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The Nazis established killing centers for efficient mass murder. Unlike concentration camps, which served primarily as detention and labor centers, killing centers (also referred to as "extermination camps" or "death camps") were almost exclusively "death factories." German SS and police murdered nearly 2,700,000 Jews in the killing centers either by asphyxiation with poison gas or by shooting.
Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka
The first killing center was Chelmno, which opened in the Warthegau (part of Poland annexed to Germany) in December 1941. Mostly Jews, but also Roma (Gypsies), were gassed in mobile gas vans there. In 1942, in the Generalgouvernement (a territory in the interior of occupied Poland), the Nazis opened the Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka killing centers (known collectively as the Operation Reinhard camps) to systematically murder the Jews of Poland. In the Operation Reinhard killing centers, the SS and their auxiliaries killed approximately 1,526,500 Jews between March 1942 and November 1943.
Almost all of the deportees who arrived at the camps were sent immediately to death in the gas chambers (with the exception of very small numbers chosen for special work teams known as Sonderkommandos). The largest killing center was Auschwitz-Birkenau, which by spring 1943 had four gas chambers (using Zyklon B poison gas) in operation. At the height of the deportations, an average of 6,000 Jews were gassed each day at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Over a million Jews and tens of thousands of Roma, Poles, and Soviet prisoners of war were killed there by November 1944.
Though many scholars have traditionally counted the Majdanek camp as a sixth killing center, recent research had shed more light on the functions and operations at Lublin/Majdanek. Within the framework of Operation Reinhard, Majdanek primarily served to concentrate Jews whom the Germans spared temporarily for forced labor. It occasionally functioned as a killing site to murder victims who could not be killed at the Operation Reinhard killing centers: Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka II. It also contained a storage depot for property and valuables taken from the Jewish victims at the killing centers.
Disguising Mass Murder
The SS considered the killing centers top secret. To obliterate all traces of gassing operations, special prisoner units (the Sonderkommandos) were forced to remove corpses from the gas chambers and cremate them. The grounds of some killing centers were landscaped or camouflaged to disguise the murder of millions.
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- What resources and personnel were needed to plan, construct, and operate a killing center?
- Investigate how secret the use of killing centers was during the Holocaust. How and when did the outside world learn about these operations?
Further Reading
Arad, Yitzhak. Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Berenbaum, Michael, and Yisrael Gutman, editors. Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1998.
Chrostowski, Witold. Extermination Camp Treblinka. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2004.
Delin, Grant. Lebensraum: Extermination Camps of the Third Reich. London: Westzone Publishing, 2001.
Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.
Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz. Trans. Stuart Woolf. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Mendelsohn, John, editor. The "Final Solution" in the Extermination Camps and the Aftermath. New York: Garland Publishing, 1982.
Schelvis, Jules, and Bob Moore. Sobibor: A History of a Nazi Death Camp. Oxford: Berg, 2007.
Wiesel, Elie. Night. Trans. Marion Wiesel. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006.


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Professor Ken Pullig, retired chair of Jazz Composition at Berklee College of Music, will visit the Greater New York City area to lecture on Charles Mingus at three local institutions:
Monday, November 11, 2013: 12:30-2:00pm
Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts
Rehearsal Hall in Nicholas Music Center, 85 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ
Monday, November 11, 2013: 5:00-6:15pm
City College of New York
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November 12, 2013: 3:00-4:30pm — OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Manhattan School of Music
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Professor Ken Pullig taught Mingus for over a decade and brings great insight to Mingus's music and compositional technique. These lectures are not to be missed!

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Marion County Park and Lake will have its sixth annual chili cook-off from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 6 outside the lake hall.
Contestants can cook their chili in advance, Park and Lake Superintendent Steve Hudson said, but they must have two gallons of chili. There will be cash prizes and trophies for the top three competitors, a traveling trophy for the champion, and a trophy for the competitors' choice winner.
Entries are judged by the general public. The cost of admission provides a bowl and spoon to sample the chili varieties, as well as a bean used as a ballot, given to the person's choice for winner.
Last year's cook-off raised $1,163 for the lake, and the competition resulted in a tie for first place. To break the tie, someone who hadn't tasted any of the chilies did a blind taste test of the top two vote-getters.
Hudson said he would love to have 18 to 20 competitors in this year's cook-off. He has heard from a potential competitor from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, who said he planned to make chili using black bear meat.
Trailer residents have been big supporters of the cook-off ever since it was started. Hudson said it was their idea.
After the cook-off is finished, there will be a cornhole (a game similar to washers) tournament, also to benefit the lake. The first tournament was last year.


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What is ontology?
The topic of a blog in my mind, after five days at the American Geophysical Union 2013 Fall Meeting discussing Earth and space science informatics, is to give an introduction of ontology to researchers in Earth and environmental sciences and beyond.
To attract your interest, I would say that ontology is the invisible hand behind anything. (It took me a few minutes to think about whether I should add an 'an' before the 'ontology' here. For reasons see below.)
First let's see the etymology of the word 'ontology'. According to Wiktionary (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ontology), ontology is 'originally Latin ontologia (1606, Ogdoas Scholastica, by Jacob Lorhard (Lorhardus)), from Ancient Greek ὤν (ōn, "on"), present participle of εἰμί (eimi, "being, existing, essence") + λόγος (logos, "account").'
Second let's see the definition of the word. It is also interesting to see that Wiktionary claims that in philosophy the word 'ontology' can be either uncountable or countable. For the former, ontology is defined by Wiktionary as 'The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being.' This definition is more or less the same as another one done by the Oxford English Dictionary, 'The science or study of being; that branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature or essence of being or existence.' That Oxford definition was used in my PhD defense (http://www.slideshare.net/MarshallXMa/ontology-spectrum-for-geological-data-interoperability-phddefence). For the countable 'ontology', Wiktionary defines it as 'The theory of a particular philosopher or school of thought concerning the fundamental types of entity in the universe.' I had not done any work relevant to that definition yet but I just found Oxford also has a similar definition 'As a count noun: a theory or conception relating to the nature of being.'
The word metaphysics is mentioned in the definition of ontology as an unaccountable noun. In now days when people talk about metaphysics they often refer to Aristotle (384 – 322 BCE). If you (especially those who are working for a Doctor of PHILOSOPHY ;-)) are interested in his study you can read the two most famous books 1) Politics: A Treatise on Government and 2) The Ethics of Aristotle by him on the Gutenberg website (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2747). The story does not stop here. In a famous Chinese book, I Ching (or the Book of Changes, c. 450 – 250 BCE), there are also topics about metaphysics, such as a sentence which is my personal favorite: 'What is above form is called Tao; what is within form is called tool.'
