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Top 10 Creepiest Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe. Can you think of a name more synonymous with spine-tingling macabre literature? A master craftsman of prose and poetry alike, Poe dwells in that dark corner of our literary consciousness, along some creaky corridor laden with dust and cobwebs. Even more than a century on, reading Poe still feels like walking a razor's edge between grim amusement and irrevocable madness. Here is a list of ten of Poe's best-known tales and poems. Halloween's still a few months off, but there's no harm in starting early…
A dwarfish court jester serves as the titular character of this fiendish revenge tale. Hop-Frog is the childish king's favorite entertainer. But when the king and his foppish cabinet humiliate Hop-Frog's friend Tripetta, he decides to play a prank of his own. He dresses them as apes for the king's grand masquerade ball, and then sets them on fire in front of the shocked crowd. As he escapes with Tripetta, Hop-Frog revels in his vengeance, declaring "This is my last jest."
In the mid-19th Century, the pseudo-science of mesmerism was all the rage in the salons of America's bourgeoise, and Poe made it the central theme of this gruesome short story. On the verge of death from tuberculosis, one M. Valdemar agrees to be hypnotized in a crack-pot experiment in immortality. Unfortunately for Valdemar, his soul becomes trapped in his now-dead and increasingly yucky earthly remains. Definitely one of the more graphic Poe stories, and among one of several to deal with the terrors of deathly consciousness.
The narrator and his wife own several pets. Among them is a large black cat named Pluto. One day, in a drunken rage, the narrator blinds Pluto in one eye, and then later hangs the cat from a tree. Mysteriously, the house burns to the ground, leaving a silhouetted mark of a cat hanging from a gallows. Later, our narrator acquires another cat eerily similar to Pluto. Again, incensed with drink, he attempts to kill the cat but murders his wife instead, hiding her body in a cellar wall. When the police come sniffing around they're drawn to a wailing sound coming from the wall. They then discover the wife's body, atop which sits the screeching black cat, condemning its master for his terrible crime. [Image: Aubrey Beardsley's "Poe's Black Cat"]
C. Auguste Dupin is a man who lives in Paris, and he takes it upon himself to solve the shocking murder of two women after a suspect has already been arrested. Multiple witnesses claim to have heard the murderer, but report different languages being spoken. Later at the crime scene Dupin discovers a hair that cannot be human. It is then learned that the murderer is in fact an escaped Ourang-Outang. This is considered to be the birth of the detective story. And face it, what's scarier than a massive, knife-wielding primate?
In some nameless European city in some unspecified year, old Montresor finds himself with a grudge on poor Fortunato, and entirely too much free time to think about revenge. Montresor waits until Fortunato is good and drunk at the carnival before he lures him to his wine cellar for a swig of fine Spanish sherry. He then chains an increasingly-sober Fortunato to a niche in the wall and ruthlessly seals him in. And there he remains forever. "In pace requiescat."
Prospero, a ridiculously-detached potentate whose domain is being ravaged by a plague called the Red Death, invites his wealthy friends to take refuge in an abbey and leave the poor to their fate. During a lavish masquerade ball, a mysterious cloaked figure wanders through the abbey. Thinking it to be an uninvited guest, Prospero confronts the figure, and to his horror discovers that it is the embodiment of the Red Death itself. Decadent Prospero and all his guests then fall ill and die, unshielded and unexcluded from the misfortunes of the world at large.
An unnamed narrator arrives at the home of reclusive basket case Roderick Usher and his sickly twin sister Madeline. Roderick suffers from extreme sensitivity to light and sound, anxiety and hypochondria. Madeline suffers from a wasting disease, and she eventually dies and is buried in the family crypt within the cavernous mansion. On a stormy night, the narrator and Roderick begin to hear screeching and crashing noises in the house. We learn that cataleptic Madeline had not died when she was buried, and she has returned to confront her mad brother, who in turn dies of fright. The narrator then flees as the cursed house is swallowed by the murky bog.
Here we follow a narrator trying to prove his sanity to himself after murdering his elderly roomate. Driven mad by the old man's "vulture-like" eye, the narrator slays him in his bed and hides the dismembered corpse beneath the floorboards. When the police show up to question him, the narrator finds himself at the mercy of his heightened senses. He begins to hear a steadily-increasing heartbeat coming from the floor. Sure that the police must hear it too (they don't), he confesses to the crime. Recounting the events, presumably to a judge, the murderer's innocence is less important than his sanity, or lack thereof.
This story follows the horrors endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition. Guilty of an unknown crime and placed in a completely dark chamber, the protagonist is subjected to tortures only Poe could dream up. Drifting in and out of consciousness, he discovers that he is strapped to a platform above which swings an slowly-dropping pendulum blade. He eventually finds a way out and is saved by an unlikely rescue. This story is unique in that it relies almost entirely on senses such as sound to convey primal fear rather than the supernatural. The only visual descriptions are fleeting at best, and only serve to heighten the terror of what is unseen.
This narrative poem is undoubtedly Poe's most famous work. Musical, mysterious, even maddening, Poe spins the tale of a grieving lover who is visited by a talking Raven on a cold winter's night. At first, the narrator is curious as to the purpose of the Raven's one word: "Nevermore." He is soon overcome with memories of his lost love Lenore, and begins to feel her presence. Believing the Raven to be a messenger from the next world, the narrator implores it to say if they will be reunited in heaven, to which the Raven responds "Nevermore." We follow the narrator's descent into madness and despair as the Raven sits forever above his chamber door, forever tormenting him with its call.
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An area of disturbed weather that passed over the Yucatan Peninsula this week and into the Bay of Campeche appears to have lost its punch. The system once given a 80% probability of becoming a tropical cyclone has now weakened considerably.The National Hurricane Center now puts the probability of that area of disturbed weather becoming a tropical cyclone at only 30%.
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The first read-later service
I'm nervous to post this, but my readers and customers were very appreciative that I clarified the Readability story after some incorrect assumptions in the press, so I'll take the chance one more time.
Steve Streza was this week's guest on CMD+SPACE. Steve's the lead developer at Instapaper's biggest competitor, Pocket, founded by Nate Weiner and formerly named Read It Later. Weiner has commented numerous times in the press that Read It Later was the first read-later service, and that it predated Instapaper by being started in 2007. On CMD+SPACE, Steve repeated that claim:
Mike: "What sets Pocket apart from other services like Instapaper or Readability?"
Steve: … "It's worth noting that Read It Later and Pocket, we were the, kind of, first people to develop a save-for-later service, and that term, 'read it later', had kind of been adopted by other companies who are building these kind of similar products." …
Later in the episode, he made the same claim a second time: Read It Later was the first service in this category. Whether this is true depends on how you define that.
The first public mentions I can find of Read It Later are in November 2007. It was just a Firefox extension with two buttons, read later and reading list, that behaved like a bookmarks folder. There was no web service, no sync, and no support for other browsers — just a special bookmarks list stored locally in Firefox. This is what Pocket now claims was the first read-later service.
Instapaper launched in January 2008 as a bookmarklet that worked in any browser and a web service to sync your bookmarks between devices.1 A few months later, I added its text-extraction parser, and in June 2008, I released its iPhone app with customizable text settings and offline saving.
I think most people would consider these elements — multiple browser and device support, sync service, text extraction and reformatting, and offline saving — the essential ingredients that make a read-later service. And in 2007, Read It Later offered none of these.
That's why I think it's extremely misleading, or simply false, to say that Read It Later/Pocket was "the first save-for-later service". (There wasn't even a "service".2)
Months after Instapaper launched all of these features and was being very well-received in the tech press, in October 2008, Read It Later added a web service for sync, other-browser bookmarklets, and offline saving. Then an iPhone app in 2009. And while Read It Later has introduced some original features, Weiner systematically copied almost every major Instapaper feature over the first few years of Instapaper's existence.
