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from the that's-not-how-this-works deptA very stupid story broke out over the weekend and got some buzz after some people read way too much into some legal maneuvering. As you may recall, back in April a court ruled that Microsoft had to hand over email data stored in Ireland based on a warrant issued in the US under the (incredibly outdated) Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Microsoft, quite reasonably, fought back, pointing out that a warrant only applies within the US and not to foreign countries. The DOJ (and the original judge) claimed that an ECPA warrant isn't really like a warrant at all, but rather a "hybrid warrant/subpoena." But, Microsoft (rightly) points out that this is the DOJ wanting the best of both worlds -- while ignoring the protections of both. Here was the crux of Microsoft's argument:
The Government's interpretation ignores the profound and well established differences between a warrant and a subpoena. A warrant gives the Government the power to seize evidence without notice or affording an opportunity to challenge the seizure in advance. But it requires a specific description (supported by probable cause) of the thing to be seized and the place to be searched and that place must be in the United States. A subpoena duces tecum, on the other hand, does not authorize a search and seizure of the private communications of a third party. Rather. it gives the Government the power to require a person to collect items within her possession, custody, or control, regardless of location, and bring them to court at an appointed time. It also affords the recipient an opportunity to move in advance to quash. Here, the Government wants to exploit the power of a warrant and the sweeping geographic scope of a subpoena, without having to comply with fundamental protections provided by either. There is not a shred of support in the statute or its legislative history for the proposition that Congress intended to allow the Government to mix and match like this. In fact, Congress recognized the basic distinction between a warrant and a subpoena in ECPA when it authorized the Government to obtain certain types of data with a subpoena or a "court order," but required a warrant to obtain a person's most sensitive and constitutionally protected information -- the contents of emails less than 6 months old.Unfortunately, as we noted at the end of July, the judge in the case, Loretta Preska, sided with the DOJ.
On Friday, Judge Preska did what was basically a procedural move. When she had made the original ruling, she had put a stay on the ruling, fully expecting Microsoft to appeal. This is fairly standard procedure. When a district court judge knows a ruling is likely to be appealed the judge will frequently "stay" the ruling pending the appeal. The DOJ claimed that this was a procedural error and that the particular order, for a whole host of boring legal reasons, is not an "appealable order" and that the stay is inappropriate for that reason. Everyone involved in the case -- the Judge, Microsoft and the DOJ -- knows that it's going to go to an appeal. There's just a very, very minor debate over the correct legal process to get it to appeal. Judge Preska agreed that the original order probably is not appealable, and thus the stay order makes no sense, since it was only pending the appeal. Thus, to speed things along, she lifted the stay, noting quite clearly that this was to help along the appeal process:
Both parties share the common goal of permitting the Court of Appeals to hear this case as soon as possible. Their disagreement concerns the correct path to that goal. In order words, the parties agree on the destination but the route to get there is the subject of hot dispute.Basically, this was a very minor move to push things onto the proper legal track to get this case before the appeals court. Because the original order isn't technically appealable, the stay didn't make any sense, so the Judge removed it, with everyone knowing that Microsoft won't hand over the info, leading the Judge to issue a different ruling that can be appealed. I saw the news on Friday and realized it wasn't worth writing about, because it's basically nothing.
However, a few sites appear to have totally misread this into being a big deal. If you don't read carefully, seeing that a judge lifted a stay suggests that Microsoft is being forced to hand over the info. But anyone who actually read any of the details (including the decision and/or the Reuters report that broke the news) should have known that wasn't actually the case. Microsoft then said the most obvious thing in the world: that it wasn't handing over the info, because it hasn't done that all along and this is what it needs to do to get the case to appeal. But a bunch of sites misread the whole thing as if Microsoft was somehow taking a new stand, rather than just procedurally moving things forward. A site called WindowsITPro wrote up that Microsoft was now "defying" a court order and this somehow proved it was a heroic company, fighting for its customers:
Despite a federal court order directing Microsoft to turn overseas-held email data to federal authorities, the software giant said Friday it will continue to withhold that information as it waits for the case to wind through the appeals process. The judge has now ordered both Microsoft and federal prosecutors to advise her how to proceed by next Friday, September 5.They did this, even though in the very next paragraph the Microsoft statement itself points out that this is nothing more than a procedural issue. Unfortunately, sites like Slashdot also picked up on the WindowsITPro story and repeated the misleading headline.
Let there be no doubt that Microsoft's actions in this controversial case are customer-centric. The firm isn't just standing up to the US government on moral principles. It's now defying a federal court order.
Yes, Microsoft is trying to protect its customers' email data (held in Ireland) in this case. And yes, it's an important case. But Microsoft (and a variety of other tech companies that filed amicus briefs in support of Microsoft's position) took that stand months ago. What happened on Friday was a minor procedural effort to move the case along, and didn't represent any big new "heroic" move by Microsoft to "defy" a court order. Nothing to see here, move on. The appeals court is where this case will actually get interesting.
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As predicted by doom-mongers during 2012, large numbers of web domains that appear to be legitimate sites connected to the London Olympic Games are really covers for criminality, security company Zscaler has confirmed.
Using data drawn from its own customer base, Zscaler noticed that up to 80 percent of domains accessed with an Olympic theme appeared to be connected to one of three types of "spam or scam."
These were typosquatting (occupying domains that are misspellings of popular domains), Adsense manipulations (sites created to appear prominently on search engines) and the most opportunist of all, "TV on PC" frauds drawing people with the promise of live coverage of events.
On top of this the company was among several companies warning about more convincing-looking Olympic scam sites that sprang up to sell people non-existent event tickets.
"I guess the good news is that most of the scams are targeting 'low hanging fruit' and don't involve sophisticated exploits," said Zscaler's Julien Sobrier.
While Zscaler's alarm over Olympic exploitation is no doubt well-founded, are major events really that important to scammers in the grand scheme of things?
According to security company Blue Coat Systems, the Olympics are just a way for scammers to push cons that might be ignored at other times. According to its own research, at least 40 percent of malware is encountered through routine search engine poisoning, ahead of email at 11.6 percent.
It was also a myth that large events are the primary mechanism by which criminality pushes security threats such as malware; users were actually safer when searching for events with theme such as the Olympics, the death of Steve Jobs or celebrities including Lindsay Lohan than they were from "everyday" topics, the company said.
