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Why won't the Democrats talk about judges?
BOSTON—The American Constitution Society hosts a panel at the Boston Public Library titled "The Constitution at the Crossroads: 2004 and the Future of American Law." The first question after the formal presentation goes to the perennial election problem: "How do we get the issue of judges to matter to the American voter?" Why don't people care what kinds of judges the president puts on the bench?
I have read my share of overheated articles this month—the ones about the possibility of four Supreme Court vacancies over the next four years—and if I hear one more person characterize Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as teetering on death's door I will smack them. But the truth is that no one cares who appoints the next four justices, or three justices, or seven. We just don't. So, the lawyers are, quite reasonably, wondering why.
In a sense, it's an unfair question to ask at this convention, because the environmentalists, the stem cell folks, and the labor people are all in the same fix: This isn't the year to get any one issue before voters, who are having enough trouble deciding what to think about the war. But, if you can ignore the war for a moment, this should have been the year in which judicial appointments mattered a whole lot. For one thing, if you cared about gay marriage, or abortion, or the right to die, or civil liberties, as much as they say you do, almost nothing else matters but who's on the federal bench.
But more important, wasn't this election supposed to be a referendum on Bush v. Gore? Weren't the majority of American voters who felt that they'd been shafted by a partisan Supreme Court four years ago going to rise up this time and say "no" to ideological justices and their origami Constitution?
Apparently not, agrees the panel. People just don't track judicial appointments as an issue, and we just don't consider the power to appoint judges a truly important one. Professor Pam Karlan, of Stanford Law School, suggests that the remedy for this judicial apathy is that individuals whose lives have been affected by the courts need to speak out. She's right. We hear nothing about judges who refuse to grant abortion waivers. We hear nothing about judges who refuse to be bound by civil rights law. The fact that Bill Pryor, President Bush's recess appointee to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, just cast the deciding vote not to hear a case challenging the Florida law preventing gay couples from adopting went almost completely unnoticed in the national media.
Something magical happens when judges are confirmed to the bench. They become oracles, and we as a nation just stop caring about their activities. (Strangely, however, some liberal jurists need only burp at oral argument before the cries of "liberal activist" ring out.) Someone in the audience suggests that we need to do a better job of demystifying the Supreme Court. Someone else adds that it would be "nice to know who these guys and gals go fishing with on weekends." Big laugh.
Another audience member makes a really nice point: We tend to think of election cycles in manageable four-year units. If we don't like the job he's doing, we can boot him in a few short years. We forget that judicial terms are measured in decades. These bombs have extremely long fuses.
Professor Charles Ogletree of Harvard Law School points out that Republicans have simply done a better job than Democrats of articulating, committing to, and selling a coherent judicial philosophy. Democrats have used the presidency to create diversity on the bench but never to promote a unitary philosophy. Those chickens are now coming home to roost.
This is all a double-edged sword, of course. One of the very best things about the American electorate is its reverence for the judiciary. By refusing, for the most part, to be drawn into campaigns to smear, slander, and second-guess our judges, we have given them the space and independence to be fair. But by failing to care who gets a lifetime appointment to the federal bench, or to scrutinize what they do there, we have dropped the ball on the very same social issues we claim to care about most.
I keep thinking that one speaker at this convention needs to stand up at that podium tonight and say: "Ladies and Gentlemen. Abu Ghraib. Thank you. Goodnight." Because shouldn't this election ultimately be a referendum on the rule of law? Shouldn't the only issue before us be whether or not there will be legal constraints on executive power? Walter Dellinger, former acting solicitor general under Bill Clinton and star Slate contributor, puts this far more eloquently when he warns that if we don't cast our votes about Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib and those torture memos, we will someday look back on this election as emblematic of a national moral failure.
What is at stake, in this election, is whether we value the notion of being a nation that's ruled by law as opposed to rulers. This isn't just a voting issue. It's what used to launch revolutions.


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German Fitness Trainer Daniel Gildner Proves Lust Is A Universal Language
Instinct Staff | June 4, 2014
We admittedly have no idea what German personal trainer and bodybuilder Daniel Gildner is saying in this trailer for his "Muscle Commander" training series, but we certainly admire his...work ethic.
Hell, the action starting at 19 seconds in would be enough to get us to sign up for twice-daily sessions!
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A woman trained only as a medical assistant told jurors Wednesday that she gave anesthesia, set dosing amounts and performed ultrasounds when she worked at a now-shuttered abortion clinic whose owner is on trial in the death of a female patient and seven babies allegedly born alive.
Latosha Lewis is among the final prosecution witnesses at the five-week murder trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72. She caps a string of former employees who have testified that they went to work at the chaotic, rundown clinic because they were desperate for work, or were former patients, or knew Gosnell through his family or the gritty West Philadelphia neighborhood.
They have all pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the case and face years in prison for third-degree murder, conspiracy, racketeering, drug distribution or other charges.
Investigators say Gosnell ran a "pill mill" by day frequented by addicts and drug dealers; and an illegal "abortion mill" by night, where poor women with late-term pregnancies endured long, painful procedures performed by untrained staff until Gosnell arrived late for the final phase of the surgical abortions.
Lewis, 31, testified that she had gone to a career school for eight months to qualify as a medical assistant, and was sent to Gosnell's clinic as part of training. Before long, she was hired to do paperwork and draw blood.
But that quickly morphed into skilled work as she, like her co-workers, delivered intravenous drugs, performed ultrasounds and made independent decisions about how much anesthesia patients should get. At one point, she had a scare with a patient.
"I had given her too much (medication) and I was concerned whether or not she would come (back) from anesthesia," Lewis testified.
Women often got near-hourly doses of Cytotec, a drug designed to induce labor, as they waited for Gosnell to arrive, along with painkillers to quell the powerful cramping, Lewis said. She sometimes chose to reduce the dosages.
By 2008, Lewis had moved from the procedure area to the front desk because she was no longer comfortable with the amount of drugs the patients were given.
"The women were going into labor too fast, and I didn't want to deal with it," Lewis testified, adding that she still handed out some medications.
The patient who died, 41-year-old refugee Karnamaya Mongar, was given four doses of Cytotec during her November 2009 visit, along with the out-of-fashion painkiller Demerol and other drugs, according to notes scrawled randomly across her medical paperwork. Investigators say she died of an overdose.
Mongar, who had spent 20 years in a refugee camp before arriving in the U.S. months before her death, was 4-foot-11 and did not speak English. Lewis said she went over the consent form with her daughter — who testified this week through a translator.
Lewis, who checked in Mongar when she arrived at the clinic from Virginia, said her chart does not list her weight because the clinic's scale was broken. It hadn't worked in a month, she said.
As many as two dozen women a day came in for abortions, some of whom delivered babies in toilets or waiting areas before Gosnell arrived, according to staff testimony. Gosnell had taught them to snip the babies in the back of the neck to "ensure fetal demise," according to the testimony of unlicensed doctor Stephen Massof and others.
Massof and two others have pleaded guilty to third-degree murder.
Defense lawyer Jack McMahon argues that there were no live births at the clinic, and that any movement seen by the staff was an involuntary response amid the death process. He has suggested that Mongar had unreported respiratory problems and died of unforeseen complications.


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In this video, Luke, Obi-Wan and all the rest gets a healthy dose of rock-and-roll attitude courtesy of 'Thunderstruck' by the legendary Aussie band. If it were possible, we just know R2-D2 would raise a fist. Use the force of rock below.
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The news about my uncle wasn't good. His cancer has spread to his liver, lungs, and lymph nodes. At this time, there is no news on what stage he is in. I am so sad, but I will continue praying for him and his family. My aunt is taking it hard, it just makes me so happy that my dad is there with them.
We had a home game last Friday and we won 60-0. It was AWESOME!! I enjoy watching my son play. It sure makes the games more fun to be able to watch him. Tomorrow's game is also a home game. I love it!!
