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December 24, 2005
Love Those Pilgrims: 17th Century Christmas Laws Culminated in Criminalization of Christmas!
In 1645, Cromwell's Parliament abolished the observance of Christmas thus banning all civil festivities associated with the celebration of Christmas, including the sending of Christmas cards. The Puritans in Massachusetts bested Parliament by criminalizing Christmas 14 years later. In 1659, the General Court of Massachusetts enacted a law making any observance of December 25 (other than a church service) a penal offense. The "Five-Shilling Anti-Christmas Law" stated:
Whosoever shall be found observing any such day as Christmas, or the like, either by forbearing labor, feasting, or any other way upon such account as aforesaid, every such person so offending shall pay for each offense five shillings as a fine to the country.
The Five-Shilling Anti-Christmas Law were repealed in 1681. Was the Act of Parliament repealed? To the best of my knowledge, no!
Merry Christmas!
December 24, 2005 in Statutes & Regs | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
December 23, 2005
Just-in-Time Pardons
Just in time for the holidays, President Bush granted pardons to 11 individuals. Our sister blog, Sentencing Law & Policy, provides analysis and links to additional information.
December 23, 2005 in News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Patriot Act Extension Is Reduced To a Month
The Washington Post is reporting that the House agreed to extend the Patriot Act to Feb. 3, 2006. The Senate has approved the House action.
December 23, 2005 in News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
On DMCA Exemption Proceedings
Bill D. Herman and Oscar Gandy of the University of Pennsylvania have published "Catch 1201: A Legislative History and Content Analysis of the DMCA Exemption Proceedings," in volume 24, of the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. It is also available through download from SSRN.
Abstract: 17 USC Section 1201(a)(1) prohibits circumventing a technological protection measure (TPM) that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work. In the name of mitigating the innocent casualties of this new ban, Congress constructed a triennial rulemaking, administered by the Register of Copyrights, to determine temporary exemptions. This paper considers the legislative history of this rulemaking, and it reports the results of a systematic content analysis of its 2000 and 2003 proceedings.
Inspired by the literature on political agendas, policymaking institutions, venue shifting, and theories of delegation, we conclude that the legislative motivations for Section 1201 were laundered through international treaties, obscuring the anticircumvention clause's domestic origins. Further, we conclude that the exemption proceeding is constructed not to protect noninfringing users, but to limit courts' ability to exonerate them via the traditional defenses to copyright infringement.
We then conduct a content analysis of the first two proceedings, conducted in 2000 and 2003. Exemption proponents generally interpret the law's intent in terms of policy goals such as fair use, whereas opponents see jurisdictional, procedural, and definitional obstacles to the granting of exemptions. The Register of Copyrights' interpretation of the law closely resembles that of opponents and, on more than one key point, she refers proponents back to Congress. We conclude that the Register has constructed a venue that is hostile to the interests of noninfringing users; in light of congressional rhetoric to the contrary, this constructs a catch-22 for many who earnestly wish to engage in otherwise legal activities.
Hat tip to Media Law Prof Blog
December 23, 2005 in Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Accuracy of Wikipedia
Andy Carvin reports that Nature magazine has just published the results of an investigation comparing Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica regarding accuracy of scientific information. The result: almost a tie. Examining 42 scientific topics, Nature's team of experts and editors found an average of four inaccuracies per Wikipedia entry, and three per Britannica entry.
December 23, 2005 in Reviews | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
First Issue of Google's Newsletter for Librarians Released
More than two months ago Google said that they would begin publishing a quartely newsletter for librarians. Well, the first issue is now available. Unfortunately, not much there in terms of content except for an intro article by Jodi Healy and an interesting article about how Google works (and most other web engines for that matter) by Matt Cutts.
Click here to check it out.
Ron Jones, Unv Cin Law Lib
December 23, 2005 in Information Technology | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
December 22, 2005
Strange but True: Stop Sending Me Secret Messages! Judge Grants TRO Against David Letterman
Colleen Nestler, who contends that David Letterman has been using code words to show he wanted to marry her and train her as his co-host, has been granted a TRO against the CBS late-night host by a New Mexico judge. According to a CNN report, Nestler, who lives in Santa Fe, requested that Letterman stay at least 3 yards away and not "think of me, and release me from his mental harassment and hammering."
Will the law librarian who directed Nestler to the pleadings form books please raise his/her hand!
December 22, 2005 in News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Senate Agrees to a Six-Month Extension of the Patriot Act
The bill's future now rests with the House of Representatives, which comes back into session today. Sampling of media coverage of the Senate's action:
See also our earlier post identifying the 16 major provisions of the Act that were to expire on Dec. 31.
December 22, 2005 in Statutes & Regs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
New LLRX Research Guides and Articles
New on LLRX.com for December 17, 2005:
Wrongful Conviction and Innocence Resources on the Internet
Foreign and Transnational Legal Forms
Are You Ready for Local Search?The Government Domain: Another Redesign for THOMAS
December 22, 2005 in Legal Research | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Westlaw Makes New Bankruptcy Forms Available
The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) went into effect on October 17, 2005. The changes under the Act are fundamental and affect thousands of debtors currently petitioning for bankruptcy. Many of the official forms have changed, and now the revised or entirely new official forms are in westlaw.com in the Bankruptcy Official Forms database (FBKR-FORMS). Both the pre- and post-BAPCPA forms are available as PDF files. Read more about it.
See also our legislative history of BAPCPA
December 22, 2005 in Products & Services | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Legislative action affecting the Federal Rules
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts have issued a report summarizing legislative action affecting the Federal Rules of Practice, Procedure, and Evidence taken during the first session of the 109th Congress. Click here to view the report.
