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Reviews, Visits, and Rankings / Phoenix School of Law....« on: March 02, 2011, 02:37:39 PM »
Any feedback for this school? Any students who want to share their experiences ?
Law School Applications / Re: Low LSAT, Okay GPA .... Where Do I Start?« on: February 28, 2011, 07:41:14 AM »
I appreciate the advice from you both and the well luck wishes.
My question now becomes if I retake the LSAT (most likely in October) will Law Schools look down on me? As of today, I'm 21. Would my chances decrease if I took a year off in between college graduation and Law School?
Law School Applications / Low LSAT, Okay GPA .... Where Do I Start?« on: February 28, 2011, 12:03:13 AM »
I received a 144 on my LSAT, I studied for months and was scoring (High 150's) on my practice tests both on my own and in my class. I don't know what happened on game day but I just flat out bombed. No excuses. My GPA is decent. I have 3.5 and I know by the end of this semester I will get a 3.6. I have a good amount of volunteer hours and I'm active in my school community ( Sorority, Honors Society President etc) and my church.
I've already been accepted to Thomas M. Cooley on a full ride. I was wait-listed at Mississippi College.
I've applied to and waiting to hear back from:
Ava Maria
Florida A& M
Mercer University
St. Thomas in Florida
South Texas College of Law
Phoenix School of Law
New York Law
Loyola ( New Orleans)
So my questions are:
Is there anywhere else I should apply that I would stand a chance of getting in? I've stalked Law School Numbers but I find it hard to compare. There were a few people with my score but they were nontraditional, a minority or had Military Experience. Or all three. So I found it hard to compare myself realistically.
And, my second question is Cooley worth going to on a full ride? I've talked to some students who compare it to Survivor and say that transferring from there is extremely hard. Which makes me leery, though the lack of debt is extremely appealing.
The school I really want to go to is University of Detroit Mercy ( because of their dual degree with Canada and they are Roman Catholic.)I visited Law School Numbers but again found it hard to compare. Is it likely that I will stand a chance during Applications or should I not waste the money.
And lastly any sage words of advice? ( besides retake. I'm just testing my options right now. For all but two of the schools I applied to I have received fee waivers. If I don't like my chances I will retake.)
Thanks for all the help in advance. I appreciate any and all advice that ya'll are willing to give.)
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May. 18, 2015
Bob Bowman, swimming coach of Michael Phelps, will head men's and women's swim teams at Arizona State; Phelps will accompany Bowman to Tempe, Ariz, and Bowman hopes that Phelps will serve as volunteer assistant for program. MORE
Apr. 25, 2015
Arizona State University hires Bob Bowman, former trainer for Michael Phelps, to coach both men's and women's swimming. MORE
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Arizona State University is teaming with nonprofit online firm edX to offer online freshman year that will be available globally on Internet with no admissions process and full university credit; each credit costs $200, but students will not have to pay until they pass courses. MORE
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Bobby Hurley will replace Herb Sendek as Arizona State men's basketball coach. MORE
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Aug. 14, 2014
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Jun. 17, 2014
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Joe Nocera Op-Ed column praises Arizona State University president Michael Crow for his efforts to make school a viable option for low-income students who otherwise might not attain college degree; examines novel partnership between university and Starbucks under which all of company's employees will be eligible to receive a free online college education. MORE
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Starbucks announces arrangement with Arizona State University to provide free online college education to thousands of its workers; program is open to any of company's 135,000 United States employees, provided they work at least 20 hours a week and meet admissions requirements; employees who take advantage are not required to remain with Starbucks after their education. MORE
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Feb. 15, 2014
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Jan. 23, 2014
Arizona State University is investigating accusations that members of fraternity Tau Kappa Epsilon gave a party to commemorate Martin Luther King's Birthday at which nonblack students mocked blacks by donning loose basketball jerseys, flashing gang signs and drinking from hollowed-out watermelons. MORE
Mar. 15, 2013
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Nov. 16, 2012
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Sep. 25, 2012
Arizona State University opens the Center for Science and the Imagination, a meeting and collaborative ground for scientists and sci-fi writers. MORE
Dec. 23, 2011
Boise State defeats Arizona State, 56-24, in college football's Maaco Bowl Las Vegas. MORE
Dec. 15, 2011
Arizona State hires football coach Todd Graham to replace dismissed Dennis Erikson; other college football news noted. MORE
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July 31, 2015, Friday
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May 18, 2015, Monday
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April 23, 2015, Thursday
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April 12, 2015, Sunday
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April 10, 2015, Friday
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April 7, 2015, Tuesday
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March 25, 2015, Wednesday
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March 19, 2015, Thursday
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I started thinking about cover songs that were better than the original. That, inevitably, made me think of remakes that were just an insult to the original performance and the person who wrote it (if not the same person). But things that I like or dislike might be the exact opposite for you.
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Here's what I've found as far as social media is concerned…
I'm also techincally on Google + and occasionally share posts on there, but that's the extent of what I do on that particular site. What social media outlets have you found the most helpful?
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I totally agree with everything you've written on this post. Pinterest is one of my top referrers as well, I love the interaction with my fb followers and twitter…well, I still feel like a beginner. I will up your numbers and follow you, and tweet this post (to my 30 followers haha) I am really enjoying this series, thanks!
Hands down- you got this all dialed in! Social media is Huge! I love interacting with everyone through everything! Super fun- great ideas- great laughs! All around awesome! Thanks so much for sharing this Amy!
Thanks Amy! I just made my facebook page last night and it's taking time to gain some followers. I am hosting a giveaway on my blog though so I'm hoping that'll bring it more traffic!
Good to know I'm doing something right! The first thing I did when I started my blog was to create a Facebook page AND I'm a Pinterest addict as well! These are my two top referral sites so, yes, they work! Thanks again for your information!
