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created 2009 · complexity basic · author Nsg · version 7.0
When reading text, it can be useful to make a wide window, then split it vertically so two consecutive pages of text can be seen in the left and right windows.
With a large monitor, you might enter
:set columns=160 to make the screen 160 columns wide. This tip can then be used to split the screen to show two windows, with the '
scrollbind' option set so that scrolling one window also scrolls the other window.
Enter the following command (or put in your vimrc):
:noremap <silent> <Leader>vs :<C-u>let @z=&so<CR>:set so=0 noscb<CR>:bo vs<CR>Ljzt:setl scb<CR><C-w>p:setl scb<CR>:let &so=@z<CR>
With the default leader, you can now press
\vs to vertically split the screen into two windows with '
scrollbind' set. To display only a single window, press Ctrl-W then
The mapping performs these operations:
:<C-u> " clear command line (if in visual mode) let @z=&so " save scrolloff in register z :set so=0 noscb " set scrolloff to 0 and clear scrollbind :bo vs " split window vertically, new window on right Ljzt " jump to bottom of window + 1, scroll to top :setl scb " setlocal scrollbind in right window <C-w>p " jump to previous window :setl scb " setlocal scrollbind in left window :let &so=@z " restore scrolloff
The mapping clears '
scrollbind' before manipulating the windows so that the position of the second window can be adjusted without scrolling the first window. Setting '
scrolloff' to 0 allows the cursor to be positioned at the bottom of the screen (with command
- Problems
- If the cursor is in the last line when the mapping is executed, the mapping fails because
jcannot move the cursor down (and the remaining commands are not executed).
- Register z is changed.
See alsoEdit
- vim_use discussion
- MPage plugin that supports multiple windows (two or more) with sequential text
I put this into a function:
noremap <silent> <Leader>ac :exe AddColumn()<CR> function! AddColumn() exe "norm \<C-u>" let @z=&so set noscb so=0 bo vs exe "norm \<PageDown>" setl scrollbind wincmd p setl scrollbind let &so=@z endfunction
Except when I try to scroll one of the buffer windows by one line or more. In that case, the line-difference between each buffer is reduced to zero. Curiously, this works perfectly when done by hand in the command prompt.
I have read that that line-difference is meant for 2 different files. However, we are using the same file, but in two different windows. Then, how do I keep that line difference valid between the windows on_scroll?


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He is a BB yes.
This is the fight I have wanted to see since the start! Conor's striking is different class and brings something different every time he fights so is unpredictable, hence the reason he does not believe in game plans. However, I think his ground and jiu jitsu game is under rated, he is a purple belt and trains over in Iceland with Gunnar Nelson a lot.
Be a top quality fight and think if McGregor wins, it should get him a top ten fight next against maybe Koch or Lentz.
I like Brandao, really fun fighter to watch, but there a lot of holes in his game. Also, if it goes past 2 rounds Conor will finish him due to his obvious fatigue problems.
Great Fight!
This is the test he needs and a fucking excellent fight too, hopefully the fight still makes sense in 10 months.

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I know no one asked me to weigh in on this, but what the heck. I am the resident East Eurasian here. Seriously though my social media is awash in East Asian outrage and also cultural insensitivity over Perry's performance yesterday at the AMAs dressed in modified,sexy geisha apparel.There are a number of comments on the story that ask why is this performance racist and/or offensive?Like these:Oh I see, she shouldn't sexualize geishas who were "Just entertainers"? Wrong. Geishas … [Read more...]
Asian Cultural Sensitivity 101: Why is Katy Perry's "Geisha" performance considered racist?
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Reading Level Grades 4-6
11-year-old Arlo has lived with his only relative, his grandfather Poppo, since Arlo was two. But in the last couple of years Poppo's mind has started slipping. Arlo now takes care of his grandfather making sure no one knows how bad Poppo is getting.
On the night Poppo is found trapped in a dumpster, life as Arlo knows it disappears. After one night in the children's home, Arlo knows he must escape. Armed with $68 and courage he sets out on a journey to find his missing grandmother, the one he has just recently learned is alive.
Check availability of this book
Other stories of kids seeking family are:
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt and
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis


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Google to Replace Head of Acquisitions
Google on Friday said David Lawee, its head of corporate development for the past four years, would be replaced early next year by Don Harrison, an in-house lawyer at Google who does legal work related to the company's acquisitions.
Mr. Lawee will "pursue other opportunities inside of Google," a spokeswoman said, without elaborating.
Reuters on Friday reported that Mr. Lawee would run a group inside of Google that will invest in "late-stage," or mature, companies. That couldn't be independently verified, and Google declined to comment.
Google already has a venture-capital arm that invests primarily in "early-stage" companies, and the company itself has made investments in mature companies such as online-video publisher Machinima Inc. earlier this year and online social-game maker Zynga Inc. in 2010.
Mr. Harrison, who is Canadian, has been at Google for nearly eight years and worked on dozens of deals, including the $12.5 billion acquisition of handset maker Motorola Mobility, which closed earlier this year. Previously he did legal work for Google while at Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, which also once employed Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond.
Fun fact: Messrs. Lawee and Harrison are both Canadian.


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How to Hire a DJ or Band for Your Party
For many, music makes the party! Whether you are hiring a band or a deejay to keep guests entertained at your event, there's a little business to take care of before you can dance the night away. Consider these tips for hiring a Deejay or Band to help make your party planning process easier.
For many, music makes the party! Whether you are hiring a band or a deejay to keep guests entertained at your event, there's a little business to take care of before you can dance the night away. Consider these tips for hiring a Deejay or Band to help make your party planning process easier.
The Search: Finding a Deejay/Band
You don't to have hit the town party hopping every night in order to find the right deejay or band for your event, but a word of mouth reference from someone you know or a trusted source is a good idea!
Call your friends and get a recommendation for a deejay or band that they've used.
Been to a fabulous party lately where you really loved the music? Get in touch the party host or the band or deejay directly and inquire about their services.
Maybe there's a bar or restaurant with a deejay or band that you like? Check with the venue's manager and ask how their dealings have been with the deejay or band and then find out if they are available for private events.
Be sure to set up an interview with the deejay before you book to make sure they are the right fit for your event.
The Interview: Questions to Ask Your Potential Dee Jay or Band
Experiencing a band or deejay in action is the best interview you can have, but there are a few biz details you'll need to discuss for your event.
What is the cost for the deejay or band's services and what does that include, such as how many band members they have and the breaks they take and how long.
Can they provide recommendations with phone numbers that you can call?
Can they think of extra costs based on the location? Speaking of the location, check to see if there is a curfew for playing loud music or any other restrictions.
Some deejays do giveaways at parties with games (common at bat mitzvahs). Inquire about this service or if they have musical props (i.e. tambourines, inflatable guitars) to get guests in the mood! Also, you may want to see if the have a connection to get the props personalized for your event. (Expect to pay extra for the swag items.)
If you haven't experienced their work, you need to do so via a DVD or by attending a live performance.
Keep the conversation casual but businesslike, as you don't want this to feel like an interrogation, but you do want to know that you're going to rock your party.