The philosophical meaning of the word ontology is the background and for most cases in the domain of Earth and space science informatics we care more about another meaning of the word: ontology as a countable noun in computer science. Before discussing definition of ontology as a computer science word, let's first see how hot this word is in recent years. I did a few searches with the topic 'ontology' in isiknowledge.com (on Dec 19, 2013), which showed that there are about 44884 publications for all years, and publication numbers for separate periods are 1470/1945–1995, 1498/1995–2000, ~7901/2000–2005, ~24528/2005–2010, and ~16891/2010–2013. If I refined the results by limiting to the research area 'Computer Science', the results are: ~22251/all years, 114/1945–1995, 673/1995–2000, ~5095/2000–2005, ~14316/2005–2010, and ~5971/2010–2013. And there are a big number of publications that applied informatics and were filtered out by the keyword 'Computer Science'. From those results we can see many meanings, one is that works with the computer science 'ontology' has been increasing significantly since 2000.
For the definition of the computer science word 'ontology', many people have cited the publications of T.R. Gruber (1993, 1995, see: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/knac.1993.1008 and http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/ijhc.1995.1081): 'An ontology is an explicit specification of a conceptualization'. Middle 1990s is the golden age for discussing the definition of ontology. N. Guarino (1997, see: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/ijhc.1996.0091) made a nice review of the definition of 'ontology', in which I think one key point he discussed was the 'shared conceptualization' feature of an ontology. So in my PhD dissertation (Ma, 2011, see: http://www.itc.nl/library/papers_2011/phd/ma.pdf) I tried to re-address the definition of the computer science 'ontology': 'Ontologies in computer science are defined as shared conceptualizations of domain knowledge (Gruber, 1995; Guarino, 1997b)…'
Third, after seeing the definition of ontology, let's focus on how to put a computer science 'ontology' into practice, especially in the domain of Earth and space science informatics. Early 2000s is the golden age for that work. McGuinness (2003, see: http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/ontologies-come-of-age-mit-press-%28with-citation%29.htm) made a wonderful discussion of the ontology spectrum. McGuinness also made a footnote to that spectrum figure: 'This spectrum arose out of a conversation in preparation for an ontology panel at AAAI '99. The panelists (Gruninger, Lehman, McGuinness, Ushold, and Welty), chosen because of their years of experience in ontologies found that they encountered many forms of specifications that different people termed ontologies. McGuinness refined the picture to the one included here.' When I was doing my PhD I read this note and I tried to find a few other publications by people in the panelists listed by McGuinness, and I did find a few that also discussed the ontology spectrum, for example:
Welty, C., 2002. Ontology-driven conceptual modeling. In: Pidduck, A.B., Mylopoulos, J., Woo, C.C., Ozsu, M.T. (Eds.), Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2348. Springer-Verlag, Berlin & Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 3-3. Lecture slides available at: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/caise02/cwelty.pdf
Obrst, L., 2003. Ontologies for semantically interoperable systems. In: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, New Orleans, LA, USA, 366-369.
Uschold, M., Gruninger, M., 2004. Ontologies and semantics for seamless connectivity. SIGMOD Record 33 (4), 58–64.
Borgo, S., Guarino, N., Vieu, L., 2005. Formal ontology for semanticists. In: Lecture notes of the 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2005), Edinburgh, Scotland, 12pp. http://www.loa-cnr.it/Tutorials/ESSLLI1.pdf
An ontology spectrum (from McGuinness 2003)
To help myself understand the ontology spectrum better, I redrew the diagram (see below) in my PhD dissertation. Very recently (Dec 03, 2013) Jim McGusker, a PhD student with McGuinness, made a thorough explanation of the spectrum in his blog (see: http://info.5amsolutions.com/blog/bid/154967/6-Points-Along-the-Ontology-Spectrum).
Ontology spectrum (adapted from Borgo et al., 2005; McGuinness, 2003; Obrst, 2003; Uschold and Gruninger, 2004; Welty, 2002). Texts in italics explain a typical relationship in each ontology type (from Ma 2011)
Finally, I would like to share a few examples for different types of ontologies following the spectrum:
Neuendorf, K.K.E., Mehl, J.J.P., Jackson, J.A., 2005. Glossary of Geology, 5th edition. American Geological Institute: Alexandria, VA, USA, p. 800. See latest version at: http://www.agiweb.org/pubs/glossary/
BGS Rock Classification Scheme, see: https://www.bgs.ac.uk/bgsrcs/
AQSIQ, 1988. GB/T 9649-1988 The Terminology Classification Codes of Geology and Mineral Resources. General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of P.R. China (AQSIQ). Standards Press of China, Beijing, China. 1937 pp.
Conceptual Schema:
NADM Steering Committee, 2004. NADM Conceptual Model 1.0—A conceptual model for geologic map information: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1334, North American Geologic Map Data Model (NADM) Steering Committee, Reston, VA, USA, 58 pp. See: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1334
Ontologies encoded in RDF format:
Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology (SWEET). See: http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/
Now a short wrap up about what is ontology:
For fun: the invisible hand behind anything;
In philosophy: (uncountable) the science or study of being; that branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature or essence of being or existence; (countable) a theory or conception relating to the nature of being;
In computer science: shared conceptualization of domain knowledge.
To put ontologies (computer science) into practice, keep in mind an ontology spectrum with enriching meanings: catalog/glossary -> taxonomy -> thesaurus -> conceptual schema -> formal constraints.


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Olympic snowboarder Shaun White has chopped off his famous long locks for charity.
The flame-haired sportsman recorded the moment a barber snipped off his pony tail in a video called "It's only hair," which has been uploaded to YouTube.com.
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Bulls' Thibodeau fined $35,000 by league for criticizing officiating
CHICAGO – The NBA has fined Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau $35,000 for comments he made about the officiating following Friday's loss to the Miami Heat in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
The league announced the fine on Sunday.
Thibodeau was upset that Nazr Mohammed got ejected for shoving LeBron James to the floor and accused the Heat's superstar of flopping. He also said calls weren't going to go the Bulls' way.
The Heat won the game to go up 2-1 in the series. Game 4 is Monday at the United Center.


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[[ This is meant to be a generalized intro to the city's major story so far. Think of it as when you start up a video game when you learn the back story for a RPG. I picture this with sketches of respective scenes, but it's just a general overview on my take as a writer of what happened and where we are. This doesn't include a lot of 'really' past details, as I was shooting for more recent history. ]]
This is Ravenblack City. Where it was born, how it came to be, and what makes this city different are all questions we've never had the answer too. Some think it started as a shadow-city of London from when we thought the world was flat, some think further back to the times of the Roman Empire built by those who were slaves in ideas more then stone, and some further back then that to a time when we didn't have cities, but groups who lived as a community in forests and the edge of deserts, made by those of a vampiric nature when we, the vampires, needed a place to meet. Now days it is everywhere and no where. People from across the world have found their way here from streets that don't really exist. Yet it's not a moving city, it just simply is everywhere and no where at the same time.
The inhabitants have a long past of wars fought until they could not fight anymore and rest over took them. They slept for weeks and then rose only to rise to battle once more. Abandoned by who ever created them they banded together, made other vampires, and went to war over petty things against each other not for land, money, or slaves but for slights or glory. That changed when a group of rogues who had a new view came into the light. They did not rest, they kept going, and they took their blood being drained over and over as a near religious experience. That was the start of the change, it was the start of a new way of thinking, of being. And then they were gone, extinguished and ground to dust, by those of the old way, even if their ideas didn't die.
