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We're going to give you the chance to get a taste of the future by letting you enter to win a Starfleet TR-580 Tricorder VII--straight from the bridge of the Enterprise NCC-1701-D! Well. Straight from the bridge set. This Tricorder comes to us via The Prop Store, so it's not a functioning item, unless you count instantly raising your geek cred a function.
This Tricorder was actually used during the filming of of Star Trek: The Next Generation. So it's a little beaten up. By that we mean scuffed up, with taped-on images and some scratches. Think about it, though. Patrick Stewart might have held this Tricorder. LeVar Burton and Wil Wheaton might have, too. That makes the scuffs and the scotch tape special.
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If the technology of the 24th century and a geeky shopping spree is not our thing, do not despair! The runner up will win the tablet-phone of the present: a 16GB Samsung Galaxy Note 4G Android Phone in Carbon Blue. Disclaimer: You'll have to provide your own mobile contract, and subspace communication frequencies will not be available for at least a couple hundred years.
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In response to 'Captain Phillips' Movie Sucked:
I had that thought about the "drawn out, long, boring" part of the film – it seemed like the sort of narrative lint trap fiction writers would avoid. You don't put together a movie about the hijacking of a huge cargo ship and then dump the audience into a tiny lifeboat for 45 minutes. You want SEAL Team Six parachuting right onto that cargo ship and fighting a deadly cat-and-mouse battle against the wily and capable terrorists, at least one of whom should know kung fu. And if the hero of the story doesn't polish off the head terrorist by throwing him off the bridge, leaving him paralyzed on impact and subsequently crushed by cargo container sliding around in rough seas, you're doing it wrong.
But of course, that's not what really happened. The movie was faithful enough to reality to embrace the dramatic flaws imposed upon the narrative by history. Which makes the points where it did edit history to preserve its narrative doubly annoying. As I mentioned previously, enough of the Maersk Alabama crew's blowback against "Captain Phillips" is supported by documentation to make the entire enterprise deeply suspect as a historical document. I'm not necessarily inclined to take everything said by either the crew or the Captain on faith, but a lot of what the crew is saying doesn't have to be taken on faith – they can prove it.
Which makes me feel a bit cheated for having enjoyed a good deal of the film, including some very watchable work from Tom Hanks. I saw it with some friends who knew the general outlines of how Phillips was rescued, but still gasped in astonishment when they saw it happen in the film (an element of the production which, as far as I know, was reasonably accurate.) I found myself thinking, "I hope to God SEAL Team Six never finds it necessary to erase me," but took comfort in the knowledge that I probably wouldn't feel a thing.
To each their own – this wasn't a brain-melting roller-coaster ride like "Gravity," but I like slow-burn tension too.

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Artemis, the Flemish network for professional women, closes the season with an 'Academy' session on Creative Storytelling. FINN is invited to speak about the importance of storytelling in PR.
Other speakers include Sylvie Verleye who will share her insights on corporate presentations and the gentlemen from Bedenk who will provide the audience with a 'Creativity Boost'.
The seminar closes with a dinner and networking on the tunes of the female DJ duo L-Fêtes.
Where & When?
The Dominican, Brussels, 10 June 2016, 1-10pm
Info & tickets
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UT Professor Julius Vancso has been appointed as Consulting Professor at Donghua University in Shanghai. He recently gave his inaugural lecture, entitled 'Polymer-surface interactions from the molecular perspective by AFM force spectroscopy'.
Vancso is Professor of Material Science and Technology of Polymers at the MESA+ institute for nanotechnology at the University of Twente and has been attached to the UT since 1994. His appointment further strengthens the UT's position in the international network in the field of smart materials.
"Increasingly, the research projects we undertake have an international dimension, with knowledge sharing with international partners also being an important requirement for financing", according to Vancso, who is also Associate Professor of Material Science at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. "The international network in which we operate is becoming increasingly relevant in that respect. By strengthening our partnership with Donghua, we can also apply this element to our research projects effectively."
The collaboration that will flow from Vancso's appointment at Donghua University entails a stronger focus on the areas of both research and education. A number of doctoral candidates will carry out research, partly in Twente and partly in China. It will also bolster the fast-track international master's programme in chemical engineering.
Donghua University, established in 1951, has a long and rich history in textiles. Vancso: "They excel in the industrial application of textiles, and fibres as a strengthening material for composites. That aligns closely with the research we carry out at the UT, for example, in the field of responsive and smart materials. There is also a strong connection to the developments on which we work together with TPRC." Six professors from the Chinese university, all from Vansco's group, have already obtained their PhDs at the University of Twente.
Photo: Qing Fengling, Vice President of Donghua University and Prof Julius Vancso.


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Curated by Steven and William. This exhibition is part of PLUS ONE CURATION SERIES
Surrounding themselves with people and places they love has always been important to Steven and William Ladd. Their initial encounter with The Invisible Dog was love at first sight. The space brought back childhood fantasies of exploring caves, old buildings, and nature. Buckets and barrels filled with trinkets and trimmings left behind from a defunct belt factory lined the floors. Lucien Zayan, envisioning the spirit of the future art space, commissioned them to utilize these materials and create a chandelier for the ground floor gallery. This commission blossomed into a friendship and opened the doors to a professional collaboration – from curating The Invisible Store to curating their first art show.
Steven and William have chosen "Obstacle" as the theme of the exhibition; born from the idea of an obstacle course – something to challenge the body and demand attention in the present. They approached artists and asked them to investigate the work they were making, and how the work relates to obstacles. The Perfect Storm, by Sally French, deals with the loss of her home during the housing crisis. Chris Astley explores force, pressure and weight with concrete forms. In the case of artists Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares, they literally confront theirs with a running start. Steven and William collaborated with their sister Bee Ladd's education program at PS 58, Project Lab. They spent two weeks talking about obstacles and making art with over 400 students. Art-education has always been an important way for them to give back to the community and to encourage future artists.


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Рубрика: Linkin Park
02.07.2005 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum Of Art
© 2005 Linkin Park / WMG
00:00 . Crawling
03:22 . Somewhere I Belong
07:01 . Breaking The Habit
11:58 . In The End
15:12 . Public Service Announcement w/ Jay-Z
16:23 . Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You w/ Jay-Z
20:28 . Big Pimpin'/Papercut w/ Jay-Z
23:00 . Jigga What/Faint w/ Jay-Z
26:36 . Numb/Encore w/ Jay-Z
Show Notes:
'Crawling' featured a very short version of the Reanimated intro to start the song.
