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The 6 Most Terrifying Theme Park Rides Ever Built
One of the most annoying things about going to an amusement park (and there's plenty to choose from) is all the stupid precautions, from those bars that pin you to the seat even if you're just going to the bathroom to the part where they force you to listen as a suicidal ride attendant recites the same warnings for the 500th time in the day.
Amusement park owners weren't always so cautious, though, and even these days, there are still some reminders of why all that crap is necessary. Like ...
#6. The Original Russian Mountains
Russia has a long, proud, terrifying history with roller coasters dating back to the 17th century, when something (most likely copious amounts of vodka consumption) convinced the Russians that constructing massive wooden scaffolds, coating them in ice and pushing their children down them would be a great idea.
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"Thank goodness child abuse hasn't been invented yet!"
Russian Mountains are basically giant, nearly five-stories-tall slides built from the most rudimentary materials possible -- even the "sleighs" were made entirely out of ice. This is the sort of ingenious yet utterly unlikely contraption you'd expect to find in an episode of The Flintstones. Riders would climb up the long, rickety staircase and fling themselves down on frozen toboggans, which often came complete with a purposefully placed bump at the end just to jar your groin a bit more.
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That is, assuming your groin wasn't still attached to the ice at the top of the slide.
As for safety measures, they consisted of a rope fastened to the sleigh for you to hold on to as you careened down the track at what was typically a 50-degree angle and the period's most technologically advanced stopping mechanism:
The greatest achievement in 17th-century engineering.
The straw was actually sprinkled in small layers at the end of the slide to provide friction, a measure that typically allowed at least one of the several riders to survive any given trip.
Roller Coaster History
"You know, Yuri, at this point a revolution might kill fewer people."
Since they relied on ice, Russian Mountains were only available during the winter -- that is, until thrill-seeking Russian Empress Catherine the Great (the Michael Jackson of the 1700s, apparently) decided to have her own personal slide built in her back yard and demanded that it be usable during the brief portion of the year that Russia isn't a depressing ice sculpture, laws of nature be damned. Her terrified subjects solved the problem by using wheeled carts instead of ice tracks, thus inventing the modern roller coaster.
"Now great lines shall form in front of the structure, and men shall dress as mice and ducks."
When French entrepreneurs witnessed this invention during the Napoleonic Wars, they brought the idea back to their home country, where news of the fantastic thrills spread throughout the land via slender, mustachioed men. In the mid-1800s, a version of the dry slide made a debut on Coney Island in the United States -- but it wasn't the first American roller coaster, or the most insane ...
#5. The Mauch Chunk Railway
What's the longest roller coaster ride you've taken? Three to four minutes, probably. And all of it spent, no doubt, tightly pinned down by your chest bar in a car that was safely secured to the track. The Mauch Chunk Railway in Carbon County, Penn., had no time for any of that shit.
Mostly because none of it had been invented yet.
The downhill railway traveled at a maximum speed of 100 miles per hour, propelled entirely by a little thing called "gravity." It was actually built in 1827 as a coal delivery system, but in a flash of brilliance, the workers had the idea of occasionally filling the cars with children and shoving them down the hill for a quick buck. A single pants-shitting ride in this prehistoric roller coaster lasted something like half an hour, by which time the cars were probably overflowing with the occupants' tears.
"For the love of God, someone invent OSHA!"
This created one of the most amazingly intense and dumbfoundingly stupid public attractions of all time, especially considering that the mere ability to secure the car to the track was still some 100 years away from being invented -- meaning that the railway was not so much a roller coaster as it was, in the words of roller coaster historians, "a runaway train."
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It was like Splash Mountain minus the water and the racist cartoon characters.
The ride became so popular that it was eventually transformed into a full-time tourist attraction, complete with a hotel and a restaurant at the top of the track (plus a gift shop selling artists' impressions of people flashing their boobs and what your face looked like at the height of the terror, we like to imagine). At some point the coal cars were replaced by a small train ... but it was still completely powered by gravity and human fear. Apparently, the transition from "mining rail" to "roller coaster" was mostly a matter of semantics.
They did add a second steam-powered uphill track that could take passengers to the top in only 80 minutes (this was a major improvement from the previous 4.5 hours), but if you ask us, the way up must have been even more terrifying. Think about it: You know that awful moment when the car is slowly inching toward the top of the roller coaster and you start hating yourself for ever getting on this thing? Imagine that same anticipation lasting for over an hour.
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The sides of the rail were littered with the corpses of those who preferred to jump off.
The Mauch Chunk Railway finally closed during the Great Depression, forcing hundreds of masochistic thrill seekers to have to look for other ways to suffer. Fortunately, it was the Great Depression. But, speaking of the gross misuse of technology for the sake of amusement ...
#4. The Human Catapult
Ever wonder what happened to all the catapults once humankind figured out more efficient ways to hurl shit at each other? They're probably in some museum or something, right? As it turns out, one of them (or at least a very good replica) ended up in the Middlemoor Water Park in the U.K. -- where people paid $70 to be catapulted into the air in the manner of a medieval projectile.
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Even without the catapult, this still looks like the worst water park ever.
The "human trebuchet," as they called it, launched unprotected, unsecured patrons more than 75 feet into a free-standing air net suspended between giant poles. This allowed park visitors to recreate the experience of being a plague-ridden corpse in the Middle Ages.
The Dangerous Sports Club
The English have a Dangerous Sports Club? Why don't we have one of those?
In 2002, the trebuchet proved to be exactly as safe as it looks when one man tragically missed the safety net. But despite claiming one life and causing at least one other person serious injuries, the deadly attraction (presumably closed by now) actually became a huge hit in Japan. This is the part where we act surprised.
We have no idea what the narrator in this video is saying, but we imagine he's expressing bafflement over the fact that the English did not think to attach fireworks to the men's feet while forcing their grandmothers to watch as they were launched. Incidentally, that's exactly what the Japanese did when they imported the idea.
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20 Nov 2012 2:23 AM #11
I have the same problem when trying to build an apk.
When I run Sencha Cmd Setup, in the Setup Project and I point the framework to the sencha-touch-2.1.0 directory I have the following response from prompt.
The cd command cannot change directory to another drive and consequently the sencha command fails.
I know that exists an option in cd that can change drive and directory in one step: /D, so the command should be:
cd /D "Y:/path/to/project/"
Thank you in advance,
20 Nov 2012 10:17 AM #12
How to do package in 2.1 Architect
Just started using 2.1 Sencha architect. Good to see build options and packager file configuration settings there..
But how to make .apk file there..
WHen I click Build something happening.. but now sure what...
When I tried via command prompt to create .apk file.. then I get this error
D:\sencha\test2>sencha package build packager.json
Sencha Cmd v22.214.171.124
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
[ERROR] stbuild exited with non-zero code : 3
Please help
21 Nov 2012 11:28 AM #13
We have an issue where we were saving versionCode as an integer when in reality it needs to be a string. Check this in your packager.jsonPhil Strong
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21 Nov 2012 10:14 PM #15
Yes you are right. converting "versionCode": 1 => "versionCode": "1" works.
30 Nov 2012 1:59 PM #16
working directory change using /D will be part of the 2.2 releasePhil Strong
2 Dec 2012 7:37 AM #17
Don't know if this was discussed before:
Sencha cmd (..build native) ran into an error when being installed in a directory containing blanks, like c:\Programme (x86).
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13 May 2013 6:46 AM #1
GXT 2.2.5 - Broken column alginment
we're currently running GXT 2.2.5 with for our web-application. This application basically shows a couple of different grids. All the grids look fine for all Firefox or InternetExplorer users.