Years later we find ourselves here. The leader of the strongest group of vampires for a long time now has run off with a man thought below her position. Those who stepped up to fill that gap have failed and fallen to shadows to hide their shame, and in the place is a new power. A group of vampires who believe in the new ways, who do not rest, who are beaten upon again and again and they do not stop. Yet they do not hold the same values as their predecessors who were not violent for their own well being. They are violent, they are blood thirsty, and they are the new order.
You, young as you are, can make or break this world. Choose your side, choose your sire, and write the future of this city in blood or peace.


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Mark Driscoll: Gas-Guzzlers a Mark of Masculinity
One of us was in Seattle this past weekend to speak at a meeting of biblical scholars. The subject:Evangelicals and the Environment. Seattle was stunningly beautiful, with ample sunshine, clear skies, and an occasional happy breeze. Having grown up in nearby Tacoma, seeing majestic Mount Rainier for the first time in a long while brought back memories of this silent guardian from childhood.
Alas, while it was sunny in Seattle, it was theologically cloudy in Dallas, where one of Seattle's famous residents — young, hip pastor, Mark Driscoll — was speaking at a major evangelical conference: Catalyst. By many accounts on Twitter and in the blogosphere (see Nate Pyle's blog), Driscoll said:
"I know who made the environment. He's coming back and he's going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV."
And after presenting his driving credentials, Rev. Driscoll reportedly added:
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Tom and Dee Duggan went to Topeka Oct. 2 through 4 to attend meetings of the Silver-Haired Legislature. Sunflower Senior Citizens met Oct. 9 at the café for dinner, then went to the senior center for dessert and their monthly meeting with the Duggans as hosts. Tom Duggan shared information that the Silver-Haired Legislature will present to the state legislature. Cassie Clemmer told about services she offers at Jim's Salon on Main Street and answered questions. Her father, Dale Clemmer, and her sons, Christian and Connor Carter, accompanied her. The boys sang several songs. Those present included Betty Mueller, Raymond and Janet Bielefeld, Leo and Sue Yanda, Edna Backhus, Phyllis Mueller, Tillie Hein, Connie McMahon, Ramona Beisel, Lucille Kerbs, and Jane Vajnar.
Anna Weber and her parents, Ronnie and Lisa Hanschu, were among senior volleyball players and parents honored Oct. 9 at Parents' Night at Centre.
Jane Vajnar visited Leona Kleiber on Oct. 9.
Frank and Anna Mae Stika, Lori Moldenhauer, and others attended Centre High School homecoming festivities Oct. 5. Justin Deines and Beka Basore were crowned homecoming king and queen. Attendants were Anna Weber, Carrie Carlson, Houston Svoboda, and James Wyatt.
David Hall of Columbus, Ohio, spent the weekend with Tom and Dee Duggan. Deb Hall of Herington joined them on Oct. 8 when they visited Eisenhower Museum in Abilene. David stopped at Lee's Summit, Mo., to visit Darla Hall.
Glenn Kerbs of Dodge City spent the weekend with his mother, Lucille Kerbs. They ate Sunday dinner in Hillsboro.
Becky Routh and Danielle of Augusta, Terry and Cindy Vinduska of Marion, Daniel and Melissa Stuchlik, Tanner and Allie of Pilsen, and Adeline Bernhardt came to Leona Kleiber's home Oct. 7 to celebrate her birthday, which was Oct. 1. The Rouths and Vinduskas brought birthday cakes, ice cream, and brownies. The guests watched Leona open her gifts. Some family members were unable to come but Leona enjoyed many birthday greetings by phone.
Frank and Anna Mae Stika and Lori Moldenhauer attended Octoberfest on Oct. 6 in Lincolnville. They saw a number of family members at the James Weber Memorial Softball Tournament.
Lynn and Peggy Kleiber of Salina visited his mother, Leona Kleiber, on Oct. 6 since they were unable to attend her party on Sunday.
The Lutheran Women's Missionary League met Oct. 4 at St. John's Lutheran Church with Adeline Bernhardt as hostess. Pastor Clark Davis led the Bible study. Joyce Medley gave opening and closing devotions. Others present were Leona Kleiber, Betty Mueller, Kathy Davis, and Janet Bielefeld.


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Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Judicial Grandstanding
Gerard N. Magliocca
In response to the President's comments about the Affordable Care Act yesterday, Judge Smith of the Fifth Circuit decided to beat up a lawyer for the Government. From this story by Jan Crawford:
Gerard, stop beating a dead horse. Clearly Obama is not challenging judicial review, which as you know is not specifically provided for in Article III or the rest of the Constitution as amended to date. What we don't know is Obama's view on judicial supremacy over the Executive and Legislative branches of the federal government. And you should be aware that neither Article III nor any other portion of the Constitution as amended to date specifically provides for such judicial supremacy. And there is a distinction between the Court declaring a law unconstitutional and striking/enforcing its decision. Perhaps Judge Smith is a little long in the tooth what with having been appointed by Reagan. As to Judge Smith being unelected, I'm reminded of the comment of a Suffolk County (MA) Probate Judge who in open court back in the late 1950s pointed out that all a judge is is a lawyer who "knew a governor." This applies at the federal level as well (substituting President for governor).
"The panel ordered the Justice Department to submit a three-page, single-spaced letter by noon Thursday addressing whether the Executive Branch believes courts have such power, the lawyer said."
No comment yet if they want-- Dixie Chicks' "Not Ready to Make Nice" video like -- Obama to write "Federal judges have the power of judicial review" 200x on a blackboard.
It's okay though -- it's not the 9th Cir., so grandstanding is not a concern.
The President's point was fairly clear though re-reading what he said, he said it in a somewhat artless way. Given some of the artless questions from the justices, I think we are in "throw the first stone" territory.
I'm pretty sure that Judge Smith is not, in fact, unclear about whether the President believes in judicial review. Everybody should take a deep breath and count to ten.
Is there some evidence Mr. Obama does believe in judicial review and reversal of any of his policies or those he supports, or indeed whether he even believes in the rule of law?
See, e.g., "stuffing the judge" (the words of the administration) in the bankruptcy court to order a normally illegal sub rosa sale of GM and Chrylser assets owned by secured creditors to government created corporations; the Auto Team terminating dealership contracts to avoid state law franchisee protections, the Pay Czar setting bank employee pay, HHS applying Obamacare regs to penalize program opponents and waving regs for unions and other supporters.
There is far more of the ACORN trainer of Alinksy power principles than of an adjunct professor of constitutional law in this President.
The "please prove you're not a robot" gadget isn't blocking "Bart DePalma," so it seems pretty ineffective.
Oral Argument, starting at 18:00 mark.
SMITH, J.: Let me ask you something a little bit more basic. Does the DOJ recognize that federal courts have the authority in appropriate circumstances to strike federal statutes because of one or more constitutional infirmities.
A: Yes your honor, of course, there will have to be a severability analysis.
