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The WSJ Law Blog ran a piece today detailing how a "small but growing number of judges say U.S. military veterans should be treated differently from nonveterans when they are sentenced for crimes."
Surprisingly, the piece does not note that just several weeks ago, the Supreme Court ordered a new hearing for a Korean War veteran sentenced to death in Florida because his lawyer failed to present evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder. The Court went on to give lower courts a sharp, suggestive elbowing:
Our Nation has a long tradition of according leniency to veterans in recognition of their service, especially for those who fought on the front lines as Porter did.
Linda Greenhouse, the former New York Times Supreme Court correspondent, wrote that while such lenience is honorable, the Court's empathy may be selectively applied:
Just last month, the same nine justices, also per curiam and also unanimously, sent chills down the spine of death-penalty opponents by overturning a different federal appeals court's grant of habeas corpus to an Ohio death-row inmate who also claimed ineffective assistance of counsel. The inmate, Robert J. Van Hook, robbed and murdered a man he picked up in a gay bar. He is also a military veteran, but one whose service was terminated because of alcohol and drug abuse. …
[T]he Supreme Court parsed the evidence that was presented and concluded that the lawyer's decision "not to seek more" fell "well within the range of professionally reasonable judgments." The American Bar Association standards in effect at the time of trial required no more, the opinion said.
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This is an interesting development in criminal law, especially the growth of these veterans courts, as the WSJ article points out. Although it seems right that judges and legislatures are concerned with accounting for PTSD and other factors that might affect a veteran's culpability for a given crime, it also seems wrong to exclude other criminal defendants from like treatment during sentencing. This special treatment for veterans cannot be explained by disproportionately high rates of certain mitigating factors; the criminal justice system is designed to account for mitigation on an individual basis, and could surely accomodate mitigation claims from veterans just like any other criminal defendant. The only reasonable explanation is that veterans are receiving leniency in recognition of their service to the United States as opposed to their relative culpability for their crimes: through service in time of war, veterans earn a get out of jail free card (or a get out of jail sooner card).
This seems deeply problematic to me. As an initial matter, special treatment in criminal sentencing for veterans confers upon defendants benefits associated with their group status rather than their individual character traits. One might argue – as I'm guessing proponents of this special treatment often do – that joining the armed forces and serving during war is a sufficient display of good character to warrant mitigation. This argument is consistent with the more general and commonly accepted line of thinking that takes as a given that soldiers are good, noble people who risk all for the lives of others.
However, this line of thinking does not reflect reality. Many (perhaps most) soldiers are good people, and some are indeed heroes. But soldiers in the end are human like the rest of us, with all the frailties and flaws that come with the human condition. Some soldiers murder and enjoy it and other soldiers torture or beat captives on nothing more than a superior officer's order. Most soldiers probably join the service to serve their country but many soldiers join with nothing more in mind that their careers.
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(CNN) – Democrats will keep the U.S. House seat once held by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
Democratic Rep. Ron Barber bested Republican Martha McSally for a full term in Arizona's second district.
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Barber's spokesman Mark Prentice told CNN that McSally called Barber to concede the race earlier Saturday.
In a statement released by her campaign after her concession speech, McSally said, "It was a hard fought campaign and I'm proud of the race we ran with integrity, honor, authenticity, and grace."
"While ultimately we didn't get the results we hoped for, I'm amazed at the historic nature of what we did with the odds stacked so high against us," she said.
Barber, a former aide to Giffords, won Giffords' seat in a special election in June following a shooting the year before in Tucson at a "Congress On Your Corner" event. Giffords, then in her third term as a congresswoman, was shot in the head. She later left Congress to focus on her recovery and endorsed Barber as her successor.
Barber also was wounded in the leg and cheek during the shooting; six others were killed.
As of Saturday, Barber led McSally by 1,402-vote margin with more than 285,000 ballots cast.
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Democrats maintain a slight lead in each of the two additional House races that remain too close to call. A third unresolved House race in Louisiana will pit two Republican incumbents against each other in a December 8 run-off election.
The balance of power now stands at 234 Republicans, which includes the winner of the Louisiana race, and 199 Democrats. Before the election, Republicans held 242 seats and Democrats had 193.
The remaining races are Florida's 18th district between Republican incumbent Rep. Allen West and Democrat Patrick Murphy and North Carolina's 7th district between Republican David Rouzer and Democratic incumbent Rep. Mike McIntyre.
–CNN's Dana Davidsen, Kevin Bohn and Robert Yoon contributed to this report.
Good to hear! Now if we can just get West to concede so the ELECTED candidate can prepare for the next session.
Please help remove the GOP (the Party Of No) from congress in 2014. It is time to move forward.
So the Dems will have gained 6-8 seats in the House, two (counting independents who will caucus with them) in the Senate, in addition to holding the WH. In CA, Dems gained a better than a 2/3 majority in both legislative houses. All in all, a pretty good election for this CA Dem.
Republicans lose a seat in Arizona. Maybe there is some hope for America...
I was certainly glad to learn that Congressman Ron Barber would be able to continue and carry Gabrielle Giffords' mission.
This is the best news! My fingers ache from being crossed! This man is a class act...he had a great role model in Rep. Giffords. I wish him well ~~
Glad that Barber won but nothing against McSally. Good person who ran a good race. Just cannot stomach the Republican party. Clean up your collective act and I may once again turn to the party I used to admire.
Hmmmmmmmmmm. It was Repubs 242 seats and Democrats had 193. Now it's 234 Republicans, which includes the winner of the Louisiana race, and 199 Democrats. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Looks like something's goin' on here!.
