that adreneline pumping, but increasingly I find myself drifing to the edge of the crowd, looking for a way to slip out.
I just wrote that on another thread on this blog. Like the proverbial moth, I've spent far too much time flickering around the flames of controversy.
They've done their job. They've got my attention. And they're even dangerous, because they waste my time.
These are not contretemps, but choreographed pas de deux. Althouse owns as much above, when she says, "GG is promoting me. I have no problem with that." These things help everybody, don't they?
They may be amusing to some, but I don't appreciate the legions of trolls and deteriorated tone of blogs that allow/encourage these sorts of dust-ups. Perhaps I just don't understand publicity.
Controversialists are in it for the long run. For blogs it's never about the piddling few dollars from increased ad revenue. It's about things more elusive: fame, influence, ego.
So, how much do I want to participate in somebody else's publicity machine? I'm a big Althouse fan, but the answer for this and similar controversies is not at all.
- kodos423 said...
So, it's totally okay for you to call someone stupid if...it isn't the sum total of your argument and/or you're responding in kind. Is it just me, or do you think that maybe you should have written "If the sum total of your argument is 'you're stupid', then you're incredibly lame"? Because I'm not sure there's a person alive who would argue with that sentiment. The thing is, that's not what you wrote. So, going back over it once you've been busted is, you know, incredibly lame. I guess the only thing lamer would be if all this was coming from a professor at a prestigious university.
And for the record, I'm a huge fan of epithets. Huge. And I agree with you're "I'm giving myself a do-over" argument: if you can both post a substantive argument that makes your opponent look foolish and call him or her a stupid jerky jerkpants (or worse) then you'll be tops in my book, no matter what your politics are. But that's not really what you did, neither with the comment you objected to, nor with GG. Plus, I'm betting you're not going to lose much sleep over winning my affections.
- Wickedpinto said...
The questions never challenge the use of the word "retard"
I suggest, to assuage your interoggator by instead of calling the likes of greenwald stupid and idiotic, you call him retarded, or even modify it, functionaly retarded, or just compare him to retards, and functional retards "the only thing keeping him from being functionaly retarded is his inability to not crap on everything that he thinks is beneath him" That way you have a lot of grey area.
- Al Maviva said...
Ann, how dare you question Glenn's brilliance! He is a constitutional scholar! And an actual lawyer who practiced law for a couple years! And published! And he has a popular blog! And a law degree! And a pool boy who sometimes logs on and writes comments in other people's blogs for him! And he's on the Townhouse email list! Most of the time anyways except when the Kewl Kids want to talk shit about him! Who are you? Just some school teacher! That's who! And everybody knows it! Except you! And that's pathetic! Or it would be except we all hate you and you can't have pity for somebody everybody hates! And your mom cuts your hair funny!
Good day, Sir!
Ps. Wickedpinto - I think they like to be called "Asian Americans" these days.
- Anon Y. Mous said...
"I disagree. Sometimes 'stupid' aptly says it all. Not always. But sometimes. In those instances it's a waste and wrong to try to gussy it up."
That's just stupid.
- Anon Y. Mous said...
Al Maviva: "Ps. Wickedpinto - I think they like to be called 'Asian Americans' these days."
Now we have to refer to retards as Asian Americans? Isn't that going to piss off the Orientals?
- Zeb Quinn said...
"That's just stupid."
So is that.
- monkeyboy said...
Sorry I'm late to the party.
And the mere suggestion that Padilla was blinded for fear that he might communicate by blinking was perhaps the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
Oh yea, because thats thats never happened.
- Al Maviva said...
Goddamit, Anon y. Mous. This isn't about Vietnam!
- libbyterian said...
" Whatever his individual demons are... they are too boring to get my attention."
Gail, don't take Ann's comments to heart. I find her response to be typical of an arrogant and bitter academic who can't handle valid criticism.
I agree with you in that it does seem like this post really embarrassed Professor Althouse, and well she hasn't been the same since.
Ann, you should let go of bitterness and heed your own advice: volunteer and give back to the Madison commmunity.
- Alpha Liberal said...
Theo Boehm said:
The blogosphere runs on fights. They help the collective site meter spin and get that adreneline pumping, but increasingly I find myself drifing to the edge of the crowd, looking for a way to slip out.
He and I seem to disagree on a lot, but he captures my views of this blog. It's pretty clear Althouse is using conflict, personal insults and controversy to pump up her web traffic.
if she was doing this while adding substance to debate over the issues of the day, that would be tolerable. However, she does not. Even with the public here, she will not respond to a point made with a substantive reply. That she saves for imagined personal slights, dollie discussions and what-have-you.
As a Wisconsin resident I'm embarassed she represents the UW on the web. So, I will greatly reduce my web traffic at her site. She can have the fanbase who mimic her destructive approach to to public "dialogue."
- Pedro said...
Wow. I could never understand why Greenwald -- who has never, to my knowledge, really contributed anything original or intellectually substantial to any debate -- has such impassioned followers willing to join Ellers and Ellsberg as his forward attack troops. Perhaps its because rather than insight and thoughtfulness, Greenwald and his black-and-white philosophical simplism comforts those who are too lazy or too insecure to do the heavy-lifting it would require to wrap their minds around complex issues, most of which resist being corraled into highly partisan explanations.
Besides having too much free time, that would help explain why Greenwald and his unquestioning, loyal troops get so incensed at the kind of sincerity and (are you listening, Andrew?) doubt-tinged moderation that defines Althouse's blog. Her greatest sin in the eyes of Greenwald and other intellectual non-heavyweights is to throw damp towels on the fires of knee-jerk indignation and outrage that fuels their sense of self-importance. As Erasmus (and Eric Hoffer) teach, nothing threatens true believers like somebody who dares to forego the empowering indulgence of emotion and consider things rationally.
"Let's consider all the angles..."; "..but from another point of view..."; "...I don't know, what do you think?" -- who would be more likely to end their posts thusly, Althouse or Greenwald?
Why does Greenwald remind me so much of myself when I was 17 years old and knew everything? And why do I have to read his uninteresting commenters on Althouse's blog? If I wanted their point of view, with all its receptivity to nuance and complexity, I'd just go read the opinion page of my old high school newspaper.
- Al Maviva said...
Dear God, Alpha Liberal. You didn't have to do that.
We knew things were bad. Indeed, we knew how tough it was for you to endure, day after day, in this vile, screaming right wing cesspit.
There were many days that I often wondered aloud, "How does he do it? How does Alpha Liberal keep on keepin' on?"
Now I know. You were in the depths of desparation over the bitter irrationality and outraged loserdom of Ann.
Only you among us - and the occasional visitors from Ellers Ellersberg's place - realized that Glenn's amazing intellectual candlepower had torched Ann's intellect, burned it to a crisp, like an overcooked deep fried Thanksgiving turkey, which is the high communion of southern racist republican rednecks, BTW.
We cannot know, how tough it must have been for you to post here. Indeed, we cannot know what humiliation you must have felt, as both a Wisconsinite (Wisconsonian?) and an Alpha Liberal, at lowering yourself to our level. Oh, the horror, the shame of it. How much worse shame must you feel that the likes of me occasionally post in this blog that claims Wisconsin as its home?
And now you're gone. Alpha, we hardly knew ye.
