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How about a small room (or maybe a bridge upgrade) that adds a Sensor Bay? Provides a great excuse for not being able to see inside enemy ships AND a great way to incorporate the ability to do so.
All I know is this Lo-Pan character comes out of nowhere...while his buddies are flying around on wires cuttin' everybody to shreds and he just stands there, waiting for me to drive my truck straight through him with light coming out of his mouth?
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I like the idea, fog of war I liked the idea but I wish it can be turned on or off. A sensor room can be a great way to turn FoW on or off.
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There'll definitely be scanning (revealing FoW or other aspects). Not sure in what form yet (whether it's an object's capability or something else).
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Bobby Hutcherson's second quartet session, Oblique, shares both pianist Herbie Hancock and drummer Joe Chambers with his first, Happenings (bassist Albert Stinson is a newcomer). However, the approach is somewhat different this time around. For starters, there's less emphasis on Hutcherson originals; he contributes only three of the six pieces, with one from Hancock and two from the typically free-thinking Chambers. And compared to the relatively simple compositions and reflective soloing on Happenings, Oblique is often more complex in its post-bop style and more emotionally direct (despite what the title may suggest). The latter is especially true on the two opening Hutcherson pieces, the sweetly lilting "'Til Then" and the innocent, childlike theme of "My Joy," which is reminiscent of "Little B's Poem" (save for its multi-sectioned structure). Meanwhile, Chambers' experiments with counterpoint in the context of group improvisation keep getting more evocative. The title cut is quick and driving, with lots of short, fleeting exchanges between Hutcherson and a surprisingly swinging Hancock; "Bi-Sectional" makes playful use of chromaticism in its first part, after which Hutcherson and Chambers switch between several different percussion instruments for what amounts to an artillery attack. As for the other pieces, Hutcherson's "Subtle Neptune" fuses post-bop with Brazilian rhythms, and Hancock's "Theme From 'Blow Up'" is a spare modal melody over a repeated chordal vamp, somewhat reminiscent of his classic "Maiden Voyage." All the performances are spirited enough to make the sophisticated music sound winning and accessible as well, which means that Oblique is one of the better entries in Hutcherson's Blue Note discography and one worth tracking down.
Recording information: New York, NY; Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
Personnel: Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone); Herbie Hancock (piano); Albert Stinson (bass instrument); Joe Chambers (drums).
01. 'Til Then
02. My Joy
03. Theme From "Blow Up"
04. Subtle Neptune
05. Oblique
05. Bi-Sectional
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To be allowed into the inner sanctum of the RSC – that is the auditorium during the final technical and dress rehearsals – is a humble treat. 'The Heresy of Love' opened on February 2nd but the final days of January were a tense, feverous time for the cast and creative teams as lighting, sound and costume were all introduced to each other and performed in tandem with the actors.
'The Heresy of Love' follows the life of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in Mexico as she struggles with the weight of being one of the brightest women of her generation while reconciling her love for God with her desire for learning and public acclaim. Catherine McCormack takes on this monumental womanly role, supported by the RSC Ensemble who are presenting the Spring Season in the Swan which comprises of 'Measure for Measure' and 'Written on the Heart' as well as 'Hersey'.
As an intern for the Marketing Department I was kindly allowed to shadow the lighting designer Ben and the Chief Electrician Kevin and observe the final days of rehearsal. The director Nancy, the Stage Manager Suzy and her deputy and assistant, the designer Katrina and a whole host of people were dotted around the auditorium and backstage as the scenes ran through their lighting states and the actors through their lines.
During public performance the creative team are rarely seen by the unassuming patrons but during this final rehearsal process the techies sit huddled around a semi circle of desks erected in the stalls. Their faces always appear to be lit up by the light emanating from laptop screens and control desks, with the occasional desk lamp shedding a little more luminescence into the dark auditorium for the team to work by.
And then the final push begins: the house lights are down, the stage lights are up switching from state to state as Ben whispers to Kevin via the personal audio system that the designers and stage managers and technicians all tune into. Lanterns are plotted, focussed and the intensity of light is tweaked and experimented with until Ben and Nancy are happy with the atmosphere and environment that the lighting creates.
The technical rehearsal can be a long and arduous process, especially for the actors who must stand poised on stage, mid scene as changes are made and problems solved, but it's a critical process and every production from the humblest play to the grandest musical must go through this stage of rehearsal.
I had been warned of insults and curses being thrown across the stage in fatigued frustration, of angry actors and tense technicians, of flying scripts flung in defiance and much stomping and groaning and sulking. Much to my disappointment the cast and creative team of 'Heresy' were well behaved and retained civility – a few lines were forgotten along the way of the Dress, and the set didn't always yield to the will of the performers, but no one was even close to throwing a 'Queenie'!
The Dress run came down with a few hours to spare before public performance and the last thing to be staged was the curtain call – it took a few attempts to get everyone bowing in time to the correct side of the auditorium and there was a great deal of debate on how many bows to take and when to direction to the orchestra for their applause. Much to everyone's relief, Nancy soon sorted the thespian rabble out and then they were free to go...until it would be time to do it all again, and this time for real!
If you fancy learning more about Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and this beautiful production of her life, then catch 'The Heresy of Love' playing in the Swan Theatre until 9th March.
Photograph courtesy of Robert Day with words by Amelia Cartwright, aged 19.


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General stores have played an important role in the development of the Dakotas. And perhaps one of the most famous of all general stores in McIntosh County was the one operated in Lehr by Eugene G. Grenz and his wife Evelyn.
Shelves and floor-space were so packed with merchandise that sometimes it was difficult to turn around. People drove there from great distances to pick up bargains, browse and purchase fresh fruits and fish.
