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[223 U.S. 390, 392] Messrs. Edward M. Ballard and Albert Bettinger for plaintiff in error.
[223 U.S. 390, 396] Messrs. J. B. Foraker and Ellis G. Kinkead for defendants in error.
Mr. Justice Lurton delivered the opinion of the court:
Under an act of the legislature of the state of Ohio of May 9, 1908, being 3283a, and an ordinance of the city of Cincinnati in pursuance of that act, the defendant railroad company instituted, in a court of the state of Ohio, a suit to condemn a right of way for an elevated railroad track across the public landing at Cincinnati. Pending the condemnation proceeding the city of Cincinnati filed a bill in one of the common pleas courts to enjoin the railroad company from constructing its railway across said public landing, in pursuance of its agreement and contract with the city under the ordinance mentioned, and to restrain the prosecution of its pending petition for the condemnation of an easement of way across the landing. The ground upon which it was sought to stop the condemnation proceeding and prevent the company from constructing its elevated tracks across the public landing was that 3283a, Revised Statutes of Ohio, under which alone an easement of way might be appropriated, was repugnant to article 1, 10 of the Constitution of the United States, forbidding any state to pass any law impairing the obligation of a contract, in so far as 3283a applied to the particular property across which an easement of way was sought to be appropriated.
That section, so far as necessary to be here stated, provides that upon compliance therewith any railroad [223 U.S. 390, 399] company owning or operating a railroad wholly or partially within the state might 'use and occupy for an elevated track any portion of any public ground lying within the limits of a municipality and dedicated to the public for use as a public ground, common, landing, or wharf, or for any other public purpose,' excepting streets, alleys, and public roads. It is provided that before instituting a proceeding for the appropriation of the needed easement, which is to be according to a general statute referred to, such company shall submit plans for the structure, and come to an agreement with the city council of the municipality concerned, as to the terms and conditions upon which the easement shall be occupied.
The proprietors of the grant of land upon which the city of Cincinnati was originally laid out made a plan or plat of the proposed town, according to which plan a strip of ground between Front street and the Ohio river was set apart 'as a common for the use and benefit of the town forever.' The effect of the sale of the town lots under this plan has long since been held to constitute a dedication of the river front strip to the public use, and to have vested in the city of Cincinnati a valid title in trust for the public use in the same manner that streets were held under the same plat or plan. Cincinnati v. White, 6 Pet. 431, 8 L. ed. 452. This dedication was made in 1789, and the property has ever since been used as a public landing or wharf.
A demurrer to the petition was sustained by the court of common pleas, and the bill dismissed. This was affirmed upon appeal to the circuit court, and again affirmed upon appeal to the supreme court of the state.
That the dedication in 1789, and acceptance by the then town of Cincinnati, constitute a contract with the dedicators, obligatory upon the town and its successor, the city of Cincinnati, may be conceded. The contention is that the Ohio act of May 9, 1908, now 3283a, [223 U.S. 390, 400] Revised Statutes of Ohio, is an impairment of the contract, forbidden by the 10th section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States. But the right of every state to authorize the appropriation of every description of property for a public use is one of those inherent powers which belong to state governments, without which they could not well perform their great functions. It is a power not surrendered to the United States, and is untouched by any of the provisions of the Federal Constitution, provided there be due process of law; that is, a law authorizing it, and provision made for compensation. This power extends to tangibles and intangibles alike. A chose in action, a charter, or any kind of contract, are, along with land and movables, within the sweep of this sovereign authority.
The constitutional inhibition upon any state law impairing the obligation of contracts is not a limitation upon the power of eminent domain. The obligation of a contract is not impaired when it is appropriated to a public use and compensation made therefor. Such an exertion of power neither challenges its validity nor impairs its obligation. Both are recognized, for it is appropriated as an existing, enforceable contract. It is a taking, not an impairment of its obligation. If compensation be made, no constitutional right is violated. All of this has been so long settled as to need only the citation of some of the many cases. Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 11 Pet. 420, 9 L. ed. 773; West River Bridge Co. v. Dix, 6 How. 507, 12 L. ed. 535; New Orleans Gaslight Co. v. Louisiana Light & H. P. & Mfg. Co. 115 U.S. 650 , 29 L. ed. 516, 6 Sup. Ct. Rep. 252; Long Island Water Supply Co. v. Brooklyn, 166 U.S. 685 , 41 L. ed. 1165, 17 Sup. Ct. Rep. 718; Offield v. New York, N. H. & H. R. Co. 203 U.S. 372 , 51 L. ed. 231, 27 Sup. Ct. Rep. 72.
Every contract, whether between the state and an individual, or between individuals only, is subject to this general law. There enters into every engagement the unwritten condition that it is subordinate to the right of appropriation to a public use. West River Bridge Co. [223 U.S. 390, 401] v. Dix, 6 How. 507, 12 L. ed. 535; Long Island Water Supply Co. v. Brooklyn, 166 U.S. 691, 692 , 41 S. L. ed. 1167, 17 Sup. Ct. Rep. 718.
