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SAN FRANCISCO ---- It's not hard to understand why California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown is often mentioned as a potential nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In many ways, her line of thinking mirrors both the Bush administration and recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent. A Christian black woman from the segregated South, Brown supports limits on abortion rights and corporate liability, routinely upholds the death penalty and opposes affirmative action.
As speculation surges about the rumored retirements of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor this summer, talk of potential replacements is on the rise, and Brown is among them.
"She has some real fans in Washington who are very impressed with what she's done on the California Supreme Court," said Gerald Uelman, a Santa Clara University School of Law scholar who follows both courts.
The first black woman to sit on California's highest court, Brown, 54, is one of the most conservative of the seven justices and a prolific opinion writer, authoring more opinions and dissents last term than any other justice.
She caught the attention of conservatives and the Bush administration with her majority opinion in 2000 striking down a San Jose ordinance that required government contractors to solicit bids from companies owned by women and minorities. Brown's lengthy opinion traced the legal history of race in America, portraying it as ebbing and flowing on whether government should treat all races equally.
Her conclusion, based in part on the California voters' decision to outlaw race- and gender-based hiring practices by approving Proposition 209: all people should be treated equally, regardless of race. Instead of affirmative action, she said, "equality of individual opportunity" is what the constitution demands.
Chief Justice Ronald M. George, in a concurring opinion, attacked Brown's portrayal of affirmative action as "entitlement based on group representation," calling it a "serious distortion of history." George wrote that affirmative action could be viewed as aiding the underrepresented in an effort to create equality.
Still, Brown's opinion meshes well with the philosophy of the Bush administration, which has told the U.S. Supreme Court in a pending case that it opposes the University of Michigan's race-based admissions policies.
The daughter of a sharecropper from rural Alabama who brought his family to Sacramento after joining the Air Force, Brown graduated in 1977 from the UCLA School of Law.
She was admitted at a time when the university's affirmative action program had an expressed goal of producing "ethnic and racial diversity," said law school spokeswoman Jessica Copen. Still, "no one would have been admitted to the law school unless they had the ability to do well," she said.
Brown hasn't given media interviews for years and declined to be interviewed for this story.
Close friend Douglas Kmiec, departing dean of the Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law, where Brown gave a commencement address last month, said she became a lawyer after her grandmother espoused the virtues of civil rights attorney Fred Gray, who defended Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.
"That was held out to her at an early age," Kmiec said.
Brown also finds inspiration in her religion, Kmiec said. While introducing Brown to the graduating law students on May 24, he said she formulates opinions "in prayer and quiet study of the Bible." And in her commencement address, she criticized philosophers and scientists for trying to mold society "as if God did not exist."
The law, she said, is the "terrain on which Americans are struggling to decide what kind of people they are."
Brown worked for 12 years as a state government lawyer before joining a lobbying and legislative law firm led by former Republican Gov. George Deukmejian's chief of staff, Steve Merksamer. Then she became Republican Gov. Pete Wilson's legal affairs secretary before he nominated her to a state appellate court.
Two years later, Wilson nominated her to the California Supreme Court. She was confirmed in 1996 over the concerns of the state's judicial vetting committee, which rated her "not qualified" because of her limited judicial experience.
Brown, who has two children and lives in Sacramento with her husband, jazz musician Dewey Parker, is a "very private person," Merksamer and others said.
"When you grow up as a sharecropper's daughter in the segregated South, I think you have a certain perspective when you're able to come out of that and go to college and law school," Merksamer said.
While well known for her affirmative action opinion, Brown's rulings have shown sympathy at times to the plight of minorities.
Last year, the state Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a black bicyclist who was stopped by police for riding his bicycle the wrong way on a one-way street. Police searched Conrad McKay and found methamphetamine. He was sentenced to nearly three years.
The majority, in upholding the conviction, left it to the "judgment of the arresting officer" on whether to arrest or follow a "cite-and-release procedure" whereby violators of non-criminal infractions could be ticketed and released. Brown, in a lone dissent, said the decision left open the door to racial profiling.
But when it comes to the death penalty, Brown routinely affirms death sentences. Two years ago, she wrote that "murderers do not deserve a fate better than that inflicted on their victims."
The White House, which is trying to expand the use of federal death penalty statutes, declined comment on rumors that its lawyers have interviewed Brown in the event a seat on the high court opens. Merksamer wouldn't confirm whether he has been interviewed by White House lawyers on her behalf.
Others being talked about as potential nominees include Alberto Gonzalez, who as White House counsel is a close Bush adviser; Harvie Wilkinson III of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Edith Jones of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson.
Just whom the White House might nominate is one of Washington's most closely guarded secrets.
"No one at this point has mentioned any intention to retire," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. "It would be speculative to start discussing the possibility."
On the abortion front, Brown wrote a scathing dissent in 1977 to a ruling which struck down a parental consent law, calling her colleagues on the court "philosopher kings." And when it comes to corporate liability, she wrote three years ago that companies should be shielded from paying exorbitant civil damages, a move endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court this year.
In terms of gun control, Brown's thinking appears to align closely with Attorney General John Ashcroft's policies. Both support the right to firearm ownership, but believe the government may impose certain restrictions.
"Her writings have indicated an appreciation of the right to self defense and the practical reality that firearms are an effective tool for that purpose," said Chuck Michel, an attorney with the California Rifle and Pistol Association. Michel added, however, that some of Brown's thinking on gun control is "ill conceived."
Some scholars suggest Bush would have a struggle to confirm Brown, given Senate Democrats' recent filibusters on two conservative federal appellate nominees.
"Her name is being circulated," said Erwin Chemerinsky, a University of Southern California legal scholar who has taken several cases to the U.S. Supreme Court this term. "I think the question is: Does the Bush administration want to have a confirmation fight?"
Which would have been cool I guess. Better than Souter.
Oh for pete's sake, they're going to have a confirmation fight no matter who Bush nominates.
The pubbies better find some nuts and learn how to really fight the dems.
Profile: Justice Janice Brown
Author: Steven Wu
Source: SCOTUSblogPart 1: Biography.
Janice Rogers Brown is currently an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, where she has served since 1996. She is the first African-American woman to sit on California's highest court.
Brown was born in Alabama in 1949 and grew up amidst the tumult of the civil rights movement. After moving with her family to California while she was a teenager, Brown attended California State University in Sacramento and then enrolled in law school at UCLA.
After law school, Brown worked for two years (1977-1979) for California's Office of Legislative Counsel. She followed with an eight-year stint in the California Attorney General's Office, after which Governor George Deukmejian appointed her Deputy Secretary of the Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency. In 1991, Governor Pete Wilson appointed Brown to be his legal affairs secretary.
Brown's judicial experience began with her nomination by Wilson in 1994 to California's Third District Court of Appeals. In 1996, Wilson nominated Brown to the California Supreme Court. Brown's nomination to the California Supreme Court met with opposition from the State Bar of California's Commission on Judicial Nominees, which rated her "not qualified" due to her limited judicial experience and her tendency to express "gratuitous" political and philosophical views in her opinions. This was the second time Brown had been rated "not qualified" by the Commission: the previous "not qualified" rating in 1993 cost Brown her first chance on the state's highest court. However, Wilson ferociously defended Brown's qualifications, and she was soon confirmed.
Since ascending to the bench, Brown has become known both for her conservative views and her stinging dissents. The next few posts will explore several of her most prominent decisions and dissents.
Read Mike McKee's profile of Justice Brown here, and her California Supreme Court profile here.
Part 2: Most Controversial Decision
Justice Brown's highest profile decision is Hi-Voltage Wire Works Inc. v. City of San Jose, 24 Cal. 4th 537 (2000), for which she wrote the majority opinion striking down a San Jose program that offered preferential treatment to businesses owned by minorities or women.
The case concerns San Jose's Nondiscrimination/Nonpreferential Treatment Program Applicable to Construction Contracts in Excess of $50,000 ("the Program"). The Program requires contractors who are bidding for public works projects to make special outreach efforts to minority business enterprises (MBEs) and women business enterprises (WBEs). A bidding contractor is only excused from this "outreach requirement" if its bid meets a "participation requirement"; that is, if the bid contains a sufficient number of MBEs/WBEs to raise a presumption of nondiscrimination. Finally, if a contractor rejects bids from MBEs and WBEs, it must supply a written explanation for its rejection.
