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The head "scientist" of the UN's IPCC has resigned
He's been called a "scientist" for years, but his training is in industrial engineering. He's about as much a climate scientist as I am. However, we've been constantly told that he and the IPCC speak for "science" when it comes to "climate change".
Well, today he stepped down, submitting his resignation amid allegations of sexual harrassment.
I'm talking about Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, of course. Head of the IPCC that has published scare warnings for years, few if any of which have come true.
So why is an industrial engineer seen as some sort of an authority on climate?
Well it's not because of his academic credentials, that's for sure. Instead, its for his leftist credentials:
'For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma.'
In other words, his "science" is faith based.
And, the left says we should take him seriously … because, you know, "the science is settled".
Michael Crichton:
'One of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.'
Anyone – do you really believe an actual climate scientist will be recruited to fill the job?
Islam and the West: The problem in a nutshell
An interesting article I think you'll want to read. At least I found it interesting. It discusses the foundations of Islam and why, essentially, it is really not a "religion of peace". In fact, as the author argues, as much as the West would like the name of the religion, Islam, to mean "peace", in fact it means "submit". We've talked here before about the need of a reformation in Islam to reorient it away from violent jihad and to a religion that actually preaches and practices "peace". The outlook isn't very promising. Here's one reason:
The Qur'an contains many peaceful and tolerant verses, and these could well be used to create a genuine reformation — something several genuine reformers have tried to do. But there is a catch. All these moderate verses were written in the early phase of Muhammad's career, when he lived in Mecca and had apparently decided to allure people. When he moved to Medina in 622, everything changed. He was soon a religious, political and military leader. During the next ten years, as his religious overtures were sometimes not welcomed, the peaceful verses gave way to the jihad verses and the intolerant diatribes against Jews, Christians and pagans. Almost all books of tafsir take for granted that the later verses abrogate the early ones. This means that the verses preaching love for all are no longer applicable, except with regard to one's fellow Muslims. The verses that teach jihad, submission and related doctrines still form the basis for the approach of many Muslims to non-believers.
One problem is that no one can change the Qur'an in any way. If the book contains the direct word of God, then the removal of even a tiny diacritical mark or a dot above or beneath a letter would be blasphemy of the most extreme kind.[2] Any change would suggest that the text on earth did not match the tablet in heaven — the "Mother of the Book," much as Mary is the Mother of Christ — that is the eternal original of the Qur'an. If one dot could be moved, perhaps others could be moved, and before long words could be substituted for other words. The Qur'an itself condemns Jews and Christians for having tampered with their own holy books, so that neither the Torah nor the Gospels may be regarded as the word of God. The Qur'an traps us by its sheer unchangeability.
And, as he points out, the most "modern" interpretation does anything but put Islam in a "moderate" context:
Regrettably it is impossible to re-interpret the Qur'an in a "moderate" manner. The most famous modern tafsir, or interpretation, of the holy book is a multi-volume work entitled, In the Shade of the Qur'an. It was written by Sayyid Qutb (d. 1966), the Muslim Brotherhood ideologue often regarded as the father of modern radicalism. His interpretation leads the reader again and again into political territory, where jihad is at the root of action.
So that seems to be where we stand. Here, however, is the problem that confronts the West:
The besetting sin of modern Western politicians, church leaders, and multiculturalists is their ready acceptance of ignorance and their promotion of their own ignorance to the rank of expertise. Islam is one of the most important topics in human history, but how many schoolchildren are given details such as the ones mentioned above in their history classes? How many textbooks paint an honest picture of how Islam began and how it continued as a background to how it continues today?
Furthermore, how many real experts are denied contact with government and politicians so that lies are not made the basis for governmental decisions in the West? How many times will truth be sacrificed to fable while Muslim extremists bomb and shoot and behead their way to power?
These facts do not come from modern Western accounts; they are there in the founding texts of Islam, in the histories of al-Waqidi and al-Tabari. No-one is making any of this up. Muslims who avoid their own history should be brought face to face with it in all future discussions.
But, of course, that isn't what is happening is it? We're told over and over again that Islam is a religion of "peace" by those in the West who would rather believe that than confront the awful fact that its own founding documents portray anything but a peaceful religion — not to mention its history. For instance, were you aware that it is estimated that "between sixty and eighty million Hindus may have been put to death during the centuries of invasions by Muslim armies from 1000 to 1525." That's Stalin and Mao territory.
If you can't or won't deal truthfully with the problem, how can you ever expect to confront it successfully? When you remain in denial and you let the practitioners of the religion also deny the truth, how does one "reform" anything? And what does the continuous denial portend for the West in the not to distant future?
Watching the "progressive" left melt down over the Hobby Lobby decision
While I agree there may be far reaching implications concerning this decision and that the right might not like how all that plays out, I have got to say I have sore ribs from laughing at the hateful, screechy display put on by so-called "progressives" concerning the decision.
The first bit of nonsense they toss around is they're being "denied" some sort of right to an abortion. Of course, no one has denied them anything. Planned Parenthood is ready when they are. Abortificants are available to them through their doctor.
No the problem is they'll have to pay for it, not someone else. They don't get to impose their will on others that don't believe like they do.
And, of course, that just won't do. Especially when it comes to <sneer> "religious" people/companies. Next thing you know they'll be demanding kosher butchers sell ham and the Amish deliver goods by truck.
It is time to stem this tide of BS the left has unleashed. This cobbled up "right" to whatever they want and the equal "right" to have someone else pay for it. The imposition of their will on others to benefit themselves.
Charles Murray explains in today's Wall Street Journal that, in essence, what these people want is their brand of fascism imposed on all of your lesser beings and if they don't get their way they'll throw tantrum after tantrum:
But philosophically, the progressive movement at the turn of the 20th century had roots in German philosophy ( Hegel and Nietzsche were big favorites) and German public administration ( Woodrow Wilson's open reverence for Bismarck was typical among progressives). To simplify, progressive intellectuals were passionate advocates of rule by disinterested experts led by a strong unifying leader. They were in favor of using the state to mold social institutions in the interests of the collective. They thought that individualism and the Constitution were both outmoded.
That's not a description that Woodrow Wilson or the other leading progressive intellectuals would have argued with. They openly said it themselves.
It is that core philosophy extolling the urge to mold society that still animates progressives today—a mind-set that produces the shutdown of debate and growing intolerance that we are witnessing in today's America. Such thinking on the left also is behind the rationales for indulging President Obama in his anti-Constitutional use of executive power. If you want substantiation for what I'm saying, read Jonah Goldberg's 2008 book "Liberal Fascism," an erudite and closely argued exposition of American progressivism and its subsequent effects on liberalism. The title is all too accurate.
