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Robbie Keane is safely back in Los Angeles after another record breaking stint with Ireland, but the international team captain will do some California dreaming all of his own this summer.
After breaking and stretching the Irish caps records in the World Cup win over the Faroe Islands, in Dublin, and the friendly defeat to Spain, in New York, Keane is focusing on the autumn tests to come.
As his teammates sun themselves on the beaches of Europe and beyond before battle recommences in England and Scotland, Keane will be the center of attention as far as LA Galaxy fans are concerned in the MLS.
But he will allow his thoughts to drift to the September dates when Ireland play Sweden at home and then Austria away in the games that will decide who finishes second to runaway leaders Germany in Group C of the World Cup qualifiers.
The pundits believe Ireland will be lucky to win either testing game in their bid to make the 2014 finals in Brazil, but Keane comes from the glass half full camp.
And the Tallaght man saw enough in the second game against world champions Spain in a year to remain positive about his World Cup hopes. That Ireland only lost by two goals at Yankee Stadium, compared to four at the Euro 2012 finals, has fuelled his optimism.
After the 2-0 loss in New York, Keane said, "The two games we've played against Spain were easily the toughest I've played in.
"We couldn't string a pass together because we couldn't get the ball off them. It's fairly simple to say they're the best team in the world.
"But this was a big improvement on a year ago. It's a completely different team. We showed a lot of energy without having the ball. We did well chasing and trying to stop them playing until they scored.
"The first goal just came at the wrong time. Before that though, we worked our socks off and you have to give the lads credit for that.
"It was a tough run-out in terms of chasing the ball. We didn't have much possession, not many teams do. It was a good workout for the lads and good for the younger lads to see these players up close and to see how good they are.
"From the last two weeks, we'll take a lot of positives. I think we can dismiss this result a little bit in terms of it being against the best team in the world."
Like Keane, Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni is convinced his side can now follow the Spanish to Brazil next summer after recovering from the 6-1 defeat to Germany last October that almost cost him his job.
Trapattoni added, "I think we have grown. We have grown our personality. Obviously, we were playing against the world champions.
"Technically, they are superior to us but we knew this before the game. They could play blindfolded if they wanted to. Their qualities are creativity and fantasy but we have others.
"For me, we had three very positive games against England, Georgia and the Faroe Islands but this game against Spain was a positive too.
"I think we can start again in August with more trust in ourselves because of what we have done."


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Well, something finally had to force me from occasional lurker to poster and it was the lack of any posts coming up as a result of a search of the term "secuROM" that did it.Perhaps no one's aware of the issue, but EA has decided to include secuROM in all their future products.Games which have already shipped with this software included bear no warning of the possible side effects of that bit of software, nor any mention that it is secretly installed along with the game. Side effects range from changing firewall settings to claiming that the original CD is an illegal copy to forcing people to reformat their computers and/or get new DVD/CD burner drives.This does not effect all computers secuROM comes into contact with (there is a theory that the newer the computer the higher the chance of serious complications because secuROM will not identify newer programs as legal) but I personally will not be taking the chance.There's a lot of information out there on the issue if you want to Google it.
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The mood was overwhelmingly positive at the ConExpo-Con/Agg 2011 exposition held March 22-26 in Las Vegas. Despite continued uncertainty in U.S. construction markets and the overall economy, industry professionals expressed hopeful optimism for a sustained U.S. upturn in the coming months, while global sales continue to be strong.
ConExpo-Con/Agg 2011 and IFPE 2011 attracted nearly 120,000 registered attendees; the shows were the global industry gathering place for the year and the largest gathering in North America since 2008 for the construction, construction materials and fluid power/power transmission/motion control industries. Both shows were held at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Attendees said they were at the shows to examine the newest equipment and product technologies and innovations to help them prepare for future business; exhibitors cited the high quality of customers and reported strong purchases and sales leads to new as well as existing customers.
"The construction industry has been through some very tough times, with record unemployment, since the last ConExpo-Con/Agg 2011 in March 2008. With these positive numbers and the industry support of the shows, we're optimistic about the future and looking forward to seeing these new sales orders fulfilled," said Megan Tanel, AEM vice president of exhibitions and events.
"There was such a tremendous upbeat feeling at the shows; it was really great to see our industry looking ahead with some enthusiasm after the recession," said Mike Haberman, chairman of the ConExpo-Con/Agg 2011 management committee and president of Gradall Industries.
A record number of more than 860 co-located events, educational programs and pre-planned meetings were held with the shows, plus dozens more meetings scheduled onsite. Co-locations included ICON Expo for the concrete products industry and several annual conferences of national industry associations.
Manufacturers used the event for numerous product introductions, perhaps none garnering more attention than Caterpillar's introduction of its first vocational truck. To be sold and serviced by North American Cat dealers, the CT660 will be offered in a variety of configurations.
Other manufacturers, including Michelin Earthmover, Cummins, Bridgestone-Firestone and Sanvik introduced new products to the North American market.
Quality Attendance, International Scope
International registrations accounted for a record 24 percent of the total, representing more than 150 countries. ConExpo-Con/Agg 2011 and IFPE 2011 were among a select group invited to participate in the U.S. Department of Commerce International Buyer Program, which facilitates the participation of international visitors. The shows hosted 42 official international customer delegations from 37 countries, organized by the U.S. Department of Commerce as well as in-country associations and related groups.
The majority of show attendees were key company decision-makers, including 44 percent with the top titles of president/owner and vice president/general manager/chief financial officer.
"The increased global participation by attendees and exhibitors underscores the importance of world markets to our industry. The U.S. economy is slowly improving and we have a ways to go, especially in construction, but after 18 to 24 months there is more pent-up demand for equipment to be ready for the upturn," Tanel stated.
On the Show Floor
Altogether on the show floor there were more than 2,400 exhibitors taking more than 2.34 million net sq. ft. of exhibit space, making ConExpo-Con/Agg 2011 the second largest in the show's history.
Industry-focused education was an important component of the show experience, and there were a record number of education, training and certification programs offered.
The ConExpo-Con/Agg 2011 education program featured a record 126 sessions across nine tracks, with sessions emphasizing industry issues and trends, management and applied technology. Numerous industry training and certification programs were also held. New for 2011 were a Crane and Rigging Conference and the Green Roads Summit.
At IFPE 2011, the 52nd National Conference on Fluid Power featured a record 114 presentations, and the Innovations Theater offered 14 sessions developed from abstract submissions for the conference. New for 2011 were national conference keynote presentations from leading industry and university researchers, and sessions from the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power. IFPE also offered new college-level courses.
More than 80 allied associations and groups were official show supporting organizations, coming from the U.S., Canada and more than a dozen countries worldwide. They promoted the shows' value and brought qualified buyer groups to the events, and many helped develop direction and content of the shows' education programs to ensure they met industry needs.
Safety, Training, Workforce Initiatives
A Lift Safety Zone focused on cranes and other aerial lift equipment and ensuring adequate ground support for the machine and load carried. In conjunction with the Crane and Rigging Conference, a Crane Rodeo promoted education and safety at the same time as providing a hands-on operational experience. These and the many certification and training programs held at the shows helped ensure a properly trained workforce of equipment operators and other jobsite personnel.
The International Mixer Driver Championship by NRMCA recognized driver skills and inspection expertise. The AEM teen-focused Construction Challenge competition presented by Volvo Construction Equipment generated interest in construction careers. The I Make America national grassroots campaign had a substantial presence to promote job-creation policies for manufacturing and construction that improve the economy and keep the U.S. globally competitive.
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Review: The artful 'Ain't Them Bodies Saints'
The outlaw romance "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" is a lyrical, sepia-toned folk tale, awash in 1970s filmmaking and the kind of stylized folksiness that pickling Brooklyn hipsters with handlebar mustaches will positively drool over.
It deserves some of that drool: David Lowery's film, starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara as entwined, young Texas bandits in the '70s, is an elegiac tone poem, beautifully shot by cinematographer Bradford Young, memorably scored with strings and handclaps by Daniel Hart and enlivened by a distinct rhythm unusual for such a well-trod genre.
