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San Diego's Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) reported its fourth-quarter earnings were $282 million, or $1.13 per diluted share, in 2013, compared with $293 million, or $1.18 per diluted share, in 2012.
The company also reported 2013 earnings of $1 billion, or $4.01 per diluted share, compared with 2012 earnings of $859 million, or $3.48 per diluted share.
Full-year 2013 results included $77 million for the 2012 retroactive benefit from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) General Rate Case decision for San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas), offset by a $119 million charge related to the closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). Sempra Energy's 2012 results included $239 million of non-cash charges for the write-down of its investment in the Rockies Express Pipeline, offset by the receipt of a $25 million after-tax cash payment from Kinder Morgan related to the sale of its ownership in the pipeline.
For comparison with 2013 earnings-per-share guidance of $4.30 to $4.60, Sempra Energy's full-year diluted earnings per share in 2013 were $4.49, which excluded the $119 million charge related to SONGS, but included the $77 million retroactive benefit for 2012 from the CPUC General Rate Case.
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European Bank Stress Tests Need Rethink, Elderfield Says
Stress tests of European banks should focus less on capital benchmarks and more on "diagnostic tools" next year, one of Europe's top bank regulators said.
Matthew Elderfield, the deputy governor of the Irish central bank and a senior member of the European Banking Authority, said stress tests that encourage banks to hoard capital may make economic downturns more severe.
It would be "sensible to recalibrate the European approach to stress testing in the next period," Elderfield said in a speech in Berlin today.
European banks won't face stress tests this year because they are in the process of reviewing their balance sheets to protect against the region's sovereign-debt crisis. Banks plan to raise about 98 billion euros ($130.6 billion) in new capital by the end of June, the EBA said last month on its website.
"I would like to see that we use this breathing space wisely to consider the future design of stress tests and the operational flexibility of firewall structures," Elderfield said.

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text: India import data and statistics of May 2011 of chapter 71 - Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal, and precious metal articles ; imitation jewellery; coin. Live online India Import Data Of Chapter 71 Natural Or Cultured Pearls, Precious Or Semi-Precious Stones, Precious Metals, Metals Clad With Precious Metal, And Articles Thereof, Imitation Jewellery, Coin January 30, 2012 , New Delhi Total Import value in May of all products categories under Chapter 71 Natural Or Cultured Pearls, Precious Or Semi-Precious Stones, Precious Metals, Metals Clad With Precious Metal, And Articles Thereof, Imitation Jewellery, Coin was USD 9380.5 M, a increase of 52.6% compared to April 2011. Here is a breakup of major products categories with growth rates. Sr No. HS Code Products Value USD M Growth Compare to Prev. Month Top 5 Indian Ports Top 5 Destination Countries 1 7108 Gold (Including Gold Plated With Platinum Unwrought or In Semi-Manufctured forms, or In Powder form 7288 45.68% Ahmedabad Air, Delhi Air, Hyderabad Air, Madras Air, Bangalore Air Switzerland, South africa, United arab Emirates, australia, United States 2 7106 Silver (Including Silver Plated With Gold or Platinum), Unwrought or In Semi-Manufactured forms, or 1701.13 168.83% Delhi Air, Ahmedabad Air, Bangalore Air, Madras Air, Sabarmati ICD Switzerland, United Kingdom, Taiwan, China, Germany 3 7102 Diamonds, Whether or Not Worked, But Not Mounted or Set 341.92 -24.07% Delhi Air, Bangalore Air, Madras Air, Calcutta Air, Jaipur Air United arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Belgium, United arab, Israel 4 7110 Platinum, Unwrought or In Semi-Manufactured form, or In Powder form 20 -12.06% Delhi Air, Bombay Air, Calcutta Air, Madras Air, Bangalore Air United Kingdom, Italy, South africa, Japan, Germany 5 7113 articles of Jewellery and Parts Thereof, of Precious Metal or of Metal Clad With Precious Metal 8.23 17.54% Madras Air, Delhi Air, Jaipur Air, Cochin Air, Bombay Air Thailand, United arab Emirates, Malawi, India, Italy 6 7103 Precious Stones (Other Than Diamonds) and Semi- Precious Stones, Whether or Not Worked or Graded But 7.49 -23.75% Jaipur Air, Delhi Air, Jaipur ICD, Bombay Air, Madras Air Hong Kong, Thailand, United States, Tanzania, Brazil These findings are based on India import data through May-2011 . InfodriveIndia Trade data is the most up-to-date information on India's foreign trade , It covers 94 ports in India like JNPT, Bombay Air and Sea , Chennai Air & Sea , Delhi IGI Air, Delhi Tughlakhabad ICD, Delhi Patparganj, Kolkata Air and Sea, Bangalore Air and many more. InfodriveIndia.com trade data is available for online analysis within 3 weeks from date of export import at InfodriveIndia.com compared to Govt sources which are around 6 months old. About InfodriveIndia InfodriveIndia.com is the market leader and primary source of India Export Import Trade information in India. The India Import Export data bank, which is at the core of InfodriveIndia.com trade information services is unique. It is based on the Bills of Entry and Shipping Bills filed at various ports, InfodriveIndia reporters collect this data from every Indian port, and InfodriveIndia database yields the most timely, accurate, comprehensive information available on trade through India Ports. More specialized InfodriveIndia databases are US Import Data, UK Import Data, China Export Import Data, Russia Export Import Data, Sri Lanka Export Import Data, Latin American trade data, Chile Export Import Data, Peru Export Import Data, Argentina Export Import Data, and Uruguay Export Import Data .


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Palliative care helps people with serious illnesses feel better. One of the problems a serious illness can cause is pain. No one can look at you and know how much pain you have. Only you can feel and describe your pain.
Pain that is always or almost always present can lead to lack of sleep, depression, or anxiety. These can make it harder to do things or go places, and harder to enjoy life. Pain can be stressful for you and your family. But with treatment, pain can be managed.
How pain is measured
First, your doctor or nurse will find out:
- What is causing the pain
- How much pain you have
- What your pain feels like
- What makes your pain worse
- What makes your pain better
- When you have pain
You can tell your doctor or nurse how much pain you have by measuring it on a scale from 0 (no pain) to 10 (the worst pain possible). You choose the number that describes how much pain you have now. You can do this before and after treatments, so you and your health care team can tell how well your treatment works.