The band learned a song that was new to them, 'Public Service Announcement', for the show so that they could give Jay-Z the proper introduction that he needed.
Jay-Z joined Linkin Park to perform the last 5 tracks.
Jay-Z accidentally messed up 'Big Pimpin/Papercut', going into a verse right when LP has finished their part, when instead, he was supposed to be going into the chorus. The touchup was fixed on the LPUnderground 5.0 CD.
Other Notes:
The event was broadcasted live on TV worldwide. However, no audience recordings from the show is known.
'In The End' and 'Numb/Encore' from this show were released on the official 'Live 8' DVD.
'Somewhere I Belong', 'Breaking The Habit', 'Public Service Announcement', 'Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You', 'Big Pimpin'/Papercut' and 'Jigga What/Faint' from this show were released on the 'LP Underground 5.0' CD. Jay-Z's lyrical mistake on 'Big Pimpin'/Papercut' was fixed up, as mentioned before. Chester's voice was edited with effects on "Trying to bend the truth, lying my way from you" before the 1st and 3rd chorus of 'Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You'. It's badly mastered for an official CD and sounds distorted.
It was said that Mike, or even the entire band, was going to collab with The Roots for a song or two, but nothing ever came out of it for some reason.
The band was invited to perform at the event by Bono from U2, who called Mike personally at his house.
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There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.
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Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
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Fans of the defunct alternative rock band R.E.M. shouldn't hold their breath for a reunion. Though the group decided to "call it a day as a band" on good terms, bassist Mike Mills recently told Rolling Stone that the chances of them getting back together is likely not in the cards.
"We said we're done and we're done," he said. "If we honestly thought there was a chance of a reunion tour, we might have said so at the time. The idea of breaking up and not reforming for a reunion tour is kind of attractive to us. I doubt you'll see us touring as R.E.M. again."
R.E.M. released their final studio album, Collapse Into Now, in 2011 just seven months before they split. Currently the trio is working with their record company to re-release 1988's Green album.


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WASHINGTON — After doggedly opposing the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2010, then fighting all last year to change its composition, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce softened its stance Thursday.
The bureau was a key element of the Dodd-Frank Act, the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulation since the Great Depression. Republicans spent much of last year blocking the Obama administration's efforts to confirm a director for the new agency.
President Barack Obama then used a controversial recess appointment Jan. 4 to install Richard Cordray as its director and to put three new commissioners on the National Labor Relations Board. There'd been intense speculation that the Chamber of Commerce would challenge the legality of those appointments. It raised the question of legality in a harsh statement last week.
On Thursday, however, Thomas Donohue, the CEO of the powerful organization, told reporters that "we are not going to sue today." In toned-down rhetoric, the often-cantankerous Donohue repeated reservations that the new consumer agency has insufficient congressional oversight since it's funded by the Federal Reserve and not appropriations-controlled by lawmakers, but he pledged a wait-and-see approach.
"One has to see what he (Cordray) does and what the three new guys at the NLRB do," Donohue said, adding that the Chamber of Commerce could yet decide to challenge the appointments. "We have not taken a decision on that at all."
Critics of the recess appointments contend that they were made while Congress technically was still in session — even though most members were out of town for the holidays — thus invalidating them.
The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion Jan. 6 at the request of the White House that said so-called "pro forma sessions" of the Senate didn't constitute legitimate sessions that would preclude presidential recess appointments.
"Although the Senate will have held pro forma sessions regularly from January 3 through January 23, in our judgment those sessions do not interrupt the intrasession recess in a manner" that would prevent recess appointments, the opinion said. "Thus, the president has the authority under the Recess Appointments Clause (of the Constitution) to make appointments during this period."
The Chamber of Commerce's subdued approach to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — created to protect against the sort of abusive and shoddy lending for mortgages, cars and payday loans that helped cause the 2008 financial crisis — is noteworthy. In August 2010, it immediately challenged another key element of the regulatory overhaul that would've allowed dissident shareholders to run their own slates of candidates for seats on corporate boards.
The Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable joined forces, hiring lawyer Eugene Scalia, the son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to challenge the new rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission. A three-judge District of Columbia appeals panel vacated the SEC's "boardroom democracy" rules last July, and the SEC said in September that it wouldn't seek a rehearing.
Shortly after Donohue spoke Thursday, across town Cordray held his first news conference and also struck a conciliatory tone, noting that he'd already met with Donohue twice.
"I am a member of my local Chamber of Commerce in Grove City, Ohio; have been for 20 years," said Cordray, a former Ohio attorney general and state treasurer, adding that he established a business advisory council in Ohio and is sensitive to the challenges that business owners face. "I know it's not easy to run a business and be successful."
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's members benefit from effective policing of lending and a better-educated consumer, Cordray said, adding that the new consumer agency will put great emphasis on promoting financial literacy. The agency on Wednesday announced new rules for examining non-bank lending, which hadn't been regulated federally before the finance overhaul passed.
State of American Business address
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Economists aren't very hopeful about 2012
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By Rakia Selmi
Tunis, Tunisia, Oct. 31, 2016 (TAP) – After 16 years Sabri is still waiting in line to rent an apartment from Tunis's Ministry of Social Affairs' Retirement and Social Protection Fund. A dedicated public servant for over 45 years, Sabri was eligible to receive an apartment available only to citizens and public servants whose income does not exceed $500 a month.
But getting a subsidized flat has been an uphill struggle.
"Every time I apply my request is rejected with a claim that there are no available apartments, even though I meet all the requirements. Every time they say no my hopes are dashed and I feel as I have been wronged."
Terms of Renting Social Housing
A memorandum issued on March 19 2013 updated the qualifications for assigning and distributing government controlled apartments: Under new regulations, a renter must be a participant in the Retirement and Social Protection Fund. They must not own a personal, separate home, and neither must their spouse. Said spouse must also not contribute more than 40% of their shared monthly income nor make use of pension funds for their own ends.
Though this state-subsidized housing project was intended to assist middle-class families, this investigation has documented otherwise. It has exposed loopholes in renting criteria such as registration seniority or urgent need along the lines of what happened to a single female employees who only waited for six months to get a flat after she joined the public service. Others have had the opportunity to exploit apartments for many years, contrary to the five year period set in the terms of the law. Other tenants gave the provided apartment to their children or sub-let it to a friend.
