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The Senate trial on the two articles of impeachment against Trump, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, begins next week.
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Updated Jan. 15, 2020, 5:17 PM UTC
The fast-moving impeachment of President Donald Trump, stemming from his dealings with Ukraine, has moved to the Senate for trial after the House voted last month to adopt two articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
The vote followed weeks of testimony related to the president's efforts to press Ukraine for investigations into Democratic rivals and hours of fiery debate over the process.
Trump is only the third president in U.S. history to be impeached. Follow us here for all of the latest breaking news and analysis on impeachment from NBC News' political reporters, as well as our teams on Capitol Hill and at the White House.
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Trump's defense team for the Senate trial, which is led by White House counsel Pat Cipollone and includes Ken Starr, Alan Dershowitz and Pam Bondi, has prepared a 110-page legal brief for submission to the Senate that argues for swift acquittal.
House managers have submitted their trial brief outlining their arguments, while Trump's lawyers answer the trial summons. The House sent the articles of impeachment to the Senate after Speaker Nancy Pelosi named the House members who will prosecute the trial.
Indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas says "President Trump knew exactly what was going on" regarding their actions in Ukraine.
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What senators can say, read and do: Decorum guidelines for Trump's impeachment trial
Here are the guidelines for how senators are to conduct themselves during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, which is expected to begin on Tuesday. They were put out by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Senators should plan to be in attendance at all times during the proceedings.
Upon the announcement of the arrival of the chief justice, senators should all silently rise at their desks and remain standing until the chief justice takes his seat. Similarly, when the chief justice departs, senators should rise and remain standing until he has exited the chamber.
Senators will only have the opportunity for limited speech at the trial. Members should refrain from speaking to neighboring senators while the case is being presented.
Reading materials should be confined to only those readings which pertain to the matter before the Senate.
No use of phones or electronic devices will be allowed in the chamber. All electronics should be left in the cloakroom in the storage provided.
Read more about the Senate rules of decorum.
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Senate weighs restricting reporters during Trump impeachment trial
The Senate is weighing significant restrictions on reporters covering the upcoming impeachment trial, including limiting the movements of reporters and upping security screenings for the press.
The Standing Committee of Correspondents, an elected body of journalists that govern and advocate for print media, wrote to Senate leaders on Tuesday "vigorously" objecting to the proposed restrictions, which the group said included forcing reporters into penned areas and barring them from walking freely around outside the Senate chambers.
They said it was not clear how the proposed rules added to safety "rather than simply limit coverage of the trial."
Presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn, said on Tuesday night after the debate that she did not support the change.
Read more about the proposed restrictions on the news media.
Nadler: Hunter Biden is 'not a relevant witness' for the Senate impeachment trial
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Jane C. Timm and Rebecca Shabad
Pelosi names 7 House Democrats who will present case against Trump at Senate trial
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday announced the seven House Democrats who will act as the "managers" in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
The managers are: Reps. Adam Schiff of California, who will be the lead manager; Jerry Nadler of New York' Hakeem Jeffries of New York; Jason Crow of Colorado; Zoe Lofgren of California; Val Demings of Florida; and Sylvia Garcia of Texas.
The managers have varied biographies: Schiff was a federal prosecutor; Demings was a police chief; several are attorneys, and Lofgren was a staffer on the House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment and a House member during the Clinton impeachment.
Pelosi said the House would vote Wednesday afternoon to approve the managers and transmit the two articles of impeachment to the Senate. The trial is set to begin on Tuesday; it's not yet clear if witnesses will be called.
Pelosi introduces House managers for the Senate impeachment trial
Tom Winter, Dareh Gregorian and Josh Lederman
Rudy Giuliani wrote a letter requesting a private meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, then the president-elect of Ukraine, with President Donald Trump's "knowledge and consent," according to records released by House Democrats Tuesday.
Documents show Giuliani sought private meeting with Ukrainian president
The letter was part of the evidence turned over to the House impeachment investigators by lawyers for Lev Parnas, the Giuliani associate who is awaiting trial on campaign finances charges. It bolsters Democrats' argument that Giuliani was doing Trump's bidding by trying to dig up dirt on political rival Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee.
Trump has previously tried to distance himself from his attorney's effort, saying in November that "I didn't direct him."
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Rep. Khanna: there's a "real shot" of getting witnesses
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Schumer says some Republicans could support call for witnesses, documents
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday on ABC's "The View" that some Republican senators are considering supporting his call for witnesses and documents in the Senate impeachment trial.
"You know, what Joe Friday used to say, "Just the facts, ma'am," on the old 'Dragnet' show. That's what we want, 'just the facts, ma'am,' and we're making progress," Schumer said. "Some of the Republicans are now beginning to say, 'Maybe we need witnesses and documents.' Had Nancy [Pelosi] sent the stuff right over and [Mitch] McConnell moved to dismiss, who knows what would have happened."
Schumer added that if witnesses are called during the Senate trial, their testimony "could be exculpatory, it could be further incriminating, but we'll let the chips fall where they may. But we will not rest until we get the truth."
Speaking on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Schumer said "a trial without witnesses and documents is not a real trial, it's a sham trial, and the American people will be able to tell the difference between a fair hearing of the facts and the coverup."
He added: "Do senate Republicans want to break that lengthy historical precedent by conducting the first impeachment trial of a president in history with no witnesses? Let me ask that question again. This is weighty. This is vital. This is about the republic."
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Pelosi says she's not working with McConnell on timing of sending impeachment articles
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Tuesday that she's not coordinating with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on when to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
When asked if she was working with McConnell, Pelosi told reporter at the Capitol, "No, he's not working with us. He's keeping it all in the dark. But we will be ready."
Pelosi also said she is looking for "integrity" and "commitment to our Constitution" in selecting House managers for the Senate trial, "which I think describes every member of the House Democratic Caucus."
Day 113: Katy Tur discusses the latest on impeachment
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Rep. Kildee: House managers 'will use every tool' available to call witnesses
Michigan Rep. Dan Kildee, the chief deputy whip of the House Democratic Caucus, said Tuesday on MSNBC that House managers in President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial "will use every tool that they have available to them in order to get witnesses called."
"One, the witnesses that we would like to have had in the House inquiry were blocked by the president and would have been blocked for months and months had we just allowed that time to pass," Kildee said. "I think with the chief justice sitting in the chair, we ought to have a much better chance of getting an order to testify or a subpoena executed upon."
Kildee also said he thinks it's "very possible" that new evidence could be introduced during the trial.
"I mean, obviously, part of the concern is the ability to produce evidence means we're going to have to get our hands on that evidence to get some of the documents that are necessary," Kildee said. "But I'll obviously leave that to the managers."
"We'll make the decision tactically, how to best go at this," he continued. "We what feel very strongly about is that the facts support our contention, the facts support our case that the president abused his authority and attempted to undermine our elections. And when the American public hears that, whether the Senate votes to remove the president or not, the public will be able to draw their conclusions based upon the facts."
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Idrissa Keita est un footballeur ivoirien né à Abidjan le .