These general propositions are not challenged.
But it is said that the right of appropriating private property to a public use possessed by the state of Ohio is only that which is defined and limited by the second article of the ordinance of 1787, creating a government for the Northwest territory, which embraced the territory which later became the state of Ohio. That ordinance, after providing for a territorial government, declares certain political principles to be fundamental, and that they should constitute the 'basis of all laws, constitutions, and governments,' thereafter organized out of that territory, and should be regarded as 'articles of compact between the original states and the people and states in the said territory, and be unalterable unless by common consent.' The article referred to, and claimed now to be still obligatory, is in these words:
But the ordinance of 1787, as an instrument limiting the powers of government of the Northwest territory, and declaratory of certain fundamental principles which must find place in the organic law of states to be carved out of that territory, ceased to be, in itself, obligatory upon such states from and after their admission into the Union as states, except in so far as adopted by such states and made a part of the law thereof. This has been the view of this court, so often announced as to need no further argument. Pollard v. Hagan, 3 How. 212, 11 L. ed. 565; Permoli v. New Orleans, 3 How. 589, 11 L. ed. 739; Escanaba & L. M. Transp. Co. v. Chicago, 107 U.S. 678, 688 , 27 S. L. ed. 442, 446, 2 Sup. Ct. Rep. 185. [223 U.S. 390, 402] In the Escanaba & L. M. Transp. Co. Case, it was said:
In Coyle v. Smith, 221 U.S. 559 , 55 L. ed. 853, 31 Sup. Ct. Rep. 688, the case of Escanaba & L. M. Transp. Co. v. Chicago, and the cases cited therein, were fully reviewed and held applicable to conditions imposed by Congress in the enabling act under which Oklahoma was admitted, and all limitations in that act were held inoperative after admission, in so far as they had not been subsequently adopted by the state, and were in derogation of the equality in power of that state with the other states of the Union.
It is next contended that whether the provisions of article 2 now constitute the irrevocable fundamental law of Ohio or not, that that provision was the only law of eminent domain existing in 1789, and as such is to be regarded as read into the contract of dedication, and, therefore, is the only power of eminent domain to which that contract was subordinate. Upon this hypothesis is based the contention that any subsequent law of Ohio authorizing a taking of this property for a purpose or use not within [223 U.S. 390, 403] the terms of the ordinance of 1787 is a law impairing the obligation of a contract.
But the assumption that the power of eminent domain possessed by the Northwest territory in 1787 was limited as claimed is untenable. The clause referred to assumes the existence of a general power of eminent domain in the government, and provides that when exerted there must be full compensation for the property taken or the services required. That this is so is apparent not only from the language of the clause, but from a general consideration of the purpose and object of the congressional act in which the article appears. The ordinance of 1787 was a law providing for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the River Ohio. It provided for the appointment of a governor and secretary and for the appointment of judges and the organization of courts with common-law jurisdiction. To the governor and judges was granted legislative power to adopt and publish such laws of the original states as should seem to be adapted to the conditions, which were to be and remain in force unless disapproved by Congress. Authority to elect a legislature was conferred when there should be five thousand inhabitants.
Upon this article 2, heretofore set out, is claimed to be a contractual limitation, based upon the contract of dedication, by which this particular strip of river front is forever protected against an exercise of the power of eminent domain by the state of Ohio, except where 'the public exigency makes it necessary for the common preservation.' If we assume, for argument, that an affirmative limitation upon the right of appropriating property to any public purpose would so enter into any contract as to forever afterwards bind the hands of the state, no such situation is here presented. Article 2 is not a grant of power, but a limitation upon the power of eminent domain assumed to exist. It was conferred upon the governor and judges [223 U.S. 390, 404] by the power to adopt and publish the laws of any original state deemed appropriate, and by the second section there was conferred upon the governor and legislature, when organized, 'authority to make laws in all cases . . . not repugnant to the principles and articles in this ordinance established and declared.' This legislative power, temporarily in the governor and a majority of the judges, and then in the governor and the legislature, when organized, included, by necessary implication, the general power to provide for the appropriation of private property for public purposes. If this is not the case, then the ordinance granted no power of that kind whatever, for the clause above cited is obviously a mere restriction by which compensation is required.
This right of appropriating private property to a public use is one of the powers vital to the public welfare of every self-governing community. It is a power which this court has described as an 'incident to sovereignty,'-a power which 'belongs to every independent government.' In United States v. Jones, 109 U.S. 518 , 27 L. ed. 1017, 3 Sup. Ct. Rep. 346, it was said:
That the Northwest territory was not a state, but a [223 U.S. 390, 405] mere territorial dependency, is of no consequence. The United States was an independent sovereign, and when it created a territorial government with legislative authority subject only to the limitations of the creating act, it granted to this new dependent government this vital power unless it plainly appears that it was withheld.