Indeed. Murray, however, distinguishes "progressive" from "liberal", by claiming there is quite a degree of difference between the progressive left and the liberal left:
Here, I want to make a simple point about millions of people—like my liberal-minded dinner companions—who regularly vote Democratic and who are caught between a rock and a hard place.
Along with its intellectual legacy, the Progressive Era had a political legacy that corresponds to the liberalism of these millions of Democrats. They think that an activist federal government is a force for good, approve of the growing welfare state and hate the idea of publicly agreeing with a Republican about anything. But they also don't like the idea of shouting down anyone who disagrees with them.
They gave money to the ACLU in 1978 when the organization's absolutism on free speech led it to defend the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, Ill. They still believe that the individual should not be sacrificed to the collective and that people who achieve honest success should be celebrated for what they have built. I'm not happy that they like the idea of a "living Constitution"—one that can be subjected to interpretations according to changing times—but they still believe in the separation of powers, checks and balances, and the president's duty to execute the laws faithfully.
I'm not quite sure I agree but if there is a separation between the two, there is one hell of a big, wide, fuzzy border between the two. Given the antics of the left these past few years and their frantic attempts to expand government control along with cultural change while the Democrats hold power causes me to still lump both contingencies into the same hateful mass. Afterall, as Murray points out, "liberal" is a term stolen from an era when it described a group who believed in small, non-intrusive government, the individual and his rights and capitalism. That hardly describes "liberals" today. In fact, at best I'd call them "progressive light".
Anyway, something to munch on as we watch the left continue to throw their juvenile fits over a court ruling that went against them. Now if we can only hope that the court continues to chip away at the oppressive law passed by a Democratic Congress popularly derided as ObamaCare. With each chip and the subsequent acting out by the left, one can only hope that the more moderate in America will become less and less enchanted with their siren song.
On casting stones at same-sex couples
Over at RedState, Erick Erickson promoted a post in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage by "mjdaniels," a Christian conservative and long-time lurker there. It's a long post that makes a number of good points, but he ultimately makes a number of rhetorical errors that give his fellow Christian conservatives an easy way out, and they did fix on those errors. So it is that the people I see praising his argumentation with the fewest reservations are mostly not currently practicing Christians or self-identified conservatives.
Among those errors, the biggest was probably when he said, "Is Homosexuality a Sin? I. Do. Not. Care." Christians are supposed to care whether others sin. The proper question is the duty others have to sinners. And behold all the RedState regular commenters saying that they're called to rebuke sin and lead sinners away from sin, out of love. Many deny that enshrining these rebukes in legal exclusivity is tantamount to "hunting down sinful people," and they claim that it isn't them but same-sex marriage activists who are trying to "wield the power of the government to enforce my convictions on others."
I'd sorely like to see how his fellow Christian conservatives would respond if they couldn't focus on those errors. In particular, I wished "mjdaniels" had better focused on something he only said in passing at the end of his post: that opponents of same-sex marriage were essentially calling for "casting the first stone at" this set of sinners.
It seems to me that when persuading Christian conservatives, one should be absolutely clear that the status quo is coercion – discriminatory taxes and inheritance rules, and denying the right to contract, all of which conservatives agree is state coercion when it's applied to them – and that when Jesus was challenged to support such coercion (stoning a woman caught in the act of adultery, according to Mosaic Law), he in turn challenged the teachers of law and Pharisees that the first stone should be cast by one who is without sin. When no one would stone her, he said he would not condemn her that way either, and he simply told her to leave her life of sin.
If even Jesus doesn't think it's humans' place to punish violations of one of the Ten Commandments dealing with marriage, then it's an uphill climb for a Christian conservative to argue that it's their duty to uphold the use of such force based on moral strictures that are much less clear.
I find it baffling that conservatives think the government is capable of making a compact sacred by calling it a marriage, but there I see it in the RedState comments. Do they teach their children that the state's refraining from coercion is an indication of societal approval of a behavior? No; what is not prohibited is merely left to be governed by the other aspects of civil society (the family, the market, churches, social pressure, etc.) and, if Christians are correct, God's ultimate judgment.
China makes reincarnation without government permission illegal
No, really, you read it right. The Chinese government has banned reincarnation without government permission.
In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is "an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation."
Actually, despite the article's claim (and as the article eventually points out), it really isn't as an absurd of an act as it may seem, even though it is certainly representative of totalitarianism.
In fact, it is all about China's war with the Dalai Lama.
At 72, the Dalai Lama, who has lived in India since 1959, is beginning to plan his succession, saying that he refuses to be reborn in Tibet so long as it's under Chinese control. Assuming he's able to master the feat of controlling his rebirth, as Dalai Lamas supposedly have for the last 600 years, the situation is shaping up in which there could be two Dalai Lamas: one picked by the Chinese government, the other by Buddhist monks.
We can all figure out how that will work.
The Chinese communists surface very visibly every now and then as if to remind everyone that China is far from a free country. And, in such a totalitarian country, no detail is too small for the government to ignore … even something in which it likely doesn't even believe.
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A post wherein I agree with Ron Paul
Actually, there's a lot Ron Paul says I agree with, but there's about 5 to 10% of what he says that makes him, at least to me, unsupportable.
But he and I see eye to eye on this thought (from an article about an interview he did with Candy Crowley):
Paul seemed almost baffled that everyone has been talking about social issues at a time when he and others are more concerned with preserving basic civil liberties and the economy.
Folks, for this election social issues is a loser. Sorry to be so blunt, and burst the social issue's activists bubble, but this is the distraction the Obama administration badly needs and it is playing out pretty much as they hoped, with the candidates concentrating in an area that is so removed from the real problems of the day (and the real problems of the Obama record) that it gives relief.
Additionally, it gives visibility to the one area that usually scares the stuffing out of the big middle – the independents who are necessary to win any election (and, until this nonsense started, pretty much owned).
What is going on now is a self-destruction derby. And the tune is being called by the left (if you think the George Stephanopoulos question on contraception that started all this nonsense during one of the debates was delivered by an objective and unbiased journalist, I have some beachfront land in Arizona for you) and kept alive by the media.
How I see it is Americans, in general, don't give much of a rat's patootie about all this nonsense at this moment in history. They've watched their economic world collapse, they're upside down in their houses (or have lost them), they're seeing their children, great grandchildren and great, great grandchildren enslaved to government debt, they're out of work and they're suffering – economically.
