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To further his gun-ban efforts, President Obama is using his permanent campaign organization, Organizing For Action, to solicit stories about "gun violence." Some of the stories are no doubt sincere, some–since they are anonymous–are likely fabricated, and some are merely political, like this one from "Keith K.":
As a high school teacher, my students ask me why their lives are not as important as an NRA money. "that's just the way it is" is a terrible answer to have to give kids. so we can make a rational decision about guns.
Is he really a high school teacher? I hope not.
OFA posters don't necessarily have any idea what they are talking about. Matt W. writes:
Given the increase in gun violence and mass shootings in the last two decades it seems unbelievable that we can't agree on some form of legislation to monitor and regulate the purchase and use of firearms.
Actually, homicides, and homicides using firearms, have been cut almost in half in the last 20 years. And there is already an enormous amount of "legislation to monitor and regulate the purchase and use of firearms" at both the state and federal levels.
I wondered whether Obama had gotten any gun stories from my home state of South Dakota, where just about everybody is armed. Despite all those guns, so far there is only one, from "Jared L.":
Living in South Dakota I have the luxury of enjoying a lifestyle free from fear of violence as many inner-city neighborhoods experience on a daily basis. I also have the luxury of having grown up on strong traditions which includes hunting and know what it takes to be a responsible gun owner and say definitively that what we need in this country to reduce gun violence isn't needless legislation, but a comprehensive approach that examines whether or not current laws are being properly enforced, digging into the underlying issues that lead to increases in violence, and a focus on providing adequate healthcare coverage to those with mental health issues so that no one seeking help is turned away at the door when the clock hits 5PM. This is the approach that will have the greatest impact on violence in our country, everyone needs to be sure to let their legislatures know that this is the approach to reduce violence in our communities.
Sensible thoughts, but probably not quite what Obama had in mind. It would be nice if lots of gun owners submitted "gun stories" to the OFA site. Who knows, the liberals who frequent that site might actually learn something.
The Democrats must know that they have zero chance of getting a gun ban through Congress; they probably can't even get it through the Democratic Senate. So what is the point of this kind of effort? Like so much that the Obama administration does, it is not intended to achieve any practical goal, but rather is designed to keep the party's base in a state of hysteria to maximize turnout in 2014. A perpetual campaign with no apparent objective other than to achieve perpetual power; that is today's Democratic Party.

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Fruit Chaat Recipe (Indian Spicy Fruit Salad)
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Contrary to what one would think, fruit chaat is not your average fruit salad, and it's not served as a dessert. It's a savory snack. Several types of fruits are chopped up and mixed together, then seasoned with Indian spices such as chili powder, ground cumin and salt. For fruit chaat, bananas and oranges are a must; today I also added apples, grapes, apricots and mangoes, but you could combine any other fruits that are in season.
The first time I tasted it, my brain was expecting sweet flavors but my palate kept getting a savory signal. The subtle spiciness and tanginess with hints of cumin makes the dish very tasty. Next time you have a dinner party, this dish could make a perfect, and addition to your menu.
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This incredible versatility also applies to the topic of today's article: the PDF, or Portable Document Format. Not content with just one, PHP actually comes with two different extensions that allow developers to dynamically generate PDF documents: the PDFlib extension, and the libHaru extension. Over the next few pages, I'm going to take a quick look at the Haru extension, providing you with a brief overview of its functions and demonstrating how you can use it in your PHP development.
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I just returned home from a visit to the great city of Boston. Although I didn't get to walk down The Freedom Trail or stop in The Paul Revere House, I did finally get a chance to take part in my first NFPA Technical Meeting. The event was part of the overall World Safety Conference & Exposition, featuring more than 150 educational sessions.
As a member of the NFPA Electrical Section, I naturally zeroed in on the Code-related sessions, in hopes I would learn more about the proposed changes for the 2008 edition of the NEC — scheduled to be released in just a few months. I also wanted to gain a better understanding of what exactly takes place at these meetings. In true geek fashion, I think I actually enjoyed sitting in on these sessions more than I would have enjoyed playing tourist. It was definitely an eye-opening experience.
The education sessions were typical for a technical meeting. You sit in a room for a couple of hours, listen to the presenter, and take notes on items of interest — nothing out of the ordinary but pretty valuable nonetheless. However, attending the Electrical Section group meeting and overall Association Technical Meeting was a totally new experience for me. This was where the real action took place.
As a rookie attendee, I'm not ashamed to admit I found the official nature of these meetings both intimidating and confusing at first. Motions were being made left and right. Votes were being taken on proposals faster than I could locate them in the two large bound volumes sitting on my lap (997 and 585 pages, respectively!). I also struggled to grasp the special language of the Code-making process and make sense of terms like ROP, ROC, and NITMAM — not to mention comprehend what it was the people in the room were actually accepting, rejecting, or not pursuing. However, once I started to better understand the process, I was able to quietly observe the passion and dedication of all those involved in this seemingly overwhelming and ongoing cycle of change.
There was one thing I noticed right away. If you want to become an active participant at these meetings, you'd better have thick skin. In my opinion, hearing the meeting chairman utter the words "motion failed" after you just finished making an impassioned speech in front of several hundred people would be quite humbling. However, the veterans of this group took it in stride, appearing unfazed by the rejection. They simply took their seats to begin preparation for their next battle, which might be only minutes away.
The most important lesson I learned at this event was that these particular meetings are a culmination of a long three-year process. Although some fine-tuning did take place, the bulk of the work was done months or years prior. In other words, if you haven't convinced the members of the appropriate Code-Making Panel (there are 19 of these, by the way) that your proposal is worth accepting early on in the revision cycle, then you've got little chance of gaining the backing of the Electrical Section and ultimately swinging the vote in your favor at the Association Technical Meeting.
A couple of months from now, the 2008 NEC will be published. Soon thereafter, various organizations across the country will begin adopting this version. My guess is you might not be happy with all of the changes made to our industry bible. If this is true — and you want to propose your own change to the document — then you'd better start prepping as soon as the new edition hits your hands. As I see it, the unofficial 2011 NEC revision process is already well underway.


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Season 2, Episode One: The great Hal Linden (The Rothschilds, Barney Miller) is asked to star in a new musical by the Outside the Box Musical Theatre Group. What is the musical? Will he accept? Stay tuned. Also stars Jenna Rosen, Jane Noseworthy, and Sharon McNight.
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As part of the 10 Ideas: New Ideas for a New Economy series, a proposal to lift debtors' overwhelming burdens in order to boost the economy and give them more autonomy.
On March 1st, the international Occupy movement held a day of action targeting the privatization of education. Students at the University of California, San Diego occupied the Chancellor's Office and released a comprehensive series of demands. Boston students rallied at the capitol building, demanding a reprioritization of public education. Over 80,000 students in Quebec went on strike. At my own school, the University of California, Santa Cruz, a student strike effectively shut down the campus. Four days later, thousands gathered at the California capitol building, taking the rotunda in a scene reminiscent of Madison, Wisconsin a year ago, before being evicted by state troopers. But what lingers once the days of action have settled is a burdensome debt. Since 1978, tuition at U.S. colleges has increased 650 points above inflation, contributing to the nearly $1 trillion in total student loan debt.
Debt loads are high on many Americans' minds. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported that total household debt nearly tripled from $4.6 trillion in 1999 to $12.5 trillion in 2008. Though the figure has since fallen to $11.5 trillion as of the first quarter of 2011, it still an impressive figure. "From 1997 to 2007," writes the Wall Street Journal, citing Federal Reserve Data, "household debt ballooned to 66 percent of economic output to 98 percent." Three-quarters of this debt is from mortgages. Student loan debt has also ballooned to nearly three times that of the home mortgage debt during the Clinton administration.