Well, ye shall know. To us, you were like a bright light in the shining city on the hill, in a lamppost, roughly 9 feet off the ground in accordance with local zoning requirements, with wattage between 35 and 50, which doesn't sound that bright but on a dark night it's better than nothing and it doesn't keep the neighbors awake, and it's bright enough to keep you from stepping on dog turds on the lawn if they're big enough. And there you were, like a lampost, willing to share your genius with us, to drop bits of wit and nearly other-worldly wisdom upon us groundling. So fond we were of your droppings, that they too shall be missed. Thanks for all your efforts to enlighten those of us hopeless reactionary, nazi-like folk who toil in the darkness. We shared your opinion that you believed you were like Father Damian among the lepers. You will be missed.
Farewell, sweet prince. The place just won't be the same without your daily web hit, and I may be forced to consider bothering Jeff Jarvis from now on.
- Ann Althouse said...
Libbyterian: "I agree with you in that it does seem like this post really embarrassed Professor Althouse, and well she hasn't been the same since."
Key bit of information undermining your theory: I've never read that post.
It is, obviously, the case, that lefty bloggers targetting me has increased my traffic. That doesn't mean I'm trying to make myself a target. I find it unpleasant enough that I won't read things that seem mean.
- Disgustipated said...
Question, Ann:
Did you read the briefs in the nsa case or the procedural posture before you wrote that op-ed?
I really sincerely want to know.
There were more than just stylistic critiques in your piece and you should know better (and should teach your students better).
- Ann Althouse said...
Disgustipated: I saw the criticisms and dealt with them at the time. If you read the op-ed without jumping where your fear takes you, that is, with understanding, you'll see it makes a basic and what really ought to be an uncontroversial point.
Alpha Liberal quoted me above, so I'd like to clear a few things up.
First and foremost, I am a longtime Althouse fan. I am impressed by her writing, her photography, the clever and thoughtful structure of this blog, and I never fail to learn something about the law when she posts on legal topics. I also tend to agree with her take on politics, which, in my view, is refreshingly honest and thoughtful. Obviously, I don't see eye-to-eye with her on everything. But she puts up, in my opinion, arguably the best general-interest blog out there.
I hardly want to be viewed in the same category as the recent critics who have buzzed in, attacking Althouse and her readers so freely and foolishly.
That said, my point is that I don't like some tendencies I've noticed here. The willingness to join gratuitous blog fights is first among these.
Obviously, Althouse is free to do what she wants with this blog and pursue the goals she chooses. She should realize, however, that not all her regular, loyal readers will be entertained by cooked-up controversies whose main aim is publicity. Seeking the largest possible audience coarsens the content and lowers the tone by, among other things, the appearance of armies of trolls, whose raison d'etre seems to be invective and insult.
I have a little list.
They surely won't be missed.
My hope is that she would seek attention in ways less disagreeable to those of us who look for interesting and intelligent content, and leave the dog fights for the junkyard where they belong.
- Ann Althouse said...
Theo: I ignore most things, but I fight back occasionally when I feel like it for one reason or other.
- LarryK said...
Incandescent...scintillating...and oh so Alpha. Can we really live without him? We don't have to!! Because a closer reading reveals the great AlphaLib will only "reduce my web traffic" at this site but not leave completely. So fear not Al! While the Great Man's droppings may become less frequent, we can sleep well at night knowing they will still be dispensed, from time to time, as the Spirit moves him. Alla Akbhar!!
- Disgustipated said...
Your overall point was taken by me to be one that is certainly uncontroversial. . .in the abstract. You conclude first with a rhetorical question: "If the words of the written opinion reveal . . . , what sense does it make to . . . ?" Then with a hypothetical: "If the judge's own writing . . . , the significance of saying. . . evaporates."
If these apply to her ruling (as I assume they do. . .tho your use of the rhetorical and hypothetical allows some room), then you have made judgments about her opinion writing style that invoke more than just form on its face.
While it may be possible - in theory - to write a valid and intellectually honest stylistic critique of a judicial opinion without a complete knowledge of the arguments before the court, that is not what you did. You specifically cited the lack of detailed legal discussions to support your thesis. . .discussions of arguments that were not before the court.
Would it not have been "judicial activism" to discuss arguments that were not raised?
Your broad point is indeed unassailable (judicial activism bad. . .unjustified pronouncements bad), but I found little support for it in the judicial opinion at issue.
As an attorney and a teacher, I would have hoped that you would have taken great pains to make sure that your op-ed in the NYT helped elucidate rather than obfuscate the complexities involved.
And what does "jumping where [my] fear takes me" mean? I would like to respond, but I seriously don't know. Your piece wasn't that long, and my critique is specific and narrow. My criticisms apply only to the application of your broadly espoused principles (which are hard to disagree with) to the opinion at issue. I simply feel that you read more in to the lack of certain discussions than you would had you actually read the doj's arguments.
Where is my jump? . . . fear?
- Monkey Faced Liberal said...
First, thank you for directly addressing the questions I posed to your regarding you seeming hypocrisy.
I am sorry if I was not intelligent enough to understand your earlier explanations, though I think I now understand your reasoning.
-To call someone stupid, or otherwise insult them, when that is the sum total of your argument is lame.
(For example, I, unprovoked, writ that Paris Hilton is a "skank" on my blog. This is lame.)
-To call someone stupid, or otherwise insult them, within the context of an argument where you provide evidence that they are stupid or otherwise show that the insult is appropriate is not lame, as long as this is in response to earlier insult.
"Paris Hilton writes on her blog that I am stupid. I write on my blog that Hilton is always photographed not wearing underwear, there is a video of her out having sex, and she is rumored to have a lot of sexual partners, and that this all makes her a skank"
However, I am sorry to say that I am still a little confused about your reasoning. Perhaps this makes me an idiot, but if you would clear up these remaining questions I would really appreciate it.
1) Calling you stupid was NOT the sum-total of the argument made by the commenter you called lame. In fact, he quoted where you wrote "Perhaps there is a fear that he will communicate in code by blinking." and then stated "Wow. And I thought "scared stupid" was just a figure of speech!"
I think he is clearly making the argument that someone who thinks that Padilla might be communicate with others by blinking is letting their fear of terrorism led them to think "stupid" things and act in a "stupid" manner.
While you might not agree with the substance of his argument, it does have substance, does it not? Does this mean that his comment was not lame?
2)You seem to be saying that it is wrong to insult someone in a post where you have a substantive argument that attempts to establish why the insult is correct (such as Greenwald's orginal "The meaninglessness of tenure" post), but that is ok to respond to such insults with insults, as long you provide evidence or an argument that supports these insults?
In other words, if Greenwald's post was in respond to a post from you where you insulted him and provided an argument to back up this insult, you would be in the wrong and Greenwald would be in the right?
Greenwald fault (or lameness) lies in the fact that the was the first to insult someone else. If you respond to an insult with an insult (as long as it is backed by an argument) that is ok and not lame.
I know that brevity is important to you, so I apologize for the length of this post. But I wanted to make sure I communicated to you my confusion in the hope that you would clear this up for me.
Best Regards,
Monkey Faced Liberal
- Monkey Faced Liberal said...
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Federal Government announces 10-year policy framework for Indigenous health
The Federal Government says its new 10-year policy framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health will make a real difference to people's lives.
The blueprint builds on the Government's 2008 Closing the Gap health objectives and will guide policy and programs to improve Indigenous health over the next decade at a cost of $12 billion.
The Government held 17 consultations on the plan, along with roundtable meetings, and accepted more than 140 written submissions.
Indigenous Health Minister Warren Snowdon says annual reporting to Parliament will make the Government accountable.
"This is the first time such a plan has been developed. I think that in itself will be a difference," he said.
