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Elgin v. Dept. of Treasury,
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NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D. C. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that corrections may be made before the preliminary print goes to press.
No. 11–45
MICHAEL B. ELGIN, et al., PETITIONERS v. DEPART- MENT OF THE TREASURY et al.
on writ of certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the first circuit
[June 11, 2012]
Justice Thomas delivered the opinion of the Court.
Under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA), 5 U. S. C. §1101 et seq., certain federal employees may obtain administrative and judicial review of specified ad- verse employment actions. The question before us is whether the CSRA provides the exclusive avenue to judicial review when a qualifying employee challenges an adverse employment action by arguing that a federal sta- tute is unconstitutional. We hold that it does.
The CSRA "established a comprehensive system for reviewing personnel action taken against federal employees." United States v. Fausto, 484 U. S. 439, 455 (1988) . As relevant here, Subchapter II of Chapter 75 governs review of major adverse actions taken against employees "for such cause as will promote the efficiency of the service." 5 U. S. C. §§7503(a), 7513(a). Employees entitled to review are those in the "competitive service" and "excepted service" who meet certain requirements regarding probationary periods and years of service. [ 1 ] §7511(a)(1). The re- viewable agency actions are removal, suspension for more than 14 days, reduction in grade or pay, or furlough for 30 days or less. §7512.
When an employing agency proposes a covered action against a covered employee, the CSRA gives the employee the right to notice, representation by counsel, an opportunity to respond, and a written, reasoned decision from the agency. §7513(b). If the agency takes final adverse action against the employee, the CSRA gives the employee the right to a hearing and to be represented by an attorney or other representative before the Merit Systems Pro- tection Board (MSPB). §§7513(d), 7701(a)(1)–(2). The MSPB is authorized to order relief to prevailing employees, including reinstatement, backpay, and attorney's fees. §§1204(a)(2), 7701(g).
An employee who is dissatisfied with the MSPB's decision is entitled to judicial review in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. That court "shall review the record and hold unlawful and set aside any agency action, findings, or conclusions" that are "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law," "obtained without procedures required by law, rule, or regulation having been followed," or "unsupported by substantial evidence." §§7703(a)(1), (c). The Federal Circuit has "exclusive jurisdiction" over appeals from a final decision of the MSPB. 28 U. S. C. §1295(a)(9); see also 5 U. S. C. §7703(b)(1) (judicial review of an MSPB decision "shall be" in the Federal Circuit).
Petitioners are former federal competitive service employees who failed to comply with the Military Selective Service Act, 50 U. S. C. App. §453. That Act requires male citizens and permanent-resident aliens of the United States between the ages of 18 and 26 to register for the Selective Service. Another federal statute, 5 U. S. C. §3328 (hereinafter Section 3328), bars from employment by an Executive agency anyone who has knowingly and willfully failed to register. Pursuant to Section 3328, petitioners were discharged (or allegedly constructively discharged) by respondents, their employing agencies.
Among petitioners, only Michael Elgin appealed his removal to the MSPB. Elgin argued that Section 3328 is an unconstitutional bill of attainder and unconstitution-ally discriminates on the basis of sex when combined with the registration requirement of the Military Selective Service Act. The MSPB referred Elgin's appeal to an ad- ministrative law judge (ALJ) for an initial decision. [ 2 ] The ALJ dismissed the appeal for lack of jurisdiction, concluding that an employee is not entitled to MSPB review of agency action that is based on an absolute statutory bar to employment. App. to Pet. for Cert. 100a–101a. The ALJ also held that Elgin's constitutional claims could not "confer jurisdiction" on the MSPB because it "lacks authority to determine the constitutionality of a statute." Id., at 101a.
Elgin neither petitioned for review by the full MSPB nor appealed to the Federal Circuit. Instead, he joined the other petitioners in filing suit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, raising the same constitutional challenges to Section 3328 and the Military Selective Service Act. App. 4, 26–28, 29. Petitioners sought equitable relief in the form of a declaratory judgment that the challenged statutes are unconstitutional, an injunction prohibiting enforcement of Section 3328, reinstatement to their former positions, backpay, benefits, and attorney's fees. Id., at 29–30.
The District Court rejected respondents' argument that it lacked jurisdiction and denied petitioners' constitutional claims on the merits. See Elgin v. United States, 697 F. Supp. 2d 187 (Mass. 2010). The District Court held that the CSRA did not preclude it from hearing petitioners' claims, because the MSPB had no authority to determine the constitutionality of a federal statute. Id., at 193. Hence, the District Court concluded that it retained jurisdiction under the general grant of federal-question jurisdiction in 28 U. S. C. §1331. 697 F. Supp. 2d, at 194.
The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit vacated the judgment and remanded with instructions to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. See 641 F. 3d 6 (2011). The Court of Appeals held that challenges to a removal are not exempted from the CSRA review scheme simply because the employee argues that the statute authorizing the removal is unconstitutional. Id., at 11–12. According to the Court of Appeals, the CSRA provides a forum—the Federal Circuit—that may adjudicate the constitutionality of a federal statute, and petitioners "were obliged to use it." Id., at 12–13.
We granted certiorari to decide whether the CSRA pre- cludes district court jurisdiction over petitioners' claims even though they are constitutional claims for equitable relief. See 565 U. S. ___ (2011). We conclude that it does, and we therefore affirm.
We begin with the appropriate standard for determining whether a statutory scheme of administrative and judicial review provides the exclusive means of review for constitutional claims. Petitioners argue that even if they may obtain judicial review of their constitutional claims before the Federal Circuit, they are not precluded from pursuing their claims in federal district court. According to petitioners, the general grant of federal-question jurisdiction in 28 U. S. C. §1331, which gives district courts authority over constitutional claims, remains undisturbed unless Congress explicitly directs otherwise. In support of this argument, petitioners rely on Webster v. Doe, 486 U. S. 592, 603 (1988) , which held that "where Congress intends to preclude judicial review of constitutional claims[,] its intent to do so must be clear." The Webster Court noted that this "heightened showing" was required "to avoid the 'serious constitutional question' that would arise if a federal statute were construed to deny any judicial forum for a colorable constitutional claim." Ibid. (quoting Bowen v. Michigan Academy of Family Physicians, 476 U. S. 667 , n. 12 (1986)). Petitioners contend that the CSRA does not meet this standard because it does not expressly bar suits in district court.
Petitioners' argument overlooks a necessary predicate to the application of Webster's heightened standard: a statute that purports to "deny any judicial forum for a colorable constitutional claim." 486 U. S., at 603. Webster's standard does not apply where Congress simply channels judicial review of a constitutional claim to a particular court. We held as much in Thunder Basin Coal Co. v. Reich, 510 U. S. 200 (1994) . In that case, we considered whether a statutory scheme of administrative review followed by judicial review in a federal appellate court precluded district court jurisdiction over a plaintiff's statutory and constitutional claims. Id., at 206. We noted that the plaintiff's claims could be "meaningfully addressed in the Court of Appeals" and that the case therefore did "not present the 'serious constitutional question' that would arise if an agency statute were construed to preclude all judicial review of a constitutional claim." Id., at 215, and n. 20 (quoting Bowen, supra, at 681, n. 12). Accordingly, we did not require Webster's "heightened showing," but instead asked only whether Congress' intent to preclude district court jurisdiction was " 'fairly discernible in the statutory scheme.' " 510 U. S., at 207 (quoting Block v. Community Nutrition Institute, 467 U. S. 340, 351 (1984) ).
Like the statute in Thunder Basin, the CSRA does not foreclose all judicial review of petitioners' constitutional claims, but merely directs that judicial review shall occur in the Federal Circuit. Moreover, as we explain below, the Federal Circuit is fully capable of providing meaningful review of petitioners' claims. See infra, at 12–17. Accordingly, the appropriate inquiry is whether it is "fairly discernible" from the CSRA that Congress intended covered employees appealing covered agency actions to proceed exclusively through the statutory review scheme, even in cases in which the employees raise constitutional challenges to federal statutes.
To determine whether it is "fairly discernible" that Congress precluded district court jurisdiction over petitioners' claims, we examine the CSRA's text, structure, and purpose. See Thunder Basin, supra, at 207; Fausto, 484 U. S., at 443.
This is not the first time we have addressed the impact of the CSRA's text and structure on the availability of judicial review of a federal employee's challenge to an employment decision. In Fausto, we considered whether a so-called "nonpreference excepted service employe[e]" could challenge his suspension in the United States Claims Court, even though the CSRA did not then afford him a right to review in the MSPB or the Federal Circuit. [ 3 ] Id., at 440–441, 448. Citing "[t]he comprehensive nature of the CSRA, the attention that it gives throughout to the rights of nonpreference excepted service employees, and the fact that it does not include them in provisions for administrative and judicial review contained in Chapter 75," the Court concluded that "the absence of provision for these employees to obtain judicial review" was a "considered congressional judgment." Id., at 448. The Court thus found it "fairly discernible" that Congress intended to preclude all judicial review of Fausto's statutory claims. [ 4 ] Id., at 452 (citing Block, supra, at 349).