My biggest issue with facebook, is that I found out if you do a giveaway on there… or make liking the page a giveaway requirement or bonus entry… facebook is allowed to delete your page because it goes against their policies.
I wanted to do just a giveaway on facebook and had to cancel it once I found the policy out. I wasn't willing to pay a third party to host the giveaway for me.
Thanks for the tips! I love Pinterest and get a great deal of traffic from it. Facebook also works well…it's easy to learn. Twitter I just don't get. When I follow large blogs they tweet and share on facebook all day long. It must have some benefit as they have 10,000 – 80,000 followers. I can't imagine, but somehow they have found a way of self promotion that works. It's hard and overwhelming to even think of competing! Maybe what some of them learn at blog conferences really helps, but most of the time I feel out of the loop.
I know I need to be better at these things and seriously do not yet get Google + at all. Thanks for the reminder that it's necessary and a peek at your routine. I love a good routine, lol.
I am a HUGE pinner and was long before I began blogging. I am also a huge Facebooker but only on my personal page. I have been debating about starting one for `A Casarella because I wasn't sure if it would be too redundant but I think you've helped make my decision. Again, thanks for this series. Very helpful!
Very helpful – I need to be on Pinterest! You are right in having to pick and choose, but it sounds as though browsing and pinning is like having your favorite House Beautiful magazine come to life! Thanks!
Thank you so much for this series, and some additional suggestions for facebook, could you please educate me as to how you did the pic of your pintrest page?
Thanks so much! I guess I'll have to jump on this Pinterest band wagon. Love this series! Totally great for a new blogger like myself!
The other social media avenues are great 'extensions' of one's blog. Thanks so much for sharing your great tips at the Blog Tips Cafe linky party over at I Gotta Create!
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I agree totally with all your thoughts on Facebook and Pinterest. I have a Twitter account, but haven't done anything with it yet. I really must do get my act together, but I'm not terribly inspired and Google +… I haven't even switched over and haven't read anything which has convinced me to try it. Good to hear your thoughts, Amy.
Can you share how you get the Pinterest logo to appear when you hover over your images? I've searched Pinterest for a tutorial, but I can't figure it out. Thanks!


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OGDENSBURG The Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority is courting three grain companies to store their goods at its Paterson Street port.
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He was born June 22, 1935, in Rabun County to Luther Francis and Eva Turpin Phillips.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by eight brothers and sisters.
He is survived by: his loving wife, Oma Jean Phillips of Clayton; four sons, David Phillips and wife Brenda, Charles Phillips and wife Joy, Rance Phillips and wife April and Ricky Lunsford, all of Clayton; six grandchildren, Anna Phillips, Christopher Phillips, Elgan Phillips, Ethan Phillips, Jessica Phillips and Lleyton Phillips, all of Clayton; and several nieces and nephews.
R.E. was a member of the 1953 Rabun County High School graduating class and was the owner of Phillips' Auto Service for 53 years. He was a member of Clayton First Assembly of God Church.
Funeral services were held Sunday at Beck Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Dale Tilley officiating. Burial followed in Frady Cemetery.
Memorial donations in Rance Phillips' memory may be made to Gideon's International, Rabun County Camp, P.O. Box 241, Clayton, GA 30525.
Beck Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. An online guestbook is available at http://www.beckfuneralhome.com.


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After the shock and awe of the Consumer Electronics Show last month, Samsung is bringing us a more mid-range mobile device that will satisfy those consumers who want more functionality without shelling out the money for a brand-new, top of the line smartphone. So, without further ado we introduce to you the Galaxy S Advance a welcome addition to the Samsung Galaxy cell phone line.
The following is an insightful video review of the Samsung Galaxy S Advance by Mobile Gazette
Customers will experience a zippy interface that is quick to open apps and multi-task on. The specs are solid, if not stellar. 4 inch Super AMOLED display gives a great visual experience and the middle-of-the road RAM and internal storage are pretty standard. There are no current plans to move the mobile OS from Android Gingerbread to Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich.
Consumers can further enhance the Samsung Galaxy S mobility by optimizing aaplications with select accessories including stylus & pens, micro SD memory cards, batteries, docking stations, Bluetooth headsets, data cables and glider gloves all specifically designed to make your devices functionally efficient and performance rich.
As Samsung's President of IT & Mobile Communications Division, JK Shin noted, "The GALAXY S Advance adds to the successful track record of the GALAXY smartphone range with a phone that combines power and style with all the versatility of Samsung's Hub services." This particular group of services is what will give users over 11 million music tracks, 2.3 million e-books, 3,500 magazine and 200 newspaper titles which are both excellent reasons to invest in good headphones and speakers.
For gamers, the ever-popular Game Hub puts thousands of catalogued games at users' fingertips. As these may take up more juice, check the specs and requirements to see if a purchase of additional resources is needed.
And, in a move that will bring a more competitive offering to the new Nokia Windows Phone line, ChatON acts as a kind of people hub to interactively share content, group chat via video and voice and in general make messaging intuitive and easy. The last (and perhaps favorite) feature is Find My Mobile which is a unique lost-phone management system. Securing and encrypting data, ability to wipe the device data via Web or trace the device via Web is uber awesome.
All in all, Samsung looks to bring a best-of-both-worlds kind of phone to market and we look forward to seeing the smartphone in action!


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Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems Preview
One of the major topics attracting the public attention when they touch upon AMD Athlon 64 FX and Athlon 64 processors is the discussion of their 64bit capabilities. Unfortunately, there is not much to talk about yet. There are no public operation systems supporting 64bit AMD64 extensions that is why the biggest part of our today?s article will be devoted to the performance of Athlon 64 FX-53 in 32bit Windows XP operation system.
