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Meeting diverse needs
To address the needs of minority and international students, as well as students with disabilities, Gonzaga encourages the use of these Universal Design Strategies in the areas of:
1) Physical Access, Usability, and Safety
Assure activities, materials, and equipment are physically accessible to and usable by all students.
- Develop safety procedures for all students including those who are blind, deaf, or wheelchair users.
- Label safety equipment simply, in large print, and in a location viewable from multiple angles.
- Repeat printed directions orally (and vice-versa).
2) Information Resources
Assure that course materials, notes, and other information resources are flexible and accessible to all students.
- Choose printed materials and prepare a syllabus early to allow students the option of beginning to read materials and work on assignments before the class begins and to allow adequate time to arrange for alternate formats, such as books on tape or in electronic format.
- Allow adequate time to arrange for alternate formats, such as books on tape or in electronic format.
- Provide a simple five-point outline of your lecture to guide students and support learning.
- Provide clear copies of materials, including journal articles. Many students are not able to fill in the blanks when print is too light or parts of words are cut off in the copier.
- Know how to get materials in alternate formats, reschedule classroom locations, and arrange for other accommodations for students with disabilities.
3) Delivery Methods
Use multiple modes to deliver content and motivate and engage. Consider the use of:
- Lectures
- Collaborative learning options
- Hands-on activities
- Internet-based communications
- Educational software
- Field work
4) Feedback
Provide specific feedback on a regular basis.
- Show examples of past projects or papers in addition to the written explanation in the syllabus.
- Allow students to turn in parts of large projects for feedback before the final project is due.
- Encourage students to bring by rough drafts for feedback or to brainstorm getting started on a paper.
- Make use of peer mentoring.
5) Time
Plan for accommodations for students for whom the instructional design does not meet their needs.
- Increase wait time after questions. Allow time for processing of the question and formulation of the answer.
- Allow extra time in examinations for students who are non-native English speakers. If language and translation time (processing speed) is the problem, the time will help the student demonstrate subject area competence. If the issue is a poor grasp of content, the time will make no difference.
6) Assessment
Regularly assess student progress using multiple, accessible methods and tools and adjust instruction accordingly.
- Use your knowledge of the course design and observations of the student's work to turn assessment into a learning opportunity. Share your goals for the course and identify common errors and difficulties other students have experienced in the past.
- Submit accurate midterm grades so students can take action and make informed adjustments.
- Assess group/cooperative performance as well as individual achievement.
7) Class Climate
Adopt practices that reflect high values with respect to both diversity and inclusiveness.
- Put a statement on your syllabus inviting students to meet with you to discuss disability-related accommodations and other special learning needs, including English as a Second Language or First Generation issues.
- Use materials and resources in your course design that reflect input from multicultural perspectives, including disability.
8) Interaction
Encourage effective interactions between students and between students and the instructor, and assure that communication methods are accessible to all participants.
- Assign group work for which learners must support each other and that places a high value on different skills and roles. Make sure that group work is effective and accessible for all students.
- Incorporate a scheduled "open door" office hour or two into your availability to field simple questions and create an atmosphere of welcome to students. Feel free to schedule a longer appointment if the issue becomes too much for a short response.
- Allow time in class discussions to accommodate for differences in processing a response in the student group. Create alternate opportunities for participation, such as Blackboard postings or small group work.
- Burstahler, S. (2005). Universal Design of Instruction, Definition, Principles, and Examples.
- Scott, S., McGuire, J., & Foley, T. (2003). Universal Design for Instruction: A New Paradigm for Adult Instruction in Postsecondary Education. Remedial and Special Education, Volume 24 (6) pp. 369-379


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This is just a quick post for anyone who may need to set derived data into the models in a large dataset.
I have just over 1100 items I load from xml, one of the fields (distance) requires some math that I have to calculate each time the store loads. I did quite a bit of playing around with how to make the about 6-8 load faster when I remember the convert function.
I originally added a load listener that would run over each item:
Then I removed all the listeners and added to the model:Code:store.each(model) { model.setDistance(); }
Cut about 4 seconds off the load time...I am consistently under 2 seconds (on my machine...devices will still probably suffer a little).Code:fields : [{ name : 'distance', type : 'float', // The key convert : function(value, record) { // calculate distance and return. } }]
Anyone looking to add a little performance though should remember that! I know I'll keep it in the back of my mind from here out.

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Transparency proposals circulating over taxpayer-funded advertising
With the goal of greater transparency for Pennsylvania taxpayers, a pair of state lawmakers are proposing legislation that would slap a new label on advertising done by state agencies.
"This ad paid for by you, the taxpayers of PA," is what Cumberland County Republican Rep. Stephen Bloom is proposing. He began circulating a co-sponsorship memo Monday for a bill that would require all product advertising by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to include that statement.
His argument: The PLCB spends more than $5 million on advertising to increase consumption of alcoholic beverages. At the same time, it is spending millions more to combat the abuse and irresponsible consumption of these very same items.
"While I have long favored abolishing the PLCB's monopoly on wine and spirits sales, I find it particularly egregious that the governmental agency entrusted with regulating liquor is now immersed in a counter-productive statewide liquor promotion campaign," Bloom said in his memo.
Earlier this year, the House passed legislation that would privatize the state-run wine and spirit stores. It awaits Senate action.
"Regardless of the form that legislation ultimately takes, if and when it becomes law, I believe it is important now, in the interests of transparency and accountability, to better inform and educate the citizenry as to the self-contradictory and inefficient PLCB policy of spending taxpayer dollars to advertise alcoholic beverages," Bloom said.
In a somewhat related Senate memo, Sen. Mike Folmer, R-Lebanon County, plans to reintroduce his "Taxpayer-funded Advertising Transparency Act," a bill that passed the Senate last session.
Folmer's proposal would require all commonwealth agencies to note whenever tax monies are used for advertising. He wants to use the following statement: "Paid for with Pennsylvania taxpayer dollars."
This would pertain to television and radio advertisements, as well as print ads and billboards. Classified ads would be excluded.
"This legislation will help educate taxpayers on how their tax monies are being spent," Folmer said. "It could also help reduce overhead costs for state programs as managers would be asking themselves if advertising with tax dollars is warranted."


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- Intelligent search through all contacts fields
- Sorting and display of contact list (Last First, First Last)
- Display of contacts in alphabetical groups
- Quick browsing of contacts using an ABC scroll bar
- Display of contact's photo, phone number and company name
- Quick and easy arrangement of favorite contacts into groups
- Smooth browsing of contacts in a group or browsing between the groups (up-down and left-right)
- Various ways of icon customization
- Favorite action for any contact (call, message, e-mail, address, …)
- Classical or widescreen wallpapers
- Quick and configurable smart T9 search through all fields in contacts and call history
- Support of T9 search using 2 languages simultaneously
- Customizable keypad size (small, medium and large)
- Quick dial
- Gestures (hide keypad, clear filter, undo filter)
Call history
- Sorting by date
- Sorting by contacts
- Call history limitation (3/7/14/28 days, сomplete)
- Filtering (missed calls, all calls)
- Displaying date, duration and type of call
Contact card
- Assignment of HD photo for the contact
- Display of all contact's fields, grouped into categories (phone, internet, address, …)
- Quick switching between contact's information and call history (lower panel)
- Creating, editing, deleting and sending contact's card
- Clipboard support
- High speed. Quick launch. Smooth animation and scrolling.
- Stylish design. All interface elements are designed in classical colors and carefully drawn for each device.
- Convenient interface. Despite the application's user friendliness, it has lots of interesting features.
- Personalization. Flexible configuration of application's interface and work according to your preferences.
- Support and development. The application is constantly updated with the consideration of users' requests.
PixelPhone PROConfigure PixelPhone as you like! Select your favorite background images, assign photos to contacts and you'll experience extra pleasure calling or even just launching the application.
Version: 2.7.0
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Our Brand Ambassadors are enthusiastic advocates of ultralight and lightweight backpacking, eager to pass along their outdoor skills and experience to other hikers, backpackers, and adventurers. Many volunteer their time with hiking clubs or conservation organizations, some are professional guides, and others document their adventures for magazines or online publications.
There's no secret formula for what makes a good Brand Ambassador, so if you love Gossamer Gear's products and you're active in the hiking and backpacking community, we encourage you to apply to the Brand Ambassador Program.