Just as the CSRA's "elaborate" framework, 484 U. S., at 443, demonstrates Congress' intent to entirely foreclose judicial review to employees to whom the CSRA denies statutory review, it similarly indicates that extrastatutory review is not available to those employees to whom the CSRA grants administrative and judicial review. Indeed, in Fausto we expressly assumed that "competitive service employees, who are given review rights by Chapter 75, cannot expand these rights by resort to" judicial review outside of the CSRA scheme. See id., at 450, n. 3. As Fausto explained, the CSRA "prescribes in great detail the protections and remedies applicable to" adverse personnel actions against federal employees. Id., at 443. For example, Subchapter II of Chapter 75, the portion of the CSRA relevant to petitioners, specifically enumerates the major adverse actions and employee classifications to which the CSRA's procedural protections and review provisions apply. 5 U. S. C. §§7511, 7512. The subchapter then sets out the procedures due an employee prior to final agency action. §7513. And, Chapter 77 of the CSRA exhaustively details the system of review before the MSPB and the Federal Circuit. §§7701, 7703; see also Fausto, supra, at 449 (emphasizing that the CSRA's structure evinces "the primacy" of review by the MSPB and the Federal Circuit). Given the painstaking detail with which the CSRA sets out the method for covered employees to obtain review of adverse employment actions, it is fairly discernible that Congress intended to deny such employees an additional avenue of review in district court.
Petitioners do not dispute that they are employees who suffered adverse actions covered by the foregoing provisions of the CSRA. Nor do they contest that the CSRA's text and structure support implied preclusion of district court jurisdiction, at least as a general matter. Petitioners even acknowledge that the MSPB routinely adjudicates some constitutional claims, such as claims that an agency took adverse employment action in violation of an em- ployee's First or Fourth Amendment rights, and that these claims must be brought within the CSRA scheme. See Brief for Petitioners 33; Tr. of Oral Arg. 7–11, 15, 21; see also, e.g., Smith v. Department of Transp., 106 MSPR 59, 78–79 (2007) (applying Pickering v. Board of Ed. of Township High School Dist. 205, Will Cty., 391 U. S. 563 (1968) , to an employee's claim that he was suspended in retal- iation for the exercise of his First Amendment rights); Garrison v. Department of Justice, 67 MSPR 154 (1995) (considering whether an order directing an employee to submit to a drug test was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment). Nevertheless, petitioners seek to carve out an exception to CSRA exclusivity for facial or as-applied constitutional challenges to federal statutes.
The text and structure of the CSRA, however, provide no support for such an exception. The availability of ad- ministrative and judicial review under the CSRA gen- erally turns on the type of civil service employee and adverse employment action at issue. See, e.g., 5 U. S. C. §§7511(a)(1) (defining "employee"), 7512 (defining "[a]c- tions covered"), 7513(d) (providing that "[a]n employee against whom an action is taken under this section is entitled to appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board"), 7703(a)(1) (providing that "[a]ny employee . . . adversely affected or aggrieved by a final order or decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board may obtain judicial review of the order or decision" in the Federal Circuit). Nothing in the CSRA's text suggests that its exclusive review scheme is inapplicable simply because a covered employee challenges a covered action on the ground that the statute authorizing that action is unconstitutional. As the Government correctly notes, "[t]he plain language of [the CSRA's] provisions applies to an employee who challenges his removal on the ground that the statute requiring it is unconstitutional no less than it applies to an employee who challenges his removal on any other ground." Brief for Respondents 33–34.
In only one situation does the CSRA expressly exempt a covered employee's appeal of a covered action from Federal Circuit review based on the type of claim at issue. When a covered employee "alleges that a basis for the action was discrimination" prohibited by enumerated federal employment laws, 5 U. S. C. §7702(a)(1)(B), the CSRA allows the employee to obtain judicial review of an unfavorable MSPB decision by filing a civil action as provided by the applicable employment law. See §7703(b)(2). Each of the cross-referenced employment laws authorizes an action in federal district court. See 42 U. S. C. §2000e–5(f); 29 U. S. C. §633a(c); §216(b). Title 5 U. S. C. §7703(b)(2) demonstrates that Congress knew how to provide alternative forums for judicial review based on the nature of an employee's claim. That Congress declined to include an exemption from Federal Circuit review for challenges to a statute's constitutionality indicates that Congress intended no such exception.
The purpose of the CSRA also supports our conclusion that the statutory review scheme is exclusive, even for employees who bring constitutional challenges to federal statutes. As we have previously explained, the CSRA's "integrated scheme of administrative and judicial review" for aggrieved federal employees was designed to replace an " 'outdated patchwork of statutes and rules' " that afforded employees the right to challenge employing agency actions in district courts across the country. Fausto, 484 U. S., at 444–445. Such widespread judicial review, which included appeals in all of the Federal Courts of Appeals produced "wide variations in the kinds of decisions . . . issued on the same or similar matters" and a double layer of judicial review that was "wasteful and irrational." Id., at 445 (internal quotation marks omitted).
The CSRA's objective of creating an integrated scheme of review would be seriously undermined if, as petitioners would have it, a covered employee could challenge a covered employment action first in a district court, and then again in one of the courts of appeals, simply by alleging that the statutory authorization for such action is unconstitutional. Such suits would reintroduce the very po- tential for inconsistent decisionmaking and duplicative judicial review that the CSRA was designed to avoid. Moreover, petitioners' position would create the possibility of parallel litigation regarding the same agency action before the MSPB and a district court. An employee could challenge the constitutionality of the statute authorizing an agency's action in district court, but the MSPB would remain the exclusive forum for other types of challenges to the agency's decision. See Tr. of Oral Arg. 4–7, 9, 15–16.
Petitioners counter that doctrines regarding claim splitting and preclusion would bar parallel suits before the MSPB and the district court. But such doctrines would not invariably eliminate the possibility of simultaneous proceedings, for a tribunal generally has discretion to decide whether to dismiss a suit when a similar suit is pending elsewhere. See 18 C. Wright et al., Federal Practice and Procedure §4406 (2d ed. 2002 and Supp. 2011). In any event, petitioners point to nothing in the CSRA to support the odd notion that Congress intended to allow employees to pursue constitutional claims in district court at the cost of forgoing other, potentially meritorious claims before the MSPB.
Finally, we note that a jurisdictional rule based on the nature of an employee's constitutional claim would deprive the aggrieved employee, the MSPB, and the district court of clear guidance about the proper forum for the employee's claims at the outset of the case. For example, petitioners contend that facial and as-applied constitutional challenges to statutes may be brought in district court, while other constitutional challenges must be heard by the MSPB. See supra, at 8–9; infra, at 13, n. 5. But, as we explain below, that line is hazy at best and incoherent at worst. See ibid. The dissent's approach fares no better. The dissent carves out for district court adjudication only facial constitutional challenges to statutes, but we have previously stated that "the distinction between facial and as-applied challenges is not so well defined that it has some automatic effect or that it must always control the pleadings and disposition in every case involving a constitutional challenge." Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm'n, 558 U. S. ___, ___ (2010) (slip op., at 14). By contrast, a jurisdictional rule based on the type of em- ployee and adverse agency action at issue does not involve such amorphous distinctions. Accordingly, we conclude that the better interpretation of the CSRA is that its exclusivity does not turn on the constitutional nature of an employee's claim, but rather on the type of the employee and the challenged employment action.
Petitioners raise three additional factors in arguing that their claims are not the type that Congress intended to be reviewed within the CSRA scheme. Specifically, petitioners invoke our "presum[ption] that Congress does not intend to limit [district court] jurisdiction if 'a finding of preclusion could foreclose all meaningful judicial review'; if the suit is 'wholly collateral to a statute's review provisions'; and if the claims are 'outside the agency's expertise.' " Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Bd., 561 U. S. ___, ___ (2010) (slip op., at 8) (quoting Thunder Basin, 510 U. S., at 212–213). Contrary to petitioners' suggestion, none of those characteristics are present here.
First, petitioners argue that the CSRA review scheme provides no meaningful review of their claims because the MSPB lacks authority to declare a federal statute un- constitutional. Petitioners are correct that the MSPB has repeatedly refused to pass upon the constitutionality of legislation. See, e.g., Malone v. Department of Justice, 13 M. S. P. B. 81, 83 (1983) ("[I]t is well settled that administrative agencies are without authority to determine the constitutionality of statutes"). This Court has also stated that "adjudication of the constitutionality of congressional enactments has generally been thought beyond the jurisdiction of administrative agencies." Thunder Basin, 510 U. S., at 215 (internal quotation marks and brackets omitted). [ 5 ]
We need not, and do not, decide whether the MSPB's view of its power is correct, or whether the oft-stated principle that agencies cannot declare a statute unconstitutional is truly a matter of jurisdiction. See ibid. (describing this rule as "not mandatory"). In Thunder Basin, we held that Congress' intent to preclude district court jurisdiction was fairly discernible in the statutory scheme "[e]ven if" the administrative body could not decide the constitutionality of a federal law. Ibid. That issue, we reasoned, could be "meaningfully addressed in the Court of Appeals" that Congress had authorized to conduct judicial review. Ibid. [ 6 ] Likewise, the CSRA provides review in the Federal Circuit, an Article III court fully competent to adjudicate petitioners' claims that Section 3328 and the Military Selective Service Act's registration requirement are unconstitutional.