"These types of events [the Olympics] drive a lot of legitimate coverage from recognised news sources, therefore these news sources are always going to be ranked higher than some hacked blog or cobbled together bait page," said Blue Coat System's product marketing director, Dave Ewart.
"Someone is likely to click on a malicious website if it's in the top results, but getting the website to rank above legitimate news sources, requires too much work. Instead, we are seeing that cybercriminals are targeting mundane topics, like 'Pimms recipe' or 'children summer party games',, which may be rarely searched for, but can therefore creep higher up the page rankings, he said.
"If they snare just one user with this technique, that's a success."
Celebrities, for instance, accounted for only 2.7 percent of a trawl of 2,300 poisoned search terms as against 42 percent for a multitude of mundane themes including "sample resume letters."
Which company is right? Perhaps both.
The company didn't break down large events such as the Olympics in these numbers, but it could be that Zscaler and Blue Coat Systems companies are simply looking at different elements of the same picture. Event scams are a small part of the overall criminal manipulation of search engines but it gets noticed more when those events are actually occurring.
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"To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace." - Oscar Wilde
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Tombstone Tuesday: Edward Southwell Ruthven: Irish Politician 1772-1836
Born in 1772 in Downpatrick, County Down, Edward Southwell Ruthven was the eldest of three sons born to Edward Trotter, a clergyman of the Established Church (Church of Ireland). The Trotters' youngest son Ruthven Trotter was a Major in the British army, and in 1807 was killed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Shortly thereafter Edward Southwell assumed Ruthven as his surname, instead of Trotter. Although he entered Wadham College Oxford in October of 1790, he left the university without a degree and instead pursued politics. In November of 1806 Ruthven successfully contested the parliamentary representation of Downpatrick, as a member of the Whig Party, against John Wilson Croker. He made his inaugural speech on 17 January 1807; however, parliament was dissolved the following April, and in the general election in May, Croker ousted Ruthven from Downpatrick.
Ruthven did not enter Parliament again until 1830, when he was re-elected member for Downpatrick as a supporter of Daniel O'Connell. He was re-elected for the same constituency on 9 May 1831; however, in the elections of 1832 Ruthven was returned with O'Connell as member for Dublin. From this time he took an active part in parliamentary debates. His speeches were deemed to be inarticulate in nature and delivered with a "harsh voice". During the session of 1834 he acquired notoriety by moving for adjournment of the house night after night, and members made an organized attempt to prevent his being heard by coughing and yawning. It is alleged that Ruthven aimed to cure their yawning and coughing by exchanging gunfire with a fellow member outside of Parliament.
In January 1835 Ruthven was again returned with O'Connell as a member for Dublin, but a petition for his removal was at once presented. An inquiry into the matter was prolonged until May of 1836, when both he and Daniel O'Connell were unseated, but it was of no consequence as Edward Southwell Ruthven had died 31 March 1836 at his lodgings in North Street, Westminster, England. He is buried in Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin; the foundation-stone of his monument was laid by Daniel O'Connell.
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Well hasn't it been a long time since I last posted?! Three whole months actually.
Life has certainly been busy for me over the last few months what with all the ups and downs it tries to throw. But I'm muddling through! Here's a brief catch up of what's been going on and what's to come….
I had my string of holidays earlier this year which were great. My trip to Barcelona with my brother was a much needed change to the normal weekend. Then my 2 week exploring holiday with Gareth in Egypt was certainly one to remember. I am still due to write a little something about that holiday and post a few pictures as I think you'd find it interesting. Then there was our 4 day trip to Gran Canaria, well, I think I'll just leave that one there!
Just before my trip to Gran Canaria a colleague decided to leave the office where I work. Now I must explain that I work for a small family business, and the staff in my office used to consist of my Mum, my Dad (who works Mondays and Fridays here and Tuesdays through to Thursdays in our other office), my ex-colleague and myself. Between us we run 5 companies. Now, since we are down to mainly Mum and myself in this office I have found the workload to have increased far more than I thought it would. Put it this way, I'm looking forward to just having the chance to talk to the others about getting someone else in to help.
In no way am I complaining, I actually quite enjoy it when I'm busy, but I'm finding since we are working such intense days I have no energy at the weekends or week nights and certain aspects of my life are starting to suffer. For example, my social life! So this really needs a look at.
Fitness and Social
Following on from that, a few months ago I was reading a health blog (I would have posted the link but I have forgotten where it is) and it was talking about how we shouldn't be focussing all our attention on how we are now, but how we will be 15 years on in our lives. This got me a little concerned as I had never thought of my health in this way before.
I'm not massively unhealthy, I don't snack and I do a moderate amount of exercise but I have always known that I should be looking after myself far more than I am. Reading that blog made me think about many aspects of my lifestyle and how they are contributing factors to my health situation in years to come, which as I get older will get more and more irreversible. What's more, I have never been the wellest of people; always getting sick when I was a child, suffering from asthma and eczema, and even now I find if I get run down (including overdoing it on a night out) or over stressed my body gives up and gets ill! If I'm like this now, how will I be in later life? So in light of all this I have decided:
- To lose some weight and get in shape – I've never been a fan of the gym and quite frankly I don't think it likes me much either, but needs must! I have a gym membership which is screaming out to be used more so this is my chance. But if I keep at it, hopefully I'll get healthier than I am now, I should feel less tired/worn out, not be as prone to getting ill and most importantly I'll be more ready (health wise) to face the rest of my life! I don't feel the need to come out of the other end of this exercise looking like an Adonis, but I'd quite like to lose the "handles" above my waistline and firm up in a few other areas while I'm at it. Feeling more confident in myself and my look would be a plus point – yes I want to take my top off in the clubs!
- To add more activities to my life and in turn meet new people – Well this part just makes me sound like a hermit! (which I'm not in case you're wondering).I have been wanting to add some variety for a while now and I think I have found just the thing, Outdoor Lads. I have always been interested in trekking, camping, walking, mountaining etc. and I'd like to do more of it. I think this would be a great way of doing the things I like but also getting to know more guys like me. Plus the great thing is it's away from the club/bar/scene culture and in the great ourtdoors.
