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About Technical Reports
- What is a technical report? A technical report is a document that describes the process, progress, or results of technical or scientific research, or the state of a technical or scientific research problem. Unlike other scientific literature, such as scientific journals and the proceedings of some academic conferences, technical reports rarely undergo comprehensive independent peer review before publication. Where there is a review process, it is often limited to within the originating organization. Similarly, there are no formal publishing procedures for such reports, except where established locally.
- For more information, refer to the following book: Information Sources in Grey Literature -- PRINT Hagerty 2nd Floor T10.7 .A87 1998
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- How can I find a technical report? Many government agencies, laboratories and research centers publish the full texts of their reports online, and many more provide abstracts and citations. With a citation, one can find the full text of a document via the library. To locate a technical report, consult with the resources listed in the Get Technical Reports section of this guide.
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- How do I cite a technical report? Most of the elements of a technical report are similar to those in books, with a few additional details. Significant components of a technical report include the front matter (cover, notices and abstract), the text (summary and report text) and the back matter (distribution list.) Be sure you get the following information about each report you plan to cite:
Author(s) (performing organization). Title. Place of publication: publisher/sponsoring organization; date of publication. Report number. Contract number. Total number of pages. Availability statement. EXAMPLE Moray NP, Huey M. Human factors research and nuclear safety. Washington: National Academy Pr; 1988. Contract nr NRC-04-86-381. 122 p. Available from: NTIS, Springfield, VA; PB89-175517. Sponsored by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.The name-year format:Author(s) (performing organization). Date of publication. Title. Place of publication: publisher/ sponsoring organization. Report number. Contract number. Total number of pages. Availability statement. EXAMPLE Moray NP, Huey M. 1988. Human factors research and nuclear safety. Washington: National Academy Pr. Contract nr NRC-04-86-381. 122 p. Available from: NTIS, Springfield, VA; PB89-175517. Sponsored by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.More information about citing a Technical ReportMany more examples as well as differentiations among government, university or research institutes' formats are detailed and discussed in the style guide manual for this discipline: Please refer to this book should any questions arise regarding citation: Scientific style and format : the CBE manual for authors, editors, and publishers -- PRINT Hagerty Reference T11 .S386 1994
- Report number (usually found in the upper left corner)
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Pilot Testing: Surveillance and Investigation of the Illness Reported by Neighbors of Biosolids Land Application and Other Soil Amendments
As a result of the 2002 National Research Council (NRC) study entitled Biosolids Applied to Land: Advancing Standards and Practices, there was an important recommendation to "establish a framework for an approach to implement human health investigations." WERF funded through its public partnering process a project to develop a draft five-step rapid response investigation protocol to collect data on reports of health effects from neighbors of land application sites. This project (Phase II) field-tested and refined the Phase I draft protocol (WERF Stock no. 06-HHE-5PP) which was the highest ranked priority at the 2003 Biosolids Research Summit. Consequently, this project helps to lay the groundwork and framework for a surveillance and timely response investigation system implemented by multiple jurisdictions throughout the U.S. using a standardized investigation protocol which will benefit future stakeholders. The final protocol includes questionnaires administered to neighbors of land application, biosolids generators, and appliers. The protocol also includes a generator questionnaire to characterize biosolids that were land applied and an appliers' questionnaire to document methods of application. Additionally, two site investigation reports that can be used to locate, describe, and characterize the land application sites of concern are included. More »
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Lake June Canal Front in Lake Placid
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2/2 2 car garage furnished pool home in beautiful Lake Placid,
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Minutes from Lake June. Recreational park within walking distance
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Here is yet another simple Neural Network that implements Back-Error Propagation as a form of Reinforced Learning. The entire project is written in C++ and requires no special libraries to compile and run. main.cpp contains code to train both a 2 and 3-input Logical AND gate. The zipped source code can be downloaded here A [...]
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Neural Network (Back-Error Propagation) C++
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Neural Network – Back-Error Propagation – Java
Posted by kenny on December 25th, 2008
This Neural Network is a command line implementation that uses the Back-Error Propagation learning algorithm. As well, The number of center layers, neurons per center layer, and learning rate are all changeable. The provided Test file teach Logial AND, however other test files can easily be created. update:Source is now maintained on GitHub The Jar [...]
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By Sam Wakhakha ,
:: 05-05-2011
The Madhvani Foundation has set aside over Shs550 million to be used for University scholarships for students in the 2011/2012 university academic year. The amount which is the largest ever donated by the trust will be used to pay the tuition fees of brilliant yet underprivileged Ugandan students pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Ugandan universities.
