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The Brothers Grimm tell the following story:
There was once a very old man, whose eyes had become dim, his ears dull of hearing, his knees trembled, and when he sat at table he could hardly hold the spoon, and spilt the broth upon the table-cloth or let it run out of his mouth. His son and his son's wife were disgusted at this, so the old grandfather at last had to sit in the corner behind the stove, and they gave him his food in an earthenware bowl, and not even enough of it. And he used to look towards the table with his eyes full of tears. Once, too, his trembling hands could not hold the bowl, and it fell to the ground and broke. The young wife scolded him, but he said nothing and only sighed. Then they bought him a wooden bowl for a few half-pence, out of which he had to eat.
They were once sitting thus when the little grandson of four years old began to gather together some bits of wood upon the ground. 'What are you doing there?' asked the father. 'I am making a little trough,' answered the child, 'for father and mother to eat out of when I am big.'
The man and his wife looked at each other for a while, and presently began to cry. Then they took the old grandfather to the table, and henceforth always let him eat with them, and likewise said nothing if he did spill a little of anything.
"Honour your father and mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you." So says the fifth of God's Ten Commandments.
If there's one thing we should understand more than anything else about the fifth commandment, it's that it's not just for kids. It's for all of us. In fact, like the rest of the Ten Commandments, it's directed primarily at adults.
Somewhere along the line, this aspect of the commandment became obscured. Perhaps that had to do with the way the word "honour" was understood. Countless Sunday School children were taught that "honour" meant "obey." They were taught that honouring their father and mother meant obeying them. And the Sunday School teachers who said this weren't just making it up. They were quoting from that verse in Ephesians which says, "Children, obey your parents."
When young children obey their parents, they are following the fifth commandment. They're respecting the authority their parents have over them. Their parents know better than they do what is safe and what is right. It's for their own good that children need to be obedient to their parents. It's by following their parents' instructions and adhering to their rules that children learn how to live.
At least, that's the way it should work. In many families, loving parents do provide the structure and guidance children need in order to learn and to grow. But sadly, that's not the case in every family. Sometimes there's no structure given. That's what's called neglect. Sometimes what's demanded of the child is not for the child's own good, but instead is for the benefit of the parent. That's what's called abuse. When there's abuse or neglect, the words of the fifth commandment ring hollow. They become words of oppression rather than words of life.
This wasn't lost on the writer of Ephesians. After Ephesians says, "Children, obey your parents", it goes on to say something equally important. This second instruction isn't directed to children – it's directed to the parents – or more specifically it's directed to the father who was the head of the household in that patriarchal culture. "Fathers," Ephesians says, "do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord."
What Ephesians shows is that the fifth commandment is a two way street. If the parent is going to be obeyed, that parent must use his authority as God intended. He must not use it to exasperate his children. He must use it to lead his children closer to God. He must not demand obedience simply because he can, or simply because he enjoys the power or wants to be in control. And he absolutely must not abuse his children. If his children are to honour him, he must also honour them. He must remember that he doesn't own his children. His children belong to God.
When parental authority is exercised as God intended it, it's much easier for children to obey their parents as the fifth commandment would have them do. But how does all this fit with what we said earlier about the commandment being primarily directed towards adults? Is the commandment saying that even grown children are supposed to obey their parents?
For us in North America, that sounds like a silly idea. But in some cultures it's not so silly at all. In some cultures the parent never loses that parental authority, no matter how old the child is. In North American culture, of course, it's very different. In fact, one of the measures of achieving adulthood in North American culture is that you make your own decisions, and no longer simply do what your parents tell you. That, by the way, is why the teenage years are such an interesting time in family life. Teenagers are going through a natural process of pulling away from their parents' authority. "Asserting their independence," we call it. The problem is that this step into independent adulthood doesn't happen all at once. It doesn't even happen in neatly defined stages. That's what can make it so confusing and so frustrating for parents and teenagers alike.
But even as adults it's not good for us to completely ignore what our parents have taught us. The word we have for this is tradition. Tradition is that set of values and practices that one generation hands down to the next. It's one of the follies of youth to think that we can completely tear up all the traditions of our parents. But all that does is set us adrift on a sea of confusion. Sometimes the best advice we can get is, "Listen to your mother!" – at least, when that means "Listen to the deep wisdom that's been passed down from generation to generation – a wisdom that's born of many lifetimes of experience." We honour our fathers and mothers when we take seriously the traditions they've handed down to us.
Though, of course, there's a limit to this – a limit that Jesus himself identified. At one point Jesus said, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters – yes, even his own life – he cannot be my disciple." It's a difficult saying, one that hits us like a blow to the solar plexus. It runs against all our natural inclinations, and it seems to contradict the fifth commandment to boot. Instead of honouring your father and mother, Jesus says, you have to hate your father and mother.
We need to emphasize that Jesus is employing a deliberate exaggeration here to make a point about the cost of discipleship. He's not really telling people to turn against their parents, but he is telling them that being his disciple takes precedence over all our other allegiances. Perhaps that takes some of the edge off his words, but it still leaves us with a hard teaching. And it's not some abstract idea. It really does touch people where they live. We see it in operation when Jesus calls James and John. In order for James and John to follow Jesus, they have to leave their father Zebedee behind in the boat.
At bottom what's going on here is a reminder of the true order of things. The fifth commandment always has to be seen in light of the first commandment. The first commandment tells us to give our full allegiance to God alone. Nothing, not even our duty to honour our parents, can be allowed to get in the way of that.
