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Flight or Iris
We ate at Flight a couple of weeks ago and it was incredible! Kind of a different concept for these parts but everything was great! Never been to Iris so don't know how it compares, but I don't think you would be disappointed at all with Flight.
We made reservations via Open Table on an Iphone while standing in front of the crowded place- walked right in and they had our table ready within minutes!
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re: dailybread8383
FWIW, I have seen mixed reviews both here and elsewhere about Flight, so I guess it can't be consistently good, which is really the mark of a great restaurant.
But having said that I must add that when they are on, they really are on- and there is some food coming out of the kitchen at Flight that doesn't take a back seat to anyone. I've only eaten there once, so maybe I was extremely lucky...
I have heard mixed reviews about Flight, but have not dined there. I have dined at Iris, and it is outstanding. It certainly has received more national press for Chef Kelly English, and I have never heard anyone say they didn't have an outstanding meal there. The space is an old home and is interesting as well..
Iris and it isn't even close. IMO Iris is the best restaurant in the state and is just unreal good.
I've eaten there many times and have never had a meal that wasn't outstanding.
Flight is good but it isn't on the same level as Iris.
Chef Kelly English worked under John Besh and you can see the influence but it is also very unique.
The menu changes frequently based on what's in season but some highlights: bone marrow topped with pico de gallo and served with brioche, the seared foie gras is some of the best I've had, the lobster knuckle sandwich, the raviolo (braised beef short rib ravioli in brown butter sauce), the surf and turf (NY Strip stuffed with fried oysters and hollandaise), trout almandine and the lamb shank is out of this world.
My one meal at Flight was not particularly good (and very expensive for being really blah) and I'm not inclined to go back. Iris is fantastic--really, really amazing.
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re: brooky
Nope, talking about Restaurant Iris:
and Flight:
Iris has a great reputation for being wonderful, but I am apparently the only person in the free world to get a decent meal at Flight. I'm kind of starting to feel guilty about that...
Restaurant Iris
2146 Monroe Ave, Memphis, TN 38104
re: Clarkafella
re: Clarkafella
I have eaten at Flight a couple of times and enjoyed my meals. There are some items that were stronger than others but I enjoy trying different dishes.
I had the scallop dish both times and it's one of the best I have had anywhere. On the last visit the gazpacho with watermelon was excellent and the elk loin was really good too.
I have only been to Iris once and want to go back again. The raviolo was just okay to me. The red wine vinegar and brown butter sauce overwhelmed the rib meat in the raviolo. The deconstructed cassoulet was great and interesting.
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re: klebb
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re: klebb
re: Billy77
A lot of the nicer places in Memphis are closed on Sunday. Of the top of my head, Erling Jensen has a nice $38 3-course special on Sunday night. Also, Bari is open on Sunday night - interesting southeastern Italian food. Lots of seafood.
Erling Jensen The Restaurant
1044 S. Yates Rd, Memphis, TN 38119
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If you are staying downtown Erlings is a haul but it is excellent and for $38 it's a deal. I didn't even know about that but would love to check it out...
I love Bari but check out the menu first as it's not for everyone. They have a great cheese selection, pasta dishes, and it's very fish-centric for the mains (they aren't really main courses though as you are supposed to order 4-5 courses).
As mentioned earlier McEwens is great -- especially if you are downtown.
I'm pretty sure Sweetgrass and 1912 are both open on Sunday's as well.
Everywhere in Memphis is fairly casual but I wouldn't wear shorts and flip flops to EJ's...
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re: jcr05
Really? I don't see any similarities except for the name. The schtick at Flight (memphis) is that you can order "flights" of food i.e. tenderloin flight with smaller portions of Pork, Beef, Lamb or wine flights allowing you to taste 3 different kinds of wine, etc...
Unless Flyte in Nashville completely changed I think you are wrong.


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River traffic passes through a section of water containing an electric fish barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009 in Romeoville, Ill. A toxic chemical is to be dumped Wednesday on a nearly 6-mile stretch of the canal as part of state and federal efforts to keep the voracious and invasive Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes. The fish toxin rotenone will be spread Wednesday evening near adjacent Lockport, Ill. Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman Stacey Solano said. After about eight hours, sometime Thursday morning, the carcasses of about 200,000 pounds of dead fish will surface in the canal, she said. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
What you talking 'bout?
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers disputes a report from the Chicago Tribune that plans are in the works to close the Chicago River four days per week to combat the spread of Asian Carp.
"We're not looking at any lock closures in a vacuum," Army Corps spokeswoman Lynn Whelan said. "It's not going to be a quick decision. It's going to be part of a longer review process."
The Tribune reported Tuesday morning the Corps laid out three scenarios in which the locks would be closed to boats and barges and may recommend the closures by April 1st.
There are no scenarios, according to Whelan, and the issue is still in the study phase. She said any discussion about closing waterways is still in the "what if" stages. She also says there is no time frame.
"We're looking at all of the options, all of the tools within our authority," Whelan said. "We operate the barrier and locks. We're working with the EPA, Fish & Wildlife, IDNR, and everyone is taking a look within their respective authorites what we can do and how can we put it all together."

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The Britannica Guide to Algebra and Trigonometry
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Oliver Purnell is a positive kind of guy.
Sure, one of his best post players is playing through a broken left hand.
The other is questionable with a sprained left ankle.
As far as Clemson's men's basketball coach is concerned, it could be worse.
That's Purnell's stance a day after watching sophomore center Trevor Booker suffer a sprained left ankle in the Tigers' 75-72 loss at Miami. X-rays taken Monday were negative, and he is questionable for Saturday's 8 p.m. home game with Boston College.
"It happens sometimes. You have injuries, that kind of thing," Purnell said. "I think of the glass as half-full. Those injuries could be more serious and we could have lost them for more time. There's a chance we'll get Trevor back for Boston College if not for the next game. James (Mays) missed five, six games (with a sprained hip) and now he's playing with a fractured hand."
Without Booker, Clemson (15-5, 3-3 ACC) loses its top low-post presence. His 12 points per game rank second on the roster, and his 8.2 rebounds per game are the Tigers' best (third-best in the ACC). His 2.1 blocks per game also rank third in the ACC.
"It'll be the trainers and the doctor and we'll take a course of rehab," Purnell said. "His rehab has already started, with icing it down and all the things they do to follow the advice by the trainer.
"I don't know of what, if anything he can do. Jogging and running and all that stuff is out. He'll be off the court a couple days if not more, calming down the sprain and going from there."
Clemson's lack of a mid-week game will help, but if Booker can't play Saturday, junior Raymond Sykes will likely replace him in the starting lineup. Sykes stands 6-foot-9, 220 pounds, while Booker is 6-7, 240 pounds. He started six games while Mays recovered from his sprained hip in December, averaging nine points and 3.3 rebounds per game.
He averages 5.2 points, 2.6 rebounds and just over a block per game this season. He had eight points and a rebound in 23 minutes of relief duty Sunday. However, Miami outrebounded Clemson 53-37, and Purnell said Sykes must carry his weight on the boards.
"Raymond has got to do a better job rebounding for us," he said. "When James Mays was out he did a great job stepping up, rebounding and scoring and a nice job on defense and in terms of a shot blocking presence. He would need to give that to us once again.
"If Booker is out or Booker is in, he'll need to give us that. What percentage he'll be back at full strength, that sort of thing, we won't know until game-time Saturday."
Mays has adjusted well to playing with a splinted left hand; he had 14 points and five rebounds Sunday. He broke the hand before facing North Carolina on Jan. 6, and Purnell said he expects 4-6 weeks will pass before the injury is healed. He said Mays will wear the splint "for the foreseeable future."


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Josmil is a 23 year old righthanded hitting Venezuelan catcher/DH. He's been in organiztion since signing as a 16yr old. He spent his first 3 season in VFL/DFL/GCL as a 17/18/19 yr old.
Pinto broke out as a 20 yr old in ELIZ goin .332/.387/.610 in 53gms-22 starts as C (205ABs) 14doubles 2 triples 13HR 55rbi 39k 19bb & thru out 46% of the 26 basestealers.
Then spent 2010 in Beloit but struggled---.225/.295/.378 in 100gms-66starts as C (347ABs) 21doubles 1triple 10hr 54rbi 67k 32bb w/26% of 90 basestealers caught.
Spent first 9gms of 2011 in Beloit before promotion to Ft Myers --.261/ .301/.395 in 73gms-52 starts as C (253ABs) 14doubles 1 triple 6hr 41rbi 46k 14bb 35% of 52baserunners caught
Thru July 3rd in 2nd season at Ft Myers--.253/.322/.406 in 59gms 37starts as C (217ABs) 13doubles 1triple 6hr 32rbi 34k 24bb 47% of 34baserunners caught.