Ron Jones, Unv Cin Law Lib
December 22, 2005 in Legal Research | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Agenda-setting and Blogs
From the December issue of First Monday:
Agenda-setting, opinion leadership, and the world of Web logs by Aaron Delwiche
The activities of journalistically focused Web log authors give us new ways to understand and measure the agenda-setting process. While previous researchers have explored issue salience by focusing on audience recall and public opinion, Web logs invite us to consider hyperlinks as behavioral indicators of an issue's perceived importance. This paper tracks news stories most often linked to by Web log authors in 2003, comparing the results to stories favored by traditional media. Arguing that Web log authors construct an alternative agenda within the admittedly limited realm of the blogosphere, I note that their focus has shifted from technology to broader political issues. My findings support Chaffee and Metzger's (2001) prediction that "the key problem for agenda-setting theory will change from what issues the media tell people to think about to what issues people tell the media they want to think about.
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From libraries to 'libratories' by Leo Waaijers
While the eighties of the last century were a time of local automation for libraries and the nineties the decade in which libraries embraced the Internet and the Web, now is the age in which the big search engines and institutional repositories are gaining a firm footing. This heralds a new era in both the evolution of scholarly communication and its agencies themselves, i.e. the libraries.
Until now libraries and publishers have developed a digital variant of existing processes and products,i.e. catalogues posted on the Web, scanned copies of articles, e-mail notification about acquisitions or expired lending periods, or traditional journals in a digital jacket. However, the new OAI repositories and services based upon them have given rise to entirely new processes and products, libraries transforming themselves into partners in setting up virtual learning environments, building an institution's digital showcase, maintaining academics' personal Web sites, designing refereed portals and - further into the future - taking part in organising virtual research environments or collaboratories. Libraries are set to metamorphose into 'libratories', an imaginary word to express their combined functions of library, repository and collaboratory. In such environments scholarly communication will be liberated from its current copyright bridle while its coverage will be both broader - including primary data, audiovisuals and dynamic models - and deeper, with cross-disciplinary analyses of methodologies and applications of instruments. Universities will make it compulsory to store in their institutional repositories the results of research conducted within their walls for purposes of academic reporting, review committees,
and other modes of clarification and explanation. Big search engines will provide access to this profusion of information and organise its mass customization.
Academic home pages: Reconstruction of the self by Lesley Thoms and Mike Thelwall
Previous literature within the postmodern movement typically finds the Internet to be a tool for surveillance and restriction. This is particularly identified in the personal homepages of academics, where the university is considered to marginalise staff through the coercive governing of their identity construction. Using a Foucauldian framework in which to analyse twenty academic homepages, this study looks specifically at identity construction on the Internet via the differences of link inclusion between academics whose homepages have been university-constructed and those whose homepages have been self-constructed, both dependent and independent of the university site. A Foucauldian discourse analysis identifies the marginalisation of academics in all conditions, wherein discursive positions were typically those of disempowerment. A typology of homepages and hence identities of academics is proposed based on the Web sites examined, concluding that whether the homepage is constructed by the academic or by the university, the identities of the individual are ultimately lost to the governmentality of the university.
December 22, 2005 in Information Technology, Scholarship, Web Communications | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
December 21, 2005
Domestic Surveillance Controversy: Sitting Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Quits; Judge Posner Supports Administration's Actions
The Washington Post is reporting that U.S. District Judge James Robertson has resigned from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court because of his deep concern that the domestic surveillance program that Bush authorized was legally questionable and may have tainted the work of the Court. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court oversees government applications for secret surveillance or searches of foreigners and U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism or espionage.
Meanwhile, in Our Domestic Intelligence Crisis (Washington Post) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner expresses his support of these programs.
[Domestic intelligence] programs are criticized as grave threats to civil liberties. They are not. Their significance is in flagging the existence of gaps in our defenses against terrorism. The Defense Department is rushing to fill those gaps, though there may be better ways.
The goal of national security intelligence is to prevent a terrorist attack, not just punish the attacker after it occurs, and the information that enables the detection of an impending attack may be scattered around the world in tiny bits. A much wider, finer-meshed net must be cast than when investigating a specific crime. Many of the relevant bits may be in the e-mails, phone conversations or banking records of U.S. citizens, some innocent, some not so innocent. The government is entitled to those data, but just for the limited purpose of protecting national security.
December 21, 2005 in News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Domestic Surveillance of Terrorist Groups Extends to PETA, Greenpeace et al.
According to new documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union, the FBI is using counter-terrorism resources to monitor and infiltrate domestic political organizations that criticize business interests and government policies, despite a lack of evidence that the groups are engaging in or supporting violent action.
The ACLU said that the documents released today on Greenpeace, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) show the FBI expanding the definition of "domestic terrorism" to include citizens and groups that participate in lawful protests or civil disobedience. Read the ACLU press release.
Link to digital collection of FBI documents released by the ACLU
Sound like the FBI has dusted off J. Edgar's playbook.
December 21, 2005 in Digital Collections, News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Briefs in Cuno v. DaimlerChrysler Now Available
TaxProf Blog has posted the merits and amici briefs in Cuno v. DaimlerChrysler, Inc., 386 F.3d 738 (6th Cir. 2004), cert. granted, Nos. 04-1704 & 04-1724, scheduled for oral argument in the Supreme Court on March 1, 2006. The case involves the constitutionality of Ohio's investment tax credit (as well as the procedural question of Respondents' standing).