I have been scrapping more lately. It's been nice to get back to my scrapping. I enjoy being able to scrap for me and my family and not for others. Don't get me wrong, I loved being on the CTs that I was on, but at times, it was hard to scrap. Sometimes a kit just didn't speak to me, or I didn't have the right photos. I am on four CTs now, and am seriously thinking of scaling back two of them.
I have also been working on my genealogy. I think I have finally broken through a brick wall. It's so nice, and I'm working on connecting the lines, but that will come. Now, I have a starting point in which to look. I have also been helping my sons friend with his. It's nice to be able to find stuff and build a tree for someone.
The diet has been a roller coaster. For the past month, I've been gaining one week, losing one week, and so on. It's been getting irritating. So, I've kicked it up a notch and now I am walking a mile a day. I really am feeling good. At times, my body hurts, but that will go away after I've been at it longer. I am working hard on staying on program and there are times it's really easy and times it is so hard. But, I'll keep going. I want to lose 100 lbs by the time my son graduates high school which is May 30.
I guess that's about it. I have to go and cook dinner. I think we'll be having some baked chicken and rice with veggies. That sounds good to me.
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365 days in SPAAACE: An interstellar glance at 2012
Curiosity looks for Martians, we search for a habitable planet
Ebb, Flow and crash
This year was also the year of the GRAIL mission, which launched at the end of 2011. NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory craft were sent into space for a lunar study mission and met up to orbit the moon in January.
GRAIL-A, later known as Ebb, had already reached the Moon on New Year's Eve and GRAIL-B, later known as Flow, joined it a few days later. The twin flyers, named in a competition, then manoeuvered into formation flying positions to reduce their orbital period to just under two hours in order to map the rocky body's gravitational field.
The two probes, in a near-polar, near-circular orbit around the Moon, were the first attempt by NASA of such orbital precision. Engineers had to take into account the pressure effects of sunlight, both directly and bouncing off the Moon, along with heat radiation from the Moon and the crafts, minute amounts of gas escaping from the craft and the expansion and contraction of various parts of the ship in response to heating and cooling.
The twin GRAILs created their gravity map of the Moon by the end of the year, showing lunar boffins that the Moon is riven by deep cracks.
When large changes show up in the gravity field, boffins can piece together surface topography like craters or mountains, as well as tectonic structures, volcanic landforms, basin rings and crater central peaks. The boffins found that the Moon's crust is actually around 10km to 20km thinner than previously thought.
After their mission was complete, NASA decided on a novel way to finish with Ebb and Flow - crashing them into the Moon's surface. With the GRAILs' lifespan coming to an end, the agency got them to burn out all their remaining fuel, allowing engineers to match the actual fuel they had left to their estimates. Both craft were then flung manually at the dark side of the Moon.
NASA had the biggest mission of the year on its hands with Curiosity, but plenty of other people were making strides in space this year. If there were a non-government-affiliated Man of the Space Year award, it would undoubtedly have gone to Elon Musk, whose SpaceX firm became the first private company to supply the International Space Station.
Enter the Dragon
Despite a few delays, alright many delays, and then a failure to launch, the SpaceX Dragon finally got off the ground at the end of May.
Sitting on top of its Falcon 9 rocket, the unmanned capsule, packed with supplies and the ashes of Star Trek's Chief Engineer Scott, headed off to a rendezvous with the ISS that was due to take place a few days later.
The Dragon made an understandably cautious approach to the station, first doing a flyby within 1.5 miles (2.5km) of the ISS to ensure that 'nauts onboard were able to take remote control of the capsule. The cargoship then edged closer and stopped for some adjustments, then to within 30m of the station and stopped again, before finally reaching the 10m point where the Canadarm could grab it.
Flight Engineer Don Petit helped make history by reaching out with the robotic arm and snagging the Dragon at just before 15.00 GMT on 25 May. Whether it was down to his own rapier wit, or the combined punning abilities of NASA engineers and boffins, Petit had the perfect line for the occasion:
"Looks like we've got a dragon by the rail," he told Mission Control in Houston.
Making history once isn't enough for Musk though, he has some even more ambitious plans for the future. He hopes to be flying folks to Mars and back for around half a meeellion dollars within the next decade, with the ultimate goal of setting up a self-sustaining colony to ensure the spread of the human race. He has also said that he's thinking of building a supersonic electric jet, capable of making hovering takeoffs and landings.
But SpaceX isn't above the technical issues that all space ventures have. The second launch of a supply ship to the ISS didn't go as well as the historic first, leaving a commercial satellite stuck in the wrong orbit.
The Falcon 9 rocket suffered an engine failure as it started the climb towards space that kept the Dragon craft on track but dumped Orbcomm's sat early. Unfortunately for Orbcomm, the satellite couldn't recover and it was burnt up in the atmosphere a few days later.


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Library to Gallery: Bridget Spaeth's Many Lives
Story posted May 03, 2010
Spaeth's domain is one of those stumble-upon places at Bowdoin.
She works at the Language Media Center, a branch of the Library tucked into the basement of Sills Hall—a place of intensive, but specialized, film and language study. There, she helps people access the College's extensive film and language collection, catalogs books and collections, and creates archives of taped events for institutional record.
It's not her only hidden treasure. Spaeth '86 has a life outside the College that many people don't know about: She is an artist. And for the third consecutive show, Spaeth's work has been selected for the Center for Maine Contemporary Art's Biennial Exhibition (CMCA).
The juried biennial is one of the state's most visible platforms for prominent, and promising, Maine artists. Other artists from among the Bowdoin community who will be included in the 2010 CMCA Biennial, May 29-July 17, include Associate Professor of Art Jim Mullen and Cassie Jones '01. Jones is showing her work on the heels of a successful solo exhibition in New York's RedFlagg Gallery.
Spaeth has been creating artwork since she was 18, and earned a B.F.A. in painting from the Maine College of Art nearly a decade after graduating from Bowdoin with a double major in art history/visual art.
"I knew art is what I would do, but I've always had to work to support myself," said Spaeth, who worked in museums and fine art libraries before taking up her post in the Language Media Center in 2002. Her academic year schedule allows her to fully concentrate on her studio work during the summer.
"At Bowdoin, as a staff member, I have what I consider a parallel intellectual environment," she says. "It's a fantastic library and a College which is evolving in ways this alum genuinely appreciates. I am enriched by the collegial atmosphere and my schedule allows me to take care of myself as a person, a parent and an artist."
The two works in the CMCA Biennial are part of Spaeth's Arc and Wedge series.
The minimalist paintings on horizontal wood panels are shaped, in part, by Spaeth's immersion in Buddhist studies. Their chromatic simplicity embodies a kind of stillness that invites the viewer to consider the shadings of what's present and what is absent.
"I'm very interested in the time it takes to observe a piece of work," reflects Spaeth. "One can get a quick structural read, but you can also spend some time noticing them through the day. I'm interested in working on painting in the environment and how they respond to the available light."
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art is located at 162 Russell Avenue, Rockport, Me. For more information, call: 207-236-2875.
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Last year, Tamagotchi made a comeback in app form for a new generation. And this year Namco Bandai and Sync Beatz Entertainment have released a follow-up free app called Tamagotchi L.i.f.e. Angel. Like the Tamagotchi L.i.f.e. app, this app also recreates the gaming experience of the 1990s' Tamagotchi Angel digital pet toy, in which Tamagotchi features an Angel theme. Tamagotchi owners can alternate between Toy Mode, which looks just like the 1990s toy, and App Mode, which looks like a traditional full-screen, to play with Tamagotchi. In Toy Mode, users rely on the toy screen's three buttons-A,B, and C-to rotate through the different settings and features of the toy. In App Mode, these features are indicated by icons located and the top and bottom of the screen. For example, in App Mode, you can flip through photos and take pictures of your growing Tamagotchi by tapping the corresponding icons.
