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Thomas Edsall has a fascinating column in today's New York Times on the persistence of racial resentment in the Obama-era. For those not familiar with the term, "racial resentment" is defined as the convergence of anti-black sentiments with traditional American views on hard work and individualism.
It's measured using questions that focus on race and effort. People who answer in the affirmative to questions like this—"Irish, Italian, Jewish and many other minorities overcame prejudice and worked their way up. Blacks should do the same without any special favors"—and in the negative to questions like this—"Generations of slavery and discrimination have created conditions that make it difficult for blacks to work their way out of the lower class"—are assigned a high place on the resentment scale.
Edsall runs though recent research from a variety of sources to show the extent to which President Obama's term has coincided with a sharp increase in the proportion of Americans who express anti-black attitudes. In one survey, for example, "The percentage of voters with explicit anti-black attitudes rose from 47.6 in 2008 and 47.3 percent in 2010 to 50.9 percent in 2012." This wasn't a uniform change—not only were Republicans more likely to express anti-black attitudes, but people who identified themselves as Republicans in 2012 expressed such attitudes more often than their counterparts of 2008:
In 2008, Pasek and his collaborators note, the proportion of people expressing anti-Black attitudes was 31 percent among Democrats, 49 percent among independents, and 71 percent among Republicans. By 2012, the numbers had gone up. "The proportion of people expressing anti-Black attitudes," they write, "was 32 percent among Democrats, 48 percent among independents, and 79 percent among Republicans."
Edsall sees this as a crucial through-line in the ongoing story of GOP extremism. Growing racial resentment has deepened the conservatism of right-wing Republicans, and contributed to their total rejection of President Obama and the Democratic Party in 2010 and 2012.
It's worth noting the real disputes over the racial resentment scale. Over the years, a growing group of political scientists have questioned the actual influence of ideology on anti-black attitudes. Racial resentment is seen as a form of "new prejudice": It's not racism as much as it is an outgrowth of traditional ideas about individualism, hard work, and equality of treatment. "Everyone can succeed if they try, and those who don't succeed, just aren't trying—there's no use in crying 'racism,' it's an excuse." In this narrative, opposition to race-conscious policies has less to do with outright animus, and more with a belief in equal opportunity and a desire to treat people fairly.
But the divide between racism and ideology isn't so neat—as has been true throughout American history, beliefs about race are hard to separate from political ideology. To wit, a recent study from Oberlin political scientist Christopher DeSante found that when you put blacks and whites in direct competition for scarce resources, "racial prejudice interacts with American norms of hard work to amplify white racial privilege."
In DeSante's experiment, participants are asked to allocate $1,500 in welfare benefits to two applicants. All applicants are women and divided into two categories, "poor or excellent" work ethic. Two of the applicants had stereotypically "white" names—"Laurie and Emily"—and two have comparable black names, "Latoya and Keisha." Participants could also distribute benefits to a deficit-reduction fund. The hypothesis is straightforward: If racial resentment is more principle than prejudice, then high scorers will give more money to deficit reduction, with the fewest benefits going to applicants with poor work ethic, regardless of race.
Overall, those with the most racial resentment were the least likely to spend benefits on welfare. But this varied with the race of the applicants. When faced with two black applicants, the racially resentful gave far less than when faced with two white ones. "As whites become more racially resentful," writes DeSante, "they are less willing to spend money on welfare, but are always willing to spend more on applicants with white names."
Put another way, the "neutral" American principles of hard work, individualism, and equal treatment tend to benefit whites in fights over how to distribute government aid. But it's not that whites are seen as more deserving of aid as much as it is that race colors perceptions of hard work and laziness—"whites gain more for the same level of effort and blacks are punished more severely for the same level of 'laziness.'" When all things were equal, DeSante found, white applicants were worth $100 more than their black counterparts, and blacks with "poor" work ethic lost four times as much than whites with a similar rating.
It should be said that it's unfair to tar all conservatives—or even most—as somehow driven by racial animus. As I've stated before, race shapes right-wing opposition to Obama, but doesn't define it. Still, these results signal that outright racism might have more to do with opposition to Obama than we think. This shouldn't come as a huge surprise.
White supremacy was the explicit governing ideology of this country for most of its history. It guided our ideas about democracy, and it informed our views on the role of government. So much of American public policy was designed to improve economic mobility for whites, and limit it for blacks. They were kept out of decent schools, decent jobs, and decent housing. The goal of segregation, as Ta-Nehisi Coates put it in a recent post, was to render blacks a permanent underclass. It was a success.
Are Republicans racist? No. Does racism play a big part in opposition to Obama and welfare state? Absolutely. To think otherwise, given our history, is a little insane.
Fri, 2013-02-08 09:09
The rise of explicit racism in the last 4 years has been striking and unexpected. It seemed at least that the last decades of 20th century had put a system of social taboos in place. Nope.
But equally striking, and even more unexpected, has been the fading of minority concerns from the public discourse. Even as the wealth of the black population collapsed, even as it experienced full-on depression while everybody else was wading through varying degrees of recession, even as the gains of the last 1/2 century were erased with little hope of recovery, they largely slipped from view, and in particular the gravity of their situation was rarely discussed. A most odd consequence of the election of Obama, apparently.
Sat, 2013-02-09 00:45
Why would you say it is unexpected when Obama has purposefully tried to divide the country. He has knowingly pitted one race against the other. He has been rather effective in creating class warfare. He has even pitted the sexes, and various religions and or non-religions against each other.
