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For Valentine's Day this year, I decided to create a heart shaped appetizer. I've seen heart shaped pizzas in the past but wanted to try to tweak the idea bit. So, i experimented with weaving or braiding dough over a filling to make it visually more interesting. The filling for my woven heart is layers of fresh basil, prosciutto, mozzarella, tomatoes and parmesan. But, feel free to substitute other ingredients you might like. I also made a red velvet cheesecake and have provided the recipe below as well.
Prosciutto Stuffed Woven Heart
1 tsp Butter, softened
3 oz Prosciutto, thinly sliced
8 oz Mozzarella Ball, sliced
2 med Plum tomatoes, sliced and placed on paper towel to drain a bit
1 sm pkg Fresh Basil, about 10-12 leaves
1 tbl Grated Parmesan Cheese
1/2 of Bread Dough Recipe, below
Additional Equipment
8 1/2 x 11" piece of paper
baking sheet
parchment paper or a baking pad
Fold paper in half from top to bottom, creating a rectangle 8 1/2" tall along the folded edge and 5 1/2" wide. Cut half of a heart shape while holding the folded edge that is the full height of the paper and about 4" wide. When you open the paper you should have a heart about 8 1/2" tall by 8" wide. Set it aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
After the dough from the recipe below has risen for an hour and you've punched it down and divided it, roll out one half on a large, lightly floured board, forming a large triangle about 14" wide and 14" tall. Transfer the dough to lightly floured parchment paper. Stretch it a bit to form a rough heart shape.
Place the paper heart in the center of the dough. Press your index finger into the softened 1 teaspoon of butter and trace around the edge of the paper, creating the heart shape on the dough. Discard the paper heart. Using the butter boundary as a guide, cover the inside area with basil leaves. Cover the basil with prosciutto. Cover prosciutto with tomato slices, cutting them in half, if necessary, to maintain a tight heart shape. Sprinkle the tomatoes with parmesan cheese. Using a sharp knife, make 1" wide flaps by cutting from just outside the butter boundary all the way to the outside edge of the dough. Continue all the way around the dough. Starting at bottom of the heart, start layering the flaps up and over the filling, crisscrossing the flaps over and under each other. Stretch them a bit to reach the center. When you're done, mold the shape of the whole creation a bit to keep the integrity of the heart pattern. Lift or slide parchment and dough onto a baking sheet. Brush the top with melted butter and sprinkle on poppy seeds.
Bake for about 30-35 minutes until bread is golden brown. Remove from oven and let rest for 10 minutes before slicing. Server warm or at room temperature.
Bread Dough
2 1/2 tsp Yeast
4 cu All-Purpose Flour
1 tbl Brown Sugar
1 1/2 tsp Salt
1 1/2 tsp Olive Oil
1 1/3 cup Warm Water - about 105-100 degrees F
Additional Olive Oli, for rising
1 tbl Butter, melted
2 tsp Poppy seeds
Mix yeast with the brown sugar and 2 tablespoons of flour. Add 1/3 cup of the warm water. Stir to combine. Add olive oil and let rest for 10 minutes. Mix remaining flour and salt in a large bowl. Add yeast mixture and remaining water. Combine and knead for 10 minutes on a floured board. Pour an additional 2 teaspoons of olive oil in a large bowl. Place dough in bowl and turn to coat all surfaces. Cover to rise for 1 hour until doubled in bulk. Punch down, divide in half and then use one half in the recipe above. You can make a second heart with the remaining dough, or shape it into a loaf. If you make a loaf, brush it with half of the butter and top with 1 teaspoon of poppy seeds. Let it rest for 30 minutes, then bake for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown and sounds hollow when you thump it.
Red Velvet Cheesecake
1 10oz Box Chocolate Teddy Grahams
10 tbl Butter
1/2 cu Brown Sugar
1/4 cu Granulated Sugar
3 tbl Cocoa
24 oz Cream Cheese, room temperature
8 oz Mascarpone Cheese, room temperature
3 lg Eggs, resting at room temperature for 30 minutes
1 tbl Bourbon, like Maker's Mark
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 bottle Red Food Coloring, 1 fluid ounce size
1/4 tsp Salt
Fresh Strawberries, optional, for garnish
8 oz Sour Cream
1 tsp Bourbon
1/4 cu Granulated Sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
Additional Equipment
9" Springform Pan
Parchment Paper (optional) to line the bottom and sides of the pan
I usually line the bottom and sides of my springform pan so that it's easy to remove the cheesecake and place it on a serving platter. This is an optional step. But, if you'd like to do it, cut a parchment paper circle the same size as the base of your springform pan and place it inside. I usually spray the bottom and sides of the pan with a baking spray so that the parchment paper sticks. Cut a long strip about 2 1/2" wide by 29" long and line the sides of your pan.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Finely grind chocolate grahams in a food processor and then transfer them to a bowl. Melt butter in a small pan or in the microwave and pour over grahams. Mix thoroughly and pour all but about 1/3 of cup into your springform pan. Press the graham crackers about halfway up the side and on the bottom of the pan as uniformly as possible. Bake the crust in the oven for 12 minutes. Remove and set on a wire rack to fully cool, about 30 minutes.
In a large bowl, with either a stand mixer or electric mixer, cream together the sugars, cream cheese and mascarpone cheese. Mix thoroughly for about 5 minutes at medium high speed. Add cocoa. Add eggs, one at a time, and continue to mix. Add bourbon, vanilla, red food coloring and salt. Mix for an additional 3 minutes. Pour mixture into your cooled springform pan. Place pan on a baking sheet and bake for about 45 minutes. The outside edges of the cheesecake will be stiff but the center will still be soft and jiggle a bit. Remove the cheesecake from the oven and increase the oven temperature to 400 degrees F. Let the cheesecake cool for 25 minutes. The cake will settle a bit.
Mix together sour cream, bourbon, sugar, vanilla and cocoa. Once cheesecake has cooled, gently spoon the topping over the cake and spread it evenly leaving about 1" of the cheesecake exposed on the outer edge. Bake for an additional 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and let the cheesecake rest at room temperature four about 45 minutes. Then, place the cheesecake in your refrigerator for 4 hours or longer until it is fully set and chilled. Just before serving, crumble the remaining graham crackers and form a circular ring about half the diameter of the springform pan. Served with sliced strawberries.
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Wayne's Weekend: Heart Shaped Bread
Weave together bread dough to create a heart shaped appetizer.
For Valentine's Day this year, I decided to create a heart shaped appetizer. I've seen heart shaped pizzas in the past but wanted to try to tweak the idea bit. So, i experimented with weaving or braiding dough over a filling to make it visually more interesting. The filling for my woven heart is layers of fresh basil, prosciutto, mozzarella, tomatoes and parmesan. But, feel free to substitute other ingredients you might like. I also made a red velvet cheesecake and have provided the recipe below as well.

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Yo citizens! North Korea was just about to celebrate its 20th anniversary on our State Sponsors Of Terrorism list when Condi Rice went and pulled them abruptly off it. Now she's telling everyone we'll be sending them food and shit!! Megan is skeptical about this, but with food prices where they are right now and all the international finance institutions tipped off to North Korea's phony money and the lid blown off their whole deal with Syria, maybe Kim Jong Il himself started feeling hungry. I don't know, he's been hiding from he paparazzi lately, but it's a thought. Anyway, so you think ending the Cold War was a good idea? How do you chemically castrate someone? Why do some polls say Obama is like 29 points ahead and others say it's a tie? Now that the Supreme Court is starting to look like they're sort of "over" killing people, how'd they rule on the DC handgun ban? And now that he's dissed Scarlett Johansson, what beautiful and lofty thing will Obama sell out next? Those questions (and many dumber ones) answered after the jump.