Plaintiff Hi-Voltage Wire Works, Inc., was the lowest bidder for a city contract. However, because Hi-Voltage planned to use its own work force, it failed to meet both the outreach and participation requirements of the Program. After San Jose rejected Hi-Voltage's bid, Hi-Voltage sued the city, challenging the Program as a violation of article I, section 31 of the California Constitution, which had been added to the California Constitution by Proposition 209.
Article I, section 31 says, in part:
The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, or ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.Discussion
Brown begins her opinion with a sweeping historical survey of governmental treatment of race. On the federal level, she cites Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), as establishing a "color-blind jurisprudence" that the Supreme Court later repeatedly re-affirmed. A similar understanding of the importance of color-blindness became enshrined in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, particularly in Title VII of the Act. On the state level, California courts also began with a marked hostility to all forms of race-consciousness; among other cases, Brown cites the original Bakke decision in California's courts, Bakke v. Regents of University of California, 553 P.2d 1152 (1976), which struck down an affirmative action program since "racial discrimination against a race--any race--is a dangerous concept fraught with potential for misuse."
Brown notes a "sea change" in the judicial treatment of race-consciousness starting with Steelworkers v. Weber, 443 U.S. 193 (1979), which found an affirmative action plan consistent with Title VII. California courts shortly followed suit, finding acceptable several race-conscious hiring programs, both public and private. Brown concludes her judicial history by re-emphasizing this "fundamental shift from a staunch antidiscrimination jurisprudence to approval, sometimes endorsement, of remedial race and sex-conscious governmental decisionmaking."
California's Proposition 209, approved on November 5, 1996, changed everything. By an extensive examination of the ballot pamphlet materials that accompanied Prop. 209, Brown concludes that Prop. 209 was intended by the voters to make the government "fair, color-blind, race-blind, gender-blind." San Jose clearly violated this directive because the Program required special outreach to MBEs and WBEs and encouraged what amounted to discriminatory quotas and set-asides.
Aside from Brown's judicial and legal credentials, her appeal as a potential federal judge stems from the fact that she is a minority woman who is clearly opposed to race- and gender-preferential programs. Hi-Voltage illustrates three aspects of this view.
First, Brown believes that the original understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment and of Title VII requires race- and gender-blindness, with race/gender-consciousness stepping in only to fashion remedies to specific violations of equal protection or actual demonstrated historic discrimination. The history she recounts in Hi-Voltage clearly suggests that the Supreme Court took a wrong turn with Weber when it began approving preferential policies.
Second, Brown believes that race/gender-blindness is an individual matter. That is, race/gender-blindness requires every individual to be judged on his or her merits, regardless of the composition of the individual's city or of the workforce to which he or she is applying.
Third, Brown suggests that under Proposition 209, even a compelling state interest and narrow tailoring are insufficient to justify a preferential program. She recognizes that federal "[e]qual protection [doctrine] allows discrimination and preferential treatment whenever a court determines they are justified by a compelling state interest and are narrowly tailored to address an identified remedial need." However, she construes this doctrine as an exception to the federal government's general mandate of equal protection. In other words, the "compelling interest" exception is an example of how the federal government has lowered the constitutional rights of its citizens to equal protection. This leads Brown to characterize Proposition 209 as a "greater protection" of Californians' constitutional rights.
Part 3: Liberal Civil Rights.
It is difficult to concisely categorize the ideology of Justice Janice Rogers Brown's decisions. In general, she tends to strongly support free speech and strongly oppose the state's power to search, in part because expansive search powers can lead to racial profiling. The following cases will highlight her views on these two issues.
In Kasky v. Nike Inc., 27 Cal.4th 939 (2002), now before the Supreme Court, defendant Nike Inc. challenged the application of a California law prohibiting false or misleading advertising as a violation of Nike's free speech rights. Nike had been sued for making misleading public statements responding to criticisms about its domestic and overseas employment practices. The majority ruled that the statute was not a violation of the First Amendment because the statements in question were commercial speech.
In her dissent, Justice Brown disagrees with the majority's test for commercial speech because it focuses on the identity of the speaker and the intended audience rather than the content of the speech; this contradicts fundamental First Amendment principles. Furthermore, Nike's commercial speech is "inextricably intertwined" with its noncommercial speech because Nike's "labor practices are the public issue."
All of this flows from existing Supreme Court doctrine. But Brown's dissent in Kasky has gained the most attention for Brown's criticism that the Supreme Court's commercial speech jurisprudence "fails to account for the realities of the modern world"; in her conclusion, she calls for the Supreme Court to "develop a more nuanced approach" and abandon its strict dichotomy between commercial and noncommercial speech. A decision by the Supreme Court that recognizes Brown's call for a fundamental rethinking of the doctrine will certainly advance her stature in the legal community.Brown also strongly supported free speech in a dissent to Aguilar v. Avis Rent A Car System Inc., 21 Cal.4th 121 (1999). The case concerned an injunction by a trial court prohibiting an employee of Avis from using racial epithets against the plaintiffs. The employee challenged the injunction as a prior restraint on his free speech. The majority found that a remedial injunction to prevent further racial epithets does not violate the right to free speech if the epithets have contributed or will contribute to a hostile work environment that constitutes employment discrimination. Brown begins her dissent with a robust view of free speech as requiring the protection of all viewpoints, even viewpoints that are deeply offensive to others. "[T]hough the expression of such sentiments may cause much misery and mischief, hateful thoughts cannot be quelled at too great a cost to freedom." In this case, Brown finds little support for the suppression of free speech. (Justice Clarence Thomas later dissented from the U.S. Supreme Courts failure to review the decision.)
In Golden Gateway Center v. Golden Gateway Tennants Assn., 26 Cal.4th 1013 (2001), however, Brown, writing for the majority, held that tenants in an apartment complex have no state constitutional right to distribute leaflets in that complex against an express prohibition by the complex's owners. Despite the California Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Robins v. Pruneyard Shopping Center, 23 Cal.3d 899 (1979), which extended California's free speech protection to occupants of privately owned shopping centers, Brown concludes from an extensive survey of the original intent of California's free speech clause that there is still a state action requirement that was not fulfilled in the instant case. What is most noticeable about Golden Gateway Center is Brown's commitment to originalism; however, as with her other decisions, she also methodically reviews the relevant precedent and, where original intent conflicts with precedent, she carefully distinguishes between the two.
Finally, Brown wrote the sole dissent in People v. McKay, 27 Cal.4th 601 (2002). In this Fourth Amendment case, defendant McKay sought to exclude evidence of drug possession that was discovered after he was stopped for riding his bicycle the wrong way on a residential street. The majority ruled against McKay and found the evidence admissible. Brown's dissent begins by noting that we must be extremely careful about giving the state the awesome privilege of search and seizure. She sarcastically emphasizes the meagerness of the basis for McKay's custodial arrest (he was arrested for failing to present his driver's license--even though he wasn't driving). Because police now have more power than ever to arrest citizens for minor offenses, Brown argues that the majority's ruling essentially gives the state "a virtually limitless power to search." With such power comes the potential for abuse. In particular, Brown raises the problem of racial profiling, which she strongly opposes. Against the argument that the majority's decision is mandated by precedent, Brown bitingly declares, "If our hands really are tied, it behooves us to gnaw through the ropes."
However, as fervently as Brown writes against the state's power to search in McKay, it is worth noting that in People v. Ray, 21 Cal.4th 464 (2001), Brown, writing for the majority, held that evidence collected in a warrantless search is admissible if (1) the police are "discharging one of their community caretaking functions . . . [and] act[ing] reasonably to protect the safety and security of persons and property," and (2) the evidence is in plain view. These two cases show that Brown has a strong commitment both to the perils and payoffs of police searches.
Part 4: Conservative Civil Rights.
Justice Janice Rogers Brown has written several opinions on "conservative" issues. Here, we will look at cases involving abortion, the death penalty, the association of gang members, and gun ownership.