Fri, 2013-02-08 11:22
I have to admit, it's odd to read this article and NOT see what is glaringly obvious: That 79% of Republicans expect citizens to act according to their own self-interest regardless of race, and not in spite of it. Added to that, we see that an increased number of Democrats and Independents actually grew to believe over the same period of time (by the example they perceived, I expect) that black Americans actually DO require separate rules and treatment in order to cling to the bottom rung of societies ladder. This article appears to say that Republicans believe in fairness and equality, while Democrats disproportionately believe that government needs to hold their thumb on the scale in order for black Americans to have an equal playing field.
Fri, 2013-02-08 18:14
Im sorry thats nonsense modern republicans are essentially libertarian light ...they at best dont think intervention is necessary or think employers should be able to do as they please and that somehow a person will be able to overcome arbitrary obstacles that have been placed in their path...and you are overlooking the fact that these obstacles do exist and that they are wrong in addition to being well wrong
Fri, 2013-02-08 12:06
Most of this Anti-Black movement has always been in America, and since President Obama became president its gotten even worse. Notice in the article the races you named that can make it here in America are white (just from differant countries). People of color is what white people are afraid of because of this fear that they are trying to take this country from them, and their population is getting smaller while the people of color are getting larger, why all the while whites worldwide are out numbered. And by making a black president of America does not change the minds of people who have always had racial hatred of people of color. And by saying racism is now an excuse blacks use to justified your own fears is something you must face within yourselves, and the real fear is losing CONTROL.
Fri, 2013-02-08 13:47
The racist red necks are popping up all over.
This is showing the racism that has been "just below the surface".
Now that the blacks and Hispanics are becoming the majority in many states, the racist are loosing it. (California, the whites will officially become a minority "less than 50%" in mid 2013, Texas will be the same late 2013 or early 2014. Many of the "southern states" will not be far behind.
The whites in the south cannot take it, and are again becoming openly racist.
Fri, 2013-02-08 18:56
One could argue that the welfare state in itself is racist. In terms of the African-American community, it has done more to slow black progress than the white sheets ever could imagine. It has had a major hand in the destruction of the two parent household, particularly in blue state inner cities. Greater than 70% of lack kids are born to single mothers and an alarming rise in welfare dependency shouldnt just be something that conservatives find shocking.
The greatest tragedy of the welfare state is that for those who are seduced into long term dependence on government assistance, all sense of self-determination is destroyed. And the gift of self-determination is the greatest blessing of liberty.
Progressive Democrats control each and every majority black district in this nation. This includes the local government and in particular the public schools. Before you go pointing your fingers at the "racism" among conservatives, maybe progressives should ask themselves if turning a blind eye to the negative consequences of our welfare state and continue to push the status quo might in fact be a greater evil than intolerance.
Sat, 2013-02-09 00:31
Tue, 2013-02-12 10:23
During the heyday of the Tea Party, it was interesting to see how active supporters responded to opinion polls.
Despite the image of them as libertarians, their responses to social questions were generally the same as those of conservative evangelicals, although they were slightly more tolerant towards gays and drugs.
Where there was a marked difference was in attitudes towards the poor and towards African-Americans. They were far more hostile than the conservative evangelicals.
Tue, 2013-02-12 10:47
--- "this mantra that if you don't like Obama or agree with his policies you are a racist,"---
How would one account for the finding that, shortly before the last election, only 27% of self-described Republicans felt confident that Obama was born in the United States?
One may disagree with Obama for all sorts of reasons, but believing that he is not, or may not be, a legitimate native-born President surely has something to do with racism. The evidence that he was born in Hawai'i is overwhelming. There is no shortage of state legislators who encourage this opinion.
One might couple this with the constant drumbeat of accusations that he supports the Muslim Brotherhood, or that he himself is actually a Muslim.
In Mississippi, 52% of Republicans are confident that Obama is a Muslim, and only 12% of them believe he is a Christian, and only 14% in Alabama do. A quarter of them said they believe "mixed" marriages, such as that of Obama's parents, should be illegal.
Does that suggest a strong element of racism among Republican voters?
Does that have any connection to the persistent outcry about policies that are falsely attributed to him, or to the package of policies labelled "Obamacare" despite there being strong support for each individual part of the health reform?
Mon, 2013-06-10 21:45
Racism in this country is steadily growing and since the election and reelection of Barrack Obama is has gotten worse. Although it is widely believed that Republicans are the most racist this is simply generalization of an entire party. As an American who happens to be Black, I have experienced racism from liberals on a level that is astounding because my opinions differ. Furthermore, regardless of whether people believe he is anything other than an American it is their opinion much of this of course is due to ignorance and racism. The fact is racism in America while undercover for the most part has matured into full on in your face and many Blacks are now seeing it in the job market regardless of education on a massive scale and nothing can or will be done about it. Blacks are being turned into a permanent underclass and it is based on racism, ignorance of many in the Black community and the inability to recognize that many of us blindly follow the liberal party who has done nothing more than encourage a welfare state to keep the Black community at the bottom. They have done such a good job at this that if you are Black and your opinion differs from the liberal beliefs you are immediately considered an Uncle Tom or some other name that is degrading. Finally, the press is allowed to question the President regardless of his color but the liberals turn it into a racist mantra in order to back the media off. All of this plays a significant part in the continued and growing ignorance and racism towards Blacks and we are suffering and falling prey to it. This is probably not going to change even as the landscape of America changes as these racist beliefs influence other groups who are more than willing to join in on the dislike of Blacks. We as a people have always struggled and we will continue to do so regardless of how the world sees us. The fact is until things are really equal we will continue to be the underclass and we may never see equality.
Tue, 2013-02-12 15:50
---- "One could argue that the welfare state in itself is racist. In terms of the African-American community, it has done more to slow black progress than the white sheets ever could imagine. It has had a major hand in the destruction of the two parent household, particularly in blue state inner cities." ----
Here we have an example of black Americans being used as a surrogate for the unmentionable group, the long-term poor.
