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Parenting can feel like you're training for a marathon by running sprint after sprint without a breath in between. It might feel like you've got to keep going at full-speed all day long — but like any good long-distance runner, you've got to learn to build in some breaks. It's the only way to recover and recharge for the next leg of the race.
Parenting a child can be exhausting in and of itself. But it's unlikely that you can be a totally dedicated parent with no other responsibilities. Most parents today are juggling many competing and equally demanding responsibilities. It may seem like the only way you can stay ahead of these responsibilities is by giving up time for yourself — the time you may need to recharge, refocus, and re-center.
Finding time for yourself
Even when you think you've found some down time, things can change quickly. It could be a play date ending early, traffic you weren't counting on, or that one final work email you answered that took an hour. As a parent, life gets chaotic and messy. There may not ever be an "easy time" to give yourself a break — so it's important to find opportunities to practice self-care where and when you can.
Here are a few ideas of how to carve out a little alone time in the middle of family life:
1. Go with the fold: Folding laundry can be a mind-numbing chore. Could you add a little me time while you're doing the laundry? Maybe you use it to catch up with a friend by phone (use a headset so you're hands-free for folding!), or treat yourself to a few of the internet's best cat videos. Finding small ways to "gift" yourself in the middle of a crazy day may provide a little needed mental rest.
2. Give yourself a pep talk. Need a little emotional encouragement? Use your inner voice and talk to yourself as you would talk to your best friend. It's likely you are far more forgiving or encouraging with your loved one's challenges or worries than you are with your own. Now turn that tone around on yourself. Think about where you need:
- Forgiveness: I missed my child's soccer game but thankfully, there is another game next weekend.
- Acceptance: It's OK that I said no to volunteering for the school, it just doesn't work for me right now.
- Encouragement: I'm going to play tennis once a week because it makes me happy—and I deserve that.
3. Ten-minute time-out: As a parent, it's easy to push your own hobbies or passions to the side because of (many!) demands on your time. Rather than aim for "enough" time, and ending up with none — could you start by aiming for just "some"? In just ten minutes time, you might be able to tend a small section of your garden, clean the chain on your motorcycle, or read a few pages from a book.
While ten minutes is only a small commitment of time, you might find it easier to carve out than twenty, thirty, or more — and it can help you stay connected to your passion. Plus, you might notice that putting in 10 minutes here or there starts to add up significantly over a week or two.
4. Make self-care a ritual. Can you make self-care a daily ritual? It's doesn't have to take long — just a few minutes where you take time to focus on yourself.
It can help to use predictable times of your day where you know you need to mentally regroup. If you have school-aged kids, the shuffle to get them awake, dressed, fed and ready for school can be chaotic. Can you make a 10-minute walk as soon as the kids are on the bus your daily self-care ritual? What about when you have been working all day? Try a five-minute meditation or prayer before you come home from work, before you start anything else. Building a self-care ritual can help you re-center yourself, and get energized for what's next — and when there are kids around, there's always something next.
The most important take-away is to find time wherever you can to focus on your needs — even if, for now, it's only for a few minutes at a time. The goal is to find some calm in the chaos. Over time, you might find that, like a runner training for a long race, short bursts of self-care can help you build endurance for the marathon of parenting.
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Nobel Laureate Avram Hershko: The Orchestra in the Cell
Nobel laureate Avram Hershko, who determined cellular mechanisms for breaking down proteins, talks about his research in a conversation recorded at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany. And Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina discusses the recent inaugural Google Science Fair
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Steve: Welcome to the Scientific American podcast, Science Talk, posted on July 27th, 2011. I'm Steve Mirsky. This week on the podcast:
Hershko: So you turn on a machine by making a protein and then you have to turn it off, so I liken it to an orchestra. In the symphony you have, this side is a huge orchestra with thousands of players—they are the proteins.
Steve: That's Avram Hershko, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004. If you have listened last week you know that I was recently in Lindau, Germany for the 61st annual Lindau Nobel laureate meeting, which this year featured laureates in Physiology or Medicine and in Chemistry. Twenty-three Nobel winners lectured and schmoozed with more than 550 graduate students or post doctoral fellows at the beginning of their scientific careers. And I had a chance to catch up to a few of the laureates between events—interviews I'll be rolling out over the next few weeks. Later in this episode, Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina talks about the Google Science Fair, but first up is Avram Hershko. He shared the Nobel for the discovery of the systems whereby cells break down proteins. We spoke, as you'll easily be able to tell, in the restaurant next to the Inselhalle, the site of the Lindau meeting.
Steve: When you were doing your work for which you were awarded the Nobel Prize, everybody was looking at the synthesis of proteins, and you went with very few other people in a different direction to look at the degradation of proteins. Is that your nature to go in a place where no one else is or was it something specific about this problem that caught your attention?
Hershko: Well, it's not my nature, but in science I think that you should find unique problems, and you should find a niche, which is not in the mainstream. I believe in that especially for young investigators. Because to go with the mainstream, it's not so great, you know; people are already interested in that and if you want to make a discovery, you should find something unique which is not yet in the mainstream. It will be later on, but it is not yet in the mainstream. So proteins were important. It was known they are the so called machines of the cells, if you know about DNA. DNA is the genetic information. It is really the blueprint, but it is a blueprint for making proteins. So proteins are well known to be important. And of course, it's very important to know how proteins are made based on their genetic information. But it was already known that some proteins are degraded, and it was clear that you can have important control mechanisms, right; so it was an important problem, but not yet in the interests of the mainstream of science. I thought it was a good problem. It's not in my nature, but I think it's a good idea for young investigators to look for unique problems which are important but not yet in the mainstream.
Steve: Now, the reason why it's important that proteins can not only be assembled but be taken apart is there's machinery in the cells that should not be there except under special circumstances.
Hershko: Yes, that's correct. So there are two main reasons. One is to get rid of bad proteins. So proteins have to, after they're made, they have to fold in a certain shape, and the shape is actually important for their functions. When they're defective they have to be removed because they can get in the way of good proteins. So, abnormal proteins have to be removed. So that's one important function, to remove damaged proteins. But protein degradation is not just waste disposal to remove damaged proteins; it's also like a switch. So you turn on a machine by making a protein and then you have to turn it off. So I liken it to an orchestra in the symphony, you have, this side is a huge orchestra with thousands of players—they are the proteins. A certain player has to play a tune at a certain time, then it has to stop; if he doesn't stop, he ruins the symphony. So the stopping is very important also. That is the regulation part of the functions of protein degradation.
Steve: So, examples of the kinds of cellular apparatus that have to be turned off would be, for example, during mitosis: You don't want mitotic machinery around all the time.
Hershko: Yes, actually, I worked on this problem after we found out the basic machinery, how does it work? As an example, I looked at an important role of protein regulation in cell division and some regulators of cell division are made before mitosis, before the cell divides. But then they have to be turned off, in order to get out of mitosis and that turning off of some proteins called cyclins, that were discovered by another Nobel Prize laureate, Tim Hunt; so the turning off of these regulators is done by the degradation exactly at the time, the right time of the cell cycle when it has to be degraded.
Steve: We have certain compounds that are therapies today, certain medicines, that work by interfering with the breakdown of proteinaceous structures.
Hershko: Yes, it usually happens in science, you know. Scientists are doing fundamental science or basic science. They're trying to understand how nature works, but eventually all this knowledge will help in the development, it will help mankind. So it's a lengthy process. In our case, it took more than 30 years, but eventually all this knowledge is now being converted to drugs that are effective. There is already one drug that inhibits a certain enzyme in the system—the proteasome—it is very effective against a certain cancer, a bone marrow cancer called multiple myeloma; and this drug actually changed the treatment. They revolutionized the treatment of multiple myeloma together with some other developments. So now many people can have many more years of good quality life, and they're very happy about it.