However, the situation is not as hopeless as it might seem at first glance. AMD has already sold quite a bit of processors supporting AMD64 technology. Moreover, Intel has also announced their long-term intention to introduce AMD64-compatible 64bit extensions support in its upcoming desktop CPUs in the far-away future. That is why it is more than evident that AMD64 technology will become a success one day. Sooner or later 64bit operation systems and the whole lot of 64bit software will come to the market. Especially, since software developers have no alternatives left: if the program will require more than 2GB of memory then the only way to solve the problem is to use 64bit processor mode.
But this is the future. Although there is some movement towards the use of AMD64 technology today already. The first remarkable event in this field took place in the beginning of February, when Microsoft Company offered everyone the opportunity to get acquainted with a preliminary version of their Windows XP operation system with AMD64 technology support. This OS is officially called Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems and is available for free download on the Microsoft web-site. Of course, we couldn?t leave out this fact and took a closer look at the new operation system.
I would like to stress that this is the second time already we get to work with a Windows version supporting AMD64 technologies. In our article devoted to AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 we have already provided some benchmarks results obtained in this OS. However, at that time we had an earlier beta-version of Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems at our disposal. Although at that time already it worked flawlessly, without any evident bugs. The public demo version of this OS is marked with a newer date and works without any problems on Athlon 64 FX/Athlon 64 processors. However, this system is hardly suitable for every-day use. In fact, it can be useful only for software developers and testers who simply have to use a 64bit system. Regular users do not need to shift to Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems and sometimes simply cannot do it at all.
The first problem you face when installing Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems is the lack of necessary drivers. Very few hardware developers offer drivers for their devices, which are compatible with the Windows versions supporting AMD64. Regular 32bit drivers cannot be used for 64bit operation system. For this reason, for instance, the owners of Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems cannot use ATI based graphics cards in their systems: the Canadian company doesn?t supply the graphics card drivers for this operation system yet. Also the owners of some network cards, RAID controllers and audio solutions may face similar problems. That is why if you decide to install Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems in your PC, make sure that you?ve got drivers for all the hardware devices you have in your system.
The second problem is the lack of appropriate software. Although, one of the strengths of AMD64 architecture is its backward compatibility with 32bit software. Therefore, this is no fatal problem at all. Most 32bit tools and utilities work fine with Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems due to the so-called WOW64 (Windows-on-Windows) emulator, which transfers the CPU from the native 64bit mode into the compatibility mode, so that the application can manipulate the CPU registers and address the memory in 32bit format. During the tests we carried out for various 32bit programs we revealed just a few issues. The first one had to do with the failing installation of Windows Media Encoder 9 with all the resulting consequences, while all other issues were connected with different artifacts popping up in 3D games every now and then. Of course, it was the graphics card driver that was responsible for the latter problems.
At the same time, the variety of software developed specifically for 64bit mode of AMD64 processors will keep increasing. Some programs are already available today, although there are very few of them, I should say. In particular, we know about 64bit versions of TweakUI Power Toys utility, Sun Java 2 platform and beta version of Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus.
Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems operation system looks very much like Windows 2003 and not like Windows XP. It looks as if they used exactly the Windows 2003 code when they were working on the Windows XP version with AMD64 support. The OS includes a set of 64bit DirectX 9.0b libraries and a set of standard programs ported for AMD64 architecture. It is a pretty curious fact that Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems includes not only a 64bit version of Internet Explorer 6.0, but also a classical 32bit version of this program. Also the 64bit Windows XP package will include a number of critical updates absent in the standard Windows XP SP1 package for 32bit systems.
I would also like to say a few words about the test system, which we used for Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems testing. The thing is that the standard platform configuration didn?t suit our goals this time, as we failed to find corresponding drivers for a few components of our system. That is why we had to replace an ATI based graphics card with an NVIDIA based one. As a result, Athlon 64 FX-53 was tested on the following system:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 FX-53;
Mainboard: ASUS SK8V (VIA K8T800);
Memory: 1024MB Registered DDR400 SDRAM (Mushkin High Performance ECC Registered 2 x 512MB, 2-3-2-6);
Graphics card: Sparkle GeForce FX5900XT (Detonator 53.04).
HDD: Western Digital WD400JB.
In order to finish our story about the preliminary version of Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems in a logical manner, we decided to test AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 processor in this operation system during the processing of 32bit and 64bit applications.
At first I would like to say a few words about the 64bit performance. Unfortunately, our opportunities were pretty limited because there were hardly any applications compiled for native 64bit mode. The only available benchmark for Win64 is a 64bit version of SiSoft Sandra 2004 SP1. This test package includes short synthetic benchmarks for the CPU and system memory. Due to these tests we get at least some idea of the system performance in Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems. At the same time I would like to say that SiSoft Sandra 2004 SP1 also exists for Win32. So, we get an excellent opportunity to compare the results of this test during 64bit code processing in 64-bit Windows XP with those during 32bit code processing in 64-bit and 32-bit Windows XP versions.
The results are pretty ambiguous. In some tests the shift to 64bit mode leads to a notable performance gain, while in some cases the performance drops significantly. However, first of all I would like to say that 32bit benchmarks from the Sandra package were run equally fast in 32bit and 64bit operation system. This way, I can conclude that WOW64 emulation doesn?t cause any delays of the 32bit code processing.
Returning to the results in 64bit SiSoft Sandra 2004 in Win64 I would like to point out that the shift to 64bit mode allows AMD64 processors to speed up the work with the system memory quite tangibly. However, this is almost the only case (besides Whetstone FPU benchmark) when 64bit technology has a positive effect on the performance, according to SiSoft Sandra 2004. In all other cases the performance in 64bit mode is either the same or lower. Unfortunately, we can?t state with all certainty why the 64bit performance is considerably lower than 32bit performance in Multimedia Integer MMX/SSE and Whetstone SSE2 benchmarks. The most probable explanation here is the poor optimization of the test algorithms for AMD64 technology. All exiting compilers generating the code for Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems are only available as alpha- or beta-versions, that is why no one can guarantee their efficient work today.