The transgenerational white poor, a larger group than the black poor, are not much considered. It is the way that black Americans are used as the group believed to be sucking up such benefits as Medicaid -- actually it's the disabled and the elderly impoverished by living in nursing homes --
The partial welfare state in the US has always been racist. It has always discriminated against black Americans.
We could go back to the creation of Social Security, which excluded farm workers and domestic servants, mainly the province of black Americans before and after the abolition of slavery.
We could go back to the GI Bill, undoubtedly one of the great pieces of welfare provision, which was administered by branches of the American Legion in deeply racist ways. White Americans were helped with mortgages, out of the inner city and onto the ladder of capital accumulation. Black Americans were not helped but rather prevented from this, with no mortgages offered, with redlining by banks, by restrictive covenants in new housing develoments such as Levittowns, and even by city statutes that created racial zoning in places such as Baltimore.
White Americans were helped to go to good universities to train as lawyers, doctors, accountants and engineers, all growth areas in the post-war economy. Black Americans were not admitted to universities, even in the North, and had to go South to black colleges, initially equipped only to train them as teachers and ministers, to work in the schools and churches of the South, impoverished and segregated as so many remain to this day.
The returning black GIs who had not finished high school, often having left school to help the family income, were set to learning the kinds of semi-skilled work that would never provide a way out of the ranks of the working poor. Their white equivalents, by contrast, were set to learning skilled trades, which black Americans were assumed incapable of learning. Moreover, their upward mobility was not considered desirable by American Legion branches. After all, it was falsely believed that they had not fought bravely and they returned, even while still in uniform, to exactly the Jim Crow world that they had left, in the North as in the South.
This is hardly surprising. After all, Jewish students could only get into medical colleges, law schools and Ivy League universities in very small numbers. Brandeis University was created to address this problem. Jews were also covered by zoning in Baltimore and restrictive covenants in Levittowns. Jews were still refused admittance to the better hotels in such resorts as Palm Beach. They had to set up their own country clubs in cities such as Chicago, where they were refused admission to the North Shore Club.
This affirmative action for whites stifled the emerging black middle class and created inner city ghettoes of unhealthy housing and poor services. To this day, poor education restricts most black school leavers to insecure manual work, with little or no health benefits, and the attitudes of teachers lead to even middle class black school students underperforming. A survey which demonstrated this latter phenomenon recently shocked the liberal teachers of California.
It is argued that black single mothers create welfare dependence. It is the other way round. Access to public housing and food stamps is almost only available to single mothers and the disabled. The children receive Medicaid or SCHIPs, the coverage of which is severely limited by the availablity of doctors who will take such patients and by the limits on care imposed by the states. The children get visibly 2nd-rate school lunches. How anything else can be paid for is a mystery. Unemployment benefits have a time limit, unlike equivalents in other wealthy countries.
Even to receive the benefits to which they are entitled requires negotiating a nightmare world of bureaucracy and formfilling, and there are little or no provisions to help black families manage. Moreover, there is no attempt by the state to locate the vast numbers known not to be in receipt of their benefits. And on, and on.
Those who believe that the welfare state is destroying the African-American communities have a point, but not the point that they think they have. It is the wretched inadequacy of the system that is destroying them.
The reason it is so inadequate, even in what is currently supposed to be available, is simply prejudice. There is a lack of social solidarity in this country, as an aftermath of the overt discrimination and aggressively negative attitudes of the past. This destroys poor white families too, even though their members are more often offered escape routes.
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Staff Writer | November 29,2012The publisher of the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus on Wednesday defended the paper's handling of the hiring of a convicted sex offender to cover police and courts, and the paper's editor said he had carefully screened Eric Blaisdell before hiring him this summer.
However, national experts in journalism ethics are raising concerns about the paper's handling of the matter and allowing Blaisdell to report on sex crime cases.
Blaisdell, 27, an award-winning student journalist while at Lyndon State College, is a registered sex offender in both New Hampshire — where the Internet sex offenses took place six years ago — and Vermont, where he has worked since June.
"I applaud the efforts of the criminal justice system in fairly administering punishment to those who have broken the law and also offering an opportunity for rehabilitation," said publisher R. John Mitchell in a statement to The Times Argus and its sister publication, the Rutland Herald. "This is an incredibly well supervised and restricted situation by the judge, the probation officer and a therapist, I am not going to second guess that process, am willing to participate in it and give it a chance."
Blaisdell a lifelong resident of North Haverhill, N.H., was caught in an Internet sex sting with police officers with the Southern Hillsborough County (N.H.) Cybersafe Task Force and a volunteer advocate with www.perverted-justice.com, an online vigilante group. He was 21 and a student at New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord, N.H., when he was arrested in February 2007 for soliciting sex with a 13-year-old girl in Walpole, N.H., who turned out to be a police officer.
He pleaded guilty to three felonies — the Vermont equivalent of attempted aggravated sexual assault — and was sentenced to a year in prison. He served nine months at the Grafton County jail in his hometown of North Haverhill, and remains on probation until November 2013 for one of the offenses.
The story detailing Blaisdell's criminal history, which questioned his ability to cover cops and courts, was published in Wednesday's Seven Days, a weekly publication in Burlington.
Neither Mitchell, General Manager Catherine Nelson, editor of The Times Argus Steven Pappas or Blaisdell spoke to Seven Days columnist Paul Heintz for the story, a decision criticized by media ethics experts at both the Poynter Institute and the Society for Professional Journalists.
The rule of the game in 2012 in journalism is transparency, transparency and more transparency, said Kelly McBride, a senior faculty member at the Poynter Institute, a media think tank in St. Petersburg, Fla. McBride specializes in media ethics.
McBride, who has taught media ethics for the past 10 years, said she had never encountered such a question before.