This is ancient history, and while it annoyed me at the time, I don't really care anymore. Nobody does. For the most part, it doesn't matter.
I don't care anymore whether people know that Instapaper defined the read-later service and was first to most of its core features. I don't care anymore whether people know how much Read It Later copied from Instapaper in our early years. You can't force people to know backstories.
But for Pocket to repeatedly state the opposite — that they were the first service like this, and that Instapaper followed their lead — is over the line, and I won't sit here quietly and let that go unchallenged.
I like Steve Streza, and I don't think he'd knowingly mislead people. I assume he's just repeating the story he was told.
I didn't even know about Read It Later at the time because I stopped using Firefox in 2006. ↩
In fact, Readeroo, from April 2007, was much closer to the idea of a read-later service than Read It Later was. It was also a Firefox extension that also had two buttons — add to reading list, show list — but used Delicious as the back-end, simply creating bookmarks with the "toread" tag. ↩


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Monday Morning Offering - 74
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Good morning, good God!
With Advent begins a new year of grace, Lord,
the grace that is yours to share and give...
In this new year I want to offer you
an open door to my heart
for you to enter and make your home there...
I offer you the corners of my heart's garden
where I let the weeds grow wild:
Lord, help me weed out
whatever does not nourish my life and my soul...
I offer you the closets of my heart,
stuffed with old grudges and resentments:
Lord, help me discard anything
that fails to help me heal and grow...
I offer you my heart's cartons of wasted time,
boxes of foolishness
and bags of misspent effort:
Lord, help me clear out the trash of my mistakes
and give me a new beginning...
I offer you the cellar of my heart, Lord,
where a locked trunk of hurt and anger
aches to be opened with the key of your healing grace:
unlock what keeps me prisoner
to my memories and disappointments...
I offer you my heart's hopes and dreams, Lord,
for this new year of grace:
my pledge to pray more regularly;
my desire to grow in your love;
my need to rely on your wisdom and word;
my promise to ask for your help each day;
my hope to be more forgiving of those who offend me,
more faithful in serving others' needs,
more welcoming of those who are alone...
I offer you this new year, Lord,
and ask for the strength and resolve I need to live it
as one worthy of the name Christian,
ready for the work of a disciple,
confident of your presence in everything I do
and in all I meet and know...
I offer you the new year ahead, Lord
- one day at a time -
and I pray for the serenity, the grace
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can
and the wisdom to know the difference...
Posted by Concord Pastor at 5:00 AM
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Goodmorning Padre! Great start for Advent ~ thanks!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 30, 2009 at 7:45 AM
Thank you for this beautiful, grace-filled Advent prayer this Monday morning. It is just what I need right now as part of my morning prayer each day.ReplyDelete
God bless your Advent, CP, and all of our "new year beginnings"!
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On the rocky beaches of Alaska, scientists plunged shovels and picks into the ground and dug 6,775 holes, repeatedly striking oil — still pungent and dangerous a dozen years after the Exxon Valdez infamously spilled its cargo.
More than an ocean away, on the Breton coast of France, scientists surveying the damage after another huge oil spill found that disturbances in the food chain persisted for more than a decade.
And on the southern gulf coast in Mexico, an American researcher peering into a mangrove swamp spotted lingering damage 30 years after that shore was struck by an enormous spill.
These far-flung shorelines hit by oil in the past offer clues to what people living along the Gulf Coast can expect now that the great oil calamity of 2010 may be nearing an end.
Every oil spill is different, but the thread that unites these disparate scenes is a growing scientific awareness of the persistent damage that spills can do — and of just how long oil can linger in the environment, hidden in out-of-the-way spots.
At the same time, scientists who have worked to survey and counteract the damage from spills say the picture in the gulf is far from hopeless.
"Thoughts that this is going to kill the Gulf of Mexico are just wild overreactions," said Jeffrey W. Short, a scientist who led some of the most important research after the Exxon Valdez spill and now works for an environmental advocacy group called Oceana. "It's going to go away, the oil is. It's not going to last forever."
But how long will it last?
Only 20 years ago, the conventional wisdom was that oil spills did almost all their damage in the first weeks, as fresh oil loaded with toxic substances hit wildlife and marsh grasses, washed onto beaches and killed fish and turtles in the deep sea.
But disasters like the Valdez in 1989, the Ixtoc 1 in Mexico in 1979, the Amoco Cadiz in France in 1978 and two Cape Cod spills, including the Bouchard 65 barge in 1974 — all studied over decades with the improved techniques of modern chemistry and biology — have allowed scientists to paint a more complex portrait of what happens after a spill.
It is still clear that the bulk of the damage happens quickly, and that nature then begins to recuperate. After a few years, a casual observer visiting a hard-hit location might see nothing amiss. Birds and fish are likely to have rebounded, and the oil will seem to be gone.
But often, as Dr. Short and his team found in Alaska, some of it has merely gone underground, hiding in pockets where it can still do low-level damage to wildlife over many years. And the human response to a spill can mitigate — or intensify — its long-term effects. Oddly enough, some of the worst damage to occur from spills in recent decades has come from people trying too hard to clean them up.
It is hard for scientists to offer predictions about the present spill, for two reasons.
The ecology of the Gulf of Mexico is specially adapted to break down oil, more so than any other body of water in the world — though how rapidly and completely it can break down an amount this size is essentially unknown.
And because this spill is emerging a mile under the surface and many of the toxic components of the oil are dissolving into deep water and spreading far and wide, scientists simply do not know what the effects in the deep ocean are likely to be.
Still, many aspects of the spill resemble spills past, especially at the shoreline, and that gives researchers some confidence in predicting how events will unfold.
Remarkable Persistence
In 1969, a barge hit the rocks off the coast of West Falmouth, Mass., spilling 189,000 gallons of fuel oil into Buzzards Bay. Today, the fiddler crabs at nearby Wild Harbor still act drunk, moving erratically and reacting slowly to predators.
The odd behavior is consistent with a growing body of research showing how oil spills of many types have remarkably persistent effects, often at levels low enough to escape routine notice.
Jennifer Culbertson was a graduate student at Boston University in 2005 when she made plaster casts of crab burrows. She discovered that instead of drilling straight down, like normal crabs, the ones at Wild Harbor were going only a few inches deep and then turning sideways, repelled by an oily layer still lingering below the surface.
Other researchers established that the crabs were suffering from a kind of narcosis induced by hydrocarbon poisoning. Their troubles had serious implications for the marsh.
"Fiddler crabs normally play a crucial role in tilling the salt marsh, which helps provide oxygen to the roots of salt marsh grasses," Dr. Culbertson said about her study.
In Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spill dumped nearly 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound, and it spread down the Alaska coast, ultimately oiling 1,200 miles of shoreline. By the late 1990s, the oil seemed to be largely gone, but liver tests on ducks and sea otters showed that they were still being exposed to hydrocarbons, chemical compounds contained in crude.
Dr. Short, then working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, mounted a series of excavations to figure out what had happened, with his team ultimately digging thousands of holes in Alaska's beaches. Oil was found in about 8 percent of them, usually in places with too little oxygen for microbes to break it down.
Exactly how much damage continues from the oil is a matter of dispute, with Exxon commissioning its own studies that challenge the government's findings on the extent of the impact. But it is clear that otters dig for food in areas containing oil, and that they, like nearly a dozen other species of animals, have still not entirely recovered from the 1989 spill.
At the rate the oil is breaking down, Dr. Short estimates that some of it could still be there a century from now.
Increasing the Stress
Perhaps the greatest single hazard from the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the gulf is the long-term erosion of delicate coastal wetlands it could cause. At another spill site on the Massachusetts coast, not far from the West Falmouth spill, the legacy of oil contamination is evident in the difference between two marshes on either side of a pebbly shoreline road.