These debt levels are dangerous because they drown consumption. Americans, now paralyzed by a fear of debt, are spending and investing less than they did during 2005. The Wall Street Journal highlighted how "two-thirds of Americans polled online in July by the research firm Absolute Strategy Research said they planned to either reduce their debt within a year or stop borrowing altogether." The phenomenon cannot be reduced to less access to capital: this hesitation even comes from workers with excellent credit. Workers are contracting demand as they shift from spending to saving.
Students have recently catalyzed around a particular demand: debt abolition. The idea of comprehensive debt forgiveness is not new; in fact, some anthropologists suggest that it is the original revolutionary platform. In times of ballooning wealth inequalities and economic stagnation, demands for a Jubilee, a cancellation of all debts, grow with striking poignancy.
That's a good place to start in addressing our current problems: immediate relief to debtors. We need another round of quantitative easing that distributes cash to debtors based on a progressive scale of debt held relative to income. (The Fed should accompany this debt relief with its usual purchase of bonds, as it's essential that the monetary policy trigger an inflationary currency while interest rates sink, so that debtors are aided further.) I'm far from sage enough to specify an amount of capital to plunge into the economy, but the higher the amount of debt abolished, the more fruitful the results.
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What makes quantitative easing different from other forms of monetary policy is the direct injection of capital into the market by way of purchasing financial assets, or in this case, debt, from private pocketbooks and portfolios. QE3, targeting debt held by private individuals, should electronically distribute cash to debtors. In order to get a loan one often needs a bank account, so the Federal Reserve will have somewhere to inject the fresh currency. The Bank of England's exposition on this relatively new form of monetary policy "does not involve printing more banknotes. Instead, the Bank buys assets from the private sector…and credits the seller's bank account." The central bank simply creates "new money electronically by increasing the balance on a reserve account." If it can be done by "crediting the accounts of the companies it bought it from," then it can do the same to private individuals who hold debt.
In the case of a QE3 Jubilee, the Fed wouldn't be purchasing a bond or stock, as is typically the case. Instead it would be buying up private debt — but while banks and other loaning institutions hold the debt itself, QE3 would distribute money to those who owe. Why give the money to debtors instead of creditors? There are both economic and political reasons. First, economic: if trends hold, the additional cash will aid savers, incentivizing them to spend more, raising aggregate demand. The only alternative is that debtors defy current trends and spend anyway, which seems unlikely.
Additionally, there are positive externalities of this monetary approach. Quantitative easing both lowers interest rates and prompts inflationary trends. Both conditions aid debtors in their struggle for relief. Expected inflation usually leads to rising interest rates, further burdening debtors, but the Federal Reserve's lowering of interest rates will obstruct such reactions. The more financial assets the Federal Reserve purchases, the more complete the process of debt forgiveness will be. Aiding debtors also gives them more leverage over creditors, which may force banks into restructuring privately held debt. Banks will want the influx of cash to pay off the assets they hold, encouraging them to court debtors with deals.
There are also political reasons for mass debt forgiveness. We've long been experiencing an increased privatization of our lives. Educational privatization began with the massive contractions in state subsidization of public universities. Students, unable to come up with the money for tuition, took on loans. Student loan debt has deterred thousands from entering college and is informing what students study in school and what kind of work they do. Debt is what we accumulate when our substance and savings are not enough, but it puts us in the hands of private entities, i.e. banks. Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute once wrote that it is the job of government to maximize the autonomy of its subjects. The government has an obligation to end this reliance on private actors.
A debt Jubilee at least temporarily removes debtors' decisions from the whims of the market. It gives them space to practice economic autonomy. In light of the privatization of our decisions, this should be held as an important victory. "Economic development" may mean developing economics that emancipate people's lives and decisions from an economic calculus.
Ben Mabie, a first year student in proletarian studies, started a chapter of the Roosevelt Institute | Campus Network at the University of California, Santa Cruz last fall.


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Working from home growing in popularity
WITH Yahoo and Google sledging teleworking as slow and detrimental to work quality and creativity, has working from home lost its lustre?
Yahoo's head of human resources, Jackie Reses, sent out a memo on Friday telling remote staff they must be working in the office by June and if they had an issue they could quit.
In Sydney last week Google's chief financial officer, Patrick Pichette, said "as few as possible" of his staff worked from home because it was unconducive for collaboration and creating "magical moments".
Not so fast, say experts. Yvette Blount, research co-ordinator at Macquarie University's Australia Anywhere Working Research Network, who argues that while Silicon Valley innovators may thrive on being together in the office, teleworking in Australia is taking off.
A new Melbourne University study published in the Telecommunications Journal of Australia found people who work from home start earlier, work longer, get more done, and they felt more energised, less stressed and had fewer distractions.
In the latest teleworking statistics from the Bureau of Statistics, as at November 2008 about a quarter of Australian workers - 2.4 million people - worked some hours at home, of which 32 per cent worked only or mainly at home. However, the number of workers who have a formal teleworking arrangement is thought to be closer to 6 per cent.
The government aims to have at least 12 per cent of employees teleworking one day a week by 2020.
Dr Blount said telecommuting was not a one-size-fits-all solution and in each case a business case needed to be made.
Her research found that in some instances team members and managers felt reluctant to "bother" teleworkers at home, which could hinder collaboration, while the teleworkers reported being far more productive and satisfied. Some however experienced "social and professional isolation".
Teleworkers also reported working longer hours to justify the privilege of working from home. Dr Blount said this raised the question of whether teleworkers were more productive or just working harder, and more research was sorely needed.
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That scene of Vivio tied to the table and Jail pulling out the logia with the sick expresion on his face really points to another thing O.o
7arcs should be more carefull while making these kind of scenes
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Personally, this was my favorite of the three series. I liked that Nanoha and the gang from the first two series acted as mentors to the new guys. It allowed for great character development from the forwards while still keeping Nanoha in the middle of everything. (I've been getting tired of shows(there are quite a few) with some upstart teen that is a complete retard but somehow manages to become the strongest thing around(stronger than the adults that trained him even) through sheer dumbluck and willpower.) It also showed a lot of growth from the characters. Since the older characters had already dealt with their internal problems in earlier seasons, they could just concentrate on being really mature and cool characters in this one. Oh and Nanoha and Fate's strength is so ridiculously high. It's awesome seeing them in action and saving the forwards but also letting the forwards deal with the weaker foes so that they get to show off some skills too.
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Having just marathoned both MGLA and MGLNA's and now this I have to say they are among the better magical girl series I've seen-one thing that really bothered me was the high amount of pedo stuff in the 1st series, this last one was quite good and 26 episodes gave the characters and storyline time to grow and properly develop-although a couple of characters were never developed much-overall quite a decent series to waste some time watching.
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Finally got around to completing this series. It's been an interesting journey following the Nanoha story, and I will be missing it. I liked how this one advanced the time frame into the beginning of Nanoha's adult life and brought in some interesting new characters and further developed the lore. In the end though, I give it an 8 on this rating, but it actually feels better to give it more of a 7.8 or so as it does have some noticeable issues that keep it from being a top tier series IMHO.
The main gripes I have with the show are that they almost had too many characters and weren't able to balance them all properly. The pacing of the show really suffered at times and so there was alot of missed potential on the character development front with some of the secondary ones. This isn't really suprising, and they could have done alot worse, but it still drags the series down more than it should. As well, being a NanoFate supporter, I would have preferred to see more development on that side of things, but the creators have decided to stick to the "mindless middle" and leave it up to us to bitchfight over the issue.