The Contract : Avoid Unexpected Fees or Surprises
It's not official until you write it down! Even if you and your deejay have become fast friends, those free props he promised you won't happen unless it's in writing. Which is why it's worth putting details that are important to you in writing in your contract or agreement with the deejay or band along with some of these other points:
The price for the band or deejay's services and what that price includes.
Agreed upon overtime charges should you incur them.
The time they will arrive and the time they will depart.
Their scheduled break times and how long they will be.
Additional costs for rentals or fees that they may incur (i.e. an extra microphone, downloading certain songs, personalized props, etc).
Their cancellation policy or procedure for a "force majeure" situation - meaning what happens if there is an unforeseen circumstance, natural or otherwise, on the day or leading up to the day of the party which makes it impossible for the event to take place.
The Event: Make your List and Check it Twice
Even though you've put down the deposit and the contract has been signed, it's up to you to double check the deejay or band is fully prepared for your event. Keep things tips in mind to ensure a smooth and flawless event.
Check-in the week before the event to confirm their arrival time and set up.
Make sure you have their contact information including a cell phone number and know who to you call if they are late to your party (especially if you have hired them through an agency).
Make all necessary introductions at the event so the "communication" can be clear - this is especially important if you have planned events happening like a deejay or lead singer announcing that all gather to sing Happy Birthday and the caterer needs to bring out the cake.
Create a timetable for the party with important scheduled "events" that are going to take place such as "10:00pm cake is served and 'Birthday' by the Beatles is played by deejay." Distribute it to all who will be "playing a part" in the party. You don't want the deejay or band to be on a break during one of these moments!
Finally, make sure to give the deejay or band a written play list of specific songs that you both have agreed that you like and want to be played at the party.
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ATLANTA -- Global Payments Inc., a worldwide provider of electronic transaction processing solutions, announced an agreement to acquire Accelerated Payment Technologies.
APT provides payment solutions for small- to mid-size merchants producing a collective $8 billion in annual card volume. The company markets its products and services primarily through a network of 700 resellers covering 30 vertical markets.
Global Payments currently processes the majority of APT's transactions under its existing ISO processing relationship.
Under the terms of the agreement, Global Payments will pay $413 million in cash to acquire APT from Great Hill Partners, a Boston-based private-equity firm.
The transaction is expected to close during Global Payments' second 2013 fiscal quarter, pending regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.


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UPLAND - The Mt. Baldy Chapter of the National Active & Retired Federal Employees (NARFE) Association will have Dewayne Shackelford speak Wednesday on "Educating Our Seniors About Alarms."
Shackelford is the owner of Guardian Alarm Systems, Inc. The company specializes in custom security systems for residences and small businesses.
The Chapter meets on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 1 p.m. at Coco's Restaurant, 60 W. Foothill Blvd.
All retired and active federal employees are eligible to attend.


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How a $4.5 million network of 181 sirens helped save lives in Oklahoma twister
(Liz Klimas) Although the death toll has hit 24 — including 7 children — as a result of Monday's EF4 tornado that passed over Moore, Oklahoma, Monday, the emergency siren system in Oklahoma City's metropolitan area helped warn thousands to take shelter.
The metropolitan area boasts a system of 181 emergency sirens, which were updated in 2002 in a $4.5 million project replacing Cold War-era sirens that at the time only stretched over the most densely populated areas, the city's website stated. The coverage area of the new system is nearly four times more than the previous one, which had just 44 sirens.
The city's website advises residents when they hear the siren, outside of a test, to turn on TV and radio for specific information.
Another War-era idea the city has begun to replace are public shelters for storm protection. It says that driving to a shelter during extreme weather can pose a greater risk to residents and it notes emergency experts now advising they "shelter in place" when told to take cover.
Although taking shelter underground is preferable during a tornado event, most Oklahoma homes actually don't have basements or cellars. An Associated Press article published after the deadly May 3, 1999, tornado, to which many are comparing the May 20, 2013, twister, reported that many people aren't building these underground structures due to cost and soil conditions.


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CSC: Intro to Fiber Optic Design, Buena Park, CA (Morning)
Corning Cable Systems
Thursday, June 6, 2013 from 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Event Details
Intro to Fiber Optic Design
Please join us for a FREE fiber optics training course. This interactive three-hour session will provide new designers and consultants with a basic introduction and overview of fiber optic design. Our expert instructors will focus on design considerations, best practices and product selection. The remainder of the session will be devoted to designing a basic local area network (LAN) and data center (DC) system with our expert instructor. BICSI (CEC) credits apply.
Target Audience: Consultants, integrators, end users and contraactors seeking basic design knowledge for enterprise networks.
Upon registration, please make sure your email address is correct. Your tickets are sent via email. If you register for more than one person, please have their email addresses handy, or you will be required to forward their tickets to them. Parking fee may apply.
When & Where
6400 Artesia Boulevard
Buena Park,
Thursday, June 6, 2013 from 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
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(SportsNetwork.com) - A stunning collapse cost the Dallas Stars a chance at snapping their five-game losing streak last time out.
The Edmonton Oilers couldn't capitalize on a shocking goal to beat one of the NHL's top teams.
The Stars and Oilers both aim to halt their recent struggles on Tuesday night with a meeting in Dallas.
Just minutes away from a victory over the New York Islanders on Sunday, the Stars instead watched as the Isles scored three times over the game's final 4:16 to hand Dallas a 4-2 setback. It was the Stars' sixth defeat in a row, all in regulation.
Ray Whitney and Sergei Gonchar scored in the first period to stake Dallas to a 2-0 lead and Dan Ellis made 27 saves.
"When you're struggling as a group, instead of finding ways to win you find ways to lose, and that's kind of where we're at right now," said Whitney.
The Stars have lost six in a row in regulation for the first time since Dec. 5-15, 1995 and have fallen eight points back of the eighth spot in the Western Conference.
Dallas will now try to avoid losing seven straight for the first time since an 0-5-2 rut from March 17-30, 2009 and will do so against an Edmonton club that is 2-4-2 in its last eight games.
The Oilers visited the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday and lost a 5-3 decision despite a gift goal in the second period.
During a delayed penalty call, Blackhawks' goaltender Antti Raanta skated off for an extra attacker as Patrick Kane passed the puck to the point in the Oilers zone. However, there was not Blackhawk there and the puck traveled all the way into the Chicago net, with Boyd Gordon getting credited with a goal despite not even being on the ice.
That strange tally tied the game at 2-2 with 8:31 left in the second period, but Chicago's Marian Hossa scored during the 5-on-3 power play just 29 seconds later and Jonathan Toews added another Blackhawks goal before the end of the period.
Ales Hemsky had one goal and an assist for the Oilers, while Devan Dubnyk was beaten five times on 41 shots.
"We made it pretty easy on them. Against a team like that, they're going to make you pay," said Edmonton forward Taylor Hall, who scored his 18th goal of the season to make it 4-3 in the third period before Chicago again answered.
The Stars and Oilers have split two meetings this season, with each club winning on the road. Dallas has won seven of nine and 12 of the last 15 meetings overall.
Edmonton has won back-to-back road games in this series, but has still lost 10 of its last 13 in Dallas.
