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In its larger and juster meaning, it embraces every thing to which a man may attach a value and have a right; and which leaves to every one else the like advantage. . . .
In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
The government expressed some resistance to the idea that these are specifically Carpenter’s papers or effects — skepticism also expressed by Mike Rappaport and Orin Kerr. And it is true that Carpenter may not possess these records, and perhaps never did. But whether one calls them property or positive law, looking at ...
3. The use of the positive law model in Carpenter need not be particularly radical.
So the alleged radicalism of our views does not mean that using positive law here would be so radical. Much as I might wish it were otherwise, this case does not really call upon the justices to adopt our scholarly theory. It could be decided the same way under many different theories of the relevance of positive law.
Relatedly, while I believe that the positive law model is consistent with the original meaning of the Fourth Amendment, one does not need to be an originalist to find positive law a helpful guidepost. As Kagan put it in her concurrence in Florida v. Jardines, “The law of property naturally enough influences our shared ...
Awesome Again, winner of the Breeders' Cup Classic last Saturday, has been retired to stud.
Trainer Patrick Byrne says owner Frank Stronach of Newmarket, Ontario decided Tuesday to ship the 4-year-old son of Deputy Minister to Stronach's Adena Springs Farm in Versailles, Ky., to begin his stud career.
The Stronachs just felt that, as breeders, it would be in the horse's best interest to retire him to stud, Byrne said in a statement yesterday.
Awesome Again won all six of his starts this year, capped by a come-from-behind triumph in the $5.12 million Classic, the richest thoroughbred race in history. He retires with nine victories and two third-places in 12 career starts and a bankroll of $4,374,589.
Vegetable plants grow and produce well when supported by pea gravel.
1 What Can You Plant in Pea Gravel?
Pea gravel consists of small, round rocks, and it often is used as a landscape material to minimize vegetation growth as well as to serve as a barrier against mud and dust. Although a layer of pea gravel in a yard makes growing a garden challenging, it is an effective aggregate to use as a support medium in a hydroponi...
Many hydroponics systems require the use of an inert aggregate to support the systems' plants so that the only nutrients supplied to the plants are from the nutrient formula. Pea gravel is inert and heavy enough to provide solid support for large vegetable plants. It doesn’t alter the system's pH, or acidic or alkalini...
Not every hydroponic system lends itself to the use of pea gravel or another kind of aggregate, but some kind of support medium is essential for many hydroponic systems. The simplest hydroponic system to use with pea gravel is a bucket system, which is nothing more than a bucket filled with pea gravel that supports one...
When vegetable plants are planted in pea gravel in your hydroponic system, the plants are completely dependent upon you to supply them with all of the nutrients they need. All plants require macronutrients, such as calcium, nitrogen, sulfur, carbon, magnesium, oxygen, potassium and phosphorous, in large quantities. Jus...
The quickest way to get your hydroponic garden going is to buy vegetable starts from a nursery and plant them in pea gravel in your hydroponic system. Carefully rinse all soil and debris from the plants' roots before planting them. If you want to grow your own vegetable starts, use rock wool cubes to get the seeds star...
Quarters, Cindy. "Planting Vegetables in Pea Gravel." Home Guides \| SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/planting-vegetables-pea-gravel-90152.html. Accessed 24 April 2019.
ALEX DONNER is as Manhattan as it gets, and that's why his bands are such a hit in the suburbs.
Mr. Donner, 52, the singer and bandleader, first started booking engagements full time 20 years ago, and since then he has become a staple of the upscale wedding and society circuit and other events, including benefits, galas and debutante balls.
His company, Alex Donner Productions, books combos ranging from classical duos and trios to funk and R&B bands, but it specializes in the old-style, elegant society dance bands in the mold of the legendary bandleader Lester Lanin, for whom Mr. Donner used to work.
In his promotional glossy photograph, Mr. Donner sits elegantly in a tuxedo, backed by a fuzzy Manhattan nighttime cityscape. A product of the Upper East Side, Mr. Donner lives and works in the tony Sutton Place neighborhood in the East 50's and has played the city's finest cabaret rooms, including the Algonquin's and ...
But, Mr. Donner says, half his work in the New York area is in the suburbs. In a way, it is outside Manhattan that his musical groups may shine brightest, their glamour glowing greater away from the glare of the city lights.
