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Dynamically adaptive mesh refinement technique for image reconstruction in optical tomography
Applied Optics, Vol. 45, Issue 12, pp. 2828-2837 (2006)
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A novel adaptive mesh technique is introduced for problems of image reconstruction in luminescence optical tomography. A dynamical adaptation of the three-dimensional scheme based on the finite-volume formulation reduces computational time and balances the ill-posed nature of the inverse problem. The arbitrary shape of the bounding surface is handled by an additional refinement of computational cells on the boundary. Dynamical shrinking of the search volume is introduced to improve computational performance and accuracy while locating the luminescence target. Light propagation in the medium is modeled by the telegraph equation, and the image-reconstruction algorithm is derived from the Fredholm integral equation of the first kind. Stability and computational efficiency of the introduced method are demonstrated for image reconstruction of one and two spherical luminescent objects embedded within a breastlike tissue phantom. Experimental measurements are simulated by the solution of the forward problem on a grid of
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OCIS Codes
(170.0170) Medical optics and biotechnology : Medical optics and biotechnology
(170.3010) Medical optics and biotechnology : Image reconstruction techniques
(290.0290) Scattering : Scattering
(290.7050) Scattering : Turbid media
Original Manuscript: August 11, 2005
Revised Manuscript: October 9, 2005
Manuscript Accepted: October 17, 2005
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Vadim Y. Soloviev and Lada V. Krasnosselskaia, "Dynamically adaptive mesh refinement technique for image reconstruction in optical tomography," Appl. Opt. 45, 2828-2837 (2006)
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TV Info
Episode Premiere
August 16, 2012Distributor
DramaShow Period
2010 - nowProduction Company
E1 Entertainment, Thump, Inc.Cast and Crew
Paul FoxScreenwriter
Sherry WhiteMain Cast
- Missy Peregrym as Andy McNally
- Ben Bass
- Gregory Smith as Dov Epstein
- Enuka Okuma
- Charlotte Sullivan as Gail Peck
- Travis Milne as Chris Diaz
- Peter Mooney
- Priscilla Faia
- Malanie Nicholls-King
- Matt Gordon
Additional Cast
- Daniel Petronijevic
- Sarain Boylan
15 Division mourns the loss of one of their own while trying to figure out what $30,000 cash is doing their fallen comrade's desk. Detailed report follows:
The officers of 15 are in their full dress uniforms while attending funeral services for Detective Jerry Barber. His gravestone reads: He gave his life in service of others. Traci seems to be keeping it together, even more so than some of her colleagues. Sam, for example, wants to ride alone. Oliver is also flying solo at the Penny. Well, he's kinda solo. He sets up a drink at the stool next to him for Jerry. As for Gail, she's avoiding talking about anything as well as talking to anyone. Eventually, she opens up to Luke about her attack.
Sadie comes bursting into the station. She thinks Jerry let her pimp know that she was trying to get a young girl off the streets. That's not the case all. Traci learns that Jerry's computer has been stolen. Sam recovers it from a local pawn shop. The calendar shows a meeting with Sadie as well as another confidential informant named Dale. This second meeting has something to do with the $30,000 in cash Dov and Chris find in Jerry's desk.
Andy and Nick find Dale beaten unconscious in his apartment. His suppliers tuned him up when he didn't have the money Jerry was supposed to provide. Dale claims the drug dealers who beat him snatched his 16-year-old autistic brother. Sam thinks the guy is lying, but Andy convinces him to check it out.
Dale is wired to meet with his supplier at a pallet factory. They lose the connection almost immediately. Andy goes in undercover as girl looking to buy some pallets. Nothing weird about that, right? She storms into the back room to find Dale being beaten by his suppliers and a whole lot of drugs on a table. Sam backs her up to make the arrests, but Dale takes off. Fortunately, Nick is out back to take him down.
Sam lets everyone know this was Jerry's case. He gets the credit for the bust. Sam is also ticked at Andy, who still thinks Dale's brother is in danger. He's tired of listening to her rookie instincts. Andy thinks that he may actually blame her for what happened to Jerry. Sam says he just needs to stay away from her for awhile. As it turns out, he was right about the brother. Dale was playing them from the start.
Traci doesn't need to be at the precinct, but she can't seem to leave. She uses the knife Jerry gave her to open a locked box for Chris and Dov. She also runs into Sadie, who knows Jerry would be crushed if he knew he put her live in danger. Luke lets her know that Gail seems to be doing fine, but still can't talk about Jerry. Traci pays her a visit to let her know that what happened was not her fault. She also lets Gail know that she could use a friend right now.
Traci and Gail meet up with Oliver and Noelle at the Penny. Chris and Dov show up, too. Earlier, they had vowed to clear out each other's desk if one of them should die in the line of duty. Chris asks Traci if he be able to take over as a sponsor for Jerry's foster child. Moments later, Oliver makes a toast to Jerry just before drinking his scotch. It's an emotional moment, but not as heartbreaking as when Traci reads the vows he wrote for their wedding. Gail takes over when her friend can't go on. There's not a dry eye in the Penny.
Sam exits out the back door of the bar. Andy follows him into the rain. Sam apologizes for taking things out on her. He assures her that he's not mad. Sam also says he can't be a cop and be with her at the same time. He can't do this anymore. Sam gets into his truck leaving Andy standing alone in the rain. Is it really over for these two?

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Target these four late in drafts
February, 29, 2012
Eric Karabell | ESPN Insider
On Tuesday, I wrote a fun -- well, at least for me -- blog entry about players from last season's top 100 who saw their stock really drop during the 2011 season, for various reasons. We called it the bounce-back sleepers for 2012. Needless to say, in the reactive world that is fantasy sports, none of those players are top 100 players, by most draft day accounts, today. I enjoyed writing about that, but as some of you have noted in the aftermath there must be some other players expected to make the jump to fantasy relevance, those that, unlike a certain forgotten Toronto Blue Jays outfielder, weren't in quite as much demand a year ago.


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You walked along the streets to the nursing home. You were planning on very visiting a very special man that you had a warm place in your heart for. Of course, much to surprise, he wasn't your grandfather. It was your (ex)friend's grandfather, whom had abandoned him to drink, party, and all the other illegal things that went with it. You and her used to visit him often, until her downward spiral. Even though you two didn't talk anymore, you still visited her grandfather, since he honestly didn't have anyone else. He was also the person you vented to, about anything and everything.
Opening the door to the home, the front-desk nurse automatically recognized you, waving a friendly greeting.