The app also introduces multiple Tamagotchi characters, which, depending on how you care for your Tamagotchi, can either evolve into a pure angel with good care or a devil angel with bad care. As with the original Tamagotchi, the level of care is indicated by Life, Deeds, Hunger, and Effort meters, which you can alternate between. For example, if your Tamagotchi is hungry you can feed it a balanced diet of candy and pie. Sometimes you may need to tap the screen to scare away bats trying to eat your Tamagotchi's food, which is a new feature that further engages owners within the app. Play a counting game in App Mode or a "Shooting Stars Game" in Toy Mode to help elevate your pet's happiness level. Once your Tamagotchi has reached the end of its life cycle, you can reset it to raise a new Tamagotchi all over again.
Earn points for caring for your Tamagotchi. The more Tamagotchi's you raise and care for, the more additional features within the app you'll unlock. For example, each day you check in and care for your pet, you'll unlock features such as wallpaper that can also be used as background on your device.
Additional features include 22 in-app wallpapers you can choose to decorate your Tamagotchi's habitat, 12 shells for the classic mode; and more, which you can switch between by tapping the Gallery icon at the top of your screen.
While the app shares a lot of the same features as the original toy, it also expands the experience with today's digital kids in mind. It still focuses on the nurture play of the digital pets, but also rewards good Tamagotchi parents with bonus features they can unlock, giving kids more incentive to continue engaging with the app. And for original Tamagotchi fans, this brings a little piece of the old toy back.
Tamagotchi L.i.f.e. Angel will appeal to today's kids that will enjoy taking digital pet play on the go as well as adults who are still a bit nostalgic for the toy of their youth. We think girls will especially like the social components built into the app and the ability to share their photos and experiences of their Tamagotchi with friends. However, the devil themes of this app could also invite more boys to play as well.
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The 2012 World Series has drawn 12.2 and 12.3 Million viewers for Games 1 and 2, respectively. According to television ratings published in Sports Business Daily, this is the fourth consecutive year MLB has seen a drop in World Series Game 1 and 2 television ratings. I have to admit that I have only watched a couple of innings this year, even opting to watch an MLS match running during the same time as Game 1 on Wednesday night.
Part of the challenge for MLB is there are more entertainment options than ever competing for fan attention (although this has not been a problem for the NFL). I believe the bigger issue is the lack of parody in the league driven by the range of total team payrolls. Not surprisingly, the Tigers (fifth) and Giants (eighth) both have among the highest paid players in the sport. It was nice to see some surprising teams be very efficient with their salary this year and make the playoffs, but inevitably, these low-payroll team playoff cameos are short-lived.
Winning the World Series as a small-market team is close to impossible. Fans in cities like Kansas City will go to a few games a year for the atmosphere and Sheridan's ice cream, but there is a completely different feel to any other sporting event I've been to – there is no expectation of winning. I even saw a man reading a book in the front row at a Royals game I attended this year. Experiences like this made me excited to find this interactive visualization at Tableau which illustrates fan interest by team as of September 15th. The interest is based on tweets related to each team....
Who Cares About These World Series Teams? [Visualization]
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The Libraries adhere to US copyright law (title 17 of the US Code). Section 107 of the copyright law, the Fair Use Doctrine, provides the guiding principle behind the Libraries' course reserve and instructional media services. Section 108 deals with reproduction by libraries and archives. For further information, see https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107
Section 110(2) of the Copyright Act provides specific protection for some streaming and other uses, but it does not cover the entire variety of potential applications in instruction. This is a rapidly evolving area of technology and law. Use of copyrighted media in the curriculum requires careful thought and planning to balance the risk of copyright litigation with the pedagogical value of the media content.
Guidance from the UO General Counsel governs local practice for digitization, hosting, and streaming of media (primarily video) content for instructional use.
UO instructors may use digitized, hosted, and streamed copyrighted media in their instruction under the following conditions:
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a. Displays and Performances in Face-to-Face Teaching (Section 110(1)). Under this exception, educators may make performances and displays of all types of works in a classroom or similar place at most educational institutions. It allows instructors and students to recite poetry, read plays, show videos, play music, project slides, and engage in many other performances and displays of protected works in the classroom setting. This statute is actually comparatively simple and broad, but keep in mind that it permits only displays and performances in the classroom—not the making of copies or the posting of digital works on servers.
b. Displays and Performances in Distance Education (Section 110(2)). When materials are displayed or performed to students at remote locations, or for that matter "transmitted" to students at any location, the rules change. This statute is known as "the TEACH Act" and was revised in 2002 to address issues of online education. The new law allows posting of materials to servers, but only subject to a long list of conditions. Many colleges and universities are struggling with this statute, and many rely instead on fair use or permissions.
Source: Columbia University, http://copyright.columbia.edu/
Compliance with the Face-To-Face and TEACH Act exemptions require limiting access to students currently enrolled in the class. The content may not be accessible by non-enrolled individuals, and may not be made available beyond the time when it is needed for that class. The UO's main streaming server does not provide an adequate level of access control, so we do not host copyrighted video on that server.
At present, Canvas is the only system that provides the level of access control needed to meet this requirement. Although Canvas can host short video clips, it is not suitable for hosting lengthy segments, large media collections, or full-length films.
We recognize the pedagogical importance of video in the university curriculum, and are actively exploring systems to support authenticated access under the conditions required for Fair Use. In the meantime, we recommend the following options for making course-related copyrighted media available to students:
1. Talk to your subject librarian to see if the publisher or a database vendor offers a streaming license
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All Chicago Fire supporters are invited to the club's fourth annual Town Hall Meeting with Fire owner Andrew Hauptman at A.J. Hudson's Public House (3801 N. Ashland) on Friday, April 27 at 7:00 p.m. Join Andrew as he answers your questions about all-things Fire in this open forum. Please RSVP by Thursday, April 26 to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Brian Westbrook addressed a number of issues today after taking part in an Eagles-sponsored event that promoted a rematch between the 1993 high school football squads from Phillipsburg and Easton, two long-time Thanksgiving Day rivals.
The running back, during an interview with local radio and television reporters, talked about his surgically repaired left knee, the loss of Brian Dawkins and Tra Thomas and the likelihood of the team adding a rookie running back in the draft. In a separate interview on ESPN's First Take, Westbrook was asked about quarterback Donovan McNabb's contract situation.
"I think Donovan means so much to this football team," Westbrook said on ESPN. "He brings a leadership, he brings a lot of value on the field as well. I also think this is a business kind of thing. Do I think he deserves a contract? Absolutely. He has brought so much to the team and this organization as well as the city. Hopefully, he's able to handle his business and the way he wants to get it done."
As for his knee, Westbrook said, "I've gone through a lot of rehab and I'm still continuing to go through rehab. Hopefully this will be the first year I've played pain-free football on my knee in a long time. I have to kind of rebuild myself back and get ready to play this year. I'm excited about the outcome of my rehab."
Westbrook said watching Dawkins leave via free agency for the Denver Broncos was difficult.
"It was tough," he said. "I talked to Brian throughout that process and it was tough for him and it was tough for me as well because he is a very good friend. Now that he's getting used to being out in Denver, I'm happy for him and I know he'll do a great job out there in Denver. For us, as a team, we have to try to fill that void he left and go forward and try to win football games."
Westbrook was asked about job security for others on the team when the Eagles let somebody like Dawkins walk away.
"Play as hard and as long as you can, be excited about the games and enjoy the time that you're here," Westbrook said. "When it's time to move on, you've got to move on."
Westbrook said he didn't think the Eagles were rebuilding after losing Dawkins, Thomas and backup running back Correll Buckhalter.