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I brought a few clothes so Ykaie can change but she was only able to change 3 times. We headed to The Martyrdom of Dr. Jose P. Rizal. It was green ang grassy enough but no flowers.
I decided to take a few shots of her in her royal blue tutu that I made.
Rizal Park is so huge.We were not able to go around all over the place because we were already tired from walking. Ykaie wouldn't pose, sit down, stand up nor wan't to be left alone anymore. I had to catch some ants for her to follow my directions. She is fond of watching and playing with ants. lol But she did enjoy visiting the children's playground.


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Indiana University data experts play key role in NASA polar project
Dec. 10, 2013
When scientists with NASA's Operation IceBridge mission fly over the Earth's poles gathering ice sheet data, they can focus solely on their science and not the computing systems that make it possible, thanks to Indiana University IT experts.
For the past five years, IU's Research Technologies group has provided the field data management, processing and archival storage for IceBridge, the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice. Twice a year, Operation IceBridge missions fly over Antarctica or Greenland to collect data about how glaciers strike the bedrock and how that physical interaction affects the ice sheet -- and global climate change.
For each expedition, IU data experts don their parkas and fly to the ends of the Earth to take care of this important data in person.
"Usually we're pretty far removed from the lab or the clinical trial. We mainly work in the IU Data Center to provide data storage, processing and support for IU researchers who want to run their data on our systems," said Rich Knepper, manager of IU's campus bridging and research infrastructure team within Research Technologies. "But, with IceBridge, our field engineers are right next to the scientists in the aircraft as they're collecting the data. It's exciting to be so involved in the research process."
The most recent Operation IceBridge expedition, conducted from the beginning of November until Dec. 4, was based out of McMurdo Station in Antarctica. IU field engineer Justin Miller went along to manage the Forward Observer tool, an IU-created system designed specifically to allow in-flight data capturing and processing.
New this trip, NASA flew the P-3 aircraft out of the McMurdo base. Previous South Pole trips were based in Chile and needed the larger DC-8 for the research flights. The smaller plane required IU to build a scaled-down version of Forward Observer that could still collect the same massive data sets.
Each Operation IceBridge mission lasts for several weeks and consists of near-daily flights over vast swaths of ice-covered landscapes, collecting huge amounts of data -- about 3 to 4 terabytes each. This time around, Miller worked on more than 12 TB of ice sheet data. All the ice sheet data is then stored and archived in the IU Data Center in Bloomington.
"IU Research Technologies has made a name for itself as the place to go for innovative data management and storage solutions, and we are pleased to be an IceBridge partner," said Matt Link, director of systems for Research Technologies. "It's very gratifying to see our work used to help scientists interpret their climate change data, in real time in the field as well as when researchers return."


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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20453669J Hypertens. 2010 Jul;28(7):1498-505.
Blood pressure, cerebral blood flow, and brain volumes. The SMART-MR study.
Muller M, van der Graaf Y, Visseren FL, Vlek AL, Mali WP, Geerlings MI; SMART Study Group.
Collaborators (9)Algra A, Doevendans PA, van der Graaf Y, Grobbee DE, Rutten GE, Kappelle LJ, Mali WP, Moll FL, Visseren FL.
Department of Internal Medicine, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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J Hypertens. 2010 Jul;28(7):1380-1.
BACKGROUND: Low blood pressure (BP) has been related to increased risk of brain atrophy. As brain hypoperfusion might be a marker for impaired cerebral autoregulation, the risk of brain atrophy may be especially increased if BP is low in combination with brain hypoperfusion. We examined whether low BP was associated with brain atrophy and whether this association was stronger in patients with lower parenchymal cerebral blood flow (CBF), as an indicator of brain perfusion.
METHODS: Within the Second Manifestations of ARTerial disease-Magnetic Resonance study, a cohort study among 1309 patients with atherosclerotic disease, cross-sectional analyses were performed in 965 patients (mean age 58 +/- 10 years) with available BP and CBF measures. Parenchymal CBF was measured with magnetic resonance angiography and was expressed per 100 ml brain volume. Brain segmentation was used to quantify cortical gray matter volume and ventricular volume (% of intracranial volume).
RESULTS: Linear regression analyses, adjusted for age, sex, and vascular risk factors showed that the association of systolic BP and pulse pressure, but not diastolic BP, with cortical gray matter volume was modified by parenchymal CBF (P interaction <0.05). In patients with lower parenchymal CBF, but not in those with high parenchymal CBF, lower systolic BP and pulse pressure (per SD decrease) were associated with reduced cortical gray matter volume: beta (95% confidence interval) -0.29% (-0.63; 0.00) and -0.34% (-0.69; -0.01).
CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that lower BP by itself is not sufficient to induce brain atrophy; however, lower SBP and lower pulse pressure in combination with lower parenchymal CBF increased the risk for cortical atrophy.
PMID: 20453669 [PubMed - in process]
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Led by a dominant performance on the mound by Jake Pringle, the Cougars picked up their first win of the season. ... Pringle earned the complete-game win, allowing one run off two hits while striking out 11. ... Nick Kourafas led the way offensively with a pair of hits, including a two-run single in the fourth inning, while Ethan Hathaway also chipped in with an RBI single for Old Colony. ... "Jake did an unbelievable job of moving the ball around the plate and he had the batters baffled all afternoon," Old Colony coach Craig Lincoln said. "He stay composed all throughout the game and just pitched an absolute gem for us."
Old Colony 000 300 0—3
Upper Cape 000 000 1—1
WP: Jake Pringle (1-1); LP: Strawn
Records: Old Colony (1-1)
Next: Old Colony hosts Holbrook on Monday.
Ryan Janczy led the way for the Indians, going 3 for 3 offensively, driving in a pair of runs and scoring another. ... Jack Sylvia also played well, driving in two runs and scoring two more while chipped in with a hit, two RBIs and a run scored. ... Ryan Gaydou got the start and the victory, allowing one earned run in five innings before Ben Katz pitched the final two innings for the save.
Falmouth 013 010 0—5
Dartmouth 320 020 x—7
WP: Ryan Gaydou 5IP, 8H, 5R (1ER) (1-0); LP: Ryan Johnson; S: Ben Katz (1)
Records: Dartmouth (2-0)
Next: Dartmouth hosts Durfee on Monday.
Jake Friar did just about everything for Westport. Not only did he earn the victory by striking out nine and allowing two runs (one earned) off three hits, he went 4 for 5 at the plate with four RBIs and scored three runs. "Friar was in control," said Westport coach Glenn Lincoln of Friar, who had a no-hitter going into the fourth. Chris Silvia relieved Friar entering the seventh inning and earned the save. The Wildcats, who played error-free baseball, got two RBIs from Glenn Enos (2 for 2).
WP: Jake Friar (1-1); LP: Lewis
Records: Westport (2-2, 2-0 Mayflower Large)
Next: The Wildcats visit Bristol-Plymouth on Monday.
Khoryn Cote went the distance, allowing two runs while striking out six to lead the Wildcats to a win. ... Cote also led the way offensively, belting a solo HR in fourth while Rachel Cowen and Kylie Marcoux each recorded two-run triples and Rachel Gath chipped in with an RBI double. ... Cote struggled in the first inning, allowing four hits but settled down after that, retiring the side in order in each of the next four innings.
Southeastern 200 000 0—2
Westport 080 113 x—13
WP: Khoryn Cote (1-3); LP: Nora Piemonte
Records: Westport (1-3, 1-1 Mayflower)
Next: Westport hosts Nantucket on Saturday.
Sydney Silva, Brooke Avila, Sarah Zielinski and Samantha Medeiros each recorded hits for Dartmouth in the loss.
Coyle-Cassidy 000 161 0—8
Dartmouth 000 000 0—0
LP: Jillian Sbardella (0-2)
Records: Dartmouth (0-2)
Next: Dartmouth visits Durfee on Monday.
Kayleigh Deterra went 3 for 4 and Alex Gordon had a two-RBI triple to power the Cougars to the comeback victory after trailing 4-1 entering the third inning. Courtney Guidry (1 for 4) and Brianna Botelho (2 for 3) also contributed offensively. Amanda Randall struck out two, walked two and allowed nine hits in five innings. Amanda Frey made a diving catch in left field with the bases loaded in the fifth inning. "That was an amazing catch," said Old Colony coach Dave Lamontagne.
