Blast at Bangkok oil refinery triggers huge blaze

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The Note's Must-Reads for Tuesday July 3rd, 2012

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A new particle has been discovered -- chances are, it is the Higgs boson

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Contact: Yivsam Azgad
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972-893-43856
Weizmann Institute of Science

The long and complicated journey to detect the Higgs boson, which started with one small step about 25 years ago, might finally have reached its goal. This was reported by LHC particle accelerator scientists today at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, near Geneva.

The Higgs boson is the final building block that has been missing from the "Standard Model," which describes the structure of matter in the universe. The Higgs boson combines two forces of nature and shows that they are, in fact, different aspects of a more fundamental force. The particle is also responsible for the existence of mass in the elementary particles.

Weizmann Institute scientists have been prominent participants in this research from its onset. Prof. Giora Mikenberg was for many years head of the research group that searched for the Higgs boson in CERN's OPAL experiment. He was then leader of the ATLAS Muon Project one of the two experiments that eventually revealed the particle. Prof. Ehud Duchovni heads the Weizmann Institute team that examines other key questions at CERN. Prof. Eilam Gross is currently the ATLAS Higgs physics group convener. In the Weizmann team three scientific "generations" are represented: Mikenberg was Duchovni's supervisor, who was, in turn, Gross's supervisor.

Gross: "This is the biggest day of my life. I have been searching for the Higgs since I was a student in the 1980's. Even after 25 years, it still came as a surprise. No matter what you call it we are no longer searching for the Higgs but measuring its properties. Though I believed it would be found, I never dreamed it would happen while I was holding a senior position in the global research team."

Most of us experience the world as a diverse and complex place. But the physicists among us are not content with visible reality. They are striving to get to the bottom of that reality and to see whether it is, as they think, based on the absolute simplicity displayed by the early universe. They expect to observe a range of particles that are different "ensembles" of a handful of elementary particles. The scientists are hoping to see a unification of the four fundamental forces of nature that act on these particles (the weak force responsible for radioactivity, electromagnetic force, the strong force responsible for the existence of protons and neutrons, and gravitation).

The first step in the journey to unify the forces was completed with the almost certain discovery of the Higgs particle: The union of two elementary forces the electromagnetic and weak force, to become the electroweak force.

One aspect of the Higgs boson, named after the Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, manifests itself in the giving of mass to the weak force carriers the "W" and "Z" particles. (The electromagnetic force carrier, the photon, remains massless.)

The Largest Machine in the World

In the effort to discover the Higgs boson, unify the fundamental forces and understand the origin of mass in the universe, scientists built the world's largest machine: a particle accelerator nestled in a 27-km-long circular tunnel, 100 meters beneath the border between France and Switzerland, in the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, near Geneva.

This accelerator, called LHC (Large Hadron Collider), accelerates beams of protons up to 99.999998% the speed of light. According to the theory of relativity, this increases their mass by 7,500 times that of their normal resting mass. The accelerator aims the beams straight at each other, causing collisions that release so much energy, the protons themselves explode. For much less than the blink of an eye, conditions similar to those that existed in the universe in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang are present in the accelerator.

As a result, particles of matter are turned into energy, in accordance with Albert Einstein's famous equation describing the conversion of matter into energy: E=mc2. The energy then propagates through space and the system cools. (Something similar happened in the early evolution of the universe.) Consequently, energy turns back into particles of matter and the process is repeated until particles that can exist in reality as we know it are formed.

The collisions produce energetic particles, some of which exist for extremely short periods of time. The only way to discern their existence is to identify the footprints they leave behind. For this purpose, a variety of particle detectors were developed, each optimized for capturing particular types of particles.

Statistics

The likelihood of creating the Higgs boson in a single collision is similar to that of randomly extracting a specific living cell from the leaf of a plant, out of all the plants growing on Earth. To cope with this task, Weizmann Institute scientists, headed by Prof. Mikenberg, developed unique particle detectors, which were manufactured at the Institute, and in Japan and China. These detectors have been adapted to detect muon particles. In some of the very rare collisions that produce Higgs particles, the footprint of the Higgs particle that which is recorded in the detectors is four energetic muons. Thus, the detection of such muons provides circumstantial evidence for the existence of the Higgs particle.

The scientists analyzed data from a thousand trillion proton collisions; in these Higgs bosons are created along with many other similar particles. Evidence to suggest the existence of the Higgs arises through searches for anomalies in the collected data (in comparison with the expected data if such a particle does not exist). This search focuses on the estimated mass of the particle: 126 trillion electron volts (Gev). When the scientists do manage to find such anomalies, they must then rule out the possibility that it is due to statistical fluctuation.

The calculations carried out by scientists in recent weeks, in which Prof. Gross played a central role, have revealed, with a high degree of statistical significance, a new particle with a mass similar to the expected mass of the Higgs. The wording is purposely cautious, leaving room for the possibility that a new particle other than the Higgs can be found within this mass range. The probability that this is, indeed, a new particle, is quite low. (But if it were, in truth, a different particle, say some physicists, things will start to get "really interesting.")

CERN

CERN scientists invented and developed the computer language and basic concepts that later served as the basis for the establishment of the Internet. In fact, the first server of the "World Wide Web" was activated in CERN to facilitate communication between scientists from around the globe participating in experiments carried out locally. The organization also served as a model for the establishment of the European Union, and its influence on Europe's technology and economy is reminiscent of the American space program.

The LHC particle accelerator is based on superconducting electromagnets working at very low temperatures: less than two degrees above absolute zero (minus 271 Celsius). It generates about one billion particle collisions per second: If they were people, it would be as if each person on the planet meets every one of the six billion inhabitants of the world every six seconds. Calculating and analyzing data from these collisions is like trying to understand what all the inhabitants of the world are saying, while each is holding 20 telephone conversations at once.