WhaHooo!! Congratulations, Mr Barber!!!
Wow, great win Barber, McSally ran a real nasty ad campaign of LIES and mis information. The GOP flooded Tucson, with ad the few weeks against Barber. People realize and understood what McSally was doing. Sad a women with her back ground would run a radical Tea Party campaign.
Wonderful. I live in Vail and this is great news for Gabby, the District, Arizona and the country!
I thought Allen West already lost.
Amazing woman and amazing husband pulled through together! I'm glad she's happy with her replacement.
There is no such thing as a gun as a defensive weapon. Ask any dead soldier.
What about the 141% of registered voter turnout in one florida distsict, something smells here. How can they just sweep that under the rug and let it slide.someone needs to go to jail if it's true.
Enough of Allen West already. Go away!
A rare, good day in Arizona. We are the same state that elected Jeff Flakes to the Senate, the same guy who usually votes with Troy Akin and against veterans, children and others outside the interests of the most extreme right believers.
Good for him. Now make a difference.
I do not understand why you insist that Florida 18 is not going to go democratic. West lost his court case for a re-count ( of any kind) and the margin of victory for Murphy is above a legally needed re-count under state law.t!?
I stick with my prediction 200 Dem 235 Repubs.
Elections have become a train wreck. Our system is so broke and driven by race. I love the votes in Philadelphia where in one concentrated neighborhood Obama got every single vote, 19 thousand plus votes. That was not racial at all. Are you kidding me, not 1 vote. African Americans have you ever heard the saying calling the kettle black ? Can't wait for the hispanic candidate. Where will the demographics give 100%, Florida, New Mexico. You all need to go look in the mirror and hold up the candidates picture that most resembles you before you vote. Why bother with anything else. Yu could probably just have Juan Valdez the guy from the coffee commercial run the next time around. Either the picture of him or his jackass he stands next to will resemble your image. I also think I know which one will be a closer match
His is name Barber or was he a barber....seems to me we just rehash bureaucrats in the country.. but at least he'll know the way to the rest rooms in congress...just changing offices,,,juts goes to demonstrate if one works hard one can achieve.. maybe he'll be a good example for the folks that whine and want government handouts .....
Great news after such a tragic senseless event.
I really hope Allan West is tossed out of Congress. He and is fellow extreme right-wingers do not belong there!

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Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's basketball team ended their three game losing streak with a 59-45 conference win over Yeshiva University this evening in Farmingdale, N.Y. The Rams improved to 5-3 overall and 2-1 in Skyline play, while the Maccabees fell to 3-7, 2-4.
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A workaround in 0.9.10 is to set the layer of the Slit to "Desktop" (flux menu -> Configure -> Slit -> Layer -> Desktop).
Mozilla Firefox crashes when entering a Flash site
You can fix it by creating an executable file named
/etc/profile.d/flash.sh containing this line:
export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
Warning! this will disable compositing effects aswell as cause kwin to not function and cairo-compmgr to crash.
Background turns light gray briefly after logging in (e.g. in Openbox)
This is fixed by installing hsetroot and setting the background color by executing
hsetroot -solid "#000000" (just type the code of the colour you want instead of 000000) before xcompmgr.
BadPicture request in awesome wm
if you get the following error in awesome:
error 163: BadPicture request 149 minor 8 serial 34943 error 163: BadPicture request 149 minor 8 serial 34988 error 163: BadPicture request 149 minor 8 serial 35033
just install the package feh and restart awesome.
Starting/Stopping xcompmgr on Demand
This script (e.g. in ~/bin) allows easy (re)starting and stopping of the compositing manager.
#!/bin/bash # # Start a composition manager. # (xcompmgr in this case) function comphelp () { echo "Composition Manager:" echo " (re)start: COMP" echo " stop: COMP -s" echo " query: COMP -q" echo " returns 1 if composition manager is running, else 0" exit } function checkcomp () { ( ps nc -C xcompmgr &>/dev/null ) && exit 1 exit 0 } function stopcomp () { ( ps nc -C xcompmgr &>/dev/null ) && killall xcompmgr } function startcomp () { stopcomp # Example settings only. Replace with your own. xcompmgr -CcfF -I-.015 -O-.03 -D6 -t-1 -l-3 -r4.2 -o.5 & exit } case "$1x" in "x") startcomp;; "-qx") checkcomp;; "-sx") stopcomp; exit;; *) comphelp;; esac
I bound COMP and COMP -s to two hot keys in IceWM because there are a few glitches using xcompmgr in this WM. This allows for fast restart or temporary composition removal if needed without interrupting other work.
See also
- Composite -- A Xorg extension required by composite managers
- Compiz -- The original composite/window manager from Novell
- Cairo Composite Manager -- A versatile and extensible composite manager which uses cairo for rendering.
- Wikipedia:Compositing window manager


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BOSTON — It all depends how you look at it, really.
One man's hit man is another's humanitarian.
Johnny "The Executioner" Martorano, who turned government witness and copped to killing 20 men and women as part of Whitey Bulger's Winter Hill Gang, explained to Whitey's lawyer Tuesday in federal court here that he was motivated by love of family and friends.
"I didn't enjoy killing anybody," he said. "I enjoyed helping a friend if I could."
If anybody insulted, implicated or roughed up his brother or a friend's brother, if anybody looked at him funny while he was with a date, if anybody ratted on his fellow gang members, if anybody could eyewitness a crime committed by an "associate," he grabbed a .38 or a knife, a fake beard, a walkie-talkie or a towel to keep the blood off his car, and sprang into action. And somebody usually ended up in a trunk somewhere, sometimes still groaning.