2 seasons at Ft Myers....258/.314/.397 in 123gms--103 starts as C (438 ABs) 24doubles 2 triples 11hr 64rbi 70k 36bb---38% of 74 baserunners caught
compare this to 24yr old Chris Hermanns Ft Myers #s , both as 22/23yr olds----.237/.329/.325 in 131gms 102starts as C (443ABs) 22doubles 4triples 3HR 46rbi 80k 56bb caught 36% of 112 baserunners
Should Pinto be considered a better prospect than he is (or at least I thought he was). Seems the equal of Hermann to me. Needs to get a New Brit promotion & see where he's headin.
6 yr FA after this yr, so he may need to be protected or lose him.


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If we wait until volunteers can index the data, we may not get our data until after the end of this year.
Or, if we have the address of our relatives, we can figure out the Enumeration District (in their town and state). Then, we can look up the data ourselves, if the servers have completely recovered. Several helpful websites are listed below.
Now we have to wait until April of 2022 for the 1950 Census.
It was not until much after the end of WW II that the phonograph and the microphone replaced the need for live entertainment. Before then, every mayor social gathering employed performers to prove that the social gathering was prestigious and memorable.
Society pages in the Laredo newspapers offer a great deal of information. Regrettably, several factors prevented the documenting of every public appearance by Lorenzo Cuesta Ortiz. The following factors mislead us into believing that he perfomed rather infrequently.
1. An event may not have been covered by a local newspaper.
2. The article may not have named the musicians.
3. The specific newspaper page may not have been digitized.
4. The current search engine may not be able to read and index the name 'Cuesta'.
In searching the Laredo newspapers on http://www.newspaperarchive.com and realizing that the complete newspaper collections are not digitized, I found references to Lorenzo Cuesta Ortiz performing as a violinist in Laredo, Texas.
|May 3, 1950
|Ursuline Academy Festival
Ricardo Pérez (Piano), JC Godoy and Lorenzo Cuesta (Violins), José C Cisneros (Cello), Juan López (Bass Violin)
|Mar 6, 1950
|Nuevo Laredo Rotary Club 6th Anniversary
Prof Lorenzo Cuesta and his Orquestra
|Dec 18, 1949
|Holy Redeemer Men's Club
Angelina Pérez and Lorenzo Cuesta
|Aug 14, 1949
|Mary Help of Christians School
Lorenzo Cuesta violin solo
|Jan 31, 1949
|Nuevo Laredo Rotary Club
Lorenzo Cuesta violinist
|Mar 27, 1946
|Inaguración del Conjunto de Lorenzo Cuesta y su Música Latino-Americana
|Apr 14, 1944
|Optimist Club
Lorenzo Cuesta and Miss Meyers (played Czards, Souvenier, La Estrellita)
|Jun 5, 1944
|Nuevo Laredo Rotary Club
Lorenzo Cuesta violin solo
|Lorenzo Cuesta married on Nov 4, 1943 in Monterrey, México
|Jun 3, 1937
|Edith Clark Lowry Dance program at Royal Theater
Edward Aguilar (Piano) and Lorenzo Cuesta (Violin)
|Apr 13, 1932
|Laredo Rotary Club
Violin numbers by Lorenzo Cuesta and Ramón Aguilar, piano
From 1924 through 1926, Miguel Cuesta (Lorenzo's older brother) appears in the newspapers as the Cuesta violinist. He does not appear after 1932.]]>
1. LOCATION: Street, avenue, road, etc.
2. LOCATION: House number (in cities and towns)
3. HOUSEHOLD DATA: Number of household in order of visitation
4. HOUSEHOLD DATA: Home owned (O) or rented (R)
5. HOUSEHOLD DATA: Value of home, if owned, or monthly rental, if rented
6. HOUSEHOLD DATA: Does this household live on a farm? (Yes or No)
7. NAME: Name of each person whose usual place of residence on April 1, 1940, was in this household.
8. RELATION: Relationship of this person to the head of the household, as wife, daughter, father, mother-in-law, grandson, lodger, lodger's wife, servant, hired hand, etc.
9. PERSONAL DESCRIPTION: Sex — Male (M), Female (F)
10. PERSONAL DESCRIPTION: Color or race
11. PERSONAL DESCRIPTION: Age at last birthday
12. PERSONAL DESCRIPTION: Marital status — Single (S), Married (M), Widowed (Wd), Divorced (D)
13. EDUCATION: Attended school or college any time since March 1, 1940 (Yes or No)
14. EDUCATION: Highest grade of school completed
15. PLACE OF BIRTH: If born in the United States, give State, Territory, or possession. If foreign born, give country in which birthplace was situated on January 1, 1937. Distinguish Canada-French from Canada-English and Irish Free State (Eire) from Northern Ireland.
16. CITIZENSHIP: Citizenship of the foreign born
17. RESIDENCE APRIL 1, 1935: City, town, or village having 2,500 or more inhabitants. Enter "R" for all other places
18. RESIDENCE APRIL 1, 1935: County
19. RESIDENCE APRIL 1, 1935: State (or Territory or foreign country
20. RESIDENCE APRIL 1, 1935: On a farm? (Yes or No)
21. PERSONS 14 YEARS OLD AND OVER — EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Was this person AT WORK for pay or profit in private or nonemergency Govt. work during week of March 24-30? (Yes or No)
22. PERSONS 14 YEARS OLD AND OVER — EMPLOYMENT STATUS: If not, was he at work on, or assigned to, public EMERGENCY WORK (WPA, NYA, CCC, etc.) during week of March 24-30? (Yes or No)
23. PERSONS 14 YEARS OLD AND OVER — EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Was this person SEEKING WORK? (Yes or No)
24. PERSONS 14 YEARS OLD AND OVER — EMPLOYMENT STATUS: If not seeking work, did he HAVE A JOB, business, etc.? (Yes or No)
25. PERSONS 14 YEARS OLD AND OVER — EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Indicate whether engaged in home housework (H) in school (S), unable to work (U), or other (O)
26. PERSONS 14 YEARS OLD AND OVER — EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Number of hours worked during week of March 24-30, 1940
27. PERSONS 14 YEARS OLD AND OVER — EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Duration of unemploymen up to March 30, 1940 – in weeks
28. PERSONS 14 YEARS OLD AND OVER — EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Occupation: Trade, profession, or particular kind of work
29. PERSONS 14 YEARS OLD AND OVER — EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Industry: Industry of business
30. PERSONS 14 YEARS OLD AND OVER — EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Class of worker
31. PERSONS 14 YEARS OLD AND OVER — EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Number of weeks worked in 1939 (Equivalent full-time weeks)
32. PERSONS 14 YEARS OLD AND OVER — EMPLOYMENT STATUS: INCOME IN 1939: Amount of money wages or salary received (including commissions)
33. PERSONS 14 YEARS OLD AND OVER — EMPLOYMENT STATUS: INCOME IN 1939: Did this person receive income of $50 or more from sources other than money wages or salary? (Yes or No)
34. Number of Farm Schedule
There also was a list of SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTIONS, which would be asked of those individuals recorded usually on Lines 14 and 29 (although other lines were also designated for such use and were presumably to ensure a random sampling).
The Supplementary Questions were as follows:
38. MOTHER TONGUE (OR NATIVE LANGUAGE): Language spoken in home in earliest childhood
39. VETERANS: Is this person a veteran of the United States military forces; or the wife, widow, or under-18-year-old child of a veteran? If so, enter "Yes"
40. VETERANS: If child, is veteran-father dead (Yes or No)
41. VETERANS: War or military service
42. SOCIAL SECURITY: Does this person have a Federal Social Security Number? (Yes or No)
43. SOCIAL SECURITY: Were deductions for Federal Old-Age Insurance or Railroad Retirement made from this person's wages or salary in 1939? (Yes or No)
44. SOCIAL SECURITY: If so, were deductions made from (1) all, (2) one-half or more, (3) part, but less than half, of wages or salary?
47. Usual class of worker
48. FOR ALL WOMEN WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN MARRIED: Has this woman been married more than once? (Yes or No)
49. FOR ALL WOMEN WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN MARRIED: Age at first marriage?
50. FOR ALL WOMEN WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN MARRIED: Number of children ever born (Do not include stillbirths)
This not true!
The US Census Bureau has an "age search" service that will actually yield every item on your ancestor's US Census line entry. I do have some Cuesta and Ortiz and Villarreal relatives in Texas on the 1940 census.
Under the conditions specified below, anyone may have access to any US Census including the 2000 census.
Read more about the "Age Search Service" at the following URL http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/agesearch.html
View the necessary BC-600 application form at the following URL http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/bc-600.pdf]]>
If a person is born in the US and is of Mexican parents, that person is entitled to dual citizenship – US by birth; Mexican by parentage.