"Oh hello there, _____! Grandpa Rome's been talking about you!" She smiled, leading you to his room. "He'll be happy to see you."
The nurse quickly ushered you to Grandpa Rome's room, and you walk in to see him sitting in a chair, reading a book and drinking wine..
"Oh, look, it's ____! It's been a while, did you forget about old man Grandpa Rome?" He smiled, pointing to the chair across from him. "Sit and let's talk."
"Alright then." You smiled, happily taking the empty seat beside him.
"I'll leave you two to catch up." The nurse giggled, closing the door behind her.
"So, how's it been, for you ____? Boyfriends? Girlfriends? All the drama that comes with being a young person?" The old man with brown hair spoke, dumping questions on you.
"Yes..and No. Boyfriends and Girlfriends, no. Drama, of course." You sighed with your fingers tapping the arm of the surprisingly comfortable chair you were sitting in.
"Awww, tell Grandpa Rome." He said, leaning forward with genuine interest. You took in a deep breath, knowing you were about to dump everything that was on your mind on the poor old man.
"Well, I went to my cousin's birthday party today."
"Hmm? Parties are fun, aren't they?" Grandpa Rome questioned, leaning back in his chair, still giving you his full attention.
"Not this one. You know, no one bothered to tell me that it was a pool party, so I didn't bring a swimsuit. And I spent some time, and money, picking out a birthday present, which I didn't even get thanked for. And why would my cousin even thank me when it was too much trouble to say hello? That's just the tip of the iceberg." You rambled and vented, thoroughly upset at the days past events.
"Wow, _____, that's incredibly rude of your cousin. You know, in the end, you're still a good person, even if you're not credited for it." Grandpa Rome put on hand on your shoulder. "You know you don't have to put up with that."
"I know, I know, put my Grandparents invited me, so... I thought, why not? I see them twice a year anyways." You huffed, picking up a mint out of the bowl on the coffee table, popping it into your mouth. "The Grandparents are a whole different story.."
"Oh, really? I've never seen you like this before, _____. You've never told me about your cousins or your grandparents. Talk on, please!" He smiled, taking a mint and eating one also.
"Well, it's always been this way, but, I never been treated as well as my cousins. Not like it's that big of a deal, since they're not in my everyday life, but still..we're just incredibly different." You fiddled with hem of your shirt, when the man sitting in front of you spoke.
"How is that? What makes you different from them? You're related, right?"
"Yes, we're related but, you'd never be able to tell. Not by a long shot." Crossing your legs, you continued. "You see, my cousins have more money than me, and are the center of attention. Me, however, I'm like a third wheel, black sheep you could say. I'm not treated the same, nor given the same undivided attention. It's always been this way, just a way of life for me."
"I see. So, you could say it's..picking favorites?" Grandpa Rome frowned, showing disapproval of your family's actions towards you.
"Exactly. They buy my cousins things, and then sneak me money every time they see me, out of guilt you could say. I see them like twice a year, and to be honest, I don't want their money, not any of it. They consider family friends granddaughters, when look, I'm right here! They don't treat me like a granddaughter." You sighed slightly and frowned.
"Hey, cheer up, okay? I know they don't treat you right but there's always a bright side." The old man smiled, being seemingly optimistic.
"Really? What is that?' You asked a bit skeptical, twirling a piece of your in between your fingertips. "I don't see one."
"Oh yes, there is. You don't need your Grandparents." Grandpa Rome took in a breath. "I can be the grandpa you never really had! You can replace the granddaughter than irresponsibility abandoned her old man. Win-win situation, yes?" He smiled, taking a sip of his coffee.
"But, I've always called you Grandpa."
"So...? Everybody calls me Grandpa, but when do you get called a granddaughter?" He questioned. "You know family isn't just who you're blood related too, it's who you deeply care about. I'd like to think we care deeply about each other, correct?"
"Yeah, I guess you're right." You smirked. "Thanks, Grandpa Rome."
"I'm taking that as a yes, isn't that right my dear granddaughter, _______." Grandapa Rome smiled, kissing your forehead.
"Oh, and Grandpa Rome?"
"Yes?" He gave you a curious look.
"Why do people call you Grandpa 'Rome'?"
"Well, that's because I'm really old, just like Ancient Rome!"


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Cameron said beaten England did 'country proud'
British Prime Minister David Cameron said the England football team had made "the country proud" following their exit from Euro 2012 after a quarter-final defeat by Italy in a penalty shoot-out.
"I watched the match and I thought England showed a lot of heart, and a lot of spirit and a lot of dogged determination, as you'd expect," said Cameron.
"There were some brilliant individual performances and a real team effort but sadly, as has happened before, you sort of felt as you were watching that it will probably end on penalties and you knew how penalties may probably end," he added in a reference to England's record of now losing six out of seven shoot-outs since 1990.
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Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Challenging Role In 'The Crowded Room'
But it looks like DiCaprio may now be positioning himself to finally break through with his next challenging role. The Hollywood Reporter has the news that DiCaprio has agreed to play the role of B...
Rihanna And Leonardo DiCaprio Spotted Together?
Leonardo DiCaprio Puts The Moves On Rihanna At The Playboy Mansion


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Why Web widgets will invade your TV
Web widgets bring Internet perks to the biggest screen in most people's homes.
The Internet revolution may finally be televised.
Innocuous little software applications, popularly known as "widgets," may turn out to be the back door to your TV screen that Internet companies have been waiting for.
For more than a decade, businesses have been trying to make the Internet available on the largest screen in most homes. In 1996, Time Warner offered WebTV, which failed to find an audience and folded. Even today, projects like Hewlett Packard's MediaSmart (2006) and Apple TV (2007) have yet to win over large numbers of viewers, hampered by complicated setups or limited programming choices.
Widgets promise to bring the perks of the Internet to TV screens, using a familiar remote control instead of a computer mouse.
All indications are that widgets are going to "move very quickly to a great many of the TVs being sold in the next few years – if not all of them," says Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst at Parks Associates, a market research firm in Dallas that specializes in emerging consumer technologies.
What's changed? Unlike a decade ago, most households now have broadband Internet service, meaning people already have the ability to stream high-quality Internet data, including video, to their computers. In many cases, these broadband connections are provided by the same company that pipes cable television into homes.
At the same time, more and more consumers are becoming familiar with downloading and using "apps," or widgets, on their cellphones or laptops. Apple's iPhone alone offers thousands of apps that add useful or fun functions to that mobile phone.
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The lightweight and versatile NEMO Veda 1P is a trekking pole-pitched (trekking poles not included) tent that is ideal for solo backpackers. The 3-season Veda 1P features one door and one vestibule for gear storage.