The denial of such a power to this new government intended as the forerunner of a group of states west of the Ohio, or its restriction to purposes of necessary defense only, as plaintiff in error would construe the language of the article above set out, is not to be easily or lightly presumed. The power was one necessary to the work which this pioneer community was set on doing. It was a power well nigh as essential to the existence of the government as the taxing power. The language of Chief Justice Taney in the Charles River Bridge Case, 11 Pet. 421, 547, 9 L. ed. 774, 824, when speaking of a contention that the state of Massachusetts had surrendered the power, by granting a charter for the construction of a particular bridge, to appropriate that bridge so authorized, is apt and appropriate, when we are asked to construe the ordinance of 1787 as denying to the government of the Northwest territory a power so important to the welfare of its people. Upon this he said:
Nor should the particular language of the article above set out be given a narrow or hypercritical meaning. The plain purpose was but to limit the general right of eminent domain by the requirement that compensation should be made. A public 'exigency' exists, for the 'common preservation,' when the legislature declares that for a bona fide public purpose there should be a right of way for a common carrier across a particular piece of property. The uses to which 3283a authorizes a condemnation of a right of way are undeniably public, and not private, uses. When that is the case, 'the propriety or expediency of the appropriation cannot be called in question by any other authority.' United States v. Jones, 109 U.S. 519 , 27 L. ed. 1017, 3 Sup. Ct. Rep. 346. [223 U.S. 390, 407] It follows, then, first, that the legislative power of the state of Ohio was not restricted in any way by the provisions of the second article of the ordinance of 1787 after its admission to the Union, and it has every power of eminent domain which pertains to other states, unless limited by its own Constitution; and, second, that if the law of eminent domain as it existed at the time of the dedication is to be read into the contract, that that law, properly interpreted, was not such as to forbid an appropriation such as is here involved.
The judgment of the Supreme Court of Ohio must therefore be affirmed.
[ Footnote 1 ] Rev. St. p. 15 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. lx], 14.
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The New York Red Bulls announced Monday that they will not be picking up the team contract options for the following players:
Forwards: Jose Angulo, Jhonny Arteaga, Corey Hertzog
Midfielders: Jan Gunnar Solli, Teemu Tainio
Defenders: Jonathan Borrajo, Stephen Keel, Tyler Ruthven
Goalkeepers: Bill Gaudette, Jeremy Vuolo
These players will all enter today's MLS Waiver Draft.
Angulo was signed on March 5, 2012 but did not feature in a regular season match. He came on as a substitute against Tottenham Hotpsur on July 31.
Arteaga was also signed on March 5 after playing for FC New York. He featured in five games and logged 17 minutes in 2012.
Borrajo was added by New York on Jan. 5, 2012 from Norwegian club, Hamarkameratene. He played in one regular season match for New York this year.
Gaudette was acquired on July 13, 2012 from the LA Galaxy in exchange for New York's natural 2014 second round Supplemental Draft pick. The goalkeeper went on to make 12 starts for the Red Bulls, posting a 1.33 goals against average, three shutouts and a 5-3-4 record.
Hertzog, who was drafted in the first round (14th overall) in the 2011 MLS SuperDraft out of Penn State University, made five career appearances for the Red Bulls over two seasons. He spent most of the 2012 season on loan with NASL side, the Wilmington Hammerhads.
Just completing his second year in New York, Keel made 35 total regular season appearances for the Red Bulls, 26 of which were starts. In 2012, Keel featured in nine games and made six starts.
Solli was brought to New York on Jan. 24, 2011 following a stint with SK Brann of Norway. In the past two seasons, Solli amassed 55 appearances, three goals and 12 assists. In 2012, Solli played in 24 games, notching three goals and five assists.
Signed on March 11, 2011, Tainio, a former Finnish international, recorded 14 appearances and nine starts in 2012 for New York, notching one assist. The former Ajax Amsterdam midfielder finished his two seasons in MLS with 42 games played, 37 of which were starts.
Ruthven was signed on March 5, 2012, joining from NASL side, the Atlanta Silverbacks. He played in five games, starting in four in his first MLS season.
Vuolo joined New York on Jan. 25, 2012 from Finnish side, AC Oulu. He did not appear in a regular season match this year.
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Breath of the Wild, the latest installment in Nintendo's beloved Legend of Zelda series, has received basically universal acclaim since its release back at the beginning of this month. If the still-early reception were to crystallize today, it would go down as one of the most widely and ecstatically praised video games of all time. It is groundbreaking. It is a masterpiece. It is a cultural moment. It's also ... kind of tedious and boring?
I feel a strange but real impulse—as a nostalgic lover of the Legend of Zelda series (and, yeah, of Nintendo itself) whose heart swells at the sounds of the Hyrule Field theme from 1998's Ocarina of Time—to apologize for this take. Truth be told, I want Nintendo, with its love of bright colors and sweet characters and fun puzzles, to reign supreme over a video-game landscape presently overrun by grim-and-gritty slaughter-fests geared to the dismal tastes of the sorts of ghouls who thought Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice was a good movie. And I want the Legend of Zelda series to be its flagship. Ideologically, but much more importantly as somebody who just friggin' likes Link to the Past a lot, I want to be able to say, sincerely, that Breath of the Wild rules and is the best game ever made.