Mr. Donner says that many of his clients in the suburbs come to him looking for a Manhattan band with a sophisticated repertory and a reputation they cannot find outside the city. Whether or not that assumption holds, Mr. Donner seems happy to perpetuate it, leveraging the city's glamour and exporting its elegance.
The Alex Donner Orchestra is well known at the prominent suburban wedding meccas and catering temples, including Leonard's of Great Neck, the Hyatt Regency Greenwich, the Hilton Short Hills and the Westchester Country Club.
With his trademark white music stands bearing his logo -- an eighth note wearing a black bow tie -- Mr. Donner evokes an age of supper clubs and band boxes, an era of fur stoles, fox trots and Fred Astaire.
It is the New York that Mr. Lanin presided over.
Besides being a staple at presidential inaugurations and royal weddings, Mr. Lanin, who died in October at the age of 97, was a fixture at the Plaza Hotel and at many Vanderbilt and Rockefeller functions.
"A lot of people call me the heir to Lester Lanin," Mr. Donner said in a recent moment of humility. "And we try to update Lester's thing."
Mr. Donner sang with Mr. Lanin's bands in the 1970's and worked in his offices after college, learning the society-band business, he said.
Mr. Lanin taught him the successful formula: show up reeking of class and furnish the function with casual élan. One must dispense a steady stream of smooth sound and segue smartly from Richard Rodgers to rock 'n' roll, from Dixieland to disco.
Like Mr. Lanin's bands, Mr. Donner's perform a range of songs from standards to smoothed-over rock.
He may have several Alex Donner Orchestras out simultaneously on a given night. His company handles about 220 bookings a year, which range from a trio for $3,000 to a 25-piece orchestra for $20,000.
In his offices in an East 52nd Street high rise, he sat recently on a zebra-skin chair near a poster of himself singing in front of a glittering cityscape with the words, "New York: My Hometown."
He said that he recently merged his company with another that handled more-contemporary bands. Not that he has dropped the New York angle.
The names of his six contemporary outfits are New York Minute, New York Soul, New York Masterpiece, New York Avenue, New York Rhapsody and New York Grooves.
Mr. Donner grew up on Fifth Avenue in a world of debutante balls and society functions.
He graduated from Princeton and worked as a divorce lawyer, for Roy Cohn's firm, but kept making appearances as a singer and bandleader on the weekends. "Divorces during the week and weddings on the weekend," he said. He himself has never been married. "I'm married to my band," he said.
He handled the divorce of a Houston oil heiress in India in 1986 and then played at her wedding. Soon he was doing so well as a bandleader that he quit practicing law.
One recent Friday found him bestriding the city and suburban worlds with ease.
He headed first to the Plaza Hotel, where the orchestra was playing a dinner dance for the St. Andrew's Society. Then he headed to Macaluso's, an ornate catering hall in Hawthorne, N.J., for the 60th annual dinner of the Cheese Importers Association of America.
At the Plaza, it was the last party before the hotel closed the following day for a two-year renovation. Men wearing kilts and furry sporrans swung their bustled ladies to music played by the Alex Donner Orchestra, a sextet with trumpet, trombone and tenor sax backed by a rhythm section.
The music stands, despite being laminated white cardboard, looked quite elegant, and there was nothing flimsy about the music. The band moved smoothly from "De-Lovely" to "S'Wonderful" and then to "Something's Gotta Give."
Mr. Donner took the stage to sing "The Lady Is a Tramp" with a wise-guy Sinatra phrasing. Then he did "Mack the Knife" in full Bobby Darin mode, hamming it up and waving his arms and ad-libbing.
As waiters whisked by with plates of pâté, Mr. Donner belted out "Loch Lomond" in a swing groove. A guest named Robert F. Colquhoun, 80, a lawyer from Morristown, N.J., sang "I Belong to Glasgow" with the band. Mr. Donner ran into Harlan and Melanie Whatley of the Upper East Side, whose wedding he played almost 10 year...
Mr. Donner left the Alex Donner Orchestra at the Plaza and drove to New Jersey to check out the Alex Donner Orchestra playing Macaluso's for 220 cheese importers gathered in a room done up in browns with a shiny black dance floor.
The band had the same white music stands with the elegant eighth note, but the band looked a bit different than the Plaza combo. The guitar and bass players had hair styles dangerously close to mullets, and the singer, Gloria Carpenter, wore a daring black dress and did one heck of a Cher impression.