Steve: Which drug is that?
Hershko: The name, I don't want to advertise but the name is bortezomib or Velcade, and it's a proteasome inhibitor used for the treatment of multiple myeloma.
Steve: Yesterday, when you were talking directly to the students, you talked about how research should be fun and exciting.
Hershko: Yes, I believe in that. I think that discoveries, that the main motivation for discoveries, is curiosity. You should be curious like a child, and you should try to satisfy your curiosity. You should be excited about whatever you're doing, what you're doing. And I told it to the students, because there's also lot of chores I call them, you know, in science we have to publish papers, we have to fill grant applications and all these are very important, but we should not let—and they tell that again and again, because this is the daily life—we should not let our work be dominated by our chores. These have to be done, but our work should be directed by doing exciting work of trying to find out things that arouse our curiosity. That is the way discoveries are made.
Steve: You mentioned grants. I want you to just briefly discuss the fact that you have at times been funded through what are called foreign grants from the United States National Institutes of Health, and I think some people might not know that the U.S. Government funds research in other countries. We have people in America who don't even want the NIH to fund Americans, so could you talk about what the NIH's funding of foreign researchers enables around the world?
Hershko: Yes, I see that you did your homework because I actually, in my biography, I thank the NIH for the very generous help, you know. These are American taxpayers who helped me do this research, and I hope that now it is being given back to the American people, by for example, by using these new drugs that are based on our research. So the research grants usually are very small. Now they're about $40,000 a year; when I started it was $10,000 dollars a year, that is not much, not really enough to do work, so I was looking for other sources, and actually some American friends knew about this foreign research program of the NIH and advised me to apply for an NIH grant, which is not easy to get. Also, the foreign research grants are not as big as the grants for Americans, but they're sizeable. It was really significant, so even though I was kind of doubtful whether, why should American people, you know, support foreign scientists? I applied for it and I got it and I must say, I got it for five consecutive grant periods. So I crossed three years, another three years, another three, then it went on for 15 years, and I think that was crucial for the discoveries that I made—the help of the NIH. So I think the American taxpayers should know about it. It is not given out easily, it is given out only for things that the NIH thinks that there is some knowledge or there is some expertise that is outside of America; and in that case, I guess, it is what the committees decided. So I am very grateful for that. But it does help in certain cases, scientific work and basic research, in that case, outside of America. And I think that is not only very nice, I think it's very wise, because that is one way to help mankind, as it turned out in this case. So I am very grateful to the NIH and then very grateful to the American taxpayers for helping this work.
Steve: As one of them, let me speak for everybody, which I shouldn't do, but let me speak for the taxpayers—we're grateful to you for your work as well.
Hershko: Yeah, it is really thousands of people now who are treated with this drug and greatly benefited from them.
Steve: That's great. I just want to wrap up. Your last line from your official Nobel biography, it's a bittersweet kind of understatement where you say, you talk about, you know, the wonderful life you have now and the research you did and the excitement of it and the sense of satisfaction, and then you say, "If only there was some peace in the world, I would be completely satisfied."
Hershko: Yes. I think, you omitted three words there, as I remember, I wrote, it was including between Israel and its neighbors, yeah, yeah. So we are living in a very troubled world, you know. We have really grave problems, you know; we are facing crisis in the economy, in energy availability. All these are really nothing as compared to the animosities that there are that exists between different cultures, different natures. And we should do more about trying to decrease this animosity to bring about more peace now. How it is done that is beyond my control, but I'm definitely trying to join a different effort for making peace. So, yeah, I say that I was very lucky in my life, in my personal life, in my scientific life, but I would be even happier, if more was done for peace among nations.
Steve: Let's also, there's a great story you tell about meeting your wife. You literally bumped into your wife, who was working in a hospital for a year.
Hershko: Yes. That is one of my lucks. I was a medical student, and I needed some sample of blood for my research, the research I did as a medical student. So, I went over to the hematology lab, and it turned out, Judy, my wife of 47 years now, came over from Switzerland for a year to work and live in Israel for a while. She wanted it to be just a visit, and then she held a tray, okay, and I bumped up the tray, not intentionally, but then I helped her to pick it up you know, like in some old movies, and that was the beginning of the lifetime association, and of having a wonderful family of three children and six grandchildren.
Steve: Next up, Mariette DiChristina, she's the editor in chief of Scientific American. She was recently a judge at the first Google Science Fair.
DiChristina: This is the first year Google had a science fair. And they did a virtual science fair, of course, because it's Google. And it was launched in January of this year, and it was a world open to every student around the globe, 13 to 18. So, three age categories: 13 to 14, 15 to 16 and 17 to 18. And Google drew 7,500 applications from 91 countries, which is really excellent for a first year out.
Steve: And you were one of the judges?
DiChristina: I was one of the judges. The idea here was that students could enter their science fair projects and you know, many students would like to participate in science fairs, but they don't do them in their schools; or in many countries, it's not such a tradition as it is here in the U.S. too. So it sort of opens new doors for people to be able to display their things using free Google tools. So the students could, you know, Google set it up so they could put the information about their projects all online. They could do a video, they could do a slide show, once they had done their experiments and it was an easy way for everybody to be able to see and enjoy them.
Steve: And did Google bring the finalists out to California?
DiChristina: Yeah. So the launch event was in New York, at the Google offices there, and the finalist event was on Monday, July 11th. And actually, it started on July 10th for the finalists. There were 15 finalists, five in each of those three categories. The students were flown in from all over the world. There was a student from Singapore, a student from India, one from South Africa, and students from the U.S. and Canada, as well, among those 15 finalists.
Steve: And the winners turned out to be all young women.
DiChristina: Yeah, as it turned out. So the 13-to-14-year-old age category, the winner was Lauren Hodge. And Lauren's project which was, you know, a fascinating, simple idea, where she had been learning about proteins in school in her biology classes and she noticed that when her mom marinated chicken in lemon juice, the chicken edges turned white. So she noticed something was going on with the proteins in the chicken. She learned what was happening there. Near the same time that she noticed that with her mom cooking, she also had learned of a lawsuit against some fast food companies about carcinogens from the grilling of chicken. So, you know, as we know, this is not new news for folks who were listening—when you barbecue things, the charred pieces that end up on your chicken or your beef or whatever have some carcinogenic compounds in them, and you know, just a small amount, but they are there.
Steve: The delicious part.
DiChristina: The delicious part—that's exactly the case. So Lauren, I remember in her project, put a piece of fried chicken and a piece of grilled chicken on the first slide and said, "Which one is healthier?" Which was kind of a provocative way to lead into it. So she had the law suit in mind about, you know, certain fast food companies that had been, you know, that were being sued for potential carcinogens under, I believe, the California regulation and she noticed this happening in her kitchen, and she wondered what if it makes a difference, what kind of marinades you put on the food? And why don't I check that? And when she looked into it, she actually found nobody had tested that specifically. So she tested a lemon juice, soy sauce, salt water, brown sugar and olive oil; and she tested how many carcinogenic compounds were then produced on the meat itself as a result of the marinades. And I keep mentioning lemon juice because that one was the best, as far as being the most healthful. Now, of course, Lauren would be the first one to tell anybody that this needs to be replicated and so on. But what a creative and a very simple idea. So that was in the 13-to-14-year-old age category.
Steve: And Lauren is from the U.S.?