Ilya Bryzgalov will start tonight for the Oilers and is 13-8-2 with a 2.26 goals against average in 29 games (26 starts) versus the Stars. He made 28 saves in a 3-2 shootout win in Dallas on Dec. 1.
Kari Lehtonen is likely to start for the Stars and owns a 10-3-1 lifetime mark versus the Oilers with a 2.06 GAA. He shut the club out for the first time in his career with a 3-0 road decision on Nov. 13, then stopped 30 saves in the loss to Bryzgalov.
Former Oilers captain and current Stars forward Shawn Horcoff faces his old club for the third time. He totaled 162 goals, 285 assists and 447 points in 796 games with Edmonton to begin his career and has no points in the two meetings this season.


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Disclaimer: Remote-Exploit nor myself take any responsibility for any damage caused to your system by following this guide. Use at your own risk
I've received a lot of PMs and seen a decent amount of threads about people looking to compile the latest kernel and I've recently done this in BT2 as well as installed Xorg 7.2. I thought I'd share my experience and lend some help to people who may be thinking about doing the same thing. If you find any problems or mistakes please send me a PM and I will update immediately.
Compiling and installing the Kernel:
1. Before you do any kind of such work, have a backup of everything.
2. Obtain the kernel you wish to compile: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ for me this was 22.214.171.124 this was key for getting my 965GM video card working correctly.
3.4.Code:cd to /usr/src5. Edit your lilo.conf config, make the following changes:Code:wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.XX.XX.tar.gz
6. Next open upCode:image = /boot/vmlinuz.old label = OldKernel
7. Then cd back to where you downloaded the new kernel too andCode:/usr/src/linux/Makefile Uncomment the line... #export INSTALL_PATH=/boot
8. Next we create a symlink to linux from the new kernel:Code:tar zxf linux-2.6.XX.XX.tar.gz
9. It's a good idea to use the configuration of your current working kernel as a basis for your new kernel. You will be editing it in a second if you nee to change anything before the install, do it then. So we copy the existing configuration to /usr/src/linux:Code:ln -s linux-126.96.36.199 linux cd /usr/src/linux
10. Now we run:Code:make clean && make mrproper cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
11. The kernel configuration menu will pop up, proceed to the bottom where it says:Code:make menuconfig
Type:Code:Load an Alternate Configuration File
12. If you happen to have the same chipset I do, this next step is imperative. Navigate to:Code:.config
Press space to build this module into the kernel. It should show up as a (*) to the left of it.Code:Device Driver -> Character Devices -> Scroll down to /dev/agpgart
13. Exit out of everything when you're done and it will ask if you'd like to save your changes, select Yes.
14. Now that we have everything configured let's go ahead and start to build the kernel:
Code:make bzImageCode:makeCode:make installCode:make modulesThis could take a while if you have a slow computer.Code:make modules_install
15. When all is said and done check to make sure it installed the bzImage to you /boot directory and that lilo.conf was altered to reflect the new kernel compilation.
16. Reboot and enjoy your new kernel. If something goes wrong, you can always boot back to you're old kernel and see what happened.
Compiling ALSA
"ALSA (an acronym for Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) is a Linux kernel module that replaces several different kernel drivers for sound cards with a single device driver which handles the diversity of sound cards internally. Some of the goals of the ALSA project were to support automatic configuration of sound card hardware, and graceful handling of multiple sound devices in a system, goals which it has largely met.
1. Unpack the source:
2. Change to the new directory:Code:bunzip2 alsa-driver* && tar -xvf alsa-driver*
3. Configure alsa:Code:cd alsa*
4. Begin compilation:Code:./configure
5. Begin install:Code:make
6. If your card is supported(http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/), run 'alsaconf' and follow the directions:Code:make install
Then, to configure sound and mixer options:Code:alsaconf
Compiling and installing the latest Xorg 7.2
If that's not enough for you, this guide will take you through the steps of installing the latest Xorg 7.2 server. I needed to do this as well to get my new 965GM chipset working.
1. Uninstall you're old version of xorg (removepkg) packages are located in /var/log/packages
2. Download the new packages. I got my packages from the pinki1 build. Don't download the auto script it will not work for you, trust me.
3. I downloaded them all to /var/log/packages then installed them (installpkg)
4. Add:
Note: you can also edit /etc/profile and find the lan that says:Code:/usr/X11R7/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf Add /usr/X11R7/bin to the PATH variable
Code:PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/apache/bin:/usr$ And change X11R6 to X11R7
5. Now is the time to install any graphic drivers if you happen to be using the lintel drivers you can find the install directions from: http://intellinuxgraphics.org/install.html and the actual drivers from: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases...l-2.0.0.tar.gz
6. Change all the fontpaths in /etc/X11/xorg.conf from
7. Change your fontpaths in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf:Code:/X11R6 to /X11R7
8. Install these packages:Code:<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF</dir> might be changed to <dir>/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/TTF</dir>
Note: Change xcb-proto to xcb-proto.tgz so you can install it:Code:ftp://ftp.scarlet.be/pub/linuxpackages/Slackware-11.0/Library/libpthread-stubs/libpthread-stubs-0.1-i486-1ced.tgz ftp://ftp.scarlet.be/pub/linuxpackages/Slackware-11.0/X11/libxcb/libxcb-1.0-i486-1ced.tgz ftp://ftp.scarlet.be/pub/linuxpackages/Slackware-11.0/X11/xcb-proto/xcb-proto
Code:mv xcb-proto xcb-proto.tgz
9. Run /usr/X11R6/bin/fc-cache -f from root and user if you have another account.
10. Congratulations you're now running xorg 7.2
Thanks for the guide. I shall try this tomorrow, as I am feeling very ill at the moment. Me and my wife are both having Flu like symptoms. Thank you very much for taking the time out to do this tutorial. I know that I myself, personally, have been waiting on this guide. Many thanks, and I plan on a very smooth transfer tomorrow with the help of this very well written tutorial. Again, MANY,MANY THANKS.
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Having problems finding this in the Makefile.
#export INSTALL_PATH=/boot
I was able to find this.
# INSTALL_PATH specifies where to place the updated kernel and system map
# images. Default is /boot, but you can set it to other values
export INSTALL_PATH ?= /boot
It already was uncommented... but it also has the ?
Should the "?" be taken out?
Thanks in advance!
I ve never compiled a kernal before so I'm just wondering what the advantage to doing this is. is it going to increse my prformance or does it fix bugs or what. I'm assuming bt3 will have the newest kernal so why wouldn't I wait. I'm just looking for a informative answer. Ill probably try it any way just to see how its done but if some one could give me some reasons.....
A new kernel is like a new or updated driver. I needed to update the latest kernel because it provided support for newer hardware such as video cards, wireless cards, sounds cards, whatever it may be. It also includes bug fixes and new developments. You can see exactly what was changed or added in the changelog right on kernel.org. I hope this answers your question.