December 21, 2005 in Legal Research | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Alito Project at Yale Law School Releases Report
Over the last several weeks, a group of students and faculty, known as "The Alito Project at Yale Law School," reviewed all 415 judicial opinions that Judge Samuel Alito wrote while serving as a Circuit Judge. The report was delivered to all one hundred Senators on Monday, December 19, 2006 and also made available to the public. Read the press release.
December 21, 2005 in Scholarship | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
New Titles from Cambridge UP
Law and Internet Cultures
by Kathy Bowrey
Paperback (ISBN-10: 0521600480 | ISBN-13: 9780521600484)
Published July 2005 | 250 pages | $21.99
Book Description: This book is about the Internet and the technological and cultural baggage that accompanies it and affects its regulation. It considers the ways decisions about Internet technologies are made; ideas behind global trade and innovation; power of engineers and programmers; influence of multinationals; and questions about global marketing and consumer choice. Although the volume draws upon current debates from globalization, communications and socio-legal theory, it will be comprehensible to a general audience interested in issues associated with technology and innovation. Reviewed by Matthew Rimmer, Faculty of Law, Australian National University for First Monday.
The Torture Debate in America
Edited by Karen J. Greenberg
Paperback (ISBN-10: 0521674611 | ISBN-13: 9780521674614)
Published November 2005 | 300 pages | $18.99
Book Description: Widely acclaimed as a publishing milestone, The Torture Papers (Cambridge, 2005) constitutes the definitive book of public record detailing the Bush Administration's policies on torture and political prisoners. In the process of assembling the documents, memoranda, and reports that comprise the material in The Torture Papers, a vital question arose: What was the rationale behind the Bush Administration's decision to condone the use of coercive techniques in the interrogation of detainees suspected of terrorist connections? The use of these techniques at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo has sparked an intense debate in America. The Torture Debate in America captures the arguments on torture that have been put forth by legislators, human rights activists, and others. It raises the key moral, legal, and historical questions that have led to current considerations on the use of torture. Divided into three sections, the contributions cover all sides of the debate, from absolute prohibition of torture to its use as a viable option in the War on Terror.
Al Qaeda Now: Understanding Today's Terrorists
Edited by Karen J. Greenberg
Hardback (ISBN-10: 0521859115 | ISBN-13: 9780521859110)
Published September 2005 | 300 pages | $60.00
Book Description: This volume of presentations by a group of authorities on international terrorism and Al Qaeda constitute a valuable synopsis of current knowledge on this terrorist group and the policies in place to counter threats of future attacks. The articles contribute to understanding how Al Qaeda has evolved from a movement to an ideology, what influence it has on Middle East stability and what continued threat it is to the United States, Europe, and other areas of the world. The contributors, from academia, research centers, government agencies and the media, represent a cross section of recognized experts on Al Qaeda and international terrorism.
The 'War on Terror' and the Framework of International Law
Helen Duffy
Hardback (ISBN-10: 0521838509 | ISBN-13: 9780521838504)
Published September 2005 | 540 pages | $110.00
Book Description: The acts of lawlessness committed on September 11, 2001 have been followed by a 'war on terror'. This textbook considers the law relevant to assessing how such terrorist acts should be understood in legal terms, which responses to them are permissible and how those responses are to be pursued. It considers some of the actions that have unfolded since 9/11 (military intervention, law enforcement initiatives, human rights restrictions and abuse) prompting questions as to the 'war on terror's lawfulness. The volume clearly designates areas of international law where interest has escalated beyond traditional academic legal circles.
Illegal Beings: Human Clones and the Law
Kerry Lynn Macintosh
Hardback (ISBN-10: 0521853281 | ISBN-13: 9780521853286)
Published August 2005 | 288 pages | $28.00
Book Description: Many people think human reproductive cloning should be a crime-some states have even outlawed it and Congress is working to enact a national ban. However, if reproductive cloning soon becomes a reality, it will be impossible to prevent infertile couples and others from choosing the technology, even if they have to break the law. While most books on cloning cover the advantages and disadvantages of cloning technology, Illegal Beings describes the pros and cons of laws against human reproductive cloning. Kerry Lynn Macintosh, an attorney with expertise in the area of law and technology, argues that the most common objections to cloning are false or exaggerated, inspiring laws that stigmatize human clones as subhuman and unworthy of existence. She applies the same reasoning that was used to invalidate racial segregation to show how anti-cloning laws, by reinforcing negative stereotypes, deprive human clones of their equal protection rights under the law. Her book creates a new topic within constitutional law: existential segregation, or the practice of discriminating by preventing the existence of a disfavored group or class. This comprehensive and novel work looks at how anti-cloning laws will hurt human clones in a fresh perspective on this controversial subject. Kerry Lynn Macintosh is a member of the Law and Technology faculty at Santa Clara University School of Law. She is the author of papers, articles, and book chapters on the law and technology and has contributed to the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, and Berkeley Technology Law Journal.
Abortion and the Law: From International Comparison to Legal Policy
Albin Eser and Hans-Georg Koch
Translated by Emily Silverman
Hardback (ISBN-10: 9067041971 | ISBN-13: 9789067041973)
Published September 2005 | 450 pages | $95.00
Book Description: This volume presents a compact summary of the results of a world-wide survey on abortion law and practice in a total of 64 countries, carried out by the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiberg, Germany. The work provides a summary of social conditions and historical developments, followed by a detailed comparison of legal regulations, and is supplemented by statistics on the termination of pregnancy. The final chapter contains reflections from a legal policy perspective. Important findings, insights and trends are summarized and guidelines for reform are provided. The book concludes with a proposal for a law to regulate the termination of pregnancy, and although this proposal was intended primarily as a contribution to the legal political debate in Germany, it could also be used as the catalyst for debate on reform in other countries.