This experimental system includes the world's largest superconducting electromagnets, built in conjunction with Israeli companies. The entire structure includes 10,000 radiation detectors spaced just one millimeter apart, has a volume of 25,000 cubic meters and features half a million electronic channels. Most of the muon radiation detectors were built from components produced in Israel. A unique laser system tracks the exact location of the detectors with an accuracy of 25 microns (half the thickness of a human hair).

###

Prof. Ehud Duchovni's research is supported by the Friends of Weizmann Institute in memory of Richard Kronstein; the Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for High Energy Physics; and the Yeda-Sela Center for Basic Research. Prof. Duchovni is the incumbent of the Professor Wolfgang Gentner Professorial Chair of Nuclear Physics.

Prof. Eilam Gross's research is supported by the Friends of Weizmann Institute in memory of Richard Kronstein.

Prof. Giora Mikenberg's research is supported by the Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for High Energy Physics, which he heads. Prof. Mikenberg is the incumbent of the Lady Davis Professorial Chair of Experimental Physics.

The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, is one of the world's top-ranking multidisciplinary research institutions. Noted for its wide-ranging exploration of the natural and exact sciences, the Institute is home to 2,700 scientists, students, technicians and supporting staff. Institute research efforts include the search for new ways of fighting disease and hunger, examining leading questions in mathematics and computer science, probing the physics of matter and the universe, creating novel materials and developing new strategies for protecting the environment.

Weizmann Institute news releases are posted on the World Wide Web at http://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/, and are also available at http://www.eurekalert.org/


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[ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 4-Jul-2012
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Contact: Yivsam Azgad
news@weizmann.ac.il
972-893-43856
Weizmann Institute of Science

The long and complicated journey to detect the Higgs boson, which started with one small step about 25 years ago, might finally have reached its goal. This was reported by LHC particle accelerator scientists today at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, near Geneva.

The Higgs boson is the final building block that has been missing from the "Standard Model," which describes the structure of matter in the universe. The Higgs boson combines two forces of nature and shows that they are, in fact, different aspects of a more fundamental force. The particle is also responsible for the existence of mass in the elementary particles.

Weizmann Institute scientists have been prominent participants in this research from its onset. Prof. Giora Mikenberg was for many years head of the research group that searched for the Higgs boson in CERN's OPAL experiment. He was then leader of the ATLAS Muon Project one of the two experiments that eventually revealed the particle. Prof. Ehud Duchovni heads the Weizmann Institute team that examines other key questions at CERN. Prof. Eilam Gross is currently the ATLAS Higgs physics group convener. In the Weizmann team three scientific "generations" are represented: Mikenberg was Duchovni's supervisor, who was, in turn, Gross's supervisor.

Gross: "This is the biggest day of my life. I have been searching for the Higgs since I was a student in the 1980's. Even after 25 years, it still came as a surprise. No matter what you call it we are no longer searching for the Higgs but measuring its properties. Though I believed it would be found, I never dreamed it would happen while I was holding a senior position in the global research team."

Most of us experience the world as a diverse and complex place. But the physicists among us are not content with visible reality. They are striving to get to the bottom of that reality and to see whether it is, as they think, based on the absolute simplicity displayed by the early universe. They expect to observe a range of particles that are different "ensembles" of a handful of elementary particles. The scientists are hoping to see a unification of the four fundamental forces of nature that act on these particles (the weak force responsible for radioactivity, electromagnetic force, the strong force responsible for the existence of protons and neutrons, and gravitation).

The first step in the journey to unify the forces was completed with the almost certain discovery of the Higgs particle: The union of two elementary forces the electromagnetic and weak force, to become the electroweak force.

One aspect of the Higgs boson, named after the Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, manifests itself in the giving of mass to the weak force carriers the "W" and "Z" particles. (The electromagnetic force carrier, the photon, remains massless.)

The Largest Machine in the World

In the effort to discover the Higgs boson, unify the fundamental forces and understand the origin of mass in the universe, scientists built the world's largest machine: a particle accelerator nestled in a 27-km-long circular tunnel, 100 meters beneath the border between France and Switzerland, in the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, near Geneva.

This accelerator, called LHC (Large Hadron Collider), accelerates beams of protons up to 99.999998% the speed of light. According to the theory of relativity, this increases their mass by 7,500 times that of their normal resting mass. The accelerator aims the beams straight at each other, causing collisions that release so much energy, the protons themselves explode. For much less than the blink of an eye, conditions similar to those that existed in the universe in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang are present in the accelerator.

As a result, particles of matter are turned into energy, in accordance with Albert Einstein's famous equation describing the conversion of matter into energy: E=mc2. The energy then propagates through space and the system cools. (Something similar happened in the early evolution of the universe.) Consequently, energy turns back into particles of matter and the process is repeated until particles that can exist in reality as we know it are formed.

The collisions produce energetic particles, some of which exist for extremely short periods of time. The only way to discern their existence is to identify the footprints they leave behind. For this purpose, a variety of particle detectors were developed, each optimized for capturing particular types of particles.

Statistics

The likelihood of creating the Higgs boson in a single collision is similar to that of randomly extracting a specific living cell from the leaf of a plant, out of all the plants growing on Earth. To cope with this task, Weizmann Institute scientists, headed by Prof. Mikenberg, developed unique particle detectors, which were manufactured at the Institute, and in Japan and China. These detectors have been adapted to detect muon particles. In some of the very rare collisions that produce Higgs particles, the footprint of the Higgs particle that which is recorded in the detectors is four energetic muons. Thus, the detection of such muons provides circumstantial evidence for the existence of the Higgs particle.

The scientists analyzed data from a thousand trillion proton collisions; in these Higgs bosons are created along with many other similar particles. Evidence to suggest the existence of the Higgs arises through searches for anomalies in the collected data (in comparison with the expected data if such a particle does not exist). This search focuses on the estimated mass of the particle: 126 trillion electron volts (Gev). When the scientists do manage to find such anomalies, they must then rule out the possibility that it is due to statistical fluctuation.