Even though I have had the idea of Outdoor Lads in the back of my mind for about 9 months now I have never really acted on it. Maybe I'm a little apprehensive about the whole thing and meeting new people, I don't know! That was until I heard about my friend.
About 4 months ago one of my best friends, I shall call him Dave, moved to London. I was both really excited and a bit nervous for him as London can be a very intense place to live; I've known a lot of people who have been swallowed up in the big smoke culture and sometimes do they don't come out very squeaky clean on the other side (but that's just what I have seen)! I had every confidence in Dave as he is a very responsible and level headed person as his job needs him to be, and I was sure he'd land on his feet with no problem, getting a great group of friends who would treat him right, and then it was approximately 1 month after he moved to London that I learned he had joined the London Gay Men's Chorus.I am now so pleased for him as it has provided him with a stable, friendly, responsible group of guys who are from all walks of life, enjoying one thing together – singing, have a look at the YouTube video at the end of this paragraph to see exactly what I mean. There's also a superb social aspect to this too.
One thing to note, and my point of all this is it's a safe environment in which to meet other guys and make friends, much like Outdoor Lads which I have just registered for and I'm going to look into booking my first event soon. Dave and I actually discussed this last weekend when I went to visit him. Dave, if you're reading this I'm really pleased it's all working out for you and you are comfortable in your new home 🙂
House Hunting
Nothing to report – mortgage lenders are idiots!
What's to come?
Well this is the big question isn't it?! To answer it truthfully, I don't know, we'll have to wait and see.
I'd quite like to go on another holiday towards the end of the year, I'm thinking Thailand for a couple of weeks with Explore, what do you guys think?
I also have a few qualifications to finish off which I should find time to do to be honest. One of the being the advanced driving course, which could be quite fun! Then I might look at possibly furthering my education with an AAT Qualification.
Clay pigeon shooting is on the cards too, as my father, brother and myself all got a voucher for Christmas, so I suppose that should be booked before the weather turns.
Well it turns out I lied to you when I said "A short(ish) update" but I hope you have enjoyed reading this post anyway, and as always I invite you to leave comments or ask questions – I'll always reply!
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed suit against Kids R Us LLC, which owns and operates several childcare facilities in Oklahoma, for discriminating against an employee because she was pregnant and for retaliating against her and her sister and cousin.
According to the EEOC's suit, Shawna Capps, who was hired by Kids R Us in July 2009, informed the owners of the company she was pregnant in early March 2010. Later that month, one of the owners of Kids R Us held a meeting where he informed Capps that it was hiring a new administrator at the facility and that Capps was being demoted from her full-time position of assistant facility director to a part-time cook position because she "decided to get pregnant." Capps then filed a discrimination charge with the EEOC against Kids R Us. Capps's sister, Dana Finley, and her cousin, Melissa Capps, also worked for Kids R Us. Melissa Capps protested to the owners the demotion of Capps as discriminatory. Shortly after Capps filed her charge with the EEOC, Kids R Us transferred Capps to its facility in Shawnee, effectively forcing her to resign, and then without any stated reason terminated her sister and cousin, the EEOC said.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). The EEOC filed its lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma (EEOC v. Kids R Us LLC, Case No. CIV-11-1095-HE) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The EEOC seeks back pay, compensatory and punitive damages and front pay for all three victims and injunctive relief, including training on pregnancy discrimination and retaliation for all Kids R Us managers.
"Despite enactment of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act in 1978, discrimination by employers against pregnant employees continues to be a problem," said Barbara A. Seely, regional attorney of the EEOC's St. Louis District Office, which includes Oklahoma. "The law forbids the discharge of a pregnant employee who is satisfactorily performing her job and who informs her employer she is pregnant. Pregnant employees should not have to suffer adverse actions premised solely on the employer's stereotypical and premature fears about pregnancy. The EEOC will not condone retaliation against a person who files a charge or against her relatives, and will take every action to end these insidious roadblocks to justice."
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Ian Lumsden, Machos, maricones and gays: Cuba and homosexuality. London, Latin America Bureau (ISBN: 1899365125) [originally published by Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1996, ISBN 1-56639-371-7]
Originally published in the US by Temple University Press, Philadelphia, this is an in-depth study of gay men in Cuba from pre-revolution to the present.
The history of the treatment of gay men in Cuba very much reflects Cubas recent history – this falls into four periods: before the revolution in 1959; the early years of the Revolution (1960s and 1970s); the rectification process (1980s); the Special Period (1990s). Before the Revolution in 1959, Cuba was used as Americas playground, and gay, black and working class people suffered persecution under the Batista dictatorship. After the Revolution, the situation of all oppressed groups improved in Cuba, but this level of improvement was uneven. Some groups such as women benefited quickly and obviously: a mass organisation for women, the FMC, was formed, and the number of women in professional positions increased greatly. A Family Code was introduced in 1975, which constitutionally made women equal to men, but, nevertheless, Cubas powerful machismo endured, and it is only very recently that issues such as domestic violence have been discussed in the Cuban press.
The Revolution was also quick to condemn racism, and several senior government positions were taken up by Black revolutionaries. Racism is still a fact of life in Cuba, but Fidel Castro has stated that the Revolution has done all it can to stamp this problem out the rest is down to the people themselves.
However, much less effort was made to tackle homophobia, and during what the Cubans now refer to as the lost years of the Revolution the 1970s and early 1980s there was active repression of gay people and institutionalised homophobia. Ian Lumsden attributes this to Cubas Spanish and African heritage (explored in an essay by Tomas Robaina on Cuban sexual values and African religious beliefs), but points out that the Catholic Church has had little negative impact on this issue.
Ian Lumsden is very critical of the Cuban leadership in general, and Fidel Castro in particular, whom, he says, plays on his macho image as The Commander in Chief. Fidel does not seem guilty of direct homophobia, but of a more indirect variety which refuses to discuss or accept the gay community as part of the revolutionary struggle. As a result, many gay people who identified with the revolution (and who would have been among its greatest assets) became disenchanted and alienated. Many left Cuba and some even joined the anti-Castro movement in Miami.
