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I recall the first time that I made a personal commitment. It was in 1970 at the corner of Schuylkill Avenue and Buttonwood Street in Reading, Pennsylvania, during the press of an existential crisis. Trying to mute the pain of my failed commitment to military service, I had been drinking and getting drunk every day for about six months. I was physically sick, emotionally drained, and mentally tired. As I sat on that corner in deep despair, I felt moved to contemplate my wretched life: I was a poor black high school dropout with a prison record, I had failed to complete my term of military service, I was a drunk, and I had no place to call home. Needless to say, I was in a deep existential crisis: did I want to live or die? I had to make a choice because my condition left no doubt that I was at death's door. After ten years of drinking, going to prison, and lying to myself, I finally had to admit that alcohol had gotten the best of me.
Having undergone alcohol rehab seven years before, when I was eighteen, sitting on that corner, I understood that I had reached what people in AA call the bottom. Almost relieved that I had finally reached the point where I could fall no further, I decided that very moment that I wanted to live and thus could not ever drink again. Although it took me many years after to achieve sobriety, that very day in 1970, I made a personal commitment to stop drinking and have remained alcohol-free from that day to this. After I made my commitment, an interesting thing happened, an event that confirms my belief that when you reach for the stars, the stars reach back — or what Carl Jung (1969, 1973) characterizes as synchronicity.
My best friend, Russ, whom I had not seen for more than two years, showed up. Call it synchronicity, chance, coincidence, or whatever, but the minute I decided that I wanted to live, I looked up and saw Russ passing by in his white VW station wagon. I did not think that he saw me at first. He rolled by, stopped, and backed up to where I was sitting.
"Tony Baxter!" Russ exclaimed. "Is that you?"
"Yeah, man," I uttered weakly. "It's me."
"Damn, you look bad. I almost didn't recognize you," Russ flatly stated.
"I know, Russ. I decided to stop drinking," I said truthfully.
Perhaps picking up the sincerity in my voice, Russ said, "Thank God. You look like you're dying, man. Is there anything I can do for you?"
"Yeah," I retorted, "take me to my sister's house in Glenside."
Having become friends during the 1960–61 school year when I was released from the boys' home, we laughed about our days as high school students, matriculating in the college preparatory track at Reading High School, hardly a place for poor black males but precisely the circumstance that formed the basis for our lifelong friendship. Kindred spirits, Russ and I were both young intellectual black males who valued knowledge and independent thinking and hailed from the same disadvantaged neighborhood, the Southside of Reading, the Reading Iron Playground area. Although Russ was a year ahead of me in school, with affection as the basis for our chumship (Sullivan 1953), we came of age together during the turbulent sixties. Billing ourselves as "heavy street brothers" from the Southside of Reading, we walked the streets and drank wine together, trying to show our manhood by engaging in maladaptive acts.
Arriving at my sister's house, I explained to Russ that Anita had gotten sober and would help me get into a detox program that was necessary to help me withdraw from my physical dependence on alcohol without risking convulsions. Pulling away and reinforcing me by telling me that he knew that I could do it, Russ turned his car back toward town and left.
I knew that it would be hard to stay sober, but a part of me, perhaps my spirit or will, knew that I was done with drinking. I had made a commitment and thereby began marshaling my psychological resources for the long and arduous process of keeping it. Thus I was prepared to do battle with my most formidable opponent, an equally powerful part of me, one living in the dark recesses of myself who had no intention of giving up intoxication. During this turning point, I was about to learn that making a commitment is quite different than keeping the commitment.
Keeping My Commitment to Stop Drinking
I started detox the next day and, after waiting ten days, went into rehab at the same therapeutic community where probation officials had committed me seven years before, when I was eighteen. Now twenty-five and self-directed, my attitude and motivation the second time around were different. Having voluntarily committed myself, I felt obliged to use the therapeutic community's resources to help me keep my commitment to stop drinking.
During my involuntary commitment to the treatment facility seven years before, the therapy consisted of work and AA. The residents were assigned various tasks to keep the facility running and attended AA meetings and information sessions three times a day. My job the first time around was cutting grass and caring for the horses. In between my chores and the AA meetings, I played table tennis, shot the basketball, played horseshoes, and rode the horses. Something of a novelty to the community's much older and affluent white residents, they regarded me, a young black inner-city kid, as a kind of mascot. Dismissing me because of my age, one lady referred to me as "that cute little colored kid who runs around here playing with everything."
Although I did not realize it, my most important accomplishment during my involuntary commitment the first time around was reading the Big Book and memorizing the twelve steps and twelve traditions that constitute the core of AA's philosophy and time-honored methodology. The first time around, I was not ready to make a commitment to stop drinking. Despite having been arrested for public drunkenness and underage drinking and being convicted of burglary, a crime that I committed while drunk, astoundingly, I still believed that I was not an alcoholic. Because of my belief, I could not accept step 1 — that is, I could not admit "that [I] was powerless over alcohol and that [my] life had become unmanageable." Hence, when I completed the requisite thirty-day program, it was not long before I returned to drinking, violated my probation, and was remanded to prison to serve my suspended nine-to-twenty-three-month sentence.
Even though I was not emotionally ready to accept step 1 the first time around, I nonetheless remembered what I read. By the time Russ rolled up, stopped, and delivered me to my sister's, I had, in the wake of my existential crisis, finally accepted step 1: In 1970, on an inner-city street corner in the heart of the ghetto of a hard-scrabble, blue-collar town, "that cute little colored kid who runs around here playing with everything" finally confessed that he was "powerless over alcohol and that [his] life had become unmanageable." In so doing, he took the first step toward saving his life.
I had been in rehab at this facility before, but my second time around, not only was I more receptive and humble, but also because the treatment agenda had changed, I was treated with individual and group therapy. In the interim between my first and second time around, the facility had hired a brilliant young psychologist who incorporated gestalt therapy (Perls and Andreas 1969) and the techniques of Fritz and Laura Perls into the community's therapeutic program. Emphasizing personal responsibility, self-control, and change within the context of my personhood, gestalt therapy was perfectly relevant to the issues of a young black man coming of age under adverse personal and social circumstances. I had never in my short life taken responsibility, felt in control, or committed myself to changing my personal or social circumstances. Although I found the gestalt-based group therapy quite challenging, I also found it absolutely essential in helping me to understand the existential crisis that brought me back to rehab.
Heavy alcohol use has a negative impact on the adolescent's normal developmental process (Baumrind 1987). Heavy alcohol use during the course of identity formation stops the integration of the experiences that makes up the gestalt, the self as a whole (Erickson 1968, 1980). Speaking developmentally, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, but if the parts are not summed (i.e., integrated), there can be no whole. Thus, the existential crisis that drove me back to rehab was not typical.
As a young adolescent, my addiction to alcohol did not cause me to lose my soul. As in a typical existential crisis, it prevented me from developing one in the first place. The therapies for young recovering addicts must regard the fact that recovering one's soul is not the same as discovering it. Becoming addicted when I was a teenager in the midst of identity formation, I had not lost my soul. How can you lose something that you never had?
Excerpted from From Prisoner to PhD: Reflections on My Pathway to Desistance from Crime and Addiction, Anthony Baxter, Xlibris Books, 2016, pp. 67-72. All Rights Reserved


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Cindy Dryer Sweeley was diagnosed with Relapsing/Remitting MS in 2008 at the age of 42. Cindy says that for some unknown reason she remained positive after my diagnosis, adding, "maybe it was denial of the disease even though I had the reminder of it every-other day doing my injections."
In the summer of 2012 Cindy watched the documentary "Forks over Knives" and decided to become vegan. Cindy says "I read, researched and saw many testimonials of people who have been symptom free because of following a plant-based whole food diet. I was starting to think that maybe food IS the medicine of all the disease and cancer out there. I then saw Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead soon after and thought doing a juice fast to detox my body would add a bonus effect. Beginning January 2013 I decided to voluntarily halt my MS injections. I, at the age now of 47 and just shy of 5 years of the diagnosis, had had no exacerbations and I started to wonder that if I stopped injecting myself with this interferon, not knowing what that's doing to my body really in the long term, could I continue to be symptom free now that I've adapted a new way of eating and incorporating juicing into my life.