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 1998-1999 : Levante UD
 1999-2001 : Real Oviedo
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Joueur du Mérida UD
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Ansgar and Benedikt Schulz studied at the RWTH in Aachen as well as the ETSA de Madrid/Spain (Ansgar) and the UC de Asunción/Paraguay (Benedikt). Already during their studies they founded the office Schulz and Schulz with its seat in Leipzig. Well publicized projects from the office include the Cloud Laboratory in Leipzig, the club grounds for the established football team Schalke 04, the new St. Trinitatis Church in Leipzig and the embassy for the Federal Republic of Germany in Vienna/Austria. They have received numerous international prizes for their work such as recently the european Balthasar Neumann Prize 2016 and the International Prize for Sacred Architecture 2016. As university professors they teach and research at the chair of building construction at the Technical University of Dortmund, which they have led together since 2010.
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Masters from Different Worlds is an album by saxophonist Clifford Jordan and pianist Ran Blake with trombonist Julian Priester which was recorded in 1989 and released on the Mapleshade label in 1994.

Track listing

Personnel
Clifford Jordan – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone (tracks 1–3, 6, 8 & 9)
Ran Blake – piano
Julian Priester – trombone (tracks 2, 3 & 5)
Windmill Saxophone Quartet: (tracks 2 & 8)
Jesse Meman – alto saxophone
Tom Monroe, Ken Plant – tenor saxophone
Clayton Englar – baritone saxophone
Steve Williams – drums (tracks 2, 4, 5 & 10)
Alfredo Mojica – congas (track 2)
Claudia Polley – vocals (track 5 & 8)

References

Clifford Jordan albums
Ran Blake albums
1994 albums
Mapleshade Records albums


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He'd spent 15 years as a DFL House member, and the pundits all felt he had enough name recognition to make a push. But the campaign failed. Miserably.
Needing 5 percent of the AG vote to return his party to major party status (and thus, relevancy), Dawkins brought in a meager 1.5 percent -- only around 30,000 votes. So when we caught up with him, he was understandably a little shocked by the whole thing.
"Oh, I'm deeply disappointed," he tells us. "On the bright side, it looks like I have about 30,000 friends out there, because it looks like nobody but my friends voted for me."
What Dawkins means is that he thinks he got the message across to a lot of people, at rallies and college campuses, where his message opposing police brutality and copper-nickel mining connected.
Just nobody else heard it. So while 10 or 20 percent of the state may have known Dawkins's name, the other 80 percent just ignored him. This is how it all went wrong, he says, how the once-perceived "savior" turned into a goat.
Dawkins says he probably misjudged people a bit, too convinced of anger against the two-party model. In reality, especially with Minnesota's recent economic success, the anger just isn't much there.
"Indeed, Minnesota's tradition of being a populist state and being willing, I thought that would all play well," Dawkins sighs. "But in the end, it comes to that 80 percent who just didn't know me."
But he's still optimistic, in the way only a third-party candidate can be. While the rest of the country continues to toe the DFL-or-GOP line, he says he still thinks he can find those upset voters in the future. And though he won't be running again, he still wants to try to find new ways to push the message out.
"So I think the dissatisfaction is only gonna grow," Dawkins says. "But the problem we have as the party is, how do we get it broadcasted?"
Dawkins thinks the solution is if the third-parties can all just team up -- a magical coalition of Greens, Independence, Grassroots, you name it -- then there may be a shot. That'll take time and coordination, something third parties aren't quite known for. But perhaps it could work, and maybe pull them out of political purgatory.