"I think we let go a lot of talent, a lot of leadership and a lot of my good friends, but at the same time Coach Reid, Joe Banner and those guys upstairs have done a great job of replacing talent," Westbrook said. "They've done a great job of bringing new guys in here to feed the need for talent here and hopefully they will continue to do that."
It's a good bet that the Eagles will bring another running back in via the draft later this month and Westbrook supports that idea.
"I think we definitely will go get a guy that's very talented in the draft, free agency or trade," Westbrook said. "I have no problem with that. You see that throughout the league. You have two or three guys that can play and any talent you can bring into this team ... it will definitely help this team and that's what you're looking for."


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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The United Nations humanitarian chief was in Damascus on Sunday for talks with Syrian officials about the nation's conflict, which has forced millions of people from their homes, destroyed the country's cities and created food and fuel shortages.
Valerie Amos did not make any public remarks upon her arrival in Damascus on Sunday for a two-day visit, but at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, she said world powers had not done enough to lessen Syrian suffering.
"The humanitarian situation in Syria is already catastrophic and it's clearly getting worse," she said. "What we are seeing now are the consequences of the failure of the international community to unite to resolve the crisis."
The U.N. says more than 60,000 people have been killed since the start of the conflict in March 2011.
Living conditions have deteriorated across Syria during the 22-month conflict, which began with political protests that escalated into a civil war with scores of rebel groups battling President Bashar Assad's forces. Entire towns and neighborhoods have been damaged in the fighting, and more than 2 million people are internally displaced, with another 650,000 seeking refuge in neighboring countries.
Some areas face food shortages, and even areas that have been spared large-scale violence like Damascus lack sufficient quantities of gasoline, heating oil and cooking gas.
On Friday, the U.N. announced it was preparing to send $10 million in new U.S. aid to help alleviate hunger in northern Syria.
World powers remain divided on how to solve the crisis. The U.S. and many Arab and European countries have called on Assad to step down, while Russia, China and Iran refuse any pressure from outside that seeks to hasten the regime's fall.
On Saturday, Iran made its strongest warning to date that it could intervene militarily to help Assad's regime.
As quoted by the semiofficial Mehr news agency, an aide to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Syria held a key position among a group of Middle Eastern powers opposed to U.S. and Israeli influence in the region.
"Syria plays a very key role in supporting or, God forbid, destabilizing the resistance front," said Ali Akbar Velayati. "For this same reason, (an) attack on Syria is considered (an) attack on Iran and Iran's allies."
Iran is Syria's strongest ally in the Middle East, and has provided Assad's government with military and political backing for years. In September, the top commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, said the elite unit had high-level advisers in Syria. Iran also is believed to be sending weapons and money to Syria.
A senior Israeli Cabinet minister warned on Sunday that Israeli could attack sites in Syria if Assad's regime transferred chemical weapons to the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon.
Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom confirmed to Israel's Army Radio that top security officials held a special meeting last week to discuss Syria's chemical weapons arsenal.
"It would be crossing a line that would demand a different approach, including even action," he said. Asked whether this might mean a pre-emptive attack, he said: "We will have to make the decisions."
Also on Sunday, Syria announced that it would drop legal proceedings against opposition figures who returned to the country to participate in a "national dialogue" called for by Assad during a recent speech.
Syria's Higher Judicial Council announced the decision in a statement carried by the state news agency. The report gave no further details.
Assad proposed the national dialogue as part of his plan to end the country's crisis as laid out in a high-profile speech this month at the Damascus Opera House.
In the same speech, however, he vowed to keep fighting and referred the opposition as criminals and terrorists — making it unlikely anyone will take their chances on the amnesty offer.
Tens of thousands of activists, their family members and opposition supporters remain jailed by the regime, according to international rights groups.
Opposition leaders have repeatedly rejected any talks that include Assad, insisting he must step down.
Violence continued around Syria on Sunday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported clashes and government airstrikes in neighborhoods east and south of Damascus as well as elsewhere. At least seven people died in attacks in the suburbs, and three others died after a shell landed in the city's southern Yarmouk district.
The group, which relies on contacts throughout Syria, also reported clashes near a train station in southwestern Qadam neighborhood where four rebel fighters and one woman were killed.
Hubbard reported from Beirut. AP writer Ian Deitch in Jerusalem contributed.


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Detroit's "Big Three" automakers reported sharp gains in auto sales on Tuesday as demand for fuel-efficient vehicles ramped up in the U.S. and pickup trucks rebounded.
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The improvement marked the greatest monthly performance for Chrysler, Ford (NYSE:F) and General Motors (NYSE:GM) in more than five years.
Chrysler, the only privately-held of Detroit's "Big Three" automakers, recorded its best monthly sales since December 2007 in March as robust demand for Dodge, Ram Truck and Fiat brands triggered a 5% improvement in auto sales.
The auto maker said Tuesday it sold 171,606 units compared with 163,381 a year ago, leading to an 8% year-over-year increase in first-quarter sales.
"With our 5% sales increase in March, Chrysler Group has now achieved year-over-year sales gains in every month for the past three years," said Reid Bigland, head of U.S. sales.
Chrysler, which is owned by Fiat but remains privately-held following a bailout at the height of the recession, said the monthly sales come despite "limited inventory last month" on some of its most popular models.
Ram pickup trucks set an all-time sales record last month, climbing 25%, while the all-new Dodge Dart compact car, Avenger and Challenger vehicles also set new highs. A modest improvement in Fiat 500 sales marked the brand's 13th consecutive monthly gain.
Jeep brand sales were up 27% over February but fell 13% year-over-year as production of Jeep Liberty was stopped in August. Chrysler, which reintroduced the Jeep Cherokee through a revamped 2014 model at last week's New York Auto Show, is hoping the Cherokee will take the place of the Liberty and make up that lost revenue.
Meanwhile, Ford said sales in March grew 6% and resulted in the best monthly performance since May 2007.
Utility vehicle sales rebounded 14% and trucks climbed 6%, as sales of the F-Series pickup increased 16% to 67,513. The Explorer edged up 33% to 17,509, marking the greatest improvement since the current model debuted in 2010.
Ford's compact cars, particularly the Fusion and Escape, both posted their best-ever monthly and quarterly sales. Ford sold 30,284 Fusion vehicles for the month and 80,558 for the quarter, crossing the 30,000 monthly and 80,000 quarterly vehicle sales thresholds for the first time ever.
"Customers are buying our all-new Fusion and Escape in record numbers, and we are working harder than ever to keep pace with demand for these fuel-efficient vehicles," said Ken Czubay, Ford vice president of U.S. marketing, sales and service.
General Motors (NYSE:GM), the last of the "Big Three" to report Tuesday, posted the greatest monthly improvement in March sales.
Sales last month increased 6.4% to 245,950 vehicles, GM said, helped by an 11.6% improvement in GMC sales to 38,333 units. Retail sales increased 4% and fleet sales grew 12%.
U.S. Cadillac sales were up 49.5% to 15,751, while Buick's grew 37.4% to 18,000 and Crossovers improved 31%, with ales of GM's redesigned mid-size crossovers rallying 62%.
"GM delivered its best March sales in five years thanks to a strengthening economy and new products, and we are expecting our third consecutive increase in market share versus last year ," said Kurt McNeil, vice president of GM's U.S. sales operations.
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Closed Groveton paper mill may find new life growing Rx marijuanaBy BOB HOOKWAY
Special to the Union Leader
July 08. 2013 9:27PM
GROVETON — Progress has been grindingly slow for the past six years in the attempt — or rather, several of them — to find new uses for a former paper mill's hulking vacant industrial buildings, which do little these days but cast long shadows on Northumberland's once-thriving business center, the village of Groveton.
Selectmen have given the Bethlehem-based North Country Council permission to explore several options, including growing plants — possibly marijuana — for medicinal uses.
