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When i started playing wow i used MazzleUI.
Then ArkiveUI.
This is my personal continuation of ArkiveUI, shared here for those interested.
Please report any bugs/problems on my forums, and I will check it out when I get time.
Includes in-game installer.
Install Instructions:
Back up and remove your WTF and Interface Folders.
Extract the zip to your WoW installation folder.
Go into the WTF Folder, Go into the Account Folder.
Rename the folder you see here to your account name / number.
Go into that folder.
Rename the folder you see here to your realm name.
Go into that folder.
Copy and paste the folder you see and rename to your characters.
Log into the game, make sure Load Out Of Data Addons is on.
Log into the characters you just made.
If the installer does not automatically show up please type: /meteorui.
Pick your class, close the installer, Play!
Support Forums:
Current Addon List:
Auction, Mail, and Inventory:
AckisRecipeList - When this mod is run with a tradeskill window open, it will list all of the recipes for that tradeskill you don't have and how to get them.
Auctionator - Makes creating appropriately priced auctions tons easier.
Auditor - Keeps track of gold on all your toons, sells greys, and auto-repairs.
Combuctor - All-in-one bag replacement for your bags and bank.
Postal - Allows for quick mailing of items to last recipient (alt-click item in inventory) and bulk open/mail.
Advanced TradeSkill Window - Replaces the existing tradeskill window with a much more intuitive and filterable one.
Combat, Casting, and Buffs:
Autobar - Configurable button bar that allows quick use of all items you're carrying in specified categories (i.e. food/water, mana/health pots, food buffs, etc)
Raven - Bars with timers for player buffs, debuffs, cooldowns, Dot's, active effects (such as Winter's Chill), and HoT's.
IceHUD - Heads-up-display that shows player health and mana/rage, as well as target health and mana/rage in side-by-side vertical bars with percentages.
Mik's Scrolling Battle Text - Will display damage/heals/effects that you receive and perform around the HUD.
Castbars - Player and enemy castbar (also displays latency on player castbar for use with stopcasting macros).
SmartBuffs - Easy assignment and performing of buffs for you/party/raid. Will also buy reagents based on you what specify.
SpellFlash - May sometimes help you with deciding what spell to use next.
SayWebWrapped - Alert teammates when you are wrapped.
Informational and Misc:
ACP - Adds an option to the in-game menu for loading/unloading addons specific to that character (supports load-on-demad mods) and also adds a reloadui button.
BonusScanner - Broker addon with lots of info about your character (stats, gems, etc).
BugGrabber & BugSack - Grabs any UI errors and tosses them into a sack for review later.
Fizzle - Adds colored border for rarity as well as durability information to gear on character tab.
OverAchiever - Achievement windows enchancements as well as comparison of your progress in tooltips of achievements linked by others in chat.
Prat - Offers extensive configration of chat frames.
RatingBuster - Shows what stats on equipment equate to in the tooltips (i.e. how much % hit/crit comes from the stat, how much dodge the agility equals, etc) as well as a summary of the net gains/losses of the item compared to what you have equipped.
SLDataText - Condensed onscreen info containing server time, FPS, latency, and mod memory usage.
GoGoMount - Automatically mount using the best mount (configurable, and keybound to Shift-~ by default).
Healers Have To Die - Warn you if there are any healers in your area.
TipTac - Improved tooltips.
XPBarNone - Highly customizable XP/rep bar.
NPCScan - Scan NPCs around you for rare ones. (Included: Map Overlay of where Rares appear) Alerts will sounds when you find one.
SavedInstanced - Tracks your instance locks.
TidyBar - Tidy Nameplates.
XLoot- Advanced loot addon.
DockingStation - Shows a lot of information in a bar attatched to the top of the screen.
MeteorUI - The installer for all of this.
PVP Mods:
Deadly PVP Mods - This addon uses "Deadly Boss Mods Bars" to trigger when your enemys or friends auras gained. If so, Deadly Pvp Mods will warn you. eg. [Repe] gains [Divine Shield] (Immune to damage). At the same time, a Deadly Boss Mods Bar will start ticking down, showing you when you can damage him again.
Gladius - Small unit frames for enemy units in arenas (allows binding of functions or spells such as interupt, set as focus, etc).
Sapped - Alert your team for incoming saps.
Unit Frames and Actionbars:
Masque - Supports skinning of all in-game buttons. (currently using the Caith texture).
Bartender4- Actionbar mod with a generic predefined layout and basic keybinds/paging (the mod supports advanced paging based on stance/form, keybinding, and virtually any button layout).
KGPanels - Used to create the backdrops for the chat/button frames.
OmniCC - Shows the cooldown of a spell/ability on the button.
PitBull4 - Unit Frames. (Configured for Solo / Scenario / Dungeons)
Shadowed UF - Unit Frames. (Configured for Raids / BattleGrounds / Boss Fights)
Chinchilla - Square, scalable, movable minimap.
Carbonite - Advanced Map System.
Gathermate2 - Will overlay the map with known node information (mostly-complete database included) on various gathering professions (by default will only show locations for gathering professions you have).
DeadlyBossMods - Provides boss-related timers and notifications for 5-man instances.
Omen3 - Displays party/raid member's threat for your currently selected target (will also parse KTM data that it receives).
Recount - Damage meter mod that tracks more information then you can imagine (capable of creating graphs and side-by-side comparisons).
oRa3 - A lightweight replacement to CTRaid (responds to all CT commands/requests).
Carbonite - The advanced map addon.
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The Legacy Continues!
Let me state up front that this is not intended in any way as a slam on MeteorUI. I accidentally stumbled across it the other day and am extremely pleased to see that someone else is interested in such a wonderful concept.
I never got to experience Mazzle, but I certainly came to love ArkiveUI. When it was announced that Arkive was hanging up his spurs, I was not yet at the point where I considered myself capable of keeping the UI going. Then UI-tat came along to save the day. It was heavily based on ArkiveUI and evolved into it's own flavor, as these things do. Ultimately, the author decided to begin work on his own all-in-one UI (Deranjata Project) that bears a very strong look-and-feel to ArkiveUI and UI-tat. He asked for someone to maintain UI-tat while he concentrated his efforts in this new direction. So, I am currently trying to maintain the functionality of UI-tat until this new UI reaches a point where it can replace it. I'm not sure when that might be, but it isn't as urgent as I had thought now, thanks to MeteorUI.
MeteorUI has most of the functionality of ArkiveUI, and I have to say it is a lot like slipping on a favorite, comfortable shoe. People who came to know and love Mazzle, ArkiveUI and later UI-tat, have another UI that honors that great look-and-feel. My salute to the author! May you find the time and enthusiasm to continue!