I read this week about a missionary who was visiting a church in a country where Christians are in the minority. There was a baptismal service the day the missionary visited, and a young woman was being baptised. The missionary noticed that over in the corner of the church was an old suitcase. He said to the pastor, "What's with the suitcase?" The pastor said, "This young woman was told by her father that if she gets baptised in Jesus' name she will not be allowed to live in his home again. She brought her suitcase, just in case."
If all this sounds like Jesus doesn't care about the fifth commandment, well, that's really not true. Jesus wants the commandment put into proper perspective, but he doesn't want it done away with. In fact, Jesus is very critical of the Pharisees for not living up to this commandment.
One day the Pharisees confront Jesus about his disciples' table manners: the disciples don't follow the tradition of giving their hands a ceremonial washing before they eat. Jesus turns this back on the Pharisees, telling them that they have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men. As an example, Jesus points out that the Pharisees have been doing an end run around the fifth commandment. They've been doing this by using a practice known as Corban.
Corban was a gift that was dedicated to God for religious purposes. But in Jesus' day this gift didn't actually have to be put into the temple treasury. You could keep your possessions, but declare they were Corban, meaning that God would get them at some undefined future date. Some people were using this as a way to avoid helping their elderly parents. They were saying to their parents, "I don't have anything to give you. It's all Corban." It was bit like somebody saying, "I'd really like to help you, Mom, but all that money I've saved up is going to the church – some day - after I'm dead."
Jesus says that's a fundamental breach of the duty to honour father and mother – and what's worse it's being done by someone who's claiming to be serving God by doing it. Jesus says, "This is not one of those situations where you can say honouring God takes precedence over honouring father and mother. In fact, you're not honouring God unless you take care of your aged parents."
In the world of the Bible, there was no social safety net. There were no government programs to assist the elderly – no pensions, no income supplements. If you were no longer physically able to look after yourself, you would be in dire straits unless your family helped you.
In those circumstances, honouring your father and mother went far beyond a childhood duty to obey them. It was an adult duty to treat aged parents with dignity. Honouring father and mother means treating them as if they matter – treating them as persons of worth - treating them as human beings, created in the image of God. They may no longer be able to manage on their own. But that doesn't mean they should be treated as if they are a burden, or a nuisance, or an embarrassment. You should treat them as you yourself would wish to be treated if you were in their place.
I find it hard to avoid thinking about this whenever I visit a nursing home. Many of the residents there have been placed there by families who are dutifully covering the costs of their accommodation. But is that all there is to honouring aged parents – just paying the bills? How many of those families go and spend time with their elderly fathers and mothers? Many do – I've seen them. But I've also seen other residents who've been practically abandoned by their family members – who don't even pay them the honour of visiting them.
The fifth commandment touches on a very sensitive subject in our society – the subject of aging. Being around those who are elderly and infirm reminds us that we too are aging, and that can make us very uncomfortable. The fifth commandment keeps the subject of aging right in front of us, whether we're comfortable with it or not.
While the commandment talks specifically about the duties of family members, it also points us towards a wider issue. It's interesting that, in scripture, the most emotionally powerful example of the fifth commandment being put into effect is the story of Ruth. In the story of Ruth, Ruth pledges her commitment to Naomi. But what's remarkable about this is that Naomi is not her mother – she's Ruth's mother-in-law. The whole story has to do with Ruth's efforts to provide for herself and for Naomi, her mother-in-law. Ruth is well and truly honouring Naomi – not because they are bound by ties of blood, but simply because Ruth cares deeply for her.
This broadening of the reach of the fifth commandment has implications for the church. One of the names we apply to the church is the Family of God. It's a family that has many parents – many elderly members who need to be treated with honour.
As he was dying on the cross, Jesus saw his own mother standing nearby, together with the disciple that he loved. With practically his last breath, Jesus said to Mary, "Dear woman, here is your son", and to the disciple he said, "Here is your mother." It was Jesus' own personal fulfilment of the fifth commandment, ensuring that his mother would be provided for in her old age. But it was also a lesson to the church – a lesson that, if it is truly going to be the Family of God, the church will have to care for its elders. It doesn't matter whether they have anything left to contribute. What matters is that they belong to God. If we show them that they are still important in our eyes, then we honour them – and more importantly, we honour God.


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Request for Nominations of Members To Serve on the National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations
Notice Of Request For Nominations.
The Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau) is requesting nominations of individuals and organizations to the National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations. The Census Bureau will consider nominations received in response to this notice, as well as from other sources. The SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice provides committee and membership criteria.
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Please submit nominations by July 17, 2014.
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Please submit nominations to Jeri Green, Chief, Office of External Engagement, U.S. Census Bureau, Room 8H182, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 20233. Nominations also may be submitted via fax at 301-763-8609, or by email to <firstname.lastname@example.com>.
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Jeri Green, Chief, Office of External Engagement, U.S. Census Bureau, Room 8H182, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 20233, telephone (301) 763-2070.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Back to Top
The Committee was established in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (Title 5, United States Code, Appendix 2). The following provides information about the committee, membership, and the nomination process.
Objectives and Duties Back to Top
1. The Advisory Committee provides insight, perspectives, expertise and advice to the Director of the Census Bureau on the full spectrum of Census surveys and programs. The Committee assists the Census Bureau in developing appropriate research/methodological, operational, and communication strategies to reduce program/survey costs, improve coverage and operational efficiency, improve the quality of data collected, protect the public's and business units' privacy, enhance public participation and awareness of Census programs and surveys, and make data products more useful and accessible.