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Work continues behind the scenes for the 2021 Canada Summer Games.
Niagara was awarded the games about two years ago and, according to chief revenue and marketing officer Steve Katzman, everything is on schedule.
"We've been very busy," Katzman said. "We haven't been front-facing to our market or our community to any great extent, but that's going to change."
Katzman said a business plan has just been completed which is the next step going forward.
"It's prepared for review for our stakeholders and board of directors. This will be the plan that will act as the blueprint for planning and executing the 2021 Games. "It was months of work, a lot of hard work by the staff with a great assistance from the Canada Games council.
"We're very pleased with the plan we have."
Katzman said the general public should start to see tangible evidence soon regarding the 2021 Games.
"Shortly we will be launching our brand. A lot of things will flow from there," he said. "Planning continues for events that are going to take place in 2019. We have a milestone event in August which will be the two-year out milestone. Ideally, we would like to do with something with that date.
"Planning always continues but at some point you go from a strictly planning mode to a tactical, execution mode."
As well, Katzman said more hirings are in the works.
"That's a natural progression where we are in our stage, in our cycle. It's a good sign. We need to take on more work.
"We have seven or eight postings now. It's an initial phase for postings across the organization. Marketing, sport and athlete services, planning. Positions that reach right across the organization."
Katzman said the small staff, which has been working hard from its downtown offices in the old courthouse, feel a sense of urgency despite the fact the events don't begin until August of 2021.
"It's very real for us. For the staff internally it's a very interesting dynamic. Although the event is two-and-a-half years away, we come into work every day with a high sense of urgency.
"It's very unique. We're all pretty grounded. We have a fantastic plan in place and are really exciting to begin executing."
Katzman also pointed out Canada Games chairman Doug Hamilton has been working on the project for four years.
"It's not like nothing is happening."
The games will be hosted across all 12 Niagara municipalities and are expected to attract more than 5,000 athletes and coaches.
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This article is about the Transformers character. For Dungeons and Dragons monster, see Grimlock (Dungeons & Dragons).
Grimlock is the name of several fictional robot characters in the Transformers robot franchise. He is usually portrayed as the immensely strong, power-mongering leader of the Dinobots, a small subfaction of Autobots that transform into dinosaurs. In 2007, USA Today polled people as to which Transformer they want to appear in the second installment in the Transformers film series; Grimlock came in tied for second with Devastator.
Grimlock is the leader of the Dinobots, as well as the most fearsome and powerful member. Grimlock can be cold, merciless and contemptuous of those he considers beneath him, such as human beings, and at times, even Autobot leader Optimus Prime himself, who Grimlock would gladly supplant as Autobot leader if he were able to, giving him a superiority complex as indicated by his Generation 1 tech specs. Nevertheless, he is a valiant warrior whose actions command respect from all who are witness to them, both friend and foe. One of his most distinguishing features is his famous speech impediment, which leads him to shorten sentences and refer to himself constantly as "Me Grimlock", never "I" (e.g. "Me Grimlock no bozo! Me KING!") - the reason for this varies from depiction to depiction, with some making it the result of true mental limitations, and others vocal processor damage or a ruse Grimlock perpetrates to allow others to think of him as less intelligent than he actually is. However he is still an Autobot and is willing to protect the Earth as much as the Autobots, and does also show a begrudging respect for Optimus Prime, however he was more accepting for Rodimus as leader when he became a Prime.
Grimlock is among the strongest of the Transformers, possibly an equal to, or even superior to Optimus Prime and Megatron in certain continuities (he was shown to be stronger than Megatron in the G1 cartoon, but in the Marvel comics, Megatron was able to defeat Grimlock and the rest of the Dinobots in their initial encounter). In Tyrannosaurus rex mode, his powerful jaws can snap virtually anything that comes between them - from steel cables to a Decepticon limb. He also can breathe fire and shoot an energy ray from his mouth. In robot mode, Grimlock wields an energon sword, whose blade is sheathed in crackling energon and can slice a 2-foot-thick (0.61 m) concrete wall in one slash. He also uses a double-barreled, self-propelled rocket launcher. He is almost invulnerable in his Tyrannosaurus Rex mode as shown with his battle with Megatron due to Megatron's primary weapon, his arm-mounted fusion cannon having little or no effect on Grimlock. Grimlock is the only Dinobot whose name doesn't begin with an S.
A Grimlock toy on display in the Natural History Museum, London.
One of the original Grimlock toys is on display in the Natural History Museum, London.
The original character profiles (and the tech specs derived from them) written by Bob Budiansky and Dan Bobro indicate that Grimlock and the Dinobots were intended to come from Cybertron to Earth like the vast majority of other Transformers. However, the cartoon would diverge wildly from this when it introduced the reptilian robots. Grimlock is voiced by Gregg Berger.
The discovery of fossilized dinosaur bones in a cavern in their volcano base set the Earthbound Autobots on the track to creating the Dinobots. Intrigued by the creatures, and with additional knowledge supplied by Spike Witwicky, Wheeljack and Ratchet created three "Dinobots" – Grimlock, Slag and Sludge. It has not been explained why he or the other Dinobots were able to be fitted with personalities which can only be found on Cybertron from Vector Sigma. Their brains are simple, yet still it is the personalities that make them sentient. It is evident that addition of personalities or "sparks" and its origin was after the fact, and was hoped that this inconsistency would be overlooked.
Their design specs proved to be too accurate to the creatures they were modeled on, as their primitive brains went out of control, and Grimlock almost destroyed Teletraan I, before the trio was stopped. Optimus Prime deemed them too dangerous to use again, and had them sealed back up in the cavern, but when the majority of the Autobot force was captured by the Decepticons, Wheeljack freed them to go to their rescue. Equipped with new devices that enhanced their brainpower to functional, yet still impaired, levels (resulting in slow thought processes and simple, clipped speech), the three Dinobots successfully rescued their Autobot comrades, and Optimus Prime admitted his error.
In his private thoughts, however, Grimlock considered Optimus Prime too weak to lead, seeking the position for himself. When Soundwave read his mind and learned of this animosity, Megatron was able to trick Grimlock and the Dinobots into switching sides, attacking and capturing Optimus Prime. To stop the turncoat Dinobots, two new ones were created: Snarl and Swoop. Ultimately, it was when Optimus Prime threw himself into harm's way to save Grimlock from an explosion that he accepted his mistake and rejoined the Autobots. In a rare display of modesty and humility, Grimlock emotionally apologized to Prime, admitted his jealousy of the leader, and accepted fault for the battle. The two subsequently patched up their differences.
Although content for the moment to remain a soldier, rather than a leader, Grimlock still had trouble accepting orders, only agreeing to help stem the tide of natural disasters ravaging Earth due to Cybertron being pulled into its orbit when he realized he would die if he did not. Grimlock and the Dinobots were semi-regularly called into action when the Autobots were faced with challenges that required extra strength, such as the Sub-Atlantican invasion of Washington, D.C., or the Decepticons' control of the TORQ III supercomputer; with every piece of help he and his troops gave, Grimlock was never slow to add a scathing remark about the inabilities of the Autobots. That said, he was not unwilling to admit the failings of his own troops, either, and willingly took them to the time-displaced "Dinobot Island", where they trained in the wilderness and helped stop a Decepticon raid on the prehistoric paradise.
The final straw for Grimlock came when he and the Dinobots were injured in a Decepticon trap at an airfield. Enraged, Grimlock refused to take orders from Optimus Prime anymore, and he and the other Dinobots left. When the Autobots began to suffer from Cybertonium deficiency, Spike Witwicky and his girlfriend Carly attempted to persuade the Dinobots - who continued to function perfectly, as they had been built on Earth without Cybertonium - to steal some of the mineral from a Decepticon shipment coming in from Cybertron. Grimlock instead opted to lead the Dinobots to Cybertron itself, where they (except Swoop) were captured by Shockwave and put to work in the Cybertonium mines, until Swoop, Spike and Carly rescued them. Brought back to Earth, the Dinobots agreed to follow Prime's order again - until such time as Grimlock did not feel like it.
By the Earth year 2005, it seemed apparent that Grimlock had undergone some degree of a personality change, becoming more childish and petulant, rather than brutish and stubborn. He and the Dinobots accompanied Optimus Prime on the latter's rescue mission to Autobot City, and fought Devastator. Subsequently, the Dinobots joined Hot Rod and his companions in traveling back to Cybertron to face the evil Unicron. Also of note, it seemed that, along with the other Dinobots, Grimlock remained in his dinosaur mode almost exclusively, rarely changing back to his robot form. Throughout 2006, he regularly participated in missions with his fellow Autobots rather than the other Dinobots, battling on the planets of Chaar, Goo, Dredd and Eurythma.
In episode #78, "Madman's Paradise", Spike and Carly hosted a banquet for a visiting ambassador. Their son Daniel got bored and wandered off. Grimlock followed him, and they fell into a lost chamber where Quintessons banished their criminals to other dimensions. They slipped through to the other-dimensional realm of Menonia, and were tricked into fighting on the Red Wizard's side, only to find out that he was the Quintesson criminal, who overthrew the Golden One. Ultra Magnus, Blaster, Eject, Rewind, Ramhorn, and Steeljaw followed, and using Blaster's amplification, they help the Golden One defeat the Red Wizard. With the help of Perceptor, the Autobots and Daniel are returned to Cybertron.