"The Foundation is honoured to once again to make available an increased contribution towards Uganda's development," Henry Kyemba the Chairman of the Scholarships committee said while launching the fund. "Last year," he adds, "we contributed just under 540 million which was able to cater for 149 students, this year we have crossed the 550 million mark for the first time". UCU students also qualify for this scholarship and the previous years, the university has had students benefiting from it. Mr. Kyemba reminded potential applicants for undergraduate courses that the scholarships would only be available to students who have finished their first year of study and have a Cumulative Grade Point Average CGPA of 2.2 with no retakes done in the first year. "Every year the quality and quantity of applicants to the programme appears to improve which is encouraging, this and other factors has allowed us to dedicate an increasing amount of funds each year which has meant that more brilliant yet underprivileged students have been given a chance to realize their full potential," he pointed out Susan Nabukeera, a former beneficiary and now a Business Development Officer with Uganda Air Cargo said, "The Foundation was the driving force behind my success, I am here today because they made it possible for me to achieve what I knew I was capable of. The fact that my tuition fees were assured enabled me to allocate ample time to my studies which is why I was able to excel in my course". The foundation is looking for bright Ugandan students, both undergraduates and post graduate, of sound character who are facing difficulties paying their University tuition fees. "The selection process will be very transparent however I would like to caution applicants against any form of canvassing as this will lead to their immediate disqualification from the process," Kyemba cautionsApplication forms for the Scholarships can be downloaded for free from the foundation website at www.madhvanifoundation.com or bought for Shs2,000 from The Muljibhai Madhvani Building at plot 20/2 Jinja road, Kampala. The closing date for submission of completed forms is the 31st of May 2011.
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New romance prompted thefts by bank worker (From Evesham Journal)
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Court hears new relationship prompted thefts from Worcestershire bank
7:29am Tuesday 7th January 2014 in News
A BANK worker who was keen to socialise with her new partner stole almost £17,000 from the bank she worked at to pay for it, a court has been told.
Catherine Finney, who would regularly steal small amounts from the till she was responsible for at the Droitwich branch of Barclays, covered up her thefts by carrying out more than 100 "inter-till transfers", making the missing money more difficult to spot.
Worcester Crown Court was told how the 25-year-old used the bank accounts of two elderly savers to launder some of her stolen haul, which totalled £16,980, between January 2011 and March 2013.
Finney, of Stalls Farm Road, Droitwich, was sentenced to 18 months behind bars yesterday after admitting one count of theft and two of fraud.
Judge Michael Cullum said she had been in a position of very high trust at the bank, which she had systematically breached to pay to "advance" her lifestyle.
"You took the money for your own living standards, which may not have been as lavish as some, but it was certainly beyond that which you would have legitimately been able to afford. It was simply to advance your lifestyle."
"On almost a daily basis, you would take small amounts of money over a two-year period from the till at which you were the sole worker," Judge Cullum said.
"You made, in total, 108 inter-till transfers which enabled the period over which you stole money to be as long as it was.
"Anyone working in the banking industry is, by definition, in a high position of trust.
"The calculated nature of deceptions, the efforts you made in masking it, and the number of occasions you took money are all aggravating factors."
He sentenced her to 18 months in prison.
During the scam, the two elderly customers made no actual loss, the court was told, with Finney passing off queries over mystery transactions on their statements as banking errors.
She also replaced their postal statements with email statements.
Defending, Paul Stanley told the court Finney was in debt and had started to see a new partner, and wanted to be able to go out socialising with him.
He added that she was "very remorseful" about what had happened, which was why she had pleaded guilty at the first opportunity when she first appeared before magistrates.
A Proceeds of Crime Act hearing will be held on April 1 to determine if Finney will have to pay back any of the money.
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11:40am Wed 8 Jan 14
iamthebinman says...
Endconreignforever wrote:Hold on! Can you confirm that you think it is a Tory policy to send a thief to jail? Are you saying that under a Labour government this women would be let off because she is less well off than bankers in London?
So this woman gets 18mths for a few thousand when the bankers in London who caused the crisis the country is facing walk away with bonuses in the millions with no repercussions . Unbelievable. There is something seriously wrong with out justice system in this country. Very disappointing, they should have just made her pay it all back.. and save tax payers money. Typical Tories attack the poor for problems caused by the rich!!
If you steal £17,000 you should go to jail. She stole so that she could go out on the town more.
Feel free to blame to Tories for everything you disagree they have done since getting into power but this is not their fault.
Are you sick of this Tory weather?
8:40pm Wed 8 Jan 14
goodyearmart says...
8:42pm Wed 8 Jan 14
goodyearmart says...
Endconreignforever wrote:Too right..fully agree with you!
So this woman gets 18mths for a few thousand when the bankers in London who caused the crisis the country is facing walk away with bonuses in the millions with no repercussions . Unbelievable. There is something seriously wrong with out justice system in this country. Very disappointing, they should have just made her pay it all back.. and save tax payers money. Typical Tories attack the poor for problems caused by the rich!!
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10) Somebody put "Fire" behind Dempster's name on his jersey.
9) Jeff Samardzija cut his hair. (That's a bible reference, folks.)
8) All team Tweets end with #SuckForLuck despite not being in the NFL.
7) Due to Derrick Rose already using up eight of the city's 10 sports injuries, only two D.L. trips allowed.
6) Asking guests to sing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" in 5th inning due to game being shorten to only seven.
5) Currently trying to rekindle 1984 by trading a couple of outfielders to ESPN for Rick Sutcliffe.
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3) The Three Stooges movie asked not to advertise during games.
2) Despite being in perfect shape, many have signed up for NBC's The Biggest Loser.
1) Ozzie Guillen's asking too many questions about a certain star shortstop.
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Bernie Tiede, a former funeral director at a Carthage funeral home, could walk free from prison as soon as next week, according to a report by Texas Monthly.
As we reported earlier this week, Tiede was moved from prison in New Boston to the Panola County Detention Center because of new evidence that has surfaced in the case of the 1996 death of Marjorie Nugent. Tiede was convicted of Nugent's death in 1999 and sentenced to life in prison. He would be eligible for parole in 2027.