Petitioners insist, however, that the Federal Circuit cannot decide their constitutional claims either. Emphasizing the Federal Circuit's holdings that its jurisdiction over employee appeals is coextensive with the MSPB's jurisdiction, petitioners argue that the Federal Circuit likewise lacks jurisdiction to decide their challenge to the constitutionality of a federal statute. Petitioners are incorrect.
As we have explained, the CSRA makes MSPB jurisdiction over an appeal dependent only on the nature of the employee and the employment action at issue. See supra, at 1–2, 8–9; see also 5 CFR §1201.3(a) (stating that "[t]he Board has jurisdiction over appeals from agency actions" and enumerating covered actions); Todd v. Merit Systems Protection Bd., 55 F. 3d 1574, 1576 (CA Fed. 1995) (explaining that the employee "has the burden of establishing that she and the action she seeks to appeal [are] within the [MSPB's] jurisdiction"). Accordingly, as the cases cited by petitioners demonstrate, the Federal Circuit has questioned its jurisdiction when an employee appeals from a type of adverse action over which the MSPB lacked jurisdiction. [ 7 ] But the Federal Circuit has never held, in an appeal from agency action within the MSPB's jurisdiction, that its authority to decide particular legal questions is derivative of the MSPB's authority. To the contrary, in Briggs v. MSPB, 331 F. 3d 1307, 1312–1313 (2003), the Federal Circuit concluded that it could determine the constitutionality of a statute upon which an employee's removal was based, notwithstanding the MSPB's professed lack of authority to decide the question. [ 8 ]
Petitioners next contend that even if the Federal Circuit could consider their claims in the first instance, resolution of the claims requires a factual record that neither the MSPB (because it lacks authority to decide the legal question) nor the Federal Circuit (because it is an appellate court) can create. To the contrary, we think the CSRA review scheme fully accommodates an employee's potential need to establish facts relevant to his constitutional challenge to a federal statute. Even without factfinding capabilities, the Federal Circuit may take judicial notice of facts relevant to the constitutional question. See, e.g., Rothe Development Corp. v. Department of Defense, 545 F. 3d 1023, 1045–1046 (CA Fed. 2008) (judicially noticing facts relevant to equal protection challenge). And, if resolution of a constitutional claim requires the development of facts beyond those that the Federal Circuit may judicially notice, the CSRA empowers the MSPB to take evidence and find facts for Federal Circuit review. See 5 U. S. C. §§1204(b)(1)–(2) (providing that the MSPB may administer oaths, examine witnesses, take depositions, issue interrogatories, subpoena testimony and documents, and otherwise receive evidence when a covered employee appeals a covered adverse employment action). Unlike petitioners, we see nothing extraordinary in a statutory scheme that vests reviewable factfinding authority in a non-Article III entity that has jurisdiction over an action but cannot finally decide the legal question to which the facts pertain. Congress has authorized magistrate judges, for example, to conduct evidentiary hearings and make findings of fact relevant to dispositive pretrial motions, although they are powerless to issue a final ruling on such motions. See 28 U. S. C. §§636(b)(1)(A)–(B); United States v. Raddatz, 447 U. S. 667, 673 (1980) . [ 9 ]
Petitioners nonetheless insist that the MSPB will never reach the factfinding stage in an appeal challenging the constitutionality of a federal statute, pointing to the ALJ's dismissal for lack of jurisdiction in petitioner Elgin's case. Again, petitioners are incorrect. When a covered employee appeals a covered adverse action, the CSRA grants the MSPB jurisdiction over the appeal. See supra, at 14. If the employee attacks the adverse action on the ground that a statute is unconstitutional, the MSPB may determine that it lacks authority to decide that particular issue; but absent another infirmity in the adverse action, the MSPB will affirm the employing agency's decision rather than dismiss the appeal. See, e.g., Briggs, supra, at 1311. The Federal Circuit can then review the MSPB decision, including any factual record developed by the MSPB in the course of its decision on the merits.
Contrary to petitioners' suggestion, Elgin's case does not illustrate that the MSPB will invariably dismiss an appeal challenging the constitutionality of a federal statute before reaching the factfinding stage. The ALJ dismissed Elgin's case on the threshold jurisdictional ground that he was not an "employee" with a right to appeal to the MSPB because his employment was absolutely barred by statute. See App. to Pet. for Cert. 100a–101a. The Government conceded before the First Circuit that this jurisdictional argument was incorrect, see Brief for United States 10, and the Court of Appeals agreed, see 641 F. 3d, at 10–11. The parties do not raise that issue here, and we do not address it. What matters for present purposes is that the particular circumstances of Elgin's case do not demonstrate that the MSPB will dismiss an appeal that is otherwise within its jurisdiction merely because it lacks the authority to decide a particular claim. [ 10 ]
In sum, the CSRA grants the MSPB and the Federal Circuit jurisdiction over petitioners' appeal because they are covered employees challenging a covered adverse employment action. Within the CSRA review scheme, the Federal Circuit has authority to consider and decide petitioners' constitutional claims. To the extent such challenges require factual development, the CSRA equips the MSPB with tools to create the necessary record. Thus, petitioners' constitutional claims can receive meaningful review within the CSRA scheme. [ 11 ]
Petitioners next contend that the CSRA does not preclude district court jurisdiction over their claims because they are "wholly collateral" to the CSRA scheme. According to petitioners, their bill-of-attainder and sex discrimination claims "have nothing to do with the types of day-to-day personnel actions adjudicated by the MSPB," Brief for Petitioners 29, and petitioners "are not seeking the CSRA's 'protections and remedies.' " Reply Brief for Petitioners 3. We disagree.
As evidenced by their district court complaint, petitioners' constitutional claims are the vehicle by which they seek to reverse the removal decisions, to return to federal employment, and to receive the compensation they would have earned but for the adverse employment action. See App. 29–30. A challenge to removal is precisely the type of personnel action regularly adjudicated by the MSPB and the Federal Circuit within the CSRA scheme. Likewise, reinstatement, backpay, and attorney's fees are precisely the kinds of relief that the CSRA empowers the MSPB and the Federal Circuit to provide. See supra, at 2; see also Heckler v. Ringer, 466 U. S. 602, 614 (1984) (holding that plaintiffs' claims were not wholly collateral to a statutory scheme of administrative and judicial review of Medicare payment decisions, where plaintiffs' constitutional and statutory challenge to an agency's procedure for reaching payment decisions was "at bottom" an attempt to reverse the agency's decision to deny payment). Far from a suit wholly collateral to the CSRA scheme, the case before us is a challenge to CSRA-covered employment action brought by CSRA-covered employees requesting relief that the CSRA routinely affords.
Relatedly, petitioners argue that their constitutional claims are not the sort that Congress intended to channel through the MSPB because they are outside the MSPB's expertise. But petitioners overlook the many threshold questions that may accompany a constitutional claim and to which the MSPB can apply its expertise. Of particular relevance here, preliminary questions unique to the employment context may obviate the need to address the constitutional challenge. For example, petitioner Henry Tucker asserts that his resignation amounted to a constructive discharge. That issue falls squarely within the MSPB's expertise, and its resolution against Tucker would avoid the need to reach his constitutional claims. In addition, the challenged statute may be one that the MSPB regularly construes, and its statutory interpretation could alleviate constitutional concerns. Or, an employee's appeal may involve other statutory or constitutional claims that the MSPB routinely considers, in addition to a constitutional challenge to a federal statute. The MSPB's resolution of those claims in the employee's favor might fully dispose of the case. Thus, because the MSPB's expertise can otherwise be "brought to bear" on employee appeals that challenge the constitutionality of a statute, we see no reason to conclude that Congress intended to exempt such claims from exclusive review before the MSPB and the Federal Circuit. See Thunder Basin, 510 U. S., at 214–215 (concluding that, where administrative Commission's expertise "could be brought to bear" on appeal, Commission's exclusive review of alleged statutory violation was appropriate despite its lack of expertise in interpreting a particular statute (internal quotation marks and brackets omitted)).
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For the foregoing reasons, we conclude that it is fairly discernible that the CSRA review scheme was intended to preclude district court jurisdiction over petitioners' claims. The judgment of the Court of Appeals is affirmed.
It is so ordered.