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In the age of the Internet, McBride said, papers have to bend over backwards to be transparent, because anyone can research the background of people.
People will now read the reporter's stories differently, she said.
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Joining McBride in a push toward increased transparency was Fred Brown, a professor of communication ethics at the University of Denver, and vice-chairman of the Society of Professional Journalists. Brown retired from a career at the Denver Post 10 years ago.
"Since the story was broken by another publication, telling the complete story is a public service. It's a little bit of a cheap shot to rehash an old conviction," said Brown, but once it's out there, the paper has to respond.
Brown said that he didn't believe Blaisdell should be covering sex offender stories. "Conflict of interest? It comes down to perception and there comes a point when you just have to let your audience judge for themselves. It's an issue of fairness. You try to avoid it, but when you can't avoid it, you explain it."
Mitchell saw it differently. "The implication that we have been less than transparent is ridiculous and downright wrong. We have acted and will continue to act in the best interests of our community, our integrity and the rights of our employees."
Mitchell, whose family has owned The Times Argus since 1964 and the Rutland Herald since 1948, said the two papers did not comment publicly or privately "about the details of our individual hiring practices other that to say generally we adhere to the highest professional standards."
Blaisdell, in a telephone interview, said Wednesday that he was a college student coping with low self-esteem and confusion over his career path when he started using the Yahoo! Instant Messenger in 2006 to go on chat rooms and talk to underage girls. He said he knew it was morally wrong, suspected it might be criminal, but did it anyway.
Blaisdell said his criminal conviction was "devastating," and he lost lifelong friends. He said he had worked hard to overcome the stigma. He had attended two years of the civil engineering program at Northeastern University in Boston, but had left because engineering wasn't what he wanted to do.
After he got out of jail, he applied and was accepted at Lyndon State College. While there, officials knew of his background, and set restrictions on his activities, including prohibiting him from entering any dorm.
A court-imposed condition that banned him from using the computer was lifted by the New Hampshire courts for him to attend college, and then later work at The Times Argus. The court also prohibits him from having any contact with minors under the age of 16 unless supervised by a trained adult.
Blaisdell said by law he has to disclose to any employer that he is a convicted felon, and he disclosed that during his job interview with Pappas in June. The two had met at the annual awards meeting of the Vermont Press Association this spring, and Blaisdell said when The Times Argus posted job openings on www.journalismjobs.com, he applied.
Pappas confirmed Wednesday that Blaisdell had immediately disclosed his criminal history. Pappas said he had checked Blaisdell's references and talked to the N.H. Department of Corrections. Everyone said that Blaisdell posed no risk to the general public, was contrite, and was working hard to put his life back together.
Blaisdell's N.H. Department of Corrections therapist, Nancy Strapko of Plymouth, N.H., praised Blaisdell and the progress he has made during both group and individual therapy.
He poses no danger to the public, Strapko said, saying she had worked with sex offenders since 1985. .
Part of the problem of the sex offender registry, she said, is it lumps everyone together.
"One of the problems is the registry lumps every crime together. In my group there are 60-year-old men who have sex with 9-year-old girls, which is very disturbing behavior. Eric does not fall into that category. But with the Internet, it's a whole new form," she said.
Blaisdell was convicted of three counts of "certain uses of a computer, prohibited," in New Hampshire.
Blaisdell said that he never had any physical contact with any of the females he met online. When they suggested meeting, he said, he came up with excuses.
"It was never my intention of following through. There was a lot of talk, a lot of talk, but I would come up with some excuse, and say, 'Oh, my car broke down,' or 'My grandmother died.'"
Blaisdell said he was talking about his history to get his side of the story out.
"I think my side needs to be told," he said.
Blaisdell said he didn't feel he was "biased or had a conflict of interest" in covering sex cases in criminal court.
McBride, who has run "ethics bootcamp" for young reporters, said that Blaisdell's view was common of people's first year on the job.
McBride urged The Times Argus to mentor the rookie reporter on ethics and take him off sex crime stories.
Blaisdell said he had refused to cover a story about a halfway house in Berlin that involved sex offenders. But he said he saw no conflict in covering the "factual" stories coming out of Washington County criminal courts.
Pappas, his supervising editor, said he was confident in Blaisdell's ability to cover the courts and crime stories.
Last week Blaisdell wrote a story about the Aldrich Library's pilot program for "safe space" for teens, but talked to no teens for the story. Likewise, in a story about teen mothers, Blaisdell did not talk to girls under the age of 16, Pappas said.
In McBride's belief, the library story is exactly the wrong kind of story for Blaisdell.
Blaisdell said he doesn't know what the public perception will be and what the reaction will be to his reluctant disclosure.
"It's going to take time, and I'll see what the reaction is, and move forward," he said. "That's all I can do is move forward. I'm fearful it will compromise my ability to talk to people. People just see the word 'sex offender' ... I fear it's going to make my job much harder."
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Through the first seven installments of our project series, we've covered project planning, chassis and suspension, engine, drivetrain and brakes, installing C5 seats in a midyear, engine electronics, exhaust and fuel systems, the exterior features of the body and the engine compartment, and air intake and cooling systems. In this finale we will cover the major interior features, including the A/C and audio systems.
We've tried to cover each one in enough detail to give you a good idea of what's involved and the sources we've used. At the very least, we hope it will stimulate some ideas, but the fun part of these projects is coming up with your own ideas to build a car reflecting your tastes and which will achieve your objectives. Since each project is unique, and you're sure to have your own ideas on the approach to take and components to use, we've described the approach we've taken and what has worked for us.