But it also, in every moment, bears an unmistakable sense of artful pretense that drains "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" of the naturalism it aspires to. There's plenty Terrence Malick-like magic-hour photography and — after Affleck's Bob Muldoon is imprisoned — a number of poignant love letters between Muldoon and Mara's Ruth Guthrie read aloud for old-timey effect.
Even in the film's most striking visual — of Muldoon and Guthrie being led briskly away in handcuffs after a police shootout — the two lean against each other in an artificial pose symbolic of the entire film's feigned posture. The inspirations — Malick's "Badlands," Robert Altman's "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" — are worn obviously. It's a film contrived to be old-fashioned, more a dream of a movie than simply a movie.
Thankfully, the most self-conscious, well-studied stabs aren't all "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" is. Lowery, who's often worked as an editor, is inclined toward the less obvious moments. In favor of big scenes like the robbery that leads to the shootout (which we don't see), Lowery tells the story through quieter, in-between moments.
The majority of the film takes place four years after Muldoon was jailed. Guthrie is living alone with their four-year-old daughter when word comes that Muldoon has broken out of prison. At the same time, a local sheriff, Patrick Wheeler (Ben Foster) — the same man Guthrie shot in the shootout that Muldoon took the blame for — begins to visit Guthrie.
A kind of triangle slowly takes shape between the three as Muldoon makes his way back to Meridian, Texas. While he boasts of his escape to fulfill his "higher calling" as a father, Guthrie's devotion to her daughter has complicated her still strong feelings for Muldoon. Lowery begins to strip away the archetypes and something more emotional and melodramatic takes shape, particularly because of Foster's fine, unguarded performance.
The laconic Affleck (playing another Texan reminiscent of his in "The Killer Inside Me") and the otherworldly Mara have plenty of chemistry as a kind of deconstructed Bonnie and Clyde.
But the performer who makes the largest impression is a refugee from those '70s films Lowery pays homage to: Keith Carradine. Every time the film touches on him — a minor player as the man who raised Muldoon who now wearily regards his brazen return — the affectations of "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" fall away.
"Ain't Them Bodies Saints," an IFC Films release, is not rated but contains gun violence and fleeting explicit language. Running time: 95 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.


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David Isaiah Foster, age 54, Neosho, passed from this life after a sudden illness on Friday, November 30, 2012 while at his home.
David Isaiah Foster, age 54, Neosho, passed from this life after a sudden illness on Friday, November 30, 2012 while at his home. David was born on October 24, 1958 in Purdy, the son of Lonnie Roosevelt Foster and Myrtle Madeline (Myers) McCord. David grew up in Monett and had lived in Republic, before moving to Neosho in 2010. David was an avid sports fan. He especially enjoyed watching the St. Louis Rams and the Cardinals.
On March 24, 1979, in Monett, David and Susan Clapper were united in marriage. To this union three children were born. Those left to mourn the passing of David are his loving wife, Susan, of the home; two sons, Davin David Foster, of Battlefield, Mo. and Derrick Alexander Foster, of Neosho; one daughter, Amber Louise Pedersen, and husband Erik, of Springfield, Mo.; four grandchildren, Bliss Louise Foster, Kaleb Davin Pak, Alexis Leighanne Pedersen and Autumn Reese Pedersen; three brothers, Glen Foster, and wife Loretta, of Sarcoxie, Harold Foster, and wife Shelly, of Sarcoxie and Clarence Foster, and wife Kathy, of Greenfield; three sisters, Vesta Meyers, and husband Richard, of Raymore, Bonnie Jenkins, of Aurora, and Rosetta Kay, and husband David, of Lowell, Ark.; as well as a host of nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, Alice Louise Craker and Mary Ann Foster; one nephew, Corey Foster; and one niece, Dawn Sherree Foster.
Graveside services for Mr. Foster will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, December 3, 2012 at the Arnhart Cemetery in Purdy, with Chaplain Brent Culpen officiating. The family invites friends for a visitation on Sunday from 5-7 p.m. at the funeral home.
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Some surprising facts about ancestors
In 1999, Joseph T. Chang published a very interesting paper in the journal Advances in Applied Probability (vol. 31, pages 1002-1026) titled Recent Common Ancestors of all Present-Day Individuals. To understand the paper, it helps to reflect a little on the mathematics of genealogy.
One rock-solid fact of ancestry is that every person has two, and only two, biological parents. They in turn each have two parents so going back two generations gives a person four ancestors. If you go back three generations, you have eight ancestors and so on. Each generation that you go back doubles the number of ancestors in the previous generation.
We all know that this kind of geometric progression results in one reaching very large numbers very soon and by thirty generations, the number of ancestors one has acquired has ballooned to over one billion. In forty generations, we have over one trillion ancestors.
Conservatively allowing for each generation to span 30 years (which is a little large), going back thirty generations takes us back to about 1100 CE where the population was only about 300 million, and forty generations takes us back to 800 CE where the population was less than 200 million. (If we take each generation as averaging 25 years, 30 generations takes us back to 1250 CE when the population was 350 million and in forty generations we reach 1000 CE where the population was 200 million.)
Having more ancestors that the total population leads to the clear conclusion (which is not that surprising once one thinks about it) that all our ancestors cannot have been distinct individuals but were shared. In other words, my great-great-great-grandfather on my father's side had to be the same person as my great-great-grandfather on my mother's side, or something like that.
But the interesting point is that each one of us has over a trillion ancestors in just forty generations, which must mean that you, the reader, and I must have some shared ancestors, unless the huge population of your ancestors were entirely isolated from the huge population of my ancestors, with no mixing at all between them. Given the large numbers of ancestors involved, this kind of isolation seems highly unlikely unless there was some major geographical barrier separating the populations. We know that this is not the case, since by 1000 CE, people were able to travel pretty much all over the inhabited world, and all you need is just one person from my group of ancestors mating with one person from your group of ancestors to break the isolation, because then the ancestors of that pair are shared by both of us.
So if you and I (as just two people) share common ancestors, then we can see that if we go back far enough in time, all of us living on the world today should share at least some common ancestors. (See this post for a more rigorous argument for this.) One question that Chang was investigating was that of finding out, from among all the common ancestors, when the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all the people living in the world today lived.
The concept of the MRCA is interesting. My siblings and I share all our ancestors so the MRCA is not meaningful. The MRCA of my cousins and I (say) are the one set of grandparents that we have in common. As my current relatives get more distant, the MRCA goes back in time but it is not hard to see that an MRCA must exist for those who are commonly referred to as 'blood' relatives.
As another example, for those who take the Bible literally, definite common ancestors would be Noah and his wife. Since everyone except the two of them and their sons and their sons' wives were killed by god in the flood, all the current inhabitants of the world should have Noah and his wife as common ancestors. But they may not be the MRCA because their sons' descendants may also have intermarried, creating a more recent MRCA.
For those of us who accept evolution, it is not hard to get our minds around the concept of all of us having an MRCA, and the fact that we must have a shared ancestor in an earlier species has a pretty rigorous proof and is fairly easily accepted. What people thought was that this person probably existed around the time of our ancestor Homo erectus, perhaps a million years ago.
But when analysis was done on the mitochondrial DNA, and its mutation rate was used to triangulate back to the time when all the current mitochondrial DNA converged on a single individual, people were surprised that the calculations revealed that the MRCA deduced from this analysis, (nicknamed Mitochondrial Eve) lived much more recently, only about 140,000 years ago, probably in Africa. All present-day mitochondrial DNA is descended from this single individual. A similar analysis can be done for the Y chromosome to trace back to 'Y-chromosome Adam', and that person lived about 60,000 years ago (Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale (2004), pages 52-55).
But as Dawkins cautions (page 54):
[I]t is important to understand that Eve and Adam are only two out of a multitude of MRCAs that we could reach if we traced our way back through different lines. They are the special-case common ancestors that we reach if we travel up the family tree from mother to mother to mother, or father to father to father respectively. But there are many, many other ways of going up the family tree: mother to father to father to mother, mother to mother to father to father, and so forth. Each of these pathways will have a different MRCA.