DiChristina: Lauren is from the U.S. And then the next winner was Naomi Shah, and Naomi's idea—which also had the virtue of never having been really tried or at least not that we know of—was she noticed the increasing rates of asthma in the developed world, in particular, but everywhere also and wondered whether, given that people spend a lot of time indoors, where in theory anyway, you could manage your exposures to things a little bit better, you know, how did that look, what happens? So she measured a couple of pollutants that are very common in indoor air, and maybe people all know this already but, we spent something like 90 percent of our days indoors, a typical person. So this is obviously a big exposure area and she checked a kind of a particulate of a certain size and volatile organic compounds. These are the gases that are released by new things, like when you unroll a new carpet or when you just had new kitchen cabinets installed, things like that, that make a little smell; it's also responsible for that new car smell that everybody likes, right. And she found that indeed these two indoor air pollutants in particular reduce the ability of asthmatics to inhale and exhale, you know; the way that's measured is something called "exhalatory rate", and she couldn't, you know, when she measured with actual patients, I think, slightly more than 100 of them, she found that these influenced their, you know, their lung capacity. The interesting finding there is, of course, there are medicines that you can use, but then why medicate if you can remove the pollutants from the indoor environment? And her approach, you know, she's now gone on, she's on a mayor's advisory board where she lives, and she's trying to get people to remove the offending materials from houses. You know, this is very ambitious of course—the Clean Air Act addresses many such things—but in principle, what an interesting idea. Remove the things that are causing the problem rather than actually giving the patient medicines and drugs—maybe you don't have to, if you can remove certain things and you're spending most of your time indoors.
Steve: And Naomi is also from the U.S.?
DiChristina: Yes, Naomi is as it turned out, also from the U.S.. And the 17-to-18 year-old category winner was Shree Bose, also a U.S. student. What Shree did was, she was trying to explore a particular kind of ovarian cancer therapy, a drug called cisplatin. And the problem with cisplatin is it's very effective for the 21,000 women or so that are diagnosed with ovarian cancer every year, but then the cancer cells, over the course of the disease, develop resistance to the cisplatin. And she wondered what could be the mechanisms behind that. And so she decided to explore AMP kinase, which is an energy protein of the cell, and she wondered whether it had some role in the cancer resistance that was developed. And she discovered that indeed it did, and then she, if you altered the drugs that were given or the compounds that were given along with the cisplatin, you could avoid the resistance. So it suggests a potential new therapy.
Steve: Right.
DiChristina: A new course of therapy.
Steve: This was in cell culture, so it's not, it can't be rushed into any kind of clinical application yet.
DiChristina: Right, of course, you can't rush this right into use in patients, and Shree would be first person to say so; this was done in cell cultures. But it suggests an intriguing potential therapy in a regimen adjustment, and also it gives us a little bit more insight into the mechanism of the cancer itself, which is always useful for a variety of reasons.
Steve: So, all three of the winners were young women. Is there anything to be, to take away from that? Or you know, I don't know what the applicant pool was like. Is it just, you know, if all three were young men, we probably wouldn't even be commenting on it, but does it mean anything? Is Larry Summers upset? Does it, is there a take-home message or just are young women getting more interested in science and doing higher quality work? As a young woman yourself…
DiChristina: (laughs) So, yeah I mean, as Vint Cerf, the co-inventor of the Internet, who was also one of the judges and the Google—I guess the title is Google's Chief Evangelist, an Internet Evangelist—Vint Cerf said he was secretly pleased by this. And you're right, you know, people wouldn't be commenting on it if it were three boys. And indeed of the 15 finalists, six of them were young ladies, so there were the majority of boys in that pool as well. But the thing about this, and the judges—there were several quite, you know, science luminaries in our judge pool, quite apart from me, I might add. We did not know who the winners would be until we had done the judging on the criteria that Google gave us. So one of them was impact and we just talked about three things that have, I think everybody can agree, pretty high impact. Another was originality—was it a novel idea? And these all very novel ideas. Another one was excellence of scientific method; all things being equal, how well that these students do with their scientific process? And last was their communication skills, how well did they bring the science they did out to, you know, to us as judges and indeed to the public at large because the materials they submitted were publicly available and have been publicly available for some months now. So those were the four criteria we were paying attention to, and we literally did not know who the winners would be until we had gone through the process, and then we looked at the wall—and I remember being in the judging room saying, "Wow, three girls, neat," you know, but it was by no particular design. We were instructed sternly to, you know, make sure merit was considered above all else, because really with science, we consider merit above all else.
Steve: More Noble Prize winners from Lindau soon. In the meantime, get your science news at our Web site, http://www.ScientificAmerican.com, where you can check out the slide show about the construction of the New York City Second Avenue subway, which has been under construction for so long that all the usual giant lizards, demonic entities and other monsters that such massive projects usually free from imprisonment to wreak havoc on the city died of old age. Hey, follow us on Twitter, where you'll get a tweet each time a new article hits the Web site. Our Twitter name is @SciAm. For Science Talk, I am Steve Mirsky. Thanks for clicking on us.

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I expect chapter 7 and liquidation of assets in the future. This turd is dead!!!
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I expect chapter 7 and liquidation of assets in the future. This turd is dead!!!
Ray had the pleasure of being fired, personally, by Rev. Schuler at the glass cathedral in Calif!
The worst place I ever worked was in a chemical reclamation plant in Washington State. I worked nights there while going to college (3 nights total). What I did was take a Caterpillar with a scoop on it and dump loads of dry chemicals into a hopper and then add acid to it in a big cement mixer, like you see on the backs of cement trucks. Then the idea was to make granulated fertilizer out of it.
Well, they never gave me the formula...the owners told me to ask the day guy for the formula, but he couldn't tell me.
I put all of this shit in the mixer and cranked it on and let it mix. Well, then I opened up the mixer and I had boulders in there the size of basket balls instead of the size of BB's.
So I emptied out the boulders and sacked them up....1 to 2 boulders per sack and palletized them for shipment. This went on for three days and nobody could give me the formula, so I finally quit.
Later on, a couple of years later, the EPA shut them down for being a toxic waste dump.
Lucky I didn't lose my teeth and hair.
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AH already had sellers taking it down on Friday. I personally would stay away from it for now. But what do I know, it could go to a dollar for no reason.
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Here are a few that I am watching excluding SIRI.
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ALU 1.59 -0.06 (-3.64%) 3.59B Remove ALU
UAUA 4.48 -0.71 (-13.68%) 644.61M Remove UAUA
MELI 16.27 -0.24 (-1.45%) 717.02M Remove MELI
VMW 23.04 -1.78 (-7.17%) 9.00B Remove VMW
NOG 3.44 +0.09 (2.69%) 117.37M Remove NOG
WFC 13.99 -1.43 (-9.27%) 59.29B Remove WFC
AAPL 101.59 -0.03 (-0.03%) 90.47B Remove AAPL
RIMM 41.68 -0.66 (-1.56%) 23.59B Remove RIMM
V 52.53 -0.16 (-0.30%) 44.44B Remove V
The only reason ALU is there, because I use to work for them too. Great job, best I ever had, to bad they have a stupid union.
Have a good week everyone, I am out, oh!! Breaking Bad is on tonight!!! SWEET!!!
One more thing: Futures were up this afternoon, and what the hell is going on with all of these plane crashes!!!!! Just dropping like flies man.
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It looks like it is coming down off of a big spike and may not have settled yet. It would be a bummer to buy it now and have the price keep falling. I would keep my eye on it for a while. It is pretty volatile right now also and finding a good entry point might be difficult until you are sure that it bottoms out. It took a nasty dip at the end of the day Friday and pulled back up to .41 AH.