I'm sorry! It's just not doing anything for me at all. I have not had a spontaneous impulse to play it in over a week, and had not had a spontaneous impulse to play it in nearly a week before that. Which is disturbing, because I'm only a few hours into the thing: Down off the tutorial plateau, across the first patch of wild Hyrule, through the canyon between the twin pointy mountains, past the horse barn and all the way to Kakariko Village, but still essentially in the same place where I started out, relative to the game world's massive sprawl. This should be the most inviting time to hop on the sticks—when, if nothing else, the sheer novelty of the setting or the gameplay mechanics or both would draw me in. When I could set off in literally any direction and, within mere moments, be somewhere I've never been before, trying out game actions I haven't come close to mastering yet.
Instead, the thought process goes like this: Hmm, maybe I could play Breath of the Wild? Or, on the other hand, maybe I could not spend an hour hopscotching between same-y Bokoblin and Moblin encampments scattered across a rainy, uninviting world mostly rendered in dreary, washed-out pastels, breaking and collecting innumerable disposable tools in what at this point seems like it's mostly a pursuit of new apps for Link to download to his smartphone. Actually I will do the latter.
I ... I really don't like it! For one thing, as a Legend of Zelda game, it is depressingly un-Zelda. Its Hyrule is a ruined post-apocalyptic place with small, sleek, uniform, and vaguely alien "shrines" in place of the grand, mysterious, diverse dungeons and temples familiar to the series. It is dotted here and there with laser-shooting robots. Link carries what for all intents and purposes is a glowing iPhone. It even takes photos! Contrary to the title, the world of Breath of the Wild does not feel like wilderness, as the Hyrule of 1986's original game and 1991's Link to the Past did, but rather like a decayed civilization, and one that was not all that great or appealing in the first place. It could just as easily not be a Legend of Zelda game at all; the early portions would lose nothing if the developers spent 10 minutes changing the principals' names and hairstyles and called it friggin' Fantasy Blade or some shit.
Which, actually, could be fine (I'll get into why it's not in a second): Breath of the Wild is its own game, and owes nothing to what anybody expects of it based on previous entries in the Legend of Zelda series, and Nintendo's wild experimentation is one of the things that has made the series so great in the first place. The bigger problem—or, no, actually, its un-Zelda-ness is a pretty big problem, so let's just say the other problem—is that, leaving the burdens of the series aside, taken just as a fantasy-adventure game, it's ... not fun? Like at all?
At least in the early going, the flimsy, constantly shattering weapons and countless same-y Bokoblin camps provide an overwhelming disincentive to explore and try stuff out: The sight of enemies in the distance evokes an Ah crap, not more of this shit feeling, rather than an excited Let's do this. In a practical sense, this seems like a pretty bad game- and/or story-building failure: The heart of an adventure game or story, after all, is the impulse to get out into the wild unknown and see what there is to see—to have an adventure. Breath of the Wild's opening hours seem perversely bent on punishing that impulse. Oh, wandered off toward the horizon, did you? Time to throw away all the weapons in your inventory dispatching the same three Bokoblins you fought 90 seconds ago at an identical campsite in a different spot. Your reward for this intrepid venture? A chest with a useless fucking opal in it and three shitty, disposable wooden clubs, all of which you will shatter at the next Bokoblin camp, 90 seconds later.
(Or maybe you will use the GPS on Link's iPhone to find a shrine! The shrine will contain no enemies, a single puzzle which you will solve in under three minutes, and a wrinkled mummy who will reward you with an orb you can maybe cash in for more stamina later. It will look pretty much exactly like every other shrine you have come across.)
In older Zelda games (most especially Ocarina of Time, of course), when a random NPC gave you a side-quest to do, it was a thrill: Anything to prolong your engagement with the rich, fascinating, mysterious game-world, and to make things better for the sweet and charming characters who lived in it. In Breath of the Wild, when the (very cute!) villagers in Kakariko Village offer me shit to do, my reaction, in all cases, is exasperation. "Fuck off, asshole! I'm not throwing away all these bullshit flimsy weapons I'm lugging around just to find some ingredients for your dumb ass!" But, the thing is, I don't want to do the main storyline, either: It's out there, in the sad pastel post-Ganon Hyrule filled with half-broken robots, where I will destroy what passes for the cool shit I found and groan my way through innumerable too-cute-by-half puzzles. What I want to do, in Breath of the Wild, is not play Breath of the Wild. Thankfully it allows me to do that, owing to its compatibility with my Nintendo's off button.
My friends and colleagues who are loving Breath of the Wild respond to these complaints (I've made them indulge my mewling and qualming and handwringing more than once, bless them) by saying Yes, sure, these are problems with the early game, but it improves as you play your way into it, and if you stick with it long enough it's just as magical and thrilling as any other Legend of Zelda game, if not more so. I believe them. The mistake is thinking that this is a recommendation of the game, rather than a criticism of it. Why would I play the game long enough to reach the good parts, if the experience of doing so is not fun? It's a game! Is there some good reason why its developers couldn't making its opening stages enjoyable too?