The act of waiting has been a shared experience for both Sabri and Salwa. Salwa, a widow of fifty years and a mother of four, has been waiting for fifteen years. Salwa confirmed that she did not miss one meeting of the committee in charge of allocating these flats since ten years. The committee meets whenever it has three vacant flats that can be assigned. This committee is responsible for examining the lease requests and assigning housing to eligible applicants according to the seniority of the application registration, income level and social status.
Among other things, this investigation revealed abuses such as exceeding by three times the legal five-year limit for renting each flat. Out of 2,854 homes investigated, a hundred homes had far exceeded their lawful stay. Flats also went to retirees, ministers, directors, and owners of other real estate properties in violation of the criteria. All this is allowed to continue because of weakness in follow-up mechanisms, tenant's disrespect of leasing terms and weak legal proceedings to implement court orders.
Nearly 500 applicants are on the Waiting List
The situation of Sabri and Salwa resemble those of hundreds of applicants waiting for years to obtain an apartment. In 2015 alone, the department received 484 applications for apartment rental in Greater Tunis and the Govern orates of Tunis, Ariana, Ben Arouss and Manouba. Those applications had been validated and ranked according to priority. The allocations committee only had 20 vacant apartments nation-wide for the total applicants.
The clear contrast between free apartments and demand for such apartments, according to Farid Sirsar, an official involved in the decision making within the Retirement and Social Protection Fund, shows that respect of the principle of apartment rotation, the essence of this project, is not being respected. The fund organized this project in the 1970s.
Ibrahim Al-Baraki, assistant to the Fund's director, pointed out that the Fund was not created by a ministerial or legal ruling. It was set up by the board of directors of the Fund to provide decent housing to government employees whose work exposed them to constant movement and travel within Tunisia.
Despite repeated attempts to obtain a copy of the Board of Directors draft resolution, this reporter failed to get it due to recent administration changes. Al-Baraki explained that the stipulations had not changed from the outset, and that the five-year term of lease and rotation should be respected.
Between vacant apartments and others inhabited by the wrong beneficiaries, or by persons who have exceeded their lease terms, applicants seeking flats and officers working for the Fund to inform the Fund of these irregularities remain aware of these abuses. But these officers are often not informing the Fund officials of the violations they have monitored, leaving those like Sabri waiting in vain while other violating tenants are not followed up on.
The reporter prepared a questionnaire to identify families living in these houses lawfully and illegally because she could not get access to information to protect the secrecy of privacy. She needed to measure the extent of compliance with lease terms.
She distributed 100 questionnaires among a random sample of tenants in those across Tunisia, using the criteria for renting out these flats as a baseline. Most have been living in these flats for 15 years, the poll showed. The results also showed that 5% of the renters obtained their apartment from the original renter or a relative in clear violation of the terms of the leases.
Kamal Shouykh, a Fund director, acknowledged these abuses and explained it largely as "illegal". He said these excesses have aggravated the suffering of many families on the waiting list. He added that the growing demand for these apartments was due to their privileged position in key cities and the capital, especially with low maintenance and leasing fees compared to prices offered on the free market.
The reporter found that 40% of the residents of these flats are residents of the same area where these flats are based in violation with the terms that stipulate that beneficiaries have to come from other towns.
Most Apartments do not mention Terms of Lease
The rent ranges for these apartments go between 210 to 850 Tunisian dinars depending on the size of the apartment and the neighborhood. Meanwhile, service fees range from 160 to 600 Tunisian dinars.
A candidate for one of these apartments is required to have been enrolled at the Fund for two years and have been a direct government employee rather than a contractor. In addition, family status and application seniority are taken into account along with the candidate's health and social situations. But the journalist found that tens of occupants had reached retirement age and were not members of the Fund.
However contrary to candidate requirements and the goals of the housing project as were announced by the President of the People's Congress Mohammed Nasser at it's inception in 1979, the survey has shown that currently less than 26% of polled occupants are earning less than 1,000 Tunisian dinars a month, thus meeting the lease criteria. Over 34% earned more than the minimum salary.
Parliament President Mohammed Nasser, who was minister of social development when the fund was launched, said that this "housing experiment" targeting the over 166,000 state officials who are members in the Fund, was "to help low-income officials live in decent homes".
These flats were owned by the Fund, and were built during the French colonization. The number of these flats has risen to 2800 from 52 at the onset of the project.
Behind the Abuses: Poor Oversight and Lack of Human Resources
The continued abuse of these flats is caused by weak follow-up mechanisms and a limited number of officers in charge of reporting abuses to the Fund.And though here have been discussions to appoint more officials to oversee these apartments and speed up the changeover of tenants, Shoykh admitted that further administration efficiency is needed to challenge the existing abuses. He also said the Fund would soon employ five new officers, raising the number to 18, to supervise 25 areas.
Despite the fact that there is follow up such as daily check up on the tenants by these officers and on complaints registered with the Fund ,"the violators are there and we cannot only count on those officers," he said.
He said that the Fund launches five annual inspection campaigns to see who is observing tenant rules. During these campaigns, tenants are asked to provide proof that they or their wives do not own other private property. Violators are referred to court, he said. Since the 2011 revolution, these campaigns have ended the illegal residency of two ministers, said the head of the Fund, Mohammed Sharif.
The directory of disputes looks at 60 cases filed against violating tenants every year. But since the revolution, the inspection process had been drastically cut to 20 cases a year. In 2015, 18 tenants were ordered to leave their flats, mostly in the capital, compared to 16 in 2014 and 26 in 2013.
The official in charge of disputes at the Fund said that continued violations necessitate "stricter control over tenants to check the changes that are constantly occurring". He blamed difficulties in follow up on shortage of manpower, including control officers.
In addition, there is lack of coordination with other departments such as the land registration department and the Central Bank which can identify tenants who own property or have taken residential loans. This is impacting the Fund's role in surveillance.
According to Director General of the Fund Mohammed Sharif, the fund is currently in the process of setting up a new program to reduce these abuses and end decades of offences under a campaign to be launched soon. The campaign will verify tenant compliance with the terms of contracts signed.
The Fund will insist on closer coordination with both the Central Bank and the Land Registration Department as the data they possess can allow the Fund to cancel the lease contract of violators. In the past, many violations were tolerated to avoid taking politically sensitive decisions in a country in transition. But this will not continue, he said.
While waiting for the Fund's new campaign to take effect, Sabri,Salwa and hundreds of others must cope with a decline in the purchasing power of most Tunisians in the hope that the Fund will break some good news.