In American Academy of Pediatrics v. Lungren, 16 Cal.4th 307 (1997), the majority struck down on state constitutional grounds a statute requiring pregnant minors to secure parental consent or judicial authorization before obtaining an abortion. In a lengthy dissent, Brown castigates the court for acting as a super-legislature. She states early in her dissent, "The fundamental flaw running throughout [the majority's] analysis is the utter lack of deference to the ordinary constraints of judicial decisionmaking--deference to state precedent, to federal precedent, to the collective judgment of our Legislature, and, ultimately, to the people we serve." She is particularly dismayed by the court's lack of deference when, as here, the standards dictated by state, federal, and legislative precedent are clearly derived from history, context, and text. With regard to the statute itself, it is notable that Brown (1) finds the statute's age limitation not unreasonable, and (2) acknowledges a liberty interest in parents' controlling their children that is "historically more sacrosanct than a minor's right to privacy."
In In re Andrews, 28 Cal.4th 1234 (2002), Brown, writing for the majority, upheld a death sentence for the defendant, who had committed several brutal murders and one rape, despite the defendant's claim that he was inadequately represented due to his attorney's failure to call a single witness during the sentencing phase. However, Brown notes that the defendant himself had adamantly opposed his attorney's attempts to contact his family to elicit testimony about the defendant's traumatic childhood. Furthermore, she finds that there was not a reasonable probability that, absent the attorney's errors, the defendant would have been excused from his death sentence; in particular, she agrees with the attorney's "tactical" decision not to present mitigating evidence, including interviews of fellow inmates of the defendant, due to problems of impeachment and possible counterproductivity. Nevertheless, the dissent express disbelief at Brown's lack of sympathy for the defendant's troubled past, calling her version of the facts a "clinically cold and cursory recitation of the evidence."
In People ex rel. Gallo v. Acuna, 14 Cal.4th 1090 (1997), Brown, writing for the majority, upheld an injunction prohibiting defendant gang members from legally congregating in certain areas, despite defendants' objections that the injunction violated their First Amendment associational rights. Brown wrote that the gang members' association simply did not rise to the level of meriting constitutional protection. To prove her point she utilized Supreme Court precedent to create a fairly narrow right to association.
It is hard to elucidate Brown's views on gun ownership. In Great Western Shows, Inc. v. County of Los Angeles, 27 Cal.4th 853 (2002), the majority held, first, that state law does not compel counties to allow their property to be used for gun shows; and second, that a county may regulate the sale of firearms on its property. Brown dissented from the holding, but on the narrow ground that, under state law, a county cannot "enact police power regulations governing the use of its property by independent parties to whom it has leased the property."
In another gun case, Kasler v. Lockyer, 23 Cal.4th 472 (2000), Brown, writing for the majority, upheld California's Assault Weapons Ban, but only over equal protection, separation of powers, and due process objections, not against a Second Amendment challenge. However, she does emphasize that the California constitution contains no fundamental right to bear arms; indeed, she points out that the regulation of firearms has always been a proper police function of California. Evident in Kasler, as in American Academy of Pediatrics, is Brown's strong principle of judicial deference to legislative findings.
Part 5: Miscellaneous.
In terms of specific issues, Justice Janice Rogers Brown will attract the most attention because of her strong belief in a color-blind Constitution. Her dissent in Kasky has also marked her as a proponent of free speech; if her suggestions in Kasky are followed by the Supreme Court, she will also be marked as an even stronger nominee for the federal judiciary. Finally, Brown has consistently urged judicial deference on her colleagues, showing a high respect for the special abilities of legislators over judges.
The cases discussed over the previous posts do not encompass the full range of Brown's decisions. One major case not discussed above is her majority decision in Pavlovich v. Superior Court, 29 Cal.4th 262 (2002), which held that plaintiff DVD Copy Control Association, Inc., could not establish personal jurisdiction in California over defendant Pavlovich, a resident of Texas, simply due to Pavlovich's posting of an illegal program online. Brown's decision was widely celebrated by the online community and has been recognized as an important decision that will shape the still fluid field of personal jurisdiction on the Internet.
A feature of Brown's decisions that may not have been clear these past few days is their trademark humor, which some people might characterize as mean-spirited sarcasm, and which can evoke the rhetoric of Justice Scalia. For instance, Brown begins her Kasky dissent with the following line: "In 1942, the United States Supreme Court, like a wizard trained at Hogwarts, waved its wand and plucked the commercial doctrine out of thin air" (internal quotations omitted). She compares the majority's decision in Kasky to the discovery of cold fusion because it "promises much, but solves nothing." She claims that the majority's test for commercial speech proves a maxim by H.L. Mencken: "every human problem" has a "solution" that is "neat, plausible, and wrong." And, to tie into her opening remark, Brown concludes that the Supreme Court should revise its commercial speech jurisprudence because "Merlin and Gandalf are busy." In American Academy of Pediatrics, Brown describes a passage of the plurality opinion as "a sentence whose length is exceeded only by its circuity." She also describes the plurality opinion as a "wholesale departure from more than 20 years of high court precedent [which] is itself wholly unprecedented" and compares the plurality's reasoning to Humpty Dumpty's wordplay in Alice in Wonderland. Her strong language has sometimes earned rebukes from other members of the court, but Brown seems to take pride in it.
Brown's sarcasm aside, her opinions seem to rebut the "not qualified" rating initially imposed upon her by the State Bar of California's Commission on Judicial Nominees. For the most part, they are well written and extensively researched. It is difficult to pin her down to any one modality of interpretation: although she seems to be extra-sympathetic to originalism, she also methodically lays out the relevant precedent and carefully distinguishes seemingly inconsistent cases on the way to her conclusions.
This careful, and at times overwhelming, attention to precedent also mitigates any assertion that she would be an activist judge. Aside from her general policy of judicial deference, Brown works hard to fit her own decisions into the narrative of state or federal precedent. When precedent diverges, either within or between courts, Brown makes the divergence clear and explains where her reasoning lies. This respect for precedent and the separation of powers is even more significant considering that Brown sits on a court of last resort for state claims, unlike her colleagues on the federal judiciary. But although Brown seems to faithfully follow precedent, her Kasky dissent shows that she is more than happy to raise strong objections to the existing precedent if she feels that it is somehow misguided.
Of course, it is impossible to discuss Brown's chances at a federal judgeship without mentioning the fact that she is a minority woman with some strong conservative views, including an appreciation of originalism and color-blindness, but with enough of a liberal bent to appease her critics. Whether those critics will actually be appeased is a question that will only be answered if President Bush nominates her for a seat in the federal judiciary.
It's all very nice that she's supposedly conservative, but I guess I would like to know if white, Anglo guys have a shot anymore.
An aside came to mind when I read this: for which she wrote the majority opinion striking down a San Jose program that offered preferential treatment to businesses owned by minorities or women... . When I lived and worked in CA, my sister was working for a construction company that was actually entirely owned by a white male - who had put his Japanese wife on the books as the owner, president, etc., so he could get all the "minority" contracts.
Preference corrupts.
Janice Brown sounds like a real possibility. Keep us posted. (Well, once they start trying to Bork her, I guess even the press will "keep us posted.")
The daughter of a sharecropper from rural Alabama who brought his family to Sacramento after joining the Air Force, Brown graduated in 1977 from the UCLA School of Law.She was admitted at a time when the university's affirmative action program had an expressed goal of producing "ethnic and racial diversity," said law school spokeswoman Jessica Copen. Still, "no one would have been admitted to the law school unless they had the ability to do well," she said.
So nice of Associated Press to imply that she didn't get in on her own merits.
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There have been at least two earlier threads about her obvious suitablity. She was proposed to this first by Thomas Sowell. If Sowell says she's the right choice, that is the end of the discussion as far as I am concerned.
Serving on a state supreme court, her mixed decisions on state cases in this regard don't reflect how she would rule on the federal level IMHO. If our support is diluted by that review, we are being very short sighted.
A screen name of 'nut' or 'gun nut' would seem totally appropriate.
I say get them good and P.O.'d! ;-)
BTW he considers Hatch to be a "good" conservative he could live with (scarey huh?) but is truly scared to death of Ashcroft and is motivating others to become involved (financially).
It's no more nutty, and probably much less so, than people who insist on abortion ban judges. In fact it is the 2nd Amendment that protects ALL of your other rights in this country.
Brown, writing for the majority, upheld California's Assault Weapons Ban, but only over equal protection, separation of powers, and due process objections, not against a Second Amendment challenge. However, she does emphasize that the California constitution contains no fundamental right to bear arms; indeed, she points out that the regulation of firearms has always been a proper police function of California.
She's a dud on RKBA, boys. I smell a gun-hater hiding behind an unconstitutional statute.