In Sacramento, Ca, one may visit the Consulado General de México at 1010 8th Street, 95814. You do not need an appontment, but true to Mexican offices, they are opened only Monday through Friday, from 8:00 a.m. to noon. [Telephone (916) 329-3523; (916) 441-3287 ext 3523]
Required Documents (original plus 2 copies):
When you travel through México or seek access to documents in México, sometimes you receive better service if they think you are a national rather than a tourist.]]>
"Maria Ysavel, que nacio el Dia cinco a las cuatro de la mañana en esta Villa, hija legitima De Francisco Trejo y Nasaria Cajero, Abuelos paternos, Jose Maria y Rosa Martinez, maternos, Severiano y Dominga Borroel."
"Maria Ysavel, who was born on the 5th at 4 in the morning in this Village, legal daughter Of Francisco Trejo and Nasaria Cajero, paternal Grandparents, Jose Maria and Rosa Martinez, maternal, Severiano and Dominga Borroel."
My grandmother's name was Ysabel Ortiz (from Nochistlán, Zacatecas, México and married to Juan Cuesta).
When some of the descendants of Ysabel Ortiz moved from Laredo, Texas to Corpus Christi and Houston, Texas, they had to give their name to establish their new residency. One son's complete Mexican name was Jesús Cuesta Ortiz. Unfortunately, English speakers get so confused with the difference between 'last name' and 'family name'. Even though the 'family name' was 'Cuesta', in the 1930s the Jesús' family was established as 'Ortiz'.
Many of my immediate relatives in Texas go by the name of 'Ortiz', rather than 'Cuesta' because some local city and county offices set them up as 'Ortiz'.
More 'Ortiz' problems:
I have discovered that there may still be another problem with the name of 'Ortiz'. When I obtained a copy of my grandmother's birth record (see image above), her father's name was listed as 'Trejo'.
None of the genealogical data that I have found indicates that 'Ortiz' started out as 'Trejo', or that the family had any 'Trejo' ancestors.
'Ortiz' and 'Trejo':
However, the 2 names do not sound enough alike for a Spanish speaker to confuse them.
One is 'TRE-jo'; the other is 'or-TIZ'.
The graphic above shows that there is no doubt of what the priest intended to write. This is not a case of unreadable handwriting. Of course, the priest may have filled out the baptismal record from somebone else's unreadable notes.
So here is another example of how our surnames can get trampled through time and migration.]]>
Here is a good example of a mistreated surname from my Saldaña lineage in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.
On November 7, 1800, Juan Saldaña married Carmen Belastre. The couple had at least 6 children. All were baptized in the same church – Sagrario Metropolitano de Monterrey. However, in the baptismal records, the mother's surname is spelled differently each time.
Her name was probably BERÁSTEGUI – a Basque name from the western Pyrenees in northern Spain.
Child No. 1: Martta del Refugio (b: 8aug1807)
Mother's Name: María del Carmen García BERASTEGUI
Child No. 2: Estéfana (b:26dec1811)
Mother's Name: María del Carmen VERASTIN
Child No. 3: Ramón (b:4mar1817)
Mother's Name: Carmen García -
Child No. 4: Andrés (m:23apr1836 to Nasaria Urdiales)
Mother's Name: María del Carmen García BERASTIGUI
Child No. 5: Josefa (b:19mar1819; m:11nov1837 to Nicolás Palomo)
Mother's Name: Carmen VELAUSTRI
Child No. 6: Casimiro (m:18jun1848 to Dolores Urdiales)
Mother's Name: Carmen BELASTRE
Other factors leading to reckless spelling:
1. We could blame the priest that filled in the baptismal documents but the priests were typically the ones that could read and write in a community, especially one as metropolitan as Monterrey in the 1800s.
2. We could also blame the couple for being unable to spell their own name or being unwilling to challenge a priest's error.
3. We could blame the modern day volunteer who transcribed the document into digital format so that I could locate it on an internet database.
Nevertheless, one fact is clear. Our most fundamental possession, our surname, has been and will continue to be fragile, vulnerable, and manipulated.]]>
Brother #1: José Urbano Flores married María Teresa García and fathered Alejandro Flores.
Brother #2: José María Flores married María del Jesús Villarreal and fathered María Juliana Flores.
One consanguineous marriage:
Alejandro Flores married his first cousin, María Juliana Flores, and had Guadalupe Flores.
Brother #3: José Antonio Eulogio Flores married Nicolasa Salinas and fathered Dolores Flores. Dolores Flores married Antonio Cantú outside of the family and had Sostenes Cantú.
Another consanguineous marriage:
Sóstenes Cantú married his first cousin once removed, Guadalupe Flores. Both Sóstenes Cantú and Guadalupe Flores are great-grandchildren of the couple at the top of this page, José Antonio Flores and Isabel Salinas.
Eventually, the same groups that encouraged this consanguinity, the family and the church, would discourage it as nearly immoral.
La Purisima Concepcion Church was started in 1793 and finished in 1817, but had to be rebuilt because it burn down when it was opened. It was reopended in 1820. It is built in a neoclassical style with Doria elements. St. Francis of Assisi brings in Huichol Indians for the peyote in October.
Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821)
Silver Discovered: Area flourished from 1779 to 1810.
Between 1818 and 1843 fours sons (Lorenzo, Filomeno, Estanislao, and Mateo) of Atanacio Cuesta and Guadalupe Munoz were married in Real del 14, San Luis Potosi.
Catorce Mint: Made coins in 1808, 1811, and then in 1865-66. It was shut down by Maximiliano to prevent the Benito Juarez rebels from taking the mint.
At least 17 grandchildren were born to Atanacio and Guadalupe Cuesta between 1851 and 1877 in Real del 14.
Mexican Revolution (1910-1921)
Mining Flourished Again: From 1885-1905 under Porfirio Diaz.
Since then, Real del 14 has almost become a ghost mining town. However, tourism is doing well in Real del 14. There is a train station at the foot of the mountain on the eastern side of the mountain at a community called Catorce.]]>
Grave 43:
Spot #1: Vacant
Spot #2: Vacant
Spot #3: Lorenzo Cuesta Ortiz (ashes)
Center area between Grave 43 and Grave 44:
Juan F. Cuesta;
Isabel Ortiz de Cuesta;
Concepcion Cuesta Cantu (infant);
and maybe Olivia Cuesta Ortiz (teen).
Grave 44:
Spot #1: Vacant
Spot #2: Vacant
Spot #3: Vacant
If 5 spots are vacant, why would anyone squeeze 4 bodies (2 adults, 1 teen, 1 infant) between 2 graves?
Date of death (burial):
1. Concepcion Cuesta Cantu – November 21, 1919 (11/22/1919)
2. Juan F. Cuesta – April 9, 1923 (4/10/1923)
3. Olivia Cuesta Ortiz – April 28, 1924 (4/29/1924)
4. Isabel Ortiz de Cuesta – October 7, 1947 (10/8/1947)
5. Lorenzo Cuesta Ortiz – November 25, 1995 (1995)
Olivia Cuesta Ortiz was always at 60-43/44. Originally, Juan F. Cuesta was located at 29-11-19, and Concepcion Cuesta Cantu was at 20-13-19.
Apparently both Juan and Concepcion were moved to 60-43/44, perhaps when a larger plot was purchased to bury Olivia Cuesta Ortiz, plus both Juan and Concepcion. A tomstone was added and it lists Juan and Isabel, only. On November 1995 the ashes of Lorenzo Cuesta Ortiz were added to the gravesite.
(Juan Cuesta Soto is still buried at Block 62. He died and was buried on July 20, 1947. He was the son of Jesus Cuesta Ortiz and Consuelo Soto; married to Alicia Guevara de Ortiz.)]]>


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Been while... I'm not sure if anyone will comment because it's been so long. Let me assure you of a few things: we are still drunk, we are still assholes, and we are still...um...drunk! I (Bird Shit) am currently drinking alone. I really miss blogging. I miss coming on here and making fun of people none of you know and being a complete jerk. I blame my stupid job for blocking blogger at work again. Now I am back to doing work (not really, reading celebrity gossip). It's shameful!!! I wish I could get paid to just blog or make fun of people because that is my true calling in life (ohhhhh Facebook status for tomorrow). Won't anyone create a job for a high school graduate with a really shitty attitude and mean streak? Anyone? So I guess that's about it for now, I want to stop writing and do some blog stalking!
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
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Ama-blah reposted this the other day on Facebook:
Someone once said, "There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living."~ Re-post if you like. . .
I hate reposts! I don't know why they irk me so bad, but they do. I then commented back with my own repost:
Someone once said "there comes a time in your life when you instigate drama in other peoples lives because it's entertaining to watch. You surround yourself with people who are easy targets that you can pick on and laugh at. Forget the go...od and focus on the bad because plotting revenge is more fun then doing good deeds. Love the people who give you money and wish death on the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy at bad things that happen to people you hate. Falling down is a part of life and I hope I'm either tripping you and making you fall or the one laughing at you when you do...repost if you like >:)
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Can You Hear Me Now?