Skip Hollandsworth wrote the original Texas Monthly report on Bernie and co-wrote the movie. In his report on Saturday, he reveals more information from Tiede's attorney Jodi Callaway Cole.
Hollandsworth reports Cole is expected to file a writ of habeas corpus, which would allow Tiede to share grievances in his case before a district judge. Once the writ is filed, a judge could hear it within a few days. Texas Monthly reports Cole will ask that Bernie Tiede be freed from detention.
Tiede underwent a new psychiatric evaluation last week by Beaumont psychiatrist Dr. Edward Gripon. Sources say that if Gripon decides that Tiede is no longer a threat and determines that he wouldn't commit a similar crime again, District Attorney Danny Buck Davidson could agree that Tiede's sentence be shortened. Tiede has already served 16 years of his sentence.
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A deadly accident on northbound I-95 closed the highway Saturday evening as emergency crews worked to free victims trapped in a car.
Media and emergency radio reports indicated that two people were killed in the crash. Four other victims were transported to area hospitals.
The accident happened just before 6:30 p.m. near the Route 13 (Bristol Pike) overpass. The scene is near the Bensalem and Bristol border.
According to Phillyburbs.com, six people were in a vehicle that rolled over. Several victims were trapped and one person was believed to be thrown out of the vehicle.
A report from the AlertPage network stated that one victim remained entrapped more than 30 minutes after the accident.
Both lanes of the major highway were closed for a period of time, a story on 6abc.com said. The southbound lanes appeared to be reopened by 8 p.m.
PennDOT traffic cameras showed the crash site remained active with fire and police at 8:25 p.m.
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(FOX 11/CNS) An investigation was underway today into the death of a 63-year-old woman who was mauled by pit bulls as she was out for a walk in Littlerock, near Palmdale.
The woman, identified by the county coroner's office as Pamela Devitt of Littlerock, was attacked about 9:30 a.m. Thursday near 116th Street East and Avenue S, authorities said.
Supervisor Mike Antonovich said in a statement that "four killer pit bulls" mauled Devitt.
Later Thursday tips from the public and information supplied by the county Department of Animal Care and Control led deputies with a search warrant to a home in the 37300 block of 115th Street in Littlerock.
There they confiscated eight dogs -- six pit bulls and two mixed breeds -- and arrested resident 29-year-old Alex Jackson after they found marijuana growing on the property, according to the sheriff's department.
The dogs will undergo DNA tests to determine if they were involved in the attack, sheriff's officials said.
Residents in the area have been afraid of loose dogs for some time and about two weeks ago, a pack of dogs attacked a horse and a woman riding it, according to media reports.
Sheriff's Lt. John Corina told reporters that a witness saw the woman who later died being attacked by a pack of dogs Thursday morning and honked to try to scare them away. Instead, they tried to attack the car, biting at its tires.
The first responding deputy saw the woman being attacked by one dog and fired a shot at it from about 30 feet away, sending the animal running off into the desert, according to the sheriff's department.
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Cross-cultural Shopping: A Goal Two Story?
Last Sunday, I went to the supermarket in my neighborhood to pick up staples for the week. I buy certain things every day, because some products don't last very long and the stores are on my way, but I need food for the animals, cleaning products and certain Moldovan foods that I've come to depend on, as well as lunch food for the week.
I bought a large container of a salad I enjoy, some beer and cheese and meat and all the beverages I need for a week or so. This trip I had remembered to bring my day pack and so needed only one small plastic bag.
I packed my bags, paid and left the store.
I returned home and put away my purchases. Some time later, I was hungry enough for lunch and looked forward to "integrating into my country/culture by eating local specialties and drinking local beer.
I could not find the salad. It was in a large container in a plastic bag and nowhere to be found. Not in my back-pack, not in the fridge, not on the floor and not in the cupboard.
I concluded that it must not have been packed when I left the store. About two hours had passed since I left the store; nevertheless I still wanted to go back and find out if anyone had found my salad. I knew that I probably wouldn't miraculously find it kept cool for me in the refrigerator in the employee lounge of the supermarket, but I had spent enough money that it was worth the walk back to the store to find out, just in case. I did remember our friends TIM and TINA, but I still thought it was possible that an alert Moldovan or Moldovanka had noticed that the crazy Amerikanka had left her damn salad.
My first step or possibly, misstep, was to see if I could find the cashier who had checked me out. I didn't see anyone familiar, but the security guard asked if I needed help so I told him my story. He took charge, and soon there were four to six more people standing around the "customer service" area in the front of the store. To make a long story short, the Moldovan point of view was that I had packed the salad myself and I must be "mistaken" about it never having arrived at my kitchen.
My point of view was that I didn't want to make anyone responsible and that I was just checking that perhaps someone had found the salad and turned it in to the lost and found. I was trying to explain the concept of "lost and found", the idea that a stranger might think it was his/her responsibility to take a found package to some authority. I had some more things I was trying to explain, but with my somewhat limited language skills, I soon realized that I was not getting through and the best next thing would be to smile a lot, say thank you for your help and bow out of the discussion as gracefully as I could.
I bought another container of salad and left the store.
The following Thursday, I happened to notice on the floor in the kitchen, the wayward container of salad I had missed on Sunday.