"Family and friends come first," said the bulldog-faced enforcer, looking natty with slicked back, suspiciously black hair, a dark suit, pink-tinted wire-rim glasses and a kerchief the color of fresh blood. "The priests and the nuns I grew up with taught me that. They always talked about Judas. A Judas is the worst person in the world."
The 72-year-old Cambridge native did not look at his former pal, the short, trim 83-year-old Bulger of South Boston, sitting military straight at the defense table, and Bulger's ice-blue eyes did not turn toward him.
So many Judases, so little time.
Whitey sees Martorano as a Judas for making a deal with the feds and testifying against the Irish gang boss, who's pleading not guilty to involvement in 19 murders. Martorano sees Whitey as a Judas for his years as a snitch for John "Zip" Connolly, a Boston F.B.I. agent who was a Judas to the F.B.I. because he helped Whitey steer clear of trouble. (They were from the same ZIP code.) Whitey's younger brother, William, who rose to be a political boss in Massachusetts, was a mentor to Connolly when he was a young man.
Martorano testified on Monday that when he learned that Whitey and Stevie "The Rifleman" Flemmi were F.B.I. informants, "it sort of broke my heart." They were his children's godfathers, and his youngest son, James Stephen, was named for them.
In a gravelly monotone, with utter aplomb, Martorano talked about those he had taken out with a shot to the temple or heart, between the eyes or in the back of the head — plus several who were hit by mistake, including a teenage boy and girl.
In a sneering cross-examination Tuesday, Henry Brennan, a lawyer on Whitey's defense team, referred to Martorano's deal for a "so-called sentence" of 14 years (12 served) for 20 murders and asked the Executioner if he felt he was killing out of honor and integrity.
"I thought both," Martorano replied.
Brennan sarcastically asked, "And that makes you a vigilante like Batman?"
"I would rather be considered as a vigilante than a serial killer," Martorano answered, adding: "A serial murderer kills for fun. They like it. I didn't like doing any of it. I didn't like risking my life either. I never had any joy, never had any joy at all."
He doesn't consider himself a hit man either, even though the book he wrote with the Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr, which has been sold to Hollywood, is called "Hitman."
"There was no talk about money for murder, ever," he said primly.
On the lam in Florida from charges of horse-race fixing and racketeering, he flew to Tulsa, Okla., in 1981 to kill a stranger, Roger Wheeler, the owner of World Jai Alai, as a favor to his friend John Callahan, who had been president of World Jai Alai and who was worried that Wheeler suspected him of skimming money from jai alai frontons. (Martorano described the sport as "a game they throw a racket around, a ball around, a Spanish game, I believe.")
He shot Wheeler in his car at a country club after he came off the golf course, and Callahan rewarded the Executioner with $50,000 for the Winter Hill pot. But it was not a quid pro kill, Martorano explained with gangsta gall: "He gave me that money in appreciation for me risking my life for him so that he wouldn't go to jail."
The following year, his old friends Whitey and Stevie wanted Martorano to kill his new friend Callahan and blame it on the Cubans in Miami; they were afraid Callahan, whom they considered a wannabe gangster, would fold and finger the gang for killing Wheeler. Martorano later said he "felt lousy" about having to "kill a guy who I had just killed a guy for." It was so "distasteful," he said, that he never murdered anyone else. (He slyly hinted on "60 Minutes" that he might make an exception for Whitey.) The lawyers did their best to make sure everyone understood the criminal argot peppering the testimony. They had Martorano explain the meaning of a boiler (a stolen car), a crash car (a car that can slow down or bump a police car), a throw-off (planting evidence to throw off the investigation to go a different direction) and even a gang.
"What was a gang?" asked the prosecutor.
"A group of guys that got together and formed a gang," Martorano replied.
"For what purpose?" the prosecutor asked.
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The docs told her she might only be there for 4-5 days (?) and then step down to subacute rehab. I was hoping she would improve enough and get to stay in Acute rehab until when she goes home, but maybe Medicare is approving only very short stays in Acute rehab these days. Any thoughts? Many thanks.


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I need a new motor in my vw.
Ok wtf? my motor sezied up over night i guess. So i got a few options its gonna be like $875 to rebuild the top part of the motor to stock. Or $1400 to rebuild the top part, throw in a cam, and bore it to a 1915cc. Or $1300 for a new motor with all new parts, a new clutch and pressure plate and all that good stuff? What should i do? I want to have a kick *** motor soon probably in like 1 and a half years or 2 years. Should i buy a used 2000cc porsche motor and start my project from there, or should i buy a 1600 block and build it up?? I am 16 with not alot of knowalge with motors and not a whole lot of cash(i own a vw i mean yeah their like 800 bucks for a okie one thats running). I would start with a different car but i just put like 25 hours of my own time in to the body, shaving it sanding it down to bare metal, primering it with like 3 coats and all that good stuff. I love this car, no it may not be the best or the fastest, the motor i have in it now, with a msd ignition, and s&s header/exahust, and a k&n airfilter, i can beat stock civics and accords(none v-tec, and some v-tec), me and my friends have burned two sets of rear tires off it in the past few months spinnin doughnuts and peeling out and drifting(all in a controled inviroment one my friends is rich and has a 4 mile long 3 car wide paved drive way with lots of turns and a big *** circle at the end). I dont know what to do? any vw people please help.
ive read "how to hot rod vw" and "bajas and buggies" and from what i understud was, the porsha engines and trans-axle wernt all that.
yea the porsha might have more power out of the box, but a whell built vw motor can be just as strong, if not stronger and be more reliable.
is this your daily driver?
you could always cram an SHO in the back lol
howziit guy!