On one side, where the marshes were suffused in 1974 when the grounded Bouchard 65 barge dumped 11,000 to 37,000 gallons of fuel oil into the sea, the grasses are stunted and sparse. They cling tentatively to the edge of the sandy beach. But the grasses on the other side, untouched by oil, rise tall and thick.
Louisiana's coastline contains some of the most productive marshes in the world, delivering an abundance of shrimp and oysters and providing critical habitat and breeding ground for birds and fish.
But even before the spill, the land was under enormous environmental stress, largely due to human activity. Dams on the Mississippi River and its tributaries have slowed the flow of sediment to the marshes, and global warming has caused sea level to rise.
The Louisiana marshes are eroding at an extraordinary rate — a football field's worth sinks into the Gulf of Mexico every 38 minutes, according to the Louisiana Office of Coastal Management — and the worry now is that the oil spill will accelerate that erosion.
The Bouchard shows how that could happen. When the barge ran aground, thousands of gallons of a particularly toxic fuel oil spilled into the icy water and were swept to shore by the strong tides.
The oil made landfall just two miles north of where the West Falmouth oil spill had washed up only five years earlier. Winsor Cove, a classic New England bay surrounded by bluffs and stately homes, bore the brunt. Razor clams suffocated and rose to the surface by the hundreds to die.
But the lasting damage of the spill, severe erosion of the shoreline, took months longer to unfold.
George Hampson, now retired, was on the scientific team at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution that studied a series of spills in the area. He recalled that after the 1974 spill the beach grasses, called spartina, which had grown like luxuriant matting along the shore, died.
"The first year it was just like a moonscape," Mr. Hampson said.
Spartina, a common beach grass that fills the marshes along the North Atlantic and in the Gulf of Mexico, is a crucial factor in keeping marshlands from eroding into the sea. Its roots act as a vast net keeping soil in place.
But the oil in Winsor Cove set off a vicious downward spiral. "It was a race between how much peat was eroding and how quickly the grass was coming back," Mr. Hampson said.
Over the course of the next several winters, six feet of shore eroded, including a sand berm that stood above the rest of the beach. And as the view from the pebbled road indicates, the vegetation still struggles for a foothold today.
"It's been 35 years, and I'd say the grasses are just beginning to grow back," Mr. Hampson said.
It is certain that some of the heavily oiled spartina in Louisiana will die. For now, heavy oiling is limited to just the marsh fringes, but a strong surge in front of a hurricane could change that.
Bad Choices
Oil spills produce a powerful impulse to clean up the oil and restore as much of the environment as possible. But that impulse can itself be a source of destruction.
No case illustrates that point more starkly than the 1978 spill of the Amoco Cadiz tanker. Caught in a gale, it was propelled against rocks near the shore of northwestern France, spilling 67 million gallons of crude oil that washed over 200 miles of the coast of Brittany.
The immediate damage was bad enough: at least 20,000 seabirds found dead, thousands of tons of oysters lost and fish ridden with ulcers and tumors. But then the French authorities made it worse.
The area had marshes, and they were hit hard by oil that sank deep into the sediments. The authorities felt they needed to act aggressively.
Using bulldozers and tractors, they scraped close to 20 inches of oiled sediment from the top in the most polluted marshes and also straightened and deepened some natural tidal channels, to improve flushing.
Over time, these proved to have been disastrous judgments.
In areas that were not bulldozed, nature ultimately broke down most of the oil and the vegetation came back. But marsh plants turned out to be highly sensitive to the depth of the sediment, and more than a decade after the spill, the bulldozed marshes are still missing as much as 40 percent of their vegetation.
"In the case of Amoco Cadiz, the cleanup operations were more deadly than the pollution itself," said Jean-Claude Dauvin, a professor of marine biology and ecosystems at the University of Lille in northern France.
Much the same dynamic played out in Alaska after the Exxon Valdez spill. In some areas, Exxon power-washed oiled beaches with high-pressure, hot-water sprayers. It made for dramatic television images, with the company seemingly working hard against the spill. But scientists ultimately determined that it was a disaster for the tidal ecology, with clams and other organisms showing greatly delayed recovery on the laundered beaches, compared with oiled beaches that were not cleaned.
The lesson, scientists say, is not that people should never try to clean up an oil spill. It is possible to do too little as well as too much. But the calculation of how much to do is tricky, demanding deep scientific understanding of an area's ecology. Applying supposed common sense has repeatedly led to mistakes.
Already in Louisiana, battles have erupted between the Army Corps of Engineers and local residents, led by Gov. Bobby Jindal, over proposals to build sand and rock barriers to block the oil from coming into the marshes. The corps has been cautious on approval permits and recently rejected a plan to build a rock barrier outside Barataria Bay, arguing that such structures would change water-flow patterns to the possible detriment of the marsh ecology.
No matter how that battle plays out, a tough and potentially contentious issue in Louisiana in coming months may be the question of whether the marshes should be burned.
If the top layer of grasses and the clinging oil are burned off, the roots should survive and allow healthier grasses to sprout back. But scientists say that can be done only if there is no chance of new oil coming in, since burning might expose the roots buried in the sediment, making them vulnerable to absorbing the oil. Given the immensity of the spill, it is not clear when that hazard will have passed.
"If you consider the volume," said Ronald J. Kendall, chairman of environmental toxicology at Texas Tech University, "we could see re-oiling for years to come."
Natural Resilience
The other day, a Mexican fishing boat threaded its way deep into a coastal mangrove swamp on the Bay of Campeche. It carried two scientists, an American, Wes Tunnell, and a Mexican, Julio Sánchez.
They were looking for remnants of an oil spill that happened 30 years earlier, when the Ixtoc 1 well in the bay exploded and gushed oil for 10 months. It has stood for decades as the worst accidental release of oil in any ocean. (It may or may not have been surpassed by the BP spill; estimates vary.)
Mangroves are vital coastal plants, providing rich habitat for many types of creatures and serving as a nursery for many marine species. To the untrained eye, the ones in Mexico appeared healthy, billowing up from the shoreline in shades of green, balanced on a gray carpet of roots that protruded from the water.
But Dr. Tunnell pointed out subtle signs of damage. There were clearings in the foliage, instead of an unbroken tangle of roots and mangrove trees. The branches of the outer layer of red mangroves seemed stunted.
"For a mangrove swamp, this should be much denser," Dr. Tunnell said. "We shouldn't even be able to see in here."
The scientists scrambled out of the boats to a small clearing. Dr. Sanchez bent down, sliced out a layer of sediment and broke it to reveal gooey tar in the middle.
Dr. Tunnell sniffed. "It smells like a newly paved road," he said.
They could not be sure it was oil from the Ixtoc well, since smaller spills have hit the area too, but the scientists agree with local fishermen that much of the damage to the mangroves goes back to Ixtoc.
They sent the sample to a laboratory. The fishermen also said that oysters that used to be found clinging to the mangrove roots seemed to have vanished after the spill and never returned.
The Ixtoc blowout of 1979-80 is the closest analogy to the BP spill, even though it happened in much shallower water. Ixtoc soiled hundreds of miles of beaches, all the way to Texas.
Dr. Tunnell, of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi, was early in his career then. He was dismayed to see the oil kill 50 percent to 80 percent of the bottom-dwelling creatures in some areas near the Texas shore.
"As a young scientist, I thought, 'Oh, no, this is wiping out our beaches,' " Dr. Tunnell said.
But then he watched in amazement as the recuperative powers of the gulf kicked in.
Because oil constantly seeps into the gulf from natural fissures, the water is teeming with microbes adapted to break oil down and use it as food. The breakdown happens faster there than in colder bodies of water, and the warm water helps some species recover faster, too.