For users of Google Chrome (e.g. version "26.0.1410.64" but the same problem also occured for older versions) the columns of the grid are not correctly aligned with the corresponding column headers (see screenshot below).
After searching the internet and this forum, there are several reports handling a similar issue with different versions of GXT and also different browsers. We already tried different ways to solve the problem, but none of them worked for our case.
Is there a well known solution for this problem?
Is there a GXT version definitely solving this?
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We had/have the same issues with GXT 2.2.5. I don't think GXT 2.3.0 will solve it. But we will try soon.
We make a workaround to solve the issue but with the cost of a little bit performance.
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September 01, 2011
Beautiful Boulders Beach – A Cape Town Tourism Photo Essay
Driving round False Bay on a drizzly winter afternoon I stopped off at Boulders Beach just outside Simon's Town hoping for some good light and inspiring views.
The last time I was at Boulders was in mid-December and, as expected for summer and holidays, it was packed with people enjoying the beach and wonderful shallow water.
This time around it couldn't have been more different. With the cool weather and light rain the beach was deserted and, bar the occasional visitor looking in for a few minutes, I had the whole place to myself, a rare privilege. I should add that it was high tide and, while the sea was very calm, if you know Boulders when the tide is in, the sea covers almost the entire beach. On a recent photo expedition around Iceland I learnt that wind, rain and water are no reason not to get the picture. So I was the crazy wet guy with his tripod in the sea…
Oh yes the penguins, one of the biggest attractions at Boulders is the colony of African Penguins. Now I've got nothing against penguins, they look cute and are very entertaining but I was there for the amazing rocks covered in sea life, lichen, etc, set in clear blue water with dramatic clouds rounding off the scene. Occasionally a penguin or two would waddle into frame and look expectantly at me: "What! no photo human?", "Sorry dude you're messing up my shot, move on", "Weirdo", and they'd duck into the water and swim off.
For the photo geeks here's how I captured these images. I used a Canon 5D Mk II paired with a Zeiss Distagon 21mm lens – in my opinion the best landscape lens available. A 3 stop (0.9) soft grad neutral density filter to balance the sky exposure. This all combined with a 10 stop ND filter (Lee Bigstopper) to slow the exposure down to 30 seconds creating the glass like water. Post production was fairly minimal; I tweaked the white balance, some sharpening and a bit of masked saturation adjustment.
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I was just going through all of the survey's and for the last five or six I have tried it says that I do not qualify for the survey AFTER I give them my e-mail address.
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Is the פְּנִיאֵל of BeReishis 32:31 the same as the פְּנוּאֵל of 32:32? If so, why the change in term used to refer to it? If not, is there a story behind the two places with such similar names?
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It always seemed to me from reading the pesukim (and it seems Or HaChayim understands it this way as well) that the name of the place was Penuel and only Yaakov called it Peniel, presumably punning off the existing name of the place. Note that the location is mentioned many other times in Tanach and always as Penuel (Shoftim 8:8,9,17 Melachim 1:12:25 and I'd even include Divrei Hayamim 1:4:4).


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Tech's New Frontier (In Our Dreams)
From smarter TVs to Ultra-HD films, here are some still-pie-in-the-sky concepts that would make for a banner year in gadgetry
THE TECH GODS are a fickle bunch. Some years they bestow upon us Kinect for Xbox 360, Hulu and the iPhone 4S. Other years, they jam 3-D glasses onto our faces, strand us in the Australian outback with faulty directions from Apple AAPL -0.12 % Maps and make us choose between HD DVD and Blu-ray, putting us in the middle of a format war. But occasionally the tech deities hear our pleas. We were granted a few goodies from our 2012 list of Tech Wishes: among them, a smaller iPad and several cameras that run Android. But we weren't given a real reason to use Google Plus. Oh, well. Are the tech gods still listening? It can't hurt to throw some gadget-head fantasies into the ether, starting with:
1. Mobile Devices With Better Speakers
I'm not talking about the part of your phone that you stick against your ear, because who makes phone calls anymore—OMG! ROFL! I'm talking about the little internal speaker that I end up using more and more to listen to music when I'm traveling or around the house because I'm too lazy to connect my phone to a speaker. I don't need my phone to replace my stereo or even a dock, but if the sound could be loud enough to fill a stamp-size hotel room so I wouldn't have to pack a portable Bluetooth speaker, that would make me happy. My phone's already become the center of my music universe. A clearer, louder speaker would make it complete.
Readers Share Their 2013 #TechWishes
- @newmediatwee: Mobile payment options at more brick and mortars!
- @mantej: Google wallet becoming mainstream!
- @glennperkins22: "less social media, more real life. Seamless and intuitive integration. Complete sentences."
2. The 48-Hour Movie Rental
You rent a movie via iTunes or Amazon at 10 p.m., because that's the earliest you could have gotten to it after making dinner and putting the kids to bed and cleaning the kitchen and cranking out those last emails. But you've overestimated your energy level and are nodding off by 11 p.m. The time bomb's started: You have to finish the movie by 10 p.m. tomorrow or else it disappears. And chances are, if tomorrow is anything like today—and why wouldn't it be?—you won't be able to get to watching within that 24-hour window. Your rental of "Taken 2" will go—poof!—back into the digital heavens, and you'll be forced either to wonder for eternity if Liam Neeson will ever find his wife (sorry, spoiler alert: they take the wife this time) or to shell out another $4.99 for a movie that you could have waited to be added to Netflix Instant Watch.
The Future Is (Almost) Here
A couple of gadget dreams that should be easy to make real
Cameras That Teach You How to Shoot.
Like most novice photographers, I have no idea what 99% of the features on my digital camera are for. But a feature in Samsung's Galaxy Camera, a digital point-and-shoot that runs Google's Android operating system, gives me hope. Its "Expert" mode tries to turn those befuddling settings into teachable moments. The camera explains, for example, that aperture "adjusts the amount of incoming light and the blurriness of the background." The feature is still very rudimentary, but perhaps one day my camera won't just take pictures; it'll teach me to be a better photographer. Will somebody please write a killer Android app for cameras that turns them into mini hands-on classrooms? Polaroid just announced the first Android-powered camera with an interchangeable lens—similar to what the pros use—which means lessons could even cover advanced topics. It would sure beat flipping through "Digital Photography for Dummies."
Toasters That Really Understand You.
Let this be the year that we get to mumble commands at our gadgets and appliances. The technology to enable this is fully evolved, according to Gary Clayton, chief creative officer of the voice-technology company Nuance. "The speech recognition, text-to-speech technology, the parsing—that's not particularly vexing today," he said. Mark Rolston, chief creative officer of the design firm Frog, agrees. He has a research lab for voice- and gesture-based control. The big hurdle, he said, is capturing clear audio: "It's all about getting good array microphones." He envisions placing mics throughout a home or office to allow pretty much anything to be controlled by voice. Introductions at the Consumer Electronics Show—the Ivee Sleek, Nuance's Wintermute project—promise to integrate voice-control into our lives, but to deliver a frustration-free experience, devices need to be able to clearly hear what we're saying. Now that I've seen how much easier it is change TV channels by voice, my only question is: Where exactly should I put those mics?
—Michael Hsu
I'd probably rent three times as many movies as I do if I didn't always get burned by the nonsensical 24-hour rental. Some movies have 48-hour rental periods, but not enough give you the time to watch a movie at home like a normal person. What are they scared of? That I'll watch "Taken 2" twice?
3. Spotify in the Car
Music services Pandora and Slacker have long had car integration. Shouldn't Spotify? The service has become one of the best ways to discover and share music, and it deserves to get off the computer and on the road right now. The service will reportedly be available in Volvos sometime in 2014—but that's an eternity to wait. Killer playlists shouldn't be exclusive to Swedish cars.