With its roomy interior, 2 large doors and good ventilation, the NEMO Galaxi 2P tent is a durable, lightweight 3-season shelter with a great feature set for first-time and budget-minded backpackers. NEMO even throws in a free footprint.
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Use this helpful list to plan your canoe trip to the Boundary Waters or Quetico. (Items in bold type and with an asterisk generally come with our complete outfitting package and are also available for rent individually.)
*Bold items with an asterisk are generally included in our complete outfitting packages.
Seagull Canoe Outfitters Debbie Mark & Staff 12208 Gunflint Trail Grand Marais, Minnesota 55604
For a free brochure or to make a reservation: Phone: 218-388-2216 E-mail: email@example.com


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Grateful Dead
It is better now. The "Check your Order Status" button is back on the home page. It leads to form to fill in your email and your recent orders are sent to you. The Button is not on the "store" page (shop.dead.net or www.deadnetstore.com) as indicated in the FAQ page. I used to be able to click on an account button and log in to see the order status directly. Now it is forwarded via email or I cave to call. The phone rep indicated that this was temporary during the e-commerce vendor change.
In the meantime, I did receive an email indicating that my order has shipped. So, in the scheme of things, all is good. Just a little in the dark.
if you're still having this issue let me know. Shouldn't be happening. Thanks!
I'll see what I can find out.
I ordered some items from the store earlier this week and when I went to check the status, all the account functions were gone on the website. I called and the rep said that they were in the process of upgrading the store (new vendor). I'm not bitch'n, but some sort of mention on the sight would be nice...
Thanks for the search tip. That will speed things up!
"When the smoke has cleared she said, that's what she said to me. You're gonna want a bed to lay your head and a little sympathy"
It'll take you right to it, if you type the vine name correctly it'll come up in the first few hits; usually one of the New Vines forums will come up as well since the vine name appears there also.
*The white zone is for loading and unloading only*
When you receive 4 vines in the mail and you need to post that you received/are mailing them, it is sometimes difficult to find the vine especially when no one has posted for over a week (or longer).
But in reality if that is my biggest problem I have to face - searching for vines, well then I'm doing pretty good!
"When the smoke has cleared she said, that's what she said to me. You're gonna want a bed to lay your head and a little sympathy"
is with Pid, Badger, gratefuldean above-bout vine bog down. Like the separate topic idea, because get aggravated too when other disucssions get buried waaaay down the page count.
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
I agree that vines tend to clog the "all recent posts" and send some threads to the back pages quickly. I'm usually here early AM Eastern time, and I can't count the number of times I've seen a thread go from the top of page one to page three when I check back at lunchtime...with most of the intervening threads comprised of vine-stuff. As I have the patience and time to just go a couple of pages deep looking for things that may be of interest (not that vines aren't interesting...I click on them to see what I'm missing, so very tempting!), I sign off a bit earlier than I might if the vines weren't taking up that space.
So a way of filtering out the vines as a category makes the most sense to me...they would be there if you want them, and not there if you don't.
Don't think you could have better...those who are on the bus and those who are not!
Will you come with me? Once in awhile you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right!


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A picture of a Cyber Gray 2014 Corvette Stingray involved in an accident has turned up on the Corvette Forum, but details of the crash are sketchy. From the pictures, it appears that a Lincoln Town Car t-boned the Corvette Stingray on the passenger side, causing damage to both cars.
C7 Corvette News, Spy Photos, Rumors and More
The C7 Corvette Stingray is the next generation sports car from Chevrolet. Powered by the all new small block LT1 V8 which produces 455 hp and 460 lb-ft of torque or 460 hp and 465 lb-ft torque with the optional performance exhaust. Here is a list of links for everything you need to know about the C7 Corvette:
Introductions – Auto Shows
- The Legend Returns – Introducing the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
- [VIDEO] Watch the Live Reveal of the 2014 C7 Corvette
- [PICS] The 2014 Corvette Stingray Revealed
- [VIDEO] The 2014 Corvette Stingray Press Conference at the NAIAS
- Introducing the 2014 Corvette Stingray Convertible
- This is the 2014 Corvette Stingray Convertible
- [VIDEO] Chevrolet Shows Off Its Performance Cars Lineup at the New York Auto Show
- [VIDEO] The Reveal of the 2014 Corvette Stingray Premiere Edition at the Corvette Museum
Performance – Specs
- [VIDEO] The 2014 Corvette Stingray Seminar from the NCM Bash
- Official: 2014 Corvette Stingray Cranks Out 460 Horsepower!
- 2014 Corvette Stingray Performance Estimates Revealed
- It's Official! 2014 Corvette Stingray Gets an EPA Estimated 29 mpg Highway
- The 2014 Corvette Stingray's 6-Speed Automatic is Rated 16/28 MPG by the EPA
Pricing – Options – Sales
- The 2014 Corvette Stingray Will Start at $51,995
- Chevrolet Prices the Corvette Stingray for Europe at €69,990
- Chevrolet Prices the 2014 Corvette Stingray in Canada at $52,745
- 2014 Corvette Stingray Order Guide Updates
- Chevrolet Details Limited Production Options for Customizing the 2014 Corvette Stingray
- Official 2014 Corvette Stingray Configurator is Now Online
- Kerbeck Now Taking Orders for the 2014 Corvette Stingray
- Questions about Ordering a 2014 Corvette Stingray? Contact National Corvette Seller Mike Furman
- CorvetteBlogger Drives the 2014 Corvette Stingray
- [VIDEO] Autocrossing the 2014 Corvette Stingray
- [VIDEO] Edmunds Drives the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
- [VIDEO] Autoweek Drives the 2014 Corvette Stingray
- [VIDEO] 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray: 48 Hours with the C7 in Detroit
- [VIDEO] Motor Trend Tests the 2014 Corvette Stingray Z51
- [VIDEO] Car and Driver Does First Burnout in the 2014 Corvette Stingray
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- [VIDEO] Watch the 2014 Corvette Stingrays Get Built in Bowling Green
- [VIDEO] 2014 Corvette Stingray and Camaro Z/28 Testing on the Nurburgring
- [PIC] 2014 Corvette Stingray Coupe Crashes in Arizona
- [ACCIDENT] 2014 Corvette Stingray Hit By A Lincoln Town Car
- [PICS] First Retail 2014 Corvette Stingray Convertible Sells at Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach for $1 Million
Below you'll find our latest C7 Corvette Stories listed by date posted.