The calculations carried out by scientists in recent weeks, in which Prof. Gross played a central role, have revealed, with a high degree of statistical significance, a new particle with a mass similar to the expected mass of the Higgs. The wording is purposely cautious, leaving room for the possibility that a new particle other than the Higgs can be found within this mass range. The probability that this is, indeed, a new particle, is quite low. (But if it were, in truth, a different particle, say some physicists, things will start to get "really interesting.")

CERN

CERN scientists invented and developed the computer language and basic concepts that later served as the basis for the establishment of the Internet. In fact, the first server of the "World Wide Web" was activated in CERN to facilitate communication between scientists from around the globe participating in experiments carried out locally. The organization also served as a model for the establishment of the European Union, and its influence on Europe's technology and economy is reminiscent of the American space program.

The LHC particle accelerator is based on superconducting electromagnets working at very low temperatures: less than two degrees above absolute zero (minus 271 Celsius). It generates about one billion particle collisions per second: If they were people, it would be as if each person on the planet meets every one of the six billion inhabitants of the world every six seconds. Calculating and analyzing data from these collisions is like trying to understand what all the inhabitants of the world are saying, while each is holding 20 telephone conversations at once.

This experimental system includes the world's largest superconducting electromagnets, built in conjunction with Israeli companies. The entire structure includes 10,000 radiation detectors spaced just one millimeter apart, has a volume of 25,000 cubic meters and features half a million electronic channels. Most of the muon radiation detectors were built from components produced in Israel. A unique laser system tracks the exact location of the detectors with an accuracy of 25 microns (half the thickness of a human hair).

###

Prof. Ehud Duchovni's research is supported by the Friends of Weizmann Institute in memory of Richard Kronstein; the Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for High Energy Physics; and the Yeda-Sela Center for Basic Research. Prof. Duchovni is the incumbent of the Professor Wolfgang Gentner Professorial Chair of Nuclear Physics.

Prof. Eilam Gross's research is supported by the Friends of Weizmann Institute in memory of Richard Kronstein.

Prof. Giora Mikenberg's research is supported by the Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for High Energy Physics, which he heads. Prof. Mikenberg is the incumbent of the Lady Davis Professorial Chair of Experimental Physics.

The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, is one of the world's top-ranking multidisciplinary research institutions. Noted for its wide-ranging exploration of the natural and exact sciences, the Institute is home to 2,700 scientists, students, technicians and supporting staff. Institute research efforts include the search for new ways of fighting disease and hunger, examining leading questions in mathematics and computer science, probing the physics of matter and the universe, creating novel materials and developing new strategies for protecting the environment.

Weizmann Institute news releases are posted on the World Wide Web at http://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/, and are also available at http://www.eurekalert.org/


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Nebula's Dawn: F.S.S. Salient

Nebula's Dawn: F.S.S. Salient

The F.S.S. Salient is the last of the Federation's Neptune Class Battlecruisers. It was recently deployed to the rim worlds of the Federation. However, the crew is unaware of the mysteries that lurk beyond the fringes of known space.

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--> Forum for completely Out of Character (OOC) discussion, based around whatever is happening In Character (IC). Discuss plans, storylines, and events; Recruit for your roleplaying game, or find a GM for your playergroup.


I'm likin' the looks of this! Mind if I put up for Lieutenant?

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7thPrivateer
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not gonna lie man, you chose some pretty sick pictures. What's the general tech spec of the setting?

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Nekohina
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Mainly asking because it seems you're doing an awesome looking Halo/Mass Effect fusion and I'm 100% interested since I fucking love them both

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Nekohina
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Whoa. Where'd all this enthusiasm come from? If you have a character ready, go ahead and submit them. By tech spec, Nekohina, what do you mean?

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VindicatedPurpose
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Like the level of technology available for things like weapons, armor, physical augments, the general "standard equipment". I was thinking about going full soldier spec

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Nekohina
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Just a note, as the story progresses to the point where we "might" meet other races, you can add a non-human sentient main character to the roster. I say might because I haven't planned to up that point yet, but I am keeping my options open.

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VindicatedPurpose
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Hmm, I'm beginning to think I might need to add the tech spec to the front page. I'll give you the gist of it, we're still using solid projectile weapons like assault rifles, but we're on the verge of energy based projectile weapons like particle/pulse rifles, and etc. As for armor, I would encompass a full spectrum from recon suits to ballistic combat suits, with internal monitors/scanners/communications. I fancy the idea of wrist communicators, and holographic communications, projectors, and starmaps.

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VindicatedPurpose
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got it. I'll also PM what I was thinking of making in terms of augments and armor, then hash out the illegals

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Nekohina
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Is there anyway I can combine the marine and fighter pilot together? Best of both worlds!

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loowman141414
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Yeah, that's totally fine with me. A Marine fighter pilot works.

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VindicatedPurpose
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First of all, those pictures are gorgeous :D Even if I wasn't totally obsessed with sci-fi and space travel, I would join just because of them XD

Secondly, might I create a character who is a medic?

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Lucian1549
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I would like to put in a character for Second in Command, if you don't mind?

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Everscale
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I know the list was...extensive but I didn't want to write up anything illegal before I submitted my character

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Nekohina
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Just a note I won't be around tomorrow for the 4th of July. Maybe. Dunno. Might be. Perhaps.

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7thPrivateer
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Do you mind if we have two characters or do you want to keep it at one each?

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Linde to buy health firm Lincare for $4.6 billion

(AP) ? Linde AG, a German-based company that specializes in industrial gases, plans to acquire U.S. home care health company Lincare Holdings Inc. in a deal worth $4.6 billion.

The companies said Sunday night that Linde will make a tender offer of $41.50 per share in cash for all outstanding stock of Lincare, which is based in Clearwater, Florida. They said Lincare's board of directors has unanimously approved the deal and that it is expected to close in this year's third quarter.

Linde said it would fund the deal through an acquisition loan of $4.5 billion and through available cash. The loan would be refinanced by issuing new debt and shares.