How pain is treated
There are many treatments for pain. Which treatment is best for you depends on the cause and amount of your pain. Several treatments may be used at the same time for the best pain relief. These include:
- Thinking about something else so you are not thinking about the pain, such as playing a game or watching TV
- Mind-body therapies such as deep breathing, relaxing, or meditation
- Ice packs, heating pads, biofeedback, acupuncture, or massage
You can also take medicines, such as:
- Acetaminophen (Tylenol)
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin, naproxen (Aleve) and ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), diclofenac
- Narcotics or opioids, such as codeine, morphine, oxycodone, or fentanyl
- Medicines that work on the nerves, such as gabapentin and carbamazepine
What to do
Understand your medicines, how much to take, and when to take them.
- Do not take less or more medicine than prescribed.
- Do not take your medicines more often.
- If you are thinking about not taking a medicine, talk to your doctor first. You may need to take a lower dose over time before you can stop safely.
If you have concerns about your pain medicine, talk to your nurse or doctor.
- If the medicine you take does not relieve your pain, a different one may help.
- Side effects, like drowsiness, may get better over time.
- Other side effects, like hard dry stools, can be treated.
Some people who take narcotics to treat pain become addicted to them. If you are concerned about addiction, talk to your nurse or doctor.
When to call the doctor
Call your doctor if your pain is not well-controlled or if you have side effects from your pain treatments.
Alternative Names
End of life - pain management; Hospice - pain management
Bookbinder M, McHugh ME. Symptom management in palliative care and end of life care. Nurs Clin North Am
Mercadente S. Challenging pain problems. In: Walsh D, Caraceni AT, Fainsinger R, et al., eds. Palliative Medicine. 1st ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2008:chap 253.
Update Date 5/11/2014
Updated by: Linda J. Vorvick, MD, Medical Director and Director of Didactic Curriculum, MEDEX Northwest Division of Physician Assistant Studies, Department of Family Medicine, UW Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Isla Ogilvie, PhD, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.


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Hiya guys,
I'm looking for a few Comme items.
- Avignon incense sticks (I don't need a whole box, a few would be just fine)
- Large decants or full bottles of the Synthetic line
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Hiya guys,
I'm looking for a few Comme items.
- Avignon incense sticks (I don't need a whole box, a few would be just fine)
- Large decants or full bottles of the Synthetic line
looking for some bottles of Kingdom by McQueen - in any form, EDT, EDP, Limited Edition flanker ... please let me know what you've got. would like to try My Queen as well. also just love cumin,...
yep. the left on is woman III. not sure about the right one.
have fallen for this old gem, but think she might have some scent siblings out there. anybody know of some?
paperback is pretty good, the only one i've actually worn with some regularity.
If given the choice, do not pass go, do not collect $200 - just get the EDP. There's a shop here in town with a few bottles of the pure parfum and I've been lusting over it for years now. Very...
I've always enjoyed it on a level. Technically it seems perfect, it just lacks personality. It's kind of like a movie star, everything's together, you just don't find them very interesting.
that's a nice sounding combo ... i just did a custom scent for a client who wanted leather, tobacco, smoke, black coconut and lime. but this sounds intriguing and perhaps quite promising!
if i remember correctly, i think you can request pretty much any of her classic blends and she'll list them. again, that's conjecture, but i think that's the case.
in a related note, for about a...
I searched for a long time for a great sandalwood. To be honest, I never found one until I gave up and bought some aged Mysore sandalwood oil. It was an x-mas present to myself last year and it...
Thanks guys ... it really is a dream come true! It's amazing to be sold at your favorite perfume shop!
I thought I'd chime in about Commando. I'll tell you right out, he's nothing like CB's...
awww shucks ... you're making me blush!
just a little update ... our holiday scents are up and you can now find us @ luckyscent.com!
thanks to everybody who's supported us ... go BN!
Polo Sport Extreme is almost straight up black pepper, which is extremely dry to my nose. It can be found rather cheaply. Though it isn't sweet in the least.
it's gorgeous!
Beth does have quite a bit of good work, however, she does have a problem with editing. There are far too many scents available and I agree that the site is difficult to negotiate. For years, I...
Thanks for all the support guys! I've updated the site with some Halloween scents - check 'em out!
probably no vetiver as i'm allergic, but there will be more greenery! just you wait!
yeppers ... no alcohol here. and we've got a bunch of natural stuff in there too! they're a mix of the highest quality ingredients our money can buy!
they're very concentrated ... 50% or so would be a good estimate, as i try to dilute them as little as possible!
samples are the standard vial (1ml) and a little more info about the bottles and such can be found on the ordering page. to clarify, they're .25oz perfume oils which are cylindrical with...
i guess it all depends on how friendly we are! ;-)
thanks everybody for all the support!
Hello Basenoters!
As a long time smell junkie, I decided it was finally time to start my own business. After months of tinkering, Smell Bent was born!
Smell Bent is a new L.A.-based niche...
Several bottles of BPAL stuff ... this little experiment is proving to be more enjoyable than I originally anticipated!
BPAL Capricorn
BPAL Frederic
BPAL Tombstone ... think I need a bottle of this baby!
Ava Luxe's Sweet Absinthe parfum
Ava Luxe's Film Noir ... god, this one's good!
Chanel Cuir de Russie
Bois d'Encens
Its the standard Unleaded ... not a flanker or summer scent ... just billing copy like "bracing skin scent".
Ava Luxe's Sweet Absinthe
I miss the days when Miss Ava sold them herself ... hint, hint!
Amazing scent in edt ... outrageously good in parfum. Try it, you won't be disappointed.
I sniffed and was unimpressed ... these megabrand men's offering all smell the same ... cheap and fake. Give me depth, texture and a nice smooth scent ... I'm dying here!
Chanel Pour Monsieur edt layered with a bit of LMdV Vanille Madagascar
Dior Eau Fraiche
Got a chance to do a quick sniff of this one and thought it was quite lovely ... will definitely resniff!
Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille
I got a chance to try this today and was really impressed. Yes, it is a bit traditional, but it complexity is fascinating. It is both fresh and clean (not in an ozonic, more of a soapy sort) and...
cool thanks for the pic ... looks like the original essence bottle, which is very nice and clean. is it just me or does the box look like a l'artisan?
Prive Ambre Soie
They are the special edition 50ml bottle, like an all black version of the Unleaded bottle, and they were $40 each. I thought it was a good deal ... and I still do. But they just plummeted in...
All right ... here's where I'm at -
I have a decant of the MdlV Vanille Madagascar coming
I ordered the try me Yves Rocher
and I'm searching for the others,
thanks for the all the suggestions...