Along the Texas coast, within a few years after the Ixtoc spill ended in 1980, it was hard to tell that anything had gone wrong. Creatures repopulated the areas that had been wiped out.
No one can be sure that the recovery from the BP spill will be a replay of Ixtoc. But the greatest reason for optimism is nature's demonstrated capacity to handle the assaults on it.
"Thirty years ago, that 140 million gallons of oil went somewhere," Dr. Tunnell said. "The gulf recovered and became very productive again. My concern is: Is it as resilient today as it was 30 years ago?"


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The second round of cuts to Legal Aid was never going to win many fans. Both the solicitors fighting claims cases and the victims bringing them will suffer. Of that, there seems no contestable doubt.
Perhaps what the government didn't expect was for such strong resistance, to both the cuts and dual contracts, from established chambers. But that's what they face over the coming days and weeks.
Earlier this week, the Criminal Bar Association decided that action in protest to the cuts was not the way forward. The decision surprised many as 96% of the CBA's members had previously voted to take action.
The Law Gazette's article reports that when it came to the crunch, the executive committee called time on possible 'strike' action. Instead, they voted 34-to-11 against 'forego[ing] work in opposition' to either the legal aid reforms or the continuation of dual contracts.
Can the mould now be broken?
Now that the CBA has failed to stand up to government at all, the fear is that legal welfare will be decimated. At least that's the view of Michael Mansfield QC, whose Mansfield Chambers has 'broken rank'. The Chambers has called for an emergency meeting amongst the CBA's membership, for which there's already support.
The CBA has voiced empathy, acknowledging 'the difficulty solicitors face'. Yet that they won't actually do anything to resist the government will leave many members puzzled, if not isolated and vulnerable.
Mansfield Chambers is now questioning whether those who voted in favour of action had their hearts in it. Maybe the 96% hoped that the threat of action was enough to force the CBA's hand, but the U-Turn stands for now.
If Mansfield Chambers gets the support of 50 members, the number it needs to call the emergency meeting they're touting as 'imperative', the original threat of action may yet to turn to deed.
Is strike action a case of the law industry crying Woolf?
Mansfield's mob is not only the breakaway bunch calling for a time-out to assess the depth of Legal Aid cuts, either.
Labour's Dianne Abbott also warned of her fears of the Reforms' impact in relation to availing access to aid for those who need it most. During her Fiona Woolf lecture, few were safe from criticism, including her own political party.
Dame Woolf herself addressed the need for diversity in the legal profession at the Chancery Lane venue. The former lord mayor and president of the Law Society made her business case for a broader representation in law from across society.
And this was precisely Abbott's point. She stated that many High Street lawyers in Hackney and London, where she has her own aspirations to be mayor, are of the diverse ethnicity courts need to mirror society.
The cuts to Legal Aid not only threaten access to those solicitors for those with justifiable claims. But without those clients, lawyers' very practices and livelihoods are also under threat.
HMCTS to shed 2½% of its workforce in one fell swoop (okay, maybe two)
And to round off today's summary of cuts, perhaps the Courts' Service has aspirations of leading by example, itself. With the Ministry of Justice under pressure to further trim the fat (by almost £250M), HM Courts and Tribunal Service has announced it's shedding 400 jobs.
200 of those positions will go as a natural consequence of employees leaving or retiring. They won't be replaced.
There'll also be a voluntary exit scheme, which the MoJ hopes entices the other 200 excess staff to take 'voluntary early departure'.
Earlier this week, Sir Leveson paved the way for a more efficient British criminal justice system. His keynote at the Modernising Justice Through Technology conference called for less paperwork, more digital case files.
This, unsurprisingly, was the exact reason a HMCTS spokesman gave for the job cuts. Smart move. Deflect the blow of job cuts to the Queen's Bench and show lawyers that you're practising what you preach? Now that's fighting talk.


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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – He knew his game was getting close, and he broke through with flair Sunday in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
That turned out to be Phil Mickelson, not Tiger Woods.
In a big, big way.
Mickelson went from a six-shot deficit to a two-shot lead in just six holes, closed with an 8-under 64 for a two-shot victory over Charlie Wi and gave Woods a Sunday thrashing not many saw coming.
Mickelson and Woods played in the second-to-last group, and Mickelson beat him by 11 shots. He won for the fourth time at Pebble Beach, and became only the ninth player in PGA Tour history with 40 wins.
"Pebble Beach ... it feels awesome no matter what number it is," Mickelson said.
It was anything but that for Woods, who was reduced to a supporting role on a cool, overcast day along the Pacific. Right when it looked as though Woods might still be in the game after holing a bunker shot for birdie on the par-3 12th, Mickelson answered by pouring in a 30-foot par putt.
Mickelson seized control for good with a 40-foot par save on the 15th hole, and he played it safe — Mickelson is capable of that every once in a while — on the 18th hole and still made birdie.
Wi, who started the final round with a three-shot lead, four-putted for double bogey on the opening hole and never quite recovered. He closed with back-to-back birdies for an even-par 72 and his fifth runner-up finish on tour.
It was the third straight week on tour that the winner started the final round at least six shots behind a 54-hole leader going after his first tour victory.
The shocker, though, was how Woods fell apart.
He has been taking big strides with his game over the past few months, and he looked poised to break through after a 67 in the third round at Pebble Beach got him to within four shots of the lead.
But he failed to make birdie on the easy opening stretch at Pebble Beach, and even when he made his first birdie at the par-5 sixth, Mickelson poured in a 20-foot eagle putt to take the outright lead.
"I didn't hit it as bad as the score indicated, but I putted awful," Woods said. "As good as I felt on the greens yesterday, I felt bad today. Anything I tried to do wasn't working. Consequently, I made a ton of mistakes on the green."
Two weeks ago in his 2012 debut at Abu Dhabi, Woods was tied for the lead with unheralded Robert Rock going into the final round and didn't break par, tying for third.
Woods used to own Mickelson, but that changed at the 2007 Deutsche Bank Championship. This was the fifth straight time Mickelson posted the better score when playing in the same group as Woods in the final round.
Mickelson has won three of those tournaments, although they have yet to be in the final group on those occasions.
Mickelson started his season sluggishly, failing to crack the top 25 at the Humana Challenge and Phoenix Open, and missing the cut at Torrey Pines. He said his putting was as good as ever, and it was a matter of getting his game in sync.
It simply sang on Sunday, mostly his amazing touch on the greens — a long eagle putt at No. 2 that caught part of the hole, long two-putts for par and enough birdies to make him a winner at Pebble Beach again.
"It feels just amazing," Mickelson said. "I felt like my game was there, but coming out the first couple of weeks, I posted some horrendous scores and started to question it. To be able to play the way I did the last 18 holes really means a lot."
Mickelson finished at 17-under 269 and earned $1.152 million for his first win since the Houston Open last year. He will move to No. 11 in the world.
Ricky Barnes closed with a 67 and finished third. Kevin Na tied for fifth and earned a spot in the Match Play Championship in two weeks at Arizona.
Wi talked about battling the demons of self-doubt, and they must have had the first green surrounded. Equipped with a three-shot lead to start the final round, Wi four-putted from 35 feet above the hole for a double bogey.
Just like that, the game was on.
That still wasn't enough for Woods to get in on the action. Standing in the sixth fairway, Woods was only one shot out of the lead, yet the sleeves of his red shirt and his name on the leaderboard didn't seem to make him stand out the way it has before.
The opening holes had something to do with that, and watching Mickelson play alongside him.
Mickelson nearly holed an eagle putt across the second green; Woods missed a 5-foot birdie putt that stayed 2 inches above the hole. Mickelson holed a 15-foot birdie putt down the hill at the fourth; Woods had a 30-foot putt up the hill that was 3 feet short. Mickelson's tee shot on the par-3 fifth settled a foot from the cup. Woods missed his birdie putt from 12 feet.