This past weekend poor Grandpa lost his hearing aids. He puts them in all sorts of weird places and never remembers where. He says to me "I either put them in the butter dish or my glasses case"...cause you know, that's where they belong. He was so bummed out he couldn't go to Seniors and play Bingo because he wouldn't be able to hear the numbers being read out. I (being the amazing grandkid I am) took him out to the bar and got him drunk. Beer makes everything better. Since he couldn't hear, we had to shout at him. Then he wants to order food and forgot his glasses and couldn't read the menu. I'm glad I was at our favorite bar and everyone knows Grandpa there because I'm not sure they would have been as amused at me shouting the whole menu to him. By the time we left the bar, he was drunk and I had a headache from shouting. When I dropped him off, he told me I was his favorite grandkid...but then again, he also called me Baby Caca's name LOL He still hasn't found his hearing aids so I think there will be another bar trip this weekend. I will make sure I bring aspirin w/ me this time.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
A couple of weekends ago we decided to join Grandpa at Senior Citizens and play Bingo. We figured we would stroll in there and win all the money from those ancient bastards. We were wrong...so very wrong. We didn't win 1 game out of the 30 they played (yes 30 rounds of Bingo, 30 freaking rounds). Baby Caca is a very sore loser! She kept pouting, calling everyone cheaters, and stomping her foot. Every game she threatened to quit, but I made her keep paying because it's fun to watch her antics. One of the old bitches there actually said to us "you know you are actually allowed to win a game". She's lucky I punch her and steal all her Worthers Original candies. Old bitches be serious about their Worthers! I did threaten to follow one lady out to the parking lot and rob her of her $3 winnings...I think she thought I was kidding. Luckily my mom was there to stop me, otherwise I might be typing this from the prison library. Eventually we got bored playing and just drew on Grandpa with the Bingo markers. We are the best grandkids ever!!!
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Friday, July 29, 2011
It's BAAAAAAAAACK
My work recently took away Facebook, blogger, and a bunch of other websites that keep me distracted from doing actual work. They also asked Well, I discovered today that they are no longer blocked. It has led me to do not 1 single piece of work today, but has made me very happy. Since I am extremely lazy today, I will keep this short. I can't wait to catch up w/ all the blogs I have been missing on Monday and can't wait to let you all know what's been going on in the lives of the Two Twins. Toodles (yes, I wrote toodles, I am lame)
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Friday, July 8, 2011
The Greatest Day in History
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You've Been Warned
Something is happening tomorrow...here's a hint:
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Full-text: September 12 2003
Protest zones: "No War for Oil" (October 24 2002)
Criminal No.: 3:03-309
|United States of America
|Brett A. Bursey
The defendant has moved for dismissal of the Information in this case, and as grounds has asserted that the statute, on its face, is unconstitutionally vague. According to the defendant, 18 U.S.C. § 1752 is constitutionaly defective because it (1) fails to provide adequate notice as to the conduct proscribed and (2) permits arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement. As part of his argument the defendant claims the rule of lenity applies and that the {sic} this statute is subject to increased scrutiny because it implicates the First Amendment.
The defendant has once again attempted to turn this case into something it simply is not. While the government agrees the defendant has the right, at trial, to attempt to prove the enforcement of this statute was somehow unconstitutional as it was applied to him the day of his arrest, it is equally clear that he has no basis for this constitutional challenge to the statute. Virtually all of the law and authority cited by the defendant in his memorandum is simply and demonstrably inapplicable to this analysis, and the {p.2} quotations and propositions from treatises he cites, while perhaps dramatic, are so woefully incomplete and out of context as to border on being an effort to intentionally and improperly mislead the court.
Applicability of the First Amendment to 18 U.S.C. § 1752
The major flawed thread that runs throughout the defendant's argument is his assumption that the facial constitutionality of the statute in the case is subject to scrutiny under the First Amendment. The defendant is simply wrong. It is clear from its unambiguous terms that 18 U.S.C. § 1752 is a general law, as its prohibitions do not restrict, inhibit or even reference speech in any form whatsoever. That is not to say that this statute, like any statute, cannot be enforced in an unconstitutional manner, but that is a separate and distinct issue which is to be decided based upon the facts established at trial. But for purposes of determining whether § 1752 is constitutional on its face, the proper analysis begins with a recognition that the crime proscribed by the statute is essentially trespassing 1 , not picketing, protesting, marching, speaking, displaying signs, banner or flags or in any other way specifically or inherently directed at expression. ¶
The Supreme Court has made it clear that the fact that the defendant may have chosen to engage in expressive conduct while violating such a general statute is irrelevant for purposes of determining the statute's constitutionality: {p.3}
We emphatically reject the notion urged by appellant that the First and Fourteenth Amendments afford the same kind of freedom to those who would communicate ideas by conduct such as patrolling, marching, and picketing on streets and highways, as these amendments afford to those who communicate ideas by pure speech.... We reaffirm the statement of the Court in Giboney v. Empire Storage & Ice Co., supra, 336 U.S., at 502, 69 S.Ct., at 691, that 'it has never been deemed an abridgement of freedom of speech or press to make a course of conduct illegal merely because the conduct was in part initiated, evidenced, or carried out by means of language, either spoken, written, or printed.'
The Supreme Court has repeatedly reaffirmed this principle 2 in a wide variety of situations in which it was claimed First Amendment protections were infringed by a statute, including trespass:
Nothing in the Constitution of the United States prevents Florida from even-handed enforcement of its general trespass statute against those refusing to obey the sheriff's order to remove themselves from what amounted to the curtilage of the jailhouse. The State, no less than a private owner of property, has power to preserve the property under its control for the use to which it is lawfully dedicated. For this reason there is no merit to the petitioners' argument that they had a constitutional right to stay on the property, over the jail custodian's objections, because this 'area chosen for the peaceful civil rights demonstration was not only "reasonable" but also particularly appropriate.' Such an argument has as its major unarticulated premise the assumption that people who want to propagandize protests or {p.4} views have a constitutional right to do so whenever and however and wherever they please. That concept of constitutional law was vigorously and forthrightly rejected in two of the cases petitioners rely on.... We reject it again.
Adderley v. State of Florida, 385 U.S. 39, 47-48 (1966). See also: Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence, 468 U.S. 288 (1984) (rule barring sleeping in parks upheld in application against persons engaging in such conduct to dramatize the plight of the homeless); Cohen v. Cowles Media Co., 501 U.S. 663, 668 (1991) (in a freedom of press First Amendment challenge to a statute, reaffirming the "well-established line of decisions holding that generally applicable laws do not offend the First Amendment simply because their enforcement against the press has incidental effects on its ability to gather and report the news"); Employment Div., Dept of Human Resources of Ore. v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990) (general laws not specifically targeted at religious practices do not require heightened First Amendment scrutiny even though they diminish some people's ability to practice their religion).
The reason for such a limitation on First Amendment analysis has also been explained by the Supreme Court:
The rights of free speech and assembly, while fundamental in our democratic society, still do not mean that everyone with opinions or beliefs to express may address a group at any public place and at any time. The constitutional guarantee of liberty implies the existence of an organized society maintaining public order, without which liberty itself would be lost in the excesses of anarchy.
Cox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 536, 558, n.7 (1965). {p.5}
The airport premises are ... public property ... trespass ... applies only to private property and has no application to public property.
State v. Hanapole, 255 S.C. 258, 267-268 (1970)
The defendant argues that the mere fact that he was holding a sign at the time he was arrested for trespassing mandates First Amendment scrutiny of this statute, despite the fact that there is simply no expressive conduct involved in the criminal act of trespassing with which he is charged. However, the Fourth Circuit has specifically rejected the defendant's argument:
While it has long been held that the protection afforded by the free speech provision of the First Amendment extends, to some extent, beyond the written or spoken word to the communication of ideas through conduct, the courts have not applied the same First Amendment protections to physical conduct as is afforded to purer modes of communicative speech.... The Constitution does not require that otherwise unacceptable conduct become immunized from regulation when it is wrapped in a claim that the conduct was intended to convey a message.
D.G. Restaurant Corp. v. City of Myrtle Beach, 953 F.2d 140, 143 (4th Cir. 1991) (internal citations omitted) (emphasis added).