2. The Committee advises on topics such as hidden households, language barriers, students and youth, aging populations, American Indian and Alaska Native tribal considerations, new immigrant populations, populations affected by natural disasters, highly mobile and migrant populations, complex households, poverty populations, race/ethnic minorities, rural populations, and population segments with limited access to technology. The Committee also advises on data privacy and confidentiality concerns, the dynamic nature of new businesses, minority ownership of businesses, as well as other concerns impacting Census survey design and implementation.
3. The Advisory Committee discusses census policies, research and methodology, tests, operations, communications/messaging and other activities and advises regarding best practices to improve censuses, surveys, operations and programs. The Committee's expertise and experiences help identify cost-efficient ways to increase participation among hard-to-count segments of the population as well as ensuring that the Census Bureau's statistical programs are inclusive and continue to provide the Nation with accurate, relevant, and timely statistics.
4. The Committee uses formal advisory committee meetings, webinars, web conferences, working groups, and other methods to accomplish its goals, consistent with the requirements of the FACA. The Committee is encouraged to use Census Regional Office knowledge to help identify regional, local, tribal, and grass roots issues, and capture regional and local perspectives about Census Bureau surveys and programs. The Committee should use technology and video/web conferencing to reduce meeting and travel costs and to more fully engage working groups and hard to count populations.
5. The Committee functions solely as an advisory body under the FACA.
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1. The Committee will consist of up to 32 members who serve at the discretion of the Director.
2. The Committee aims to have a balanced representation among its members, considering such factors as geography, age, gender, race, ethnicity, technical expertise, community involvement, knowledge of hard-to-count populations, and familiarity with Census Bureau programs and/or activities.
3. The Committee aims to include members from diverse backgrounds, including state, local, and tribal governments, academia, research, national and community-based organizations, and the private sector.
4. Membership shall include individuals, Special Government Employees (SGEs), who are selected for their personal expertise with the topics highlighted above and/or representatives of organizations (Representatives) reflecting diverse populations; national, state, local, and tribal interests; organizations serving hard-to-count populations, and community-based organizations. SGEs will be subject to the ethical standards applicable to SGEs. Members will be individually advised of the capacity in which they will serve through their appointment letters.
5. Membership is open to persons who are not seated on other Census Bureau stakeholder entities (e.g., State Data Centers, Census Information Centers, Federal State Cooperative on Populations Estimates program, other Census Advisory Committees, etc.). No employee of the federal government can serve as a member of the Advisory Committee.
6. Generally, members will serve for a three-year term. All members will be reevaluated at the conclusion of each term with the prospect of renewal, pending advisory committee needs. Active attendance and participation in meetings and activities (e.g., conference calls and assignments) will be considered when determining term renewal or membership continuance. Generally, members may be appointed for a second three-year term at the discretion of the Director.
7. Members are selected in accordance with applicable Department of Commerce guidelines.
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1. Members of the Advisory Committee serve without compensation, but receive reimbursement for committee-related travel and lodging expenses.
2. The Advisory Committee meets at least twice a year, budget permitting, but additional meetings may be held as deemed necessary by the Census Director or Designated Federal Official. All Advisory Committee meetings are open to the public in accordance with the FACA.
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1. Nominations should satisfy the requirements described in the Membership section above.
2. Individuals, groups, and/or organizations may submit nominations on behalf of candidates. All nominations must include a summary of the candidate's qualifications (resume´ or curriculum vitae), along with the nomination letter. Nominees must be able to actively participate in the tasks of the Advisory Committee, including but not limited to regular meeting attendance, committee meeting discussant responsibilities, review of materials, as well as participation in conference calls, webinars, working groups, and/or special committee activities.
3. The Department of Commerce is committed to equal opportunity in the workplace and seeks diverse Advisory Committee membership.
Dated: June 9, 2014.
John H. Thompson,
Director, Bureau of the Census.
[FR Doc. 2014-14105 Filed 6-16-14; 8:45 am]


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March 22, 2001
One on One With Antonio Villaraigosa
This is the third in Sheldon Teitelbaum's series of interviews with the leading mayoral candidates.
Trust current mayoral candidate and State Assembly Speaker Emeritus Antonio Villaraigosa to come up with a uniquely strategic location for his storefront headquarters. True, as the ostensible heart of his Valley constituency, the corner of Van Nuys and Sherman Way is pretty much a no-brainer. But there is something elegantly opportune about the fact that it also sits astride the Valley's first and, so far, only Krispy Kreme.
Like the parent company, Villaraigosa has been around for quite some time, a "big tent" pol and crusader for consensus whose alliances span a broad gamut of communities and interests, including the Westside libs and the city's billionaire boys' club. The one thing he has that Krispy Kreme lacks is the imprimatur of kashrut that he has earned during six years of public service. By virtue of his long-standing support for various Jewish causes and institutions in this city, some regard him as perhaps the race's most authentic landsman. Not surprisingly, our discussion focused mainly on Jewish themes and issues.
Sheldon Teitelbaum: Been a busy Sunday?
Antonio Villaraigosa: I was at West Angeles Church this morning for a fellowship. I don't do drive-by fellowships. Most electives, when they go to synagogues or churches, they drop in for a half-hour, get introduced, eat and leave...
ST: What do you do, take out a membership and contribute to the building fund?