Our normal concept of genealogy traces back through both sexes and thus the web of ancestral pathways becomes increases tangled and complex as you go back in time. As a result there is a greater chance of my ancestral pathways intersecting with the ancestral pathways of other people. It is thus reasonable to suppose that if we look at all these pathways, we will find a more recent MRCA than Mitochondrial Eve or Y-chromosome Adam. But this kind of calculation using mutation rates is not easy to do for things other than sex-specific chromosomes like mitochondrial DNA.
In order to try and fix the date of existence of the MRCA of everyone living today using the lines through both sexes, Chang used the tools of mathematics and statistics rather than genealogical charts or DNA mutations. And he found something very surprising, to be discussed in the next posting.
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Western Digital today announced their latest and largest high performance drive in their Scorpio Black product line. The new Scorpio Black drive, WD7500BPKT, sports whopping 750 GB of storage, rusn at 7200 RPM and will fits in 2.5-inch SATA form factor.
Just like the other drives in Western Digital's Scorpio Black product line, the drive combines 7200 RPM spin speed with 16 MB cache to deliver high performance mobile computing.
Prices for the new 750GB model stand at $149.00 USD and it just began shipping in the U.S. to select resellers and distributors. Western Digital is backing the new drives with a five-year limited warranty.
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Philip F. Lemieux, 69, died Sunday, May 6, 2012.
He was the son of Joseph Lemieux of Coral Springs, Fla. and the late Margaret A. (Stanford) Lemieux. Mr. Lemieux was a toolmaker for Brown & Sharpe and was the co-founder of Laser Engraving Technologies, Corp. He was a volunteer with the Summit Assoc. and was a former president and tenant representative with the Sparrow Point, III Tenants' Assoc.
He is survived by his long time partner, Eve Downey and her son, John; his five sons and their wives, Philip & Kristen and their children Alex & Sarah, Michael & Betty and their children Jessica & Xever all of Winchester, Vir.; Matthew & Sharon Marie of Belvedere, NJ; Jonathan & Christie of Hackettstown, NJ; and Joshua and his children JT & Caitlyn of West Rutland, Ver.; brother of Joanne Wagner of Smithfield, Paul Lemieux of Warwick, Jean St. Germain of Glocester, Marilyn Sala of Burrillville, Richard Lemieux of West Warwick and Robert Lemieux of Coral Springs, Fla.
A funeral service will be held Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 11 a.m. in the Thomas & Walter Quinn Funeral Home, 2435 Warwick Ave., Warwick. Visiting hours Saturday 9:30-11:00 a.m. Burial will be private.
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With a pretty floral print, waist-accentuating design with pretty pleats and sexy straps, this bebe chiffon dress is a fabulous way to inject summer into your wardrobe. Try yours with a pair of metallic sandals and statement earrings to amp up your look.
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Rated 3 out of 5 by Megan from Not what I thought It's overall a cute dress just not as flattering as other dresses that I've bought from Bebe. I love the pattern but the cut is just off.
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Canton police seized several bags of pot and a loaded gun after a car chase that ended in a crash and a chase on foot late Monday night.
A car chase that ended when a police K-9 caught the 18-year-old man leading the chase left police with a loaded gun and several bags of marijuana late Monday night.
Clifton J. Smith Jr., 18, of 3403 30th St. NE, was arrested at 10:58 p.m. Monday at Cook Avenue and Joann Place SW on charges of carrying a concealed weapon, failure to comply with police, having weapons under disability, marijuana trafficking and possession, resisting arrest, obstructing official business, suspended license, reckless operation of a vehicle and failure to yield the right-of-way at stop signs.
Stark County Jail records said Smith fled police at a high rate of speed, but the chase nearly ended when he crashed into another vehicle in the 1100 block of Fifth Avenue SW.
Capt. Jack Angelo, who heads the police department's patrol division, said Smith also hit a fire hydrant.
But the chase wasn't over.
Smith ran from the scene.
Patrolman Mark Diels and his K-9 partner, Pantzer, caught up to Smith soon after, the jail records said.
Diels seized from Smith a loaded .38-caliber handgun and several bags of marijuana, the jail records said.
Stark County court records show Smith had been placed on two years of probation Nov. 18 after he was convicted of grand theft of a motor vehicle. He also was ordered to serve 200 hours of community service.
He remained in the jail early Tuesday, held in lieu of $53,500 bond pending a hearing in Canton Municipal Court.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (November 29, 2011) – The ETSU baseball program has added two more standouts to the 2013 squad as Griffin Krieg (Nashville, Tenn.) and Jared Burton (Knoxville, Tenn.) signed with the Bucs for 2013, head coach Tony Skole announced on Tuesday.
Krieg is a 6-foot-3 190-pound right-handed pitcher, where he was a four-year letterwinner for Coach Mike Mascari at Father Ryan High School. Krieg also played for the highly regarded Royals Baseball Club in 2011. His stock began to rise after an impressive summer and is considered to be one of the top pitchers in the Nashville area.
"Griffin was a huge sign for our program," said Skole. "To be able to sign a player of his caliber out of the Nashville area is great for our program. Throughout last summer and during the fall season, Griffin quickly established himself as one of the top arms in the state of Tennessee. Every time we saw him he lit up the radar gun and threw a ton of strikes. Griffin has the ability to come in and pitch at a very high level as a freshman. His ceiling is very high and his potential is through the roof. Our staff is anticipating Griffin to be a top of the line guy for us, for many years to come. Griffin is a great competitor and a great addition to our program."
Burton is a 6-foot, 196-pound left-handed pitcher that comes to ETSU from Cleveland State Community College, where he currently plays for head coach Mike Policastro. Last season at Cleveland State CC, he led the team with a 5-1 record, while earning a 3.64 ERA in 59.1 innings pitched. Burton earned three letters at Halls High School in Knoxville, where he led the Red Devils to three regular season and district championships. During his final season at Halls, Burton hit .495 with seven home runs, 16 doubles, three triples and 65 RBIs, while earning a 6-1 record and a 2.95 ERA on the mound. In 2009-10, Burton was named to the Tennessee Baseball Report (TBR) All-Two Way Team and earned All-District honors. He was also named to the Tennessee Baseball Coaches Association (TBCA) All-Region Team and was a TBR Super Sophomore.
"In Jared Burton, we feel like we signed one of the top junior college left handed pitchers in the state of Tennessee," said Skole. "Jared is very clean mechanically and can really pitch. He had a very good freshman season at Cleveland State for Coach Mike Policastro and we believe he is only going to continue to get better. It was a priority for our staff to bring in a left-handed pitcher who was going to be able to step right in and immediately contribute and Jared fits that mold. Over the years we have had a lot of very good players from the Knoxville area and we are excited to add Jared to that group. Jared is a great young man and will definitely fit in well in our program."
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Lifelong friends, Alice Pratt (Alfre Woodard) and Charlotte Cartwright (Kathy Bates) have enjoyed watching their children grow and their businesses flourish. When Charlotte's shifty son William (Cole Hauser) begins an extramarital affair with Alice's daughter Andrea (Sanaa Lathan), the secret is impossible to cover, tearing up both families as the lies and manipulation start to pile up. With Charlotte and Alice trying to keep some sense of order, Andrea's clueless husband, Chris (Rockmond Dunbar), still hopes to solicit seed money for his construction business dreams from William, leaving Andrea's sister Pam (Taraji P. Henson) and her husband Ben (Tyler Perry) at a loss for words, observing the madness from the comfort of their stable marriage.
Unlike the rest of the Tyler Perry catalog, "Preys" is engineered to win over a large, crossover audience for the Georgian mogul. Not that the film doesn't have huge, wet Perry stamps all over it, but there's a new angle to "Preys" that Perry hasn't sampled before: the Caucasian experience.
Previous Perry pictures traditionally looked upon white people as comedic foils who were quick with a racist remark or nugget of high-society disgust. "Preys" gives us Charlotte, who doesn't approach her friendship with Alice through skin color, but through honest admiration and companionship. It's a superb change of pace for Perry, who resists nearly any opportunity to inject racial animosity into the picture. However, it's the last moment of invention the film will enjoy.