L'Artisan Mechant Loup ... why does Turin dislike this one?
Its actually called DK Fuel but can be referenced as DK Men. He does have a younger brother, Unleaded, which is a fruitier, less formal flanker ... who is totally fabulous as well, but I guess he...
Someone please take pictures of the new bottle as well ... love to see it. Of course, I scored a small stash last weekend in a little store here in Santa Monica, 4 bottles. Isn't that the way it...
Mike you have the most expensive taste ... you are the worst influence!
I'm very tempted but trying to be good. It's easy for something to be beautiful and expensive. But its far more...
For all you DK lovers (and non-readers of the male fragrance section), the big news today is that Bergdorf is reintroducing 3 of Donna Karan's retired scents ... including Signature, Fuel and Choas!...
Just called Bergdorf in NY and they said they have one masculine ... its FUEL! Its official DK Men is back on the market!
Hey ladies ...
As I'm not too smart in the vanilla department, I thought I'd come to the experts. What's a great vanilla scent that won't cost me a fortune?
Any suggestions?
You know ... I feel like I know less about where I stand then when I asked the question. Who know it would raise such a variety of responses ... thanks guys ... but I think I'm still gonna rub my...
I know that Donna Karan New York - the original women's scent - is still in production, just in limited distribution. As for Choas, the ladies here and over at MUA will go crazy for that one. Choas...
So, I'm in Barney's doing a quick pass through the scent department and I see a woman spray her arms with a L'Artisan. The saleswoman replies that the customer "knows how to apply fragrance" and...
I tried it last night, and couldn't get past the chemical tinge that hit my nose ... there's a smoothness that it just seems to be missing. I really wanted to like it too, as I've been in a bit of...
Madame X luxe edition parfum
Not a fan ... synthetic and sharp!
Chanel Pour Monsieur edt
Stopped by a little beauty boutique by work and saw they had a little stash of DK Fuel ... so I picked up 4 bottles of the stuff ... absolutely fantastic! And what a deal!
Hermèssence Ambre Narguilé
Chanel Pour Monsieur EDT
DK Fuel
Helmut Lang edp
Balenciaga Le Dix
Hermèssence Ambre Narguilé
I think it was the Ambre Extreme ... thanks Mikey!
I was in Vegas over the weekend and stopped by the fragrance counter in Barney's. I picked up a L'Artisan scent with a red label and a Chinese (?) character on it. Does anyone know the scent or...
EL's YDAN
Mechant Loup
Varvatos Vintage
Its not bad ... albeit a bit generic smelling.
I love the edt ... a clean refined, though somewhat fleeting scent. The concentree on the other hand is incredibly sweet ... almost in the feminine realm ... a completely different fragrance.
Sander's Feeling Man
Though its not in production anymore, L'Heure Attendue could easily be worn by a man. I find it gorgeous and sport it myself. Some of the other scents in the Ma Collection series could also be...
Divine L'Homme Sage
Chanel Pour Monsieur edt ... for about the 10th day in a row
Chanel Pour Monsieur edt
Dior's Eau Sauvage
Chanel Pour Monsieur edt
CdG Sequoia
recently, l'eau de l'artisan
DK Unleaded
Broke down and got Chanel Pour Monsieur edt ... pas le concentree!
I know that it hasn't made it way to LA yet ... but it sounds great!
I haven't bought anything yet ... yes! Oh wait ... its only the 2nd. : (
but I have my eye on a bottle of Chanel Pour Monsieur edt ... anyone in Europe want to CP me a bottle? Ebay is getting...
Helmut Lang edp
Chocolate Amber by B&BW
Love it as well ... where would so many the greats be without it!
LE DIX is absolutely amazing. Soft, feminine, and utterly classy ... the winner of the bunch!
EL Private Collection
eau d'hermes
Helmut Lang edp
Helmut Lang edc
Patou Chaldee
Helmut Lang edp
Helmut Lang edp
You made a couple great picks there ... personally love Borneo and SDV!
Dior Eau Fraiche
B&BW's Chocolate Amber ... certainly worthy of my $9!


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All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada has been charged with lying to congressional investigators about his knowledge of Major League Baseball players discussing or using steroids and other banned performance-enhancing substances, including his own use. Tejada will appear in a federal court in Washington on Wednesday, and it appears he will plead guilty. The charges and their timing raise legal questions. Here are some of the questions and their answers:
The charge against Tejada comes only a day after Alex Rodriguez admitted that he used steroids for three years, and only a few days after the release of nearly 300 pages of documents in the Barry Bonds steroids investigation. What is going on here?
Under the leadership of a new U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder, federal prosecutors and agents are sending dramatic signals that their investigations into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball are still of a high priority and far from over. With the start of Bonds' perjury trial only three weeks away, the blockbuster developments are a sign that the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and the IRS remain committed to ending the steroid era in baseball. More specifically, they signal that the Bonds prosecution is a matter of significance to the Obama administration and that the trial could be a major turning point. Baseball owners and players might have been lulled into a sense that things were settling down after the release of the Mitchell report in December 2007 and the last round of hearings on Capitol Hill early last year. But MLB commissioner Bud Selig and Major League Baseball Players Association director Donald Fehr now know that nothing is settled and that there is more to come.
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Roger Clemens testified before the U.S. House of Representatives and might have lied. What does the Tejada charge mean for Clemens?
It is not good news for Clemens. The same prosecutors and the same grand jury that investigated Tejada are still investigating Clemens. The Clemens situation is more complicated and involves other players (Andy Pettitte, Chuck Knoblauch) and physical evidence (syringes, gauze pads) that required detailed investigation and testing. Any charge against Clemens would be more serious. Clemens was asked several series of questions under oath about his use of PEDs, and he offered numerous answers and explanations. Tejada is charged with one lie; Clemens could easily be charged with many more. The Tejada charge is a clear signal that the Clemens investigation is not over and that there may well be more to come for Clemens.
Last year, ESPN's "E:60" program confronted Tejada with two different birth certificates and pointed out that he has been using the certificate that shows him two years younger than his actual age. Will the fake birth certificate be a factor in his sentencing?
Probably not. Although his age is important to his baseball career, it is not a major factor in his legal status. The false certificate shows that he has lied in the past, but he is now admitting that he lied about PEDs. The admission of guilt likely will wipe out any negative impact the false birth certificate might have had.
Tejada is a citizen of the Dominican Republic. Will his admission that he lied to the U.S. Congress have any impact on his immigration status and his ability to work in the U.S.?