Hmmmm, brings back memories of the early-80's, when the VW bug was so popular here.
since you're only 16, just repair the 1600, increasee to 87mm pistons, install oil filter/external oil cooler or doghouse cooler/shroud, extractor exhaust, and live with that.
DON'T BUY THE PORSCHE ENGINE! it's not a bolt-on, requires more precise assembly/clearances, parts cost MUCH more than "bug" parts. not too much aftermarket parts, either.
FWIW, a well-built VW engine would easily smoke a porsche 1600, with much less $$$ outlay.
dollar-for-dollar, ya can't beat a 1775cc engine, with cam/excellent heads, merged exhaust and dual 48 webers(44IDA webers for street).
this is 1980's technology, unsure of 21st century mods.
i'm into supercharged big-blocks in my daily driver.
yep, this is my daily driver, i was thinkin of gettin a toyota pickup one around here for like $400 and then rippin apart my vw and doing a ground up but i dont go the money. I am still thinking on what to do with it. My dads got a pretty sick car(87 porsche 928) i cant ever drive it well i used to when i had my permit, so i wanna build up my car to kick his *** bad in a drag race, me and him went at it a few times out on the streets and i always loose but its still fun. Yeah no porsche motors for me, i called to get the price on one and a used one with 67,456 miles is gonna be about $1700 with out carb and exaust(f u c k that). I am gonna rebuild my motor and bore it to a 1915cc or just get a new one and start with a 1600cc block and work it up, and get a transaxle and build that like bullet proof so i can have a kick-*** 12.5 or better 1/4 street car that gets 20mpg or more.
you never said why you think your engine is locked up.
i couldn't imagine your engine just locking up over night.
what exactly brings you to that conclution?
Hey bug, saw some motors on ebay, thought you may want to take a look
knew a guy(neighbor when I was a kid) that put a 440 Interceptor in a bug and converted it to front engine with less than a foot long driveshaft. It was awesome for about a week by that time it was junk
Since it's your daily driver, it'll probably come down to what's going to get you back on the road the fastest. I would look into what's really wrong with the motor first, then go from there. Bolt ons are going to alot cheaper, and you can piece them together.
Saw this the other day, and thought it was the coolest bug I've ever seen. It was primered black (love that look), and had all the fenders off with some really nice front suspen. and pizza cutters in the front, and a set of nice wide meats in the back. It really resembled a LowBoy(I think that's what they are called, 32 Coupe), it was too damn cool .
what brought me to the motor locking up is that, it wouldnt turn over at all, so i tried to hand turn it no luck. So i called up a family friend thats a vw nut, and he messed with it for 1 and a half and said motors locked up, probably the crank cracked or broke(i think thats what he said??) and that it could be a few other things to, but its like just about the same price to rebuild the motor as it is for a new one with a new clutch and pressure plate and all that good stuff. Dual carbs and all that can be bolted on later and when i get more moneys. Well yeah i am gonna look on ebay too. well i gotta go pick up my girlfriend so she can get her nails done or somthing.
How ya gonna do that when your daily driver is froze?...lol
Do you think you could handle it yourself? I heard those motors come out with only 4 bolts. Doing it yourself could save you a lot of money.
Hey 72superbug, I think it's cool that you have a bug. That was my first car and man did I love it!
You said that you don't know much about motors so I think your VW is a great car to learn on. These things are very easy and forgiving to work on. You can drop the engine by yourself with nothing more than a floorjack and stands. They respond extremely well to modifications.
I would drop the engine and determine exactly what is wrong. If it's just a piston locked in the cylinder bore then you can just replace the piston and bore. Alot cheaper than an entire engine.
Just a thought but you could try to turn over the engine with the generator/fan belt removed. I've had a generator locked up so tight that the engine wouldn't turn with the starter or a wrench.
I wouldn't concern myself with the transaxle unless you plan on building a serious street/strip car. Those trannies are pretty stout and reliable in stock form.
Man the memories!!
so wait, my alternator or generator could be locked up and that could cause it not to turn over? that would be sweet save me hella hella money and then i could start my motor build up and my system and interior(stuff for vw's is cheap new carpets like 60 bucks). well yeah i will look at that. Thanx man. yeah me and my dad were gonna drop a new motor in over a weekend probably but if its that then i will be a verry verry happy kid, i am driving our truck with a 454(mild cam, edelbock heads, intake, and carb, hooker headers) and its built for towing cars around so its got pretty good low end take off but i hate 8 miles a gallon around town.
i also got a beetle.. 74 super convertible.. the motor i baught it with is a 1641cc.. from a 72 beetle.. but i dont understand how yours can light em up so easly.. i gota rev the snot outa mine drop the clutch then be lucky to get a chirp.. and i do have dual carbs.. car runs great.. was thinking about selling it for a lift kit for my truck?? the car needs major attention on body work.. and thats one thing i don't no how to do prperly.. body work! and buddy.. over here in canada.. it would cost me 5 grand to build a decent powered motor.. and thats be genorus.. (cheap parts) go for the top of the line parts.. then u lookin at a easy 8 grand....200 hp.. thats another reason y i wana sell it.. parts arnt cheap.. i'd love to restore.. it.. but having to other cars.. i don't no if its worth the money.. but then again cant sell it for anything cuz its rusty.. dam.. looks like i just told u my life story.. anyways.. ya the motors are simple to pull.. 4 bolts off the transaxle.. i'd also be worried y it sezied up.. before deciding to rebuild, i think i might check out ebay.. hey if i cam accross a little racing motor i'd put it in before i sell.. proboly rip the thing to pieces.. but be fun racing around!
usually #3 piston(driver-side, rear) gives up the ghost, especially after the exhaust valve separates.
remove the generator belt, and try turning the engine over...BY HAND. if it turns, come back here, for a cheap fix.
whatever ya do, don't order that new engine yet! yours might be fixable.