It looks a lot like EPEX and is the same price. EPEX is a lot smoother ride...you might want to check that out.
I would be waiting to see what CNO is really going to do. It trades with a pretty fair volume, which is a good thing. It looks like the volume over a year is adequate. Traders aren't going to run away and leave you there by yourself. (I have had that happen to me before). It is a watcher in my eyes until there is a declarative uptrend....take a look at a five day chart. Then look at a year and then a month and then a day and compare.
Maybe somebody else has something to offer about CNO.
I have been entertaining EPEX but am going to watch it for a few days to see what is really going on with it.
Have a great trading day tomorrow,
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I re-posted in the new Daily Market Watch......duh....This one is over for the week!
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Obama "Recess" Appointments Unconstitutional
Because there was no "recess."
Not odd to see this guy violating the Constitution. Just odd to see a court calling him on it.
Because there was no "recess."
Not odd to see this guy violating the Constitution. Just odd to see a court calling him on it.
There were lower courts that held Obamacare unconstitutional. Let's see how the Supreme Court rules.steve (369bc6) — 1/25/2013 @ 8:08 am
John Roberts is up to the task of declaring just about anything food stamp does constitutional.
Freaky perv.happyfeet (ce327d) — 1/25/2013 @ 8:16 am
Bet they blow him off. Irony.
In other news, Doug Limerick on AM Radio this AM. "Home sales down in December but on the whole a pretty good year." Oh, really?
EU banks returned 140 Billion to the ECB loaned under LTRO, well above optimistic predictions.
Result Markets up, Treasury yields up, euro up. Modest backlog in Treasuries to be auctioned to payback Federal pension funds along with $500 Billion to rollover Feb 15 to March 15.
Look for a failed auction in the 4 week to 7 year maturities. Business has shown they can make money with layoffs and part-time Obamajobforce.gary gulrud (64d926) — 1/25/2013 @ 8:22 am
2. Not that Mr. Roberts has a spine, ancient George Will speculates Obamacare's tax must remain inconsequential to pass the Robert's constitutionality test.
Poison pill, if only.gary gulrud (64d926) — 1/25/2013 @ 8:25 am
mostest expensive poison pill everhappyfeet (ce327d) — 1/25/2013 @ 8:26 am
No mas:
200 Billion euros in bad loans, laying off another 20K tellers and loan officers, and no peseta.
They run toros thru don't they?gary gulrud (64d926) — 1/25/2013 @ 8:31 am
I never knew there was even a question about it, I just thought it was an issue that no one cared enough to do anything about it.
So now that it is clear that his unconstitutional move was really unconstitutional, what will happen next? Nothing? A Supreme Court clerk changing locks on office doors?MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 1/25/2013 @ 8:41 am
Owwie, #!&*!!@, ouchie, damn:
May it be a cerebrovascular accident:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/01/hillary-clinton-has-vertigo-double-vision/gary gulrud (64d926) — 1/25/2013 @ 8:47 am
So when does Obama have to turn himself over to the department of corrections?CrustyB (69f730) — 1/25/2013 @ 8:49 am
On a seamier side:
Needs soya in his diet.gary gulrud (64d926) — 1/25/2013 @ 9:02 am
Comment by MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 1/25/2013 @ 8:41 am
Can't you just see Dear Leader channeling his inner Andrew Jackson and saying, "Well, the court has made its decision, now let's see them enforce it."JVW (4826a9) — 1/25/2013 @ 9:04 am
"There were lower courts that held Obamacare unconstitutional. Let's see how the Supreme Court rules."
steve – Thank you for your concern.daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 1/25/2013 @ 9:05 am
A year's worth of NLRB decisions down the drain.
What else is affected you ask? How about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 1/25/2013 @ 9:14 am
Obama's lawyers will argue that the recess appointments are Constitutional under the umbrella of "regulating interstate commerce."Elephant Stone (ac7139) — 1/25/2013 @ 9:29 am
Racist court decision!daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 1/25/2013 @ 9:33 am
Care to attempt to distinguish John Bolton's appointment?
Not that that makes it right, but it does establish that this is how it works.Jamie (029f5e) — 1/25/2013 @ 9:42 am
"Not that that makes it right, but it does establish that this is how it works."
Jamie – By all means, go ahead and explain away.daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 1/25/2013 @ 9:48 am
that sounds like a lot of work the point is that these NLRB appointments are tricksy and unconstitutional
I wonder if the appointees have to pay back their moneys what they were paid for participating in this illegal schemehappyfeet (4bf7c2) — 1/25/2013 @ 9:48 am
The NRLB was among the agencies most vulnerable to this kind of ruling. Which was why Obama pushing for these unconstitutional appointments was a very stupid move, strategically.
Its an example I think of the incompetence of the Obama administration and Obama himself.SPQR (768505) — 1/25/2013 @ 9:54 am
Apparently there is a conflict between the appeals courts on this issue that only the Supreme Court can resolve, so the Obama Administration probably will ignore it pending appeal. In addition, I assume that those adversely impacted by an NLRB decision (issued when one of the recess appointments was on the Board) can appeal.DRJ (a83b8b) — 1/25/2013 @ 9:56 am
Sorry. They can sue, not appeal.DRJ (a83b8b) — 1/25/2013 @ 9:57 am
In 1,2,3—Blame W and HW.mg (31009b) — 1/25/2013 @ 9:59 am
Care to attempt to distinguish John Bolton's appointment?
Not that that makes it right, but it does establish that this is how it works.
Comment by Jamie (029f5e) — 1/25/2013 @ 9:42 am
Bolton was appointed during an actual recess. So that is one difference.JD (4fbbe6) — 1/25/2013 @ 10:01 am
Although there is no excuse for him, how long until obama says, "pardon me"mg (31009b) — 1/25/2013 @ 10:08 am
I wonder what Governor Romney thinks about these recess appointments. I think I'll hold off coming to any firm conclusions til he weighs in.happyfeet (4bf7c2) — 1/25/2013 @ 10:13 am
Bolton was appointed during an actual recess. So that is one difference.
Comment by JD (4fbbe6) — 1/25/2013 @ 10:01 am
I can't believe the regular posters here keep referring to facts. Can't you be more imaginative?
Comment by Jamie (029f5e) — 1/25/2013 @ 9:42 am
Comment by JD (4fbbe6) — 1/25/2013 @ 10:01 am
Even if Bolton had been improperly appointed as U.N.Ambassador, his conduct at the U.N. does not effect the vast majority of Americans in the manner that NLRB decisions (Boeing plant in SC?), or that Consumer Protection thingie does.askeptic (b8ab92) — 1/25/2013 @ 10:25 am
MD – crazy, huh?JD (b63a52) — 1/25/2013 @ 10:31 am
The explanation at the volokh conspiracy makes the difference between 'inter-session' recesses and 'intra-session' recesses.
As mentioned, John Bolton was an 'inter-session' recess and the NLRB guys were 'intra-session' recesses. Pretty close to the Senate breaking for lunch and the President shooting in his appointments.luagha (5cbe06) — 1/25/2013 @ 11:07 am
Pretty close to the Senate breaking for lunch and the President shooting in his appointments.
That distinction IIRC was made by the judge that wrote the opinion.askeptic (b8ab92) — 1/25/2013 @ 11:19 am
One of the more interesting parts of the decision – which means it's almost certain to get picked up on appeal – is the claim that recess appointments can only be made if the vacancy is created during the recess.
Which is to say: according to this opinion, if the SecDef dies during a recess, the President can appoint a new one; but if he dies the day before a recess, the President must wait until after the recess ends to appoint a new one.