Grimlock helped to sniff out the "dinosaur transform static" that implicated Trypticon in the theft of world monuments. Later in the year, when Galvatron, the new Decepticon leader, had Cybertron infused with function-inverting anti-electrons, a dose of the particles gave Grimlock super-intelligence. For the first time Grimlock identified himself as "I, Grimlock". During a mission to Unicron's disembodied head, where the Autobots were outmatched by the new Decepticon Terrorcons, Grimlock used components of Unicron's head to construct the Technobots to battle them. Combined as Computron, the Technobots felt they could not match the Terrorcons, until Grimlock transferred his super-intelligence into Computron, reverting to his old self and allowing the Autobots to claim victory.
Grimlock's greatest victory came when he and a large number of other Transformers with primitive animal-themed transformations were summoned to a world at the centre of the galaxy by the ex-assistant of the ancient genius, Primacron, creator of Unicron. The assistant had assembled these "Primitive" Transformers in the hope that their simple instincts could defeat Primacron's newest creation, Tornedron, but one by one they fell to him, with Grimlock apparently crushed under Trypticon. Grimlock survived, however, and followed Tornedron back to Primacron's lab. When Tornedron turned on his master, like his predecessor, Primacron's complicated plans and equations could not find a way to stop him; Grimlock, on the other hand, randomly flicked a switch which reversed Tornedron's energy polarity, undoing the damage the now dissipating Tornedron had done. Grimlock decimated Primacron's lab while dancing around over his successful saving of the universe, dubbing it the smartest thing he'd ever done.
In the year 2011, the Decepticons invaded Cybertron in full force. Grimlock was deployed by Wreck-Gar to fend off the invaders. He was seen fighting alongside his fellow Dinobots as well as the Throttlebots against the invading Decepticons, however, they didn't fare too well against the Decepticon Headmasters, as they are all quickly put to sleep by Mindwipe's hypnosis attack. In the second episode, Grimlock was again in action, trying to protect Vector Sigma along with two fellow Dinobots and Jazz.
After the animated series ended in the US Grimlock appeared in animated form one last time in the commercial for the Classic Pretenders.
There is a notable disparity in Grimlock's speech patterns between the second and third series. In the second series he is seen to speak normally, referring to himself as "I". However, in the third series he speaks in his more normal "Me Grimlock" speech.
The 21st century re-imagining of the original universe by Dreamwave Productions depicted Grimlock in a manner similar to his depiction in Marvel Comics - a powerful, cunning warrior who values strength of body and character. Through Transformers: The War Within, the company shaped a background on Cybertron for Grimlock which showed that he had participated in the planet's underground gladiatorial game in order to unleash the rage and anger he had always overflowed with. When Megatron began using the games to identify suitable soldiers for his burgeoning Decepticon army, Grimlock was recruited by him and initially fought on his side, befriending Starscream and perhaps the scientist, Jetfire, before defecting to the Autobots - not out of any particular fondness for them and their ideals, but rather out of sheer hatred of Megatron and his ideals. He still bears a particularly fierce grudge against Jetfire over an unspecified incident with a cerebro-shell.
What is known of the remainder of his time on Cybertron, however, is that he, Slag, Sludge, Snarl, and Swoop formed a team known as the "Dynobots" (they are referred to as such in the first issue of "The Age of Wrath"). The Dynobots remained on Cybertron when Optimus Prime left on The Ark, pursued by Megatron. When Optimus Prime and Megatron's troops vanished four million years ago, they pursued the Decepticons known as the Insecticons, who had set off in search of the missing leaders. The two teams battled on prehistoric Earth, and the battle ended with both sides trapped in stasis. The eventual awakening of Prime and Megatron's forces in 1984 was followed by the Autobots' discovery and reactivation of the Dynobots, now rechristened the "Dinobots" for their new dinosaur alternate modes.
Grimlock appears in "Beast Wars Shattered Glass Chapter One: Shattered Time" by Fun Publications. In this story Ultra Magnus and the Autobots aboard the Graviton battle Megatron and the Decepticons aboard the Talon. Both ships are pulled through a vortex into the past of Shattered Glass Earth. Crashing they discover that dangerous energon readings outside the ship will place them in stasis lock. The Autobots devise organic alternate modes to protect them from the energon. The Decepticons create energon-absorbing armor for protection. Grimlock takes on the alternate form of a white velociraptor (his Beast Wars toy). This team of animal-based Autobots eventually renamed themselves "Maximals" after encountering a member of that faction from an alternate universe.
Grimlock and his fellow Maximals eventually joined forces with the heroic Decepticons-as opposed to their Megatron's renamed Predacons-under Galvatron. This would lead to Grimlock joining Galvatron in coming to the aid of Decepticon City on Earth when it was attacked by the Autobots in an effort to break the Decepticon war effort once and for all. Grimlock would be sent in to attack Superion, only to be overpowered after letting his guard down due to the humor-in his eyes, at least-of a Combiner made up of Micromasters. Fortunately, the Micromaster Predacons came to his aid and thwarted Superion's assault.
Grimlock was also featured in the Beast Wars: Uprising storyline as a member of the Maximal-Predacon resistance movement instigated by Lio Convoy. Having transplanted his Spark into a Maximal protoform to avoid the immobility common among his fellow Autobot and Decepticon "Builders," Grimlock launches a violent campaign seeking to topple the old regime and bring Cybertron under resistance rule. However, his extreme agenda eventually leads him to steal the G-Virus, a contagion born from the essence of the fallen Galvatron with the ability to remake any Cybertronian in his image. Grimlock soon leads his team to a gladitorial event, intent on unleashing the virus on the spectators, only to have the now Micromaster Hot Rod interfere. One of Grimlock's own subordinates then destroys most of the virus, unaware that a Cybertronian has already been affected and been turned into a new Galvatron.
Following this, Skywatch, a government agency who knew about Transformers, took over the site. Later, following escalating Transformer activity on Earth (as seen in The Transformers: Devastation), and losing control of their other captive Transformers Ravage and Laserbeak, Skywatch reactivated Grimlock as a response. The reawakening was sabotaged by the Machination, and Grimlock escaped. He met Scorponok, who proposed an alliance as they were both now fugitives. Grimlock refused, but lost the subsequent battle, teleporting himself to the Dinobot ship. Vowing to bring down Scorponok, he was unaware the Machination were manipulating Skywatch into reactivating the other Dinobots, with the aim of having them dispose of Grimlock (Spotlight Grimlock).
Following their acquisition of the Transformers licence in 2005 IDW Publishing released a comic book series which takes place during the Beast Wars animated series, but features the toys and characters who did not appear in the show itself. The Beast Wars incarnation of Grimlock appeared, as a gigantic white Velociraptor-type dinosaur, and it was revealed that Grimlock was among those in protoform stasis on the Axalon, and like the others was launched into space in the series pilot. He fought against Predacon leader Magmatron in a one-on-one battle but lost the upper hand when Magmatron split into three separate beast forms, which attacked him simultaneously; in the long run however, he provided the necessary distraction for the Maximals to steal Magmatron's Chronal Phase armband, leading to his ultimate defeat. Grimlock has since joined Razorbeast's Maximal team. After the defeat of Magmatron's Predacons the united group of Maximals awaited rescue from Cybertron.
Grimlock had a biography printed in the Beast Wars Sourcebook by IDW Publishing.
Grimlock also features briefly in the comic story "Dawn of the Predacus" in which his exposure to transmatter turns him into a protoform, heralding his eventual role in Beast Wars fiction. As he is placed in a stasis pod he is looked upon by Predacon-and future Maximal-Dinobot, possibly indicating where the warrior took his future name.
It soon proved that people with power, especially a lot of power, are more likely to be corrupt. Grimlock became a tyrannical ruler who led the Autobots with an iron fist. His policy towards Earth and its inhabitants were vastly different from Optimus Prime's – instead of viewing them as objects of protection, Grimlock expressed a disdain for humanity, viewing them as an inferior species unworthy of their protection. Under Grimlock's leadership, the Ark was repaired and made space-worthy again.
Grimlock will be portrayed as Hal the Boomerang Bird in Angry Birds Transformers. This version is not a humanoid who can change into a tyrannosaurus, but rather is a Tyrannosaurus who can change into a motorcycle.
Grimlock's toy was originally part of Takara's Diaclone Dinosaur Robo series. When Hasbro imported the toy in 1985 for the Transformers line, the blue crotch was changed to red and the Diaclone driver mini-figure was dropped.
The original Grimlock changes from a robot into a robotic T. rex and comes with a red sword, a black double-barreled rifle, and a rocket launcher with three silver rockets.
Grimlock was later reissued in the European/Australian-exclusive Classics series (not to be confused with the 2006 Classics line).
A variety of knockoff toys of Grimlock have been produced, including those with gold chrome, large horns on the head, and those remolded to look like Mechagodzilla.
Beast Wars Grimlock (himself a recolor of Beast Wars Dinobot) was remolded in silver and orange to appear more cybernetic as Thrustor for the Japanese-exclusive Beast Wars Second line. Later, for Beast Wars Neo, the toy was remolded to become Hardhead, a blue and purple Pachycephalosaurus, and this version of the figure was redecoed in yellow, black and green and released in the Beast Machines Dinobots subline as Dinotron. After being released under the Grimlock name again in 2003, the original version of the mold returned to its roots when it was redecoed into the 10th Anniversary edition figure of Beast Wars Dinobot.
An unlicensed smaller reproduction of the Generation 1 figure by JustiToys, in the style of Takara's Smallest Transformers.
A Walmart exclusive redeco of Beast Wars Grimlock that came packaged with a Terrorsaur redeco named both Swoop and Terranotron.
While the Autobots on Earth were decimated by Cosmic Rust and restored in new "Binaltech" bodies through a joint partnership with human automotive corporations, Grimlock and the Dinobots were a part of the larger war raging in space. Unfortunately, Megatron struck at their primitive minds with telepathic alien lifeforms known as "Unleashers," which drove them to attack their fellow Autobots; with no other options, the Autobots were forced to counterattack, taking the Dinobots out of commission. Grimlock regained consciousness and vowed to do anything to return to the battle, and was consequently transported to Earth. His spark was implanted into the Autobots' newest Binaltech body, which combined all the aspects of the previous bodies. Now able to transform into a Ford Mustang GT, Grimlock immediately resented his new, non-traditional body, but came to make the best of it. He remains armed with his energo-sword, and also wields a stun laser.