FWIW, the fastest 2-man team could remove ANNNND reinstall the VW engine in 2-4 minutes...and drive away!
that was 20 years ago!
Don't forget to unhook the accelerator cable BEFORE you drop the motor.
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The seat-back suspension was a major technical achievement and represented a departure from the concept of the chair as a solid shell. Wonderfully comfortable, strong, yet lightweight, the chairs became the basis for several other Eames designs, including the Soft Pad chairs.
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what do you think: "Is "poka" a spatial noun only or can it be a preposition too?"
jan Alanto wrote:The problem (or the solution) is that Lope still uses "poka" as a preposition, albeit with the same meaning as "lon poka (pi)". Pije, on the other side disapproves completely the usage of poka as preposition and says that "lon poka (pi)" is how you translate "with" into toki pona.
I think I haven't expressed well that I only find it valid that "lon poka (pi)" is equal to "poka". For me, using "poka" as preposition is valid, but not with the same meaning as "lon poka (pi)".
jan Alanto wrote:What would preposition "sewi" mean? "poka" exists because we want to have "with", one of the more basic prepositions present in almost all languages (if not all), it was chosen to reduce word count, since it would have been "kan". There is no preposition that could be "sewi", unless you're refering to "up", but akin to "up" is "next to" which is "lon poka", not "with". That's not a valid attack on "poka" as preposition.
As for "mi tawa poka sina." It's easier to say "I go to your side" as "mi tawa sina." and probably "mi tawa poka sina." ("I go with you.") might also be expressed as "mi tawa lon poka sina." ("I go next to you.", see how they seem equal even in English), although longer. That's not to say "poka" equals to "lon poka", just that in some contexts, it really doesn't seem to make much difference. But in many other contexts, it'd be strange to say "next to" instead of "with" (I build a house with you/in your company. vs. I build a house next to you/at your side/near you.). Since that seems to give you zero bothering, then you have your argument justified. nasin pona li mute.
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The Red Sox received a new weight room for their clubhouse in 1991 and were in the hunt for most of the 1991 season. However, after climbing to within half a game of first place on September 21, the team lost 11 of their final 14 contests and finished seven games back. The disappointing ending cost Joe Morgan his job as manager and ushered in a dispiriting stretch for the Red Sox in the early 1990s.
Record: 84-78, Tied for 2nd in American League East
Manager: Joseph M. Morgan
Attendance: 2,562,435
Looking to buttress the team's offense, the Red Sox signed 35-year-old Jack Clark prior to the 1991 season. Clark bounced back from an off-year in 1990 to lead the Red Sox in home runs (28) and RBIs (87) in 1991. Even with Clark's arrival Boston's offense slugged just 126 home runs.
A frightening moment struck the team on July 30 when reliever Jeff Gray, who was enjoying an excellent year with a 2.34 ERA in 61? innings, suffered a stroke in the Red Sox home clubhouse. Gray never played baseball again. That very evening, Carlos Quintana helped break a streak of nine consecutive home losses by hitting a grand slam and a two-run double in the third inning off Texas' Oil Can Boyd. Quintana's six RBIs in one inning tied the major-league record.
Roger Clemens won his third Cy Young Award in 1991, winning 18 games and leading the league in ERA (2.62) and strikeouts (241).
The Red Sox climbed to within half a game of first place on September 21 but then won only three of their final 14 contests to conclude the year seven games out of first.
Two days after the regular season ended, Joe Morgan was fired and replaced by former Red Sox third baseman Butch Hobson.
For the 1991 season, the Red Sox clubhouse received a new weight room and multi-purpose room. The club also renovated the ramps providing handicapped access in Sections 6, 32 and 42.
The 1991 Baseball Beanpot took place at Fenway Park in early May. Harvard would avenge its loss to Boston College the previous year in the 1990 Beanpot, defeating the Eagles in an extra-inning championship game. Nine days later, Fenway Park hosted another Old-Timers game that featured baseball legends Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio.
|1991 Non-Red Sox Baseball At Fenway Park
|May 1
|Harvard 15, Northeastern 1 (Beanpot Semi-Finals)*
|May 1
|Boston College 5, Boston University 1 (Beanpot Semi-Finals)*
|May 2
|Northeastern 11, Boston University 1 (Beanpot Consolation)*
|May 2
|Harvard 12, Boston College 9 (10 innings) (Beanpot Championship)*
|May 11
|Old-Timers Game
*Starting in 1990, Fenway Park has hosted the annual Baseball Beanpot, baseball's version of the longstanding Boston hockey tradition. Originally, the competition featured the same schools that battle for Hockey Beanpot: Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern University and Harvard University. However, when BU dropped their baseball program after the 1995 season, the University of Massachusetts took their place. The Baseball Beanpot has been held at Fenway Park every year since its inception except for in 2004 and 2010, when the tournament was played at Campanelli Stadium in Brockton, MA.


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Lakeland College celebrated a significant coach from its past and looked ahead to a bright future during a pair of dedication ceremonies as part of Saturday's Homecoming activities.
The college dedicated the completion of a new wrestling room, and renamed the football practice field for the late John Thome, the winningest football coach in Lakeland history.