"Preys" is a soap opera in the most unashamed sense, and while this aesthetic has made Perry heaps of coin, his personal screen touch remains some of the worst overall filmmaking around. The new feature is perhaps even more melodramatic than anything that's come before, taking the Andrea/William affair and using it as the inspiration for the cast to arch their eyebrows to assured cramp, flare nostrils in unintentional comedic fury, and bounce impassioned lines of dialogue off each other with medicine ball grace. It's equal parts hilarious and aggravating, with Perry showing little shame as he works the characters into pants-wetting hysteria.
For "Preys," the action is actually split into two parts: the sticky infidelity web and Alice and Charlotte's you-go-girl road trip, where the two ladies take off in a vintage car and tour the southwest ("like Oprah and Gayle!"). The travelogue is Perry's weakest idea, taking the ladies on a booze-laden tour of bars and natural wonders, with the merriment jumping from male strip clubs all the way to blunt professions of early-onset Alzheimer's. Yes, I just wrote that. It wouldn't be Perry if the story didn't contain shameless, whiplash-inducing turns of pity that emerge from out of nowhere, leaving the audience in a complete lurch with little dramatic foundation to fall back on. Plus the road trip segment introduces what I would consider a true torture device: Kathy Bates in overact mode. Gulp.
The infidelity side of the "Preys" script is given far more attention, but in all the wrong ways. Here, the performances are a wreck, with Hauser emitting the sexual appeal of a cold sore as he struts around like a mannequin, refusing to move a facial muscle (a Hauser specialty). "Preys" also has Chris to kick around, and the dim-witted character is used solely as the film's punching bag, employed here to suffer the most humiliation and to carry out another Perry commandment: the justified moment of domestic abuse.
By having Chris punch Andrea (cue audience cheer) to release his cuckold frustrations, Perry crosses the line, endorsing violence on a level he's only flirted with before. It's sickening and completely irresponsible. In a film stuffed with bibles, baptisms, and gospels, to watch the movie celebrate spousal abuse is an unthinkable step even for Perry, who is more than willing to profit from his bottom-feeding template of pandering no matter how much it could influence his target demographic.
With enough double-crosses and tragic ends to make "Days of Our Lives" wince, "The Family That Preys" clearly demonstrates that even when Perry desires to climb out of his own genre, he lacks the skills and the patience to truly test himself. Instead, it's the same old dance, only now it involves slapping around women.


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Shane Newton, 43, told dispatchers he was shaking badly. His health deteriorated during the nearly hour-long call for help. His son Grant followed the dispatcher's directions to keep his dad alert and talking.
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Next week, we will find out what has the more powerful lobbyists in Lansing, the cherry or the blueberry.
The Senate Government Operations committee is set to debate two bills on Tuesday that would designate either the cherry or the blueberry as the official state fruit.
Senate Bill 259, sponsored by Sen. Rebekah Warren, D-Ann Arbor, would make the cherry the state fruit. Senate Bill 515, sponsored by Sen. Tonya Schuitmaker, R-Lawton, would designate the blueberry as the official state fruit.
Before we go any further, let's stop and appreciate the fact that we have here a blue Democrat wanting to make a red fruit the state fruit, and a red Republican wanting to make a blue fruit the state fruit.
That is just too juicy of a detail to let go unnoticed.
(To be fair, the cherry bill is co-sponsored by six of Warren's colleagues, including two Republicans - one of whom is Sen. Howard Walker, R-Traverse City, home to the National Cherry Festival.)
Not only do these bills set up a debate among fruit lovers, but they will also undoubtedly create divides among lawmakers from the northern part of the state, where cherries are king, and the west side of the state, where blueberry farms are plentiful.
Messages left with the heads of the Cherry Marketing Institute and the Michigan Blueberry Advisory Committee were not returned Friday, presumably because the groups are busy gearing up for what will be a hotly debated committee hearing.
Since they were not available for interviews, I did a little investigative reporting on my own to see if I could figure out what is behind these bills.
Joe LeDuc, president of the Michigan Blueberry Advisory Committee, has donated $575 to Schuitmaker's campaign since 2005, according to the state's campaign finance records. Philip Korson II, executive director of the Cherry Marketing Institute, has not donated to Warren's campaign, though he did give $500 to Democrat Mark Schauer's gubernatorial campaign.
While the bills are only up for debate on Tuesday, and a vote is not expected, it is unclear what the House would do if one of the bills is ultimately approved in the Senate.
Ari Adler, press secretary for House Speaker Jase Bolger, R-Marshall, said his boss loves all Michigan fruits equally and would give either bill its due diligence.
But the House has yet to give its own bill on this matter its due diligence. In January, Rep. Dian Slavens, D-Canton, introduced House Bill 4007 to make the tart cherry the official state fruit of Michigan. That bill has been wallowing in the House Government Operations committee without a hearing.
"We've been a little busy," Adler deadpanned.
I will do my best to attend Tuesday's hearing and report on this debate, in part to hear the reasoning behind each fruit's case to be given such an important status, but mainly in the hopes that both sides in the debate bring samples for the audience to taste.
Also up for discussion at Tuesday's hearing is Senate Bill 0571, sponsored by Sen. Bert Johnson, D-Detroit, which would designate Mackinac Island fudge as the official state sweet.
So far, there is no competing legislation for the state sweet; I think reasonable people can agree that Johnson has made a pretty solid choice.
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Saint Louis upends No. 9 ButlerFeb 1, 2013 - 5:34 AM St. Louis, MO (Sports Network) - Jordair Jett came off the bench to score a game-high 19 points to help Saint Louis knock off No. 9 Butler, 75-58, Thursday for a victory over the highest-ranked foe to ever visit Chaifetz Arena.
Dwayne Evans netted 15 points on 6-of-8 shooting from the floor for the Billikens (15-5, 4-2 A-10), who utilized a 24-4 first-half run and forced 23 turnovers en route to their third straight win. Rob Loe added 12 points, while Mike McCall Jr. donated nine on 3-of-6 shooting from behind the arc in the victory.
Rotnei Clarke led Butler with 17 points and Andrew Smith totaled 12 points and six rebounds for the Bulldogs (17-4, 4-2), who dropped their second straight conference road game versus an unranked opponent. Butler dropped a 54-53 decision at La Salle last week.
"We were just thinking 'Step on it. Make the lead go bigger,' Jett said. "That's how we play."
After both teams stayed toe-to-toe for the early part of the first half, Jett's layup tied the contest at 10-10. Things quickly changed, however, as the Billikens erupted on a 21-4 spurt -- with Jett providing eight points and Jake Barnett scoring the first four to start the run -- and Loe capping it off with a 3-pointer which made it 31-14 with 3:21 remaining before the break.
The Bulldogs didn't go down without a fight, however, ending the half on a 9-0 flurry after Andrew Smith's triple with 1:06 remaining brought the visitors within 31-23.
Jett, however, ended St. Louis' scoring drought with his second 3-pointer of the first half, which came with eight ticks left on the clock, and the home team went into the break up 11 points.
Butler's struggles were directly related to its 16 first-half turnovers and 37.5 percent shooting effort.
"The guys really work on deflections and things like that," Loe said. "We heard before the game that Butler hadn't really been pressured too much, and we wanted to get them out of their comfort zone."
The Billikens kept up their intensity to start the second half and owned a 51-34 advantage after two free throws by Cody Ellis six minutes into the stanza.
A couple possessions later, Ellis brought the crowd to its feet with a nifty 3-point play that again increased the Saint Louis lead to 17 (55-31) with 11 1/2 to play.
SLU cruised the rest of the way, holding a margin no fewer than 13 points. The deficit and momentum, for that matter, belonged to Saint Louis for much of the second half.
"I absolutely loved the way they moved the ball," Butler coach Brad Stevens said. "It was an absolute joy to watch one team play. The problem was, it wasn't the team I coached."
The announced crowd of 10,612 was the largest to ever witness a SLU basketball game in Chaifetz Arena history.