4. Higher-Resolution Front-Facing Smartphone Cameras
The "selfie" isn't going away. There are those who can make a duck face, outstretch their arms and, using the phone's primary camera, blindly frame their photo and still come out with a decent shot. These are selfie pros. The rest of us are forced to use the weaker front-facing camera. The results are grainy, resembling a pointillist painting. When it comes to phone photos, should vanity really be a sin?
5. A Better Smart-TV Experience
There's no shortage of options here. In an attempt to move the boob tube into the 21st century, nearly every TV manufacturer from Samsung SSNHZ 0.00 % to Sony SNE 8.90 % to LG 066570 -2.73 % has put an emphasis on making their TVs more connected. And streaming devices made by Apple and Roku are great but not perfect. No one's cracked it yet, but 2013 might be the year it happens. The device everyone is hoping for? A TV from Apple. There have been rumors that it could happen this year. But don't count out Microsoft's MSFT 0.84 % new Xbox, which may come out in 2013 as well. All of the voice-and-gesture-controlled smart TVs we just saw at the Consumer Electronics Show were basically copying the technology first seen on Kinect for Xbox 360. One request to those in the smart-TV game: Easy on the social-media integration, OK? No one wants to read tweets on a TV.
6. More 4K Ultra-HD Content
It took a while, but TV manufacturers seem to have ramped down the 3-D TV push. (Thank goodness, because 3-D TV is such a gimmick.) They are getting back to the business of making bigger screens with better pictures. The new thing? Ultra HD, televisions with twice the resolution of a 1080p HD television. What does that mean? Eye-popping clarity and incredible detail. Ultra HD is awesome. The problem, however, is that there's very little content for it. Netflix may offer some in the future. For now, YouTube has a limited selection on its 4K channel. Sony has announced some "Mastered in 4K" Blu-ray movies to come out later this year. There isn't going to be a ton of content right off the bat, but I hope it happens soon.
7. Google Maps, All of the Time
I don't know if there's a more satisfying app to use on a mobile device than the Google Maps app for iOS and Android. It makes every other navigation program, from your city's rinky-dink public-transportation tool to the great fiasco that is Apple Maps, downright frustrating. (The period in 2012 when Google Maps wasn't available as an app on the iPhone felt like the dark ages to many.) Yes, mapping programs tend to get better over time, but why wait for an apple to ripen when there's a big, juicy Google fruit right in front of you? Think of all of the time you would save if all car-navigation systems had Google Maps instead of some inept input system that asks you to enter state, city and address in a specific order? Competition is good, but when it comes to maps, it's almost like you have to have a mercy rule and force the other teams to forfeit. It's the second quarter and Google is up by 13 touchdowns.
8. An iPad Mini With a Retina Display
Apple was one of the first companies to make screen resolution an important factor in a tablet—when the company's Retina Display debuted on its third-generation iPad, it made every other tablet's screen look downright fuzzy. So when the cargo-pocket-size iPad Mini launched without a Retina Display, it was one step forward, but one step back as well. I've come to prefer the Mini over the larger iPad—you just end up bringing it, and using it, everywhere. But once you've gone Retina, it's hard to go back and not notice the difference. A better screen on the Mini would make it a perfect tablet.
9. A la Carte Cable
I know. It's probably not going to happen because it would destroy the Entertainment Industrial Complex as we know it. Big media companies sell their channels to cable outfits in bundles, not individually, so there's no way we would get channels on an a la carte basis. But to the end users—the family sitting on the couch—it just doesn't make sense. How long are we expected to subscribe to MTV 2 and other channels that go unwatched just to get the good stuff? Having to pay for something that no one wants seems so last century.
10. The Ability to Filter Out Filtered Pictures
If you want to share a blurry picture of your half-eaten blueberry pancakes or ho-hum sunset, that's fine. But don't think that slapping on a filter to make it appear to have been shot in 1967 or in the searing Mojave sun is going to make it look like it was taken by Annie Leibovitz. Filters should be used sparingly, to accent something, not as a Band-Aid to cover up imperfections. Will Facebook FB -0.85 % please spearhead the fight against filter fatigue by blocking users who upload more than 100 vintage photos a day? Now if they could only find a way to automatically delete photos of cold pancakes…
—Mr. Sintumuang is the editor of GQ.com.
A Car Connoisseur's Fantasy
Autos of the future would eliminate roadside signage—and help you find good pad Thai
By Dan Neil
ONE THING LADY BIRD Johnson and I have in common: We hate billboards. And so I yearn for the moment to come when good people everywhere can rise up and break these monsters off at the spindles.
It's not an impossible dream. At this week's Consumer Electronics Show, Mercedes-Benz showed off its research in augmented-reality windscreens with a gesture-recognition interface. Using onboard AR, holographic imagery would be projected on the car's windscreen, a graphically elaborate version of current heads-up displays.
The car of the future would always know where it is, of course, and as it moves it could display relevant map data, including "virtual" signage. Businesses could subscribe to mapping services to offer more data-rich advertising to drivers passing by. This innovation would be interactive. You could point to a movie theater and ask what's playing and when. Say, "Take me there." A large red arrow appears on the pavement, guiding you to parking. Meanwhile you can check for a nearby restaurant. Just say, "Thai." Boing. There's one.
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Such systems could make roadside signage obsolete, as well it should be. The outdoor advertising industry behaved abominably for most of the 20th century—I mean, what kind of sick mind legislatively torpedoes Lady Bird Johnson? Think of the land, the views, the electrical power that we would reclaim by eliminating billboards. At night, billboards spew light pollution, despoiling the view of the stars.
AR could also replace physical traffic signaling and directional infrastructure at a fraction of the maintenance cost. A typical American intersection is a blighted place, surrounded by an ugly cat's cradle of cable-suspended traffic lights. By 2063, intersections could be beautiful, tree-shaded plazas where cars move in seemingly unbidden harmony. That would be different.
Crucially, drivers will be able to filter the AR display to eliminate all advertising, which would mean, some day, that Americans could take long drives without being subjected to any commercial messaging. The dull tinnitus of advertising could be silenced. We could at last enjoy the scenery. Lady Bird would like that.


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Five Men Face Death Penalty if Convicted of Murder of Woman Victimized on Bus; Outcry Spurs Creation of Fast-Track Court
NEW DELHI—Indian authorities, moving swiftly to assuage public anger, filed formal murder charges against five men alleged to have gang-raped and killed a student on a bus in the capital in December.
The 23-year-old physiotherapy student, who died Saturday in Singapore from organ failure due to injuries incurred during the rape, has become an emblem for many Indians who have taken to the streets to demand harsher punishment for rapists and better security for women.
Rape cases registered by Indian police can often take months, or even years, to reach a court verdict because of an overburdened legal system. Of the 95,000 pending rape cases in 2011, only 15% made it to trial, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.
In this case, proceedings are moving much more quickly. Authorities in a south Delhi court on Thursday also filed charges of gang rape, robbery and banditry against the five men.
They include the man who was driving the bus around the capital as the men allegedly assaulted and raped the student and beat up a male friend who was with her. Police are pursuing a case against a sixth suspect in juvenile court.
Authorities have set up a special fast-track court to try the five men, who could face the death penalty for murder if found guilty.
A judge on Saturday is expected to issue warrants for the men to appear to hear the charges and then will decide when the case will be transferred to the fast-track court.
Lawyers at the court have declined to represent the accused, citing the heinous nature of the alleged crime. The court is expected in the next few days to appoint legal representation. Attempts to reach the men, who are in detention, weren't successful and it was unclear whether they have entered pleas in the case.