The investigation's results from field research into a hundred residents:
|Irregularities recorded by the survey results
|Terms of the Contract
|Results proved that the overall sample of people interviewed resided in their housing for more than 15 years, or 5 times the allowed period. Overall, the survey showed that:
Clause 2 of the lease contract provides that "the agreement between the two parties shall last for two years initially and run for a maximum of five years from start to end. At five year's end, the tenant relinquishes and loses any rights to the housing, after which the Fund may remove them in favour of other applicants."
|Clause 7 of the lease contract states that "The tenant is not permitted to pass on the property to their children or delegate or loan residing rights to a third party, even on a temporary or free basis." It also states that "The tenant bears all responsibility for compensation regardless of justification if he assumed the housing ahead of a more deserving applicant or undertaken any action to keep it."
|Clause 21 – This Contract will be unconditionally terminated in the following cases:
This investigation was completed with support from Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) www.arij.net and coached by Dr. Mark Hunter and Bahija Belmabrouk.


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Washington D.C., June 7 (CNA) Washington Nationals right-hander Chien-Ming Wang was unable to keep the ball in the strike zone and struggled despite only yielding two runs in Washington Thursday in a 3-1 loss to the New York Mets. "Obviously, the results were not good for the team and not good for me, so there are a lot of things I need to improve on and adjust," Wang, one of Taiwan's most celebrated athletes, said through an interpreter after suffering his second straight loss against one win. "The biggest thing is, I [was behind on the count]. I need to get better. I need to throw more strikes and get the batters out," he was quoted as saying on the team's website. Wang said his problems resulted from being unable to keep the ball in the strike zone consistently, and the two-out two-run homer by Lucas Duda he allowed in the fifth was the result of a sinker that stayed up. In his second start of the season, Wang gave up eight hits and three walks in 5 1/3 innings. Of his 84 pitches, 51 were for strikes, a reflection of how hard he had to work just to get out of innings. After retiring the Mets on three straight groundouts in the first inning, he loaded the bases in each of the next two innings but made it through unscathed after getting a groundout to end the second and a double play ball to close out the third. Wang's ERA actually improved to 5.11, and Nationals manager Davey Johnson felt it could fall further if the 32-year-old former New York Yankee could regain his consistency. "He's having a little problem, he gets to the side of the ball. He doesn't stay on top of it. Sometimes he gets out of the slot that he needs to be in. When he stays in that slot, his stuff is outstanding. It's just a consistency thing with him," Johnson said. (By Tony Liao, Lin Hung-han and Jamie Wang) enditem/ls
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So I'm in Regina for a half-day workshop with SPC and happen to glance in a store window as I'm walking down 13th Avenue, and what do I see? Anthology magazine – mere days after stumbling upon their website and desperately wanting a subscription. So I stepped in, grabbed it off the stand, and went immediately to the cash register.
Only after I had it safely tucked in my bag, did I happen take a look around the store – oh so many pretty things! Paper Umbrella is my new favourite store.
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THEY were the gangs who brought violence and terror to the streets of inner-city Birmingham.
Young thugs behind a crimewave of murder, riots, robberies and knife attacks that often left the police powerless – and saw locals too scared to venture outside after dark.
The gangs were split across district or neighbourhood boundary lines and thought nothing of mercilessly attacking a rival who encroached into their area.
It sounds like a description of modern-day Birmingham, where the Burger Bar Boys and Johnson Crew have been behind killings and violence.
In fact, this was the city in around 1870, when young criminals like the Peaky Blinders and the Sloggers ruled the streets.
A fascinating new book has shone a light on the murky world of youth crime in Victorian Birmingham, offering many parallels with the problems faced by the city today.
Philip Gooderson, author of The Gangs of Birmingham, reveals how 'something sinister' happened to West Midlands society during the boom years of the Industrial Revolution.
"While the wider Victorian public basked in the glories of Empire, the great cities of the Industrial Revolution became breeding grounds for violent young gangs of a kind never seen before," he said.
"They emerged from overcrowded slums and tenements, where life was held cheap, many died in infancy and only the Poor Law provided a safety net against poverty and old age.
"Violence was part of the day-to-day existence and came from all directions. One way to cope was to band together, perhaps first with brothers and sisters, then later with fellow workers and neighbourhood friends."
One of the first criminal groups to emerge in inner-city Brum was the Cheapside Slogging gang.
A newspaper report in spring 1872 revealed how '400 roughs' brought indiscriminate violence to the area, smashing windows, stealing from shops and attacking store owners or locals who tried to intervene.
"The rioters remained in the neighbourhood for some time, terrorising passers-by," reported our sister paper, the Birmingham Mail.
"A small body of police was sent to deal with them and the Slogging Gang quickly retreated to Cheapside.
"The officers dispersed the gang, making three arrests, including two very poor youths of no fixed home. One admitted to breaking glass and stealing herrings from the Market hall and the other to breaking the windows of a house and of St Jude's Church."
Sloggers eventually became a generic term for young hoodlums and slogging for street fighting, an activity that took place on a regular basis in the city centre areas of Birmingham.
But many of the other gangs were named after areas their members had grown up in, including the Gun Quarter, Garrisons Lane, Ten Arches and Bishop Ryders.
The Whitehouse Street gang were based in Aston – the haunt of the Johnson Street Crew today.
They were led by feared thug James Grindrod who lived a life of violence and crime in his youth. He was eventually jailed in 1882, along with a young lieutenant, for attacking a rival.
William 'Bowey' Beard was a leader of the equallyviolent Digbeth Gang and carried knife scars on his face as a testament to his lengthy criminal activities and many street battles.
Many of the gang names and their leaders became infamous during the late 19th Century – but none more so than The Peaky Blinders.
The Adderley Street-based gang emerged in the Bordesley and Small Heath areas, a particularly deprived part of the city in 19th century Birmingham.
Unlike their rivals, The Peaky Blinders had a carefully stylised image; bell bottom trousers, a silk 'daff' or scarf twisted round their necks and tied at the end, and a flat cap tilted on their head.
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Other Peakies included baby-faced Harry Fowles, Ernest Haynes and Stephen McNickle, who were all jailed for petty theft after being arrested by the under-pressure police.
The girlfriends or 'molls' of the gang were also easy to spot.
According to contemporary reports, they wore a "lavish display of pearls, the well-developed fringe obscuring the whole of the forehead and descending nearly to the eyes, and the characteristic gaudy-coloured silk handkerchief covering her throat."
Peaky Blinders were said to be as violent to their girls as they were to other boys, with one moll confessing: "He'll pinch and punch you every time he walks out with you. And if you speak to another chap, he don't mind kicking you."