MEGAN: This D.C.-based hangover case is trying to get pissed about something but all I can come up with is a sense of mild disgust that Cindy McCain cites Princess Di as an inspiration. I mean, I know between all her recipe-swiping and whatever that Cindy isn't the most creative person in the world but come on! Between this and Jackie O, can she choose more archetypes of the supportive-but-not-controversial wife to emulate to get her husband elected?
MOE: Wait, one sec, I forgot to tell you I'm doing DIRT BAG today. You know what that means? I fucking read TMZ and Page Six etc. etc. all morning. Apparently Janis Ian via David Geffen turned down an offer to do music for The Graduate. And that is what passes for a Page Six item on a Thursday in late June when Richard Johnson is on vacation!
MEGAN: Well, you go get dirrrty, I'll be here when you get back and not remotely envious of your gossip-reading.
MOE: Wait cindy mccain cites jackie as an inspiration? I thought that was Michelle's territory? And wasn't Jackie kind of controversial? Didn't she like, do drugs and give her daughters eating disorders and repress a full 90% of her emotions like all those beautiful icons of her generation??
MEGAN: Well, sure, but no one said anything about that until much later.
MEGAN: Anyway, we should probably totally talk about the whole North Korea thing briefly. Like, I sort of wonder if it's a good thing that all Kim Jong Il has to do is turn over some stuff detailed his weapons programs — without actually, you know, stopping them — and we're already lifting sanctions?
MOE: Well, what the fuck good have the sanctions done? How much thinner can they get in North Korea? I dunno…I kind of don't get the sense that we're dealing with a rational, logical guy in that Kim Jong Il. Maybe "engagement" would be kind of like the oil cleansing method of fighting breakouts. Like a "love bomb" on that show "Intervention."
MEGAN: Except that didn't we try that in the Clinton Administration? We offered them enticements, conducted negotiations and then Kim did what he wanted to do anyway which was get his hands on nukes. It's totally a no-win situation, but I guess I'm concerned in the medium- to long-term that allowing ourselves to be economically invested there could have negative repercussions on our foreign policy since it, you know, seemingly always does.
MOE: Has becoming economically interdependent with China had negative FP repercussions? I mean, sure you'll find lots of instances where that would be the case — the whole career of this guy, such as — and they haven't been exactly helpful when it comes to dealing with the DPRK, maybe some casino magnate can convince them to change their policy about sending North Korean border-crossers back to North Korea, but I'm trying to hone in on what you're saying with the "always does." Anyway in the case of North Korea is the big new concern their cooperation with Syria? I still haven't read the story. I'll do that now. Also we should maybe discuss child rapists and FISA.
MEGAN: I mean, in my mind, we find it really easy to take a hard foreign policy stand in countries where we have no economic interest or, in the case of the Iraq, where a hard foreign policy stand is aligned with our economic interests. Sometimes, like with Burma, that's probably a good thing, other times less so — agricultural competition and Cuba comes to mind, actually. But, yes, China was the example I was thinking of when saying our economic interests seemingly trump our foreign policy ones. Like, there's a whole army of lobbyists that will lobby for their companies' interests in China and strongly oppose any government action against China in a foreign policy sense that might interfere with that.
MOE: Oh god CHECK IT OUT we averted recession go us.
MEGAN: Well, we avoided it first quarter by just being anemic.
MEGAN: I'm not feeling the growth love.
MOE: Yeah I was being sarcastic but you know me.
MEGAN: Also, don't we all love how we live in an age where all kinds of information is at our fingertips, but economists still can only call it an official recession in retrospect 2 financial quarters later?
MOE: I think we should seal all aggregate economic data for a few years and come together as a nation to figure out what would really make everyone happier.
MEGAN: See, I actually wonder if it would even be possibly to determine that given our culture is so steeped in the idea that the ability to consume = happiness
MOE: Anyway, would you get in a time machine and, like, assassinate Kissinger before he had a chance to chill with Mao? Oh shit that reminds me I've got that Harper's somewhere with the amazing transcript of that. Because I wouldn't. Would I? Nah. I mean, it would be interesting.
MEGAN: I've watched and read too much SciFi to think that changing the past like that would be a good idea.
MEGAN: Anyway, so, wiretapping and child rapists?
MOE: Yeah I mean, I'm not really that interested in this fire and brimstone shit but Bobby Jindal is apparently like, okay, if you won't let us execute our child rapists I am going to have them CHEMICALLY CASTRATED. I'm almost afraid to click and find out what that meas.
MEGAN: Well, look, there are 5 states that have the law on the books now, but Louisiana was the first. Patrick Kennedy (poor, black) was the first child rapist ever given the death penalty in such a case, in 2003— but the law was passed in 1995
MOE: Oh man it's just Depo-Provera??
MEGAN: Yeah, mostly. Also, chemical castration doesn't solve the problem Chemically castrated rapists have offended again.
MEGAN: Plus, hello, life in prison?
MEGAN: Basically, the idea is that you can't get a boner or you can't ejaculate, but you can rape a person without a dick and Viagra can overcome Depo. Plus, it's rooted in the idea that rape is about sexual arousal, when when is at least as much about power and dominance.
MEGAN: So, if a rapist wants to show dominance, he doesn't need an erection. Lots of rapes are committed with objects (see:Joe Francis' rape).
MOE: Oh dude…uh speaking of dominance ?…WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH THE POLLS WHY DOES GALLUP SAY IT IS A TIE AND EVERYONE ELSE IS LIKE UH-UH OBAMA IS WINNNNING
MEGAN: Well, Gallup says it's within the margin of error, so they're not even sure it represents a change.
MEGAN: The Rasmussen standard is "likely" voters, while Gallup only asks registered voters.
MEGAN: The real mystery to me is the LA Times/Bloomberg poll which has Obama miles ahead but uses the registered voter standard.
MOE: No but like all the polls had Obama 12 points ahead, and then Gallup came out and declared a tie, but whatever I wanted to go back to the fact that, like, even if you isolate North Korea economically they have gotten really good at printing fake currency so that is a problem. Anyway, here's Condi Rice telling everyone how she decided to remove North Korea from the terror list. Nowhere does she say "they are not terrorists because LOOK THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN ALLAH" but you know that's the subtext.
MEGAN: Sure, counterfeiting our money to give to terrorists in exchange for stuff legit governments won't sell them: not terrorism. Because they're not Muslim.
MOE: Oh, well that's simple enough. Registered vs. likely, sure. Mystery solved.
MEGAN: Also, back to the LA Times poll, they included Barr (3%) and Nader (4%), both coming mostly from McCain voters. Also, the LA Times poll is the only one with that large a margin, the Rasmussen and Gallup are both within each other's margins of error.
MEGAN: Also, it appears that the LA Times poll asked about isues and party affiliation, which would naturally affect responses. Gallup just asks "who you gonna vote for."
MEGAN: So, like, to me, that would indicate that in a knee-jerk reaction poll, they're more even but when voters are asked to think about the issues and with whom they agree and what is most important to them issues-wise, Obama does waaaaay better. Which is really interesting.
MEGAN: Yes, I did take statistical methodology as part of my major in Sociology, why do you ask?
MOE: Wait, ADD time, back to the Supreme Court death penalty decision and how it maybe reflects a shift on how the Court views executing people.
Justice Kennedy's majority opinion includes striking comments indicating possible skepticism about the entirety of capital punishment jurisprudence. In a remarkable statement, he says that the court's extensive body of death-penalty case law "is still in search of a unifying principle." That's a pretty bold statement about the whole project. And consider this statement by Kennedy today: "When the law punishes by death, it risks its own sudden descent into brutality, transgressing the constitutional commitment to decency and restraint."