The Grenzes and their salespeople had an energetic, highly persuasive sales delivery. It was hard to resist their enthusiasm.
"Just take a bite of these delicious apples trucked in from Washington this morning!" excitedly elucidated a saleswoman one time.
No where had I ever eaten such a scrumptious apple! The truth!!
Naturally, the outcome of the experiment was that my wife wound up buying a whole box of those delectable apples, and never mind that we already had plenty of fruit in the refrigerator at home.
But that was what shopping at the Grenz General store was often like. For many, it was a very colorful, social experience.
Grenz had his start in business working for his uncle, Pete Wentz, and his father G.G. Grenz, in the Wentz and Grenz Store in Napoleon. They merchandised groceries, meats, fruits, vegetables, and general merchandise, and were also buyers of wool, poultry, and eggs.
In the summer of 1934, Eugene went to merchandising and interior decorating school in St. Louis, Missouri. He was graduated in the summer of 1935, and then attended Bismarck Business College. Wentz & Grenz had a store started in 1934 in Ashley with Emanuel Derheim as owner and manager. The store was in the building that is now the office of Montana-Dakota Utilities.
In the fall of 1936, Derheim decided that business was not for him, and resigned. Eugene was then asked to manage the store.
At that time there were 10 stores in Ashley that were partly or fully grocery stores.
They were Max Kelberg's, the Sackman Store, Lippert Store, Harry Rosen's, Andy Meidinger's, Straule Meat Market, Spitzer's Store, Wentz & Grenz, Glur Meat Market, and Aurbach's.
In 1938, this store of Wentz & Grenz was sold to Emanuel W. Schock of Ashley, and Eugene moved to Lehr in August 1938.
At first, he managed the store in Lehr, but then he bought it, operating the business for 42 years at which time he sold it for health reasons.
While in business, Grenz's promotions were usually in large quantities emphasizing volume. He started with truckloads of cherries direct from the cheery cherry country in Kalispel, Montana.
"The largest amount of cherries sold was in 1972," said Grenz, "when the Rhodes semi of Jamestown brought in 1,200 20 lb. boxes."
That was not all. There were another 100 boxes brought in the pickup usually driven by Evelyn, who went out and bought the cherries.
Said Grenz: "With sweat and no sleep for two nights, the cherries were gone in three days!"
No wonder that Retailers Magazine called Eugene the "Cherry Man of North Dakota."
Another big sales hit was his promotions of fresh fish direct from Canada in January. It also became a high volume item and much-waited-for annual promotion. His fresh-fish promotion was started in the early 1950s, remaining a good volume business special until Eugene sold out in 1978.
One of his busiest fish seasons was when he sold 38,000 lbs. of fresh frozen fish! His advertising slogan was EAT FISH FOR HEALTH.
Christmas-time promotions centered around tons of unbleached walnuts, direct from California, and selling at 25 cents to 50 cents per lb.
And then every fall in the 40's and 50's, Grenz would sell a rail carload of grapes, mostly wine grapes which were shared with the Wentz & Grenz Store at Napoleon.
He also sold carloads each of flour, assorted salts (table and cattle salt), and mixed fruits (usually peaches, pears, and plums).
"Volume was the word," Grenz said. It was a highly successful formula because people from many miles away in order to save on his carload specials.
In order to drum up even more business, Grenz organized General Merchandise Auction Sales each fall. Those annual promotions took place in the Lehr Legion Hall, next door to his store.
Explained Grenz: "This was an auction-with-action sale that people waited for. It was 'buy for your price of auction.'"
Besides the bargains, the auctions were downright fun to attend. A person ended up seeing people he hadn't seen in years.
The auction-sales were always highly successful, and were glowingly written about in various trade publications.
Finally, after 42 years in business, the Grenzes sold the grocery store to Dan and Darlene Adams. The general store is now owned by Sharon and Alvin Rosier. Adams then sold the grocery store to Eugene Glass, which is now is owned by Dixie Niles.
The Grenzes can look back at their business career with an enormous
amount of satisfaction. They reached out and touched the lives of
many people in the Central Dakota region. In fact, Eugene was listed
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Astros sign second-round pick Andrew Thurman
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HOUSTON, TX - The Houston Astros announced today the signing of right-handed pitcher Andrew Thurman, who was selected in the second round of the 2013 MLB First Year Player Draft. The Astros also announced the signings of LHP Jordan Mills (28th round), RHP Jorge Perez (30th round), 1B Tyler White (33rd round) and LHP J.D. Osborne (36th round). Terms of the contracts were not disclosed. The official announcement was made by Astros Director of Amateur Scouting Mike Elias.
Thurman, 21, worked out with the Astros Major League club at Minute Maid Park this afternoon after signing his professional contract. He will join the Astros minor league affiliate in Tri-City (NY-Penn League) on Tuesday. Thurman was signed by Astros area scout Brad Budzinski .
Thurman posted a 3.23 ERA (36ER/100.1IP) with three complete games in 14 starts for the Anteaters this season. He recorded 91 strikeouts in his 100.1 innings of work, while holding opponents to a .234 batting average. In his career at UCI, Thurman was a two-time All-Big West Conference first-team honoree. He registered a career record of 18-10 on the mound with a 3.19 ERA.
"Andrew is a big addition to the growing stable of pitching prospects in our system," said Elias. "He features a very effective four-pitch mix, reaching the mid-90's with his fastball, and has a durable build and repeatable delivery. The ingredients are present for him to develop into a high-quality Major League starter, and with his long track record of success and advanced feel for pitching, we expect he will hit the ground running this summer."
The Astros have signed 22 of their 40 draft picks this season, including six of their top 10. The players agreeing to terms on contracts are listed below.