Lincare provides respiratory therapy to patients in the home in 48 U.S. states and in Canada through 1,091 local centers with 11,000 employees, according to its website. Its services include oxygen therapy, chemotherapy, managing feeding tubes, pain management, treatment of sleep apnea, and home ventilators.

It reported net revenues of $1.848 billion last year, a 10.7 percent increase over the year before. The company has told investors it sees revenues being driven by an aging population, advances in lung medicine along with new drugs, and cost pressures that reward more efficient service providers. Just under half its revenues come from Medicare, the U.S. government insurance program for people over 65, and about a third from private insurance.

Linde CEO Wolfgang Reitzle said the acquisition "enables us to take the next big step in this stable, sustainable and profitable business field."

Linde, headquartered in Munich, is a major maker of gases used for medical purposes such as oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy and anesthesia. It has 50,500 employees in over 100 countries and reported sales of ?13.78 billion last year.

Lincare CEO John P. Byrnes said its board believed that the planned merger "will afford the company benefits it would not be able to realize on its own."

Lincare's share price is up $7.14, or 21 percent, to $41.16 in premarket trading.

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'Lifer' won't be charged in killing of another inmate

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Andre Marcel Adams was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 for murder.

By James Eng, msnbc.com

A Michigan prosecutor has decided not to charge an inmate in the killing of another inmate because he?s already serving a life sentence.

Andre Marcel Adams, 39, is suspected of strangling Carlos Love at the Alger Correction Facility on May 31 but won?t face charges at this time, Alger County Prosecutor Karen Bahrman announced in a written statement, according to local media reports.


Adams had been serving a life sentence at the maximum security prison in Munising, Mich., for a 2006 murder in Wayne County. He was?transferred to Marquette Branch Prison after he was identified as a suspect in Love's slaying.

Bahrman said any sentence Adams might face upon conviction in Love?s death wouldn?t exceed his current life term.

?While it goes against every personal and professional instinct to do nothing about a chargeable murder, the fact remains that we cannot obtain additional consequences for the prospective defendant,? Bahrman said, The Mining Journal reported Tuesday.

Adams was convicted of first-degree murder in 2007 for beating a man to death with a foot-long flashlight in April 2006. His conviction was affirmed by an appellate court in 2009 and no further appeals have been filed, the prosecutor noted. No charges will be filed against him in Love?s death ?unless and until there is a change in those circumstances,? she said, noting there is no statute of limitations on murder.

"Steps have been taken to insure that the Alger County Prosecutor's Office will be notified should prisoner Adams pursue any post-conviction remedies and that evidence needed to prosecute this case will be preserved indefinitely," her statement said.

Love, 39, of Detroit, was found dead at the Alger Correction Facility on May 31 after another inmate reported that he had suffered an apparent seizure and was unconscious. An autopsy determined that Love died of manual strangulation. He had been incarcerated since 1992 for armed robbery and possessing a weapon.

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Jeff Dion, deputy executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime, said prosecutorial decisions such as Bahrman's ?may be unusual but certainly not unheard of.?

"Certainly there are decisions, financial decisions, that need to be made about whether it is worthwhile for a prosecutor to expend public resources in a particular case,? said Dion, whose sister was slain by a serial killer?in 1982.

?The concern is that the rights of a victim may become subservient to prosecutorial discretion and fiscal reality. There?s still a question about whether or not the victim's family is entitled to some type of justice."

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Health Care Ruling Turns 'Tax' Into A Four-Letter Word (The Note)

By MICHAEL FALCONE ( @michaelpfalcone ) and AMY WALTER ( @amyewalter )

NOTABLES:

WORD SEARCH: Based on interviews with Obama administration officials and Republican leaders over the weekend, it was evident that the race to define last week's Supreme Court decision - on favorable terms for each side - is on. Neither side wants to use the "T" word (shhhh, that's "tax") and while Democrats would like to move away from health care and back to the economy, Republicans seem poised to turn the Supreme Court ruling into an even larger election-year issue.

POST-SCOTUS AIR WARS. The well-funded conservative group Americans for Prosperity launched a $9 million ad campaign attacking the health care law almost as soon as the decision was announced last week. "Obama's health care law is actually one of the largest tax increases in history," the ad's narrator says. "Shouldn't President Obama's priorities have been creating jobs and ending reckless spending?" WATCH: http://bit.ly/MG4cPG

And another group, Crossroads GPS, announced this weekend they would be unveiling specific ads targeting House and Senate candidates on the health care issue. Here's one calling on North Dakota Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp to support repeal of the law. The ad is titled "Tax," and was updated to reflects the court's ruling. WATCH: http://bit.ly/LUFyaE

NEW ABC/YAHOO! VIDEO: HONORING BLACK MARINES, 70 YEARS LATER. ABC's Jake Tapper reports on some 400 marines awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, decades after they suffered through racial prejudice and hellish boot camps as the first black men to integrate the U.S. Marines. http://yhoo.it/KVUOYK

THE NOTE:

It's a bird, it's a plane! It's a tax, it's a penalty!

Ever since last Thursday's Supreme Court decision that ruled the Obama administration's signature health care reform law constitutional, both Democrats and Republicans laced up their running shoes for a sprint to the dictionary.

The keyword: tax.

Republicans want to bake the idea that the health care law imposes a tax into the cake. While Democrats, on the other hand, are loathe to refer to it in those terms.

White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew insisted, repeatedly, in interviews this weekend that under the law refusal to buy insurance would amount to a "penalty" and Obama campaign aides echoed the White House line, calling it a "a free loader penalty."

Democrats, however, have also been circulating videos of Romney acknowledging that his own health care plan imposed a tax. At a January 2008 ABC News' debate in New Hampshire, moderator Charlie Gibson asked Romney whether his plan "imposed tax penalties in Massachusetts."