December 21, 2005 in New Publications | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Recent CRS Reports on Legal Issues
CRS Publication Date: 12/14/2005
Document No.: RL33195
Author(s): Brian T. Yeh, American Law Division
Abstract: The United States Supreme Court will hear oral argument this term in appeals from two state supreme court cases, Hammon v. Indiana and Davis v. Washington, concerning the admissibility of "excited utterance" statements made by non-testifying witnesses at criminal trials. In the landmark Crawford v. Washington case in 2004, the Court held that the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause forbids hearsay "testimonial" evidence from being introduced against the accused unless the witness is unavailable to testify and the defendant has had a prior opportunity to crossexamine the witness. However, the Crawford Court declined to provide a comprehensive definition of "testimonial," leaving such task "for another day." This omission has caused state and federal courts to struggle over which out-ofcourt statements are "testimonial" for purposes of triggering the Crawford requirements. The confusion has arisen most often in cases involving out-of-court statements made by non-testifying witnesses to investigating police officers at a crime scene or during 911 emergency calls. These "excited utterance" statements have traditionally been admitted into evidence under an exception to the hearsay exclusionary rules followed by courts. However, since Crawford, the lower courts have disagreed over whether spontaneous utterances are considered "testimonial" statements subject to the Sixth Amendment's cross-examination mandate. These two cases offer the Court an opportunity to resolve this uncertainty by more clearly explaining what constitutes "testimonial" statements. The outcome has the potential to impact significantly the strategy and method of prosecuting criminal cases, particularly the use of out-of-court accusations against defendants in domestic violence and gang-related crimes.
CRS Publication Date: 12/16/2005
Document No.: RL33198
Author(s): Jon O. Shimabukuro, American Law Division
Abstract: On October 31, 2005, Judge Samuel A. Alito was nominated by President George W. Bush to replace retiring Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. During his tenure with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the court considered a number of abortion cases, including Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, a case that was later heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. This report reviews the Third Circuit's notable abortion opinions during Judge Alito's tenure and examines his concurring and dissenting opinions in some of those cases.
CRS Publication Date: 12/12/2005
Document No.: RL33187
Author(s): Charles V. Dale, American Law Division
Abstract: During his 15 years as a federal appellate judge on the Third Circuit, Judge Alito has written for the majority, concurred, or dissented in several cases alleging discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and other prohibited grounds. His legal position in these cases has varied, depending on the facts and law being applied, and defy rigid or facile classification. Nonetheless, some continuity in judicial approach, both substantive and procedural, may arguably be discerned from a review of several of his significant opinions.
CRS Publication Date: 12/14/2005
Document No.: RL33189
Author(s): R. Sam Garrett, Government and Finance Division
Abstract: This report compares relevant provisions of the House version of the Deficit Reduction Act with Senate proposals introduced during the 109th Congress which propose to split the circuit. Despite differences, these House and Senate proposals are largely similar. The report also provides background information on the debate concerning splitting the Ninth Circuit and analyzes the outlook for doing so. The current debate echoes themes present in the past. Disagreement generally focuses on three areas: (1) geography and population; (2) efficiency; and (3) the circuit's rulings. Although the House version of the budget reconciliation bill potentially increases the likelihood of dividing the circuit, the measure could also face substantial obstacles. Further, history suggests that should Congress not adopt the provision splitting the Ninth Circuit, the issue will continue to be active.
CRS Publication Date: 11/29/2005
Document No.: RL33172
Author(s): George Costello, American Law Division
Abstract: As a general rule, the Supreme Court adheres to precedent, citing the doctrine of stare decisis ("to stand by a decision"). The general rule of stare decisis is not an absolute rule, however, and the Court recognizes the need on occasion to correct what are perceived as erroneous decisions or to adapt decisions to changed circumstances. In deciding whether to overrule precedent the Court takes a variety of approaches and applies a number of different standards, many of them quite general and flexible in application. As a result, the law of stare decisis in constitutional decision making can be considered amorphous and manipulable, and it is difficult to predict when the Court will rely on stare decisis and when it will depart from it. This report cites instances in which the Court has overruled precedent as well as instances in which it has declined to do so, and sets forth the rationales that the Court has employed.
CRS Publication Date: 12/05/2005
Document No.: RL31994
Author(s): Alison M. Smith, American Law Division
Abstract: Massachusetts became the first state to legalize marriage between same-sex couples on May 17, 2004, as a result of a November 2003 decision by the state's highest court that denying gay and lesbian couples the right to marry violated the state's constitution. Currently, federal law does not recognize same-sex marriages. This report discusses the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), P.L. 104-199, which prohibits federal recognition of same-sex marriages and allows individual states to refuse to recognize such marriages performed in other states, and discusses the potential legal challenges to DOMA. Moreover, this report summarizes the legal principles applied in determining the validity of a marriage contracted in another state, surveys the various approaches employed by states to prevent same-sex marriage, and examines the recent House and Senate Resolutions introduced in the 109th Congress proposing a constitutional amendment (H.J.Res. 39, S.J.Res. 1, and S.J.Res. 13) and limiting Federal courts' jurisdiction to hear or determine any question pertaining to the interpretation of DOMA (H.R. 1100).