"And by the way, we will make a difference, we will meet our target on child mortality rates by 2018, and that is clear.
"But we've got to do a lot more. The life expectancy gap - if we want to close it by 2030, which is the objective - we've got to do a lot more work."
A statement from the Minister says the plan emphasises the centrality of culture in the health of Indigenous people and the rights of individuals to a safe, healthy and empowered life.
Co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, Jody Broun, says for too long racism has been a major barrier in people's access to health services.
"There might be a hospital or there might be a health service in a town; people won't use it if they have had a negative experience and what they perceive as a racist experience in that place," she said.
"We heard far too often that that was happening, so we really have to make sure that that is eliminated from the health system so that people feel comfortable."
The Federal Opposition says the framework announcement is underwhelming.
The Coalition's spokesman, Andrew Laming, says the budget already forecasts $1.2 billion for Indigenous health each year and the announcement is just an extension of the existing funding model.
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"We don't think the document is terribly ambitious. The document wasn't shown to anyone before it was released so stakeholders were completely in the dark."
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Convicted congressman wins early end to sentence
Former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, the Vietnam War hero turned congressional crook, is now a free man.
Last week, a federal judge granted the ex-Del Mar Republican's request to cut short a three-year term of supervised release. Cunningham pleaded guilty in 2005 to conspiracy, wire fraud and tax evasion, and admitting to taking more than $2 million in bribes. He was sentenced to eight years in prison.
In an interview with U-T San Diego's Greg Moran, Cunningham said he's authored five books on topics ranging from prison reform to how to become a standout fighter pilot. He lives in the gated community of Hot Springs Village, Ark., and court papers describe him as active in his church and a volunteer firefighter, the newspaper reported. But Cunningham said he mourns the breakup of his marriage as a result of the scandal.
"I would tell my constituents and my friends that I'm sorry for the actions I took," he said. "There is not a day goes by that I don't ask myself, how the hell did I do what I did? You get caught up in something. I let it happen, and it was wrong."
– Chrisotopher Cadelago
Worth repeating
"Right now we need the resources to handle what's going on."
ASSEMBLYWOMAN MELISSA MELENDEZ, Lake Elsinore Republican, pleading for state funds to help Murrieta deal with protests over undocumented immigrants passing through en route to a shelter.


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Marketing Student Looking for Wake/Ski Industry Occupation
I posted this over in the Supra forum but I thought I would post it over here on the other half of the SC family.
So I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post about this on here or not so just take it off if I'm not! : ) The basic subject of this post is to pitch myself. I'm currently a senior at the University of Missouri studying Business Administration with an emphasis in marketing. I will be graduating in May and I'm starting to become fairly nervous about my job search and the market for fresh graduates today.
I just thought I'd throw this out there and ask if there is anyone on here who may know of a connection into the marketing field or know of a job opening somewhere? I'd obviously love to turn my passion into an occupation and work in the marine industry but I understand it's not exactly the time to be picky; so, I'm honestly up for anything. I know it's a long shot but I don't really have anything to lose.
Aside from that, anyone have advice for a soon-to-be-graduate on the job hunt? Thanks in advance!
10-24-2011, 08:55 PM #2-Ryan
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Thanks for the advice Ryan! Where did you attend school? I see you're in central Wisconsin, did you compete on any of the collegiate ski teams up there?
10-25-2011, 09:01 AM #4-Ryan
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Haha I meant water! The Eau Claire team is always pretty good
Hey Chris -
"marketing" is a fairly wide-open arena with a lot of different areas of focus from research/analysis to design to front-end sales. Any particular area you want to focus in on or strengths you have?
I have a BA in Marketing and MBA in Management and been in the "real world" for 15 years now so I may be able to help steer you a little. I don't work in the marine industry but like you, would love to follow my passion.The years have been kind, it's the weekends that have done the damage.
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10-25-2011, 02:08 PM #7-Ryan
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You're right, marketing is incredibly vast; however, I believe it's rapidly becoming smaller as technology and media are converging on each other rapidly. I've honestly had exposure to many different facets of the marketing world. I had the opportunity to do a lot of design work and writing while I worked at a hospital, I was able to do social media and e-marketing through a heavy-equipment manufacturer I worked for, and I'm currently having the opportunity to work with marketing research using software such as Qualtrics. Additionally, in each internship I've had I've been fortunate enough to be involved in discussions of long-term business planning, which is definitely an interest of mine.
What I'm trying to say is, I've had opportunities to work in a lot of it, and I like it all. I'm not picky and I'm very open to anything. Like I said before, the marine industry would be ideal, but I have many other interests and I'm sure there are markets out there that I would attach to that I don't even know about.
What kind of business are you in?
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Wait........ aren't you a 99%-er? I thought you were suppose to go "protest" somewhere about how bad corp/businesses are and that greed is ruining America. What will your peers think when they find out you actually want a job?
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Hey Chris - 2 weeks out of college I landed a job in marketing through a friend's dad's referral at a software company about an hour away. Got my feet wet with everything from research to sales engineering, design, etc. Went to night school for my MBA while working there which was a great experience. Got to see and learn about the inner workings of a lot of other companies from startups to Fortune 100's. From there I've traveled a varied path - Working in the world of investments at a brokerage, then on to an e-learning design company startup where I was employee #3, to health insurance and employee benefits, to being self employed as a freelance consultant and designer full time for a year, to working at a software company again and still doing some freelancing on the side.
Probably my best is advice for getting started is that it's not as much what you know but who you know. I met a lot of people through the MBA program and also have gotten some great insight and connections being a freelancer for a variety of companies ranging from diesel trucks and industrial equipment to vacation rentals in Maui to electrical contractors, a health food company, and a few other software/tech companies.
I'd suggest some professional networking when you can, but not only that. Internships would be a great way to get your foot in the door as well. I tried doing some shoulder rubbing through the American Marketing Association and other Professional Guilds and stuff and in the end, honestly they were all a waste of time. The best connections and contacts I've made have been at places you'd least expect. Weddings, my neighbors at a campground, some guy broken down at the boat launch, riding up a ski lift, that sort of thing. It's real easy to ask "so what do you do" in those kind of situations and strike up a conversation and try to steer it towards occupations and companies. You never know where it will lead.
I'm FINALLY working with a friend, doing some design/consulting, etc. for his custom marine shop and services. He's doing ballast, stereo and electrical upgrades, light service work and repairs, procurement and consignment, etc. I'm hoping it will take off and become something I can invest fully into. It would be a dream come true.The years have been kind, it's the weekends that have done the damage.
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Annuals are a must for gardeners who want to have color throughout the season. These three new annuals for this summer may fit the bill for your garden.
Listing new plants for the coming season has long been a tradition in the garden industry. In the 19th century garden catalogs of such plants were called "novelties."
Nurseries know that new plants somehow appeal to any gardener, both beginner and seasoned.
The Connecticut-based Hale Company wrote in its 1889 catalog, "In fruits, as well as in every other business, the greatest profits are made by those who lead, or keep very near the head of the procession. There is neither fun nor profit in following along two or three years behind and simply imitating those who have gone before."
Annuals are a must for gardeners who want to have color throughout the season.
These three new annuals for this summer may fit the bill for your garden.
The first is lobularia "Blushing Princess," a low-flowering plant that looks fine in a container or trailing at the edge of a bed.
The flowers are tiny purple and white wonders. They appeared early when I planted them, and stayed well into the cool nights of late September and October. The plant - also called alyssum - looked better in the fall than in early summer.