The absurdity of the defendant's argument becomes readily apparent when one envisions the variety of circumstances in which such an argument might apply: presumably an individual entering a bank with a weapon and demanding money who also happens to be wearing a shirt displaying the slogan "Down with Imperialism" would be entitled to have the bank robbery statute subjected to First Amendment scrutiny. By the same token, an individual caught harvesting marijuana plants while chanting "All we want is peace" would be entitled to have the narcotics laws subjected to similar scrutiny. This clearly is not the law. A trespass statute, just like the bank robbery and narcotics statutes, proscribes conduct, not expression, which is what distinguishes this case from {p.6} those cited by the defendant: Thornhill v. Alabama, 310 U.S. 88 (1940) (picketing statute); Grayned v. City of Rockford, 408 U.S. 104 (1972) (statute prohibiting picketing within 150 feet of a school); NAACP v. Button, 371 U.S. 415 (1963) (statute prohibiting solicitation of legal advice).
Even should this court conclude that the defendant's act of trespassing with a sign contains an element of expression, his Memorandum still fails to cite the correct authority or standard under which this statute must be reviewed. Fortunately, the Fourth Circuit has provided the guidance the defendant omitted:
Although conduct may contain inherent expressive elements or may be undertaken for a particular communicative purpose, an important governmental interest in regulating the activity itself, without regard to the expressive element, can justify a necessary incidental restriction on the expressive aspects of the conduct. See United States v. O'Brien, 391 U.S. 367, 376-77, 88 S.Ct. 1673, 1678-79, 20 L.Ed.2d 672 (1968).
D.G. Restaurant Corp., id. Under what has been described as the "less demanding rule 3 " of O'Brien, a statute can nonetheless be found to be constitutional, despite an incidental impact on First Amendment interests:
"[1] if it is within the constitutional power of the Government; [2] if it furthers an important or substantial governmental interest; [3] if the governmental interest is unrelated to the suppression of free expression; and [4] if the incidental restriction on ... First Amendment freedoms is no greater than is essential to the furtherance of that interest."
O'Brien, 391 U.S. at 376, 377. Clearly a law designed to allow trained Secret Service {p.7} Agents to provide for the security of the areas where President of the United States visits in the many diverse locales in this country meets these criteria. There simply can be no argument that the statute is not within the constitutional power of the Government or that it does not further a substantial Government interest. This protection and security interest is unrelated to the suppression of free expression, and since free expression is permitted in any and all other places that are not otherwise lawfully restricted 4 at any and all other times, the restrictions imposed by this statute are minimal.
It is also important to recognize that when reviewing the methods the Government has chosen to promote its substantial interest, the role of a court is very limited. This was explained in United States v. Albertini, 472 U.S. 675 (1985), a case with some remarkable similarities to the present one. Albertini had been barred from admission onto Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. After determining that excluding the defendant from the base was proper because of the need to provide security, the large number of people present, and the inability to monitor everyone present at the base at all time {sic: times}, the Supreme Court rejected the defendant's claim that his exclusion was not "essential" to promoting the Government interest of providing security:
Respondent's arguments in this regard misapprehend [this] element of the O'Brien standard. We acknowledge that barring respondent from Hickam was not "essential" in any absolute sense to security at the military base. The military presumably could have provided him with a military police {p.8} chaperone during the open house. This observation, however, provides an answer to the wrong question by focusing on whether there were conceivable alternatives to enforcing the bar letter in this case.
The First Amendment does not bar application of a neutral regulation that incidentally burdens speech merely because a party contends that allowing an exception in the particular case will not threaten important government interests.
Albertini, 472 U.S. at 688. The Court went on to further explain a lower court's role in judging the Government's method of promoting its interest:
The validity of such regulations does not turn on a judge's agreement with the responsible decision maker concerning the most appropriate method for promoting significant government interests. We are persuaded that exclusion of holders of bar letters during military open houses will promote an important Government interest in assuring the security of military installations. Nothing in the First Amendment requires military commanders to wait until persons subject to a valid bar order have entered a military base to see if they will conduct themselves properly during an open house.... In Community for Creative Non-Violence, we observed that O'Brien does not "assign to the judiciary the authority to replace the Park Service as the manager of the Nation's parks or endow the judiciary with the competence to judge how much protection of park lands is wise and how that level of conservation is to be attained," 468 U.S., at 299. We are even less disposed to conclude that O'Brien assigns to the judiciary the authority to manage military facilities throughout the Nation.
Id., at 689 (citations and internal punctuation omitted)
However, the Government does not concede that even O'Brien's "less demanding standard" is applicable here because of the nature of the conduct proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 1752, which simply does not involve expressive conduct. As explained by the Foruth {sic: Fourth} Circuit:
In the end, the core analysis must resolve whether the governmental regulation of conduct is in fad the unconstitutional regulation of an {p.9} intended message of the actor rather than a legitimate attempt to regulate physical conduct for some other important governmental purpose.
A variation on the O'Brien inquiry into whether a governmental regulation targets the expressive element of a particular type of conduct is the degree to which the First Amendment protects normally regulated conduct which has been turned from its ordinary course to be performed for a communicative purpose. When this is the case, the courts will not invalidate an otherwise constitutional restriction on conduct. For example, a statutory prohibition against the destruction of draft cards, which was adopted to serve an important governmental interest, is not rendered violative of the First Amendment when applied to defendants who burned their draft cards for the expressed purpose of protesting a war. See O'Brien, 391 U.S. at 376-78, 88 S.Ct. at 1678-80. The mere existence of a potential for expression through conduct simply does not result in a wholesale immunization of what would otherwise be a legitimately regulated activity. As Justice Scalia summarized in his concurring opinion in Barnes:
But virtually every law restricts conduct, and virtually any prohibitive conduct can be performed for an expressive purpose — if only expressive of a fact that the actor disagrees with the prohibition.... [W]e have never invalidated the application of a general law simply because the conduct that it reached was being engaged in for expressive purposes and the government could not demonstrate a sufficiently important state interest. ¶
Barnes, {501 U.S. 560, 576,} 111 S.Ct. at 2466 (Scalia, J., concurring)
D.G. Restaurant Corp., 953 F.2d at 145. (Emphasis added).
Thus, it is the Government's position that the defendant's attempt to have this court analyze the constitutionality {of the} statute in this case through a First Amendment lens is completely without legal basis. While many of the cases and propositions the defendant cites are fundamental building blocks of our free society, their use should be reserved for those situations where they appropriately apply. Despite the defendant's rhetoric, this case does not present this court with such a situation. {p.10}
Void for Vagueness —
Lack of Notice
The answer to the defendant's argument that 18 U.S.C. § 1752 fails to provide adequate notice "to those it seeks to bind" (Defendant's Memorandum, p.3) is found in the omitted portion of the treatise the defendant relies on so heavily as his authority for this argument. In his Memorandum the defendant liberally and selectively cites to Addressing Vagueness, Ambiguity, and Other Uncertainty in American Criminal Laws by John F. Decker, which appears at 80 Denv. U.L. Rev. 241 (2002) {coming up}. Specifically, on pages 4-5 of his Memorandum, the defendant provides this court with what purports to be Decker's recitation of the three criteria courts are to use in evaluating the adequacy of the notice a statute provides, concluding with: "Third [and last], and most important for our purposes, in cases where the statute may affect constitutionally protected conduct, particularly that protected by the First Amendment, the court is less likely to find that constructive notice exists than in cases where the statute could not possibly infringe upon such constitutional freedoms." While the Government strongly disagrees that this statute in any way implicates the First Amendment, the defendant is obviously entitled to focus the court's attention on his theory and the authority supporting it.
However, what the defendant is not entitled to do is selectively cite to authority in such a blatantly improper manner. While it is true that the above quote is from a list of criteria appearing in Decker's article, in the article that criteria is enumerated as "fourth," not third. That the defendant failed to indicate this omission is less disturbing that what {p.11} was so obviously omitted. In actuality, Decker states: "Third, statutes which involve a scienter requirement are more likely to withstand a claim of vagueness where they ensure that the law punishes only those who are aware that their conduct is unlawful." Decker, at 249. The defendant's selective editing is particularly significant in this case because he deleted the provision that is both directly applicable to this case and which totally eviscerates his lack of notice argument. Clearly 18 U.S.C. § 1752 has a scienter requirement ("knowingly"), and what makes this omission even more glaring is that the defendant has repeatedly stated in his arguments and pleading concerning the elements that he is well aware of the scienter requirement of § 1752.
Decker is correct in his assessment that a scienter provision in a statute satisfies the notice requirement. "[A] scienter requirement may mitigate a law's vagueness, especially with respect to the adequacy of notice to the complainant that his conduct is proscribed." Village of Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc., 455 U.S. 489 (1982). Similarly, in rejecting a protester's argument that a statute requiring that he keep a certain number of feet away from patrons of an abortion clinic was vague for providing lack of notice, the Court stated: "Finally, here there is a 'knowing' requirement that protects speakers "who thought they were keeping pace with the targeted individual' at the proscribed distance from inadvertently violating the statute," Hill v. Colorado, 530 U.S. 703, 727 (2000).