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Fantastic UI. Works perfectly. Upgraded all addons and still no errors. Strongly recommend this to all former users of Mazzle, Arkive and UI-tat. I hope you keep looking after this. Thank you very much : )
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Ok. So played around with options a bit figured if I messed it up I could always just do the long process of reinstalling with the folders again. xD
Buffs are still rather low, would like them a bit higher and still that thingy in the middle which I don't know what it is or does. xD
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3 things!
Ok. Two things. I dunno what that thing is in the middle of my screen, nor how to move it. xD Second is I'm unable to get to my chat window to move or modify it due to my name and such. Any ideas for both? xD
Edit: Forgot the screenshot. D:
Double Edit: Apparently I can't see my runes either due to the positioning of the buffs. xD
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Mazzle Ui
I understand what you are saying its been very tough to find a replacement. However Discord Unit frames have been updated by FizzleMizz see it at Discord Unit Frames
and you can set up the original Mazzle UF or FizzleMizz's variation on it and it works very well!
Thanks for trying to re-create Mazzle.
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October 31, 2012, 02:21:09 PM »
I have a 173 LSAT and a 3.95 GPA from a top 25 undergraduate university. I've been working for a few years and now I'm strongly considering law school for next year. I'm VERY debt-averse, because I now the market is dismal and I'm not certain I would use the degree to pursue a high-paying job anyway.
What are my best changes for finding a full-ride at a top school? I don't expect I could get a full-ride from a T14, but how far down the rankings would I have to go? Any schools known for giving generous scholarships to applicants with my numbers?
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Correction: GPA is 3.93- 3.94
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I think that is smart decision making unless you get into Harvard, Yale, law school and even then there are no guarantees that you will make enough to pay off the outrageous cost of law school.
With that said a good site to look at how scholarship prospects is lawschoolnumbers.com you can what numbers are necessary to fro admission and the amount of scholarship money that was earned.
One important thing to know before enrolling in law school and accepting a scholarship are the conditions associated with them. Many law schools will send you a letter saying you need to maintain a 3.0 GPA. This sounds easy to individuals who get into law school who assume a 3.0 will be a breeze, but the reality is on a law school curve only about 35% of the first year class can have a 3.0. Everyone that gets into law school assumes they will clearly be in the top 35%, but 100% of people think that and you don't need to be a math major to see that 65% won't be in the top 35%. So be very wary of any conditions on scholarship you receive and with your numbers you would have some bargaining power at a lot of schools.
Also when considering a law school here is a copy/paste of a post I have made to anyone consider law school.
1) Location
In my opinion this is the most important factor when choosing a law school. If you want to live in San Francisco after graduation go to law school in San Francisco, if your from Idaho and want to be close to your family after graduation go to law school in Idaho. The vast majority of schools only have connections in their immediate area and on top of that you will get internships etc in the area your attending school. For example if your going to law school in L.A. you cannot do an internship in New York during the school year and since there are no shortage of law schools in New York or New Jersey there would be no reason to reach out to L.A.
Also law school doesn't exist in a vaccum and the day to day life will play a factor. For example if your ultra liberal, gay, etc going to law school in Arkansas is probably not going to go well and if your ultra conservative going to law school in San Francisco won't go well. If your a person that loves night life etc going to law school in East Lansing Michigan or Tulsa Oklahoma will be hard to handle. If your someone that likes a quiet atmosphere then don't attend New York Law School in the heart of New York's Financial District. These are all factors that are unique to each individual and really consider location.
Almost every law school except for a few schools that offer in-state tuition like Florida International, South Dakota, North Dakota, and few others tuition is going to run you approximtely 100k and if your in a location like N.Y. or San Francisco the living expenses for 3 years will probably add on another 50-100k. All of which is accruing interest often at 6 or 8%. This means you can have 8,000 or so in interest alone a year so it is important to really consider cost.
Many schools offer merit scholarships that should be considered even if other schools are "higher ranked" for example if you can get a full scholarship at Gonzaga University compared to paying full tuition at Seattle University then it might be wise to take it since I would imagine most people do not consider either much school must better than the other.
3) Reality of Legal Education
Each ABA law school quite literally teaches you the same thing your first year will be contracts, torts, civil procedure, legal writing, property, criminal law, criminal procedure, and constitutional law or some slight variation, but all those courses will be taken. In Torts you will read the Palsgraff case, Contracts Hadley v. Baxendale etc and all you do at any ABA school is read Supreme Court Decisions and the Supreme Court doesn't take time to write different opinions for different schools. Whether you read the Palsgraff case at Harvard or in West Virginia the firecrackers get dropped and proximate cause is established.
4) Personal Feeling about the School
I personally was accepted to several law schools and I visited a lot as well as participated in some mock trial competitions and I saw a lot of different law schools. There were some that I really liked and some that I really didn't like. My reasons were completely personal to me and what I liked you may have hated and vice versa. You can talk to professors, students, admins, etc and really see first hand what the school is like. I highly recommend doing that prior to making a 3 year 100,000+ commitment just make sure the school fits your personality.
5). Specialty Programs
This ties in more with location rather than the school, but you can still use it as a factor. For example if you really want to do entertainment law then you should go to law school in New York or L.A. that is where movies, t.v shows, etc are made. Therefore, schools in those locations will have a lot of alumni in the area, adjuncts that work in the field will teach in the school, you can get internships at those places during law school and so on. If you want to do entrainment law then going to Idaho law school will not be an ideal spot.
Then there are a few schools that do mock trial competitions which are good and you can kind of see how seriously a school takes that by how many teams they have and how well they do. For example South Texas law school is amazing at Trial Advocacy competitions I have seen there courtroom and they almost won every competition I was ever win they are just good at it. If there is some area of law you are interested in you can look at to what programs they offer.
However, if you are not particularly interested in any area of law don't consider it and don't worry about it. Plenty of law students and even lawyers don't really know what they want to do.
6) Rankings
This is a factor, but remember U.S. News is nothing more than a for-profit magazine offering an opinion. They rank more than law schools and Albuquerque New Mexico is the best place to live now according to them and South & North Dakota will be the best places to live in 2032. One of the main factors for South Dakota being selected as a hot spot in 2032 is because they estimate dental visits will be easy to access. I am not making this up either straight from their website
I highly doubt you are going to make life altering choice and move to Albuquerque because a magazine says you should or start saving to move to South Dakota in 2032. Use the same logic when choosing your law school don't let some magazine be your main guide. No harm in considering it, but don't make a life altering choice based on a magazine.