Q: I am referring to the statements by the President from the past few days, to the effect .. . I'm sure you've heard about it, that it's somehow inappropriate for what he termed "unelected judges" to strike acts of Congress that have enjoyed . . . what he termed broad consensus and majorities in both houses of Congress. That has troubled a number of people who have read it as somehow a challenge to the federal courts or to their authority, or to the appropriatness of the concept of judicial review. And that's not a small matter. I want to make sure that you are telling us, and that the DOJ do recognize the authority of the federal courts through unelected judges to strike acts of congress or portions thereof in appropirate cases.
A: Marbury v. Madison is the law . . .
Q: Okay, well I would like to have from you by noon on Thursday, about 48 hours from now, a letter stating what is the position of the AG and the DOJ in regard to the recent statement by the President, stating specifically and in detail, in refenreces to those statements, what the authority is of the federal courts in this regard in terms of judicial review. That letter needs to be at least three pages, single spaced, no less, and it needs to be specific. It needs to make specific reference to the President's statement and the position of the AG and the DOJ.
[very long pause]
A: Okay, and that's our position regarding judicial review?
Q: Judicial review as it relates to the specific statements of the president in regard to Obamacare and the authority of the courts to review that legislation.
A: Yes, your honor.
This is not the first time the judiciary has asked this administration for explanations of its legally questionable political positions.
Several judges asked for explanations of how DOJ squared simultaneously enforcing but not defending DOMA.
The 9th Circuit demanded an explanation of DOJs willy nilly prosecutorial discretion policy towards illegal aliens.
5th Circuit probably remembers how the Interior Department jerked around its district Judge Fletcher on the Gulf drilling moratorium until it was held in contempt.
Somehow I'm not holding my breath waiting for you to apply the same standard to the previous administration.
I didn't know there was a standard for judicial questions.
I recall the Bush administration crossing swords with a number of courts over the extent of his CiC powers, but no attacks on the Supreme Court's competence, even after that awful Boumediene decision.
Even Bush was not that dumb.
Our yodeler and I had dueling comments on a much earlier thread about the lack of specificity in the Constitution regarding both judicial review and judicial supremacy over the Executive and Legislative branches of the federal government. As I recall, he seemed to agree there was not such specificity and raised questions concerning the validity of judicial supremacy, even proposing a cockamamie amendment. I'm an old geezer like Judge Smith, long in the tooth, so can someone find this in the archives?
That Bush did not comment after the Boumediene decision may have been because Bush/Cheney had been caught with their habeas corpused. Perhaps this failure was attributable to Cheney as ventriloquist.
Perhaps our yodeler can cite what Obama said that constitutes, according to our yodeler, our resident economics expert, an attack on the Court's competence before the Court has made its decision on the ACA appeals.
I agree that judicial review is an implied and not an express power. While we can and do debate the scope of that power, I do not question that interpretation of the law was at that time and remains a basic judicial function.
Here, I am simply questioning the common sense of a President picking a fight with the Supreme Court as it decides the constitutionality of his signature legislation. You don't hold any cards in that game.
Shifting ground, straw men, pretending the question was something else. Perhaps such tricks help get drunk drivers off the hook; I wouldn't know.
Shag: Perhaps our yodeler can cite what Obama said that constitutes, according to our yodeler, our resident economics expert, an attack on the Court's competence before the Court has made its decision on the ACA appeals.
Did you listen or read the transcript? Here is the money quote:
With respect to health care, I'm actually -- continue to be confident that the Supreme Court will uphold the law. And the reason is because, in accordance with precedent out there, it's constitutional. That's not just my opinion, by the way; that's the opinion of legal experts across the ideological spectrum, including two very conservative appellate court justices that said this wasn't even a close case.
Not even a close case?
After the Justices eviscerated his Solicitor General, Obama just told Kennedy and the rest of the Court majority that their rather detailed concerns were not shared by "legal experts across the ideological spectrum" and that the government has a slam dunk case.
This is typical Obama street rhetoric, attacking the motives and competence of his political opponents. However, the Supreme Court is not an opponent in a Chicago alderman campaign, but rather is a co-equal branch of government that guards its prerogatives rather jealously.
If the Supremes had forgotten Obama's misrepresentation of their holding in Citizens United in an attempt to publicly embarrass them during his SOTU speech, this latest attack will certainly refresh their memories.
For a man who was pitched as the smartest President of our lifetimes, Obama is making a series of unforced errors that a Harvard 1L would know to avoid.
Professor Magliocca,
First of all, geez, what is wrong with that guy?
Secondly, in the intervening years (about 5 now) since I took your class, let this very liberal former law student thank you for the manner and way you taught our class.
Maybe, Judge Smith should have audited our conversation where you told me to stop hyperventilating over signing statements by a President I didn't like.
At any rate, never did get to say thanks...
aww, cmon. doesn't a teeny weeny part of you want to say to the originalists: hey theres no actual mention of judicial review in the Constitution. In Marbury v Madison you made this up. seriously. April Fools!
I could see judges raising the President's statement in cases where the administration is asking the courts to strike down a federal statute (say DOMA). I would certainly like to know if DOJ thinks that courts should consider whether a law passed with "strong majorities" and, if so, whether they should also consider evidence such as the results of subsequent elections, subsequent legislative actions (such the House voting to repeal Obamacare and congressional attempts to repeal DOMA), views of state and local elected governments (like the 26 states challenging Obamacare and those that have taken actions for or against recognition of gay marriage), popular referenda and polling data. Somehow I suspect DOJ's position will be that the courts should pay attention to this information if and only if it supports the outcome it favors, but it would be fun to see how it threads that needle.
In the context of this case, however, Judge Smith just sounds like he is resentful of the President's remarks. Its hard to see how his assignment to DOJ serves any purpose other than expressing that resentment .
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Does not bother me at all how we keep trying to rethink our Constitution.. if the judicial system would ever work in our favor this Country would be FREE AGAIN!!
Despite our yodeler's efforts, he fails in his attempt to respond to me to demonstrate that what Obama said " ... constitutes ... an attack on the Court's competence before the Court has made its decision on the ACA appeals."
As for Obama's criticism of the Court's 5-4 decision in Citizens United, what has resulted since then with Super Pacs et al demonstrates the folly of that political decision.
Maybe our yodeler should stick to his expertise as an economist. It's clear he wasn't an English major based upon his spin on what he describes as the "money quote" as our yodeler begs for "spare change."
Perhaps you are right. Maybe our law school professor president was simply acting out of comprehensive ignorance of constitutional law rather than partisan malice:
Better to stay silent and let people wonder if you are ignorant than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
The Obama Administration has written briefs etc. to explain why sexual orientation should be a suspect class, which provides a special situation where majority will is not as compelling as economic regulation, which in follow-up remarks Obama underlined was his concern here. Don't know if this will satisfy mls' interest.
Our yodeler sets his own trap with this:
"Better to stay silent and let people wonder if you are ignorant than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Permit me to rephrase our yodeler's:
"Maybe our law school professor president was simply acting out of comprehensive ignorance of constitutional law rather than partisan malice:"
and apply it to him:
"Maybe our yodeler simply acts out of comprehensive ignorance of constitutional law AND partisan malice." [And stick to his expertise as an economist.]