OLD COLONY 114 200 x—8
WP: Amanda Randall (1-1); LP: Weare
Records: Old Colony (1-1, 1-1 Mayflower Small)
Next: The Cougars visit Bristol-Aggie today at 3:30.
At first singles, Chris Savary battled Nevin Braganca, but came up short, 7-6 (7-1), 5-7, 10-3. Joe Nash also pushed Kevin Leech to the limit at third singles, but lost 6-3, 2-6, 6-3. The Vikings (0-2) host New Bedford today.
Karli Griggs had Wareham's lone win, beating Jackie Burke 6-2, 6-2 at first singles. Kristin Monty put up a strong fight at third singles before falling to Brook Downey 7-5, 7-5. The Vikings (0-2, 0-1 SCC) visit New Bedford today.
Quintin Silveira notched 10 kills and three blocks, but it wasn't enough as the Vikings lost their season opener 25-9, 25-18, 25-16. Wareham (0-1) visits Barnstable today.
Chloe Riley and Camille Filloramo each scored four goals, while freshman Maggie Wiggin recorded a hat trick to lead Old Rochester to a victory. ... Ali Grace, Tori Saltmarsh, Ally Francis, Alexa Francis and Sarah Ryan each chipped in with goals for the Lady Bulldogs. ... Old Rochester (1-1) hosts Bourne today.
Lizzie Loranger erupted for a career-high nine goals while Cara Storms added six to keep the Lakers undefeated at 3-0. Coach Janet Tavares prasied the defensive play of Ali Campbell and Kate Connor. ... The Lakers open South Coast Conference play next Wednesday at home against Old Rochester.
Sophomore Julia Corey scored three goals to lead the Blue Devils to a season-opening win. Jayne Faria added two more goals as did sophomores Shae Riley and Taryn MacGregor and freshman Kari Berche. "The young kids played well today," said Fairhaven coach Scott Francis, who also praised the play of goalie Brianna Jones (six saves). ... Fairhaven (1-0) hosts Sturgis on Monday while GNB Voc-Tech visits New Bedford on Wednesday.
In their season opener, the Lakers suffered the loss with lone wins coming from Alex McGurk in the 400 (53.7) and Dylan Demoranville in the 110 hurdles (16.1). ... Apponequet (0-1) hosts DR on Monday.
Frankie Ray was a triple-winner, taking first in the high jump (5-8), long jump (19-7) and 400 (57.9), but it was not enough as the Spartans suffered the loss. ... Other winners for Bishop Stang were Nick Caswell in the discus (107), Adam Estes in the shot put (38-11) and Garret Morris in the 110 hurdles (19.7) while the 4x100 relay team of Matt Golden, Jeff Chicca, Jack Landry and Caswell also won with a time of 50.6. ... Bishop Stang (0-1) visits Dartmouth on Monday.
Irvin Johnson led the way for New Bedford, taking first in the long jump (21-1), 400 hurdles (59.8) and 110 hurdles (16.6). Darius Gaylor was a double-winner, with victories in the discus (123) and shot put (37-10) while Ni'el Gomes won the javelin (130-5). ... New Bedford (1-0) visits Taunton on Thursday.
Led by a dominant performance from Colin Knapton, the Bulldogs won in their first meet of the season. ... Knapton won four events, taking first in the 100, high jump (5-3), javelin (155) and 200 (25.1). ... Other winners for Old Rochester were Aaron Holick in the shot put (42-9), Dan Donahue in the discus (112), Mike Wyman in the 2-mile (10:12), Alex Milde in the 400 hurdles (62.3), Fred Murolo in the 800 (2:14) and Chris Demers in the 400 (57.4). ... Old Rochester (1-0) hosts Wareham on Monday.
Kyle Everett won three events to help lead the Blue Devils to a South Coast Conference victory over the Canalmen in Bourne. Everett was victorious in the triple jump (36-10.5), the high jump (5-4), and the 100 meters (12.3 seconds). ... Craig Lewis added wins in the discus (104-0) and the 800 (2:18.4). ... Ed Ruel took first place in the shot put (38-10) and Jacob Perrone finished first in the javelin (136-0). ... Kris Moore won the 400 hurdles (1:07.7) and Billy Oliver ran a winning time of 17.3 seconds in the 110 hurdles. ... Everett, Perrone, Mike Eckenreiter, and Myles DaSilva teamed up to win the 4x100 relay in 50.1 seconds. ... Lewis, Justin Borges, Max Charette, and Eric Borges combined for a winning time of 4:33.0 in the 4x400. ... The Blue Devils travel to GNB Voc-Tech on Monday.
Dakota Whorisky won the shot put with a throw of 40-8.25 for the Bears, who trailed 39-15 after the field events before rallying for a South Coast Conference win over the visiting Falcons in their season opener. ... Voc-Tech also got wins from Zack Viera (10:44 in the 2-mile), Elijah Fortes (1:00.8 in the 400-meter hurdles), Brady Martin (11.8 seconds in the 100 meters), Myles Dias (16.5 in the 110 hurdles), and Jeff Kobza (23.5 in the 200). ... Martin, Mike Stemper, Chris Clough, and Jake Belanger combined for a winning time of 47.1 seconds in the 4x100 relay. ... Thomas Cardoza, Donovan Hilton, Brandon Gouveia, and Dimitri Woodbury teamed up for a first-place time of 3:47 in the 4x400 relay. ... The Bears host Fairhaven on Monday.
Hannah Walsh was a triple winner, and Paige Santos was a double winner to lead Old Rochester to a dominant victory. ... Walsh won the shot put (26-5), discus (61-20) and 100 (13.0) while Santos took first in the high jump (4-10) and 200 (30.2). ... Other winners for Old Rochester were Ally Saccone in the long jump (15-2), Meghan Bell in the triple jump (30-2), Jess Fuller in the javelin (77-9), Shannon O'Malley in the 800 (2:44), Morgan DaSilva in the 400 (66.9), Zoe Smith in the 100 hurdles (19.9) and Emily Josephson in the mile (6:22). ... Old Rochester (1-0) hosts Wareham on Monday.
Emma Robidoux won four events and Bay Gammons set a school record to help lead the Blue Devils to a South Coast Conference victory over the Canalmen in Bourne. ... Robidoux finished first in the triple jump (29-8), the high jump (4-4), the 400 hurdles (1:10.5), and the 100 hurdles (18.5 seconds). ... Gammons established a new school record in the 2-mile with a time of 12:18.2 that broke the old mark of 12:28.5 set by Julie Isaksen in 1987. She also won the 800 with a time of 2:38.9. ... Ashley Pereira added a win in the mile (6:14.9). ... Kendall Chandler, Danielle Charette, Casey Teves, and Alex Charette teamed up to win the 4x400 relay with a time of 4:54.0. ... The Blue Devils travel to GNB Voc-Tech on Monday.
Jen Miranda won the 400-meter hurdles (1:11.7) and Neshaliz Elicier took first place in the 100 (13.7 seconds) for the Lady Bears in a South Coast Conference loss to the visiting Falcons. ... Venecia Mendoza finished first in the 400 (1:07.4) and Jessica Vermette was victorious in the mile (6:31.0). ... The Lady Bears host Fairhaven on Monday.
Danielle DeGrazia won two individual events and one relay to lead the Spartans to a season-opening win over rival Coyle-Cassidy at Taunton High. DeGrazia placed first in the 100 dash (13.9) and long jump (14-11) in addition to anchoring the victorious 4x400 relay team along with Elizabeth Sullivan, Maeve McQueen and Danielle Boissaneau. Stang also got individual wins from Sullivan in the 800 (2:41), Boissaneau in the 400, Abby Means in the 200 (29.3), Abby Adams in the 100 hurdles (17.0) and Rachel Quinlan in the javelin. Adams, Abby Means, Quinlan and Hannah Means teamed up to win the 4x100 in 56.7. The Spartans (1-0) visit Bishop Feehan on Wednesday.
Megan Yarmalovicz won three events while Emma Leombruno, Kaleigh Swainamer and Bethany McMeekin were doubles winners for Apponequet in a season-opening victory. Yarmalovicz took first in the triple jump (32-6.50), shot put (29-8) and 100 dash (13.4). Leombruno won the long jump (14-8) and 400 (65.5) while Swainamer came first in the high jump (5-00) and 100 hurdles (17.5), and McKeeman took the mile (6:13) and 2-mile (13:08). Apponequet also got an individual win from Caitlin Rowley in the 800 (2:31). Cristina Brouwer, Daniela Brouwer, Caitlin Haefner and Rowley teamed up to win the 4x400 in 5:01. The Lakers (1-0) visit Dighton-Rehoboth on Monday.