AV: No, I just stay the whole time. Beginning to end.
ST: Where do you get your gregariousness?
AV: My mother. Growing up the 1950s and '60s, my mother had whites, primarily Jews in City Terrace, blacks, Asians, gays over for dinner all the time. She knew everybody. She had a very broad network of friends. She really educated her kids about issues of tolerance and inhumanity. She was a breed apart.
ST: The Journal just ran a piece by our own Marlene Adler Marks in which she appears to have anointed you the "Jewish" candidate of this race. How does it feel to have been co-opted into the tribe?
AV: I think there's an acknowledgment that in my six years of public life, I've worked hard to represent and reach out to the Jewish community. I'm proud of the fact that I put together almost $15 million spearheading state funding for the Museum of Tolerance, $2 million for the Skirball Museum, $2 million for the Jewish Federation building and the Zimmer Museum. I was the author of a hate crimes reporting bill that I worked with many Jewish leaders and other civil rights leaders to require hate crime reporting in our schools. I was the author of a bill to exempt from state taxes Californians who were part of the slave camp legacy during the Nazi Germany years. I have a long history of working in the community.
ST: Apart from bridge-building for political gain, what pulls you to these causes?
AV: I believe that if government is going to work, it's got to represent all communities. A leader in an L.A. as diverse as this one has to work around the clock to reach out to as many different communities as possible.
ST: Are you trying to appeal to that liberal/progressive bent still reflected in the Jewish urban demographic?
AV: Oh yes. There's no question that who I've been politically has resonated among the more progressive elements in the Jewish community, and not because of my outreach, but my role in the crafting of legislation in the last six years.
ST: Have folks in the Latino community looked askance at this love affair?
AV: No question. I sided and supported [school board candidate] David Tokofsky and was criticized and vilified by some. I said then that we have to get beyond the idea that the only ones who can represent the community are the people who come from the community. We have to support the best candidates, whoever they may be and from whatever community. The same when I supported Bob Hertzberg for [State Senate] speaker. Many people know Bob was my roommate. I said he should be the next speaker because he was the most qualified... after me. There were legislators who were very angry and critical. They thought Latinos had some kind of monopoly on the speakership. I said no, that's not the way it works.
ST: Speaking of Boyle Heights, I found myself wondering recently if it wasn't in danger of becoming our answer to Poland -- a place with anti-Semitism and no Jews. What is it in the 21st century that would impel a couple of Latino kids to paint a virulently anti-Semitic mural on a wall facing some main thoroughfares?
AV: I think what's wrong is that there's an incredible lack of understanding. Only when you remember and educate people of the horrors committed by man against man are we able to learn from those experiences and create a better world for us. It's important for there to be curricula that focus on human relations and that really work to create the context for the important discussions that need to occur at a very young age emphasizing our humanity and commonality.
ST: I'd remind you that there are communities in this country in which anti-Jewish sentiment became more a problem of the educated than of the working classes and poor...
AV: That's amazing. It's hard for me to relate because I grew up in a home diametrically opposed to anything like that. When I did my hate crime reporting bill last year right after the shootings at the North Valley Jewish Community Center, I brought together rabbis, human relations experts and civil rights [leaders]. And I said I'm not interested in doing a big press conference but in something you all think makes sense. They said we needed a statewide human relations commission that works as a clearinghouse and as an infrastructure of human-relations support from the state. And we needed a hate-crimes reporting mechanism that requires our schools to track hate crimes. L.A. Unified and other districts are really not doing a good job of tracking hate crimes. I put both bills together. One wasn't signed, the other was.
ST: Do you have a sense of the Jewish community as a one-issue demographic?
AV: This community has always been more tolerant than others, but I believe that every community has to continually work to address the bias and intolerance among us. This is something all of us have to work on continually -- the stereotypes. I can't tell you how many times I walk into a place and people say, "'How come you people don't speak English?" All of us in the great experiment that I think L.A. is have to continually work to build the bridges. I was part of a Latino-Jewish round table and a black-Latino round table 20 years ago. We need to engage in these conversations about how we build shared communities and focus on the common struggles we have.
ST:I understand that Haim Saban is one of your contributors and supporters. Haim is a stand-up guy. But as someone who has put education as their first priority, what do you tell parents and educators who may regard companies like Saban Entertainment as the anti-Christ?
AV: I don't accept that thinking. My children have watched his shows, and they're good kids. If there was a show I didn't like as a parent, I have the opportunity to turn it off. Haim is a wonderful, generous human being. He is committed to creating a better community for more people here. He sees me as someone who is committed to expanding the definition of public safety to creating a better safety net and improving the quality of life for more people. We have a lot in common, not to mention our shared "Sephardic" background.
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CAREER OFFENDERS, MANDATORY MINIMUMS, et al
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CAREER OFFENDERS, MANDATORY MINIMUMS, et al
by Tommy Walker, USP Lewisburg, and Craig Coscarelli
We have received several questions concerning Career Offender status, mandatory minimums, cross references and 851 enhancements in regards to the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 ("FSA"). With apologies in advance for the length of this message, please bear with it, as it contains a lot of what we hope will be helpful information for you in handling your crack cocaine case.