RKBA may not be protected by the California constitution, but the Second Amendment was incorporated to the States by the Fourteenth's "Privileges and Immunities" Clause:
Amendment XIV. Section 1.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Which speaks directly to California's gun bans and refusals to issue licenses as infringements on the Second Amendment, never mind whether California ever got around to writing gun rights into its constitution.
IF NOT NOW, WHEN? Bush should - must - nominate Janice Brown to succeed O'Connor
A thrilling thought.
Doesn't matter if she's purple polka-dot, if the Dems are against her she'll be fine. BTW, what IS she? Native American?
Yes, let's have a fight
Yes, she was born in America. Racially, she's black. Intellectually, she's superior. Philosophically, she's a constitutionalist. Constitutionally, she's a strong, hard working tough-minded person of character.
Great answer. A Constitutionalist would be wonderful if she were to stay that way after/if appointed.
I will guess racially-Cherokee, though.
The 14th amendment is the greatest crime against humanity. It was designed so that the states would not discriminate against particular individuals. It's so poorly written, this is the legal basis for "anchor babies." The fact is that the second amendment covers the states -- unlike the first. The first begins with "Congress shall make no law...". The second ends with "...shall not be infringed."
I wouldn't worry about that. She's a strong lady. Kind of like a Margaret Thatcher - not inclined to be pushed or pulled or wooed out into renouncing her convictions.
I would hope that is the case.
But if the past is any indication of the future The Democrats will find just enough Republican traitors to make sure this does not happen.
My fear is that (barf alert), he's going to nominate Alberto (Mr. Moderate) Gonzales.
It will be Owen, Pryor or Brown. They are filibuster-proof. The Dems may try to argue that the "agreement" didn't apply to SCOTUS nominations, but (a) the public will view it differently and (b) the 7 GOP members of the "gang of 14" need only 2 defections to detonate the nuke. I'm sure Graham's and DeWine's constituents have let it be known that they'd better be thinking atomic.
Probably got a "well qualified" from the ABA!
DemocRATs and RINOs: BRING IT!
Bush doesn't want to nominate anyone before July 5. If he nominates today, it will be "discussed" on the weekend shows and Americans will come back from vacation with the nominee's "extremism" having been established.
How does she stand on amendments 1 thru 27 ... that matters to me
We sure don't need a gun grabber at this (or any) time
In a California case involving a gun show ban in Los Angeles County, Brown wrote a dissent upholding the right of the Great Western Shows to use an L.A. County facility. Brown pointed out that the County was making a law (banning gun shows) that was prohibited by the state's preemption law. Furthermore, the County could not hide behind the fairgrounds management as if the County had no authority over the facility. Brown used language from an amicus curiae brief submitted by Gun Owners of California, a sister organization of Gun Owners of America.
Brown's most extensive Second Amendment scholarship appears in the case involving the California ban on semi-automatic firearms (Kassler v. Lockyer).
In a decision upholding the California ban on certain semi-autos (the so-called "semi-autos") -- even while Brown (mistakenly) felt obliged to uphold the U.S. Supreme Court rather than the Constitution -- it became quite clear that she at least understood the Constitution.
She criticized the Court's uneven and arbitrary standards regarding rights as being "highly suspect, incoherent, and constitutionally invalid." And she faulted the Court for picking and choosing which rights they liked.
In the same decision she observes that: "Curiously, in the current dialectic, the right to keep and bear arms -- a right expressly guaranteed by the Bill of Rights -- is deemed less fundamental than implicit protections the court purports to find in the penumbras of other express provisions.... [s]urely the right to preserve one's life is at least as fundamental as the right to preserve one's privacy."
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Feedback -- DICE 2010 Reactions And The Heavy Rain Debate
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Heavy Rain (PlayStation 3)Comments are Closed
I will buy it
http://jathummaigu.wordpress .com/Posted: March 3, 2010 10:44 PM -
I love games that can master the synergy of excellent game play, whatever mechanic they use, dynamic characters and story, and re-playability. Excellent graphics are very important but I can sidestep sub-par graphics if the aforementioned three-prone test is met. When games fail on game play and story, the game is irredeemable. I am looking at you Forces Unleashed. I need something that propels me to move forward and play to the end. Excellent game play and graphics isn't enough. The joy of gaming is when one can have birth of a film, literature, symphony hybrid of a child. One in which I can immerse myself into and be a part of.
Posted: March 3, 2010 9:09 AM -
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I absolutely LOVED 'Indigo Prophecy' so I cannot wait to play 'Heavy Rain'. Any thought on whether or not this game will make its way to the 360? My soul for a 360 copy of 'Heavy Rain'.
Posted: March 2, 2010 3:57 PM -
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I just wanted to share a few thoughts on the Heavy Rain debate.
It s interesting to witness that many great games released lately are sequels: Uncharted 2, Mass Effect 2, Assassin s Creed 2, Bioshock 2 And even when games aren t sequels, they usually build on some kind of foundation of game genre. That s not to say that such games aren t innovative. Bioshock (1), for example, is an incredibly innovative game in terms of atmospheric architectural construction, but still, in it s core, it stands upon many pre-established concepts of the first person shooter.
What I m trying to point out is that Heavy Rain is a game that really brings something new to the table. It s setting the foundations to a new genre, and although it evolves from ideas that were coming to shape in the previous Quantic Dream s Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), it is establishing playability rules so effectively that it stands out as something original and, most importantly, emotionally effective.
Trying to look at Heavy Rain with some perspective, I think it s very much reminiscent of early point-and-click adventures. It s an evolution of the same kind of exploration and character interaction that made this kind of games so entertaining.
Most importantly, I believe this is a game genre that could attract a whole new audience to videogames. It s expanding the market to new gamers and that s something that can only have a positive effect for the industry as a whole.
That s not to say that Heavy Rain doesn t have its share of flaws and glitches. It does. But, even taking those into consideration, I strongly believe that the creators of this game are to be commended for trying something completely new, outside the rules of grounded genres that already have a specific target audience and market potential. That kind of daring deserves recognition and I sincerely hope they are successful in trying something so outside the box.Posted: March 2, 2010 2:33 PM -
Okay, I admit, after watching this I wish I had a PS3 so I could play this. First PS release so far that has made me feel this way.
Posted: March 2, 2010 2:20 PM -
I want my Abbie back please. I like all the feed back but really do enjoy her "point of view". :) thanks
Posted: March 2, 2010 8:04 AM -
Heavy Rain is very much a game that people can watch. A friend got his a day before me and I was completely entertained just watching for several hours. I felt the same tension he did, even though I wasn't playing and the fact that there are so many choices meant that nothing was really ruined for my own play through. He did things differently than I would have, so I had even more incentive to play for myself.
Posted: March 2, 2010 12:30 AM -
This game is a must buy for any gamer. It was a thrill to play. For anyone who want to know what its like Heavy Rain is like playing a movie that can change each time you watch it. I did not want to stop playing i played it for 8 hours straight.
Posted: March 1, 2010 10:05 AM -
Great episode, i am new to watching feedback and i am starting to enjoy these topics and your opinions. great job!
Heavy Rain looks like a great game, something fresh and unique but we won't see that many of these kinds of games yet. Hopefully in the future. Its a one play through kind of deal(unless you want all achievements/trophies) so i guess a lot of people may consider renting it rather than having their own copy and to top it all off its only 10 hrs of gameplay.I do hope though it does well in sales, cause it still does look like an amazing game to experience.
The OnLive, Honestly i am not that excited about it. I personally don't think it's a good path to take. Only time can tell if this will be worth the buy.Posted: February 28, 2010 10:32 PM -
I just played through this game, and now I have to vent. First, I was pretty hyped about the game. I love David Fincher films and thought the concept of the game was very exciting. What I have to say about this game, now that I have played through it is this:
Don't play this game. It will make you feel like crap!
I'm not a weak person where movies are concerned. The last movies I truly enjoyed were The Road and Bronson. When watching those flicks though, we are somehow disengaged. We can yell out to the hero or heroine not to open a door, or cringe when they say the wrong thing, but in Heavy Rain, you are ultimately responsible. And Heavy Rain likes to make you responsible for some really tough stuff.