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Overall Design Approach
Our basic approach to the interior was to retain the flavor of the original design while incorporating several modern touches. If we've done our jobs right, the changes will have retained the original styling aspects of a '63 and blend in well enough to appear as something the factory might have done. As with the approach we took with the body, the changes are relatively subtle but distinctive in appearance to enhance what is already there and improve function, appearance, and comfort. Here are the major changes we made to the '63's interior.
Materials And Color Choices
While we've usually used black leather for our interiors in the past, we wanted to use a color combination that would stand out a bit more and have a more modern look. We decided on a two-tone grey leather interior. After learning more about leather than we ever wanted to know, we sourced the leather from Gary's Upholstery in Florida. Their website has quite a bit of information on what to look for when ordering your own leather. They can also send you samples so you can see what color and texture of leather will work best. After deciding what you want, you'll need to decide just how many hides to order. A good upholstery shop can help with that. We ended up ordering nine full hides. It's best to order enough to have all the hides from the same dye lot.
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We covered the installation of C5 seats in a previous article in the June '07 issue, so we won't go into detail here. While there are a number of aftermarket seats available, many folks prefer to use as many Corvette components as possible when updating their seats. Installing C5 seats is becoming a popular way to upgrade. We found our C5 seats on eBay. The ones we've seen there have ranged from near new to those that require re-upholstering. The ones we found were a little worn but; since we planned to re-upholster them anyway, there was no need to pay the price for perfect seats. (See photo 01: installed seats)
We chose to eliminate the power seat motors in order to lower the seats, which also eliminated about 40 pounds of weight, and simplified the installation. The main installation issues that need to be addressed are seat height, seat rake, mounting, adjustability, and upholstery. The June '07 article went into detail on all those aspects. If you don't have the June '07 issue, you can find it online in the Corvette Fever Tech Articles at: www.corvettefever.com/projectbuild/corp_0706_split_personality_pt4/index.html.


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Council, with mayor's consent, agrees to maintain status quo until new rules to regulate shops offered
San Diego The city won't drop pending cases against medical marijuana dispensaries as Mayor Bob Filner ordered earlier this month but will instead maintain the status quo until the mayor introduces an ordinance to regulate the businesses within the next 30 days.
The City Council voted 7-0 in closed session Tuesday on that strategy with Filner's agreement. Councilman Kevin Faulconer was absent. The move ensures that the city will continue to enforce its zoning laws — which currently don't allow for dispensaries — and keeps in place a prosecutorial tool that prevents new dispensaries from opening throughout the city.
In a joint statement, the mayor, City Attorney Jan Goldsmith and council President Todd Gloria said a zoning ordinance similar to the one adopted by the council in 2011 would be brought before the council for discussion purposes. That measure, which was repealed after medical pot advocates launched a successful signature drive to trigger a public vote, limited dispensaries to some commercial and industrial zones and called for cooperatives to be at least 600 feet from each other as well as schools, playgrounds, libraries, child care and youth facilities, parks and churches. They also had to operate as nonprofits, have curtailed business hours and hire security guards.
Filner renewed the dispensary debate Jan. 8 when he told a group of medical marijuana advocates that he would intimidate the city attorney into backing off the prosecutions. Goldsmith responded the next day by informing Filner that he could halt prosecutions by using his strong-mayor powers to direct police and code enforcement officers to stop forwarding cases to the City Attorney's Office. Filner issued that decree the next day.
At the time, Goldsmith said about 100 prosecutions had already been completed against dispensaries and 11 were still active and would be dropped at Filner's direction. That won't happen now with the council's decision Tuesday to proceed with those enforcement actions.
Filner pledged to work quickly to get an ordinance in place.
"I will be working very hard in the next 30 days to bring an ordinance to the City Council that ensures that the zoning law allows for reasonable regulation of medical marijuana dispensaries in the city of San Diego," he said. "As I've said before, I want those who legitimately need medical marijuana for the relief of pain to have access to it legally. That is the compassionate thing to do."
Goldsmith added, "I appreciate the mayor's leadership in moving the city toward a solution on medical marijuana dispensaries. Our office looks forward to working with the mayor and City Council on an ordinance. In the meantime, we will maintain the status quo through enforcement of current laws."
Gloria called Tuesday's action "a critical step forward for patients seeking safe access and for neighborhoods concerned about the impacts of dispensaries."
Eugene Davidovich, coordinator for the San Diego chapter of Americans for Safe Access, said the pro-medical marijuana group is working on a report to give to the City Council on a path forward that the entire community can support. As for continuing the prosecutions, he called it a waste of taxpayer money.


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BMW M3 DTM Champion Edition
It's a rather special M3 to celebrate a successful return to German touring cars
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BMW Motorsport have had a good year. After a 19 year break from DTM, they returned to claim a full house of drivers', team and manufacturers' titles to fill their Munich trophy cabinet. Not bad, considering how competitive the sparkiest, flameiest and most airborne touring car series is.
To mark the occasion, M decided to make a special edition road-going version of their race car: the BMW M3 DTM Champion Edition model.
If we were in charge of this project, we'd just put some indicators, number plates and a tax disc on Bruno Spengler's actual DTM car. Unfortunately they haven't done that. But it is a competition package M3 in matte black paint, designed to look like Bruno Spengler's very lackadaisical-looking touring car.
You also get carbon flaps and gurney, darker chrome accents, wheels that match the paint, and also bits of livery - including a M strip over the carbon fibre roof - dotted around the car. They've even put Bruno's name and a Canadian flag is the side of the car, so you can impress bystanders at the BP on the A3.
Inside, the door sills are lined with the colours of this year's DTM Champion helmet, there's carbon fibre and alcantara trim bits and Spengler's signature scribbled onto the dash.
But unlike the DTM car, there's also BMW's Park Distance Control, so you don't knock that posh paint by reversing into a trolley at Morrisons.