Yes, there was a big charge at Pebble Beach — from Lefty.
Mickelson started the day six shots behind and went two shots ahead with an eagle on the sixth hole. Woods then vanished in a series of blunders — missing a 2½-foot par putt on the seventh, missed a 5-foot par putt on the eighth, and a third straight bogey at No. 9 when he hit his approach into the bunker.
The only hope for Woods came on the 12th, when he holed his bunker shot. It looked like it might be a two-shot swing, pulling him to within three of the lead, until Mickelson made his 30-footer for par.
On the next hole, Mickelson hit an approach to 2 feet and Woods' tee shot landed in a divot.
"It's frustrating because I had a chance," Woods said. "All I had to do was get off to a good, solid start. And I didn't do that."


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RASOOL, MN. Pyogenic osteomyelitis of the forearm bones in children. SA orthop. j. [online]. 2011, vol.10, n.4, pp.18-24. ISSN 2309-8309.
Twelve children, aged 1-10 years at presentation, diagnosed with pyogenic osteomyelitis of the forearm bones, were reviewed retrospectively. The radius was involved in six patients, the ulna in five and both bones in one child. Three children had acute osteomyelitis; the remaining nine had features of chronic osteomyelitis. The acute infections had incision and drainage and healed well. In six patients with chronic osteomyelitis treatment involved curettage, debridement and sequestrectomy, with resulting bone defects. Three children with chronic infection were referred with established defects from outlying hospitals. Corticocancellous iliac bone chips were used in defects <2 cm in two children; and in two children with larger defects (6-8 cm), segmented bicortical iliac bone graft was used over a K wire. Two children with distal ulna resorption had radioulnar synostosis. Two children had radial club hand deformity with loss of the radial shaft. One had transposition of the residual metaphysis of the radius to the distal ulna, and the other had transposition of the carpus to the ulna. The remaining child had shortening of the radius following multifocal osteomyelitis in infancy. All reconstructive procedures healed by 3 months. All children had improved function. Shortening of the forearm ranged from 2-20 cm.
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The price of solar power has been rapidly decling over the past several decades (~ 7%/year decline in US$/watt or a cost halving every 10 years ). This drop , combined with peristently high oil prices is producing some interesting dynamics. New Scientist has an interesting article on the rapid drop in the price of solar power in India. Where many people and unconnected to the power grid, and for those that are the brittleness of the grid means that many people rely on generators:
Recent figures from market analysts Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF)show that the price of solar panels fell by almost 50 per cent in 2011. They are now just one-quarter of what they were in 2008. That makes them a cost-effective option for many people in developing countries. .. Now [India's] generators could be on their way out. In India, electricity from solar supplied to the grid has fallen to just 8.78 rupees per kilowatt-hour compared with 17 rupees for diesel. The drop has little to do with improvements in the notoriously poor efficiency of solar panels: industrial panels still only convery 15 to 18 per cent of the energy they receive into electricity. But they are now much cheaper to produce, so inefficiency is no longer a major sticking point. …The one thing stopping households buying a solar panel is the initial cost, says Amit Kumar, director of energy-environment technology development at The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, India. Buying a solar panel is more expensive than buying a diesel generator, but according to Chase's calculations solar becomes cheaper than diesel after seven years. The panels last 25 years. Even in India, solar electricity remains twice as expensive as electricity from coal, but that may soon change. While the price drop in 2011 was exceptional, analysts agree that solar will keep getting cheaper. Suntech's in-house analysts predict that, by 2015, solar electricity will be as cheap as grid electricity in half of all countries. When that happens, expect to see solar panels wherever you go.
A similar article about the USA, was recently in the business magazine Fast Company.


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Triumph Motorcycles has something special in store for all of the race fans at Daytona Bike Week. Jason DiSalvo, American World Supersport racer, will be at the Triumph Demo Truck meeting with fans and signing autographs.
Originally from New York, DiSalvo, 26, spent the past eight years racking up 10 wins and 50 podium finishes in the American national championships. This year, DiSalvo is racing a Triumph Daytona 675 for the Triumph BE1 ParkinGo Race Team on the World Supersport Series. The World Supersport Series has rounds at Miller Motorsports Park near Salt Lake City as well as famed European tracks that include Monza, Silverstone, Imola, Magny Cours and Nurburgring.
In addition to hosting one of the top American racers, the Triumph Demo Truck provides enthusiasts with the opportunity to ride one of every model in Triumph's line-up, including the amazing Daytona 675.
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The Year's Best Films
1. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
2. Lady Vengeance
3. Inland Empire
4. Deliver Us From Evil
5. The Queen
6. The Departed
7. L'Enfant
8. Half Nelson
9. Three Times
10. Brick
Honorable mention: Army of Shadows.
Runners-up: Curse of the Golden Flower, The History Boys, A Scanner Darkly, Pan's Labyrinth, Old Joy, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Venus, The Prestige , Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Casino Royale.
The Year's Worst Films (There But For the Grace of God Go You): See No Evil, Little Man, Failure to Launch, Just My Luck, The Covenant, Zen Noir, When a Stranger Calls, Ultraviolet, The Grudge 2, Everyone's Hero.
Overrated/Overhyped: Dreamgirls, Letters from Iwo Jima, Notes on a Scandal, The Last King of Scotland.
Underrated/Undersold/Overlooked: Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul, Find Me Guilty, Linda Linda Linda, Duck Season, The Night Listener, The King, The Fountain, The Good German.
The Yellow-Bellied Coward Award goes to the studios that released Grandma's Boy, Bloodrayne, Underworld: Evolution, When a Stranger Calls, Date Movie, Doogal, Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion, Ultraviolet, Stay Alive, Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, The Benchwarmers, Phat Girlz, Silent Hill, Pulse, Zoom, Snakes on a Plane, Material Girls, The Wicker Man, Crank, The Grudge 2, The Marine, Saw III, The Return, Let's Go to Prison, Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj, Black Christmas, et al—the 2006 films not screened for critics. (A few of these charmers played for critics on the night before opening at 7:30pm or even in some cases, 10pm. These are the times when you see "TOO LATE FOR REVIEW" in your morning paper, though some particularly hardy internet critics will burn the midnight oil to review them.)
Coolest Title: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
Worst Titles: Lucky Number Slevin, Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, Barnyard: The Original Party Animals, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School, Awesome: I Fuckin' Shot That, Bloodrayne.
Aptest Titles: Failure to Launch, Don't Come Knocking, Just My Luck, The Benchwarmers, Apocalypto, and, of course, Snakes on a Plane.
Inaptest Title: See No Evil.
Movies that Never Got Anywhere Near Me (whew!): Live Freaky! Die Freaky!, Don't Trip, He Ain't Trhough With Me Yet, Mendy—A Question of Faith, A Dog Lover's Symphony, Pokemon: Advanced Generation 2006, My Favorite Hitler Youth: Just Like You & Me, Lump of Sugar, George Bush Goes to Heaven.
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6461.0 - Consumer Price Index: Concepts, Sources and Methods, 2011
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12.2 The ABS changes the index reference period (a process known as re-referencing) of the CPI from time to time, but not frequently. This is because frequently changing the index reference period is inconvenient for users, particularly those who use the CPI for contract escalation. Also re-referencing may result in the loss of some detailed historic data, especially for long series. In the March quarter 1992 the index reference period was changed from 1980-81 = 100.0 to 1989-90 = 100.0. The current CPI index reference period continues as 1989-90 = 100. The ABS has produced historical index numbers on the current base, so generally there is no need for users to do their own calculations.