And the GOP goes off on the usual nonsensical social issue tangent when there is a table laden with a feast of issues that are relevant to the problems with which the majority of Americans are concerned.
Take a look at Memeorandum right now, for instance, and what headlines do you see? "Santorum attacks Obama on prenatal screening".
Really? Could we maybe see attacks on Obama for adding 4 trillion to the debt, or the highest unemployment rate in decades, or the failed stimulus, or his persistent attacks on fossil fuel even while we sit on more of it than most of the world combined but are getting much less benefit from that because of him? How about Keystone? Gulf permatorium? Solyndra? ObamaCare?
Instead what sort of attacks are made against Obama? Senior Obama Advisor: Rick Santorum's 'Phony Theology' Comment 'Well Over the Line', which spawned, Santorum explains 'phony theology' comment, says Obama is 'a Christian' which results in, Santorum denies questioning Obama's faith.
I cannot imagine a stupider subject being the focus of headlines at this time in our history nor a worse place for a GOP candidate than talking about other people's faith or lack thereof. There is no upside to that. This is the sort of nonsense and ill discipline that has cost the GOP elections in the past, and is well on its way to doing it again.
The middle is watching and my guess is it is not happy with what it sees. If ever the GOP wanted to lay out a strategy to drive independents back to the Democrats, they're well on their way. They are playing to every stereotype the left puts out about them.
What should the GOP be talking about? Things like this and this. The attacks should be on Obama's economic record and leadership, not who is a better Christian.
Take a hint from the Clinton campaign GOP (as loath as they are to do so, I'm sure): "It's the economy, stupid!"
Twitter: @McQandO
Libya: Muslim law and secular dreams
If your hope for the latest version of "Arab Spring" to be found in Libya was a secular democratic state, you can quickly forget the secular part of the dream.
The leader of the transitional government declared to thousands of revelers in a sunlit square here on Sunday that Libya's revolution had ended, setting the country on the path to elections, and he vowed that the new government would be based on Islamic tenets.
Indeed, what has immediately happened is the roll back of many of Gadhafi's decrees that those who've now taken over contend violate Sharia law and Islam's tenets:
Mr Abdul-Jalil went further, specifically lifting immediately, by decree, one law from Col. Gaddafi's era that he said was in conflict with Sharia – that banning polygamy.
In a blow to those who hoped to see Libya's economy integrate further into the western world, he announced that in future bank regulations would ban the charging of interest, in line with Sharia. "Interest creates disease and hatred among people," he said.
I'd love to tell you this comes as a complete surprise, but then I'd be acting like some politicians I know.
I'm certainly not going to contend that keeping Gadhafi was the best thing we could do, but let's be clear, what has happened darn sure doesn't seem to be an outcome that we'd have hoped to see either. At least as it now seems to be shaking out.
In that area of the world, secular dreams seem to me to be the most foolish. How that particular dream manages to stay alive among the elite of the West is beyond me. It isn't now nor has it ever been a probable outcome of any of these so-called "Arab Spring" revolutions. The revolutions are steeped in Islam because the governments being replaced were relatively secular for the area and the Islamic groups now rising were the ones being repressed.
How someone could believe that out of that situation, secular democracy would emerge still remains beyond me. No democratic history, no real established democratic institutions and no real democratic experience by the people there. Yet somehow we've determined that this bunch is superior to the last bunch.
Based on what I've always wondered?
Yet, we continue to hear the hope proclaimed in each upheaval even as reality seems to dismiss the hope at every turn.
Twitter: @McQandO
Still plotting after all these years
And we still try to deny the source of the terror. What am I talking about, you ask?
A Massachusetts man who was plotting to use explosives and radio controlled aircraft was arrested yesterday by the FBI for plotting to blow up the Capital and Pentagon.
It was a rather imaginative and fantastic plot by Rezwan Ferdaus who believed himself to be working with members of al Qaeda. Of course that's key to the point in the first sentence as you'll see. Anyway, the plot:
Ferdaus allegedly gave the undercover FBI agents a detailed set of attack plans "with step-by-step instructions as to how he planned to attack the Pentagon and Capitol," according to the Department of Justice.
The plans focused on the use of three small remote-controlled drone-like aircraft loaded with C-4 plastic explosives, which he planned to fly into the Capitol and the Pentagon using GPS equipment, according to the DOJ.
Ferdaus's plan allegedly evolved to include a "ground assault" as well, in which six people would coordinate an automatic weapons attack with the aerial assault and massacre whomever came into their path, according to the DOJ.
For the past five months, Ferdaus has allegedly been stockpiling the equipment he needed for his proposed attack, including a remote-controlled aircraft, 25 pounds of fake C-4 explosives, six automatic AK-47 assault rifles and three grenades, according to the DOJ. He allegedly kept all of it in a storage facility in Massachusetts, where he was arrested.
Ferdaus allegedly modified eight cellphones to act as detonation devices for improvised explosive devices, and gave them to the FBI agents to be used against American soldiers in Iraq.
"During a June 2011 meeting, he appeared gratified when he was told that his first phone detonation device had killed three U.S. soldiers and injured four or five others in Iraq," according to the DOJ. "Ferdaus responded, 'That was exactly what I wanted.'"
According to the DOJ, a focal point of Ferdaus's plots revolved around "jihad" and his desire to carry out the will of Allah.
The U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Carmen M. Ortiz, stressed that any underlying religious motives to Ferdaus's actions should not reflect on the Muslim culture at-large.
"I want the public to understand that Mr. Ferdaus's conduct, as alleged in the complaint, is not reflective of a particular culture, community or religion," Ortiz said.
Really? So none of this was "reflective of a particular culture, community or religion?
Poppycock. It is indeed reflective of a particular culture, community and religion no matter how perverted other adherents of that religion claim otherwise. It certainly doesn't mean that that all Muslims agree or that the community at large would act this way, but we need to quit pretending actions like this just magically happen without any influence from those three areas.
How else, then, do you get the "culture, community and religion" to face up to the fact that it has some responsibility in what is happening in this ongoing "jihad" (yeah, there's a religion and culture free word)?
Twitter: @McQandO
May the Sphere Bunny bring you many, many Spring Spheres
Why is it that schools, the supposed bastions of education and purported citadels of tolerance and intelligence are so blasted uneducated, stupid and intolerant?
Latest example? A teenager in Seattle, doing community service work, does a project to hand out to younger children in class. The results? Just fascinating in a bizarre and idiotic sort of way:
"At the end of the week I had an idea to fill little plastic eggs with treats and jelly beans and other candy, but I was kind of unsure how the teacher would feel about that," Jessica said.