The irony, here, is that a supposed—and extravagantly acclaimed—difference between Breath of the Wild and all previous Legend of Zelda games is that this one opens the entire world of Hyrule and all its contents to the player pretty much right away: You can go anywhere, climb anything, fight any boss, find any item, from the moment you escape that opening plateau. Great! Now, for the first time, a Zelda game that does not make you unlock any of its goodies ... except, uh, enjoyment. Link to the Past made you find, and fight to earn, the boomerang. Breath of the Wild makes you find, and fight to earn, a rewarding game-playing experience. That's not better! Actually it's worse.
But also, at least so far, the strongest motivator to make use of the game's radical openness is the hope that I can escape the repetitive drudgery and bottomlessly boring inventory management of the early going. That escape will always be easier by just switching the game off and finding something else to do; the reason to stick with Breath of the Wild, then, is the accumulated goodwill built up by its forebears. That lasted for all of around four hours, and got me to Kakariko Village, where I fear my poor Link will spend the rest of eternity.
To a certain extent, what has happened is, my life has become incompatible with the way Breath of the Wild wants to dispense its pleasures. I'm older than hell now, and don't have much time to spend playing video games; in the average week, I play maybe five or six hours, spaced across three or four nights, after the kids have gone to sleep. A game in which an hour worth of play means grimly enduring a half-dozen same-y Bokoblin fights and a couple of dreary, empty shrines, spread across a world I don't like, rendered in colors that kind of gross me out, in pursuit of what promises—if I Trust The Process—to become a magical and rewarding experience at some unknown point in the future, is not how I am looking to spend my limited game-playing time. But also: Why would that ever have been an appealing prospect? Maybe I'm just less of a sucker now? Or maybe Breath of the Wild just isn't all that good.
In any case this definitely is the most depressing blog post I have ever written. I'm gonna go play Ocarina of Time on my kid's 3DS to feel better. It delivers that right away.


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I received the following advertisement in the mail today. It comes from a Feeny Dodge dealership in Elgin, Illinois. However, it came in an envelope marked "Traffic Division – Department of Ticket Disbursements" from Carol Stream, IL. I thought it was a traffic ticket so I opened the letter. I was surprised to learn that it was actually an advertisement for a local car dealership! Seriously, how low will a company go to get you to read their junk mail?
This is just sad. We were curious about the official-sounding stuff about consulting the F010 section of the DMM so we looked it up. It's the section of the official domestic mail manual that deals with Nondelivery of Mail. Tee hee. How authentic.
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The city of Puerto Plata curves around the base of towering Mt. Isabel de Torres, whose pinnacle can be reached by an electrified sky lift system called the teleférico. A manicured botanical garden dominated by an illuminated statue of Christ - a scaled-down version of the one in Rio de Janeiro - crowns its summit.
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Pop Warner Suspends Coaches After Concussions
Pop Warner Suspends Coaches After Concussions
Melissa Block talks to Dr. Robert Cantu, author of Concussions and Our Kids: America's Leading Expert on How to Protect Young Athletes and Keep Sports Safe about the problem of brain injuries in youth sports.
The score at the Pop Warner Pee Wee football game was a stunner, 52 to nothing. The number of concussions was shocking as well - five, all on the losing team, boys between 10 and 12 years old. A team official says in the case of one boy, his eyes were rolling back in his head. But during the September game in central Massachusetts, the mercy rule was not invoked and the game went on, with the last concussion coming on the final play of the game.
Now, Pop Warner has suspended both teams' coaches for the rest of the season and the three officials who refereed the game are permanently banned from officiating Pop Warner games in central Massachusetts. It's the latest story to highlight the problem of brain injury in youth sports, a subject Dr. Robert Cantu cares deeply about. He's a neurosurgeon who specializes in athletic brain trauma and author of the book, "Concussions and Our Kids."
Dr. Cantu, welcome to the program.
DR. ROBERT CANTU: Thank you, Melissa.
BLOCK: Do you hear many similar stories to this one from the world of youth football?
CANTU: I don't really have similar stories in the sense of five concussions in a single game, but certainly we've cared for over the years, many, many youngsters that have had concussions playing in youth sports.
BLOCK: Let's talk about some of the attitudes around youth football. The coach from the winning team, Southbridge, told the New York Times that it was up to the other coach if he wanted to call a timeout. He said, my team is not dirty. All the issues were on their side of the field. This is a football field, not a Hallmark moment. And a parent on the losing side told the Times, every kid who was out there wanted to play and not give up.
Which raises all sorts of questions about whose responsibility it is to intervene when the game gets really, really rough.
CANTU: Well, it does and I think that's why the Pop Warner officials have come down the way they have. They certainly don't want coaches with that kind of a mentality. You don't want youngsters to be viewed as having given up, but clearly with a game out of hand like this, there was certainly no good reason to continue to play it.
BLOCK: How easy is it to diagnose concussion in kids?