Those are just some factors to consider and hopefully some of that info is helpful. Also remember I am nothing more than an anonymous internet poster and you should get info directly from people you can interact with face to face to assess their credibility. Good luck .
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Blogger Matt Bruenig has declared war on the notion that poor people are "a small, especially degenerate class." I don't think this view is as common as he implies, thought it's hardly as marginal as one would wish.
I mentioned his campaign, however, because the salvo I've linked to focuses on the arbitrariness of the federal poverty line. Look, he says, at the 53 million people hovering just above it, according to the Census Bureau's latest Supplemental Poverty report. That's 4 million more than fall below it.
And look at the gradual upward slope of the income distribution from way below the poverty line up to 300% of it. We see no "especially large gap" that would justify putting poor people into one bucket and everyone else into another.
Besides, he reminds us, people cycle in and out of official poverty. During 2009-11, for example, 31.6% of the population lived in poverty for at least two months, but only 3.5% were poor for the entire three-year period.
It's nevertheless hard to imagine doing away with a line of some sort or other — at least, so long as we have programs that set eligibility and/or benefit levels based on income.
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As I wrote awhile ago, Molly Scott at the Urban Institute showed that a single mother working part time at the minimum wage could actually be better off than a single mother working 60 hours a week at the same wage. Public benefit help explain this, but so do work-related costs.
Yet having just the resources to get by day to day without material hardship seems a low bar to set in a country with as much wealth as ours. Wider Opportunities for Women proposes that we look instead at how much a family much have to be economically secure.
WOW has a very complex database — the BEST (Basic Economic Security Tables) Index. It's made up of many hundreds of monthly budgets for different family configurations, with and without employment-based benefits, and each reflecting costs in diverse geographic locations.
The budgets include not only basic needs and work-related expenses, but some savings for retirement and for emergencies — enough to get along for nine weeks without earnings because that was the average time jobless workers remained unemployed when the index was created.
The budgets are strictly "no frills," in the words of WOW's Vice President for Policies and Programs. In other words, they don't allow for entertainment, vacations or even electronics, except a phone. They do, however, include optional, below the line savings for higher education and home ownership.
Using the BEST Index, WOW finds that 44% of Americans didn't have enough income for economic security two years ago. Children in the household raised the rate to nearly 50%.
Economic insecurity was much more common than this for single parents with children — 77% without enough income. The rate for single-mother families was an even higher 81% — more than two and a half times their high poverty rate.
These are national figures. Economic security requires far more income in some places than others, of course. Consider, for example, Scott's single mother and her two elementary school-age children living in the District of Columbia.
She and her kids would have cleared the poverty threshold in 2012 if she earned $18,500 a year. But she'd have had to make well over four times as much — at least $79,932 — for her family to be economically secure.
"At least" because this formidable sum assumes she was eligible for unemployment insurance, e.g., not a contract worker, and that her employer provided both a health insurance and a retirement plan. Without these employed-related benefits, she'd have had to make $85,992.
In both cases, the biggest ticket items for her child care, taxes and rent. Child care was the second biggest, even though her children needed it only during after-school hours — nearly $1,300 a month. And the rent, as WOW computes it, is quite low for the District — $1,259 a month.
I'm not sure what we should make of all this. I suppose we could begin, as Professor Stephen Pimpare suggests, by recognizing the "widespread economic fragility" of households in our country — and the weakness of the safety net many are likely to need.
But there are other, more specific policy lessons in the enormous gap between what it takes to be officially not-poor and what it takes to have enough for health, safety and work-related costs, plus a modest stash to draw on so as not to fall into poverty.
Far too many lessons for this post. But the sobering figures surely support a wide range of proposals — and confirm objections to others that our recent "Republican wave" seems likely to toss onto our Congressional and state legislative agendas.


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hehe - genius! :)
I love this sticker page!! Are those new drawings? They're super fun and the colors remind me of ice cream and candy and things cartoons should remind me of!
gud post. say which felt tip type do u use to do these.
John, This is unrelated to this post, but I wanted to ask if you would do a review of Toy Story 3, if you've seen it. I always appreciate your perspectives, especially on cg stuff, and I'm sure many of your readers would be interested to hear what you have to say about the movie.
click the link to the Heartaches story at the bottom of the post.
I don't know of any free inking programs. Kali used Illustrator to ink the drawings and the ad.
I haven't see Toy Story 3 yet. It looks cute and cryworthy.
It is good, but it is not near the quality of Josie and the Pussiecats.
The years it must have taken, the countless drafts done to give the full gamut of expressions to each character. It makes the soul cry.
On a serious note, Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips offends my sensibilities less then Josie and the Pussiecats and the only reason this saw any success was peddling this pernicious product to impressionable kids.
Sorry to repeat but the cartoon needs it (since it is persona non grata for being released on even a lacklustre DVD), your opinion and evaluation of Bugs Bunny Nips the NIps.
The drawing of Roxy and Shan in the top page over the stickers is fantastic.
Cartoon eye candy! Too bad everything has to cost money now. Money which I hardly ever have. Ugh.
What flavors do they come in? Strawberry, pistachio, cauliflower?
"I haven't see Toy Story 3 yet. It looks cute and cryworthy."
I think you'll be impressed by a lot of the animation. The incinerator scene was very well executed and even scared me. The villain (Lotso the Bear) is just another Stinky Pete, with a little bit more depth and personality to him. Overall, I liked the movie, and thought it was a good ending to the trilogy. The 3-D ticket is definitely worth paying for and does the movie some justice.
Awesome! I just ordered mine :) .
I love Spumco products. I would love it if you started releasing your paint kits again. And ANY art supplies. Those are awesome and fun.
Awesome! I just ordered mine :) .
I love Spumco products. I would love it if you started releasing your paint kits again. And ANY art supplies. Those are awesome and fun.
if your looking for free ink programs theres something called Sketch Book Pro on trial by the Autodesk guys. Never used it myself. Worth a look.
Manga Studio is an outstanding inking program provided you have a tablet. Yes, it's Japanese but there's no other software on the market that allows you to freehand draw with ink like this program does. The best thing is the "debut" version of the software is all you really need and it's only 50 bucks. The "EX" version which is like 400 bucks comes with ugly 3D rendering which no one here would bother with.
the best free inking program is Inkscape. forget any program that has the word "manga" in my opinion, that is
whoa cool.
I want to put these on my backpack...but then the kids at my school would call me a "faggot".
But they're soooooooo cute!
These are great!