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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Roca Buttercrunch Thins
I knew the Roca Buttercrunch Thins were coming out, but I still haven't seen them in stores. There are four varieties, milk chocolate, 60% dark, dark truffle & caramel truffle. Luckily I got this sample box of the 60% Cacao Roca Buttercrunch Thins from All Candy Expo (the one that I was most interested in!).
While I love the toffee center of Almond Roca (and the Mocha Roca), I'm not fond of the greasy mockolate coating and messy crushed almonds. (Yes, I sometimes scrape them off and just eat the center.) Isn't it nice that Brown & Haley finally recognized that they can use better ingredients.
The 2.8 ounce box holds 8 pieces, each in their own little slot in a divided tray. It's about the size of a VHS box (maybe a little thinner), but it seems like a lot of packaging and protection for what are probably pretty durable little candies.
The initial description of them as Thins was intriguing, I was picturing little toffee tiles like Valerie Confections sells. Instead I saw a post on Chocolate Traveler that showed that these are little sticks, which is fine with me.
The smell like toasted nuts, burnt sugar and dark chocolate. The dark chocolate coating, in my case, was slightly bloomed (and I blame myself for that, as it started to get absurdly hot in Los Angeles and didn't follow my own precautions). The texture was just fine though. (And the last two got really bloomed, so I know what bloomed chocolate is in this case.)
I love the Roca toffee, it's crispy and buttery at the same time. It has wonderfully complex burnt sugar flavors and the added nutty bits of almonds. The dark chocolate was also a smooth and creamy, adding a little more dimension with its own dark palate of flavors.
While I consider this a very successful confection, I find the packaging a little overdone. Does it really need to have both the fold over flap (hand purse style) box, plus the tray? The whole thing is then overwrapped in cellophane.
The price point, as far as I can tell from the Brown & Haley website is $3.95 a box, which puts it at over $22 per pound. For that price I'd either go up a notch and have some Carey's of Oregon, Poco Dolce or Valerie Confections, or go down a notch and have a Heath Bar (why oh, why won't they make them in dark chocolate?).
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:57 am
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Mountain - Regular & Raspberry
While I was at the Fancy Food Show last month I saw that Brown & Haley (who make those Almond Rocas) had a large booth. It was devoted to the Rocas, which is natural for the crowd there. But their display case on one side caught my eye because it had a large pile of a Limited Edition Raspberry Mountain. (I hesitate to call them bars, as they fit into my category of "plops" instead.)
I looked around for a sample bin (but did eat a sample of the Candy Cane Roca while on my search), but when I couldn't find one, I asked and they happily handed over one!
It's not easy to find Brown Haley's Mountain line in Los Angeles. In fact, the regular Mountain (see below) was purchased at Dylan's Candy Bar in NYC (even further from its spawning grounds). But I know that many Northwesters are in love with their indigenous candy, so it's high time I covered it.
I have to admit that when the Raspberry Mountain came out of the package I had to giggle. It looks rather poop-like. However, it had the much more pleasant smell of raspberries and sugar. My first bite into it was all mockolate. It wasn't until the second that I reached the raspberry center. It's very berry, in fact one of the ingredients, after milk powder, is raspberries. There's a little tang to the filling and it's a rather smooth fondant type center that has a little gooey flow to it. The peanuts and mockolate weren't doing much for it, so I confined my bites towards the end to getting as much filling as possible (yes, eating it from the bottom and leaving the peak).
As the Mountain line goes, this bar is a winner. It's a flavor combo that you don't often see and is far and away more satisfying than the regular Mountain ... however, the classic Mountain has very little going for it.
Before I finish this up I should say a little bit about the classic bar. Since the Mountain is made with partially hydrogenated fats instead of cocoa butter for the chocolate, it really never achieves a chocolatey texture or taste. It's greasy and slightly slippery on the tongue as it melts. In the case of the classic bar, the center is simply a plain firm fondant (think of a flavorless York Peppermint Pattie). It is sweet though perhaps a little bland (but I enjoy that texture). The only thing that offsets the whole fakeness of it are the peanuts, which give it all a little crunch and texture.
There are two other versions of this bar, Peanut Butter (which I bought it was completely rancid and unworthy of even photographing) and Cherry (which we all know I'm not going to like). You can buy the Mountains via the Brown & Haley website (and at a really good price). As a regional bar with such a great history, I'd love to see them convert to real chocolate and really show us how good this combination can be.
Note: after this review I created a new category called "mockolate" so you can find all the fake goodies in one place.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 7:14 am
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Honey Roasted Peanut Roca
I tried the Honey Roasted Peanut Roca for the first time at the All Candy Expo in Chicago last summer. It took quite a while before I saw it in the "wild" and I was really surprised that my first sighting was at the 99 Cent Only stores.
I don't have a photo of the innards, but I can tell you that it looks just like any other Roca. The foil wrapper on this one is coppery-orange but the little turd-looking candy is just like you'd expect.
The aroma was definitely peanutty with a strong initial crunch in the toffee. The toffee softens quite quickly to a firm chew and then becomes very buttery and a tad grainy as the sugar gives up its structure. I didn't get much of the Honey Roasted Peanut vibe but the toffee was certainly competent (and I've eaten a lot of toffee this week.)
The faux chocolate coating on the candy was less than satisfying though. Rather greasy and soft, it was held in place by the peanut bits stuck to it. I appreciate that they're experimenting, but this particular one was distracting for me. It didn't add any "chocolate" flavor to the mix.
On a side note I did try the Candy Cane Roca while at the Fancy Food Show. The combination of toffee and minted chocolate was kind of odd, but overall nice. I don't think I'd buy it, but I'd pop a few in my mouth if they were sitting in a candy dish.
I found the packaging for Honey Roasted Peanut Roca a little odd on this one as well. Perhaps it was that it was sold at the 99 Cent Store, but the incongruous 3 PIECES on the lower left kind of cheapened the whole thing. It also didn't look like it belonged because of the font and it didn't have the gold shadow the rest of it had. I know, I'm being super picky here. But I actually looked at the label rather critically when I first picked it up because I thought it was some sort of knock-off.
I think I'm going to stick with Almond Roca.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 6:04 am
Thursday, October 6, 2005
The Rocas
Name: Almond Roca and Cashew Roca
Almond Roca is cool. It's the perfect hostess gift when you only have time to dash into the nearest drug store. Everyone likes it, it isn't expensive, but feels like it is. It comes in a frighteningly pink tin, which is easy to slap a premade gold bow on. People who bring me Almond Roca don't come off as cheap at all, I consider it a treat. (For the record, I don't think anyone has ever given me Almond Roca, though I've been offered it at other people's houses, no doubt someone else brought the host it as a gift.)
Almond Roca is a simple little invention - a small log, like a chubby pinky finger of crispy toffee is covered in chocolate and rolled in crushed almonds. (Sorry, it kinda looks like something you'd find in the cat litter but that's probably why they wrap it in that sassy gold foil.) Cashew Roca is the same thing, only rolled in crushed cashews and wrapped in an even more luxurious cobalt blue foil.
Honestly, I couldn't tell the difference between the two, the nuts are crushed into such small bits and their proportion to the overall mass of the toffee and chocolate is minute. The almond one has more calories, but besides the swap of nuts on the ingredients, they're the same but maybe the cashew one is a bit creamier.
The coating is a bit disappointing though, it's always a bit greasy, sometimes comes off in clumps. It's not real chocolate, but a pretty good grade mockolate.
Still, it's dang tasty.
Ratings - 7 out of 10
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BURBANK — For the moment, the Hoover High and Burroughs track and field programs find themselves at opposite ends of the spectrum.
Through the first month of the season, the Tornadoes have lacked depth, while the Indians have plenty to offer with respect to challenging for first-place efforts in most events.
It proved to be the difference when Hoover and Burroughs competed against Muir in a Pacific League tri-meet Wednesday afternoon at Burbank High. Burroughs came away with sweeps against each team in both portions of the meet, while Hoover came up short twice.
Burroughs' boys' team posted a 101-31 win against Hoover and a 79-57 victory against Muir, which earned a 61-47 victory against Hoover. In the girls' part of the meet, Burroughs earned an 84-48 win against Hoover and a 115-12 victory over Muir, which posted a 75-32 win against Hoover.