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Charles Marville's 425 photographs of Parisian streets and Ghémar Frères' photographs of the banks of the Senne in Brussels are well known for their beauty, and are often associated with melancholy, or, on the contrary, with the recording of bad housing conditions. Both series were ordered by the cities between 1865 and 1867; both cities would destroy the subject of the photographs – the buildings – immediately thereafter. The question of the original purpose of the photographs has never been asked. A close reading of relevant documents makes clear that Marville's photographs were meant to serve as tools for mapping medieval streets in the Topographie Historique. Probably influenced by Marville's project, and with a remarkably similar relation to mapping and topography, Ghémar's views of Brussels should be understood in the same context: as a contribution to the visual archive of the city itself.


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American Music Abroad Tour: Merengue in Santo Domingo
This month I'm on tour in Central and South America with the Clinton Curtis Band, through a very special program called American Music Abroad. Organized by American Voices and the U.S. embassies in each country, they send numerous American musical groups around the world to perform and engage in cultural exchanges.
We just finished a week in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic filled with several concerts for absolutely outstanding audiences. We also had the chance to give several master classes for Dominican students, which has been one of the most rewarding parts of our tour so far. It's as if we have the opportunity to rectify every sub-par educational experience we had in childhood, and the responsibility to pass on every positive educational experience from which we benefited to the next generation.
Moreover, we've met tons of incredibly talented kids who are eager to share their own talents and cultural background with us. Yesterday after our master class at UASD in Santo Domingo, music students showed us some traditional merengue rhythms.


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Revenues for the first quarter were $8.6 million, compared with $9.7 million in the first quarter of 2003. Software license revenue for the first quarter was $2.5 million, representing 29 percent of total revenues. This compares with software license revenue of $4.4 million in the first quarter of 2003, representing 45 percent of total revenues. Both software services and professional services revenues grew in the first quarter, compared with the first quarter of 2003. Software services revenues were $2.4 million for the first quarter, or 28 percent of total revenues, representing a 29 percent increase over the same period last year.


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Be the catalyst and engage your community in supporting an Afghan village for three to five years.
We learned long ago that temporary help is just that, temporary. During our second visit to the village of Lalander, a leader of the village reached into his back pocket and pulled out a stack of soiled and worn business cards and handed them to us. Pointing to the cards he said, "Every one of those people came to my house and never came back. I thought you were going to be one of those people."
We have gone back 18 times over the past nine years, addressing needs identified and prioritized by the villagers living in Lalander.
Those needs included:
- Funding a $19,000 irrigation project
- Over 23,000 fruit trees planted
- Playground equipment
- A soccer field and training program
- Home schooled classes for girls
- Computer classes
- Widening a road
- Constructing several foot bridges, some over treacherous water
- and providing clothing, rice, vegetable seeds and fertilizer.
All three thousand villagers know that we represent hundreds of families living in the United States who have been committed to helping them free themselves from their dependence upon others.
You can become the messenger.
You will make it possible for your community to become directly engaged in the reconstruction of Afghanistan, and in the struggle for human rights, particularly for women. It will be a most rewarding experience! Guaranteed!!!
What can you do?
Engage your community…
- Arrange a series of speaking engagements to educate and enlist your community, typically at schools, community organizations, places of worship, etc.
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Recognize that "the village to village" model requires a commitment over time, so that both communities are changed by the relationship.
Education in both worlds is critical. We have placed our trust in education and will do whatever we can to TIE villages together.


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Confusion led to rebellion…
When I was growing up, God was a central figure in most discussions. But I saw theology as a battlefield and Scripture as a weapon. In my confusion, I rejected God and His Word but was rescued by an old high school friend, who discovered and shared Jesus with me—the life-transforming Savior.
Life changed rapidly indeed. A month later, that friend asked me to be his wife. Roy and I were married six months later. Nine months and two weeks later, our first daughter was born. Soon after, our second daughter came along, and we began attending a small church. Suddenly, my desire for God's Word exploded. So I began scouring the only theology books a young mother has time to read—children's Bible stories and my Bible.
I devoured God's Word during my days as a full-time mom, but when our family moved to seminary, my husband became Mr. Mom, and I went to work. Roy became the one saturated in God's Word, and he was the one our daughters ran to when they scraped their knees. Though I knew we were in the very center of God's will, these were hard days for me. When my husband graduated from seminary and received his first call to ministry, I promised the Lord I would forever cherish His Word and never again take for granted the blessings of motherhood and marriage.
Our daughters are now grown and telling their own stories of journeys with Jesus. No doubt, they had joys and sorrows in a pastor's family, their mom's speaking ministry slowed by chronic illness and their personal questions for the Creator. It is my prayer, however, that those children's Bible stories we used to read together have matured into the biblical novels and devotional studies I now write. In a way, I still tell Bible stories to my girls. We just include a host of other folks who enjoy relating to the real people in God's Word.


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The smoke from that pungent cigar, a scent most lethal,
floats up above the decanter of hard liquor, hazing the already dim light.
It joins the rest of the effluent substances in the air,
hovering over us all like some dark specter.
It reminds me of the curling smoke from an antique oil lamp,
rubbed once or twice too hard,
before the hackneyed, pinstriped djinn appears.
I get three wishes now, you say?
Lucky me.
I wish for an escape route,
a doorway out of this smoke-filled room,
to be far away from everyone in it.
Turns out clicking my heels don't work.
So give me a free pass out of this rabbit hole, back to sanity and certainty.
A magic carpet ride to get me the hell outta here.
You can keep the other two.
Consider it a gift, a favor for a favor. It is how this world works.
Use them for something nice for yourself, Sweetcheeks.
Some new harem girl to be your
prize jewel in your
ostentatious crown of villainy and deceit.
You do wear it so well. It certainly belongs on you.
Makes you look like a king in a sand castle.
But, I don't worry, it will all come atumblin' down.
You can keep your gold,
your gaudy jewels, your red paste slippers and your slurred promises
whispered and left broken with the bottles
at the end of the night.
Leave me to fade away in the morning's light,
like a spirit in the smoke,
like a cat's smile.
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Stargate Atlantis/Season 3
- 1 No Man's Land [3.01]
- 2 Misbegotten [3.02]
- 3 Irresistible [3.03]
- 4 Sateda [3.04]
- 5 Progeny [3.05]
- 6 The Real World [3.06]
- 7 Common Ground [3.07]
- 8 McKay and Mrs. Miller [3.08]
- 9 Phantoms [3.09]
- 10 The Return (Part 1) [3.10]
- 11 The Return (Part 2) [3.11]
- 12 Echoes [3.12]
- 13 Irresponsible [3.13]
- 14 The Tao of Rodney [3.14]
- 15 The Game [3.15]
- 16 The Ark [3.16]
- 17 Sunday [3.17]
- 18 Submersion [3.18]
- 19 Vengeance [3.19]
- 20 First Strike [3.20]
- 21 External links
No Man's Land [3.01][edit]
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: It'll be a walk in the park... a very scary park, filled with monsters who are trying to kill me.
- Michael: I don't understand.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Never mind. [puts on his oxygen mask] Operation 'This Will Most Likely End Badly' is a go.
- [Lt. Col. Sheppard is alone in a 302, being fired upon by an armada of darts]
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Okay, how about some of that help you promised?
- Michael: I told you to target the hyperdrive generator.
- Lt. Col Sheppard: I already knew that.
- Michael: There's nothing more I can do.
- Lt. Col Sheppard: Like hell there isn't. Call off the Darts!
- Michael: [annoyed] They won't listen to me.
- Lt. Col Sheppard: This is NOT helpful, Michael!
- Dr. McKay: They couldn't have. Even if they deduced the location of Earth, they won't be able to get there, unless, they downloaded something else on the Hive-ship plans. Oh it's something like spyware, just like my stupidly downloaded porn...
- Ronon: What?
- Dr. McKay: Music! My downloaded music.
- Dr. McKay: Where did you come from?
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: I managed to latch onto the hull of the hive before we went into hyperspace.
- Ronon: Nice move.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Saw it in a movie once.
- Gen. Landry: How'd it go with the IOA?
- Dr. Weir: Oh, you know. I mean, does anyone ever come out of an IOA deposition saying, "That went well"?
- (the Orion is under heavy fire without shields)
- Maj. Lorne: One more shot Zelenka, that's all I'm asking!
- Dr. Zelenka: I just cannot give you what I do not have! (checks a console) THERE'S TOO MUCH DAMAGE! WE NEED TO ABANDON SHIP! (runs towards the exit)
- Maj. Lorne: Hey, stop! Listen to me-
- Dr. Zelenka: We sacrificed our shield capabilities with that first salvo, we shouldn't wait any more moments, major!
- Maj. Lorne: Col. Caldwell, I'm afraid we've done everything we can on our end! Requesting immediate beam out to the Daedalus!
- (Rodney is hacking the hive ship)
- Dr. McKay: Their operating system is a mess! Good thing I still remember DOS. [after a beat, he turns and looks back at Ronon] Trust me, that was hilarious!
- Ronon: Are you done yet?
- Dr. McKay: This ship is being seriously damaged, it's hard for me to find something to overload!