"Blushing Princess" is a plant that will surprise you with its continuing blooms for weeks and weeks. I planted only one in a container and eventually, it nearly filled that container. Proven Winners gave the garden world this little wonder.
The second plant is a lantana called 'Luscious Berry Blend.' It too comes from the growers at Proven Winners as one of their new annuals.
I have grown lantana many times and because of my experience, I have avoided it because the plant did not show much color. Lantana grows so large in warmer climates like Australia that it becomes almost a shrub.
This lantana's' flowers are yellow and dark pink. The combination of colors caught my eye when I first saw the plant.
What I liked about 'Luscious Berry Blend' is that the blooms lasted for a long time and the size of the plant measured over 2 feet tall. I planted it in a container, and it grew to a proportion that looked ideal in its medium sized container. I was also impressed with the endurance of the color in the flowers. This lantana does its job as an annual when you look for that color in the garden.
The third annual is a coleus called "CB Marooned," a name that reveals its color, a steady light purple, or burgundy coleus. Like most coleus plants, you grow it for its leaves, not its flowers.
I potted a small plant of this variety, perhaps 3 or 4 inches high. By mid-summer the plant, which grew 20 inches tall and 10 inches across, filled the container. I used just this plant in the container and it looked impressive.
The coleus places high in my list of favorite plants. There are dozens of varieties to choose from. The leaves of "CB Marooned," also from Proven Winners, run ragged-edged and form a semi-oval clump, adding a special visual appeal.
This summer in your search for the perfect new annual, these are three varieties that will not disappoint you. Though I planted them all in containers, they certainly will also perform in beds and perhaps, in some cases, as edging.
Quincy master gardener Thomas Mickey is professor emeritus at Bridgewater State University. You may reach him at www.americangardening.net.


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Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Is JDev 11g ready to replace Designer's table modeller?
(I suspect the upcoming SQL Dev modelling features just come from JDev anyhow, but I can't confirm this).
In particular in the 11g release we now see that offline database objects have support for normal tables, external tables, index organised tables, temp tables and so on through the radio group at the top of the screen:
In addition for normal tables when selecting the Storage Options button under the Table Properties subnode, we now have the full gamut of storage clause options for the table we're creating:
I know of a few Oracle sites that are holding onto Oracle Designer purely for its physical database modelling features only. Through the latest release of JDeveloper we can see there is the potential to drop Designer all together and go for the free JDeveloper. Now only if those sites could drop Oracle Forms too ;-)
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- Borkur Steingrimsson said...
Could you tell us how the "offline" model is stored in jdev? Is it just a SQL file on your local drive? Also, is there any modelling capability other than setting some physical attributes for a CREATE statement? Designer is/was obviously a bit more than just that :)
Is there an "online" modelling option that lets DB developers work on a whole system, with multi-user support and versioning and branching etc? How about design diagrams and ER models?
OWB has a lot of those features, but the name alone suggests that it shouldn't be used for other things than warehousing. Back in the day I was using Designer to model my DW and OWB to build the ETL, but as more and more features go added to the modelling capabilities of OWB I have totally stopped using Designer...
Borkur Steingrimsson
- 3:14 pm
- Chris Muir said...
Hi Borkur
The offline model is stored within a JDev project as a series of xml property files behind the scenes. These act as the "repository" similar to Designer's database approach. The actual diagram file is a binary file format which I don't know much about.
When you say capabilities beyond physical create statement attributes, what are you referring to? I'll elaborate if you can give me specifics.
When I say "offline" it actually means what you mean by "online". The property files that comprise the repository behind the scene can be checked into a version control system to be shared among developers, much like objects in the Designer repository are checked in to be shared too. The key difference for the repository is JDev is file based, while Designer is database based. Obviously some Designer users will be unhappy with the non-database based repository, yet that's just a preference.
In JDeveloper when we say "online" database modelling, we mean we're changing the database objects on the fly directly. Thus "offline" is modelling the database without changing the objects, and later generating the changes to the database using create/alter/replace scripts similar to Designer's approach.
As I mentioned this JDev features only replaces the physical database modelling side of Designer, not the whole other side of designer such as ER models, design diagrams etc. JDeveloper is not a replacement for the complete Designer feature set (sadly). However do note that JDevelopers supports UML diagramming notations in many forms, and other diagramming notations that potentially may compliment or move beyond what Designer does.
- 3:31 pm
- JCFlack said...
There are two main reasons for putting metadata in a database a la Designer, rather than in XML files a la JDev. First of all, a well designed repository in a database is normalized. For instance, suppose I have table EMP with a foreign key to table DEPT. In JDev, the XML that describes EMP has a reference to the foreign key. The XML for DEPT has no notation that there is a foreign key from EMP that references DEPT. Now suppose I decide to rename DEPT to DEPARTMENTS. There is no way for the XML for EMP to get the FK changed. In Designer, you can easily see that DEPT has a reference from EMP, and if DEPT's name is changed, the change is immediately reflected in EMP's FK.
Secondly, if I want to do reporting, it is very easy to do it from a database. It is hard to do it from XML files. This is especially true when I want to cross reference, like when I need all the dependencies.
Fortunately, the word we heard from Sue Harper at ODTUG is that the plans for SQL Developer's modeling module include a repository that can optionally be placed in a database.
- 10:08 pm
- Chris Muir said...
Certainly John, there are pros and cons of each approach. The biggest con, and it's a big one, for a database based repository, is you need a database.
Do you see how it goes back to my point earlier? It's just a matter of preference.
I was never that comfortable with the Designer repository, because it was normalized to the nth degree.
As for the FK issues you talk about in XML, that's the job of JDeveloper. It was never implied to change the XML files directly. You've extrapolated the XML concept too far.
As for reporting, XSLT provides the transformation on the XML files to any reporting requirement. If you're comfortable with XML & XSLT this is easy enough. It is a comparable skill set to learning SQL.
But with these points it just shows my preference for a non database based repository which is a subjective call. So again, it's just a preference. If you like SQL and databases and database repositories, you're not going to like JDev's approach. So be it. The original post was aimed at people who don't want the full gamut of Designer features. Again JDev is unlikely ever to replace that full functionality set. As far as my Designer friends have told me, pretty much no tool currently does that, but Designer itself.
- 8:03 am
- satonaoki said...
> (I suspect the upcoming SQL Dev modelling features just come from JDev anyhow, but I can't confirm this).
Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeling is based on CWD4ALL:
naoki - http://blogs.oracle.com/satonaoki/
- 1:43 pm
- Chris Muir said...
Thanks for the update Naoki, that's an interesting development. Though it's not immediately clear that the SQL Dev modelling tool will be CWD4ALL, it's a pretty close bet. Why aquire a product and not use it.
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Recently I was flipping through the latest issue of Family Tree Magazine and stopped to look at some of the sites mentioned in "Dazzling Destinations," an article about what FT considers to be the best 101 sites for tracing ancestors. Listed under the "Share and Store Alike" section were several websites with the capability for posting/sharing family trees. Some of these sites are on my "list of things to check out" and I have read about them in other genealogy blogs. Some of the bloggers mentioned various features of these sites that they liked and found helpful in research and a few even wrote about some useful cousin connections they had made through them.
It is this last item that has made me consider using yet another venue to put my family tree(s) online. Currently my family tree information appears in only two places: on this blog in bits and pieces as individual posts, and on Ancestry in the form of four public trees and one private tree. Eventually I would like to put my trees online on my own website, but I presently lack the skills to do that.