Grimlock was released as a 3 inch tall non-transforming toy in the Transformers: Titanium line.
Mightiest among the Dinobots, Grimlock masked a surprising intelligence behind simplistic speech patterns. His contempt for the weak kept him often at odds with Optimus Prime, but his hatred for all those who exploited their strength at the expense of others kept him always firmly on the side of right. Though he could bring a huge array of weapons to any fight, he preferred to close with his enemies, wielding his Energo sword in robot mode, or simply crushing his enemies' limbs with his powerful jaw as a Tyrannosaurus.
The original Grimlock returned to his original T. rex Beast mode in the Transformers Classics line, released in December 2006. He returns as leader of the Dinobots, in a toy that is a homage to his original and pretender releases, but with a totally new mold and for the first time, a flexible articulated tail. His fiction seems more in-tune with his The War Within persona, faking his impediment to trick his enemies, as well as collecting pieces of his opponents left over after battles to add to an ever-growing collection. Classics Grimlock represents modern research regarding the T. rex, with a horizontal back and tail carried high, rather than the classic sloped back and a ground-dragging tail.
This toy was redecoed into BotCon exclusive Overkill (2007) and Shattered Glass Grimlock (2008).
Series 2 of the Transformers Attacktix figures included a Generation 1 Grimlock figure in beast mode.
Produced by Wizards of the Coast, wave 2 of their Transformers 3D Battle-Card Game included a Grimlock card.
In March 2009, Takara released a Masterpiece-series Grimlock in his robotic and dinosaur form. The figure is highly articulated, comparable to the other masterpiece transformers. This figure also has eyes that can be switched between red (the original toy color) and blue (the animated series color) in both robot and T. Rex modes. It makes no sounds, but does have a light-up blaster and sword. Other accessories include an attachable brain transfer device (as seen in the episode "Grimlock's New Brain", where he transferred his newly acquired intelligence to his creation, Computron), a bowtie, an apron and a cocktail tray (used by Grimlock in "Madman's Paradise" as a waiter during an alien ambassador's meeting on Cybertron). This figure is a breath of fresh air for the Masterpiece line, in the sense that the transformation is not as complicated as the other Masterpieces, which is almost similar to that of the original G1 figure.
Also available in a purple redeco as Dinosaurer/Trypticon.
An unlicensed set of accessories for Masterpiece Grimlock made by iGear. This set includes a crown, a mug and small, non-transforming version of Thrust in jet mode.
The Toys "R" Us U.S. exclusive release of Masterpiece Grimlock differs slightly from the Japanese version. More colors have been added on some parts of the figure. The teeth and claws on dinosaur mode are not as sharp as those on the Japanese version. Only the sword (which is molded in clear white instead of clear orange), gun and crown come as accessories.
Another alternate-universe incarnation of Grimlock entered the fray in the Transformers: Energon line. Grimlock's toy – packaged with the similarly-redesigned Swoop – was a modern updating of his original figure. It still transformed into a Tyrannosaurus rex, but had one major change: Grimlock and Swoop could now combine to form a larger robot named "Mega-Dinobot". The characters' joint biography clearly draws on the Generation 1 cartoon incarnation of the original characters, presenting them as Autobots who are simple in speech and thought, but who make up for it in raw strength. Decepticons have been known to flee in fear when faced with the two Dinobots, as Swoop uses his aerial abilities to confuse and distract them, while Grimlock attacks from behind and stomps them flat before they know what hit them. Though heavily armed, the duo's preferred weaponry is their teeth and talons.
It comes as no surprise that longtime Grimlock fan Simon Furman intended to feature the characters in Dreamwave's Energon comic book, but the company's closure prevented this.
Grimlock appeared in the text story from Fun Publications called "Force of Habit". This story explained where he was during the events of the Cybertron story. Ultra Magnus was the commander of various Autobot ships sent to other planets in search for the Cyber Planet Keys. He also served as captain of the Iron Hope which was crewed by Bonecrusher, Grimlock, Ironhide, Knock Out, Overcast, Prowl, Quickstrike, RipTide, Skyblast, Smokescreen, Swoop, Wreckage, and the Sky Scorcher Mini-Con Team. Grimlock and Swoop were sent to stop an attack by Predacon on the ship.
Producer Tom DeSanto has stated that he had an idea on how to include the Dinobots and Constructicons in a possible sequel, although director Michael Bay has confirmed that they will not be. However, the Constructicons and their combined form, Devastator, do appear in the 2009 movie.
In a USA Today online fan poll, Grimlock was one of the 10 Transformers that the fans wanted in the sequel, tied for second with 16% of the votes.
Later reports revealed that Grimlock and other Dinobots would be featured in the fourth film, with images surfacing of Optimus Prime riding Grimlock into battle in Hong Kong.
In Transformers: Age of Extinction, Grimlock and the Dinobots are captured by Lockdown as trophies, referred to as legendary knights. After the Autobots escape with the part of the ship holding them, Optimus releases the Dinobots for backup and engages in a battle for dominance with Grimlock which Optimus wins. Submitting to Optimus, Grimlock allows Optimus to ride him into battle in Hong Kong and aids in destroying the KSI Decepticons and protecting the Seed. After Lockdown is defeated, Optimus releases Grimlock and the Dinobots to go their own way. This Grimlock is larger than previous incarnations and, like the rest of the Dinobots, he isn't referred to by name (although in The Last Knight he is named by Cade Yeager) as he cannot speak, or at least has yet to learn how.
Grimlock returned in Transformers: The Last Knight. Grimlock is among the Autobots taking sanctuary at Cade Yeager's junkyard. He has taken up the personality of a dog, often eating the local police chief's car. During the TRF and Decepticon invasion of the junkyard, Grimlock attacks a fleet of TRF cars along with Slug, eating the Decepticon Dreadbot. Though he is not seen after this, Grimlock presumably joins the other Autobots in returning to Cybertron on Lockdown's ship.
Mini-Grimlock, a baby Dinobot, also appears in the Last Knight, as one of the Autobots in Cade's junkyard. It gains Grimlock's fire breath, which it uses in Cade's trailer. Mini-Grimlock is seen snuggling with Izabella and around the other Autobots.
The Sector 7 viral marketing web site featured several videos recording supposed evidence of Transformers on Earth. These featured cameos by Generation 1 Transformers, including scenes of Grimlock destroying a construction site, as well as scenes of Kickback and Laserbeak being video taped by people accidentally, and a security video showing bits of a robot looking a lot like Generation 1 Bumblebee transforming in a parking garage.
Grimlock's Age of Extinction incarnation is a playable character in Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark. In the game, he controls very identical to his counterpart in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron.
Grimlock is one of the main playable characters in Transformers: Devastation, and the only one who does not transform into a motor vehicle.
A new transforming toy aimed at younger children.
A non-transforming toy of Optimus Prime riding on Grimlock. Optimus Prime is a non-poseable figure with a long sword while Grimlock features pull-back action that activates sparks in its body.
A new Voyager Class mold of Grimlock. Features chomping mouth action at the push of a button in dinosaur mode.
A new Leader Class mold of Grimlock. This Grimlock has a back plate that turns into a spiked shield, and a tail that turns into his dragontooth mace.
A non-transforming figure of Grimlock with limited poseability.
A character named Grimlock appears in Transformers: Animated, which began airing in 2007. He is similar to his animated Generation 1 incarnation in persona and form, but with his face modified with a feral look. His beast mode now looks more like how an actual Tyrannosaurus is thought to look and his roar sounds much like the T. Rex's roar from Jurassic Park. In robot mode, he wields a flaming battle sword and can breathe fire in beast mode. Grimlock is partnered with fellow Dinobots, Snarl and Swoop. He debuts in episode 6, "Blast From the Past". Grimlock acquired his name while the damaged Megatron's head was surveying the Dinobots at Prof. Isaac Sumdac's laboratory. Megatron said, "And without more substantial robotics for my own body, my prospects are grim, locked in this prison of a lab." He is also the only one of the Dinobots to talk and the first to transform into robot mode.
In "Blast From the Past" the Autobots visit a dinosaur-themed amusement park where animatronic dinosaurs are on display, but Bulkhead accidentally breaks them. Professor Sumdac and Megatron rebuild the animatronic dinosaurs as technological wonders named the Dinobots, who go on a rampage under the Deception's influence until the attacks powered Sari's AllSpark key affecting Bumblebee and Ratchet's Electromagnetic blast against the Dinobots by making them conscious. Finding a way to control them, Megatron told Grimlock to attack the city by telling the Dinobots they are "fossil feeders" due to the way Earth vehicles are powered and that the Autobots are even worse. The Dinobots are lured away by the Autobots, with Prowl secretly placing them at the later named Dinobot Island in hopes that they'll live in peace. However, while expressing his rage at two birds defecating on him, Grimlock accidentally transforms to robot mode and finds his new form to his liking.
In a TFA short, "Bulkhead Plays with Grimlock", Bulkhead throws a tree for no reason. Then Grimlock catches it with his mouth, and brings it back to Bulkhead. Grimlock states he loves fetch and asks to play again. Apparently this is a contradiction to "Human Error Part 2" where he criticized Snarl for willing to become a pet to Scrapper.
The episode "Survival of the Fittest" marks his, as well as the rest of the Dinobots, official side change when they help defeat Meltdown, Cyrus "The Colossus" Rhodes, and Meltdown's experiments.
In "Megatron Rising" Pt. 1, Optimus Prime, Prowl, and Bulkhead try to get the Dinobots to help them fight the Decepticons, but they refused saying that robots are their enemies. Upon them being told that they are robots too, Grimlock and the other two Dinobots end up fighting each other.
In "The Elite Guard", Optimus Prime leads Ultra Magnus and Sentinel Prime to the downed ship on Dinobot Island when they run into Grimlock and the Dinobots. Despite Optimus' warnings, Sentinel Prime charged them and got defeated. Ultra Magnus repelled them with the lightning he summoned with his hammer.