The Moldovans were correct. I was indeed, a crazy foreigner who just didn't look hard enough for her salad that had fallen on the floor, under the table behind a chair. The salad had been on the floor in the kitchen for five days, so it ended up in the trash, but it was a good lesson for me.
The following Sunday I was again at the same supermarket and saw the same security guard. I decided to demonstrate something that I think is an American cultural trait: the ability to admit when you've made a mistake and give the folks you were differing with their natural right to say or think, "I told you so!"
I told him the story and got a small approximation of a smile in return. He did remember and said he would tell the other workers involved that the mystery had been solved.
This of course wasn't a formal 2nd goal activity but I'd like to think that my return to the store to apologize and explain would be seen as positive, and that my admitting I was wrong would be seen as "American."


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South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham proposed legislation Wednesday that includes screening for mental illness during the gun-buying process.
The National Instant Check System Improvement Act would limit the restriction of gun sales to those who have been found by a court to be insane or incompetent to stand trial.
Graham used the example of a case involving Alice Boland, a 28-year-old woman who pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity after she was accused of threatening to kill the president, congressional members and a police officer in 2005.
In February, Graham said, Boland passed a background check while buying a gun in Walterboro. He said that Boland then took the gun to a college campus in Charleston, where she tried to kill staff members. He said Boland's gun never fired.
Graham said federal agents determined there was nothing illegal about Boland's gun purchase.
Graham said Boland's case shows that there is a major gap in the current system of background checks required when buying a gun.
"We have legislation that will make sure in the future, people who find themselves in this legal category, having gone to a federal court and pled not guilty by reason of insanity, having been judged by a federal court to be a danger to themselves or others, will no longer, legally, be able to pass a background check," Graham said.
Graham said the rule would not prevent gun sales to those who seek voluntary treatment for mental illness. It also includes reinstatement of gun ownership rights through judicial action or administrative process.
The National Rifle Association said in a written statement that it supports Graham's legislation.
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By Brenda L. Holmes
— The State Bank of Lizton's 10 branches will be helping to register children to participate in Lemonade Day, this year scheduled for May 18.
Lemonade Day is a free program designed to empower children to become entrepreneurs. The program first launched in 2007 by native Hoosier and Houston-based businessman Michael Holdhouse. Scott Jones brought Lemonade Day to Indianapolis in 2010. It's now operating in more than 40 cities around the country.
This year, the State Bank of Lizton has decided to help facilitate the program by being a registration site. Children can go to any of the SBL locations in Hendricks or Boone counties to register and get a free backpack.
Inside each backpack is the "Entrepreneur's Workbook" which they use to prepare for Lemonade Day. They work through the lessons at home. Then, on May 18, the children get to set up "shop" at the various SBL locations and become lemonade "tycoons."
Participants keep the money they earn but they're also taught through the program to "spend a little, save a little, and share a little."
SBL will be sponsoring Jami Marsh of the Think Forward Foundation, which is the Lemonade Day program, to speak at the March 20 Brownsburg Chamber meeting.
"This program is a lot of work but it's a lot of fun too," Marsh said. "The program has really exploded. The first year we had it in Indianapolis we had 7,500 kids register. This year our goal is to get 20,000 registered. It has gotten pretty big, pretty fast."
SBL representatives will also be handing out backpacks at the Hendricks County Home & Garden Show March 22 and 23 and at the Boone County Home & Garden Show April 18-20.
"We will be having our own lemonade stand with employees, kids, and grandkids at the Relay for Life events in Brownsburg and Lebanon on May 18," said Rhonda Wiles, vice president of marketing and community relations director for the bank.
Backpacks are also available at the Avon-Washington Township Public Library, Brownsburg Public Library, Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library, and at guest services at Metropolis Mall in Plainfield.
Metropolis will also be hosting stands on Lemonade Day.
"We have a good number of locations where kids can register in Hendricks County," Marsh said.
In 2012, the Greater Indianapolis Lemonade Day registered 15,000 children and sold 1,534,459 cups of lemonade. The total gross revenue was $2,409,480 and $800,863 of that went to charity.
Marsh said the Lemonade Day program has added a new component this year to help children find non-profits to partner with.
"Many kids don't know who they want to share their profits with," she said. "So we're hosting a workshop and inviting local non-profits to set up booth space. Kids will be able to walk around and learn about the different non-profits. This way they can make an informed decision on where to donate their profits."
The workshop is 6 p.m. April 9 at the Jewish Community Center in Indianapolis.
"They have a huge space," Marsh said. "Any non-profit can come and set up a booth. There is no RSVP required."
Also new this year is a "seed money" fund for participants. As any entrepreneur knows, it takes money to start a business. She said most children get their funds from parents, family, or friends.
"Even if they're going to use a table from home, they'll need to purchase the lemonade from the store to sell," she said. "The kids just need to submit a two-minute video — nothing too elaborate a phone video will do — to tell us how they will use the money. It's a great lesson for the kids. Even if they don't go on to start their own business as adults. They will one day have to 'pitch' something for any job."
Every child who submits a video will receive at least $10 for seed money for the lemonade stand.
"If kids do a really great job on their video and want to do bigger things with their stand, they may receive more seed money," Marsh said. "This part of the program is an experiment. We're not sure how it will go. But getting seed money is an important part of the process. We've raised $5,000 for the seed fund and hope to raise $10,000. We have the money — kids just need to apply for it."