I guess the judicial right follows George W. Bush's motto. They don't do nuance. Questioning the propriety of the court striking down a law in a particular case does not equate with questioning their right to review statutes in every case.
Keep up the sanity my conservative brethren!
Better to stay silent and let people wonder if you are ignorant than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
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Start with good organic, unsalted butter—cheaper brands often contain more water, yielding less ghee. Other tips: Use a heavy-bottomed saucepan, deep enough to allow for some bubbling and foaming. While the butter melts and cooks uncovered over medium heat, check its progress every couple of minutes—in a moment of inattention, ghee can burn.
In the meantime, prepare your tools: Line a strainer with several layers of cheesecloth. Sanitize and dry your containers, using glass or ceramic with lids. A pound of butter will yield around 12 fluid ounces of ghee.
As it heats and the water cooks off, the ghee-to-be will make crackling and popping noises. First, you'll see foam rise to the top, and then solids will settle to the bottom of the pan and turn dark. Eventually, the popping will stop, and the ghee will begin to turn golden and fragrant. Turn off the heat and let the ghee cool for 15-20 minutes.
Next, strain the ghee into prepared jars. See all the gunk accumulating in the strainer? Discard it (and be glad it won't be collecting in your arteries and tissues). Don't cover the ghee while it's cooling. Pure ghee keeps indefinitely, but even a drop of water (from condensation) can cause spoilage. If you like, you can put a paper towel or cheesecloth over the top of the jar to protect the ghee until it is completely cool.
Ghee is well known for its health and spiritual benefits.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A complaint from an animal advocacy group triggered a surprise inspection Thursday at the Topeka Zoo.
Zoo director Brendan Wiley said Friday that inspectors from the USDA met with zoo officials and staff, focusing on the elephant exhibit. He says the California-based group In Defense of Animals filed a complaint with the USDA Sept. 21, saying the zoo's two elephants, Tembo and Sunda, are not compatible and should not be housed together.
In Defense of Animals led recent efforts to have the elephants taken out of the zoo and moved to a sanctuary. The debate culminated in a vote from the Topeka City Council this week to support the decision of zoo officials, which is to keep the elephants and make improvements to the exhibit.
Wiley says the USDA issued no report at the end of the visit and did not indicate when they might make a response. He says about half of Thursday's inspection focused on the planned improvements for the zoo's elephant program.
Wiley points out the USDA is obligated to follow up on every complaint it receives.
The city is currently appealing a citation stemming from a late-August inspection that the zoo violated the Animal Welfare Act in its care of the elephants.
Wiley says the zoo has seen eight different USDA inspectors during 10 different inspections over the past three years. He says a zoo would normally see three to four inspections with one to three different inspectors over that time frame.
"Our relationship with our inspectors is really good. Every inspection is an opportunity to learn and to share," said Zoo Director, Brendan Wiley. "Our concern is how do we get our past to stay in the past in the eyes of our regulators? This is our challenge. Our goal is to be the model that the USDA wants other zoos to follow."
Additional background from the Topeka Zoo:
By the end of 2009, the zoo had found itself in rocky territory with both its regulatory agency, the USDA, and its accrediting agency, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. After a special inspection by AZA in 2009, dramatic management changes were made at the zoo. In June of 2010, the zoo learned the USDA was investigating non-compliant items going back to 2006. In December of 2011, the zoo received the official complaint based on that investigation and as of yet has not been able to reach an understanding with the regulatory agency.


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PARIS � The body of a 33-year-old black male was found in the front yard of a house on North Fifth Street near Paris on Tuesday, according to the Logan County Sheriff's Department.
PARIS � The body of a 33-year-old black male was found in the front yard of a house on North Fifth Street near Paris on Tuesday, according to the Logan County Sheriff�s Department.
Joseph Stapleton of Paris suffered multiple �points of trauma� to his head and torso, according to Sheriff Department�s Chief Investigator Deputy Ray Gack. Gack refused to say what caused the trauma but added �there were several shell casings� located around the body and that a nearby resident reported hearing �some gunfire, multiple rounds being fired� Monday evening.
�We do have some leads and we�re following up on them as we speak,� Sheriff Steve Smith said. �I�d say the leads are promising, and I think they can lead us to something.�
Stapleton lived in the home with his father, who is hospitalized, Gack said.
The body was sent to the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory on Wednesday morning for an autopsy, Gack said.
�We�re treating this as a homicide until we know something different,� he said.
Gack said an individual came to the house around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday to feed animals, discovered the body and called 911. Once deputies arrived, Gack said they secured the area and awaited a search warrant.
There was no sign of forced entry into the residence, which sits near the dead end of a dirt road, Gack said.
Gack asked that anyone having information about the case call the Logan County Sheriff�s Department at (479) 963-3271.


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New Tennessee Titans coach Ken Whisenhunt has hired San Diego Chargers tight ends coach Jason Michael as his offensive coordinator.
Michael, 35, worked with Whisenhunt on the Chargers' offense during the 2013 season.
"Jason really impresses me with his knowledge of the run and pass game and he was a big part of putting together our plans last year in San Diego," Whisenhunt explained in a statement issued by the Titans. "He is very familiar with the offensive system that we want to implement here, which includes bits and pieces from a number of offensive systems.
"He is intelligent and a good communicator," Whisenhunt added. "He was responsible for presenting a couple of game-plan packages to our offense each week and he was impressive."
Michael has collected eight years of NFL coaching experience with the Oakland Raiders, New York Jets, San Francisco 49ers and Chargers after leading Western Kentucky to the 2002 NCAA I-AA (now FCS) championship as a star quarterback.
Although Michael will direct daily meetings and oversee the offense, this is still Whisenhunt's scheme. The latter will retain play-calling duties.
Whisenhunt has yet to hire a defensive coordinator. NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport has reported that Pittsburgh Steelers linebackers coach Keith Butler is the top choice, with former Cleveland Browns defensive coordinator Ray Horton as the fallback option.
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$5,000 minimum set for motel sale
Although it stands to lose as much as $30,000 in back taxes on the property, Marion County will require a minimum bid of only $5,000 when a former Florence motel is auctioned off at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Courthouse.
Commissioner Dan Holub and Economic Development Director Teresa Huffman expressed concern about what they regarded as a low minimum bid.
"I fear someone will come in if it's very low and make another storage unit," Huffman said. "We need the bed space."
If the building were converted into storage, Huffman said, it will quickly become "a nothing building."
Florence "has too much of that," Holub said, adding that he thought the motel was a "viable concern."
"If that wind farm thing goes, we might be able to fill it up," he said.
However, Commissioner Roger Fleming said, "I for one don't want the county involved."
Chairman Roger Dallke added: "The City of Marion has projects here that have gone awry. I'd rather take the bird in hand."
The commission voted 2-1, with Holub opposed, to set $5,000 as the minimum.