This game is built on failure. There is a basic storyline that you veer from by failing at tasks that are sometimes impossible. Where and when you fail are the only factors in the game. Maybe there are people out there who can do the whole game perfectly (though it seems to me that there is no perfect way) but you won't know unless you play though it again, and a third time, etc. But nothing in Heavy Rain will want to make you play it again. I admit, once you pick this game up you will feel compelled to continue, but getting this game is like the choice in the Matrix. You will wish you took the blue pill.
This "game" was an experiment. It was successful in many ways, but that isn't always a good thing. Heavy Rain's successes are tantamount to emotional sado-masochism. G4 should really share this opinion with it's audience because this game made me very mad. I'm glad I rented it, because if I paid $60 for a kick to the emotional groin, I'd be even madder.Posted: February 28, 2010 9:45 PM -
Take a shot every time someone says "you know". You will get plastered. Fast.
Posted: February 28, 2010 7:15 PM -
What I am most curious about is why no one even mentioned Indigo Prophecy, since that is what I thought about the very first time I saw Heavy Rain Was I the only person to even play the game? If I ever decide on getting a PS3 HR will definitely be on my list of games to get.
PS-Anyone play Hotel Dusk on the DS? It was one of my favorite 'experimental' titles on the handheld,Posted: February 28, 2010 6:27 PM -
An excellent episode of feedback once again!!
I find it interesting that even though I don't have heavy rain, or even the console needed to play it for that matter, I am interested in it being discussed, how it is a different style of game.
I love feedback, seriously. I don't watch X-play, Attack of the show, or even much online content... but when feedback comes out, WOW! clear out the computer room I'm coming in for a landing.
Great show guys!Posted: February 28, 2010 6:18 PM -
Heavy Rain looks like a beautiful example of how companies can make games that are realistic and very imaginative. Many people I talk to say that they want to get away from real life and play games as a way to get away from life's troubles. I brought up Heavy Rain to some of them and none seemed interested. Do you think that it is possible that in the future, gaming companies will make an interactive experience like Heavy Rain in a more fantasy winded world such as a Mass Effect or Lord of the Rings setting?
Posted: February 28, 2010 12:47 PM -
i love heavy rain and im only 14.most of my friends dont want heavy rain beacause they just think games are only fun if it has no story and you just shoot everything u see.
Posted: February 28, 2010 10:33 AM -
Heavy Rain played so much with my emotions. If u have any intrests in games beside killing people in multiplayer on MW2 u NEED to play this game.
Posted: February 28, 2010 3:53 AM -
For the record, I love Mass Effect 2 but I still have the right to criticize it. I never said Bioware trimned the length of the game but Bioware did toned down the RPG elements. I did say that Bioware made ME2 to be more of a shooter than an RPG game. Shooters is more popular genre today, so you're are not wrong when ME2 was made to be more accessible to fans. Games today are being dumbed-down for the younger gamers, but there are some exception like games made by Bioware and I'm sure there's more.
The problem I have with MW2 is not just the length but the incoherent storyline and pretty much the first Modern Warfare game with the exception of Infinity Ward not supporting dedicated servers. Geez, that's a nice way to treat the PC gamers who supported CoD back when it was first release on the PC. I suppose their main priority now to keep the console gamers happy.
As for games today being more story oriented, just play the PC games I mentioned in the 90's and 2000. Those games are just (if not more) as story oriented and have unique gameplay, for example, the Thief series help popularized the stealth aspect in games that you see in today's game.
Thanks for your advice on getting Fallout and Oblivion. But I do already have those games, even the first two Fallout games. The Fallouts games were great but Oblivion, I felt just copied several environments and quests to make it seems a larger game than it is. Also, I did say younger games tend to look for games (in particular, MW2) that has multiplayer so I wasn't far off about that.Posted: February 28, 2010 2:20 AM -
In response to the comment about games being cut short and being "dumbed" down, I must say that I disagree completely. One example I think of that has caught some flack would be a game like Modern Warfare 2, the campaign was about a five hour play through but I don't believe that they could nor should have paced it any slower to lengthen the game out. I myself haven't spent much time playing on the more extreme difficulty levels, but I suspect that would extend the playtime of the game considerably. Another game i saw mentioned was Mass Effect 2, and again this is my personal opinion, the key to getting your money's worth out of that game is through multiple playthroughs. My first game took me roughly 31 hours but that was with me skipping some upgrades, N7 missions and Legion's loyalty quest. I've seen it quoted on various reviews that the average is about 50 hours for a complete playthrough. I guess my trouble is that I can't see how this game was cut short, as far as it being made more accessible that will always be open for debate. Being a non RPG fan due to the combat mechanics typically seen in those titles, I welcomed mass effect and found it completely enjoyable. I can imagine that more hardcore RPG fans would expect more out of it then they perhaps got, but I loved the genre meshing that Mass Effect 2 created. Overall what I think is the issue is that our earlier games created different standards for gamers who can remember playing their old atari or NES. But when you think about it, those games were more about the game than the story being told. There could be fifty levels because you weren't telling a piece of the story each level as is typically seen today. Games today have been allowed to become more story oriented while supporting new and unique gameplay mechanics which change the format of these games, but I truly believe this has increased their value as legit entrainment and not just something for kids to play. I would say that if you felt cheated by the campaign length time, you probally need to just go find a new game. The primary draw for MW2 is its multiplayer aspect. If you're not interested in that you could play a game like fallout or Elder Scrolls Oblivion if your concern is about "getting your money's worth.
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So when I was 8 years old I turned into a teenager 5 years later, and then 5 years after that I turned into an adult. I started playing the NES at an after school homecare place at the age of 5, mainly I played Super Mario Bros. 3. Then a couple years later a was given a SNES for either christmas or my birthday at the age of 7-8 and played so many great games on that system! Some 4 years into the SNES I received a $150.00 N64 with two $60 games, Goldeneye and Banjo Kazooie. Those were some good times right there, later I got one of the coolest games ever Gauntlet Legends. Along with the Marios and Zelda's. I was content with having an SNES and a N64 for about 4-5 years until 2001 when I decided to ask for an Xbox Original for X-mas. First game a bought was Halo and that's when the system link parties went down.....yea baby! Well not long after that Xbox Live was announced and soon after that Halo 2 was out and system link parties became Xbox Live Friends List. I played a lot of the PS1 and PS2 at various friends houses. Never had the money or felt the need to ask for one since most my friends owned one anyways. Plus Xbox Live was all I really needed at the time and the graphics were amazing for it at the time. Never really owned or got to play a Dreamcast. The Gamecube I only got to play a couple times at a friends house still the xbox was my fav. Then the mighty Xbox 360 came out and that's where I'm at today some four years later. Lifes Been Good to Me So Far! Now If I could just find a damn job!Posted: February 27, 2010 10:32 PM


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Alleged offenses involve three girls under age 13
A 33-year-old Maria Stein man faces nearly three dozen sex-related charges involving three girls under the age of 13. He also faces similar charges in Auglaize and Allen counties.
Travis M. Quinter, 1229 state Route 716, is scheduled to appear in Mercer County Common Pleas Court on Jan. 16 for an arraignment hearing.
The 29 rape charges, all first-degree felonies, allege he purposely compelled two victims identified as Jane Doe I and Jane Doe II to submit to sexual conduct by force or threat of force.
The incidents allegedly occurred between January 2010 and July of this year.
Grand jurors in Mercer County also returned four counts of gross sexual imposition, all third-degree felonies, against Quinter. These charges allege he engaged in sexual contact with a third girl identified in court paperwork as Jane Doe III. The incidents reportedly occurred between January and July of this year.
Quinter made an initial appearance before Judge Jeffrey Ingraham on Dec. 21. Peter Van Arsdel was appointed to serve attorney in the local case.
Quinter made an initial appearance before Judge Jeffrey Ingraham on Dec. 21. Peter Van Arsdel was appointed to serve attorney in the local case.
He also appeared the same day before Auglaize County Common Pleas Court Judge Fredrick Pepple and pleaded not guilty to eight additional rape charges in that county. His $1 million bond was continued.
Quinter was returned to the Allen County Jail in Lima. His trial on five counts of rape in Allen County is scheduled to get under way Jan. 28. The victims also are described as girls under the age of 13.
Each first-degree felony carries up to 10 years in prison while the third-degree felony charges carry up to five years in prison upon conviction.
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Ella Heron was born on June 9, 1920 in Greensboro, North Carolina. She was a Native American.