MEGAN: Well, that goes along with the statement in the majority opinion that taking the death penalty off the table to child rapists reflect shifting social values about the death penalty.
MEGAN: That, like, since the standard for "cruel and unusual" changes over time as society changes, so does the Constitutionality of the punishment. I'm okay with that.
MOE: Me too! I think I'm also okay with Karl Rove calling out Obama's "alpha male attitude." Because, LOL!
Mr. Obama's alpha-male attitude was evident even as he stumbled towards and over the primary finish line. First, his campaign announced in May it was talking to Patti Solis Doyle after Sen. Clinton fired her as campaign manager. This served only to pour salt in the Clintons' wounds.
MEGAN: Right, because most politicians and political operatives aren't Type A personalities AT ALL.
MEGAN: But I guess Karl is himself a little more passive-aggressive, and if Bush really did fire him in church so he couldn't make a scene, so is Bush, so maybe Karl's just too used to passive-aggressivity to view assertiveness as anything other than hyper-aggressive?
MEGAN: WAIT oh my God, Karl Rove is everyone I date.
MOE: Um, also how did I miss Obama dissing Scarlett Johansson, (which Mickey Kaus deems "inexplicably clumsy," somewhat inexplicably, since he cops to having watched her video, and like, hello.)
MEGAN: Ummm, I would guess it has a lot more to do with downplaying the black man-white woman vaguely flirtatious suggestion aspect of it.
MOE: Ya think???
MEGAN: Which is just sad.
MOE: Interesting Spiegel piece on Why Russia Is Risking Another Cold War by amping up its military might. The answer seems to be that it isn't, but Putin talks a good game.
MEGAN: Well, who would they have a Cold War with? We're all into hot wars now, and really only in terrorist-sponsoring states that just happen to be Muslim and don't have nukes and shit.
MEGAN: Obama, by the way, is flip-flopping on the DC gun ban since he's trying to win swing states and the Supreme Court is expected to throw it out today.
MOE: Ugh and what the fuck was up with FISA?
MEGAN: The security of the American people trumps their need to protect (i.e., sue over) their right to privacy. He managed to combine a Republican argument on the supreme importance of national security with an implied Republican argument on tort reform. Plus, he can't look soft on terrorism or something and the Democrats have collectively decided to cave on telecomm immunity because they like having Bush scratch their bellies.
MOE: Oh here, they threw it out. Yay.
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for four colleagues, said the Constitution does not permit "the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home."
MOE: Scalia wrote the opinion. 5-4 decision. Can't wait to read!
MEGAN: You can right here, if you want.


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538 U.S. 254 (2003), 01-1437, Branch v. Smith
|Docket Nº:
|No. 01-1437
|538 U.S. 254, 123 S.Ct. 1429, 155 L.Ed.2d 407, 71 U.S.L.W. 4232
|Party Name:
|Branch v. Smith
|Case Date:
|March 31, 2003
|United States Supreme Court
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Argued December 10, 2002
After the 2000 census caused Mississippi to lose one congressional seat, the state legislature failed to pass a new redistricting plan. Anticipating a state law deadline for qualifying candidates, appellants and cross-appellees (state plaintiffs) filed suit in October, 2001, asking the State Chancery Court to issue a redistricting plan for the 2002 elections. In a similar action, appellees and cross-appellants (federal plaintiffs) asked the Federal District Court to enjoin the current plan and any state court plan, and to order at-large elections pursuant to Miss.Code Ann. § 23-15-1039 and 2 U.S.C. § 2a(c)(5) or, alternatively, to devise its own redistricting plan. The three-judge District Court permitted the state plaintiffs to intervene and concluded that it would assert jurisdiction if it became clear by January 7, 2002, that no state plan would be in place by March 1. On the eve of the state trial, the State Supreme Court ruled that the Chancery Court had jurisdiction to issue a redistricting plan. The Chancery Court adopted such a plan. On December 21, 2001, the state attorney general submitted that plan and the Supreme Court's decision to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for preclearance pursuant to § 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. DOJ requested additional information from the State, noting that the 60-day review period would commence once that information was received. The information was provided on February 20, 2002. Meanwhile, the Federal District Court promulgated a plan that would fix the State's congressional districts for the 2002 elections should the state court plan not be precleared by February 25. When that date passed, the District Court enjoined the State from using the state court plan and ordered that its own plan be used in 2002 and until the State produced a precleared constitutional plan. The court based the injunction on the failure of the timely preclearance of the state court plan, but found in the alternative that the state court plan was unconstitutional. The State did not appeal. DOJ declined to make a determination about the preclearance submission because the District Court's injunction rendered the state court plan incapable of administration.
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The judgment is affirmed.
189 F.Supp.2d 548 affirmed .
JUSTICE SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II, and IIIA, holding:
1. The District Court properly enjoined enforcement of the state court plan. Pp. 261-266.
(a) There are two critical distinctions between these cases and Growe v. Emison, 507 U.S. 25. First, there is no suggestion here that the District Court failed to allow the state court adequate opportunity to develop a redistricting plan. Second, the state court plan here was subject to § 5 of the Voting Rights Act. The controversy over whether the state court plan was precleared centers on § 5's proviso that whenever a covered jurisdiction "shall enact or seek to administer" a voting change, the change may be enforced if the Attorney General does not object within 60 days. Pp. 261-263.
(b) DOJ's failure to object within 60 days of the state attorney general's original submission did not render the state court plan enforceable on February 25. A jurisdiction seeking preclearance must provide the Attorney General with information sufficient to prove that the change is nondiscriminatory. DOJ regulations -- which are "wholly reasonable and consistent with the Act," Georgia v. United States, 411 U.S. 526, 541 -- provide that incomplete state submissions do not start the 60-day clock, and that the clock begins to run from the date that requested information is received. DOJ's request here, which was neither frivolous nor unwarranted, postponed the 60-day period. Pp. 263-264.
(c) The state court plan was also not precleared 60 days after the state attorney general submitted the requested information. The State was "seek[ing] to administer" the changes within § 5's meaning when its attorney general made his initial submission to DOJ and when he provided additional information. However, when the State failed to appeal the District Court's injunction, it ceased "seek[ing] to administer" the state court plan. The 60-day period was no longer running, so the plan was not rendered enforceable by operation of law. Because a private party's actions are not those of a State, the state plaintiffs' appeal is insufficient to demonstrate that the State still "seek[s] to administer" the plan. Pp. 264-265.
(d) Since this Court affirms the injunction on the ground that the state court plan was not precleared and could not be precleared in time for the 2002 election, the Court vacates the District Court's alternative holding that such plan was unconstitutional. P. 265-266.
2. The District Court properly fashioned its own congressional reapportionment plan under 2 U.S.C. § 2c. The tension between
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§§ 2a(c)(5) and 2c is apparent: pending redistricting, § 2a(c)(5) requires at-large elections if a State loses a congressional seat, while § 2(c), which was enacted 26 years later, requires States with more than one Representative to use single-member districts. Contrary to the federal plaintiffs' contention, § 2(c) is not limited to legislative action, but also applies to action by state and federal courts when the prescribed legislative action has not been forthcoming. When § 2c was adopted in 1967, the issue was precisely the courts' involvement in fashioning electoral plans. The Voting Rights Act had recently been enacted, and this Court's decisions in, e.g., Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, had ushered in a new era in which federal courts were overseeing efforts by badly malapportioned States to conform their congressional districts to one-person, one-vote standards. Given the risk that judges would simply order at-large elections, it is most unlikely that § 2(c) was directed solely at legislative apportionment. Nor has any court found § 2(c) to be so limited. In addition, § 2c's language is most susceptible of this interpretation. Pp. 266-272.