Student loan program
In other business Monday, the commission heard from a Kansas Department of Commerce official that Marion County has one of the state's longest waiting lists for a program that repays up to $15,000 in student loans for graduates who relocate to rural areas.
The county shares the cost with the state. A new provision allows employers to put up the local share of the cost.
In all, 24 applications have been approved in Marion County, but the county contributes only $3,000, enough to cover just two applicants.
"Marion is in a sweet spot between Wichita and Kansas City," said Renee Lippencott, regional project manager with the Department of Commerce. "You need to embrace your centralness."
The program applies not just to college graduates but also to technical school graduates.
"You are one of the counties that's losing population," Lippencott said. "If you let things stay the same, change will happen. You will have to decide whether its degradation or improvement."
Fireworks at lake
Commissioners also approved plans by United Steel Workers union members from Agco Corp. in Hillsboro to put on a professionally managed fireworks show Sept. 1 at Marion County Park and Lake.
Diana Williams of Canada said union members from throughout the state would have their Labor Day weekend meeting at the lake — in part so that Wichita-based members would understand that Marion County has more than just an algae-tainted reservoir to offer.


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Four nonprofit groups requested a total of $120,000, an increase of $19,304 from the previous year, from New Bern aldermen Tuesday night.
Four nonprofit groups requested a total of $120,000, an increase of $19,304 from the previous year, from New Bern aldermen Tuesday night.
The budget requests for 2013-14 came from the Craven Arts Council, asking for $10,000, which is up from a current budget of $4,123; the Duffyfield Residents Council asking for $10,000, what it received last year; the Friends of the Firemen�s Museum, asking for $50,000, compared to a current budget of $41,225; and Swiss Bear, asking for $50,000, compared to a current budget of $45,348.
After the requests, aldermen briefly discussed whether to change the city manager�s preliminary budget to include the increases, but decided to wait and think it over until a work session next month.
Carol Tokarski, executive director of Craven Arts Council, gave aldermen an update on the Arts Council activities, from establishing a website to the many projects it is involved in like the Empty Bowls fundraiser to the Craven Arts Festival and Arts Walks.
The Arts Council has a $240,000 budget, but had only $3,000 in reserves last year, the second lowest in 10 years, because of increased expenses, Tokarski said.
The additional funding needed this year would help provide a new full-time position. The Arts Council received two Main Streets Solution grants, totaling $50,000 to renovate and expand its Middle Street gallery and offices.
Bill Frederick, chairman of the Friends of the Firemen�s Museum, said work continues on the renovation of the old firehouse that is city owned and being overseen by volunteers. At some point, Frederick said he hoped the museum would be self-sufficient through its tours, but it would take about $200,000 to complete the renovations, which would include an elevator and new roof.
Alderman Deny Bucher said the city has held the Barbecue and Blue Jeans Fundraiser for about 10 years to help pay for the museum, and Frederick said they have also been able to get grants.
�This is much more of a massive job than I thought it would ever be,� Frederick said.
Alderman Victor Taylor said he supported the museum, but would like to see more African-Americans recognized.
Alderman Sabrina Bengel said there would be a life-sized photograph of Thomas White, the only African-American firefighter photograph they could find from the past, and there will be an interactive display that will show how African-American citizens were displaced after the massive 1922 fire in New Bern that spread predominately through the African-American community.
Frederick said if anyone had photographs or information about African-American firefighters in New Bern when the old fire station was active, they would like to know about them.
Susan Moffat-Thomas, executive director of Swiss Bear Downtown Development Corp. that organizes the annual Mumfest, said the organization has worked closely with the city for more than 30 years on fundraisers and planning projects and looked forward to the Gateway Renaissance plan and the revitalization of Five Points, something the organization has been working toward for years.
Moffat-Thomas said she believed New Bern was involved in one of the largest revitalization movements in the state and was the envy of the state.
�It is very exciting to be part of something so exciting,� she said.
Bob Mattocks, chairman of the Swiss Bear executive board, and Cindy Turco, a member of the executive board, also spoke in praise of the city�s support of the years and the contributions Swiss Bear makes to the city.
Jamara Wallace, chairman of the Duffyfield Residents Council, said that nonprofit was making a difference in the lives of residents in the community with DUFFEST, which attracted more than 4,000 residents and visitors last May; a National Night Out program with the largest attendance in the city; homeowner workshops that teach people about purchasing a home or becoming a landlord; and the growing community garden, trying to instill healthier attitudes.
The money the council is requesting will go toward Residents Council activities, which include further improvement of the community garden and increasing the educational components and citywide participation in DUFFEST and National Night Out activities.
Bengel asked if the Duffyfield Residents Council was going to provide a budget showing where all the money goes. The city manager said one was provided to him by Taylor.
Wallace said a lot of volunteering and in-kind services are provided to offset costs.
But Bucher said they should think about a big fundraiser, like the annual Shriners barbecue. Mayor Lee Bettis said they should have an arugula festival since they grow it in the community garden. He was keen on the idea, saying they could rival the Mumfest.
�Do you know what those things cost?� he said.
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- A ship carrying about 300 people and tons of merchandise wrecks in the Congo River
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Searchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday looked for about 100 people still missing from a shipwreck that more than 200 people survived and in which nine are confirmed dead.
The boat sank around 9:30 p.m. local time (3:30 p.m. ET) Friday along the Congo River near Maluku, which is part of the capital city of Kinshasa in the western part of the central African nation, according to a United Nations radio report.
The vessel -- the MB Mobek, which was early into its route and was carrying several tons of merchandise -- went down after striking an obstacle.
Maluku Mayor Papy Epiana told UN Radio on Sunday that authorities don't have a copy of the ship's manifest "because we haven't seen the general or the commander." But they believe about 100 people are missing, while more than 200 survived.
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Dialed In, who banked $600,000 for his last-to-first victory in Sunday's Grade I, $1 million Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park, jumped from No. 17 to No. 2 on the Kentucky Derby 137 Graded Stakes Earnings List, and longshot runner-up Shackleford is positioned at No. 20. The list will likely determine the field for the "Run for the Roses" on Saturday, May 7 at Churchill Downs.
Uncle Mo remains the Kentucky Derby favorite and leads the way with $1.26 million in graded stakes earnings. He'll continue his march toward Churchill Downs with a final prep race in Saturday's Grade I, $1 million Resorts World New York Casino Wood Memorial at Aqueduct. After Dialed In ($840,000), the Top 5 is rounded out by Louisiana Derby winner Pants On Fire ($623,000), Arkansas Derby hopeful J P's Gusto ($541,500) and Soldat ($540,000), who finished a distant fifth in the Florida Derby.
Shackleford, who was the longest shot in the Florida Derby at odds of 68-1, entered the Kentucky Derby picture with a $200,000 second-place check which raised his graded stakes earnings to $212,000. That places him at No. 20, although the connections of No. 6 Comma to the Top have stated they have no intentions of running in the Kentucky Derby (Note: Track officials opted to keep Comma to the Top on the list this week until the result of Saturday's Santa Anita Derby).