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"Game of Arms" Challenges the Morning Show to Arm Wrestling [VIDEO + PICS]
The NYC team on the upcoming show "Game of Arms" on AMC invaded our studio this morning. Michael Selearis arm wrestled Greg T, Mike Ayello made everyone feel like a child, Rob Bigwood showed us that Vegans can be badasses, Kevin Nelson joined in the studio, and Dan Fortuna ripped a deck of cards, a phone book, and rolled up a frying pan.
Make sure you check them out on AMC's Game of Arms, Tuesdays at 10p EST
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Discussion in 'Other Sports' started by skatefan, Feb 14, 2013.
You're very environmentally friendly with all the recycling you're doing in this thread.
Likewise, I am forever impressed at your ability to reuse your cranky-old-alkie routine.
Are you suggesting that doping and murdering a woman are comparable offenses?
I'll qualify this by noting that even if Pistorius is a jerk with a nasty past, his guilt has not been proven in court.
I can't speak for heckles, but my interpretation of their comment is that our society makes heroes out of athletes. That hero persona is based on their athletic accomplishments, in this case their athletic accomplishments in the face of enormous physical challenges. Our society assumes that heroism athletically equates to goodness in a non-athletic context, and the athletes often actively fuel that assumption. But that assumption can be unwarranted.
I didn't see the comment as equating murder and doping, not in the least.
I don't know what heckles was getting at, but there have been a number of cases of athletes charged and sometimes convicted of violent crimes, so I don't see why Armstrong was the most relevant comparison. Other than recency and the involvement of high-profile athletes, the two cases have little in common. It goes without saying that there's quite a difference between someone whose fall from grace was due to doping - a sports-related offense - and someone who likely committed murder.
It's foremost the recency of it. The other similarity is that these were both athletes exalted for their overcoming of physical challenges, and society extended their ability to overcome their physical challenges into assumptions about their goodness as people. The athletes themselves parlayed that perception into fame, fortune, and influence. These two were held up as role models and inspirations in ways that other elite athletes have not been.
The offenses are naturally not comparable, but the shattering of their good-guy perception has similarities. Another way to put it is that the cases are very dissimilar in their severity and victimization of others, but they are similar in making society question some of its tendencies.
Sort of switching topics--A lady posted a comment at the bottom of a news article that I found worth repeating. Her child also has two prosthetic legs. Until they saw Oscar Pistorius at the Olympics, they were ashamed and felt hopeless. But Oscar Pistorius, even though they had never met him, gave the child the confidence to stand up for themselves to bullies, push themselves to try new physical activities, and re-evaluate what they felt was possible for themselves. Children like these are among society's most vulnerable, and they need a role model like Oscar Pistorius. (To a lesser extent, Lance Armstrong had this effect among some cancer survivors who were physically traumatized by the disease and the side effects of the treatment--another similarity to the Pistorius case.)
This mother is struggling with how to break the news to the child. The child is 5 or 6 years old and may not understand the concept of murder or even death.
I'm not a parent, so I ask the parents on this board--what would you do?
Armstrong was cited as a recent example of "physically-challenged athlete becomes a role model" narrative. You're right that the sports world in general has plenty of cretins.
Apparently he is claiming the shooting was an accident?
If what is reported here is true, I don't see how he intends to make a case for an accident: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...ife-of-pistorius/story-fnb64oi6-1226579685203
How do you accidentally shoot someone four times? Through a door yet?
Well I guess he just happened to walk down the corridor holding a loaded gun as one does in South Africa, given the crime rate, and then he tripped and whilst he was falling down, he accidentally fired the gun four times. That's totally plausible.
I am not a parent either, but my opinion is that she does not need to tell him anything right now. After he grows up enough to understand, she can explain that a person can be good in someways and not in other, and to follow only the good in him. Right now he has no concept of death/murder/bullets, etc.- that is assuming he does not hear it from other children. That could complicate matters and in that case the mother can explain the same thing.
It can happen if you believe you are at risk, and in a place with a high crime rate, I can see how someone would believe that. Take a look at this case, for instance - the guy fired three shots, thinking home invaders were threatening him and his daughter. He was tragically wrong.
That's not to say this is what happened in this case, of course, and I don't get the firing through a door thing, either.
BTW, the link you posted requires login to view anything past the first paragraph.
Reports of arguing prior to the shooting are in conflict with the burglary defense. And again, shooting through a door, presumably a bathroom door are also hard to reconcile with that. Was she inside the bathroom?
There must have been so many children in need of prostheses who were counting on his foundation for help. How sad for them.
According to the latest reports, the victim was wearing a night gown, she also had suffered a head injury prior to her death, and a blooded cricket bat was discovered at the scene.
This is chilling:
I wonder why the authorities are going after the premeditated murder charge instead of something like involuntary manslaughter, for example. I think it was a crime of passion that happened in an instance of rage and not something that he had planned to do, since early reports said that a panicked Pistorius tried to revive Steenkamp after the shooting. If it was planned then I think he would have probably killed himself also.
It's such a sad story. Two young lives with bright futures and their families are completely ruined.
I personally would never date someone with a gun in his house, especially if the person has shown any type of temper. People are just too darn quick to grab that gun as a mean to resolve problem.
This diagram of how it happened is from a South African newspaper: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BDSizBgCAAAI5x0.jpg
If accurate, it is immensely incriminating.
It truly is a horrible crime. I do wonder if drugs were involved.
Wow, he sure seems guilty as hell if all this is true. He shot her first, in plain sight, after allegedly hitting her with a cricket bat. Then she runs into the bathroom and he shoots through a door 3 times and kills her. There is no way that was an accident. What a monster.
Is there statistical data that suggests that most premeditated murders also involve suicide?
^^ I was only guessing for someone in Pistorius's position. If he had planned the murder then he must have had also thought about the consequence of its aftermath; He's only 26 and has looks, fame, money, popularity, etc. It's going to be hell giving all of that up for a lifetime in prison. So if the murder was premeditated, I think someone like him would've chosen suicide over going to prison.
It's amazing what people think they can get away with though, and I guess in many cases, do get away with.
Unless he thought he could make it look like an accident...
Well, it looks bad for him, but we will see what court have to say.
I have no idea what the concept of premeditated murder involves in South Africa - but in this case, the fact he had weapons ready for use and went to the trouble of shooting through a locked door, after he'd already shot once and had the time to rethink, could well be enough to fit the description.
They wouldn't have gone for that charge if they felt they had no chance of getting a conviction.
Or perhaps his ego is so huge that he thought he could get away with anything, and those thoughts never crossed his mind in the first place. Whenever I hear of domestic murders, I always want to ask the murderer: "Just who do you think you are? You really think this life belonged to you???!"
In any case, where I live, if a homicide it isn't a premedited murder, it could also be a non premedited murder, which is worse than involuntary manslaughter.
That's a possibility, and/or perhaps what had happened a few hours earlier gave them a clue, too.
It depends on the definition of premeditated murder in the jurisdiction they're in. In the US, definitions vary even from state to state.
Can any South Africans shed some light on South African legal terms?
The more I read about Reeva, the more I like her. Just from her modeling, she could have made a fortune large enough to fund her the rest of her life. But rather than resting on her looks, she graduated in the top 10% of her law school class and was an advocate for rape victims. I love this photo of her.