Game Notes
The Billikens have used stifling defensive play to frustrate most opponents and came into the contest leading the Atlantic 10 in scoring defense, allowing 57.8 points per game ... Saint Louis has won 12 of its last 14 games overall ... The Billikens shot 50 percent from the floor ... The Bulldogs came in having won three of the last four meetings in the series, although the two squads were matching up on the hardwood for the first time since the 2003-04 campaign ... Butler's Roosevelt Jones and Khyle Marshall combined for just nine points on 4-of-9 shooting in the loss ... Ellis finished with seven points and five boards in the victory.
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WASHINGTON — Even before Barack Obama was sworn in as president the first time, he touted his efforts to "change business as usual in Washington" by setting strict rules for his inauguration: No corporate donations were allowed; individuals could give only $50,000.
This time, Obama's inaugural committee is seeking million-dollar contributions from corporations and offering perks in return, such as tickets to the official ball. The six companies that have given so far include AT&T, Microsoft and Financial Innovations, a marketing company that received $15.7 million to produce merchandise for Obama's reelection campaign and is the official vendor for the inauguration. The committee has put no limit on how much individuals can give.
The relaxed rules reflect how Obama has largely dropped his efforts to curb the role of money in politics, a cause he once vowed to make central to his presidency.
Advisors say the White House does not plan to take up campaign finance reform any time soon, even following an election that saw more than $1 billion spent by outside groups, much of it financed with seven-figure donations from billionaires.


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MULBERRY | Eddie Cardin glanced around his mobile home Tuesday, and tears welled in his eyes.
MULBERRY | Eddie Cardin glanced around his mobile home Tuesday, and tears welled in his eyes.
"I've been here for 24 years," he said. "This is my home. I saved two years to put in the central heat and air-conditioning, and now they're telling me I have to leave.
"I don't have the money to move," said Cardin, who's disabled and lives alone. "I just don't know what I'm going to do. It scares me."
Cardin, 54, isn't alone. Residents in 18 other mobile homes at Lakeside Mobile Manor in Mulberry are grappling with the same crisis.
"We know what's going to happen," said Romy Brannen, 39, who's lived in the park for about five years, "we just don't know when. Not knowing how long we're going to have gives me a headache every day."
In January, the city won its lawsuit against the park's owner, Hutton House LLC, to shut down the sewer system serving the 65 mobile homes. Circuit Judge Steven Selph's decision effectively closes the park because it can't remain open without sewer service.
City administrators have been battling the park's owners over code enforcement violations for nearly three years, levying fines exceeding $300,000 because improvements haven't been made.
As the park's condition deteriorated, most residents moved away, leaving a handful to face the court's order.
At this point, they don't have a deadline when the sewer system will be shut down. Selph will make that decision at a court hearing Feb. 12. The city is recommending 60 days from the date the court order is signed. Joshua Westcott, a Kissimmee lawyer representing Hutton House, said the owners have agreed to a 60-day period as well. Beyond that, he declined comment on the case, speaking on behalf of his clients.
Hutton House, a family-owned business based in South Florida, paid $1.02 million for the park in January 2005. The park, at 1014 N. Church Ave., dates to the 1960s and hugs the shoreline of a lake left behind by phosphate mining.
Though once a thriving community, most of the mobile homes have been abandoned and many bear notices from the Polk County Tax Collector's Office because the annual fees haven't been paid.
County tax records show Hutton House owes $51,162 in taxes, including $27,830 that's past due for 2011 property and mobile home taxes. The remaining $23,332 is owed for the current tax year.
But the city's primary concern lies beneath the ground. Sewer lines snaking through the park are laden with leaks, in some places spilling raw sewage on the park grounds and on nearby property.
City Attorney Frank Comparetto Jr. argued the park poses a health hazard for the city, and the judge agreed.
Dawn Kilburne, 47, said she doesn't blame the city for forcing her out of her home.
"I blame the owners," she said. "I blame the Campbells (owners of Hutton House.) We paid $3,500 for this trailer two years ago, and they knew then that they were in trouble with the city. They never said a word to us about it. We had no idea this place was going to be this bad. They just took our money. Now we're out $3,500 and have to find another place to live.
"My husband is disabled and I'm raising my two grandbabies," she said. "I wake up every morning and wonder where we're going to go. We used my husband's disability settlement to buy this trailer, and we thought we were set.
"All my kids have large families and don't have the room for all of us," she said. "Most of us out here don't have the money for first and last months' rent and a deposit, and we can't afford to move our trailers. I just don't know what we're going to do."
Sondi Stanfield of Stanfield Mobile Movers in Auburndale said county inspectors would decide whether a mobile home is secure enough to be moved. If it passes that test, she said, owners are looking at $7,000 to $9,000 to move a home within a 25-mile radius.
Bonnie Titus, the city's code enforcement officer, is working with area landlords and social service agencies to help relocate park residents, and that effort has brought success.
"We're looking hard for them, and some of these residents are finding places to move," she said Wednesday. "We're just putting them in touch with people who can help them, and they're taking it from there."
Park resident Robert Berg, 27, said Tuesday he's worried about his future.
"I have epilepsy and can't work," he said, "and I don't know what I'm going to do. I get $700 a month for disability, and a lot of people want more than that just for rent. I was paying $400 a month here, and that was hard.
"I blame the park for what's happening," he said. "They had time and time again to fix this place up, and they didn't. And now they've left all of us without a place to live."
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Last time, I described how the bacterial flagellum spontaneously assembles in an orderly way, without the help of a conscious agent. I didn't intend to suggest that ID advocates argue otherwise, but I did say that they often write about assembly in unclear and misleading ways. Today I want to justify this assertion with some examples.
ID advocates commonly point to the self-assembly of complex structures like the flagellum to argue that they couldn't have been produced by evolutionary mechanisms. In his 2007 book The Edge of Evolution, Michael Behe includes an entire appendix on how the bacterial flagellum assembles to make this connection. In the first paragraph, he writes:
The need to spontaneously assemble intricate machinery enormously complicates any putative Darwinian explanation for the foundation of life, which has to select from tiny, random steps…In a cellular nanobot, where machines run the show without the help of conscious agents, everything has to be assembled automatically (p261).
How the flagellum originated and how it assembles are of course two different (though not completely unrelated) questions, but the distinction is lost in much of the ID literature. According to ID, assembly supposedly presents a significant hurdle for the evolutionary origin of the flagellum because evolution has to account not only for the production of all the parts, but for the manufacturing process as well. Following Behe, Jonathan Witt, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, assumes that the basic forces of nature can't produce complex structures that self-assemble:
[E]ven if nature had on hand all the right protein parts to make a bacterial flagellum, something would still need to assemble them in precise temporal order, the way cars are assembled in factories. He goes on to describe how the genetic instructions for the particular protein components are interpreted sequentially, in the order that the parts are needed. This added layer of complexity, on top of an already irreducibly complex structure (the flagellum itself), supposedly points to an even more sophisticated level of engineering than was previously appreciated.
Manmade vs. molecular machines: same or different?
The rhetorical effectiveness of this line of reasoning rests on the comparison between manmade machines or buildings and molecular ones. The argument seems especially compelling because the process of designing and assembling a car or building is shot through with design language: planning, foresight, blueprints, etc. For instance, in a chapter called What Darwinism Can't Do, Behe regales us with detailed descriptions of how cilia1and bacterial flagella are built. He likens the process to the construction of an observation tower at his university called Iacocca Hall:
Like all such buildings, it was built in what could be called a "bottom up-top down" fashion. By bottom up I mean that of course the foundation of the building had to be poured first, the ground floor next, and so on…By top down I mean that the building was planned. Blueprints were followed, supplies ordered, ground purchased, equipment moved in, and so on—all with the final structure of the observation tower in mind (p85).
It turns out that the construction of big structures in the cell requires the same degree of planning—the same foresight, the same laying in of supplies, the same sophisticated tools—as did the building of the observation tower at Iacocca Hall. Actually, it requires much more sophistication, because the whole process is carried out by unseeing molecular robots rather than the conscious construction workers who assemble everyday buildings in our everyday world (p87).