At the same time, if the code of the 64bit SiSoft Sandra version is not very well optimized for AMD64 architecture (for instance, it uses nearly none of the additional general purpose registers), we can also face a noticeable performance drop but for a different reason. In 64-bit mode Athlon 64 processors perform certain instructions (namely integer multiplication and division) somewhat slower than in 32-bit mode. However, this explanation suits only for Dhrystone ALU benchmark, because Athlon 64 performs all SSE2 instructions equally fast in 32-bit and 64-bit modes.
Unfortunately, besides SiSoft Sandra 2004, there are no other applications at our disposal today supporting 64-bit mode and offering some benchmarking opportunities. That is why let?s pass over to a more indepth investigation of the 32bit applications performance in Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems.
Since we are now talking only about a preliminary version of this OS, it doesn?t make much sense to carry out very detailed test session with the whole bunch of applications involved. For our preview we will simply run PCMark 2004 test, which measures the performance of the most widely spread algorithms.
As we see, typical 32bit procedures loading the CPU and the memory show almost the same performance level in 64bit Windows version as they do in 32bit Windows. In other words, this is another proof to the fact that the use of WOW64 emulator doesn?t cause any performance drop in 32bit applications running under 64bit operation system. However, according to the obtained results there are two exceptions to this rule.
The first exception. Web Page Rendering test shows a much higher result working in 64-bit Windows version. This happens because the test measures web-pages rendering speed with the help of the Internet Explorer version installed in the system, and of course, in Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems this is a 64-bit version too. This way, we can clearly see that 64-bit Internet Explorer is tangibly faster than 32bit one, and Athlon 64 processors really do ?speed up? web-surfing.
The second exception. It has to do with the last two benchmarks, which indicate a performance drop during their work in 64-bit operation system. Moreover, this performance drop is not so crucial in the 3D benchmark, while in 2D benchmark (the very last one) it is simply dramatic. In this case I would blame the graphics driver for such a failure of the 64-bit system. It looks as if the situation with the drivers for Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems is aggravated not only by the absence of these drivers. As we have just seen, the existing drivers are far from ideal as well. The best example here is Detonator from NVIDIA. However, we should be fair: ATI has no drivers at all, which would support processors with AMD64 technology in 64-bit operation systems.
To prove everything I have just said, here are the results of 32-bit games tests in Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems:
The numbers speak for themselves, I suppose. 32bit games run under Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems work much slower than in the regular Windows XP Professional. Moreover, there are some problems with the actual work of the gaming applications. We discovered very bad artifacts in a number of our test 3D applications, such as Aquamark3 or X2 ? The Threat. All in all, NVIDIA still has a lot to do about the improvement of its 64-bit graphics drivers.
Summing up everything mentioned above, the verdict about Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems will not be praising. So far this system may be of interest only to the developers. Regular users will not be happy with it because of the availability matters as well as the drivers quality. However, it is very nice that the process of developing applications supporting AMD64 architecture has finally taken off. The official launch of Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems is scheduled for H2 2004, so hopefully the hardware guys will be able to eliminate the problems with their drivers by then, and the software developers will successfully port their programs for 64-bit operation system and 64-bit working mode.
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12 U.S. Code § 1832 - Withdrawals by negotiable or transferable instruments for transfers to third parties
(a) Authority of depository institution; applicability
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law but subject to paragraph (2), a depository institution is authorized to permit the owner of a deposit or account on which interest or dividends are paid to make withdrawals by negotiable or transferable instruments for the purpose of making transfers to third parties.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall apply only with respect to deposits or accounts which consist solely of funds in which the entire beneficial interest is held by one or more individuals or by an organization which is operated primarily for religious, philanthropic, charitable, educational, political, or other similar purposes and which is not operated for profit, and with respect to deposits of public funds by an officer, employee, or agent of the United States, any State, county, municipality, or political subdivision thereof, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, any territory or possession of the United States, or any political subdivision thereof.
(b) "Depository institution" defined
For purposes of this section, the term "depository institution" means—
(1) any insured bank as defined in section 1813 of this title;
(2) any State bank as defined in section 1813 of this title;
(3) any mutual savings bank as defined in section 1813 of this title;
(4) any savings bank as defined in section 1813 of this title;
(6) any building and loan association or savings and loan association organized and operated according to the laws of the State in which it is chartered or organized; and, for purposes of this paragraph, the term "State" means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, any territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, or the Virgin Islands.
(c) Fine
Any depository institution which violates this section shall be fined $1,000 for each violation.
[1] See References in Text note below.
Source(Pub. L. 93–100, § 2,Aug. 16, 1973, 87 Stat. 342; Pub. L. 94–222, § 2,Feb. 27, 1976, 90 Stat. 197; Pub. L. 95–630, title XIII, § 1301,Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3712; Pub. L. 96–161, title I, § 106,Dec. 28, 1979, 93 Stat. 1235; Pub. L. 96–221, title III, § 303,Mar. 31, 1980, 94 Stat. 146; Pub. L. 97–320, title VII, § 706(a),Oct. 15, 1982, 96 Stat. 1540; Pub. L. 100–86, title I, § 109,Aug. 10, 1987, 101 Stat. 579.)
References in Text
Section 1724 of this title, referred to in subsec. (b)(5), was repealed by Pub. L. 101–73, title IV, § 407,Aug. 9, 1989, 103 Stat. 363.
Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act which comprises this chapter.
1987—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 100–86inserted "political," after "educational,".
1982—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 97–320inserted provisions relating to deposits of public funds.