"I'm healthier than ever and most of the time forget that I even have MS"
Cindy continues, "I probably shouldn't have but I did this without consulting with my neurologist first. I had an annual appointment coming up that April and I thought that I'd just tell him then. This was the year to get an updated MRI as well. At my appointment I let him talk first. He did his normal in office tests and then read the results of my MRI. There were no new areas…no change. After he was finished I told him that I had something to share. He was quite shocked and asked why I didn't check with him first. Obviously, I knew he would have tried to keep me on the medication. There's that big "WHAT IF" in my mind that says "What if changing the whole way that I eat could really keep me symptom free?" I'd never know it, unless I stop the injections. My doctor said he'd work with me and also said that because of my choice to do this, I could just be the healthiest person with MS. After all, since eating and exercise is going to now be my medicine, I must keep "taking" it!! To date I've not had any issues with MS. I'm healthier than ever and most of the time forget that I even have MS."
Neil Martin: When did you first start juicing?
Cindy Dryer Sweeley: I started juicing in January, 2013
Neil Martin: What made you decide to start juicing?
Cindy Dryer Sweeley: I watched, Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead
Neil Martin: Did you follow a specific program, if so which one?
Cindy Dryer Sweeley: Nothing specific just followed suggestions from Joe Cross and searched the internet for more information about juicing. I knew that just getting fresh enzymes from any fruit and vegetable would do me good.
Neil Martin: What have you found to be the biggest changes / benefits you've experienced since you started juicing?
Cindy Dryer Sweeley: I would say that I've really noticed much more energy and focus with juicing.
Neil Martin: Since you started juicing what have you found most challenging and how did you deal with this challenge?
Cindy Dryer Sweeley: The most difficult thing I've found is during the dinner hour and after at night. It's really difficult not to snack.
Neil Martin: What was your weight before you started juicing and what do you weight now?
Cindy Dryer Sweeley: I did need to lose weight but not a significant amount. I did a 10 day juice fast and lost 14 lbs. To me, that was pretty impressive.
Neil Martin: What do you believe was the biggest contributor to your weight gain?
Cindy Dryer Sweeley: Life! Whenever I'm stressed or overwhelmed I tend to reach for food. You can still gain weight and eat the wrong things even if you're vegan, unfortunately.
Neil Martin: If you could go back in time and give just one piece of advice to your formal self, what would it be?
Cindy Dryer Sweeley: Do the best for your body. If you don't have your health, you don't have much. I try to tell my 2 teenage children that now and maybe it'll sink in someday.
Neil Martin: How has juicing changed your life?
Cindy Dryer Sweeley: Since I received great results from juicing and thought it was a great experience, I've shared my experience with others and people are listening. I've gotten 3 people to do juice fasts and that excites me. I love to get others excited and support them in their journey. It's a great feeling.
Neil Martin: Which do you think is more essential to health and wellbeing, exercise or diet and nutrition?
Cindy Dryer Sweeley: Both, but more important, diet and nutrition.
"I love my life and do nothing different because of having MS"
Neil Martin: How much and what kinds of exercise do you regularly do?
Cindy Dryer Sweeley: I walk most consistently; Running and cardio inconsistently but am going to conquer this in 2014.
I do the MS Walks for fundraising and awareness. The very first one I went to was quite upsetting. I saw many people at different stages of this disease and it was sad to me. Knowing what I know now, though, I try to share what I know and believe so as to give people a chance to try something different.
I love my life and do nothing different because of having MS.
Neil Martin: What do you eat / drink on a typical day? Is your diet completely vegetarian / vegan?
Cindy Dryer Sweeley: I became vegan July, 2012, and feel that this, too, is VERY important. I generally have fruit in the morning, a chopped salad with a variety of veggies for lunch and typically another chopped salad alongside a baked sweet potato or with quinoa or beans on top.
Neil Martin: What are your thoughts on caffeine and alcohol?
Cindy Dryer Sweeley: In moderation
Neil Martin: What advice would you give someone who is thinking about adding juicing to their life?
Cindy Dryer Sweeley: I give people advice all the time. I share how healing it [juicing] is and how juicing is so good for the body, mind and soul. I love the thought of it getting directly into my bloodstream and I picture it healing all the little areas that need it.
Neil Martin: If you were stuck on a desert island with a working juicer and blender and an unlimited supply of just 6 ingredients, what would those ingredients be?
Cindy Dryer Sweeley: Kale, apples, pears, cucumber, carrots and ginger. I've really acquired a taste for ginger and put it in almost every juice.
My favorite concoctions are: Apple/Carrot/Ginger and Apple/Pear/Ginger
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Panasonic Starts Sample Shipments of World's Thinnest, 9.5 mm Height, Blu-ray Disc Drives
Panasonic today announced that the company has started shipping samples of the world's thinnest (9.5 mm height) internal Blu-ray Disc (BD) drives to personal computer manufacturers.
Since Panasonic introduced the industry's first 12.7 mm high internal DVD Super Multi Drive in 2003, it has continued to pioneer optical disc drive technology by making the drive's profile even thinner, to 9.5 mm and then to 7.0 mm. The company has achieved these breakthroughs by producing key devices in-house and is leading the industry in providing the benefits of Blu-ray discs.
Now available to PC manufacturers, the new sample 9.5 mm high BD drives, were accomplished by combining Panasonic's own technologies such as the low-profile, 2-lens actuator and spherical aberration compensation mechanism and an optimized optical design for CD, DVD and Blu-ray disc laser.
Due to the increasing need for data volume on personal computers and the gaining popularity of high definition digital images, the demand for Blu-ray discs and BD drives is rapidly rising. Panasonic believes the world's thinnest BD drive ideally meets these consumer trends as it also provides a high added value for notebook PCs that are also becoming thinner and lighter. Panasonic continues to bring out innovative disc drives through steady improvements in their performance and features.
Even with its 9.5 mm high thin profile, the new BD drive features double speed reading and writing for both write-once BD-R and rewritable BD-RE discs. This feature was facilitated through perfecting technologies such as improved light usage efficiency, high-speed recording waveform and broader bandwidth of the light-receiving element. The product is also capable of reading and writing on BD-R DL (dual layer/50GB) and BD-RE DL discs and will be compatible with future organic pigment-type BDs.
The new drive is also compatible with three types of optical discs (BD, DVD, CD). It supports reading and writing on four types of BD media (BD-R, BD-RE, BD-R DL, BD-RE DL) and reading of BD-ROMs. In addition, it is capable of reading and writing on seven types of CD/DVD media (DVD-RAM, DVD-R, +R, DVD-RW, +RW, CD-R, CD-RW) and reading of DVD-ROMs and CD-ROMs. Thus, the new drive provides a DVD Super Multi Drive function plus Blu-ray Disc support. Further, it is capable of 8x writing on DVD-R/+Rs, making the handling of DVDs fast and easy.
The samples will be exhibited at the 2008 International CES, the world's largest consumer electronics show, to be held from January 7, 2008 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in the United States.
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JERUSALEM — Israel's incoming prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Wednesday promised to resume peace talks with the Palestinians after he takes office, saying his government will be a "partner for peace."
His comments came as Human Rights Watch released a report that said Israel fired white phosphorous shells indiscriminately over densely populated areas of Gaza in what it says amounts to a war crime.
Netanyahu delivered his pledge a day after President Barack Obama says the U.S. will push for creation of a Palestinian state, despite Netanyahu's skepticism about the negotiations.
Netanyahu announced that he will seek parliamentary approval for his new coalition next week. Then he would take over as head of a government dominated by hawkish parties, but potentially moderated by the presence of the centrist Labor Party.
Labor has been at the forefront of Mideast peace efforts, while Netanyahu has an image of rebuffing peace moves that require Israeli concessions. To entice a reluctant Labor into his coalition, Netanyahu had to promise to pursue peace with the Palestinians but stopped short of pledging to work for creation of a Palestinian state — a cornerstone of peace plans for more than a decade.
In the campaign before the Feb. 10 election that propelled him toward the premiership, Netanyahu disparaged talks on a peace treaty, saying the proper approach was to first build up the Palestinian economy.
Palestinian leaders rejected that, and during her visit here this month, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a point of calling for creation of a Palestinian state at every opportunity.
That set the outline of a possible head-on clash between Israel and its most powerful ally, but Netanyahu, in a speech Wednesday before a joint Israeli-Palestinian economic conference, insisted this won't happen.
Peace is a "common and enduring goal for all Israelis and Israeli governments, mine included," Netanyahu said. "This means I will negotiate with the Palestinian Authority for peace."
He pledged, "The Palestinians should understand that they have in our government a partner for peace, for security, for the rapid development of the Palestinian economy."
Palestinian skepticism
In the West Bank, officials in the Western-backed government of President Mahmoud Abbas were skeptical and spokesman Nabil Abu Rdeneh dismissed Netanyahu's call for economic development.