JUSTICE SCALIA, joined by THE CHIEF JUSTICE, JUSTICE KENNEDY, and JUSTICE GINSBURG, concluded in Part IIIB, that § 2a(c) where what it prescribes is constitutional (as it is in paragraph (5))applies when a state legislature and the state and federal courts have all failed to redistrict pursuant to § 2(c). This interpretation allows both §§ 2a(c) and 2c to be given effect. Section 2a(c) governs the manner of any election held "[u]ntil a State is redistricted in the manner provided by [state] law after any apportionment." When a court redistricts pursuant to § 2c, it necessarily does so in such a manner because it must follow the State's "policies and preferences" for districting. White v. Weiser, 412 U.S. 783, 795. A court may invoke § 2a(c)'s stopgap provision only when an election is so imminent that redistricting pursuant to state law (including § 2c's mandate) cannot be completed without disrupting the election process. Mississippi's at-large provision should be deemed operative when §§ 2a(c)(2) and (5) would be: the state provision envisions both legislatively and judicially prescribed change, and does not come into play as long as it is feasible for a state or federal court to complete redistricting. Pp. 273-276.
JUSTICE STEVENS, joined by JUSTICE SOUTER and JUSTICE BREYER, while agreeing that the District Court properly enjoined the state court plan's enforcement and promulgated its own plan under 2 U.S.C. § 2c, concluded that § 2c impliedly repealed § 2a(c) and that the 1967 federal Act preempted Mississippi's statutory authorization for at-large congressional elections. The presumption against implied repeals, like that against preemption, is overcome if there is an irreconcilable conflict between the two provisions or if the later Act was clearly intended
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to "cove[r] the whole subject of the earlier one." Posadas v. National City Bank, 296 U.S. 497, 503. By prohibiting States with more than one Representative from electing Representatives at-large, the 1967 Act unambiguously forbids elections that § 2a(c)(5) would otherwise authorize. Thus, under either of Posadas' standards, the 1967 Act repealed the earlier § 2a(c)(5) and preempted Mississippi's law. Any fair reading of the history leading to the 1967 Act's passage shows that the parties believed that the changes they were debating would completely replace § 2a(c). The statute was the final gasp in a protracted legislative process. Four versions of the original bill expressly repealed § 2a(c), and there was no disagreement about that provision. When that bill did not pass, its less controversial parts, including what is now § 2c, were attached to a private bill. The absence of any discussion, debate, or reference to the repeal provision in the legislative process prevents its omission from the final private bill as being seen as a deliberate choice by Congress. Pp. 285-292.
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Why is it that people think the minute you announce your pregnancy, it automatically gives them a free pass to pry into your personal life? Seriously, it's like as soon as you're sporting a baby bump, friends, acquaintances, and even random strangers think it's perfectly acceptable to ask you a gazillion questions that are totally none of their business.
I mean, Kim Kardashian is already being asked what she will name her baby, and she's barely out of her first trimester -- and she has to be pretty annoyed about it. I know I was when I was pregnant with my son. There were times when I swore if one more person asked me what I was planning on calling my little guy, I would not-so-politely look them straight in the eye and say, "That's none of your damn business!"
And being asked about baby names is only the tip of the iceberg. Here are 10 other rude questions people just can't seem to resist asking pregnant women. (For the record, the prying really needs to stop.)
- "Do you know what you're having?" (Ok, so I'm guilty of asking this question too. But seriously, it's none of my business.)
- "Oh, you're having a boy/girl. Is that what you wanted?" (Really, people?!?)
- "C'mon, spill. How/when/where did you and your husband conceive that baby?" (Yes, someone dared to go there with me.)
- "How much weight have you gained so far?" (Followed by: "Oh, really? Wow.")
- "Are you planning on breastfeeding?" (Be prepared for judgement no matter what your answer is.)
- "It's ok, you can tell me. Are you and your husband still having sex even though you're pregnant?" (At least 10 people asked me this when I was expecting.)
- "Did you plan on getting pregnant, (lowers voice to a whisper) or was it an accident?"
- "Is your husband happy about the baby?" (Um, WTF?)
- "How do you plan on losing the baby weight?" (Geez, can I get through the pregnancy first and then worry about it?)
- "So, how long are you going to wait before having another one?" (Again, let's get through this pregnancy first, and then we'll talk.)
What questions do you wish people would quit asking you about your pregnancy?
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To illustrate what it can do, Union Metrics sent over this graphic of the way it can chart what happens to a Tumblr post once its starts being reblogged by followers. Although users could always see this information underneath each of their own individual posts, analyzing it was inconvenient.
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Six Legs? A baby boy - Umar Farooq - was born with six legs in April, 2012, in southeastern Pakistan. International press noted that the boy's parents were cousins, a common occurrence in Pakistan, where 70% of the marriage are "consanguineous." Was the deformity caused by genetically-similar commingling?
Probably not. Polymelia (a rare genetic disease) was suspected at first, but eventually the extra limbs were blamed on an undeveloped "conjoined (Siamese) twin." The reasons for conjoining are unknown.
Eyebrows were already raised around the world, though. Tongues wagged, netizens clucked. The consequences of "inter-breeding" are generally well-known: offspring from these unions exhibit abnormalities with greater prevalence than average, particularly when the practice is repeated for multiple generations.
What are the deleterious risks of consanguineous mating? Here's a sampling: schizophrenia, congenital heart defects, pulmonary stenosis and atresia, cystic fibrosis, cystinosis, nephronophthisis, spinal muscular atrophy, albinism, achromatopsia, hearing disorders, central nervous system anomalies, congenital anomalies, physical handicaps, mental retardation and malignancies, added risk of infant and child mortality.
High-Risk Recipe
Statistics on the danger of ingrown genetics were publicized in 2005 when a BBC report claimed Pakistani-Britons produce 33% of the nation's children with genetic illnesses, even though they account for only 3% of the births. (55% of Pakistani-Britons marry first cousins.) 10% of these newborns either die in infancy, or endure a serious disability. Pakistani-Britons who are first cousins are, claimed the report, 13X more likely to have children with recessive disorders than the general population.
This dire prognosis is duplicated in the US state of Ohio, in Geauga County, where the Amish population represents 12% of the citizenry. After inter-breeding for 300 years, Amish total 50% of the county's special needs cases. Additionally, there's a debilitating seizure disorder that's so rare only twelve individuals worldwide are afflicted with it; the infirmity is exclusively Amish.
A recent book, Consanguinity in Context, by Alan H. Bittles, a medical geneticist at Murdoch University and the Centre for Comparative Genomes in Australia, has dismissed the hazard potential as inconsequential. Bittles claims the rate only elevates from 2-3% to 4-6% if parents are first cousins. A Saudi Arabian report also claims an elevation rise from merely 1.7 to 2.8%, and the London-based Human Genetics Commission claims the risk "rises to about six in every 100 births, i.e. double the risk."
Why are these 2X stats so diminutive compared to the 13X greater risk of UK Pakistanis, and the 4X greater risk of the Amish? Why does the Human Genetics Commission state abnormalities of 6%, but BBC indicates 10%?
Bittles suggests that "environmental" factors elevate the rate of consanguineous birth defects. Another possibility, in my opinion, is that research simply can't properly calculate increased risk, after centuries of shared genetic material in traditional regions, between cousins who repeatedly inter-marry.
First cousins related via a single channel are obviously far less at risk than those whose ancestors have interwoven DNA for 300 years (the Amish) or 1,300 years (Islam entered Pakistan in 712 AD.) It's interesting that the Amish elevated rate of risk - 4X - is approximately 1/3 the elevated risk of Pakistanis - 13X - with this ratio near-duplicated again in their length of inter-marriage - 300 yrs / 1300 yrs.