Probably not. Tejada is charged only with a misdemeanor. He has been in the U.S. long enough and enjoys an immigration status of sufficient stability that he need not worry about continuing to live and to work in the U.S. The charge does involve what is known as "moral turpitude" in the language of immigration laws, but it is not enough for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to initiate a deportation proceeding. Even if Homeland Security officials somehow decide to make an example of Tejada and try to force him from the country (an unlikely possibility), he would be able to prolong the process and stay for at least three to four years.
Lester Munson, a Chicago lawyer and journalist who reports on investigative and legal issues in the sports industry, is a senior writer for ESPN.com.


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Skip to comments.Worst Album Covers of All Time
Posted on 04/03/2012 6:24:25 AM PDT by sirchtruth
I do not think I have laughed this hard in a long time! Take a Look at these Album Covers of the past
and my fave:
Not sure which one is the wooden one.
That reminds me of a teacher I had once. He would lean up close to you and his fake eye would stare at you while his good eye would go from side to side. He really gave people the creeps.
He only lasted one year in that school.
Agreed. Don't know who Alice's band was, but they had some talent.
Missed it by THAAAT much.
The photo came in that time. My memory sucks!!
bookmark for later entertainment.
"Heaven's Hitman"
The tears are streaming down my face!!
Yeah, maybe as a Spinal Tap Album.
The white ankle boots are a hit!
Chris Farley would have played this guy perfectly!
Hey, he kinda looks like a young Alan Colmes!
LOL! What are those things in his hands, bread stix?
LOL! What are those things in his hands, bread stix?
That's not a bad album cover, that's a brilliant one. I've had a copy hanging over my toilet since the day I move out on my own. Still makes visitors laugh.
Post #2
That's just sad! I hate wasted talent! Although, being a drummer basically playing in a cover band, sometimes I have to sit back and help the vocalist come in at the right time on "Break On Through."
Every d*** time he screws some part of that song up, and he's not ever messed up!
Now that's a great album and COVER!
I saw a performance of that "Billion Dollar Babies" tour!!! I think I was still in high school. Also I saw Alice on an earlier tour; maybe "Welcome to my Nightmare". He put on an excellent stage show, and could rock n roll with the best of them.
Hard to believe he ended up a Christian duffer... he's supposed to be a great guy.
Actually he's supposed to be a pretty good golfer.
Actually he's supposed to be a pretty good golfer.
Actually he's supposed to be a pretty good golfer.
I don't think he "ended up" that way, I think it's the way he was all along. The show was just that, a show.
That's it. You guys should be banned for life.
Wow! Haven't seen that in about 40 years. Timeless.
ya gotta dig Mike's duds!
That model was my mom.
That model was my dad.
That model was my cousin.
OK, that explains a lot of your "issues" Laz...
SON!!! Come to my arms my beamish boy!
It was one of my first, and best, albums. I still call CD's albums.
My significant other just fainted when she saw that!!!
They were all buddies on the high school track team.
That's got to be a fake. "Can I Borrow A Feeling" was the name of the album that Milhouse's dad made after he got divorced on the Simpsons.
I actually remember that one.
I don't know why these guys never made it big.
LOL - look at those mutton chops!
And Ma sure looks proud of that forehead ;)
Position placement in this photo was no doubt driven by the size of one's hairdo
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2011 Mini family – Click above for high-res image gallery
16Mini shows off updated 2011 Cooper lineup
- Sam Abuelsamid
- Jun 28, 2010
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108Shocker! Porsche 911 beats Mini Cooper in "race" at "Road Atlanta"
- Damon Lavrinc
- Jun 21, 2010
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Mini vs. Porsche – Click above to view the videos after the jump
67Mini reveals track for Porsche challenge, not really Road Atlanta
- Michael Harley
- Jun 20, 2010
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Last we checked, Road Atlanta was a famed professional 2.54-mile racetrack, not an oversized autocross layout on a training skidpad. Somebody may need to remind Mini USA, as the maker of famously small cars has just announced the "track" (their word, not ours) for its overly-publicized "Rumble on the Racetrack" (their title, not ours) challenge pitting the Mini Cooper S against the race-bred Porsche 911 Carrera S.
21Update: Mini inviting 400 to watch Porsche Challenge - but who will drive the 911?
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- Jun 18, 2010
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After Mini's many attempts to coax Porsche into a race, including videos, posting an online petition and even flying a banner plane over the automaker's North American headquarters, the lights have all gone dark in Atlanta, and it looks like Mini is out of luck.
60Video: Mini responds to Porsche, still ready to race
- Steven J. Ewing
- Jun 14, 2010
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Mini boss Jim McDowell responds to Porsche – Click above to watch the video after the jump
9Minor updates to Mini Cooper leaked
- Zach Bowman
- Jun 11, 2010
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2011 Mini Cooper – Click above for image gallery
51Mini challenges Porsche to race at Road Atlanta [w/video]
- Steven J. Ewing
- Jun 8, 2010
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Mini takes on Porsche – Click above for high-res image gallery
20Mini announces engine enhancements ahead of 2011 redesign
16Rumored Mini coupe to be dubbed Broadspeed?
- Chris Paukert
- Jul 20, 2009
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Those folks concerned with All Things Mini over at Motoringfile have some more salacious gossip regarding the rumored coupe and speedster variants. A conceptual version of the fixed-head sportster is expected at the Frankfurt Motor Show this autumn, and according to the website, the model will carry the moniker 'Broadspeed Coupe.' (Quick history lesson: A team by the name of Broadspeed raced Mini Coopers back in the 1960's, and they even went so far as to produce a racier coupe version of the of
13Review: 2009 Mini Cooper S Convertible adds open-air fun for a price
17First Drive: 2009 MINI Cooper S Convertible
- Sam Abuelsamid
- Feb 24, 2009
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Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2009 MINI Cooper S Convertible
19Detroit 2009: MINI Cooper Convertible chills out
- Alex Nunez
- Jan 11, 2009
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Click above for a high-res image gallery of the new MINI Cooper Convertible
45MINI Cooper S recalled for protruding tailpipes, inadvertent tattoos
- Damon Lavrinc
- Dec 23, 2008
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Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2008 MINI Cooper S
7VIDEO: MINI JCW has a virus
One of the apparent keys to creating a viral video is mimicking reality by showing young people attempting stunts. The main difference is that in Virals, the injuries aren't real, and the camera work is better. Oh, and the payoff is usually CG that's been fussed over, versus pimply little Johnny trying to figure out chromakey in his bedroom. MINI wants to put across the point that the Cooper S with the John Cooper Works package is more extreme than extreme. The very definition of extreme, perhap
8John Cooper Works relaunched under same white roof as MINI, new logo unveiled
- Noah Joseph
- Jan 23, 2008
- 8
2Spy Shots: Stage II MINI JCW kit
- Damon Lavrinc
- Nov 7, 2007
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The MINI franchise is finally facing some stiff competition in the compact performance segment, particularly abroad where buyers can now get their retrotastic kicks in the 180-hp Fiat Punto Abarth SS or the Clio Renaultsport 197. It's been simply a matter of time before MINI let loose the John Cooper Works team again on the new R56 Cooper S, and the fruits of their underground labors have been caught on the Nurburgring in the form of a Stage II version of the R56 Cooper S JCW package.