Mr. Donner said he maintains a regular stable of about 30 musicians, many of them accomplished jazz performers and session musicians who work on recordings. Each makes at least $400 to play a typical party, he said, well over the union scale.
"That way, they stay with me so I can develop a coterie of loyal musicians," he said. His bands tend not to play from the sheet-music charts that many wedding bands rely on. He said the trick is to hire seasoned musicians with vast repertories in many genres, versed and versatile enough to handle requests.
The bands keep the numbers short, and breeze quickly from one song to the next to keep people dancing and the party flowing. One thing Mr. Donner learned from Lester Lanin was how to keep the band playing continuously for hours, rotating musicians in and out, like athletes, for rests.
Mr. Donner scrutinized the dance floor and flinched with the band's rhythmic punctuations. "I learned from Lester that if people's feet are moving faster than the music, they want something faster, and if they're moving slower, you need something slower," he said.
"We know thousands of tunes," Mr. Donner said, "and if people have requests, we can just play them, whereas other bands are turning pages all the time."
The trick is to be able to cater to several different generations at one party by "giving everybody a piece of what they want," he said, whether it is Latin or country or "just a little bit" of rap.
"Most crowds are in favor of the music they grew up with," he said. "Over the course of the evening you have to give everyone something they like. I can just look at the crowd and see what kind of music they want.
"We've got to be able to do everything," he said. "If someone comes up and asks to hear 'All My Ex's Live in Texas,' we've got to play it."
He may as well have been born in a dinner jacket. He has 12 black ones and four white ones, custom-tailored or straight off the rack at Brioni. "I wear a tux so often, everyone in my building thinks I'm a maître d'," he said. Even at the top of his profession, he continues to put in a full workweek at the office and sp...
"You've got to love it," he said. "It's a whole lifestyle."
MARTY FISCHER, from Ossining, a longtime drummer with Alex Donner Productions, says he got his first drum when he was 5, "because my mother got sick of me playing on her furniture with knives and forks."
He grew up in Brooklyn and took his first lesson at age 8 and began listening to all types of music.
"I grew up with great music in the house, the great American songbook," he said. "My dad always playing Sinatra and Nat King Cole and Al Jolson. He always played the big bands, too: Harry James, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey.
"Then I had a friend who turned us on to Ray Charles and Buddy Rich and Ella Fitzgerald and other great musicians," he said.
Mr. Fischer, 54, studied with Ed Shaughnessy, drummer from the "Tonight" show band with Doc Severinsen, and earned a degree in music from Queens College while playing in the evenings in clubs and bars, he said. He embarked on a music career that is still going.
"I never worked a day job in my life, except about 10 weeks at Alexander's department store when I was 16," he said.
He began playing in steady house bands in the New York area and often in the Catskills, backing musicians like Chubby Checker and the Platters, as well as entertainers like Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle and Sid Caesar, he said. He went on to play in many Broadway productions.
Besides his house in Ossining, Mr. Fischer said, he owns a country house in Massachusetts.
"I was lucky to make a good living and raise a family and buy a home," he said, "but I know one day the phone's going to stop ringing.
"Making a living is getting harder," he said. "There is a shrinking demand for live music. People are happy with D.J.'s. It's no longer enough work to just make a living in club date bands.
"It's a shrinking business and there are not as many training grounds for young people as I had," he continued. "When we were kids, there were so many more playing opportunities than there are now.
The American Action Network is a conservative, nonprofit advocacy organization. Its leadership includes Republican former officials.
Under the American Health Care Act "people with pre-existing conditions are protected."
"Under conservative leadership, Congress has reduced the federal deficit by 60 percent – nearly $800 billion."
Ed Perlmutter voted for "Viagra for rapists" paid for with tax dollars.
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A look at our most-clicked items from December, including an oldie but a goodie.
If you live in the districts of New Jersey congressmen Leonard Lance and Jon Runyan, take a closer look at your mail. American Action Network has distributed mailers in theirs and 30 other Congressional districts across the country, criticizing a proposal to make drug manufacturers pay more rebates under Medicare Part ...
After the talibé was taken to the hospital, I went with my research partner from the Senegalese human rights coalition PPDH (Plateforme pour la Promotion et la Protection des Droits Humains) to find the child's Quranic teacher. While his 20 talibés were begging in the streets, he was fast asleep in the Quranic school (...