Video: New Israeli government "Any solutions with other nicknames and titles are only an attempt to escape the commitments of the peace process," he said, listing main issues in negotiations for a state — borders, settlements and Jerusalem.
Besides Labor, Netanyahu's main partner is Yisrael Beitenu. Its leader and designated foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has drawn allegations of racism for a proposal that could end up stripping Israeli Arabs of their citizenship unless they declare their loyalty to the Jewish state.
Another coalition partner, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party, objects to even discussing sharing Jerusalem with the Palestinians.
As of now, Netanyahu has parties with 69 of the 120 seats in parliament on his team, and he may sign up one or two more small hawkish factions.
But Netanyahu's main rival, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni of the Kadima Party, insisted Wednesday that she will stay out, referring to herself as the future head of the parliamentary opposition.
"I have no doubt that the public wouldn't want to see us buried in the government without being able to substantially influence its policies, and we will present our views every day in the opposition," she told Channel 2 TV, after earlier describing the incoming team as "conceived in sin." Kadima received 28 seats in the Feb. 10 election, one more than Netanyahu's Likud.
Report: 'Evidence of war crimes'
Meanwhile, New York-based Human Rights Watch said called on the United Nations to investigate alleged Israeli violations of the rules of war, including the use of white phosphorous, during its three-week Gaza offensive.
The Israeli military said Wednesday that the shells were used in line with international law.
"The claim that smoke shells were used indiscriminately, or to threaten the civilian population, is baseless," the military said in a statement.
International law permits the use of phosphorous weapons as flares or to create smoke screens masking the movement of troops.
However, Human Rights Watch said Israeli troops frequently fired the shells over densely populated areas. The firing "was indiscriminate and is evidence of war crimes," the report said.
The group documented only some of the cases, including white phosphorous shells fired at a Gaza City hospital, the U.N. headquarters, a school and a market. In six attacks, 12 civilians were killed and dozens wounded, said Human Rights Watch researcher Fred Abrahams.
Each shell bursts into 116 burning white phosphorous wedges, over a radius of more than 135 yards. The wedges burn on contact with oxygen, creating intense heat, and can cause severe burns. The phosphorous kept burning for many days and was still smoldering well after Israel's withdrawal on Jan. 18.
Israel's use of white phosphorous violated the laws of war, Abrahams said.
"They knew perfectly well what danger white phosphorous poses to civilians," Abrahams said. "Their own documents prove it. They know that these areas were densely populated. Yet they fired it not once, not twice, but repeatedly into densely populated areas."
Hamas should also be investigated for war crimes, including indiscriminate rocket fire into Israeli border towns, Human Rights Watch said.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive on Dec. 27 in an attempt to halt rocket fire and weaken the territory's Hamas rulers. More than 1,400 Palestinians, including more than 900 civilians, were killed in the war, according to a Palestinian human rights group. Thirteen Israelis were also killed.
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Introducing Smither Family Kitchen 2.0. We are proud to introduce our new Texas pepper logo and bold new labels. Although we are sad to let the old look go, the new labels better represent what our product are and who they are for. Bold products need bold labels, right?
Our Habanero Dillapeño (Sweet Heat) is now called Sweet Dillanero. By customer request, we've added an Unsweet Dillanero, America's new hottest dill relish.
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Safet Zec, painter and engraver, was born in Rogatica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1943. After completing Art High School in Sarajevo, he continued his studies in Belgrade where he graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1969. In 1972 he obtained his postgraduate diploma. He went on to become an exponent of the recent art style known as "Poetic Realism". Since 1992 he's been in Italy and since 1998 he has his studio in Venice near San Francesco della Vigna's church.
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We're finishing up a great run on Kickstarter! We're at 186% of our goal.
Only three days left to get all the spendiferous Pirate Words of the Day in one place, categorized, and with illustrations – and at an introductory price!
This book is a useful guide for writers, and fun for anyone who loves old words (or talking like a pirate).
This is not a book of the namby-pamby, hoity-toity words one would expect to hear in the London drawing-rooms of the 1600s through 1800s. This is the street slang, the flash patter of seamen, street-sellers, Gypsies and thieves. As Carl Sandburg once said, "Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."
A few of my favorite words to give you the flavor:
DIMBER DAMBER: very pretty; a clever rogue who excels his fellows; chief of a gang. Old cant in the latter sense. ─English Rogue.
KILKENNY CAT: a popular simile for a voracious or desperate animal or person, from the story of the two cats in that county, who are said to have fought and bitten each other until a small portion of the tail of one of them alone remained.
LITTLE SNAKES-MAN: a little thief, who is generally passed through a small aperture to open any door to let in the rest of the gang.
SUCK THE MONKEY: to rob a cask of liquor by inserting a straw through a gimlet hole, and sucking a portion of the contents.
KISS-ME-QUICK: the name given to the very small bonnets worn by females since 1850.
BY THE HOLY POKER AND THE TUMBLING TOM!: an Irish oath.
Once the Kickstarter ends we'll be selling the book for $23.00, but you can pre-order a signed copy on Kickstarter for $20.00. We plan to have books shipped well in time for Christmas, so now's the time to get gifts for the word nerds in your life.


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I just now finished watching the documentary, "Hot Coffee". It's online at NetFlix and probably other sites as well. Remember the infamous McDonald's lawsuit involving a lady who spilled coffee on her lap? Remember how most of us denigrated her for bringing suit against McDonald's? This film covers that case and several others in the tort arena; more than that, it delves into the Oligarchy's role in so-called Tort Reform.
In the case of the lady suing McDonald's, my mind was completely changed. After seeing photographs of the burns, finding out that her medical bills were well over $10,000, and that there were hundreds of prior similar incidents and McDonald's ignored all complaints, and that her recovery involved numerous skin grafts, I decided she deserved every penny she was awarded by the jury. Most importantly, initially all she requested of McDonald's was that they pay her medical bills.
Another case involved a 19-year-old woman employee of KBR (a subsidiary of Halliburton at the time) who was gang raped in Iraq by male co-workers and then locked in a shipping container. The criminal case went nowhere ("He said, she said", I assume), and she couldn't bring a civil suit---tort case---against KBR because her employment contained a mandatory binding arbitration clause in fine print. It took her four years to get the case into court. Another case involved a mother who gave birth to a mentally damaged son, the damage being due to obvious medical malpractice. Because of caps on court case jury awards in her State, her son's medical bills are now being paid largely by MediCaid (in other words, by the taxpayer) instead of by those who caused the damage. There were other cases covered in the film, but I don't have time to go into them.
The above cases certainly make the documentary interesting, but it's real value is in the exposing of the so-called Tort Reform propaganda. Backed by mega corporations, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and former politicians such as George W. Bush, the tort reform movement is attempting (with significant success) to bamboozle Americans into believing that juries who hear tort cases somehow are incompetent when it comes to determining the amount of awards to plaintiffs. Of course, the tort reform propaganda doesn't state it that way. :)
I'm beginning to doubt that most people know the function of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in our society. It's primary purpose is to be a lobbyist in DC for mega corporations. It also funnels campaign funds to candidates for State Supreme Court Justice who are favorable to mega business interests. Such Justices are then instrumental in overturning jury awards to wronged plaintiffs in tort cases. The film documents such actions.
Tort Reform propaganda concentrates on those nasty trial lawyers [:)]; I fully admit that personally I don't care much for them either. What the propaganda ignores and suppresses, however, is the fact that bringing suit in court is our main protection against shabby manufacturers, employers, and others. The propagandists say that what they're against is FRIVOLOUS lawsuits, not the concept of bringing suit...and so, they promote caps on jury awards. Think about that for a moment. 1. Frivolous lawsuits generally are thrown out of court. 2. Caps on awards apply to everyone and every case, not just those deemed frivolous by the Oligarchs.*** 3. Without the possibility of a very large punitive damage award against them, those causing damage to people have little incentive to clean up their acts. [***The film shows a clip of George W. Bush (back when) bragging to Congress that such-and-such Legislative Bill will put a stop to "frivolous" lawsuits by placing caps on jury awards to plaintiffs. The man never could reason (or at least appears not to be able to). Hey, Dubya, those caps you're so proud of apply to ALL cases. They would even apply to a hypothetical case against a surgeon I once knew who used to boast that he could operate on a patient even when he (the surgeon) was "three sheets to the wind"... drunk. Caps---what a dandy idea, George...yeah, right.]