The decline of the gangs towards the turn of the 20th Century coincided with the decline of the city centre population. Families had been steadily moving out to surrounding boroughs in search of a healthier and more peaceful existence, away from the heavy industry and the high crime rates.
The emergence of the fledging football teams in the city, Aston Villa and Birmingham City (originally called as Small Heath Alliance), was also seen a healthier alternative for young men to express their tribal loyalties, until hooliganism reared its head many later.
Today, most of the names of those Victorian gangs have been forgotten, although Peaky Blinders – the hoodies of their day – still live on as a term in some areas for young troublemakers. Retired schoolteacher Mr Gooderson, whose family originates from Birmingham, said: "The progressive enlargement of the city would increase the difference between territories, but also increase the distance between them.
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Isn't there something strangely reassuring when your eyeballs are gripped by a "mystery" on the news that has no greater meaning and yet sweeps all else away? This, of course, is the essence of the ongoing tale of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Except to the relatives of those on board, it never really mattered what happened in the cockpit that day. To the extent that the plane's disappearance was solvable, the mystery could only end in one of two ways: it landed somewhere (somehow unnoticed, a deep unlikelihood) or it crashed somewhere, probably in an ocean. End of story. It was, however, a tale with thrilling upsides when it came to filling airtime, especially on cable news. The fact that there was no there there allowed for the raising of every possible disappearance trope—from Star Trekkian black holes to the Bermuda Triangle to Muslim terrorists—and it had the added benefit of instantly evoking a popular TV show. It was a formula too good to waste, and wasted it wasn't.
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According to the Portland Police Bureau Child Abuse Team, at 8:50 a.m. on Feb. 6, a 13-year-old female reported that a man approached her using sexually explicit language and inappropriately touched her in a TriMet bus shelter, located at North Dekum Street and Durham Avenue. The victim was waiting for the bus to go to school. The suspect was caught on TriMet surveillance video shortly after the incident.
During the investigation, detectives learned of a similar incident that occurred on Jan, 23, 2014, at approximately 8:46 a.m. In this incident, a 14-year-old girl reported that a man sat next to her on a TriMet bus and made sexually explicit comments and inappropriately touched her in the area of North Woolsey Avenue and Trenton Street.
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LeBron James Apologized To His Wife For Being Too "Addicted" To Greatness
LeBron James is addicted to being the best basketball player to ever walk the earth. He has spent almost a decade and a half now playing in the NBA, and even though he's slowly creeping closer and closer to the end of his career, he still puts in the time and effort that's necessary when you're chasing the ghost of Michael Jordan like LeBron has said he's doing in the past. If anything, LeBron has to work even harder now than he used to because he can no longer rely on simply being more athletic than everyone else in the league. He has to use a combination of his physical and mental tools to set himself apart from his competitors.
In order to continue to get better, LeBron spends the majority of his "free" time working on his craft. And during an appearance on the Road Trippin' podcast this week, he said that he actually spends so much time on it that he recently apologized to his wife Savannah. It seems he feels guilty about putting his family life on the back burner for basketball, so he wanted to say sorry to her for making the sport his priority more often than not.
"I am addicted to the process," he said. "It's so funny. I just told my wife the other day, I apologized to her. She was like, 'What are you apologizing for?' I said, 'Because the journey that I'm on to want to be the greatest to ever play this game or to the point where no one ever forgets what I accomplished, I've at times lost the fact of how important you are to this whole thing…I want you to understand that along this journey while I'm playing this game, there will be times that I lose the fact of how important you and my three kids are—my babies are."
LeBron didn't say how his wife reacted to that, but it's interesting to hear him talk about how he feels his commitment to greatness has negatively impacted other aspects of his life. All indications are that LeBron is great dad and husband, but it's clear he also feels he's had to shortchange his family in certain situations in order to get better on the basketball court.
This is yet another reminder that professional athletes are, in many ways, just like the rest of us. They may have millions of dollars, fancy cars, and big houses, but deep down, they're struggling with the same issues, like life/work balance, that many of us are. It might change the way you look at them and how they go about conducting themselves both on and off the court.


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The other day I was speaking with a friend of mine who happens to be a new Christian. This middle-aged man has a powerful testimony: God has rescued him from a life of worldly pursuits, drugs, alcohol, addictions, broken relationships—you name it. As we spoke of the great things God was doing in His life, he said something absolutely profound and fundamentally biblical. I'll paraphrase him here:
"As I pray and read my Bible everyday, I almost feel as though I'm having to unlearn my former way of life. I'm beginning to rethink everything and to look at things from the Bible's perspective."
Praise God for such alertness and sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. Paul writes in Romans chapter twelve about a "renewing of the mind"—thinking not only the things of God, but thinking about things the way God thinks about them; embracing God's perspective. Today, we are going to examine our perspective on things. We are going to discover if you and I have the need to rethink things and begin to look at them from the Bible's perspective. This lesson will prove irritating for some of you, because the Gospel of Mark is going to teach us things that are quite contrary to the way we have been taught. Our culture teaches us that our interests are the most important, but this lesson is about dismissing our own interests in favor of others. Our culture teaches us that we deserve—indeed are entitled to—the best, but this lesson is about choosing to be last so that others can win. Our culture teaches us that "if we believe it we can achieve it" (or "where there's a will there's a way" or "we can do anything we set our mind to"), but this lesson is about depending on others in acknowledgment that we are unable to do it alone.
En route to correcting his disciples' (and our) perspectives, Jesus will also articulate his second of three Passion Predictions.73 We'll encounter the third and last one in the next lesson. In today's lesson, Jesus challenges His disciples to adjust their perspective in three areas.
A Disciple of Jesus Christ Chooses Insignificance Over Recognition (9:30-37)74
9:30 They went out from there and passed through Galilee. But Jesus did not want anyone to know, 9:31 for he was teaching his disciples and telling them, "The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise." 9:32 But they did not understand this statement and were afraid to ask him.75
9:33 Then they came to Capernaum. When Jesus was in the house he asked them, "What were you discussing on the way?" 9:34 But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. 9:35 After he sat down, he called the twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all." 9:36 He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, 9:37 "Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me."
After the second prediction, the disciples discussed which among them was the greatest. In other words, they still didn't get it! How dense they seem. Jesus is spelling out for them His own future suffering and impending death, and they are preoccupied with comparing themselves with one another in an attempt to discover which is the greatest, the most important, the most significant.