1980—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–221designated existing provisions as par. (1) inserted provisions expanding authorization for withdrawals from selected States to the entire United States, and added par. (2).
1979—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–161inserted "New Jersey," after "New York,".
1978—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95–630inserted "New York," after "Vermont,".
1976—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94–222authorized withdrawals by negotiable or transferable instruments in the States of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, and Vermont.
Effective Date of 1980 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 96–221effective Dec. 31, 1980, see section 306 ofPub. L. 96–221, set out as a note under section 1464 of this title.
Effective Date of 1978 Amendment
Pub. L. 95–630, title XIII, § 1302,Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3712, provided that: "This title [amending this section] shall take effect upon enactment [Nov. 10, 1978]."
Effective Date
Section effective on thirtieth day after Aug. 16, 1973, see section 8 ofPub. L. 93–100, set out as a note under section 1469 of this title.
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Timing is important and you'll need to know when to go to the Masai Mara to catch the migration at its peak but game viewing is excellent all year round and even more so in the Masai Mara's private conservancies where night drives and guided nature walks are offered as well as game drives. The benefit of staying in the conservancies is two-fold: guests can easily acess the Mara for the superb game-viewing and migration scenes, but are also able to retreat from the chaos into their own private - and unfenced - slice of the Mara. Hot-air balloon safaris and cultural interactions with local Maasai communities complete the broad range of Masai Mara safari experiences.
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At a reported 37, what does Miggy have left in the tank? I would think that he is a defensive replacement for Reynolds. So does Chris Davis take over at DH or does Reynolds DH? What to do with Betimet who has hit better than expected? Or does Reynolds or Davis get dealt? Reynolds is a tough sell given his slow start and fairly large contract..... I do find it odd that when the Tejada story broke Reynolds started hitting..... crazy how that worked out.
I'm sure Miggy will come on the cheap so does any one see any down side in the deal?


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|Three SoCon Players Named Frosh All-America
|Written by Mike Kelly
|Thursday, 14 April 2011 13:13
Freshmen De'Mon Brooks of Davidson, Trent Wiedeman from the College of Charleston and Trey Sumler from Western Carolina have been named to the 2011 Mid-Major Freshman All-America Team sponsered by CollegeInsider.com.
Brooks averaged nine points and five rebounds a game and shot 53% from the floor during his freshman year with the Wildcats; Wiedeman, a six-foot-eight forward, led the Cougars in reubounding. He averaged seven boards a game. He also produced four double-doubles this season, shot 62% from the floor and scored in double figures 17 times; Sumler, who became Western's starting point guard early in the year, started 21 of 31 games. He averaged 11.5 points-per-game this season, and he led all freshman in scoring in the SoCon games with a 13.4 ppg average. He also scored 20 points or more in a game twice, including a career-high 24 against Davidson.
Sumler also garnered both top rookie honors from both the SoCon head coaches and the media association. He is the second WCU rookie to receive top freshman honors in the past three years as teammate Harouna Mutombo was the Freshman of the Year in 2008-09.
2011 Mid-Major Freshman All-America Team
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I made sure to double-check, a few times, that all seams were lined up properly and.... cut.
I'm working in a Christmas party dress from Carolina Herrera sheer copper fabric using Burda 03/2010 # 104 (downloadable on the website).
It is difficult to photograph this fabric, which has an embossed copper floral design over black netting.
This shape of this dress is so basic, but I have never sewn with Burda before, and because I don't know my size in this brand, I spent a long time tweaking the fit of my muslin. I generally wear a size 12bust/14 hip in the Big 4, and determined that I'm a Burda 36. Burda patterns do not include seam allowances, and I decided to add a 5/8" allowance rather than a 3/8" allowance as the pattern calls for.
I dropped the bust point down just slightly, by 2/8"; anal, perhaps, but it's an alteration that's just too easy not to do: draw a box around the bust point, and drop it down the length you need (for ex., here's a 1/2 inch):
I also added darts to the back to remove excess fabric in that area. As you can see below, the inspiration dress has back darts as well.
I did this by placing a blouse pattern that has back darts onto the Burda pattern, and tracing its darts onto the dress pattern. (Yes, this is an alteration, beginner's style! But it worked.)
I'm hoping to finish the dress - and my Christmas shopping - this week in time for a party Saturday!


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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Baked Pecan Pumpkin Doughnuts with Cinnamon Ganache Frosting
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon cloves
1/2 cup brown sugar
4 tablespoons butter, softened
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 tablespoons milk
1 cup pumpkin purée
1/2 cup chopped pecans (Optional)
For the Glaze:
1/4 cup butter
3 ounces white chocolate
1 3/4 cup powdered sugar
4-5 tablespoons water
Mixture of cinnamon & sugar
Optional: chopped pecans
For Glaze: In a microwave safe bowl, add white chocolate and butter till melted. Mix in sugar and water, stir mixing just till blended, add more water if too thick. Dip donuts in ganache and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Makes 12.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and grease two doughnut pans. In a medium bowl, blend together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and spices.In another medium bowl, beat together the brown sugar and butter. Beat in the eggs one at a time, and then the vanilla extract, milk, and pumpkin puree. Slowly beat the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients just until combined. Fill doughnut pan 3/4 full with batter. Bake until the doughnuts spring back when touched. Remove from the pan and cool completely.
Dip the donuts into the ganache. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.
Here are more donut recipe you may like just click on the links below:
Baked Vanilla Donuts
Dark Baked Chocolate Donuts
Corn Fritters (Fried)
Italian Fried Apple Fritters
Also a Big Thank You to Claudia @ Journey of an Italian Cook for sending me a authentic cookbook from Italy, I was the winner of her giveaway and so excited.. it's a great book with different Regions of wonderful recipes to try!