Autoweek was among the group of publications that recently took part in the 2014 Corvette Stingray drive experience held at the Milford Proving Grounds. Their review of the Stingray was published last week and is very favorable to the Stingray. Now we have the video from Autoweek showing many of the on-track exercises they were able to put the Corvette Stingray through.
Woke up with this on our Corvette Tumblr dashboard yesteday. These are taken from the Motor Trend 2014 Corvette Stingray review released last week. So cool…
Back in January at the North American International Auto Show, the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray was unveiled to much applause.
Well, the applause for the already highly praised seventh-generation Corvette might grow even louder at that show in January 2014.
That's when the winners of the North American Car and Truck of the Year will be announced.
One of the best videos we've seen from the 2014 Corvette Stingray reviews is this one from Edmunds.com:
Follow the Edmunds.com team as we travel to Michigan for 48 hours with the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette. We drive the new C7 on the track at GM's proving grounds, do instrumented track testing including 0-60 and the quarter mile, put it on a lift for a suspension walk-around and explore the wilds of Detroit during a photo shoot. Oh, and the requisite burn out.
Visit CorvetteVideos.TV for the best selection of hand-picked Corvette videos.
Holy Smokes!
That's NASCAR driver and team owner Tony Stewart behind the wheel of a Lime Rock Green 2014 Corvette Stingray. Road and Track magazine's review of the new C7 Corvette features Stewart's driving impressions of the new Corvette at GM's proving grounds in Milford, as well as doing something he knows a lot about – burnouts!
Callaway Competition GmbH, the German-based segment of Callaway Cars, has been chosen to develop the new Corvette C7 into a GT3-class race car and submit it for homologation from the FIA.
Original equipment manufacturers like Chevrolet have to authorize specialists like Callaway to submit the homologation forms needed to allow their version of the car to be the one allowed in FIA competition.
Yesterday we shared the instrumented testing data of the 2014 Corvette Stingray from Edmunds.com and now this morning we can also share Motor Trend's test of the C7.
Motor Trend tested both a Z51 Stingray with a a 7-Speed manual at GM's proving grounds, but they also had the opportunity to test a Z51 Stingray with an automatic transmission on public roads in Central California. So their review contains both performance estimates from their tests as well as the more subjective review from driving the Stingray on public streets.
So Chevy gave the keys to the 2014 Corvette Stingray to the guys at Car and Driver and what's the first thing they did? Yep, burnouts!
They disabled embedding of the video so head to YouTube.com to check it out.
You can also read the full test review and see pics at Car and Driver.


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Community Colleges face major cuts
TYLER - Some are fighting it, but it seems major spending cuts in education are about to become a reality.
Kilgore college President Bill Holda tells KETK, "Community colleges enroll 75% of all the freshman, sophmores in the state."
A new report shows some staggering figures. State funding for educators in community colleges will go down 38.6% and retirements down 48.2%. Funding for the Jet Grant Program, Alternative Teacher Certification, Enrollment Growth and money for new campuses has been completley removed. Additionally adult basic education funding is decreased 60%, nursing graduates funding down 39.6%
In fact the report says the only item that will be increased is the Texas Education Opportunity Grant. All total that leaves the state community colleges with an average of 25.7% in state funding cuts.
"How do we make that up? Well we've already raised tuition and fees 10% there is a reluctance to raise local taxes but that's always a consideration," said Holda.
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text: Obama looks to fund study into link between gun violence, video games and 'media' Gaming 17 January 13 by Kyle Orland Tweet Svadilfari/Flickr/CC BY-ND 2.0 All afternoon, my little corner of the internet has been blowing up with tweets, links, and email messages regarding President Obama's unprovoked and unnecessary attack on video games. The general consensus, judging from headlines and social networking sound bites, is that the president is singling out video games as a scapegoat, taking the side of politicians and lobbyists trying to sidestep the real causes of gun violence. After digging into it a bit, I found the real situation to be a little different.Of all the 3,000 words President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden uttered during their nationally televised address today, only 16 dealt with video games in any way. Here are those words, highlighted in the context of the speech:"And while year after year, those who oppose even modest gun safety measures have threatened to de-fund scientific or medical research into the causes of gun violence, I will direct the Centers for Disease Control to go ahead and study the best ways to reduce it. And Congress should fund research into the effects that violent video games have on young minds. We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science of this epidemic of violence."This section of the speech refers to the fourteenth of 23 proposed executive actions Obama introduced 16 January, regarding an "end [to] the freeze on gun violence research." What freeze, you ask? As this LiveScience article helpfully explains, the federal Centers for Disease Control have been prohibited from funding studies that "advocate or promote gun control" since 1996, when Congress cut the $2.6 million (£1.6 million) the organisation had been using to fund gun injury research through its Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Further moves since then have prevented the CDC from even receiving federal crime data for gun research, and prohibited the National Institute of Health from doing gun violence research as well.These NRA-backed moves and others have had a chilling effect on the CDC, stopping them from conducting any studies on the causes of gun violence, whether related to "gun control" or not. That might include some studies on media effects, but more directly covers basic epidemiological research trying to statistically link gun ownership to things like local crime rates or other social factors. The Center for Injury Prevention and Control was responsible for Arthur Kellerman's somewhat famous study that found people with guns in the house were much more likely to be murder victims, which helped draw the NRA's lobbying ire.It's important to remember this historical context -- which has very little to do with games -- when considering the next part of the president's remarks explicitly naming them. The White House's Gun Violence Fact Sheet goes into a little more detail on this portion, saying the president wants the CDC to "conduct research on the causes and prevention of gun violence, including links between video games, media images, and violence." The president is requesting $10 million (£6.2 million) from Congress for this research.Note that, while video games are the only medium to get a specific mention here, "media images" are included in the request as well. That broad phrase could include everything from films and TV shows to magazines and books. So video games aren't being explicitly singled out from other media, as they have been in some other public remarks and legislative efforts.Secondly, it's important to note that the $10 million being requested isn't solely for media violence research but is intended to cover all of "the causes and prevention of gun violence." Further in the fact sheet, the CDC is directed to "start immediately by assessing existing strategies for preventing gun violence and identifying the most pressing research questions, with the greatest potential public health impact" (emphasis added).Despite video games' prominent mention elsewhere in the president's language, the CDC isn't likely to consider video games the most pressing cause of gun violence. That's because that effect is already well-studied and has been shown time and time again not to be a significant cause of real-world violence. Not everyone is convinced, for sure, but the scientific consensus is relatively settled. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia probably summed it up best in his 2011 ruling granting games full First Amendment protection:"Psychological studies purporting to show a connection between exposure to violent video games and harmful effects on children do not prove that such exposure causes minors to act aggressively. Any demonstrated effects are both small and indistinguishable from effects produced by other media."So if this issue is really so settled, both legally and scientifically, why is the president specifically asking that part of this requested money go toward looking at violent video games and other "media effects" on violence? In a word: politics. Like it or not, video games have become a hot button issue in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting. That's partly because the NRA has used the medium as a convenient distraction from the issue of gun control, but they're not the only ones. Senator Jay Rockefeller, a member of the president's own party, sponsored a bill last month directing the National Academy of Sciences to study violent video games' effects on children (the bill stalled before making much noise). Bowing to political pressure from both sides, Biden met with representatives from the game industry last week in formulating his gun control recommendations to the president.Making a brief mention of video game studies as a part of a $10 million funding request is a good way to pay lip service to these political concerns on both the left and the right without really making it a priority. If studying video game and media violence were actually a major focus of the president's gun control agenda, it would have a much more prominent place in both his remarks and his official funding requests. Instead, the real money the president is asking from Congress will go to more important things: $20 million (£12.5 million) for the National Violent Death Reporting System, $14 million (£8.7 million) for police and security training, $150 million (£93.8 million) for in-school mental health counselors, $30 million (£18.7 million) to develop school emergency management plans, and so on.And lest you think the president is only focused on the negative aspects of games, consider that the White House recently hired a senior policy analyst in the Office of Science and Technology Policy to specifically study video games' beneficial role.Sure, it's a bit galling that video games continue to be a political football that seems to be inextricably linked to violent rampages in our national discourse. And the thought of wasting any tax dollars on what is a thoroughly settled scientific question shows just how broken the political process can be. But let's keep things in perspective. Video game violence is an extremely small part of an extremely wide-ranging proposal by the White House to deal with gun violence on multiple fronts.Source: ars technicaImage: Svadilfari/Flickr/CC Edited by David Cornish Comments Imagine now our countryNo more violent moviesOr games or books or gunsOr Amendments Two and One JohnWV Jan 17th 2013 Soldiers visited households on the mandatory French gun registration list in WW2 Occupied France. Cruel examples were made of those who would not, or could not, not surrender their guns. In post Katrina New Orleans, authorities visited households on the mandatory gun registration list and (illegally and unconstitutionally) confiscated all guns. Police and soldiers were too few to control overt and rampant gang criminality. Families were rendered vulnerable and defenseless. JohnWV Jan 17th 2013 Mass shootings aren't common place in other countries around the world where violent movies and video games are enjoyed by many. The only difference between other countries and America is that buying a gun isn't easier than buying Alcohol if you don't have gray hair. Dan Jan 17th 2013 I don't have an opinion about video games being responsible of violence and violent behaviors. Personally I believe that video games have little to do with that. But I would say, let's have a serious investigation. Then we'll know more. Carlo Rizzante Jan 17th 2013 Honestly its not the violent video games that cause violence its the people who play them. You wanna blame some one or something blame the PARENTS. I cant tell you how many parents go out and buy games like call of duty or grand theft auto for kids not even in high school yet. I play violent games all the time but i dont go around all crazy thats because i was well raised and im not stupid and know the difference between right and wrong, reality and fiction. Christian Ortiz Jan 18th 2013 What I don't understand is the motivation for mass shootings. Why do people feel the need to take out their grievances through the medium of mass killing? I'm not sure that video games have any place in this argument, the majority of people who play shooters don't do it for the violence, but for the satisfaction of beating the challenges set by the game.I do believe that parents should be made more aware that violent games are unsuitable for children. Many assume that because it's a game it is therefore suitable to be played by a child, which is simply not the case.I'm also at a loss to understand how assault rifles with high capacity magazines seem to be so commonly desired and easily available, however I don't want to get bogged down in a discussion about gun ownership. Suffice to say that everyone has different interests and I'll leave it at that.There seems to be a lot of people who have some kind of mental instability that goes undiagnosed and untreated. Combine this with easy access to guns and you have a volatile mixture. 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New Liverpool signing Christian Poulsen believes he has a lot to live up to after finally sealing his switch from Serie A outfit Juventus.
The Denmark international has penned a three-year deal at Anfield and he links up with manager Roy Hodgson again after their spell together with FC Copenhagen in the Danish Superliga.
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The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women. The ERA was originally written by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman. In 1923, it was introduced in the Congress for the first time. In 1972, it passed both houses of Congress and went to the state legislatures for ratification.
The resolution in Congress that proposed the amendment set a ratification deadline of March 22, 1979. Through 1977, the amendment received 35 of the necessary 38 state ratifications. Five states later rescinded their ratifications before the 1979 deadline, though the validity of these rescissions is disputed. In 1978, a joint resolution of Congress extended the ratification deadline to June 30, 1982, but no further states ratified the amendment before the passing of the second deadline. Several feminist organizations, disputing the validity and/or the permanence of the ratification deadline, and also disputing the validity of the five rescissions, continue to work at the federal and state levels for the adoption of the ERA.
Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.[1][2]
Following the 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women throughout the United States the unabridged right to vote, Alice Paul, a suffragist leader, argued that this right alone would not end discrimination based upon sex. Paul drafted the Equal Rights Amendment and, in 1923, presented it as the "Lucretia Mott Amendment" at the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments.[3]
Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Upon its introduction, the Equal Rights Amendment stirred up debate about the direction of the ideology and tactics of the women's movement. The National Woman's Party supported the amendment, arguing that women should be on equal terms with men in all regards, even if that means sacrificing certain benefits given to women through protective legislation, such as shorter work hours. However, opponents of the amendment believed that these gender-based benefits protected women as they entered new spheres, such as the work industry, and that the loss of such protection would not be worth the supposed gain in equality. In 1924, The Forum hosted a debate between Doris Stevens and Alice Hamilton concerning these two perspectives on the proposed amendment.[4] Their debate reflected the wider tension in the developing feminist movement of the early 20th century between two approaches towards the equality of gender. One approach emphasized shared similarities between the sexes and demanded rights based on women's humanity. The other approach emphasized women's unique experiences and how they were different from men to obtain recognition for their specific needs.[5]
The National Woman's Party already had tested its approach in Wisconsin, where it won the first state ERA in 1921.[6][7] It then took the proposed federal ERA to Congress in the 1920s, where Senator Charles Curtis, a future Vice President, and Representative Daniel R. Anthony, Jr.—Susan B. Anthony's nephew, both Kansas Republicans, introduced it for the first time as Senate Joint Resolution No. 21 on December 10, 1923, and as House Joint Resolution No. 75 on December 13, 1923, respectively. Though the ERA was introduced in every Congressional session between 1923 and 1970, it almost never reached the floor of either the Senate or the House for a vote—instead, it was usually "bottled up" in committee. Exceptions occurred in 1946, when it was defeated in the Senate by a vote of 38 to 35 and, in 1950 and 1953, when it was passed by the Senate with the Hayden Rider, making it unacceptable to ERA supporters.[8][9] The Hayden Rider said:
The provisions of this article shall not be construed to impair any rights, benefits, or exemptions now or hereafter conferred by law upon persons of the female sex.