So if she was indeed wearing her nightgown, indicating she was in the house and not entering it (so no surprise and confusion with a burglar is likely) and was locked in the bathroom indicated she was trying to save herself. And if there was a bloody bat and she had a head injury that matched the bat, I think this case is open and shut.
I really don't see what the defense can do outside of a Twinkie defense (does that work in South Africa?) or an insanity plea.
A South African newspaper report:
Exclusive The case against Oscar
I'm having a difficult time wrapping my head around the premeditated part; to me, a scenario where he was loaded up on drugs and/or alcohol and an argument got out of control seems more likely.
Not that the two are mutually exclusive; and part of me does not want to think that Pistorius is capable of premeditated murder, so I realize this post is neither rational or logical.
It would all depend on the half-life of the drugs/alcohol that he presumably had in his system. By the time they got to testing, some of them may have gone down to undetectable levels or trace amounts. Depends what it is they are looking for.
Not sure why people think drugs/alcohol are necessary for this to have happened.


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Truckee, Calif. - The Brevard College cycling team did it again, capturing their second consecutive team national championship at the Northstar at Tahoe Resort, scoring 630 points as a team throughout the three-day event.
Led by Tristan Cowie's men's omnium national championship, the Tornados held a 20-point lead over Union (Ky.) College going into the final event on Sunday morning and were able to hold off both Union and Warren Wilson College in clinching their second team national title in the first five years of the program's history.
Cowie, who finished on the podium in both the Cross Country and the Short Track events, finished 10th overall in the Four Cross and the Downhill races to give the program their first Men's Omnium National Champion. This is Cowie's third national title overall in his mountain bike career, having won the Cross Country and the Short Track events back in 2008. Cowie also joins former BC cyclist Jo Tuttle as the program's second Omnium National Champion, as Tuttle took the women's crown last year in Truckee, Calif. in leading the team to their first team national championship.
On the women's side, Alexis Decosimo also had a strong showing for Brevard in the omnium, improving on last year's 10th place finish, to take home the bronze medal with her third place finish. Decosimo had two podium finishes on the first day, including the individual National Championship in Short Track, and finished out the weekend with the Four Cross and the Downhill events, placing 12th in the Four Cross and 10th in Downhill.
Following Saturday morning's race in the Short Track, the cyclists moved on to the Four Cross event in the afternoon, with the women taking the course first. Essence Barton from California Lutheran University took the women's national title in the event, while Kate Weisenfluh was the top finisher for Brevard, narrowly missing the podium by coming in sixth. Decosimo finished in 12th overall in the event, while Morgan Sykes rounded out the women's group with a 14th place result.
Blake Carney made the California Lutheran sweep complete on the men's side, taking the title with his victory, while Thomas Bagnal was Brevard's top finisher on the afternoon, coming in seventh overall. James Chaput finished right behind Bagnal, coming in eighth overall, while Cowie rounded out the top 10 with his 10th place result. Matt St. Marie and Park Baker also took to the course for Coach Thad Walker in the Four Cross, finishing 23rd and 31st overall against the top riders in the country to conclude action on Saturday.
Sunday morning saw the Tornados clinging to a 20-point team lead over Southeastern Conference Cycling champion Union (Ky.) as the teams took to the Downhill course for the final event of the three-day National Championships.
Weisenfluh led the Tornados in the first action of the morning, finishing second overall in the downhill event behind Christen Boyer from the Colorado School of Mines, for her first podium finish at nationals in her collegiate career. Weisenfluh finished the course with a time of 5:23.48, holding off Bridgette LeBer of Montana State University-Bozeman by three seconds to take the silver medal in the event. Decosimo finished 10th overall in the event, while Sykes took 12th to complete the women's portion of the championships.
Bagnal led the Tornados again on Sunday, finishing just off the podium in sixth place overall in a highly competitive race which saw the time difference from National Champion Justin Graves of Humboldt State University to 10th place finisher Cowie sit at just over 11 seconds. Cowie, with his 10th place finish, clinched the men's individual omnium title at his last collegiate mountain bike championships. Chaput, St. Marie and Baker all rounded out the group in 26th, 34th and 37th to finish the three day event.
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Jefferson City, Tenn. - The Brevard College baseball team lost a pair of games to Carson-Newman College Saturday afternoon, losing 9-8 and 12-9 at the Silver Diamond Baseball Complex. The Eagles improve to 20-16 (5-10 South Atlantic Conference) with the win, while Brevard is now 8-24 (2-15 SAC).
Game One - Carson-Newman 9, Brevard 8
The Eagles built an 8-4 lead after three innings, only to see the advantage whittled to 9-8 with Tornados on first and third with two out in the 9th. But Chase Boruff (Knoxville, Tenn.) retired Jackie Corn (Hendersonville, N.C.) on a groundout to preserve the win for the home nine.
Boruff picked up his first save, while D.J. Ferguson (1-0; Jupiter, Fla.) picked up the win with three perfect innings of relief. Ryan Toney (1-6; Johnson City, Tenn.) took the loss for Brevard.
The Eagles put up a two-spot in the 1st to take an early lead, but Brevard came back with four runs in the second. In his first at-bat since returning from a broken hand, Matthew Pruitt (Hendersonville, N.C.) doubled home a run to put the Tornados on the board. The next batter, M.A. Dozier (Cumming, Ga.) smacked a three-run homer to put the Tornados up, 4-2.
Carson-Newman retook the lead with three runs in the bottom of the 2nd and built the 8-3 lead with a three-run shot from Evan Patterson (Knoxville, Tenn.) in the 3rd.
The Tornados cut into lead with a pair of runs in the 8th, on an RBI single from Corn and a run-scoring groundout from Jason Merrill (Hendersonville, N.C.). Carson-Newman added an insurance run that ultimately loomed large in the bottom of the 8th, as Tyler Kitts (Knoxville, Tenn.) came home on a Tornado error, making the score 9-6.
Two more Tornados came home in the 9th, as Brice Warner (Clover, N.C.) singled home a pair to slice the lead to 9-8. But Ferguson held the Tornados at bay and did not give up the lead.
Game Two - Carson Newman 12, Brevard 9 (7 inn.)
The Eagles scored in every inning but had to hold off a furious Brevard rally in the 7th for a 12-9 win. Justin Higdon (3-5; Ooltewah, Tenn.) pitched 4 2/3 innings for the win, while Shane Galloway (2-5; Rosman, N.C.) was saddled with the loss for Brevard.
Five Eagles scored in the 1st inning, on seven hits. The big shot was a two-run homer from Wesley Dozier (Cornelius, N.C.). The home side scored two more in the 2nd, a run in the 3rd, and two in the 4th to build a 10-0 lead.
The Tornados came back with four markers in the 5th. Dozier brought home a run with a groundout, Warner came through with a sac fly, and William Scholer (Norwalk, Iowa) crushed a two-run home run to make the score 10-4.
Down 12-4 heading into the 7th and final frame, Brevard made life difficult for the Eagles, scoring five runs. Corn had the first RBI, getting hit by a pitch with the bases juiced. Pinch hitters Michael Calhoun (Florence, S.C.) and Jared McCall (Brevard, N.C.) each brought a run home, the former with a single and the latter with a groundout, to make the score 12-7. Kellen Moman (Greenville, S.C.) and Pruitt followed with RBI singles of their own to make the score 12-9, but the Tornados would score no more, falling by three runs.