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4 (107) 1B Conrad Gregor Vanderbilt 6-3/220 Tri-City 6/13
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Want to know what is really, really unsexy? Incest. Yep, I think even among those of us who have different sexual needs and desires and who like to mix it up, we can universally agree that brothers and sisters and fathers and daughters and mothers and sons is all kind of yucky, gross, and icky. But the laws that make it illegal are there for a reason. Clearly someone thought it wasn't very gross at all.
In Germany, a brother and sister who have four children together were just informed by a European court that their union is considered incest and that the conviction the brother faces for it still stands.
It's like the real life Flowers in the Attic, but gross as it is, I also see their point.
Unlike most brothers and sisters, Patrick Stuebing and Susan Karolewski had never even met until they were in their 20s. He had been placed in foster care as a child, so he only met his sister late in life. When they met, sparks flew.
OK, gross. I know. But, in this case, while I am not justifying it, I also think throwing him in jail (which is what happened) is a little abnormally harsh. This isn't the only time this has happened, either.
In 2011, a father and daughter who were reunited did the same thing. While yes, it's sick and kind of makes me want to throw my breakfast up, the fact is, these are consenting adults.
The reason incest is illegal is usually for the children, and in this case, their decision to have children did result in disabilities. So while their relationship itself isn't wrong, their decision to have children is.
The government really can't step in and regulate a couple of consenting adults. Sure, we would love to think that all people will make good decisions and not have children if they shouldn't, but it isn't up to the government to decide who can and can't love each other.
The fact is 99.9999999 percent of us are utterly repulsed by the idea of incest and those who aren't are not criminals. They are likely just lonely and in need of love and who knows what else. We should pity them and sympathize, not throw them in jail.
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See Lady Gaga's Born This Way Ball Tour Stage
It's a straight up castle, yo!
A Lady Gaga fan site has leaked an image of what is reportedly the Born This Way Ball tour stage. It features an epic, massive castle. Think giant, historical doll house that you want to play and dance in with Gaga. It looks lifted from ancient lands and transported to the stage. It's also 100 percent Gaga. Would you expect anything less?
Gaga tweeted a shot of the stage design a few months back, but that was just a sketch. This is that image come to life and it's tangible.
It looks like something out of a fairytale and clearly, the Mother Monster is aiming to top all of her previous tour outings with this trek. This stage looks like something for another era and another world. That thing had to cost a couple million bucks to create, too.
Memo to Gaga from U.S.-based little monsters: When the hell is the BTWBT coming to North America? We are dying for a taste of this stage.
The trek kicks off on April 27 in South Korea, with a ban on anyone under the age of 18 attending.


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Well-being. It's about so much more than simply being well.
While your health—physical and mental—is a big part of your well-being, it's only one piece of a much bigger picture.
Think about the sense of contentment you get from feeling close and connected to family, friends, and your broader community. That's well-being.
And remember how good it feels to be financially confident? When your career's in good shape and you're on top of your savings—that's well-being, too.
And let's not forget the lift you get from the time you spend at play, traveling the world, or exploring new—and old—interests. Well-being, again.Isn't that great? Their philosophy of "well-being" is very much in line with my beliefs of "living well" on a daily basis and what I try to inspire you, my readers, to do through entertaining friends and family, creating a warm home or traveling to a relaxing destination.
This month, my MyWell-Being.com post is all about Stress-Free Entertaining for the Holidays. Here is a small excerpt. You can read the rest at MyWell-Being.com :
At the beginning of each Holiday season, many of us make the resolution to spend less, rush around less, stress less and give more. However, even with our good intentions, there are still Holiday dinners to be prepared, gifts to be purchased and parties to attend that seem to fill up our month of joyful celebrations with a list endless obligations. Even now, as I write this I'm feeling very behind on my own Holiday checklist!
One way to make our Holiday "to-do's" less stressful is to simplify our Holiday Entertaining. Hosting the perfect family dinner or festive cocktail party this time of year can sometimes seem like a big burden. Too often, we feel like our homes have to look perfect and the food has to be expensive and elaborate so we can impress our friends and family. With these high expectations come a lot of stress and not a whole lot of fun...Read the rest of the post and my 3 Solutions for Stress-Free Parties at MyWell-Being.com
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In a fresh kick to the economy's guts, a record downward revision to recent data on new-home sales slashed gains that economists had previously thought were made in the second quarter, according to research released Thursday.
It turns out that the annualized sales pace of new single-family homes in May was 442,000 – down 62,000, or 12%, from the government's prior estimate of 504,000. That cut means that May didn't post the fastest home-sales rate in six years. Now it looks like May saw the most new homes sold since January.
"The optimism about improvement in the housing market was a bit premature," Yelena Shulyatyeva of BNP Paribas wrote in a research note.
June's sales rate was 406,000, just a hair above the pace at the end of the first quarter, according to U.S. Commerce Department data.
"We made no progress," said Mike Wolf, an economist at Wells Fargo Securities.
But it's important to note that the monthly series is volatile and, clearly, prone to at-times large revisions. June's data, for example, will surely be revised. The government estimated Thursday that new-homes sales fell 8.1% last month, with a confidence interval of plus or minus 12.3%, signaling that analysts in their first stab at the data weren't sure whether the pace of new-home sales actually rose or fell.
"In light of these large revisions, it's hard to know what to make of today's report, though we can be sure today's estimate for June sales will change several times over coming months," said Richard Moody, chief economist at Regions Financial.
Confusion about how to read the data is one factor behind dissenting opinions among economists over how the housing market will fare this year. There are conflicting macro factors, as well. The labor market is strengthening – a great support for housing. But mortgage rates and prices have climbed over the past year, and it's still tough for many families to get a mortgage.
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SCOTT Arfield says he hasn't given up on his Scotland dream, but his priority is to keep playing well for Burnley.