Kissing Cousins Internationally
Worldwide attitudes on cousin marriage differ considerably, with the prevalence - both currently and historically - far greater than Westerners realize.
What nations define it as a no-no? Ethiopia appears the most prohibitive: it bans marriage between relatives out to 6th cousins. South Korea bans out to 3rd cousins; Taiwan and The Philippines ban first cousins, as does China, ever since it's 1981 Marriage Act. In the USA, 31 of the 50 states ban first cousin marriage. In Europe and South America, consanguinity generally isn't banned, but it is rarely practiced. Europe's rate is generally less than 1%, and Brazil's is presently 1.1%.
Where do cousins marry? Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia are the most consanguineous regions in the world, largely due to its general acceptance, even preference, in Islam. In India, the Muslim rate of cousin marriage is 22%, with the rate nearly doubling to 40% in Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan, noted earlier, is the world leader in consanguinity with around 70%; Saudi Arabia is 50+%; Iran and Afghanistan are 30-40%, Iraq 33%, Egypt and Turkey 20+%, and Qatar 54%. Subsaharan Africa is estimated between 35-50%, with Nigeria's opinion split tribally: Hausas prefer cousin marriage, Yorubas condone it; Igbos ban it.
Is the practice climbing or descending in popularity? In Qatar cousin marriage has increased 12-18% since the previous generation; it's also increased in Morocco, Mauritania, and the Sudan, but it's declining in Lebanon, Egypt, and Palestine. (These 2009 statistics were compiled by the Dubai-based Centre for Arab Genomic Studies (CAGS), in a research project that also discovered that Arabs have one of the world's highest rates of genetic disorders, with 66% of the abnormalities linked to cousin marriage.)
Today 1.1 billion people are either married to cousins, or the children of consanguineous unions, and 10.4% of humanity is second cousins, or closer. Why is cousin marriage so popular? It Always Has Been. Robin Fox of Rutgers ventures that, throughout history, approximately 80% of all marriages have been to first or second cousins. In the West, Charles Darwin married his cousin (Emma), so did Edgar Allan Poe (Virgina), Albert Einstein (Elsa), Queen Victoria (Albert), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Eleanor), and H. G. Wells (Maria).
Reasons and Consequences
In the 19th century, several Rothschilds (the prosperous banking family) intermarried for one of the same reasons as many of today's Muslims - Keep It In The Family. (I'm referring to the family jewels, double-meaning intended.) Assets accumulated via generations of hard work are deemed more secure if "outsiders" are not allowed matrimonial claims to the goods. Marrying within the family also guarantees that no unusual customs or ideas will waft in to threaten the established patterns, plus family ties are strengthened, negotiations are easier, and it's harder to hide family secrets from potential in-laws.
Proponents of consanguinity like to boast that their divorce rates are low. Personally, I find these statistics meaningless because cousin marriages are nearly always coercive "arranged marriages." Does love for one's spouse keep cousin marriages together? Probably no more than spontaneous romance brought them together. The force that originally and permanently binds them is family pressure.
In the United States, cousin marriage was acceptable nationwide until an 1846 Massachusetts Commission implicated cousin marriage as a "retardation" factor. Twenty years later, a similar report from Kentucky linked cousin marriage to deafness, blindness, and idiocy. These early analyses were exaggerated, of course, but scientific reports indicate a lowering of IQ in cousin-marrying population groups. For example, in a study of North Indian Muslim schoolchildren the intermarried children's mean IQ was 88.4, whereas the control group was 99.6.
The mental risk is convincing enough for me to list consanguinity as a hazard factor in two of my previous IEET essays, Brain Damage - 83 ways to stupefy intelligence, and Six Brain Damage Scourges that Cripple IQ in SubSaharan Africa.
With all this evidence stacked against cousin marriage, why does it persist? Don't political leaders oppose it, or at least seek solutions? Indeed, they are. Instead of banning the practice, though, they recommend genetic counseling and screening. Every Persian Gulf state now requires genetic exams before marriage, with Qatar the last to mandate it, in 2009. Kuwait also established a new law in 2009, prescribing pre-marriage check-ups. Additional high-consanguinity nations that either promote or mandate premarital exams are Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Morocco, Bahrain, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iran, and undoubtedly others.
Western Hypocrites?
Are counseling and exams just a frail bandaid? Are they truly effective? Are they capable of catching all the myriad genetic mines that lie hidden in our DNA? Why don't governments just ban it? Yes, cousin-marriage is "traditional", but with every new generation of inter-marriage, it's dangers are amplified.
Ordinarily, I'd recommend an absolute ban, because I support eugenics that guarantee the maximum health of an arriving child, a position I staked out when I penned last year's IEET essay, Ban Baby-Making Unless Parents Are Licensed. Obviously, there's risk in cousin-marriages that can harm new life brought into the world. I believe society has an obligation to guarantee, to the greatest extent, optimal mental and physical health to every newborn. That's what I want, so why don't I insist on an absolute ban, right now?
I hesitate… because… I'd be a hypocrite if I adhered to that eugenic stance. The truth is, if there was legislation in my own nation that allowed only unions that were 100% safe, those laws…would have ruined my own family plans. Regard these sentences in Discover Magazine:
"…first cousin marriages entail roughly the same increased risk of abnormality that a woman undertakes when she gives birth at 41 rather than at 30. banning cousin marriages makes about as much sense, critics argue, as trying to ban child-rearing by older women."
Among the "critics" is the Human Genetics Commission:
"the effect of increased maternal age on the rate of Down Syndrome… can be compared with the increased risk of consanguinity. At 35 years of age the risk of Down Syndrome is four times that at age 25 and it increases 15 times by the age of 40… [Both] cousin marriage and increased maternal age… represent complex cultural trends…"
Yikes! My youngest daughter - Zenobia - emerged out of my wife's 40-year-old womb…
Zenobia also endured added risk due to my contribution, as an Older Dad - I was 51 when she was born. Men that age are guilty, according to studies, of fathering children that have an increased risk of mental illness, "especially autism and schizophrenia" because "the rate of genetic mutations passed on via their sperm cells increases significantly."
Would I be a fraud, a phony, a total charlatan if I denounced cousin marriage but condoned older parenting? Perhaps, but… my wife and I did pay for amniocentesis, to determine if the fetus had abnormalities. I advocate that this exam and other tech interventions be governmentally paid for via health policies worldwide.
Additionally, I suggest that spunky teenage or early 20's lads store frozen spoonfuls of their spermatozoa, for procreation use in their later, declining years. I had my sperm analyzed at 50, before I contributed it for conception, and indeed, it had a high percentile of headless and errant split-tail polliwogs, graphically illustrating that my half-century sperm just wasn't as robust as it was when I was nineteen.
Returning to the question of banning cousin marriage… a prominent Western foe of that notion is Alan Bittles, the Consanguinity in ContextConsanguinity in Context author. He argues, quite logically, that "People with severe disorders like Huntington's disease, who have a 50 percent chance of passing it on to their offspring, are not barred from marrying because of the risk of genetic defects… so cousins should not be, either."
His mathematical and ethical reasoning is absolutely right. If governments decide to keep people from reproducing because offspring can be disabled, they need to start with the riskiest couples.
Additional Exasperations
Cousin-marriage, in my opinion, is also undesirable for reasons beyond genetic risk. Culturally, I also deplore the practice because it's almost always arranged, without romance, between the two passive parties. (Bruce Charlton MD, professor of theoretical medicine at the University of Buckingham, posts this equation on his blog: Cousin marriage = arranged marriage = coercive marriage. I want everyone to enjoy, suffer, and endure the sharp drama and sweet, tawdry thrills of flirtation, seduction and courtship. Cousin marriage springs, overwhelmingly, from societies that repress freedom to love.