Ella had three sisters and one brother. Her mother and father Louise and Rev. Charles Perry stressed the importance of getting a good education to all their children. Ella, graduated high school and attended Bennett College, in Greensboro NC. Ella, graduated with a BS degree in Education.
Ella, moved to New York, after college and was employed as a history teacher. It didn't take long before she met Percy Heron, and they fell in love. They soon after got married. Percy, enlisted in the US Navy and fought in WWII. After Percy, returned they started their family. They had their first son Charles. Then they bought a house on Lakewood Ave. in Jamaica. They had their second son Brian. Ella and Percy were dedicated parents. Ella, stopped teaching to stay home to raise her sons. It was a positive experience full of love, energy, communication, education and challenges.
Ella and Percy attended St Stephens Episcopal Church in Jamaica. Ella, taught Sunday School there. Ella, was involved in many church events and fund raisers. The family was involved in supporting mom in the Lords name. After the sons moved out Ella and Percy got involved in the Green Thumb Project. They opened the first Community Garden, in the neighborhood on the corner of Lakewood Ave. and Inwood Street. "The Garden of Eden". It was a big success and was Ella's pride and joy. Ella and Percy got the neighbors involved and started a summer day camp for the children. They went on field trips to museums, parks, historical sites and the beach. Ella and Percy were a great team. Always loving and giving to help make a positive change in other people's lives.
In February, of 2002, Ella lost her partner in life Percy. Ella missed Percy very much. A few months later Ella, was diagnosed with dementia. Ella's life began to change and her two sons stepped in to make her life more enjoyable and secure. Ella, was a fighter and always tried to be positive. She didn't complain even when she was in pain.
On July 11, 2013, Ella passed on at home. It was a peaceful transition. She leaves to cherish her memory a devoted son, Brian; a daughter in law Helena; four grand children, Brian Ricardo, Ana, David and Michael, three great grand children, Isaac, Bailey, Gabrielle and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends.
My beloved mother, grandmother, great grandmother, mentor and friend will always be with us as we continue our journey in life. Ella has gone to be with Percy. We will all miss you until we meet again in God's Kingdom. Peace and much love to you mom.


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Flynn seems to have forgotten his pants, but he, his dad, and a friend look like they're having a blast! Of course, it's probably warmer where they are in Malibu than it is for most of us right now, but oh well.


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"The Beloved Community" is a term that was first coined in the early days of the 20th Century by the philosopher-theologian Josiah Royce, who founded the Fellowship of Reconciliation. However, it was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., also a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, who popularized the term and invested it with a deeper meaning which has captured the imagination of people of goodwill all over the world.
For Dr. King, The Beloved Community was not a lofty utopian goal to be confused with the rapturous image of the Peaceable Kingdom, in which lions and lambs coexist in idyllic harmony. Rather, The Beloved Community was for him a realistic, achievable goal that could be attained by a critical mass of people committed to and trained in the philosophy and methods of nonviolence.
Dr. King's Beloved Community is a global vision, in which all people can share in the wealth of the earth. In the Beloved Community, poverty, hunger and homelessness will not be tolerated because international standards of human decency will not allow it. Racism and all forms of discrimination, bigotry and prejudice will be replaced by an all-inclusive spirit of sisterhood and brotherhood. In the Beloved Community, international disputes will be resolved by peaceful conflict-resolution and reconciliation of adversaries, instead of military power. Love and trust will triumph over fear and hatred. Peace with justice will prevail over war and military conflict.
Dr. King's Beloved Community was not devoid of interpersonal, group or international conflict. Instead he recognized that conflict was an inevitable part of human experience. But he believed that conflicts could be resolved peacefully and adversaries could be reconciled through a mutual, determined commitment to nonviolence. No conflict, he believed, need erupt in violence. And all conflicts in The Beloved Community should end with reconciliation of adversaries cooperating together in a spirit of friendship and goodwill.
As early as 1956, Dr. King spoke of The Beloved Community as the end goal of nonviolent boycotts. As he said in a speech at a victory rally following the announcement of a favorable U.S. Supreme Court Decision desegregating the seats on Montgomery's busses, "the end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the Beloved Community. It is this type of spirit and this type of love that can transform opponents into friends. It is this type of understanding goodwill that will transform the deep gloom of the old age into the exuberant gladness of the new age. It is this love which will bring about miracles in the hearts of men."
An ardent student of the teachings of Mohandas K. Gandhi, Dr. King was much impressed with the Mahatma's befriending of his adversaries, most of whom professed profound admiration for Gandhi's courage and intellect. Dr. King believed that the age-old tradition of hating one's opponents was not only immoral, but bad strategy which perpetuated the cycle of revenge and retaliation. Only nonviolence, he believed, had the power to break the cycle of retributive violence and create lasting peace through reconciliation.
In a 1957 speech, Birth of A New Nation, Dr. King said, "The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community. The aftermath of nonviolence is redemption. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation. The aftermath of violence is emptiness and bitterness." A year later, in his first book Stride Toward Freedom, Dr. King reiterated the importance of nonviolence in attaining The Beloved Community. In other words, our ultimate goal is integration, which is genuine inter-group and inter-personal living. Only through nonviolence can this goal be attained, for the aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of the Beloved Community.
In his 1959 Sermon on Gandhi, Dr. King elaborated on the after-effects of choosing nonviolence over violence: "The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community, so that when the battle's over, a new relationship comes into being between the oppressed and the oppressor." In the same sermon, he contrasted violent versus nonviolent resistance to oppression. "The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of non-violence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community."
The core value of the quest for Dr. King's Beloved Community was agape love. Dr. King distinguished between three kinds of love: eros, "a sort of aesthetic or romantic love"; philia, "affection between friends" and agape, which he described as "understanding, redeeming goodwill for all," an "overflowing love which is purely spontaneous, unmotivated, groundless and creative"…"the love of God operating in the human heart." He said that "Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people…It begins by loving others for their sakes" and "makes no distinction between a friend and enemy; it is directed toward both…Agape is love seeking to preserve and create community."
In his 1963 sermon, Loving Your Enemies, published in his book, Strength to Love, Dr. King addressed the role of unconditional love in struggling for the beloved Community. 'With every ounce of our energy we must continue to rid this nation of the incubus of segregation. But we shall not in the process relinquish our privilege and our obligation to love. While abhorring segregation, we shall love the segregationist. This is the only way to create the beloved community."
One expression of agape love in Dr. King's Beloved Community is justice, not for any one oppressed group, but for all people. As Dr. King often said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." He felt that justice could not be parceled out to individuals or groups, but was the birthright of every human being in the Beloved Community. I have fought too long hard against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concerns," he said. "Justice is indivisible."
In a July 13, 1966 article in Christian Century Magazine, Dr. King affirmed the ultimate goal inherent in the quest for the Beloved Community: "I do not think of political power as an end. Neither do I think of economic power as an end. They are ingredients in the objective that we seek in life. And I think that end of that objective is a truly brotherly society, the creation of the beloved community"


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Team at a glance
Last season's record: 3-13 (3-11 in the Western Slope League)
Returning seniors:
C — Scott Costello
2B — Greg Blackstun
3B — Halen Raymond
P — Nathan Hill
New faces:
• Freshmen Bubba Ivers and Hayden's Mark Doolin performed well for the team during summer games and will be expected to carry increased roles as the season wears on.
Players to watch:
• Halen Raymond, 3B: The senior slugger is healthy again and looking to build on a positive summer season. Expect the cleanup hitter to be one of the Bulldogs' top hitters.
• Ben Williams, SP/CF: Last summer, Williams established himself as the de facto ace of the Bulldogs pitching staff. A year older, Williams will be expected to be the shut-down starter he showed he could be in the summer.
Dates to circle
April 10: Regional powerhouse Delta High School comes to Craig for a doubleheader with the Bulldogs. The two teams, along with Palisade and Eagle Valley, are expected to compete for league supremacy. Delta won the Western Slope League in 2009.
April 13: Moffat County vs. Steamboat Springs. Last year, the Sailors swept the season series. In the summer league, MCHS got a little payback with a home sweep.
April 17: Palisade visits Moffat County in the only regular season matchup between the two teams. Palisade defeated MCHS in the regular season last year, but it was a different case in summer league.