The Clarets midfielder – an ever-present in Sean Dyche's line-up since the beginning of November – had been watched by Gordon Strachan's scouts in the run-up to the squad announcement for next month's friendly with Poland.
The 24-year-old did not make the cut this time.
But while it remains an ambition he hopes any such rewards will come from him impressing for the Clarets.
"Hopefully I'll get there and hopefully keeping that (Burnley) shirt's good enough," said summer signing Arfield, who scored the opening goal – his sixth of the season – in Burnley's win over Nottingham Forest.
"The (Scotland) squad got announced last week. It's always been well documented the midfield is the strongest area of the squad so if I can even get in contention I would be delighted with it.
"But it's just about keeping my place in the (Burnley) team."
While Arfield's luck is out on this occasion, Clarets' team-mate Sam Vokes will again be away on international duty next month.
Burnley's second top scorer has, as expected, been called up to the Wales squad for their friendly at home to Iceland on March 5.
And Arfield is pleased to see the 18-goal striker get the wider recognition that feels are warranted.
"Fans don't see what he does in training. Him and Ingsy (Danny Ings) up top have been an absolute pleasure to play with," said the Scot.
"Ingsy gets all the headlines because he's got most of the goals, but Sam's beginning to get the plaudits he deserves and the fans are chanting his name."
Vokes scored twice against Forest to bring his partnership with Ings up to 42 goals as Forest were soundly beaten 3-1 at Turf Moor.
"Vokesy's second was a touch fortunate but I think we deserved everything," said Arfield.
"In the second half we knew they were going to come out and it was up to us to stand by it.
"Tom (Heaton) would have wanted a clean sheet, along with the rest of the boys. It never happened, but we got the three points we needed."
Of his first goal this calendar year, Arfield added: "I think the keeper should have done a wee bit better but I'm not complaining.
"The keeper got a touch but it bounced into the roof of the net."


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Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid are mulling over whether to stick with Accenture as its prime contractor or go with another company, as they start a more formal bidding process for the contract to run the once-troubled HealthCare.gov web site.
Accenture /quotes/zigman/565535/delayed /quotes/nls/acn ACN was brought in to replace CGI Federal Inc. /quotes/zigman/11421/delayed /quotes/nls/gib GIB after the botched launch of HealthCare.gov on Oct. 1.
CGI was the contractor responsible for building the site, which federal officials hoped would be the primary avenue to sign people up for the Affordable Care Act. But it wasn't fully operational until two months later.
CMS brought in Accenture to take over operation of Obamacare's main web site, but CMS officials say they only obtained a 12-month pact to have Accenture run HealthCare.gov, a deal that runs out once the next open enrollment period ends in early 2015.
The publication noted that CMS is seeking proposals from potential replacements via a "sources sought" notice it has put out. CMS officials indicated the request for proposals is a routine matter, and it has not decided whether it would go with a new contractor or stick with Accenture. Accenture, for that matter, isn't sure whether it plans to stay in the role, spokesman James McAvoy said.
"It has nothing to do with our current contract or performance," McAvoy said.
CMS's official notice says the agency is looking to see if any small business — particularly those owned by veterans or women — might be suitable candidates. Once the deadline for entries ends, the agency then will examine its next steps.
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text: Been forever since I posted. Mostly posting on my blog these days. Looks to me like Advogato's trust model is broken, in that idiots are trusted on the Master level. Said idiots should feel free to consider me an idiot as well. The fact that nobody can tell which is the idiot by consulting Advogato's trust model says that there is something wrong with it. Either that, or the criteria for trusting someone is wrong. Or my understanding of it is wrong. In any case, I've been spending a LOT LESS time reading Advogato lately. -russ


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Yes, another reference to the "cyclists need to obey the rules too" meme.
A minor enforcement effort snags 1291 drunk drivers in the Bay Area in 10 days. 129 per day, and it's not like the cops were stationed outside every bar in the Bay Area.
I'd be very interested in the stats - 1291 arrests out of how many went through the checkpoint? You can't exactly extrapolate that percentage to the number of cars on the road during those time periods, as the police are probably stationed at roadways that would be expected to have a higher number of DUI infractions going on - near bars, etc... but that's a "sobering" stat.
Unfortunately, there is the story of the one that got away...
There has been one death attributed to an impaired driver on Bay Area roadways during the campaign, which will continue through Jan. 3.
The article did not indicate if the victim was wearing a helmet, or indicate the number of pedestrians killed by stopsign running cyclists.


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In August of 1971, Lewis Powell, Jr., an attorney working for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, wrote a private memo to the group in which be bemoaned the lack of respect accorded business interests in the halls of political power.
"[A]s every business executive knows, few elements of American society today have as little influence in government as the American businessman, the corporation, or even the millions of corporate stockholders," Powell wrote. "If one doubts this, let him undertake the role of 'lobbyist' for the business point of view before Congressional committees. … One does not exaggerate to say that, in terms of political influence with respect to the course of legislation and government action, the American business executive is truly the 'forgotten man.'"
The problem, Powell wrote: lawmakers were under the sway of an aggressive "assault on the U.S. enterprise system," driven not just by the expected sources—"the Communists, New Leftists and other revolutionaries"—but also, and more disturbingly, by "perfectly respectable elements of society," including academia, religious organizations and the media.
Meanwhile, Powell scolded the American businessman, who, he charged, was submitting docilely to the assault. "[B]usinessmen," he conceded, "have not been trained or equipped to conduct guerrilla warfare" and instead focus their energies on running their businesses, serving their communities and "generally [being] good citizens." But the time had come for the business community, led by the Chamber, to launch a counter-attack, which, Powell suggested, could take place through the media, on college campuses and, most significant, in the political arena and the court system.