The Oligarchs also are rapidly implementing mandatory binding arbitration wherever and whenever they can, the purpose of which is to keep people out of court. Do you hold a bank credit card? If so, there's a 99% probability that if you have a dispute with the company, you cannot sue them in court---you're subject to mandatory arbitration. The same is true if you own a cell phone...and many other manufactured goods. It's also true for a large number of employees at a large number of places of employment. According to the film, more employees now are subject to mandatory arbitration than there are members of employee unions. No redress in court for you. Anyone with common sense should be able to figure out that "arbitration" is a scam---it's biased in favor of the employer or manufacturer or other defendant. The supposedly "independent" arbitrator would like more arbitration business from the Oligarch. What do you, the plaintiff, have to offer? Nothing, as far as the arbitrator is concerned.
Tort Reform and mandatory arbitration are two more oligarchical tools designed to dominate individuals and bypass basic individual rights. Don't fall for the blatant propaganda.
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A master Irish potter, Philip Pearce is perhaps best known for his 'Shanagarry' pottery, which his son Stephen is still producing 60 years later.
The 'Shanagarry' range originated in Philip Pearce collaborating with his son who was undertaking an apprenticeship with him, where he developed the distinctive black and white style that has made this range stand out.
The clay from which the Shanagarry range is made is dug from the banks of the river Blackwater and is organic, containing no lead, cadmium or other non-organic ingredients. Each item is hand crafted using 250 year-old traditional techniques.
In 1973 Stephen set up his own pottery. Stephen's simple and functional design philosophy soon led to the creation of his 'Classic' range of earthenware in naked terracotta and brilliant white. The simplicity and beauty of these pieces quickly earned them critical acclaim as design classics which have remained in style and demand ever since.
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The Hidden Ones are beings who worship the god Zulchequon. The veiled leader of the Hidden Ones is Tsunth. Possibly they are the Nyghan Grii or the Moon-beasts.
The members of the Order of Assassins were known as Hidden Ones in Pre-Cataclysmic times.
This is from "The Three Bladed Doom" a Conan story adapted by L. Sprague de Camp from a Robert E. Howard story. As Howard places the Hyborian Age in the Mythos frame, the reference is included here.
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Matt Harvey pitched seven shutout innings to earn his eighth win of the season on Sunday, 5-0, over the Phillies.
In picking up the victory, Harvey did something that the two previous Mets All-Star Game starting pitchers, Tom Seaver and Dwight Gooden, were not able to do — win their first outing after starting a mid-summer classic.
• Seaver, 7/14/70 at L.A: 9 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 10 K, No-Decision in 1-0, 10-inning loss.
• Gooden, 7/19/86 at HOU: 5 IP, 9 H, 4 R, 1 BB, 1 K, No-Decision in 5-4 loss.
• Gooden, 7/16/88 at ATL: 6 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 3 BB, 4 K, No-Decision in 3-2 win.
• Harvey, 7/21/13 vs PHI: 7 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 10 K, Won, 5-0.
David Wright hit his 219th career home run in Sunday's win, moving him one behind Mike Piazza for second place on the Mets' all-time list. Here are the top 10 home run leaders in club history:
• Darryl Strawberry: 252
• Mike Piazza: 220
• David Wright: 219
• Howard Johnson: 192
• Dave Kingman: 154
• Carlos Beltran: 149
• Todd Hundley: 124
• Kevin McReynolds: 122
• Edgardo Alfonzo: 120
• Ed Kranepool: 118
Gonzalez Germen picked up his first major league win on Saturday in the Mets' 5-4 victory over the Phillies. With the win, Germen, who lost his major league debut for the Mets in Pittsburgh back on July 12, evened his record at 1-1. Germen could have plenty of decisions ahead of him, but 10 pitchers in club history have finished their Met careers with a won-loss mark of exactly 1-1:
• Rigo Beltran: 1998-99
• Dennis Bennett: 1967
• Willie Blair: 1998
• Taylor Buchholz: 2011
• Jamie Cerda: 2002-03
• Kane Davis: 2002
• Mike Draper: 1993
• Eric Gunderson: 1994-95
• Carlos Muniz: 2007-08
• Grover Powell: 1963
Here are the Mets pitchers with .500 career records for the club with at least 10 decisions:
• Jesse Orosco: 47-47
• Jon Niese: 38-38
• Oliver Perez: 29-29
• Ron Taylor: 21-21
• David Weathers: 12-12
• Charlie Puleo: 9-9
• Brian Bohanon: 8-8
• Robert Person: 5-5
• Billy Wagner: 5-5
Marlon Byrd continues to stay hot in July, hitting .338 with five homers and 16 RBIs so far this month. On the Mets' road trip prior to the All-Star break, Byrd hit a grand slam in a 10-6 win over the Giants. It was only the seventh grand slam by a Mets hitter in San Francisco, and the club's first ever slam at AT&T Park.
Here are the Mets who have gone deep with the bases loaded, and the opposing pitcher they faced at the Giants' former park, Candlestick Park, and now at the Giants' current home:
• Marlon Byrd: 7/09/13 (vs. Jake Dunning)
• Robin Ventura: 8/15/99 (vs. Livan Hernandez)
• Dave Gallagher: 7/18/93 (vs. Mike Jackson)
• Gary Carter: 8/30/87 (vs. Rick Reuschel)
• George Foster: 8/20/83 (vs. Mark Calvert)
• Dave Kingman: 8/24/75 (vs. Jim Barr)
• Dave Marshall: 4/28/70 (vs. Gaylord Perry)
The Mets host the Braves this week before heading to Washington this weekend to face the Nationals.
The Mets have split their 10 games against Atlanta in 2013. Their win over the Braves back on May 26 ended Atlanta's five-game winning streak at Citi Field, but the Braves are 24-15 vs. the Mets since the ballpark opened in 2009.
The Mets and Nationals have split their eight meetings so far this season. The Mets are 23-24 all-time at Nationals Park, which opened in 2008.
Nine Miles of Rough Road: Jeremy Hefner vs. the Phillies was tough to watch. The all-time career ERA for Mets starter's against the Phils rose to 13.75 with eight runs allowed in the 13-8 loss last Friday.
Happy Recap: Juan Lagares, the rookie center fielder, is hitting .412 (14-for-34) with nine RBIs in 11 July games.
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Rainbow Cabins
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Woo hoo! It's beautiful, Marla! Love the alternating colour and text fabric and that it's reversible. Very lucky baby!ReplyDelete
Wow. I love the quilting on this, and the quilt is absolutely gorgeous! I love both sides! :)ReplyDelete
Loving the dogs and your crazy technical drawing. But mostly love the quilt.ReplyDelete
Egads! This is Gorgeous!!!! Be pleased, be very pleased :)ReplyDelete
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Wow! I'm at a loss for words - it's gorgeous!ReplyDelete
What an awesome quilt! The front, the back, the fabric choices, the quilting - you did a spectacular job!!ReplyDelete
Looks awesome!! Great job!ReplyDelete
Pretty! I love the colors along with the low volume prints.ReplyDelete
I really love your quilt, the colours and the stitching. I love huge log cabins, you are inspiring me to make another.ReplyDelete
WOW!! This is so gorgeous! :D I wouldn't know which side was the front, either. :D Love it!ReplyDelete


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This is 2 coats of the lovely Color Club Pretty In Platinum. I really love this slightly frosty, super pale gray/silver! I think its very flattering and looks great with most of my wardrobe. It reminds me of a silver Silly Putty Egg I had at some point.
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File this story under: "Why didn't someone think of this before?" Basma Hameed, a para-medical tattoo artist, uses the tattooist's tools of design and decoration to disguise and recolor all manner of skin issues, from burns to scars, birthmarks to acne blemishes.
Hameed suffered from a terrible accident with burning oil when she was just 2 years old in her native country of Iraq. She had scores of surgeries over the years, but after all the plastic surgery and laser treatments were done, she still had red scarring over half of her face. Her doctor told her nothing more could be done.
After she had a tattoo to replace the eyebrow she had lost during the accident, she started thinking that if you could replace an eyebrow with ink, why not the skin color where her scar was?
Hameed studied how to do this kind of work before she started experimenting on herself. "I think that I'm good at para-medical scar camouflage because I was able to work on myself, and I was able to see the process of it," she told the CBC. Then she opened her own clinic specializing in the procedures (as well as permanent eyeliner and lip color).
Hameed helps all kinds of clients, including those who she assists at low cost through the Basma Hameed Survivors Foundation. She has been very successful — she opened her first clinic in Toronto in 2011 and her second this year in Chicago.