On the matter of Jail Scaglietti, he was a good villain, but I disliked how they had go and make him an overtly "mad scientist" type so much, it just really felt forced and unnecessary. I prefer my villains when they are consistantly cool and calculating untill the end, untill they finally realize they were either dead wrong or when they realize they are finally about to get their ass handed to them on a silver platter, pretty much like Quattro did
But anyways, with the new "4th season" being constrained to a manga format it seems, I'm a little dissappointed. I dont usually have the will to bother following scanlations and so I don't know if I will continue with the story when that finally comes around, but we'll see I guess, the Nanoha-verse is still a fun and interesting one to play in
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Out of the three series Strikers is my favorite.
On the technical side I had no problem, with animation or sound, but I'm easily pleased with pretty pictures and big explosions
On the storyline, I again was pleased and nothing was really jarring to me except the whole Jail clones, I mean sure he is crazy, but it seemed a little over the top and dark for the series.
My small problem was character development, I guess series length is always an issue but their are some many interesting characters and not enough on them...I guess their is always more to come with the sound stages, and stuff like Vivio's own manga (I think).
On another note, something like the limiter I felt, where explained enough for me, I've seen similar such things done before, but other setting type things, like a lack of description on the Saint Church, or the new world they are in...I mean earth is pretty easy to figure out, but there seemed so little information on Mid-Childa.
All in all Great Series: 8 out of 10
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I completed this series a while back, but with the upcoming movie it drew me back here, and I might as well comment on StrikerS.
A's set a standard for action that would just be very hard to live up to. So StrikerS had a long uphill struggle, and being the first Nanoha series to have 26 episodes made things even harder, as people were expecting a ton more action.
I felt that StrikerS tried to do too much. StrikerS's plot is far more complex then the plot of the previous two series and Nanoha can't just befriend whoever isn't behaving. You had ancient conspiracies, bureaucratic incompetence, and lots of background information. Unforunately, more isn't always better. Tons of plot points were made and I'm not sure what was the point of them.
StrikerS had two main failings:
The Villain- Jail spaghetti or whatever. He was just utterly lame. They just didn't have any threat to them, or any depth. Compare to Fate in season one or the Wolkenritter in season 2. He's just incredibly generic and bland, and the only good to ever come out with him was to be bitchslapped by Fate. Sure they trashed the base (which is also when the series gets better) but for a lot of it you could just have them sport an evil mustache and laugh a lot.
Characters - Too many of them. True they were mostly delightful but many of them were just forgettable. I ended up simply forgetting about most of the series, because well, I didn't care. Everyone ended up having very shallow development because of this, except for Nanoha, maybe.
Note that these two problems start to go away near the end. Quattro proves menacing enough, and we do begin to see some character development.
One small thing that irked me is that the TSAB seemed hilariously incompetent. It may be because the old brain guys were corrupting stuff, but why the heck does the fleet (which can travel dimensions) take so long to reach the planet? Wouldn't they have immediately started sending support the moment section 6 got sacked? I might have overlooked something, so this isn't that big of a deal.
However, the series manages to redeem itself in the last third as the story finally gets into shape. I found myself rewatching episodes 17-24 a lot because there was a lot of action, and they managed to cram everything in without looking too rushed. We've also seen Nanoha grow a bit as a character, as we've never really seen her that sad before and her incredible determination to care for everyone. Fate didn't get as much screen time as I liked, but last part also shows what a long way she's come since the first season, changed from a confused, shy person with no identity to someone who's finally found her place.
Teana's, Subarau's, Erio's/Caro's fights were also well done, if somewhat short. You get the feeling that the training had actually taught them something. Not just combat skills, but growth as a person. And the series also ends with the "after the end" montage they used in the last 2 series which wraps up the series nicely.
Overall Rating: 6/10 Unfortunately, this series doesn't really leave me with much else to say as to me a whole lot of nothing happened for a while. But the awesomeness of the last part shows a lot of heart, and for that I can say this series isn't bad at all. It's quite like the 1st season which started out bad but absolutely rocked near the end. It doesn't do good plot-wise, but for some good old fashion Nanoha action (aka, top-tier anime action), Strikers finally does deliver.
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Thanks for all the great suggestions on our last post. The thought struck many people that those Star Romance covers would most likely be by Spanish or Italian artists (who were doing quite a lot of cover and interior magazine illustration in the UK at the time through various agents). Personally, I wondered if some might not be by Canadian illustrators, since I'm aware of several who were selling second printing rights to UK publishers. Will Davies, Tom McNeely, Fred Oakley, and Jerry Sevier, just to name a few, were all doing this type of work at the time and actively reselling it in England.
But let's see what David Roach has for us today...
The first of my paperbacks. Murderers Fen might be a British artist called Pat Owen, but it's quite rough and ready by his standards. Personally I love the vigorous brush strokes and general wild abandon of the painting.
The Sexton Blake cover is probably a reused US cover with a very striking composition. It's effectively a very dynamic set of stairs with a few people framed in at the top - but I think it works.
Now these 2 are a complete mystery. Starship Troopers is probably a British or Italian artist since NEL rarely used US material.
Charlie Gallagher on the other hand is most probably a US reprint though no names are jumping out at me.
This Mills & Boon romance cover might, just might, be by Betty Maxey... but that's a bit of a long shot.
David Larkin who was AD at Panther at the time ('60s) reckons The Island was painted by Michael Johnson - but Johnson has vehemently denied this and, let's face it, he should know. Art could be a Brit or an American, but whoever it is I think it's a very striking cover.
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The first one, Murderers Fen, looks like Mitchell Hooks (or someone copying him...)ReplyDelete
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After having seen Verhoeven's film, how refreshing the Heinlein's cover is! Thanks!ReplyDelete
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I mean... the Heinlein's cover is plenty of charming... like of the good illustrations from that time! :)ReplyDelete
The artist for Starship Troopers is by Karel Thole per ISFD site. This is what the site says about the art. "The artist is not credited, no visible signature on the artwork, artwork re-used and credited in Science Fiction Monthly, August 1974".ReplyDelete
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Litke: LBJ's 'Decision' looks smart in hindsight
Chris Bosh told those Heat fans who had left Game 6 early to stay home, and judging strictly by his line in Game 7, he barely bothered to show up himself.
Fortunately, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade did.
"The vision that I had when I decided to come here is all coming true," James said after the Heat beat the Spurs 95-88 in Game 7 on Thursday night to capture a second straight NBA title in their third consecutive finals appearance.
And he's right.
James was already the best player in the game when he made "The Decision" nearly three years ago, a move that the rest of the basketball world pounced on as a sign of weakness, a tacit admission that he couldn't win a championship all by himself.
James was right on that score, too.
Bosh, always destined to be third among The Big Three, wasn't much help on this night, contributing zero points on 0-for-5 shooting with seven rebounds. But Wade stepped up, despite a shaky knee, and Shane Battier had a career shooting night when it counted.
Wade surrendered his lead-dog role with the Heat to recruit James in 2010, but took over during a rocky stretch in the second quarter and proved he could still be the man when it mattered. He finished with 23 points and 10 rebounds.
Battier, perhaps the most cerebral guy in the NBA, snapped out of a poor-shooting streak to make 6 of 8 attempts from beyond the arc, and cracked afterward, "It's better to be timely than good."
The Heat still look like a chemistry experiment-in-progress some nights, a collection of Type-A personalities waiting for their cue to take over. James was reluctant to do so at first because his personality — as has been endlessly dissected — reflects Magic Johnson's pass-first demeanor more than Michael Jordan's shoot-always attitude.