The construction of complex structures in the cell, Behe says, requires even more planning and sophistication than the construction of a manmade building. Who, we may ask, does all this planning? Behe certainly doesn't mean there's a miniature foreman in the cell directing the assembly (he refers to unseeing molecular robots, after all) but it's hard not to imagine a "man behind the curtain," to borrow an image from The Wizard of Oz. He is speaking of an Intelligent Designer, who must have pre-loaded the bacterium with all the instructions it would need to construct the flagellum.
In our everyday experience, the more intelligence and design that goes into the manufacturing process, the less conscious intervention is needed to assemble a complex machine. Cars can be made on an assembly line almost entirely by unthinking robots, but only because the robots themselves are intelligently designed. Cellular machines like the flagellum assemble spontaneously with no conscious intervention. Thus, by this logic, the control processes that guide assembly must be the work of a truly superior Designer.
But are we justified in applying this kind of planning/foresight language to what goes on inside the cell? Just how far can we take the parallel of molecular machines with manmade ones? I would argue that the differences are real and substantial. How often have you seen a manmade machine assemble and even repair itself, as the flagellum does? Or a whole factory reproduce itself, as the cell does? Perhaps these amazing features of life point not to a specific design event but to the fact that God's laws that govern biology are even more powerful and creative than we previously recognized.
Confusing conflation of assembly and evolution in the ID literature
While scientists frequently liken the cell to a factory that produces complicated machines, they rightly recognize the limits of the comparison: the cell is decidedly unlike a factory when it comes to how assembly actually happens. As biophysicist Sarah Woodson put it in a 2005 Nature commentary,
The cell's macromolecular machines contain dozens or even hundreds of components. But unlike man made machines, which are built on assembly lines, these cellular machines assemble spontaneously from their protein and nucleic-acid components. It is as though cars could be manufactured by merely tumbling their parts onto the factory floor.
Woodson's statement is powerful because it points out how unintuitive it is that molecular machines assemble from random collisions between molecules. But Behe uses this quote in a peculiar way to brush aside one "unintelligent" alternative to evolution by natural selection, called self-organization theory:
Some very simple rush hour traffic patterns are self-organizing, but self-organization does not explain where very complex carburetors, steering wheels, and all the other physical parts come from, let alone how "cars could be manufactured by merely tumbling their parts onto the factory floor" (p159).
I say this is peculiar because neither evolution nor self-organization theory claims to explain how all the protein parts physically come together to assemble a functioning machine like the flagellum. (They do aim to explain where the parts come from in the first place.) Perhaps unwittingly, Behe attacks a straw man when he says these theories cannot answer a question they don't claim to address in the first place.
At the end of his appendix on how the bacterial flagellum assembles, Behe again conflates evolution and assembly in a misleading way. First he describes a real debate in the scientific literature about how the bacterial flagellum is related to a similar structure in the cell, called the type III secretory system (TTSS). He then proclaims that "none of the papers seriously addresses how either structure could be assembled by random mutation and natural selection." As evidence he writes of a 2003 review article entitled, How Bacteria Assemble Flagella:
How did such a pathway [of flagellum assembly] evolve by random mutation? In the approximately seven-thousand-word review, the phrase "natural selection" does not appear. The word "evolution" or any of its derivatives occurs just once, in the very last sentence of the article. Speaking of the flagellum and the TTSS, Macnab writes: "Clearly, nature has found two good uses for this sophisticated type of apparatus. How [the TTSS and the flagellum] evolved is another matter…" Darwinism has little more of substance to say.
Behe pulls the quote grossly out of context. Macnab was not aiming to describe what is known about the evolution of the flagellum. It is "another matter", not because nothing is known about it, but because it is a different subject entirely from how assembly works. It is therefore not surprising that the words "evolution" and "natural selection" appear so infrequently! Thus the flagellum is another example—like the antibody generation system—in which Behe fails to seriously engage with the scientific literature, giving the impression that there isn't any on the topic.
Next time we'll begin to look at the irreducible complexity argument in detail and discuss whether it in fact does pose a problem for the gradual development of the bacterial flagellum.
1. Cilia are molecular machines every bit as marvelous and complex as bacterial flagella. While the two get about equal time in Michael Behe's books, cilia aren't nearly as famous as flagella. Why? Perhaps because cilia do several different jobs in the body and are thus harder to explain in a sound bite. Flagella, on the other hand, do one job—help bacterial swim—and, in the words of ID advocate Jonathan Witt, "images of the flagellum practically scream design." Cilia might also be less famous because they're less "family friendly:" the wriggling tails of sperm are actually long cilia! Making sperm the icon for the ID movement would not exactly have been a good marketing strategy.


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[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 113th Congress] [113rd Congress] [House Document 112-161] [Legislate Procedures Enacted in Law] [Pages 1117-1119] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov] [[Page 1117]] LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURES ENACTED IN LAW
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|Congress has, from time to time, passed laws reserving to itself an absolute or limited right of review by approval or disapproval of certain actions of the executive branch or of independent agencies. These laws usually envision some form of congressional action falling into one of three general categories: (1) action by both Houses of Congress on a bill or joint resolution requiring presidential signature; (2) action by one or both Houses of Congress on a simple or concurrent resolution; and (3) action by a congressional committee. Although provisions in the first category remain viable, provisions in the latter two categories should be read in light of Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 (1983). In that case the Supreme Court held unconstitutional as in violation of the presentment clause of article I, section 7, and the doctrine of separation of powers the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act contemplating disapproval of a decision of the Attorney General to allow an otherwise deportable alien to remain in the United States by simple resolution of one House. That same year, the Supreme Court summarily affirmed several lower court decisions invalidating provisions contemplating disapproval of executive actions by methods described in both categories (2) and (3) above. 463 U.S. 1216 (1983). Since then, Congress has amended several ``legislative procedure'' statutes to convert provisions requiring simple or concurrent resolutions to provisions requiring joint resolutions.


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Whip's Report
Republicans Leave Town Without Addressing the Priorities of the American People
Republicans Continue to Neglect the Priorities of the American People To Give Tax Cuts to the Wealthy
Republicans Continue to Ignore the Priorities of the American People
Senate GOP Tax Scam Raises Taxes on Middle-Class Families
House Republicans Vote to Raise Taxes on 36 Million Middle-Class Families
Republicans Advance Tax Scam Bill that Cuts Taxes for the Wealthy, Raises Taxes on Millions of Middle-Class Families, and Explodes the Deficit
Republicans Release Bill To Cut Taxes on the Wealthy, Explode the Deficit
House Passes Vehicle to Give Tax Cuts to the Wealthy at the Expense of the Middle Class
House Votes To Bring Relief to Texas, Florida, the West, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Democrats Call For Action to Address Gun Violence and Assistance for Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands
Democrats Continue to Call on Republicans to Bring the DREAM Act to the Floor
This week, I worked with my colleagues in Congress and immigration advocates to keep up the pressure on Republicans to bring the DREAM Act to the Floor for a vote.
House Democrats Call on Republicans to Bring the DREAM Act to the Floor
Last night, House Democrats, led by the Hispanic Caucus, began the process to force a vote on the DREAM Act.
Senate TrumpCare Fails, Democrats Stand Ready to Work With Republicans to Improve the ACA
This week, Senate Republicans attempted to pass various iterations of TrumpCare, each of which would have kicked millions of Americans off coverage and raised premiums for millions more.
Republicans Unveil Reckless, Irrational Budget, Continues to Struggle Over TrumpCare
House Republicans finally released their reckless, irrational budget for Fiscal Year 2018 – 94 days past the deadline for the budget process to be completed.
Republicans Should Abandon Repeal and Work With Democrats to Improve the ACA
This week, Senate Republicans released a new version of their harmful TrumpCare bill. It undermines protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions and guts protections that prohibit annual and lifetime limits.
Senate Republicans Delay TrumpCare Vote, Democrats Urge They Abandon Repeal
This week, Senate Republicans delayed a vote on their TrumpCare bill, but delay is not enough.