At the same time, refreshingly, this book does not take as its starting point the need to be critical of Cuba just because of the countrys political position. Ian Lumsden is an associate professor of political science at Atkinson College, York University, Ontario, Canada, and writes in his introduction:
Postrevolutionary Cuba has at various times filled me with hope and admiration, exasperation and frustration, anger and despair. I have admired the social changes that have benefitted countless Cubans, and I have been outraged by the Castro regimes authoritarian treatment of some of its citizens, including friends of mine, who have been jailed, forced into exile, or cowed in their daily lives. I have marveled at the formulation and implementation of programs that the rest of Latin America cries out for. Yet I have also been exasperated by the regimes bureaucratic nature and disgusted by its dogmatic imposition of policies that were foredoomed to failure and that inevitably brought hardships to ordinary Cubans. (p xi)
In the 1980s, Cuba went through a rectification process, aimed at breathing new economic and political life into the country. Old policies and practices were challenged, many of them were scrapped, and the country generally opened up. This created space for the gay community, and others, to raise their concerns and discuss their requirements as citizens of Cuba. This led to changes in the law and sex education. The erosion of traditional machismo accelerated, but a setback occurred as a result of AIDS, which Cuba reacted to by confining PWAs in secure sanatoria. This policy has since been reversed.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the tightening of the US blockade, Cuba entered a Special Period during the 1990s. This impacted on all sectors of Cuban society, but had a disproportionate effect on the gay community. Cuba has now got over this crisis, partly through increased tourism, although this has proved a double-edged sword the economy is recovering, but organised crime and other related phenomena have reappeared.
Gay life in Havana today reflects what Lumsden calls an imperfect revolution in an imperfect world. Gay people are able to make a much greater contribution to the revolution and to key sectors of Cuban life. One major breakthrough occurred in the field of cinema with the release and official approval of Strawberries and Chocolate, whose main characters are a homophobic Young Communist and his gay friend. In the music industry new wave Cuban singer-songwriters such as Pablo Milanes were breaking down barriers through songs such as The Original Sin which demands the right of gay people in Cuba to feel that they can see their tree, their park, their sun, like you and Ithat they can surrender their hearts in the most sweet intimacy of love. Cuba, which has a rich cultural life, has used the cultural industries to challenge age-old prejudices, and now there are many well-known gay Cuban poets, actors, directors and singers. The manifesto of the Gay and Lesbian Association of Cuba (28 July 1994) makes a list of simple demands for more space, more meeting places, more freedom and more means of expression:
Every individuals sexual freedom should be respected.
This should have been recognised by the Cuban leadership in 1959, but the drive for collective socialism trampled many individual aspirations in its path. The US blockade of Cuba distorted Cubas development, but this is no excuse for a revolutionary leadership and Communist Party to depart from basic Marxist-Leninist principles.
As Ian Lumsden says, recognising that there are very stereotyped views, both of Cuba and of gay men:
My study has been written as a contribution to this discourse. To a certain extent it represents a response to the lack of information, to misinformation, and to prejudiced opinions, particularly within the gay communities of North America of which I am a part. My work is also intended to enlighten general readers, including those Leftists who ignore the oppression of homosexuals when they denounce violation of human rights in the Third World. (p xxiii)
This is a fascinating book, in part the result of personal interest and travel in Latin America and in part a well-researched study. In places, we felt that it was a bit too well-researched, as references and quotes got in the way of some of the points Lumsden was making, but, overall, this is an important work which deserves wider readership. It presents a balanced view of Cuba and homosexuality. It is critical but generally supportive of the broad social improvements that have taken place in Cuba since 1959. Cuba provides health, education and social services which are the envy of most developing countries and many developed countries. Cuba has achieved much over the last 41 years, but some shadows including the treatment of gay people lie across these achievements. It is to be hoped that the struggle to build socialism in Cuba will continue in the future, with the active and welcome involvement of all sectors of the population.
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The Distinguished Lecture Series in Sports Medicine at Hope College will focus on a number of different pathologies of the arm and leg, as well as some treatment options for common diagnoses of the extremities using osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM), on Monday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The lecture will be presented by Dr. Brooke Lemmen, a 2002 Hope graduate who is a member of the faculty in the Family Medicine Residency Program of Sparrow Hospital in Lansing and team physician with Michigan State University and Olivet College as well as with the Twistars Gymnastics Club. She is a board-certified family medicine physician with a certificate of added qualifications in sports medicine and a Certified Athletic Trainer.
Lemmen majored in athletic training at Hope, and graduated from the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2006. She conducted a family medicine residency at SparrowHospital from 2006 to 2009, and held a primary care sports medicine fellowship at MichiganStateUniversity during 2009 and 2010.
The Distinguished Lecture Series in Sports Medicine is designed for health care professionals with an interest in physically active patients, and is intended for students, educators and clinicians alike. It is co-sponsored by Shoreline Orthopaedics, Holland Hospital Rehabilitation Services, The Bone and JointCenter, and the college.
The series will continue during the spring semester with "Barefoot and Minimalistic Running: Is Less Really More?" on Monday, March 12, by Dr. Paul Langer, a doctor of podiatric medicine with Twin City Orthopedics of Minnesota.
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What Is Sacred?
Sacredness and Sexuality, Side by Side
What is sacred?
This is a question that I have asked since I was a little boy. Growing up Catholic, the answer usually came from nuns, priests, parents, and other folks who I thought would have the "answer."
The dictionary defines sacred as dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity, or devoted exclusively to one service or use (as of a person or purpose). It is also defined as worthy of religious veneration or highly valued and important.
However sacred was defined, by whoever defined it for me, it was clear that it was something important to acknowledge, recognize, and respect. Although used most often in religious contexts, I found myself with a hunger for the "sacred" in my own life -- a sense of connection with something bigger than myself, such as the beauty of nature, the birth of a child, the death of a loved one, or a connection to a partner/beloved.
Coming out as a gay man in my early 20's, and being very new to the whole "gay thing," I was awestruck by how gay people connected with each other. Conversations and dialogue from my earliest experiences with gay men were purely sexual in nature.
"What do you get into?"
"Are you a top or a bottom?"
And, one of my all time favorites, "What tricks do you do in bed?"
Naïvely, I replied that I knew magicians who could do things like pull a bunny out of a hat, but I didn't know of any "tricks" I could do in the bedroom.