She has helped hundreds of people so far, including those with mastectomy scars, and people with vitiligo, a skin condition where depigmentation occurs. Her clients are incredibly grateful; many of them had been told the same thing she heard — that they just had to live with their scars.
"When she told me she could actually get my pigments back and find a skin colour that could match my actual skin colour, it's just a big sigh of relief," said Samira Omar in the CBC video above. Omar is a teenage girl who had boiling water thrown on her by bullies — and some horrific resultant scarring that Hameed is going to cover using her outside-the-box tattoo artistry.
Related on MNN:
- Tattoos for a cause: Skin ink has evolved
- Tattoos for the edgy environmentalist
- 8 reasons to skip a new tattoo


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A fire broke out on an oil production platform in the Gulf of Mexico early Thursday, forcing four workers to evacuate by lifeboat before the blaze was extinguished. There were no injuries and inspectors found no sign of pollution, authorities said.
The blaze was reported about 2:30 a.m. on a platform about 80 miles south of Grand Isle, Louisiana, and was extinguished nearly four hours later, the Coast Guard said in a statement.
The four workers were rescued by the crew of the 130-foot Mary Wyatt Milano, a supply vessel, the Coast Guard said. They were flown to a hospital in Houma to be evaluated, the Interior Department's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said in a statement.
The company that owns the platform, Renaissance Offshore LLC, has suspended oil production on it and a second platform it owns, the statement said, adding that 17 oil wells associated with the two platforms were similarly "shut in" before the workers were evacuated.
Company and government inspectors confirmed that no oil is leaking into the water from either the platform or the wells, said Renaissance spokesman Oliver Marsh.
"Initial efforts were made by the crew to extinguish the fire, (but) the decision was made to discontinue those efforts and abandon the platform due to heavy smoke," Marsh wrote in an email.
Crew members aboard the Mary Wyatt Milano and three other vessels battled the blaze. An HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane from Mobile, Alabama, also responded, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Third Class Travis Magee.
Clean Gulf, a nonprofit oil industry cooperative that responds to spills and provides equipment to help clean them up, was on its way to the platform Thursday.
An oil platform exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, killing 11 workers. Millions of gallons of oil spewed into the Gulf for weeks before the oil well could be capped.
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If you don't expect something, you will be disappointed. Even if we expect something from this place, we could never knew that it's so magical.
It was a big WAUW surprise and I loved it! I would love to be here much longer, but the rest of this incredible country is waiting for us. Thank you so much for welcoming us, it's unforgettable


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DOVER — Non-profit agency, Sexual Assault Support Services (SASS), invites committed and passionate volunteers to register for outreach training, taking place Thursday, Jan. 23, in Dover.
SASS outreach training builds upon volunteers' skills, creating knowledgeable outreach volunteers who are committed to raising awareness about sexual assault prevention and the support services available for survivors. Outreach volunteers are important to the agency, as their work in Rockingham and Strafford counties helps to create informed, safe and healthy communities.
After completing training, outreach volunteers will join the "Society for SASS" Outreach Committee; a group of people ages 18 and up. The committee's main goal is to develop and support ways to increase awareness through special events and partnerships with local communities.
Volunteering on the Outreach Committee is flexible. Members are asked to attend a once a month meeting and to participate in outreach activities. Committee members will receive on-going support from SASS staff and will gain insight into a non-profit agency. Members will also gain experience planning and executing a variety of events throughout the year.
If interested in joining SASS's volunteer efforts, go online to download and complete a volunteer questionnaire at www.sassnh.org. Please return your questionnaire to Community Outreach Coordinator, Christiana Amesquita at email@example.com or by U.S. mail to 7 Junkins Ave., Portsmouth, NH, 03801 by Thursday, Jan. 16. Volunteers will then be contacted with further information.
SASS is a non-profit crisis agency dedicated to the prevention of child sexual abuse, sexual assault and stalking, while supporting victims, survivors and others impacted by sexual violence. A 24-hour confidential crisis hotline is available at 1-888-747-7070 as well as 24-hour accompaniments to hospitals, police stations, courts and child advocacy centers.
For more information about SASS and opportunities to volunteer, please call (6030 436-4107 or visit online at www.sassnh.org.


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My sister gets the credit for introducing this catchy little phrase into our family eons ago. I frequently used it on my son when he was little. Oh no Mom … I don't want The Gift! Recently, I've been using it on myself and it isn't fun.
Last week I had plans to sing for a special church service. I went to the rehearsals, changed my calender around to accommodate this gig and even planned what I was going to wear, which is so not like me.
So the big day comes and I'm feeling lousy. I have a fever. My legs feel like concrete. My body is trying to tell me to stop, slow down and rest. Argghhh! I honestly had no choice but to accept the gift of disappointment and stay home.
I did not want to accept The Gift. I don't like giving it, either. And I don't like having lupus.
Despite lupus and all the personal disappointments that go along with it, I am learning how to say "no." My survival depends on it. I'm getting better at asking for help if I need it. It's a little easier for me to RSVP with a "thanks for the invite, but I can't." I don't always feel the need to justify my excuse if I have to cancel plans at the last minute.
When I sat down to write this entry, I expected to find the tie-in … the common thread …. to living with a chronic illness like lupus. But The Gift is suitable for anyone attempting to find their own way in this world.
The Gift is not an excuse, mind you. But it can be a blessing.


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The Ghost Army was officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. From June 1944 to March 1945 it staged 20 battlefield deceptions, beginning in Normandy and ending at the Rhine River. These deceptions included an array of inflatables (tanks, trucks, jeeps, and airplanes), sound trucks, phony radio transmissions and even playacting to fool the enemy.
In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over ten memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's most segregated states, even in the face of intimidation, physical violence, and death.
In 1948, the Soviet Union blocked access to West Berlin, starving the population and choking commerce. Allied forces refused to cede the city, and for nearly a year, supplied two million civilians and 20,000 allied solders entirely from the air. Through the personal stories of those who were there, this program provides a striking look at the first battle of the Cold War and the largest humanitarian campaign the world has ever seen.


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Student Confidential
Four high school students are led into the world of adult vices by a shadowy millionaire.
Genres: Drama
Actor: Elizabeth Singer, Susie Scott, Marlon Jackson, Eric Douglas
Director: Richard Horian
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Release: 1987
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A collection of twenty healthy, naturally colored green recipes to celebrate spring!
Happy March! Spring is officially around the corner and I couldn't be more excited for all things GREEN! In my opinion, there is no need to rely on artificial coloring or ingredients when it comes to creating brightly colored, green-with-envy deliciousness. To prove my point, below are twenty healthy green recipes from your favorite food bloggers to help you celebrate the season!
Mango Coconut Green Smoothie by The Lemon Bowl
Spinach Pesto Pasta by Alida's Kitchen
Wasabi Vegetable Bowls by The Roasted Root
Green Tomato Salsa Verde by Wonky Wonderful
California Turkey Club Wrap by Tastes Lovely
Spelt Tabbouleh with Jalapeno Vinaigrette by The Lemon Bowl
Springtime Pea Soup with Mint by Eclectic Recipes
Garlic Kale Hummus by Strength and Sunshine
Pesto Shrimp Cucumber Rolls by Perry's Plate
Brussels Sprouts with Lemon and Brown Rice by Eat Yourself Skinny
Slow Cooker Caldo de Pollo (Mexican Chicken Soup) by The Lemon Bowl
Raw Falafel Wraps with Parsley Tahini Sauce by Gourmande in the Kitchen
Green Ombre Fruit Skewers by Unsophisticook
Broccoli Feta Fritters by A Healthy Life for Me
Japanese Quick Pickled Cucumbers by The Lemon Bowl
Kiwi Mojito Popsicles by Gimme Some Oven
Fish Taco Lettuce Wraps with Mango Kiwi Salsa by Heartbeet Kitchen
Broccoli Soup with Ginger and Lemon by Naturally Ella
Cucumber and Endive Green Juice by Healthy Green Kitchen
Caribbean Salad with Bananas and Red Onions by The Lemon Bowl


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Episode 14 - Temperance (Virtues & Vices, Part 4)
Grant, Peter, and Branden continue our Virtues & Vices series with a look at Temperance! We talk over the usual news, and thank those who've commented on past episodes (that's always nice.) Then we dive into our Temperance discussion: How it's commonly used in Scripture; its prevalence as a virtue in many moral codes; how Christians treat it, and contrast it with Gluttony; and as usual, how to use Temperance in-game and how to promote it out-of-game.