"Yes," Romney replied, "we said, look, if people can afford to buy it, either buy the insurance or pay your own way; don't be free-riders." http://abcn.ws/x4gddT

But Republicans weren't about to touch Romney's comments with a ten-foot poll. When asked about Romney's own health care plan, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. told "Fox News Sunday's" Chris Wallace: "I think Gov. Romney will have to speak for himself about what was done in Massachusetts."

But McConnell did not evade when it came to defining "Obamacare."

"The president said it was not a tax," McConnell said. "The Supreme Court, which has the final say, says it is a tax. The tax is going be levied, 77 percent of it, on Americans making less than $120,000 a year. So it is a middle class tax cut - tax increase."

And, in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, was similarly definitive.

"The American people do not want to go down this path," Boehner said. "They do not want the government telling them what kind of insurance policy they have to buy and how much they have to pay for it, and if you don't like it, we're going to tax you."

BOTTOM LINE: The ducking, dodging and weaving by leaders on both sides of the aisle - in service of avoiding the "T" word at all costs - made for awkward Sunday show performances all around. Polls show most voters have already made up their mind on the health care issue and both Democrats and Republicans could risk alienating voters by re-litigating this fight.

GEORGE VS. JACK: TAX VS. PENALTY. As we noted above, White House chief of staff Jack Lew refused to call the individual mandate for health care a tax in an interview on "This Week" with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, continually referring to it as a "penalty" or "charge," despite the Supreme Court's ruling that it should be considered a tax. Here's one of the exchanges between Stephanopoulos and Lew:

LEW: For that once percent who have chosen not to buy health insurance, and just to pass the burden on to others, there's this penalty.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But you do concede, you keep wanting to use the word penalty. You do concede that the law survived only because Justice Roberts found this to be a tax?

LEW: I - I think if you look at the decision, which is a very complicated one, there are arguments that support different theories. There were?

STEPHANOPOULOS: But the argument of Chief Justice Roberts is that it's a tax.

LEW: He - He went through the different powers that Congress has and found that there is a power, whatever you call it, to assess a penalty like this.

STEPHANOPOULOS: He called it a tax. So you're conceding that?

LEW: I'm saying that it was set up as a penalty for people who choose not to buy insurance, even though they can afford it, and for that one percent, we call it fair.

STEPHANOPOULOS: And he calls it a tax.

CHRIS VS. MITCH: WHEN IS A TAX, A TAX? From Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's interview with "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace: http://fxn.ws/MCWA1q

WALLACE: Now, since the Supreme Court justice - Chief Justice Roberts came out with his ruling declaring that the mandate is actually a tax, you have been hammering the president for imposing a new tax on the middle class. But Mitt Romney has a mandate in his Massachusetts health care reform plan and the people in Massachusetts paid more than $20 million last year in that mandate penalty, tax, whatever you want to call it, so isn't that a Romney tax on the middle class?

MCCONNELL: Well, I have two thoughts there. Number one, that was a Massachusetts decision, not a national decision. And number two, every single Senate Democratic - every Democratic senator voted for "Obama-care." It passed with not a vote to spare. Every single Democratic incumbent on the ballot this November was the deciding vote to pass this bill. This law is deeply unpopular with the American people. These Senate races across America will, indeed, be a referendum on this job-killing, health care, tax-increasing measure.

WALLACE: But if I may, sir, I mean, you didn't answer my direct question. If the Obama mandate is a tax on the middle class, isn't the Romney mandate a tax on the middle class?

MCCONNELL: Well, I think Governor Romney will have to speak for himself about what was done in Massachusetts. I can tell you that every single Democratic senator voted for this tax increase and these $500 billion cuts in Medicare. And it will be a huge issue in 2012

NOTE IT!

ABC's RICK KLEIN: For amazingly complicated reasons, President Obama needed a tax to be a mandate, and Chief Justice John Roberts needed a mandate to be a tax. Now it's back in the political realm, where Democrats need this mandate that the Supreme Court has labeled "tax" to be a "penalty," or something else entirely. The argument may be academic, but if Democrats want a fresh start in selling the Obama health care law to the public, getting past the new tax question is an important start.

ABC's AMY WALTER: While the Sunday shows were obsessed with health care, the campaigns and the political parties are eager to get back to the fundamentals of the campaign: the economy. The Obama campaign pushed back last night on Politifact's criticism of their outsourcing attacks. Meanwhile, the RNC is focusing on the "middle class promise gap."

LOOK AHEAD: June unemployment numbers will be released this Friday.

ROMNEY CAMPAIGN READIES PRE-BUTTAL TO OBAMA'S BUS TOUR. The Romney campaign has enlisted Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey to frame President Obama's bus tour later this week on their terms. The memo is meant to remind voters of the promises the president made early in his term to reduce unemployment and improve the economy - promises, they say, he has not kept. Portman and Toomey also preview the campaign's messaging strategy for the week ahead:

"This week Gov. Romney and his campaign will revisit exactly what President Obama promised and showcase precisely how far away he is from meeting his own standards of success. Issue by issue, Republicans will highlight President Obama's astonishing middle class promise gap, contrasting where he said we'd be today with where we actually are. ? President Obama's campaign knows he has fallen short. They know he has disappointed the American people. You can see it in their ads and in their stump speeches. They are filled with excuses and distortions. They cast blame everywhere and take zero responsibility for the failing economy, the broken healthcare system, the terrible housing market, our lack of an energy policy, and our skyrocketing debt. Instead of 'the buck stops here,' they seem to be saying, 'the buck stops over there.' To win reelection, they are desperately working to misrepresent Gov. Romney's record and distract from their own disappointing record."

STATE OF THE STATES: President Obama begins his bus tour through Pennsylvania and Ohio on July 5. Recent numbers from Quinnipiac University give Obama the lead in both states (9 percentage points ahead of Romney in Ohio and 6 percentage points ahead in Pennsylvania). Also both states have seen modest reductions in their unemployment rates within the last year.