Thome, who died in 2011, was head coach during Lakeland's golden age of football. He is Lakeland's all-time wins leader in football, having compiled a 78-53-2 record and winning seven conference championships in 14 seasons as head coach from 1967-80. He was a six-time conference coach of the year, three-time NAIA coach of the year nominee and was inducted into the Lakeland Athletic Hall of Fame in 1997 and into the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2001.
He also served on the coaching staffs at Kiel, Howards Grove, Oostburg and Plymouth, wrapping up his career as a physical education teacher at Howards Grove High School and coach of the golf team.
The college erected a large stone bearing a plaque with Thome's likeness beside the practice field, located behind the Wehr Athletic Center. Money was also raised to contribute to the existing John Thome Endowed Scholarship Fund.
Thome's wife, Darlene, and their three children, sons Craig and Jon, and daughter Trecia Shane, and their families attended the event, along with several former Lakeland football players who were coached by Thome.
"It's so appropriate that we're dedicating a practice field in his honor," Trecia said. "It was before, during and after practice that my father made so many memories. I'm just now beginning to understand the important influence he had on so many people. Teachers, coaches and business people I run into say, 'You're Coach Thome's daughter? I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for your father.'
"My dad wore so many hats – coach, teacher, professor, recruiter, husband, father, friend. We can all be thankful that he crossed our paths."
Mike Brunmeier, a 1973 graduate, served on the leadership committee that spearheaded the naming of the field. He spoke at the dedication on behalf of Thome's former players.
"He was our coach, but he was also our big brother," Brunmeier said. "He was prowling campus night and day looking for us to see what we were doing, see what we were getting into and make sure we were studying. He held our feet to the fire and made sure we were making the right choices."
Dan Eck, the college's interim president, said the monument behind the Wehr Center will allow Thome to "watch over everyone here. As a college we will change, but we can never forget what made this a special place."
The wrestling room is a space in the southwest portion of campus previously occupied by GT Graphics, a privately-owned print shop. Originally intended to be a temporary solution, Lakeland renovated the space to accommodate the needs of the wrestling program and allow the team to permanently use it as a standalone practice facility.
Members of the current team were joined by several former Lakeland wrestlers, as well as former head coach Pete Rogers, now assistant wrestling coach at Purdue University. The facility has wall-to-wall mats, kettlebells, pull-up bars, Bulgarian training bags, ropes and other top-flight training equipment.
The walls of the room spotlight Lakeland's All-Americans and Academic All-Americans, providing current wrestlers with role models from the program's past.
"This takes the possibilities for our program and our student-athletes to much higher levels," said Lakeland head wrestling coach Mike DeRoehn. "The facility provides a safe, clean, motivating environment for our athletes to train in on a year-round basis, if they choose. It will increase our practice efficiency and team training opportunities exponentially, as well as greatly enhance our recruiting."
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Visiting Arizona's remote, gorgeous Wave
arizona Visiting remote geologic wonder requires luck, pluck, but the payoff is incredible
The afternoon before visiting the Wave, we watched a madman stagger out of the desert.
My friends and I were hiking back from Buckskin Gulch, part of the surreal Vermillion Cliffs National Monument on the Utah/Arizona border. Our permit for the Wave was for the next day - but this poor soul had just been out there. He'd lost his way coming back. His eyes were wild, and his broad-brimmed hat askew.
"I went up the wrong wash," he gasped, visibly calmed as we showed him the path back to the parking lot. "There's no trail. ... The maps they give you are !@$#% worthless. ... I've been lost for an hour and a half."
At least he didn't die out there. Some people do. The Wave may be one of the most visually stunning, ardently photographed features in the Southwest desert, but the Bureau of Land Management doesn't make it easy to find (or to find your way back).
"People come to the Wave and expect to have that 'National Park' experience," says BLM Monument Manager Kevin Wright, who administers the area from his office in St. George, Utah. "But there's no formal trail out there. Or potable water. And in the summer, it gets over 100 degrees."
All of which, of course, is part of the appeal.
Solid dunes
The Wave is a tangible hallucination, a convoluted corridor of multicolored, brilliantly striped sandstone. Its history dates back to Pangaea: the single, giant continent that once covered the Earth.
Back then, about 170 million years ago, the North American and African plates were splitting at the hem, forming the Atlantic Ocean. But dinosaurs roamed freely across the enormous, sandy desert that covered the Southwest: land we now call Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.
"The dunes marched along, leaving layer after layer," says Ron Blakey, co-author of "Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau." "The dune that makes up the Wave may have thousands of layers in it - and it's part of other dunes that also have thousands of layers. So the cross-bedding we see today may have billions of layers - each one representing the advance of a sand dune."
For more than 100 million years those dunes were buried miles underground, where they hardened into a layer of rock called Navajo Sandstone. Slowly, those layers were uplifted - until, a mere 4 million to 5 million years ago, they breached through the ground. Water and minerals seeped into the now exposed sandstone; the wind sculpted its surface.
Over many millennia it was painted and carved, creating the fantastic shapes and rainbow-hued stripes (called Liesegang bands) that now enliven desktop screen savers everywhere.
Lottery-like odds
The Wave sneaked onto every landscape photographer's bucket list in 2004, when it was featured in a German documentary called "Faszination Natur - Seven Seasons." Today, about a third of the visitors are from Europe (with a recent influx from China and Japan).