The death of the woman, whom police charge was brutally raped by the men for more than an hour on Dec. 16, has put pressure on authorities to implement broader measures to counter rape and sexual molestation. The woman's name and that of her companion haven't been released.
Politicians and the police face rising scrutiny and criticism over the incident, which has highlighted police failings in handling rape cases in general and political insensitivity toward women's safety.
Next week, the Supreme Court will hear a petition from a lawyer seeking to bar a number of sitting lawmakers who face rape charges from contesting future elections for the nation's Parliament.
And police on Thursday arrested Bikram Singh Brahma, a leader of the ruling Congress party in the northeastern state of Assam, for allegedly raping a woman. The allegations were made by the woman's husband. A police officer involved in the case said authorities were investigating whether the incident involved rape or consensual sex.
Mr. Brahma, currently in police custody, couldn't be reached for comment. Police officials declined to provide information on either the husband or the alleged victim.
A representative for the Congress party in Assam said the allegations of rape, if proven against Mr. Brahma, "would not be tolerated by the party."
In Delhi, protesters calling for a crackdown on rapists and better public security clashed with police in December, causing scores of injuries on both sides, although such demonstrations have died down in recent days.
The public anger has pushed authorities to take other steps. On Wednesday, police arrested Dinesh Yadav, the owner of the chartered-bus company on whose vehicle the rape occurred. A police spokesman said Mr. Yadav was detained for providing a false address to register 10 buses. Attempts to reach Mr. Yadav weren't successful.
Delhi commuters have complained about a lack of registered public buses, which forces them to often board chartered buses, such as the one used during the alleged rape.
These vehicles are permitted by the local government to serve defined routes, like transporting schoolchildren or office workers, but they also regularly break rules to pick up fee-paying passengers, police said.
These buses and their drivers, who often aren't on company payrolls, are much harder to monitor to ensure public safety, said Satyendra Garg, Delhi's joint commissioner of police for traffic.
Women's groups have praised recent police action but said authorities need to push through more sweeping changes. Many activists, for instance, want to see changes to criminal laws that don't recognize rape inside a marriage.
They also say police must be quicker to accept rape complaints from women.
"They usually think that the girl must be having an affair with the boy," said Vandana Sharma, president of Nari Raksha Samiti, a nonprofit organization in Delhi that works on women's issues.
Ms. Sharma said India's police force needs more female recruits, with one woman officer stationed at every station to make it easier for women to file rape complaints.
This week, Delhi's government set up a telephone hotline connected to police stations via which women can report rapes.
India's police force defends its performance combating rape, pointing to the quick arrest of the five men and the juvenile in the New Delhi rape case. "In 17 hours, the case was worked out," said Rajan Bhagat, a spokesman for Delhi's police force.
But he acknowledged police need to be more sensitive to women's issues. "We shouldn't have cases of women complainants being treated insolently," he said.
Senior police officers, he added, have been told that expectations have increased. They have been ordered to "take immediate action in all complaints irrespective of jurisdictions."
—Amol Sharma contributed to this article.
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Almost 60 percent of the voters in the district voted in favor of the $37.12 million bond issue. A total of 1,654 votes were in favor of the project, with 1,104 voting against it.
The bond issue will include a new Circle High School, a renovation and expansion of Oil Hill Elementary and heating and cooling upgrades for the grade schools in Benton and Towanda.
The new bond will mean an increase in taxes of $6.60 a month for a $100,000 home in the school district. The bond would be retired no later than 2031.
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MARS HILL, N.C. – After falling 7-1 in the opening game of the doubleheader, Anderson University baseball responded with a 13-1 win, splitting the South Atlantic Conference twinbill Saturday afternoon at Henderson Field.
With the split, the Trojans earn their first victory of the 2014 campaign and move to 1-6 on the season and 1-2 in league play. Mars Hill, which grabbed its first win on the season on Friday, moved to 2-5 overall and 2-1 in the conference.
Two Trojans recorded three hits on the afternoon as sophomore second baseman Kyle Bailey went a combined 3-for-6 for the day with two runs scored and an RBI after leading off in the second game. Senior right fielder Paul Como joined the sophomore with three hits, tallying a season-high four RBI in the 13-1 rout.
With two extra base hits, including his third home run of the season, senior outfielder Nathan Galliford went a combined 2-for-6 as the home run was AU's lone run of the opening game. Galliford followed the opening game with a 1-for-2 performance in the final game with two RBI and two runs scored. For the season, Galliford is leading the team in extra base hits with four and slugging percentage (.810)
Senior right-hander Thomas Goodman picked up his first victory of the season, tossing five complete innings and striking out five Lions. With the win, Goodman now carries a 1.64 ERA in 11 innings with eight strikeouts this season.
In the second game of the day, the Trojans went down early, 1-0, when MHU's Adam Daniel drove in Nick Villalobos with an RBI single in the second inning. After being blanked in the top-half of the third inning, the flood gates opened for the Trojans in the fourth as AU totaled an astounding 12 runs.
Anderson totaled eight hits for the inning, highlighted by back-to-back RBI doubles from sophomore first baseman Steven Cooper, who scored two runs and drove in a run for the game, and Galliford. Two Mars Hill pitchers, who came on in the fourth in relief, failed to record an out as every run in the inning was earned.
Preseason All-SAC Second Team selection Landon Beck came on for Goodman in the bottom of the sixth to close the door, as he struck out four Lions for the inning after his first strikeout was dropped by the catcher.
For Mars Hill, leadoff batter Evan Rogers went 3-for-5 with two runs scored in the opening game, as the Lions totaled 11 hits for seven runs to claim the series in the first game. Two other Mars Hill batters multi-hits as Phillip Carroll and Dalton Eisenbath posted two hits, as Carroll finished 2-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored. Eisenbath closed the opening game 2-for-3 with two RBI and a run scored.
Anderson returns to diamond on Tuesday when it hosts Conference Carolinas opponent North Greenville. First pitch from Anderson Memorial Stadium is set for 3 p.m.


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Now your dog can live just like the dog from "Fraiser" without needing to be in Seattle.
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These look just like the pet beds I bought at Target for $19.99...micro-fiber, color, and size match...
Or go here and buy it for $16 plus $6 for shipping...
they will be at home depot for black friday 17.88
I'm pretty sure it's nearly identical to the one I bought from PetSmart for $17. And last time I was there they were on sale for the same price so I don't think it's unusual for them.


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who do think is better becuase lebron now has multible rings and people said that was the only way to be compared.
my opinion is lebron james becuase he makes his teammates better and is a better all around player. lebron has had 36 triple doubles and micheal only had
one. so pick who u think is better plz
hold up. maybe the reason why nobody is answering is becuase they know lebron is better
First off, get facts right, Jordan has had 28 triple doubles, including 10 in 11 games during the 1987-88 season
you mean double doubles and ur facts are wrong
triple doubles and double doubles are 2 totally different things
Yeah I know they are, Im not a stupid basketball fan. I meant triple doubles.
Here is MJ's triple doubles:
fake website try espn. but anyways lebron is better all round and is getting better every season lebron is tooo big but is still one of the fastest players in the nba. that is becuase he played football and couldve went to the nfl. lebron and jordan are equal skill wise, but one is just to 260 amd runs as fast as a running back in the nfl
i agree with dwade lebron is starting to look better
First off, its not a fake website. Also MJ is obviously better. He changed the game like no one before, and anyone since. MJ was able to LEAVE for 2 years, come back, and still lead the league in scoring 3 straight years. Jordan averaged 30.1 ppg, 6.2 rpg, and 5.3 apg for his career, meaning he scored better than Lebron and was able to pass and rebound almost as well as him even though Jordan was not as big as Lebron.