In 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower asked a joint session of Congress to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, the first President to show such a level of support for the amendment. However, whenever the ERA was proposed the Hayden Rider was added; this would make the amendment unacceptable to the National Woman's Party, who would then ask that the ERA be withdrawn.
The Republican Party included support of the ERA in its platform beginning in 1940, renewing the plank every four years until 1980.[10] The ERA was strongly opposed by the American Federation of Labor and other labor unions, who feared the amendment would invalidate protective labor legislation for women. The Equal Rights Amendment was also opposed by Eleanor Roosevelt and most New Dealers. They felt that ERA was designed for middle class women but that working class women needed government protection. They feared that ERA would undercut the male-dominated labor unions that were a core component of the New Deal coalition. Most northern Democrats, who aligned themselves with the anti-ERA labor unions, opposed the amendment.[10] The ERA was supported by southern Democrats and almost all Republicans.[10]
In 1944, the Democrats made the divisive step of including the ERA in their platform, but the Democratic Party did not become united in favor of the amendment until Congressional passage in 1972.[10] The main support base for the ERA until the late 1960s was among middle class Republican women. The League of Women Voters, formerly the National American Woman Suffrage Association, opposed the Equal Rights Amendment until 1972, fearing the loss of protective labor legislation. Despite this, the amendment kept in line with the views of women's rights advocated by early feminists like Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony.
In 1961, feminists encouraged the newly elected President John F. Kennedy to support the ERA. Though Kennedy was elected on a pro-ERA platform and took a position favoring the amendment in a letter to Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller, the chairman of the National Woman's Party, he did not speak out in favor of the amendment due to his ties to labor.[11] Esther Peterson, a feminist and the highest-ranking woman in the Kennedy administration, publicly opposed the Equal Rights Amendment which she thought might weaken protective labor legislation.[12] Peterson referred to the National Woman's Party members, most of them veteran suffragists and preferred the "specific bills for specific ills" approach to equal rights.[13]
As a concession to pro-ERA feminists, Kennedy appointed a blue-ribbon commission on women, the President's Commission on the Status of Women, to investigate the problem of sex discrimination in the United States. The Commission was chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt who dropped her opposition to the ERA in the 1950s to support the United Nations Charter and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights which had similar language. In the early 1960s, Roosevelt announced that, due to unionization, she believed the ERA was no longer a threat to women as it once may have been and told supporters that they could have the amendment if they wanted it. The Commission helped win passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 which banned sex discrimination in pay in a number of professions (it would later be amended in the early 1970s, at the demand of feminists, to include the professions it initially excluded) and secured an Executive Order from Kennedy eliminating sex discrimination in the civil service. The commission, made largely of anti-ERA feminists with ties to labor, proposed remedies to the widespread sex discrimination it unearthed and in its 1963 final report held that on the issue of equality "a constitutional amendment need not now be sought".[14]
The commission established state and local commissions on the status of women and arranged for follow-up conferences in the years to come. The following year, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned workplace discrimination not only on the basis of race, religion, and national origin, but also on the basis of sex, thanks to the lobbying of Alice Paul and Coretta Scott King and the skillful politicking of Representative Martha W. Griffiths of Michigan.
A new women's movement gained ground in the later 1960s as a result of a variety of factors: Betty Friedan's bestseller The Feminine Mystique; the network of women's rights commissions formed by Kennedy's national commission; the frustration over women's social and economic status; and anger over the lack of government and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission enforcement of the Equal Pay Act and Title VII the Civil Rights Act. In June 1966, at the Third National Conference on the Status of Women in Washington, D.C., Betty Friedan and a group of activists frustrated with the lack of government action in enforcing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act formed the National Organization for Women to act as an "NAACP for women", demanding full equality for American women. In 1967, at the urging of Alice Paul, NOW endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment. The decision caused some union Democrats and social conservatives to leave the organization and form the Women's Equity Action League (within a few years WEAL also endorsed the ERA), but the move to support the amendment benefited NOW, bolstering its membership. By the late 1960s NOW had made significant political and legislative victories and was gaining enough power to become a major lobbying force. In 1969, newly elected Representative Shirley Chisholm of New York gave her famous speech "Equal Rights for Women" on the floor of Congress.
In February 1970, NOW picketed the United States Senate, a subcommittee of which was holding hearings on a Constitutional amendment to lower the voting age to eighteen. Feminists disrupted the hearings demanding a hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment and won a meeting with Senators to discuss the ERA. That August, an estimated 20,000 American women held a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality to demand full social, economic, and political equality.[15] Said Friedan of the strike, "All kinds of women's groups all over the country will be using this week on August 26 particularly, to point out those areas in women's life which are still not addressed. For example, a question of equality before the law; we are interested in the Equal Rights Amendment." Despite being centered in New York City—which was regarded as one of the biggest strongholds for NOW and other groups sympathetic to the women's liberation movement such as Redstockings[16]—and having a number of participants which were small in contrast to the large-scale anti-war and civil rights protests that had occurred in the recent time prior to the event,[15] the strike was credited as one of the biggest turning points in the rise of second-wave feminism.[16]
In Washington, D.C., protesters presented a sympathetic Senate leadership with a petition for the Equal Rights Amendment at the U.S. Capitol. Influential news sources such as Time also supported the cause of the protestors.[15] Soon after the strike took place, influential feminist literature spread across the country as well.[16] In 1970, Congressional hearings began on the ERA.