Oh God I want some! How much is 6 Bucks in New Zealand money?
I'm totally picking one up for my lil' cousins- with a George Liquor shirt for me, of course.
Also- I remember you said if someone donate or bought a drawing from you, you'd take a look at some of their studies. Any chance you are still up for that? I'm thinking about scanning a few in this week.
Oh and also, did you keep calling them the "principal heartache characters" because of that Looney Tune ad?
Inkscape looks an open source corel/illustrator option. There's nothing wrong with that, unless you want actually draw and "ink" with a tablet. Just because Manga Studio has "manga" in the title doesn't make it an unfit tool to do exactly that.
If it makes you feel any better, it's called "Comic Studio" in its native country.
Hey, John. Unrelated question here. Given that you're oldschool in animation and illustration tastes, I've always wondered what's your opinion on the art of Steve Purcell. Have you ever read the Sam & Max comics?
I cant access your online store.
Maybe it is some adblock issue or users outside US get blocked...
I bought the stickers.
Does this mean we can see more cartoon fun?
Not to do with whatever this post is.
But heres a handy resource for you
So many excellent / hilarious heads. Quite often with shots showing how they've grown up.
they should make more stickers like these, ones with principles, good work!
Next we should get an actual Curly Fuzz Poodle pull-string doll. That'd be so cool.
The stickers have been placed around my room.
Now, I hope my $8.50 will have convinced you that we need more Heartaches storyboard-comic-things.
Take a picture of your wall and put up a link.
I'll use it in my next ad.
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The Center for Spiritual Capital, in conjunction with the Loyola University New Orleans College of Business, presents "Catholicism and Free-Market Economics: Compatible or in Conflict?" today, Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. in Miller Hall, Room 114. The event is free and open to the public with free parking in the West Road garage.
The lecture will examine whether or not capitalism and free-market economics are at odds with Catholic teaching.
Professor Nick Capaldi, Ph.D., the Legendre-Soulé Distinguished Chair in Business Ethics at Loyola and director of the Center for Spiritual Capital, will focus on the evolution of Catholic thinking in relationship to economics and how recent Vatican policies have supported this shift. The Chase Bank Distinguished Professor of International Business William Barnett, Ph.D., will give a presentation, according to Capaldi, that will show how free market economics are not incompatible with deeply held religious and moral beliefs.
The event will also include a panel of four local business leaders who will share personal reflections on the struggle between running a successful business and staying true to teachings of their religion.
"What we try and do in the business school is to convey to our students that there really are moral principles that guide the business world, and many times those principles are sustained by deep faith," Capaldi said. "There's no incompatibility between being a person of principle and being successful in the business world. In fact, we think those two things go together hand-in-hand."
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MANKATO (AP) - Rutgers says it has dismissed quarterback Philip Nelson from its football program in the wake of assault charges filed in Minnesota.
Rutgers head coach Kyle Flood made the announcement Tuesday.
Nelson is a former quarterback for Minnesota. He played in 11 games last season, but announced afterward that he would transfer to Rutgers.
He was charged Monday with two counts of felony assault in connection with a weekend fight that left another man severely injured. Authorities say Nelson kicked 24-year-old Isaac Dallas Kolstad in the head after another man punched Kolstad.
Nelson's attorney says his client was not the aggressor.
Flood says the Rutgers football family is sending thoughts and prayers to Kolstad and his family.


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While they won't disappear, the leader of Mexico's best-known group of vigilantes said earlier this week that his followers will set aside their masks and highway checkpoints.
Rather, Bruno Placido said his group is seeking to form a national movement with other "self-defense" groups that have sprung up throughout Mexico to fight crime fueled by drug cartels.
Placido said the vigilantes he leads in southern Guerrero state are trying to leave behind the concept of masked, armed patrols that have sparked conflict in recent weeks, after some groups were found to have possible links to drug cartels or engaged in tense confrontations with the army or rival cartels.
"We have left behind the stage of 'self-defense' and are opening a new page," Placido said. "The farmworkers who came out and joined the 'self-defense,' they can return to their work, the ranchers to their cattle."
We only wore hoods because there was an environment of terror and fear.
Starting in early January, fed up with extortion and kidnapping by drug cartels and other criminals, Placido's group set up highway checkpoints where masked men armed mostly with old shotguns and hunting rifles checked passing cars. They detained more than 50 people, who they later released.
Placido said his movement's members had decided to take off their masks "to make things transparent."
"We only wore hoods because there was an environment of terror and fear," he said, referring to drug gang extortion demands against businessmen, farmers and ranchers around the town of Ayutla in Guerrero.
Now, the force is trying to come up with some sort of uniform, though it still may set up posts to check who is coming into town, he said.
Placido said his group won't give up its guns, most of which are small-caliber arms that they are permitted to own under Mexico's strict gun-control laws.
But his movement is starting to reach out to other groups that have sprung up in recent weeks.
"We are going to have a national meeting, when we get enough people on board," Placido said. "We are looking for ways to get in touch with them, to see what common ground we have."
His movement appears to have little in common with a group of masked men armed with assault rifles who set up a "community police" group in the township of Tecalcatepec in neighboring Michoacan state, who claimed they were fighting abuses by the Knights Templar drug cartel. In early March, soldiers arrested about 50 of those vigilantes, and prosecutors said some had ties to a rival drug gang, the Jalisco New Generation cartel.
Earlier this, week, angered by those arrests, dozens of townspeople set up a blockade at the entrance to a local military base in Tecalcatepec, jeering soldiers for hours in a tense confrontation. On Wednesday, banners signed by the Knights Templar cartel appeared on bridges throughout Michoacan demanding the government "put a stop to the farce of the community police," which the cartel has accused of working for the New Generation gang.
There appears to be a growing realization that the various "self-defense" groups, while they all claim to be a spontaneous response to crime, have quite different roots and should be treated differently.
Sen. Omar Fayad of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party told local media Thursday that "authorities should analyze them case by case" to sort out legitimate, traditional community policing and patrolling efforts by organized groups of residents from murky "self-defense" groups like the one in Michoacan.
There are long-tolerated community police forces in dozens of towns in indigenous areas of southern Mexico that enforce mainly local laws against disturbing the peace. But, Fayad said, "I think the Mexican government cannot allow the existence of (the new) 'self-defense' groups."