"We'll see how everything shakes down and if the $212,000 will be good enough to get in," Shackleford's trainer Dale Romans said Monday. "We won't run him again. He'll be pointed to the Derby and if doesn't get in we'll give the (May 21) Preakness a try."
With less than five weeks before Kentucky Derby 137, the list remains influx. No. 5 Soldat, No. 10 To Honor and Serve and No. 15 Stay Thirsty failed to post serious threats in the Florida Derby and their future plans were not known at press time. No. 7Master of Hounds, based in Ireland, remains a possible Derby starter but could remain overseas for the European classics. A final Derby decision about No. 12 Animal Kingdom, who has raced exclusively on turf and synthetic surfaces, won't be made until the colt has a workout over Churchill Downs' dirt oval. No. 13 Astrology's plans haven't been finalized either. And 10 open graded stakes races for 3-year-olds remain to be run with plenty of money up for grabs.
In addition to the Wood Memorial, this weekend's races include Grade I, $1 millionSanta Anita Derby (1 1/8 miles) and Grade III, $300,000 TVG Illinois Derby (1 1/8 miles). Also, the Grade III, $100,000 Transylvania will be run Friday on opening day at Keeneland over 1 1/16 miles on turf and the Grade III, $200,000 Bay Shore, a seven-furlong sprint, is set for Saturday at Aqueduct, although neither is expected to produce a Derby starter.
The $2 million guaranteed Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (Grade I) has been restricted to 20 starters since 1975. Graded stakes earnings accumulated in races on the "Road to the Kentucky Derby" have determined the field for the 1 ¼-mile classic since 1986.
The Kentucky Derby 137 Graded Stakes Earnings List only includes active 3-year-olds that were made eligible to the Triple Crown. Also, their connections have suggested that they're considering a run in the 1 ¼-mile classic.
Twenty horses have entered the Derby every year since 2004, and 10 of the last 12 years. The 20th and final spot in the starting gate – a.k.a. "the bubble" horse – has varied year to year. Last year, it took a record $218,750 for eventual fourth-place finisherMake Music for Me to make the field. In 2009, it took only $55,500 for Nowhere to Hide to complete the 20-horse lineup. Over the last five years, the final horse to make the field has earned an average of $130,450 in graded stakes races.
Here's the official Kentucky Derby 137 Graded Stakes Earnings Top 30 through April 3 (with last week's ranking on the Graded Stakes Earnings List plus graded stakes earnings, the trainer of the horse and their likely next start):
Rank (Last Week) Horse, Graded Stakes Earnings, Trainer (Possible Next Race)
- (1.) Uncle Mo, $1,260,000, Todd Pletcher (April 9 Wood Memorial)
2. (17.) Dialed In, $840,000, Nick Zito (May 7 Kentucky Derby)
3. (2.) Pants On Fire, $623,000, Kelly Breen (May 7 Kentucky Derby)
4. (3.) J P's Gusto, $541,500, Joe Petalino (April 16 Arkansas Derby)
5. (4.) Soldat, $540,000, Kiaran McLaughlin (TBD)
- (5.) Comma to the Top, $471,000, Peter Miller (April 9 Santa Anita Derby but May 7 Kentucky Derby doubtful)
7. (6.) Master of Hounds, $441,884, Aidan O'Brien (May 7 Kentucky Derby or European classics)
8. (7.) Twice the Appeal, $400,000, Jeff Bonde (May 7 Kentucky Derby)
9. (8.) Mucho Macho Man, $370,000, Kathy Ritvo (May 7 Kentucky Derby)
10. (14.) To Honor and Serve, $350,000 Bill Mott (TBD)
11. (9.) Decisive Moment, $301,000, Juan Arias (May 7 Kentucky Derby)
12. (10.) Animal Kingdom, $285,000, Graham Motion (final decision on May 7 Kentucky Derby after work over dirt)
13. (11.) Astrology, $281,893, Steve Asmussen (TBD)
14. (12.) The Factor, $270,000, Bob Baffert (April 16 Arkansas Derby)
15. (13.) Stay Thirsty, $260,000, Todd Pletcher (TBD)
16. (14.) Jaycito, $250,000, Bob Baffert (April 9 Santa Anita Derby)
17. (16.) Santiva, $240,254, Eddie Kenneally (April 16 Toyota Blue Grass)
18. (17.) Watch Me Go, $232,500 Kathleen O'Connell (April 9 Illinois Derby or April 16 Arkansas Derby)
19. (19.) Premier Pegasus, $228,000, Myung Kwon Cho (April 9 Santa Anita Derby)
20. (55.) Shackleford, $212,000, Dale Romans (May 7 Kentucky Derby or May 21 Preakness)
21. (20.) Nehro, $200,000, Steve Asmussen (April 16 Arkansas Derby)
22. (21.) Archarcharch, $180,000, Jinks Fires (April 16 Arkansas Derby)
23. (22.) Anthony's Cross, $162,000, Eoin Harty (April 9 Santa Anita Derby)
24. (23.) Brethren, $155,000, Todd Pletcher (April 16 Arkansas Derby)
25. (27.) Flashpoint, $140,000, Rick Dutrow Jr. (TBD)
26. (24.) Willcox Inn, $139,000, Mike Stidham (April 16 Toyota Blue Grass)
27. (25.) Silver Medallion, $124,334, Steve Asmussen (April 9 Santa Anita Derby)
28. (40.) Travelin Man, $120,000, Todd Pletcher (April 30 The Cliff's Edge Derby Trial)
29. (26.) Ruler On Ice, $96,000, Kelly Breen (April 30 The Cliff's Edge Derby Trial)
30. (27.) Joes Blazing Aaron, $90,000, Mike Maker (April 16 Toyota Blue Grass)
The following is a list of "known" possible fields for upcoming Kentucky Derby prep races, based on published reports and other sources, as of the morning of Monday, April 4:
TRANSYLVANIA: Grade III, $100,000 Transylvania (1 1/16 miles on turf at Keeneland on Friday, April 8). Likely: Air Support, Barrington Road, Great Mills, Legendary King, Lil Bit 'O Fun, Memen-IRE, Pluck (main goal is the French or Irish Guineas) and Ronin Dax (now trained by Dave Vance).
SANTA ANITA DERBY: Grade I, $1 million Santa Anita Derby (1 1/8 miles at Santa Anita on Saturday, April 9). Likely: Anthony's Cross, Bench Points, Celestic Night,Comma to the Top (no plans to run in Kentucky Derby), Indian Winter, Jaycito(Baffert said he's likely going to put blinkers back on), Mr. Commons, Offlee Wild Boys, Premier Pegasus and Silver Medallion. Possible: Quail Hill.
RESORTS WORLD NEW YORK CASINO WOOD MEMORIAL: Grade I, $1 million Wood Memorial (1 1/8 miles at Aqueduct on Saturday, April 9). Likely: Duca, Isn't He Perfect, Norman Asbjornson and Uncle Mo. Possible: Arthur's Tale, Full of Scoundrels, Preachintothedevil, Rattlesnake Bridge, Son of Posse, Starship Caesar and Toby's Corner (most likely to run here but was also under consideration for Illinois Derby).