My "initiation" into the tribe focused on my sexual resume and nothing else. I found this to be a very empty, disappointing, and somewhat limiting way to connect with someone, although it was commonly accepted (so it appeared) by many other gay men at bars, parties, social functions, etc.
Fast forward some time, and I have been a clinical social worker for the past 17 years. I have had the privilege of working with clients of every age (from 2 to 98) and continue to be in "awe" of those who I provide service to.
Working with the gay community has been a gift to me, including my work with HIV impacted youth, couples, and adults. When I meet a new client, the first thing I do is to ask them to tell me their story. This goes deeper than doing an "assessment."
I listen to the images they share with me, the memories of how they came to be here and what matters to them the most. When discussing sexuality and sexual relationships, I also hear a similar yearning and longing for meaning and connection that is familiar to me. When I ask folks how they decide who they share their bodies with, or what is "sacred" in their relationships with their partners, I usually get a curious expression and one of two questions: "What do you mean?" or "No one has ever asked me that before."
It's healthy to be selective about who we share our bodies with. One of the most powerful experiences we have as human beings is our ability to connect with each other sexually. It amazes me how little time we spend in our lives learning about the wonders of the human body and the gift of our sexuality, before we are ready to share them.
Our bodies are temples and we can share them with whomever we wish. When we allow ourselves to go deeper than having "sex" with someone, we can explore the "sacred" within a sexual union.
Recently I attended a Sunday morning service at Trinity United Church of Christ with a close friend of mine. During one point in the service, we were asked to share our intentions and prayers with each other. A gentleman sitting next to me engaged me in conversation and asked me, "What's in your heart?"
I found myself smiling, since I can't remember any other gay man asking me that question in a very long time.
My response was, "A hunger for the sacred and for love."
Where is the "sacred" in your life? Imagine sacred sexuality where you can connect with your mind, body, and spirit. What would this look like for you? If you can think even for a moment about this possibility, you can make it happen!
Tony Hollenbach is the Manager of Clinical Social Work/Behavioral Health for Access Community Health Network. He created the Healing Center of Chicago to integrate faith and hope into clinical work. He is available for consultation, workshops, retreats, and "healing" work with children, teens, and adults, and is also experienced in grief/loss and working with the GLBT community. E-mail Tony at email@example.com.


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Walk-Up Tunes and is Josh Redd-hot or Redd-iculous?
When the PawSox played in Rochester a few days ago, legendary Frontier Field organist Fred Costello played "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" every time that Jose Iglesias stepped to the plate.
In other words, a Julio Iglesias tune for a Jose Iglesias at-bat. Pretty clever.
(Although I did point out to Fred that the PawSox shortstop is actually friends with Enrique Iglesias and was backstage at his concert in Miami. I guess Fred hasn't learned how to play "Bailamos" on his organ yet.)
Have you ever wondered how the PawSox choose what music to play at McCoy Stadium when hitters step to the plate or pitchers take the mound? They let the players choose as long as the song is appropriate for a family environment.
Here are the walk-up tunes (and/or artists) that the players have requested so far this season at McCoy — organized alphabetically by the player's last name. Keep in mind that the songs change frequently (usually because of how the player is performing more than how he feels about the song).
Lars Anderson — A song by Kid Cudi
Scott Atchison — Blue Clear Sky by George Strait
Michael Bowden — Audio from the movie The Warriors
Luis Exposito — Hustle Hard by Ace Hood
Jose Iglesias — In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins (beginning where Mike Tyson plays "air drums" in The Hangover)
Ryan Kalish — Songs by Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip
J.C. Linares — Yomo by Bella Calla
Michael McKenry — I'm a Believer by Tedashii
Andrew Miller — Better Than I Ought To Be — Randy Rogers Band
Daniel Nava — Dream by Lecrae
Yamaico Navarro — Various songs by Piddy Pablo
Josh Reddick — A song by Bullet For My Valentine
Jason Rice — Teach Me How To Dougie— Cali Swag District
Clevelan Santeliz — Ella Tiene el Pelo Largo by Gente de Zona
Drew Sutton — Wherever I May Roam by Metallica
Tony Thomas — A song by T-Pain
If you were a pro baseball player, what would your walk-up song be?
I think I would go with "Tick Tick Boom" by The Hives (starting at the 1:08 mark).
Then again, as the self-proclaimed "World's Best Whistler" and the clear-cut cut favorite when they come out with the TV show Whistling Idol (the whistling version of American Idol), I probably should go with "Young Folks" by Peter, Bjorn & John.
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Lehigh Valley beat the PawSox 8-2 on Wednesday, despite Josh Reddick's 6th home run of the year.
(Photo courtesy of Kelly O'Connor)
Reddick has homered in three straight games (and 4 of his last 5), but his power surge dates back to August 2nd of last year.
Josh hit 10 HR in the PawSox last 33 games last season (144 at-bats) and now has 16 HR in his last 52 Triple-A games (220 at-bats). That's a home run every 13.75 at-bats.
To put that into perspective, here are baseball's all-time career leaders in HR frequency:
1. Mark McGwire: HR every 10.61 at-bats
2. Babe Ruth: HR every 11.76 at-bats
3. Barry Bonds: HR every 12.92 at-bats
4. Ryan Howard: HR every 12.95 at-bats
5. Jim Thome: HR every 13.60 at-bats
6. Albert Pujols: HR every 14.04 at-bats
In other words, Reddick's HR rate over his last 52 games with Pawtucket would rank 6th in major league history.
The last Pawtucket player to hit home runs in four straight games was Chris "The Animal" Carter in 2008. We'll see if Reddick can match that streak tonight when the PawSox face Lehigh Valley at 7:05.
I hope you'll join us for radio coverage beginning with the pre-game show at 6:50 on the PawSox radio network and pawsox.com.
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Talking Stats: FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour - May 12
Here is a 'full course' meal to feast on around the net during the bye week on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour:
• European men win again – While Italy made its third straight final, it was the team from Latvia that took home the gold this week, with Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins defeating Matteo and Paolo Ingrosso in the finals. This makes four straight gold medals for the European Confederation, including all three this season (Fuzhou – Italy, Shanghai – Italy, and Puerto Vallarta – Latvia) and the final event of last season in Durban which was also won by the Latvian duo. European men's teams have only accomplished this once previously on the FIVB World Tour, in 2005 when Germany's Julius Brink/Kjell Schneider won on July 17 in Espinho, Switzerland's Markus Egger/Martin Laciga won on July 24 in Stare Jablonki, Switzerland's Patrick Heuscher/Stefan Kobel won on July 31 in Paris, and Germany's Christopher Dieckmann/Andreas Scheuerpflug won on August 7 in Klagenfurt.