Moffat County High School boys varsity baseball — 2010
Record: 5-3, 3-2 WSL- March 13 Moffat County 5, Rifle 15
- March 13 Moffat County 10, Rifle 9
- March 19 Moffat County 7, Emery 11
- March 20 Moffat County 6, Berthoud 5
- March 20 Moffat County 5, Alamosa 3
- April 13 Moffat County 15, Steamboat Springs 7
- April 16 Moffat County 12, Palisade High School10
- April 16Moffat County 5, Palisade High School 7
- April 22, 11 a.m. — Moffat County vs. Delta High School
- April 22, 1 p.m. — Moffat County vs. Delta High School
- April 24, 11 a.m. — Moffat County at Eagle Valley High School
- April 24, 1 p.m. — Moffat County at Eagle Valley High School
- April 27, 4 p.m. — Moffat County at Steamboat Springs High School
- May 4, 4 p.m. — Moffat County vs. Battle Mountain High School
- May 4, 6 p.m. — Moffat County vs. Battle Mountain High School
- May 8, 11 a.m. — Moffat County at Glenwood Springs High School
- May 8, 1 p.m. — Moffat County at Glenwood Springs High School
For a team that finished out of the playoff hunt a season ago, there is a certain amount of optimism following the Moffat County High School boys varsity baseball team.
The team is playing in a revamped park, with a new head coach, a new assistant coach and a new approach.
Head coach Justin Folley said part of the turnaround from last year's 3-13 season will come from his team's laid-back attitude.
"I think team unity is going to be a strength," he said. "A lot of these kids have played together for a long time, they enjoy playing with each other and do well with helping each other out when they need it."
Folley, the first-year head coach who had been an assistant coach several years before, will be assisted this year by first-year assistant coach Josh Fief. Folley regains the same team that put on an offensive clinic during the summer American Legion season.
"We have a pretty solid core," he said. "From last summer to this year, we have a lot of those guys back.
"It's a good, solid core to build around with some good senior leadership."
A large portion of that core is centered around the team's top two starters.
"Having a solid pitching staff with Ben (Williams) and Nathan Hill," Folley said. "Having two good starters is going to be really good in this conference."
Hayden's Williams paired with Hill atop the rotation sets MCHS up nicely, Folley said.
"Having Ben back as our No. 1 starter is going to help a lot," he said. "Having a guy who has thrown in this conference, who knows what needs to be done, makes a huge difference.
"He can definitely help with some of the younger guys."
Last summer's American Legion team proved that in addition to having solid pitching and defense, the Bulldogs could rake, too.
At one point, Moffat County was riding a nine-game winning streak in which they outscored all of their opponents by at least 10 runs.
The good news for fans this season is that sluggers Williams, Scott Costello, Bubba Ivers, Kulen Turner, Hill, Greg Blackstun, Dylon Camilletti, Ivan Nielsen and cleanup hitter Halen Raymond return.
"We'll have basically the same starting nine swinging," Folley said. "Maybe with a couple additions to help out offensively, and we have a little more speed than we had last summer."
With several new names around, and a couple of spots to fill, Folley said his lineup is in no way set in stone.
"You never know," he said. "Someone might step up and do something that deserves some credit and playing time."
One thing that is different is where the Bulldogs will play.
A field renovation at Craig Middle School has transformed the Bulldogs' diamond into a place players would be proud to call home, Folley said.
"That's going to make a lot of difference," he said. "Not only for our team, but for the teams coming here to play.
"We have a little over 50 percent of our games at home this year, so I'm hoping we can get a good name for our field like Rifle has with theirs."
Even more important is having the Bulldogs make a name for themselves.
"I just want to make a good showing in this conference," Folley said. "If we can get a solid seeding in our conference, make it to district regionals, that's a win."
To get to regionals, the team will have to get by several tough opponents in the Western Slope League.
"Delta is going to be tough, as well as Palisade," he said. "Eagle Valley has (Jack Barbella) who can really throw, and he can swing it. He's going to give us some headaches.
"Between the four of us, we'll make the conference a little interesting this year. It's a tough conference — everyone can beat anybody."


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The San Jacinto Valley has always been a patriotic place, honoring veterans in many different ways.
Weâve seen residents dedicating monuments and welcoming âThe Moving Wallâ Vietnam Veteranâs Memorial at Druding Park in San Jacinto. Many turn out for the annual Veteransâ Day program at Gibbel Park in Hemet. It seems as if residents of our communities always have had a soft spot for those who have served our country well.
We also should be proud that we have so many great social and fraternal organizations that assist veterans. American Legion has Post 848 in San Jacinto, which is hosting an event on Saturday, July 20, and is seeking volunteers and participants, as well as Post 53 in Hemet and Post 1428 in Banning.
The VFW Desert Edge Post 233 in Beaumont has a fundraiser on Sunday, July 21. Harbour-Record Post 2266 in San Jacinto holds regular public events that serve and recognize veterans and their families.
The American Legion San Jacinto Auxiliary Unit 848 presented awards to its outstanding members. The honorees included Buddy Jackson and George Evans Jr. as Life Saving Contributors for donating blood, Kathy Dipple and Mary Lou Schnittker as Volunteers of the Year, Toni Lou Gordon as Auxiliary Member of the Year and Kyra Schneider as Officer of the Year.
âWe recognized and awarded 70 recipients within 21 categories,â said auxiliary President Renee Johnson. âWe also presented a special award to J.R. Tofte, the Veteransâ Day Out commander for organizing the best program of the year.â
In April, Tofte invited disabled veterans from the VA hospital in Loma Linda to spend a day at the post visiting with members, eating lunch and playing games. The event was such a success that Tofte vowed to plan something for the veterans in Loma Linda every couple of months.
On Saturday, July 20, he will have a barbecue at Loma Linda with some financial support from American Idle Motorcycles.
âThis time itâs in honor of the veterans who canât travel,â Johnson said. âWe are planning on being there at 10 a.m. to prepare the chicken, hot dogs, hamburgers and sausages with dessert being donated by My Mamaâs Pizza in Hemet.â
Johnson said volunteers are welcome and the public is invited to help. They plan to feed 150 people at 11:30 a.m.
âWe want to show our appreciation to the veterans and help keep patriotism alive in our country,â she said.
For more information, call 951-487-1664.
VFW Desert Edge Post 233 in Beaumont will host its sixth annual charity golf tournament at Sun Lakes Country Club on Sunday. Proceeds will benefit the post, which provides assistance for veterans and active-duty service members.
Golfers can sign up to play for $75, which includes breakfast and lunch and a golf shirt. For non-players who want to be part of the festivities, which includes several opportunity drawings, the cost for lunch is $10. It is only $5 for any VFW member and free for any former POWs.
âThis is our postâs signature fundraiser,â said Ernie Hernandez, public relations officer. âThe other money we raise, such as through our Buddy Poppy donation drive can only be used for our relief programs for veterans, active military and their families.â
He said the golf tournament benefits the post by providing funds to pay utility bills, insurance, building maintenance, office supplies and other operational expenses. Last year they hosted about 60 golfers and hope to increase that amount this year.
For more information, call Joe Metz at 951-845-4713 or Ron Stettler 951-965-2242.
Diane A. Rhodes is a Press-Enterprise correspondent. Reach her at email@example.com


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The Coolest Small Towns In America: Saugatuck
In Budget Travel's fifth-annual celebration of hometown escapes across the USA, we're spotlighting 10 places that somehow pack in more personality than cities triple their size. How? It all comes down to the people.
SAUGATUCK, MICHIGAN (pop. 954)
A lake town where time stands still
One weekend in Saugatuck was all it took for Philippe Quentel. After two days of taking in arts and crafts homes, picket fences, and upper Midwest charm, he made the 140-mile drive back to Chicago, sold his art gallery—then one of the city's largest—and opened Affordably French, right in the heart of Saugatuck (421 Water St., 312/404-4592).
To residents of this sleepy Lake Michigan town, Quentel's story is nothing new. Then again, little in Saugatuck is. Spared the big-box modernization seen by many of its neighbors, it retains a charm from another era. On Butler Street, 70-year-old Saugatuck Drug Store is the source for everything from Kleenex to kites (201 Butler St., 269/857-2300). Chain restaurants are nonexistent. And to get to Saugatuck's white-sand Oval Beach, visitors cross the Kalamazoo on an 1838 hand-cranked chain ferry.