After looking over some of the websites mentioned in the article, I have a bit of an idea what they offer and how they differ, but that is not the same as actually using them and experiencing their shortcomings or benefits.
I like the setup of Ancestry Public Member Trees because they suggest documents and databases that may be relevant, let you add your own sources, photographs, documents, and so forth when you want to, and suggest possible matches in other Public Member Trees. From recent experience I can say that although I have a number of additional sources for my trees, the hints have been helpful.
For those of you who have used or are using these sites for online family trees, I would like to know how they have benefitted your research and helped you to connect with other researchers. I am not so much interested in contributing to anything like One World Tree or in the shared research/Wiki editing type of online tree, although I am aware that some sites that do this also have the option for individual/unshared trees.
Some of my specific questions are:
1. What are the specific value-added components of the site: cousin connections, research resources such as access to certain documents, tree-building and display features, aids to organization of research, or special features such as discussion forums, how-to tutorials, other content?
2. How easy is the site to use: joining/registering, uploading GEDCOMs, adding people individually, making changes, adding sources, documents, and photos, viewing in different formats, privacy settings, Help service for problems?
3. How does the site compare with Ancestry trees, private websites, or other similar websites?
4. Does the website have shortcomings or areas that need to be improved? Does joining the site lead to a large volume of e-mail offers for paid products or to an increase in spam?
The sites mentioned by the article that sounded appropriate to my intended use are:
My Heritage
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Tribal Pages
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Questions About Online Trees
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I think it depends on what kind of information you are gathering. Sites like Geni (the only one I have used) help you connect with family members - with hopes you find the ones that might have the elusive picture of the ancestor, and get more in depth and more current information. Ancestry will help you get other researchers. Be careful though, because you wind up sharing information about living individuals, and they might get nervous. And since cousins can add info, you don't have complete control of "your" tree. I did not see an increase in spam.ReplyDelete
Shasta - Thank you so much for the feedback. That will definitely affect my choice, as I don't really want to do a shared tree.ReplyDelete
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By Abby Schultz and JeeYeon Park, CNBC.com
Stocks sank more than 2 percent Wednesday, following several economic reports that confirmed a struggling recovery and after Moody's downgraded Greece's bond ratings deeper into junk status.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 279.65 points, or 2.22 percent to close at 12,290.14.
Financial stocks led the blue-chip index lower, including Bank of America and JPMorgan. Multinationals Caterpillar and Alcoa also slid on fears of a global slowdown.
The S&P 500 slipped 30.65 points, or 2.28 percent to end at 1,314.55.
The Nasdaq fell 66.11 points, or 2.33 percent to finish at 2,769.19.
The CBOE Volatility Index, widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, surged 18.45 percent, to end at 18.30.
The Dow and S&P have seen the biggest drops since August 11, 2010 and are now on pace for a fifth straight week of losses. The Nasdaq saw its worst first day of the month since October 2009. All 10 key S&P 500 sectors dropped, led by financials, materials and industrials.
News that the manufacturing sector was in worse shape than most analysts had thought also sent the yield on the Treasury's 10-year note to 2.96 percent, its lowest since December 2010.
While the downdraft in the stocks today was sharp, the market remains "very much range-bound," said Dan McMahon, director of equity trading at Raymond James.
"This is a fairly volatile move the past two days within a range bound market," McMahon said.
Even though the S&P index broke through the 100-day moving average of 1,317, a level it has held since March, McMahon said the selloff won't mean much unless stocks continue to trade lower, validating the move.
Moody's cut Greece's bond ratings by another notch into junk status. In addition to the increased risk of restructuring, the agency cited "highly uncertain" growth prospects and missed targets in budget reforms.
Financials led the markets lower, with the KBW Bank Index sinking to a six-month low and below its 200-day moving average, following more dismal news on the housing market Tuesday when the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index showed home prices fell to a new recession low in the first quarter.
Banks are exposed to the housing market not only through their loan portfolios, but also through holdings of mortgage-backed securities.
In further bad news for the housing market, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported its index of mortgage applications fell almost 4 percent last week, led by refinancings, which fell 5.7 percent.
General Motors, Ford and Toyota slipped after the automakers posted figures that showed a decline in May auto sales. In addition, Toyota said it is recalling 105,000 early models of the Prius because of problems with power steering and the gearbox.
Nokia declined for a second day to a 13-year low after at least eight brokerages cut their price target on the stock. The mobile phone handset maker cut its sales outlook Tuesday and said it expects sales from its products and services to be far worse than initial projections. Research In Motion also slipped amid worries the Blackberry maker could be in a similar situation.
Juniper plunged after the CEO said the firm may see a negative impact from the Japanese earthquake and added that the company is not immune to reduced federal spending.
Expedia shares gained following news that deal-of-the-day site Groupon is partnering with the travel website to create a new discount service.
Also on the tech front, Yahoo slumped despite news the search-engine company said it resolved a dispute with partner Alibaba Group over the Chinese company's transfer of its prized online payments unit.
Among retailers, Macy's slipped even after the department-store chain reported a 7.4 percent gain in May sales, beating the 5.6 percent gain expected by analysts. Most retail outlets are reporting same store sales on Thursday.
Dollar General sank after the discount retailer's earnings fell short of expectations as it needed to cut prices on clothes. And Tiffany's also sagged after Deutche Bank downgraded the luxury retailer to "hold" from "buy."
Lions Gate Entertainment jumped after the entertainment company beat earnings expectations, helped by lower distribution and marketing costs. Revenues, however, fell short.
On the M&A front, KKR said it was selling the principal subsidiary of Hilcorp Resources for $3.5 billion to Marathon Oil. The deal is for 140,000 acres in the Eagle Ford shale field in South Texas.
Sealed Air slipped following news the Bubble Wrap maker will buy Diversey Holdings, a private cleaning product company, for $2.9 billion in cash and stock.
The dollar rose against a basket of currencies. Meanwhile, oil prices declined. U.S. light, sweet crude fell $2.41 to settle at $100.29 a barrel, while London Brent crude slipped $2.20 to settle at $114.53 per barrel.
Precious metals closed mixed. Gold rose 0.4 percent to settle at $1,542, while silver fell 1.6 percent to $37.69.
On the economic front, the Institute for Supply Management's index of manufacturing fell to 53.5 in May from 60.4 in April, the lowest level since September 2009. Analysts expected the index to fall to 57.7.
Construction spending, meanwhile, rose 0.4 percent in April, the Commerce Department reported. But spending in April was revised down to a 0.1 percent gain from the previously reported 1.4 percent gain. Economists surveyed by Reuters had expected construction spending to rise 0.3 percent.
And the private sector added only 38,000 jobs in May, according to a jobs report from Automatic Data Processing and Macroeconomic Advisers, far less than what most analysts had expected. In April, the private sector had gained 177,000 jobs, down from the 179,000 initially reported.
The weak economic news is prompting analysts to cut their forecasts for April non-farm payrolls, which will be released on Friday. Goldman Sachs cut its forecast to a 100,000 gain from 150,000, while Credit Suisse cut its forecast to 120,000 from 185,000.
Economists surveyed by Reuters had expected payrolls to rise by 180,000 in May, down from a gain of 244,000 in April.
Another report showed the planned layoffs rose 37,135 job cuts last month, up 1.8 percent from April, and up 4.3 percent from a year ago, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement firm.