The defendant's Memorandum also contains this poignant quote from United {p.12} States v. Harriss, 347 U.S. 612, 617 (1954): "[t]he underlying principle is that no man shall be held criminally responsible for conduct which he could not reasonably understand to be proscribed." While this is unquestionably true, the defendant left out the holding in Harriss which defines the proposition of law clearly applicable to this case. That holding, found in the sentence immediately following the defendant's quote, provides:
On the other hand, if the general class of offenses to which the statute is directed is plainly within its terms, the statute will not be struck down as vague even though marginal eases could be put where doubts might arise. And if this general class of offenses can be made constitutionally definite by a reasonable construction of the statute, this Court is under a duty to give the statute that construction.
Harriss, 347 U.S. at 618. (Citations omitted).
In another case remarkably similar to the present one, the Supreme Court rejected a defendant's statutory "void for vagueness" argument following his conviction for refusing to follow a police officer's order to disperse. The Court said:
The root of the vagueness doctrine is a rough idea of fairness. It is not a principle designed to convert into a constitutional dilemma the practical difficulties in drawing criminal statutes both general enough to take into account a variety of human conduct and sufficiently specific to provide fair warning that certain kinds of conduct are prohibited. We agree with the Kentucky court when it said: 'We believe that citizens who desire to obey the statute will have no difficulty in understanding it ...'
Colten v. Kentucky, 407 U.S. 104, 110 (1958). In this case, when the defendant was repeatedly told he was in violation of the statute, he had no difficulty understanding the parameters of the statute, he simply chose to knowingly violate it. {p.13}
Void for Vagueness —
Arbitrary and Discriminatory Enforcement
The defendant's only argument concerning the possible over breadth of 18 U.S.C. § 1752 is a reference to a portion of the statute not charged in this case. The portion of the statute actually charged allows the Secret Service to determine in its trained discretion what ureas should be restricted for the President's safety, requires the Secret Service to provide notice to the public of the restriction, and is violated only when done so knowingly. To speculate about discriminatory enforcement is neither helpful to this analysis or permitted: "Every criminal law, of course, reposes some discretion in those who must enforce it. The mere possibility that such discretion might be abused hardly entitles courts to strike a law down" Schleifer by Schleifer v. City of Charlottesville {147kb.html, 216kb.pdf}, 159 F.3d 843, 854 (4th Cir. 1998), cert. denied, 526 U.S. 1018 (1999). Rather than use the defendant's broad brush approach, courts are to be more circumspect:
Striking down ordinances (or exceptions to the same) as facially void for vagueness is a disfavored judicial exercise. Nullification of a Jaw in the abstract involves a far more aggressive use of judicial power than striking down a discrete and particularized application of it. Of course there will be hard cases under any law. And of course all the particular applications of any general standard will not be immediately apparent. That is no reason, however, for courts to scrap altogether the efforts of the legislative branch. It is preferable for courts to demonstrate restraint by entertaining challenges to applications of a law as those challenges arise.
Schleifer {147kb.html, 216kb.pdf}, 159 F.3d at 853.
Rule of Lenity
The defendant's Memorandum contains an interesting discussion the Rule of {p.14} Lenity, but he provides no argument as to why it should apply here. The Government maintains that the rule is inapplicable because its use is limited to ambiguous statutes, which 18 U.S.C. § 1752 is not.
In his law review article, Decker describes an ambiguous statute as one that "is subject to two or more different interpretations...." Decker at 260-61. See also: Johnson v. United States, 529 U.S. 694, 713 n.13 (2000) ("Lenity applies only when the equipoise of competing reasons can not otherwise be resolved....") and United States v. Murphy {216kb.pdf}, 326 F.3d. 501, 504 (4th Circuit, 2003).
It is clear that 18 U.S.C. § 1752 is not subject to two or more interpretations. The defendant has conceded that his earlier interpretation of the statute (based upon the typographical error involving the colon) was wrong, and this concession would seem to lead to the self-evident conclusion that there is only one interpretation of the statute. However, the defendant insists that since he earlier believed (wrongly) that there was another interpretation, albeit one that was patently absurd, the statute is capable of two interpretations. As explained at length in earlier pleadings, ignorance of the law is no defense, and the defendant's claimed ignorance of the meaning of this statute does not (and cannot) create an ambiguity 5 . {p.15}
The defendant attempts to bolster his argument by pointing out that the government provided me court with in depth research in order to clarify the meaning of this statute. This is hardly and unique exercise, but more importantly, the lengths to which one parry goes to show that there is only one plain meaning of a statute does not change the fact that the statute has only one meaning, not two.
Since this statute has only one meaning there is no ambiguity, and without an ambiguity, the rule of lenity has no relevance to this analysis.
For the foregoing reasons, the Government asks that the defendant's motion be denied.
Respectfully submitted,
J. Strom Thurmond, Jr.
United States Attorney
John M. Barton
Assistant U.S. Attorney
(Federal I.D. # 1226}
1441 Main Street, Suite 500
Columbia, S.C. 29201
(803) 929-3000
Certificate of Service
{Case caption, omitted}
I hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, and on September 12th, 2003, I served one true and correct copy of the attached Response to Defendant's Memorandum in Support of Dismissal Because of Vagueness by depositing the same, in the United States Mail, postage paid, on the following persons(s):
Rauch Wise, Esquire
305 Main Street
Greenwood, SC 29646
Pascal Lewis Pitts, Jr., Esquire
1030 Carolina Avenue
Durham, NC 27705
Lisa B. Gillam, Legal Assistant
to AUSA John M. Barton
Columbia, South Carolina
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1 While there are differences between traditional state law trespass and 18 U.S.C. § 1752, the Government will refer to the crime charged in the Information as "trespass" for the sake of simplicity.
2 In an early dissenting opinion, then Judge Scalia expressed this proposition thusly: "All our holdings (though admittedly not some of our discussion) support the conclusion that 'the only First Amendment analysis applicable to laws that do not directly or indirectly impede speech is the threshold inquiry of whether the purpose of the law is to suppress communication. If not. that is the end of the matter so far as First Amendment guarantees are concerned....' Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Watt, 227 U.S.App.D.C. 19, 55-56, 703 F.2d 586, 622-623 (1983) (enbanc) (Scalia, J., dissenting), (footnote omitted; emphasis omitted), rev'd sub nom. Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence, 468 U.S. 288 (1984). See also Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., 501 U.S. 560, 578-79.
3 Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, 406 (1989).
4 Such lawful restrictions might include those applicable to private property or local picketing statutes and regulations.
5 Furthermore, the rule of lenity states that when interpreting an ambiguous statute, the court is to apply the interpretation most favorable to the defendant. Apparently the defendant believes the interpretation of this statute that is most favorable to him is his original one, which he has conceded was wrong. Obviously the rule of lenity should not to be used to interpret a statute in a manner that is acknowledged to be correct.
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ELLERSLIE — Leroy "Gert" Speelman, 87, of Ellerslie, died peacefully at the VA Medical Center, Martinsburg, W.Va., on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, with his loving family at his side.
He was born Sept. 8, 1925, in Bedford County, Pa., Londonerry Township, to the late Goldie (Devore) Barnhart and Gilbert Lowery. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Lela Mae (Knotts) Speelman, on Jan. 8, 2011; his grandparents, George and Gertrude (Devore) Speelman, who raised him; two aunts, Hazel Ryan and Geraldine Clark; a son-in-law, Gary L. Carder and his former wife, Mary V. (O'Haver) Speelman.
He is survived by his children and step-children, Susan E. (Speelman) Carder, of Ellerslie, Thomas W. Speelman and wife Carol, of York Haven, Pa., Christian M. Harden and wife Debbie, of Hyndman, Pa., Aleta M. (Harden) Dick and husband Tom, of Jeannette, Pa., Larry D. Harden and wife Edna and Garry O. Harden and wife Lucia, both of Houston, Texas, John C. Harden and wife Sara, of Orlando, Fla., and Kenny W. Harden and wife Kay, of Hyndman; 17 grandchildren; and 32 great-grandchildren.
Leroy served in the United States Army 26th Infantry Division during World War II, having been wounded in the Battle of the Bulge on Jan. 2, 1945. He was retired as a machinist from ABL. He was a life member of the VFW Oscar Jordan Post 7375, Hyndman, the DAV, the Ellerslie Outdoor Club and the Kennells Mills Sportsmans Club.
It was Leroy's wishes that his body be donated to the Maryland Anatomy Board.
A memorial and committal service will be held at a later date.
The family would like to thank the staff and all the nurses on Ward 5-C and the first floor Unit B at the VA Medical Center, for all their compassion, and the excellent care he received during his stay there.


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President Obama is going to be so jealous that he didn't think of this first. I'll bet he's working on a plan at present to include taxing sunshine.