I have to say that *on its face* this is how I would have read the recess clause, but it's really troubling in implications and flies in the face of more than a century and a half of precedent.aphrael (402fa3) — 1/25/2013 @ 11:34 am
Then maybe it's time for the courts to address the issue and fix it correctly, aphrael. Precedent is important but not if it's wrong.DRJ (a83b8b) — 1/25/2013 @ 11:46 am
Wasn't the original point of recess appointments that it enabled the Exec to fill an emergency vacancy when Congress had returned home by horse, and there was insufficient time to make them aware of the vacancy, get them back to DC, etc …?JD (b63a52) — 1/25/2013 @ 11:50 am
Aren't the courts allowed one Dred Scott per Century?askeptic (b8ab92) — 1/25/2013 @ 11:50 am
Askeptic – comparing this to dred scott seems overblown.
JD – you've got the same issue now, though. If the Chief of Staff of the US Army were to keel over and die tomorrow, and the Senate were out of session and refused to come back in session, it would be a problem; the recess appointment power (as presently constituted) is in some ways a failsafe ensuring that the Senate handle such things rather than indefinitely postponing/deferring/ignoring them.
DRJ – granted that precedents can be wrong, even when they're wrong, sometimes the best course of action is to let them lie. Courts have allowed recess appointments of vacancies which were created before the recess for essentially *pragmatic* reasons; I don't really see a *structural* benefit to changing that (although I can see a short-term political benefit to the Republicans today, which I think turns into a long-term loss the next time the relative positions of the parties invert).aphrael (efbf91) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:12 pm
recess appointment power (as presently constituted) is in some ways a failsafe ensuring that the Senate handle such things rather than indefinitely postponing/deferring/ignoring the
By all means, they should amend the Constitution to incorporate that.
Aphrael – did you miss the part about traveling by horse? We don't have thensame situation now, not even close.JD (b63a52) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:24 pm
we don't have "the Senate is physically incapable of getting there in a timely fashion" but we do still have "the Senate refuses to get there in a timely fashion."
I don't see anything in the language of the clause which distinguishes between the two.aphrael (402fa3) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:26 pm
I don't recall Senators refusing to go to work in DC. Am I missing something?JD (b63a52) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:27 pm
Also – the interpretation which allows the President to make appointments during a recess, for vacancies which were created before the recess, dates to the 1830s. At this point I'd say it's pretty well embedded in the system.
Honestly: having the courts redefine the clause in a way which hasn't been used in the memory of anyone who is remembered by anyone who is alive today seems like an exercise in theology.
(Note that i'm not talking about the active controversy over whether there's a recess when there are pro forma sessions; while I think the Senate are being jerks about it, I think Obama's wrong about that one.)aphrael (402fa3) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:28 pm
Re-reading Volokh, it would seem the 'sessions' referred to are those beginning Jan 3 of each year.
The Volokh claim is both Bolton and Pryor were intrasessional. Since Bolton served from August on that would seem to be the case.gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:29 pm
JD – yeah, I think you are missing something.
Part of the ruling was that, when a vacancy is created while the Senate is in session, the President may not fill it during subsequent recesses.
If that's true, then in the hypothetical world where the Senate just refused to go back into session for an extended period, the President would be powerless to fill offices of the United States.
The part of the ruling saying you can't make 'recess' appointments during pro forma sessions I'm fine with.aphrael (402fa3) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:30 pm
redefine the clause
Are you serious?JD (b63a52) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:30 pm
hypothetical world where the Senate just refused to go back into session
In the real world, i do recall Dem legislators doing this.
When was the last time this was used to fill a vacancy in an actual emergency situation?JD (b63a52) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:34 pm
Since five of the members are 'illegal', a quorum is necessary to conduct business and DRJ implies suit must be accepted by SOTUS, the NLRB is prolly out of business for a while.gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:36 pm
SCOTUS* Doh.gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:38 pm
Yeah, I am. Since the 1850s at least, the clause has been interpreted to allow the president to make appointments, during a recess, for vacancies which started before the recess.
The opinion handed down today changes that interpretation.
How is that not a redefinition? It's meant [x] for 160 years, now it means [y].
Now, you can argue that [x] was an aberration, that it was intended to mean [y]. But that brings us into the pragmatic concerns.
[Compare vs. same sex marriage, where opponents are saying "you guys are redefining marriage", and my response in every conversation i've gotten in on the subject for almost 20 years has been "among significant portions of the population, the definition has *already* changed, and we're just asking the state to recognize that change.]aphrael (402fa3) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:38 pm
Gary – I agree with DRJ that the SCOTUS has to take this appeal. There's a circuit split, and there's a novel theory that would change 150 years of practice, in addition to the question of what it does to NLRB (and arguably the CFPB).
Whether it will take it this term or next is unclear, but it's more likely next term.aphrael (402fa3) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:40 pm
Askeptic – comparing this to dred scott seems overblown.
I'm talking about observing bad precedent, and that is the benchmark for bad.askeptic (b8ab92) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:40 pm
So, redefining some words and phrases is bad?JD (b63a52) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:41 pm
I don't recall Senators refusing to go to work in DC. Am I missing something?
There seems to be one who fills that bill, some guy from Searchlight NV.askeptic (b8ab92) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:42 pm
With the appointments ruled unconstitutional, are the rulings the NRB made with the illegal appointments now null and void????? They Should Be!!!!PCD (1d8b6d) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:43 pm
Do lawyers ever complete a game of monopoly, or does the game go into indefinite hiatus over conflicting interpretations of rules and "rules"?MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:44 pm
JD – depends on the context. To use askeptic's comment as an example, I don't think anyone objects to the Warren court's decision to redefine equal protection to prohibit seperate-but-equal facilities.
In this context, I don't see that the definition being abandoned was an unreasonable stretch of the language or intent of the clause; I don't see that it worked a great harm on the body politic or on individuals disadvantaged by it; I see nothing to be gained by the change except frustration of the normal operation of government.aphrael (402fa3) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:44 pm
Oh great, here we go again with semiotics, intentionalism, solipsism, yada, yada.
I feel a dump coming on.gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:45 pm
PCD – *If* the decision is upheld, then yes, I would expect the interim rulings by the NLRB would be held void if someone sued to get them overturned. It wouldn't be automatic; someone would have to raise the issue in court.aphrael (402fa3) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:46 pm
Aphrael – then we should change the Constitution.JD (b63a52) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:46 pm
Gary – well, sure. When you're arguing about what a phrase means, it's very easy to drop down to semiotics and intentionalism. Because *how else do you argue about meaning*?
"I know what it means because I said so" isn't very good argument, at the end of the day.aphrael (402fa3) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:47 pm
When was the last true emergency use of this?JD (b63a52) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:47 pm
47. You're right, of course, this is a lot bigger than first reports appeared.gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:47 pm
The Senate of the United States is "in session" as long as it says it is, and has not notified the House that it is not.
While "in session" (even on a "lunch break") the President is precluded from making Recess Appointments.
It doesn't get much simpler than that.
If the President has a problem with that, he needs to take it up with the Majority Leader, who has the power to make and change the schedule.
The fact that both individuals are from the same political party says to me that they don't work well together.
JD – so what is to be gained by saying "the phrase has been misunderstood by courts and the executive and the legislature for 160 years, so we're going to reinstate the definition that was abandoned five generations ago, and if you don't like it, go through the process of changing the constitution?"