Eight different Eagles had an RBI in the second game, including two each for Dozier and Patterson, while Moman and Pruitt each has two hits for Brevard.
The Eagles and Tornados will finish their series Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m., when they do battle at Smokies Park in Knoxville, Tenn.


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An award-winning Latino children's author and activist, a social justice advocate and a literacy expert will lead this year's Latino Children's and Young Adult Literature and Literacies Conference at the University of South Carolina.
The university's department of instruction and teacher education in the College of Education will host the two-day conference, set to begin Friday, Sept. 28, at the Darla Moore School of Business on the USC campus.
The thrust of the conference will be current research on the education of Latino children, their families and how Latino children and adults are depicted in literature. Speakers will offer perspectives and ideas about how to serve this rapidly growing population in the United States.
The conference opens at 12:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 28, with speaker Augustine Romero, a Tucson Unified School District administrator who appeared in the documentary "Precious Knowledge" and researches the impact of race and racism on youth.
Donaldo Macedo, a Cape Verdean-American critical theorist, linguist and expert on literacy and education studies, will discuss the role of class and race in literacy development. Macedo, an English professor and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston, has published extensively on linguistics, bilingual education and multicultural education.
Award winning author-artist-activist Maya Christina González will present an Evening of Cuentos (short stories)at 6:30 p.m. at Horrell Hill Elementary School in Richland School District One. The event is open to the public, and all children attending the evening storytelling session will receive one of González's books.
The conference schedule is available online at http://www.ed.sc.edu/latinoconf/schedule.asp
Julia López-Robertson, associate education professor and conference director, said the last Latino Children's and Young Adult Literature and Literacies Conference held at USC was in 2009. Plans call for the conference to become an annual event.
"While we are still celebrating children's literature, the conference focus has changed to include Latino young adult literature and Latino literacies. The change is meant to include all children, from birth to young adulthood, and also to include the multiple methods that people use to create and share their understanding of the world," López-Robertson said. "It is not limited to books but includes storytelling, music, dance and movement. In the past, the focus on children's literature inadvertently signaled that there was no interest in young adult literature, which wasn't the case. Including this reference in the title makes it explicit."
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Forbes magazine once again names Xavier one of "America's Top Colleges"
| August 2, 2012
Xavier is one of the best universities in the nation—again—according to Forbes magazine's annual ranking of "America's Top Colleges." Xavier is ranked No. 220 overall, No. 174 among private colleges and No. 46 in the Midwest.
Forbes focuses on "The things that matter the most to students: quality of teaching, great career prospects, high graduation rates and low levels of debt."
The rankings of 650 schools—the top 20 percent of all undergraduate institutions—are prepared for Forbes by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP), a Washington D.C., think tank.
The rankings are based on five general categories: Post graduate success (32.5 percent), which evaluates alumni pay and prominence; student satisfaction (27.5 percent), which includes professor evaluations and freshman-to-sophomore retention rates; debt (17.5 percent), which penalizes schools for high student debt loads and default rates; four-year graduation rates (11.25 percent); and competitive awards (11.25 percent), which rewards schools whose students win prestigious scholarships and fellowships like the Rhodes, the Marshall and the Fulbright.


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War The Count!!!! Not bad at all.
War The Count!!!! Not bad at all.
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Good on him, wonder what the "real" list looks like though i.e bonus's etc included.
Sig awaiting witty quote from someone.
With sponsors and stuff I wouldn't probably think Bisping would be in the top 10 but that's a whole lot of wedge!!
Hmmmm. Knowing that he has fought in the UFC 17 times and 10 (11 if you include the Stann fight as it was pushed as one of the main attractions) have been either main or co-main events and also the way he promotes himself, this isn't too surprising.
What i feel is surprising is that giving how many main/co-main events he's been in and how much he has earned money wise and also two stints as a TUF coach is that he has never been given any serious consideration for a title shot.
He is sort of like marmite in that people either love him or hate him but what you cannot deny is that he is a great company guy.
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Is this just salary for fights ? because i dont think mike would be in the top ten if it counted ppv and bonus money
It does state that it doesn't include PPV buys, bonuses and sponsorships etc.
knowing that so much of what UFC fighters make is off the books, I can't put to much stalk in that list.
Like it lists GSP at $3.1 million. I have heard from numerous people that when all is said and done, GSP clears 2 million for most of his fights, just that one fight.
Sherdog.com - The number one MMA site on the web today!
Yeah this doesn't really illustrate the full picture....
But good to see Mike getting paid....
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Republic of FearKaren Greenberg in National Journal, April 26, 2012
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Barack Obama looked improbably younger then, before the strains of the Oval Office began to fully settle into his features. After only four months as commander in chief, he was prepared to end the "season of fear," as he put it. It had been a reactionary period when the government made well-intentioned but hasty decisions based on alarm about another attack rather than foresight. U.S. officials and a compliant Congress had determined that antiterrorism ends justified nearly any means. Americans had abandoned cherished values as luxuries that they suddenly could no longer afford. So in May 2009, Obama stood in the National Archives, surrounded by the Republic's founding documents—a reminder and a reproach—and made clear exactly where he stood.
"During this season of fear, too many of us—Democrats and Republicans, politicians, journalists, and citizens—fell silent," the president said. To end that silence, Obama had in his first days in office banished torture and announced the closing of the prison at Guantánamo Bay within a year. He promised to create a new legal regime, consistent with the rule of domestic and international law, for suspected terrorists; to declassify more information in an era of renewed government transparency; and to disavow sweeping presidential powers. "If we fail to turn the page on the approach that was taken over the past several years, then ... we cannot stand for our core values," Obama said. "Then we are not keeping faith with the documents enshrined in this hall." It was a civil libertarian's dream speech.
And what's more, Obama seemed to have a mandate for this shift. Even President Bush said several times during his second term that he wanted to close Guantánamo. Then, in 2008, voters nominated two presidential candidates, Obama and John McCain, who opposed torture and wanted to close the U.S. military prison in Cuba. The Democrats' new Congress would surely reject the politics of fear that had characterized so much of the counterterrorism debate in the post-9/11 years. A majority of Americans (51 percent) approved of Obama's decision to shut Gitmo. Our government, finally, seemed ready to restore its age-old values.
It was a mirage. The springtime for civil liberties came and went, restoring a winter of state control. Today, Guantánamo remains. Government surveillance is more intrusive than ever. Obama—acting as judge, jury, and executioner—recently proclaimed the power to assassinate suspected terrorists around the world, including American citizens. His administration, which promised a new era of transparency, has charged more whistle-blowers for leaking classified information under the Espionage Act than did all of its predecessors combined.