Representative Martha Griffiths of Michigan achieved success on Capitol Hill with her House Joint Resolution No. 208, which was adopted by the House on October 12, 1971, with a vote of 354 yeas, 24 nays and 51 not voting.[17] Griffiths's joint resolution was then adopted by the Senate on March 22, 1972, with a vote of 84 yeas, 8 nays and 7 not voting.[18] The Senate version, drafted by Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana,[19] passed after an amendment proposed by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina that would exempt women from the draft was defeated.[10] President Richard Nixon immediately endorsed the ERA's approval upon its adoption by the 92nd Congress.[10]
The initial pace of state legislative ratifications was rapid; 30 states had done so by the end of 1973. The rate of ratification then slowed considerably. Only 5 more states ratified the ERA over the course of the ensuing 4 years, with none coming after 1977. There were no ratifications after 1977, which left the amendment 3 states shy of the number needed in order for it to be certified as an operative part of the Constitution as the March 22, 1979 ratification deadline approached. As of that original deadline the ERA had been ratified by the following states:[20]
Legislators in the following states voted to rescind their earlier ratification of the ERA:[21]
The Constitution is silent regarding whether the governor of a state has any authority regarding whether that state ratifies an amendment to the Constitution. The Constitution is likewise silent regarding a state's authority to rescind its ratification of a proposed, but not yet adopted, constitutional amendment.[23]
At various times, in 9 of the 15 non-ratifying states, at least 1 chamber of the legislature approved the ERA, those 9 states being:
Over the past twenty years, ratification resolutions have also been introduced, but failed to win full approval in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, and Oklahoma.[24][25]
In 1978—as the 1979 deadline approached—the 95th Congress adopted House Joint Resolution No. 638 (H. J. Res. 638), by Representative Elizabeth Holtzman of New York, which purported to extend the ERA's ratification deadline to June 30, 1982.[26] H. J. Res. 638 received less than two-thirds of the vote (a simple majority, not a supermajority) in both the House of Representatives and the Senate; for that reason, ERA supporters deemed it necessary that H. J. Res. 638 be transmitted to then President Jimmy Carter for signature as a safety precaution. Carter signed the joint resolution, though he questioned—on procedural grounds—the propriety of his doing so.[27] During this disputed extension, no additional states ratified or rescinded.
No additional states ratified the ERA during that extra period of slightly more than three years. On June 18, 1980, a resolution in the Illinois House of Representatives resulted in a vote of 102-71 in favor, but Illinois required a three-fifths majority on constitutional amendments and so the measure failed by five votes. In 1982, seven female ERA supporters went on a hunger strike and seventeen chained themselves to the door of the Illinois senate chamber; none of this resulted in any state ratifications.[28] The closest the ERA came to gaining an additional ratification between the original deadline of March 22, 1979 and the revised June 30, 1982, expiration date was when it was approved by the Florida House of Representatives on June 21, 1982. In the final week before the deadline, that ratifying resolution was defeated in the Florida Senate by a vote of 16 yeas and 22 nays. Even if Florida had ratified the ERA, the proposed amendment would still have been two states short of the required 38 (seven states short if the rescissions were valid).
According to research by Professor Jules B. Gerard, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, of the 35 legislatures that passed ratification resolutions, 24 explicitly referred to the 1979 deadline.[29]
On December 23, 1981, in Idaho v. Freeman, the United States District Court for the District of Idaho ruled that the rescissions—all of which occurred before the original 1979 ratification deadline—were valid and that the ERA's deadline extension was unconstitutional.[30] The National Organization for Women appealed both rulings. The Administrator of General Services noted that the ERA had not received the required number of ratifications (38), so that "the Amendment has failed of adoption no matter what the resolution of the legal issues presented here."[31] On October 4, 1982, in NOW v. Idaho, 459 U.S. 809 (1982), the U.S. Supreme Court declared the entire matter moot on the grounds that the ERA was dead for the reason given by the Administrator of General Services.[32]
Political momentum changed during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. Playing on the anti-war fervor that resulted from the Vietnam War, opponents of the ERA sought to ensure its defeat by pointing out that the amendment would eliminate the men-only draft requirement and guarantee the possibility that women would be subject to conscription and be required to have military combat roles in future wars if it were passed.[34] Defending traditional gender roles, Stop ERA advocates baked apple pies for the Illinois state legislature while they debated the amendment and hung "don't draft me" signs on infant girls.[34] They also pointed out that the amendment would repeal protective laws like sexual assault and alimony and eliminate the tendency for mothers to obtain custody over their children in divorce cases.[34] It was suggested that single-sex bathrooms would be eliminated if the amendment were passed as well.[34] The strategy proved to be a success.[34]
At the 1980 Republican National Convention, the Republican Party platform was amended to end its support for the ERA.[35] The most prominent opponent of the ERA was Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative Republican lawyer.[10] Leading the Stop ERA campaign, Schlafly defended traditional gender roles and would often heckle feminists by opening her speeches with lines like, "I'd like to thank my husband for letting me be here tonight."[34] When Schlafly began her campaign in 1972, public polls showed support for the amendment was widely popular and thirty states had ratified the amendment by 1973.[34] After 1973, the number of ratifying states slowed to a trickle.[34] Critchlow and Stachecki argue that public opinion in key states shifted against the ERA as opponents, operating on the local and state levels, won over the public. The state legislators in battleground states followed public opinion in rejecting the ERA.
Many ERA supporters blamed their defeat on special interest forces, especially the insurance industry and conservative organizations, suggesting they funded an opposition that subverted the democratic process and the will of the pro-ERA majority.[36] They argued that while the public face of the anti-ERA movement was Phyllis Schlafly and her STOP ERA organization, there were other important groups in the opposition as well, such as the powerful National Council of Catholic Women and (until 1973) the AFL–CIO. Opposition to the amendment was particularly high among religious conservatives, who argued that the amendment would guarantee universal abortion rights and the right for homosexual couples to marry.[37] Critchlow and Stachecki say the anti-ERA movement was based on strong support among Southern whites, Evangelical Christians, Mormons, Orthodox Jews, and Roman Catholics, including both men and women.[38]
A black critic of the ERA was the Texas State Representative Clay Smothers of Dallas, who criticized the national convention held in Houston in 1977 to promote feminist causes. "I have had enough civil rights to choke a hungry goat. I ask for victory over the perverts in this country. I want the right to segregate my family from these misfits and perverts," Smothers told a social conservative rally held at the Astrodome in opposition to the feminist convention.[39]
Beginning in the mid 1990s, proponents of the ERA launched a three-state strategy to win ratification of the ERA by the legislatures of states that did not ratify it in 1972–1982. This campaign was developed through the efforts of the ERA Summit, a volunteer coalition organized in Washington, DC in 1991, and based upon the assertion that
Congress has the power to adjust or repeal the previous time limit on the ERA, determine whether state ratifications subsequent to 1982 are valid, and accept the ERA as part of the Constitution after three more states ratify. The 35 existing ratifications should stand because precedent regarding state rescissions shows that such actions have not been accepted as valid.[40]
The three-state strategy was publicly unveiled at a press conference held in Washington, D.C., in December 1993.[41] Early the following year, Representative Robert E. Andrews, Democrat from New Jersey, introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives to require that "when the legislatures of an additional three states ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, the House of Representatives shall take any legislative action necessary to verify the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment as a part of the Constitution."[42] No action was taken on the resolution. Since then, proponents of the three-state strategy have promoted ratification resolutions in the legislatures of most of the 15 states that never ratified the ERA approved by Congress in 1972. Ratification resolutions have been introduced in several state legislatures, but none have given it their full approval.