On August 3, 2010 the President signed into law the FSA under the title of "An Act to restore fairness to Federal Cocaine Sentencing." The term "restore" is instructive when interpreting a statute. See Carr v. United States, 560 U.S. (2010)("Congress' use of a verb tense is significant in construing a federal statute's temporal reach"). Unfortunately, Congress did not expressly elect to make the change in the FSA retroactive. See 1 U.S.C. 109 (the so-called "Saving Clause"). Thus, it appears that defendants who committed their offenses before the effective date of the Act on August 3, 2010, will still be subject to the old 100:1 penalties. However, no Court has addressed this type of argument. In addition, one must understand Landgraf v. USI Film, 511 U.S. 244(1995) and retroactive effect. But see United States v. Rojas, No.10-14662 (11th Cir. 6/24/11); United States v. Douglas, No. 10-2341 (1st Cir. 5/31/11); and United States v. Fisher, 635 F.3d 336 (7th Cir. 2011), concluding that the FSA applies to defendants who had not yet been sentenced by the date of the FSA's enactment.
On June 30, 2011, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously to give retroactive effect to its proposed permanent amendment to the Federal sentencing Guidelines that implements the FSA. Retroactivity of the amendment will become effective on November 1, 2011 – The same day that the proposed permanent amendment would take effect – unless Congress gets to disapprove the amendment.
Notable, not every federal crack cocaine offender in federal prison will be eligible for a lower sentence as a result of this decision. The Commission's vote to give retroactive application to the proposed amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guideline does not give retroactive effect to the FSA. Only Congress can make a statute retroactive. With that said, many crack offenders will still be required under Federal Law to serve mandatory Five, Ten, of Life sentence(s) because of the amount of crack cocaine involved in their offenses because of Career Offender status, cross references or 851 enhancements.
STATUTE versus GUIDELINE
First, there is a difference between the Law/Statute and the Guideline. Many defendants confuse the two. As stated above the FSA changed the Law, which is not retroactive. The FSA also changed the Sentencing Guidelines, which recently became retroactive. On June 23, 2011, H.R. 2316 was introduced to the House. It will "Clarify" whether Congress intended the FSA to apply to cases already final. Because, the Guidelines "did not make the FSA retroactive" and they cannot. In sum, the retroactivity issue on June 30th will not affect mandatory minimums, for example, if you were sentenced to a 5 year mandatory minimum for 5-grams of crack cocaine in 2005, the new Amendment "will not affect" your sentence.
Second, there is a difference between pre-Apprendi defendants and post-Apprendi defendants. A critical fact overlooked in most claims. For most pre-Apprendi defendants, there was but a single statutory offense under 841(a), regardless of drug quantity, and the question of which provision of 841(b) applied was merely one of sentencing, not one of which offense was committed. Therefore, any defendant convicted of a substantive violation of 841(a), or of conspiracy under 841 to commit a substantive violation of 841(a), was exposed, statutorily, to the full range of punishment outlined in 841(b), from a zero to life imprisonment, (meaning there was no mandatory minimum sentence for a pre-Apprendi defendant). On the other hand, in a post-Apprendi era, a 841(a) offense is found to describe three separate and distinct offenses, based on the determination of 841(b) threshold drug quantity by the jury as an element of the offense. Once the threshold drug quantities in 841(b)(1)(A), (B) and (C) became elements of the three separate offenses, rather than mere sentencing factors, a post-Apprendi defendant could be exposed to a mandatory minimum of 5, 10 or life imprisonment. This legal conflict was not considered by the U.S. Sentencing Commission; or the FSA. Cf., Depierre v. United States, No. 09-1533 (6/9/11)("The Statute provides a mandatory 10- year minimum sentence for certain drug offenses involving . . .50 grams or more of [Cocaine Base]"). Id.
Finally, there is a difference between Pre-Booker era and the Post-Booker era defendants. The Supreme Court's solution in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), was to make the Guidelines advisory and return fact finding for sentencing purpose from the jury to the sentencing Judge. The Court accomplished this by striking down the provisions making the Guidelines mandatory. Id. at 245. As a result, the maximum sentence was no longer fixed by mandatory Guidelines, but by the statute. Even so, the court recognized that the Sixth Amendment required that any fact necessary to justify the statutory maximum would still have to be submitted to the jury. Id. at 259-60.
Under an advisory-Guideline system, a court is no longer required to apply a "mandatory" Career Offender status or a cross reference. After having considered other relevant sentencing factors under 18 U.S.C. 3553(a), the court can impose a sentence that it believes is sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with the purpose of the statute. See e.g., United States v. McGee, 533 F 3d 225, 230 (2d Cir. 2009)(per curium)(holding that a defendant who was designated a Career Offender but was granted a departure from those Guidelines such that he was ultimately sentenced based on §2D1.1 of the Guidelines was eligible for a reduced sentence).
Under the Guidelines, a court determines whether a defendant is a Career Offender and if he is, calculates the sentence under §4B1.1. They may rely on the sentencing range prescribed for a defendant of a different criminal history category, i.e.,, the § 2D1.1 sentencing range, but only if the court determines that the criminal history category "substantially over represents the seriousness of the defendant's criminal history or the likelihood that the defendant will commit other crimes[.]" U.S.S.G. 4A1.3(b)(1).
In sum, in its current form Amendment 750 will not help most Career Offenders. Because, sentences for Career Offenders are not based on the amount of crack involved in the case. (the same legal reasoning applies to cross references). Instead, Career Offender sentences depend on the charge the person faced and the statutory maximum punishment that charge carries. A separate sentencing Guideline, USSG § 4B1.1, controls Career Offender sentences. That Guideline was not reduced. The retroactive crack Amendment does not change the Career Offender Guideline in any way. Nonetheless, if you think you could benefit from the retroactive Amendment, you should contact Craig.