PROMISES, PROMISES: GOP LAUNCHES: PROMISEGAP.COM. Although this week will most likely be a slow one on the campaign trail the Republican National Committee isn't slowing down a bit, ABC's Shushannah Walshe reports. The RNC, joined by the Romney campaign, say they will be "highlighting the gap between what President Obama promised the middle class and what he delivered." Today the RNC is launching "PromiseGap.com", a site featuring a list of what they call the president's "top 10 failed promises" from keeping unemployment below 8 percent to cutting the deficit in half by the end of his first term to bringing more bipartisanship to Washington. The RNC is also out with a research piece today called the "Middle-Class Promise Gap: Health Care," which focuses on numbers they say shows a gap between what President Obama promised his health care law would do to premiums for middle class Americans and the higher cost affecting many Americans: http://bit.ly/QTp9ad

NOTED: But, as we saw last week, with so much data and research different language and numbers can be manipulated to help both sides of the health care argument: http://abcn.ws/N8UBfT

"THIS WEEK" REWIND: VICKI KENNEDY REFLECTS ON HEALTH CARE DECISION.

-MY HUSBAND WOULD HAVE BEEN 'PLEASED BUT NOT SURPRISED.' Vicki Kennedy, wife of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, said Sunda morning on "This Week" that her late husband would have been "pleased," but "not surprised" that Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Supreme Court's liberal members to rule the individual mandate - the cornerstone of President Obama's health reform law - to be constitutional. "I think he felt very strongly in health care reform. He had studied this issue for more than 40 years. He believed in it," Mrs. Kennedy said. "He believed in its constitutionality. He had looked at it in every way and I think he would have been pleased but not surprised." http://abcn.ws/MNgFya

-PAUL RYAN: JUSTICE ROBERTS 'HAD TO CONTORT LOGIC.' ABC's George Stephanopoulos also interviewed Rep. Paul Ryan on 'This Week': "I'm very disappointed in the ruling. I think the chief justice had to contort logic and reason to come up with this ruling," the Republican from Wisconsin said. "So one man decided against the dissenting opinion, against what I, you know, thought were his - his principles and judicial jurisprudence, he decided to leave this up to the American people. So now the stakes of this election could not be higher." http://abcn.ws/KVQKrf

-OVERHEARD ON "THIS WEEK": Niki Minaj's "Starships." (between George's interview with Paul Ryan and the powerhouse roundtable).

THE BUZZ:

With ABC's Chris Good ( @c_good )

NUMBERS GAME: RGA VS. DGA. With Wisconsin's recall race drawing national interest in 2012, the Republican Governors Association outraised its Democratic counterpart in the second quarter of 2012 by $3.7 million, according to announcements by the two organizations today. From a Democratic Governors Association official: "The DGA will announce today that it raised $13 million across all entities in Q2 of 2012, shattering its previous fundraising record and bringing its total for the first 6 months of 2012 to $21 million, more than the $20 million the DGA raised over the entire year in 2011." And from an RGA official: "It's another record-breaking haul. Perhaps the most impressive comparison is that we have raised more in the first half of 2012 than we raised in the first half of 2010, when 37 governors' races were taking place. ? The RGA raised $16.7 million in the second quarter of 2012, bringing its total for 2012 to $29M."

BAIN ATTACKS ARE WORKING, BUT DEMS WORRY ABOUT MONEY. Analysis from ABC's Rick Klein: In [battleground] states, President Obama has been pulling ahead. The gaps aren't huge, but taken together, the numbers strongly suggest that Democrats' relentless attacks on Mitt Romney's business record at Bain Capital have been taking a toll. Quinnipiac University polling last week in the three big classic swing states show the president with narrow but identifiable leads. He's up four points in Florida, seven in Ohio, and six in Pennsylvania. Among the things that those states have in common is that voters there have seen an avalanche of early advertising focused on questioning Romney's business record. ? When outside groups are factored in, Obama aides say they could be outspent by 25 percent or more this year. http://abcn.ws/LeQCVa

NOTED: Much of the Democrats' Bain-focused TV firepower has come from the pro-Obama super PAC, Priorities USA Action, which is in the midst of a $10 million ad campaign in Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. So far Priorities has released a series of five ads.

OBAMA CAMPAIGN VS. FACTCHECK.ORG . ABC's Devin Dwyer reports: In a six-page letter to FactCheck.org, deputy Obama campaign manager Stephanie Cutter disputes the notion that Romney cannot be held accountable for outsourcing by Bain Capital-owned companies after February 1999, when he stepped down as CEO. "The statement that Gov. Romney 'left' Bain in February 1999 - a statement central to your fact-check - is not accurate," Cutter writes. "Romney took an informal leave of absence but remained in full legal control of Bain and continued to be paid by Bain as such. Governor Romney would have the period of Bain service understood differently, for the obvious reason that there is much in this l999-2002 period that he would prefer to avoid accountability for." http://abcn.ws/N3R8zu

HOW ROBERTS SWITCHED SIDES. CBS's Jan Crawford reports: "Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court's four conservative justices to strike down the heart of President Obama's health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, but later changed his position and formed an alliance with liberals to uphold the bulk of the law, according to two sources with specific knowledge of the deliberations. Roberts then withstood a month-long, desperate campaign to bring him back to his original position, the sources said. Ironically, Justice Anthony Kennedy - believed by many conservatives to be the justice most likely to defect and vote for the law - led the effort to try to bring Roberts back to the fold. 'He was relentless,' one source said of Kennedy's efforts. "He was very engaged in this." ? The inner-workings of the Supreme Court are almost impossible to penetrate. ? But in this closely-watched case, word of Roberts' unusual shift has spread widely within the Court, and is known among law clerks, chambers' aides and secretaries. It also has stirred the ire of the conservative justices, who believed Roberts was standing with them." http://cbsn.ws/LRwkRF

ROMNEY BYTHE LAKE:

-TRYING TO KEEP 'LOW PROFILE.' From The New York Times' Ashley Parker: "And so, as the members of the Romney clan slowly gathered here over the weekend to start their annual vacation - 30 people total, including all 5 sons and 18 grandchildren, happily ensconced at the multimillion-dollar lakefront compound by Saturday night - the town that bills itself as "the oldest summer resort in America" began wondering just what a Romney presidency would mean for their calm and scenic way of life. ? That Mr. Romney's presence threatens to upend the very quaintness and tranquility that first led the Romney's to summer here was not lost on his son Josh, who helped open a Wolfeboro campaign office (complete with a dock) on Saturday morning. 'We hope we can stay as low-profile as possible,' Josh Romney said. 'And in reality, we hope America doesn't discover how cool this place is, because we love having it to ourselves.'" http://nyti.ms/ N3UKl3

-FAMILY OLYMPICS AND A 'CHORE WHEEL.' The Washington Post's Philip Rucker reports: "The Romney Olympics have long included a mini-triathlon of biking, swimming and running that pits Mitt and his five sons and their wives against one another. But after Mitt once nearly finished last, behind a daughter-in-law who had given birth to her second child a couple of months earlier, the ultra-competitive and self-described unathletic patriarch expanded the games to give himself a better shot. ? Each member of the family picks a daily chore from a 'chore wheel,' so as to share cleaning tasks evenly. And before anyone departs, everyone poses on the lawn for a portrait for that year's Romney family Christmas card. The grandchildren coordinate outfits; last summer, the girls wore matching orange and yellow polka-dotted dresses and the boys, blue checkered shirts." http://wapo.st/NVFmYX

OBAMA'S IN-FLIGHT FUNDRAISING. The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove reports: "President Obama sounded weary and maybe a tad worried late Friday during a rambling conference call with campaign donors whom he repeatedly begged to send money-and send it now. 'The majority on this call maxed out to my campaign last time. I really need you to do the same this time,' the president said in a highly unusual (and presumably legal) fundraising pitch from Air Force One on his way back to Washington from Colorado Springs, where he'd been assessing the terrible damage caused by uncontained wildfires. A special phone on the government aircraft is dedicated to political calls that are paid for by the campaign. 'I'm asking you to meet or exceed what you did in 2008,' the presidential pitchman continued, speaking to donors who were invited to dial in based on their contributions during the last election. 'Because we're going to have to deal with these super PACs in a serious way. And if we don't, frankly I think the political [scene] is going to be changed permanently. Because the special interests that are financing my opponent's campaign are just going to consolidate themselves. They're gonna run Congress and the White House.'" http://bit.ly/MCPXMl

IS ROMNEY'S FOREIGN-POLICY TEAM BORED? The Daily Beast's Eli Lake reports: "At the Romney 2012 campaign, there's a well-known mantra that drives much of the candidate's strategy: Every day Romney talks about something besides the economy is a victory for President Obama. That maxim has left many of the foreign-policy wonks participating in the campaign feeling sidelined, and vying-often unsuccessfully-to make particular policy points that the candidate can take on the road, according to several people involved in the campaign. 'They're constantly sending emails and policy ideas around,' says one adviser, 'but they are rarely doing anything more than pushing paper.' On a recent conference call between the chairs of Romney's 10 committees dedicated to foreign policy, one participant urged the campaign to address a June 19 item from the Iranian state news agency, Fars, claiming the Syrian, Russian, Chinese, and Iranian militaries would be staging joint amphibious exercises in the coming weeks. 'It was so lame,' said one person on the call, adding that such conversations often devolve into debates that have no influence on the actual campaign. 'These conference calls are really for people who have an hour in a half of time every week to waste.'" http://bit.ly/N6ppSm

BOEHNER TO TAKE HOLDER TO COURT? Politico's Alex Isenstadt reports: "In an interview aired Sunday on CBS's 'Face the Nation,' the Ohio congressman said he expected fellow Republicans to file a lawsuit in federal court following the House's vote last week to hold Holder in contempt of Congress. That suit, he said, will likely come over 'the next several weeks.'" http://politi.co/LKFBcc

POLL: A POST-SCOTUS BUMP FOR OBAMACARE. Reuters's Patricia Zengerle reports: "Voter support for President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul has increased following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling upholding it, although majorities still oppose it, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday showed. Among all registered voters, support for the law rose to 48 percent in the online survey conducted after Thursday's ruling, up from 43 percent before the court decision. Opposition slipped to 52 percent from 57 percent. The survey showed increased backing from Republicans and, crucially, the political independents whose support will be essential to winning the November 6 presidential election. Thirty-eight percent of independents supported the healthcare overhaul. That was up from 27 percent from a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken days before the justices' ruling. Opposition among independents was 62 percent, versus 73 percent earlier." http://reut.rs/M0IV1m

WHITHER THE YOUTH VOTE? The New York Times' Susan Saulny writes: "In the four years since President Obama swept into office in large part with the support of a vast army of young people, a new corps of men and women have come of voting age with views shaped largely by the recession. And unlike their counterparts in the millennial generation who showed high levels of enthusiasm for Mr. Obama at this point in 2008, the nation's first-time voters are less enthusiastic about him, are significantly more likely to identify as conservative and cite a growing lack of faith in government in general, according to interviews, experts and recent polls. Polls show that Americans under 30 are still inclined to support Mr. Obama by a wide margin. But the president may face a particular challenge among voters ages 18 to 24. In that group, his lead over Mitt Romney - 12 points - is about half of what it is among 25- to 29-year-olds, according to an online survey this spring by the Harvard Institute of Politics. And among whites in the younger group, Mr. Obama's lead vanishes altogether. Among all 18- to 29-year-olds, the poll found a high level of undecided voters; 30 percent indicated that they had not yet made up their mind. And turnout among this group is expected to be significantly lower than for older voters." http://nyti.ms/LRF5uZ