12.3 The conversion of an index series from one index reference period to another involves calculating a conversion factor using the ratio between the two series of index numbers. For example, consider converting the Clothing group index for Perth from an index reference period of 1980-81 = 100.0 to 1989-90 = 100.0 (see Table 12.1). The index number for the 1989-90 Clothing group using an index reference period of 1980-81 is (181.5 + 186.4 + 185.8 + 188.6)/4 = 185.6 (rounded to one decimal place). Thus the conversion factor is 0.5388 (100.0/185.6) so that the March quarter 1989 index number, on an index reference period of 1989-90 = 100.0 is 95.4 (177.0×0.5388).
12.4 Similar procedures are used to convert the 1989-90 index reference period to a 1980-81 index reference period. For example, the December quarter 1991 index for the Clothing group for Perth was 107.5 which, when multiplied by the conversion factor of 1.856 (185.6/100.0), gives an index number of 199.5 on the index reference period of 1980-81 = 100.0. It should be noted that a different conversion factor will apply for each index and city - that is, the factor for the Clothing group for Perth will differ from the factor for Automotive fuel for Perth, and for the Clothing group for Hobart.
12.5 Re-referencing should not be confused with reweighting. Re-referencing does not change the relative movements between periods. However reweighting involves introducing new weights and recalculating the aggregate index for each period which will affect the relative movements between periods.
12.6 The use of fixed weights (as in a Laspeyres formula) over a long period of time is not considered sound practice. For example, weights in a consumer price index have to be changed to reflect changing consumption patterns. Consumption patterns change in response to longer term price movements, changes in preferences, and the introduction or displacement of goods.
12.7 There are two options in these situations if a fixed weighted index is used. Option one is to hold the weights constant over as long a period as seems reasonable, starting a new index each time the weights are changed. This means that a longer term series is not available. Option two is to update the weights more frequently and chain link the series together to form a long-term series. The latter is the more common practice.
12.8 The behaviour under chain linking of the Laspeyres, Paasche and Fisher index formulas is explored in Table 12.2. In period 3, prices and quantities are returned to their index reference period values and in period 4 the index reference period prices and quantities are shuffled between items. The period 3 situation is sometimes described as time reversal and the period 4 situation as price bouncing.
12.9 Under the three formulas, the index number under direct estimation returns to 100.0 when prices and quantities of each item return to their index reference period levels, however, the chained index numbers do not. Note that the chained Fisher Ideal index might generally be expected to perform better than the chained Laspeyres or Paasche. More information on linking indexes is contained in section 9.105 - 9.126 in the international CPI Manual (ILO, 2004).
12.10 This situation poses a quandary for prices statisticians when using a fixed weighted index. There are obvious attractions in frequent chaining, however, chaining in a fixed weighted index may lead to biased estimates. This can occur if there is seasonality or cycles in the price, and chaining coincides with the top or bottom of each cycle. For this reason it is generally accepted that indexes should not be chained at intervals less than annual. The conceptual underpinning of chaining is that the traditionally expected inverse relationship between prices and quantities actually applies in practice (i.e. growth in quantities is higher for those items whose prices increase less than those of other items). The System of National Accounts, 2008 describes the practical situations in which chaining works best.
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International Leader in Breast Cancer Surgery Armando Giulano, MD, Joins Cedars-Sinai
Armando E. Giuliano, M.D., internationally known for his research and clinical expertise in breast cancer, is joining Cedars-Sinai Medical Center as executive vice chair of surgery for surgical oncology.
Giuliano will also serve in leadership roles at Cedars-Sinai's Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute: Along with pioneering surgeon Edward H. Phillips, M.D., Giuliano will be co-director of the Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center – a Project of the Women's Guild; he will also serve as the institute's associate director for surgical oncology.
"Dr. Giuliano's leadership in clinical and research advances for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer will be a great asset to Cedars-Sinai's outstanding physicians," said Bruce Gewertz, M.D., chair of the Department of Surgery, vice president for interventional services, and the H & S Nichols Chair in Surgery at Cedars Sinai.
"The combination of Dr. Giuliano and Dr. Phillips as co-directors of our Breast Center provides our patients with two of the nation's top surgeons to lead our team, and also significantly adds to our breast cancer research programs," Gewertz said.
Giuliano's most recent research on breast cancer treatment made international headlines earlier this year and is already changing breast cancer treatment around the nation His work has shown that some of the conventional wisdom in treating breast cancer was not effective. Giuliano found that the practice of surgically removing additional lymph nodes in certain breast cancer patients who had cancer cells in one or two "sentinel" lymph nodes did not improve survival rates, contrary to conventional wisdom for breast cancer treatment. As a result of Giuliano's new research, many leading medical centers are beginning to change their standard practices in treating certain breast cancer patients, primarily those with early-stage cancer who undergo lumpectomies followed by radiation and/or chemotherapy.
Giuliano, who received his medical degree from the University of Chicago, has served on the editorial boards of prestigious peer-reviewed journals, including the Annals of Surgical Oncology, Journal of the American College of Surgeons and Breast Cancer Online. A prolific researcher, he is the author of more than 400 scientific papers and book chapters.
Giuliano is currently chief of science and medicine at the John Wayne Cancer Institute at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., where he also directs the institute's Margie Petersen Breast Center. Cedars-Sinai and the John Wayne Cancer Institute at St. John's have had a longstanding collaboration for jointly training surgical oncology fellows.
"Dr. Giuliano and I look forward to continuing our collaborations with St. John's in surgical oncology training, and are exploring other possible initiatives with them," Gewertz said.
Cedars-Sinai's Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute is known for combining the highest quality patient care and the latest advances in cancer research. Their physicians, scientists and other staff are focused on bringing patients the widest range of options to treat cancer – including many not widely available elsewhere. For more information, visit www.cedars-sinai.edu.


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Wednesday, 30 July 2014 07:43 PM EDT
A sharply divided House approved a Republican plan Wednesday to launch a campaign-season lawsuit against President Barack Obama, accusing him of exceeding the bounds of his constitutional authority. Obama and other Democrats derided the effort as a stunt aimed at tossing political red meat to conservative voters.
Just a day before lawmakers were to begin a five-week summer recess, debate over the proposed lawsuit underscored the harshly partisan tone that has dominated the current Congress almost from its start in January 2013.
The vote to sue Obama was 225 to 201. Five conservative Republicans voted with Democrats in opposing the lawsuit: Reps. Paul Broun of Georgia, Scott Garrett of New Jersey, Walter Jones of North Carolina, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Steve Stockman of Texas. No Democrats voted for it.
Republicans said the legal action, focusing on Obama's implementation of his prized health care overhaul, was designed to prevent a further presidential power grab and his deciding unilaterally how to enforce laws.
"No member needs to be reminded about the bonds of trust that have been frayed or the damage that's already been done to our economy and to our people," declared House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. "Are you willing to let any president choose what laws to execute and what laws to change?"
Republicans also scoffed at Democratic claims that the lawsuit would be a waste of taxpayers' money.
"What price do you place on the continuation of our system of checks and balances? What price do you put on the Constitution of the United States?" said Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich. "My answer to each is 'priceless.'"
Democrats said the lawsuit would go nowhere and was designed only to encourage conservatives to vote in this November's congressional elections. They also warned repeatedly that it could be a precursor of a more drastic GOP effort. Said Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y.: "The lawsuit is a drumbeat pushing members of the Republican Party to impeachment."
In fact, Democrats already are using that argument to mine campaign contributions. House Democrats emailed one fundraising solicitation as debate was underway and another moments after the vote.
"The GOP is chomping at the bit to impeach the president," they wrote. "We've got to get the president's back."
Some prominent conservatives including former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin have called for Obama's impeachment, and some House GOP lawmakers have not ruled it out. Boehner has said he has no such plans and has called Democratic impeachment talk a "scam" to raise money.