The Indians captured 11 first-place finishes in the girls' portion of the meet, as senior Shannon Kermah led the charge. Kermah won three individual events, including the triple jump in 35 feet 8 3/4 inches, the long jump (15-9) and the 100-meter dash in 12.75 seconds. She began things by working with Nohely Romero, Jessica Heifetz and Paris Vaughn to take the 4x100 relay in 51.88.
Kermah, whose brother, Shaun, played football at Hoover and Glendale Community College, said she's set some lofty goals for the season.
"I've been working hard at practice and there are some things I want to do," Kermah said. "I want to try to get the school record in the triple jump (37-4) and the long jump (18-4).
"I feel like I'm almost there, especially with the triple jump. It's definitely something I can do."
The Indians received a pair of wins from Gracia Innocentia and Justice Shank. Innocentia won the 1,600 in 5 minutes 48.25 seconds and the 800 (2:32). Shank finished first in the 400 (1:04.31) and the high jump (4-10). Shank helped Burroughs close out the meet by grouping with Tessa Chandler, Tamar Hallajian and Gabby Pineiro to take the 4x400 relay (4:28.12).
Also picking up first-place efforts for Burroughs were Amoni Alexander in the 100 hurdles (16.50), Danitza Eyo in the discus (79-3) and Elizabeth Brooke in the pole vault (7-0).
Hoover got first-place finishes from Allison Zalin in the shot put (32-101/2) and Frances Ramas in the 3,200 (12:9.83). Zalin placed second in the high jump at 4-6.
"I'm very pleased with their finishes," Hoover Coach Jack Sallakian said. "They were able to step it up in the end.
"Hopefully, they can keep their momentum going."
In the boys' competition, Burroughs received several fine efforts. Anthony Monroy, the reigning All-Area Boys' Cross-Country Runner of the Year, won the 1,600 in 4:33.12. Also registering victories for the Indians were Austin Allen in the pole vault (13-0), David Shaw in the triple jump (38-61/2), Matt Volland in the long jump (20-3) and Alex Quispe in the 3,200 (10:24.88).
Alex Mikhailpoor of Hoover placed second in the 100 (11:10).


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Saturday, July 02, 2011
Constitutional Bluffing
Gerard N. Magliocca
The lively exchanges about the debt ceiling and Section Four of the Fourteenth Amendment raises the following question: Is it appropriate for the President (or any other public official) to use constitutional argument as a bluff?
Since you're allowing comments here, let me take the opportunity to say that I don't think Prof. Tushnet has given a very good example of "both sides do it".
The examples he gives are the ACA and the debt ceiling. But those aren't symmetrical. The debt ceiling issue hasn't been a real issue since the Civil War. There are no cases on it since Perry, and the scholarly writing is almost non-existent. It's hardly surprising that new arguments would arise in that context.
In contrast, the commerce clause has been hotly debated for over 70 years. There are hundreds of cases and a vast scholarly output. Even the specific proposal of the mandate has been widely discussed for years (it was a Republican idea in its origin). Thus, for the "activity/inactivity" argument to be made only now is indeed noteworthy.
This certainly is NOT a "both sides do it" situation.
"High politics" using JB's terms would demand that two parties both have the interests of the country at heart, and that each assume that of the other. The demand is no more than that of players respect the political game. Balkin would call it constitutional faith but it makes more sense to refer simply to sportmanlike conduct. When winning becomes more important than playing, democracy fails.
These days conservatives play to win and many liberals think the notion of political "play" is beneath them. "Playing to win" can still mean playing. Similarly bluffing itself isn't the problem, the question is whether bluffing is seen as within the norms of play.
Politics is always vulgar, but vulgarity can become violence to the game itself. At this point it's fair to say that if the democrats are feckless and corrupt, the Republicans are approaching nihilism.
D. Ghirlandaio said...
These days conservatives play to win and many liberals think the notion of political "play" is beneath them. "Playing to win" can still mean playing...
Politics is always vulgar, but vulgarity can become violence to the game itself. At this point it's fair to say that if the democrats are feckless and corrupt, the Republicans are approaching nihilism.
This repeated claim from the left does not appear to me to have any basis in reality.
Precisely what political plays do you think the GOP uses that the Dems do not match or exceed?
For example, in this controversy, the GOP is withholding their vote to increase the debt ceiling until they get incredibly modest spending cuts of roughly $200 billion per year or only 1/8th of the current deficit. This is far, far short of what their constituents want.
In response, the Dem President is threatening unconstitutionally default on the federal debt and/or cut off social security checks (for which there is more than adequate tax revenues) if the GOP does not agree to increase the debt ceiling in exchange for what are reportedly cuts of only $100 billion per year or only 1/16 of the current deficit and a various tax increases.
Which of these positions do you consider to more closely approach nihilism?
The analogy between the ACA argument and the Public Debt Clause also occurred to me, so I understand where Professor Tushnet is coming from. However, unlike Mark Field, I think that the anti-mandate argument has the greater intellectual integrity. As I understand it, the proponents of this argument (whom, by the way, I think will probably lose) don't believe that the framers specifically intended to distinguish between activity and inactivity. Rather they believe that the framers intended that Congress be able to regulate interstate commerce. If you are not engaged in interstate commerce (which, needless to say, includes not being engaged in anything at all), then Congress cannot regulate you. The Supreme Court, however, has expanded the sphere of congressional regulation to any economic activity that has a substantial effect on interstate commerce. The anti-mandate folks are simply arguing that since the Supreme Court has never considered regulation of inactivity before, there is no particular reason why it needs to extend the interstate commerce power to this situation. It may not be a compelling argument, but it is consistent with their philosophical approach to federalism and with their understanding of the original meaning of the Constitution.
The Public Debt Clause, on the other hand, seems like seizing on a particular piece of constitutional text simply because it might justify a convenient result at this particular moment (the proverbial train ticket good on this day and time only). The people who are making the argument, in addition to never having shown any particular interest in it before, do not seem to be the types who are generally enamored of vested property interests. One suspects that in any other context many of them would have been critical of the Perry court (which, after all, was the same court that authored many of the anti-New Deal decisions that they would decry). In that sense it seems more like the Bush v. Gore situation, in which the Bush camp was criticized for taking an anti-states rights position that they would normally have opposed.
Bart, I'm not as polite as other people here. But I'll humor you this once.
Over 30 years the politics of this country moved to the right, but that seemed to make the professional right even more angry and more extreme. Clinton was a center right politician; Obama has gone beyond past models of Presidential authority -Bush's wars are now Obama's- and both parties are the parties of businessmen and banks. This is where we've ended up:
Madison Wisconsin 2/16/11
Wisconsin needs to be fiscally responsible.
There is no question that these are tough times, and they may require tough choices.
But Gov. Scott Walker is not making tough choices. He is making political choices, and they are designed not to balance budgets but to improve his political position and that of his party.
It is for this reason that the governor claims Wisconsin is in such deep financial trouble that Wisconsinites should view this as a crisis moment.
In fact, like just about every other state in the country, Wisconsin is managing in a weak economy. The difference is that Wisconsin is managing better -- or at least it had been managing better until Walker took over. Despite shortfalls in revenue following the economic downturn that hit its peak with the Bush-era stock market collapse, the state has balanced budgets, maintained basic services and high-quality schools, and kept employment and business development steadier than the rest of the country. It has managed so well, in fact, that the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau recently released a memo detailing how the state will end the 2009-2011 budget biennium with a budget surplus.
In its Jan. 31 memo to legislators on the condition of the state's budget, the Fiscal Bureau determined that the state will end the year with a balance of $121.4 million.
To the extent that there is an imbalance -- Walker claims there is a $137 million deficit -- it is not because of a drop in revenues or increases in the cost of state employee contracts, benefits or pensions. It is because Walker and his allies pushed through $140 million in new spending for special-interest groups in January. If the Legislature were simply to rescind Walker's new spending schemes -- or delay their implementation until they are offset by fresh revenues -- the "crisis" would not exist.
The facts are not debatable.
Read the whole thing. Look at the list and the sources. It's not even starve the beast, it's rob the beast.
On the shutdown in Minnesota.