OBAMA'S SPANISH-LANGUAGE AD BLITZ. Politico's Robin Bravender reports: "Obama's campaign has spent more than $2 million on Spanish-language television and radio ads since mid-April, according to several sources who track media buys. That's on top of the $4 million the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action and the Service Employees International Union have committed to spending through the summer on Spanish TV and radio ads hitting Romney in Colorado, Nevada and Florida. In contrast, Mitt Romney has spent about $110,000 on Spanish-language ads during the general election, sources say." http://politi.co/N6qZ6U

WITH 51 VOTES, GOP COULD OVERTURN 'OBAMACARE.' Republicans would also need to win the White House, but The Wall Street Journal's Louise Radnofsky reports: "A quirk of Senate rules lets some tax and spending bills come to a vote under a fast-track procedure called budget reconciliation that prevents filibusters. It allows the bills to pass with a 51-vote majority instead of the 60 needed to break a filibuster. Should the GOP gain a handful of Senate seats in November, the party plans to use the tactic to try to knock down the health law. Republicans currently hold 47 of the Senate's 100 seats. 'Look, reconciliation is available because the Supreme Court has now declared it a tax," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) said on 'Fox News Sunday.' 'They have unearthed the massive deception that was practiced by the president and the Democrats, constantly denying it was a tax.'" http://on.wsj.com/MnNXrO

IN THE NOTE'S INBOX:

- DCCC PLAYS OFFENSE. After last week's Supreme Court ruling, The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee launched robo-calls in 10 Republican districts. The calls begin: "Hi, this is [name] from the DCCC calling with a warning. Congressman Dan Lungren has gone Washington. After taking more than $120,000 from insurance companies, Congressman [X] wants to put insurance companies back in charge of our health care and let them: deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions like asthma, heart disease and cancer; cut back your health benefits; throw some kids off their parents' insurance; and roll back prescription coverage for seniors. ?" The calls attack Reps. Dan Lungren, Calif.; Mary Bono Mack, Calif.; Robert Dold, Ill.; Judy Biggert, Ill.; Rodney Davis, Ill.; Bobby Schilling, Ill.; Roscoe Bartlett, Md.; Nan Hayworth, N.Y.; Chris Gibson, N.Y.; and Anne Marie Buerkle, N.Y.

-BIDEN TO SPEND THE FOURTH IN SCRANTON: From Obama For America's Pennsylvania press office: "On July 3rd Vice President Biden will travel to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania to meet with campaign supporters, visit with friends and family and attend Scranton's Courthouse Square fireworks celebration. The Vice President will deliver remarks at the fireworks celebration." (h/t Devin Dwyer)

-FROM THE DESK OF HERMAN CAIN: " All in to take down Obamacare ," by Herman Cain, July 2, 2011: "Getting rid of Obamacare through the political process is much more achievable now, but we still need that proverbial army of Davids to rise up and approach the Philistine. The Republicans must take the House, capture the Senate and win the presidential race. Once in office, they must know that the American people demand nothing less than complete repeal of the entire Obamacare law, and that we expect the Senate to use reconciliation just as the Democrats used it to get the thing passed in the first place. The inside-the-Beltway crowd and the lamestream media will howl that this is beyond the pale and horrible. The Republicans need to learn to ignore these people and serve the public."

WHO'S TWEETING?

?@Ginger_Zee : An absolute mess STILL in Virginia among so many other spots still w/o power & will be until after the 4th! @gma http://pic.twitter.com/ZZ11RUCC

@SusanPage : Ann Romney calls @stephencolbert parody of dressage 'hilarious;' says sport's political downside beyond her control: http://alturl.com/2e75b

@petersgoodman : In case you missed in mag? How Loss of Enthusiasm Among Youth Voters Could Cost Obama the Presidency: via HuffPost http://huff.to/M084sN

@PoliticoKevin : Jim DeMint is launching a super PAC, @jonallendc reports: http://bit.ly/KNq9ry

@jimacostacnn : My little one to me on vacation: did Rominny Mitch win?

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Doris Sams Dead: Women's League Baseball Star Who Helped Inspire 'A League Of Their Own' Dies At 85

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Doris Sams, a pitcher and outfielder from Knoxville who helped inspire the movie "A League of Their Own," has died at age 85 after a battle with Alzheimer's.

The Stevens Mortuary Chapel in Knoxville said Sams died Thursday and her funeral service was Sunday. According to The Knoxville News Sentinel, she had been battling Alzheimer's for three years.

Sams, also called Sammye, was a leading player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. According to the league's website, she was a five-time all-star during her eight-year pro career. She played for the Muskegon Lassies, later the Kalamazoo Lassies.

She made the circuit's honor team in 1947 and from 1949 through 1952. She averaged more than .300 during each of her last four seasons.

One sportswriter called her "calm and cool at all times."

"Sammye is the tempering force of the team," Muskegon Chronicle sportswriter James F. Henderson wrote at the time. "Where another might become ruffled, she maintains a placid demeanor."

Sams was named the league's player of the year following the 1947 season, according to the website. A pitcher turned outfielder, she was named to the All-Star team at both positions. But her athleticism didn't stop there.

She pitched a perfect game for the Muskegon Lassies on August 18, 1947, defeating the Fort Wayne Daisies, 2-0. She batted .280, the third highest average among the league's regulars, and she contributed 41 RBIs.

Despite all her honors, Sams remained humble.

In a 1997 interview, she said her perfect game "wasn't so perfect."

"They hit me like a drum," she said. "But it was one of those days when everybody was on their toes. They were catching line drives. You know, the pitcher doesn't do it alone, let's face it. They caught line drives and everything else ? just unreasonable catches that day."

Friends also recalled a somewhat shy Sams. Frances Rader, who had known Sams since childhood, told The Knoxville News Sentinel that when producers of the 1992 movie "A League of Their Own" wanted Sams to help promote it, she declined because she didn't want to be in the spotlight.

Sams' 88-year-old cousin says her legacy will continue to shine.

"She made women more a part of public sports," Gordon Sams told the newspaper. "She was an interesting lady and I hope she will never be forgotten."

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