Besides this is a bad comparison anyways. The better one is MJ vs. Kobe and Lebron vs. Larry Bird because at least in these comparisons the players all have similar playing styles.
basically what you just said only proved my point even more than i did. you said micheal is a better scorer. thats only by like 2 points. and thats only becuase he gets 8 rebounds and 7 assist. and jordan almost averages that also. they are very equal skill wise is what you said. and you alsosaid lebron is bigger. so if they both are equal skill wise but one is so much and and faster and stronger, wouldnt you go with the bigger stronger and faster?
and you say jordan changed the game? the league was hot garbage until the whole magic vs. larry came up. thats changing the game. micheal just improved it. just like lebron is right now
Yeah but they arent equal in skill. MJ was a better ball-handler and better shooter, and MJ was a better defender. Also MJ came up only a couple years after Magic and Bird and MJ carried it all the way through the 90's, so yes, Jordan did change the game. How many basketball players have a brand as large as Jordans are?
dude lebrons fg % is higher lebron is way more efficient even his 3 point feild goal percent is better. check ur stats bro
Ok i will give you the 3 point FG because MJ didnt shoot them and LBJ's is better, but please go check your stats "bro". Jordans career FG% is .497 while Lebrons is . 490. Also Jordan took ALOT more shots. In seasons where he wasnt injured, Jordan never shot less than 1795 shots and has never MADE LESS than 881. Jordan also has made over 900 shots in a season 9 times and shot over 50% in a season 6 times.
Lebron has a worse FG% with less shots. Lebron has never has never taken more shots than 1823 in a season, and has never MADE MORE than 875 in a season. Lebrons max is less than Jordan's minimum. Both are great players, but Michael Jordan is the GOAT
And here is your stupid ESPN since you thought the other sites were fake...
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President Barack Obama hosts a working dinner in Laurel Cabin during the G8 Summit at Camp David, Md., May 18, 2012. Seated clockwise from the President are: Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev of Russia, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, Jos� Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of Japan, Prime Minister Mario Monti of Italy, Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada, and President Fran�ois Hollande of France.
CHICAGO (CNN) -- World leaders huddling in high-stakes, back-to-back summits this weekend will tackle the European economic crisis and the future of the Afghan war
The diplomatic marathon started Friday, when Group of Eight leaders began its two-day meeting at President Barack Obama's Camp David retreat in Maryland. On Sunday, NATO kicks off its two-day summit in Chicago.
The G8 -- comprising the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada and Russia -- is expected center on whether an economically weakened, debt-laden Europe should continue down the road of massive deficit cuts trumpeted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel or focus more on economic stimulus to help the continent grow its way out of the current crisis.
Hanging over the deliberations is the fate of economically battered Greece, which has been unable to form an elected government. Many analysts believe that Athens will be forced to exit the eurozone shortly, dropping the euro currency and possibly further rattling economic confidence.
The fate of Greece was also front and center during a bilateral meeting Friday between Obama and newly elected French President Francois Hollande, who was elected on a platform opposing increasingly unpopular eurozone spending cuts.
Obama, who is hosting the Camp David summit, said he and Hollande agreed the issue was of "extraordinary importance" to the world economy.
"Greece must stay in the eurozone," Hollande insisted during his meeting with Obama. We all "must do what we can to that effect."
The G8 summit began Friday with a roundtable dinner. Discussion focused on security challenges in Iran, Syria, North Korea and Burma, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
There was wide agreement among the leaders that North Korea faces further isolation if it continues its pursuit of a nuclear program, and they widely agreed that its Iran's responsibility to prove its nuclear program is being developed for peaceful purposes rather than the development of weapons, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as a matter of practice.
The G8 leaders, who have been divided over how to respond to the conflict in Syria, agreed that a peace plan brokered by U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan was not being honored, the official said. Russian and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council condemning the violence and calling on President Bashar al-Assad to step down.
The leaders, including Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, agreed it was time to focus on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not attending he G8 meeting, which makes significant progress on either Syria or Iran unlikely. Russia has been at odds with the United States and other G8 countries over exactly how hard to crack down on Damascus and Tehran.
On Sunday, the war in Afghanistan is expected to dominate discussions at the NATO summit. Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Zardari are both expected to attend the meeting.
NATO leaders are currently on a timetable to withdraw all of the alliance's combat troops from Afghanistan in 2014.
Senior administration officials tell CNN that NATO members have tentatively agreed on a security transition plan from NATO's International Security Assistance Force to the Afghan National Security Forces before 2014. The plan, which also lays out a NATO training and advisory role after 2014, is expected to be formally adopted at the summit.
One of the key issues to be discussed in Chicago is who will pay to build up Afghan security forces during and after the NATO drawdown. Afghan national security forces should total around 350,000 by 2015, according to CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen. Karzai's government can afford to cover only a fraction of the cost, which is expected to total roughly $4 billion annually after 2014, Bergen notes.
Non-U.S. ISAF countries are being asked to come up with $1.3 billion, the officials said.
Another issue is Islamabad's continued blockade of much-needed NATO supplies over Pakistani roads to Afghanistan. Pakistan has kept its airspace open but closed its ground routes after the death of about two dozen Pakistani soldiers in November at the hands of NATO forces at a post on the Afghan-Pakistan border. NATO insists that the incident was an accident. Negotiations on the issue continue, the senior administration officials said.
Obama officials are also pushing for more Pakistani involvement in peace talks with the Taliban.
The United States also expects Hollande to announce the removal of French combat troops from Afghanistan -- a position he asserted during the presidential campaign.
Protests are expected near the sites of both the G8 and NATO summits this weekend.
"We expect the worst and hope for the best," said Ross Rice, an official with the Chicago FBI. That "is the way to characterize how the weekend plays out."


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Every time I get ill (cold, flu etc) I take a couple of these wonderful tablets for up to 4 times a day and I, eventually, get better. What exactly is paracetamol? Why is it so effective and is it really not harmful as my doctor would have me believe?
Paracetamol is a pain killer, it does not treat the cause of your illness, it only alleviates the symptoms. From its wikipedia page:
So, paracetamol does not make you better. Your immune system makes you better. Paracetamol just makes you feel better while you are waiting for your immune system to get an infection under control.
You should be aware that it is only safe in small doses and a toxic dose is not that much more than the recommended one (source):
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I am sure someone else can explain the pharmacokinetics and details of action of paracetamol. I just wanted to point out that paracetamol can be dangerous and should be treated with respect.
Paracetamol, also known as acetominophen and Tylenol is a Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drug (NSAID). Other NSAIDs include aspirin and ibuprofen (Advil).
NSAIDs all help with inflammation, reduce fever, but each has its own effect. Aspirin tends to thin the blood more than Paracetomol. Paracetomol also has less effect on inflammation, but acts to reduce fever (antipyretic) and reduce pain (analgesic). Your doctor has probably chosen this prescription because your needs fit better to this drug's properties.
Ibuprofen for instance probably causes more problems more frequently when it's used frequently, one of the most common being ulcers because ibuprofen inhibits generation of stomach acid, but cancer and a slew of other problems can crop up.
While it is true that Paracetamol is the leading cause of pharmaceutical liver damage in North America, its toxicity as a drug is fairly moderate and the high number of cases is due to the fact that it is sold as an over the counter drug (with no prescription required) and is taken millions of times a day. The FDA has recently lowered the dose of Paracetamol to four 300 mg doses a day - but that's still 1.2 g a day.
Its important to watch to see if you are one of those people who have an adverse reaction or if your liver is under stress. You should not use this drug beyond its expiration date - it really does matter in this case.