But as James reminded everyone at the end of both Game 6, when the Spurs first dared him to drive the ball to the basket, then Game 7, when his defender laid back and dared James to shoot from the perimeter, scoring is not a problem. Even if those long and mid-range jumpers were not among his strengths before this season began.
"I put a lot of work into my game over the offseason and to come out here and see the results happen on the floor," he said, "is the ultimate."
Amid all the celebrating, Heat president Pat Riley said he would do his best to bring everybody back, perhaps because he still owns the trademark to the term "Three-peat" dating to his days as coach of the Los Angeles Lakers.
"I just want this thing to keep going," Riley said. "I'm at an age right now where I'm ready to fly off somewhere. But I'm not going to because the good Lord has blessed me with a team that's allowed me to grab onto His coattails, for as long as they want to be together."
One storyline that underpinned the finals, but didn't warrant much discussion until the trophy presentation began, was the impending retirement of NBA commissioner David Stern.
Stern couldn't help patting himself on the back, noting that the finals were being broadcast in 217 countries and 47 different languages after his 30 years of promoting the game worldwide. You have to wonder, though, whether secretly he wasn't hoping to hand over the hardware to the Spurs at least one more time.
These finals were about opposing strategies on how to build a dominant franchise in the post-Jordan era. The Spurs, a small-market operation that built through the draft and filled out their ranks with a few shrewd pickups, are a marvel of consistency. They're coached by Gregg Popovich, who's learned to get by with less and maximize every shot he gets.
The Heat were convenient villains, fair or not, for skipping most of the preliminaries and assembling the core of the team with little more than a checkbook. James' move to Miami touched off free-agent envy among his superstar brethren — everybody wanted to be a part of a Big Three somewhere — and the rest of the league is still scrambling to put one together as formidable as Riley's troika in Miami.
That's what made the Spurs' fold-up-and-crumple act in the last two games dispiriting. It's also why Tim Duncan did his best to not go gently into that good night, slamming his palm on the court — a rare show of emotion — after missing a bunny hook that would have tied the game with 50 seconds left.
He broke up trying to answer which of the last two losses would haunt him most.
"For me, Game 7," Duncan began. "Missing a layup to tie the game. … Making a bad decision down the stretch. … Unable to stop Dwyane and LeBron.
"For me," he said finally, haltingly, "Game 7 will always haunt me."
It's not just that Duncan knows his advancing age will make even a return to the finals a Herculean task — again. It's more that the Spurs, for all the things they've done right throughout a sneaky-good decade-long run, have almost certainly exhausted their chances.
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Natalie Cole has died at the age of 65. What follows is a 2013 article about the singer.
When Natalie Cole and Chucho Valdes share a bill Wednesday night at the Hollywood Bowl, it will mark a long-delayed reunion of two languages and two musical dynasties.
More than half a century ago, on the eve of the Cuban Revolution, Cole's father, Nat King Cole, collaborated in Havana with Chucho's papi, Bebo Valdes, the pianist, composer and house arranger at the legendary Tropicana Club.
Their brief partnership helped give birth to Cole's 1958 landmark LP "Cole Espanol," the first full album of Spanish-language standards recorded by a top-tier U.S. artist. Arranged by Nelson Riddle, it included elegant classics such as "Quizas, Quizas, Quizas" (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps) and "Acercate Mas" (Come Closer to Me).
Earlier this summer, Natalie Cole, following her father's example, released "Natalie Cole en Espanol," her first Spanish-language disc, as well as her first studio album after several years of personal upheaval. It received excellent reviews and topped the Latin album charts. Meanwhile, Chucho Valdes and his band, the Afro-Cuban Messengers, this summer issued their latest genre-subverting jazz experiment, the aptly named "Border-Free."
For Cole, 63, and Valdes, 71, mixing languages and genres is simply part of their musical DNA. So, although they've never met face to face, they expect to be simpatico when they share the Bowl's stage. "I'm very excited about it, and he's very excited about it," Cole said by phone.
The multiple Grammy Award-winning singer remembers touring as an 8-year-old with her father in Mexico, after "Cole Espanol" was released to critical approval across the hemisphere. "I wasn't there for any of the recordings, but it was my first introduction to traveling outside the U.S. at the time, and just being around such a different culture of people, and music-wise, it made a really big impression on me," she said.
Valdes, who lives in Spain, recalled meeting the elder Cole and hearing him perform during his first Havana sojourn. "Imagine that now I am playing with the daughter of Nat King Cole. For me, it represents something historic, a beautiful thing," he said.
Cole said her father, whose manager was from Honduras, worked frequently with Latin American musicians and had numerous Cuban friends who would visit her family's home. Nat King Cole, who combated racism throughout his life (including a Ku Klux Klan cross-burning at his Hancock Park house), also got to experience Cuba's version of segregation, when a color bar prevented him from staying at the Hotel Nacional.
The first time she heard her father sing in Spanish, Cole said, "I thought it was kind of funny, because I knew a little Spanish and I thought my father's accent was very funny. And he was very honest about the fact that he did not know a word of Spanish."
Yet the elder Cole's affection and respect for the music won over his Spanish-speaking listeners, and he went on to record two more Spanish-language records, "A Mis Amigos" (1959) and "More Cole Espanol" (1962).
Valdes' new disc also is a family project. One track, "Bebo," pays tribute to his father and his style of playing piano and composing. Another tune, "Pilar," dedicated to Valdes' mother, singer-pianist Pilar Rodriguez, interpolates fragments of J.S. Bach's "Prelude in D Minor," one of her favorite pieces.
"Border-Free," with influences ranging from Rachmaninoff to Moroccan percussion, also nods to an obscure historical incident in which a band of Comanche Indians captured by Spanish soldiers in the 1700s were transported as prisoners to Cuba. The album's cover depicts Valdes wearing the feathered headdress of a Plains Indian chief.
"The concept of the album is to represent the story that is known of the Comanche Indians who lived in Cuba at the end of the 19th century and mixed with the Afro-Cubans," said Valdes, who has devoted much of his career to exploring musical links between the Spanish- and English-speaking Americas. "It's the same as what happens in New Orleans with Mardi Gras, with the black slaves [performing] together with Indians."
Cole said her Spanish-language debut disc came about through a dramatic process in which three people were instrumental: her Cuban American producer Rudy Perez, Verve Music Group Chairman David Foster and a Salvadoran nurse named Esther.
Four years ago, Cole was diagnosed with kidney failure, likely caused by hepatitis C contracted during her long battle with drug addiction. She started receiving dialysis and later made an appeal for a kidney donor on "Larry King Live."
One of those watching with sympathy was the Salvadoran nurse who happened to be on duty at Cedars-Sinai hospital one day when Cole was receiving treatment. Barely two months later, the nurse's 30-year-old pregnant niece, a Salvadoran immigrant and organ donor, died unexpectedly of a stroke. Her aunt offered her kidney to Cole.
Cole received the news while waiting bedside at a San Fernando Valley hospital where her sister Carole was dying of lung cancer.
"This family saved my life," Cole said. "And in the next several years, I just was drawn even more to Latin people, Latin programs. I was listening to a lot of Spanish music. And I told David Foster maybe 31/2 years ago, 'I think I might want to do a Spanish record.'"
Although Cole at first considered using a language coach, she found that the Spanish pronunciations came fairly naturally to her.