Please visit her blog below! A great adventure she shares from her Italy trip with awesome photo's!
thanks Claudia! Journey of and Italian Cook Blog... I love the book!
24 comments:
- Federica said...
OMG! Can I have one for breakfast :)? It's gorgeous dear. Bye, have a great day
- October 18, 2011 at 1:01 AM
- Belinda @zomppa said...
Well, if this isn't a good morning, I'm not sure what it is!
- October 18, 2011 at 2:32 AM
- Colie's Kitchen said...
Holy cow those look amazing!!!
- October 18, 2011 at 3:08 AM
- Dzoli said...
I made donuts today.pitty I did not see this yummy frosting before:))
- October 18, 2011 at 3:44 AM
- Su said...
Ohhhh.... I wish I had one (or 2 or 3) of those right here! Just wonderfull
- October 18, 2011 at 4:55 AM
- Blackswan said...
Looks like we're all in a Pumpkin mood :)
- October 18, 2011 at 6:12 AM
- Becky said...
I want some of these with my coffee now! Alas, I don't have a donut pan, so I'll just have to drool over your delicious donuts.
- October 18, 2011 at 7:48 AM
- bellini said...
These sound wonderful and I love that the doughnuts as baked since I do have a deep fat fryer.
- October 18, 2011 at 9:00 AM
- Catherine said...
Dear Claudia, Congrats! on winning the the cookbook I am sure there will be many delicious recipes to enjoy. As for the donuts, well, they would be great with a good cup of coffee! What a beautiful time of year with all of these wonderful pumpkin recipes. Blessings for a beautiful day. Catherine xo
- October 18, 2011 at 9:01 AM
- Curt said...
Wow, most of my favorite ingredients all in one donut. And it's baked. How delicious and healthy!
- October 18, 2011 at 9:27 AM
- Claudia said...
The donuts are autumn scrumptious. I have everything on hand except white chocolate. You are a temptress - these are worth the calories. Thanks for the shout-out, Claudia. You are such a generous blogger.
- October 18, 2011 at 9:32 AM
- Lyndsey said...
These just look too good! They wouldn't last long at our house!
- October 18, 2011 at 11:02 AM
- Suzanne said...
Oh Claudia these donuts look so good, I love donuts! I like the the white chocolate ganache with the cinnamon on top :)
- October 18, 2011 at 12:12 PM
- Kathleen said...
These look really delish! Perfect for fall!!!
- October 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM
- Reeni said...
These are two sides of heaven Claudia! So yummy!
- October 18, 2011 at 2:22 PM
- FOODESSA said...
One more reminder to self...get a donut pan...especially when I can't wait to try a baked and healthier version of this yummy treat ;o)
Congrats on your winning of that book which I was secretly hoping to win as well. LOL
Enjoy...and share a few of its recipes with us and all will be forgotten ;))
Ciao for now,
- October 18, 2011 at 4:42 PM
- Lizzy said...
Oh, these look amazing, Claudia! The icing with white chocolate is perfect with pumpkin...YUM!
- October 18, 2011 at 6:54 PM
- Drick said...
pecans, optional, really? and cinnamon ganache.. OMG, you are killing me here, this is just a taste sensation, never would have thought of pumpkin pecan donuts but then, I don't get out much....
- October 18, 2011 at 8:02 PM
- Vicki Bensinger said...
Don't these look great. I'm telling you I'm going to put on weight just viewing all the incredible recipes this month that everyone is sharing.
I love donuts. I just wish i could eat more of them.
- October 18, 2011 at 8:26 PM
- motherrimmy said...
I have yet to attempt making donuts. Mostly because I didn't want to mess with frying them. I'm going to get a doughnut pan so I can make these for Thanksgiving morning. Wonderful!
- October 18, 2011 at 10:32 PM
- easyfoodsmith said...
Yum! These look amazing & delicious!
- October 19, 2011 at 7:32 AM
- Tina said...
This is a wonderful recipe for the holidays and another reason why I need to get a donut pan. Love the flavors here-delicious.
- October 19, 2011 at 10:00 AM
- Gera@SweetsFoodsBlog said...
I can't believe these sweeties. Those donuts are pure bliss, ganache frosted :)
- October 22, 2011 at 12:41 AM
- Trish said...
These look so good --- I need to get a donut pan so I can make them.
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She's also well known inside the sheriff's office for something else: her excessive use of overtime long after the Horman investigation slowed.
In one six-week period in the fall of 2011, Olsen claimed an astounding 300 hours overtime, worth $20,000. Her timecards included one hour of overtime for buying groceries for a search and rescue team outing, five hours to take a rifle test she had previously failed, and 10 hours of "policy review" while at her beach house in Ocean Park, Wash. Only one hour was charged to the Kyron Horman case.
In 2011, Olsen (who also owns a home in Hawaii) increased her base salary of $90,879 by 90 percent with overtime, running her pay up to $172,710. Her practices so concerned sheriff's officials they rewrote the department's overtime policies.
But Olsen, 57, is still bringing in big overtime pay, and she's not alone.
WW's analysis of two years' worth of payroll and budget records shows the sheriff's office has spent more than twice the money budgeted for overtime.
The top 30 overtime earners during 2012 pulled in more than $1.2 million above their regular pay.
Olsen, whose overtime increased her salary by only 67 percent last year, isn't near the top of 2012's list.
A civilian facility security officer worked enough to increase his salary 109 percent. A deputy sheriff pulled in a 103 percent increase.
And Daniel Carrithers, a corrections sergeant, used overtime to run up his base salary of $92,106 to a breathtaking $182,008—making him the highest-paid employee of Multnomah County, above even county physicians and medical directors.
But Staton's office, halfway through its budget year, has already burned through its $3.6 million overtime budget.
After more than a week of requests for comment, Staton did not make himself available for this story.