The clannishness that cousin marriage supports is also stifling to civic democracy, because family members align themselves with the interests of their in-grown family, instead of allegiance to the state. Libya's "Arab Spring" revolution featured the nation's schism into 30 major tribes or family clans, and Somalia's longtime anarchy is essentially a tribal feud between clan warlords, i.e., family leaders. Isolating family members from the ideas, economics, and genetic components of other clans also devalues political debate and stymies meritocracy due to nepotism and corruption.
But… still… outlawing cousin marriage? Is this necessary? Aren't government-funded pre-natal and natal examinations enough? No? In the long run, is it best to just toss cousin-mating on the scrap-heap of anthro-history, like trepanning? Are all measures less, just promoting dangerous eugenics?
Note my bracket above around "cousin-mating" - because that's what we're actually talking about, not the indirect euphemism, "cousin-marriage." I have few qualms with cousins marrying-but-not-propagating, co-habitating in legal unions, without children between them - there's no injury there, no harm to others. If they desire offspring, there's safe, unrelated sperm or/and safe, unrelated eggs that can be purchased. Legislation in this direction is undoubtedly useless, though - married couples almost always want children genetically linked to themselves. I sympathize, but is it fair to the child if this mixture is debilitating, disfiguring, mentally crippling, and/or lethal?
Is Change Possible?
Does the half-way solution - genetic testing for cousin couples - actually work? Largely, overwhelmingly, NO. The UK's National Health Service (NHS) provides genetic counseling to consanguineous couples, but that 13X factor that the BBC reported suggests that the option is generally ignored. Why?
Many, or most, Pakistani-Britons are distrustful of the white establishment's warnings. Disdain is evident in this posting by "Iftkar" on Sunniforum.com:
"Cousin marriage is common in all Muslim countries… in accordance with the teaching of the Holy Quran…. Children are born with defects whether it is cousin marriage or not. Among migrant Muslim communities the defects are due to many factors. The pressure of moving to a different cultural environment and moving from their families, problems of racism and employment are responsible for the defects during pregnancies. The defects are nothing to do with cousin marriages. The hidden agenda is that British society does not want Muslims to bring their spouses from Muslim countries. A man/woman has the right to marry anybody from anywhere. It is a question of human right and the right given to Muslims by the Holy Quran and the sayings of the Holy Prophet…. There is no hard evidence that married to cousin causes birth defects. Before picking on Pakistanis just remember that Queen and Prince Phillip are third cousins. Glass houses…stone…. it is another witch hunt against Muslim community…"
Another barrier that's perhaps even more imposing than cultural distrust is found in a a Saudi study that discovered, "90% of couples detected as carriers did not follow the advice they were given and went ahead with their marriages." Couples aimed at matrimony, it seems, either believe in "fate" or in odds that will favor the health of their family.
So…what is to be done? Here's advice:
1. More aggressive education about the hazards of consanguinity
2. Promotion of cultural alternatives
3. Obtain support of the consanguineous culture's leaders
4. Accelerate advances in pre-natal and diagnostic technology
5. To Guarantee Trust - the warnings, counsels, requirements, and restrictions must be distributed in an egalitarian manner to all cultures, especially to the dominant majority. Couples who are carriers of severe genetic disorders need to make sacrifices first, because their offspring are the most at-risk.
Oldsters like me? If a fair nation wants to mandate against cousin marriage, it's citizenry of age-50+ wannabe-Dads and age-40+ wannabe-Moms needs to be scrutinized, as well. Storing sperm and eggs when they're young is a commendable strategy.
Perhaps in the future, children like Zenobia will be conceived and gestated, far more sanely, in test tubes and artificial wombs?


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But we do have a special time of year, when Modesto is an exceedingly nice place to live: it's during those few weeks in late autumn when our trees turn. The city may be on a flat featureless 400 mile long plain (the Central Valley), and it may be dry and dusty in summer, foggy and cold in winter, but for these few days, the colors come alive.
Some of the most colorful trees are the Modesto Ash Trees (Fraxinus velutina) that have been planted all over the core of the city. The trees are a good fit in many ways, being drought resistant, and capable of growing well in alkaline soils. They grow fast and tall, although there are problems when their shallow roots encounter streets and sidewalks. For these couple of weeks, they are some of the most beautiful sights to see in our fair city.
And despite what they say, Modesto isn't that bad!
This is Callan Bentley's fault by the way. He was showing fall colors over at Mountain Beltway this week...


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Hey all,
So I had PRK about 9 days ago now, and overall, it wasn't too bad. The first 3 days hurt pretty bad (as expected), but after 4 days the contacts were taken out and my vision was great. Although I was still pretty light sensitive, I was reading about 20/40. Since then, vision has improved dramatically and Im seeing 20/20 with no halos, no haze, dry eye, starbusts etc...
Now here is my problem...my right eye is feeling and seeing great, but with my left eye its a different story. Although my vision is excellent, I have a foreign body sensation. I've been moisturising my eyes consistently and it doesn't feel like anything related to dry eye.
Constantly it feels like I have an eyelash in my left eye and I'm starting to really worry, especially since my right eye is feeling so great. Its been about 4 days without any improvement. Is this normal? And more importantly, will this feeling go away???
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A comprehensive map of the world's corals and their exposure to stress factors, including high temperatures, ultra-violet radiation, weather systems, sedimentation, as well as stress-reducing factors such as temperature variability and tidal dynamics, has been created by MacArthur grantee the Wildlife Conservation Society and other groups. Using an array of publicly available data sets from satellites and a branch of mathematics known as fuzzy logic, which can handle incomplete data on coral physiology and coral-environment interactions, the researchers grouped the world's tropical coral reef systems into clusters based on the sum of their stress exposure grades and the factors that reinforce and reduce these stresses.
Data from the report will be used to conserve some of the world's most important coral reefs by identifying reef systems where biodiversity is high and stress is low, and ecosystems where management has the best chance of success. Researchers also recommend formulating management strategies that would include activities such as fishing restrictions, the management of watersheds through improved agricultural practices, and reforestation of coastal watersheds that play a role in healthy coral systems.
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This Bronzong is a steel/psychic-type Pokémon owned by Lucian.
Bronzong first appeared when Dawn's Buizel challenged Lucian to a battle. Using Iron Defense, Bronzong easily endured all Buizel's attacks and finally launched a Flash Cannon which easily overpowered Buizel's Water Gun and knocked it out. During the battle, Buizel refused to listen to Dawn's instructions and after his defeat, he grew miserable. Buizel later regained his fighting spirit by defeating Team Rocket under Lucian's command. Bronzong then battled Buizel a second time, but Lucian knew that, although Buizel now listened to Dawn, he still didn't stand a chance. Deciding that he didn't want Buizel to suffer another humiliating defeat, Lucian recalled Bronzong.
Bronzong later appeared battling Cynthia's Garchomp on television. It was defeated by the Mach Pokémon's Giga Impact, after Garchomp blocked Flash Cannon.


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The Outhouse did some investigative journalism into DC Comics' underworld to find out how and why Gail Simone got fired.
Source: ThanosCopter Newswire
The blogosphere exploded over the weekend upon discovering that Gail Simone had been taken off her popular Batgirl series. While many were quick to blame DC for mishandling the situation, the Outhouse decided to go to the source and hear their side of the story.
The Outhouse began its investigation by speaking with Dan "the Don" Didio, the head of DC Comics. Speaking to us in a private booth at a Manhattan Italian restaruant, Didio was dressed in a three piece pinstripe suit and an oversized fedora. "Gail?" said Didio in between bites of a large plate of spaghetti. "I heard what happened to her. A real shame. Of course, as I see it, we didn't have any choice. There were circumstances that necessitated her...termination."