CRS Publication Date: 12/07/2005
Document No.: RL33180
Author(s): Jennifer K. Elsea and Kenneth Thomas, American Law Division
Abstract: This report provides background, including an overview of the Rasul decision and of the CSRT procedures established to comply with it, summarizes court cases related to the detentions and the use of military commissions, and summarizes the Graham Amendment and analyzes how it might affect detainee-related litigation in federal courts.
CRS reports listed above are available from GalleyWatch.com
Ron Jones, University of Cincinnati Law Library
December 21, 2005 in Gov Docs, Legal Research | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
UNPAN Releases Its Annual Global E-govenment Readiness Report
The UN Global E-Government Readiness Report 2005: From E-government to E-Inclusion, exploring the interlinkages between e-government and development, presents an assessment of the countries according to their state of e-government readiness and the extent of e-participation worldwide. In Part I of Report, The UN Global E-government Survey 2005, like its predecessors, ranks the 191 Member States of the UN according to a quantitative composite index of e-readiness based on website assessment, telecommunication infrastructure and human resource endowment. Underscoring the importance of technological advancements, the role of the government and human development, it presents a vision of the future with technology led access-for-all. Expanding the concept of 'real access' to ICT into e-inclusion, Part II: From E-government to E-inclusion presents the Socially Inclusive Governance Framework, which is a multi- pronged approach to ICT-led real access, with a special focus on the need to promote technology access and inclusion to the disadvantaged groups in society.
See UNPAN's website for previous annual reports.
December 21, 2005 in Information Technology, Scholarship, Web Communications | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
December 20, 2005
Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District: Court Rules Against Intelligent Design
US District Judge John E. Jones III ruled today that the Dover Area School District violated the Constitution when it decided that biology curriculum must include anti-evolutionary intelligent design theory.
US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania case website
Hat tip to JURIST.
See earlier post for ID resources.
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LOTR Secret Santa
Requested by: Saklani
Fic, fanart or either?: fic!
Pairing(s): Frodo/Aragorn!
Scenario, prompt: Frodo gets lost in the woods!
Squicks: please no deathfic for Christmas!
A/N: Since there was no rating requested, I played it safe at PG-13!
Title: Lost
Author: Aprilkat
Pairing: F/A
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: All characters belong to Tolkien and New Line Cinema! Not mine!
Frodo surreptitiously eased the strap of his pack off his aching shoulder. He tried not to call attention to the fact that he was beginning to feel twinges in the Wraith-wound the further the Fellowship trekked away from Rivendell. He had been almost without pain since the Council meeting and had allowed himself to hope that the consequences of that wound would be only a distant memory soon. A fruitless hope, obviously.
Strider – no, Aragorn was by his side in an instant. "Frodo, are you feeling weary? We will soon be at a place where we can call a halt."
His cheeks heating, Frodo straightened his shoulders and frowned slightly at the Ranger – King-to-be. "Hobbits are used to hiking many a mile with no ill effect, I assure you, Aragorn." He forced a smile. "In fact, I would wager that any of us hobbits could keep going as long as you long-legged folk through any weather."
Aragorn merely bowed his head and moved away. Gimli dropped back to join him. "A wager, eh? What shall we set as the winnings? How about I pace young Master Pippin for the next twenty miles? If he can keep up with me step for step I give him a pipeful of my best weed; if not, I get a pipe of his Longbottom Leaf!"
Pippin bounced up, eyes sparkling, to set the terms of the bet. Gimli laid a heavy hand on his shoulder with a grunt of laughter and moved him back onto the path.
Frodo saw Legolas smirk and open his lips. Quickly, in order to stem whatever insult about dwarfs the elf had in mind to deliver, Frodo turned to ask, "Where do you think the best place to make camp will be, Legolas? Surely we won't be able to go more than a few miles before dark falls."
Legolas turned his attention to Frodo, a courtly dignity replacing the mischievous leer. "I believe we will soon be at a place of good shelter near running water where we will make camp." He hesitated, then said, "Aragorn meant to stop there anyway, Frodo. It is not that he thinks you could go no further."
Cursing himself for his transparency, Frodo merely nodded and walked onward. Aragorn had already gone ahead towards the woodlands that lay in their path. Frodo dropped back, embarrassed that he had spoken so to their leader. Frodo had just wanted to make Aragorn realize that he would not be a burden on them, that he could keep up as well as anyone.
His left shoulder began throbbing in time to his heartbeat, to which he found himself matching his steps. He heard a low buzzing noise, one that he had not heard since the day of the Council when he stepped forward to lay his hand upon the Ring once again, to claim it – NO, to volunteer to take it to its destruction.
A pain jolted through him at the thought. Frantically trying to ease his mind, he stared ahead to where Aragorn's powerful form stood outlined against the colors of the setting sun. As he neared the Man, the buzzing diminished and then disappeared.
After they had set up their campsite, Frodo found himself once again watching Aragorn, who knelt beside the fire. The flickering flames showed strong cheekbones, an aquiline nose, long dark lashes hiding the downcast eyes… Suddenly those lashes lifted and Frodo found himself pierced by smoky grey-blue eyes, his own glance caught as in a vise.
Trembling, Frodo broke the gaze and stumbled to his feet. "I, I need to go a step into the forest. To – I have to do my business, I'm sorry," and he bumbled his way over a log and out of the clearing.
As he pushed his way heedlessly through the underbrush, Frodo realized that he was in a state of panic. He stood still, breathing deeply to calm himself and looking about to see how far he had dashed from the campsite. He did not know from which direction he had come. Once again that ominous buzzing arose.