That's the part i'm not understanding.aphrael (402fa3) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:48 pm
Askeptic – you'll get no argument from me on that one. If the Senate says it's in session, it's in session, full stop, and there can be no recess appointments during a session. I think that's clear, and I think the Obama administration is wrong on that issue.aphrael (402fa3) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:49 pm
gary- isn't it wonderful to work with mathematical equations and chemical notation?MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:49 pm
Aphrael – I think political pragmatism, and the way things have always been done, is a crappy way to get around the words of the Constitution.
Since you are looking at the historical practice, why not look even further into the intent of the clause, which was for actual emergency situations when people had to transport info and people by horse and buggy.JD (b63a52) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:51 pm
Askeptic – you'll get no argument from me on that one. If the Senate says it's in session, it's in session, full stop, and there can be no recess appointments during a session. I think that's clear, and I think the Obama administration is wrong on that issue.
Then you can lay this one at the feet of Teh One. Because his arrogance is the only reason it was under consideration to begin with.JD (b63a52) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:53 pm
JD, at 65: my belief that Obama did something stupid and was wrong to do so does not preclude the belief that this court also made a mistake, and that the judges who wrote the opinion are responsible for their own mistake.
They *are* independent actors, and while Obama's mistake was a necessary predicate to theirs, it was not in-and-of-itself sufficient.aphrael (402fa3) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:54 pm
Scott Brown defended these 'recess' appointments, despite the fact, that they occurred during the Senate session, and they included an appointee even more enmeshed in the OWS underword then Red Squawnarciso (3fec35) — 1/25/2013 @ 1:05 pm
63. Indeed, probably why I ended in computer engineering.
Was thinking the other night, following DRJ's Argo note, a great mathematician, Russell, yet mediocre philosopher, was an abysmal failure with people, married 4 times.
Marriage and a pre-schooler is stretching me.gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/25/2013 @ 1:07 pm
are* stretching Doh.gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/25/2013 @ 1:09 pm
Aphrael – to us non-lawyers, that seems like an apparent risk when dumping a matter in the Courts – you give them the Constitution and the law written on a dry erase board, and they go about calling penalties taxes, changing the definition of marriage, rights born of penumbras, or ignoring clearly stated Rights.JD (4fbbe6) — 1/25/2013 @ 1:13 pm
JD, there are many things wrong in our political system today.
Teh Won is not the cause, only the result; but that doesn't make him any less accountable for the destruction that he rains down upon us.
Dick the Butcher may have been extreme, but his disdain was well placed.askeptic (b8ab92) — 1/25/2013 @ 1:16 pm
In 1792, during George Washington's administration, the first Attorney General, Edmund Randolph, responded to an inquiry as to whether a recess appointment could be made to the position of Chief Coiner of the Mint, a newly created position for which no nomination had been made before the Senate recessed. This is the closest fact pattern to the CFPB Director position among the myriad Attorney General opinions. Randolph concluded that the vacancy occurred on the day the office had been created, and thus could not be filled with a recess appointment because the vacancy existed prior to the Senate's recess. He based his opinion on the text of the Clause and on the "spirit of the Constitution," declaring that the Recess Appointments Clause must be "interpreted strictly" because it serves as "an exception to the general participation of the Senate.
See s they have been trying to get around this for a long time.JD (4fbbe6) — 1/25/2013 @ 1:30 pm
It is never good to question a god.askeptic (b8ab92) — 1/25/2013 @ 2:13 pm
Even if SCOTUS grants cert, I think zero chance that NLRB appointments are held valid. At most, some narrowing of scope of this decision.SPQR (edf7ec) — 1/25/2013 @ 2:17 pm
Perhaps this can be another small step by SCOTUS in returning us to a republic?askeptic (b8ab92) — 1/25/2013 @ 2:58 pm
==Bolton was appointed during an actual recess. So that is one difference.==
And he has the playground scabs on his elbows to prove it.
==we don't have "the Senate is physically incapable of getting there in a timely fashion" but we do still have "the Senate refuses to get there in a timely fashion."==
But does it say anything about what happens if the senate is mentally incapable of getting there? That seems like a more likely scenario.elissa (fa8810) — 1/25/2013 @ 3:07 pm
If the Senate is still in session when a vacancy occurs, it can choose not to adjourn until the President appoints a successor. It doesn't have that option if it is already in recess. It may be that Senate and Presidential customs don't distinguish the two, but that doesn't make them the same.DRJ (a83b8b) — 1/25/2013 @ 3:43 pm
The WI and IN Dhimmis blowing town to interrupt business gives reason to worry about Congress, but the Exec is out of hand.gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/25/2013 @ 3:46 pm
Discontent, in DC? Never heard of it.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/25/Black-Bloc-Anarchists-Turn-On-Obama-With-Inaugural-Riotgary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/25/2013 @ 5:08 pm
Comment by elissa (fa8810) — 1/25/2013 @ 3:07 pm
If Senators were qualified by mental capacity, the body would never attain a quorum.askeptic (2bb434) — 1/25/2013 @ 5:24 pm
DRJ. every good manager has a list of replacements at hand for existing staff if the need arises, and updates it frequently.
Of course, here we are talking about The President, enough said.
Just an example how it earns the dollar it was sold for, minus the 30 million in liabilities:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/01/20/joe-biden-the-listener.htmlnarciso (3fec35) — 1/25/2013 @ 5:28 pm
I used a poor choice of terms in my last comment. Instead of "not to adjourn," I should have said "not to go into recess."DRJ (a83b8b) — 1/25/2013 @ 6:02 pm
So, as I understand it there are several interpretations:
1. Recess appointments may only be made when a vacancy occurs between annual sessions, and only during that intersession recess. (this court)
2. Recess appointments may only be made when a vacancy exists between annual sessions, and only during that intersession recess.
3. Recess appointments may only be made when a vacancy occurs during an adjournment, and only during that adjournment.
4. Recess appointments may only be made when a vacancy exists during an adjournment, and only during that or subsequent adjournments.
5. Recess appointments may only be made when a vacancy exists when the Senate is not holding sessions for longer than 3 days (whether or not it has declared a recess), and during that or subsequent recesses. (the previous rule)
6. Recess appointments may only be made when a vacancy exists when the Senate is not able to conduct business (whether or not it has declared a recess), and only during that or subsequent recesses. (Obama's rule)
7. Recess appointments may be made any time there is not a quorum on the floor of the Senate (reducio ad absurdum)
There are probably a few finer steps as well. It would seem that there are a lot of choices for a court between 1 & 6.Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 1/25/2013 @ 7:03 pm
85. "And the Ravens will win the Superbowl because Labor loves Ray Lewis, cause we're all skeered to death of him."
I made that up. Straight from the spokeshole I play when no one's looking.gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/25/2013 @ 7:46 pm
And because I know you all were waiting on Urkel for real climate change the ENSO(El Nino Southern Oscillation) has made a strong move over the last week or two into La Nina territory.
Another summer of drought on tap.gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 1/25/2013 @ 8:26 pm
plenty of snowcap in california I think but I haven't personally measured ithappyfeet (ce327d) — 1/25/2013 @ 8:34 pm
we have people for thathappyfeet (ce327d) — 1/25/2013 @ 8:34 pm
Comment by Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 1/25/2013 @ 7:03 pm
The Court said "1", we will see what the SCOTUS says; but, I could live with "1".askeptic (2bb434) — 1/25/2013 @ 9:04 pm
Burt Reynolds is in the icu cause of he got the flu and he's old
it's on the internet
I hope he's ok he's a good picklehappyfeet (ce327d) — 1/25/2013 @ 9:19 pm
Perhaps this can be another small step by SCOTUS in returning us to a republic?