Staton instead referred questions to Chief Deputy Drew Brosh, who says overtime spending is a result of not having enough deputies to run a 24/7 operation.
"People are working a lot of overtime," Brosh says, "and earning a lot of money."
Yet the longstanding tradition of paying deputies time-and-a-half to cover for a sick jail guard or a vacationing patrol deputy continues.
And it leaves the door open for Olsen and dozens of deputies to drastically increase their pay and beef up their pension payouts under Oregon's Public Employee Retirement System.
"[Olsen] is the poster child for why public employees get slammed," says former Capt. Brett Elliott, who first blew the whistle on her overtime use. "They refuse to take action with this employee and actually hold her accountable. It's a chronic issue, and it is a product of their failure to get a handle on it."
Records show corrections division deputies and sergeants received, on average, a 16 percent pay increase through overtime last year.
But those averages doesn't tell the whole story. A smaller number of deputies, sergeants and corrections officers—44 in all—succeeded in increasing their base pay by at least half last year.
Fuavai Tapasa, a facility security officer who joined the sheriff's office in 2001, saw the biggest increase in his pay from overtime, 109 percent, pushing his pay to $95,243.
The year before, a corrections officer, Shahram Afzal, saw his pay increase by 116 percent, to $152,996.
Then there's Deputy Brent Laizure, who on average has doubled his salary for two years running. His pay hit $142,892 last year (including a $5,013 increase in his base salary).
But it's the case of Olsen that caused sheriff's officials to take action.
Her practices were brought to light by Elliott, who filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit against the department last May.
Elliott alleged he was retaliated against and demoted to lieutenant after accusing that Undersheriff Tim Moore of fabricated documents to earn state law enforcement certification. A state investigation cleared Moore. Elliott's case settled in August, with the department reinstating his rank of captain and awarding him $80,000. Elliott is now officially retired from the sheriff's office.
Elliott detailed Olsen's overtime use in a Nov. 28, 2011, memo to higher-ups and called for an outside investigation into what he called "rampant, freewheeling overtime."
Instead, Chief Deputy Jason Gates tells WW he sent Olsen's case to internal affairs, which failed to find any explicit wrongdoing.
Gates says that neither he nor Olsen's immediate supervisor, Capt. Monte Reiser, was aware of her extensive overtime until Elliott brought it to their attention. --
Gates says he verbally authorized the overtime. But, he says, "It couldn't be accounted for."
"If there is anybody to blame, it was our administration, and me," he adds. "It is an extravagant amount of overtime."
Gates says he reassigned some of Olsen's duties (she remains search and rescue coordinator) and rewrote policy to require his written approval of overtime that goes beyond filling in for another officer's vacation or sick leave. Sergeants must also have another sergeant enter overtime for them.
Olsen did not return multiple requests from WW for comment.
Elliott says he can't believe Olsen wasn't disciplined.
"They did nothing other than change the rules for the future," Elliott says. "They did nothing to hold Reiser and Olsen accountable."
The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office regularly busts its overtime budgets. More than $1.2 million in extra pay was collected among the department's top 30 overtime earners in 2012. Here are the top five last year, based on percentage increases over their salaries.
Chief Deputy Brosh says overtime in the sheriff's office is necessary because of short staffing in the department, which employs 750.
He says the office is down by about 15 people in the corrections division and seven in law enforcement. Those empty posts, coupled with vacations and sick leave, mean that overtime adds up, he says.
The sheriff's budget is a political dance between Multnomah County's elected commissioners, who set an overall limit ($120 million this year), and Sheriff Staton, who's independently elected and can spend the money as he sees fit.
Staton, despite exceeding his overtime budget, has always spent just under his overall budget, Gates says.
But that money has to come from somewhere in the sheriff's budget. Ironically, the first way to make up for overspending comes from about $2 million in staff vacancies. Up next, says Gates, is training.
"If it isn't free and in town, or if it involves any overtime, I deny it outright," Gates says of training, adding that online courses have made training more efficient.
Brosh says that non-mandatory training, including mental health, public communication, gear and tactics, are the first to go.
The sheriff's overtime spending will never hit zero, he notes, but the department is seeking a balance between paying existing officers extra and hiring more staff.
"We like to call it 'the sweet spot,'" Brosh says.
As of now, the department appears to be in the outer orbit of a sweet spot. The county commission last year gave the department $888,000 to increase its staffing.
It's a work in progress at best.
Finding qualified corrections and law enforcement officers isn't easy—every 100 applicants include maybe three men and women good enough for the job, Brosh says.
Despite such selectivity, the sheriff's office hired 24 deputies in fiscal 2012, he says.
That may be far from enough: The 2012 Multnomah County Corrections Grand Jury report, released in December, says the office may need to hire up to 85 new officers before July due to possible retirements.
Once the additional deputies are brought on, Brosh says, the department can test whether it's got the numbers right.
"Good stewardship of the public's money," Gates says, "is always on the forefront of what we do."
FACT: Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton earned $142,145 last year. Thanks to overtime, 13 deputies and corrections officers made more than he did.


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BOSTON (MarketWatch) — The holy grail of investing is a system or a process that picks winners consistently, in keeping with the style of the individual who is using it to buy stocks or mutual funds.
All too often, investors believe they have found that prized vessel to prosperity — right up to the point where the system stumbles or fails, or where it turns up a "buy" signal on an issue that the investor would rather turn up their nose at.
That first crisis of confidence can throw the whole process into question.
Is Apple a value investor's dream?
With Apple's share price nearing 52-week lows, growth-minded investors are selling to value investors, who are drawn to the stock's valuation and potential for a dividend hike. MarketWatch's Laura Mandaro and Jonathan Burton discuss. (Photo: Getty)
"The important thing is to find a process that works for you, and to recognize that no process works all the time," said Charles Rotblut, editor of AAII Journal, which uses a variety of different screens to produce different investment portfolios, each based on unique criteria.