Brian Phillips, professor at Mexico's Center for Research and Teaching in Economics who researches political violence in Mexico, noted that "there is a long tradition of community policing by indigenous communities and this has existed without substantial problems for quite a while. "
"But these new types of groups, these vigilante groups, seem to be a different animal," Phillips said. "It's difficult to know who they are working on but I wouldn't be surprised at all if vigilantes started working with drug trafficking organizations," either for payment or under threats. "It could be voluntary, as it would likely be lucrative, or it could be coerced to some degree."
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Some fun looking shots entered this week for POWDER (check the gallery below with some of the highlights). Next weeks TAG Photo Contest is "PIPE," so let's see your best shots. Post 'em & Tag Them.
This weeks winner is:
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Not much powder in New Jersey but Adam Howell takes what we have. Photo by Jay Cagney.
Shooting Powder at night is never easy, especially in New Jersey! This shot takes the Cake as because not only is it a good looking Photograph, but also technically it's well advanced. Shooting at night is way harder to focus, very difficult to light without blowing out all the snow, and really hard to find the good spots to shoot too. This one has a pretty sick Snow Spray out of that East Coast Powder (Packed Powder most places).
Congrats Jay Cagney, please Email me for your prize: nick.hamilton(at)transworld.net
Honorable Mention goes to this shot:
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My bro Michael Lalonde keeping it simple in some Whistler, BC Christmas day powder. Photo by Paul Lalonde.
Great punchy colors, crispy focus, and you know the Photographer is about to get hosed getting the shot!
Next weeks TAG Photo Contest is "PIPE," so let's see your best shots. Post 'em & Tag Them.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Yu Darvish gave the injury-riddled Texas Rangers a nice send-off on an important road trip that includes all three teams above them in the AL West standings.
The Japanese ace's first complete game in the major leagues - a shutout, no less - still can't hide a sobering reality. The Rangers are eight games behind Oakland and dangerously close to last-place Houston, a 100-loss team for three years running.
Texas just made its 20th move on the disabled list. Four first basemen are on the DL. Left-handed starter Martin Perez won't be back until sometime during the 2015 season. Matt Harrison, another lefty that was supposed to be in the rotation, may be finished for good.
Somehow the Rangers will try to find a way to gain ground starting Friday night in visits to Seattle, division-leading Oakland and the Los Angeles Angels.
''At some point, we've got to start getting blessed by the baseball gods,'' manager Ron Washington said. ''But we have to make that happen. They're not just going to come down and say, `OK, you all have been through enough misery. I'm going to take you out of it.' No, you've got to pull yourself out of your misery.''
The Rangers have actually done it once already. They started a challenging 11-game trip last month on the biggest downer of the season: news that first baseman Prince Fielder needed neck surgery and was finished for the year.
Texas took three of four from AL Central-leading Detroit and ended up winning seven games, capped by Darvish's eight shutout innings in a 2-0 win at Washington.
Fielder's replacement is the problem this time, with Mitch Moreland finally giving in to the need for surgery on an ailing left ankle. The first report was he would miss three months, but now there's a chance he could opt for a procedure that will reduce his absence to four weeks.
Regardless, the Rangers had to give Brad Snyder a crash course on playing first at Triple-A Round Rock, and he started the final two games of the last homestand. Jim Adduci figured to follow Moreland, but he rebroke his left pinkie finger near the end of a rehab assignment and will probably miss another month.
The Rangers have used 40 players, and 10 are rookies. They have a majors-leading 14 players on the DL.
''I think for a little while, the training staff was like hesitant to deliver some of this news to Wash or myself,'' general manager Jon Daniels said. ''But I think they've gotten over that unfortunately.''
With the rotation crumbling around him and the Rangers carrying an AL-worst 4.53 ERA, Darvish is on the best run of his three seasons in the majors. In his last six starts, he is 5-1 with a 1.51 ERA and 59 strikeouts in 47 2-3 innings.
''Of course I get comfort with Darvish out there,'' Washington said before the right-hander ended a four-game losing streak in a 6-0 win over Miami. ''It's not just Darvish. Darvish can go out there and pitch real well and if we don't score any runs, it won't matter.''


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The critics are getting worried. In Esquire, friend of the Slate TV Club Alex Berenson is down on this season. How down? He likens the plotting to twists from a Mad Libs book:
Newish character (Peter Quinn) is secretly a badass job (assassin) who works for agency name (the CIA, I think). While tracking Quinn, longstanding character (Saul Berenson) travels to nearby city (Philadelphia) to talk to throwaway character (Quinn's ex-girlfriend) while pretending to be an adjective noun (IRS agent)…
Salon's Willa Paskin was also unimpressed by "Two Hats": "Even though it had the most action-movie-like plot of the season, it was the season's dullest episode, with the story and the characters feinting one way to go another, yet leaving us—for now—with just the feint." Or to use another dance analogy: "This episode was like a stutter step, a flashy motion to stay in the same place."
Even Grantland's Andy Greenwald seems concerned about the direction the show's taking. He said, "Despite its adrenaline spike, 'Two Hats' reminded me that Homeland is as much a procedural as Chris Brody is a compelling character. For all the talk last night of the differences between analysts and field agents (one screws the suspects, the other sniper-rifles them, apparently), it's clear Homeland's fictional CIA has relocated its headquarters from Langley to Peyton Place." Greenwald compares Peter Quinn to a man who strode through Season 1 and then was forgotten by all but a few of his corps-mates: "They're on different sides, but [Quinn] reminds me of Tom Walker: the perfect soldier because he was willing to follow orders and pull the trigger. On Homeland, the biggest betrayer isn't Brody, it's the human heart. And I wonder if Peter Quinn might wind up on top for the sole reason that he no longer seems to be burdened with one."
The TV Club's Todd VanDerWerff admitted, "I'm starting to worry about the prospect of a 'big twist' in this season of Homeland, a story element that will turn everything on its ear and pull the rug out from under the audience." He points out that the show has placed the most wanted terrorist in the world on U.S. soil without explaining how he got there: "The general response of characters who are confronted with this question in 'Two Hats' is, 'I know! That's pretty crazy, right? But we don't have an answer just yet.' That, to me, makes me think that there is an answer, but the show isn't ready to reveal it yet." But can a character-based show like Homeland pull of a really big reveal?" I agree with another VanDerWerff assertion: "Homeland is almost always at its best when it asks us to just watch the characters interacting with each other and then consider just what they might be thinking or what they might be about to do. When it falls apart is when it tries to do too much, when it tries to provide shocking reveal after shocking reveal."
James Poniewozik of Time still has faith in Homeland's creative team, but only just: "I'm glad that more than one character had the same reaction I did to Nazir making it to the U.S.: 'How the fuck did that happen?' Still, just having characters acknowledge that a plot development is unbelievable does not make it more believable—but I'm willing to be convinced by some later explanation."