Senate Republicans Reveal TrumpCare Bill to Increase Health Care Costs & Kick Americans Off Coverage
Yesterday, Senate Republicans revealed their TrumpCare bill, which was written behind closed doors and kept secret from the American people and Members of Congress for weeks.
The House Stands Together in Unity, Commends Capitol Police For Their Heroism
This week, the House of Representatives came together in unity and bipartisanship following an attack at Wednesday's practice for the annual Congressional Baseball Game.
House Republicans Vote to Remove Consumer Protections & Risk Another Financial Crisis
This week, House Republicans passed the Wrong Choice Act, which would dismantle consumer protections and allow Wall Street to engage in the same kind of risky practices that led to the financial crisis in 2008.
President Trump's Budget is A Litany of Broken Promises to the American People
This week, President Trump released his budget for fiscal year 2018. His proposal makes draconian cuts to programs that help working Americans get ahead in order to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.
Republicans Face Backlash Over TrumpCare, Democrats Continue to Call for an Independent Commission on Russia
This week, Congress returned from a District Work Period during which constituents made their opinions on TrumpCare known to House Republicans.
The American People Will Not Forget House Republicans' TrumpCare Vote
The House began the week on a bipartisan basis, with a majority of Democrats and Republicans coming together to support a bill to fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year.
Republicans Must Abandon TrumpCare, Responsibly Fund the Government
Today, the House passed a bill to continue funding the government for an additional week while negotiations continue on a bill to fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year.
As House Adjourns, Republicans Leave for the District Work Period Without Addressing Important Priorities
This week, the GOP-led House completed a six-week work period, and I am deeply disappointed that House Republicans' dysfunction prevented the House from getting things done for the American people during that time.


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Oscars, smoshkers. With his scenery-chewing performance on the sidelines last weekend, Jim Harbaugh has elevated himself to the top of this year's list of the world's greatest dramatic actors.
"Maybe he's just being himself?" you say.
Well, all the great ones are.
I see him more as a sequel to Bobby Knight, a whiny, arrogant and profane antagonist, an unfortunate role model, a troubled and troubling anti-Wooden. The lip-syncing Harbaugh was doing to the refs last Saturday would've made Charlie Sheen blush.
The world of sports has a name for people like this. "Winners," you say? Absolutely. Or total tools. Take your pick. These days, the distinction's rather thin.
Because you can get away with almost anything in life as long as you rack up the wins. The Mongols come to mind (Tamerlane was 20-2 against the spread). Napoleon, of course, though he was better in domes. And now, this James Joseph Harbaugh.


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2237Enter Gloucester, Bedford, Exeter, Erpingham 2238with all his host, Salisbury, and 2239Westmorland.
Where is the king?
The king himself is rode to view their 2242battle.
Of fighting men they have full threescore 2244thousand.
There's five to one, besides they all are fresh.
God's arm strike with us! 'Tis a fearful odds.
2247God b'wi'you, princes all. I'll to my charge.
2248If we no more meet till we meet in heaven,
2249Then joyfully, my noble lord of Bedford,
2250My dear lord Gloucester, and my good lord Exeter,
2251And my kind kinsman, warriors all, adieu.
Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee.
[To Salisbury] Farewell, kind lord. Fight valiantly today.
2253And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it,
2254For thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.
[Exit Salisbury.]
He is as full of valor as of kindness,
2257Princely in both.
2258Enter the King.
Oh, that we now had here
2260But one ten thousand of those men in England
2261That do no work today.
2262King Henry
What's he that wishes so?
2263My cousin Westmorland? No, my fair cousin,
2264If we are marked to die, we are enough
2265To do our country loss; and if to live,
2266The fewer men, the greater share of honor.
2267God's will, I pray thee wish not one man more.
2268By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
2269Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost.
2270It earns me not if men my garments wear;
2271Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
2272But if it be a sin to covet honor,
2273I am the most offending soul alive.
2274No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
2275God's peace, I would not lose so great an honor
2276As one man more methinks would share from me
2277For the best hope I have. Oh, do not wish one more.
2278Rather proclaim it, Westmorland, through my host
2279That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
2280Let him depart. His passport shall be made
2281And crowns for convoy put into his purse.
2282We would not die in that man's company
2283That fears his fellowship to die with us.
2284This day is called the feast of Crispian.
2285He that outlives this day and comes safe home
2286Will stand a tiptoe when this day is named
2287And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
2288He that shall see this day and live old age
2289Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors
2290And say, "Tomorrow is Saint Crispian."
2291Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
2292Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
2293But he'll remember, with advantages,
2294What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
2295Familiar in his mouth as household words --
2296Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
2297Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester --
2298Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.
2299This story shall the good man teach his son,
2300And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by
2301From this day to the ending of the world,
2302But we in it shall be rememberèd,
2303We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
2304For he today that sheds his blood with me
2305Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
2306This day shall gentle his condition.
2307And gentlemen in England now abed,
2308Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
2309And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
2310That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
2311Enter Salisbury.
My sovereign lord, bestow yourself with speed.
2313The French are bravely in their battles set
2314And will with all expedience charge on us.
2315King Henry
All things are ready if our minds be so.
Perish the man whose mind is backward now.
2317King Henry
Thou dost not wish more help from England, 2318coz?
God's will, my liege, would you and I alone
2320Without more help could fight this royal battle!
2321King Henry
Why, now thou hast unwished five thousand men,
2322Which likes me better than to wish us one. --
2323You know your places. God be with you all.
2324Tucket. Enter Montjoy.
Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry,
2326If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound
2327Before thy most assurèd overthrow,
2328For certainly thou art so near the gulf
2329Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy
2330The constable desires thee thou wilt mind
2331Thy followers of repentance, that their souls
2332May make a peaceful and a sweet retire
2333From off these fields where, wretches, their poor bodies
2334Must lie and fester.
2335King Henry
Who hath sent thee now?
The Constable of France.
2337King Henry
I pray thee bear my former answer back:
2338Bid them achieve me and then sell my bones.
2339Good God, why should they mock poor fellows thus?
2340The man that once did sell the lion's skin
2341While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him.
2342A many of our bodies shall no doubt
2343Find native graves, upon the which I trust
2344Shall witness live in brass of this day's work.
2345And those that leave their valiant bones in France,
2346Dying like men, though buried in your dunghills,
2347They shall be famed, for there the sun shall greet them
2348And draw their honors reeking up to heaven,
2349Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime,
2350The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France.
2351Mark then abounding valor in our English,
2352That being dead, like to the bullets crazing,
2353Break out into a second course of mischief,
2354Killing in relapse of mortality.
2355Let me speak proudly: tell the constable
2356We are but warriors for the working day.
2357Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirched
2358With rainy marching in the painful field.
2359There's not a piece of feather in our host --
2360Good argument, I hope, we will not fly --
2361And time hath worn us into slovenry.
2362But by the mass, our hearts are in the trim,
2363And my poor soldiers tell me yet ere night
2364They'll be in fresher robes, or they will pluck
2365The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads
2366And turn them out of service. If they do this,
2367As, if God please, they shall, my ransom then
2370Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald.
2371They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints,
2372Which if they have as I will leave 'em them,
2373Shall yield them little. Tell the constable.
I shall, King Harry. And so fare thee well.
2375Thou never shalt hear herald any more.
2376King Henry
I fear thou wilt once more come for a 2377ransom.
2378Enter York.
[Kneeling] My lord, most humbly on my knee I beg
2380The leading of the vanguard.
2381King Henry
Take it, brave York. 2382-- Now soldiers, march away,
2383And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day.


text: When a new office opens up on the top floor, Brody will do what it takes to beat out Threepeat to get it. Jenny doesn't like this competitive streak in Brody, who then gives the downstairs crew something worth fighting over to prove everybody gets competitive. Meanwhile, Harvard is thrilled to have a new female admirer... until he discovers it's overprotective Mansfield's daughter. Now he has to end it before Mansfield finds out.