Remember, only Congress can make the FSA's changes to the Crack mandatory minimum sentences retroactive. To make those changes retroactive, Congress must pass a new law. On June 23, 2011, Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA) introduced a bipartisan bill, H.R.2316 the Fair Sentencing Clarification Act. If it becomes law, it would make the FSA's changes to mandatory minimums apply retroactively to Federal Crack offenders who committed their crime before August 3, 2010. It is not a law yet, and it may never become law. With that said, however, what could help those with Career Offender status, mandatory minimums, cross references or 851 enhancements to get a reduction is filing a motion asking the court to exercise its equitable authority under Hecht C. v. Bowles, 321 U.S. 321 (1954), and filing a motion for conditional release pending adjudication of the 18 references 3582(c)(2) based on irreputable harm (if applicable). So, if you are a Career Offender, have a mandatory minimum sentence, a cross references, or a 851 enhancement, it is recommended that you argue the FSA before August 2, 2011, in the event that Congress sits on the H.R. 2316 until after this date. even if you file a motion and the court denies relief, you can move to reopen the case. See Dodd v. United States, 545 U.S.553 (2005)( holding petitioner only have one year from the day the law changes to file section 2255 motion); 28 references 2255(3); and, Panetti v. Quarterman , 551 U.S. 930 (2007) (should unripe claim be filed, it should be dismissed and should it later become fruitful to resubmit by itself– it must not be decided as a successive action under 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)).
If you have a statutory sentence, the FSA retroactivity question is a legal determination. Absent a clear statement by Congress to the contrary, substantive changes to federal statutes are applied prospectively, but procedural or remedial changes are applied retroactively. United States v. Seale, 542 F.3d 1033(5th Cir.2008). In general, application of a law is retroactive if it attaches new legal consequences to an event transaction, on conduct that was completed before the law's effective date. Landgraf, supra at 269-270. It is believed the new law is procedural and remedial in nature simply because it involves how a defendant is indicted and prosecuted.
Thus, because Congress has been silent regarding the issue of retroactivity, it is believed that Congress meant for the change to be retroactive. See Goodyear Atomic Corp. v. Miller, 486 U.S. 174, 184-85 (1988)("We generally presume Congress is knowledgeable about existing law pertinent to the legislation it enacts."); See also Snapp v. Unlimited Concepts, Inc., 208 F3d 928, 936 (11th Cir. 2000)(assuming that "Congress knew what it was doing when it enacted the statute at issue"). Finally, statutory changes which would result in a manifest miscarriage of justice, if not applied to cases pre-existing the change, are also always applied retroactively. Bradley v. Richmond School Board, 416 U.S. 696, 711 (1974)(A federal court or administrative agency must "apply the law in effect at the time it renders its decision, unless doing so would result in manifest injustice or there is statutory direction or legislative history to the contrary.").
If you want to know if you might benefit from the FSA or new retroactive Guideline Amendment, contact Craig. Remember, no one is guaranteed a sentence reduction, and not all federal crack offenders may qualify. There is one guarantee – if you don't fight, you can't win!


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Ron Carson launches roll-up/TAMP-like venture with Envestnet, TD Ameritrade and Advizent as puzzle pieces
The biggest of LPL's affiliates shows a walk-before-run approach to inorganic growth
Brooke's Note: As LPL's largest advisor client, Ron Carson has already proven that he can succeed as an on-field ballplayer in the advisory business. He has also shown that he can coach from the bench with his loyal tribe of 1,000-plus advisors using the services of his second company, PEAK Advisor Alliance LLC. It is then hardly a stretch to imagine him making a move to fill the middle ground in that spectrum of business enterprises — a position on the arc where he is neither player nor coach but can call on the skills of both. His new venture, Carson Institutional Advisory, tucked within his existing RIA, is positioned to be both a turnkey asset management program and a strategic buying machine or one or the other, depending on what it turns out that advisors want. Ron has proven that he succeeds by playing off the big platforms of others, such as LPL. This time he found a way to also leverage Envestnet, TD Ameritrade and perhaps, Advizent, and he appears to be passing the advantages of scale along to clients in the form of low prices. And he's shrewdly capitalizing on two of the biggest trends in the industry — the need to outsource and the need for a succession plan.
It turns out that buying firms on a national scale is a bit more complicated than Ron Carson originally thought.
After shifting his relationship with LPL Financial last year in order to have the flexibility to acquire more and smaller firms, the head of Omaha, Neb.-based RIA Carson Wealth Management is unveiling another part of that plan: a TAMP-like platform that he hopes will provide a stepping stone for advisors thinking about joining his RIA. See: LPL's biggest rep, Ron Carson, will convert his firm to an independent RIA. Carson Wealth Management has $3.167 billion of assets under administration.
"There was a lot more to [acquisitions] than we thought," he says. "So, let's build a platform that allows us to get to know each other first."
The platform, Carson Institutional Advisory (CIA) is set to launch Oct. 1. It allows advisors to join and access turnkey succession plans, reporting resources, marketing and PR programs, and investment strategies as "an alternative to United Capital Financial Advisers and HighTower Advisors. The main difference, says Carson, is that advisors don't have to sell to him (though he certainly hopes some of them do) in order to access all the tools available, which are heavily focused on client-facing transparency.