But seeing the Wave in situ requires luck and planning. The BLM, which administers Vermillion Cliffs, uses a strict permit system to protect the fragile area from overuse. Only 20 people are allowed in each day. Ten permits are issued online, four months in advance; the rest are awarded by lottery at the National Monument office in Kanab, Utah, at 8:30 a.m. (the permits, $7, are valid the following day). During high season, March-November, as many as 120 hopefuls show up each day. All but 10 will leave disappointed.
Bribes don't work.
Tom Reep, 32, is a nine-year Army veteran who served two tours in Iraq. He's currently the point man for Wave permit requests. Reep has an open flame tattooed on his arm, and a deep affinity for the desert. But he has little patience for people trying to buy their way into the Wave.
"The monetary record is $2,000," Reep remarks as he, Wright and my small group hike from the Wire Pass parking area and trailhead toward the Wave. "I've even had a lady on the phone ask, 'Well, what if I take you to dinner and a movie, and we'll see what happens afterward?' "
Kevin Wright has also turned down multiple requests - from the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition to representatives of the Occupy movement (who wanted to hold a candlelight vigil at the Wave).
"Even National Geographic had to get a permit," he says reverently. "We do give permission for research: science in the public interest. Otherwise, we never make an exception. I can't think of a single case."
"Come on," I nudge. "Not even the president?"
"If the president wants a permit," Wright pronounces dryly, "he will get one."
Best of show
We cover about 3 unmarked miles, meandering through a landscape pocked with vivid red and orange bumps and valleys - like acne writ large. The land is sparse, but not bare; we pass sagebrush, twisted junipers and hills bristling with Indian rice grass.
After 90 minutes of rugged walking, a short, sandy hill leads us up to the Wave itself. It's a weird feeling, to be approaching a rock formation with the same anticipation one might feel at Angkor, or the Taj Mahal.
"This whole area is amazing," I remark. "Will I even know the Wave when I see it?"
"You'll know it," Wright says.
He's right, of course. So much of the Southwest is wild and magical that it's hard to think "Best of Show." But the Wave is a contender. I stare at the layers of whorled stone, trying to come up with a good visual metaphor. The sandstone ribbons range in color from beet to pumpkin, cayenne to saffron. Farsi finger painting? Tutti-frutti taffy? A stretched-out sand mandala? One friend comes even closer: "Stacked Pringles."
We pass between the undulating Wave walls. It's only 10 a.m., and the sun hasn't penetrated the interior; it's cool and mysterious in the "tube." After a few yards, the wall opens up to our left. A dozen other visitors are sitting on a saddle above us, capturing the postcard view of the Wave. They wait gamely as we pass through their viewfinders.
"We'll come back later," Reep says. "There's lots to see."
Our little group continues walking, emerging from the Wave onto an exposed outcrop. The view beyond is alien, fantastic, a scene from Dr. Seuss. Reep leads us on a long loop behind the Wave, pointing out some of the area's lesser-known dreamscapes.
We stop at a viewpoint over the Second Wave; to the east stands a group of tall, cauliflower-topped hoodoos called Brain Rocks. A 200-foot scramble up to a harrowing ledge ("Don't look to your left ... or to your right," Reep says, grinning) leads to Top Rock, our lunch spot: a wind-carved arch with a staggering view across the landscape below.
My favorite site, though, is a simple pool of rainwater, filling a sandstone dip just a few steps from the Wave itself. Reep reaches into the water, and shows us a black creature that looks like a fat tadpole.
"A horseshoe shrimp," he explains. "The oldest living species on earth."
Exquisitely adapted, her eggs can survive up to 20 years between rains.
At about 2:30, Tom and Kevin head back to their truck. The other visitors have left, too. I'm left blissfully alone with a few good friends, the Wave and the oldest shrimp on Earth. Good company.
Lethal wrong turn
My fantasy is to head toward our car at dusk, but the group's greater wisdom prevails. We start back at 4:30 p.m. It's a good thing; the BLM's route-finding map has you navigate using a half-dozen small photographs of the local landmarks you see (or don't) around you. It's hard enough to follow the path in the late afternoon; it would be nearly impossible in the dark. Even now, we almost take a wrong turn up what seems to be a trail, but is only a wash between two tall hoodoos.
Getting lost here would be easy - and possibly fatal, as it was for an unlucky exchange student in 2011. He'd arrived at sunrise, and stayed until sunset. Dehydrated and disoriented, he took a wrong turn toward Buckskin Gulch - and fell into a slot canyon.
With a collective sigh of relief, we find our way out. As the dark, weird shapes of the buttes loom against the moonlit sky, the desert seems eternal. But even that view - like the false trail that snaked off into the sagebrush - is an illusion. The Earth is a living planet. Even the Wave, one day, will collapse.
"This landscape is ever-evolving," author Ron Blakey points out. "The Wave you can touch with your hand is probably less than 1,000 years old. It's constantly changing, constantly eroding, grain by grain, layer by layer. What you see today is not going to be there 5,000 years from now."
If you go
Getting there
The Wave is in the Coyote Buttes North area of the Paria Canyon-Vermillion Cliffs National Monument. The Wire Pass trailhead is a 40-minute drive from Kanab, Utah (and about the same distance from Page, Ariz.). Closest national airports and car rental agencies are in Salt Lake City and Las Vegas.
Where to stay
We stayed in Kanab, at the much-loved Purple Sage Inn (54 S. Main St., Kanab, (435) 644-5377, www.purplesageinn.com). Vintage bed and breakfast, allegedly where author Zane Grey worked on "Riders of the Purple Sage". Breakfast is to die for. (Kanab also has the usual spectrum
of Best Westerns and
Holiday Inns; Page,
less so.)