"Mah, we're just legitimate businessmen, see?" asked Geoff "Jeff" Johns, a high-ranking member of the DC family, watching the door for potential threats. "We're just tryin' ta make a buck, see? If some dame doesn't wanna play ball, we gotta get rid of her, see? It's just business, see?"
While Didio refused to elaborate on why Simone was terminated, we sought out his lieutenant, Bob "Squeaky" Harras, who often handles the oversight of DC's employees. We found Harras in the back room of a strip club, counting freshly laundered twenty dollar bills. "Listen, youse mess with the family, youse get burnt," said Harras in a comically high-pitched voice.
When pressed for a reason why Simone was terminated, Harras grew agitated. "Ms. Simone said she didn' want to stuff no women in no refrigerators," he said. "She was goin' on about some nonsense about respectin' womens and not using their deaths as a cheap source of drama. It was like she's never even heard of DC Comics. We invented women in refrigerators!" Harras called for one of the strippers milling around outside. "She was askin' for trouble," Harras said as he gestured for the girl to give him a lap dance. "And trouble is what she got."
According to reports, the actual termination was carried out by Brian "Trouble" Cunningham, one of DC's many enforcers. We found Cunningham playing poker with several other of DC's employees, including Scott "Dirty Jobs" Lobdell, Annie "Get Your Gun" Nocenti, and Grant "Magic Man" Morrison. When asked about Simone, Cunningham told everyone to leave the room. "Yeah, they told me to send her a message," said Cunningham when the others had left. He cracked his knuckles threateningly. "So that's what I did. I went to her house, got onto her computer and sent her a message via email. And I'd do it again too."
Hearing Cunningham go into detail about how he terminated Simone made us shiver. We put on our hat, grabbed our gun, and swallowed a gulp of rye whisky from our flask. These were hard men. The kind you would be wise not to mess with. We're not very wise. We quickly excused ourselves and left, before Cunningham decided to send us an unprofessional email as well.
All in all, Didio and his gang seemed unapologetic about last week's actions. "We're a company of action," said Didio calmly. "Sometimes, those actions are unpopular."
"It's coitans for her," added Johns. "Coitans, see?"
"What my associate is trying to say is that Gail Simone sleeps with the fishes," Didio clarified. "Literally."
"Without her DC paycheck, she had to move into a studio apartment above a fish market, see? Nows gets outta here, ya mook," added Johns. "Before I chops all your limbs off!"
Forseeing many situations in the future where the use of our limbs would improve our demeanor, we decided to leave it at that. The Outhouse will keep you updated on future developments, unless we suddenly "disappear" off the internet. If that happens, we advise you not to come looking for us.


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Stardock CEO Wants To Maximize Sales, Not Stop Piracy
from the he-understands-it deptWe have often questioned the intentions of those who try to fight and stop piracy at all costs. We have even raised the question in the past, "Which is more important, stopping piracy or increasing sales?" We are not alone in asking this question either. Some within the entertainment industry are asking it as well.
TtfnJohn sent along the February edition of Stardock Magazine in which Stardock's CEO Brad Wardell asks that very question of other game developers:
When Stardock was running Impulse, we got to hear a lot from companies regarding to their feelings towards software piracy. In many cases, it was clear that the motivation to stop piracy was less about maximizing sales and more about preventing people who didn't pay for the game from playing it. I felt this was misguided.Brad certainly understands what the answer to that question is. He continues by explaining that there are two types of pirates, those that just want free stuff no matter what and underserved customers. Just as we have explained numerous times, it is pointless and counter productive to go after the former type of pirate. It is far more rewarding to actually serve those customers that are more than willing to give you money.
When I see our games pirated, it definitely annoys me. I put a lot of myself into our software and seeing someone "stealing" it is upsetting. But at the same time, the response to piracy should be, to paraphrase The Godfather, "Just business". Simply put, the goal should be to maximize sales, not worry about people who wouldn't buy your game in the first place. I've said this in the past but until we were digitally distributing third party games, I didn't realize how prevalent the "stop those pirates" philosophy was.
Just as we have seen Valve grow in markets around the world by serving those underserved customers, other game developers, as well as other content creators, can make more money and grow in their respective industries by doing the same. So stop wasting time and money fighting a losing battle. Take that time, effort and money and put it where it really matters, providing the best possible service for your customers as possible.
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MacArthur's Adam Heidenfelder dominates, impresses scouts
The marquee pitching matchup between MacArthur's Adam Heidenfelder and Port Washington's Bryce Keller did not materialize Monday but Heidenfelder held up his end of the bargain in the Generals' 10-0 win over the Vikings in Nassau AA-III baseball.
A week after striking out 17 batters in six innings, Heidenfelder was again splendid, striking out 11 in six innings and allowing only two hits.
"I felt great right from the start and my defense really picked me up in the first inning," Heidenfelder said. "I'm not used to getting hit that much in the first inning but they definitely picked me up."
MacArthur (10-2) scored four in the second inning to open up a 5-0 lead. The rally began with a two-out triple by Heidenfelder. Brandon Kustek followed with a walk and a stolen base and Sean Carey drove in both with a double. Two batters later, Anthony DeNunzio had an RBI single and another runner scored on the play because of an errant throw from leftfield.
After MacArthur scored two more in the third inning, Kevin Curtis completed the scoring with a three-run home run in the fourth.
"I was just looking for a pitch to hit after striking out twice and I finally found it and got a nice piece and drove it over the fence in rightfield," Curtis said. "Adam is our best pitcher and he spots up and gets the job done and it helps us a bunch."
The Vikings (6-6) threatened in the third after putting runners at second and third with only one out. But Heidenfelder was able to strike out three and four hitters Nick Duarte and Keller to get out of the jam.
"That's what you have to do if you're going to be a top quality pitcher -- command several pitches and be able to use them when you need them," Costello said.
Without their ace on the mound -- Port Washington coach Matt Holzer said Keller was "nicked up" and day-to-day and hoped to see him pitch later in the series -- the Vikings weren't able to keep up with Heidenfelder.
The scouts who came to see the big junior got to see not only his overpowering fastball that was routinely clocked in the high 80s but also his ability to pitch out of jams.
"It's definitely different seeing them all back there but once you step on the mound, you phase it all out and you just have to pitch like it's a regular game and nobody is there," Heidenfelder said. "That's really all you can do -- just pitch like a regular game and [as if] they're not there and do the best you can."


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A California chef who admitted cooking his wife's remains to destroy evidence was found guilty Thursday of second-degree murder in a trial that included an audio recording of the man explaining the four-day cooking process to deputies.
Deliberations by the jury of six men and six women spanned three days before they reached their verdict Thursday morning, finding David Viens, 49, guilty of killing 39-year-old Dawn Viens. The victim's sister sobbed as the verdict was read.
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The second-degree murder verdict indicates jurors did not believe the murder was premeditated or planned in advance.
Defense attorneys argued that Viens did not intend to kill his wife. Prosecutors claimed the death of Viens' wife "was no accident."
Dawn Viens disappeared in 2009. In an audio recording of an interview played in court last week, Viens -- a former chef at the Thyme Contemporary Cafe in Lomita -- described to deputies what he did with his wife's remains.
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"I took some, some things like weights that we use and I put them on the top of her body, and I just slowly cooked it and I ended up cooking her for four days," Viens said on tape.
Viens told authorities he argued with his wife, then restrained her with duct tape. Viens told investigators that he found his wife dead the morning after the argument.
Viens had jumped off a Rancho Palos Verdes oceanside cliff in 2011 after he learned he was under suspicion in the 2009 death. After being hospitalized in what police said was a suicide attempt, Viens implicated himself in the killing, police said at the time.