Twice in this lesson, Jesus uses children to teach lessons. The Greek word παιδίον (used in Mark 9:36-37; 10:13-15) often refers to very young children, but can mean children of any age up to early teens, and without regard to parental relationship. In the first century, children were especially regarded as insignificant. They had no power and no status, and were not considered full persons. Thus to embrace a child publicly was to embrace that which was insignificant. Jesus was choosing insignificance by association. In contrast to the discussion the disciples shared about being the greatest, Jesus characterizes "kingdom greatness" by showing them a helpless, self-denying child. Children recognized their own insignificance. Only someone with a true servant's heart—voluntarily taking last place—could receive an insignificant child. Following Christ and denying ourselves involves becoming insignificant because of the Kingdom of God.
I have a friend in full-time ministry named Thomas. He is an influential ministry leader, speaker, writer, etc. He had a marked impact on my life and still does as he heads up a ministry he has been a part of for twenty years now. When you think of Thomas you usually think of a man of integrity, discipline, perseverance, consistency, and family. He works hard in ministry and is actively involved in others' lives. He arrives home each evening to spend time with his children and wife after being away since dawn. When I lived closer to Thomas a number of years ago, his evening routine included something else during the long winter months in Kentucky. He would disappear into his bedroom, and his family all understood why. He would change out of his business casual attire and replace them with coveralls, a hat, and gloves. Then he would walk out the back door, down the alley behind his house, to a house a few hundred yards away. It was the home of Mr. Idsen. Mr. Idsen was an impoverished, physically handicapped, elderly man. While Thomas lived in an average middle-income family home, Mr. Idsen lived in a drafty shack that could hardly be described as a home. There was no electricity, the dirty wooden floors were uneven, and the cracks in the windows and siding permitted the wintry breezes to blow through virtually unrestrained. Each cold winter night Thomas would suit up and journey down to visit briefly with Mr. Idsen. He would find him predictably laying on his twin-sized bed next to the wood-burning stove in the center room of the house. He would ask about the events of the day and inquire about his needs. Then Thomas the ministry leader would step outside to chop firewood for Mr. Idsen. He would carry two or three armloads inside the drafty house—enough to guarantee Mr. Idsen's warmth through the night and the next day. After stoking the fire and reminding Mr. Idsen that the wood is there by the stove if he gets chilly in the middle of the night, Thomas would again head home. Not many people knew the service Thomas rendered to Mr. Idsen. It was a ministry of insignificance.76
What is your ministry of insignificance? Are you fearful for your reputation or your status. Remember, even Jesus, for the joy set before Him, became insignificant and endured the cross for you and me. That's what a disciple of Jesus will do. He chooses insignificance over recognition.
A Disciple of Jesus Christ Chooses Sacrifice Over Selfishness (9:38 - 10:12)
9:38 John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he was not following us." 9:39 But Jesus said, "Do not stop him, because no one who does a miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to say anything bad about me. 9:40 For whoever is not against us is for us.77 9:41 For I tell you the truth, whoever gives you a cup of water because you bear Christ's78 name will never lose his reward.
9:42 "If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone79 tied around his neck and to be thrown into the sea. 9:43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, to the unquenchable fire.80 9:45 If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. 9:47 If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, 9:48 where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched. 9:49 Everyone will be salted with fire. 9:50 Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other."
10:1 Then Jesus left that place and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan River. Again crowds gathered to him, and as was his custom, he again taught them. 10:2 Then some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" 10:3 He answered them, "What did Moses command you?" 10:4 They said, "Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her." 10:5 But Jesus said to them, "He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts. 10:6 But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female. 10:7 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, 10:8 and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 10:9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."
10:10 In the house once again, the disciples asked him about this. 10:11 So he told them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. 10:12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."81
Notice that John describes the person as not following "us." Clearly, he has selfish motives in this text. We learned about denying ourselves in the previous lesson and redirecting our allegiance onto Christ; this week we learn to deny ourselves in consideration of others. The main message of this passage is self-denial or sacrifice over selfishness and self-allegiance. The kingdom of God belongs to those who sacrifice.
I'm going to zero in on Jesus' illustration. I believe that the reason Jesus teaches against divorce in this context is to portray divorce as a purely selfish act. He begins by correcting John's selfishness and affirming any who sacrifice for the name of Christ (9:39-41). He transitions to talk about selfless living around others so as to prevent them from stumbling and one's willingness to sacrifice life and limb for the Kingdom (9:42-48). Salt, Jesus says, at times represents judgment upon people (9:49). But the salt of selflessness and sacrifice is the secret to "peace with each other" (9:50). The very next line begins the pericope on divorce. No one in antiquity spoke out against divorce more strongly than Jesus does here.
Several weeks ago I visited another church with some friends to celebrate the dedication of their child. Much can be learned about a church just from its bulletin. But as I read over their bulletin, I was troubled by something I didn't see. My attention was first drawn to a large ad promoting their popular "Divorce Care" class. I reflected on how wonderful of a ministry that was to those who are hurting. But something was missing. I next noticed their ad for a class on how to succeed as a step family. "Of course," I thought. Becoming a step family has got to be one of the most difficult things in life to do. But something was still missing.
Then it hit me. There were no classes being offered on strengthening your marriage or marriage success or marriage rescue. Balance was sorely absent. There was lots of emphasis on recovery after the fact but no emphasis on rescue before the fact! How different that is from Scripture's treatment of the subject. Of course the Bible teaches grace and to care for those hurting and broken. But the emphasis in Scripture is on obedience in the first place.
I've been married for eight years—not decades, but we're not newlyweds either. I also have two children. I've been married long enough to experience the good times and the bad. It is commonly known that the divorce rate among Christians is virtually identical to the divorce rate among the unsaved. Furthermore, the average marriage today in the U.S. lasts 7.2 years. California leads all states in divorces annually, followed closely by Texas. Finally, eighty percent (80%) of all divorces claim "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for the divorce.
Irreconcilable differences has been described thus:
"The most common ground for dissolving a marriage is dissolution of matrimony based on irreconcilable differences which have caused the irremediable breakdown of the marriage. The irreconcilable differences ground is broad for a reason. It is intended to represent the actual reasons underlying marital breakdowns, simply stated, it is a "no fault" basis for terminating a marriage. Once the court finds that irreconcilable differences have indeed caused the irremediable breakdown of the marriage, the court must grant the requested dissolution of marriage."82
At least six times I have sat across from a couple who told me they were constantly fighting and that divorce would be the best thing for them.83 Other times couples have informed me that they were divorced because it was the best thing for their kids. I may offend some when I abjectly disagree with that proposition. Divorce is never the answer when a couple fights too much. And divorce is never the best thing for your children. Taking that step is giving a geographical solution to a heart problem—it just doesn't work. You know what would be best for your kids? Stop fighting! Divorce is never "better for the kids."