Where to eat
Rocking V Café (97 W. Center St., Kanab, (435) 644-8001, rockingvcafe.com) is an unexpectedly terrific restaurant, but you'll probably need reservations for dinner. We tried about five dishes between us, all excellent. There's some pretty cool artwork on the walls, and beautiful cards for sale.
What to do
For the Wave, you'll want to get permits for Coyote Buttes North either far in advance from the Bureau of Land Management online ( www.blm.gov/az/paria/index.cfm?usearea=CB) or at 8:30 the morning before at the visitors center in Kanab. There are only 10 permits available in Kanab, and selection is by lottery. If you have extra time (or don't get your permit), the hike through Buckskin Gulch into Pariah Canyon (also from the Wire Pass Trailhead) is spectacular as well. Expect deep puddles, and check the weather - flash floods in slot canyons can be deadly.
More information
The BLM's Vermillion Cliffs website: www.blm.gov/az (search for "Vermillion").
Jeff Greenwald is the author of many travel books, including "Snake Lake." E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Carmen Basilio Dies at 85; Took Title From Robinson
Carmen Basilio, the welterweight and middleweight boxing champion of the 1950s who fought two brutal bouts with Sugar Ray Robinson, winning his middleweight title and then losing it to him, died on Wednesday in Rochester. Basilio, who lived in Irondequoit, a suburb of Rochester, was 85.
His death was announced by the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, N.Y., where Basilio was born. He was among its first class of inductees in 1990.
They called him the Upstate Onion Farmer his Italian immigrant father worked the onion fields near Syracuse but from the time he was a youngster, Basilio wanted nothing more than to be a pro boxer. He became a champion with an unrelenting style of attack, willing to take punishment as well as dish it out.
There was no one with more determination than Carmen, his trainer Angelo Dundee, one of boxings most renowned cornermen, was once quoted by The Boston Globe as saying.
In September 1957, Basilio, who held the welterweight championship, stepped up a weight class when he challenged Robinson for his middleweight title before a crowd of 38,000 at Yankee Stadium.
Basilio had resented Robinson ever since their brief encounter four years earlier in Midtown Manhattan.
He pulled up with his entourage with his big Cadillac, Basilio recalled in an interview with the Cyber Boxing Zone Web site. I was walking past, so I decided to go over and introduce myself. I said: Hi, Ray, I just fought Billy Graham the week before, the No. 1 welterweight. Im Carmen Basilio. He gave me the brushoff, and I felt about an inch high.
Basilio won the middleweight title in a split decision over Robinson, who, pound for pound, was widely considered the best boxer in history.
Robinson almost floored Basilio with a left hook near the end of the 13th round, and he delivered a right hand to the body near the close of the 14th round that left Basilio reeling. But Basilio, displaying his customary grit, pressed forward in the 15th round, punching away steadily.
Basilios craggy face was a mess when he met with reporters in the locker room. He had a heavy gauze bandage protecting a cut along the outer edge of his left eyebrow, and his eyes were slits from large welts on his cheek bones. He was rubbing a chunk of ice in a towel across his bruised lips.
I figured my aggressiveness gave me the edge, he said.
Basilio was required to give up his welterweight title when he won the middleweight crown, but he was awarded the Hickok Belt as the top professional athlete of 1957.
He lost the middleweight title to Robinson at Chicago Stadium in March 1958 in another split decision after fighting with his left eye virtually closed from the seventh round on, a victim of Robinsons right hook. Basilio rallied with left hooks to the body in the 9th and 10th rounds, but it was not enough to keep Robinson from winning the middleweight championship for a fifth time.
Carmen Basilio was born on April 2, 1927, in Canastota, about 25 miles east of Syracuse, and was one of 10 children. His father was a fight nut, he recalled, who bought his sons boxing gloves. Basilio boxed in the Marine Corps during World War II, then made his pro debut in 1948.
His first title fight came in 1953, when he scored a second-round knockdown of the welterweight champion Kid Gavilan but lost a 15-round decision.
He won the welterweight championship in June 1955 with a 12th-round knockout of Tony DeMarco, then stopped DeMarco again in Round 12 of a rematch. He lost the crown on a decision to Johnny Saxton in March 1956, then regained it and defended it against Saxton, knocking him out each time.
After his second match with Robinson, he fought only occasionally and made three unsuccessful bids to win a middleweight title again, losing twice on knockouts to Gene Fullmer and on a decision to Paul Pender in 1961, his last fight.
He had a career record of 56 wins (27 by knockout), 16 losses and 7 draws.
The International Boxing Hall of Fame was built in part as a tribute to Basilio and his nephew Billy Backus, who held the welterweight title in the early 1970s. The Hall contains bronze busts of Basilio and of Backus, who is not an inductee.
After retiring from boxing, Basilio, a high-school dropout, taught physical education at Le Moyne College in Syracuse. He also worked in public relations for the Genesee Brewing Company. Basilios wife, Josie, traced his decline in health to heart bypass surgery in 1992, The Associated Press reported. A magnetic resonance imaging scan revealed no brain damage from his prizefighting days, she said.
In May 2009, Canastota High School, where Basilio was once a member of the boxing team, presented him with a diploma in recognition of his achievements.
Basilio is survived by his wife, four children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle said.
Basilio said he had no regrets, despite all the tattooing his face and body took.
I dont enjoy getting hurt, waking up with a puffed eye and pain, stiff all over, he told Sports Illustrated as he neared the end of his career. But you have to take the bitter with the sweet. The sweet is when guys recognize you on the street, say, Hello, champ, know who you are. It will always be sweet for me.