In "A Fistful of Energon", Prowl and Bulkhead are sent to the island where the Dinobots are, once again, to investigate the reports of a rampage. Soon enough, Grimlock heads right towards Prowl and Bulkhead, thinking something has made him hostile, but later discovering something is wedged between his foot, and yank it out.
Later, under Blackarachnia's seduction, Grimlock returns in the episode "Black Friday" to break out Meltdown. Out of the Dinobots, Grimlock had the most love for Blackarachnia, refusing to accept that she's using him when she departs, leaving him heartbroken.
In "Predacons Rising" the Dinobots are once again coerced into doing Blackarachnia's bidding, bringing them into conflict with the Autobots. In the ensuing battle, they are overwhelmed and defeated by Jetfire and Jetstorm, though Jetfire noted Grimlock seemed to have some fight left in him.
During the Human Error 2-parter, Sari attempted to get the Dinobots' aid only to have a not so warm welcome. Though she managed to convince him not to attack with her techno-organic powers, Grimlock refuses to give the Autobots aid; however, he indirectly led her in looking for Snarl, whom he lost respect towards and considered a 'traitor' for befriending the marooned Scrapper.
Grimlock appears among the characters in Re-Unification, the 2010 TFCon voice actor play prelude comic.
Grimlock transforms into a mechanical Tyrannosaurus fairly accurate to his Animated appearance. He comes with a large, transparent orange sword with flame details that spring out when the sword is placed in his right hand and the wrist is twisted clockwise or counter-clockwise. A button on his dinosaur mode neck opens his mouth. The transformation sequence is very close to his original G1 toy, but with more details and a few minor steps added.
The box packaging and instructions mention the sword also being able to connect to his mouth as a "Jet flame breath attack," though there are no actual connection points in his mouth. This feature was probably dropped during production due to issues with getting the sword to actually fit inside his mouth.
A small version of Grimlock that transforms at the push of a button. First seen at San Diego Comic-Con International 2008.
Also bundled in Japan as part of the "Super Collection Vol. 2" gift set with Activators Bumblebee, Bulkhead (Ironhide in Japan) and Starscream.
A metallic gold repaint of the Voyager Grimlock.
A redeco of the original Activators Grimlock. His paint job and design represents a volcano.
The 2010 Japan version by Takara Tomy sports brighter shades of gold and red than its original counterpart, as well as a red Autobot emblem on the chest as opposed to a silver-colored one.
A BotCon '08 exclusive redeco of the Classics Grimlock figure in the colors of Generation 1 Trypticon.
Grimlock concept art from the DS War For Cybertron game.
Grimlock is known for not following orders or trusting in Optimus Prime's ability to be an effective leader. As the leader of the Lightning Strike Coalition Force, Grimlock enjoys smashing things first and asking questions later. Due to Shockwave's experiments, Grimlock has been left with a malfunctioning voice processor and alt-mode inspired by a distant primitive world.
Grimlock is part of Bumblebee's new team of Autobots in Transformers: Robots in Disguise, though his personality is much different then what was seen in Fall of Cybertron and the Aligned Continuity Comics, and his character's history seems to apply that this is a different character. Coincidentally, this incarnation also sports green colors similar to the 2001's incarnation from the series also titled Transformers: Robots in Disguise. He also speaks properly unlike previous incarnations. It is later revealed by one of the show's producers that there is more than one Grimlock in this continuity.
Grimlock appears in the Transformers: Prime spinoff comic series, Rage of the Dinobots, in which he and the other Dinobots remain behind on Cybertron after Optimus Prime departs. Grimlock becomes the leader of a city known as Last Spark, ruling over and protecting the citizens in a monarchial fashion. He and the other Dinobots are forced to contend with the prejudices of other Cybertronians due to their altered states, as well as Shockwave's creations, which include a group of Decepticons known as the Forged.
Grimlock is one of the main characters of subject in the 2012 game Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, where he and his team are captured by Shockwave and the Insecticons and taken to a laboratory where Shockwave transforms them into the Dinobots. Grimlock becomes the first to break free following a brief encounter with the disgraced Starscream and proceeds to free three of four (Sludge having been put in stasis lock and left behind after they were captured) other members of his team, discover his Dinobot abilities, and destroy the space bridge Megatron plans to use as a route to a perpetual energy source, Earth.
Grimlock is one of the characters who is set to appear in Transformers: Cyberverse.
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Obama's Pick Would Help the Court. (Liberal Causes, Not So Much.) – Bloomberg View
by Will Truman · March 16, 2016
If conservatives have nothing to fear from Garland, then liberals should beware: If he is confirmed, the court's new liberal majority is not going to start marching off in their preferred directions. Garland himself is an incrementalist who respects democratic self-government; he is cautious about the uses of judicial authority. And outside the context of same-sex marriage, the current liberals have not shown much enthusiasm for recognizing brand-new rights, or for using the Constitution as an engine for social reform.
Replacing Scalia with Garland would nonetheless be important. Here's why.
To the enthusiastic cheers of many people on the right, the court's conservatives (including Scalia) have shown an occasional inclination to make significant breaks with existing law; most famously by giving broad protection to corporate campaign contributions in the Citizens United case, but also by limiting people's right to sue government, by giving broad protection to commercial advertising, and by striking down any and all affirmative action programs.
With Garland on the court, you wouldn't see much left-wing activism — but you would see a lot less right-wing activism, too. Over the last decade, much of the energy for dramatic shifts in the law has come from Scalia and Clarence Thomas, occasionally joined by John Roberts, Samuel Alito and Anthony Kennedy. If Garland is confirmed, those shifts will be far less likely.
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With Garland on the court, you wouldn't see much left-wing activism — but you would see a lot less right-wing activism, too.
Well, that doesn't sound so bad…Report
Morat20 in reply to Burt Likko
I've said it before, it simply shifts the center of the court one seat to the left. It doesn't matter if Garland is out past RBG or just to the left of Kennedy, it still moves it left.
I've been reading some analysis of him that indicates he's probably closer to RBG than he is Kennedy though, on most issues.
Some of the tea leaf reading is pretty strained I admit — decisions you hand down bound by precedent are different than when you're sitting in SCOTUS and can set it — or change it.
(Although part of me thinks he shot to the top of the list merely so Obama could watch Orrin Hatch spend the next three months getting fed his own words).Report
Don Zeko in reply to Morat20
I don't follow the logic of your point, though. If he is more liberal than Kagan/Breyer/whoever you think the fourth most liberal sitting justice is, that's true. But if he's not, then he becomes the new swing vote, and the nuances of his views matter a great deal. From what little I've read about him, it's not clear whether he is more or less liberal than the least liberal of the current 4-vote liberal bloc.Report
pillsy in reply to Don Zeko
It matters whether he's more or less liberal than Breyer or Kagan, but if he's more liberal, it's doesn't really matter whether he's a lot more liberal.Report
Will Truman in reply to pillsy
For many it will matter how he's more liberal and how he's less liberal even if he's as liberal as Kagan in the aggregate.Report
Joe Sal in reply to Will Truman
Meh, he will fit in the authoritarian left just fine. He owes the Clintons a solid for the '95 nomination and will become a upstanding liberal rubber stamper.Report
Alan Scott in reply to Joe Sal
Just like O'Conner and Kennedy are reliable Conservative Rubber Stampers because they owed Reagan, of course.Report
Morat20 in reply to Don Zeko
That's true, but I get the impression that he's further left than the new center. So he won't be the new swing in general. He appears to be further 'left' in general than Kagan and Breyer.
(Individual justices might end up the swing vote on some individual topics, because even a highly polarized court will occasionally break down in odd ways. Like abortion seems to swing on Kennedy, but commerce clause stuff seems to swing on Roberts. I'm just speaking in generalities).Report
If he wouldn't have been the fifth vote to gut the 15th Amendment or go fifty miles out of the way to overturn decades of campaign finance law, he would have been a yuge difference from Scalia.Report
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Drink Your Dinner
By Warren Rojas
Posted April 18, 2012 at 12:02am
A handful of renowned D.C. chefs, including two Capitol Hill tastemakers, will vie for the "Hop Chef" crown April 28 during Brewery Ommegang's inaugural beer-cooking competition, a barley-and-hops-fueled fete coming to the Atlas Performing Arts Center (1333 H St. NE).
Those savvy enough to sign on as guest tasters — attendance is being capped at 200; reserve your spot ($75 per person) here — will have the opportunity to sample custom beer-spiked dishes prepared by several area chefs.
They include Michael E. Bonk, executive chef at Capitol Hill's Sonoma Restaurant and Wine Bar; Brad Walker, chef/co-founder at the President Barack Obama-approved Boundary Road on H Street; Jamie Leeds, chef and co-owner of Hank's Oyster Bar (new location is opening soon on Capitol Hill!); Nicholas Stefanelli, executive chef at Bibiana; Will Artley, executive chef at Pizzeria Orso; Mark Marrocco, executive chef at Magnolias at the Mill; and Jeff Eng, executive chef at Clyde's Tower Oaks Lodge. Proceeds benefit Share Our Strength's effort to fight childhood hunger.
Teddy Folkman, chef and co-owner at the H Street hot spot Granville Moore's, told HOH he used his pull as Brewery Ommegang's national culinary ambassador to bring the nascent cooking contest to the nation's capital. "The competition has been in the mill for about two years," Folkman said, adding that a cadre of passionate food lovers (such as high-end gourmet magazine Saveur) handpicked the participating chefs.
Though his restaurant is better known for its wine program, Bonk said he and Folkman — "He's a regular at Sonoma," Bonk asserted — have long kicked around plans to collaborate on beer dinners. Bonk said the Hop Chef challenge has provided the perfect excuse to fully "research" the broader Ommegang catalog.
Bonk declined to give too much of his strategy away but suggested that he'll focus primarily on savory dishes and will definitely be incorporating Ommegang's award-winning Three Philosophers ale into his recipes. And he hinted that a variation on one of his Hop Chef dishes might grace the Sonoma carte come summer.