He settled himself on the ground with a thud. "All right, Frodo Baggins," he thought. "You know what is happening. This is the effect of the Ring. It has been growing on you since we left the protection of the Elves. It makes you fearful, shows you lies, tries to trick you to make you put it on, urges you to flee." He groaned quietly, remembering the dreams that had come to him in the night, showing the gory ends to which he had led each of his friends, which the Ring whispered would have been avoided had he only left them.
And yet, this last flight did not seem motivated by the Ring. He had not felt its eerie presence until after he was far from his friends. Why then had he panicked and run?
Clenching a fist full of mossy dirt, Frodo forced himself to be honest. He had fled Aragorn's direct gaze. Ever since he had seen those heated eyes fixed on him at The Prancing Pony he had been unable to meet them without a little thrill in his belly. Strider had been watching him ever since, and not just as one of the hobbits under his protection. Although always respectful and never intrusive, Strider's looks proclaimed that he found the sight of Frodo a pleasant one at the very least. Frodo trembled, remembering Strider keeping watch over him that night in Bree, singing his lonely ballad in the Midgewater Marshes, fighting off the Ringwraiths with sword and flame, sinking to his knees before Frodo to offer his pledge…
Suddenly the ache in his shoulder flared once again, as if trying to reclaim him. He grabbed at the pain, then gasped and folded himself over his knees. The blackness seemed to rise and swallow him.
Two weather-beaten leather boots appeared before his eyes. A sense of relief flooded over him as two strong hands gripped his arms and gently pulled him up.
"Frodo?" Aragorn's face was pale and concerned in the gloom. He tilted Frodo back over one arm, using his free hand to massage the shoulder Frodo clutched. At Aragorn's touch, the pain flared and then dissipated into nothingness.
Frodo sighed. Then, looking straight up into those smoldering eyes, he put both of his arms around Aragorn's neck and kissed him.


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2005 Color Infrared Now Available
After a series of starts and stops, the 2005 Color Infrared imagery for the state is now available via the NRIS raster service.
Due to recent hardware and software upgrades at NRIS, GIS software users will find the raster service speed and reliability greatly improved. Instructions for connecting to the service can be found at: http://nris.mt.gov/nsdi/orthophotos/raster_svc.htm
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WASHINGTON — Blame it on JFK.
Fifty years ago, President Kennedy made a decision that, with hindsight, ranks as the biggest mistake of domestic policy since World War II. In many ways, it led directly to the recent "sequester" debacle.
What Kennedy did was this: In early 1963, he proposed a $13.6 billion tax cut (today: about $320 billion) even though the economy was not in recession and the tax cut would enlarge the budget deficit. Kennedy adopted the theory that government could, by manipulating its budgets, increase economic growth, reach "full employment" (then: a 4 percent unemployment rate) and reduce — or eliminate — recessions.
It was a disaster.
High inflation was the first shock. An initial boom (by 1969, unemployment was 3.5 percent) spawned a wage-price spiral. With government seeming to guarantee 4 percent unemployment, workers and businesses had little reason to restrain wages and prices. In 1960, inflation was 1 percent; by 1980, it was 13 percent. The economy became less stable. From 1969 to 1982, there were four recessions, as the Federal Reserve alternated between trying to push unemployment down and prevent inflation from going up. Only in the early 1980s did the Fed, under Paul Volcker and with Ronald Reagan's support, crush inflationary psychology.
We are now suffering from — and have for decades — the second defect of JFK's decision: the loss of budgetary discipline.
Since Kennedy's tax cut passed in 1964 — after his assassination — there have been 43 budget deficits and only five surpluses (1969, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001). Even the surpluses reflected luck more than policy. The last four resulted mostly from the 1990s economic boom, boosting tax revenues, and the end of the Cold War, lowering military spending.
Balancing a budget compels choice. Pleasurable spending must be weighed against painful taxes. Before Kennedy's tax cut, it was assumed that, in ordinary times, Americans would strive to balance the federal budget. They might not have always succeeded, but they often came close. Wars and economic slumps were exceptions when borrowing became a practical necessity. The government consistently ran deficits in the Great Depression of the 1930s.
But debt was generally bad. In the Civil War, the federal debt rose 42 times to a then-astounding $2.8 billion. Repaying it became a "national obsession," writes political scientist James Savage in his "Balanced Budgets & American Politics." One English diplomat observed that most Americans "appear disposed to endure any amount of sacrifice rather than bequeath a portion of their debt to future generations."
Kennedy himself initially accepted the virtue of balanced budgets and had to be converted to Keynesian economic doctrines (after John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946). In 1962, his advisers urged a big tax cut; Kennedy rejected it. Led by Walter Heller, the economists peppered Kennedy with more than 300 memos in his thousand-day presidency. By 1963, he'd come around.
Debt became benign. The promise of Kennedy's tax cuts was that, by promoting faster and more stable economic growth, government could afford more because the economy would perform better. When Republicans proposed "supply side" tax cuts in the 1980s, they made similar arguments and referred admiringly to Kennedy. Over time, what was politically convenient — higher spending, lower taxes — became habit-forming. It pleased the public, which deplored deficits in the abstract but rejected specific (unpopular) measures to control them.
Without pressure to balance the budget, choices were delayed or denied. Discipline diminished. When politicians needed to "do something" about deficits, they resorted to obtuse, often ineffective formulas that fudged choices by making across-the-board changes to both good and bad programs. Think: "budget caps," "spending recessions" and "continuing resolutions." The sequester is the latest and most grotesque example of this approach.
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Independence Mayor Chris Moriconi surprises Council Member Donna Yeager as he unveils a plaque naming the city's amphitheater after her.