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Road Rage
Changing Lanes (Paramount). Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times says this Ben Affleck/Samuel L. Jackson drama is "one of the best movies of the year," but other reviewers complain that the film's happy ending betrays a dark plot about the way Affleck's slick lawyer and Jackson's recovering alcoholic try to destroy each other's lives after a car accident. "There are moments where Changing Lanes might have ended and left us feeling haunted, empty and perhaps ultimately wiser people. That moment comes and goes," says John Anderson of Newsday. But most say that the film is worthwhile even if the ending is a little too Hollywood: "Like any well-told story, no matter how familiar, you're going to want to watch this one through to the end" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times). (Click here for the movie's official site.)— B.M.L.
The Cat's Meow (Lions Gate). Mostly positive reviews for the first film in eight years from director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show). Steeped in Hollywood myth, the film takes place during a celebrity-packed trip on William Randolph Hearst's (Edward Herrmann) yacht. A love triangle between Hearst, starlet Marion Davies (Kirsten Dunst), and Charlie Chaplin (Eddie Izzard) and a mysterious death drive the plot. The actors "turn dusty Tinseltown lore into a spry and touching entertainment" (A. O. Scott, the New York Times). Although the Wall Street Journal's Joe Morgenstern calls the script "dead in the water," most critics find the film "clever and entertaining" (Kevin Thomas, the Los Angeles Times). Some critics note that the filmmakers made a special request that critics not name the murder victim; others print it anyway. (Click here for a spoiler-ridden summary of the "Hollywood Babylon" story the film is based on.)— B.W.
The Sweetest Thing (Columbia). "At last, a gross-out comedy that women can call their own," quips the Chicago Tribune's Mark Caro in response to this wannabe-Farrelly Brothers flick starring Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, and Selma Blair. Other critics aren't as kind about a film premised on a commitment-phobe in search of a man she's only known for 10 minutes but with whom she's convinced she's in love. Calling it "a movie in which laughter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn 'empowerment,' " Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman writes that the movie is "full of gags that are more tasteless than funny." And the New York Times' Elvis Mitchell takes the comment one step further: "[I]t's quite an achievement to make Ms. Diaz, Ms. Applegate and Ms. Blair look bad, but Thing manages it." (Click here to view the trailer.)—A.B.
New Best Friend (TriStar). Three years after wrapping production, New Best Friend receives a minimal theatrical release, and critics argue that it wasn't minimal enough. "It's never a good sign when a film's star spends the entirety of the film in a coma; it's worse when you begin to envy her condition" quips the Dallas Observer's Robert Wilonsky. Mia Kirshner (Exotica) is the comatose lead; she's ODed on too-pure cocaine after joining a hard-partying, sinister sorority-cum-"rural orgy palace" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times) at a North Carolina college. Lonely compliments come from Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, who calls the film "like a beach read—something that's not to be respected but gets read from cover to cover." (Click here for a fan Web site dedicated to Kirshner.)—B.W.
Music Southern Hummingbird, by Tweet (Goldmind/Elektra). Reviewers who aren't seduced by the production wiles of hip-hop mega-stars Missy Elliott and Timbaland don't take too kindly to this new diva debut. Ernest Hardy writes in Rolling Stone that its "production rarely approaches the wit or inventiveness that Elliott and Timbaland have established as their trademarks": "Expectations of any sort of heat—erotic or otherwise—are quickly dashed on this surprisingly dull project"; the lyrics are "run-of-the-mill R&B fare." And Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker weighs in with a tad more kindness despite awarding the disc a disappointing C+: It "showcases [Tweet's] breathy coo on a series of well-crafted but too-similar ballads" and "[a]s a result, when she goes up-tempo, there's a vigor you wish the rest of the CD contained." (Click here to visit Tweet's Web site.)— A.B.
Uninvisible, by Medeski Martin & Wood (Blue Note). Nothing but praise for the fourth Blue Note release from this multi-idiom trio—"The band's music is beloved by fans of avant-garde jazz, hip-hop, jam bands, dance music, funk, and lounge sounds" (Maggie Stein, Billboard). Calling it their "most enjoyable collection yet,"Rolling Stone's Marie Elsie St. Legér writes that "as with the most adventurous DJs of clubland, MMW choose their ingredients carefully, having honed their search-and-deconstruct techniques to razor sharpness; [t]he resultant Uninvisible flavors—complicated, spicy, sweet and sour—offer much to savor." In fact, adds Martin Wisckol in the Orange County Register, Uninvisible is every bit as funky as other MMW albums, yet "darker and edgier, rich with telepathically interlocking rhythms that throb and probe through shadowy moods." (Click here to visit the trio's Web site.)—A.B.
Plastic Fang, by John Spencer Blues Explosion (Mute). Middling notices for the New York trio's first album in three years. Featuring more of the band's "trademark bastard blues and ecstatically nasty punk yowling" (James Sullivan, the San Francisco Chronicle), reviewers appreciate the effort but note its lack of originality. "Gone are the band's experimental electronics and nods to noise. Instead, guitarist/singer Spencer and his band—Russell Simins on drums and Judah Bauer on guitar—build a wall of sound thick with the kind of electric boogies that powered the Rolling Stones, Credence and Jimi Hendrix" (Dan Aquilante, the New York Post). In fact, writes Andy Gill in the Independent, "Plastic Fang is just that, by [the band's] standards a fairly tame effort whose bark really is worse than its bite." (Click here for a funny video interview with the band.)—A.B.
Silver Lining, by Bonnie Raitt (Capitol). Few supporters for Bonnie Raitt's 16th album, described by Natalie Nichols in the Los Angeles Times as "a varied collection incorporating her trademark Delta-influenced blues-rock, African styles, New Orleans boogie and modern adult-pop elements." Even though "[h]er voice remains good and grainy, her slide guitar raw and steely," these "roadhouse rousers and midlife-meditation ballads feel like repeats of past performances, and stabs at world music resemble watered-down Paul Simon" (David Browne, Entertainment Weekly). Village Voice veteran Robert Christgau validates the claim: "As usual, the few songs she wrote herself outstrip the others. But even those are for roots-rock matures who share her worldview so narrowly that not a note or emotion takes her anywhere she doesn't know like her own night table." (Click here to visit Raitt's Web site, where you can download her music.)—A.B.
Revenge: A Story of Hope, by Laura Blumenfeld (Simon & Schuster). So-so reviews for this account of the vengeance a Washington Post reporter sought from the Palestinian terrorist who shot and wounded her rabbi father. Some critics say that "by investing so much energy in the [killer's family], Blumenfeld manages to portray [him] with more subtlety than most descriptions of terrorists"; and "more amazing, she gets the [family] to see [her father] as a human being instead of a target" (Blake Eskin, the New York Times). But others see the book as "gripping if inconsistent": Samuel G. Freeman in the Washington Post writes that Blumenfeld's passages about herself and her family lack "the complicated balance of detachment and engagement that can raise autobiography to the level of literature." (Click here to listen to NPR's Terry Gross interview Blumenfeld.)— A.B.


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A Day to Remember
White Sox 4, Twins 3.
That statement alone will turn some heads as the Sox defeated Minnesota this afternoon for the first time in 2011 after dropping nine in a row dating back to last year. It also broke a four-game Pale Hose losing streak on their current homestand.
In a game that was headed toward another Twinkie victory, a couple of clutch two-out hits (I'm not kidding) in the late innings turned the tide. In the eighth, Carlos Quentin delivered a single to tie the score at 3-3 and Alexei Ramirez, who homered in the first to give the Sox an early 1-0 lead, singled to center in the ninth. It scored A.J. Pierzynski from second for the game-winner.
Former Twin Jesse Crain got the win after pitching a perfect ninth. Starter Mark Buehrle authored another fine performance, but got the no-decision. All three Minny runs off of Buehrle were unearned.
Can the Sox make it two in a row and split the four-game series? Jake Peavy will try to do it tomorrow before the Sox head into the All-Star break.
Sox Note of Note: One negative on the day. Backup catcher Ramon Castro suffered a broken hand on a play in the eighth inning, setting the stage for Pierzynski to enter the game. No official announcement has been made, but it's likely Tyler Flowers will be called up from AAA Charlotte to replace him.


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