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High Moon Studios' new third-person action game bumped up to August 21 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
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High Moon Studios' third-person action game hits North America in late August for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3; heading to Europe on August 31.
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Legislating Morality, Yes, We do That
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By Bill Britt
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MONTGOMERY—Our country was founded primarily by two groups of people, those desiring religious freedom and those wanting to make a fortune.
The Declaration of Independence lays out our cause of freedom with lofty ideals for mere mortals, encapsulating the American soul with, "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Like all great writers, Thomas Jefferson stole the idea and phrasing from John Locke.
Locke's then radical view that government is morally obliged to serve people, namely by protecting life, liberty, and property became the bedrock of our nation's founding principles.
However, our nation has never fully lived up to this noble goal but we try in-spite of ourselves.
The questions never said very loudly is whose life, how much liberty and what property?
Thus, capitalism and religion have always had an uneasy relationship. One works on the bases of self-interest, materialism and even greed and covetousness.
The other is best practiced with love, self-sacrifice, charity and humility among other more noble principles.
While, in conflict on occasions, it is something our country as worked out over time but still does divide us on some very thorny issue.
Over the last few weeks the State of Alabama has received some very good news on the economic development front. In Mobile, Airbus will be building a huge facility to employ around 1,000 people and in Wetumpka the Poarch Band of Creek Indians (PCI) broke ground on a new hotel and casino that will employ another 1,000 Alabamians.
The Airbus became the jewel in the crown of every politician that could get a headline or face time on TV. And it is something the state should crow about.
But for the PCI and the great opportunity for economic development they are providing, not many cheerleaders.
It is obvious that the PCI project is not politically popular because it involves gambling. That is understandable given the feeling of most of our citizens about games of chance.
However, there is polling data that points out that most Alabamians support or do not oppose gaming. These are private opinions not often vocalized too loudly.
I am certainly no fan of gaming but I also know that I live in the United States of America and that according to our founding principles, Americans should be free to throw away their money anyway they choose.
Is there a special place in hell for someone who spends the baby's milk money on gambling? Probably not but maybe there should be.
Of course, the government can legislate morality, and does—-more so than anyone wants to admit.
As a matter of fact most of the big disagreements among our citizens is about what is moral and how to legislate it.
Drugs, drinking, gambling, who you can sleep with, these are all things we try to control with laws. The war on drugs is a policy born of legislation to regulate behavior, ergo, morality.
Many counties in our state do not let you buy alcohol on Sunday, ostensibly not because of someone like me who is going to be in church on Sunday but for those who are not. But maybe it is also to make sure the deacon shows up on time.
It is again legislation aimed at a desired moral effect.
During the past legislative session almost an entire legislative day was spent discussing what size of beer bottle should be legal in Alabama. Is this a thing we should spend so much time worrying about? Even the worst alcoholics I've known knew what amount of booze it took for them to reach the desire state of oblivion.
I worry that politics so greatly out weighs common sense that we can't see the flaws in our logic.
Like most Alabamians I have witnessed first hand the devastation that comes from alcoholism, drug addiction and all manner of sins.
My older bother was murdered in a drug deal gone bad. I closed the lid on my brothers coffin, gave his eulogy as I looked into the tearless, vacant eyes of our mother.
Yes, I too know what harvest sin bares.
I am not advocating we do not try to legislate some morality but we should try to be intellectually honest.
Heaven forbid a politician with statewide ambitions should be seen as supportive of gambling or that those who run for office saying they would like to see and up or down vote on gaming keep to their campaign rhetoric.
For me what the PCI is doing is capitalism at work, they sell entertainment, in the form of gaming, people who want it buy it those who don't will not. Is it all good, no, is it all bad, probably not.
But that pesky "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," does get in the way sometimes, and our constitution, it has so many instances that limit government that for almost the first one hundred years of our nation, we couldn't figure out how to legislate much in the way of moral behavior. But then came the startling revelation that the Commerce Clause gave the Congress almost complete control over every aspect of American life.
But Chief Justice John Roberts in his recent ruling on the Affordable Care Act may have put a nail in the coffin of the dread Commerce Clause.
Like many of the nation's founders I am in favor of religious freedom and getting out of the way of people who want to make a fortune. But I am also in favor of freedom from religion and prosecuting those who make their fortune dishonestly.
In 1656, John Locke wrote a letter expressing his approval of restrictions the government had placed on Quakers-—whom he called "mad folks." Locke welcomed the restoration of the Stuart monarchy and wrote eloquently defending the prerogative of government to enforce religious conformity.
So much for the hero of life, liberty and all that jazz.
Unfortunately, It always comes down to whose life, what liberties and who gets the money.
Lies, damn lies and unemployment numbers
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By Bill Britt
Alabama Political Reporter
Most people who study statistics understand that there are lies, damn lies and statistics.
This is also true when looking at unemployment numbers released by the government.
It is first important to understand the government does not know who is working and who is not. Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the number of unemployed based on a random sampling of the population. The feds conduct surveys of households and employers, which form the basis of the main employment statistics. The definitions of the survey date back to the Great Depression.
According to these parameters people count as employed if they are doing any work for pay. The unemployed are people who are not working but are trying to find a job. People who aren't working but also are not trying to find work are not considered part of the labor force period.