CANTU: It's really tough, especially at the youth level, where it's rare that you have medical expertise on the sideline. I guess there was some at this game, which is all to the credit of the two teams. But it's not easy. Youngsters don't necessarily use the same words that we adults do to describe the 26 post-concussion symptoms and they often don't know what those symptoms are and they often don't know when they've had a concussion.
BLOCK: You've used the metaphor of the bobblehead doll to talk about why this is such an issue for young children.
CANTU: Yes, youngsters are at much greater risk than adults in terms of concussion, both because their brains are not myelinated fully. Myelin is the coating of nerve fibers like coating on the telephone wire. It gives it better transmission, but it also gives it greater strength. So a child's brain is much more easily damaged from acceleration forces imparted to it. And as you mentioned, youngsters have disproportionately large heads, very weak necks.
And this combination means that a force delivered to a youngster will have much greater injurious effects to the brain.
BLOCK: Dr. Cantu, I've read that there are something like 3 million kids playing tackle football in this country, as young as 6, 6 to 14. You have said that you don't think kids should play tackle football at all until they're in high school. How realistic is that?
CANTU: Well, I think that if parents determine that they don't want to accept the risks that their youngsters are being subjected to that they'll make demands of youth football, that they play flag football, that they teach them the skills of tackling, but the tackling be done with dummies and not bashing bodies and bashing heads. Several years ago, I went to the leaders of USA Football and basically expressed my concerns of having seen chronic traumatic encephalopathy in teenagers, my concerns of all the youngsters that we've seen whose lives have been altered because of head injuries.
And I said, it's insane to be putting 5-year-olds out there and letting them bash heads. And they said, to me, basically, Bob, look, we wouldn't care if we were playing flag football, but the parents won't sign the kids up for flag football, so we have to offer them tackle football.
BLOCK: We've been focusing on football injuries but what about other sports? What's your advice to parents, say, for kids who play hockey or soccer?
CANTU: Well, the brain doesn't know whether it got violently rattled from playing ice hockey, from playing soccer or from football. And so, we feel strongly that soccer heading should not be started until the age of 14; that full-body checking in ice hockey should not happen until the age of 14. Now, ice hockey is almost there. Two years ago, when we started the book, the age was 11. Now it's up to 13, so they're almost at 14.
BLOCK: I suppose it's one thing to have these rules on the books. It's an entirely other thing at the individual arena or football field or soccer field.
CANTU: Yes, unquestionably. But I think even if we don't see these changes occur, I think pressure is being brought to change the way the sport is played, to change the way the sport is practiced. Already, USA Football and Pop Warner has limited to just two hitting drills a week, cutting roughly a third the amount of trauma that can be obtained in practice. And that's all good.
BLOCK: Dr. Cantu, thank you so much.
CANTU: You're welcome, Melissa. Thank you.
BLOCK: That's Dr. Robert Cantu. He is clinical professor of neurosurgery at Boston University School of Medicine. His book is "Concussions and Our Kids."
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The first floor bedroom of our lodge overlooking the Pico Bonito National Park near La Ceiba, Honduras. I forgot to get a picture of the penthouse suite.
I woke up to this view from my bed. We were in the cloud forest so there were fluffly clouds around for most of the day.
View of our put-in on the Rio Cangrejal in Pico Bonito National Park. The water level was about a foot below ideal conditions since the rainy season hadn't started yet.
The Zip-Loc rapid.
Our approach of Zip-Loc.
Notice everyone beginning to cower and grab hold.
Rock jumping after the rapids. It takes a few seconds to work up the nerve to take a flying leap off the rocks, but it's well worth it!
We swam across the current to the left, climbed up the steep back side of the rock in the center, jumped out past the shallow part, floated through the little rapid, and swam back to shore. It was a pretty good workout.
Surveying the scene.
You can see the clouds beginning to roll in. We had rain for the last half hour of the run.
The other guide went for a jump.
Our guide decided to try his first-ever back-flip off of a smaller rock. It started out looking decent...
Then became apparent it wasn't going to be pretty. Yep. Faceplant.
View from the window of my room - notice one of the many waterfalls up in the hills.
The view of the dining table, hammock, stream-fed pool and bar.
This moment sums up the week so well. No power in the town, a laptop with a dying hard drive, and a glass of red wine.
Living room.
View from the porch.
View of the ocean from our hotel balcony in Tela.
Enjoying the pool with a view at the hotel.
We ate some good spicy Italian pizza (the only food with some spice during my entire time in Honduras) at this little place on the boardwalk down from the hotel.
I'm not sure if she was happy because she had pizza and wine for dinner, or if it was because she was at the beach and staying at a hotel with hot water.
A typical pulperia on the side of the road from Tela back to the airport in San Pedro Sula.
A really nice house on the road from Tela to SPS.
Ever wonder where the old school busses from the US go when they are retired? Central America. These busses are used for public transit throughout the region and were our main transportation for the week.
Police checking the produce trucks for who-knows-what.