Maryland Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley has instituted a tax on citizens for the amount of rain that falls on their property.The tax, officially known as a "storm water management fee," will be enforced in nine of the state's counties.
The state legislature passed it in 2012 purportedly to "raise revenue to cleanup (sic) the Chesapeake Bay," according to MarylandReporter.com.
Former 2012 GOP U.S. Senate candidate Dan Bongino bashes the tax in a press release. The law "requires individuals, businesses, and even charitable organizations and houses of worship to pay a tax based on the amount of rain that falls on their property and the 'impervious surfaces' on their land," he says.
The tax, mandated by the EPA and enforced locally, will be calculated "through satellite surveillance of your property," the statement claims.
The "out of touch political aristocrats in Maryland will do anything to diminish your economic liberty and starve your wallet while padding theirs."
According to the conservative organization Change Maryland, the rain tax will cost Marylanders about $300 million annually.
Gov. O'Malley famously tried increasing taxes to balance the state's budget with little success in 2007. The increase in the top marginal tax rate, known as a "millionaire's tax," cost Maryland $17 billion in lost tax revenue, according to Change Maryland. Between 2007 and 2010, the state population suffered a net loss of 31,000 people.
These people must all be Democrats, since they are behaving like Obama in wanting to raise taxes that way.
Of course, my favorite government agency, the EPA, is involved and they have all kinds of slick ways to raise money through taxation.
Remember when they said they may tax farmers for raising clouds of dust? I don't think many of them have ever been very close to farming operations. They even wanted to tax farmers because they cause dust driving on dirt and gravel roads.
Let's not forget his flush tax, or exit tax, you know the one that pays while Maryland goes down the drain!
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Walmart is prepping a cloud-based movie service where users can bring their DVDs into stores in order to access the same material online.
Mega retail giant Walmart is launching a cloud-based movie service through Vuduand we're not talking about another Netflix wannabe. No, Walmart wants to be your movie server in the cloud, the digital bin where you store all your DVDs for access on whatever Internet-connected device you have handy.
Earlier today, Walmart announced the launch of an in-store program to allow users to turn their DVD movies into digital cloud-stored copies which, presumably, would be accessible over tablets, smart phones, smart TVs and similar products.
This isn't a lone-wolf initiative. Walmart has the support of major movie studios including Paramount, Sony, Fox, Universal and Warner Bros. The company says the service will launch on April 16 in 3,500 stores.
Here's how it works. First, you need a Vudu account, which is free (unlike Netflix, you pay for videos individually). You walk your DVDs into a Walmart store, and there you load them into a device of some sort (a self-serve kiosk is the mostly likely scenario) and then purchase the rights to a digital cloud copy. Yes, you purchase the right to a movie you already own. In this case it's $2 for a standard definition version or $5 for a high-def version.
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K-Scape should of thought of this: Sell your server and then charge $2 for each title ripped to it and give the corresponding studio a 50% cut.
This is absurd and I am quite sure the Studios will trot this out as a reason for the Library of Congress not to repeal the CSS circumvention for making a copy of content you legally acquired.
To the Studios: My Movies and Any DVD HD are working out quite well for me. Pardon me if I don't ask you for permission first to copy titles I OWN
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Fascinating ;something doesnt quite add up if they havent released a bd version of your disc ; so what quality is the hi def version ? upscaled sd for $5 ? or bad luck take the disc home
Not hard to wonder why this has never happened ;what a joke
Yes, mandatory managed copy (MMC) will be part of the Blu-ray format. This feature will enable consumers to make legal copies of their Blu-ray movies that can be transferred over a home network. Please note that "mandatory" refers to the movies having to offer this capability, while it will be up to each hardware manufacturer to decide if they want to support this feature.
Oddball: Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
That's a fact, the self-serve photo kiosk is always breaking down or there's someone that doesn't know how to use it. Not to mention:
1. That you will have to wait in line at customer service to have your DVD's/BD's tagged.
2. Wait at the kiosk for an employee to show up only to have them say "sorry, this DVD isn't on the approved list".
3a. Have all your DVD's/BD's looked at by the door greeter on the way out.
3b. Being stopped by loss prevention on the way out.
To the movie studios: Amazon cloud drive is working great for me, I can upload or download content to most devices.
EDIT: here's a video showing how it will work:
I started ripping my DVDs some time back and got 4 or 5 ripped and have been putting it off since. The thought of ripping 200-300+ DVDs, HD DVDs and BDs is daunting. Then deciding what format to rip it in and being sure you have the codec to play them. It's not worth it.
But now, if I could take 10 or so discs with me each trip to Walmart, pop them in the kiosk, and get authorization to view them on the cloud... Me, my wife, my kids, anywhere, anytime. That's tempting. All for $30-40.
But, I want to be able to play it back with full HD sound.
$600+ for movies I already own??? Not a chance.
I guess those observers were right.
When is someone going to go all digital? No more hard disc or any of that crap.
1. Sell me digital rights to media (movies, music, tv shows...) at a reasonable price, that don't expire, have limits or any other BS....If I buy it, I want it to be just like owning a physical copy of it, only I don't have to carry it around.
2. Let me access it from all my devices. It's not that hard to do, almost everything can d/l digital content these days.
3. Stream it in HD to wifi enabled devices.
Bandwidth is a problem, I know. However, internet speeds are going up all the time and hopefully soon it wont be a problem. Maybe a small portable hard drive to act as a "buffer" for movies/large data media in the mean time. Something that holds maybe ~40 movies. You could shuffle through your "media rights library" and select the ones you want to keep on the hard drive. It d/l's the ones you select in the background and removes the ones you select to remove to make room.
4. Be reliable no one wants to pay for something that doesn't work.
5. Have a huge library of media to choose from. I would ditch cable if someone could give me all the shows that cable has to offer in about the same time frame (within a month of the original airing/release date). Same thing for music/other media.
If you can do these things, the people will come, if the people will come the $$ will come, if you expect the $$ to come, the content better be there, the way they want it.
If only I had the resources to create such a service...
Unfortunately they have done nothing with it
Well, the first thing they did with it was get rid of the porn! ;p
Most "HD" purchases on Vudu are from $15-25, so there's some savings by bringing in your discs, but I don't know why I should bother. You can still only play them from devices linked to YOUR account, so you can't go to a friend's house and play your movie from there. Best you could do is bring a laptop computer logged into your account, but that's not quite the same (it isn't, is it?) Might as well just bring your discs.
I think this is a great idea. I do have all my BDs ripped to ISOs, but this is more about portability. I plan on selecting a few titles to try this out. And with this I can be anywhere with an internet connection and view the movies. Otherwise, the only way I can view them is at home. I can't bring the many terabytes of content with me. That isn't practical.
When I go abroad I simply use handbrake and shrink them down if using a portable device. If using my laptop I just copy them over I can fit 30 uncompressed movies no problem.
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A DIY'er likes to talk about how little they spent and how good it sounds.
What if you want to watch a movie you didn't not compress?
I don't shrink any movies down. Currently if I do take any movies with me I bring the Full ISO. I shrunk movies down with DVDs but I won't do it with BDs.
Why not? Concerned about loss of quality? That's exactly what you'll be getting by trading your disc in.....
Did you mean not copy? Well, check out the Zyxel (or like product) NSA221. It's a media streamer.
I copy movies locally to my laptop since I can not be guaranteed a connection that will allow for uninterrupted play back. Plan for the worst and hope for the best.
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A DIY'er likes to talk about how little they spent and how good it sounds.
I like this idea also. No, I will not do my 400+ title BD and DVD collection but I will do some. Many are saying they aren't paying again for something they already own but I am more interested in 'Clouding' titles I don't already own by borrowing titles from friends relatives, etc.
Plus, this gives me the option of buying single disc Blu-ray movies for $5 to $10 less than the 2/3 disc titles and then paying only $2 for the VUDU copy.
I already filled up my laptop HDD with digital copies and have started on a second laptop. None of those digital copies are HD, 1080p or 5.1 sound and come with expiration dates.
I also had a laptop stolen with about 20 digital copies movies and there is no way to reinstall them on another PC because the codes have been used and the DC titles expire.
So as sore as all your bung holes seem to be about this service at least you get to choose to get it. And you can get Internet bandwidth to use it.
I just bought another 3 tb drive for 110.00. Do the math.
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I'm not concerned with the loss of quality, I don't want to deal with it. I rip the disc to a BD ISO and never have to mess with it again. I did the shrinking crap with DVDs in the early 2000's and swore I would never mess with it again.
I wouldn't do it for $5, but since it is only $2 for BD titles, that is a decent price. Actually $5 is decent for a DVD to get an HD version if you don't plan on buying the BD later.
If this were available four or five years ago, I would have purchased less BD titles.