North Country's economic development coordinator, Pat Garvin, stressed Monday that "therapeutic cannabis" would be a "tiny, tiny little piece" of the eventual business puzzle at the old mill, and wouldn't come to fruition for years, if at all.
"I was there just to try to get a feel for what the town wanted to do," she said of her recent meeting with the Northumberland selectmen.
They did not object. But as Garvin pointed out in an interview Monday, although New Hampshire is poised to become the last of the New England states to approve limited use of marijuana for approved patients, Gov. Maggie Hassan has not yet signed the measure into law.
That use would also come with a host of restrictions. For example, the enterprise could be run only by a nonprofit.
"Our goal really is to get the word out that the property will be available for any number of uses. The largest dairy farm in Coos County is nearby, so maybe artisanal cheese could be manufactured there," Garvin said.
Wausau Paper closed its doors in 2007, dropping the final curtain on an industry that saw Diamond International Papers, followed by James River Paper Co., make the plant a major North Country employer.
Since then, several potential buyers — some with big plans for a renewed local economy — came and went over the years. They included one outfit whose principals disappeared without a trace on the eve of a sale.
A later deal fell through when a New Hampshire-based buyer died shortly after signing a purchase and sales agreement for the 107-acre property. So the old paper mill and its price tag of more than $2 million remained on the market until Green Steel of Scottsdale, Ariz., stepped in last year with a check for $2.6 million for the owner, Groveton Acquisitions.
Garvin said Green Steel has been salvaging the metal that can be salvaged, and has agreed to clean up the rest of the property. She believes that work is headed toward completion.
Garvin said plans call for only a couple of the site's many buildings to be left standing, along with a greatly reduced total of some 70,000 square feet of floor space.
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But in the last few years, New Yorkers have become much more aware of the need to make our city greener and less wasteful. So, this holiday season, let's pledge to celebrate by giving even more responsibly. Let's rethink not only how we use gift wrap, but also the very gifts we give. We can all make our holidays the brightest ever by giving thoughtful gifts that warm the heart and do not come at the expense of the environment.
Here are a few suggestions to help you make your holidays more festive, greener and a lot less wasteful:
• Give homemade gifts, such as cookies, handicrafts, framed photos.
• Give entertainment, such as a museum membership, tickets to the movies, the theatre, concerts or to sporting events.
• Give the gift of learning, such as language or music lessons, classes in cooking, photography, or other favorite hobbies.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday to offer condolences over what the White House called a "terrorist attack" by the al Shabaab group at a Nairobi shopping mall that has killed almost 70 people.
Islamist militants still held hostages on Sunday at the shopping mall, where brief volleys of gunfire interrupted hours of stalemate.
"President Obama called President Kenyatta of Kenya this morning to express condolences to the government and people of Kenya for the terrorist attack carried out by al-Shabaab yesterday on the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi," the White House said in a statement. "President Obama reiterated U.S. support for Kenya's efforts to bring the perpetrators of the attack to justice."
Five American citizens were among those injured in the shootings at the mall, said State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf.
There were no reports of any Americans among the dead, said Harf.
Republican Representative Peter King of New York, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said the attack showed the growing influence of al Qaeda linked groups in Africa.
"This shows the really growing influence of al Qaeda in Africa. You have al Shabaab now in Somalia going off into Kenya, carrying out an attack outside its own country," King said on ABC's "This Week."
The attack showed that "al Qaeda and its affiliates are still extremely powerful and still able to really strike terror into the hearts of people, attacking a shopping mall, it has no military significance at all," King said.
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In celebration of the fact that there are now less than 24 hours to go, I'll give a prediction that we definitely won't know tomorrow (or tonight, if you're one of the lucky people who's going to a midnight opening... due to an unfortunate combination of circumstances, I can't make it till the morning). The prediction: Harry will die at the end of Book 7.
Okay, okay, you really wanted a prediction for this book? Here's a little bonus prediction that I just thought up today: Caradoc Dearborn's going to show up and turn out to be either a Death Eater spy or a Death Eater hostage. If you're asking "who the hell is Caradoc Dearborn?" you need to re-read
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My claim staked, I suppose I should send up a few shotgun blasts to mark my presence.
My first motivation in getting (back) into the weblog game is self-promotion. I know that isn't the most original, but I'm trying to get a program off the ground here, and this might help get more people to hear about it.
My second reason is to have a soapbox. Admittedly there aren't as many news stories that set my blood boiling directly on-point with mathematics as there are in astronomy or biology, but there are some out there. If I throw in all the misused statistics, errantly-drawn conclusions, and cargo cult science, well I'm sure I can come up with a good rant once a week or so. Actually, I'll set that as a goal.
Which brings me to my third point. I'll admit to a certain self-congratulation on being a member of the rarefied priesthood of professional research mathematicians, but it fades quickly. The uncomfortable silence that follows telling someone you work in math is a direct result of the fact that we're generally content to talk amongst ourselves and leave the public at large behind. Yes, there are benefits to teaching basic math and reasoning skills, but there is a supremely beautiful world we end up keeping to ourselves — one that can match all the wonders of, say, astronomy, though without the cool pictures.
The fact is, anyone can understand the basic ideas in even current mathematics, and I try to always keep track of how I can tell an interested outsider about them. Here in this forum I hope to aim the discussions at just such an interested outsider. Mathematics is not for just the few who devote their lives to it, but for everyone. It need not be talked around in casual conversation to avoid making non-mathematicians uneasy. It need not be apologized for.
Rather than try to start from the ground up, I'll jump into the thick of things and backtrack to explain what I need later. If I say something you don't understand and want more information about, let me know and I'll likely be glad to explain. Eventually I should have a decent store of material to refer to when I need it in later posts. Accordingly, the style will probably fall a bit closer to James Joyce than to Nicolas Bourbaki.
So, all that said, welcome to the Unapologetic Mathematician.
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August 21. 2013 11:21PM
Pardon hearing urged to send message a troubled life can be reclaimed
By DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
Thomas Schoolcraft is sworn in by Deputy Attorney General Ann Rice prior to testifying at his pardon hearing on Tuesday. (DAVE SOLOMAN/UNIONLEADER)
Officials try to oust Cheshire County jail guard who has a record
In his own words, man tells how he went from inmate to corrections officer
— A decision by the Governor and Executive Council to pardon a Cheshire County corrections officer convicted of felony burglary as a teenager would send an important message about the role of forgiveness and redemption in the criminal justice system, according to a long line of witnesses who spoke on behalf of Thomas Schoolcraft at a pardon hearing Wednesday morning.
It would also recognize the remarkable accomplishments of a young man who has turned his life around to serve as an inspiration for inmates, they said.
No one spoke in opposition to the pardon at the two-hour hearing that included testimony from two Cheshire County commissioners, the Rockingham County attorney, social workers, college professors and Schoolcraft's mother, Carrie Daley of Seabrook.
She told the council her son was dedicated to giving young people in jail the hope that they can change their lives. "Whether he gets a pardon or not, he will persevere," she said, "and he will make a difference."
Schoolcraft, now 27, was convicted after pleading guilty in 2005 to a string of burglaries in the Seacoast area in 2003 and 2004. He served nine months of a 12-month sentence in the Rockingham County House of Corrections, and said while in jail he was inspired to resume his education after dropping out of high school.
He graduated in May of 2012 from Keene State College with a bachelor's degree in psychology, and is now enrolled in the master's degree program in criminal justice at Boston University.
For the past two years he has also worked as a Cheshire County corrections officer and received glowing reviews for his work with prisoners, even though county jail superintendents throughout the state are concerned that a felon was hired to work at the jail, and they want to change the rules to prevent such hires in the future.