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: [appearing from around a corner with Michael] Let Mikey try!
Misbegotten [3.02][edit]
- Dr. Weir: I'm sorry to put you in this position, but you are the only person besides Col. Sheppard and Gen. O'Neill who's actually fired a drone from that Chair.
- Dr. Beckett: Ironically, they're the two people I nearly killed when I did that.
- Teyla: We are grateful for your help, but we could never release you, not with the information you possess.
- Michael: Then kill me now!
- Teyla: There is another way.
- Michael: Take the treatment again?
- Teyla: Yes.
- Michael: What I am is not a disease you can cure.
- Woolsey: I've never met an Asgard.
- Dr. Weir: You, I think, will love them. They have a wonderful sense of humor.
- [Woolsey looks at her hopefully]
- Woolsey: Really?
- Dr. Weir: No.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Just out of political curiosity, how much trouble is it gonna cause you if I knock this Woolsey guy in the head?
- Dr. Weir: May I ask why you'd like to do that?
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: It's just an impulse I had, really...One I suspect I'm gonna have again next time I see him. He may not even have to say anything.
- Dr. Weir: I've never seen you like this. What did Woolsey say to you?
- Lt. Col Sheppard: Besides judging every damned decision you've ever made?
- Dr. Weir: John Sheppard, are you defending my honor?
- Lt. Col Sheppard:...And, judging me for agreeing with you.
- Dr. Weir: Well, don't be too hard on him. I think of all the circling wolves, he's the least likely to actually bite. In fact, he might even convince the others to leave us alone.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Alright, so...no head knocking?
- Dr. Weir: It's the thought that counts.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: How're you doing with the weapons?
- Dr. McKay: We couldn't hit the side of a barn.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: But hive ships are a hundred times bigger—
- Dr. McKay: [interrupting Sheppard] A giant...flying...barn. We couldn't hit that.
- Mr. Woolsey: Nothing renews your appreciation for the military like the threat of invasion from life-sucking aliens.
Irresistible [3.03][edit]
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: What the hell is going on?
- Dr. Weir: What do you mean?
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: What do I mean. We leave for two hours, and Lucius turned you all into Stepford wives.
- [McKay and Lt.Col Sheppard are in McKay's lab trying to determine why everyone in Atlantis is besotted with Lucius Lavin. Sheppard looks like he has been pacing angrily while McKay has been working on a laptop at a lab-bench]
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: [While he's talking Sheppard moves to sit beside McKay] This is creeping me out.
- Dr. McKay: [McKay has been hunched over his laptop typing busily] Yeah… reminds me of an old Batman episode actually. Catwoman used a drug to put a spell on Batman...make him fall in love with her. Ended up doing all sorts of evil things for her. [Rodney sits upright] It was kind of a turn on actually…it's Julie Newmar in the cat outfit…
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: [Sheppard is reading McKay's laptop screen, he absently interrupts McKay ] Eartha Kitt was Catwoman.
- Dr. McKay: Not 'till season three.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: [surprised] Really?
- Dr. McKay: Yeah, you didn't know that?
- Dr. Beckett: So you finally came around did you. You know, you'll come to know Lucius eventually. He really is a kind and wise...
- [Sheppard turns and pulls out a Wraith stun pistol]
- Dr. Beckett: Oh crap.
- [Sheppard stuns him]
- [The team talked about what would happen if Lucius gives away Atlantis' position]
- Ronon: In which case I said I will track him down, hang him by his feet, and cut off his...
- Dr. Weir: Yes, thank you. I think we get the message.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Hey, buddy, I'd better get back and clean your quarters before the next scout.
- [Pats McKay on the shoulder and walks away]
- Dr. McKay: [Nervously] Right.
- [He turns to leave, but Teyla and Ronon stop him, realising he took some of Lucius' herb]
- Dr. Weir: Rodney!
- Dr. McKay: It was just one teeny, tiny taste for research purposes.
- Dr. Weir: Burn it!
- Dr. Beckett: All of it!
- Dr. Weir: Right now!
- Dr. McKay: Alright. Story of my life.
- [Dr. McKay briefly looks suggestively at Teyla, who is not impressed.]
Sateda [3.04][edit]
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Look, I can't say the Wraith won't be back here again, but I can promise you they're not coming back here because of him.
- Keturah: No. Not once we've sacrificed the Wraithbringer to his masters.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: He prefers "Ronon." Probably also prefers not to be sacrificed to the Wraith.
- [McKay has been shot with an arrow and is now full of morphine for the pain]
- Dr. McKay: Excuse me, why am I lying here?
- Dr. Beckett: You have an arrow, Rodney, in your gluteus maximus.
- Dr. McKay: Well, that sounds painful. [lies down on the operating table with a content expression and starts to play with the words] Gluteus maximus... glooo-tus maaa... ximus... [mildly surprised] Oh my god, that's my ass, isn't it?!
- Dr. Beckett: Aye.
- Dr. Weir: Call me if he makes any sense.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Look, Teyla. I'm not really good at, uh ... Actually, I'm ... I'm terrible at expressing ... I don't know what you'd call it, uh ...
- Teyla: Feelings?
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Yeah, sure, okay. The point is, I don't really have good, uh ...
- Teyla: Social skills.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Well, that is why I enjoyed flying choppers in the most remote part of my world before all this craziness happened, but, uh, you should know, I don't have, uh ...
- Teyla: Friends?
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: [indignantly] No – I have friends. [pause] You, Elizabeth, Ronon, Carson, even Rodney, are the closest thing I have to a ...
- Teyla: A family?
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: I'd do anything… for any one of you. If I had to give up my life the way Ronon was going to, I would.
- Teyla: [smiling] Thank you. For everything you… meant to say.
- [ Ronon, Teyla, and Sheppard have gone to fight the Wraith instead of leaving]
- Dr. McKay: They outnumber you 25 to 3.
- Dr. Beckett: [ beeping from the Jumper's life signs detector] It's actually 22 to 3 ... 21...
- Teyla: And Ronon appears to be quite angry.
- Dr. McKay: [sarcasticly] Oh, that evens it out!
- [Beckett grabs a gun]
- Dr. McKay: What are you doing?
- Dr. Beckett: I'm going to help them.
- Dr. McKay: What are you crazy?! You're a doctor!
- Dr. Beckett: What does that have to do with it?
- [McKay tries taking the gun]
- Dr. Beckett: What are you doing?
- Dr. McKay: I'm going.
- Dr. Beckett: You can barely walk!
- Dr. McKay: I can walk fine, I just can't sit!
- Dr. Beckett: And you're a terrible shot!
- Dr. McKay: Oh, what, you're Rambo now?!
- Ronon: [regarding a specific Wraith] You kill him before I do, I kill you.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: What if he kills you first?
- Ronon: Then you kill him.
Progeny [3.05][edit]
- [The team is preparing to go off to another planet. Sheppard walks into the gateroom and sees Ronon with his gun]
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Put that thing away. We told 'em we were friendly.
- Ronon: [holsters his blaster] I'm friendly.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Is that thing set to stun? [Ronon pulls out his gun again and switches it to stun] [sarcastic] Friendlier.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: I'm still waiting to meet an Ancient race that's invented the car.
- Oberoth: Lower your weapons.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: [not moving] How much lower would you like 'em?
- McKay: There is nothing more annoying than people who won't admit their own mistakes. [Zelenka looks at him]
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: True.
The Real World [3.06][edit]
- Gen. O'Neill: I don't know anything about Atlantis ... except that it was a fairly mediocre Donovan song, not one of my favourites.
- Gen. O'Neill: Well, maybe you've got to work yourself back into playing shape… spend a little time doing some short shifts before you jump up to the first line.
- Dr. Weir: I'm sorry. I don't know a thing about football.
- Gen. O'Neill: Nor hockey, apparently.
- Gen. O'Neill: Now, just to be sure we're on the same page, we're against the proliferation of nuclear weapons, right?
- Dr. McKay: [staring at Beckett] What?
- Dr. Beckett: What?
- Dr. McKay: Well, it's that look. That's the same look I get when I have a brilliant idea.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: How would you know how you looked?
- Dr. McKay: 'Cause it's happened more than once in front of a mirror, okay?
Common Ground [3.07][edit]
- Dr. McKay: [to a rescue team] Alright, people, let's do this one by the numbers. We get in, we get our man, we get out. Stay sharp and stay alive!
- Dr. Beckett: [in disbelief] What are you on about?
- Dr. McKay: Oh, just things that Sheppard would say, so I thought I would, um ...
- Teyla: Well said, Rodney.
- [The rescue team comes running when McKay opens fire, but there was nothing there]
- Ronon: Sheppard wasn't here.
- Dr. McKay: And we've just wasted two and a half hours!
- Ronon: [to the Marines] Let's move out!
- Dr. McKay: …and a mouse.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: You know, I could've sworn I was gonna wake up dead today.
- Wraith: You are more like Wraith than you know.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: I'm not sure I like the sound of that.