Wednesday's weak economic data continues a recent trend and the "negative seasonality factor" will likely keep the markets choppy for the "next few months," said Ryan Detrick, senior technical strategist at Schaeffer's Investment Research.
However, Detrick said a lot of the economic concerns have already been priced into the markets and he expects stocks to climb in the second half of the year.
In Europe, stocks closed lower amid renewed worries over Greece's debt troubles. Moody's Investors Service downgraded Greece again and said it sees "at least even" chance of a default.


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Justice Joins Suit Against Armstrong
The Justice Department joined a whistleblower lawsuit against former cyclist Lance Armstrong in federal court in Washington on Friday.
The lawsuit, filed in 2010 by Mr. Armstrong's former teammate Floyd Landis, alleges that Mr. Armstrong and others on his former cycling team defrauded the government when they took sponsorship dollars from the U.S. Postal Service with the understanding that there would be no use of performance-enhancing drugs on the team.
Last month, after he was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and accused of operating a sophisticated team doping operation, Mr. Armstrong admitted that he had cheated by using banned drugs throughout his career.
Under the federal False Claims Act, citizens can sue for alleged fraud against the government, as Mr. Landis did in this case, and receive a reward of as much as one-third of any money recovered by the government. The Justice Department can choose to join any false-claims lawsuit, increasing its chance of success.
Mr. Armstrong has argued, through representatives and attorneys, that the whistleblower suit has no merit because the U.S. Postal Service derived a marketing benefit from the publicity of Mr. Armstrong winning the Tour de France.
Robert Luskin, Mr. Armstrong's lawyer, said Friday, "Lance and his representatives worked constructively over these last weeks with federal lawyers to resolve this case fairly, but those talks failed because we disagree about whether the Postal Service was damaged." He added that "the Postal Service's own studies show that the service benefited tremendously from its sponsorship—benefits totaling more than $100 million."
The whistleblower suit, which was first disclosed by The Wall Street Journal in 2010, also accuses former Postal Service team director Johan Bruyneel and Tailwind Sports, the firm that managed the Postal Service team, of defrauding the U.S.
Mr. Bruyneel didn't immediately return a message seeking comment on Friday. Nor did Tailwind's former chairman, San Francisco investment banker Thomas Weisel, or former Tailwind Chief Executive Bill Stapleton, who is also Mr. Armstrong's agent.
Mr. Landis's attorney, Paul Scott, said the suit ensures "that key figures involved with the U.S. Postal Service team now take financial responsibility for their actions."
Mary Anne Gibbons, general counsel of the Postal Service, said it "strongly supports…a vigorous pursuit of this case."
If found to have violated the False Claims Act, Mr. Armstrong and others named in the suit would be liable for as much as triple the amount of the sponsorship, which was more than $30 million between 1999 and 2004, the years in which Mr. Armstrong won the Tour de France in a U.S. Postal Service jersey.
Whistleblower experts say any marketing benefit to the U.S. Postal Service is relevant only as a mitigating factor in the damages that might be awarded to the government.
For Mr. Landis and the Department of Justice to prevail in the suit, they have to prove only that team managers signed contracts with the U.S. Postal Service that they knew, or should have known, were false, whistleblower lawyers say.
Since the suit was filed in the spring of 2010, the Department of Justice has been investigating the claims in the suit. It has been interviewing witnesses and has subpoenaed documents from Messrs. Armstrong and Weisel.
According to people briefed on the matter, top Justice Department officials had a meeting on Thursday afternoon to decide whether to join the suit. The people said that there was general agreement to proceed with the suit, and that Attorney General Eric Holder approved the decision.
That the government intervened in the lawsuit is serious, said Robert L. Vogel, a former Justice Department trial attorney who handled false-claims cases and is now in private practice. The government intervenes in fewer than one in four false-claims lawsuits, he added.
Mr. Armstrong had also been the subject of a two-year criminal investigation. Los Angeles U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte closed that investigation without charges in February.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Diego Fagundez was voted the 2013 New England Revolution Team MVP, as announced by the team in a pregame ceremony prior to tonight's regular-season home finale against the Columbus Crew at Gillette Stadium. Captain Jose Goncalves was also honored with the Best Defender award, while Matt Reis was recognized as the team's humanitarian of the year.
The MVP award was determined by a fan vote, while the defensive award was voted on by the team's beat media.
Fagundez, 18, is the youngest Revolution MVP in team history. Entering tonight's game with a team-high 12 goals and co-leading the squad with seven assists, the Leominster, Mass.-bred teenager is an emerging superstar in Major League Soccer. He enters the weekend tied for fifth in goals scored in the league and is tied for MLS' all-time leading goal scorer as a teenager. Fagundez is also the only teenager in league history to score 10 or more goals in a season.
Goncalves, 28, is in his first season with the Revolution after joining the club on loan from Swiss side FC Sion in January. Goncalves is the only player on the team to start each of the squad's first 33 games, and he is one of only three field players in MLS to play every minute of the season this year. Both of his goals this year have been game-winning strikes, and he has helped the Revs lower their team goals against average from 1.29 in 2012 (tied for ninth in MLS) to 1.13 (fourth in MLS) in 2013 with a league-best 13 shutouts.
Reis, 38, won his third consecutive Revolution Humanitarian of the Year award. On April 15, 2013, Reis was at the finish line of the Boston Marathon when the first blast hit. His father-in-law, John Odom, was critically injured in the explosion, and Reis' fast thinking saved Odom's life so he could be rushed to Boston Medical Center. In August, Reis raised almost $125,000 at his third-annual Matt Reis Charity Golf Challenge, which he donated to the John Odom Recovery Fund. Reis also volunteered extensive time in 2013 to fundraise for The One Fund Boston, as well as Boston Children's Hospital, among other charities.


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BOSTON -- After a night filled with bobbles had mercifully ended at Fenway Park, the Red Sox just hoped that their early-season funk had reached its nadir.
In a 14-5 loss to the Yankees in the rubber match of a three-game series, Boston committed five errors in a game for the first time since April 28, 2001.View Full Game Coverage
BOSTON -- After a night filled with bobbles had mercifully ended at Fenway Park, the Red Sox just hoped that their early-season funk had reached its nadir.
In a 14-5 loss to the Yankees in the rubber match of a three-game series, Boston committed five errors in a game for the first time since April 28, 2001.View Full Game Coverage
The fielding gaffes were the lowlight in a performance that also included three wild pitches, a passed ball and three stolen bases against.
"That's as bad as we can play," said catcher David Ross. "That's a terrible game to be a part of. That's not big league baseball."
Through 23 games, the Red Sox are 10-13 as they head to Toronto for a three-game series.
"The sooner we move past this one, the better," said manager John Farrell. "We need to execute at a higher level, without question. Defensively, it was a sloppy night. That's the one area you do have some control over, and yet we didn't put forth a very good defensive effort here tonight."
Shane Victorino made his debut in this one, and Will Middlebrooks returns from the disabled list for Friday's game, so perhaps a healthy starting nine will make a difference.
But the Red Sox know they need to pitch better.
"It all starts with starting pitching," said Ross. "Starting pitching is the key. You've got to have guys that are out there throwing strikes, getting ahead of hitters, putting the other team on their heels."
Felix Doubront had a disappointing performance, throwing a whopping 73 pitches over 2 2/3 innings. Of the seven runs he allowed, three were earned.
"It was bad, man. I couldn't get my job done," Doubront said. "Probably [a] loss of concentration, that's what happened. It was terrible."