"Rejection of this pardon request would be seen by many as giving added weight to their position," said John Pratt of Walpole, chairman of the Cheshire County Commissioners. "This pardon request has taken on a significance beyond the prison. We strongly believe that the House of Corrections must stand for the proposition that lives can be reclaimed, that redemption is not a pipe dream. We practice what we preach."
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Rockingham County Attorney Jim Reams, whose office prosecuted the case, had previously submitted a letter to the council saying the pardon would be "hard to oppose," but he did not take a stand at the hearing.
"There is no legal standard or much tradition," he said. "I don't know what I would do if I was sitting in your position."
Schoolcraft told councilors and the governor that a pardon would be his only path to future employment in law enforcement, and that a more easily obtained annulment would not suffice.
Current rules do not prohibit a felon from being certified as a county corrections officer, nor do they require convictions be disclosed to the certifying board. Felons are disqualified from state prison jobs and other law enforcement positions.
Schoolcraft will soon be leaving his position at the Cheshire County Department of Corrections in Keene to find work closer to graduate school in Boston.
His attorney, Richard Guerriero of Keene, told the council there was no particular legal standard to guide their decision, and admitted there was no claim of injustice.
"The role of a pardon is also to recognize there is a place for forgiveness and redemption in the criminal justice system," he said, arguing that Schoolcraft is in a position to "provide something in the correction community that will be invaluable."
The council is scheduled to discuss and act on the request at its Sept. 4 regular meeting.
New Hampshire governors and the Executive Council have been reluctant to grant pardons, as only a handful have been granted in the past 30 years, according to Councilor Chris Sununu, R-Newfields. "Pardons in this state are a rare thing," he said at the conclusion of the hearing.


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SUNNYVALE, Calif., -- May 18, 2003 -- Artisan Components, Inc., (Nasdaq: ARTI), a leading provider of physical intellectual property (IP), today announced that its high-speed, high-density and low-power memory generators have been adopted by the Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC). A consortium comprised of Japan's leading semiconductor companies, STARC will standardize on Artisan's memory products for IC designs targeted at 90-nanometer processes. The designs will be produced at Advanced SoC Platform Corporation (ASPLA), which is a common fabrication facility established by Japan's leading integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) that have jointly developed mainstream and low-power process technologies.
Artisan expects to deliver a comprehensive offering of its memory generators for single- and dual-port SRAM, single- and two-port register files and diffusion programmable ROM. The suite of products will be optimized for ASPLA's 90-nanometer process technologies' design rules and characterized using ASPLA's latest electrical models. The Artisan memory generators will include support for Artisan's extensive set of views and models of the industry's leading EDA tools.
"STARC's mission is to create an infrastructure of common IP components and process technologies to make SoC design more efficient, manufacturable and affordable," said Tadahiko Nakamura, vice president and general manager of IP Development Department at STARC. "Artisan's widely used memory products have a reputation for quality and first-right silicon, and meet our criteria for building a common design standard for our path to silicon."
STARC and ASPLA are comprised of Fujitsu Ltd., Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd., NEC Corporation, OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd, Renesas Technology Corporation (a joint venture of Hitachi Ltd. & Mitsubishi Electric Corporation), Rohm Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation. The twelve member companies are working together to offer a standardization of IP components for SoC design and establish manufacturing technology platform to drive the fabrication of these devices in 90-nanometer and lower process technologies.
"STARC's initiative is in step with Artisan's focus on providing a common design foundation to address design-for-manufacturability solutions," said Mark Templeton, president and chief executive officer of Artisan. "We are pleased that this consortium of Japan's leading semiconductor manufacturers have selected Artisan's memory products as their design standard."
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Artisan Components, Inc. is a leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider. The company's design platforms are licensed to over 1000 companies worldwide. Artisan's design platforms provide IC designers with a common interface to a range of process technologies from the world's leading foundries. Built on Artisan's Process-Perfect™ memory generators, standard cell and I/O libraries, Artisan's design platforms include a comprehensive set of views and models supporting leading design tools and methodologies. Artisan's worldwide network of EDA, IP and design service partners extend the Artisan standard to a complete set of system level design and integration solutions. Artisan is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. More information about Artisan Components, including free library access can be found at: http://access.arm.com.
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`Ali ibn Abi Talib`Abd Manaf ibn `Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim ibn `Abd Manaf, Abu al-Hasan al-Qurashi al-Hashimi (d. 40), Amîr al-Muminîn, the first male believer in Islam, the Prophets standard-bearer in battle, the Door of the City of Knowledge, the most judicious of the Companions, and the "Possessor of a wise heart and enquiring tongue." The Prophet nicknamed him Abu Turâb or Father of Dust. His mother was Fatima bint Asad, whom the Prophet called his own mother and at whose grave he made a remarkable intercession. He accepted Islam when he was eight, or nine, or fourteen, depending on the narrations, but it is established from Ibn `Abbas that he was the first male Muslim after the Prophet, Khadija being the first Muslim. He was killed at age fifty-eight. From him narrated Abu Bakr, `Umar, his sons al-Hasan and al-Husayn, Ibn `Abbas, `Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, and countless others.
`Ali was a skilled and fearless fighter, and the Prophet gave him his standard to carry on the day of Badr and in subsequent battles. At the same time he was the repository of Prophetic wisdom among the Companions. The latter, when asked about difficult legal rulings, deferred to others the responsibility of answering, while `Ali, alone among them, used to say: "Ask me." `Umar said: "I seek refuge in Allah from a problem which Abu al-Hasan cannot solve." Similarly `Aisha said: "He is the most knowledgeable about the Sunna among those who remain," and Ibn `Abbas: "If a trustworthy source tells us of a fatwa by `Ali, we do not seek any further concerning it." Sulayman al-Ahmusi narrated from his father that `Ali said: "By Allah! No verse was ever revealed except I knew the reason for which it was revealed and in what place and concerning whom. Verily my Lord has bestowed upon me a wise heart and a speaking tongue." At the same time `Ali humbly declared: "What cools my liver most, if I am asked something I know not, is to say: Allah knows best."
Imam Ahmad said: "There is no Companion concerning whom are reported as many merits as `Ali ibn Abi Talib." Following are some of the hadiths to that effect.
The innovations of those who bore excessive love and admiration for `Ali appeared in his own lifetime and he himself fought them in word and deed. To those that claimed that the Prophet had appointed him as successor after him he said: "In truth, Allahs Messenger did not appoint any successor" and: "The Prophet was taken from us, then Abu Bakr was made the successor, so he did as the Prophet had done and according to his path until Allah took him from us; then `Umar was made the successor, so he did as the Prophet had done and according to his path until Allah took him from us." To those that claimed that he deserved the Caliphate better than Abu Bakr and `Umar he said: "The best of this Community after its Prophet are Abu Bakr and `Umar." To those that either hated him or overly loved him `Ali said: "Two types of people shall perish concerning me: a hater who forges lies about me, and a lover who over-praises me." To those that claimed that he or his family possessed other than the Quran which all Muslims had he said: "Whoever claims that we have something which we read other than the Quran has lied." Finally, when a group of people came to him saying: "You are He, you are our Lord! (anta Hű anta Rabbuna)" he had them executed and then ordered the bodies burnt.