Scripture: Proverbs 25:16; Ecclesiastes 10:16-17; 1 Corinthians 9:24-27; Ephesians 5:15-20
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This article concerns unit lore. You may be looking for:
- Terran siege tank(src)
The siege tank is a terran vehicle that can be configured to fulfill both the armored support and the long-range artillery support roles.[1]
The dual-mode siege tank concept was a response to the Guild Wars and the goliath. Prior to the war, work had progressed on a static "final defense" cannon. However, the conflict demonstrated the need for mobility and as a result an effort was made to make the cannon more mobile. The solution was creative. An existing tank design was modified so that it could operate as a conventional tank in addition to being able to deploy the cannon and become a static artillery emplacement at will.[1] Mobile siege tanks were in existence by 2480, several years before the official beginning of the Guild Wars. [2]
Siege tanks function in two modes. First is the "tank" or "assault mode" in which the vehicle may be used in the familiar armored support role using relative light weapons. The second is the more radical "siege mode" in which the vehicle becomes a static emplacement able to deploy a much more powerful and longer ranged weapon.[1]
AAV-5 Arclite
The AAV-5[3] was in service by the late 2490s, renowned throughout the Confederacy for its heavy firepower and stalwart emplacement/advance tactics.[1] It had a crew of three: gunner, driver, and commander/navigator,[3] though could still be crewed by a single operator.[4][5] In addition, the Arclite version could serve as an APC of sorts, carrying personnel into a hot zone and deploying them via side/rear hatches.[4]
The Arclite made navigation easy via its interior viewscreen, although a top hatch still existed should a crew member wish to survey the area personally and/or signal fellow soldiers.[4] The tank also provided a targeting computer, which not only keyed in on heat sources, but also identified their range, notably whether they were in range or not via visual and audio indications.[4]
Arclite armament consisted of twin 80mm PPG-7 plasma cannons[6] when mobile and the 120mm Shock Cannon when in siege mode.[1] Later on this was upgraded to the 120mm Mjolnir Artillery Cannon, which fired plasma shells in contrast to the standard explosives of the Shock Cannon.[6]
Experience found the AAV-5's protection and "assault mode" armament to be inadequate. This inhibited its ability to advance and establish a "siege mode" fire base. Furthermore, once in "siege mode" it became difficult to repel a close-assault by any enemy forces taking advantage of the "deadzone" formed by its artillery cannon, and even in the AAV-5 transform back into "tank mode", it was relatively undergunned and lightly armored. As such, it has been replaced by the Crucio variant, which has a more powerful "tank mode".[7]
The Crucio was designed to correct the perceived deficiencies of the AAV-5 and entered Dominion service as the AAV-5's replacement following the Brood War. The new turret layout features an upgraded assault-mode armament package so that the Crucio can fend for itself more successfully in an open battlefield. Force deployment costs for the Crucio have increased over the older Arclite, but the increased versatility of the powerful new siege tank more than compensates for the additional expense. The Crucio features twin 90mm cannons and has retained the 120mm Shock Cannon.[7]
The Crucio is equipped with a plasma gun.[8]
- For StarCraft gameplay information see: Siege tank (StarCraft).
- For StarCraft in-game quotations see: StarCraft I siege tank Quotations.
The siege tank has many stereotypical, military quotes. The driver of the tank is seen as a large man in body armor who speaks in army lingo. Several of his quotes are obviously taken from the classic Vietnam War films Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now.
StarCraft: Ghost
This article or section contains information about StarCraft: Ghost, which has been declared non-canon. Elements may be taken as 'flavor lore' however.
In StarCraft: Ghost, Nova was able to call down artillery support from siege tanks by identifying targets.[9] Siege tanks were player drivable in multiplayer, and were able to run over and crush other players and vehicles.[6]
StarCraft II
- For StarCraft II gameplay information see: Siege tank (StarCraft II).
The siege tank in StarCraft II represents the Crucio type.[7]
Known Siege Tanks
Known Siege Tank Models
Known Siege Tank Commanders and Crewmen
- General Edmund Duke (formerly an officer of the Terran Confederacy)
- General Martin (mercenary leader)
- Sergeant Forest Keel
- Private Armstrong
- Garth
- Murphy
- The 120mm Mjolnir cannon is a reference to the hammer of the Norse god of thunder, Thor.
- Crucio is a Latin word which means "I torture."
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Legends in the Law: Daniel M. Gribbon
(Appeared in Bar Report, October/November 1998)
Daniel M. Gribbon has practiced law for more than 50 years with the law firm of Covington & Burling where he is senior counsel. Upon receiving a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1941, he clerked for one year with Judge Learned Hand before serving in the Navy during World War II where he worked with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He has served as chair of the Board on Professional Responsibility in the District of Columbia, chair of the Advisory Committee on Procedures for the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and is president of the Historical Society of the D.C. Circuit.
Bar Report: You were born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1917. What was it like growing up as the son of a small-town banker during the Depression?
Daniel M. Gribbon: The Depression had a significant effect on our lives even though we were not poor. We lived comfortably. But like most bankers my father had a lot of trouble in the 1930s. The bank for which he had worked for many years closed its doors in the early thirties. Life was much simpler then. Radio was a big event because we had no television. Youngstown was not a big city, but on one side of us there was Cleveland and on the other side was Pittsburgh, so we were not completely isolated.
BR: When you were still quite young, the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross in a park in your neighborhood. Did you understand what was happening?
DMG: Oh yes. The Ku Klux Klan was well advertised and well known. I cannot say I expected them to burn a cross anywhere close to where we were, but it was not all that surprising. My grandfather kept a little book full of names of all the Ku Klux Klan members in the area and whenever one ran for office he would inform all his friends and urge them to vote against the Ku Klux Klan member. The Klan is known more for its hatred toward blacks, but this was a Klan antipathy toward the Jews and Catholics in our neighborhood. I remember everyone came out of their homes that night to see what had happened. It was a big blaze and quite scary.
BR: Who or what influenced you to pursue a law career?
DMG: My mother. She insisted that I take up a profession and because I showed little aptitude in the sciences or mathematics, law seemed the best avenue. I had majored in history and English at Case Western Reserve University. I lacked patience for teaching and in order to follow my mother's insistence on having a profession, I decided it had to be law.
BR: You entered Harvard University in 1938. What was your experience like there?
DMG: For most of the first year I was apprehensive that I was not going to be able to deal with matters as effectively as my classmates, most of whom had come from eastern universities and eastern prep schools. But after the first grades came out and I had done well, my apprehension was eased. I continued to work hard and had very little social life. I lived in a dormitory called Perkins Hall near the law school. It was very pleasant, but Harvard was hard work and very competitive at that time. I imagine it still is. In the second year, I was working as case editor on the Law Review. That was just about a full-time occupation with very little opportunity for studies, never mind anything else. It was grueling work. I spent all kinds of hours working in the Law Review office and was never home before 11 or 12 o'clock at night. I wonder now if it was all worthwhile.
BR: How did you come to clerk for Judge Learned Hand after law school?
DMG: I actually went to work for him before graduation. Sometime in May of 1941 Judge Hand's clerk entered the military. At that time judges on the court of appeals had only one clerk, so Judge Hand was in desperate need of help. It was nearing the end of the term and all his cases were building up. I was selected by the dean of Harvard's law school, and at Judge Hand's request I went to work for him as soon as possible.
I did not apply for the position and never saw the judge in advance. At that time the procedure for selecting law clerks was rather different than today. The dean simply called me in to his office one day and in so many words asked, "Would you like to clerk for Judge Learned Hand?" I said, "yes." And that was it. I was very lucky.
BR: What was it like working with Judge Hand?
DMG: It was a wonderful experience because he was an unusual man. In general clerking for the court of appeals is not as interesting as the Supreme Court nor as helpful as the district court where you see many different matters at various stages of development. The intellectual work as a clerk on the court of appeals is essentially more of what you had in law school. All the real lawmaking has been done. But working for an individual like Judge Learned Hand was a great experience in all respects.
The best part of working for him was that he asked me to live with him for the summer while his wife stayed in their summer home in Vermont. He would join her on weekends. (Also living with us was Judge Albert Coxe.) Judge Hand lived on East 65th Street which was quite a distance from the courthouse at Foley Square. I enjoyed mostly walking with him to work every morning. He would talk about world events including the war which had already begun in Europe and was coming closer to us. He had interesting observations about everything. All I did was ask questions rather than engage in dialogue with him. He never talked about cases.
BR: What do you think you learned from him?