Finally, the Bible makes it clear that divorce is always the result of sin. Did you catch that? Perhaps that statement needs to sink in a little for some of you, as you may have never heard such a bold statement pertaining to divorce. I'll say it again; Divorce is always the result of sin. Whether adultery, neglect, selfishness, or any number of other sins. If this is true, then why does the divorce rate among believers remain so high? Perhaps it's because we refuse to listen to God's Word and acknowledge the firm stance it takes on the issue. If the reason you wish to get divorced is not permitted in Scripture, then it is not permitted. Now, before you sit down to write that angry letter to me, please remember two important things: 1) I am not the one who is strict about marriage—Jesus is. I'm simply in agreement with Him. 2) If you plan to defend your right to a divorce, you'd better be able to defend yourself from Scripture, because I'm going to ask you for a chapter and verse from the Word of God that justifies your decision.84 A disciple of Jesus Christ chooses sacrifice over selfishness, even (especially?) within the family.
A Disciple of Jesus Christ Chooses Dependence Over Self-Reliance (10:13-31)
10:13 Now people were bringing little children to him for him to touch, but the disciples scolded them. 10:14 But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, "Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 10:15 I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it." 10:16 After he took the children in his arms, he placed his hands on them and blessed them.
10:17 Now as Jesus was starting out on his way, a man ran up to him, fell on his knees, and said, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" 10:18 Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 10:19 You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false witness, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.'" 10:20 The man said to him, "Teacher, I have kept all these things since my youth." 10:21 As Jesus looked at him, he felt love for him and said, "You lack one thing. Go, sell whatever you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." 10:22 But at this statement, the man looked sad and went away sorrowful, for he was very rich.
10:23 Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!" 10:24 The disciples were astonished at these words. But again Jesus said to them, "Children,85 how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! 10:25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." 10:26 They were even more astonished and said to one another, "Then who can be saved?" 10:27 Jesus looked at them and replied, "This is impossible for man, but not for God; everything is possible for God."
10:28 Peter began to speak to him, "Look, we have left everything to follow you!" 10:29 Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel 10:30 who will not receive in this age a hundred times as much—homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions86—and in the age to come, eternal life. 10:31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first."
The characteristic that Jesus wants the disciples—and us—to learn from these children is that of dependence. In a culture where 6 of 10 children died before the age of 16,87 Jesus communicates His love for the helpless and dependent. The issue is one of dependence over self-reliance. Children must depend upon others. In contrast to these dependent children, the rich man was relying solely on himself ("What must I do to inherit eternal life?"). The kingdom of God belongs to those who depend on God rather than the self-reliant.
I spent three years as a school teacher. As a teacher, I was often asked my position on the modern teaching theory that instructs children that they have the potential to do anything. Rather than damage a child's fragile self-esteem, the theory says, we should assign the highest grades to each child while whispering in their ear that they've earned it. A teacher should only be affirming, never negative. "If you believe it, you can achieve it!" is the rallying cry for today's youth. "Where there's a will there's a way!" "You can do anything you set our mind to!"
As a teacher, I cannot subscribe to such a theory. As a reasonable human, I realize how hopelessly flawed and unrealistic such teaching really is. Reality proves that such statements are absurd. No child has such potential, and each child has his or her own unique potential. To falsely convince a child of his limitless potential in order to save his self-esteem today is to set him up for failure and damage his self-esteem tomorrow—because inevitably he will fail. And when he fails, who does he have to blame but himself? He did, after all, have all the potential to succeed.
Moreover, such a theory fails students in another crucial area—teaching them their limitations. Children today can do amazing things and they have enormous (albeit not unlimited) potential. We must teach them that. But we must also teach them their limitations and what cannot be done. The word "can't" seldom comes up anymore, because we want folks to believe so they can achieve. But when appropriate, the word "can't" is a great teaching tool, for it shows limitation. It balances what they are able to do with what they are unable to do. And it discourages isolationistic Lone Rangers while creating a need for healthy dependence—upon others and upon God. You and I must depend on God because we "can't"—in God's ears it is one of the most beautiful words, as it communicates dependence on Him. Thus we are perfectly positioned for His miraculous hand to work. Have you told God lately that you can't do it? With people it is impossible; but with God, all things are possible.
Meditation Verse
We conclude each lesson with one verse from the passage we've studied. We refer to it as a "meditation verse" to leave a broad range of uses: meditate, reflect, memorize, reread, etc. Our meditation verse for this lesson is Mark 9:35:
After he sat down, he called the twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."
73 Jesus predicts His own suffering and crucifixion in three famous passages in Mark (8:31; 9:31; 10:33-34). These fortellings are labeled "Passion Predictions."
74 Unless otherwise indicated, all translations are taken from The NET Bible.
75 Hmm. If you had been rebuked as harshly as Peter was after misunderstanding the first Passion Prediction, wouldn't you think twice about asking Jesus about subsequent ones?
76 Mr. Idsen went home to be with the Lord a few years ago.
77 Even Cicero, a 1st century b.c. author, quoted this proverb, "Whoever is not against us is for us."
78 There it is: Jesus uses the designation "Christ" of himself—extremely rare in the Synoptics.
79 Literally in Greek, a "donkey's millstone": This millstone is a very large type weighing several hundred (perhaps thousands) pounds and turned by a donkey.
80 Mark 9:44 and 9:46 are missing from many of your Bibles for good reason. Simply put, the earliest and best manuscripts omit the verses, and there are better reasons to believe that a well-meaning scribe inserted the verses deliberately than that he omitted them unintentionally.
81 According to Jewish tradition, a woman could not divorce a man. According to Roman law, she could.
82 Quotation taken from the website of Kraffert and Shaffer, attorneys at law (www.kraffertschaffer.com).
83 For the record, none of these couples are affiliated in any way with Trinity Bible Church.
84 Some have broadened the boundaries on what are biblically-permissible grounds for divorce to include things the Bible simply does not address. My position is that if the Bible does not permit you a divorce, then you are not permitted a divorce. Thus, if you are being physically abused (for example), I counsel you to seek safety, perhaps even seek separation. But divorce is not an option for you.