In addition to a time-slipping "duet" with her late father on the bolero "Acercate Mas," using the same technology that permitted their posthumous pairing on "Unforgettable," the disc includes vocal collaborations with Andrea Bocelli on "Besame Mucho" and Juan Luis Guerra ("Bachata Rosa").
"One of the really cool things that Rudy said to me was, 'I'm not looking for you to become Spanish or Latin. I need you to still be Natalie Cole.'"


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Cal Dooley's uncle might have been pleased, but it's doubtful many Sun Belt row crop farmers would have been cheering the former California congressman's remarks at the recent USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum.
Dooley, who served 14 years representing one of the San Joaquin Valley districts in California, threw down the gauntlet to producers who would like to roll over most of the provisions of the current law into the 2007 farm bill.
Turning the argument that 10 percent of farmers receive 70 percent of the farm bill's subsidies on its head, Dooley noted that growers producing nearly 75 percent of the U.S. agricultural output today are doing so without those subsidies and "paying a price for our current farm policy.
"Allowing a minority of farmers in the United States to refuse to give up our archaic farm policies is holding hostage the 75 percent of U.S. agriculture that is willing to compete and win in the global marketplace," he said, speaking at the annual USDA Forum Dinner.
Dooley, who left Congress in 2004 to become president and CEO of the Food Products Association, noted that he ran for his 20th District seat as a Democrat in an area that was heavily Republican.
"I often tell a story about my first campaign for Congress when I was trying to convince one of my Republican uncles to vote for me," Dooley said. "After repeated efforts on my part, he finally said to me, 'Cal, I have only voted for one Democrat in my life and that was when I was on a jury and I voted to hang him.'"
Row crop farmers — and a number attended the dinner — might have shared those feelings when Dooley finished his speech at the forum in Arlington, Va.
When Henry Wallace, secretary of agriculture under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, announced a new set of farm policies during the Depression, he called them a "temporary solution to deal with an emergency," Dooley noted.
"While I will acknowledge there have been some modifications to our farm policy over the last 75 years, we are still utilizing a form of those temporary solutions."
That begs the question: "Is our present farm policy designed for the age of globalization and are our policies assisting the maximum number of our farmers and rural residents to compete and win in the international marketplace?
"My answer is No, and I would challenge any leader in agriculture — whether in Congress or representing a commodity or agricultural organization: If they had a clean slate and were asked to design a new agricultural policy for the United States, would it look like what we have today?"
Dooley asked several rhetorical questions about what the new farm programs should encompass, including a litany of numbers that have become all too familiar to row crop farmers:
Would it provide 92 percent of crop subsidies to only five commodities: soybeans, cotton, corn, wheat and rice that make up less than 30 percent of agricultural revenue?
Would it direct those subsidies to only 30 percent of the farmers?
Would it allow 10 percent of farmers to receive 70 percent of the subsidies paid by taxpayers?
With more than 40 percent of farmland owned by absentee landowners, "would we design a policy that resulted in benefits being capitalized into land values, providing marginal benefit to farmers, while increasing costs of production, reducing our competitiveness and creating barriers to entry for young farmers?"
Would the Congress design a farm program that encouraged farmers to hope for lower prices? "An Iowa corn farmer was quoted recently in the New York Times, saying, 'Everybody leans on the loan deficiency program as much as they can — it's like opening up the federal Treasury,'" said Dooley. "There were quite a few people this year that wished the corn prices would go to zero because they would have a bigger LDP.
"Can you imagine an apple grower in Washington, an almond grower in California, a cattle rancher in Texas, a peach grower in Georgia, a grape grower in New York saying they hoped the price of their commodity would decline or go to zero?"
Would we design a program that failed to contribute to rural prosperity? "A recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City found a negative correlation between the amount of farm payments rural counties receive and job and population growth," said Dooley.
Would "we design a sugar or dairy program in a manner that actually impedes investment in the development and production of new products the marketplace is demanding or undermine the international competitiveness of U.S. food manufacturers?"
He said a recent U.S. Commerce Department report found the U.S. sugar program contributed to the loss of 10,000 jobs from 1997-2002 at companies that produce "sugar-rich" products. During the same period, employment grew by 30,000 jobs at food companies not heavily reliant on sugar.
"The same study found that our sugar program is driving up food prices, which is in effect taxing U.S. consumers $1.5 billion a year. Most objective parties would answer no to these questions."
Dooley, a fourth generation farmer who grew up around Visalia, Calif., acknowledged that many farmers and some large farm organizations would like to extend the current farm bill for one or two more years until the Doha Round is completed.
"This, for some, is a little disingenuous, as they also don't want a Doha Round that forces the reduction of subsidies," he said.
He also disagrees with U.S. agricultural leaders' claims that reduced subsidies amount to unilateral disarmament by the United States before it can win concessions granting more access to other countries' markets.
"A compelling argument can be made that the U.S. should follow the lead of Australia and New Zealand, who unilaterally reformed their farm policies… with the result their farm policies today are more robust, competitive and their agricultural revenue is growing as a share of total GDP." (Dooley did not address complaints that members of the Australian Wheat Board paid kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime to increase its wheat exports to Iraq.)
"I look at unilateral disarmament as taking the program commodities weapon of choice, the shovel, out of their hands so they do not continue to dig U.S. agriculture into a deeper hole."
Dooley said he wouldn't be such an advocate for unilateral disarmament if the negative repercussions of our farm programs were limited to commodities that receive subsidies, "but farmers producing close to 75 percent of the agricultural output in the United States are competing today without subsidies and they are paying a price for our current farm policy."
Failure to reform U.S. farm policies, he said, "only further emboldens the European Union to continue its $60 billion a year Common Agricultural Policy and its export subsidies. It gives cover to Japan continuing its 500 percent tariff on rice imports; it facilitates Brazil and other developing countries from agreeing to provide greater access to U.S. products.
"U.S. agriculture has always been and will continue to be dependent on exports and foreign markets," Dooley noted. "We cannot lose sight of the fact that last year we exported almost $60 billion in agricultural production. As we look to the future, exports hold the key to U.S. agriculture's financial prosperity."
He said the United States can provide an appropriate safety net for its farmers, "a new toolbox" that allows farmers to manage risks while minimizing distortions in the marketplace. Among those: Whole farm revenue insurance and farm savings accounts.
The government should also plan a bigger role in assisting farmers to be on the leading edge of technology. "Investments in agricultural research are the key to enhancing productivity and creating new markets for commodities."
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There are some new laws for Virginians that became effective as of July 1. Listed below are of some of those new laws.
House Bill 1907 and Senate Bill 1222. Police are now allowed to stop and ticket people for texting while driving. Fine increased from $20 to $125 for a first offense.
It had been a secondary offense, meaning police could ticket it only if a driver is stopped for a superseding violation such as speeding.
The new law also provides for enhanced fines for texting drivers who are convicted of reckless driving.
House Bill 1524. Exempts records of minors participating in parks and recreation programs from public view under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Senate Bill 1335. Removes public access to concealed handgun permit records.
House Bill 2346. Requires every public school to have at least two lock-down drills per year.
House Bill 1871. Will require school boards to define bullying and include policies and procedures for combatting it in their student codes of conduct.
House Bill 1999. Imposes on individual schools an A-through-F grading system to assess its performance. It requires the State Board of Education to approve student growth indicators for use in accrediting schools by July 31.
House Bill 2151 and Senate Bill 1223. Requires annual performance evaluations for teachers, principals and assistant principals of public schools. It also extends the probationary period before teachers are eligible for continuing contracts from three to five years.
House Bill 2344. This new law requires local school divisions to establish threat-assessment teams and critical incident response training programs.