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After this immersive learning experience in the RQ-EPS, participants practiced teaching the strategy, rotating between the roles of Coach, Patient, and Observer. We paused after each round of feedback to reflect on the challenges and tips discovered during the teaching process.
Finally, participants discussed how they plan to integrate the RQ-EPS into their work. In the evaluations after the seminar, we asked participants what they learned and how they would describe the RQ-EPS to a colleague. We also show a few examples of their plans for integrating RQ-EPS. We would like to thank Lorraine Horn for helping us secure nursing continuing education credits and Enid Shapiro for helping with the social work credits for participants in the seminar. We are expecting to learn from the experts in the field, the providers in our seminar who will be demonstrating how they can work the RQ-EPS into ordinary practice. Quotes about RQ-EPS "Simple yet very powerful." "It seems simple, but there's a LOT in this." "It can be feasible in the fast-paced health care setting in which we practice." "Understanding that question-asking is a skill is helpful in recognizing that it is a skill that may need to be taught." "This process challenges the underlying assumption that it's the provider who's making the decision. It challenges the underlying power structure. As a provider, I want to be even more explicit about what my role is and what your role is and how I can partner with you." "Helping patients feel supported, informed, and in the drivers seat." "To get real value, to have a valuable patient-provider experience, patients need to have buy-in in the experience. Generating questions, prioritizing them, and reflecting on them is a clear way to get patients engaged." Evaluation results: 88% of participants plan to integrate RQ-EPS into their work. Examples of integration plans named by participants include:
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using X.Web;