If you're a MASSIVE Bruno Spengler fan and want to drive around in a matte black M3 with his name is on the side, you'll need to fork out 99,000 Euro coins from your 'left over holiday money' drawer - about £80k - to do so.
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The TIOBE Programming Community Index has been updated for April 2006 showing their view on the status of programming languages in the development community. PHP moves up a spot from 5th to 4th. The long-in-the-tooth C fades back a bit relinquishing 1st place to Java, while C++ gains on its brethren with PHP biting on its heels (a margin of 0.02 between their percentages). PHP has a higher climb rate so expect another big move in the coming year.
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The word digital comes from the same source as the word digit and digitus (the Latin word for finger), as fingers are used for discrete counting.
The word digital is most commonly used in computing and electronics, especially where real-world information is converted to binary numeric form as in digital audio and digital photography. Such data-carrying signals carry electronic or optical pulses, the amplitude of each of which represents a logical 1 (pulse present and/or high) or a logical 0 (pulse absent and/or low).
When data is transmitted, or indeed handled at all, a certain amount of noise enters into the signal. Noise can have several causes: data transmitted wirelessly, such as by radio, may be received inaccurately, suffer interference from other wireless sources, or pick up background noise from the rest of the universe. Microphones pick up both the intended signal as well as background noise without discriminating between signal and noise, so when audio is encoded digitally, it typically already includes noise. Electric pulses transmitted via wires are typically attenuated by the resistance of the wire, and changed by its capacitance or inductance. Temperature variations can increase or reduce these effects. While digital transmissions are also degraded, slight variations do not matter since they are ignored when the signal is received. With an analog signal, variances cannot be distinguished from the signal and so provide a kind of distortion. In a digital signal, similar variances will not matter, as any signal close enough to a particular value will be interpreted as that value. Care must be taken to avoid noise and distortion when connecting digital and analog systems, but more when using analog systems.
Since symbols (e.g., alphanumeric characters) are not continuous, converting symbols to digital form is rather simpler and less prone to data loss than analog to digital conversion. Instead of sampling and quantization as in D/A (digital-to-analog) conversion, such techniques as polling and encoding are used.
A symbol input device usually consists of a number of switches that are polled at regular intervals to see which switches are pressed. Data will be lost if, within a single polling interval, two switches are pressed, or a switch is pressed, released, and pressed again. This polling can be done by a specialized processor in the device to prevent burdening the main CPU. When a new symbol has been entered, the device typically sends an interrupt to alert the CPU to read it.
For devices with only a few switches (such as the buttons on a joystick), the status of each can be encoded as bits (usually 0 for released and 1 for pressed) in a single word. This is useful when combinations of key presses are meaningful, and is sometimes used for passing the status of modifier keys on a keyboard (such as shift and control). But it does not scale to support more keys than the number of bits in a single byte or word.
Devices with many switches (such as a computer keyboard) usually arrange these switches in a scan matrix, with the individual switches on the intersections of x and y lines. When a switch is pressed, it connects the corresponding x and y lines together. Polling (often called scanning in this case) is done by activating each x line in sequence and detecting which y lines then have a signal, thus which keys are pressed. When the keyboard processor detects that a key has changed state, it sends a signal to the CPU indicating the scan code of the key and its new state. The symbol is then encoded, or converted into a number, based on the status of modifier keys and the desired character encoding.
A custom encoding can be used for a specific application with no loss of data. However, using a standard encoding such as ASCII is problematic if a symbol such as 'ß' needs to be converted but is not in the standard.
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Maciej Dziudzik, previously Management Board Representative on financial matters at PLL LOT S.A. He has been associated with the company since 2001. In August 2007, he took over the key position of Director of Planning and Control. He has participated in a number of strategic projects in the area of financial management, among others, organising the financing and refinancing of Boeing 787 aircraft for LOT and the development and submission of the restructuring plan for PLL LOT S.A. to the European Commission.
For several years, Maciej Dziudzik also served on the Supervisory Board of LGS and LS.
In 2012. he held the position of Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Petrolot.
Since March 2012, he has chaired the financial group Star Alliance, to which LOT belongs, and sits on the audit committee of the Star Alliance GmbH, together with representatives of Lufthansa, TAP, United and ANA. In June 2010, he was awarded the 'ACCA' international qualification in finance, and also joined Britain's Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
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can I hook up an external microphone to the JamBox? I can see it being used as a public address system.
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raptornx01 wrote:jaznbonnie wrote:
One of my roommates at school used to pronounce "wash" as "warsh". It took several months but I finally managed to train her to pronounce it without the "r" - "wa(ah)sh".
Was your roommate from Pennsylvania too?
Actually born and raised in California but I think her grandparents were from one of the southern states originally.
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UK police add dozens of Nissan Leaf electric cars to fleet
While Dubai police are busy bolstering their fleet with Lamborghinis, Ferraris and the like, police in the UK have taken a slightly more pragmatic approach by purchasing a fleet of thirty Nissan Leafs.
The electric vehicles will be deployed as 'diary' cars, which police use to attend pre-arranged meetings with victims of crime or locals who contact the local police force.
The force believes the Nissan Leaf is well suited to a 'diary' role, despite the limited range and long recharge times inherent to electric cars. Diary cars typically average 40 to 45 miles per day, so the Leaf's 124-mile range should prove more than sufficient, even if somebody forgets to plug the thing in overnight.
Ten local policing units (LPUs) will run three diary car Leafs each. Each LPU will be kitted out with dedicated charging points.
Bob Jones, Police and Crime Commissioner for West Midlands Police said: "We welcome the new LEAFs, which fit in perfectly with the operational requirements of diary cars and will significantly cut our fuel costs while also reducing our carbon footprint."