• While FIVB powerhouse Brazil has been shut out of titles during Europe's golden span, if history repeats itself, the South American nation should bounce back with a vengeance. After Europe won its four in a row in 2005, Brazil won the next five men's events to close out the season and the first two of 2006, making it seven straight gold medals.
• Mexico wins its first medal – Before winning the bronze medal in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico had entered 54 different men's teams in 119 FIVB World Tour events, and 55 women's teams in 188 events without a podium finish. The best finish the Mexican men's teams could muster was a seventh place by Juan Rodriguez Ibarra/Joel Sotelo in the inaugural event held in Mexico, back in 1999 at Acapulco. Mexican women's teams have four previous fifth-place finishes including one this week in Puerto Vallarta by Bibiana Candelas/Martha Revuelta.
• The Ingrosso twin brothers and Mexico fight out another long duel – When Italy's Matteo and Paolo Ingrosso played Mexico's Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen in the season-opening event in Fuzhou, it started the season as the longest two-game match with the Mexicans prevailing 25-23 and 27-25 in 55 minutes. When the two teams met again in the semifinals in Puerto Vallarta, they matched their season-high 55 minutes with the Italians gaining revenge by winning this time 28-26 and 21-17.
• Chilean men's best finish – Cousins Esteban and Marco Grimalt, who are ranked No. 1 in the men's FIVB Season rankings, thanks to the early start of the South American tour, didn't manage to win a medal in Puerto Vallarta, but they did finish fifth, capturing Chile's best-ever finish in an FIVB World Tour event, improving on ninth-place finishes by Rodrigo Grimalt/Allan Jarry in 1995 at Rio de Janeiro and their own personal best in last season's São Paulo Grand Slam. Ninth place is also the best finish for a Chilean women's team by Carolina Coddou Silva/Lia Karmelic in 1994 on their country's home soil in La Serena.
• Juliana is the new No. 1 – Brazil's Juliana Felisberta da Silva may not have won the gold medal in Puerto Vallarta, but she did surpass her long-time teammate Larissa Franca along the way to her silver-medal finish to become the new career women's leader in FIVB World Tour earnings. Juliana passed Larissa by US$1,490 after her semifinal win, boosting her lifetime FIVB World Tour earnings to US$1,348,725 – a culmination of 113 World Tour events over a career that began in 2003. Juliana and Larissa played 108 FIVB World Tour events together, winning 45 gold medals as partners with each netting US$1,328,475. Larissa earned her career total US$1,347,235 by participating in 115 FIVB World Tour events and winning 46 gold medals in her eleven-year career that spanned from 2002-2012.
• Five straight podiums for China – With Xinyi Xia/Chen Xue winning the bronze-medal in Puerto Vallarta, their fourth in the six events they've played together since forming their partnership in October, 2013 and Fan Wang/Yuan Yue achieving their first podium in Shanghai last week, Chinese women have graced the podium for five consecutive events dating back to the event in Phuket last year. China achieved this three prior times with the latest in August-October, 2010. Chinese women also put together streaks of eight consecutive podiums from August, 2006 through June, 2007, followed by a ninthth-place finish, then six-straight more in June and July.
• Women's qualifiers continue to struggle in Pool Play – With only 11 teams in the qualification tournament, all but three advanced to the main draw without having to play a match, while the others only needed to win once. However, not having to play more than once, or not at all, didn't seem to help the eight teams who did qualify. For the second time this season, only three teams who gained entry into the tournament through the qualification tournament made it past pool play into the 24-team single elimination rounds. This is the sixth time it has happened since 2012 (Fuzhou 2014, Rome 2013, Beijing 2012, Rome 2012, and Gstaad 2012), and only twice before have less than three teams advanced, with only two advancing in Moscow 2008 and Maoming 2002.
• Brazilian women back on top – It's not often that the Brazilian women don't win a gold medal in an FIVB World Tour event, even rarer that they have a span of six consecutive events without a title. Before winning in Puerto Vallarta, Brazil hadn't won women's gold since the Salgado sisters won at The Moscow Grand Slam in August of last season. Only three times previously had Brazil not won for this many consecutive events, the latest being ten years ago, when they didn't win over a span of eight-straight events from August, 2003 through May, 2004. The Brazilians, however, broke their ill-fortuned streak and guaranteed a gold medal in Puerto Vallarta by winning both semi-final matches, the 49th time Brazil has advanced both teams to the gold-medal match.
Based in Lausanne, Switzerland as the international governing body for the Olympic sports of Beach Volleyball and Volleyball, the 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour calendar features a record purse of US$10.2 million with a season that extends from late April to mid-December competing at 20 venues in 18 countries. This year's FIVB World Tour includes a record 10 FIVB Grand Slam events, the inaugural Grand Slam Finale and 10 FIVB Open Tournaments throughout the world, helping expand the door for development of the sport even further.
The 10 FIVB Grand Slam competitions, all double-gender, have eight with $800,000 in total purses while both The Hague, Netherlands and the Long Beach, Calif., USA event will have $1 million each in prize money, the most in FIVB Grand Slam history.
The 10 FIVB Open tournaments in 2014, seven double-gender, two men only and two women only, have $150,000 total purses for the double gender events and $75,000 for the single-gender events. There are also four age-group FIVB World Championships for U-17, U-19, U-21, U-23.


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CHARLOTTE � When the 2012 college football season began, Duke was the only team in the six major conferences to have never played in a postseason bowl since the Bowl Championship Series began in 1998.
With Thursday�s 6:30 p.m. Belk Bowl appearance against Cincinnati at the NFL Carolina Panthers� Bank of America Stadium snapping that streak, fourth-year Blue Devils coach David Cutcliffe is hopeful his team can start another streak.
With 52 of the 65 players listed on the team�s two-deep depth chart of offense, defense and specialists being freshman, sophomores and juniors, there�s reason for Cutcliffe�s optimism.