85 The Greek word τέκνον (used in Mark 10:24, 29-30) usually denotes offspring—children of any age who belong to someone. Thus the phrase in Scripture, "children of God," usually employs τέκνον. [Mark 10:24 is the only place in the Synoptic Gospels where Jesus calls the disciples "children" (τέκνον; see also John 13:33)]. Why does He do so? He's telling them to depend on God like children.
86 This section is perhaps best understood as a principle, not a promise. Don't claim it as a promise. Rather, living this way will often lead to such generosity (and persecution) in return.
87 Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary, pg. 264.


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Profile: H. Bartow Farr, III9 Comments Published by Kedar S. Bhatia November 30th, 2011 in Supreme Court Bar
In the past, we've profiled notable advocates and judges that were in the news. This is the first in a series of posts about the advocates who will be arguing in the Healthcare Cases.
On November 18, the Supreme Court invited H. Bartow Farr to brief and argue an important point of law in the Healthcare Cases: that the minimum care provision of the Affordable Care Act is severable from the rest of the statute. Although Farr may be among the least well-known advocates arguing in the Healthcare cases, he has long held a sterling reputation within the Supreme Court Bar. I've created a brief profile of Farr to show he achieved such an impressive reputation at the Court and within the bar.
I. The Basics
Full name: Henry Bartow Farr III
Born: November 11, 1944 (Age 67)
Undergraduate: A.B. Princeton (1966)
Law School: J.D. Arizona State University (1973), summa cum laude; Editor-in-Chief of the Arizona State Law Journal
Clerkship: Justice William H. Rehnquist (1973-1974)
Government Experience: Assistant to the Solicitor General (1976-1978)
Current Firm: Farr & Taranto (1981-present)
Supreme Court Arguments: 30
II. Appellate Experience
Farr's resume boasts at least two of the standard characteristics of a modern Supreme Court litigator: a Supreme Court clerkship and a stint in the Office of the Solicitor General. His law school pedigree diverges from the norm–he attended Arizona State University School of Law–but he graduated summa cum laude and served as editor-in-chief of the law review during his time there.
A few years after he completed his clerkship with then-Justice Rehnquist, Farr was hired as an Assistant to the Solicitor General and served for a standard two-year stint from 1976 to 1978. He argued five cases during his time there, including four cases revolving around Indian law.
In 1981, soon after leaving the Office of the Solicitor General, Farr joined with Joe Onek and Joel Klein to start Onek, Klein & Farr. The firm specialized in complex and appellate litigation and eventually developed an impressive reputation for Supreme Court litigation. Notably, this firm predated Rex Lee's move to Sidley Austin to begin the first major private Supreme Court practice of the modern era. In 1991, the firm split and Farr joined Paul Smith and Richard Taranto to form Klein, Farr, Smith & Taranto. The firm eventually became Farr & Taranto when Smith left for Jenner & Block and Joel Klein left for the Department of Justice. Name partner Richard Taranto was recently nominated to Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, leaving the firm's future in limbo.
III. Notable Cases
Farr's most notable argument came in 2001 when he represented the Professional Golfers Association in PGA Tour v. Martin. Farr also represented National Cable Television, one of two respondents in City of New York v. FCC.
A complete list of his oral arguments at the Supreme Court follows:
- 1. Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip (1977) (as Assistant to the Solicitor General)
- 2. Puyallup Tribe, Inc. v. Dep't of Game of State of Wash. (1977) (as Assistant to the Solicitor General)
- 3. Simpson v. U.S. (1978) (as Assistant to the Solicitor General)
- 4. Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (1978) (as Assistant to the Solicitor General)
- 5. U.S. v. John (1978) (as Assistant to the Solicitor General)
- 6. Pennhurst St. School & Hosp. v. Halderman (1984)
- 7. Pennhurst St. School & Hosp. v. Halderman (1984) (reargued)
- 8. Zauderer v. Office of Disciplinary Councel of the Supreme Court of Ohio (1985)
- 9. Hooper v. Bernalillo County Assessor (1985)
- 10. City of New York v. FCC (1988)
- 11. Liljeberg v. Health Servs. Acquisition Corp. (1988)
- 12. Liljeberg v. Health Servs. Acquisition Corp. (1988) (reargued)
- 13. Brown-Ferris Indus. of Vermont v. Kelco Disposal (1989)
- 14. Missouri v. Jenkins (1990)
- 15. McKesson Corp. v. Div. of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of Fl. (1990)
- 16. McKesson Corp. v. Div. of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of Fl. (1990) (reargued)
- 17. Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Dep't of Revenue, State of Fl. (1991)
- 18. Masson v. New Yorker Magazine (1991)
- 19. Cipollone v. Liggett Group, (1992)
- 20. Cipollone v. Liggett Group, (1992) (reargued)
- 21. Turner Broad. System v. FCC (1994)
- 22. Allied-Bruce Terminix Co. v. Dobson (1995)
- 23. Turner Broad. System v. FCC (1997)
- 24. El Paso Natural Gas Co. v. Neztsosie (1999)
- 25. PGA Tour v. Martin (2001)
- 26. California Franchise Tax Bd. v. Hyatt (2003)
- 27. Olympic Airways v. Husain (2004)
- 28. Long Island Care at Home v. Coke (2007)
- 29. New Jersey v. Delaware (2008)
- 30. U.S. v. Eurodif S.A. (2009)
IV. Conclusion
Ultimately, the punchline is that Farr holds a stellar reputation for appellate advocacy. He is clearly an elite member of the Supreme Court bar, using either a mechanical definition or a more subjective one. His selection should come as no surprise and it will serve to push this well-respected advocate into the spotlight. To say that he deserves the appointment is an understatement.
Ordinarily, appointed amici are chosen by the Justice who oversees the circuit from which the case arrises–which would suggest that Farr was chosen by Justice Thomas–but the scope of this case means that other Justices may have weighed in. On the other hand, the assignment may have been given to Justice Thomas, who in turn decided to appoint two experienced advocates because they would simply be more likely to brief and argue the case at the highest level.
9 Responses to "Profile: H. Bartow Farr, III"
Mar 29th, 2012 at 10:35 am
H. Bartow Farr was the best presenter of oral arguments in this case, Stevens was very good but not as good as Farr because he was more disputacious, Verrilli day 2 & 3 was the worst. Note in the testimony where Farr expounded in simple language and at much greater length than any advocate, without interruption. The Justices seemed to defer to Farr even more than to each other even when he directly refuted the always-entertaining Justice Scalia's rather overdrawn "heart" argument. His style was restrained, factual and personable. Stevens was a smooth and well prepared lecturn pounder who was a touch whiney and often veered off into speculatives and hypotheticals.
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