Barry Beeston, Nissan corporate sales director said: "It's fitting that the UK's largest corporate LEAF deal to date is with such a prestigious institution in the West Midlands Police."
"The LEAF is becoming ever more popular as fleet managers see the benefits of 100% electric vehicles and massively reduced running costs. We're delighted to hear the police are already enjoying driving the LEAFs and we hope they're enjoying going after a new type of lead!"


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History and Traditions
During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, providing funding for the establishment of a new college in each state and territory. These schools were to promote higher education and practical learning to people of all classes and walks of life, especially rural life. In 1888, the Agricultural College of Utah was founded as the state's land-grant institution. It became Utah State University in 1957.
Throughout time, USU has remained true to its roots as an institution dedicated to the land and its people. With the land-grant distinction, USU has the responsibility to "educate the state," and it continues to maintain a presence in every county in Utah. Through academic and research prowess, athletic success, and unparalleled student experience, USU's rich history and traditions color who we are today.
The Agricultural College of Utah (UAC) is founded on March 8. Two years later, 14-year-old Miss Vendla Berntson enrolls as the Agricultural College of Utah's first student.
The "Farmers" of UAC defeat the University of Utah 12-0 in the first football game, and athletic event, in school history. The game is played on what is now the USU quad.
The first eight students receive business degrees, making USU home to the oldest continuously operating business school in the West.
The Alumni Association is organized.
Blue is adopted as the official school color, and is used by the first women's basketball team, which will predate a men's team by three years.
Students publish the first campus newspaper, Student Life. The name is changed to the Utah Statesman in 1978.
Fearing that the growth of the UAC will hinder the University of Utah's progress, legislators in Salt Lake City attempt to consolidate the two schools, and upon failing, instead pass a bill limiting UAC's curriculum to agriculture, domestic science, and mechanic arts. Many once-thriving programs in the arts, humanities, education, and others are closed, despite the college's initial mandate that it offer such instruction. By 1927, all curricular restrictions except law and medicine are lifted.
Students meet in the Old Main Chapel on October 26 to organize the first student government.
The "A" of Old Main, the school's first senior gift, is installed on the tower's west face.
The first volume of the student yearbook, the Buzzer, is published. It persisted through 1971.
As part of the school's land-grant mission, the Utah Cooperative Extension Service is founded, bringing research-based knowledge to people, especially farmers, around the state.
UAC grants its first graduate degree, a master's in agriculture. The first doctoral degrees are awarded in 1950.
The Be-No Club erects the block "A," which can now be found between the quad and Old Main.
Campus is temporarily transformed into a military institution, with enlisted students housed in numerous new barracks around the quad. The buildings, which will be converted into classroom and laboratory space after the war, essentially double the size of campus. Meanwhile, the Spanish Flu epidemic necessitates a campus-wide quarantine and the establishment of a hospital in the north wing of Old Main.
The popular fight song "The Scotsman" is composed by a student. "Hail the Utah Aggies" is first written and performed in 1933.
The National Summer School is founded at UAC, bringing in Knute Rockne, Frederick Jackson Turner, and other distinguished faculty from Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, and elsewhere. The success of the program, which lasts three summers, is partially responsible for influencing the state legislature to reverse the curricular restriction in 1927 and award UAC full state college status in 1929.
The newly launched School of Education establishes a teacher training school, what is now called the Edith Bowen Laboratory School.
The Utah Agricultural College (UAC) is renamed the Utah State Agricultural College.
The first Homecoming game and festivities are held on October 11.
Three students are named Rhodes Scholars in three years (1936-1938).
World War II has a profound effect on campus. The war decimated student enrollments, which declined from 3,641 during the '40-'41 school year to 1,129 in the '43-'44 school year to only 861 students for fall 1944. The physical face of campus changes as well. In preparation for the Army Specialized Training Program, the Field House is modified to serve as a barracks.
The institution initiates its first international program at Kardj College in Iran.
Utah State Agricultural College becomes Utah State University.
Two of the most respected research institutions in the West, the Space Dynamics Laboratory and the Utah Water Research Laboratory, are founded in the same year at USU.
Led by future Hall of Famer Merlin Olsen, the Utah State Aggie football team finishes at #10 in the nation, its highest year-end ranking.
In one of the greatest tragedies to befall the university, star basketball player Wayne Estes is killed on February 8, hours after scoring 48 points in a victory against the University of Denver. At the time of his death, he is the nation's second leading scorer, and the Los Angeles Lakers are planning to select him in the first round of the NBA draft. He is posthumously awarded first team All-American honors.
The Smith Spectrum hosts its first men's basketball game on December 1, against Ohio State.
The university initiates its Undergraduate Research Program, making it the second oldest program in the nation, behind MIT.
USU purchases a live white bull to act as a mascot for sporting events and painted it blue before each game. Despite being fitted with large rubber boots, the damage the bull causes to the Smith Spectrum and Romney Stadium becomes too great to overlook, and the bull is retired a short while later. The current Big Blue mascot is introduced in 1987.
Utah State Aggie Athletics crowns its first national champions as the women's volleyball team defeats UCLA in the national final and finishes 40-4 on the year.
USU Research and Technology Park is founded north of campus. It will later be renamed Innovation Campus and will support the research of private companies engaged in projects with student researchers and faculty.
A fire that destroyed the south wing of Old Main in 1983 led to an extensive renovation project that took 14 years to complete. The historic building is completed and rededicated in October.
USU initiates its first capital campaign for $400 million. In a short period of time, the university receives the three largest private gifts in its history.
The new Merrill-Cazier Library is dedicated on April 14 and immediately begins to receive national recognition, including #1 in the "Smart Classroom Category" from Campus Technology.
In the state of Utah's first-ever merger of two longstanding academic institutions, the College of Eastern Utah joins forces with USU.