TVG ILLINOIS DERBY: Grade III, $300,000 Illinois Derby (1 1/8 miles at Hawthorne on Saturday, April 9). Likely: Joe Vann, Lagoon of Diamonds, Smarter Than Ever,Sour and Southern Sculptor. Possible: Dance City, Economic Summit (also considering an allowance and might need more time between starts), The Fed Eased(also under consideration for Illinois Derby), Toby's Corner (more likely for Wood Memorial) and Watch Me Go (also under consideration for Arkansas Derby; recently scoped with mucus; trainer believes it was allergies).
BAY SHORE: Grade III, $200,000 Bay Shore (7 furlongs at Aqueduct on Saturday, April 9). Likely: Buffum, Dr Disco, J J's Lucky Train, Justin Phillip, Royal Currier,Smoke It Right and Vengeful Wildcat. Possible: Opening Move, Rift, Rocking Out, Sensational Slam and The Fed Eased (also under consideration for Illinois Derby).
ARKANSAS DERBY: Grade I, $1 million Arkansas Derby (1 1/8 miles at Oaklawn Park on Saturday, April 16). Likely: Alternation, Archarcharch, Brethren (might try cut-back blinkers), Caleb's Posse, Elite Alex, J P's Gusto, J W Blue, Nehro, Saratoga Red, Sway Away and The Factor. Possible: Astrology and Watch Me Go (also under consideration for Illinois Derby; recently scoped with mucus; trainer believes it was allergies).
TOYOTA BLUE GRASS: Grade I, $750,000 Toyota Blue Grass (1 1/8 miles on Polytrack at Keeneland on Saturday, April 16). Likely: Crimson China (bled a 2 on a scale of 5 in the Spiral, according to co-owner Barry Irwin), Data Link (no plans to run in Kentucky Derby), Joes Blazing Aaron, King Congie (scratched out of Spiral due to hind muscle strain), Powhatan County, Queen'splatekitten, Santiva, Swift Warrior, Wilkinson and Willcox Inn. Possible: Jakesam.
COOLMORE LEXINGTON: Grade III, $200,000 Coolmore Lexington (1 1/16 miles on Polytrack at Keeneland on Saturday, April 23). Possible: King Congie (scratched out of Spiral due to hind muscle strain), Twinspired.
JEROME: Grade II, $150,000 Jerome (1 mile at Aqueduct on Saturday, April 23). Possible: Dominus (also under consideration for The Cliff's Edge Derby Trial)
THE CLIFF'S EDGE DERBY TRIAL: Grade III, $200,000 The Cliff's Edge Derby Trial (1 mile at Churchill Downs on Saturday, April 30). Possible: Dominus (also under consideration for Jerome), Ruler On Ice and Travelin Man.
KENTUCKY DERBY PRESENTED BY YUM! BRANDS: Grade I, $2 million-guaranteed Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (1 ¼ miles at Churchill Downs on Saturday, May 7). Likely: Animal Kingdom (will hinge on how he trains over dirt),Decisive Moment, Dialed In, Mucho Macho Man, Pants On Fire, Twice the Appeal. Possible: Master of Hounds (also under consideration for Qipco English 2000 Guineas) and Shackleford (will run if he can get in, Preakness if not). TBD: Soldat,Stay Thirsty and To Honor and Serve.


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I remember, 5 years ago when we bought this house, that I thought it was absolutely amazing. What I didn't anticipate is that all the hard work my parents and I put into it could make it look even better. We turned a concrete bunker (our basement) into an amazing multi-purpose room, complete with books, toys, exercise machines, and couches. We even went so far as to buy curtains for the windows from India in order to spruce it up. And today, my dad and I installed more curtains, curtain rods, and curtain holdbacks all over our house. To most people, this would seem like a chore; to me, it is an opportunity to spend more quality time with my parents =].
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The National Cancer Institute is conducting the HIV/AIDS Cancer Match Study to examine cancer risk in people living with HIV infection. The study utilizes data collected by state HIV and cancer registries throughout the United States.
People who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or who have the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) have an elevated risk for some cancers. This high risk occurs because HIV weakens the immune system, and because many other cancer risk factors are common in HIV-infected people.
By studying the patterns of cancer risk among HIV-infected people, NCI investigators seek to better understand how the immune system protects people from developing cancer. Another goal of the study is to look for trends in cancer risk in the HIV populations and identify important opportunities for cancer prevention.
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Senate forecast for guns: Cloudy
Senate Democrats appear unlikely to push through much of the sweeping gun agenda President Barack Obama laid out on Wednesday — largely because of a lack of votes from Republicans and Second Amendment concerns from a handful of Democratic moderates.
When the Senate returns to session next week, Democratic leaders and caucus members will begin meetings to finalize a strategy following Obama's proposals for 23 executive orders to restrict gun use and legislation aimed at a universal background check and new bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
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People familiar with the matter say the most likely scenario is that the Democratic-controlled Senate moves gun legislation on a piecemeal basis rather than in a comprehensive fashion. The GOP-majority House is much more hostile to gun control measures.
"I thank the President's task force for its thoughtful recommendations," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said in a statement. "I am committed to ensuring that the Senate will consider legislation that addresses gun violence and other aspects of violence in our society early this year. The tragedy at Sandy Hook was just the latest sad reminder that we are not doing enough to protect our citizens — especially our children — from gun violence and a culture of violence, and all options should be on the table moving forward."
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But other than background checks, it's not at all clear whether Senate Democrats will hold votes on any other piece of the Obama plan, most notably on the assault weapons ban. Reid — who benefited when the National Rifle Association stayed out of his 2010 reelection contest — threw cold water on passing an assault weapons ban in a recent televised interview. And Reid has little incentive to put a gun bill on the floor that has slim chance of passing and would put moderates up for reelection in red states — like Arkansas, Louisiana, South Dakota and Alaska — in tough political spots.
"Is it something that can pass the Senate? Maybe. Is it something that can pass the House? I doubt it," Reid told PBS Week in Review, adding lawmakers should tread a "careful and cautious" path on guns.
If the Senate is going to be a problem, the House could prove an even bigger non-starter.
Speaker John Boehner released a statement indicating the appropriate committees will hold hearings and the House would review anything passed by the Senate — far from a ringing endorsement or even a signal that the bills will get a floor vote.
An assault weapons ban has virtually no chance to pass the House or the Senate given the concerns of several key moderate Democrats and near unanimous opposition from Senate Republicans.
One moderate Democrat up for reelection in 2014 — Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu — didn't commit to bold action on Wednesday afternoon.
"My record of support for the Second Amendment is strong. In Louisiana and many places across the country, hunting, target shooting and gun collecting are time-honored sports and popular hobbies," she said.
"That said, last month's tragedy in Newtown, Conn., has become all too familiar. We must find a way to balance our Second Amendment rights with the challenges of mental illness, criminal behavior and the safety of our schools and communities. We must also enforce the rules already on the books."
Landrieu added that she would give Obama's proposals "serious consideration" and that "the American people expect us to come together and act" because the issue wasn't a partisan one.


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