The official unemployment rate is based on a survey of about 60,000 households, not on unemployment benefits, which are administered by the states.
Using a sampling model is not really a problem, to do it differently would be very expensive and labor intensive.
The problem occurs when a politician pretends that the estimate is an exact measurement. It is not, so, the gage is flawed and therefore misleading.
Next it is important to understand that each month, more people join the working age population than retire or die. As a result of these added individuals, the economy needs to add about 180,000 jobs a month just to keep up with population growth.
Once again when politician pretends that adding more jobs means there are fewer people out of work it is not accurate.
So, when someone says the economy added X amount of jobs, there must be 180,000 subtracted to have an accurate number.
The "labor force" is the number of employed and unemployed people.
The people who are capable of working but are no longer looking are called, non employed, the non employed are not counted in the official numbers released by the government.
Once again when politician claim that a lower unemployment rate means that more people are working, that is not really the case.
The numbers can't be fully trusted to mean what politicians say they mean or put another way politicians who quote job numbers can't aways be trusted.
Anti-immigrations folks spin loss into a win, believe it or not, Ripley
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26 Jun 2012
In response to the SCOTUS striking down 3 out of 4 provisions in the Arizona Immigration Law Alabama GOP lawmaker's are spinning faster than a pole dancer at Uncle Bubba's Kitty Kat Lounge.
Here are the facts as I see them, Alabama's Immigration Law is history, toast, keput, out-a-here, finished, and to quote our friends from across the border adios HB56 and its bambino.
Naturally, politician being, what else, politicians, are portraying this as some kind of win.
How so, giving police the right to ask for someone papers when they pull them over or are questioned about a certain matter, this is the big win? Big whoop, the police can't do much more than say, "Oh, I see you are here from Mexico, hope you enjoy your stay, drive safely and have a nice day."
Sorry my friends that is not a win.
If the Supremes had not upheld that portion of the law then the next thing you know the police would have no right to check your driver's license, hey, it may even be unconstitutional to make us buy driver's licenses in the first place. (I hate the Commerce Clause).
If in the Iron Bowl your team scores one touchdown and the other team gets three they win. No bragging rights for you. It would seem our friends in politics don't understand, so they spin.
If you want a believable spin how about this, "We got our butts kick, dang activist judges, that is why we need a conservative president in November, because these darn activist judges, kicked our butts." Keep saying that until you believe it, because that's going to sound better and more plausible than the first try.
And please let's not try the "Alabama Law is different than the Arizona law," because it is not that different. It was written by the same guy and while he had learned a few things since writing the Arizona one, he still got it wrong according to the SCOTUS. While a trip to a big box store is enough to convince even a modest elitist that the voting population is not paying attention, I am not so sure that all this "we won, zero to three, is going to sell even with them."
Scott Beason, the Dems, Luther Strange and others included we here at the Alabama Political Reporter said wait and see what the SCOTUS rules before passing the son of HB56. Why did we say that? Because we believed to pass a new law was a waste of taxpayers money and time. Restraint is a quality of good leadership, so is admitting mistakes but that is not the politician's nature. While few believe that the federal government is doing a good job enforcing immigration law and I am one, in this decision the SCOUS has once again affirmed that states can only go so far.
And of course I am not finding anything unusual in the political response of spin to win.
Hey, here's an idea, the feds are allowing tons of illegal drugs to enter our country through Mexico, what about sending the Texas Rangers and a Alabama Sheriff's posse down to Mexico to enforce the law. Good idea? Well, maybe not, but it could be great spin.
Roberts' Rule: Conservative Double Cross or Constitutional Brilliance
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05 Jul 2012
By Bill Britt
Alabama Political Reporter
MONTGOMERY—Much has been made of the ruling by Chief Justice John Roberts since last Thursday when he sided with the liberal wing of the court to uphold the key provisions in the Affordable Care Act.
For most conservatives Roberts' ruling has been seen as a betrayal of principle, a death blow to the republic and everything in between.
Historically, such knee-jerk hyperbole is usually wrong and sighting something as a work of an activist judge generally means that the jurist didn't rule the way a certain group wanted them too.
But what if in Chief Justice Roberts 59-page opinion there is a means by which future courts will be able to rule more narrowly on laws using the Commence Clause as their basis and what if his "Gun to the Head" opinion can be the opening needed to not only stop the federal government from forcing unconstitutional mandates on states but even allow states to overturn longstanding laws?
What if all the anger against Roberts is misplaced political posturing and not a rational assessment of his opinion at all?
What if the Roberts' ruling is the most brilliant Supreme Court ruling in 80 years--not only limiting the Commerce Clause but also a coups de grâce to unwarranted federal powers?
Soon after the court's ruling Neal Katyal, the Justice Department lawyer who argued for the Obama administration in the circuit courts, wrote in "The New York Times," saying the Medicaid ruling "contains the seeds for a potential restructuring of federal-state relations."
"This was the first significant loss for the federal government's spending power in decades," wrote Katyal. "The fancy footwork that the court employed to view the act as coercive could come back in later cases to haunt the federal government. Many programs are built on the government's spending power, and the existence of an extraconstitutional limit on that power is a worrisome development."