And, God forbid, if Barry Obama is able to appoint another Justice to the court, that guarantees the only republic the US will be switching over to is one that is proceeded by the word "banana."
Incidentally — and taking such things for what they're worth (and don't snicker since the universe, including quantum physics, etc, probably is more amazing than presumed) — a psychic with a fairly good track record a few months ago predicted that Obama wouldn't be around for a second term. Some other soothsayers have supposedly sensed a variation of that.
Since there's such a decadent, extreme and surrealistic (certainly surrealistically bad) quality about Obama, a case of him and his administration ending up like an episode of "The Twilight Zone" (ie, life imitating art) would be very appropriate.Mark (43380c) — 1/25/2013 @ 10:07 pm
Mr. Feets – Have your people call my people.daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 1/25/2013 @ 10:08 pm
While the NRB decisions will be for now stalled, ultimately John Roberts is going to oveturn this anyway. Also, Bush Jr. installed John Bolton as UN mbassador as a recess appointment. We should give the executive branch some deference to their choices, even bad ones.
We learn again elections have cosnequences. The problem isn't Obama's various appointments,it's Obama, first, foremost, always. Courdray and his bureaucracy, while an odius abomination, are The One's doing.Bugg (ba4ca9) — 1/26/2013 @ 6:18 am
Yes, Bolton was put in through a real recess appointment, not the ones they used with Gaston Pierce and Cordray, he had to do the latter because squishes like Murkowski (yes her) and Voinovich, had to have their temper tantrumsnarciso (3fec35) — 1/26/2013 @ 6:21 am
JD – so what is to be gained by saying "the phrase has been misunderstood by courts and the executive and the legislature for 160 years, so we're going to reinstate the definition that was abandoned five generations ago, and if you don't like it, go through the process of changing the constitution?"
That's the part i'm not understanding.
Comment by aphrael (402fa3) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:48 pm
It will restore the true and previously held meaning of the recess clause instead of the changed meaning by judicial fiat. I don't understand why people who want to change the law just follow the rule of law. There is a process that can be followed, why not follow the process?Tanny O'Haley (12193c) — 1/26/2013 @ 1:11 pm
Also, Bush Jr. installed John Bolton as UN mbassador as a recess appointment. We should give the executive branch some deference to their choices, even bad ones.
Again, the fundamental difference is the Senate was in recess when Bolton was nominated, and the Senate was not in recess when the appointments in question were made. Big effing deal.JD (4fbbe6) — 1/26/2013 @ 1:29 pm
Tanny – apparently it is easier to just ignore it.JD (4fbbe6) — 1/26/2013 @ 1:30 pm
As I understand it, one of the defining points was that Obama declared the Senate "out of session", in spite of the fact that the "pro-forma" sessions are written into the Senate rules. As part of the "separation of powers", Obama has no legal standing to unilaterally change or ignore them.SNuss (a67dcf) — 1/27/2013 @ 6:22 pm
Last time I checked, the only "control" over the Congress that the President has, is to call them back to Washington for an Emergency Session, when they are not "in session".askeptic (2bb434) — 1/27/2013 @ 7:46 pm
Two judges held that the vacancy must begin duringa recess.
It used to be that confirmations could be done very quickly, but, especially since 1969, now they investigate a person first. Criminal financial and medical background check.
Condoleeeza Rice told BVob Schieffer that the FBI went back to her neighborhood when she was nominatyed for Secretary of state in 2005. They'd already done a check on her for 2001. A lot of this may not make too much sense.
I think the Senate winds. they can just aboid recessing altogether.Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 1/28/2013 @ 12:45 pm
After 2006 the Senate avoided recessing
After 2010 the Senmate and the president were of the same party but the House prevented teh Senate from adjourning.Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 1/28/2013 @ 12:46 pm
Comment by aphrael (402fa3) — 1/25/2013 @ 12:30 pm
the Senate just refused to go back into session for an extended period, the President would be powerless to fill offices of the United States.
he's powerless now if tghey refuse to vote or refuse to confirm, and the filibuster makes it possible for less than a majority of the Senate to block a nomination.
But he can keep calling them back into session. Now it might it might be hard to get a quorum if enough Senators avoided that.
The part of the ruling saying you can't make 'recess' appointments during pro forma sessions I'm fine with.Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 1/28/2013 @ 12:49 pm
Historiucally this has very little to do with horse and buggy but just simply that Cpongress was not in session a whole year.
Presidents used to call special sessions of the Senate when they got inaugurated.
When the coiinstitutiuons was written they didn't realize what would happen was that the term would bein March 4 but a session not until December. Congress never changed that date for assembling until the 20th amendment did it.
There was a situation where an election would be held in November then from, December through march 4 the lame duck Congress would meet and new representatives wouldn't be sworn in for 13 months,. It didn't happen all years that way.Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 1/28/2013 @ 12:52 pm
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LONGMONT — A man Longmont drug officers were seeking as part of a methamphetamine and cocaine ring fled a traffic stop, crashed, and attempted to flee on foot in Denver on Tuesday evening.
Longmont's Special Enforcement Unit spent Monday and Tuesday rounding up suspects in the ring and attempted to stop Terry Romero, 31.
SEU worked with the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Larimer County Criminal Impact Unit and the North Metro Drug Task Force on a monthslong investigation into a ring reportedly moving large amounts of meth and cocaine. Officers had Romero — known to be armed and wanted on multiple felony warrants — under surveillance and he was followed to a home in Denver. Longmont and Larimer County officers attempted a traffic stop, but police reported he rammed several unmarked police vehicles and fled.
Officers did not pursue, according to Longmont Cmdr. Jeff Satur, but Romero crashed and fled on foot. He was arrested near Parker Road and Peoria Street in Aurora. Aurora and Denver police assisted. He reportedly put up a brief struggle with officers before they were able to arrest him.
Romero suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital for treatment. Satur said Romero was expected to be booked at the Aurora City Jail once released from the hospital. Police reported recovering a 40-caliber handgun and meth from his vehicle.
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OPINION | The truth is that anothing is chemical free
Chemicals are killing us. At least that is the message that's constantly being pushed to us at the moment. Take a walk down the aisle of your local supermarket, or turn on commercial TV and watch the ads.
If you're feeling really brave, Google "chemicals are killing us" and take a browse through some of the articles.
The message is clear – everything we are eating or using is full of "nasty", "toxic" or "poisonous" chemicals, and they are all making us sick.
Of course the solution is equally clear – we should buy products that are somehow free of these nasty, toxic, disease-causing chemicals. Then we can be healthier and happier.
"Chemical" really has become a dirty word. The thing is though, everything is made of chemicals. Our world is made of chemicals. The water you drink, the food you eat, the air you breathe – it's all made of chemicals. You, all your friends, your dog – all full of chemicals.
Someone on Facebook actually tried to sell me "chemical-free" cleaning products once. That "chemical-free" cleaner? Full of chemicals. Everything is made of chemicals.
The chemicals found in our natural world couldn't be harmful, could they? Just take another look around that supermarket and another message stands out: anything that is "all natural" is good for us. So we should buy products that are organic, natural and chemical free!
Of course, natural does not equal healthy, even when it comes to chemicals. Arsenic and cyanide are two great examples. They're both naturally occurring chemicals, but I'm sure everyone will agree that they're not really good for us.
Even water, one of the simplest chemicals that we find everywhere in nature, can be harmful if we have too much of it. And we all know that ethanol (alcohol), another natural chemical, is good fun in small doses, but lethal if we have too much.
On the flip side, just as natural doesn't equal healthy, synthetic or artificial doesn't mean harmful. Aspirin and ibuprofen are synthetic chemicals used widely around the world as painkillers.