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Not just retailers and shop-till-you-drop gift buyers are looking forward to Black Friday and the bustling holiday shopping season. State tax collectors are hoping for a big haul from taxes on those sales.
About 10 percent of annual state sales taxes come in to state coffers in January from holiday season sales, topping most other months in which about 7 percent or 8 percent of the taxes are collected, according to an estimate by Ron Alt, senior research associate at the Federation of Tax Administrators.
Remittances in January 2013 were 12 percent higher than they would have been if the holiday sales were excluded, said Alt. "States do bring in a lot of sales tax in the final quarter (of the year)," he said. "Those generally show up in the January numbers, particularly from large retailers who remit monthly."
According to figures compiled by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, June generally is the biggest single month for state sales tax collections, because of accruals at the end of the fiscal year in most states, said researcher Lucy Dadyan. Other than June, January shows up as one of the best months in the calendar and "that's in general attributable to holiday season shopping," she said.
National figures can be skewed, but monthly state receipts show the importance of holiday sales. For instance, in Maryland in January of this year, $404 million was reported in sales taxes, the best of any month except June, when tax collections were about $717 million. The same held true in 2012, when Maryland reported $421 million in sales tax receipts in January, the best of any month except June at $706 million.
Charles Zogby, Pennsylvania's secretary of the budget, said in his state "it's fairly clear" that sales taxes spike during holiday season. He said January and February combined sales tax receipts were $110 million above the monthly average for any other two months. "Black Friday being the marquee of that holiday (shopping), it's an important part of our sales tax revenue stream," he said.
Rockefeller senior fellow Don Boyd noted that the sales tax coverage in most states is broader than just sales of tangible goods. Restaurant meals and hotel taxes, for instance, wouldn't necessarily increase due to Black Friday shopping, he said, so the shopping bulge is not quite as important as a percentage of sales tax receipts as it is for retailers' percentage of business. "It's probably less than the big retailers who rely on this time of year," Boyd said.
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The National Retail Federation says holiday sales can represent as much as 20 percent to 40 percent of annual sales. In 2012, holiday sales represented 19.3 percent of total retail industry sales for the year.
The federation projects sales late this month and in December will increase by almost 4 percent, to $602.1 billion, over 2012's 3.5 percent growth. Significantly, this is higher than the 10-year average holiday sales growth of 3.3 percent, the NRF said.
Just a slice of those sales occur on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, so named because it typically is the date when store profits go "into the black" for the rest of the year. Just like tax holidays – dates on which the states suspend sales taxes on back-to-school or other goods – some analysts say that the special days just shift buying to those dates and do not increase sales or sales taxes overall. But unlike sales tax holidays, holiday shopping is not tax free.
"While you might pull a lot of people in (for Black Friday), how much of it is taken away from other sales dates?" said Alt. "But there are some people that claim that just the aspect of a 'special day' and special sales get people to buy things that they ordinarily wouldn't."
Barring unforeseen events at the federal or global level, this promises to be a good year for holiday shopping, according to NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay.
"Overall, retailers are optimistic for the 2013 holiday season, hoping political debates over government spending and the debt ceiling do not erase any economic progress we've already made," Shay said.
Online Sales Taxes
One federal action that would make both states and brick-and-mortar retailers happy would be the online sales tax bill making its way, slowly, through Congress.
Shop.org, a NRF website that tracks online sales, forecast online sales to grow between 13 percent and 15 percent during the 2013 holiday season.
"Online and mobile continue to be a leading area of growth for retailers," Shay said, citing the shop.org projection.
The legislation, officially called the "Marketplace Fairness Act," would allow states to require sellers on the Internet to collect state sales taxes just like stores with four walls and a door. State officials say it could mean another billion annually in lost revenue. They say it's not a tax increase, per se, just a collection of taxes rightfully due.
The bill passed the Senate on a bipartisan 69-27 vote in May and is supported by President Barack Obama. Online retailers had been the biggest opponents of the legislation, but that has begun to change with the decision of Amazon and Wal-Mart, two of the nation's biggest online retailers, to support the bill. The big companies say it's unfair to require online businesses to collect sales taxes only in states where they have a physical presence such as a distribution center.
A couple dozen state lawmakers travelled to Washington recently to press for the legislation in the House, which so far has not acted. "If we don't get this done this session, 50 states are being held hostage," said Alabama state Rep. Gregory Wren, a Republican.
One alternative to making all online sellers collect and remit sales taxes to the states is the "small seller exemption," which would exempt online sellers doing less than $1 million in business. This is attractive to some on Capitol Hill. But a study by the University of Tennessee Center for Business and Economic Research found that the impact of such an exemption would be minimal, because it would only affect a very small percentage of online sellers, only 26 out of 1,000 or about 2.6 percent.