This isn't opposition to specific policies, it's opposition to government as such; extremism, fostered by the cowardice of weak (weak-willed and wealthy/ paid and passive) democrats. Successful bullies always demand more. And the more they demand they more frustrated they become. I won't bother going into the psychology, any more than I'll bother going into yours.
The general problem of this sort of debate between "Liberals" and "Conservatives" is that the majority of both are in favor of the economic power that only came as the result of the unification of social and economic life that each in different manifestations both decry.
Both conservatives and liberals now want big capitalism. The only question left is whether big government is its necessary partner.
The lack of intellectual integrity in the opponents of the ACA is easily seen. The mandate was first proposed by Republicans years ago, yet no one ever raised the "activity/inactivity" distinction until after the Democrats passed the ACA. It's that simple fact, not their general constitutional philosophy, which highlights the basic dishonesty of the opponents.
The debate over the debt ceiling, as I already pointed out, is brand new. It never could have arisen before. The remainder of the mls' comment consists of little more than denigration of the motives of those making the debt ceiling argument. That's not an argument.
It's also wrong on at least some of the facts. The Perry case certainly is not one which liberals would ordinarily oppose. Perry held that the claimant was not entitled to recover anything above the face value of the bond, and could not recover the additional amount that gold "would have been worth" had it remained in circulation. That ruling supported the New Deal, as is obvious from the fact that the Four Horsemen dissented.
The historical argument fails on other grounds as well. Those currently supporting the inviolability of the debt are the historical successors of the Radical Republicans who wanted to assure that the debt remained unquestioned. The Confederate Party, now as then, was the party seeking to repudiate the debt. It's the same party alignment, so no inconsistency is involved. Only justice and the Constitution.
Mark- the debt limit issue is "new"? We have had a debt limit since 1917. Before that, there was no limit because Congress had not delegated to the executive any general authority to borrow, so each new debt issuance was specifically authorized by legislation. Moreover, we have had dozens of contested votes regarding the debt limit, at least since the 1960s. We have had several instances, particularly 1986 and 1995, where Congress went well beyond the nominal deadline for raising the debt limit, triggering the need for the Treasury Secretary to take extraordinary actions to avoid default. During the Bush years, most Democrats (including then-Senator Obama) voted against raising the debt limit on various occasions. A few weeks ago an overwhelming majority of the House, including many Democrats, voted against raising the debt limit.
During all of that time, there is apparently not a single recorded instance of anyone in government, not in Congress, not in the executive, nowhere, stating that there is a constitutional duty to raise the debt limit.
Like Professor Tushnet, I don't claim that the mere fact that no one has raised the argument before means it is meritless. But it is pretty evident that any merit it may have is, shall we say, coincidental.
How very kind of you to humor me by attempting to justify your claim that only the GOP/conservatives "play to win" while Dems/progressives simply roll over.
Your example of Wisconsin to prove the point is amusing.
Here are the undeniable facts:
The Dems goverened against the wishes of their constituents one too many times and were fired en masse in 2010. WI was one of several states where the Dems lost the state government.
This hardly means the WI Dems rolled over to the new GOP government.
Dem legislators fled the state to stop legislative business.
Dem union thugs vandalized the capital and threatened the GOP legislators with death.
Then Dems financed a supreme court candidate to reverse the GOP's legislation they could not stop by fleeing the state and threatening the people's elected representatives.
Please do not insult my intelligence by claiming that the party of what Michael Barone aptly called "Gangster Government" rolls over politically.
Raising the debt limit was always, before this year, seen as kabuki theatre. It was a cheap protest vote by the opposition party, with everyone understanding the game. Only this year did the Republicans (with a big assist from Obama) make it an actual issue.
Mark- I know you are aware of Brad DeLong's recounting of the 1995-96 debt crisis, since I saw you left a comment on his blog. According to DeLong,the crisis was resolved when Secretary Rubin informed Gingrich that he had decided to withhold Social Security checks for the coming month (I assume, since DeLong doesn't indicate otherwise, that Rubin was serious).
Now you can call that Kabuki theater if you want. But, if so, we haven't gotten to the Kabuki theater stage here yet.
Mark Field said...
Raising the debt limit was always, before this year, seen as kabuki theatre. It was a cheap protest vote by the opposition party, with everyone understanding the game. Only this year did the Republicans (with a big assist from Obama) make it an actual issue.
No, the Tea Party voter rebellion dragged the GOP kicking and screaming into something vaguely approaching fiscal sanity. The Dems are playing their usual role as the ruthless defenders of government.
The Tea Party is the self-organized voice of majorities of likely voters who want to stop borrowing to finance the wild overspending of the past decade under both parties. After the Tea Party went RINO hunting in 2010, the GOP has at least for the time being started somewhat listening to their constituents again.
The really pathetic reality of this debt ceiling fight is that the parties are threatening to destroy the good credit of the United States over whether to reduce an utterly insane $1.6 trillion annual deficit by 1/8 or 1/16. The United States will follow in the footsteps of Greece into sovereign insolvency maybe one year later under the GOP plan than under the Dem plan.
D. Ghirlandaio said:
"Bart, I'm not as polite as other people here. But I'll humor you this once."
I take the "polite" part as a personal compliment, thank you. But on "humor," one doesn't "humor" the clown, especially when, as in this case, the clown is without humor (and make-up). Perhaps you should emulate my politeness in dealing with "Little Sir Echo."
mls salves his recent stint in the woodshed with this:
"Like Professor Tushnet, I don't claim that the mere fact that no one has raised the argument before means it is meritless. But it is pretty evident that any merit it may have is, shall we say, coincidental."
Perhaps mls has in mind "Constitutional Laches" or the defense of "use it or lose it" to challenge constitutional issues such as have been newly raised with respect to Section 4 of the 14th Amendment. The current Originalism vogue relies to a great extent upon history (much of it "newly discovered") in efforts to support relatively new positions on previously "settled" constitutional provisions. In an earlier comment on another post at this Blog on Section 4, in discussing Abramowicz's 1997 article (published while he as a "mere" law student at Yale) I made reference to Sandy's "The Embarrassing Second Amendment" that possibly served to trigger (pun intended) the brouhaha-haha-haha that led to Heller and McCarthy v. Chicago rehabilitating gunslingers and other yahoos seeking unlimited rights to keep and bear arms. Coincidental? Read the "militia" out of the Second Amendment and read the "Public Debt Clause" out of the 14th Amendment?
I did see DeLong's post, but I don't see Rubin's action as in any way dispositive. He solved the problem politically, which is always the better way. The issue has always before been resolved politically. The constitutional option has been raised recently as an alternative in the event a political solution fails, which is the correct approach.
Against my own better judgment
Walker lied. Your response was to say the majority of people believed those lies. Now they don't; and they haven't since mid february. Either you still believe those lies, or you're lying now to us.
More lies in the news.
On the radical socialism of the democratic party: Clinton hearts Huntsman
I'll repeat the Shag's quote from mls:
"Like Professor Tushnet, I don't claim that the mere fact that no one has raised the argument before means it is meritless. But it is pretty evident that any merit it may have is, shall we say, coincidental."
Admitting the cogency of a line of argument but questioning the sincerity of the speaker in using it.
That's almost worthy of Bart. Not a way to win a case.
Also I thought the point was that the originalists have been losing recently on the second amendment since the winning arguments refer to personal protection? Living constitutionalism again.
The strength and weakness of democracy is its acceptance of the facts of language. If lawmakers believe that 1+1=3 then it's the law. In a republic the government is representative by design. In a monarchy or a dictatorship it isn't. Neither is a guarantee of reason, but representative governments are more likely to escape the worst of unreason.
Still the rule of law is conservative by design. That's something many liberals don't seem to understand.
If conservative arguments hod won consistently over the past 100 years, we probably would not have troops in 150 countries around the world.
On the Second Amendment, today's NYTimes (7/3/11) has a front page article by Michael Luo "Mixing Guns and Mental Disease - As More States Restore Rights, Process Is Often Haphazard." The article continues inside on two full pages, with photos. Very chilling. I wonder if Justice Scalia read this article that might support some of the Second Amendment limitations he suggested in Heller. Of course, those suffering from mental disease also are concerned with self defense, but .... Some might say that there is a presumption of sanity when it comes to Second Amendment rights (you know whom I am thinking of). but without a meaningful process, where are the safeguards? Read the article.