"Impeachment is off the table. Why hasn't the speaker said that," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
On the road in Kansas City, Missouri, Obama cast the lawsuit as a "political stunt" and a distraction from the public's priorities.
"Every vote they're taking like that means a vote they're not taking to actually help you," he told his audience. He urged Republicans to "stop just hating all the time."
By suing Obama to demand that he carry out specific provisions of the 2010 health care overhaul, House Republicans would be asking the courts to hold him to the letter of a law that they all opposed and that the House has voted over 50 times to dismantle.
Republicans have accused Obama of exceeding his powers in a range of areas, saying he has enforced provisions he likes and ignored others.
These include not notifying Congress before releasing five Taliban members from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in exchange for captive Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, blocking the deportation of some children who are in the U.S. illegally and waiving some provisions of the No Child Left Behind education law.
Democrats say Obama has acted legally and has simply used the authority he has as chief executive.
Republicans have not laid out a timetable for actually filing the suit.
As for its chances of legal success, federal courts are often reluctant to intervene in disputes between the executive and legislative branches. For the suit to survive, the GOP would first have to prove that the House had been injured by Obama's actions. And even if the lawsuit was heard, it is unclear whether it could be decided while Obama was still in office.
Timothy K. Lewis, a former judge in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals who was nominated by former President George H.W. Bush, said that with appeals, it would take at least one-and-a-half to two years for the suit to wind through the federal judicial system.
Obama leaves office in January 2017.
Republicans have particularly objected that Obama has twice delayed the law's so-called employer mandate. The provision requires companies with 50 or more employees working at least 30 hours weekly to offer health care coverage or pay fines, while businesses with fewer than 50 workers are exempt.
The requirement was initially to take effect this year. Now, companies with 50 to 99 employees have until 2016 to comply while bigger companies have until next year.
Democrats warned that the lawsuit could cost taxpayers millions of dollars. Republicans provided no specifics about the potential price tag, but the measure would allow House attorneys to hire outside lawyers and require quarterly public reports on expenditures.
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Family of slain boy visits Christchurch mosque as it reopens
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — A Jordanian prince and the family of a slain 3-year-old boy and were among those who visited a New Zealand mosque Saturday when it reopened for the first time since a terrorist killed dozens of people there.
Hundreds of people stopped at the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch to lay flowers or pray after police removed a cordon and those running the mosque decided to reopen.
Inside the mosque, there were few signs of the carnage from eight days earlier. Crews had replaced windows that worshippers smashed in a desperate attempt to escape when the attacker mowed them down during Friday prayers. Bullet holes were plastered over and painted. There wasn't time to replace the carpet, which was pulled out and buried because it was soaked in blood.
Shagat Khan, the president of the Muslim Association of Canterbury, said they hadn't planned to open the mosque so soon but when they saw the crowds gathering after the police cordon was removed they decided to allow people to enter in managed groups "so the mosque will be alive again."
"Those who lost their families are of course quite emotional," he said. "And those who were present here during the incident, of course the memories come back. The flashbacks."
The gunman killed a total of 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch on March 15, in the nation's worst terrorist attack. Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, has been charged with murder in the attacks and is scheduled to make his next court appearance on April 5.
Abdullahi Ibrahim Diriye, the uncle of the youngest victim of the shooting, 3-year-old Mucaad Ibrahim, visited the mosque with the boy's father. Diriye said he helped lift the boy's coffin to a gravesite Friday as Mucaad's mother wept. The coffin was very light with such a young child inside, he said.
"Always he was a happy boy, and he liked every person he met, not only Muslims," Diriye said.
Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, who traveled to New Zealand to pay his respects, hugged a man at the entrance of the mosque and told him to "be patient."
"He was crying deeply from his heart for a loved one he had lost," the prince later explained. "And I was saying, this is God's will, be patient. Because only through patience can you endure."
Prince Hassan said in the Middle East there have been wars every decade.
"To feel that this form of violence and cruelty is visited on you, living in this idyllic part of the world, is deeply, deeply moving," he said.
Human dignity is being assailed on all fronts by extremists, he said, and people need to stand together as human beings.
Officials say four Jordanian nationals died in the attack, while a 4-year-old Jordanian girl is also recovering in an Auckland hospital.
Jereeth Abdeen, who was visiting from Auckland, said a friend of his escaped the attack. He said he found it hard to walk through the mosque, especially after glimpsing the gunman's livestream of the attack after it was sent to him on social media before quickly closing out of the link.
"It's terrible," he said. "Nobody should do that in this world."
Abdeen said he took some comfort that those killed were in a holy place and were about to pray.
"The sad thing is the way they died," he said. "But our belief is they will be in paradise."
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December 3, 2007
Kirk Herbstreit Campaigns for a Non-Conference Champ
When it was a Big 10 team, he had no problem with a non-conference champ playing for the national title.
I don't have a beef with no making the title game. I have an issue with ESPN playing King Maker.
(ht - to all the folks who sent me this)
21 comments:
- blackertai said...
This, this is what is just stunning about ESPN. And why I am just furious. I can accept not getting into the title game, but we got hosed by partisan announcers. I wish I could find video of that shitbag Herbstreit going off about how "Georgia's just his assignment." What a total tool this guy is.
I hope you read this, you hypocrite. You had no problem with an Ohio St./Michigan rematch last season, and you can't stand to see UGA get in the same way? Unbelievable.
- Andrew said...
"Who in your mind are the top two teams right now in college football?"
Well said, Herby. On that logic, based on what you were saying before LSU won the conference by a single touchdown, it's a USC/UGA national championship, right? Oh wait..
- Ben Rockwell said...
Well said, Andrew. The whole problem here is ESPN. Those folks have just gotten too big and too controlling, and I am thrilled that the SEC has their contract with CBS. Granted, CBS and Dennis Dodd are just as bad, but they are not as in your face as the "world wide leader" in sports. ESPN was once a great network, but they've sold their souls, and now we can all see it.
Herby and ESPN had egg on their face from their Les Miles Mishap earlier that day, and they make up for it by lobbying for the team with two half-losses.
Just absurd.
I hope Sooner fans are just as outraged about this as UGA fans are, BTW.
- Andrew said...
I will never forgive you Herbstreit. Never.
- Anonymous said...
- ChicagoDawg said...
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- ChicagoDawg said...
Well stated guys. The blessing and curse of being on TV, especially as large a network as ESPN, is that you get a voice and the ability to wield great influence. However, that which you say can get played back to you and when you offer up contradicting logic and doublespeak, you discredit yourself and look like an idiot (plus your basic football analysis is called into question after such strong advocacy for OSU & UM and then OSU proceeds to get their pants pulled down by the Gators).
As I have stated previously, we ultimately put ourselves in this jam by losing at home to SCU and getting embarrassed in Knoxville -- so, we really have ourselves to blame. That said, if we apply Herbie's '06 logic "it comes down to who the two best teams in the country are....who are the top 2 teams RIGHT now in college football?", we would have an OU vs. UGA or USC vs. UGA or USC v. OU matchup for the BCSCG. However, what counsel did dickless offer up repeatedly over the weekend? "it is not about who are the hottest teams in the second half of the season, it is the entire body of work and winning your conference."
BR, you rightly point out what was the major motivation behind Herbie and ESPNs over the top pimping of LSU. It no doubt was their attempt at doing the equivalent of a make-up call after looking like jack-offs on the Les Miles rumor. Herbstriet was on the Mike Tirico ESPN radio show that is carried up here in Chicago and it was sickening to hear them repeatedly try to explain away and cover up for the Miles debacle. Herbstreit was talking incessantly about how he was fearful of being accused of trying to deliberately distract and derail LSU by reporting the Miles rumor and how that was never his intent. So, of course when it turned out to be 100% wrong on the story, and he was revealed to look like an idiot, he and ESPN then made sure that the official ESPN position was going to be that LSU was the presumptive #2, lest they be accused of a conspiracy to derail LSU.