DMG: That's a very difficult question. I'm not sure you can, in my experience, ever say you learned any particular thing from a specific event. I think learning is progressive and you learn from an accumulation of experiences. I suppose one important thing I got from him was seeing how he attempted to be impartial. He recognized that he had a bias like everybody else. He always struggled to get rid of it and handle each matter objectively in accordance with the law. He gave a number of speeches on how he struggled to remove his bias. He may not have always succeeded but he tried very hard.
BR: Do you remember any particular cases you worked on with him?
DMG: I remember he loved the patent cases. He used to get the invention involved in the case, take it apart and put it together again. He enjoyed seeing how the apparatus worked. Patent lawyers have told me that Judge Hand made a greater contribution to patent law than any other judge. He also enjoyed the admiralty cases. He loved to get models of ships and recreate the circumstances of a collision. He loved the sea and the nautical language.
I remember that his opinions, particularly compared with the opinions from the courts of appeals today, were brief. He decided the case before him in as few words as possible. We would discuss the case fully and once he had written his opinion he would ask me to read and give comments. Initially I might point out that a passage was perhaps a little obscure and that people might not understand it. But such comments never made an impression on him. He never inserted the changes I suggested and never explained why. I soon learned it was pointless to make those types of comments. Unfortunately, my year with Learned Hand was cut short because of World War II.
BR: You entered the Navy in 1941. Was that prompted by the attack on Pearl Harbor?
DMG: Yes. Until Pearl Harbor few people in this country really thought we would get into the war. Our sympathies were with the allies but it was considered a European war. However the attack on Pearl Harbor, and then Germany declaring war on us, changed things entirely. At that time it was perfectly clear that a young person such as myself would have to serve in the military. I preferred the Navy because it was a little cleaner. My thoughts then were if I had to suffer and die I would rather do it on a ship than in the mud. I was rejected initially because early in the war the services were insisting on rigorous compliance with physical requirements. My eyes were not that bad but not good enough to qualify. Later on the services were less demanding and opened up the program to allow civilians to enter directly as officers. I applied and was admitted.
BR: What did you do when you served on the Joint War Plans Committee?
DMG: That was a committee for all Joint Chiefs of Staff along with the British chiefs, which together formed a number of subcommittees that covered various things such as war plans and intelligence. My job, in part, was to do military research of a fairly elementary nature. I did not have the background to understand military maneuvers. The biggest part of the job, however, was to write up reports on what the committee members had discussed and decided. The reports were then forwarded to the military leaders who would make decisions based on the accumulated information. It really was not all that fascinating, but on the flip side, I was not on the front lines and heard no shots fired in anger.
BR: In that position did you get any information or clue as to the plans to use the nuclear bomb on Japan?
DMG: No. That was a well-kept secret. There was no reason for me to know. The joint chiefs were consulted of course, but for the most part it was a political decision. Although President Truman did heavily depend on what his military personnel advised. The clear consensus among the military leaders was that this would end the war with much less loss of life than if we continued with the invasion of the Japanese homeland, which was to be the next move.
I don't remember anybody, including myself, having any concerns about the morality or propriety of dropping those bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I am mystified by people who now dispute whether it should have been done. At that time we had lost an awful lot of men to the war and we were planning two invasions of the Japanese islands: one in Kyushi and the other in Tokyo Bay. The best estimates were that the loss of life from those invasions would be much worse than we had experienced to date. I felt that war is war, and the best course was to get it over with as quickly as we could with the fewest fatalities and injuries.
BR: How did you get the job with Covington & Burling?
DMG: When I was preparing to graduate from law school and considering my future plans, I decided I wanted to pursue federal law and deal with the impact of the government on people. Therefore I was not particularly interested in New York firms, despite the fact that they were very good firms. In fact I worked one summer with Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the best New York firms. My interest in federal law meant I should come to Washington, D.C., and Covington & Burling was the leading firm in Washington. I was invited to come down here for an interview around Christmas of 1940. I was impressed by the people at the firm and by what I learned about the law it was doing, so I agreed to join the firm when I graduated. However the opportunity to clerk with Judge Hand intervened and then of course there was the war. When the war was drawing to a close Mr. Burling called me to say the offer was still open and asked when I could start.
BR: What was it like at the firm in those early years?
DMG: I gave a talk to the paralegals recently and I told them that in the late 1940s and early 1950s the work the young lawyers did was very much like the work the paralegals do today. It's not exactly the same, but close. A good deal of my work was on antitrust cases and involved a lot of documentary research, depositions, and long drawn out cases.
BR: In 1969 Covington became the first law firm to assign two attorneys on a full-time basis to the Neighborhood Legal Services Program (NLSP). What was your involvement with that?
DMG: We have a five-person management committee that makes most of the decisions for the firm. I was on the committee at the time and the head of the legal services program asked for help above and beyond the pro bono work that was already taking place. The federal government funding for NLSP had just begun. Also there was a Baltimore law firm that had received a lot of publicity for setting up a neighborhood storefront office in the poor section of Baltimore. We considered doing something similar but determined that a more effective way to help meet the need for legal assistance to the underprivileged was to bolster the Neighborhood Legal Services Program. We sent two lawyers and two secretaries to work in the NLSP offices on a rotating six-month basis. We thought having a presence in their facilities would be better than setting up a separate office because we would be seen as part of the organization and have the additional advantage of giving our lawyers some hands on experience. That program has continued and we now send a full complement of three attorneys, three secretaries, and three paralegals.
BR: What was your first experience like arguing before the Supreme Court?
DMG: I was not a youth and had done a number of cases in the court of appeals and in district court, but your first Supreme Court case always makes you apprehensive. This case, Grunenthal v. Long Island Railroad, had been argued in the lower courts by other attorneys. Covington represented the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Long Island Railroad, which was a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Supreme Court matters. Hugh Cox, one of my seniors at Covington and an excellent attorney, did most of the work for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He asked me if I wanted to argue the case in the Supreme Court. The case involved an injured railroad worker who had asked for $100,000 in compensation. The jury found the railroad liable, which it always did in those federal employee liability cases, and granted damages of $300,000. The district court refused to grant a new trial. However, the Court of Appeals reversed, saying the district court had abused its discretion in failing to recognize the gross impropriety of the damages. The case was of interest because it raised the question of whether the court of appeals could review a district court's refusal to set aside a verdict as being excessive—whether such action would be consistent with common law. That interesting question was never resolved because the Supreme Court decided that the district court had exercised its discretion properly and reinstated its decision. It was not a sweeping victory.
I had been involved in a number of Supreme Court cases before that as a number two attorney, so I was familiar with the Court's practice. But there's no substitute for that first experience arguing a case before the Supreme Court as the lead attorney. I have not been to the Supreme Court for a couple of years but I'm sure if I were asked today I would still be nervous.
You have nine people before you, each with his or her own agenda, peppering you with questions. Most of the questions are directed not so much at the advocate arguing the case, but at one of the other justices. It is a little difficult to know how to handle that situation without alienating one or the other, or perhaps both, justices. I think the tendency for justices to fire questions aimed at their colleagues has grown in recent years. At one time justices were satisfied to let the advocate argue the case. After all, that was the lawyer's chance to plead the case. Now, many justices are much more interested in trying to make points with the other justices.
BR: Do you think that exchange is a good thing?
DMG: It is hard to tell. I think most of the justices would feel it helps them decide a case, and ultimately that is what they are trying to do. Although it is a little disquieting to the advocate. But the idea is not to make the advocate happy—it is to decide the case.
BR: Tell me about your representing the Dupont Company in resisting the ban on leaded gasoline.
DMG: That was an interesting case even though I lost. Three companies at that time made tetraethyl lead, which had the amazing property of stopping the knock in gasoline engines. It was invented in 1923 or 1924 and widely used since that time. But in the early 1970s people became concerned about the dangers of lead exposure, especially in children. Most of the problems came from lead in paint but someone fastened on to the idea that it could come from the exhaust of a car. Plus it was a lot easier to ban the use of lead in gasoline than it was to ban the use of lead in paint. Once the paint was on a house people could not be forced to repaint their houses with lead-free paint. So when the use of lead in gasoline was banned it put those companies that made tetraethyl lead out of business. Ethyl and Dupont, the principal producers, challenged the ban in the court of appeals. A panel of the court found that the evidence did not support the government's ban of lead in gasoline. The court of appeals then sat on the case en banc, which they do not do very often, and overturned the district court's decision by a five-to-four vote. The critical vote was cast by Judge Bazelon who did not sit on either the panel argument or the argument en banc. That loss was a blow after the initial victory.