- Wraith: There is much about Wraith that you do not know, Sheppard.
- [Sheppard has chosen to honor his deal and merely stun the Wraith he was working with]
- Wraith: [waking up] Ah, Sheppard. I thought you ...
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: There's a lot you don't know about humans.
McKay and Mrs. Miller [3.08][edit]
- Lt. Col. Carter: Welcome back to Earth.
- Dr. McKay: Yes, yes. What's my sister done?
- Lt. Col. Carter: Good to see you, too, McKay.
- Dr. McKay: [impatiently] Greetings, salutations, pleasantries. What's she done?
- [McKay is explaining what he's been doing for the past few years]
- Jeannie: What have you gotten yourself involved in here, Meredith?
- Lt. Col. Carter: Meredith?
- Dr. McKay: It's a long story.
- Jeannie: It's his name.
- Lt. Col. Carter: Your name is Meredith McKay?
- Dr. McKay: Meredith Rodney McKay, yes, but I prefer to go by "Rodney." Look, can we just stick to the point here? Look out the window. Much more interesting than my name.
- Lt. Col. Carter: [grinning] Your name is Meredith?
- [Jeannie and McKay beam down]
- Jeannie: Holy cow! That can't be good for your health.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Nothing to worry about. I've done it dozens of times. John Sheppard.
- Dr. McKay: She's married, and she's my sister.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: [defensively] I'm just saying hi.
- Dr. McKay: Yeah, no, I know exactly what you're doing. I've seen that look before...Kirk.
- Dr. McKay: What did Elizabeth say?
- Col Sheppard: Two McKays are better than one.
- Dr. McKay: There aren't two McKays, there's one McKay and him.
- Rod: I envy you. You say exactly what's on your mind no matter how it makes you look. I can only imagine the freedom you must have, not caring if people like you or not.
- Dr. McKay: Oh. [thinks a moment] People don't like me?
Phantoms [3.09][edit]
- [Sheppard's team investigates a strange Wraith device]
- Teyla: Is that what made all these people kill each other?
- Dr. McKay: I hope so.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: You hope so?
- Dr. McKay: Otherwise, there are two bizarre things going on, and one is more than enough for me, thank you very much.
- Dr. Weir: How are Rodney and Teyla?
- Dr. McKay: He shot me!
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: They're both fine.
- Dr. McKay: You shot me!
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: [visibly upset] Yes, Rodney, I shot you, and I said I was sorry!
- Ronon: You shot me, too.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: I'm sorry for shooting everyone!!
The Return (Part 1) [3.10][edit]
- Gen. Landry: You're just mad you didn't get to fly the maiden voyage yourself.
- Gen. O'Neill: General, I am quite fond of both maidens and voyages. I mean, put the two together and ...
- Gen. Landry: You're not a test pilot any more, Jack.
- Gen. O'Neill: [indignant] That's what the President said.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Life isn't fair – it's just fairer than death.
- Dr. Weir: Oscar Wilde?
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: The Princess Bride. Good movie.
- Woolsey: That seems like a pretty big ship. You're sure only sending one Jumper up to fend it off is the right thing to do?
- Helia: It is impossible for them to harm us.
- Gen. O'Neill: I could use some enemies like that.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: You should call her.
- Dr. Beckett: Who, Cadman?
- Dr. Weir: You two did make a cute couple.
- Dr. Beckett: It didn't work out. May have something to do with our first kiss being through Rodney.
- Dr. McKay: Oh, I thought we made a solemn vow never to speak of that again!
- Dr. Beckett: I remember no such thing.
- General Landry: Colonel Sheppard, I'm going to assume you're still at the Midway Station waiting for Dr. McKay to rewrite his macro. I understand what you're doing, Colonel - Hell, I'll even call it brave, but if you don't turn that ship around immediately and come back to the SGC, I'll see to it personally that your career in the military is-
- [Sheppard slaps a button, disconnecting the communication]
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: That way I won't know what he was gonna say.
- Dr. Beckett: My turtles!
- Dr. Weir: What?
- Dr. Beckett: I just bought some wee baby turtles and no one knows to feed them!
- Dr. Weir: Well, turtles are pretty hardy. I'm sure they'll be fine.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: And they make good soup.
The Return (Part 2) [3.11][edit]
- Ronan: Is he dead?
- Dr. McKay: He's mostly dead!
- Dr. Weir: Hey, if we keep this up, there won't be much of a city left to save.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: I'll try to run the drones into your least favorite buildings...McKay!
- Dr. McKay: It should be working!
- Dr. Beckett: Well, it's not working!
- Dr. McKay: Look, if I give him any more power, he'll wake up and kill us all!
- Woolsey: That sounded like another explosion.
- Gen. O'Neill: [calmly] Yes. Yes, it did.
- Woolsey: What does that mean?
- Gen. O'Neill: [he looks at Woolsey in irritation] Something exploded.
- Gen. O'Neill: Is that Dr. Weir I hear?
- Dr. Weir: Yes, General, it's good to hear your voice too.
- Gen. O'Neill: I didn't say it was good, Elizabeth. Please don't be offended as I express my surprise that Landry would send you on a mission like this.
- Dr. Weir: Well, sir, General Landry didn't sanction this mission.
- Gen. O'Neill: So am I to assume you're not surrounded by heavily armed SG teams and young, strapping Marines?
- Dr. Weir: You've got myself, Sheppard, Teyla, Ronon, McKay, and Dr. Beckett.
- Gen. O'Neill: [sarcastic] Oh, Dr. Beckett is it? Well, I'm comforted.
- Dr. Beckett: [whispering to Weir] What's that supposed to mean?
- Talus: What were you doing in the flooded section of the city?
- Gen. O'Neill: The backstroke. I think.
- Talus: what are you planning?
- Gen. O'Neill: Well, I was planning to retire. But man, is that overrated!
- [O'Neill gets his mind probed by Talus]
- Gen. O'Neill: [casually] Whatcha doin'?
- Talus: Probing your mind.
- [O'Neill looks around, seeing that a Stargate event horizon is circling Talus and him]
- Gen. O'Neill: Kinda roomy, ain't it?
- Talus: Your ability to resist is quite remarkable General O'Neill.
- Gen. O'Neill: Well it isn't the first time I had a hand in my head, as t'were.
- Talus: If you do not give me information, perhaps Richard Woolsey will.
- Gen. O'Neill: Tell you what...you look around, and I'll tell you if you're getting warmer, or colder.
- [Talus smiles]
- Talus: Ah, there it is.
- Gen. O'Neill: So, hot I guess, huh.
- [Woolsey and O'Neill have just had their minds probed]
- Woolsey: That was the worst thing I've ever experienced.
- Gen. O'Neill: It gets worse!
- Talus: I'm afraid your plan has been discovered, Colonel Sheppard. It is over.
- [Everyone turns to look at Woolsey]
- Woolsey: [defensively] He put his hand in my forehead! How can you resist that?!
- Gen. O'Neill: Well, I like to close my eyes and think of England.
- [Sheppard and McKay burst into the brig, where O'Neill and Woolsey are being held]
- Gen. O'Neill: Hey! Thanks for the rescue!
- Dr. McKay: Oh, hey...no problem.
- Gen. O'Neill: No! You should be saying, "Thanks for the rescue!"
- Dr. McKay: Oh, ah, right...thanks. Should have you out of there in no time. This won't take long at all.
- [McKay fiddles with the door controls, an error tone sounds]
- Dr. McKay: Oh, my...they, they, they've changed the codes.
- Woolsey: ...But you can crack it, right? You need to get us out of here!
- Dr. McKay: Yeah, of course I can...just give me, like, 1...2 seconds.
- Gen. O'Neill: ...So, I guess that frozen replicator plan didn't pan out!?
- Dr. McKay: Yeah...not so much.
- Gen. O'Neill: How's that plan "B" workin' for ya? Good?
- Dr. McKay: Actually, it's...it's more like, uh, plan "C".
- [McKay looks hopefully at O'Neill and Woolsey, O'Neill and Woolsey stare blankly at McKay]
- Dr. McKay: ...As in C-4, if you catch my drift?
- Gen. O'Neill: No.
- Dr. McKay: Let's just say that we're concerned that the Daedalus won't be able to carry out your standing orders.
- Woolsey: What? To destroy Atlantis with nuclear weapons? I thought we were past that! Why would we be going back to that?
- Dr. McKay: Yeah, it's the only way.
- Gen. O'Neill: Can you do that?
- Dr. McKay: Yeah...If we plant charges in all 10 of the shield emitters before the Daedalus arrives, that way, when the replicators try to activate the shields...
- Woolsey: ...The C-4 detonates, the Daedalus beams a warhead into the city, and we're all vaporized.
- [O'Neill turns quickly to look at McKay]
- Gen. O'Neill: [Agitated] Sounds more like a plan "F", doesn't it? As in, "We're totally..."
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Good old plan "D", works every time.