Outside the White House, Republican presidential candidates have defended "enhanced-interrogation" techniques such as waterboarding, and Mitt Romney even wants to double the size of the military-run prison at Guantánamo. Congress, which once seemed poised to shutter it, has instead passed bipartisan law after bipartisan law ensuring its indefinite operation. The recent defense reauthorization, which Obama signed, can be read to allow the unlimited military detention of American civilians suspected of terrorism. And Americans continue to worry enough about another terrorist attack that more of us than before (68 percent in 2008; 71 percent last year, according to the Pew Research Center) believe that torturing suspected terrorists can sometimes be justified. Forty percent (down from 43 percent in 2006) still believe that it's necessary to give up civil liberties to curb terrorism. Americans, it turns out, are still afraid.
After multiple elections, Republican and Democratic administrations and Congresses, and a decade into the war against terrorists, no one can plausibly argue that the bright, shining mirage that Obama conjured in May 2009 reflects the country today. That United States was ready to grapple with terrorism as a manageable policy problem, not a political bludgeon. It was unafraid to prosecute terrorist suspects according to legal norms. And it was willing to subject its policies to oversight, checks, and balances. We've had the debate, and that vision of America lost. That's not who we are anymore.
Earlier generations would be astounded by the privacy intrusions that Americans now tolerate. The government subjects citizens to full-body pat-downs and revealing X-ray scans at the airport; it proliferates cameras on city streets; and it scrutinizes phone calls and e-mails with correspondents overseas. (To say nothing of private-sector rollbacks such as the ubiquitous data collection practiced online.) The public seems unfazed even by news that local police departments will increasingly use surveillance drones.
Americans weren't always so acquiescent. After the FBI and the CIA spied on antiwar activists and civil-rights advocates in the 1960s and 1970s, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, requiring the government to seek warrants to monitor citizens' private communications. It was a simple line of defense against government overreach.
The law's post-9/11 odyssey exemplifies the retreat of privacy rights. In 2005, The New York Times revealed that President Bush had authorized the National Security Agency to intercept, without warrants, the private communications of millions of Americans. "We know that a two-minute phone conversation between somebody linked to al-Qaida here and an operative overseas could lead directly to the loss of thousands of lives," Bush said in a news conference defending the program and asking Congress to legalize it. Rather than devise a process of rapid judicial review for such wiretaps, Congress gave Bush the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. This bill codified the government's power to tap Americans' international communications and even gave retroactive immunity to telecom companies that assisted in the earlier warrantless taps.
As a senator, Obama opposed the bill, but he reversed course as president, and his administration continues to fight a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union that challenges the FISA changes. Federal law enforcement also adopted its own aggressive tactics to fight terrorism. The FBI radically expanded its use of informants to ferret out potential extremists—in some cases, by acting as agents provocateurs and trolling mosques in search of possible terrorists. Its elaborate "stings" ensnare terrorist wannabes whose dreams of jihad generally far outstrip their competence until government informants appear to furnish the means. (Somehow, not a single jury has seen this technique as entrapment.) The New York City Police Department, too, recently admitted to monitoring Muslim places of worship, based on no evidence of wrongdoing.
Obama "largely adopted the Bush administration's wartime legal framework for his counterterrorism policies, which is why we have seen significant continuity in areas such as warrantless wiretapping and discriminatory surveillance," says Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU's National Security Project. "Those are very dangerous powers, and if you are willing to trust President Obama with them, you had better also be willing to trust the next president and the president after that. Because in a war that, as defined by the government, takes place everywhere and potentially lasts forever, civil liberties will continue to erode."
Although Obama championed transparency as a candidate, his administration has also cracked down on leaks of classified information to the press by whistle-blowers. It has prosecuted six such cases under the Espionage Act—more than all previous administrations combined. In one recent case, the Justice Department charged former CIA officer John Kiriakou for revealing the name of an agent who waterboarded Qaida suspect Abu Zubaydah. Civil libertarians had hoped that the White House would prosecute the interrogators; instead, it is prosecuting the suspected whistle-blower. "President Obama has simply perpetuated the secrecy regime put in place by the Bush administration," says Jesselyn Radack, a former Justice Department ethics adviser who is director of national security and human rights at the Government Accountability Project. "If Bush was still carrying out those practices, liberals and progressives would be screaming in outrage about it. But they have hardly uttered a blip of criticism of Obama." (The Justice Department says that revealing the identity of agents jeopardizes their lives, and that if prosecutions are more common than in the past, it's because e-mail and other digital clues leave a clearer trail.)
Once again, the public has responded with indifference. Americans' support for the Patriot Act, which authorized the government to collect domestic intelligence, grew from 33 percent in 2004 to 42 percent last year, according to Pew. In a September 2011 poll by the Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 70 percent of American respondents favored the use of surveillance cameras, 48 percent favored government monitoring of Internet searches without a warrant, and 49 percent favored warrantless wiretaps of phone calls made to individuals outside the United States. (Only 23 percent favored warrantless wiretaps of phone conversations inside the country.)
Determined to fulfill a campaign pledge, Obama ordered, on his second day in office, that Guantánamo prison must close within a year, even though the administration didn't yet have a plan for how to accomplish this goal. A former top Obama administration official who asked not to be named said it was the rare case when a significant policy was decided hastily by top-down edict, rather than by vetting through interagency review. That made it easy for conservatives to paint the administration as feckless and naive on national security. As former Vice President Dick Cheney put it after Obama's National Archives speech, "I think the president will find, upon reflection, that to bring the worst of the worst terrorists inside the United States would be cause for great danger and regret in the years to come."
Instead of producing a rapid-action plan, the administration's Guantánamo Review Task Force ran into a mess. The Bush administration had set up Guantánamo primarily as an interrogation site outside the reach of international or domestic law, not as a place to prepare suspects for trial. Intelligence files on each individual were spread across government agencies, and many were grossly incomplete. Some interrogations were tainted by torture. The Bush administration, under pressure from courts, had already released more than 500 prisoners, so the 240 detainees who remained were the toughest cases. "The result is a hodgepodge of internally inconsistent policies, an outsized role for the courts, and huge gaps in what the public has been told," says Jane Harman of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, who served on the House Intelligence Committee at the time.
As the task force bogged down in 2008, Obama made decisions that belied the existence of "bipartisan consensus" for closing Guantánamo. He angered the Right by releasing the "torture memos" in which Bush-era officials justified "enhanced interrogation," and he angered the Left by refusing to investigate those officials or the interrogators. The fault line was clear: In 2009, only 26 percent of Republicans approved of Obama's decision to shut Guantánamo, while 76 percent of Democrats did, according to Pew. In a 2008 poll, 83 percent of Republicans thought torture was justified in some cases (60 percent of Democrats agreed).
Accordingly, Obama's political headwinds were strong. When Justice moved in November 2009 to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the 9/11 mastermind, in Manhattan's federal District Court, New Yorkers led by Mayor Michael Bloomberg (who had initially supported the plan) revolted. A similar NIMBY spasm thwarted a move to build a "supermax" prison for terrorism suspects in Illinois. Chicago could become "ground zero for jihadist plots" warned then-Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Ill.
In retrospect, by the time Obama gave his "season of fear" speech, he was already on the defensive. The day before, the Senate had voted 90-6 to bar the administration from transferring any detainees to the United States, following a similarly lopsided vote in the Democratic-controlled House a week earlier. It was the first of many restrictions that Congress would impose in the months and years to come—tying the administration's hands not only in closing down Guantánamo but also in releasing its prisoners, trying them in federal courts, or transferring them to third countries.