She was concerned how the teacher might react to the eggs after of a meeting earlier in the week where she learned about "their abstract behavior rules."
"I went to the teacher to get her approval and she wanted to ask the administration to see if it was okay," Jessica explained. "She said that I could do it as long as I called this treat 'spring spheres.' I couldn't call them Easter eggs."
Rather than question the decision, Jessica opted to "roll with it." But the third graders had other ideas.
"When I took them out of the bag, the teacher said, 'Oh look, spring spheres' and all the kids were like 'Wow, Easter eggs.' So they knew," Jessica said.
Never mind that a "sphere" is perfectly round, not an ovoid shape. It has to do with the unbelievable nonsense that allowing something that has been a traditional American practice and celebration since the founding of the country has to be made secular because A) it will somehow be construed as the school establishing religion or B) it will offend someone or C) all of the above.
It doesn't establish anything in terms of religion and if it offends someone, tough. The argument could be made that celebrations of Spring favor Wiccans or Druids or something. And how about those who are offended when teachers make up stupid and obviously incorrect descriptions for Easter eggs like "spring spheres"?
This is the same school district that declared Thanksgiving to be racist and a time for mourning instead. The district has also defined racism in unique and toxic ways. For instance:
The systematic subordination of members of targeted racial groups who have relatively little social power in the United States (Blacks, Latino/as, Native Americans, and Asians), by the members of the agent racial group who have relatively more social power (Whites). The subordination is supported by the actions of individuals, cultural norms and values, and the institutional structures and practices of society.
Notice the only group listed who can possibly be racist according to their definition.
And it gets even better.
Cultural Racism:
Those aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and Whiteness, and devalue, stereotype, and label people of color as "other", different, less than, or render them invisible. Examples of these norms include defining white skin tones as nude or flesh colored, having a future time orientation, emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology, defining one form of English as standard, and identifying only Whites as great writers or composers.
Got that? "Future time orientation", i.e. planning ahead, is racist. Apparently only whites do it. And individualism? Racist. And the school district also made it clear they had no desire "to hold onto unsuccessful concepts such as [a] . . . colorblind mentality."
Calling MLK Jr., because as I remember him, a colorblind society was his fondest hope.
The Supreme Court of the United States literally mocked the district's racial nonsense in a ruling it issued.
Interestingly, the justices highlighted the bizarre claims about race made by the Seattle schools, which cast doubt on whether allowing schools to use race will promote racial harmony rather than racial balkanization.
For example, the Chief Justice's opinion points out that "Seattle's web site formerly described 'emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology' as a form of 'cultural racism,' and currently states that the district has no intention 'to hold onto unsuccessful concepts such as [a] . . . colorblind mentality."
Justice Thomas pointed to those claims, and other bizarre claims on Seattle's web site, in rejecting the dissent's argument that "local school boards should be entrusted to make decisions on the basis of race."
Now they're into "Spring Spheres".
Wouldn't you just love for your child to have to grow up attending school in a district that makes race (and now religion) as toxic as that?
So enlightened. /sarc
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Terry Jones, Koran burning and Constitutional rights (Update)
I don't know what to say about this goof except in this country, he has every right to do what he's doing.
I may not like it (I don't like the "piss Christ" or Westboro Baptist Church either), I may not support it, I may see it as unnecessary and inflammatory to some, but then the same can be said of my other two examples as well. His activities provide no more of a provocation than do the examples.
One of the tough things about rights and freedoms is they also apply to actions we don't like (as long as they don't violate any caveats to those rights).
Many here would like to liken this yahoo's conduct to shouting fire in a crowded theater. I don't buy it. Shouting fire in a crowded theater can cause panic and irrational behavior by people in the theater because of lack of information and fear for one's life. It is an immediate response to an immediate action. Panic ensues, people rush to limited exits all at one time and some get crushed or trampled. It can cause immediate death and injury.
There's no such parallel in this this story as far as I can see. Trust me, I'm not at all pleased by the deaths of UN workers in Afghanistan, but it was at the hands of a mob that was whipped up there (not by the act in FL at the time it occurred) and chose – important word – to react murderously. That's right, they chose to attack people who had absolutely nothing to do with the event in Florida well after the deed was done.
Others want to invoke "fighting words" as a reason to shut Terry Jones down. Uh, no. The only "fighting words" I can imagine came from whomever it was in Afghanistan that whipped that crowd into its murderous frenzy. My guess is most in the crowd had never before heard of Terry Jones or his deed until that day. And my guess is the incitement took place in a mosque.
Don't mistake this for a defense of Terry Jones. I think he's a waste of protoplasm. And I think what he is doing adds nothing positive to the world around us. But –and again, this is the hard part – he has every right to do it.
I'll continue to denounce him and would be glad to tell him to his face that his actions are harmful to both people and the cause he supposedly represents – Christianity.
I doubt he'd listen. Zealots never do. But as long as he confines himself to the activities he has so far, it's his right as an American to continue to do them despite how others in the world choose to react to them.
UPDATE: Figures (debt, deficit, out of control spending, over regulation, ObamaCare – all taken care of I suppose):
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told CBS's Bob Schieffer on Sunday that some members of Congress were considering some kind of action in response to the Florida Quran burning that sparked a murderous riot at a United Nations complex in Afghanistan and other mayhem.
"Ten to 20 people have been killed," Reid said on "Face the Nation," but refused to say flat-out that the Senate would pass a resolution condemning pastor Terry Jones.
"We'll take a look at this of course…as to whether we need hearings or not, I don't know," he added.
Here, Harry, let me help you out:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The first five words (the fourth one in particular) are all Congress needs to know about this.
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Amsterdam is a unique city which combines a historic atmosphere with the outlook and variety of a truly modern, 21st century metropolis. The small scale of the buildings - you'll find no towering skyscrapers here - and the intimacy of the narrow city streets create an atmosphere that visitors love and make Amsterdam the ideal city to explore on foot or by bicycle.
History of Amsterdam
The story of Amsterdam begins in the 13th century when a small fishing village grew up around the spot where settlers had first begun damming the Amstel river. By the time the town gained its first charter in 1300, the 'Aemstelledammers' who started the young Amsterdam had become experts at boat building and the brewing of beer.