Commenter MHB corrects my suggestion that we haven't seen Carrie working her magic on female targets: "You're forgetting the season opener when her former asset Fatima said she would only talk to Carrie. Remember her speech on the roof to Saul about maybe not trusting her current Carrie instincts but the Carrie who turned Fatima years ago, that Carrie she trusted?"
Finally, a couple of people dinged the CIA for premature celebration in the Roya Haddad job. Commenter (and recent TV Club IMer) BriefWit asked: "Why did Nazir say goodbye to Brody? Was this homecoming not the big attack of the season, now foiled?" Or as Matt Zoller Seitz of Vulture put it:
The spectacular end of "Two Hats" felt like a false climax to me—a chaotic distraction from some other, nastier plot that's still gestating offscreen. … But based on what we saw last season, one-and-done attacks aren't Nazir's style. He seems to prefer a fake-out followed by a sucker punch, and I'm surprised the CIA didn't make more of this.


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Down the Rabbit Hole (and Other Underground Things that Hip-hop)—Anyone who's gone looking for jackrabbits as a kid will attest: You can't really tell you're in the thick of them until your leg is halfway down a hole. And that's largely what underground hip-hop is like in this town—insular to the point of looking nonexistent to everyone on the outside. Maybe the local hip-hop community is just bad at outreach. Maybe there's an honest-to-god, concerted effort to keep this stuff buried. Whatever it is, finding the good, underground stuff on your own can be downright impossible. But it's getting easier.
First and foremost, tune your radio to 89.9 FM on Friday nights.
Yeah, yeah, no one listens to the radio anymore. That's just part of the secret: Sometimes the good stuff is hidden in plain sight. KUNM's "Street Beat" has been a fixture in the 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. slot since the early '90s, playing the best underground hip-hop the world over, scratched up live by the best local DJs. Borrow their ears for a night and see if it doesn't open you up a little.
There are other signs of life peaking over the surface, too. One of the most encouraging glimmers are regularly scheduled hip-hop shows. Vinyl and Versus has held a monopoly on Wednesday nights for almost four years at Burt's Tiki Lounge—and if a weekly DJ/MC/B-Boy battle can hang on that long, imagine what other crazy things can take root in this desert.
Now there's Underground Uprising. Each month, hip-hop crews from all over the city—from all over the Southwest, even—are getting together at the Launchpad and seeing what happens. It's like a big science experiment ... only with microphones instead of microscopes. The fourth installation is going down this Thursday, June 21. Speed One and DJ Code Breaker will act as ringmasters while Jivin Scientists from Arizona plays off of local crews Durt E. Sol, Mantis Fist, SaintSinnerSuns, Habeas Corpses and Soul Cypher Crew. The show's even free. Now you have no excuse.


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"One of the most talented emcees I've ever heard black or white, male or female…" -Talib Kweli
2 days ago, me and Simahlak were sitting in my kitchen arguing about whether Detroit MC Invincible was miles ahead of the game or not. I had to play him "Eye of the Beholder" off of Finale & Spier 1200's Develop LP so he could witness the fitness. Invincible is hardly new to this, but she's not quite a household name like some of her Detroit peoples. This morning SweenyKovar had a post about Invincible being in Long Beach for the Detroit Takeover showcase, where she also shot a video for "Sledgehammer", the first single off of her debut album Shapeshifters, available now.
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All the ways I contribute to WTIP...
I tend to mostly host music programs (Women in Music, Monday Night Mix and Thirsty Boots, usually). I also help answer phones during membership drives.
Why I volunteer with WTIP...
I volunteer with WTIP because it is one way I can contribute to our community radio station. I love music, I love WTIP, and I love to share music with people through WTIP!
Fun fact...
I'm not related to the good Dr. Stover (I'm from Michigan), I have a twin sister and I wish I could have a pet wombat.


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|Dining Out (cont.)
Walk on in unarmed and speak with the host of the restaurant. When Niko asks about Kim, his Korean mark, the host tells Niko to go away. Ignore the left side of the restaurant—the right side of the restaurant, near the stairs leading up to the second floor is of prime interest. When you approach this area, however, the host will pull a pistol and begin firing on you. Do yourself a favor and kill him before he even pulls a gun. Naturally, either way (whether you shoot first or he does), all of his cohorts will know you're in the building as soon as the guns begin firing. So, work your way into the room with the staircase and begin firing at foes coming down the stairs. You should also attempt to thin out the enemies on the second floor before heading up there, which will make your life much, much easier once you go up there yourself.
You'll no doubt notice that the enemies here have plenty of cover to utilize, so you should use that same cover when you're being fired upon yourself. Make sure to pick of the varying weapons your enemies will drop when slain (such as Uzis and assault rifles), and work your way towards the turquoise dot on your HUD, which represents the restaurant's manager. When you bust into his office, hold a gun to him but don't fire... at least until the manager gives up Kim's location, which will show up on the HUD thereafter. Once he shows up, you'll need to work your way through the kitchen and out the back door, down some stairs (kill enemies en route if you desire). Kim will take off in a car, and you'll have to chase him and kill him. Even though there's a motorcycle nearby, you'll want to grab a car, since you can command the slow-moving car into a wall and shoot Kim to death before he gets very far. Once he's slain, the mission concludes.
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This modern affair starts with a crisp white backdrop that's beautiful all on its own but when you add in a greenery lined aisle designed by Kae and Ales, it takes understated to a new level of gorgeous. From the romantic bouquets to the Bride's stunning silk gown, this intimate celebration (only 60 of their nearest and dearest!) is a beaut from beginning to end. See the full day through the lens of Maria Lamb.