House Bill 2028 and Senate Bill 986. This law will now require cardiopulmonary resuscitation training for all public school teachers and nearly all high school students.
Senate Bill 1378. Provides for at least one year in prison for people convicted of buying firearms in Virginia for the purpose of reselling the weapon to a buyer the seller knows is prohibited from possessing a gun.
House Bill 1783 and Senate Bill 1017. This law will increase the penalty for possession of contraband cigarettes with intent to distribute.
House Bill 1617 and Senate Bill 107. The law will now allow religious or political student organizations at Virginia public colleges to expel members who disagree with their missions.
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The program uses best-in-class recycling methods while helping customers to keep a lid on replacement costs. Postage is supplied. "In essence, our new partnership gives our customers a way to trade in their outdated electronics," said Jackson. "It stretches their dollars and helps the planet at the same time."


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HIH lottery winner 4-17-10: Yasha - 04-17-2010 , 11:00 AM
1. Tell us a bit about yourself.
My real name is Bond... Eric Bond. I'm 25 years old now and live in Utah (and am not Mormon) where we enjoy the most random weather patters I believe to be on this earth. I play a little bit of Halo 3, but have been pretty hooked on Borderlands. And, of course, I still lan Halo:CE whenever I get the chance.
2. How did you find High Impact Halo, and when?
From what I can remember someone on XBL told me about it... I promptly forgot about it and a while later was lead here by Google.
3. What is it that you like about Halo tricks, and what kind of tricks are your favorite to do or see?
I used to like the massive variety of glitches in Halo 2 and the different uses that people would come up with. I was super impressed by CyberMafia, who I believe was one of the first to document sticking objects to boxes, getting them airborne, having host quit and being left with a floating object (a lot of people accused them of modding). Also, the video, "Blood Gulch Bash," by Halo Secrets was the first video to inspire me to get into glitching.
4. Have you discovered any Halo tricks or glitches yourself?
None that I take credit for. My motto was always; someone, somewhere has probably discovered this sometime before me.
5. What's your favorite part of Halo 3? What is your least favorite?
I like the replay option and I love playing with my friends. I don't like most of the rest of the game.
6. What other hobbies do you have?
I've gotten into cars and drifting since I left the Halo glitching scene and spend much time and money on them (drifter is a '97 240sx; PMB coils, welded diff and stock engine. I also have a '93 240sx convertible with an RB20 w/RB25 turbo which is turning into my daily driver)
I'm driving the white car, my friend, Mikey, is in the yellow. Front bumpers are so overrated hahahahaha.
7. If there were a thousand seagulls in an airplane while its flying, each weighing two pounds a piece, but they were all flying in the airplane, would the airplane weigh 2000 pounds more?
No? It's a contained atmosphere (in a way). If they were flying, they would be flying in circles within the plane, and creating down force which might account for some weight (think of a helicopter hovering in a plane and you might get the idea).
8. If you soak a raisin in water, does it turn back into a grape?
Well, it sure as hell doesn't make a martini.
9. (From last week's winner)What are your favorite warez, porn, and Halo modding sites? Kindly provide links for convenience. -nottaj
Warez; http://www.demonoid.com/
Porn; I've got one I like. PM me.
Halo modding; umm, duh... you're on it.
10. If you could ask the next lottery winner one question, what would it be?
If you had the power to change one thing about Halo 3, what would it be?
That's awesome. :P
Congrats on finally claiming your glorious lottery prize. :)
You got into sliding? Doubt youll ever see this but why slide the s14 when you have a s13 where parts a dime a dozen,you have a hatch or a coupe s13?
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Israel's government this week heatedly debated how and if to restart peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, as US Secretary of State John Kerry returned to the region to continue pushing the two sides back to the table.
Meeting with Kerry in Jerusalem on Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel "wants to restart the peace talks with the Palestinians. ...I hope the Palestinians want [this] as well...we ought to be successful for a simple reason: When there's a will, we'll find a way."
But fiery discussions in the Knesset earlier in the week put an end to any illusions that Israel's new government is anywhere close to a unified position regarding the peace process.
At a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said the government's goal was to restart peace talks with the Palestinians as soon as possible.
Just days earlier Livni had told Army Radio that there is no chance of reaching a peace deal with Hamas, with which the Palestinian Authority continues to seek reconciliation, and which Palestinian voters continuously put into power.
Nevertheless, Livni insisted that birthing a Palestinian state is in Israel's interests, and that this is the baseline of renewed peace talks. More right-wing members of the government countered by stating that a two-state solution was not an official policy, even if it had been accepted by individual members of the government.
"Two states for two peoples is not the government's official position," said MK Orit Strock of the Jewish Home party, interrupting Livni. "It is not part of the government's guiding principles, and for good reason. This is perhaps Netanyahu's position and your position, but it has not been accepted as the government's position."
MK Moti Yogev, also of Jewish Home, added that "two nations for two peoples is disconnected from reality."
Members of the centrist Yesh Atid party questioned how Israel could expect the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table if Israel's government had not come to a consensus that it accepts a Palestinian state? Jewish Home members suggested that this was precisely the point, and that official acceptance of a Palestinian state had been purposely left out of the new government's guiding principles.
Committee chairman and former Foreign Minister MK Avigdor Lieberman (Israel Beiteinu) stepped in noting that even for those who prefer simply to manage the conflict and realize true peace might not be achievable, Israel still must return to negotiations to prevent outside forces from imposing a solution.
Livni made one last effort at what appeared to be scare-mongering, claiming that "not reaching an agreement with the Palestinians will lead to the end of Zionism."
Strock responded that Israel must not be afraid because "this is our land," to which Livni quipped, "This is our land, but the question is if this state will remain ours or not."
Meanwhile, those insisting that the land-for-peace process is the only way forward continued to ignore what the Palestinians themselves are saying amongst themselves.
Over 61 percent of Palestinians responding to a global survey by the Pew Research Center said a Palestinian state will not live in peaceful coexistence with Israel, while a 67 percent majority said violence should be used to achieve Palestinian goals.
Forty-eight percent of Palestinian voters said they still hold a favorable view of Hamas, while 56 percent like the even more radical Islamic Jihad.
As Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor noted on Monday, the true obstacle to peace is that Palestinian society has never been educated to live in peace with Israel, and so it never will.
"The more the Palestinian people continue to fertilize the land with hatred of Israel, the smaller the chance that the seeds of peace in the Middle East will sprout and take root," Prosor said during an exchange with Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat.
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Under the facts presented, aggravated battery was a lesser included offense of attempted first-degree murder, and the failure to instruct on the lesser included offense was reversible error.
Under the facts presented, the trial court did not err in instructing that attempted second-degree murder was a lesser included offense of attempted first-degree premeditated murder.
Under the facts presented, the defendant's receiving identical sentences for two degrees of the same crime does not result in constitutionally disproportionate punishment.
The legislature is the branch of government entrusted with the power to set punishments for crimes.
It is not an appellate court's function to determine the wisdom of a legislative determination.
Appeal from Douglas District Court; PAULA B. MARTIN, judge. Opinion filed October 1, 1999. Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.
Elizabeth Seale Cateforis and Kirk Redmond, assistant appellate defenders, and Jessica R. Kunen, chief appellate defender, for appellant.
Julie Haffner, legal intern, Angela M. Wilson, assistant district attorney, Christine Kenney Tonkovich, district attorney, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for appellee.
Before ELLIOTT, P.J., GERNON, J., and PADDOCK, S.J.
ELLIOTT, J.: Bobby D. Riley appeals his convictions and his sentence, having been convicted of two counts of attempted second-degree murder (intentional) and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm.