Most of the pharmaceutical products we use to lead longer and more comfortable lives are made in laboratories, not found in nature. But without chemicals like these our lives would be far less pleasant.
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Kostas Metaxas-Oasis Bathroom Sanitaryware
At Design Interviews
Interview with Kostas Metaxas : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Kostas Metaxas : OASIS explores and celebrates the distillation of the moods, the shapes, the icons of over 30 years of travel and living in major cities distilled into a private sanctuary. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Kostas Metaxas : I wanted to achieve the opposite of the mainstream of bathroom design - where everything is ultra-minimal and hidden in a closet, so visiting the bathroom is like being imprisoned. Oasis is the opposite. The bathroom "breathes", it's sculptural, it's relaxing. It's a pleasure and a sanctuary. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Kostas Metaxas : To develop further ideas for the different cities that I haven't yet done. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Kostas Metaxas : The ideas started with the basic bathroom product designs in April 2014 and the completion of the existing designs was at the end of August 2014. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Kostas Metaxas : I pursued an inspiration - which is how most of my ideas start. I wanted to explore these objects as sculptures. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Kostas Metaxas : I plan to license the production rights. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Kostas Metaxas : I felt that it was an area which was neglected. There have been a few good bathroom ideas - mostly in the shape/materials used in bathtubs, but a more "sculptural" view was missing. I hope this collection ignites this. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Kostas Metaxas : I have to credit the Australian designer Joe Licciardi for making me think very differently about "bathrooms". .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Kostas Metaxas : Anyone who shares my idea that spending time in the bathroom should be blissful. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Kostas Metaxas : The sculptural elements, finishes, audacious materials and extravagance. It treats bathroom objects as sculpture. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Kostas Metaxas : OASIS - self-explanatory - a sanctuary. A place to escape from the everyday. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Kostas Metaxas : Mostly 3D cad programs .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Kostas Metaxas : That it is extravagant. That is has a spirit from each city that is distinctive. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Kostas Metaxas : No. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Kostas Metaxas : New Technologies allow us to be able to visualise in 3D to produce sculptures. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Kostas Metaxas : The research was whilst staying in the most opulent bathrooms in 7 star hotels - particularly in Presidential suites in Paris, London, New York etc as the guest of the hotel when I was an Editor/Publisher. Then personal reflection. I tried to capture some of the "over-the-top" experiences. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Kostas Metaxas : I felt it was interesting enough to be submitted. .
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North Dakota's 2014 bighorn sheep, elk and moose proclamation is finalized and most season information is the same as last year.
The bighorn sheep season will have five licenses available, one more than last year. Licenses in Unit B1 increased from one to two due to skewed male-female ratios caused by declining numbers of females. Unit B2, which was created to prevent overharvest of Sully Creek rams, has been immersed into B1 due to low numbers in the area. Similar to last year, collared rams may not be harvested in Unit B3. The season length has been extended to two months, and the new opening date corresponds with the peak of the rut to improve prospects of finding mature rams.
A total of 261 elk licenses are available to hunters this fall, the same as in 2013. A total of 937 elk – including 701 adult cows – were taken out of the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park during the National Park Service's reduction effort from 2010-2012. In addition, an estimated 363 elk were taken by licensed hunters in E3 and E4, reducing the number of elk in the park to below 200. Therefore, the number of elk licenses in units E3 and E4 will remain the same as last year.
A total of 111 moose licenses are available in 2014, the same as last year. Hunting units M1C and M4 will remain closed due to a continued downward trend in moose numbers in the northeastern part of the state.
Online applications are available by visiting the North Dakota Game and Fish Department's website, gf.nd.gov. Paper applications will be available on the website for printing, and at license vendors the week of March 10. The deadline for applying is March 26.
The application fee for moose, elk and bighorn sheep has increased from $3 to $5 for each species, as part of the license fee increase bill passed by the 2013 state legislature. For those who are fortunate enough to draw a license, the fee has increased from $20 to $30.
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Academy's rewards: Wildcats outmaneuver No. 1 Staples to gain state championship berth
West Haven - Norwich Free Academy's Joey Paparelli had never seen an option pitch tipped.
Marce Petroccio believes it happened only once in his 20 years as Staples of Westport head coach.
But NFA junior Airec Ricks hoped he could get a hand on an option pitch before Sunday's CIAC Class LL semifinal ended.
Ricks eventually did and short-circuited a potential Wreckers' scoring drive, a momentum-changer.
Ricks later recovered a punt that bounced off a Staples player's heel and allowed his team to run out the clock.
NFA 30, Staples 28.
Don't call it an upset. The fifth-seeded Wildcats (12-0) outplayed the top-ranked team in Class LL at Ken Strong Stadium.
"The thing we have is playmakers," NFA coach Jemal Davis said. "We can mention the common names that we all know, the (Marcus) Outlows, the (Joey) Paparellis, (but) there are some unsung heroes. And Airec is one of those. He's a guy who just plays defense who can play offense for us, but we felt by putting him on defense that he's going to be a difference-maker. And he was."
The Wildcats, ranked eighth in The Day of New London Top 10 state coaches' poll, will play two-time defending state champion Xavier of Middletown for the title at Rentschler Field either Friday or Saturday. The date and time will be announced today.
The No. 3 Falcons clubbed No. 7 Glastonbury 30-13 in the other semifinal. Xavier is ranked fifth in The Day coaches' poll.
Asked if he thought his team would play for a state title before the season began, NFA senior Tuzar Skipper said: "Yes, I believed it. That's what we were talking about all day in the weight room after the season. We'd go in the weight room and lift constantly, just talking about Rentschler Field."
Taking a moment to appreciate what the Wildcats have done in five days: They went on the road Wednesday and kicked around South-West Conference champion Newtown 63-21. Sunday, NFA knocked off the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference champion.
"Nobody gives us a chance because we play in the ECC (Eastern Connecticut Conference)," Davis said, "but we proved it today. Nobody can say anything now."
The Wildcats held a 30-21 lead with over nine minutes left in the game when Staples had a second-and-goal at the NFA 3-yard line.
Quarterback Jack Massie rolled to his left and looked to pitch the ball.
Ricks batted the pitch away. It was recovered by teammate Ryan Stowe at the Wildcats' 23.
"People usually make fun of me for having short arms," Ricks said. "I was surprised (I got a hand on it). I just reached out and tipped it a little bit. It's just an amazing feeling."
NFA didn't score on its next drive, but it took away a great scoring opportunity for Staples.
"That was huge," Paparelli said. "That was an absolute game-changer."
Staples cut its deficit to 30-28 with 3 minutes, 16 seconds left. It then forced the Wildcats to go three-and-out.
On the ensuing punt, the ball skipped across the turf and off the heel of a Wreckers' player.
Ricks recovered the ball at the NFA 45-yard line with 2:39 remaining in the game. The Wildcats proceeded to run out the clock.
Staples turned it over three times. NFA had no turnovers.
"You can't do the things on special teams that we did today," Petroccio said of the Wreckers, "and you can't put the ball on the ground."
Paparelli completed 3 of 7 passes for 87 yards, including a 38-yard touchdown to Ryer Caruso. Paparelli also ran 23 times for 102 yards and a touchdown. Among his runs was a 63-yarder that gave the Wildcats first-and-goal at the Staples 8.
Khaleed Exum-Strong scored on a 2-yard run two plays later to give NFA a 30-21 lead with 9:57 left in the game.
Outlow ran 12 times for 113 yards.
"They're two great football players," Petroccio said. "They did a great job."
Ramel Williams scored NFA's first touchdown on a 32-yard run.
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