17In the Autoblog Garage: 2007 MINI Cooper S
- Damon Lavrinc
- Oct 18, 2007
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3Mercedes considers using next MINI platform for new compacts
- Damon Lavrinc
- Oct 1, 2007
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If Automotive News' sources are to be believed, BMW and Mercedes-Benz might be joining forces to develop a new front-wheel drive architecture that would underpin both automakers' compact offerings. BMW is likely in the process of developing a new platform for its MINI and Mercedes has already announced plans to ditch its A-class ultra-compact. The idea that the two rivals would come together to co-develop a product might seem preposterous, but at the end of the day, it's all about saving as many
18Saab expansion in the works, new compact planned
- Damon Lavrinc
- Sep 4, 2007
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Saab is trying desperately to remake itself as a premium player in a market rife with competitors offering sharp styling and competent handling. The Swedish automaker has been in a marketing and design rut, which it intends to rectify by offering a new compact model that takes aim at the MINI and other small-sized competitors like the Volvo C30.
17U.S. R56 MINI Cooper S owners finally get the JCW treatment
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- Aug 28, 2007
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If you're a U.S. citizen hankering for a factory-tuned R56 MINI Cooper S, you're officially in luck. MotoringFile has received the press release on the new JCW tuning package, and according to our friend Gabe, some dealers already have demo vehicles and you might be able to score a ride in one later this week.
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Winton Square,Stoke-On-Trent, Stoke on Trent, ST4 2AE
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64% would recommend it to a friend
Customer service
Food quality
Room quality
Our stay was for just one night and the hotel provided a suitable room.
Lucky enough the hotel was cheap since we didn't have a lot of money and we got more for what we paid for. I am really pleased about it. It is a good hotel, fantastic location and would return in the future.
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Convenient, nice simple rooms and friendly staff.
You get what you pay for.
Conveniently located in front of Stoke on Trent train station, the staff are friendly enough and the room is a good size with a big bathroom.
There are a few downsides though, firstly, very little natural light came in the room as the window was partially hidden by the wardrobe and also faced a wall. Secondly the bathroom door couldn't shut due to poorly fitting locks, luckily the bath and toilet was not facing the door so our dignity was kept in tact. Finally we left the sign on the door asking for our room to be serviced, and rather than coming in they put towels and teabags in a plastic bag on the floor outside the door. Another note to make our door appeared to be far smaller (width) than the other doors in the corridor. Otherwise it was an average stay in an average hotel that worked due to convenience.
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The room was very clean and had everything needed for a short stay but could do with a bit of updating.
North Stafford Hotel, Town Centre
Nice friendly hotel clean warm bed are not 100% but clean and not bad over all the rooms are always clean
Tired hotel in need of revamp, staff generally can't be bothered, food (evening) awful - avoid.
Sunday night stay
Receptionist seemed new and a little confused, took a while to check in.
My room was very small no room for a bedside light. Odd that there was a trouser press attached to the inside of the wardrobe. The quality of the tea/coffee is questionable. Very little room as tv and tea/coffee was on the dressing table with very little space for anything else. The bathroom was good. A nice bath with shower in it. In all for the price I paid not bad value.
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Straightforward, clean and cheap - what more do you want?
Second time I have stayed here on business in the past month.
Both times my room was clean, secure and comfortable. This is an old hotel with old fixtures, fittings and furnishings, so everything looks worn. However if you need a clean, tidy, safe and comfortable place to stay at a very good price, this is a good bet.
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Beyond my Expectation
I arrived at the hotel unsure of what i will find, going by the mixed reviews by previous stayers.
Okay, its an old structure that would have been classy in those years.
Inside was great. A very caring staff, a big room with good beddings and seats. The bathroom has new shower cubicle, a separate tub and new wall to wall tiles. Cannot ask for more for the price paid.
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Smaller than impression on website
Furniture very dark
Staff took their time to bring me sheet n fan so that i could be cooler overnight, then 2 of them came together.


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After much contemplation, I have decided to do a Barbados page. Because I am originally from Barbados, I've put off doing one cause I might be a bit biased. And I don't think a biased page is much use to travellers.
So I'll take my time and do this one slowly so as to give as objective a view as possible.
I've seen most of Barbados.
When I was a teenager, I was in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and as a group we walked the length and breadth of the island.
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"[Alison] Weir takes us on this delicious mystery with a fearsome vengeance. The result is a fascinating and completely credible account."—Milwaukee Journal
"Did Richard III do in his nephews or didn't he? How much of the evil-uncle legend was later Tudor propaganda and how much was true? . . . This is exciting reading."—The Denver Post
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Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain two of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill "the Princes in the Tower," as is commonly believed, or was the murderer someone else entirely? Carefully
Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain two of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill "the Princes in the Tower," as is commonly believed, or was the murderer someone else entirely? Carefully examining every shred of contemporary evidence as well as dozens of modern accounts, Alison Weir reconstructs the entire chain of events leading to the double murder. We are witnesses to the rivalry, ambition, intrigue, and struggle for power that culminated in the imprisonment of the princes and the hushed-up murders that secured Richard's claim to the throne as Richard III. A masterpiece of historical research and a riveting story of conspiracy and deception, The Princes in the Tower at last provides a solution to this age-old puzzle.