The new venture, two years in the making, is being funded internally through $20 million in lines of credit and cash from Carson Wealth Management. It will charge advisors between 45 and 65 basis points in management fees. Internally, expenses for CIA range from 2 to 3 basis points for the all equity models, to 44 basis points for models that include ETFs or mutual funds.
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But competitor Joe Duran, chief executive of United Capital Financial Advisers, isn't sold on the idea of a TAMP, having tried it himself in a big way. offering services that in any way resemble a TAMP or other outsourcer. The other outsourcer in this case is a fellow strategic buyer, HighTower Advisors LLC, which also just announced that it was jumping into the outsource business. See: HighTower throws open its doors to non-partner firms who want service and/or brand.
"Believe me, I know," Duran says. "I did it for 10 years. At Centurion, we were a TAMP [as well as a roll-up]. It's a low-margin, high expense, low-retention level business." Duran sold Centurion Capital Group Inc. to GE Financial Assurance, a unit of General Electric Co., and now (after another sale) represents the TAMP portion (along with the former AssetMark) of Genworth's business. See: SEI turns a big corner but Genworth is still the big asset gatherer.
While CIA may sound like a TAMP or a roll-up lite, Carson is adamant that, though it may have some of those elements, it offers much more.
"I don't know of any TAMP that will actually help you convert the business, do holistic planning, or allow you a look under the hood into what's going on in their researching," says Carson.
Duran also questions how anyone can build a brand where there is so little control over the quality and consistency of service that comes with serving as an outsourcer. His company, he adds, not only operates under a single brand but utilizes ActiFi to monitor the quality and consistency of its offices nationally. See: United Capital calls its partner firms to Berkeley to help execute ambitious plan.
But a strength of the plan, says Carson, is that in theory it should be cheaper than a TAMP or other outsourcing resource.
Advizent co-founder Steve Lockshin, who has been talking to Carson about the plan, agrees: "There's one layer less of fees," he says. See: Advizent hits $100-billion asset target in a matter of weeks triggering hires.
Prelude to a sale
Advisors can opt to join CIA as either a "strategy partner," a relationship that simply gives them access to is strategies through LPL, TD Ameritrade, Schwab and Envestnet Inc., or as an "alliance partner" with access to a wider range of resources and tools in addition to strategy access.
Investment advisors looking to join CIA don't have to hand over any equity or sell to Carson or sign a long-term contract, he says. "They get all the services from day one." But CIA will provide a sort of introduction to Carson and Carson Wealth Management for the advisors that use it, and Carson hopes that some of those advisors opt to sell to CWM after they get to know his firm. "I think it'll allow us to grow rapidly," Carson says. "It's an easier step for advisors culturally."
Many smaller firms don't have succession plans in place, he says, but after they've been using the CIA platform for two years as an alliance partner part of their contract says they will be offered the option of selling to Carson upon retirement. He believes that will more profitable and easier than other succession options, because both sides will be familiar with each other at that point. "We think we can pay a premium because we already have a relationship with the clients through you," he says. "It's less risk for us."
If advisors opt to sell to someone else or go with a different succession plan, Carson says, they can, of course, stay on the platform.
"We want to be that solution in the short term."
The Advizent connection
To become an alliance partner, advisors will have to go through an application process, which includes due diligence on the advisor and firm, and sign a commitment to adhere to a code of ethics.
Carson Wealth Management is provisionally signed on as an Advizent partner, but CIA isn't. Lockshin says there's no way to parlay the Advizent stamp of approval to CIA's member firms without those firms going through Advizent's audit process themselves. Carson says he really became sold on Advizent after it retained Jack Bogle as its fiduciary overseer. See: Advizent makes Jack Bogle its standards czar, a no-pay, no-conflict position.
Lockshin likes the tools CIA is providing advisors, though, to make more information available to clients and he talked to Carson extensively about the project as it developed. It's possible, in the future, he says, that CIA could use Advizent's standards to apply to its own member firms or that the two companies would have some kind dual certification. See: Advizent makes Jack Bogle its standards czar, a no-pay, no-conflict position.
"Our missions are aligned," says Lockshin.
National footprint
CIA is primarily aimed at advisors with less than $1 billion in assets, that extends all the way down to advisors with just $80-100 million, Carson says. The 1,044 RIA offices already signed on to Carson's popular coaching service, PEAK Advisor Alliance, will be a "natural market," he says. CIA. See: Eavesdropping: Ron Carson gets an electric reception at his PEAK event, and calms the waters surrounding his new RIA. But with word already leaking out about the new platform, Carson says he's been getting calls from just as many non-PEAK advisors as PEAK advisors.
Carson says he has brought two advisors aboard already: $180 million Cornerstone Wealth Management Group, based in Hagerstown, Md., and Pinnacle Financial Group in Amarillo, Texas. Carson hopes to have 10 to 12 offices added to CIA by the end of 2013 and is focused on creating a national footprint.
The main selling point for Scott Ford, president of Cornerstone and a PEAK coaching client of Carson's since 2001, was the degree to which the money management platform allows clients access to information. Through the CIA platform, he says, clients can access all their asset information, get up-to-date trade notes and full fee disclosure, participate in quarterly web streams. and even listen in on the daily research calls. See: The top LPL producer has a second RIA-related company that could eclipse the stature of the first one.
"I don't know of a more transparent process out there than this," says Ford.