Candidates for Senegal's upcoming presidential election should keep in mind that talibé children are suffering and dying – both in the streets and in their still-unregulated daaras, where many endure forced begging and abuse. As the election nears, candidates and their political parties should make clear where they sta...
The day after the Louga accident, we met a man in Saint-Louis who had witnessed the death of a talibé in December. "A car ran over him," he told us. "For three days after seeing that, I couldn't sleep." When he tracked down the victim's daara, the child's brother – another talibé – told him that the marabout asked the ...
Over the past several years, I've visited scores of daaras where children live in horrific conditions, interviewed dozens of abuse victims, and witnessed hundreds of talibés – shoeless, dirty, malnourished or sick – begging in regions across Senegal. I have encountered numerous talibés with scars or bloody wounds, who ...
Much of the government's emergency child protection work is left to regional social services offices, attached to the Justice Ministry, which lack the resources and personnel to fully carry out their mandate. Most offices are staffed by just three or four people, and some have no working vehicle. Some regions – such as...
Given the scale of the problem, it is crucial for the National Assembly to pass the daara regulation law, and for presidential candidates to elaborate clear proposals on how they plan to instigate real change for talibés. As Mamadou Wane, president of PPDH, recently wrote, "notably absent from the agendas of these [pre...
Lauren Seibert is an Africa research fellow at Human Rights Watch.
As a controversy raged over the suicide of an ex-serviceman, Union Minister V K Singh today attacked Congress and AAP, alleging that they were “doing politics over dead bodies”.
After questioning the ‘mental state’ of a retired armyman who committed suicide, Union minister V K Singh on Friday attacked Congress and AAP by saying that they were ‘doing politics over dead bodies’.
Singh said the two parties know nothing about the ‘one rank, one pension’ issue.
“They have nothing else (no issue) to do politics on. That is why they do politics over dead bodies. Go and ask them whether they have attended funeral of any other soldier.
“So many soldiers have been martyred, did Aam Aadmi Party leaders and Congress leaders went to pay homage to them. They are talking senseless,” the minister of state for external affairs told reporters on the sidelines of an energy efficiency conference.
Earlier on Wednesday, Singh had raised questions about the “mental state” of Ram Kishan Grewal, an army veteran whose suicide, allegedly over OROP, had sparked a political row.
He had also rejected reports about Grewal being a prominent face of the ‘One Rank-One Pension’ agitation.
“He (Grewal) was a Congress worker. He became sarpanch on Congress’ ticket. However, he was our soldier. I feel sad over his death,” Singh had said on Thursday.
Emergency services are responding to a serious crash in Southland.
The crash occurred near the intersection of Fairfax Isla Bank Road and Riverton Otautau Road at 12.45pm.
Initial reports indicate at least two motorcycles have crashed and four people have been injured.
Mr. James E. Fickenscher serves as Chief Financial Officer, Vice President - Corporate Development of the Company. Mr. Fickenscher served as our chief financial officer and vice president, corporate development since September 2016. Prior to joining our company, Mr. Fickenscher served as the Senior Vice President, Chie...
When HP first announced it was retrenching more than 25,000 staff worldwide and the depth of its financial problems, Nermin Bajric spoke exclusively to the HP PPS South Pacific vice-president, Robert Mesaros. Now, six months later, he and Mesaros met again to discuss what has happened at HP since.
Nermin Bajric (NB): What have been the key highlights for HP printing and personal systems (PPS) group in Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) since we last met six months ago?
HP PPS South Pacific vice-president, Robert Mesaros (RM): When you and I last spoke we were still at the strategy stage and made a lot of promises. The last six months have been about walking the talk, particularly pertaining to the channel. The big promises were that we are going to simplify our organisation, and take...
From an organisation standpoint, we have almost halved the number of functions and sales forces we have. In addition, where we had the Imaging and Personal Systems groups, we now certainly have one embedded organisation dealing with the channel.
We have invested heavily in training and the training platform. There is now centralised portal which has all the usual assets available in one format.
We have also invested heavily in the engagement piece of the channel. Channel Odyssey (an Asia-Pacific and Japan roadshow impacting 1000 partners) has just concluded; two weeks ago we had over 100 partners here in Sydney in addition to executives and regional managers chatting about product innovation through to the Pa...

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