From the Bride…When initially talking about our wedding, we both had very different visions. I was the sort of bride who wanted an elopement, with minimal people watching. The thought of a large wedding made my stomach turn. Phillip's ideal wedding was a guest list exceeding 200, inviting friends from every season of life to celebrate. As we got to the details of planning, neither choice seemed to suit our desires as a couple. Because of this, we chose the things that we felt important, and scrapped the rest. The result was hand selecting our guest list with the idea that the people there, are who we would want if we had a LARGE bridal party accompanied by immediate family. This gave us a guest count of 60 people who had been with Phillip and I through every part of our relationship. With the intention of the reception feeling like an intimate dinner party, an important factor for us was a delicious menu. Our last focus was on the details, we felt less was more in the context of ceremony and decor resulting in a relaxed but well curated atmosphere.
photographer: Maria Lamb | Event Design: Kae & Ales | Event Planning: Dayna Salomon | Floral Design: Kae & Ales | Wedding Dress: Reformation | Catering: The Lamb's Table | hair: Alyssa Fitchie | Bride Shoes: Marc Fisher | Brides Ring: Shane Co. | Ceremony + Reception: Old Airplane Hangar | Getting Ready Robe: Victoria Secret | Groom Attire : J.Crew | Groom Ring: Silver Piston | Groom Shoes: Broletto | Paper Goods: Shiela Laufer | Rentals: Classic Vintage Rentals


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Hip Hops
Sweet 14
Boulder's Avery Brewing Company is probably the best argument in favor of Southwestern beer superiority. In terms of flavor, packaging and lunacy, their beers rank highly in our little pantheon of liquid love. Oak-aged barley wines? Fifteen percent alcohol by volume (ABV) stouts? Imperial Oktoberfest Lager? Every year this brewery churns out beautiful bombers that make our tender clutches quake when we spot them in reach-in refrigerators.
The Avery Anniversary Ale has run the gamut from last year's beautiful "13" Bock to the still-
The ale pours a deep mahogany color reminiscent of many great imperial reds currently en vogue on the West Coast. Bubbles abound in miniature infinities. Though they are never strong enough to form a lasting head, these little armies arise at the mildest agitation and swirl so invitingly as to desire intimate knowledge of their physics. Like lacing that makes you want to remove your trousers.
While we did at first whine that we once again were deprived the depravity of an Avery Anniversary IPA, the complexity of this beer surprised and awed us into submission. In the nose this guy is full of red fruits, spices and chocolate. The first sip is an explosion of malts that some abyss-colored stouts barely achieve and fades directly into a full-flavored dry hop finish. Dump this dude into a big glass with plenty of room for swirling and sniffing. You'll find yourself contemplating its various flavor profiles like some kind of drunken pre-Socratic.
The "14" proves no ale is too dark for summer. Find this beer; wait until sunset, slow down.


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ANDERSON, IND. – A stout defensive effort and a quick start helped Manchester University put the exclamation point on a historic 2012 season Saturday, Nov. 10.
Coach Shannon Griffith's Spartans (6-4, 6-2 Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference) limited host Anderson University (0-10, 0-8 HCAC) to 98 total yards and rolled to a 38-0 win in the annual Bronze Ball Trophy game. Manchester's offense produced 354 yards with 238 coming on the ground.
Sophomore return specialist Brice Peyton (Covington, Ind.) opened a 21-point first quarter barrage with a 67-yard punt return for a score on MU's first offensive chance. Sophomore running back Austin Adams (Dowagiac, Mich.) and junior quarterback Nick Williams (Fort Wayne, Ind.) added rushing touchdowns to close the first stanza.
The visitors weren't done moving the ball in the opening half, either. A five-yard dive from senior fullback/tight end Dante Dinkins (East Chicago, Ill.), one of two red zone scores for him, made MU four-for-four in possessions and touchdowns in the first half. The half ended with the Black and Gold going seven yards in two plays to a close a 28-0 lead.
MU did manage to add 10 more points in the second half despite Anderson's defense stiffening in the second half by forcing four punts and a fumble. Dinkins bowled in from two yards out, and senior placekicker Kyle Evans (Winamac, Ind.) drilled a 44-yard field goal to wrap up the Spartans' 38-point total.
Williams and senior wide receiver Kurt Monix (Crown Point, Ind.) led the offense. Williams rushed for an even 100 yards, while Monix hauled in a combined five receptions from Williams and freshman signal caller Logan Haston (Avon, Ind.) for 101 yards. On the defensive end of the equation, the duo of junior linebacker Zach Dashner (South Bend, Ind.) and sophomore defensive lineman Stephen Coble (Edwardsburg, Mich.) paced the shutout. Dashner registered eight tackles and a sack, while Coble proved to a thorn in the Ravens' offense's side all day with four tackles for losses and three sacks.
NOTES – The victory cinched the program's first out-right winning season since 1997. … That was also the same season that Manchester's defense registered a shutout. … Anderson leads the all-time series 45-21-1 but the Black and Gold has won four of the last five.


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First up, Blueberry Grilled Cheese. This dessert was inspired after a visit with my brother-in-law and sister-in-law. It's nothing short of AH-mazing. A smooth and light, sweet cream cheese mixture speckled with blueberries and sandwiched between two pieces of buttery pound cake. This delicious sandwich is then grilled to perfection, making the edges lightly crisp and the inside perfectly fluffy. A dessert that will make any and everyone happy.
Cookies and Cream Cake-What can I say about this cake? Um, Wow. This cake is incredible. I made it for Spencer on his birthday and I think this was definitely a hit with the birthday boy. What's not to love; moist chocolate cake with layers of pastry cream, then coated in a cookies and cream pastry cream and finished with tons of crushed Oreo cookies.
Soft banana, peanut butter, chocolate chip cookies were definitely a hit. But what's not to love about a chewy cookie that has bananas, chocolate chips and peanut butter. A crowd pleaser for all ages.
Cold Oven Pound Cake- This cake has long been a favorite of mine and my families. There's really no special, out of the norm ingredients, or even a fancy glaze. This is just a simple pound cake, baked in a non-preheated oven and comes out incredibly buttery, moist and delicious. It's true, sometimes simple is best.
Best Blueberry Muffins- These blueberry muffins truly are the best I've ever had. They are light, fluffy and moist and exploding with blueberries then topped with a streussel crumble. An absolute treat for breakfast or even a snack.
Soft Giant M&M Cookies- I can't look at these cookies and not smile. A giant cookie packed full of one of my all-time-favorite candies. It really does make me feel like a kid every time I eat one. For this particular cookie the magic truly is in the way it's prepped, not sure what it is but stacking the dough before it's baked makes for an exceptionally fluffy cookie.
Sausage Cheese Kolache- are a weakness of mine, and my families. There's just something about the sweet, fluffy bread surrounding melted cheese and spicy sausage that is truly amazing. When I came across this recipe I was in heaven. These remind me of the kolaches we enjoy from the donut shop on a regular basis. I was thrilled to find a recipe that was spot on, and that encompassed all the flavors of the ones we enjoy from the donut shop. These are perfect fresh from the oven, but store in the freezer incredibly well too.
Three Ingredient Nutella- I knew I LOVED Nutella but I had no clue how many others felt the same, exact way I did (and do) about the stuff. Wow. This recipe was posted and immediately exploded. I have a special place in my heart for Nutella so when I found a recipe that was incredibly simple that I could make myself, I was sold. I can have this chocolate, hazelnut goodness any time I want. Even better, I have control of the ingredients I use! Who knew making this deliciousness could be so easy? I didn't, but now I do and I'm so glad!