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This book has a different tone than the other Weir histories/biographies I've read recently. She's not rehabilitating a historical figure or detailing the causes of a civil war; this time she's showing us the extant historical record and whether or not that historical record tells us what happened to Edward V and his brother, Richard. The story of the Princes doesn't flow quite like her other books because she has to back up a few times to go over the origins of historical documents and the accuracy of contemprorary sources (Sir Thomas More's biography of Richard III is considered a particularly accurate source because More had access to those close to Richard during his reign). In the end, Weir's interpretation of the historical evidence makes it clear that Richard III is implicated in the deaths of the Princes and that the children died before Henry VII invaded England. Whether Richard III ordered the childen's murder or they died through natural causes or mistreatment is unclear but it was widely believed that the Princes were dead by 1485 because Richard was unable to exhibit the children in public when it would have been politically advantageous to do so. If you are a Richard III revisionist, this book is not for you. If you like Shakespeare's play then you'll like this book because it gives dimension and context to one of Shakespeare's famous villains.
I have read many books on the subject & have always believed RichardIII murdered his nephews. Now there are many RichardIII associations who proclaim his innocence. I wanted a book that would give me all the answers like who,where when (I was pretty sure I knew why.) I had read other books by Alison Weir & had great respect for her research methods & balanced portrayals of people. She can also keep you entertained. It's not like reading a text book. You understand these people & care about them. I believe she started with an open mind and went where the evidence took her. You'll have to read it yourself to see where that it. If you are interested in this centuries old mystery,this is the book for you.
Weir writes an extremely interesting account of what happened to the legendary Princes in the the Tower. In forming her conclusions, Weir sets the turbulent stage of the War of the Roses and relies upon the historical records that survive from this period of time. The princes, the boys of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, were last seen alive in 1493, some 500+ years ago. Weir culls through the evidence and applying inferences drawn from that evidence and the social and political climate at the time the evidence was created, she draws the trap tighter around the prime suspect in the boys' deaths. Weir does not force the evidence to fit her conclusion, but lets it flow from logic and admits when her sources are lacking or conflicting. This is an excellent work of English history. Anyone who is interested in the Starz series The White Queen would enjoy this true depiction of some of those characters. I also highly recommend Weir's The Lady in the Tower, a historical account of the last months of Anne Bolyen's life.
A must read for history lovers. The wars of the roses culminated in King Richard lll taking the rightful heirs, his nephews, the princes of York, under his "protection" and holding them in the Tower of London. What happened to these young innocents of history is a mystery to this day. Author Alison Weir brings this story to life with engrossing detail and excellent research and presentation of facts.
I enjoyed this book there was alot more information then expected. I felt so bad for there situation, they never got justice...I've ever known much information on these two princes until now and would highly recommend it to anyone else wanting to know more.
This book was very detailed and presented very interesting takes on the disappearance of the Princes of the Tower. I really enjoyed Weir's take on the legend and thought she backed it up with legitimate evidence.
I agree with the other reviewer here: this book is so full of contradictions it's difficult to keep track. It's obvious that the author set out to discredit Richard, and when an argument seems to go against that she twists it to fit. For example, when Richard's wife (and childhood friend) dies, Richard cries at the funeral. Since Ms. Weir has already decided that Richard poisoned her, she claims he was putting on a show to prove his innocence. Why would that be necessary? At a time when men did not often cry, why would Richard-a man portrayed here as evil as they come, who probably kicked some puppies on his way to the funeral-go to that length? She tells us about numerous mistakes made by Sir Thomas More, but continues to take his word as gospel. For example, we know now that Richard was not 'Crouchbacked'. The author even admits this. More was one of the main purveyors of this myth, as others that Ms. Weir dismisses as fiction. So why, then, would you use the rest of his book as evidence? If I read a book claiming America had become independent in 1903, I wouldn't exactly consider the rest of that book to be factual. She also mixes up some dates and seems to forget what has been written before. She tells us that after Richard's coronation on July 5, 1483, 'the Princes in the Tower were never seen alive again'. Later in the book she mentions that one of her sources 'had cause to know' the Princes were alive in August, for he had seen them. That seems like a contradiction to me. Reporting rumor as fact (and dismissing rumors to the contrary of her opinions) does not a factual book make. It is also inconceivable to me that a girl who know her uncle has murdered her brothers would still want to marry him, no matter how ambitious she may be (and the only proof offered for Richard's plot to marry his cousin was a leter written by her saying that she loved him deeply-there is no evidence at all that Richard returned these feelings.) I read this book without a definite opinion of who killed the Princes. Now I have one-the opposite of what the author wanted. Nobody should be convicted on evidence this flimsy and full of contradiction.
A must read.
I suggest for another point of view regarding Richard III, readers should read Sharon Kay Penman's book, The Sunne in Splendour, which is about the life of Richard and his brother Edward the father of the two princes in the Tower. She comes to the conclusion that Richard did not order the death of his nephews but, in fact, the Duke of Buckingham had much more to gain from the deaths of the princes and had the opportunity to order their deaths. Richard III had no motive to have them killed. There are some historians who believe Henry Tudor was the culprit, but she deduces that he had no opportunity to do so. I think this is a mystery which will never be solved to the satisfaction of everyone.
Part of the problem with giving your review on a book like this is that depending on where you fall in the Richard III arguement it will influence what you think of the book. I, for one, am inclined to agree with the author in her opinion on this issue. Based on that, I found this book to be interesting and enlightening. In fact, I find the so called 'Pro-Richard' biographies to be full of backward logic and surmises. For someone who falls on the other side, no amount of proof or conjecture will ever convince you otherwise. Ah, the joy of old history!
Ms. Weir's Tudor non-fiction is engaging, intelligent, supported, and wholly reliable. This book, however, felt and read more like a Ph.D. thesis, where mentions of the Princes, as sidenotes to the grander scheme, were continually intruding on the story, rather than being the main focus of it. Every fact seemed to be forced to relate to that theme, rather than the murder occurring as an organic result. I would recommend this as a novel to acquaint oneself with Richard III and his tumultuous reign, but if you are searching for true crime or a thoroughly detailed discussion of forensics, then this is not the book to start your research.


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Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political figure of his era. In this astutely argued book, Gerard N. Magliocca explores how Bryan's effort to reach the White House energized conservatives across the nation and caused a transformation in constitutional
Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political figure of his era. In this astutely argued book, Gerard N. Magliocca explores how Bryan's effort to reach the White House energized conservatives across the nation and caused a transformation in constitutional law.
Responding negatively to the Populist agenda, the Supreme Court established a host of new constitutional principles during the 1890s. Many of them proved long-lasting and highly consequential, including the "separate but equal" doctrine supporting racial segregation, the authorization of the use of force against striking workers, and the creation of the liberty of contract. The judicial backlash of the 1890s—the most powerful the United States has ever experienced—illustrates vividly the risks of seeking fundamental social change. Magliocca concludes by examining the lessons of the Populist experience for advocates of change in our own divisive times.