Four decades later, Powell's strategy has met with considerable success, particularly on those last two battlefields. As Jeff Clements, president of Amherst-based Free Speech for People, noted in testimony submitted to a Senate committee hearing last July, Powell's memo served as a blueprint for a concept that would have baffled the framers of the Constitution: "corporate rights."
The effort picked up speed quickly, helped along by Powell's appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court by Richard Nixon. "Over the following years, a divided Supreme Court … transformed the First Amendment into a powerful tool for corporations seeking to evade democratic control and sidestep sound public welfare measures," Clements said.
The most dramatic example of that trend: the Court's game-changing 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which lifted restrictions on certain political expenditures by corporations and labor unions on First Amendment grounds. That was followed shortly by a federal appeals court ruling in SpeechNow.org v. FEC that struck down limits on contributions to "independent-expenditure committees" and led to the rise of that new breed of political action committee, the "super PAC"—which, in theory, at least, works independently of individual candidates. (In reality, many have clear, if unofficial, allegiances to particular candidates.)
Those two rulings, Clements said, "have resulted in an exponential rise of big money dominance of our politics, presenting a direct and serious threat to our democracy."
But as corporate America once heeded Powell's call to battle, so activists are mobilizing now to push back against the Citizens United ruling via the very document that ruling relied on: the U.S. Constitution. Last week, the Valley's new Congressman, Democrat Jim McGovern, filed two amendment bills that would overturn Citizens United by asserting that the rights guaranteed by the Constitution are limited to "natural persons" and would affirm the government's power to regulate campaign finance.
"[W]e need to empower people—not corporations or big monied special interests," McGovern said in a speech on the House floor. "Our current system has been corrupted—it undermines the rights of ordinary citizens. The preamble to the Constitution is 'we the people.' Let us hope this Congress doesn't forget that."
In 2007, Citizens United, a conservative nonprofit organization (mission: "restoring our government to citizens' control") produced Hillary: The Movie, a film critical of then-Sen. (and Democratic presidential hopeful) Hillary Clinton.
The movie also served as a vehicle for challenging portions of the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), also know as the McCain-Feingold law. Among other provisions, BCRA prohibited corporations and labor unions from financing "electioneering communications"— messages that advocate for or against a particular candidate—in the 60 days before a general election or 30 days before a primary. CU had run up against that restriction in the past when promoting an earlier movie. Now, with Hillary, it was ready to challenge its legality.
Citizens United, planning to run ads for the movie in the weeks before a primary, went to federal court seeking an injunction declaring that the BCRA prohibitions were unconstitutional. When the court upheld the law, CU appealed, and the case went to the Supreme Court. There, liberal and conservative justices divided sharply over both the merits and the scope of the case—specifically, whether the court should rule on the narrow question of whether the group could air the Clinton movie close to an election, or whether it should take on much broader questions about government restrictions on political expenditures.
In January of 2010, the court announced a 5-to-4 ruling in favor of CU. The majority opinion, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, found that BCRA's ban on corporations' and labor unions' spending general treasury funds on "electioneering communication" violated the First Amendment's guarantee that "Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech." Kennedy wrote, "Because speech is an essential mechanism of democracy—it is the means to hold officials accountable to the people—political speech must prevail against laws that would suppress it by design or inadvertence."
The decision wiped out precedent set by earlier cases, overruling Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, a 1990 decision in which the Court had upheld a state law banning corporate expenditures for or against candidates, and also overturning part of a 2003 ruling, in McConnell v. FEC, which had upheld the constitutionality of BCRA's ban on corporate spending on electioneering communications. (The decision did leave intact a ban on corporations or unions contributing directly to candidates for federal office.)
Justice John Paul Stevens, in the dissenting opinion, expressed dismay at the Court's decision to "rewrite" campaign finance law in order to decide the narrow question of when Citizens United could air ads for its Clinton movie—a restriction, he added, that did not amount to a "ban" on the group's speech. The decision marked a "dramatic break from our past," Stevens wrote, noting the Court's long history of upholding restrictions on campaign contributions, reaching back to the 1907 Tillman Act, which made it illegal for corporations to donate to campaigns.
The Citizens United ruling, Stevens warned, threatened the integrity of the democratic system, opening the door to the "appearance of corruption," with corporate donors wielding undue influence over elections and legislation. "A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold," he wrote.
The framers of the Constitution, Stevens said, intended free speech rights for individuals, not corporations. "At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding …" he concluded. "It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics."
The day after the decision was released, John Bonifaz, an Amherst lawyer and founder of the National Voting Rights Institute, and Clements, former head of the Mass. Attorney General's Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau, launched Free Speech For People. FSFP's signature effort is its campaign, in conjunction with other groups, for a Constitutional amendment that would overturn the court's ruling. More broadly, the group works against the notion of "corporate rights," the idea that corporations have First Amendments rights comparable to individuals' rights.
"It gets to the fundamental issue of who we are as a nation," Bonifaz, FSFP's executive director, told the Advocate. "Is it 'we the people'? Or is it 'we the corporations'?"
The most immediately obvious consequences of the Citizens United and SpeechNow rulings have been on the elections process. Even before those decisions, Bonifaz said, corporate spending on elections was a major problem: "Now it's the Wild West. It's open season for any billionaire to come in and choose their candidate."
And that's led to record-breaking campaign fundraising and spending. In the 2012 presidential race, the Democrats and Republicans raised a combined $1.3 billion, according to a Center for Responsive Politics analysis of FEC data. House races cost hundreds of thousands, Senate races millions. Massachusetts' Senate contest between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren holds the dubious distinction of being the most expensive Senate race in U.S. history; the two candidates spent a combined $76 million. In total, CRP found, the 2012 federal elections (president, House and Senate) cost more than $6.2 billion dollars—almost $1 billion more than the 2008 elections, and more than double the cost in 2000.