"You are using screens to cut the investment world down to size," he added, "to give you a look at the securities that meet your criteria. … The question is whether you will be able to stick to your criteria once you see what makes it through the screening process."
Making honest assessments of the investment world is hard, because most people can't set aside their emotions.
Think of choosing an investment vehicle the way you might pick a car. You might start your search for an automobile by looking at everything that has certain features, the right size, and a gas-mileage number that ensures you won't go broke driving it. Then there's a price that fits into your budget.
Run it through a screen, however, and you might come up with some brands you'd rather not own, or car colors that don't please you. They meet your criteria, but don't necessarily pass your sniff test.
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With investment vehicles, however, you can try to remove the emotions by simply buying what passes the screen, or by adding some measure of art to the process and making further, emotional refinements. Systems that are based on how you feel are tricky to calibrate; if you let your gut interfere in the process, you don't have much of a system and are making educated guesses at best.
"Pick a system that you have thought through sufficiently that you can apply it reliably," said Donald MacGregor of MacGregor-Bates Inc., a Eugene, Ore.-based firm that researches investor and consumer decision-making.
Then, be prepared for failure and disappointment, because even if you find your holy grail, it may feel like a leaky, awkward, ugly vessel.
Justin Carbonneau, a partner at Validea.com — which creates investment portfolios based on the criteria of leading investors — noted that in the 10 years his firm has been running model portfolios, the best performer — based on Benjamin Graham's Defensive Investor strategy — has an annualized return of nearly 14%, compared to a 4.3% return for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index SPX, -0.68% But, he added, the method has only "a 57% historical accuracy rating on the stocks it has selected — meaning that 5.7 stocks out of 10 are winners but 4.3 out of 10 are losers.
"No strategy is perfect," Carbonneau said, "but if you bat 50% to 55% winning picks within a model/system, you can do pretty well over time."
Time and money
Ultimately, investors must remember that "doing well over time" is the idea behind any process or methodology.


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September 16th, 1 AM--I was driving home and seen a strange light, stopping my car for a moment to watch it... I called my mother (even though I was just down the street from our house) to ask what she thought it might be. Neither of us were sure of what we were looking at, it just looked like a ball of flame floating across the sky. This light had a flicker to it every now and then (just like a candle), but it was orange and always bright. There were no blinking lights that we could tell of. There were no sounds that we could hear (like perhaps a helicopter). From where my mother and I stood, it moved from east to west before stopping in the sky somewhere near the North Star. It suddenly tracked straight back a little ways (no circling around) before switching direction again, returning to where it had first made a turn. It had hovered there a little while and then took off, what seemed much faster than it had been moving before, to the southeast where it finally disappeared into the horizon. I got out my cell phone just after I had pulled my car into the driveway to catch two pictures, even though they don't capture the true magnificence of the object. I tried to include the moon in the two pictures for size comparison and distance difference within 15+/- seconds. It startled a few of our neighbors also--they had asked us if we had been watching it.
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Saw similiar object 7/02/05 east Spfd heading west-east, followed by a Coast Guard helicopter. Stopped, headed back west, same course. Then it headed back east in reverse. Then it went straight up and disappeared. Have pics. Saw AWAX tracking too.
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I saw this object that night also. I was outside, in east Springfield, at the same time. It was only about 2000 ft in the air, south east of Springfield, moving as stated. Hovered too. Saw the same type of object, Sept 12th at 5 am in that area.
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The 1st picture, the moon is on the left, the object is a small blur on the right. The 2nd, the object is a small dot. The pictures need to be viewed full sized to see it.


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On August 12 the California Senate Appropriations Committee sent to the floor a bill making it more difficult for residents of the Golden State to be indefinitely detained under provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Known as the California Liberty Preservation Act, AB 351 is backed by a politically diverse coalition, including Taxpayers for Improving Public Safety, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the Tenth Amendment Center, the California American Civil Liberties Union, San Francisco Board of Supervisors president David Chiu, the Libertarian Party of California, and the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors.
The bill's primary sponsor is current gubernatorial candidate Assemblyman Tim Donnelly (R-33rd District). Donnelly's bill specifically guarantees the right of citizens of California to be free from any federal law, including the NDAA, that would authorize their indefinite detention in violation of habeas corpus.
Specifically, if enacted, the bill would shield from federal assault several fundamental constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties, "including the right of habeas corpus, the right to due process, the right to a speedy and public trial, and the right to be informed of criminal charges brought against him or her."
Relying on the 10th Amendment's reservation to the states and the people all powers not specifically delegated to the federal government in the Constitution, the bill is a constitutionally sound expression of state sovereignty.
In a press release issued by his office after the committee approved his bill, Assemblyman Donnelly recognizes his duty to resist attempts by Washington, D.C., to deny Americans of their most basic freedoms.
"The NDAA gives the executive branch — under not only President Obama, but also every future president — unprecedented power to detain US citizens without due process. This runs counter to the very principles that make America great, and violates our nation's commitment to the rule of law," said Assemblyman Donnelly.
He continued, "We have a moral duty to protect Californians from the disastrous consequences made possible by NDAA. When Constitutional protections are ignored, racist hysteria allows vulnerable groups to be targeted. It was not long ago we memorialized the tragedy of Japanese American internment camps on the floor of the California State Assembly. I am grateful for today's committee vote, which shows Californians that their representatives are serious about ensuring similar violations of freedom and human rights abuses never happen again within our State."
While the text of the bill lays out specific ways in which the NDAA denies citizens many of the most basic constitutionally protected civil liberties, the surprising scope of the NDAA is still unfamiliar to most Americans.
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