Still, all told, you probably could just take a handful of aspirin and feel just as good, but this prescription should get you feeling a little better a little faster, especially if you have pain or fever.
It's true what @terdon says that acetominophen is not curing you, but drugs really mostly balance the body - healing never comes from pharmaceuticals, they often just let the body heal with fewer obstacles or discomfort. I know I feel that when my fever comes down that I'm on the mend - though thats not necessarily the case.


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The Ravens' review: 2012 season
To keep you entertained during the 2013 NFL offseason, blogger and reporter Matt Vensel will go back and review the performance of each significant Ravens contributor during the 2012 season. He started with the team's free agents and recent retires and will break down a new Ravens player every weekday.
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But I know that this here will not end good in any way. For neither of the two involved.
We've had our share of dealing with guerilla tactics in the past. Bad reviews on VersionTracker and MacUpdate, so-called fans of competing applications hijacking "our" review pages in order to promote their beloved app.
My first impulse has always been to go against these types, but then again I didn't want to spend my time arguing with idiots over advertising disguised as user comments. There's just no way whatsoever to get to an agreement on that matter. If anything, all you get is bad press and additional downgrading comments from hyped fanboys.
Now, going to court over something like this is just crazy, even if it shows how much money is to be made off the current iPhone market.
Sure blows. Dunno…


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CHARLOTTE, NC - The Charlotte 49ers (8-0), who are off to the best start in school history, return to Halton Arena to play Central Michigan (4-3), Saturday, December 8 at 2 pm. Free admission to the game for youth (17-and-under) but everyone must go to the ticket office to get a ticket for the game. At halftime of the game, several mascots from the area will play a game.
Chris Braswell leads the 49ers in scoring at 15.1 points per game. Braswell has recorded six double-figure scoring games off the bench this season. Braswell led the 49ers in scoring in Wednesday's 73-69 win over Davidson with 15 points off the bench. Terrence Williams is second on the team in scoring at 10.1 points per game. Williams, who has started all eight games this season, has recorded four double-figure scoring games this season. DeMario Mayfield is third on the team in scoring at 9.2 points per game. He has recorded four double-figure scoring games off the bench this season. Pierria Henry is fourth on the team in scoring at 8.1 points per game. He leads the team in assists with 33 and steals with 22. Henry, who scored the 49ers last six points at Davidson, scored 11 points, grabbed eight rebounds, dished out five assists and recorded four steals at Davidson. Willie Clayton, who has recorded two straight double-figure scoring games, is fifth on the team in scoring at 8.0 points per game. Clayton scored 12 points against Davidson. Darion Clark, who scored 14 points and grabbed nine rebounds at Davidson, is sixth on the team in scoring at 7.3 points per game. Braswell, Clark and Clayton are tied for the team lead in rebounding at 6.3 boards per game. Denzel Ingram, who has started the last five games, is seventh on the team in scoring at 6.5 points per game. Ingram leads the team with nine three-point field goals made. JT Thompson has given the 49ers quality minutes off the bench this season. He averages 4.4 points per game. E. Victor Nickerson, who scored four points off the bench at Davidson, also averages 4.4 points per game. Ivan Benkovic has knocked down at least one three point field goal in four of the last five games.
This game will mark the third meeting between Charlotte and Central Michigan and the first meeting the two teams in Charlotte. Charlotte has won the previous two meetings. The first meeting between the two teams came in the 49ers first-ever NCAA Tournament game as the Charlotte defeated Central Michigan, 91-86, in overtime in Bloomington, Indiana, March 13, 1977. The 49ers advanced to the Final Four that season. Last season, the 49ers defeated Central Michigan, 77-75, in double overtime on the road, November 15. Charlotte had three players record double-doubles in that game. Braswell scored 22 points and grabbed 12 rebounds. Javarris Barnett scored 17 points and grabbed 12 rebounds and Mayfield scored 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. Central Michigan is a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC). The 49ers are 6-5 all-time against the MAC. Charlotte has previously played Mid-American Conference schools: Central Michigan, Kent State, Toledo and Western Michigan.


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I feel that the following problem should be known, but I'm not sure where to look for it.
Fix a real constant $\frac{1}{2} \ge \epsilon > 0$. For varying primes $p$, Let $A_p$ denote the set of residue classes coming from the first $\lfloor p \epsilon \rfloor$ integers. Let $B_p$ denote the squares (modulo $p$) of the elements of $A_p$. Then one might ask whether $$\lim_{p \rightarrow \infty} \frac{|A_p \cap B_p|}{|A_p|} =^{?} \epsilon.$$ It's true for $\epsilon = \frac{1}{2}$, but that's a degenerate case where $B_p$ can essentially be replaced by $\mathbf{F}^{\times 2}_p$, in which case the answer follows from any non-trivial upper bound on character sums (say the Polya-Vinagradov inequality). Is it true more generally?


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A series of events will mark World Aids Day at Western Kentucky University Dec. 1-3. Information is on display tables at Downing University Center.
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On Dec. 3, Lost river will provide music in DUC Night Class as pieces are dedicated for the AIDS quilt at 6:30 p.m. At 7 p.m. there will be a memorial interfaith service and candlelight vigil in DUC theatre.
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Ted Cruz and the End of Deference
Since the government shutdown, much of the analytical focus has come to rest on the leadership -- or lack thereof -- of Representative John Boehner. After reading a great deal about the grandstanding histrionics of Ted Cruz, I think there's a bigger problem: the end, for all practical purposes, of deference.
Deference has never been an American virtue.
In fact, something like the opposite might be true. In his book on American exceptionalism, Seymour Martin Lipset listed a resistance to defer to authority as one principle that characterizes the ideology of "Americanism," next to the pursuit of liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and a laissez-faire attitude. So self-assertion may be part of our cultural DNA.
Every historical culture had its particular sanctions against blatant self-promotion. For the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of hubris: strive too hard or too far in the pursuit of excellence in that world, and you were likely to tempt the anger of a god or goddess. The early Christians of course emphasized radical humility, self-effacement even to the point of dying for one's friends. Classical conservative thought prior to the Thatcher/Reagan realignment acknowledged the gradations of social life and prioritized a strong sense of noblesse oblige; within that framework, the rich and powerful knew that they had duties to society, and that sustaining and preserving the fragile order was to a great extent their responsibility.
One can observe, as Frank Bruni does, that Cruz "has eschewed the slow route to Senate prominence, which would have involved building alliances, for the fast track, which means playing the firebrand, playing to the cheap seats and playing to a news cycle that thrills to conflict." And yet Cruz is a man of the moment. He's not such an outlier. His actions and words remind us that we are counseled everywhere and at every turn in popular culture to be aggressive, that only winners matter, and that every compromise is a loss. His "fast track" acknowledges no principled deference to the more moderate "squishes" in his own party. He's emblematic, or perhaps symptomatic, of a party whose vision of the old imagery of a delicate social fabric has completely disappeared. (Or rather, that vision continues to be meaningful only in the limited, weaponized form of attacks on the poor and their alleged abuses of the system of so-called entitlements). Ted Cruz combines in an especially virulent way blatant self-promotion and an apocalyptic ideology. But he's indicative of a larger cultural shift in which older gestures of deference have lost their meaning.
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Thanks for an interesting and thoughtful post. In addition to the loss of deference, I think Colbert King's column in today's Washington Post hits on another key aspect of what we see in today's Republican party: the persistence of a neo-Confederate impulse in American society.
To understand Ted Cruz, one must bear in mind two components of his background:
- He is the son of a disillusioned supporter of Fidel Castro
- He is a Southern Baptist
One cannot fault him for having been a son of great advantage who is reflexively opposed to all ideas of the Left because he felt robbed of his birthright.Instead, his story is one of uplift from disadvantage through belief in America, as he learned from his father.