The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business counts Deloitte CEO Jim Quigley and Nike Brand President Charlie Denson among its alumni.
The "A" light, later extended to all four sides of the tower, shines white each night, and blue for special campus events and significant athletic victories.
USU Cooperative Extension runs Utah's 4-H program, which teaches science, engineering, technology, healthy living, and citizenship to almost 90,000 youths across the state.
Tradition holds that in order to become a "True Aggie," one must receive a kiss atop the "A" at midnight on either Homecoming or A-Day, or by kissing a current True Aggie at midnight under any full moon.
The graduate programs in the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services rank in the top 2 percent in the nation.
USU has sent more student experiments into space than any other university in the world, and has also produced many of the world's leading experts on water issues, including the current governor of the World Water Council.
The football field at Romney Stadium was dedicated as Merlin Olsen Field in 2010.
Under current head coach Stew Morrill, USU enjoys the fourth-highest winning percentage in the nation, after Duke, Kansas, and Gonzaga.
Because undergraduates work under the supervision of USU's top research faculty, many have been able to publish work in professional journals.
In 2006, students gather in the library's main foyer to relieve their stress vocally during the inaugural "Finals Week Howl."


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Throughout 2007 and 2008, she helped campaign for her husband's presidential bid and delivered a keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. She is the mother of two daughters, Malia and Sasha, and is the sister of Craig Robinson, men's basketball coach at Oregon State University. As the wife of a Senator, and later the First Lady, she has become a fashion icon and role model for women, and an advocate for poverty awareness, nutrition and healthy eating.


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As Ruby rides a bus through the inner city streets, she wills herself to push away memories that crowd her. Four years earlier, she was a vibrant medical student married to the love of her life, Derek. Now, she makes her way to the maximum security prison on the outskirts of town. This is where her love now resides. As the couple stares into the hallow end of an eight-year prison sentence, Ruby must learn to live another life, one marked by shame and separation. But through a chance encounter with bus driver Brian and a stunning betrayal, she is soon propelled in new and often frightening directions of self-discovery. As we chronicle her turbulent yet transformative journey, we witness the emergence of a broken woman made whole.
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The U.S. Army War College is unique in one particular aspect. Nowhere does the military mission so closely integrate spouses with a range of opportunities to enhance personal interests, professional development, fitness, resiliency, and social networking. The Military Family Program (MFP), sponsored by Strategic Leader Development and Resiliency (SLDR), is wholly focused on programs, classes, and workshops for spouses whose voices help shape MFP program offerings
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The U.S. Army War College Military Family Program is a graduate level, complementary program that provides educational opportunities and experiences to strengthen resiliency and effectiveness of senior leaders, their spouses and families
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"Paper of plastic?" may become a question of the past if a legislative committee has its way. The Committee on the Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture has approved legislation banning the use of plastic bags at large retail stores.. It is part of an environmental effort to stop the bags from harming marine animals and reduce the litter bl;owing in the wind. The bill was reported favorably out of the committee Monday. The Legislature will take it up shortly. The bill would ban single use plastic bags at retail stores larger than 4,000 square feet, which means that mom and pop retail stores would be exempt. Environmentalist say the plastic bags kill sea turtles, harm whales, seals and other marine life that swallow the bags, and the bags generally pollute beaches and the coastline. So just bag it.
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I dont usually rant, but this is just stupid.
I recently found out that Im suspended from Xbox live untill the 20th, now I know that doesnt sound to bad, but when you find the reason why, you'll see why Im pissed.
My BIO reads(read): ''With just a touch of my burning hand I send my astro zombies to rape this land...Prime directive, exterminate! The whole human race! And your face drops in a pile of flesh And then your heart pounds Till it pumps in death...Prime directive, exterminate! Whatever stands left!"
Apperently Microsuck doesnt like the Misfits or something like that.
There's no curse words, nothing.
Is it because "rape" is in it?
Whatever, I'll just watch the Jay and Silent Bob movies on loop untill it's over.


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RISM is a multi-national, non-profit organization with the aim of documenting extant musical sources (in manuscript or printed form) around the world. These sources are housed in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections. The organization was founded in Paris in 1952. It is the largest and sole organization operating globally that documents written musical sources. RISM records what exists and where it is held.
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Mehrstimmige Messen in Quellen aus Spanien, Portugal und Lateinamerika ca. 1490-1630
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Northeast Asian Nationalisms and Alliance ManagementSeptember 1, 2014—Present
Japan is increasingly seen as being in the grip of nationalist politics. Regional diplomacy is rife with criticism of Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and his nationalist agenda. Leaders in Beijing and Seoul both call on Washington to rein in a Japan that is provocative and revisionist. Geopolitical change presents a dangerous background in which political leaders in Northeast Asia are stoking popular sensitivities. These complex dynamics have profound implications for the United States, and U.S. concerns about nationalism in Japan are already beginning to shape alliance management. The expression of U.S. "disappointment" in the wake of Prime Minister Abe's visit to Yasukuni Shrine in December revealed serious differences between Tokyo and Washington over Abe's willingness to exacerbate tensions in the region. This project, which will run from September 2014 to March 2017, will look carefully at Japan's nationalist politics to examine their impact on the U.S.-Japan alliance, and will engage leading experts from the United States and Japan in a conversation about how to manage these reactive nationalisms in Northeast Asia. Research findings will be made available on the Asia Unbound blog on CFR.org, and through other writings. The project will culminate in a final report that will analyze the impact of nationalist politics on U.S.-Japan alliance cooperation as well as provide prescriptions for U.S. policymakers on how to navigate tensions between Japan and its neighbors in Northeast Asia.
This project is made possible by a grant from the U.S.-Japan Foundation.