- [Sheppard has just given Caldwell his authentication code to validate it is his team in Atlantis, not the Replicators. Caldwell is on board the Daedalus, preparing to nuke the city to eliminate the Replicator threat.]
- Col. Caldwell: That code is no longer valid, Colonel.
- Gen. O'Neill: Hey, Caldwell! General Jack O'Neill here. That valid enough for ya?
Echoes [3.12][edit]
- Dr. Beckett: Their ear-drums have been perforated.
- Dr. Weir: How?
- Dr. Zelenka: The whales are emitting an intense, low frequency pulse...like...like a sonar; as well as an EM field. The combination is very dangerous to humans - particularly in such close proximity.
- Dr. McKay: [having heard none of this; his voice raised] It's the whales!
- Dr. Beckett: [ignoring Rodney] Their hearing's been impaired; it should heal soon...
- Dr. McKay: [continuing anyway; his voice still raised] It's their echolocation! It's creating very powerful vibrations! The closer we got, the worse it became!
- Dr. Zelenka: Yes... [Raising his voice] Yes Rodney! We know!
- Dr. McKay: [after a brief pause] Oh!
- Lt. Col Sheppard: [after an even longer pause] What?
- Lt. Col Sheppard: [attempting to get Rodney's attention] Canadian Football league is a joke.[he pauses, then continues when Rodney fails to react] Celine Dion is overrated. [a second pause] Zelenka is smarter than you are! [a third pause]
- Dr. McKay: [having heard nothing] Hey! I found mention of a biolab in the database. Ancient scientists used it to study animal life. We should check it out.
- Lt. Col Sheppard: Okay...Meredith.
- [Elizabeth, John, and Rodney are discussing the whale-like creature Rodney has been studying]
- Dr. Weir: And how do you know...he's a he?
- Dr. McKay: Oh, because I cross-referenced the renderings in the database with the whale outside, and, you'll see, the males have a rather prominent, um-
- Dr. Weir: [interrupting] Oh, it's okay, I might-I'll take your word for it.
Irresponsible [3.13][edit]
- Dr. McKay: (Talking about Kolya and his men) What if they burn down the village out of spite?
- Lucius: Well, that'll be petty of them.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Yeah well, they're like that.
- Lucius: So I finish off the last Wraith guard and I turn around and I look at the Queen and I say, 'You know, if you were twenty pounds heavier, you'd look like my ex-wife.'
The Tao of Rodney [3.14][edit]
- Dr. Zelenka: Normally if Dr. Esposito weren't around, I doubt you would have been as reckless as you were.
- Dr. McKay: Are you insane?
- Lt. Col Sheppard: Which one is Esposito?
- Dr. Zelenka: Oh, the long dark-haired...
- Lt. Col Sheppard: Oh, right, the one with the perky little...
- Dr. McKay: Do you mind?! We're trying to work here.
- Lt. Col Sheppard: For the record I was gonna say 'smile'.
- Dr. McKay: Ya, I'm sure you were.
- Dr. McKay: One more time: mysterious energy pulse from a device created by the Ancients. I mean, who knows what kind of long-term effects I could be in for? I mean, there's gross mutation, giantism, invisibility...
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: That would be cool. I turned into a bug.
- Dr. Beckett: Alright. Like I said, as far as I can tell, he's as healthy as a horse. I'm clearing you for active duty.
- Dr. McKay: What are you insane?! Look, I need to be put under guard. Who knows what I could become?
- Dr. Weir: What are the chances it could make him more pleasant?
- Dr. Weir: What else can you do, besides telekinesis?
- Dr. McKay: Well, super-hearing for one. And, I'm not sure, but I think I may actually be getting smarter. It's hard to say for sure because I was pretty smart to start with, but recently I've been having thoughts that I don't think even I would have thought of before.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Does super-ego count as a power?
- [A nurse arrives with a tray of food]
- Dr. McKay: Oh, finally! Look, keep it coming.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: We may also be dealing with a super appetite, but it's hard to tell because he ate so much before.
- [Weir and Sheppard walk into the chair room to talk to McKay.]
- Dr. Weir: Rodney, we need to talk.
- [Rodney deactivates the chair and reads their minds]
- Dr. McKay: What do you mean I'm gonna die? I'm not even sick! I feel great -- never better!
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: That Ancient device...
- McKay: [Reading his mind] ...has accelerated my evolution. [Reading Weir's mind] Eventually I'll reach a point where I'm physically capable of ascension, but ascension takes more than that -- there's a mental component. I need to know how to make it happen... which I don't. [Reads Ronon's thoughts] Yet!! I'm getting smarter by the minute, it's a pretty good assumption I'll be able to figure it out on the way. [Rodney reads Weir's mind again]. OK, so it's not as easy as that. Well, even if I don't, so I stay a highly-evolved human. I mean, I don't have to ascend, it's a choice, right? [John grimaces slightly] No? What do you mean, no? Oh, that stupid Ancient device doesn't work properly, does it? [He reads Elizabeth's mind again] It's set in motion a series of genetic mutations that will result in my death if I don't ascend?!
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: [To Weir] There is something easier about this.
- Dr. McKay: That's why the Ancients didn't put it into common use, it's just one more in a long line of abysmal, over-ambitious failures! Oh God. I'm a dead man!
- Dr. McKay: You know, we could be a team! You could be my sidekick!
- Ronon: Sidekick.
- Dr. McKay: Yeah, like Batman and Ronon. Has a nice ring to it.
- Ronon: You keep eating like this, it'll be more like "Fatman".
- Dr. McKay: Yes, I'm me! I'm my old self!
- Dr. Beckett: Are you certain?
- Dr. McKay: Ya, I'm alive. I feel--I feel great--I feel--uh...um...hungry...
- Lt. Col Sheppard: He's fine.
The Game [3.15][edit]
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: He's giving his people way too much technology for their level of development. [Points at Rodney accusingly] I'm not the only one increasing my army, by the way.
- Dr. McKay: I had to do something to protect the people of Geldar from you.
- Ronon: Geldar?
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: The name of Rodney's country. He named it after a girl he stalked in college.
- Dr. McKay: I did not stalk her. We dated twice. Teresa Geldar -- a very cute blonde. I always used to think her name reminded me of some kind of a mythological land - "The Kingdom of Geldar".
- [A man rides through Geldar on a bicycle]
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Oh yeah! That's something you see in a medieval village!
- Dr. McKay: Yes, well, the Renaissance obviously came early to these folks.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: A couple of hundred years early?
- [regarding Rodney]
- Teyla: Why do you refer to him as the Oracle?
- Nola: The Oracle is a wise and omnipotent deity.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: [to Ronon] Boy, she's in for a rude awakening.
- [Elizabeth walks into the "Game Room" to find Lorne and Zelenka arguing. They are unaware of her entrance.]
- Dr. Zelenka: Absurd!
- Maj. Lorne: What are you talking about? It's a perfectly reasonable request!
- Dr. Zelenka: Oh yeah. Perfectly reasonable! I give you all of my food and my people starve.
- [Elizabeth walks deeper into the room and sees the two of them on either side of the 'games' console. Radek is already on his feet and now Evan stands up to shout at him over the top of the screens.]
- Maj. Lorne: I am not asking you for all of your food! Plus, I did say that we would make a deal.
- Dr. Zelenka: [sarcastically] A deal. Oh yeah. Baskets.
- Maj. Lorne: Big baskets! Two dozen of 'em, hand-woven and very nice.
- Dr. Zelenka: Oh, very nice. What am I gonna put in them, huh? Certainly not food!
- [Elizabeth, still unnoticed by the two men, folds her arms and looks at them angrily. They continue to bicker, getting more and more agitated with every remark.]
- Maj. Lorne: You know what? I think you're holding out on me. I think you have plenty of food.
- Dr. Zelenka: Are you calling me a liar?!
- Maj. Lorne: No, I think you're trying to squeeze me for a better deal, that's what I think.
- Dr. Zelenka: I have got nothing to hide! Now, if you're ...
- Maj. Lorne: OK, OK, so maybe I'll send some of my army troops down and we'll have a look!
- Dr. Weir: [very angrily] What the hell are you two doing?
- [The two finally notice her presence and look down, ashamed. Both of them are wearing expressions akin to ones that you would find on the faces of children who have just been found stealing cookies from the cookie jar.]
- Dr. Weir: I thought I gave specific orders to stay away from this device.
- Dr. Zelenka: [quietly, ashamed] Yes, yes, you did.
- Maj. Lorne: We just saw that there were some people in trouble and we thought that maybe that we could...um...help.
- Dr. Weir: No! No more help. Clearly we are not qualified!
- Baden: I've done everything I could to achieve peace with you.
- Nola: Really?! Such as?
- Baden: I sent gifts of goodwill.
- Nola: [horrified] You sent crates of citrus fruit! Citrus! Do you have any idea what an insult that is to my people?!
- Baden: It didn't used to be.
- Dr. Weir: OK, see, I think I know where that comes from. Did M - the Oracle tell you that citrus fruit was bad?