We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.
Riley claims the trial court erred in refusing to instruct on aggravated battery as a lesser included offense of attempted first-degree murder. This may be a case of last impression, since the second prong of the test stated in State v. Fike, 243 Kan. 365, 368, 757 P.2d 724 (1988), has been legislatively overruled. See K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 21-3107(2)(d). Here, however, the crimes were committed in 1997.
It appears we must choose between the holdings of three cases. In State v. Dixon, 248 Kan. 776, 811 P.2d 1153 (1991), the defendant was charged with shooting at the victim. The Supreme Court ruled aggravated battery was not a lesser included offense of attempted first-degree murder under the facts presented. 248 Kan. at 784-85.
In State v. Morfitt, 25 Kan. App. 2d 8, 956 P.2d 719, rev. denied 265 Kan. ___ (1998), one of the charges against the defendant was attempted premeditated murder, and the trial court denied defendant's request for an instruction on aggravated battery. The information charged defendant with placing a sock around the victim's neck and tightening it. In Morfitt, we held the evidence essential to prove attempted murder also proved aggravated battery. 25 Kan. App. 2d at 16. Accordingly, we concluded the failure to instruct on aggravated battery as a lesser included offense was reversible error. 25 Kan. App. 2d at 16.
The Morfitt court relied on State v. Smith, 245 Kan. 381, 391-92, 781 P.2d 666 (1989), where then Justice (now Chief Justice) McFarland stated:
"'An act of first-degree premeditated murder by means of shooting, beating, or stabbing, etc. requires proof of an aggravated battery. Had the victim survived the charge could have been attempted murder or aggravated battery but not both. No case has been cited where a single act constituting aggravated battery has been held to constitute both aggravated battery and a homicide.' (Emphasis added.)" 25 Kan. App. 2d at 16.
In the present case, the charges of attempted first-degree murder alleged the defendant "shot [the victim] with a handgun, toward the perpetration of" the crime of first-degree murder, certainly implying the victim was shot, rather than merely being shot at.
We are compelled to follow Smith and Morfitt rather than Dixon. We thus must hold the failure to instruct on aggravated battery as a lesser included offense under the second prong of Fike was reversible error.
Riley also claims the trial court erred by instructing the jury on attempted second-degree murder as a lesser included offense of attempted first-degree premeditated murder.
Whether second-degree murder was, at the time, a lesser included offense of first-degree murder is immaterial. K.S.A. 21-3107(2) provides a defendant may be convicted of the crime charged or an included crime. Included crimes may be a lesser degree of the crime charged, or a crime necessarily proven if the charged crime is proven. Attempted second-degree murder was a crime necessarily proven if attempted first-degree murder was proven.
State v. Tucker, 253 Kan. 38, 853 P.2d 17 (1993), controls. There, the Supreme Court held that possession of cocaine was not a lesser degree of possession with intent to sell because both were class C felonies. See K.S.A. 65-4127a. It was, however, an included crime as defined in K.S.A. 21-3107(2)(d) (Ensley 1988). The Tucker court held the trial court had jurisdiction to enter a conviction on an uninstructed offense, equivalent in grade to the offense charged. 253 Kan. at 42-43. Thus, Riley's argument is meritless.
Finally, Riley complains that his receiving the same punishment for attempted second-degree murder as he would have received for attempted first-degree murder (both first- and second-degree murder are off-grid offenses) constitutes disproportionate punishment. Conviction and sentence for a completed second-degree murder allowed for an earlier parole date than for first-degree murder. See K.S.A. 1997 Supp. 22-3717(b)(4). However, a conviction for attempt to commit either crime resulted in sentencing for a severity level 1 offense on the sentencing grid, with identical sentencing ranges. See K.S.A. 21-3301(c). Riley argues that his receiving identical sentences for two degrees of the same crime results in disproportionate punishment, violating the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
This is an issue of first impression in Kansas.
The legislature is the branch of government entrusted with the power to set the punishment for a crime. State v. Reed, 248 Kan. 792, 798, 811 P.2d 1163 (1991). Thus, Riley must show his punishment is constitutionally impermissible because it is so disproportionate to the crime that it shocks the conscience and offends fundamental notions of human dignity. See State v. Freeman, 223 Kan. 362, 367, 574 P.2d 950 (1978).
Courts are reluctant to overturn sentences solely on the length of incarceration rather than the method of punishment. See, e.g., Harmelin v. Michigan, 501 U.S. 957, 989-94, 115 L. Ed. 2d 836, 111 S. Ct. 2680 (1991) (Eighth Amendment probably contains no proportionality guarantee). Here, Riley received a mid-range, concurrent sentence, well shy of the statutory maximum.
In considering whether a sentence is disproportionate, a court may compare the punishment with punishments imposed for more serious offenses, and if among them are found more serious crimes punished less severely than the offense in question, the challenged penalty is to that extent suspect. Freeman, 223 Kan. at 367.
Other jurisdictions agree that a lesser included crime may not carry a harsher sentence than the greater. See Willoughby v. Phend, 301 F. Supp. 644, 647 (N.D. Ind. 1969); State v. Dayutis, 127 N.H. 101, 105, 498 A.2d 325 (1985). And some jurisdictions have upheld sentences where the lesser included crime carries a sentence equal to the greater. E.g., People v. Macias, 137 Cal. App. 3d 465, 471, 187 Cal. Rptr. 100 (1982) (equivalent sentences for attempted first- and second-degree murder); Millar v. State, 275 Ind. 465, 469, 417 N.E.2d 1105 (1981).
We can find no legislative history for the bill classifying second-degree murder as an off-grid felony, but it appears the resulting identical penalties for attempted first- and second-degree murder were inadvertent. But it is not our function to determine the wisdom of a legislative determination. See State ex rel. Schneider v. Kennedy, 225 Kan. 13, 21, 587 P.2d 844 (1978).
Further, the trial court had discretion to sentence Riley to any period between 740 and 816 months, a 76-month range, which provided a limited opportunity to ameliorate any harm done. See K.S.A. 1997 Supp. 21-4704. Riley's sentence does not rise to the level of cruel and unusual punishment.
Riley's sentence for attempted second-degree murder is not disproportionate merely because the presumptive sentence for attempted first-degree murder was equivalent.
We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.


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Well it's a done deal wrestling fans. TNA will be hitting Spike TV in October on Slammin' Saturday nights after the UFC. And the wrestling world as a whole rejoices. Competition, no matter how small at first, is good for business. Period.
Hopefully we can all get to see a new version of the "Monday Night Wars" down the road, but for now we're all happy with what we've got.
TNA will be doing its best from day one to give a viable alternative to the WWE. Trying to build new stars for the new veiwers while giving them some familiar faces is the first order of business. And if there was a roster ready to make new stars it's the TNA roster. Let's run a few down shall we!
Now I'm going to bypass the obvious next superstars of A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels. If you can't read this then maybe you don't know about them but then you wouldn't be here. If you can read you know they are the next "it" men. So they don't need anymore publicity! Heh.
So where to start? How bout' at the top, or soon to be top. Monty Brown. Former NFL star and Super Bowl winner. Quite possibly the bluest of blue chip wrestlers. This guy has everything you look for in a world champion -- Looks, physique, intellect, ability, and his top drawing factor....he's black. Make no mistake. That is not a racial statement in any way shape or form. But there have always been a lack of black or African-American world champions and role models in wrestling. I'm not saying there aren't any, just few in comparison to Caucasians.