�The vision is there and has kind of grown through the players,� said Cutcliffe, who guided Duke to its first bowl since the 1994 season and seeks the first bowl victory since the 1960 season. �When you talk to our players, listen to how passionate they are about the program, not just this year�s team. They�re passionate about the program and where the program is headed. This is certainly one of the goals � to reach bowl eligibility. But it�s just a beginning and just one of the goals.�
�This team that we�re bringing down here is going to lose some really good players. But next year�s team � the 2013 version that is experiencing a bowl now � (are very young). That makes you turn back flips if you�re an old coach.�
While the team will lose four offensive starters, five defensive starters and two specialist starters, which includes quarterback Sean Renfree, wide receiver Conner Vernon and top two leading tacklers Walt Canty and Jordan Byas, it�ll have 20 returning freshman starters, 19 returning sophomore starters and 13 returning junior starters.
�So this battle toward bowl eligibility is so important,� Cutcliffe said. �It�s significant because you have to take this step to take the next one, particularly when you�ve been where we�ve been for so long.�
Recent success
While the Blue Devils are snapping a long bowl drought, the Blue Devils have a rich postseason history.
Duke hosted the only Rose Bowl that wasn�t played in Pasadena, Cal., on Jan. 2, 1942 and played in each of the four �major� bowls held until the BCS system was put in place.
Duke, which had played in the 1939 Rose Bowl, hosted that historic event in 1942 due to concern over another Japanese attack on California less than a month after Pearl Harbor. The Blue Devils also played in the 1945 Sugar Bowl, the 1955 and 1958 Orange Bowl and the 1961 Cotton Bowl.
Duke�s all-time bowl record is 3-6, though a 7-6 victory over Arkansas on Jan. 2, 1961 is the Blue Devils� last win.
Meanwhile, Cincinnati is preparing to play its 14th bowl game, including the 11th in the past 16 seasons and sixth straight.
The Bearcats� biggest postseason appearance came on Jan. 1, 2009 when they lost 20-7 to Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl.
Divine intervention?
Cutcliffe hasn�t been bashful about playing up what he sees as �divine intervention� in the 33-30 victory over North Carolina on Oct. 20 that wrapped up Duke�s bowl berth.
It�s because sophomore wide receiver Jamison Crowder caught the winning TD pass on a fourth-and-two throw from Sean Renfree � the same Crowder who collided with teammate Blair Holliday in a near-fatal jet ski accident on July 4, 2012.
While Crowder was dazed and would be able to recover from the collision enough to play football this season, Holliday�s injuries were so severe many feared he wouldn�t survive.
�It�s a very emotional thing to make myself go back to,� Cutcliffe said. �We always know that adversity either makes us or breaks us. And I knew that was a chance with our team. What we had to do was to separate Blair�s injury and the accident as two different things. Blair�s injury was something we all wanted to focus on. But we had to deal with this accident. There was another starting wide receiver that was involved. And the accident itself could�ve grown as a problem for our team.
�We had a lot of help. A lot of people on campus that are professionals helped. We asked our players to talk. I spent and enormous amount of time one-on-one with the players. And it helped me more, quite honestly, than the players.
�And I just told them, �You�re a story worth telling. But make sure you tell the story you want to tell.� Because of what they displayed as young people, it really didn�t matter whether we won a game. But I wanted them to define that because the story was worth telling. And they did a fine job of managing that. It was hard, harder than people think, to get through that period of time. But I�m very proud that we�ve been through it and I can just look at so many of the individuals who have grown through it.�
So when it was Crowder, a sophomore from Monroe, who scored the TD that clinched the bowl game, Cutcliffe says his feeling about this team and season were confirmed.
�It wasn�t an accident that he got flipped all the way upside down and held on to the ball,� Cutcliffe said. �When I saw who was getting flipped, I really wasn�t worried. Because I knew he wouldn�t let go of it.
�I just think there�s a God in heaven. That�s all I can say about that. And there�s a purpose. And ole Blair was grinning from ear to ear over there (on the sideline) and was well enough to appreciate that destiny thing � and something those two can celebrate the rest of their lives.�
Long local roots
When Cutcliffe coached at Tennessee from 1982 to 1998, he spent many, many years recruiting the Charlotte area.
It�s also given him a perspective on Charlotte.
"I�m happy we�ll get to enjoy being in this city,� said Cutcliffe, who was an assistant coach and offensive coordinator during his time with the Volunteers. �And what I�ve seen (Charlotte) do is become a real football town � a real football city with the Panthers here, wonderful high school football and a great vibrant downtown.�
Among the players Cutcliffe helped recruit to Tennessee from the area were Bessemer City�s Phillip Crosby, Bandys� Shane Burton (a former Carolina Panthers defensive lineman), Concord�s Jay Graham, Maiden�s Chris Ramseur and Charlotte�s DeAngelo Lloyd and Maurice Staley.
Using the basketball name
Some would think Duke�s five-time NCAA championship basketball program and Hall of Fame Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski would cast an imposing shadow over whomever the Duke football coach may be.
Not Cutcliffe.
�We�ve never had to compete with it,� Cutcliffe said. �What I�ve loved about it is that it�s great to have name recognition. Duke University has two brands that are worldwide. That�s academics and basketball. So, what I hope it does is to associate excellence to who we are.
�I love it when I�m in California and they want to know what Coach K is like, I can tell them. That�s pretty cool. In New York, I can do the same.
�I�ve used Mike Krzyzewski as a resource. I don�t think you can say a coach has been in a more competitive situation than he has with Dean Smith and Roy Williams (at North Carolina) and Jim Valvano (at N.C. State) and Bobby Cremins (at Georgia Tech) and Lefty Driesell (at Maryland) and the folks at Wake (Forest) and Virginia and the teams he�s competed against.
�And to win more games than anybody in history and to accomplish all that he�s accomplished, I count it as a blessing to be associated with Duke basketball. I haven�t ever seen anybody in any other sport do it better.�
Forestview�s success
Duke sophomore Anthony Boone is the heir apparent to the starting Blue Devils� quarterback job since starter Sean Renfree is a senior.
Boone also is the answer to an interesting local high school football question.