When `Ali was given allegiance as Caliph he moved from Madina to Kufa in Iraq and made it his capital. His tenure lasted five years (35-40) marred by three great dissensions which tore apart the fabric of the Muslim Community: the battle of the Camel (year 36) against the party of `Aisha the Mother of the Believers, the battle of Siffin (year 37) aganst the party of Mu`awiya ibn Abi Sufyan, and the campaign against the Khawârij in the following two years, until he was assassinated by one of them in Kufa as he came out for the dawn prayer. The pretext for the meeting of the armies on the day of the Camel and the day of Siffin was the demand for `Uthmans killers on the part of `Aisha and Mu`awiya, but the winds of war were fanned by sowers of discord from inside all three camps until events escaped the control of the Companions. It is related that `Ali often expressed astonishment at the dissension and opposition that surrounded him. The Prophet had predicted these events, notably the battle of the Camel with the words: "One of you women shall come out riding a long-haired camel, and the dogs of Hawab [between Mecca and Basra] will bark at her. Many shall be killed to her right and her left, and she shall escape after near death." At any rate, Ahl al-Sunna adopted as theirs the position taken by one of the Salaf who said: "Those from whose blood Allah has kept our swords pure, we shall not soil our tongues with their slander." The most reliable book written on the divergences of the Companions is Abu Bakr ibn al-`Arabis (d. 543) al-`Awasim min al-Qawasim fi Tahqiq Mawaqif al-Sahaba Ba`da Wafati al-Nabi Sallallahu `Alayhi wa Sallam.
Another innovation fought by `Ali was that of the Khawârij or "Seceders," also known as Hurűriyya after the village of Hurur, near Kufa, where they set up military quarters. They were originally a group of up to twenty thousand pious worshippers and memorizers of the Quran (`ubbâd wa qurrâ) who were part of `Alis army but walked out on him after he accepted arbitration in the crises with Mu`awiya ibn Abi Sufyan and `Aisha the Mother of the Believers. Their strict position was on the basis of the verse "The decision rests with Allah only" (6:57, 12:40, 12:67). `Ali said: "A word of truth by which falsehood is sought!" He sent them the expert interpreter of the Quran among the Companions, Ibn `Abbas, who recited to them the verses "The judge is to be two men among you known for justice" (5:95) and "Appoint an arbiter from his folk and an arbiter from her folk" (4:35) then said: "Allah has thereby entrusted arbitration to men, although if He had wished to decide He would have decided. And is the sanctity of the Community of Muhammad not greater than that of a man and a woman?" Hearing this, four thousand of the Khawârij came back with him while the rest either left the field or persisted in their enmity and were killed in the battles of Nahrawan (year 38) and al-Nukhayla (year 39).
The Prophet had predicted that `Ali would fight the Khawârij with the words: "In truth there will be, among you, one who shall fight over the interpretation of the Quran just as I fought over its revelation." Abu Bakr and `Umar asked: "Am I he?" The Prophet said: "No, it is the one who is mending the shoes." He had given his shoes to `Ali to mend. The Prophet also predicted `Alis martyrdom with the words: "This shall be dyed red from this" and he pointed to `Alis beard and head respectively.
The Khawârij are the first doctrinal innovators in Islam. They considered all sinners apostates, as well as all those who opposed them. By this takfîr, they justified to themselves the killing and spoliation of Muslims including women and children. Muslims who joined them were forced to first declare themseves disbelievers then enter Islam again. They distinguished themselves by shaving their heads out of austerity, a practice which they innovated and which the Prophet had foretold. Yet the Khawârij deemed themselves scrupulously pious and the only true Muslims on earth. When `Alis murderer, `Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljam al-Muradi, was dismembered and blinded he remained impassive and recited the Sura "Recite! In the Name of Thy Lord" (96:1) in its entirety, but when they moved to pull out his tongue he resisted; asked for the reason he said: "I hate to spend a single moment on earth not mentioning Allah." He was then executed and burnt. His forehead bore the trace of frequent prostration.
The Khawârij pre-dated the Rawâfid in their vilification of Abu Bakr and `Umar. `Ali declared it licit to fight them because they had killed the Companion Khabbab ibn al-Arathth and his wife for praising the four Caliphs. The Prophet had predicted their appearance in many hadiths. Among them:
`Ali was described as having white hair which he parted in the middle, a very large white beard, and large, heavy eyes. He was heavyset and his height was medium to short. He was blunt in his renunciation of the world even in his own dress. When Ibn al-Nabbah came to him with the news that the treasury-house was filled with gold and silver `Ali summoned the people of Kufa and distributed everything to them with the words: "O Yellow, O White! Go fool other than me." Then he ordered the treasury-house swept, and he prayed two rak`a in it. Jurmuz said: "I saw `Ali coming out of his palace wearing a waist-cloth that reached to the middle of his shank and an outer garment tucked up at the sleeves, walking in the marketplace while hitting a small drum (dirra) and enjoining upon people Godwariness and honesty in transactions. He would say: Observe good measure and do not bloat up the meat." When one of the Khawârij criticized him for what he was wearing, he said: "What do you want with my clothing? This is farther from arrogance and more suitable for me as I am imitated by Muslims."
Al-Hasan ibn `Ali narrated that the morning of his murder `Ali said: "Last night I woke up my family [to pray] because it was the night before Jum`a and the morning of Badr ű the seventeenth of Ramadan ű then I dozed off and the Prophet came before me. I said: O Messenger of Allah! What crookedness and contention have I found coming from your Community! He said: Supplicate against them. I said: O Allah! Substitute them with something that will be better for me, and substitute me with something that will be worse for them." Then `Ali went out to pray preceded by the muadhdhin Ibn al-Nabbah and followed by al-Hasan. `Ali came out of the gateway calling the people to prayer and was faced by two men armed with swords. Ibn Muljam struck him on the head with a poisoned sword and was caught, while the other hit the arch of the gate and fled. `Ali said: "Feed the prisoner and give him water, if I live I shall decide about him, and if I die, kill him as I was killed without further enmity. Lo! Allah loves not aggressors (2:190, 5:87, 7:55)."
It was decided to make `Alis grave a secret lest the Khawârij dig it up. After his son al-Hasan prayed the funeral prayer over him, he was buried at the Caliphal palace in Kufa, then all traces of his grave were effaced. It is also narrated that al-Hasan conveyed the body in a coffin to Madina and that on the way the camel that carried the coffin got lost by night and was found by members of the Tayyi tribe who buried the body and slaughtered the camel.
Among `Alis sayings narrated by Abu Nu`aym with his chains:
Imam al-Nawawi narrated a remarkable patrolinear chain for a hadith going back to `Ali: "Among the best of the narrations of the type sons from fathers is that of al-Khatib with a chain going back to `Abd al-Wahhab ibn `Abd al-`Aziz ibn al-Harith ibn Asad ibn al-Layth ibn Sulayman ibn al-Aswad ibn Sufyan ibn Yazid ibn Akina al-Tamimi who said: I heard my father (Yazid) say: I heard my father (Sufyan) say: I heard my father (al-Aswad) say: I heard my father (Sulayman) say: I heard my father (al-Layth) say: I heard my father (Asad) say: I heard my father (al-Harith) say: I heard my father (`Abd al-`Aziz) say: I heard my father (`Abd al-Wahhab) say: I heard `Ali ibn Abi Talib say: The compassionate (al-hannân) is he who comes to the one who shunned him. The granter of favor (al-mannân) is he who extends the favor before he is asked for it."
Main sources: Abu Nu`aym, Hilya al-Awliya 1:100-128 #4; al-Dhahabi, Siyar A`lam al-Nubala 1/2:615-660 #5.


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"It's all about freedom. About getting that feeling of the highway, with no one looking over your shoulder, just you and the truck. I can turn off the phone, the CB, and just drive." -Tim Young, speaking to the press before the premier of the movie "Drive and Deliver"
I've got three letters for you this morning, ladies and Gs:
That's my reaction after seeing Navistar's film "Drive and Deliver" this past Friday: a movie that started out ostensibly as a grandiose 45-minute commercial for its new LoneStar Class 8 highway tractor but became oh so much more than that in the talented hands of director Brett Morgen and the three drivers he culled from a pool of over 700 candidates.
[The LoneStar on display front and center outside the premier.]