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On the night of April 12, 2015 I shot a "holy grail" timelapse video for a client of the Caribou Wind Park near Bathurst, New Brunswick in Canada. The wind farm consists of thirty three turbines and puts out 99 megawatts when all of them are running. It's called the "holy grail" of timelapses because shooting from sunset to the Milky Way is usually 20 stops or more and beyond the metering capability of the camera, and thus quite difficult to smoothly adjust and expose for (this particular sequence has a 23 stop range from 15 EV to -7 EV). However, I wanted to go even further and shoot something special for the client, capturing the sunset into the Milky Way, plus a moonrise, and then the sunrise! Because of the weather and remoteness of the site (and needing to schedule an employee to be onsite with us), we had one night to pull it off and limited time for scouting. They still had four feet of snow and eight foot snowbanks up there, so it was challenging to get around and find a suitable location with a southeastern view (about 138° on the compass dial) and good composition. I used PhotoPills extensively on my iPhone to figure out compass headings, altitudes, and times of the sun, moon, and Milky Way movement. Running out of time, I settled on this vantage point up a steep hill and backed into the woods as far as I could get without the tree branches encroaching on the scene too much. I figured it might help shelter the camera from wind and frost as well. The windmill tower is 80 meters tall, with a rotor diameter of 90 meters, so even 62 meters away with a 14mm lens I found it challenging to fit the entire windmill in the scene, especially after cropping to 16:9 ratio for a video! A lot of planning goes into a timelapse like this.
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Things never get dull for the country's lone satellite-radio provider. Shares of Sirius XM Radio hit a new four-year high this week. The stock traded as high as $3.25 on Friday before closing at $3.23.
There was more going on beyond the share price gyrations, too. The media giant raised the stakes in its long-standing partnership with Martha Stewart. A two-week free trial for all dormant receivers kicked in on Wednesday. Rival Pandora got clipped with an analyst downgrade.
Oh, and the company's gearing up to report quarterly earnings come Tuesday morning.
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Martha, Martha, Martha
Sirius XM and Stewart go way back. Sirius struck a content deal with Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia in 2005 to get the diva of house crafts and home entertaining on the air. This was a deal with Sirius, years before the merger of the two satellite titans.
On Thursday, Sirius XM and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia announced that Stewart herself will be hosting a daily two-hour show that will be exclusively on satellite radio. Martha Live will air at noon daily and be rebroadcast at night. Despite her eight-year relationship with satellite radio, this will be the first time Stewart actually hosts a daily radio show.
Stewart may not seem as relevant as a celebrity as she was several years ago, and revenue at her company has been slipping for years. However, Stewart's reach is still impressive. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia reaches 66 million people across several media platforms every month, and it's a growing at the retail level, with 8,500 products sold through thousands of stores.
Satellite radio on trial
There are tens of millions of dormant satellite receivers out there, but Sirius XM turned them all on for a two-week trial on Wednesday. This isn't a new thing. Sirius XM has had these previews in the past. The practice dates back decades, to when premium movie channels would try to give prospective subscribers a taste of what they're missing.
It can also be effective. It doesn't cost Sirius XM anything to activate these previously useless receivers, and if it's just enough to win over a few new accounts, it will be incremental to the media giant's business.
Sirius XM appears to be going the extra mile this time, alerting current subscribers to tell their family members and friends who may not be aware that their dormant receivers are now flowing with commercial-free music and Sirius XM's other content.
Panned aura
Sirius XM and Pandora have each been able to thrive in growing their audiences in recent years, though satellite radio began treading on Pandora's turf when Sirius XM introduced MySXM in beta two weeks ago.
Sirius XM's personalized radio could be a game changer, especially for the service's current 23.9 million subscribers who won't flinch at paying an extra $3.50 a month on top of their receiver-based plans to be able to stream personalized radio across mobile devices.
Despite the threat posed by Sirius XM and the inevitable arrival of Apple's own rival platform, shares of Pandora have been rolling. The stock is up nearly 60% since bottoming out in November.
Well, one analyst has seen enough. Wedbush Securities' Michael Pachter lowered his rating on Pandora from outperform to neutral this week. Yes, he did update his price target to $11.50 from $10, but Pandora's surprising rally had taken the shares higher than that at the time of his downgrade.
Pachter primarily fears the Apple threat and the unjustified recent gains in the stock. Yes, Apple will soon make a play for the streaming market. There are too many reports circulating that the consumer-tech behemoth is in talks with its iTunes label partners. Apple may wind up limiting the platform to iOS devices, or it may not offer a free ad-supported version, to match the way most of Pandora's 67.1 million active users engage with the service.
It won't matter at first. Apple's very presence may send shockwaves, and Pandora will feel the pinch.
Earn it on Tuesday
Finally, circle Tuesday on your calendar. Sirius XM steps up in the morning to discuss its holiday quarter.
Sure, the company already revealed strong subscriber growth during the quarter. It also initiated its guidance for 2013. So there won't likely be too many surprises in the report. However, this will be the company's first conference call in years during which Mel Karmazin is no longer CEO. Given its recent board shakeup, Liberty Media will also probably have a more vocal presence.
And why not? Liberty Media finally acquired majority control of Sirius XM last month, and after spinning off its premium movie channel business, it has more at stake with the fate of satellite radio.
Tune in. Another interesting week is on the way.
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