- Nola: He made us aware of its toxic properties, yes.
- Baden: Everything is toxic to you! [to Elizabeth] If they're not busy insulting us, they're complaining about contaminated food, improper hygiene. Even the sunlight is dangerous to them!
The Ark [3.16][edit]
- Teyla: I am sorry, Herick, but we have scanned the surface of your planet. If your world was at war with the Wraith, the war was lost many years ago.
- Dr. McKay: More like centuries. I mean, there is nothing down there but ruins and plant life.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Dial up the sensitivity a notch, all right?
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: I guarantee you you're gonna see pretty much the same technology that you're looking at here, which I call vintage 1967.
- Dr. McKay: [sarcastically] Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, we hollowed out a lot of moons back in the sixties.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Well, if we had, this is what they'd look like.
- Dr. Beckett: Tell them we'll be there in a jiff.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: You guys hear that?
- Dr. McKay: [over radio] Yay, faint hope!
- Dr. McKay: All right. I'm gonna take a look around, see if I can figure out a way to seal the compartments between us. I figure it would be nice if we were all together as we burn up.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: McKay . . .
- Dr. McKay: I'm sorry. I mean, as we get rescued. I always get those two confused.
- Dr. McKay: We don't have much time left. The moon was already in a low orbit to start with. We're beginning to skim the outer atmosphere. We're gonna slow down exponentially.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Think of a brilliant plan, Rodney! That's what you do best. Using as little oxygen as possible.
Sunday [3.17][edit]
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: You dating anyone?
- Ronon: You mean like a woman?
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Or a man.
- Ronon: No.
- Dr. Weir: We've said goodbye to a lot of friends today. Our mission is a dangerous one. We lose people – a fact we're all painfully aware of. But Carson was ... (She trails off for several seconds, temporarily lost for words.) I can't remember anyone coming to me with a complaint against him – ever. He was a kind soul. He was ... he was a healer. And he will be very deeply missed. George Fabricius said, "Death comes to us all, but great achievements, they build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold." (Her voice begins to break.) Every single life Carson saved is a monument to him. And that gives me great comfort.
- [The closing scene of the episode, Rodney stands alone on one of the city's piers, talking with 'imaginary Carson']
- Dr. Beckett: How'd it go back on Earth?
- Dr. McKay: It was, it was awful. [Turns to Carson and smiles at him] Your family was amazing, though.
- Dr. Beckett: Aye, they are. Good turnout?
- Dr. McKay: Oh, packed the church.
- Dr. Beckett: Oh, that's good to hear!
- Dr. McKay: It's not gonna be the same round here without you.
- Dr. Beckett: Oh, you're telling me!
- Dr. McKay: You know, the universe is a big place. Who knows, maybe we'll bump into each other again.
- Dr. Beckett: Aye, who knows?
- Dr. McKay: You were the closest thing to a best friend I ever had. I'm really, really sorry. I should have just...
- Dr. Beckett: Hey. This isn't your fault.
- Dr. McKay: You're just telling me what I want to hear.
- Dr. Beckett: Well, that's what best friends do sometimes. And in this case it also happens to be true. Take care of yourself, Rodney.
- Dr. McKay: [Raises his hand] Goodbye, Carson.
- [Carson fades out of existence whilst the view zooms out to see Rodney standing alone at the end of the pier as the episode ends]
Submersion [3.18][edit]
- [Rodney, Ronon, and the scientists are bickering]
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Okay, kids. Do I have to pull this thing over? It's hard enough being in this damned thing for hours without listening to you guys.
- Dr. Weir: Weapons fire.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Nine mil. This way.
- Dr. McKay: Oh yes, let's race towards the gunfire.
- [A Wraith Queen just swam to her submerged cruiser]
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Well, you're a hell of a swimmer, I'll give you that.
- Wraith Queen: You have restored power?
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: It'll fly.
- [The Queen deactivates the self destruct]
- Wraith Queen: You shall be rewarded—with a quick death!
- [McKay empties the ammo of his P90 into the Queen]
- Dr. McKay: She's not dying according to plan here!!
- Dr. McKay: There must be some kind of a command code that needs to be entered first.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Can you figure it out?
- Dr. McKay: Yes, well command codes are usually quite simple like the number one or the letter A, like in Wraith.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: [angry] Can you figure out the code or not?!
- Dr. McKay: NO! Not if I stood here and tried for a million years. And we have, uh, just under a million years less than that!
- Dr. Zelenka: [About a Wraith cruiser] It's been down there for a very, very, very long time.
- Dr. Mckay: Give or take a very.
Vengeance [3.19][edit]
- [The team was just attacked by a creature]
- Teyla: What is that?
- Ronon: A piece of an arm, it looks like.
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Lets hope that slows it down.
- Dr. McKay: Maybe it'll bleed to death.
- Ronon: Or just grow another arm.
- [Sheppard and Ronon spot the Wraith dart]
- Ronon: You thinking what I'm thinking?
- Sheppard: Yeah, I fly the dart, beam you all up, and then I use its DHD to dial Atlantis and get out of here.
- Ronon: I was thinking of blowing it up, but your idea's better. Get moving!
First Strike [3.20][edit]
- Dr. McKay: Look- asking me to do performance evaluations is ridiculous. I am the first person to admit I don't know who these people are, nor do I care to. If you'd like, I can take you down the hall to the labs and just point at the people who annoy me more than the rest, but that's about as useful as I get.
- Col. Ellis: You should be running Atlantis, not Dr. Weir.
- Lt. Col Sheppard: But then I'd be The Man, and who would I have to rage against?
- [the team is discussing the strike against Asuras]
- Col. Ellis: They are constructed of real materials which can be destroyed. Six will be more than enough for now.
- Dr. McKay: For now? Isn't it like poking a sleeping dragon? Look, why don't we just wait until Area 51 finishes the P.W.A.R.W.s?
- Dr. Weir: Ugh, which one's that again?
- Lt. Col. Sheppard: Shouldn't you guys be bickering or something?
- Dr. McKay: Ah, we've got nothing to bicker about. He's run out of bad ideas... finally.
- Dr. Zelenka: [sulkily] If we survive this, I'm putting in for a transfer.
- Dr. McKay: Oh, please. We both know that you've done your best work under me.
- Dr. Zelenka: Under you?! I'm my own department head, you know.
- Dr. McKay: Please! We both know that department is a joke.
- Dr. Zelenka: What?!
- Lt. Col Sheppard: Why don't you two just make out and get it over with?
- Col. Ellis: You want to bring an asteroid towards us. Is that wise?
- Dr. McKay: Today it is.


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Mr. Thomas A. "Puddin" Stanley, 53, of 1019 1/2 12th Ave., died Tuesday, Nov. 24, 1998, at University Hospital.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at C.A. Reid Sr. Memorial Funeral Home with the Rev. Larry Fryer officiating.
Mr. Stanley, a native of Colerain, N.C., had retired as a sanitation worker.
Survivors include his wife, Georgia A. Carter Stanley; four sons, Anthony Stanley, Toney Carter, Danny Carter and Bruce Carter, all of Brooklyn, N.Y.; his mother, Estell Stanley, Colerain; two brothers, William R. Stanley and Toney Stanley, both of Colerain; a sister, Fredia Askew, Colerain; and nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Friends may call at the residence or the funeral home.
The family will receive friends at 3 p.m. today at the funeral home.
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MyLibrary – Explorit Everywhere!'s Filing Cabinet
At Deep Web Technologies we think that Explorit Everywhere! is the simplest way for researchers to perform a single search for results across their various information sources, find relevant results and seamlessly process those results. But it's that final part – processing results – that DWT just made simpler for our researchers through our new MyLibrary feature. MyLibrary has evolved over the years from Citations Manager, to My Selections, and now to the more full-featured MyLibrary.
A better way to think of MyLibrary, however, is as your library – A place to store your digital results, reference and organize your data, or share information with others. It's a place to build your research world.
Whether collaborative or solitary, your research can consume big chunks of time out of a day. If you're moving fast, you may browse dozens of results rapidly and set some aside to explore further. Those results might hold some interest for you on a topic separate from what you are currently researching and you want explore them at a later date. They might be relevant, but need additional follow up. Or maybe your workday has ended, and you'll resume researching again tomorrow. Whatever the reason, MyLibrary allows you to put your research on hold without missing a beat.
Your results can be filed away similar to organizing folders in a filing cabinet. Once you've selected your results, MyLibrary lets you tag and categorize those results in a system that makes sense to you. Reference those saved results whenever you want – they are there until you delete them. Just log in to your Explorit Everywhere! application and click MyLibrary. When you are ready, you can print, email or export any or all of those results from any folder, at any time.
Oh, and don't think our ambitious engineers could resist tweaking a few other things while they were fiddling with MyLibrary in Explorit Everywhere!. Now, once you log in, you can save results preferences and language preferences in localized applications. Have an idea to make MyLibrary even better? Let us know!