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At the city council meeting on Monday, July 2, Mayor Chris Moriconi unveiled a bronze plaque for the Donna Yeager Amphitheater.
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Halo! I am from Hong Kong. I am very enthusiastic about shrimps! Here are some of my shrimps. =)
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They're freshwater. I'd imagine you could keep them in a tank with small non-aggressive warm water fish. |
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BELLINGHAM - Clarence "Gabe" Gabriel has stepped down as president and CEO of Haggen Inc. and is being replaced by three experienced members of the grocery company's management team.
Gabriel's resignation letter was accepted by the Haggen board of directors Friday, Dec. 7, and was relayed to company employees, said Clement Stevens, who is part of the three-person team that will take on Gabriel's duties. The newly created "office of president" position will consist of Stevens, John Turley and Ron Stevens (no relation to Clement Stevens).
Clement Stevens didn't elaborate on why Gabriel resigned, except to say that he will be missed as he pursues other opportunities. Attempts to reach Gabriel were unsuccessful.
"Gabe spent a lot of hours with the company developing the Northwest Fresh brand, an idea that we will continue to bring to customers," Stevens said.
The new leaders of the company have different areas of expertise within the Haggen company. Clement Stevens is the company's senior vice president of merchandising; Turley is the chief operating officer, and Ron Stevens is the chief financial officer and chief information officer.
Clement Stevens noted that their jobs will remain similar as they take on the office of president position. He said customers shouldn't notice a difference as a result in the change of leadership.
Haggen is in the midst of rebranding its stores with the Northwest Fresh brand, which is meant to better reflect the community with "store within a store" specialty shops, a new look inside, and a focus on Northwest products.
The rebranding began last year and has included its Bellingham stores. The Sehome Village Haggen will celebrate its remodel with an event Wednesday, Dec. 12. Ferndale is the last Haggen store in Whatcom County to go through the remodel.
Headquartered in Bellingham, Haggen is one of the largest private companies in Washington. It has 28 stores in Washington and Oregon. While the Haggen family still has a minority interest in the company, the investment firm Comvest Group bought a majority stake in the company in February 2011. Gabriel was hired soon after the purchase.
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The ideal role of marketing was articulated 60 years ago. How close to the ideal have we come by now?
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The authors look at the IMB 2011 Global CMO Study to extrapolate trends in marketing. In the study, more than 1,700 CMOs were asked to rate how much influence they have over four key aspects of marketing. They were also asked to what extent their marketing organization captures, analyzes and acts on customer data. The authors calculate an overall metric, the "Full-Scale Marketing Index", to measure average control over each of the four aspects, plus use of data. From their findings they explore whether it is important to follow the "Marketing Ideal" established over 60 years ago, and where Marketing goes from here.


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Clinton meets with new Egyptian president
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met for the first time with Egypt's newly-elected president, Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. State Department correspondent Margaret Brennan has the details of their meeting.
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I gotta say I didn't know about this guy at first. But hearing this interview? I can't wait to watch him play for the Black and Yellow.
Go Steelers!
PlayStation Network is back. What does this mean?
Well what can I say other than its time for Shamrock to come back and kick some serious ass in DCUO.
Now in all seriousness DCUO is not the best game or even one of my favorites. But I can't help but love playing it for one reason. The Peacekeepers. They're an awesome group who have become like an online family to me. Their also pretty freaking famous online for some reason. Check...
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Travel to Peninsular India: Bijapur: Photo 5The best description of the gate is an old one from what is still the city's best guide, Bijapur, the Capital of the Adil Shahi Kings. A Guide to its Ruins, by Henry Cousens, published privately in 1905. Cousens, who was superintendent of the Archaeological Survey of Western India, wrote (p. 33): "The most ornate feature about the gate are these windows. They are bay or oriel windows, the projecting landing, or sill, being supported, beneath, by bracketing ornamented with rows of hanging buds or drops, the brackets, or consoles, being themselves connected into a whole by decorated transverse tie-pieces in ascending tiers. The balcony parapet, with its rosette panels and neat capping, is carried across the face of the building.... From this rise three lancel-shaped lights in the front, and one each in the ends; and, from the mullions between these, project a row of most richly wrought stone brackets supporting the deep overhanging cornice. They are exceedingly thin, long, rectangular, slabs, perforated and worked over with the most beautiful arabesque. They are such as one would expect to find in woodwork, and look far too delicate to be wrought in brittle stone; but they have lasted, without breaking, for nearly three hundred years, during the most part of which time the building has not been cared for.... Along the crest of the building, between the minarets, was a most beautifully perforated parapet, but this, too, had suffered very much. Its slabs were easily removed, and were probably carried off, in days gone by, when the relics of Bijapur were a prey to the occasional visitor, and a quarry to the local builders, whose very familiarity with these unused buildings blunted their respect for them, at a time when this old deserted city was lying almost in oblivion, uncared for and desolate. This parapet has lately been removed." Since Cousens, it's been replaced, clumsily. View: tiny * small * medium * big * biggest Photo Size Back to Peninsular India: Bijapur chapter Short link for this page: http://www.greatmirror.com?justpic=27908 |
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As you all know I am somewhat displeased with where I work. I'll get to that in a second but I want to explain a little bit for the newcomers precisely what's going on. (As a warning I'm home straight from work and incensed so this is going to be one of those posts)
The short version: I got one degree (Theatre) that didn't do much for me professionally, then I took myself back to school for a second degree that did … I started working in that profession (Engineering) and have been really successful (at least when compared to my peers at this company) but I didn't much care for where I saw my career heading after looking at the veteran employees around me and decided another change was in order. Two years into engineering I went to business school for an MBA and now I'm done with that and hoping to become the Grand Poobah Extraordinaire making more money doing something I am passionate about and living a lifestyle I love.