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The Tragedy of William Jennings BryanConstitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash
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Chapter OneConstructing Reconstruction
Under the pressure of all the excited feeling growing out of the war, our statesmen have still believed that the existence of the State with powers for domestic and local government, including the regulation of civil rightsthe rights of person and propertywas essential to the perfect working of our complex form of government, though they have thought proper to impose additional limitations on the States, and to confer additional power on that of the Nation. The Slaughter-House Cases
Every solution creates another problem. The bloodshed of the Civil War paved the way for a set of constitutional amendments that settled forever the issue of whether Americans could hold slaves or whether those former slaves were citizens of the United States. At the same time, the amendments raised a new set of questions about the allocation of authority between the federal government and the states. To see how William Jennings Bryan's defeat transformed the law during the 1890s, we need to examine the doctrinal debate that followed Reconstruction. Accordingly, I focus here on three issues related to the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: (1) whether the states faced additional limits on their authority to regulate property and contract rights; (2) whether the Bill of Rights now applied to the states; and (3) to what extent the states were barred from making distinctions based on race. Until the backlash against the Populist coalition, there was no consensus on these three topics. After that backlash, the ambiguities in the Fourteenth Amendment were resolved in line with the views of Bryan's foes.
Slaughter-House and the Interpretive Debate
A natural starting point for any discussion of the Fourteenth Amendment is the Slaughter-House Cases, which marked the Supreme Court's first interpretation of the new constitutional language. Some white butchers in New Orleans argued that a state statute granting a butchering monopoly to a corporation that excluded them violated the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the Due Process Clause, and the Equal Protection Clause. The Justices, by a five-to-four vote, rejected that claim in an opinion that touched on most of the basic issues that preoccupied lawyers for the next three decades.
Slaughter-House held that the freedom to work in a trade was not a constitutional right, because the Fourteenth Amendment left the regulation of common-law contract and property rights to the states. The Court reasoned that there was a distinction between national and state citizenship in the Constitution and that only national citizenship rights were protected from state action. Not only did nothing of national importance inhere in the right to work as a butcher, but, as the Court concluded from some cases predating the Fourteenth Amendment, state citizenship "embraces nearly every civil right for the establishment and protection of which organized government is established." To hold otherwise and declare that the common law was absorbed into the Constitution "would constitute this court a perpetual censor upon all legislation of the States" and radically change "the whole theory of the relations of the State and Federal governments to each other and of both governments to the people."
There were three dissenting opinions in Slaughter-House, but the most powerful one was by Justice Stephen J. Field, who said that the case presented "nothing less than the question whether the recent amendments to the Federal Constitution protect the citizens of the United States against the deprivation of their common rights by State legislatures." Field observed that the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the antecedent of the Fourteenth Amendment, secured the right "to make and enforce contracts" and the right "to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, or convey real and personal property." He contended that in securing those rights, the act undermined the Court's view that they were not of national significance and supported his position that common-law privileges, including the "right to pursue a lawful employment," did "belong to the citizens of all free governments." If the Fourteenth Amendment did not protect these rights, then "our government will be a republic only in name."
Slaughter-House did "venture to suggest some" of the rights that were protected by the Fourteenth Amendment "lest it should be said that no such privileges and immunities are to be found if those we have been considering are excluded." In defining the liberties that "owe their existence to the Federal government, its National character, its Constitution, or its laws," the Court wrote that each citizen had the right:
to come to the seat of government to assert any claim he may have upon that government, to transact any business he may have with it, to seek its protection, to share its offices, to engage in administering its functions. He has the right of free access to its seaports ... to the subtreasuries, land offices, and courts of justice in the several States.
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to demand the care and protection of the Federal government over his life, liberty, and property when on the high seas or within the jurisdiction of a foreign government ... The right to peaceably assemble and petition for redress of grievances, the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus ... The right to use the navigable waters of the United States, however they may penetrate the territory of the several States, all rights secured to our citizens by treaties with foreign nations ... One of these privileges is conferred by the very article under consideration. It is that a citizen of the United States can, of his own volition, become a citizen of any State of the Union by a bonâ fide residence therein, with the same rights as other citizens of that State. To these may be added the rights secured by the thirteenth and fifteen articles of amendment.
This list of federal privileges or immunities is the only guidance in the opinion about whether the Fourteenth Amendment incorporated (in other words, extended) the Bill of Rights to the states, which was an important question because the Court held in the 1830s that the Bill applied only to the federal government.
The incorporation issue was not raised by the butchers' claim about a right to work, but most scholars believe that the analysis in Slaughter-House foreclosed the argument that the states were bound by the first eight amendments. After all, the Court omitted those fundamental liberties, with the exception of the Petition Clause, from its discussion of federal privileges or immunities. The omission seems critical because the Justices did see fit to include such trivial items as seaport access and the right to travel. Moreover, Justice Joseph P. Bradley's dissent did mention parts of the Bill of Rights in his definition of national privileges or immunities, which could be construed as implying that the Court's exclusion of them was telling. As a result, one view of Slaughter-House is that either the Fourteenth Amendment was declaratory of rights that already existed or it guaranteed nontextual rights inherent in the federal structure.
The other interpretation of the opinion is that its litany of national rights was illustrative rather than exhaustive, and thus the Court did not reject incorporation. The Court's statement that it was suggesting "some" of the privileges or immunities encompassed by the Fourteenth Amendment supports this reading. In fact, some commentators go further and say that the inclusion of the Petition Clause in the key passage should be taken as evidence that the Bill of Rights was incorporated. This conclusion builds on the observation that Slaughter-House counted rights specified in the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Amendments (banning slavery and providing for African American suffrage) as national rights, which indicates that privileges in the textnot just structural rights or ones that existed before the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendmentwere included.
Nineteenth-century courts did not address these competing interpretations of Slaughter-House. Indeed, in no federal case prior to 1900 was the opinion cited as either supporting or rejecting the extension of the Bill of Rights. Slaughter-House was cited for the point that state and national citizenship rights were distinct in cases holding that a given part of the Bill of Rights did not apply to the states, but that was not the same as saying that Slaughter-House spoke directly to the issue. Given the lack of authority for the proposition that the Court rejected incorporation in 1873, why are so many modern lawyers convinced that this repudiation happened then?