A portion of the Roberts opinion which was joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan said that the federal government had gone too far when imposing requirements on states as a condition of accepting federal dollars.
This type of finding by the justices' writing for the majority has not been present since FDR and the "New Deal."
In his opinion Roberts said the federal government "in this case the financial 'inducement' Congress has chosen … is a gun to the head."
While the opinion dosen't categorizes a clear test for when new federal requirements cross that line it did say that one does exist.
By saying that the government had gone too far with its decades old carrot-and-stick approach to forcing states to enact federally mandated programs or forfeit millions in federal dollars, Roberts may have set up a way that forever changes how much if any pressure Washington, DC, can place on the states.
The right to opt out of the Medicaid expansion could set up a scenario where by states could offer legal challenges to other such programs.
While not certain, would not the Clean Air Act fall into this category? The law mandates that states implement programs that meet national pollution limits or they can lose federal highway dollars. Does this not fall under the Roberts' finding?
What about No Child Left Behind, or the Americans' with Disabilities Act or even Title IX?
Perhaps this is expanding the scope of the court's opinion too far, but is that not how these things begin, by case precedent?
I am not a lawyer, but I have pretty good reading comprehension skills and I see an opening for states like Alabama to begin to challenge the powers of the feds to impose their will using a carrot and a stick.
So, perhaps my conservative friends should look at Roberts not as a traitor but as the man who took a lemon and gave the states the tools to build a lemonade stand. One that can't be controlled from Washington.
How Foolish Can We Be?
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20 Jun 2012
By Bill Britt
Alabama Political Reporter
MONTGOMERY—While pundits and politicians debate the wisdom of funding Medicaid with money from the Alabama Trust Fund a looming health and financial catastrophe is knocking at the door.
However flawed the decision to raid the ATF to fund Medicaid, however broken and wrong the welfare system is, there comes a time to put aside our quarrels, ideology, posturing and pretense and look reality in the eye.
The calamity that confronts us is greater than that which divides us. If we choose to flirt with disaster rather than deal with the single issue at hand, shame and remorse may be the legacy of our decision.
Or as Mike Warren the CEO of Children's Hospital has said, "How foolish can we be to cut our nose off to spite our face."
There is not anyone with an smattering of common sense that does not realize that Medicaid and the accompanying welfare state is unsustainable. But it has taken years to bring us to this level of crisis and it will take years to dismantle and reconfigure the system. There are those who wish for a firm, blunt knife to cut clean the legacy of the welfare state. But we should be careful that the same blunt instrument is not laid to the whole healthcare system and the state itself.
Like most American I believe everyone should work hard and make their own way but there is no denying that there are those who will always need a helping hand. Is it the government job to do so? I have never thought that the government was responsible to provide for citizens needs but I do understand that at times like these we cannot walk away from such problems. Sure, we can work on reform, yes, we can work to live within our means but there are greater issues and greater consequences immediately at hand.
Governor Bentley's words point to the factual place we find ourselves, "The health of Medicaid effects every person in Alabama, if you have ever been to a doctor, if you have ever been to a hospital or ever had a loved one in a nursing home then you have been impacted by Medicaid. The reason is simple, the health services that depend on Medicaid for funding services to all patients."
The hard fact is that if Medicaid fails all health services in Alabama will began to fail. I am not a man that deals in Chicken Little politics or is prone to hyperbole but enough smart people are pointing to a coming tsunami of pain that I am paying attention. Medicaid may be the problem but the repercussions will be felt by all.
Yes, past and present leadership has not dealt with the problem wisely. But asking for Solomaic wisdom now is folly, the die is cast.
Governor Bentley, Dr. Williamson and others have made the case clear--act now. However there is still a choir that wants to relive the mistakes of the past or bemoan the horrors of the welfare class.
According to Warren, last year Children's Hospital saw 55 thousand children in the ER alone. Over half the kids in Alabama receive their medical care through Medicaid, do the math.
On April 27, 2011 a series of tornadoes devastated many part of our state. That night Children's treated 60 children from over 14 counties in Alabama, eighteen lifesaving neurosurgeries were performed. Warren warns that if Medicaid is not fully funded the next time their is a catastrophe of that magnitude there may not be physicians to perform the lifesaving measures that were administered on that fateful night.
There are over a 150 thousand jobs directly and indirectly supported by Medicaid in our state. Our current unemployment is still at a terrible level, is this a wise time to add more to the jobless rolls?
At a time when we are energetically working to recruit new business to Alabama is this a time to see hospitals closing across the state?
Our economy is so inextricably entangled with Medicaid that there is no one that can undo the Gordian Knot swiftly.
So, the choices before us are a gun and a bitter pill, the question is are people knowledgeable enough to take their medicine?
Of course I worry more about our political class than the voters, if politicos use this as an occasion for grandstanding rather than bowing to their noble noblesse we will see catastrophic failure. If the political class will take courage and work toward funding and future fixes we can be successful.
I am no fan of the welfare state, I know that we must fix Medicaid, while demanding personal responsibility from thousands of Alabamians. But I also don't want to be so foolish as to think that we can remedy these ills before Medicaid runs out of money.
To this end, over the next 13 weeks we will offer a series of articles that will lay out the current state of Medicaid, what happens if it is not funded and what may be possible fixes going forward. Join us on this quest.