Brock Holt, Dustin Pedroia, Doubront, Xander Bogaerts and Jackie Bradley Jr. made the errors.
"We're going to get better," said Bogaerts. "Every team goes through slumps hitting, and goes through slumps on defense. It's part of the game. We're definitely going to get better. That's not the kind of team that we are."
The Yankees have taken five of the first seven rivalry matchups this season. The teams will meet next on June 27, for the start of a three-game series in New York.
"They're the team to beat, bottom line," said Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter. "They won the championship, they're the defending champions, so they're the team to beat. We've played them well the first seven games. We play them 12 [more] times. It's good that we've played them well now, but we'll see them again, and I'm sure they'll be ready for us."
From the start, the Red Sox didn't look crisp on Thursday. With two outs in the first, Carlos Beltran reached on an error by Bogaerts, his third of the season. Alfonso Soriano capitalized by belting a double to right-center to make it 1-0.
Things worsened in the second as Brett Gardner led off with a walk. Brian Roberts followed with a ground ball to third, in which Holt threw to second for the force, only to have Pedroia drop it on the transfer. Knowing the way strict way transfer calls are being interpreted this season, Farrell opted not to challenge it.
Yangervis Solarte stepped up next and hit a double down the third-base line that took a bad bounce deep into the left-field corner, allowing two runs to score. The night was getting ugly fast for Boston. It appeared Beltran had been hit to load the bases, but an even less ideal scenario developed when Yankees manager Joe Girardi asked for a review.
The umpires took a look at it and overturned the call to a wild pitch that scored a run to make it 4-0.
It was the second non-competitive start Doubront has made this season. He lasted just 2 2/3 innings against the Rangers on April 8.
"It all starts and ends with command," Ross said. "We didn't have a good secondary pitch today. You've got to give them some credit. The ball was up early on, consistently up in the zone. We couldn't get the breaking pitch over. Changeup was non-existent. That's a bad remedy for pitching when you're talking about a lineup as deep as [New York]."
Instead of settling down, Doubront allowed the Yankees to tack on. Mark Teixeira led off the third with a homer. With one out, Doubront made a fielding error on a slow roller by Gardner, who would steal second and third. Roberts laced a single up the middle and Gardner scored. Jacoby Ellsbury roped an RBI single to left-center that Bradley bobbled for yet another error, making it a 7-0 game.
"You can make a case that on a given night, we've either pitched well and not swung the bat, or we've failed to execute defensively that has contributed to some of the outcomes. The one overriding thing is that, overall, we can perform and execute at a higher level," Farrell said.
The Boston bats came to life in the third against Yankees lefty CC Sabathia. Victorino, playing his first game of the season, drilled a double into the corner in left to put runners at second and third with nobody out. David Ortiz got the Red Sox on the board with a sacrifice fly, and Jonny Games made it 7-2 with an RBI double to left.
By the end of the night, Farrell had little choice but to use position player Mike Carp as a reliever. In his first Major League pitching appearance, Carp walked five batters in the ninth, yet only allowed one run and no hits.
"If you look at the big picture, this is one night," said Ross. "We have to get better. Obviously that's not big league baseball. That's not Red Sox baseball. We don't intend to play that way. When you hold on to games like this, you're in for a long season. Let's scrap that one, let's flush that one down the toilet."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne.


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A corner of the vessel was ripped open, and passengers said people fell on each other, screaming and crying.
One witness said that, moments before the accident, a ferry employee had mentioned that the boat had recently had trouble with manoeuvring. The cause of the accident is under investigation.
Passengers on board the Seastreak Wall Street ferry said scores of people who had been waiting to disembark were hurled to the deck after a routine trip across New York Harbour.
"We were pulling into the dock. The boat hit the dock. We just tumbled on top of each other. I got thrown into everybody else... People were hysterical," said Ellen Foran.
Firefighters were still carrying people away on stretchers an hour after the crash. The most seriously injured person had a severe head wound from falling down the stairs. Most injuries were minor.
More than 340 passengers and crew members were on board the ferry from New Jersey, one of many which carry commuters to the island of Manhattan.
Dee Wertz was on shore waiting for the ferry and saw the impact. She said she had been talking with a ferry employee about how the boat's captains had been complaining lately about its manoeuvrability.
"He was telling me that none of these guys like this boat," she said. "It was coming in a little wobbly. It hit the right side of the boat on the dock hard, like a bomb."
The ferry, built in 2003, had recently undergone a major overhaul which gave it new engines and a new propulsion system, but officials said it was too soon to tell whether they played any role in the crash.


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Planned funeral for Nazi war ciminal called off by lawyer due to protests
ALBANO LAZIALE, Italy – The bitterly protested funeral of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke was called off hours after it was to have taken place Tuesday by his lawyer, who said police prevented friends and family members from attending amid a noisy protest against the planned religious ceremony.
Shouting "murderer" and "executioner," hundreds of people jeered as Priebke's coffin arrived for the funeral Mass to be celebrated by a splinter Catholic group opposed to the Vatican's outreach to Jews. Protesters even heckled a priest arriving at the gates, yelling "Shame." One woman fainted.
But Priebke's lawyer, Paolo Giachini, told The Associated Press the funeral did not take place "because authorities did not allow people to enter who wanted to come in. Everything was ready. We were waiting for those who should have arrived to participate."
They included Priebke's son Ingo, other lawyers in Giachini's firm, along and some younger, right-wing sympathizers, Giachini said. "They were there for a religious ceremony. They didn't have banners or other political manifestations," he said.
The casket remained inside and Giachini said he did not know what would happen next. He said he was turning over responsibility for future decisions to the family and expressed disappointment at the "indignities" that prevented the ceremony.
Since Priebke's death on Friday at age 100, debate has raged over what to do with his remains. Pope Francis' vicar for Rome refused him a funeral in a Catholic Church and Rome's police chief backed him up, citing concerns for public order.
Priebke participated in one of the worst massacres in German-occupied Italy during World War II, the slaughter of 335 civilians at the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome. Tensions have been high ever since he died and left behind an interview in which he denied Jews were gassed in the Holocaust.
No one appeared ready to handle Priebke's service, until, in a surreal twist, the schismatic Society of St. Pius X in the city of Albano Laziale south of Rome stepped forward to celebrate the funeral Mass. The society, known for the anti-Semitic views of some of its members, celebrates the pre-Vatican II old Latin Mass. Where Priebke will be buried remains unresolved.
The society was formed in 1969, opposed to the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council, particularly its outreach to Jews. It split from Rome after its leader consecrated bishops without papal consent. It currently has no legal standing in the Catholic Church.
As Giachini spoke by telephone from within the splinter group's complex late Tuesday evening, Italian television broadcast images of scuffles between demonstrators protesting the funeral and right-wing extremists who were among those denied entry.
"They are trying to enter because they want to take the casket," Giachini said. "I don't know ... they want to damage it, as they did to Mussolini. They want to enter by force and tear everything apart."
Italy's fascist leader Benito Mussolini was killed by partisans in 1945, and his body was strung up in a Milan piazza.
Despite Giachini's statements that demonstrators protesting the funeral were trying to enter the grounds, witnesses said there were no signs that the crowd tried to breach police lines at the society's gates. Rather, they said the right-wing demonstrator threw bottles and rocks.
Police declined immediate comment on the dynamics.
In a statement, the society said it agreed to perform the funeral at the family's request because "no matter what the guilt or sins" anyone who dies reconciled with God and the Church "has the right to celebrate Mass and a funeral."