The answer is that nearly thirty years after Slaughter-House the Justices declared that the opinion was hostile to incorporation. In Maxwell v. Dow, a 1900 case that rejected a claim that the Fourteenth Amendment applied the Sixth Amendment jury trial right to the states, the defendant argued that "all of the provisions in the first ten amendments, so far as they secure and recognize the fundamental rights of the individual as against the exercise of Federal power, are ... to be regarded as privileges or immunities of a citizen of the United States." In response, the Court quoted Slaughter-House at length and concluded that in the section of that opinion on national privileges or immunities, "a right, such as is claimed here, was not mentioned, and we suppose it was regarded as pertaining to the state, and not covered by the amendment." With that statement, Maxwell explicitly endorsed the "exhaustive" reading of Slaughter-House on incorporation. The critical point is that this endorsement happened after Bryan's 1896 defeat. As we see in chapter 6, that political earthquake turned the meaning of Slaughter-House upside down.
Finally, Slaughter-House addressed what the Fourteenth Amendment (and Reconstruction more generally) meant for African Americans. The Court said that the new amendments were supposed to guarantee "the freedom of the slave race, the security and firm establishment of that freedom, and the protection of the newly-made freeman and citizen from the oppressions of those who had formerly exercised unlimited dominion over him." Extraordinary action was necessary because "it was said that their lives were at the mercy of bad men, either because the laws for their protection were insufficient or were not enforced." Furthermore, "they were in all those States denied the right of suffrage. The laws were administered by the white man alone. It was urged that a race of men distinctively marked as was the negro, living in the midst of another and dominant race, could never be fully secured in their person and their property without the right of suffrage." As for the Equal Protection Clause, the Justices said that "the existence of laws in the States where the newly emancipated negroes resided, which discriminated with gross injustice and hardship against them as a class, was the evil to be remedied by this clause, and by it such laws are forbidden."
Of course, the Court gave none of these statements any content, because the butchers in Slaughter-House were white. But the flood of litigation that followed forced the Justices into a more searching inquiry on all three of the issues raised by that first Fourteenth Amendment case: property and contract rights, incorporation, and racial equality.
Stalemate in the Courts
Using the basic outline sketched out in Slaughter-House, lawyers pressed forward with a series of claims that attempted to put some meat on its bones. While some patterns emerged over the next two decades, there was no resolution of the main interpretive questions. Indeed, there were many inconsistent trends in the Fourteenth Amendment cases prior to the mid-1890s.
On the subject of Slaughter-House's holdingwhether the Fourteenth Amendment placed limits on state regulation of property and contractsthe Justices were steadfast in saying no. For example, the Court rejected a constitutional challenge to state grain-elevator rate ceilings in the 1870s, saying: "It was not supposed that statutes regulating the use, or even the price of the use, of private property necessarily deprived an owner of his property without due process of law." A suit in the 1880s claiming that a state prohibition on liquor sales was unconstitutional was rejected on similar grounds, since "society has the power to protect itself, by legislation, from the injurious consequences of that business." And when railroads attacked state rate regulations using the same Fourteenth Amendment theory, those challenges also failed. Although the Court did hold out the prospect that a state law affecting economic rights could violate the Fourteenth Amendment under extreme conditions, it never invalidated a state statute for a substantive defect until 1894.
At the same time, however, a countercurrent inside and outside the Court supported the nationalist reading of property and contract rights that was rejected in Slaughter-House. First, the dissenters in that case continued to criticize their brethren for leaving property rights at the mercy of grasping state legislatures, with Justice Bradley stating in one case that "the liberty of pursuitthe right to follow any of the ordinary callings of lifeis one of the privileges of a citizen of the United States." Next, some state courts adopted his logic when construing provisions in their state constitutions similar to the Fourteenth Amendment. Finally, scholars such as Thomas M. Cooley provided intellectual support for protecting property and contract rights through constitutional law by drawing on antebellum suspicions of class legislation. Thus, the debate over this aspect of Slaughter-House was not settled by the 1890s, even though critics of constitutional interference in state economic policy still narrowly held the upper hand.
On incorporation, the Court took a more nuanced approach: it rejected applying the procedures of the Bill of Rights (for example, grand jury, civil jury, and trial jury) to the states but expressed qualified support for extending its substantive provisions. This distinction rested on the idea that procedures were only a means to achieving substantive justice and were subject to improvement, so fixing them in state law would retard progress. For instance, when the Justices held in 1884 that the grand jury indictment rule of the Fifth Amendment did not apply to the states, they explained that fundamental rights were best "preserved and developed by a progressive growth and wise adaptation to new circumstances and situations of the forms and processes found fit to give, from time to time, new expression and greater effect to modern ideas of self-government." Thus, the Constitution "must be held to guaranty, not particular forms of procedure, but the very substance of individual rights to life, liberty, and property."
When those substantive claims came to the Court in an incorporation context, they received more favorable treatment. For example, in O'Neil v. Vermont a defendant was convicted of selling liquor without a license and sentenced to fifty-four years in prison under a state statute that mandated extra jail time if a defendant could not pay the fines imposed. The Court held that it could not consider whether this long sentence violated the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the Eighth Amendment, because the issue was not raised in O'Neil's brief. But three Justices rejected this holding and, reaching the merits, held that the sentence was invalid. Justice Field again led the charge, reasoning that the Fourteenth Amendment meant that when the Bill of Rights declares or recognizes "the rights of persons they are rights belonging to them as citizens of the United States under the constitution ... [and] no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge them." From this principle, he deduced that "the state cannot apply ... any more than the United States, the torture, the rack, or thumb-screw, or any cruel and unusual punishment, or any more than it deny ... security in his house, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures." Justice John Marshall Harlan, joined by Justice David Brewer, also dissented and explained that "since the adoption of the fourteenth amendment, no one of the fundamental rights of life, liberty, or property, recognized and guarantied by the constitution of the United States, can be denied or abridged by a state in respect to any person within its jurisdiction."
As a result, the picture of incorporation at the start of the Populist period was less certain than is generally thought, in large part owing to the erroneous, though common, view that Slaughter-House resolved the issue. The idea that the entire Bill of Rights applied to the states was clearly rejected by the cases about jury rights. But this position was not tantamount to a conclusion that all of the parts of the first eight amendments were unincorporated. In fact, the opposite is true. The Justices supported extending the bill's substantive freedoms against state action when the issue was squarely presented to them. The problem, at least from the perspective of those in favor of that result, was that almost all of the cases following Slaughter-House concerned procedural rights rather than substantive ones.
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