- Anonymous said...
What a freaking homer KH is...I can't believe this guy. Watching the BCS Selection show last night made me want to throw up with those jackasses sitting there rehashing the same story lines over and over. I like the nice dig Kirk had when he made it a point to say Georgia shouldn't be in the national title game, but here's the case for them being there anyway. Gee thanks KIRK, next time just spare us from the drivel that's about to spew out of your mouth.
As much as I despise the likes of Tenn. and UF in particular, I hope the SEC wipes the floor with every single team out there. I would love it even more if the Big 11 didn't win a single bowl game just so the talking heads at ESPN might shut up even for one day.
- Anonymous said...
ESPN is doing their best MTV impression.
MTV was great in the 80's when all they did was show videos. Now they have managed to alienate everyone over 25 who has a functioning brain with their programming decisions.
ESPN, too, has forgotten what made them great...SHOWING HI-LITES AND REPORTING SPORTS STORIES!!
PTI, Around the Horn, 1st and Ten, The Sports Reporters...these are all opinion-based shows. If you think ESPN doesn't have SOME control over what is said on these and other shows, you are sorely mistaken.
But they get away with it because they have no real competition.
I love the good parts about ESPN, but they are getting too powerful.
- Anonymous said...
I'm tired hearing about how Georgia didn't win their conference.
Well...if Notre Dame was 10-2 and ranked 4th this past weekend, where does that argument go?
They are an independent. If ESPN's logic that a conference winner should be in the title game, then Notre Dame should be FORCED to join a conference. Preferably, the Big Ten (11), giving them twelve teams. Then, they can split into divisions and catch up with the rest of us by having a championship game.
Will it happen?
Yeah, right.
- shliknik said...
Couldn't agree more about your ESPN sentiment. I quit watching years ago (except for my Dawgs, of course) when they decided to fill all their programing slots with screaming a$$hats going back 'n forth w/ each other.
I just wish the intelligent sports fan had another option.
- Anonymous said...
I hope like hell these douchebags bring Gameday to Athens next year. Everyone should turn out en masse, and let Corso, and Herbstriet really know what we think of them. Corso is just an angry little man who never really accomplished much on the gridiron (playing and coaching). And Herbstreit is still pissed about getting gangbanged by Hearst, Hastings, Zeier, and Mitch Davis in the 1993 Citrus Bowl.
- Anonymous said...
The ESPN problem stems from the fact that we, the public, think of them as part of the media, and therefore we think that normal rules of bias and conflict of interest which serious journalists observe apply to ESPN. The problem is that they don't think of themselves as journalists, especially not Herbie. In one of the variations of his explanation of his gaffe leaking the Les-to-UM story, he said that he didn't want to break it, but his "news" people did and told him to. Way to go, Pontius Pilate. Blame someone else.
His Big 10 homerism is sooooo blatant, it's nauseating. Again, in one segment I saw where he was defending this match up between OSU and LSU he said, that it was an opportunity for OSU to show they can run with the SEC. Um, Herbie, OSU is 0-8 versus the SEC in bowl games. I am sure he is going to feel vindicated if OSU wins and he can say - with a straight face, mind you - that a 1-8 OSU team vs. SEC in bowls has shown "they can play with them".
And you thought it was all the Christmas goodies that made you ill come New Years Day.
- Anonymous said...
If Gameday were to come to Athens, a better strategy would be to just boycott it. No crowds of folks around where the cameras can make it look like we are all a bunch of teenage girls at a Beatles concert in the '60s. The only thing they should get is the noise we make in the stands (unless it's an ABC or ESPN game they wouldn't be able to show it) or the Dawgwalk. That would say something. "Really letting them know what we think of them" is just going to play into their hand and make us look silly.
- Joel said...
TO further Ahmahtbychew's comment above:
ESPN is NOT a sports NEWS channel, just look at their name: Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
And that's why they have ESPN News as a separate channel.
But that doesn't change the fact that ESPN is where 99% of their world gets their sports infomation
- Anonymous said...
I like the boycott Gameday ideam but nless something really weird happens, I think it will be highly unlikely that ESPN will bring Gameday to Athens next year.
There really are only 3 home games on our schedule that ESPN might have an interest - Alabama, Tennessee, & GA Tech. While it is possible that any of the three could be ESPN, Gameday mostly has been riding shotgun on the featured ABC Saturday night game.
I guess ESPN could come if these turned out to be a matchup to two Top 5 or 10 teams. However, if that scenario happened, it makes it even more likely that CBS is going to broadcast that game. It is doubtful ESPN will broadcast Gameday from a site where they cannot even show the game. It would have to be #1 vs. #2 when no one else is even close.
Odds on Tech going 11-0 before matching up with us next year?
Also, Herbie and Fowler are both on the record with their disdain for Athens as a college town. They have called it overrated on radio shows. Fowler has mentioned 3 or 4 times on ESPN.com that he thinks Boulder is the ultimate college town (guess where he went to school?) and that Athens is way overrated for fun.
I met Fowler at the Heisman Award dinner in 2004 and asked him about it. He said that when Gameday was in Athens he was disappointed in the experience. Plus he had heard so much about Athens and the scene. He said he did not like it - the music was overrated, the bars were not special, and the frat boys were too drunk.
Of course Herbie said that we have the prettiest coeds earlier this fall - so we have that going for us. I guess Mrs. Herbie had a headache that week.
- Anonymous said...
Jan. 1, 1993 - Citrus Bowl
Georgia 21, Ohio State 14
It was billed as a battle of star running backs and Garrison Hearst and Robert Smith lived up to the hype. Hearst gained 163 yards on 28 carries and scored twice. Smith had 112 yards on 25 attempts and also scored twice.
The difference was Bulldogs' quarterback Eric Zeier, who completed 21-of-31 passes for 242 yards. Meanwhile, OSU quarterback Kirk Herbstreit suffered through an 8-of-24 afternoon for 110 yards. He also had an interception and a costly hand-off mix-up resulted in a lost fumble at the Georgia 16 in the fourth quarter. That mistake proved crucial.
The Bulldogs promptly marched 84 yards in 11 plays and moved in front on a short TD plunge with just 4:32 remaining.
- Unknown said...
Most likely GAMEDAY locals involving UGA - AT Arizona State (game will be broadcast on ABC, since they have the Pac-10, not to mention will be 2 Top 10 teams), and Vs. Florida in Jax. That could be the Top 2 teams in the country. At least we'll have enough people in Jax to have signs showing our disdain for Herbie. NOTE TO ESPN: BRING BACK TREV ALBERTS!!!
- Anonymous said...
to dawg19's point...
Shoot, if Notre Dame even had a winning season at all, those chodes at ESPN would have put them in the national title race.
- Anonymous said...
It was not just Herbsteit, it was a three channel assualt to spin voter opinion once it became clear what the implication of the West Virginia and Missouri losses would mean.
I flipped channels after the WVU game and Herbstreit on ABC, May and Holtz on ESPN, and Jesse Palmer on ESPN2 all recited the same talking points with no dissenting opinion. They wanted #7 to jump three teams to #2 with an ugly seven point win.
That's hard to do without someone else coordinating the message.
What is not clear is why they wanted LSU in the BCS game, other than perhaps to get a larger market share for ABC's Rose Bowl broadcast by bringing Illinois into the game.
Tuberville was right about ESPN (Disney) having too much influence on the outcome.
- Anonymous said...
All that talk about who the 'best' team at the end of the year morphed into "UGA and USC are the 'hottest' teams right now."
Apparently when you finish up the season playing the best football in the country you aren't necessarily the 'best' football team, but just the 'hottest'. At least that's how it's being told in 2007.
I've heard 'hot team' about 5,000 more times this year than in any season before.


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