"We hereby reiterate our rejection of all forms of anti-Semitism and racial hatred but also of hatred in all its forms," the society said.
One of the society's disgraced members is Bishop Richard Williamson, who made headlines in 2009 when he denied that any Jews were killed in gas chambers during the Holocaust.
Priebke espoused the same views. In a final interview released by his lawyer upon his death, Priebke denied the Nazis gassed Jews and accused the West of inventing such crimes to cover up atrocities committed by the Allies during World War II.
Once word spread that the society would celebrate the Mass, the mayor of Albano Laziale issued an ordinance trying to block the coffin from arriving but said he was overruled by the government prefect. Deputy Mayor Maurizio Sementelli said one of the reasons for the outrage was that one of the victims of the massacre was from Albano.
Priebke spent nearly 50 years as a fugitive before being extradited to Italy from Argentina in 1995 to stand trial for the 1944 massacre. He died in the Rome home of his lawyer, Giachini, where he had been serving his life term under house arrest.
Priebke admitted shooting two people and rounding up victims of the massacre, but insisted he was only following orders.
Giachini has said he merely wanted a Catholic funeral for his client, whom he said had confessed his sins and been absolved. But the pope's vicar for Rome, Cardinal Agostino Vallini refused him a church funeral. Albano is about 30 kilometers (20 miles) southeast of Rome and isn't part of Vallini's archdiocese.
The Rev. Robert Gahl, a moral theologian at Rome's Pontifical Holy Cross University, said Vallini's decision to refuse Priebke a church funeral was highly unusual, but was presumably done to take into account the outpouring of emotion Priebke's death has unleashed, particularly in Rome's Jewish community.
Wednesday marks the 70th anniversary of the roundup of Jews from Rome's ghetto for the Auschwitz concentration camp.
"For reasons of justice, for truth regarding the Holocaust, to honor the Jewish people and all that they suffered and for maintaining public peace, these are all good reasons for not having a public ceremony," said Gahl, an Opus Dei priest.
Details of Priebke's relationship with the Society of St. Pius X weren't known, but one Italian member, the Rev. Floriano Abrahamowicz, said he counted Priebke as a friend and would celebrate a memorial Mass in his honor this weekend.
Abrahamowicz in the past has supported Williamson and expressed doubts of his own about the extent of the Holocaust.
"I absolve sinners, and I don't consider a sin what he did," Abrahamowicz told Sky TG24, speaking of Priebke's role in the massacre. "It was simply the tremendous, horrible laws of war."
The decision to agree to officiate the funeral was likely to further distance the Society of St. Pius X from the Vatican.
Before he retired, Pope Benedict XVI had made bringing the society's members back into the fold a key priority of his pontificate. But talks between the society and Rome broke down in the final year of his papacy and Pope Francis has made clear he has no interest in restarting them.


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NEW CASTLE — On March 24, the Howie's Field of Dreams Fashion Show and Silent Auction was held in the Grand Ballroom at the Wentworth By the Sea Hotel. The show featured spring and summer merchandise from a variety of local retailers. Participants included: Bliss Resale Boutique, Lizology, Clay's, Jewelry Creations, Pretty Little Things, Ablaze, Denim Rack, SolSistar, Cabi, Daisy Jane Trading Co., and Lia Sophia. Dermatology and Skin Care of Dover and Vanity Hair Salon assisted with hair and make-up for the models. The event was beautifully decorated with floral arrangements from Ladybug Florist in Rochester. Music during the silent auction was presented by Tamara Rozek, Owen Watkins and Rhianwen Watkins. Attendees received delicious treat from Cookies by Design of Exeter.
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You know how to tell when things are going poorly for your team? When the local newspapers are quoting as many psychologists as football players.
John Glennon of the Tennesseean took an interesting look at the Titans' recent skid, which has seen the team destroyed week after week.
Last week's 31-point drubbing by the Bears was the latest in a series, as the Titans have lost five times by at least 20 points in nine games. Only one of their losses has been by fewer than 20, that the overtime loss to the Colts.
"When you get blown out you start questioning because obviously a lot more went wrong," Titans guard Steve Hutchinson said.
Or, from a clinical perspective:
"It's more of a blow to the ego and psyche and team morale," sports psychologist JoAnn Dahlkoetter said. "It also says a lot about momentum. When a team thinks it's losing, there can be that sort of giving-up attitude. That's the kind of thing that can be turned around, but I think it's tougher when it happens over and over again.
"You're asking yourself, 'This is the way things have been going, so is it the way things are going to keep going?' "
It appears they might, as the Titans are bucking the trend of close games throughout the league. Through Week Eight, 67 games were decided by eight points or fewer, the most in league history.
Only 22 games league-wide have been decided by 20 or more, and the Titans are responsible for five of those, when no one else has more than two such beatings on their resume.
"It's really not that hard on you if you really care and are really passionate about the game," Titans wide receiver Damian Williams said. "But probably the hardest part is just to keep working. Sometimes it's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
"The main thing is you just have to refocus. Every time you come out and take that field, you've got to refocus — whether it's a practice or the very next down, whatever the case may be."
Taking one snap, one game, one day at a time is a lesson straight out of any counseling handbook — or coaching manual — and the Titans clearly need to master the small steps first.


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Italian style and performance have never been cheap. And that goes double for motorcycles built by that most exclusive of Italy's bike-makers, MV Agusta.
But, ah, what you get for your money. Molto power. Molto styling. Molto attention when you roll up to a stoplight on a bike that makes everything else seem positively ordinary.
With the 1975 MV Agusta 750 Sport America, you got all that and more—an intoxicating taste of la dolce vita. It just couldn't get much sweeter.
After all, MV Agusta's name was synonymous with grand-prix racing. From 1952 through 1973, the Cascina Costa-based manufacturer won 37 world road-racing championships, including 16 500cc titles in 18 years. This was a company that made helicopters for profit and gorgeous red racing bikes for fun. So when MV turned out streetbikes—and it never made many—you could count on that grand-prix experience going into each one.
Frame:1975 MV Agusta 750 Sport America
Engine: 4-stroke DOHC inline 4 cyclinder
Displacement: 789cc
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Transmission: 5 speed/shaft final drive
Owner: Don Marsh
In general terms, there wasn't much to separate the 750S from the other emerging superbikes of the day. The engine was a 790cc inline four with dual overhead cams. There were twin disc brakes in front and a tachometer that redlined at 8,500 rpm.
On paper, at least, it was a Honda CB750 with 54 extra cc, shaft drive and sexy Italian duds.
But of course, it's an MV. And that makes all the difference, says Ohio's Don Marsh, who owns this mint, 400-mile example on display in the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum at AMA headquarters in Pickerington, Ohio.
The differences start with the engine's sand-cast cases that telegraph its limited production run. Inside is a powerplant derived from MV's racers. And in case you didn't get the message, there's a decal with 37 blue stars, one for every campione del mondo.
Fire up the MV, and there's no mistaking the bike's lineage.
"It makes such a nice mechanical noise when it's running," says Marsh. "It's like listening to an old Bugatti. It's so different from the stuff today."
The styling is pure Italian. From the Tommaselli clip-ons to the graceful curve of the tank to the wrinkle-finish black mufflers, the MV exudes a character few bikes can match.
Just as breathtaking as the motorcycle, though, was the price. At a time when Honda's CB750 went for $2,190, the MV cost three times as much—$6,500 retail.
But, as with so many things in life, if you wanted it, it was worth it.
La dolce vita, indeed.