I have a better idea that doesn't involve schlepping my discs to Walmart:
You install a program from VUDU on your PC that when you insert a DVD/BD it scans the disc and sends the Gracenote info to VUDU, you can then buy the digital version online. Since some Blu-ray players(Sony) have Gracenote built-in you could also verify and purchase the digital version via your player. The only problem is again how will VUDU know if the disc is a rental.
I just thought of a problem for the movie studios: what if someone brings in a rental disc claiming they own it?
I have a better idea that doesn't involve schlepping my discs to Walmart:
You install a program from VUDU on your PC that when you insert a DVD/BD it scans the disc and sends the Gracenote info to VUDU, you can then buy the digital version online. Since some Blu-ray players(Sony) have Gracenote built-in you could also verify and purchase the digital version via your player. The only problem is again how will VUDU know if the disc is a rental.
It doesn't matter if person owns it - it still generates revenue for the "Disc to Digital" program.
Do they take away my CD/DVD or do I still get to keep it?
Each movie house will end up with a Cloud Server that you can access your movies that you buy from that house digitally, anytime, anywhere with an internet connection.
Then Vudu, and such will go bust.
Anythings possible, but customer prefer a central website to stream from. If that were the case a customer would have to build an account and login into Warner, Disney, Fox, Universal, Paramount, Dream Work etc. etc. etc.
They're stripping you of fair use rights and selling them back you you piecemeal. On that basis alone I douldn't pay a dime for this service.
You will get to keep your discs but I have a feeling that they will require the case so they can remove the UPC code(sort of like Red2Blu), that way they can prevent rental and borrowed discs from being converted to digital over and over again. If Walmart was smart they would give you a digital copy for free(or discount) if you buy a disc from them, it's a win-win for Walmart and the consumer.
It doesn't matter if person owns it - it still generates revenue for the "Disc to Digital" program.
The whole idea is to get people to buy discs(and other things) in the store, why give it away for $5 when VUDU sells it for $15-20?.
the media companies are fighting tooth and nail to prevent you from taking a disc that you bought and ripping it to your pc, but they'll gladly sell you the ability to watch a digital copy on a service that's not guaranteed to be around forever.
They're stripping you of fair use rights and selling them back you you piecemeal. On that basis alone i wouldn't pay a dime for this service.
^^ THAT. This hit the nail on the head. Oh this is so very screwed up.
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In fact, this Central American country as a whole hasn't been known as top destination for tourists, period. Located between Honduras and Costa Rica, Nicaragua is still often thought of as a war-ravaged nation -- from years of dictatorship, civil strife and the Iran/Contra affair -- but Nicaragua is now rapidly emerging as a hot tourist destination. On The New York Times' picks of where travelers should go in 2013, Nicaragua came in at number three, with this tagline "It's eco! And the food's good! Enough said."
Perhaps not quite enough said, however. While there are a number of restaurants catching international attention – the Times highlighted Granada's Ciudad Lounge for instance – typical Nicaraguan cuisine, also known as comida tipica, is heavy on rice and beans, light on vegetables, and varied in quality. Gallo pinto, literally translated as "spotted rooster," is the ubiquitous rice and beans found on nearly every plate at every meal, including breakfast.
A typical "Nica" breakfast includes eggs with onions and cheese served with gallo pinto and fried plantains. Lunch and dinner usually contain some combination of gallo pinto, meat, cabbage salad, boiled yucca and fried plantains, and are often served on and/or wrapped in banana leaves. A variation of this meal, called vigorón, is topped with chicharrones (fried pork skins). The meat is sometimes tough, the yucca bland and the fried plantains soggy. But when the meat is juicy and tender, the cabbage crisp and the gallo pinto just right, the meal can be quite satisfying.
Where to Try Comida Tipica in GranadaFor breakfast, visit Kathy's Waffle House, a Granada institution. Yes, it's known as a place for a big American breakfast – you can recover from your hangover on the shaded porch with a variety of waffles, pancakes and other American fare. But you can also have a more typical Nica breakfast of eggs served with gallo pinto and maduros (sweet plantain). Find Kathy's on Calle Arsenal across the street from the Convento San Francisco.
Another breakfast option is Choco Café, on Calle Atrevesada, which offers a buffet that includes both Nica cuisine (gallo pinto, cheese, plantains) as well as omelet and waffle stations. The restaurant does get mixed reviews, though.
Note: Many addresses in Granada are unusual, and potentially confusing until you get used to it. Rather than a street number, or even a street, addresses take the form of directions, often keyed to a major landmark.. For example, the address of my hotel was: "Calle Consulado, two blocks west of the park."
For lunch, try the Kiosco Modesta located on the Southwest corner of the Parque Colón (the Central park). Try the vigorón - boiled yucca, cabbage salad and crunchy pork rinds - while sitting in the park watching the horse drawn carriages click by. The Kiosco is not 4-star dining, but the location and atmosphere are hard to beat.
At night, visit one of the fritangas, or sidewalk barbeques. There is a good, and very busy fritanga off of the main pedestrian street, Calle Calzada. Walking away from the Central Park, east on Calle Calzada, make a left at Margarita Bar & Grill and walk about a half a block. You'll see the line.
There's a variety of meat to choose from, but the pollo (chicken) is solid choice – a single portion includes a wing, drumstick and part of a breast, platano frito (fried ripe plantain), maduros (sweet plantain), and a humungous mound of cabbage salad. It's all served on top of two large banana leaves that fold up and serve as both the plate and convenient carrying case when slipped into a small, plastic bag to take to-go. It's a ridiculous amount of food for only 95 Cordoba or $3.95, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't order a side. Try the queso frito(fried cheese), and of course, no Nica meal is complete without gallo pinto.
Bear in mind that the "line" may be a loose version of what you are used to and possibly difficult to navigate. Do not fear! Wait patiently and the nice woman who runs the fritanga will acknowledge you. She runs a tight ship: if someone tries to cut you in line, she'll let the offender know it.
More Dining Options in Granada
If you tire of comida tipica -- and given how rich it is, chances are that you will – try one of these other eateries.
The Garden Café on Calle La Libertad, about one block east of the Park, a California-meets-Nicaragua style café offers light fare, delicious sandwiches and lots of fresh veggies.
El Camello on Calle El Caimito about two blocks east of the Park, is a mix of Middle Eastern/Mediterranean, offering everything from falafel and shwarma to lamb stew, curries and pasta. The Canadian owner and his Nicaraguan wife will make you feel at home.
There's also Kanpai on Calle Estrada, a newly opened sushi restaurant where you can get a fix of California, Philadelphia, tuna and tempura rolls designed to appeal to the typical American tourist.
Though the restaurant was quite nice, with a Zen atmosphere of plants and bamboo, and the service is the highlight. On each table, there's a life-alert-like button to press when you need the wait staff. I didn't need to press it to have a chat with the Japanese co-owner, though. When he asked me for honest feedback about the new menu, I told him that I'd never seen an eel and avocado rolls with cheese on it. "And what kind of cheese was it?" I asked. "Sliced," he replied. I inquired no further.
If you're a meat lover, try El Zaguán on Calle La Sirena behind the cathedral. This well-regarded restaurant serves up sizzling steaks, sausage and ribs off an open-flame grill, often accompanied by the sweet sounds of live mariachis.
Imagine Café, on the corner of Calle La Libertad and Calle Cervantes is another popular, but fairly overpriced option. Here, the chef is serving unexpected dishes, like warm baked Brie, clams casino, duck breast and lamb chops. A meal here is not complete without a taste of the homemade mango bread, made with fruit from the chef's own farm.
Nightlife in Granada is pretty bustling for a small city. Grab an outside table on the pedestrian street Calle La Calzada to people watch, buy souvenirs from roaming vendors, and enjoy a Nica Libre (the Nicaraguan version of a rum and coke made with Flor de Caña rum).
If you're traveling alone, take a seat at O'Shea's Irish Pub. The owner, Tom, is the Irish grandfather you never had, and probably never expected to find in Nicaragua. He will make you feel welcome and probably introduce you to a few of his loyal patrons.
More on Nicaragua Travel:
- Visiting Ometepe Island? Check out these dining tips.
- The real secret to eating well in Nicaragua.


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Golf members given cakes and treats as a thankyou for fundraiser
12:00am Sunday 27th January 2013 in News
Golf club members were treated to cakes and pastries as part of a thank you for their fundraising efforts.
Members of Shirley Park Golf Club were given the treats for their efforts to raise money for the Croydon Opportunity Pre-school Group for Children with Special Needs.
The occasion marked ten years of successive fundraising by the Golf Club for the pre-school, the only one of its kind in the borough dedicated to children with special needs.
Ex-club captain Monty Powell presented the pre-school with the Club's latest donation of £10,000.
Julie Newton-Smith, Opportunity Group Manager, said: ""This is a fabulous piece of equipment.
"It's something the Group would never have been able to afford without the donations from Shirley Park Golf Club".
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