The LoneStar (in my humble opinion) is completely upstaged by drivers Tim "Shoestring" Young, Chris "Discount" LeCount, and Steven "Stingray" Donaldson. Morgen does an absolutely brilliant job letting them tell their stories, relating the high and lows of piloting a big rig for a living. Now, sure, there's plenty of lavish praise heaped on the LoneStar (it IS a commercial after all) and more beauty shots than I can count, but it's the character of the drivers that really resonates throughout the film.
(The true stars of the movie "Drive and Deliver." From left to right: Donaldson, LeCount, and Young.)
"We're the backbone of this nation," Donaldson explains in one scene. "People need to realize without the truck, nothing would move, absolutely nothing would move ... but you're out here, all alone, doing a job most people don't want to do. I guess it takes true grit to stay out here all the time."
There's a lot of joy and laughter alongside sorrow and tears in this movie as it takes you on three week-long emotional journeys with Young (a company driver), LeCount and Donaldson (both owner-operators) - all tied together seamlessly with the lush vistas of America.
[Navistar spent big bucks making the premier of "Drive and Deliver" a real red carpet event.]
Oh, that scenery! It's simply GORGEOUS! Filmed from helicopters in Montana, Utah, Arizona, and Utah, spliced with film shot from the cabs of the trucks and chase cars, it's absolutely STUNNING. I simply can't do justice to it with words - even on the small screen (I've watched the DVD four times now) the film just takes my breath away.
Whether you're a fan of Navistar and its International truck brand or not, you've got to give the OEM credit for going out on a limb to produce a movie like this - to turn a highly-secretive new truck model over to three drivers, an Academy Award-winning director and his crew of 20, then basically take your hands off the steering wheel. But Morgen says that's exactly what happened.
[That's Brett Morgen, second from left in the red checkered shirt, at the press conference before the premier. Al Saltiel, Navistar's vice president of truck marketing, is to the left of Morgen, with the three drivers and David Allendorf, chief designer of the LoneStar, line up to the right of him.]
"No editorial notes were given to me for this," he explained during a press conference before the film's premier Aug. 22. "In fact, I'd never been in many trucks before making this film. All I can say is that this is about as authentic as any commercial enterprise could be. I just hope I did justice to the stories of these drivers."
[The drivers themselves talk about the film and the trucking industry below in these clips I shot at the press conference before the film's premier.]
This reporter believes he did just that - and a whole lot more. Shot over the course of 21 days, covering 5,255 miles across 17 states and amassing some 153 hours of film, Morgen stayed away from trying to fit in every single detail and nuance about the trucking industry, instead keeping the story tightly focused on the three drivers, their experiences on the road, and the stories they tell in their own words without any narration.
What a hell of a risk Navistar took with this approach. Rumor has it they spent $5 million on this movie - $3 million to finance it, another $2 million to market it - which is about a third of the LoneStar's overall marketing budget of some $15 million. Yet they ended up with something so poignant, so rich in human emotion - almost a living, breathing ode to the truck driver, painted in searing, larger-than-life colors.
[Tim "Shoestring" Young.]
Even the music Morgen selected fit perfectly - including one of my absolute favorite songs of all time, Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Coming Home" (which I misremembered during the premier as being an Allman Brothers tune - SHAME ON ME!!)
[You can listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Coming Home" below to see what I mean. It's even better when combined with the visual elements in "Drive and Delivered."]
The music adds a loving and at times haunting aspect to what we see on the screen. Probably the best example is during Chris LeCount's at times nightmarish haul from West Point, Mississippi to Charleston, South Carolina to deliver an Navistar MRAP military vehicle (gee, how convenient!). The scenes at night, in the rain, with the glow of traffic around him, backed by the wicked strings of a blues guitar and the crackle of the citizens band radio is all anyone (myself included) needed to instantly understand LeCount's situation; to feel the stress of navigating those last nerve-wracking miles to his destination.
(Chris "Discount" LeCount.)
Now, I talked to a lot of drivers after the film and though they all loved it, many voiced expected complaints - a lack of traffic congestion scenes, car drivers dangerously cutting off big rigs at high speed, rude shippers or receivers, roadside inspections, struggles to find parking at night, horrid weather (snow, ice, etc.) and breakdowns (in a marketing campaign for a new truck model? Are you kidding me?)
Others noted the none-too-subtle hours-of-service violation by LeCount (a day that starts at 6 a.m. with delivery 12:10 a.m. the next exceeds 14 hours just a WEE bit), along with something similar as Donaldson relates his grief-stricken accumulation of 130,000 miles in under six months following the tragic death of his son, only 27, from a brain aneurysm back in 1997.
Even the happy homecomings for each driver at the end of the movie came under the cold glare of the cynic's eye. A few folks told me that - in reality - oft times the "coming home" ritual is boiled down to "throw the dirty laundry in the corner and go straight to bed." I say, sure, maybe that's true, but isn't the happy greeting by family and friends how anyone - but especially truck drivers, gone 15 or 30 days or more - WANTS to be welcomed home? Isn't this film also about the reality we'd like to see more of, too?
[Tim Young with his family -- the family he treasures so much.]
Morgen I think answered those and other countless questions this way: his film is for truckers, pure and simple. It's supposed to tell a larger story through these three drivers about some - but not all - of the realities commercial truck drivers face every day on the road, as well as celebrate the real joys the profession holds.
"This film wasn't made to explain everything in trucking - it was meant to give voice to truckers and their unique lifestyle," Morgen says. "We wanted to share their attitudes and philosophies about trucking. These three drivers opened their hearts and souls to us, putting themselves out there for all to see. All human beings have an innate desire to share who they are and what they stand for with other human beings. This is what you see on the screen."
[Driver Tim Young - a native of Flat Rock, Alabama - explains in his own words why he participated in this film. FYI, his infectious laugh and southern drawl are big highlights of the film.]
It isn't all peaches and cream, either. There's plenty of vocal frustration expressed by the drivers in this film - about traffic, last-minute load assignments, the stress on the family back home, the high cost of fuel, lack of respect, etc. - along a with a lot of leeriness at times about their lives being put on camera.
Donaldson says he very nearly quit on the first day of filming in South Dakota - going so far as to dial information for the nearest airport so he could fly home. "There were people and camera equipment so stuffed in my truck that I barely had room to move in my seat," he said at the press conference. "I wasn't used to being so confined like that."
[Steven "Stingray" Donaldson.]
But he stayed - and ended up delivering one of the most powerful segments of the movie.
Let me tell you, too, no one is more pleased with this film -- warts and all -- than Al Saltiel, Navistar's vice president of truck marketing.
"You just never know until you see it," he told me after the premier. "You can't help but feel really good about these guys on the screen, for as you get to know them, you like them more and more. Only along the way does the product story come out."
[The site of the film premier in Dallas.]
He says the goal in creating this one-of-a-kind film was to capture the spirit and pride of today's long haul trucker, documenting both the challenges and triumphs they face while on the road, hauling the goods that keep our nation move. "All I can say is the movie is infectious; it creates it's own enthusiasm as it rolls along."
Did it ever. The packed movie theatre that night rendered a pretty dramatic verdict, as well. They gave the movie a three-minute standing ovation.


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Ebola Crisis In West Africa Deepens
More than 530 deaths in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have now been attributed to the Ebola virus — the largest outbreak on record.
The key to stopping the spread of the disease, which causes its victims to bleed from the ears and nose, is isolating the sick, but fear and panic have sent some patients into hiding.
Ebola has reached the capitals of all three countries, and the World Health Organization reported 44 new cases including 21 deaths on Friday.
There are reports of panicked residents in remote areas attacking the very health workers who've been sent to help them.
In one town in Sierra Leone, residents partially burned down a treatment center over fears that the drugs given to victims were actually causing the disease.
Dr. Unni Krishnan, who heads disaster preparedness and response for the WHO, says there've been no recorded cases of Ebola outside Africa, and, he says, the "threat of it spreading though is very much there."
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