The biggest news of the 2012 elections was the dominance of the super PACs. According to the New York Times, super PACs and other independent groups spent a total of $524 million on advertising in last year's presidential race. Of the 10 groups that spent the most, nine were Republican-affiliated, with the pro-Romney Restore Our Future topping the list with $143 million in spending. The sole Democratic group on the list, the pro-Obama Priorities USA Action, spent $66 million.
Much post-election commentary has focused on the apparent ineffectiveness of such big spending; Romney, after all, did not beat Obama, despite receiving so much more support from super PACs. And he wasn't the only loser; billionaire casino executive Sheldon Adelson donated more than $60 million to super PACs and other independent groups that backed eight Republican candidates, making him the biggest single campaign contributor in U.S. history, only to see all eight lose, the Times reported.
But that notion—that the election results were some sort of victory over Big Money—"misses the mark," said Tyler Creighton, field director for Common Cause Massachusetts, which also is working to overturn Citizens United. "Huge amounts of money were spent on both sides," he noted. (According to the Times, Obama spent just $7 million less than Romney, and raised $80 million more, counting party and super PAC funding.) And the vast majority came from a small group of wealthy donors.
"The truth is, it's just a few hundred people writing six- and seven-figure checks," Creighton said. "It's not the 1 percent—it's the .001 percent of people that bankroll elections."
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the 100 biggest donors to super PACs and their spouses made up just one percent of the total number of super PAC contributors but accounted for 73 percent of the total money they raised in 2012.
And, Creighton added, those contributors expect something for their largesse—namely, access to lawmakers. "The people donating to those campaigns were making an investment," he said, "and now they're going to be looking to cash in."
Meanwhile, the assault on campaign funding restrictions continues. "If corporations are people, the next logical argument is, they should be allowed to contribute directly to candidates," Bonifaz said. A case that challenges the Tillman Act, which bans direct corporate contributions to federal candidates and political parties, is already working its way through the federal courts. (About half the states allow such contributions to candidates for state office.) The Tillman Act was, in fact, struck down by a U.S. District Court in Virginia in 2011; that ruling, however, was overturned by a federal appeals court. The case, which involved two Virginia businessmen charged with making illegal donations to Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, could come before the Supreme Court.
The effort to codify corporate rights is a fairly recent one, beginning in the 1970s with a series of Supreme Court rulings that extended Constitutional protections to commercial speech. Those cases included the 1978 ruling in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, which overturned a Massachusetts law banning corporate contributions to ballot-referenda campaigns. (The justice who wrote that decision? Lewis Powell, the Nixon appointee who seven years earlier had urged business leaders to use the government and courts to advance their interests.)
In recent years, courts have applied the corporate rights doctrine to dozens of cases in which companies have challenged government public interest regulations, overruling, for example, state and municipal laws restricting alcohol and tobacco advertising, placing limits on billboards and setting standards for credit reporting agencies. A list of these cases, compiled by FSFP, includes a 2001 Massachusetts case in which a tobacco company successfully fought a state ban on cigarette ads within 1,000 feet of schools, and a 1996 Vermont case in which an appeals court ruled that a law requiring labeling of products from cows treated with artificial growth hormones violated dairy companies' First Amendment rights.
The Citizens United and SpeechNow decisions are the latest extensions of the "fundamentally absurd" notion of corporate rights, FSFP warns. As Clements put it in his Senate testimony, "[C]ases challenging corporate political expenditure regulations are not really about the speech rights of the American people; they are about the power of the American people to regulate corporations and the rules that govern such entities."
"We see examples of unchecked corporate power subverting democracy all the time," Bonifaz said, from Wall Street's lack of accountability for the 2008 financial crisis to BP's plea deal over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which required BP to pay $4.5 billion in fines—the largest fine ever imposed on a corporation, but less than one-quarter of its annual profits.
The Citizens United ruling further emboldens corporations to challenge public interest laws by claiming free speech rights, Bonifaz said. Last year, for example, the tobacco industry challenged an FDA mandate that it put graphic warning images on cigarette packs; a federal appeals court found the rules were a violation of free speech. The free speech argument is also key to the biotech industry's fight to quash efforts to require labels on food containing genetically engineered ingredients. When Vermont lawmakers took up such a bill last year, the industry threatened to sue, and the bill died without coming to a vote. (Backers are expected to refile it this session.) In November, a California ballot question that would have required labeling of GE food lost by a small margin, after the biotech industry spent a reported $46 million to defeat it.
The Citizens United decision, Bonifaz said, relies on a false contention: that corporations are nothing more than an "association of citizens," due the same rights as individual citizens. "That wouldn't pass a law-school test," he said. By definition, corporations, both for-profit and nonprofit, are entities created by government statutes that grant them specific protections and impose specific restrictions. A corporation, then, is an artificial entity created and empowered by the government, he said—not a simple association of natural citizens.
As FSFP puts it in its campaign materials: "Corporations don't bleed. Corporations don't have children. Corporations don't die in war.
"Corporations shouldn't be running our democracy."
And on that point, there appears to be a good deal of agreement.
In a September Associated Press poll, 83 percent of respondents said they favored limits on corporate and union contributions to super PACs and other outside groups. In another survey last fall, commissioned by public interest groups, 81 percent agreed that existing campaign finance rules are "bad for democracy."
And 79 percent of respondents to a 2010 FSFP poll favored a Constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United and asserting the government's right to limit corporate campaign contributions.
In the last session of Congress, 13 amendments were filed that would, in some form, address the issue. They included Rep. Jim McGovern's "People's Rights Amendment," which asserted that the rights guaranteed by the Constitution were intended for "natural persons" only. FSFP, which endorsed McGovern's bill, not incidentally helped draft it.