"In contrast, the commerce clause has been hotly debated for over 70 years. There are hundreds of cases and a vast scholarly output. Even the specific proposal of the mandate has been widely discussed for years (it was a Republican idea in its origin). Thus, for the 'activity/inactivity' argument to be made only now is indeed noteworthy."
Come on; that's both wrong and misleading. The commerce clause wasn't really hotly debated for 70 years. Between the New Deal era's repudiation of the constitution and Lopez, the idea that there were any limits on commerce clause power was nonexistent.
Besides, the issue isn't the 'commerce clause' in the abstract. The issue is the mandate. Nobody in that time suggested that Congress could regulate nothing at all, so the legal issue was never raised or addressed.
The commerce clause wasn't really hotly debated for 70 years. Between the New Deal era's repudiation of the constitution and Lopez, the idea that there were any limits on commerce clause power was nonexistent.
C'mon David, you know better than this.
Come on, Mark: You know it isn't enough to have won, for the moment, the argument over how much power the government should have. They have to delegitimize the very concept of limited government.
Otherwise someday it might see a revival.
"They have to delegitimize the very concept of limited government."
They? Is this like "them"?
Seriously, the people you reference think the government has certain limits. You just disagree with them on the breadth of the limits.
And, can you tell me if the government was ever "limited," so I can judge when this model time was present? For instance, many think 1915 is a better time in guard to the Commerce Clause.
It wasn't for any number of other matters. The 2A wasn't "incorporated" then, for instance. So, is this "limited government" thing a real thing or a state of mind that never truly existed?
If so, what "they" want can be put in better perspective, perhaps.
Today's (7/4/11) LATimes has an editorial titled "Fourth of July: Words of wisdom from the Founding Fathers" which it introduces with: "This group of mostly white Anglo-Saxon property owners had profoundly differing opinions about governance." Here's one relevant to this post:
The national debt
I say, the Earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and encumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the Earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.
— Thomas Jefferson, 1789
There was no 14th Amendment back then. Perhaps the framers of the 14th Amendment had Jefferson's thoughts in mind when structuring Section; or perhaps not. Quite a bit happened after 1789 to the enactment of the 14th Amendment.
Here's another:
The Constitution
I confess that I do not entirely approve of this Constitution at present; but, sir, I am not sure I shall never approve of it, for, having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that, the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment of others.
— Benjamin Franklin, 1787
I don't know if America is suffering from "Constitutional Disfunction" ("CD") today, but there seems to be a lot of talk yesterday ("This Week with Christiane Amanpour") and today about "CD." Some want to go back to the beginnings or to some other time in between, the "good old days," and the wisdom of the Founding Fathers. But as the editorial notes, that wisdom was not in lockstep.
There is no "Constitutional Viagra" to cure "CD," including originalism as currently in vogue, even four (4) hours at a time. Looking back historically, "CD" may be a chronic condition, perhaps requiring a pharmo-type warning label to be attached to the Constitution.
Shag (and anyone else who is interested): I have posted another entry in my exchange with Professor Balkin
"Seriously, the people you reference think the government has certain limits. You just disagree with them on the breadth of the limits. "
Yeah, right: "Limits" which are always, no matter how much power they grab, somewhere out on the horizon.
"Limits" which always recede exactly as fast as they claim more. No, the only thing they believe is that they have to claim they believe in limits.
"No, the only thing they believe is that they have to claim they believe in limits."
Who are "they"?
Both sides support "limits" called elections, criminal trials, civil hearings of many types, etc.
Liberals support "limits" such as gay rights, abortion rights, various types of free speech, certain gun rights (even if not enough for you), etc.
Conservatives support "limits" such as gun rights (though not enough for you), various types of free speech, limits on affirmative action, etc.
It's fine to disagree on certain issues, but you are just venting there w/o grasping reality.
What, you mean like the criminal trial you get before the President has you assassinated?
Look, it means nothing, absolutely nothing, to 'support limits' that don't limit you, that don't tell you that you can't do something you WANT to do. And that's the sort of limit I don't see much interest in admitting exists. In fact, 'living constitutionalism' essentially amounts to a theoretical denial they can exist.
Brett suggests a variation on NH license plates:
But if limited government (federal/state) fails to impose limits on the Second Amendment (see the NYTimes article noted in an earlier comment), the conjunction "OR" would be changed to "AND."
I do not wish at this time to comment on mls' "Further Reply to Professor Balkin" other than his statement in the first paragraph:
"It [Balkin's reply to mls' critique] is a powerful effort, but I think the reader will conclude that its power lies more in the cleverness of its author than the merits of its argument."
This is of course a rhetorical technique. I just started reading Lawrence M. Solan's "Lawyers as Insincere (But Truthful) Actors" available via SSRN at:
Part II, which I have not gotten to as yet, "focuses on two sets of lawyers for whom it is sometimes argued that the suspension of sincerity should not apply: government lawyers and law professors." The Internet legal blog atmosphere can be adversarial, including at this Blog. As I continue to read Solan's article this morning, mls' charge of Balkin's "cleverness" will be kept in mind.
By the Bybee [expletives deleted], my favorite barkeeper in my salad days (no, I never was a vegetarian) had at the ready a quip for his many lawyer patrons "A lawyer has a license to steal." [Alas, urban renewal in downtown Boston closed his operation of the then oldest, continuous operating bar (that lawyers could not pass) in Boston to make way for the new City Hall (the architecture of which -I.M. Pei - has driven many to drink). Fortunately he opened a new bar where he could continue to quip while lawyers quenched.]
I haven't read the article yet -I just downloaded it-but if if his article is that simple then he's wrong. It smacks of complaints of politicians "working the ref." But there is no ref.
Read the beginning and conclusion of JB's first post on this. It begins with false humility and ends with a sting. The argument works as a process of epistolary seduction.
MLS is not as skillful and his tone betrays insecurity and anger. And he attacks as a moralizer against rhetoric while responding to JB's gracefully rhetorical but substantive argument with empty rhetoric! Remember we both quoted him accusing JB of insincerity: "You may have a good argument but you don't mean it" etc.
Lawyering is acting, and lawyers are loyal to their trade and to their clients. They're citizens as well, that's the tension. And prosecutors have a double obligation (but who trusts them?) We don't need more sincerity we need less of it. The road to hell is paved with sincere feelings.
"Doing these cases," he wrote, "I began to find myself in a dangerous situation as an advocate. I came to believe in the truth of what I was saying. I was no longer entirely what my professional duties demanded, the old taxi on the rank waiting for the client to open the door and give his instruction, prepared to drive off in any direction, with the disbelief suspended."
Brett answers my reply that the government has some limits by noting that the government only has some limits. And, perhaps, they don't really care about them.
Jane has problems. But, she has a nice smile! Well, sure, but she still has problems. But, I don't really want to focus on them, I just want to point out she has a nice smile. Isn't she lucky?
Pointing out the government still has certain dangerous problems again doesn't negate they have limits. Governments, if given their druthers, would waive criminal trials a lot more than they do now.
Pointing to the cases where they might wrongly waive them to suggest no limits is like saying it's hot out w/o realizing the temperature rises above 75 Degrees.
Your white whale of "LC" also recognizes limits, some that always was present. Still see two senators per, not four in CA, two in Alaska. Any system of interpretation is going to change somehow, at least to recognize past error.
This changes the "limits" somehow. Via "rhetorical technique," we thus determine that there aren't any limits!
"lawyers are loyal to their trade and to their clients"
Discussing constitutional principles is not the same as Rumpole's taxi, that is, a requirement to take the client and defend the client, not provide an evenhanded (or some semblance of it) discussion of the matter. The quote in this context seems a bit off.
"Discussing constitutional principles is not the same as Rumpole's taxi"
Ideally maybe no, but still civil behavior is more important than sincere feeling. mls came close to arguing ad hominem and you're criticizing mls in the same tone. The stakes are high and people have their moral commitments. Except when dealing with Bart, I try to concentrate on theater criticism.
Read the beginning of Balkin's first post.
"This essay does not attempt to answer these questions in detail; I leave that to a future discussion. My goal here is to offer a basic account of the legislative history of Section 4. This discussion, I hope, will be of interest both to..."
Ah objectivity...
He's good.
A smart work around for the debt ceiling. Burn the bonds held by the Fed.
Cancel the US debt to itself.
From my reading of Rumpole, I think he would have a similar sentiment. Of course, Rumpole is a fictional character and Mortimer wrote him too.