As for deference, it is an idea that, in the realm of politics or general society, no Sothern Baptist would honor.These are the classic Dissenters, owing allegiance to no Prince but Jesus, and committed to inerrant Scriptural faith.
In both regards he is not simply an old-fashioned Conservative, but an active opponent of Modernity.One may not care for, much less share, such attitudes and ideas, but it is no use supposing him to be something that he is not.
Mark L.
As the former mayor of SF, Willie Brown, said in his column in the SF Chronicle today, Cruz is the star of Teahadism.
Interesting analysis. With Mark L. may I add some other contexts. Would suggest that Cruz actually follows in the footsteps of other ideologues in US & Texas History e.g. Huey Long; Joseph McCarthy, Charles Coughlin, B. Goldwater.
Think that these types emerge in cycles. For some context:
In 1963 Dallas; not unlike some counties in Texas today, you had these interesing characters (we tend to forget as time passes)
- Rev. Criswell, 1st Baptist Church of Dallas, confirmed racist and yet ask any Dallas Baptist today and you would think that Criswell was a saint
- John Birch Society was alive and well
- Ted Dealey, publisher of the Dallas Morning News, told JFK that the US needed a real man on horseback and JFK was merely riding Caroline's tricycle
- HL Hunt, founder of Hunt Oil Corporation, a bigamist whose money supported anti-catholicism and anti-integration efforts.
- Finally, Major General Edwin Walker - fired by JFK but then led a resurgent group that thought aliens ran the liberal apparatus in the US and ran for Texas governor (he came in 6th out of six). BTW, he later was arrested for public lewdness twice (he was gay and cruised).
Again, think we just forget about our history - time does have a way of covering up the most egregious examples of ridiculousness.
I don't know what needs your Texas examples met, but Huey Long, as ruthless a dictator as he was, met some very basic ones -- he fed children lunch in school, paid for all their text books, provided free hospital care for the poor, and built good roads in isolated parts of the state.
We should be asking: what real needs is Cruz (and the Tea Partiers generally) claiming to meet?
IMHO, Ann asked a great question. However, I do believe we need to consider an individual whose effective reach was larger than the statewide reach of Huey Long, perhaps seeing Cruz as the result of the consumation of the "marriage" of Richard Nixon and Joe McCarthy. The other challenge in answering the well considered question is whether the Tea Party actually stands "for" anything constructive?
@MightBe - Ed Kilgore, a Georgia native and longtime Democratic party operative who now blogs for the Washington Monthly, grew up with the folks who became tea partiers and warns that they're "extremists, not nihilists":
...today's GOP is in full-fledged revolt against much of the bipartisan policy legacy of the second half of the twentieth century and the small additions made to it since. They have a perennially rich menu of things they want once they have the leverage to secure them, whether it's by electoral victories or horse-trading or hostage-taking. It's a mistake to assume that they won't get a ransom note together that they will stand by.
Robert Geroux,
Not one blogger agreed with you even if they criticized Cruz. Your assertion that Cruz represents the American way is so far fetched. Cruz is really an extension of Russ limbaugh. Most Americans would cringe to be in that company. One large influence we might pay attention to is the amount of money the Koch brothers are spending on the Tea Party. If you take that money away I wonder how fast it would dissolve. There is a lot of money in Tea Party country. http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/Peter-Fenn/2011/02/02/tea-party-funding-koch-brothers-emerge-from-anonymity
Ted Cruz certainly has generated a lot of commentary. Here are his own words.
Luke - I certainly have no reason to doubt the opinion expressed by Kilgore. Thanks for the reminder. As you have noticed I struggle to express myself well.
My hope, like those I believe of many others, is we could find common ground with the Tea Party and move forward. However, I am convinced beyond debate those driving the Tea Party, e.g., Jim Demint, Roger Ailes, Rush Limbaugh, Ted Cruz, etc., are so irrevocably tied to their corporate patrons and have so completely sold our government to those patrons they have neither the feel, need or head for the compromise at the core of politics. As I understand it Huey Long moved state government out into the public square and made it useful. When he rose to power he was not set on selling it to the highest bidder. How altruistic were his motives and goals? That's likely another matter.
Ted Cruz is one man. He is part of a minority caucus within a minority party in one branch of government. He, postionally, does not exercise, nor does he have any institutional power whatsoever.
Now John Boehner has by way of position and institution real power. So does Harry Reid and so does President Obama. They, really, are the only ones who can exercise power to resolve this issue.
Any power Cruz may have lies in his message. If that message resonates with (or reflects) broader segments of the public, it will become institutionalized. It has within the house.
Who is paying for the tea party? Why do House Republicans who know (and whisper to friendly reporters) that the sideshow is bad for the party fear being "primaried" by a tea party candidate more than they fear shutdown and default? Who will pay for the primarying? Hint: It won't be Ted Cruz. Nor Louie Gohmert. As Deep Throat said, follow the money.
Ann - my insertion of Huey P. Long was in terms of his running for president (which was his intention before his assassination). He may have helped the disadvantaged in Louisiana as a political tool and weapon but it was not because of his ingrained economic policies, desire to assist the poor, etc. Most experts on Huey Long feel that, if he had run for president, that the US would have been subjected to a version of what Germany saw with the rise of the Nazi Party (it also appealed to the disadvantaged).
There are folks in Texas who feel that Cruz does provide them with the things they need. But, that type of local, provincial, and partisan leadership is what Mr. Geroux is talking about, IMO. Taken to an extreme (such as Cruz), then it becomes a backroom knife fight.
Deference - wonder if this isn't a term or concept that implies actual, broad political leadership that seeks the universal common good vs. local, provincial politics (in Texas, good ole boyism)
Deference comes in different flavors, some of which we can support and others which we ought not support. The phony, "My good friend, the gentleman form Tennessee" rhetorical trope is obviously phony on its face, but is based on a pseudo-deference to the so-called traditions of the Senate or House. This should be scorned. But in a representative democracy, a Republic, one may defer to the Constitution, or to the People, or to one's deep beliefs. These are styles and foci of deference that we may honor.
The problem raised by Cruz and his presentations is whether we are to accept his terms of reference. It's hard to imagine a less likely thing, but were he to read these comments, would he not say exactly that he defers to the Constitution and to the people, when he calls for the destruction of ACA? We (or at least I) disbelieve him when he says this, seeing him as a naked opportunist and a radical. But that's a tricky slope, surely, to deny a person's beliefs as being frankly stated by himself. As active participants in our political life, we are called upon to make judgments all the time. As Christian's we are implored to judge not.
Mark L.
" ... perhaps seeing Cruz as the result of the consumation of the "marriage" of Richard Nixon and Joe McCarthy."
That's not quite what those of us supporting same-gender marriage had in mind!
Cruz as a So. Baptist will be saddled with no evolution, , no global warming, no dinosours, and Canadian citizenship and Harvard. . He'll be lucky to find a good campaign director even with Koch Bro. money.
Bill deH. --
I don't doubt that Cruz has a Texas following. But the Tea Parties are in other parts of the country. My question was *why* does he appeal to so many people? How are those Tea Partiers like the Texan ones? What sort of needs to they have that are similar to the Texans?
I've read that at least one study shows that the Tea Partiers typically are not poor. I suspect that they're mostly self-made people who resent bitterly the government's taking any of their hard-earned money away. I suspect they're mostly people who have come from poor, very uneducated backgrounds, though I don't know if any studies have been done on their backgroupds. This is somewhat different from old-fashioned populism, such aa Long presented himself -- all that "Every Man A King" stuff. And I think it should be looked into.