An amusing incident during this case was when Judge MacKinnon asked the government lawyer what effect lead had on the body because the judge said he had worked in a lead factory many years ago. The government lawyer gave a brief explanation but then expounded on it during his rebuttal, talking in great detail about the terrible effects lead had on the nervous system. Halfway through, Judge Robb told the lawyer he better stop because he was making Judge MacKinnon feel very bad.
BR: What would you say was the most significant case you have had?
DMG: As far as general importance—political and social—it would be the Dupont-General Motors case. I spent a lot of time on it as the number two lawyer for Dupont. In that case the Supreme Court concluded that Dupont's ownership of twenty-five percent of General Motors' stock, which it had acquired in 1917 and 1918, violated Section 7 of the Clayton Act because it created the probability of a restraint of trade in Dupont's sales to General Motors. After a long trial the district court had found that the stock holding had created no such restraint of trade and that there was no probability of any such restraint in the future.
In terms of legal precedent the most significant case was probably The Upjohn Company v. United States in 1981, which involved the scope of a corporation's attorney-client privilege. In deciding the case unanimously, the court breathed new life into the privilege. Judges had been suspicious of attorney-client privilege, but the Supreme Court said with much enthusiasm that it was essential to the effective administration of justice. That opinion has been at the forefront recently in the struggle between the White House and the independent counsel to establish whether the privilege extends to the Secret Service, the president's lawyers, and others. I argued the Upjohn case the day after President Reagan took office.
Another case of significance, and this one I lost, was Penn Central Transportation Company v. New York City, which shed a new light on the principle of "takings." A government taking of property under the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments requires just compensation. The Supreme Court in this case held that despite the City of New York having prevented Penn Central from using the Grand Central Terminal for its own purposes, such action did not constitute a "taking" that required compensation. The Court said that the City of New York did not take all of the terminal property and Penn Central's investment expectations were not injured because it could continue to make some money and was entitled to no compensation.
An interesting aspect of that case was that Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who had publicly favored the city, marched into the spectator section of the Court with an entourage just before the argument started. She caused quite a stir and was probably the strongest argument presented in favor of the city. All that I was able to salvage was a dissent of three justices: Chief Justice Berger and Justices Stevens and Rehnquist. It may be wishful thinking on my part, but it seems the law on takings in the intervening years has moved closer to their view. That's what you tend to say when you lose a case.
BR: Tell me about your involvement with the Board on Professional Responsibility in the District of Columbia?
DMG: I had been a member and my name was put forth as a candidate for the position of chair. Jerry Reilly, the chief judge of the D.C. Court of Appeals, called me up and announced that I was going to be appointed to head the board. I was quite surprised and asked him what I was supposed to do as chair. He said, "you'll find out."
The job was quite interesting. It exposed me to an area of practice, or malpractice, that I had previously had little to do with. Among other things we had several interesting cases involving lawyers that participated in one way or another in the Watergate matter.
BR: When did you get involved with the Historical Society of the D.C. Circuit?
DMG: It was founded in 1991 and I got involved right from the start when then Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked me to help out. We have commissioned a history spanning 200 years of the D.C. federal courts, which is about ready for publication. In addition, we have prepared about 35 oral histories of judges and practitioners that will be of great value to historians and the bar. They are in the court's library.
BR: Your oldest daughter, Diana, is a judge of the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Did you influence her to pursue law?
DMG: She claims I influenced her. I didn't do so intentionally though I did not discourage her. I certainly did not push her as my mother did with me. Our other daughter, Deborah, I am afraid, I unintentionally influenced against the law. She and her mother got pretty fed up with Diana, her husband Fred Motz (also a judge) and me talking shop all the time. She went into the art business. She is the deputy director of the J. Paul Getty Art Museum in Santa Monica, California.
BR: What are your thoughts on the legal profession today and the changes you have seen over the years?
DMG: As you grow old everything seems to deteriorate. It is never as good as you remember it, but usually that is because you tend to remember only the good things. I am not one who feels the profession is going to hell in a hand basket. I think the young people coming out of law school are smarter and I am certain they have much more self assurance than my generation. The quality of lawyers has not deteriorated, and indeed, may well have improved.
The law, however, has become merely one aspect of business conduct or human conduct rather than a controlling structure of society. In my recollection of the early days when big companies asked for legal advice and a lawyer gave it to them, they followed it. There was no consulting with public relations, advertising, or accounting departments. Today corporations and many individuals look upon the law as something to consider, but not as something to adhere to, which is unfortunate.
Another change is the public attention given to such matters as how much money a lawyer is making or not making, and who is moving from one firm to another firm. There is much more information of that kind in the media, which has led to an unfortunate competition in the profession. Lawyers are no longer satisfied with what they have because they are worried about what someone else is getting. It was better when lawyers were ignorant of other people's personal business and were more focused on doing their own job and not distracted by competition. And that leads to another significant change: there is no such thing as firm loyalty anymore. In my day if you made a decision to go with a firm, that was it. There had to be something very catastrophic to happen for you to consider going off to another firm. But not anymore. Having stayed with Covington & Burling since I started in 1945, I have been quite happy with my experience. I cannot think of anything else I would have enjoyed more.


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I want to thank you all for checking out my recipes and giving great feedback. My husband and I are in the process of selling our house and buying a bigger one. We have maxed out our current space and need a little elbow room. In anticipation of the big move we ate up the meals in our freezer and unplugged it. Soon I hope to be settled into our new kitchen and will start trialing some new recipes.
Lately we have been grilling a lot. Chicken legs, pork steaks, hamburgers and turkey sausage. I am trying not to buy in bulk (which is so hard when bulk is a better deal) so we have less to move. I also have been stopping at Subway once a week and they now know me by name!
I can't wait to get back to my freezer cooking and show you my new spacious kitchen. It needs a little updating, but I can't wait to get in there! Wish us luck with this stressful process.
Christie aka Keeza


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Welcome back!!!
We hope your holidays were fruitful and full of love!
This week we are sending a trip permission slip to you in preparation for an upcoming trip. Please complete the form and return it with the fee by December 17th. We must pay for this trip before we can secure the seated tickets. We will let you know of the trip date after all slips have been returned. Chaperons for this trip are very limited. Please see your child's teacher for information. The cost of the trip is $14.
We have three full weeks before our longer winter break. Please try your best to have your child at school on time, well rested and fed each day before the break.
Home Assignments:
- Read daily 15 minute minimum 7 days (track on the contract due Mon)
- Math Home link (make it more challenging for your child as needed)
- Word study: daily practice sight words for improved reading fluency (5 days)
- Writing Application: Mon plan, Tues draft, Wed revise, Thurs edit, Fri submit
Writing Application Choices:
Choice #1: Creative Writing
Pretend you won a lot of money in a contest. Write a story about how you used the money to protect the world's water, land and air. Begin your story with the words: " As soon as I got the money I…"
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Write a story about a tree who became a child's friend. Be sure your story has a beginning middle and end, a plot (problem and solution) and characters and a clear setting.
Sight words: another, far, grow, hard, heard, kind, light, more, some, to


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He said Penang, Selangor and Kelantan that are governed by the federal Opposition parties have little faith in "merely signing the empty pledge".
"Penang in particular has no faith in the MACC given the fact that agency has done little to address the menace of corruption," he said in a statement issued today in response to MACC chief commissioner Datuk Dzulkifli Ahmad who has criticised the state's reluctance in signing the pledge.
Ramasamy also questioned why the MACC was overly concerned with states that have not signed the pledge, saying it should instead be convincing these states that it can act against those involved in corruption without fear or favour.
"But unfortunately, the MACC is not free from political interference and it will continue to be so for a long time to come. Given this, why should Penang or Selangor or Kelantan take the Corruption-Free Pledge seriously?" he asked.
Dzulkifli Ahmad of MACC
There cannot be no answers for this particular case.
It's simply not acceptable that one can die in the MACC's custody without knowing what had happened.
Teoh voluntarily stepped into the Selangor Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)'s office to give a statement as a witness. He failed to come out alive, while under MACC's custody.
"The saddest thing about selling out is just how cheaply most of us do it for."
But Lim Kit Siang, senior DAP leader of the same party as the late Teoh Beng Hock, could bring himself to support the MACC.
What faithless abandonment of justice for Teoh Beng Hock!
Basically there is nothing immoral, shameful or disgusting Lim Kit Siang is not prepared to do today just to feed his personal political obsession, which I personally suspect is to see himself in government at least for a term before he retires.
Our family has always supported the DAP since its inception in 1965. I will say we still do though we have given up on Lim Kit Siang who we believe is a pitiful but painful blight on the party.
All for grubby politics, none for integrity nor justice