Suffice it to say none of that has happened yet.
Which brings me to today and a fantastic example of why the place I'm at currently is a toxic and soul crushing environment.
When you work at a company you want to think of it as a paragon of excellence, a bastion of integrity, and the nursery for creative ideas that will forever alter the course of mankind. Well ok you might not but I sure do. My company is none of those things. As a matter of fact it's the antithesis to those things.
Because this isn't an #AskSisyphus on the inner complexities of what an ISO Rating means for a company (you can get the basic gist here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9000) let me just say that the following quote sums it up nicely:
The ISO 9000 family of standards is related to quality management systems and designed to help organizations ensure that they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders [1] while meeting statutory and regulatory requirements related to the product.
Most large companies are certified per some ISO standard as it shows that they're dedicated to a certain level of quality control and data management. Some places probably require their business partners to be ISO certified in some way before dealing with them. Apple may require their manufacturers to adhere to certain standards, the government requires certain standards, and so on and so forth.
The general assumption is that these guidelines and criteria will be used throughout the daily business practices ensuring that everything that is produced meets those predetermined standards. Daily Business Practices.
It works something like this: An auditor calls and says "Hey, I'm coming on the 29th of November and I'm going to perform an audit of your company and its adherence to the standards associated with the certification you hold. If you pass, great. If you fail bad enough you'll lose your certification and ability to do business with people."
Normal companies will have been preaching and practicing these standards all along, driving home their importance because the business depends on it. The quality of their products depend on it. Everyone's jobs depend on it.
Now take my clown show of a company. We get this call two, maybe three weeks before it happens and management says "Hey shit, we don't follow any of those standards. We better hold a training to show everyone what standards we're supposed to be following, where to find the list of processes we're supposed to be using, and make sure everyone tells the auditor that this is how we conduct our business."
And then in the next conversation they say, "We can't hold the training now, we'd better do it within a few days of the audit so people won't forget what they'll be asked."
At this very moment some of you might be feeling like something has gone horribly awry. You're right and this really instills a certain faith in my company. I know that my company is basically lying and cheating its way to a certification that allows us to conduct business with our customer. And now you know too, but I'm not done.
After that someone who spent the last 2-3 years laying people off has an idea, "Hey wait. We can't take all these people and give them training. It'll cost a lot of money that no one has given us. It'll also show as overhead and everyone will look bad. I don't want to lay any more people off and we need to cut costs so let's call it a brown bag lunch and that'll take care of everything."
Brown bag lunches are what my company uses to offer training without paying you for it. You bring your lunch, you spend your lunch hour sitting in a conference room being "trained" on something that isn't supposed to be vital to your job … they can't make it mandatory because they're not paying you to be there so all of these are optional. Since they started laying people off every training they want to give us is a brown bag lunch.
The best one of these was when two years ago they rolled out an entire new product database management system that everyone had to do their work in. They didn't want to pay anyone to learn to use it so they hosted a couple brown bag lunches and called it done. They felt good because they offered the training, but only a small percentage of people went and now that whole system is FUBAR because people have been using it for two years without doing it right.
So today I was invited to a brown bag lunch ISO Audit training where I will learn what to regurgitate to the auditors at next week's audit. It's such a depressing thing knowing your company lacks any semblance of integrity and isn't even dedicated enough to its corrupt practices to ensure they get done right.
I desperately need to get out of here.
And no, I'm not saying it'd be okay if they just executed their corruption more effectively.


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Virunga Mountan Gorilla Profiles
With thanks to gorilla.cd, you can view the gorilla profiles here via their site. Not all the gorillas have been added as yet, but more will be posted in time. Rather than duplicate the profiles here, do check out the link.
Virunga Ranger Profiles
With thanks to gorilla.cd, you can read about many of the rangers through their profiles here. All those working 'in the field' are featured and not all are rangers, but many work on the ground, alongside them. Additional ranger profiles are added from time to time, so do revisit and read the rangers stories, as told by themselves.
At the time of writing (May 2009) there are 12 gorilla orphans being cared for in Rwanda and DR Congo. All were victims of various illegal activities that continue to plague DR Congo, such as the illegal pet trade and poaching for bushmeat.
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Movie (2009)
John Cusack (Jackson Curtis)
Amanda Peet (Kate Curtis)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (Adrian Helmsley)
Thandie Newton (Laura Wilson)
Oliver Platt (Carl Anheuser)
Danny Glover (President Thomas Wilson)
Antonov An-225 Mriya
Although they marked this plane as an Antonov 500, there's no such plane. Also, this plane is from Ukraine, not Russia.
Cessna 340A
This Cessna was manufactured in 1979. Notice the registration N340SB.
Air Tractor AT-802
Boeing VC-25A Air Force One
Probably CGI, but the actual Air Force One doesn't have windows on the top deck (port side).
Mil Mi-26
False Reg. 66 YELLOW
Bell UH-1N Twin Huey
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk
Boeing CH-47 Chinook
Boeing 737
Boeing 767
Boeing 767 on the left, 737 on right.
Bombardier Global Express
Eurocopter AS350 Ecureuil
Just about visible in the bottom right corner of the TV footage.
Airbus A380-800
Behind 'Air Force One' is an Airbus A380 mocked in British Airways livery. As this is set in 2012, it wouldn't be an anachronism except the deliveries were pushed back until 2013.
McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
Being washed away on the aircraft carrier.
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