Administration officials were surprised at how eager Republicans were to use Guantánamo as a wedge issue, given that McCain had also promised in 2008 to close it. Benjamin Wittes, a Brookings scholar who went on to write Detention and Denial: The Case for Candor After Guantánamo, warned early that it would be hard, for political reasons, to close the prison. "But almost no one anticipated that there would be a huge, bipartisan majority in Congress united behind the proposition that it should remain open indefinitely and the detainees there should be tried in military commissions," he says. "It turns out that the American people don't like the detainees very much, and there's much more public support for those who want to keep Guantánamo open. That really rocked the Obama administration back on its heels."
Unable to fulfill his campaign pledge, Obama has focused on improving the prison, reforming military commissions, and directing new suspects toward the federal courts (which have notched more than 400 terrorism convictions since 9/11, compared with just seven in military commissions). The 2009 Military Commissions Reform Act narrowed the differences between federal trials and commissions, for instance, by shifting the burden of proof for hearsay evidence from the accused to the government; it also barred evidence gathered from torture. The upcoming trial of Mohammed and his cohorts at Guantánamo will test the new standards.
In this election cycle, Obama rarely mentions Gitmo on the campaign trail; he has ceded that ground to Republicans. Meanwhile, the nation has set a precedent for treatment of captives that may haunt U.S. troops in the future, according to retired Col. Morris Davis, a former Guantánamo prosecutor who resigned in protest in 2007 over pressure from Bush administration appointees to use evidence gathered during enhanced interrogations. "The American public continues to buy into the false narrative that the detainees remaining at Guantánamo represent the 'worst of the worst,' whereas I've seen, personally, that description only applies to a significant minority of detainees," he says. "We listened to the fearmongers and turned our backs on the law, and we've been running ever since."
If civil-rights advocates were disillusioned about Guantánamo, they're incensed by the administration's attitude toward due process. They hear echoes of Bush in the policy of indefinite, preventive detention for prisoners who can't be tried even in military commissions (for lack of reliable or untainted evidence) but who are considered too dangerous to release. They hear those echoes, too, in Obama's decision not to investigate CIA interrogators—meaning that he'll forgo the possibility of a legal precedent holding that "enhanced interrogation" is torture, paving the way for future administrations to use it.
Civil libertarians are most disturbed, however, by the administration's expansion of a program through which the United States kills suspected terrorists around the world—even Americans such as Anwar al-Awlaki, who was targeted last year in Yemen. In a March 5 speech reacting to those concerns, Attorney General Eric Holder went further than any previous government official in justifying a government assassination program so secretive that administration officials generally refuse to even acknowledge it in public. Holder argued that such attacks are justified only to counter an "imminent threat of violent attack," but he said that the Constitution's guarantee of "due process" did not apply and that American citizens were therefore not exempt.
"President Obama has gone from taking torture off the table on his first day in office to claiming the power to secretly identify an American citizen as a suspected terrorist and authorize his killing," says Karen Greenberg, director of the Center for National Security at Fordham University. Without oversight, she said, the category of whom can be targeted will almost certainly swell. At one point, the Pentagon expanded its classified "capture or kill" mandate to include Afghan drug dealers. And the CIA recently sought authority to kill targets in Yemen "based solely on intelligence indicating patterns of suspicious behavior," according to The Washington Post. "The public doesn't seem to care," said Greenberg, who notes that American juries seem unable even to assume innocence in terrorism cases. "They will almost never risk letting someone go free if the government says they are terrorists. That's how your civil rights disappear over time."
What's more, those changes are getting locked in place. "Both Presidents Bush and Obama have successfully adopted an argument that we are in a state of perpetual war that requires presidential authority to remain largely unchecked and unlimited," says Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law professor at George Washington University. "And they have both used that authority to justify a great array of abuses that range from the torture of prisoners to the killing of American citizens by their own government without charge or trial. That's the very definition of authoritarian power, and it legitimizes the actions of the most tyrannical regimes on earth."
The Obama administration can reasonably argue that it abolished torture and would have closed Guantánamo had Congress assented. Democrats can explain their general silence on the retreat of civil liberties with the need to protect the right flank of their president. Republicans, meanwhile, can claim credit for helping keep the balance between civil liberties and national security weighted toward the latter. The Supreme Court can say it gave habeas corpus rights to detainees (although lower courts have greatly diluted the protection by easing the government's burden of proof). The American people can take comfort in the fact that there has been no major terrorist attack since Sept. 11, 2001. But how did we go from a bipartisan consensus to restore civil liberties in 2008 to a full retreat before the juggernaut of intrusive government powers?
In retrospect, civil libertarians read more into Obama's rhetoric about "restoring the rule of law" than he actually promised (or was able to deliver). Democrats almost certainly underestimated the popular resonance of Cheney's argument that "in the fight against terrorism there is no middle ground, and half-measures leave you half exposed." They failed to anticipate how quickly talk radio, cable television, and 24/7 media can amplify and distort such fears.
There's also the matter of unlucky timing. In Obama's first years, a series of high-profile terrorist plots reawakened memories of 9/11: Najibullah Zazi's plan to blow up New York City subways; Farouk Abdulmutallab's attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit; and Faisal Shahzad's scheme to bomb Times Square. By the time Holder proposed to try Mohammed in a New York federal court, the backlash of fear had already begun. The administration was forced into a full retreat from which it never fully recovered.
Finally, Obama's tough approach to counterterrorism has played well, reversing the GOP's long dominance on national-security issues. In an ABC News/Washington Post poll in February, 56 percent of respondents said that Obama's record on terrorism is a major reason to support him. A Washington Post poll the same month found that 83 percent of Americans approved of the use of drone aircraft against terrorist suspects overseas, 65 percent supported the use of drones to target suspected American terrorists living abroad, and 70 percent approved of "keeping open the prison at Guantánamo Bay for terrorist suspects."
Yet it is also increasingly clear that what makes this period almost uniquely dangerous in the nation's history is the hybrid nature (part criminal, part military) and endless horizon of the conflict. Some Qaida suspects are given Miranda rights and charged under criminal statutes in federal courts. Others are held in a military prison and prosecuted by military commissions. Still others get blown apart far from any acknowledged battlefield, all under our current laws of warfare. With the two legal regimes routinely conflated, it's no wonder that the public is confused about what accords with American principles.
The length of the conflict compounds the problem. "The government almost always expands its power in moments of great crisis, and civil liberties sharply decline," Turley says. "What's different today is that Americans have over time been lolled into a deep sleep of passivity." He believes that the Framers would have been shocked to hear Holder tell his fellow citizens that the president has the right to kill any one of them on his own authority—let alone to hear it met by applause. "The danger is not just that our laws have changed to an unprecedented degree since 9/11," Turley says. "We appear to have changed as citizens."
The lack of any definable end to the threat forestalls the self-correcting cycle that followed past wars and crises, when civil-liberties abuses—the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, for instance—were reexamined and reversed. In an endless conflict, the exigencies of war get embedded not only in statutory and legal structures, but also in the consciousness of the American people.