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Wisconsin's last loss to Minnesota was in 2003
In the midst of their longest winning streak in two seasons, defensive lineman Beau Allen and linebacker Chris Borland admit there hasn't been one moment that has defined the recent dominance of the Badgers' senior-laden defense. Basically all it took was a little time for all the pieces to come together.
Wisconsin has held six opponents to their lowest scoring output of the season. That mark included Saturday's 51-3 win over Indiana to give the program at least eight wins for the fifth straight season.
"Indiana averaged (over) 40 points per game and we gave up three," Allen said. "In our minds that's three to many. Hopefully that continues. The way we prepare and our offensive plan will allow us to do so."
Part of the success for Wisconsin has been the run defense; a scheme that was remade during the offseason with the transition to the 3-4 formation installed by first-year defensive coordinator Dave Aranda.
Although the change has required multiple position switches and a reconfiguration of the entire defensive line, Wisconsin has limited opponents to an average of 4.3 yards per play, the fifth-best average of any FBS defense, and 98.8 rushing yards per game - seventh nationally.
"We started off the season with a high ceiling, and I think we really have grown each week," Borland said. "That's the mark of a great team and a great defense is to improve weekly . Guys are improving by leaps and bounds both individually and as a unit."
The annual border battle with Minnesota will be a change of pace for Wisconsin's defense. After facing two of the four fastest-operating offenses in the FBS in consecutive weeks - BYU is No.2 nationally at 19.2 seconds per play and Indiana is fourth at 19.5 - the Badgers' defense will adjust to the second-slowest FBS offense in Minnesota (30.6 seconds per play).
"You don't see the fast-break football, which will be a nice fresh breath of air for maybe both teams as you sit and look at it," Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen said. "They want to establish the run game. They want to run the ball. They want to be productive in the run game."
To do that, the Gophers incorporate one of Wisconsin's favorite weapons - the fly and jet sweep. It was a major weapon for Wisconsin last week, as wide receiver Jared Abbrederis scored on a 32-yard and 49-yard run, and will be a challenge considering few schools have attempted the play against UW's defense.
"They have elements of a pro-style offense," said Borland, who described Minnesota's offense as a combination of Wisconsin's and BYU's. "It requires you to realign quickly and keep your eyes on your keys. They do a lot of pre-snap stuff to get you out of position."
The rivalry between the two schools has waned in recent years with Wisconsin winning nine straight to match the longest winning streak by either team in the series, but there's championship implications in the latest meeting in the season between the two schools since 2002.
Both have an outside chance to win its respective divisions. Wisconsin needs to win out and have No.5 Ohio State to lose its remaining two games (home vs. Indiana and at Michigan) to compete for a fourth straight conference championship.
Minnesota also needs to win out and have Michigan State lose at Northwestern this weekend (the Gophers travel to East Lansing for the regular season finale) to clinch a share of the Legends Division and play in the conference title game for the first time.
The Gophers have won four straight games, winning by an average of 8 points.
"They keep plowing through games and keep battling through there," Andersen said of Minnesota. "They expect themselves to make plays at the end to win. It's a well-rounded football team. You can see why they won the games that they won when they're closely dissected on film, which we're still in the process of doing."


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The excuse of "the hard drive ate my homework" flies just as well in federal court as it does in any middle school, it seems. After Judicial Watch filed a complaint over the lack of notice on their FOIA demand that the Lois Lerner e-mails no longer existed, a federal judge ordered the IRS to explain what happened within 30 days — and that explanation has to come under oath:
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the IRS to explain under oath how it lost a trove of emails to and from a central figure in the agency's tea party controversy.
U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan gave the tax agency a month to submit the explanation in writing. Sullivan said he is also appointing a federal magistrate to see whether the lost emails can be obtained from other sources.
Sullivan issued the order as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group. He said the IRS declaration must be signed, under oath, by the appropriate IRS official.
"I'm going to hold tight to that Aug. 10 declaration," Sullivan said.
Sullivan also ordered the IRS to come up with some plan over the next 60 days to recover whatever data might still be accessible:
In addition to the written declaration, the judge also ordered that the government and Judicial Watch meet with Magistrate Judge John Facciola until Sept. 10 to discuss how the IRS can possibly obtain or recover the lost emails and documents from other sources. Judicial Watch is seeking information on what kinds of efforts the IRS has gone to in order to recover the lost information as well as how the agency is identifying additional sources, such as Lerner's assistant, to try to find them.
Judicial Watch has had success using FOIA to get emails in other controversies, including the killings in Benghazi.
Following the judge's order, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told reporters that it was "an extraordinary hearing" that shows Sullivan was "obviously interested on behalf of the public" in getting the IRS on the record about the emails. Fitton also said that appointing a magistrate as Sullivan did "rarely happens" in FOIA cases.
After the process with Facciola, Fitton said he is interested in limited discovery and then may ask for more testimony. The group is also looking at the new information concerning the use of in-office instant messaging as "another area of potential discussion with the government."
House Oversight chair Darrell Issa called Lerner's memo on the use of the OCS system and warning to keep from discussing certain topics on e-mail a "smoking gun" yesterday:
"[This is] a smoking gun, this is Lois Lerner clearly cautioning people not to say things on email and be delighted to find out that the local instant chat they have, this Microsoft product, wasn't tracking what they said," Issa, a California Republican said on Fox News. …
"I think the important thing is she was trying to make sure that on April 9 of 2013 that, in fact, her people weren't being tracked and she was still using words like 'caution,'" said Issa, who is chairman for the House Oversight Committee, which is in charge of the IRS investigation. "Why? She didn't want an audit trail of what they'd been doing and what they were doing was targeting conservatives for their views, no question at all."
During the interview, "Fox and Friends" host Brian Kilmeade read correspondence between Lerner and Maria Hooke, the director of business systems planning for the tax-exempt division. After asking Hooke if the agency's internal instant message conversations, called OCS, were searchable, Hooke responded, "OCS messages are not set to automatically save, parties involved in an OCS conversation can copy and save the contents of their conversation on an email or file."
"Perfect," Lerner responded on April 9, 2013.
But is this memo from 2013 really a "smoking gun"? The Christian Science Monitor wonders about the timing, but still thinks it looks suspicious:
Pivotal events in the IRS affair had been unspooling long before the e-mail about instant messaging. Key revelations about who was telling whom to do what may stem from that earlier period.
Lerner's computer had a hard-drive crash – Republicans say a suspiciously convenient malfunction – in June 2011. …
Although they stem from a later time period, the newly released e-mails are fresh evidence suggesting Lerner was interested in covering her division's tracks. And it's worth noting that this particular e-mail exchange took place just as the Treasury's Inspector General was preparing a damaging report. April 9, the day of the e-mails, was barely four weeks from when Lerner first publicly admitted – ahead of the Inspector General's report – that inappropriate behavior had occurred.
She was soon placed on administrative leave. She retired later in 2013 and has used the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions from House Republicans.
The responses from the IRS have been so disingenuous, and in Lerner's case so uncooperative, that they've long since ceased to deserve the benefit of the doubt. Let's also not forget that Lerner's "apology" in May 2013 was a staged event, part of a strategy to minimize the more serious allegations from the initial Inspector General report. The IRS has been attempting to manipulate public reaction literally from Day One of this scandal.
This order from a federal judge escalates the stakes significantly in that effort. The AP points out that previous IRS testimony has come under oath, but that was before Congress, and Congress has limited power to hold witnesses accountable without cooperation from the Department of Justice. A federal judge can level contempt charges that can keep uncooperative witnesses in jail, sometimes indefinitely, and perjury in federal court will be a lot more difficult for the DoJ to ignore than perjured testimony before Congress.


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