Free passage and the development of trading networks proved instrumental in the economic development of Amsterdam. Innovation also played its part. The herring trade grew rapidly after the invention of herring curing, which allowed the fishermen to catch more fish and make more money. But things were to really take off in the 17th century, when the Dutch East India Company was founded. The city of Amsterdam had a majority stake in the trading company - widely to believed to be the first multinational in history - and the prosperity that resulted from its trade with Asia funded what became known as the Golden Age.
During this period of great wealth Amsterdam saw significant expansion, the results of which include the now-famous canals and the Jordaan district. The city's art scene also flourished at this time, leaving a legacy of Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer and Jan Steen.
Decline and poverty followed as the Golden Age came to an end, but in 1876 the completion of a canal linking Amsterdam to the North Sea marked a turning point for the city as fresh trading possibilities brought new prosperity to the city. But as the 20th century dawned, a time of turbulence lay ahead. The Netherlands remained neutral during the First World War, but German occupation during the Second World War led to starvation and the persecution of Amsterdam's Jewish population.
After the war the face of Amsterdam changed rapidly and an influx of Surinamese, Turkish and Moroccan immigrants boosted the city's population. Today the city on the Amstel is a modern, multicultural metropolis that is home to more than 780,000 residents from 180 different countries.
Five things to do in Amsterdam
So you are ready to start your Amsterdam adventure. But what are the 'must see' attractions that should be on every visitor's itinerary? Here are five suggestions of things to do during your visit to Amsterdam - and a map to help you find your way around this exciting, cosmopolitan city.
The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Rijksmuseum is the national museum of the Netherlands and houses one of Europe's finest collections of art and history. But the museum's recent past has been one of great turmoil. It closed in 2003 for renovation but the project overran by five years and the budget spiralled, meaning the museum could only be officially reopened by Queen Beatrix earlier this year.
It's fair to say the wait has been worth it, as today the Rijksmuseum takes visitors on a spectacular journey through Dutch history, from the Middle Ages to the present day. More than 8,000 paintings, drawings, prints and other fascinating objects bring the story of the Netherlands to life. At the heart of the museum is the restored Gallery of Honour where masterpieces by the likes of Frans Hals, Jan Steen, Johannes Vermeer and Rembrandt make for an inspiring celebration of the Dutch Golden Age.
Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam
The Heineken Experience
For beer-lovers the Heineken Experience is an Amsterdam highlight not to miss. The former brewery has been transformed into a celebration of this world-famous Dutch beer, and visitors flock here to learn about the 150-year history of the drink and, naturally, sample a few of the brews for themselves. The tour only takes about 90 minutes and the experience is open seven days a week, but please be aware that those under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
Stadhouderskade 78, 1072 AE Amsterdam
Anne Frank House
A visit to the Anne Frank House - where the teenage Anne wrote her famous diary while her family hid from the German occupiers of Amsterdam - is a moving experience. The building was saved from threatened demolition after the Second World War by campaigners determined to preserve the place where Anne and her family hid for two years before they were betrayed to the Nazis. Today visitors can see Anne's original diary as well as permanent and temporary exhibitions documenting the wartime persecution of Jews and contemporary fascism, racism and anti-Semitism.
Prinsengracht 267, 1016 GV Amsterdam
Van Gogh Museum
Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh remains one of the most famous artists of the 19th century and his work had a significant influence of the art of the century that followed. Nowhere else in the world can you see as many of the great painter's works together in place as at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which displays such famous works as The Sunflowers and The Bedroom in Arles. Visitors to the museum can also learn more about the artists Van Gogh was friends with and who he influenced in their work.
Paulus Potterstraat 7, 1071 CX Amsterdam
Red Light District
Situated in the oldest part of the city, Amsterdam's famous red light district is the known the world over for leaving little to the imagination. At night the neighbourhood comes alive as curious tourists explore the canal-side streets lined with the iconic red-lit windows, sex shops and live shows. The Dutch are famous for their tolerant attitudes towards sex and drugs, and nowhere is this relaxed approach more evident than in De Wallen.
But the rosse buurt, as the area is known to Amsterdammers, is not just about the nocturnal sights and sounds of the red light district. The neighbourhood is full of interesting shops, great places to eat and drink, and some of the city's finest architecture, such as the gothic Oude Kerk.
Getting there
Amsterdam is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, lying at the center of the Randstad, one of the largest metropolitan areas in Europe. Getting there is easy if you book one of the frequent cross-Channel ferries to France, with Amsterdam being less than four hours away by car if you travel on one of the Dover ferries to Calais.
MyFerryLink offers up to 16 sailings between Dover and Calais every day and you can book your crossing by visiting our booking page on the website or by calling 0844 2482 100.
Further information
You can find out more about Amsterdam on the I Amsterdam website.


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AboutRichard Artschwager / Barbara Bloom / Guy de Cointet / Richard Healy / Nan Hoover / Allison Katz / William Leavitt / Darius MikŠ ¡ys / Ola Vasiljeva 'The living room of a modern apartment. A sliding glass door opens to a garden of tropical plants lit by colored spotlights. A large painting of a South American jungle cat is hung over the long sofa. A man of forty, dressed in sport coat and slacks, stands by the open doors. He is looking into the garden as a young woman comes into the room. He turns to face her.' William Leavitt, extract of stage directions taken from The Tropics, 1974 Last Seen Entering the Biltmore is a group exhibition which brings together new commissions and existing works that summon ideas of artifice reminiscent of stage sets and scenographic tools. Instead of conjuring illusionary environments, these works knowingly disclose a perspective from the \"backstage\". Backstage, in this context, refers to a position that is witness to artistic transformation, experimentation and subversion; a space off-stage or screen where the demands of the centre stage do not apply. Last Seen Entering the Biltmore considers experiences mediated through thresholds such as the TV monitor, cinema screen, theatre curtain, and stage, as well as sets and props - objects suspended between rehearsal and ritual, mimicry and fiction. Featuring a variety of media including painting, sculpture, film and installation, the exhibited works are less concerned with \"the theatre\" per se than with \"the art of the theatre\". This distinction was made by the British playwright Howard Barker and on this occasion is used in reference to instances when theatre is dragged from its confines and explored through another art form. Works include American artist William Leavitt's scenic stage architectures, which are inspired by soap operas and the plays of Alain Robbe Grillet: sometimes they are built for plays, at other times they stand alone. His works elicit a blankness of southern Californian suburbs, of patios and bungalows, architecture of the oblique, paired with deadpan dialogues, which reveal the absurdity of the banal. Allison Katz\'s new commission for the exhibition combines her graphic work and painting, taking the form of a poster announcing, and displayed alongside, a new large-scale painting. In Color Pieces, pioneering video artist Nan Hoover created spatial ambiguities through a muted colour spectrum and subtle play of shadows and lights that are as much a test or rehearsal as a final piece of work. The title, Last Seen Entering the Biltmore, is taken from a collection of stories and plays by Gary Indiana, featuring plays such as Alligator Girls Go to College (1979) and The Roman Polanski Story (1981). Written for an informal theatre company, the plays offered a sort of community theatre for New York's underground art scene. The title refers to the events surrounding the case of Elisabeth Short, who was last seen entering the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles in 1947 before she was found murdered and became known as the Black Dahlia, elevated to iconic status by media frenzy in a city devoted to the production of artifice. Last Seen Entering the Biltmore is curated by Anna Gritz, the South London Gallery's Associate Curator (Film, Performance and Talks).