FSFP also endorsed a pair of companion bills, filed by Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Rep. Betty Sutton (D-OH), that would constitutionally affirm the federal and state governments' power to regulate campaign finance, undoing both Citizens United and Buckley v. Valeo, the 1976 Supreme Court ruling that defined campaign contributions as a form of protected speech.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent, also filed an amendment that took on directly the issue of Constitutional rights for corporations. While Sanders' amendment, like McGovern's, would overturn Citizens United, it had one key difference: it would apply only to for-profit corporations, exempting labor unions and nonprofit groups. (McGovern's would apply to all three.) That, Bonifaz said, is the fatal flaw of Sanders' bill.
"An amendment should not carve out some special protections for unions or nonprofits," he said. Exempting unions would all but ensure that the amendment would not win the bi-partisan support it needs to pass; exempting nonprofits would mean that groups like Citizens United—itself a nonprofit corporation—could still funnel corporate money into political messages.
Last week, at the start of the 113th Congress, McGovern reintroduced his "People's Rights Amendment" and also filed a new bill that would constitutionally guarantee the right of both Congress and the states to impose campaign finance restrictions.
"My constituents continue to express concern about the growing influence of corporations in our political discourse," McGovern said as he introduced the measures. "They are also demanding action on campaign finance reform, because they are repulsed by the large amount of money in our campaigns. And, quite frankly, they want elected officials to spend more time on policy, on debating and deliberating on issues—and less time dialing for dollars."
Amending the Constitution is far from easy. First an amendment bill needs to pass in both the House and Senate by two-thirds majorities. (The Constitution also allows for amendments to pass via a Constitutional convention, called for by two-thirds of state legislatures, although that process has never been used.) From there, it would need to be ratified by three-quarters of the states.
But, FSFP notes, significant progress has already been made toward meeting those thresholds. In the last Congress, the McGovern and Udall/Sutton bills, in particular, attracted dozens of co-sponsors; although the majority were Democrats, some Republicans were also on board, including Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.), a co-sponsor of McGovern's bill.
Meanwhile, 11 states have already signaled their support for an amendment overturning Citizens United, either through public ballot initiatives or resolutions or letters approved by the majority of state legislators. The Massachusetts Legislature passed a non-binding resolution last summer, with support from both Democrats and Republicans. That vote came after similarly worded resolutions were passed by town meetings or local legislators in 68 communities around the state, including Springfield, Northampton and Amherst. (More communities have passed such resolutions since then.)
In addition, in November, 79 percent of voters in 170 cities and towns approved a non-binding ballot question that supported overturning Citizens United and giving Congress and states the right to limit campaign contributions and spending.
Particularly promising, Bonifaz noted, is the diversity of the Americans who support the effort. The 2010 FSFP poll found that support for an amendment crossed party lines, with 87 percent of Democrats, 82 percent of Independents and 68 percent of Republicans in favor of it. In last fall's AP survey, 85 percent of Democrats, 81 percent of Republicans and 78 percent of Independents said they support limits on corporate and union spending.
The amendment campaign also has significant political support. Last summer, President Obama, who famously criticized the Citizens United decision in his 2010 State of the Union address, said he supports an amendment. In Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren's Senate campaign called for the court decision to be reversed, and Attorney General Martha Coakley led 10 other attorneys general, including Vermont's William Sorrell, in calling on Congress to pass an amendment.
Mounting political support aside, it's hard to predict how long it could take to pass one. The 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18, passed in less than two years, Bonifaz noted; the 19th Amendment, granting women suffrage, took decades.
"Conceivably, it could happen in 10 years," Bonifaz said of the proposed new amendment. The 2016 presidential election cycle, he said, will draw more attention to the problems caused by unchecked political spending, inspiring more states to get behind the amendment effort and, perhaps, more candidates to make the issue a focus of their campaigns. From there, Bonifaz said, the bills could come up in the next Congressional session.
Bonifaz knows that some consider an amendment unrealistic. In response, he points to the example of Doris Haddock, or "Granny D," the New Hampshire activist who, at the age of 88, began a year-long cross-country walk to draw attention to the need for campaign finance reform. When Haddock was born, women did not have the right to vote, Bonifaz noted. "She's an example that change can happen in a lifetime. Our history is filled with examples of people overcoming great odds," he said. "We can't sit on the sidelines while democracy is trampled."•


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Legend of Grimrock Sales Surpass 600,000
January 20, 2013 8:00 AM | Danny Cowan
2012 was a stellar year for the popular dungeon crawling RPG Legend of Grimrock, as developer Almost Human reports that the title has sold over 600,000 copies to date.
Almost Human goes on to state that the title currently sits at an 82 Metacritic score, and notes that players have contributed over 450 mods to Grimrock's Steam Workshop database.
To mark the occasion, Almost Human teases its current project (which appears to be either a Grimrock sequel or expansion) with a pair of screenshots, noting that they represent "only the tip of the iceberg." More details will be available soon, hopefully.


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ST. LOUIS (Sept. 8, 2012) – The U.S. Under-17 Men's National Team scored three unanswered goals to overcome a two-goal deficit in a 3-2 win against U.S. Soccer Development Academy side St. Louis Scott Gallagher Missouri on Saturday at St. Louis Soccer Park in Fenton, Mo.
After going down 2-0 inside the opening 25 minutes, the U.S. was able to cut the deficit in half when midfielder Rubio Rubin scored two minute before halftime.
The U.S. searched for an equalizer for much of the second half before forward Ahinga Selemani evened the score at 2-2 with a goal in the 75th minute.