Sweet and Spicy Candied Pecans- candied pecans and almonds area one of those treats that pull me in every time I'm at a mall or carnival. I'm not quite sure what it is but I'm addicted. There's just something about that sugary sweet coating surrounding some of my favorite nuts. Since I enjoy them so much I decided to make some at home, but I added a bit of heat to them. Talk about a hit. We enjoyed them fresh out of the pan, as well as on several different main courses. I can't keep these in the house, they dissappear everytime I make them.
Sweet and Salty Cookies- These cookies were created because of my love of all things sweet and savory. I have long been a lover of this combination and I finally acted on my love for that and created these cookies. These cookies are a mixture of pretzels, dry roasted peanuts, pretzel M&M's, chocolate and salt. Yes, packed with tons of goodies and they all work together to give you a delicious cookie that is packed with flavor. It has it all; sweet, salty, crunchy and chewy. In my opinion it's the perfect cookie. Apparently many of you share this love for the sweet and savory combo, because plenty of you have been very interested in this recipe! I hope you all enjoy these cookies as much as I do.
Well, this wraps it up. These are the top 10 most popular posts of 2012. I hope you have enjoyed looking over the most popular posts of 2012 with me. It's been a journey that I have thoroughly enjoyed. My promise to you for 2013 is to deliver more sweets for you to enjoy!


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As the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on the fight over contraception and conscience in Obamacare, it's worth recalling that four years ago President Barack Obama promised elective abortion wouldn't be part of the mix. Now it is, in several ways.
In March 2010, when congressional passage of the Affordable Care Act appeared to depend on a handful of pro-life House Democrats, the president bought their support with an executive order pledging to keep elective abortion out of the program.
Pro-life skeptics said the order couldn't be counted on as a firewall against abortion. They were right. Four years later, the issue isn't whether Obamacare will include elective abortion but to what extent and at whose expense, and whether even groups with conscientious objections will have to fall in line or suffer stiff penalties.
As early as 2012, former Michigan congressman Bart Stupak, who'd led the little band of House Democrats in their negotiations with the White House, said he was "perplexed and disappointed" at the violation of the executive order — and also, he added, of "statutory law" — that had already occurred.
Stupak, who didn't seek reelection in 2010, was speaking of the so-called HHS Mandate — the Health and Human Services Department's Obamacare rule that obliges even some church-related institutions to provide employee health insurance covering abortifacient drugs, contraceptives and sterilization.
The mandate, announced by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in August 2011, treats contraception as preventive medicine. It has been modified since then but not in ways that satisfy critics, who include the U.S. bishops and other Catholic and non-Catholic religious groups.
Supporters of Obamacare and the media commonly lump together as "contraception" the various things the mandate covers — contraceptives properly so called, sterilization and abortifacient drugs. The drugs work, at least sometimes, by preventing the implantation of the embryo in the womb, a form of early abortion.
Since Sebelius first announced it, the mandate has drawn a storm of protest from religious bodies as well as some proprietors of private for-profit enterprises who object on religious grounds. More than 90 lawsuits involving some 300 plaintiffs have been brought against the rule, with lower courts more often than not deciding in the plaintiffs' favor. (Our Sunday Visitor is among these.)
The Supreme Court has so far accepted two cases in which owners of private businesses cite religious liberty as their basis for challenging the mandate. The cases will be argued next March, with the court expected to hand down its decision in June.
One case, Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., involves a chain of arts-and-crafts stores with over 15,000 employees whose owner says the business operates on Bible principles. The other case, Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Sebelius, concerns a Mennonite-owned company that makes wood cabinets. A lower court ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby while the lower court in the second case decided against Conestoga.
Now religious institutions joined those petitioning the Supreme Court for redress. On New Year's Eve, the Little Sisters of the Poor in Denver and other church groups who participate in a health care plan called the Christian Brothers Employee Benefit Trust applied for a stay of a lower court order to comply with the mandate.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued the stay and directed the Obama administration to file briefs. The government says the Little Sisters could be exempted from the mandate by signing a form saying they have religious objections and making the insurer liable for the cost of contraceptive coverage. The sisters say that would make them complicit in "the government's system to distribute and subsidize contraception."
The Little Sisters of the Poor operate nursing homes for elderly poor people in the United States and other countries. The order's Denver branch has a home for 69 residents and faces annual fines of $2.5 million, against an operating budget of $6 million, if it refuses to carry out the mandate.
As this is written, there is no way of telling how this particular case will turn out. Almost certainly, though, it or some other case involving a religious group will soon come before the full Supreme Court.
One that has gotten more attention than most because of the plaintiff's prominence involves the University of Notre Dame. After a panel of the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, also on New Year's Eve, refused the school's request for a stay of the mandate's penalties, a spokesman said it would accept the Obama administration's "accommodation" and turn over paying for contraception to its insurance carrier while continuing its fight in the courts.
In a letter to President Obama shortly before the latest developments, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, urged that, pending the outcome of the current struggle in the courts, religious groups be temporarily exempted from fines for not obeying the mandate.
Noting that the administration had granted exemptions delaying the start of Obamacare to a number of other groups, Archbishop Kurtz said the one group "left out in the cold" was those who object in conscience.
While the spotlight up to now has been on resistance to the HHS mandate, by no means is it elective abortion's only point of entry into Obamacare.
Another sore point is the difficulty in determining whether insurance plans on the new federal and state exchanges cover abortion. Those who have tried to get an answer say it's often nearly impossible in places like New York and Minnesota.
In some states, moreover, all plans cover elective abortion, although federal law supposedly requires the availability of at least one plan that doesn't. Rhode Island and Connecticut are two such states, and there appear to be others.
People who without knowing it pay a premium that includes abortion coverage they don't want are unavoidably helping to pay for someone else's abortion. Remedial legislation has been introduced in Congress but is given little chance of passage.
Pro-lifers also complain that Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider, is one of the community groups the federal and state governments have contracted with to recruit customers for the exchanges and help them navigate there. Grants in the hundreds of thousands of dollars have gone to Planned Parenthood affiliates in Iowa, Montana, New Hampshire, California, Montana and the District of Columbia.
Speaking last April to a Planned Parenthood conference, Obama declared with pride that the abortion movement's cherished right to choose abortion was part of Obamacare. In that, he spoke the truth.
Russell Shaw is an OSV contributing editor.
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