I happened to be looking through Robert Putnam's "Bowling Alone" earlier today. While the book is not new, a lot of the research and conclusions still seem pretty pertinent. The basic trend that he documents at exhaustive length is receding civic engagement. One aspect is that each successive generation is less civically engaged than the preceding one - thus Boomers, contrary to their '60's image of social activism, are less engaged than their parents, and Generation X is even less engaged than the Boomers. (The book was written before the emergence of Millenials into adulthood).
My thought is that, as time marches on, our nation has an ever-diminishing sense of civic solidarity, and that this in turn allows demagogues like Cruz to thrive in a way that wouldn't have been possible a generation or two ago. We may be a divided country, but we have our government in common. One wonders what binds us these days.
Senator Cruz following in the footsteps of Senator Obama
Ann - good question. Let me respond with one example - the family farmer in West Texas. Interestingly, his parents and grandparents would have been lifelong Democrats. that all changed in the 1990s. You touch on some consistent patterns - they see themselves as self-reliant; independent. Flowing from that is a basic impulse that suspects government - whether state, county, federal. They see themselves as building their own communities and thus buy into the mantra that the US is filled with welfare queens, etc.
Now, if you were to fact check this group:
- some have college educations and the current generation in their 20s/30s is changing this
- they live in insular and provincial communities (many of these folks have not traveled much; do not read much; watch FOX news, etc. They have a deep dislike for large urban cities; their religious affiliations are very conservative. Thus, they take positions that see immigration as bad; they see the federal financial issues the same way the see their own farm budgets (despite the fact that they are nothing alike); they are not comfortable with diversity - racial, religious, ethnic, cultural.
- welfare....actually, most of these farmers do receive federal assistance in many forms (but they, of course, don't see it as welfare.....most have received large annual payments vie the Farm Bill but they see that as their right and, of course, in no way is this welfare. Their school systems are local, they heavily impact/decide how education happens; and the state may support that local school significantly (yet, they think we are wasting state education dollars when the same system is used to support poor neighborhood schools in the cities); they are anti-Obamacare (mainly because they have had to buy their own insurance for years so why can't others?); etc.
There is a foundational pattern of fear, anxiety marked by a need to protect themselves in small like communities that provide security, acceptance, and things just stay the same.
It is this pattern that Tea Party folks share even if their immediate county/state needs are different.
Senator Cruz following in the footsteps of Senator Obama
There is more than a bit of truth in that.
Hmm, "President Cruz". It's got a mellifluous sound - one rolls it about the tongue like a smooth and sassy Cuban Merlot. The nation's first Hispanic president, too. (Well, except for Bill Clinton, of course.) What a milestone that will be - the sort of cultural achievement that can really draw our country together. Princeton, Harvard Law, professor of constitutional law - stop me if you've heard this sort of thing before. Granted, when he could have been out organizing communities, he was slacking his way through significant federal and state government appointments and elective offices (including clerking for Chief Justice Rehnquist), so he's got some gaps to account for on his resume.
Jim Pauwels; Yes, but don't forget his party's primaries. Is Cruz up to battling his way through Herman Cain, Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum (the nominal front runner under the principle of last time's loser is this time's winner, cf Mitt Romney) and whoever else the talking class awards a chance to?
Tom - exactly. It could turn out to be Rand Paul, Chris Christie and Rick Santorum once again. A Libertarian, an Establishment guy and a Religious Rightie. Cruz gets the Tea Party slot. Guess we better throw a Neocon in there, too, for maximum lack of unity.
Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton, and magna cum laude from Harvard law school (thus saith Wikipedia). What happened to all that dangerously leftist Ivy League education?
PS Could Cruz really run for president? He was born in Calgary after all, and somewhere in the archives of Alberta there must be his birth certificate.
What is lost in all this is the money being made in health care by the device makers whose equipment has also failed without them being accountable for it. That the Republicans want to eliminate the taxes on medical devices is telling. So many abusers in medical care opposed Medicare until they saw what a bonanza it was to the medical business. Such hypocrisy going on. If the governement should not spend why are those excessive business lobbies being paid so much to lobby the government for its contracts?
PS Could Cruz really run for president? He was born in Calgary after all, and somewhere in the archives of Alberta there must be his birth certificate.
I saw that, too, and was wondering the same thing. FWIW, the Wikipedia article on that particular clause of the US Constitution notes:
The Constitution does not define the phrase natural-born citizen, and various opinions have been offered over time regarding its precise meaning. A 2011Congressional Research Service report stated that
"The weight of legal and historical authority indicates that the term "natural born" citizen would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship "by birth" or "at birth", either by being born "in" the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents; or by being born in other situations meeting legal requirements for U.S. citizenship "at birth". Such term, however, would not include a person who was not a U.S. citizen by birth or at birth, and who was thus born an "alien" required to go through the legal process of "naturalization" to become a U.S. citizen."
Which category Cruz's situation would be, is not entirely clear to me. Cruz's mom apparently is (or was; not sure if she is still alive) a US citizen, from Delaware. His dad is a Cuban immigrant who came to the US in 1957 to go to school, but was running a business in Alberta at the time of Cruz's birth. He became a US citizen in 2005, and so was not a citizen at the time of Cruz's birth.
Cruz gets the Republican Privilege. It's like the Pauline Privilege except Republicans get to deny it to Democrats born in Hawaii. Ted Cruz, of Princeton and Harvard, has said he doesn't know if he has dual citizenship but he will give up his Canadian citizenship if he has it. Donald Trump has not let his decision on the subject be known.
Deference must be to principles, not authorities. The Tea Party-Cruz lack of respect for democracy and the Constitutional guarantees of equality is appalling. These principles are in fact their targets. Nothing less than the wholesale destruction of our government will satisfy. It is not a thoughtless byproduct of their actions - it is the GOAL.
Because of his father's naturalized status, his mother's lack of residency requirments in Canada, he cannot renounce his Canadian citizenship as easily as he pretends - he has to prove first he IS Canadian then renounce it. His U.S. citizenship is also challenged by the non-residency of his American mother for several years at the time of his birth. It's too complicated to understand easily, but he may not be so clearly "American" after all.
Donald Trump will make the final decision on that.
Perhaps Sen. Cruz should hang on to his Canadian citizenship; it just might be his best bargain for health care. Does Canada cover health expenses racked up abroad, e.g. in the US? Does it cover health expenses for those who oppose national health care, even under a flag of convenience?
Bill deH --
Thanks for the profile of the Tea Partiers. Very, very interesting. I wonder what sort of appeal could be made to such closed minds to change them. I fear only hard experience might do the job.
P. S. Your point about those grants to the farmers as being a kind of welfare is well taken. They sound like a close-knit tribe.
Ann and Bill - this NY Time article gives a profile of Tea Party backers, based on survey data. Even though it is from 2010, I think most of the characteristics described here still ring true.
Thanks, Jim P. Yes, interesting. I wonder how many Tea Partiers have changed their minds with this new, scary crisis.
But they don't seem afraid. They're supposed to have some education. I wonder how many had economics.
My experience of many self-made people (farmers, for example .. I'm from rural Wisconsin) is that they tend to forget the advantages they have in accelerated equipment depreciation, certain crop subsidies, being paid to NOT grow certain crops, the REA, and other financial incentives … all of which were lobbied for them by vested interested such as theirs.
Similar comparisons can be made for other small and medium-sized businesses. (Just ask Walmart what it extracts from communities seemingly desperate for their presence. If anyone is lurking here from Dodgeville, WI, you'll know what I mean)
Self-made? Self-reliant? Up by their bootstraps? It all depends on how you define those terms.


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