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{
    public class cash : _wx
    {
        protected override int needus
        {
            get
            {
                return 1;
            }
        }

        public string gt { get; set; }

        protected override void getUser(string key)
        {
            base.getUser(cfg.wx_appid);
        }

        protected override string GetParmNames
        {
            get
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                return "gt";
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        protected override void InitDict()
        {
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SINGAPORE - Luxury yacht maker Grand Banks Yachts has agreed to buy Australia's Palm Beach Motor Yacht and appoint Palm Beach founder Mark Richards as chief executive officer of the merged group.
Grand Banks and Palm Beach will grant each other options under the deal, Grand Bank said in a statement on Friday.
When the options are executed, Grand Banks will buy all of Palm Beach's shares for up to A$8.0 million (S$9.4 million) in cash and A$2.0 million in new Grand Banks shares to be issued.
The deal will strengthen Grand Banks' position as "a global company with two world-class brands that are well represented in the leading markets of North America, Australia, Asia and Europe", the company said.
Palm Beach designs and builds five different highly-customised yacht models, which are mostly sold in the United States.
Grand Banks and Palm Beach will continue to carry out their manufacturing activities in, respectively, Malaysia and Australia.


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Kenya's opposition to protest, US envoy on way
Published Friday, January 04, 2008
Kenya's opposition vowed to defy police for a second day running on Friday and try to hold a mass rally while the top US diplomat for Africa was flying in amid turmoil in which more than 300 people have been killed.
From dawn riot police ringed Nairobi's Uhuru (Freedom) Park, where the protest was called to start at 10 am (local time).
But the police presence was smaller than on Thursday when opposition efforts to stage the rally were met by police firing teargas, water cannon and warning shots as thousands of youths poured out of slums. Half a dozen people died in the chaos.
Supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga were enraged by President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election from a December 27 vote in Kenya, East Africa's biggest economy.
A week of ethnic violence and riots since the vote has shocked the world and threatened to shatter Kenya's reputation as one of Africa's most promising democracies.
More than 300 people have died in clashes -- some between police and protesters, others pitting Luo tribe backers of Odinga against Kibaki's Kikuyu ethnic group.
More than 100,000 people have been displaced by the violence, some fleeing across the border to Uganda.
As international pressure for mediation failed to bring Kibaki and Odinga together, there was increasing impatience among Kenyans over the political standoff.
"Despite the words of concern by both sides about the dangerous situation in Kenya and public statements that they are ready for dialogue, belligerence is still drowning out voices of reason," said the Daily Nation newspaper.
There were growing calls for some sort of power-sharing government -- including from US President George W. Bush -- as the only way forward.
But neither Kibaki nor Odinga appeared ready for that, the latter saying he was voted the legitimate president but then robbed by fraud.
"BANANA REPUBLIC"
Kenyans are aghast at the turmoil in a nation popular among tourists for its safaris and Indian coastline, and which is a major hub for the United Nations, diplomats, journalists, aid workers and others working around turbulent East Africa.
"Banana republic images on all major Western TV channels, newspapers and websites of bodies in morgues and of police violence and of tribal warriors wielding machetes and axes, are sickening and horrifying," wrote commentator Fred Mudhai.
In the capital's tribally polarised shanty towns, witnesses said the bloodshed went on into the early hours of Friday.
"They are mixing petrol bombs as we speak," said a resident of Kibera, one of Africa's biggest slums.
With the economic ramifications starting to sink in, trading in stocks and currency was halted on Thursday, and it was not clear if dealing would restart on Friday.
The World Bank said the violence could hurt Kenya's impressive economic gains -- and harm countries in the region that rely on it as East Africa's business hub.
Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi are already suffering fuel shortages as the conflict chokes off supplies from the coast.
US Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer was due in Nairobi on Friday evening to meet Kibaki and Odinga.
"They have an opportunity to come together in some kind of arrangement that will help heal the wounds," Bush told Reuters.
Senior officials from both sides of Kenya's political divide have traded accusations of genocide and ethnic cleansing over the clashes. But on Thursday, Kibaki struck a more conciliatory note in his first words to the press since the troubles began.
"I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm," he told reporters on the State House lawn.
The European Union has also urged him and Odinga to form a coalition government. Its observer mission ruled the vote, especially the count, fell short of key democratic standards.
Kenya's Attorney General Amos Wako said on Thursday both sides should agree on an independent person or body to carry out "a proper tally" of the votes cast. Kenya was degenerating into "a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions", he said.
Many Kenyans were sceptical a recount would work.
"What African president can step down in these circumstances?" said George, a hotel worker. "Besides, the government has had that paperwork for a week. If they cheated, it has been forged by now. Or more likely they burnt it."
Kibkoech Tanui, a Standard newspaper editor, said even letting Kibaki serve another five years despite the suspect manner of his win would be acceptable if it stopped bloodshed like the massacre of 30 people in a rural church.
"I would wipe away my tears and stifle my sense of being cheated if the alternative is churches being turned into pyres to burn up children who might not even know who is ruling Kenya," he wrote. (Reuters)


After studying music at the University of Reading where he specialised in piano and organ, Ian has pursued a career as a music teacher and performer and has a large teaching practice in the Reading area.
As well as accompanying the South Chiltern Choral Society since 2003, he also accompanies Reading Haydn Choir, Dramatic Societies and at recitals. Recently Ian has performed throughout the country with Mark Kesel in a series of lecture recitals and educational workshops entitled 'The Square on the Hippopotamus'.
Ian is also a singer and conductor and works extensively in the field of choral music. He is Organist and choirmaster at St. Peter's, Caversham; conducts the 'Newbury College Singers' and 'Cantemus of Newbury', and runs and directs his own chamber choir, 'Erleigh Cantors', which specialises in singing choral music in the cathedrals of Southern England.
Leading Choral workshops has also become a regular part of Ian's busy schedule. We are very lucky to have Ian as our accompanist.


The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has instituted proceedings in the Federal Court against Chrisco Hampers Australia Limited (Chrisco) alleging contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) involving an alleged unfair contract term, false or misleading representations, and lay-by termination charges which exceed Chrisco's reasonable costs.
The ACCC alleges that Chrisco included an unfair contract term in its 2014 lay-by agreements. The term relates to Chrisco's HeadStart Plan, and allows Chrisco to continue to take payments by direct debit after the consumer has fully paid for their lay-by agreement. Under this term, consumers were required to opt out in order to avoid having further payments deducted after their lay-by has been paid for.
The ACCC also alleges that from January 2011 to at least December 2013, Chrisco made false or misleading representations to consumers that they could not cancel their lay-by agreement after making their final payment, when the ACL provides that consumers have the right to terminate a lay-by agreement at any time before delivery of the goods.
It is also alleged that from 2011 until December 2014 Chrisco charged consumers a lay-by termination fee in excess of Chrisco's reasonable costs in relation to those lay-by agreements.
"Purchasing goods by way of a lay-by agreement is convenient for many Australian consumers, particularly for Christmas. The ACCC is concerned to ensure that traders using the lay-by sales method comply with their obligations under the ACL, including those in relation to termination rights and lay-by termination charges," ACCC Chairman Rod Sims said.
The ACCC is seeking pecuniary penalties, declarations, injunctions, non-party consumer redress and costs.
The matter is set down for a directions hearing at 9:30am in Brisbane on Friday 6 February 2015 before Justice Logan.
Chrisco promotes its products, including Christmas Hampers, in a number of ways including television, the internet, and printed catalogues. Chrisco supplies goods to consumers in most areas of Australia, including regional areas and remote Indigenous communities.
The ACCC became aware of the alleged conduct following discussions with the Indigenous Consumer Assistance Network (ICAN) as part of the ACCC's Indigenous consumer protection and outreach work.
More information on lay-by agreements is available on the ACCC's website.