Happy Independence Day, from a curmudgeon
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04 Jul 2012
By Bill Britt
The 4th of July is always a great day to reflect, rejoice and reconsider anew the United States of America. It is the day we commemorate the founding of our great nation. A great, wonderful and crazy place that is home.
Our nation is many things, the world's longest enduring republic, the most diverse country on the earth, the most prosperous, the most free and perhaps even more fatalistic than Denmark.
We have much to be proud of and very little to be ashamed of. We are a good and generous people who still by in large live by the golden rule.
Of course I am thinking of the one that says, "do unto others..." and not "he who has the gold rules," but both are true.
The people who settled this country came here for two basic reasons, freedom of religion and economic opportunity. In other words people wanted to be free to worship as they wanted and to make as much money as they could. Not always two harmonious ideas but we have mostly worked that out.
We are at times seen as an over-religious people and sometimes we are perceived as overly-greedy, again both are true.
We can be people who are extremist, but reality generally tempers our collective excesses.
We have a good-—but not perfect—-form of government that we brag about or complain about too often and too much.
We usually suffer from a universal amnesia once we have seen the error of our ways, we forget it ever happened and that it is natural and also healthy.
We seem to only find a balance in public life by going from extremes, until we pass the middle so many times, that we realize that it is a good place to rest.
We believe our myths and hoist them high as if they are true and undeniable.
We are the greatest nation on earth and I believe that but we have never been as good as we remember or as bad as others have portrayed us.
Every generation at least since I have been alive has believed this was the end of times, we are narcissistic that way.
We generally think that this is the worst president, worst congress, worst economy ever, we over exaggerate like that.
Most of our beloved patriotic songs are about the land not the people, except that awful song by Lee Greenwood, which is worse than water boarding and should be outlawed.
Our national anthem is about a big battle, sung to the tune of an old English drinking song and no one on earth can sing it properly. I like that a lot.
We are a peculiar people, who are in fact not a people in the sense that Swedes or Germans have for the most part a common bloodline.
When people ask me about my heritage I sometimes answer, "mutt." I am an American which for the most part means I am part junkyard dog, part pit bull and part lap dog, in a word a mutt. Worth having around as a good companion but I will bite you if provoked. I will work hard, protect you if you are in trouble and sometimes I just don't want to be bothered.
I like that too.
I love my country and sometimes I think it may even love me, but that is not its responsibility. Would I die for my country, if necessary, yes. But to quote old George Patton, I would rather make some poor bastard die for his.
God bless America and God bless you my fellow American
Solving the unsolvable problem of Medicaid and Prisons
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12 Jun 2012
MONTGOMERY--The State of Alabama is faced with a growing storm of crisis. It mounts on two fronts and culminates momentarily in September with a vote on a constitutional amendment to allow the government to take $540 million over three years from the principle of the ATF.
In the balance is the future of Alabama's Medicaid and prison system both which are not very popular programs with the public at large.
Finding a real solution to our Medicaid and prison problem is much like "What the Tortoise say to Achilles," written by Lewis Carroll. In Carroll's work, the tortoise challenges Achilles to use the force of logic to make him accept the conclusion of a simple deductive argument. Ultimately, Achilles fails, because the clever tortoise leads him into an infinite regression.
When trying to solved the problems of Medicaid it would seem that we will have to address the fundamental problem called the poor and to deal with prisons we need to try to piece together the problem of the criminal. Since there is a tendency especially among conservatives to look backward to find answers, we will become engrossed in a discussion that, like Carroll's tortoise, which will lead us into a infinite regression. To Genesis?
Fact is that humans are ill equipped to fix the problems of the poor or the criminal, so we put various programs in place to minimize the harm that happens to them or society.
In Alabama as in the much of the country, Medicaid and prisons consume mammoth amounts of taxpayer's dollars.
Legislators, many being politicians first and public servants a distant second, find ways to maximize political gain while minimizing political impact on their next election.
As a result the state government is asking the citizens of Alabama to approve raiding its saving account to fund friendless programs. People don't like to give money to people they don't like. But if you don't want to have criminals back on the street and grandma ejected from the nursing home then you must fund something you don't like, is the rhetoric applied to the argument.
No doubt that the state is strapped for cash, so, when faced with cutting popular programs to fund ones that are not so popular the government did what governments do, they punted. Sometimes the only thing that makes sense is to kick the ball away and hope for a break later in the game.
Over the next several months a battle will be waged over this issue and the impending vote on the constitutional amendment.
Rather than stand aside and watch the sideshow, the Alabama Political Reporter will write a series of articles to offer analysis of the current state of these programs, what would be the outcome if they are unfunded and what could be possible solutions for the future.
We will be interview a host of people and organizations to find the answers to these questions. While this is a very ambitious undertaking for so small an organization we feel it is our job to take on this task. There is an old story of a King who called all his wisest councilors together and ask them to begin a seemingly impossible task. After a few months the King call his councilors back into his chambers and ask about their progress. Each councilors gave reasons as to why the task could not completed. After they spoke the KIng sentence them all to death. They cried out to know the offense which was to cost them their lives. The King answered, "I did not ask you to complete the task only to begin."
So, it is we start knowing that we can never complete the task only start.
Lastly, I am reminded of something my old friend George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel said, and here I paraphrase, "We learn from history what we do not learn from history."
What do you get from a pair of phrases? Two sentences.