I'm responding to Brett here. My tone might not be overly polite, but "ad hominem" is a bit much, particularly since my replies aren't focused on his person but his arguments. Some civility, feigned or not feigned, is a fine principle. I don't disagree.
Sorry Joe, I responded first to Shag on mls, then to you on Mortimer, then went on as if you were the same person.
The reference to ad hominem was to criticism of insincerity rather than of points of argument. Nothing more extreme than that.
And with Brett and Bart it's a free-for-all.
D. Ghirlandaio said...
A smart work around for the debt ceiling. Burn the bonds held by the Fed. Cancel the US debt to itself.
The "smart work around" linked here is to have the Fed forgive the bonds it bought from the treasury under the two rounds of qualitative easing over the past couple years.
To say this idea is nutty and dangerous is an understatement.
QE was a fancy term for the Fed nearly doubling the money supply by creating virtual electronic dollars and buying up $1.5 billion in T-Bills and nearly as much in bad bank assets to head off what the Fed feared was a round of deflation.
In fact, all the new money created in immediate spike in commodity prices including oil. Businesses initially compensated for the higher commodity costs by cutting back on things like hiring new employees. Now the inflation has reached the CPI, which is increasing at 3.9% and rising.
Our best hope to avoid a repeat of 1970s style stagflation (inflation, stagnant growth and unemployment) was for the Fed to start calling in its bonds from the Treasury to begin soaking up all the extra money. If the Fed instead forgives the bonds as is suggested, that $1.5 trillion will remain in circulation fueling inflation.
The NR author's idea to avoid inflation is to force the banks to hold more of their money in reserve rather than lending it to businesses and consumers, which of course will dry up credit.
Heaven help us from the economically illiterate.
"Heaven help us from the economically illiterate."
try again
BD: "Heaven help us from the economically illiterate."
DG: try again
CEPR on why its a good idea to leave $1.5 trillion in extra money in circulation: "Of course it is an accounting gimmick. We have an accounting problem (the debt ceiling). It cries out for an accounting solution."
As I said, economically illiterate. CEPR is a progressive think tank which supported the Fed's stagflationary debasement of our currency in the first instance. Moreover, our deficit is a government overspending problem, not an "accounting problem" to be solved by printing money ala the Weimar Republic and Peronist Argentina.
My question is how Ron Paul, who I thought was a monetarist, could have come up with this plan?
Care to try again, DG?
You and Mankiw both disagree with Dean Baker, in strikingly different language. If I have to take one of you seriously which should I choose?
Also don't bother reading but look at the charts here and here
Speaking exclusively with The Wall Street Journal, Barton Biggs, managing partner at multibillion dollar hedge fund Traxis Partners, painted a bleak outlook for the developed world with only huge government intervention likely to improve things.
…Mr. Biggs, former chief global strategist for U.S. investment banking powerhouse Morgan Stanley, demanded the U.S. government temporarily return to ideas used in the Great Depression as a way to get the country back to higher growth.
"What the U.S. really needs is a massive infrastructure program … similar to the WPA back in the 1930s," he says.
The plan would be to employ some of the many unemployed people, jump start the economy, as well as help catch up with Asia, which is building state-of-the-art infrastructure from new mechanized port facilities to high-speed trains.
He suggested financing such building through the sale of U.S. Treasuries.
I have written extensively here, here and hereon what appears to be a new round of stagflation, complete with links and charts.
As for the CBO chart, claiming that raising taxes, slashing Medicare's doctor reimbursement and maintaining Obamacare will eliminate the current $1.6 trillion deficit by the end of a hypothetical Obama second term, did you know that I have sugar sand Pacific ocean front property for sale up here in the Rocky Mountains? I will let you have it for a mere $500,000 if you act before midnight tonight.
DG, CBO uses static model projecting which assumes that raising and lowering tax rates will have no appreciable economic effect. For example, CBO overstated the revenues from the Clinton tax increases by 100% and predicted revenue losses rather than the actual double digit increase in revenues after the 2003 Bush tax rate cuts.
CBO also assumes what the politicians tell it to assume like providing health insurance to 30 million people, 20 million being added to Medicaid, will actually lead to deficit reduction. By assuming that my income will multiply by ten, I can also become a millionaire in short order.
The pièce de résistance of your post was the Morgan Stanley "chief global strategist" calling for even more trillions to go into infrastructure building like in the New Deal. You think MS might just be planning how to get a piece of that action? They sure aren't using the New Deal (or Japan's Lost Decade) as an example of how infrastructure spending creates an economic recovery in the private economy. Indeed, the US private economy did no recover until all the extra government spending stopped after WWII.
Do you ever get the feeling these folks are gaming you?
"CBO... predicted revenue losses rather than the actual double digit increase in revenues after the 2003 Bush tax rate cuts."
I think we're done here.
The second link is a chart from the hacks at Heritage: "Tax cuts played a small role in the loss of 2002-2011 revenue"
Only a small role.
I won't go into what they left out.
So I read Professor Magliocca's online chat and have a question about the following response he gave:
"Some people have wondered whether the President would have the authority to unilaterally raise taxes. (After all, if you think he can issue debt as a last resort, why not raise taxes?) That doesn't seem right, though, does it?"
Is that it? The legal distinction between borrowing money without congressional authorization and raising taxes without congressional authorization is that the latter doesn't seem right? Both involve powers that are explicitly given to Congress by Article I. It doesn't seem right to me that the President exercise either of them. FWIW, it doesn't seem right to Professor Tribe either.
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LOS ANGELES -- Manager Don Mattingly said, on most days, picking three starters from his four name outfielders is relatively easy.
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LOS ANGELES -- Manager Don Mattingly said, on most days, picking three starters from his four name outfielders is relatively easy.
On Saturday, not so much.View Full Game Coverage
Mattingly started left fielder Carl Crawford, who had a .278 career average against Giants starter Matt Cain, instead of Andre Ethier, who had a .413 average against the Giants righty.
Ethier was stunned after hearing secondhand that he wasn't playing, and he walked across the clubhouse to see the lineup card with his own eyes.
"I feel Carl is swinging the bat good," explained Mattingly. "You kind of look at the last couple years, it's not quite as good with Andre. More than anything, it's about how good Carl has been swinging. I'll try to ride that and see how it goes."
Neither Crawford nor Ethier started Friday night against lefty Madison Bumgarner. During Saturday's 6-2 win over the Giants, Crawford went 1-for-4 to extend his hitting streak to seven games, during which he's 12-for-24 with a homer and three RBIs, raising his average from .185 to .257. Ethier is 10-for-31 during that stretch, raising his average from .194 to .245 after entering Saturday's game as a pinch-hitter and going 0-for-1.
Of course, Ethier has no choice but to consider himself the fourth outfielder if he can't crack the lineup when the Dodgers are facing a pitcher he owns.
"With certain guys, it's easier against lefties, but today was pretty hard," said Mattingly. "Carl is swinging good. Andre's history is good. Which way do you go? Today is not an easy one."
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Los Angeles' lawsuits against three major banks, alleging discriminatory lending practices in black and Latino communities, do the heart good even if they won't get the victims' money back.
City Attorney Mike Feuer's suits against Citygroup, Wells Fargo and Bank of America seek to recover some of an estimated $481 million in property taxes L.A. couldn't collect because of the loss of home values from rampant foreclosures between 2008 and 2012, and an estimated $1.2 billion in expenses for extra city services including property maintenance and trash removal.
The suits, on top of similar suits elsewhere (leading to huge settlements), are further ripostes to those who still blame the borrowers instead of the lenders for the rash of bad loans that spawned the mortgage meltdown that in turn led to the Great Recession.
The charge is that after decades of redlining — denying loans to people in mostly minority areas — banks engaged in "reverse redlining" — offering home loans on bad terms in the same communities. The banks didn't suffer the consequences when the loans failed because they'd already sold the loans on the secondary market.
Although the three banks deny the allegations, if past cases are any indication they'll seek to settle the suits and pay big penalties.
The L.A. suit says mortgage loans in predominantly black and Latino areas are five times as likely as those in mostly white areas to end in foreclosures. The evidence is strong that this is because banks targeted minority areas with loans that people couldn't afford, putting the lenders and not the borrowers at the top of the blame list.
Note that this says those loans ARE — not WERE — five times more likely to fail. The suit alleges that banks' predatory lending practices continue.
Lenders who play such a cynical game must pay a price. Cities like L.A. are right to try to make them do so.