"In old black-and-white pictures, Saugatuck looks just as it does now," says Lindsay Tringali, 31, owner of Bella Vita Spa and Suites, a clean-lined, six-room inn downtown (119 Butler St., bellavitaspa.biz, from $109). "Beyond some fresh paint and paved roads, it never changes."
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MANILA, Philippines -- Police said they have arrested and charged the alleged killer of Dexter Condez, the spokesman of Boracay Island's Ati tribe who was gunned down on February 22.
Chief Supt. Agrimero Cruz Jr., director of Police Regional Office 6, said Wednesday the Aklan police filed murder charges on Tuesday against Daniel Celestino y Laserna with the office of Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Ronaldo Ingente.
"Our investigators gathered strong evidence from witnesses that it was Celestino who shot dead Condez," Cruz said. "It's now up to the court to prove the guilt of the suspect. We've an airtight case against him. At our level, the murder of Dexter Condez is already solved."
However, he added, "our investigation … does not stop with the arrest and filing of a murder case against the culprit because it is our objective to also nail down the mastermind in the killing."
Condez, 27, was killed in Barangay Manoc-Manoc after attending a meeting of the Boracay Ati Tribe Organization in Barangay Balabag.
Manoc-Manoc is where members of the organization formed by Boracay's original inhabitants have been awarded 2.1 hectares through a Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title, which is being contested by private claimants.


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The most stressful night of the year for many people might well be New Year's Eve.
So many options, so many people to see, so many places to go; that's not including your own living room and a pile of movies, which might seem like the most compelling choice. One of the biggest parties is already sold out, however; the Gatsby Gala at the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald hit its limit on Dec. 4. To be helpful, we've compiled a list of other possible gigs to check out, some of which might bankrupt you for the month, others well within your budget. Remember to stay safe while having fun.
Let's start with the obvious choice, the City of Edmonton's own new year's celebration. The free shindig kicks off at 7 p.m. in City Hall, then moves to a full slate of live entertainment and plenty of family activities at 9:15 p.m. in Churchill Square. Fireworks? You've got it; they'll be set off at midnight.
Not only are Edmonton's Switches breaking their hiatus to get back together for a new year's show, they're also releasing a new tape that night. The four-piece will be opening up for another band that you may have heard of — The Wet Secrets — over at 9910, 9910B 109th St.; doors are at 9 p.m., tickets $30, available in advance from Blackbyrd Myoozic, 10442 Whyte Ave. Royal Tusk, Thrillhouse and Norell are setting up shop just a few blocks over at Denizen Hall, 10311 103rd Ave. Tickets are $15 to $20, available from Yeglive) or Blackbyrd Myoozic, 10442 Whyte Ave.
Internationally acclaimed salsa artist Giro Lopez and JMIEL headline this year's Latin New Year's Eve at the Delta Edmonton South Ballroom, 4404 Gateway Blvd, with Son Bachata and Marco Claveria opening. The party starts at 6 p.m. for those investing in a dinner ticket as well, and at 9 p.m. for those wishing only to dance; they're $60 to $99, available from Tix on the Square, 780-420-1757. Upstairs in the same hotel they'll be celebrating a Jazz New Year's at the Top of the Inn with the Sandro Dominelli-led Swing Kings Band starting at 5:30 p.m.; tickets are $125 and include a four-course meal. They're also available at Tix on the Square.
Edmonton rockabilly revivalists Sam Spades are at Blues on Whyte in the Commercial Hotel, 10329 82nd Ave. The action starts at 9 p.m., tickets are $20 to $25, available in advance from the club or at the door.
Beatles cover band the Fab Four offer two shows at the River Cree, 300 East Lapotac Blvd., one at 6 p.m. and one at 10 p.m. Tickets are $39.50 to $59.50, available in advance from the casino gift shop or from the website).
New Year's Eve is already sold out at the Blue Chair, where the Rault Brothers and Dave Babcock are taking care of the entertainment portion of the evening, but there are still seats available to ring in the year with guitar hero Bobby Cameron at Big Al's House of Blues, 15004 Yellowhead Trail. Plenty of ticket options include some with dinner and champagne, and they start at $50, available from Yeglive). The musical portion of the evening starts at 9 p.m.
For a more down-home way to celebrate the evening, head to Cook County Saloon, 8010 Gateway Blvd, and check out Alberta-raised country singer Drew Gregory. Tickets are $20, available at the door or from the website; doors are at 9 p.m. If you prefer to avoid Whyte, head to the Draft Country Nightclub, 12912 50th St., where Ontario's Roger West will be laying down the twang. Tickets are $15 to $20, available from the bar.
On the Rocks, 11740 Jasper Ave., promises a three-band bill starting at 9 p.m., featuring Murder City Sparrows, Owls By Nature and Jellybean. Tickets are $25, available at the door or in advance from Yeglive. A much more intimate and rocking new year's is happening at the Black Dog, 10425 Whyte Ave., where The Velveteins and Calgary's Fever Feel are booked for the evening. Tickets are $15, available at the Dog, festivities start around 7 p.m. Just down the road at the Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave., are garage-rockers Betrayers and The King of Champagne Pop himself, Jom Comyn. Tickets are nearly gone for this show; they're asking $25, available at the bar, make sure to get there for 9 p.m. or just after.
They're only asking for $5 on the north side of the river at Bohemia, 10217 97th St., where Pyramid//Indigo, Bong Sample, Conjure and more are slated to play, starting at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the door. An even more amazing deal can be found at McDougall United Church, 10086 101st St., where they'll be opening the doors at 7:30 p.m. for a free concert including acts the Ben Sures Trio, Le Fuzz, Mohsin Zaman, Maria Dunn Trio and more. Kids will enjoy the face painting, crafts and clowning; just be sure to bring along a non-perishable food item or donation to the Edmonton Food Bank. The show ends at 10:30 p.m., leaving you lots of time to catch the fireworks.
The Century Casino, 13103 Fort Road, is going with some classic Canadian rock on new year's, with Kenny Shields and Streetheart. The action starts at 9:15 p.m., tickets are $83.95, available from Ticketmaster, 780-451-8000.
Taiki Nulight and Brooklyn's Space Jesus are among the DJs booked for the Starlite Room's UBK NYE celebration. Doors are at 9 p.m., tickets are $25 to $40, available at the website. For those who want to rock, the Rendezvous Pub, 10108 149th St., hosts Medical Pilot, Bad Communicators and Eastern Skies for $10 to $15, tickets available in advance from the bar or at the door. Doors are at 8 p.m., music at 9 p.m.
A more family-friendly event involving waterslides, wave pools and fireworks is happening at West Edmonton Mall's World Waterpark; it starts at 6 p.m., ends at midnight, and single tickets are $30 to $45, available at the website or from Guest Services in the mall.


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SoC developers and OEMs can benefit from a reference implementation of low-level secure world software known as ARM Trusted Firmware.
This software is available as open source on GitHub and includes trusted boot and a secure runtime that takes care of the switching between the non-secure (non-trusted) and secure (trusted) worlds using Secure Monitor Code Calling Convention (SMCCC). ARM Trusted Firmware can be integrated with a commercial or open source trusted OS to create a TEE.
To aid the system designer in creating a TrustZone based TEE, ARM has created a number of documents, reference software and training courses. These documents include:
- Trusted Base System Architecture (TBSA)
- Trusted Board Boot Requirements (TBBR)
- TrustZone Media Protection Architecture (TZMP)
To get access to these documents please make a request via your account manager or FAE.
TrustZone technology for microcontrollers (Cortex-M)
ARMv8-M architecture extends TrustZone technology to Cortex-M class systems enabling robust levels of protection at all cost points. TrustZone for ARMv8-M has the same high-level features as TrustZone on applications processors with the key benefit that context switching between secure and non-secure worlds is done in hardware for faster transitions and greater power efficiency. There is no need for any secure monitor software.
Embedded software developers enhance their productivity by developing TrustZone systems using C language while maintain the existing programmer's model for the non-secure side. Debug operations are also supported with sensitivity to access to the secure vs the non-secure states.
TrustZone for Cortex-M is used to protect firmware, peripheral and I/O, as well as provide isolation for secure boot, trusted update and root of trust implementations while providing the deterministic real-time response expected for embedded solutions.
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