Three minutes from time, U.S. forward Alan Winn – who entered the match as a 62nd-minute substitute – scored the game-winning goal in the 87th minute to lift the U.S. U-17 MNT to a victory in the first of two friendlies against U.S. Soccer Development Academy teams.
The U.S. faces Crew Soccer Academy on Sept. 10 at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.
-U.S. U-17 Men's National Team Match Report-
Match: U.S. Under-17 Men's National Team vs. St. Louis Scott Gallagher Missouri U-17/18
Date: Sept. 8, 2012
Competition: Friendly
Venue: St. Louis Soccer Park; Fenton, Mo.
Weather: 60 degrees
Scoring Summary: 1 2 F
SLSG – Austin Panchot (Conner Sendobry) 6th minute
SLSG – Jason Hackett (Brian Hall) 23
USA – Rubio Rubin 43
USA – Ahinga Selemani 75
USA – Alan Winn 87
USA: 1-Evan Louro; 3-Adonis Amaya, 4-Jorge Miranda (14-Conor Donovan, 62), 5-Tyler Turner, 2-Elijah Martin (16-Ben Swanson, 53); 6-Shaquell Moore (15-Bryce Creagan, 90+2), 8-Angel Heredia, 7-Rubio Rubin, 10-Junior Flores (20-Christopher Lema, 87); 9-Wesley Wade (19-Ahinga Selemani, 53), 11-Bradford Jamieson (17-Alan Winn, 62)
Substitutions Not Used: 12-Jeff Caldwell, 13-Peter Schropp, 18-Rolando Muñoz
Head coach: Richie Williams
SLSG: 1-Jake Leeker, 19-Blake Gonzalez (2-Justin Graham, 83), 6-Austin Ledbetter, 5-Jordan Klipsch, 15-Joseph Rund (3-Matt Steurer, 62), 14-Jeffrey Hopson (10-Keegan McHugh, 30), 17-Conner Sendobry (16-Zachary Kavanaugh, 69), 12-Austin Panchot, 9-Nick Jones (4-Tommy Russo, 69) 13-Brian Hall (7-Mark Segbers, 62), 8-Jason Hackett
Substitutions Not Used: None
Head coach: Tim Regan
Misconduct Summary:
USA – Shaquell Moore (caution) 26th minute
SLSG – Nick Jones (caution) 61


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- Square Feet: 3,695 sqft
- Neighborhood: Parkside at Mayfield Ranch 70s
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- New Construction Yes
Subdivision: Parkside at Mayfield Ranch 70s
- Price Range $394.9K - $577.7K
- Sqft Range 2,803 - 3,943
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30 minutes from Austin, Parkside offers the conveniences of living in a city while maintaining that next-to-nature feel. Located next to 800 acres of outdoor fun including soccer fields, tennis and basketball courts, football and baseball fields, playscapes, miles of hike and bike trails and a miniature train. Surrounded by first-class shopping, dining, and entertainment.
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Piel Frama 599 iMagnum V2 Pink Leather Case for Apple iPhone 5 / 5S / SE
Product Description
Compatible: Apple iPhone 5 / 5S / SE
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Presenting the Piel Frama iPhone 5 iMagnum 2 Case - a combination of the iMagnum and classic Magnetic cases from Piel Frama to form a slim / practical case. All corners are completely covered when the case is closed. The iPhone 5 is tightly harnessed between the hard leather framing inside the case, and is very well protected. The iMagnum part is comprised of several layers of protection, but maintains a slim profile. There are two credit card pockets, a general money pocket inside the cover and a hidden compartment for two micro SIM cards. The case has a magnetic flap to close the case securely. All features of the phone are accessible and all cut-outs are perfectly aligned with your phone. The case is equipped with a removable swivel belt clip. When not in use, the back completely flush with the case.
- Optional Swivel Belt Clip System included
- 2 credit card slots, 2 micro SIM slots, 1 money pocket
- Magnetic flap closure
- Strong layered protection with soft leather lining
- ABS inserted protection
- Cut-outs for all iPhone 5 functions
- Hand-crafted premium Spanish leather
Cases.com - The case authority store - is the official U.S. reseller of Piel Frama cases. Our cases are stored (in a temperature controlled warehouse) locally for convenience and quick shipping! Each Piel Frama case passes strict quality control requirements and is expertly hand-made by a skilled leather craftsman. Piel Frama specializes in producing luxurious, beautiful, soft, leather-cushioned cases specifically designed for mobile devices. Customize your device with a stunning Piel Frama case, choosing from many vibrant colors on either a standard leather canvas, or an exotic ostrich or crocodile texture.
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All orders are typically shipped within 1 business days of submission (except Preorders and Special Orders). Orders placed after 9am Mountain Time will ship out the following business day. Orders are shipped every day except for Saturday, Sunday and major National holidays. Expedited shipping options are available at checkout. For expedited order processing and shipping options, you may contact our Customer Service.
If you are unsatisfied with the product you have received, we will be glad to assist you with an exchange or refund. Returns or exchanges must be made within 30 days of the original purchase shipping date, product must be unused and in original product packaging. Return/Exchange Merchandise Authorization (RMA) number is required for all returns. RMA requests must be submitted by the customer via "My Account" section by logging into your account and clicking on "Completed Orders" and following the instructions for returns. If you did not create an account upon checkout, please fill out Return Request Form by clicking here. No refunds or exchanges will be made after 30 days of the original purchase shipping date. Authorized refunds will be made for the original invoice price of the item; shipping and handling cost is NOT refundable. The customer will be responsible for ALL costs involved in returning and/or re-shipping the product.
Cases.com offers 30 days warranty. Manufacturer's warranty applies.
For complete shipping, returns, warranty and other policies please visit our policies page here:http://www.cases.com/policies/
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