Next up I think there would be a strong case for the "Monster" Abyss to ba a breakout star a la Undertaker. He can really wrestle for a big sum bitch and is a team player in every sense of the words. If he continues at the pace he has set for himself until this point, there are many world title runs in his future.
The next pick I have for TNA soon to be huge stars has to be a tie between what the internet writers call two "Hosses" -- Bobby Roode and Lance Hoyt. Both of these guys are "hot prospects" all the way. Bobby at 6'1" and 240 is a punched out of the mould wrestler. No nonsense. No funny stuff. Straight ahead gonna beat you up and there's nothing you can do about it kind of guy, Bobby will remind a lot of people of a few different wrestlers. But to me he seems to be the second coming of "Mr Perfect" Curt Hennig. Time will tell.
Lance definitely has star potential. At 6'8" and around the 280-pound mark, he's definitely got the size to turn heads. The thing about Lance is he also has the athletic ability to turn heads. People call him things like "Test #2" or a "one trick pony" (refering to a great moonsault), but remember, he hasn't been wrestling all that long! There's huge potential there.
There are a number of others who will seem to be "can't miss" prospects. Petey Williams, Matt Bently (aka Michael Shane), Chris Sabin, Samoa Joe, there are so many on the roster you could just list the entire thing if you wanted! October will be a great time to be a wrestling fan. Heroes will be made and the business will hopefully take the upswing that we all know it needs!
I had the pleasure of working two of the best indy shows I've ever been on recently in the last Ballpark Brawl working John McChesney and the insane Matt Striker, or should I say the Ultimate Striker!? This crazy showed up dressed as the Warrior and jumped in as I was "educating" McChesney (who's a good hand). So he likes to play dress up does he? Well I will officially challenge him here and now to an "'80s Hero" match! Striker you show up as your '80s hero and I'll be mine and we'll see who's was better! Anywhere, anytime pal!
I also was fortunate enough to be part of the Border City Wrestling Wrestlefest with a Hart Foundation reunion! Being from western Canada, and more specifically the Dungeon, it was great to see Bret Hart, Jim Neidhart and Jimmy Hart all together! It was one of those "mark" moments that will stay with you forever as the crowd in Windsor really were appreciative and ate it all up. I can honestly say though, without a shadow of a doubt, that the main event of that show, Petey Williams vs Chris Sabin vs Alex Shelley vs AJ Styles, was one of the BEST matches I have ever seen and when this comes out on DVD I HIGHLY recomend you pick it up!
Well enough for this week. I hope you are all still supporting your local indies and are appreciative of what we as wrestlers put our bodies through for your enjoyment! We love what we do but love that you love what we do even more. Till next time Stay Hot! And if you don't like it, learn to love it! Cause I'm Canadian and Proud of it!
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In college basketball, every school has championship dreams no matter what the size of their program. Success can be determined by a single decision, a single coaching move, or even a single shot. One player can make or break a team's chemistry. One coach can lead a team to victory.
The 2k5 edition features a revamped Legacy Mode that allow players to adjust training time and recruiting, balance out the budget, and use the Coach Carousel to see off-season coaching changes and improve your coach's reputation. The new Pass-N-Go System includes two pass buttons allow a multitude of dramatic team plays as gamers can perform lead passes to direct teammates to the hoop. And the new graphics engine reinvigorates the college atmosphere with 3D crowds amd more details on players.
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The constitutional powers of the commander-in-chief in time of war are critical to the system established by the framers. Lincoln's analysis and exercise of the commander-in-chief's war powers during the Civil War both serve to illuminate those powers. Given the Supreme Court's decision in the Hamdan case this past week, it may be an opportune moment to revisit some history.
Lincoln's primary aim as commander-in-chief was of course the preservation of the Union — the restoration of democracy and the rule of law among the seceding states. He meant to demonstrate that "among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and that those who take such appeal are sure to lose their case, and pay the cost." Indeed, as Professor Daniel Farber recalls in Lincoln's Constitution, Lincoln originally called up the militia in the name of the rule of law because "the laws of the United States have been for some time past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed" by "combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings."
In subduing the Confederacy, Lincoln took his bearings by his constitutional duty to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution." Though this is the subject for another day, it should be noted that, given the Supreme Court's handiwork in the Dred Scott case, he was not an advocate of judicial supremacy. As president and commander-in-chief, he suspended habeas corpus, used martial law, instituted military trials, and exercised power to the limits of his constitutional authority in a manner that suggests the loose nature of those limits when confronted by necessity. Yet Lincoln preserved the rule of law and became the Great Liberator.
As Farber notes, "several Civil War actions taken under military authority impinged on freedom of speech." Perhaps best known is the case of former Ohio Congressman Clement Vallandingham. As commanding general of the Department of Ohio, Ambrose Burnside prohibited "the habit of declaring sympathies for the enemy." In the spring of 1863, Burnside had Vallandingham arrested for violating the order in a speech calling the war "wicked, cruel and unnecessary." As Farber recounts, "he called upon his audience to [use the ballot box to] hurl 'King Lincoln' from his throne." The echoes of Vallandingham in the Democrats' recurrent gibes at President Bush are surely inadvertent. The Peace Democrats of 1863 nevertheless sound remarkably like today's Peace Democrats.
In any event, the military commission found Vallandingham guilty of violating Burnside's General Order No. 38 and ordered him confined until the war ended. The ensuing controversy elicited Lincoln's famous letter to Erastus Corning defending the policy of military arrests in the name of public necessity. Lincoln ultimately resolved the controversy over Vallandingham's conviction and confinement by banishing him to Confederate territory (from which he escaped to Canada).
From the case of Vallandingham, Farber moves on to consider the case of the New York World. The case of the World combines elements of the 2004 presidential campaign and the role played by another New York newspaper today in a way that gives it a surprisingly contemporary feel. As Farber tells it:
Two journalists forged an Associated Press story about a bogus presidential call for drafting four hundred thousand men. (As a signal of desperation by the president, this "news" was supposed to drive up the price of gold, allowing the two men to make a quick profit.) The World fell for the stunt and published the story. Suspecting a Confederate plot, Lincoln ordered the arrest of the editors and publishers, as well as the seizure of the premises. This put the newspaper out of business until the order was countermanded.
(Footnote omitted.) This post closely follows Farber's book at pages 170-173 and 176. For more, see Professor Michael Paulsen's brilliant review of Farber's book in the spring 2004 issue of the University of Chicago Law Review, Mark Neely's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Fate of Liberty, and William Rehnquist's All the Laws But One.


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I'm a 31 year old vibrant woman running a natural health clinic within a large gym and health club. Our clinic offers massage, nutrition and naturopathy which is a system of health care using herbal medicine and lifestyle advice to get your health back on track.
Our clinic offers friendly, personal service, is very modern and clean and there's nothing new age about us at all!
My focus is boosting people's energy levels, balancing hormones, fixing people's bad digestion and teaching people how to eat well and feel great.
Most people come to me because they just "not feeling quite right." They might be a big tired, stressed, run down, sluggish, bloated.
I educate people and teach them to listen to their body and learn what foods and lifestyle choices work for them to get them feeling energised and relaxed.
We also offer sports and relaxation massage.
Middle class women working women and mothers aged 21-55, well educated, exercise regularly and focused on their health. Want more energy and need to relax and take time out for themselves.
Feel free to be creative.
Needs to be fresh and convey a stylish, clean, modern image with energy.
Need a logo to be used on signage around the gym, bus stop advertising (needs to stand out and be visible from a distance) and on our website and brochures.
I like clean, modern, rounded fonts similar to century gothic, but this is just a guide.
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