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nah I wasn't in that one, it sounded hilarious though on TS
Yeah, I'm unfortunately living in the NOLA area, and get to see what this city has become due to dumbass politicians like him.
Yep, New Orleans gets it a lot, and sadly people here fall for it.
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If you've been following along with this series, you know we're in the trenches of OpenOffice.org and that I'm no longer a newbie. In fact, I'm feeling pretty comfortable in the world of OpenOffice. But, if you're new to OpenOffice.org or just curious what it's like to explore this compelling and arguably superior alternative to Microsoft Office, you might want to back up and get your bearings.
Having already explored the basic features of Writer and Impress, I've moved into the spreadsheet world with Calc. But, since most people are already familiar with the basics of cells and sums and splitting, I'm going to delve into the less-used, kind-of-scary features such as validating, DataPilot (OpenOffice.org's answer to Pivot Tables), linking, scenarios, and conditional formatting. To show you how you can use these tools to help your everyday calculating, I've chosen a scenario that many of you OpenOffice.org champions might need to convince the people in charge that your organization would be much better migrating to open source. I'm going to show you how to use Calc to crunch basic cost analysis numbers for migrating to OpenOffice.org.
> Gathering the Data
If you're the IT director for a larger organization, you might have separate IT managers over each department. As a first step to gathering the data for your OpenOffice.org migration plan, you might first want to create a spreadsheet form that the IT managers can use to report information on their separate departments. Once you gather this information, you'll be able to link it to another spreadsheet that will help you determine the cost analysis of a migration.
First, you would decide what information you want to find out and create a simple form. For our example, we'll create fields for the managers to indicate their department, the number of users in that department, their current office productivity suite, the current licensing costs for that office suite, and the estimated average downtime the users in their department report when they make an IT change. (See Figure 1.)
Although this form is very simple and should be easy for your managers to fill out, make sure that it is filled out exactly as you want it to be so you don't end up reentering data later. One way to make sure that the managers fill it out with predetermined values is to create a drop-down list of values from which the managers must choose their answer. To do this, you use validation.
Let's first validate what the managers will enter for their department name. First, select the cell that the managers will use to enter their department name, then click Data | Validity. In the Allow field on the Criteria tab, select List. Uncheck the Allow blank cells option and enter your list in the list box, pressing Enter to create each new entry. (See Figure 2.) Then click OK. In your spreadsheet form, a dropdown list arrow will now appear indicating that the managers should choose a value from that list.
I'm going to show you how to use Calc to crunch basic cost analysis numbers for migrating to OpenOffice.org.
Next, let's say you want to make sure the manager's finger doesn't slip on the keyboard when he is typing in the value for the number of users and accidentally enter 2500 instead of 250. Although this scenario is unlikely, it illustrates how you would use validation to make sure a value is in a specific range.
Again, click the cell in which the manager would enter the number of users, then select Data | Validity and the Criteria tab again. This time in the Allow field, select Whole Numbers, in the Data field, select Less Than, and then enter the maximum number. Because in our hypothetical company, no department has more than 1000 users, I entered a value of 1000. This time, to make doubly sure the number of users are correct, I'm going to click the Error tab and enter a custom error message that will stop the manager's action if he tries to enter a large number. In the Error tab, I'll choose Stop as the action and then add a title and message to come up if the manager enters a value higher than 1000. (See Figure 3.)
One final way to add validity to a form is to create a help message that will explain to the managers what they should enter when they click the input cell. For instance, to explain to the managers how to estimate their department's downtime, click the cell that will hold the average downtime number. Then select Data | Validity and this time click the Input Help tab. Check the Show input help when cell is selected box and then enter the custom help message. Now, when the manager clicks this cell, he will see how to calculate the average estimated downtime. (See Figure 4.)
One final way I can make sure the form is not only formatted correctly but also doesn't change is to protect the cells I want to be constant. In Calc, you need to take a couple steps to protect certain cells on a sheet because all the cells in a sheet are protected by default.
Once I link to all the data I need in my cost analysis, I can begin to see what a current software upgrade might look like. I have the cost per user for each of my cost categories and the total cost for each category, as well, but the cost analysis is to compare costs of upgrading to the next version of the proprietary software my hypothetical organization is currently using.
First, press CTRL + A to select all the cells in the current sheet. Select Format | Cells and click the Cell Protection tab. Uncheck the Protected check box. Now, you can select the cells you want to protect and repeat the same steps to re-protect these cells. Because cells won't be protected unless the sheet is protected, you must next protect the sheet. Select Tools | Protect Document | Sheet and enter a password. Now, when you save the document and send it to the managers, they will not be able to change the cells you protected without the password.
> One More Stat
Although the data you collect will tell you most of the stats you need to begin to figure the cost analysis to migrate to OpenOffice.org, one other stat you might want to collect is the average cost of a helpdesk call. In our hypothetical company, let's say that as the IT director you have a spreadsheet that holds the raw data of all the helpdesk calls for one week. The spreadsheet shows the date, the department, the caller's name, the duration of the call, and the cost of the call ($8 x the duration of the call). This data is organized into columns with each item of information in a column. Basically, it's just raw data with only one calculation built in.
One way you can begin to interpret this data is to use a DataPilot (Calc's equivalent to Excel Pivot Tables). To start a DataPilot table, you simply select the upper left corner of your data (there's no need to select the entire data range) then select Data | DataPilot | Start. Make sure Current Selection is selected on the next dialog and then click OK. A dialog will then appear with drag and drop fields named after your column headings. (See Figure 5.) You can drag and drop the fields in four separate areas. If you drag and drop a field in the Page Fields area, you'll have the option to filter the data according to that field. If you drop a field in the column area, that field will be dispersed in columns and if you drop a field in the row area, that field will be dispersed in rows. If you drop a field in the middle Data Fields area, you can analyze and calculate according to that field. By default, a sum calculation will come up. To change that calculation, just doubleclick the field and choose a formula from the dialog that appears.