In 1996, the Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service issued a report that said, "There is no precedent for Congress promulgating an amendment based on state ratifications adopted after a ratification deadline has expired. However, proponents of this course cite as possible precedent the ratification activity of the states regarding the 27th Amendment... proponents of the ERA might wish to adopt a strategy of urging its ratification by state legislatures because their actions might prompt this or a future Congress to proclaim the amendment had been ratified." CRS stressed that it "takes no position on any of the issues."[43]
Opponents of the three-state strategy point out that the 1789 resolution proposing what is now the Twenty-seventh Amendment did not contain a deadline for ratification. This amendment was ratified in 1992, more than 202 years after Congress submitted it to the states for ratification.[44]
On June 21, 2009, the National Organization for Women resolved to support both the three-state strategy and any strategy to submit a new ERA to the states for ratification.[45]
On July 7, 2009, at a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol to announce the reintroduction of the ERA in Congress, activists supporting the three-state strategy distributed a flyer opposing reintroduction, saying "this is not the time to start over and ignore the work ERA advocates have already done."[46]
The amendment has been reintroduced in every session of Congress since 1982. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) championed it in the Senate during the 99th Congress through the 110th Congress. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) introduced the amendment symbolically at the end of the 111th Congress and has supported it in the 112th Congress. In the House of Representatives, Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) has sponsored it since the 105th Congress,[47] most recently in May 2011.[48]
In 1983, the ERA passed through House committees with the same text as in 1972; however, it failed by six votes to achieve the necessary two-thirds vote on the House floor. That was the last time that the ERA received a floor vote in the Congress.[49]
At the start of the 112th Congress on January 6, 2011, Senator Menendez, along with Representatives Maloney, Jerrold Nadler and Gwen Moore, held a press conference advocating for the Equal Rights Amendment's adoption.[50]
On March 8, 2011, the 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day, Representative Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced legislation (H.J.Res. 47) to remove the Congressionally imposed deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.[51] Bill co-sponsors include Representatives Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Jackie Speier (D-CA), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), Chellie Pingree (D-ME) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL).[52] On March 22, 2012, the 40th anniversary of ERA's congressional approval, Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) introduced (S.J. Res. 39)--which is worded with slight differences from Representative Baldwin's (H.J. Res. 47). Senator Cardin was joined by ten other Senators who added their names to the Senate Joint Resolution.[citation needed]
On February 24, 2013, the New Mexico House of Representatives adopted House Memorial 7 asking, also, that the Congressionally imposed deadline for ERA ratification be removed.[53][54] House Memorial 7 was officially received by the U.S. House of Representatives on April 25, 2013, and was referred to the House's Committee on the Judiciary, as noted in the Congressional Record.[citation needed]
The 113th Congress has a record number of women. On March 5, 2013, the ERA was reintroduced as S. J. RES. 10[55] by Senator Bob Menendez.[56]
Many states have adopted constitutions or constitutional amendments providing that equal rights under the law shall not be denied because of sex. Most of these provisions mirror the broad language of the ERA. The wording in others resembles the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The 1879 Constitution of California contains the earliest state equal rights provision on record. Narrowly written, it limits the equal rights conferred to "entering or pursuing a business, profession, vocation, or employment." Near the end of the 19th century two more states, Wyoming (1890) and Utah (1896), included equal rights provisions in their constitutions. These provisions were broadly written to insure political and civil equality to women.[57] Several states crafted and adopted their own equal rights amendments during the 1970s and 1980s, while the ERA was before the states; an outgrowth of the effort to win its ratification. Many more have done so since; an outgrowth of the continued drive for greater personal and political equality in American society.
Examples of state Equal Rights Amendments:[57]
Alaska – No person is to be denied the enjoyment of any civil or political right because of race, color, creed, sex or national origin. The legislature shall implement this section. Alaska Constitution, Article I, §3 (1972)
California – A person may not be disqualified from entering or pursuing a business, profession, vocation, or employment because of sex, race, creed, color, or national or ethnic origin. California Constitution, Article I, §8 (1879)
Colorado – Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the state of Colorado or any of its political subdivisions because of sex. Colorado Constitution, Article II, §29 (1973)
Illinois - The equal protection of the laws shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex by the State or its units of local government and school districts. Illinois Constitution, Article I, §18 (1970)
Iowa – All men and women are, by nature, free and equal and have certain inalienable rights—among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness. Iowa Constitution, Article I, §1 (1998)
Maryland – Equality of rights under the law shall not be abridged or denied because of sex. Maryland Constitution, Declaration of Rights, Article 46 (1972)
Montana – Individual dignity. The dignity of the human being is inviolable. No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws. Neither the state nor any person, firm, corporation, or institution shall discriminate against any person in the exercise of his civil or political rights on account of race, color, sex, culture, social origin or condition, or political or religious ideas. Montana Constitution, Article II, §4 (1973)
Utah – The rights of citizens of the State of Utah to vote and hold office shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex. Both male and female citizens of this State shall enjoy all civil, political and religious rights and privileges. Utah Constitution, Article IV, §1 (1896)
Wyoming – In their inherent right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, all members of the human race are equal. Since equality in the enjoyment of natural and civil rights is only made sure through political equality, the laws of this state affecting the political rights and privileges of its citizens shall be without distinction of race, color, sex, or any circumstance or condition whatsoever other than the individual incompetency or unworthiness duly ascertained by a court of competent jurisdiction. The rights of citizens of the state of Wyoming to vote and hold office shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex. Both male and female citizens of this state shall equally enjoy all civil, political and religious rights and privileges. Wyoming Constitution, Articles I and VI (1890)


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The Oregon Department of Transportation recently began limiting the number of temporary passes/trip permits a motor carrier can purchase in a 12-month period – a move that one association representative calls "a money grab" that will affect small-business motor carriers located outside the state.
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