Forestview High is 1-12 all-time in state playoff games, with their lone win coming in a 28-7 home victory over Weddington � and quarterback Anthony Boone.
Interim No. 2 (twice)
Cincinnati�s interim head coach Steve Stripling is the second interim coach in Belk Bowl history and is serving as an interim coach in a bowl game for the second time.
Stripling, who also was interim coach for Central Michigan in their 44-41, double-overtime win over Troy in the 2009 GMAC Bowl, is again interim head coach for Butch Jones. Jones, who left Central Michigan for Cincinnati in 2009, left Cincinnati for the Tennessee head coaching job earlier this month.
Boston College�s Frank Spaziani is the only other interim coach in Belk Bowl history. Spaziani and the Eagles beat Navy 25-24 on the final play of the 2006 bowl game. Spaziani would become the Eagles� official head coach in 2009 � he was fired after this season � and was filling in for Tom O�Brien, who had departed for the head coaching job at N.C. State earlier in December 2006.
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Now that spring is coming I'm thinking about some warm weather friendy recipes that my mother usually makes. And this is what i remembered:
Chickpeas salad (4-5 servings)
- 1 flask of pre-cooked chickpeas (these are sold in spain, i guess the total wheight of the boiled chickpeas is about 300 gr).
- a bag or a can of green olives (better to use the 'manzanilla' variety, even better if they are sold without the stone) (like 100 gr). Do not use black olives, their taste won't go well with the salad!
- 1 medium size tomato
- 1 boiled egg (optional)
- half an onion (if you use french onions, 1 or 2 will be ok)
- Some lettuce. I use one of those little lettuce cores... No idea of how are they called. Like a cup or a cup and a half of julianna cut lettuce will be ok.
- olive oil and vinegar for dressing to taste.
1.- If you bought the chickpeas pre-cooked, rinse them very well and drain. If you don't rinse them they'll have stew flavor which is what chickpeas are normally used for.
2.- While the chickpeas are draining, cut the onion in very small squares.
3.- Wash the tomato and cut it in small cubes
4.- Drain the olives. Cut each olive in 3 slices. This is absolutely optional of course but that way the whole look of the salad will be nicer. If your olives still have the stone inside, leave them as they are but be careful not to chew very hard on them when eating ;)
5.- Peel the boiled egg and cut it in small cubes.
6.- If uncut, cut the lettuce in julianna stye.
7.- Once everything is cut, mix it all toguether in a bowl and add the dressing (I usually put 3 parts of olive oil and 1 of vinegar).
This makes a great salad for summer (my mum makes it like 3 times a week in summer). It also is rather inexpensive and easy, and of course very very healthy. It doesn't need salt because the olives are usually sold in a watery and very salty solution for their conservation so they'll add all the salt you'll need. I actually like to add lots of olives in this salad.
This is usually made for lunch time because chickpeas are not good for dinner (you'll have nightmares...). But when you make it save a part for your bento.
If you boil the chickpeas on you own, they should be 'al dente' (not too hard, not overcooked) but if you are not too sure about it it's better for them to be a little soft :) There's nothing worse than hard chickpeas >_<
- You should leave your bento reserve without dressing or the lettuce will spoil. Bring the dressing in a container and add it when about to eat.
- If you are worried about the eggs in summer, just don't add them to the salad.
- This will last for a few days in the fridge. I guess you can omit the lettuce and add it when about to assembling your bento for more freshness. And that way the salad will last longer in the fridge.
I hope you like this salad. It's defenitely my favourite :)
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Aw, you beat me to posting this one ! ^_^
My grandmother made a very similar salad for my grandfather (he was from Euskadi, on the french side or the border) with chickpeas, tomatoes, onions and hardboiled eggs. It should make an refreshing alternative to white rice as a main carb in bentos for the summer indeed ! Personally I like to add a few dried raisins or walnuts sometimes.
Thanks for your recipe anyway, I'll try adding olives !
you are very welcome. Actually my mother took this recipe from the TV program of a basque chef, so I guess this is a variation of your grandma's salad :)
Some people may add raw green pepper but I don't like it at all >_<
Urgh, raw bell peppers. I don't think I'll try adding them, I don't really like raw peppers, I much prefer them cooked... or preserved in a vinagary/sweet/garlicky liquid until very soft. So good ! ^^
I usually fry them with some onions and use it as a side dish when I'm having meat and it was so delicious.... But I stopped doing it because then my hair smelled like peppers! >_<
This is a really tasty sounding recipe. I have to try this in my Bento :D
thanks!! I never used it on a bento before but I guess if you carry the dressing in a container it will preserve until lunch time.
My mother makes this like twice or 3 times per week on summer. We all love it!!
She also makes a salad with white beans but it has raw pepper and I don't really like it...
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The man accused of carrying out the mass shooting in Tucson pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he tried to kill Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and two of her aides.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The man accused of carrying out a mass shooting in Tucson pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he tried to kill Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and two of her aides.
The plea by Jared Lee Loughner marked his second court appearance since he allegedly shot the congresswoman and 18 others at Giffords' meet-and-greet event on Jan. 8 outside a grocery store in Tucson. Six people died, and 13 others were wounded.
Loughner, 22, faces federal charges of trying to assassinate Giffords and attempting to murder two of her aides. He will later face state charges dealing with other victims.
U.S. District Judge Larry Burns of San Diego asked Loughner attorney Judy Clarke whether there was any question about her client's abilities to understand the case against him.
"We are not raising any issues at this time," Clarke said.
Investigators have said Loughner was mentally disturbed and acting increasingly erratic in the weeks leading up to the shooting. If he pleads not guilty by reason insanity and is successful, he could avoid the death penalty and be sent to a mental health facility instead of prison.
At least eight U.S. Marshals were present at the hearing in the Phoenix courthouse, where Loughner entered Monday afternoon smiling and wearing an orange prison suit and glasses.
Prosecutor Wallace Kleindienst estimated that he would know within the next 30 days whether additional federal charges would be filed against Loughner. Kleindienst said prosecutors provided defense lawyers with records taken from Loughner's computer and documents of about 250 interviews made in the case.
Giffords and two of her aides were among the 13 shooting victims who survived the attack. The six who died in the attack include U.S. District Judge John Roll and a 9-year-old girl.