For our hypothetical situation, I'm going to drag the Date field to the Page Fields area, the Department field to the Row area, the Caller's Name field to the column area, and the Time Spent and Call Cost fields to the Data Fields area. I'll also change the calculation in the Data fields area to Average instead of Sum. Although I don't need to for this DataPilot table, for future tables I can also click the More button to change where the DataPilot table information will be shown and other options on how the data will be displayed. Once I click OK, I can clearly see the average cost for each person who called and each department, as well as the total average costs and total average time spent. (See Figure 6.)
> Creating the Cost Analysis
To create the cost analysis, you first need to create the bare bones of the factors you need to determine. For our hypothetical cost analysis, we need to know number of users, licensing costs per user, deployment labor costs, hardware costs, help desk costs, training costs and user disruption costs. Because many of these data points are in the forms from the departments and the help desk spread sheet, I can simply link to the data in these spreadsheets, so if that data changes, it will automatically change on my analysis spreadsheet.
If you have inserted all the forms into your current spreadsheet document, all you need to do to link the cells in each spreadsheet is select the cells while you are creating your formula. So, to create a formula that would calculate the total number of users on my cost analysis, I begin by entering an equals sign to indicate I want to create a formula. Then I manually scroll through the sheets in my spreadsheet document, selecting the cells that indicate the number of users in each department and then manually entering a plus sign in between each. My completed formula says:
='Customer Service'.B2+Management.B2+Accounting.B2+Fulfillment.B2+Operations.B2+Quality Control'.B2+Sales.B2
If, however, the forms from the department managers aren't all in one document, I can still link to the data, I just first must create a name range in each of the forms. To create a name range, I simply select the field that indicates the number of users and select Insert | Names | Define. Then, I can enter a name for the cell according to the department. (Note: Names must not contain spaces). Once these name ranges are defined, I can link to them in my current document and then use them to create a formula to calculate total number of users.
To link to external data, I select Insert | Link to External Data and click the button with the ellipse (...) to browse through my file system. After I select the document that holds the correct named range, I select the range from the available tables/ranges box. I then check the Update every box and select the increment at which I want the link to update, and then I click OK. (See Figure 7.) Now, the information will automatically update as I update the parent file and I can create my formula for the total number of users from this linked data.
I can repeat these steps as many times as necessary to compare all the different scenarios for my office suite migration. Once all the scenarios are in place, I can simply use the drop-down arrow to switch values and see the different calculations it creates. Obviously, from these calculations, I can see that the cost of migrating to OpenOffice.org is significantly cheaper.
Once I link to all the data I need in my cost analysis, I can begin to see what a current software upgrade might look like. I have the cost per user for each of my cost categories and the total cost for each category, as well, but the cost analysis is to compare costs of upgrading to the next version of the proprietary software my hypothetical organization is currently using. Although I can simply copy the same information and change the figures to reflect a choice to go to open source, a cleaner, easier way to compare the data is to use Calc's scenario feature.
To create a scenario, I first select the values that I want to vary and make sure there is a blank cell above these values. I then select Tools | Scenarios. In the dialog that appears, I name the scenario Proprietary software because that's what my current values represent. I choose a color to represent the scenario, make sure the Copy back check box is marked, and click OK. My same values appear, but they are surrounded by a blue border and a drop-down list next to the top title. (See Figure 8.)
Now, to create another scenario, I select the same values again and select Tools | Scenarios again, this time entering another name and color for the second scenario. When I get back to my document, I can then enter in new values that will be saved with the new scenario.
> Conditional Formatting
Just in case the numbers don't speak for themselves, I can also use conditional formatting to truly highlight how cost-effective OpenOffice.org is. Conditional formatting is usually used to make a value a different format when it meets a certain condition, such as the text being green when the value is lower than $100,000.00.
To apply conditional formatting, you first must create styles. Just like creating styles in Writer, the easiest way to create styles in Calc is to first format a cell the way you want the style to be formatted. So, in my analysis spreadsheet, I'll first type a random value in a blank cell and then select that cell and make any formatting changes. Since I want the number to be red if the value is over $100,000.00 and green if it's under $100,000.00, I'll first make this cell's formatting red and select the cell again. Then, I'll open the Styles and Formatting window by pressing F11 and click the New Style from Selection button. I'll name the style "red" and then do the same with the "green" style. Once I have these styles set, I can erase the contents of the cells I used to make the style.
To apply the conditional formatting, I first select the cell that I want the conditional formatting to apply to and then select Format | Conditional Formatting. In the dialog that appears, I then can define my conditions. For the first condition, I'll select "Cell value is greater than 100,000" and then select my "red" style from the Cell style dropdown list. For the second condition, I'll select "Cell value is less than 100,000" and then select my "green" style from the Cell style dropdown list. (See Figure 9.) When these conditions are set, I can simply click OK and the value in my selected cell will either turn green or red, showing in color how much my organization can save by switching to the OpenOffice.org suite.
> Summing Up
Although all the values in this article were hypothetical, using OpenOffice.org Calc to prove how cost-effective a migration to the OpenOffice.org suite is might not be a bad way to show management how much money you can save them. And, using Calc's lesser-used tools, like validation, DataPilot tables, linking, scenarios, and conditional formatting can show them in an even more impressive format.


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You have to understand the mentality of the Undertaker. Go back and watch some interviews from 2001-2003, when he was able to do some since he was in his biker persona. He wants the youth to step up and take the business to new heights - and he wants to be a guy that can usher that new era in.
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1 cup baby spinach leaves (or basil) - torn into pieces
2 cups strawberries - sliced thinly
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3. Bake the loaf of French bread until well toasted. Slice bread into 1/2 inch thick pieces.
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LeBron James – one of the league's most physical players – is upset with the "rough" treatment he's received this season. He ******* whined sounded off following last night's loss to the Bulls: "Those are not basketball plays and it's been happening all year," James said after the game, in reference to the two hard fouls. "And I was able to keep my cool and try to spell [Spoelstra], 'Let's not worry about it too much.' But it is getting to me. It didn't take long after Gibson's hard foul for James to lose his cool. Hinrich brought the ball up the court on the very next possession, and James lowered a shoulder into Carlos Boozer–who had come to set a ball-screen for Hinrich–that the referees deemed a flagrant foul. "Every time I try to defend myself I gotta face the consequences, whatever it may be," James continued. "It's tough, and I'm not sitting here crying about anything, because I play the game at a high level, I play with a lot of aggression and I understand
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Anyone interested in how Section 2257 Compliance Notices appear on Model Mayhem may see one in this image by Brandon McAlister. This particular example is overly wordy and overly informative, but most importantly is unnecessary, since the upload date precedes the effective date of 2257A, which is the only portion of the 2257 regime that applies to this (particularly explicit, but otherwise non-sexual) photo. This photographer has placed a notice on many photographs that contain nudity or erotic suggestiveness, but he's not consistent. In all cases, IMO, the notices are not necessary.
I am concerned about uncertainty for those photographers like me who have mailed in their 28 CFR §75.9 "Safe Harbor" Certification. (Or those who will — remember, folks, the deadline for most of you is June 16.) As you may recall, the "Safe Harbor" Certification ("SHC") came about after lobbying by the entertainment industry and "men's magazines" to be exempt from having to post §2257 notices on movies or magazines containing simulated sexual conduct or lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area. Congress could not appear to craft an exemption specifically for one or another industry, however, so the SHC provisions are worded so they may apply to any number of persons or organizations, including us fine art photographers who sell prints of our work as a business.
The problems arise when a photographer files a SHC and either:
- Receives no response from the Department of Justice; or
- It is rejected by DOJ, but in the meantime he has photographed "SHC content"; or
- The Certification is deemed effective and the photographer photographs content he considers to be "simulated" but the Feds consider to be "actual."
As I discuss at greater length in my book and its updates, we are nowhere told how the DOJ will respond to SHC filings. Also as mentioned there, we may argue that a SHC is effective as of its mailing, and that since DOJ nowhere sets out standards for acceptance, rejection, or a methodology for notifying those of us who submit, the government's sole option for a SHC that is valid on its face would be to charge the submitter with falsifying the facts set forth in the SHC. Likewise, we may argue that until such time as DOJ responds to a SHC, the submitter has a right to rely on the safe harbor granted as to his own work. It is an argument, however, and only that, and hence the uncertainty under #1 above.
Point #2 should be easily dealt with: if DOJ does reject a SHC, then create the necessary records and affix the necessary notices. What about copies of the images covered by the SHC that have already been published, however? What about the uncertainty third-party secondary producers may face not knowing until after DOJ responds? Did the submitter break the law by photographing content subject to §2257A but not creating the records, if his SHC is later rejected? All this is uncertain, and for some people may only be resolved in court.
The greatest uncertainty comes with number 3, however. Assuming you have filed a SHC, here are the stakes: if you take a photograph after March 18 that you consider to be "simulated" conduct but the feds consider to be "actual," the difference is between getting a pass and getting up to five years in prison. Again, in the book I discuss this problem at greater length, focusing especially on matters relating to "sadistic or masochistic abuse" and "masturbation," in both of which for still photography it is difficult if not impossible to differentiate between actual and simulated. Consider the following photograph, for example,
even argue that this photo is actual sadistic abuse subject to §2257 as of its date (2006). Let's assume that the photograph was taken after March 18, the photographer has filed a SHC, and he argues that it is "simulated" SM. The feds say, no, it is "actual" SM. Who is right? Short of a criminal trial we have no way of knowing.
taken by Circle23 and Allen Falkner (in the model's portfolio, apparently). I'd
Things are unlikely to proceed that far. More likely:
DOJ Representative: This photograph is subject to §2257, and you must create records for it and affix a label.
You: No, it's simulated and I have filed a "Safe Harbor" Certification, so for this photo I'm exempt.
DOJ: It looks real to me, and if you want we can prosecute you and let a jury decide.
You: Nooooo. I'll create the records.
But you won't know that this is the case unless (1) the government finds the photo, (2) this kind of confrontation ensues, and (3) you decide to knuckle under.
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Final Score: Miami-Florida 24, (20) Georgia Tech 7
Miami, FL (Sports Network) - Lamar Miller ran for 93 yards on 27 carries with
a touchdown as Miami-Florida took down 20th-ranked Georgia Tech, 24-7, at Sun
Life Stadium.
Mike James also had a rushing touchdown while Jacory Harris completed just 8-
of-23 passes for 140 yards with an interception for the Hurricanes (4-3, 2-2
ACC), who have won their past two games to move over .500 on the season.
"We did good moving the ball on the ground today," said James. "We were able
to get a strong push off the line and we took advantage of that."
Tevin Washington was just 6-of-12 passing for 63 yards and a pick. He ran in
the lone score of the game for the Yellow Jackets (6-2, 3-2), who have dropped
their past two games after winning the first six of the season.
"I thought our kids played hard," said Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson.
"I am frustrated that we couldn't find something to do better on offense,
clearly they had a better plan than we did, because we couldn't get any
rhythm, couldn't get anything going. We couldn't hit any good plays. We
couldn't overcome the special teams that we had today, and that is a
reflection on me."
Washington was picked off on his first attempt of the game and Miami took over
at the Georgia Tech 46. Several plays later, Miller's 11-yard run set up a
1st-and-goal at the three and James punched the ball into the end zone
on a second effort for a 7-0 lead with 8:17 left in the first.
The score remained that way until the second quarter when a special teams
mishap from the Yellow Jackets turned into seven points for the Hurricanes.
A Dalton Botts punt from near midfield saw Zach Laskey muff the catch and JoJo
Nicolas recover in the end zone for a 14-0 lead with 10:17 to play in the
Georgia Tech finally got its offense on track on its following touch as the
team covered 92 yards over 20 plays with Washington taking the ball into the
end zone himself on a sneak from the one-yard line to make it a 14-7 game with
just 62 seconds left in the half.
However, Travis Benjamin returned the ensuing kickoff 48 yards to give the
Hurricanes the ball just past midfield. Harris then hit Tommy Streeter for 32
yards. Following an incompletion, Miller took the ball up the middle and into
the end zone on a 14-yard score to make it a 21-7 game at the break.
The Yellow Jackets started the second half with the ball and pushed it
across midfield, but a Washington pass on 4th-and-3 fell incomplete.
That was it for Georgia Tech, though, as the team didn't get the ball
past midfield the rest of the way and Jake Wieclaw's 39-yard field goal just
over a minute into the fourth accounted for the final score.
Game Notes
Georgia Tech hosts Clemson next Saturday...The Hurricanes host Virginia on
Thursday...Miami has won the past three meetings with Georgia Tech...The two
teams combined for just 473 yards of offense, with Miami totaling 262
yards...Washington had 36 rushing yards.


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