Lockshin agrees, saying he loves the transparency and client advocate aspects of CIA as well. And, Lockshin thinks the startup can hit those national goals — primarily on the force of Ron Carson's personality and reputation. You can get research and investment strategies anywhere, says Lockshin; you pick Carson's because you like what he does. See: The top 10 people to watch in the RIA business in 2012, Part 1.
"I would not underestimate anything Ron does," says Lockshin. "He's got a following."
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Carson has long been known as an LPL guy but this venture shows his openness to using other partners as well. LPL is still the key partner but Carson will also accommodate acquisitions by using RIA custodians — and primarily TD Ameritrade — whose new headquarters in Omaha Carson can see from his office — as a custodian. He also has a relationship with Schwab Advisor Services See: LPL's biggest rep, Ron Carson, will convert his firm to an independent RIA.
"They're the Avis of the custody world," Carson says of TD Ameritrade. Some of Carson's strategies can only be run on TD's technology, so he's relying more heavily on that custodian than in the past.
"We applaud their efforts," says Pete Dorsey, TD Ameritrade Institutional's managing director of sales.
For LPL's part, they'll continue to be a custodian for Carson's RIA and were also involved, they say, in part in the development of CIA.
"Ron consulted with us as he built out his new platform and we have assisted him with the technology that will support his investment platforms," says Derek Bruton, managing director and national sales manager for LPL Financial in San Diego.
While Carson says the technology behind the platform — including the splashy client-facing iPad app — was developed internally with an outside tech firm, CIA will also rely heavily on Envestnet Inc. which is working with CIA to create a site that will be backed by Envestnet's technology and allow advisors to contract for CIA products and services directly. CIA will also be an available investment manager on Envestnet's platform, so Envestnet advisors can access four of CIA's strategies. And, CIA will have two model strategies managed through Envestnet's ManagerOne platform, which provides access to model management and trading tools, and administrative and reporting services. See: Never mind Tamarac, Envestnet is getting RIAs on board with its own stand-alone software.


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Bartleby the Scrivener: He Could Have Just Taken a Couple of Personal Days Quiz
Think you've got your head wrapped around Bartleby the Scrivener? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What does the lawyer do when Bartleby refuses to budge?
He has security remove him by force
He lets him stay there, doing his best to work around him
He has him fitted with a series of wooden hooks and proceeds to use him as a coat rack
He picks up and moves his practice to a new location
Q. Where is Bartleby sent?
Anger management classes
An insane asylum
To Burke Williams for a spa day
Q. What is Bartleby staring at when the narrator goes to visit him?
His hands
The blank page of a journal
One of his new friends, who has thus far gone forty seconds without blinking
A wall
Q. How does Bartleby die?
He is killed by a fellow inmate
He shoots himself in the head
He starves to death
In an unfortunate crossover from Melville's most famous work, he is harpooned through the chest
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The number of kids in home school has jumped 74 percent across the country in just eight years, according to new numbers from the Department of Education.
And although Mesa County School District 51 is happy parents have choices,
it says the move from school to home could put a dent in the budget.
Stephanie Boda has been home schooling her kids for 20 years and says she likes the freedom to teach to her kids' strengths.
"I think that we're able to tailor their education we have. You know you're children best," Boda told 11 News on Wednesday.
The mother of eight says it's not just academics, she believes her family is closer because of it.
"It's encouraging family, it's encouragin family ties."
More and more families are joining Stephanie Boda to bring school into their homes.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics there are now 1.5 million children in home school.
In Mesa County in the last four years, more kids are leaving District 51 for home school--197 kids in the 2005–2006 school year compared to 219 in the 2008-2009 school year.
District Spokeswoman Christy Mcgee says those numbers can be deceiving and growth is playing a role but says something is changing in parents.
"We need to find out why are parents choosing home school and look at studies like this," Mcgee told 11 News on Wednesday.
She says the school district supports the choice and wants what's best for kids but if the number of kids leaving outweighs the number coming in, it could be bad for the budget.
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But as parents like Stephanie Boda look to home schooling, they may never go back to public school.
"I wouldn't do it any other way," said Boda.
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What's Up With Natural Gas Prices Heading Toward 10-Year Low
It's been a relatively ho-hum day for the major asset classes. Stocks are up about 1% and crude oil has risen nearly 2%, while other major commodities and metals have registered small moves. The big outlier: natural gas.
Natural-gas futures are down for a sixth straight session, suffering a 7.2% drop on Tuesday on top of a 13% decline last week.
We at MarketBeat won't even pretend to be experts on the subject. We'll leave that to Dow Jones colleague and gas guru Jerry A. DiColo, who explains that persistently mild temperatures across the U.S. this winter are putting pressure on gas-fired heating demand.
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Natural gas for February delivery recently traded 18.2 cents, or 6.8%, lower at $2.488 a million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The benchmark contract had fallen as low as $2.473 in earlier trading, on pace to settle below the September 2009 settlement of $2.508 a million British thermal units. A settlement price below that level would be the lowest since 2002.
The price could keep falling as above-average temperatures are expected to remain at least through the end of January.
The sudden drop has left many analysts wondering whether natural gas is ready for a turnaround. But Jim Ritterbusch, head of oil-trading advisor Ritterbusch & Associates, is in the camp that isn't ready to call a bottom just yet.
The downside price acceleration of some 15% just during the past week is sending off strong bearish vibes from our vantage point. Eventually, the market may shift into a sideways or consolidation pattern for several sessions as was the case during the first week of this year. However, such a development will likely represent only a pause in a sustainable price down move that could potentially see an ultimate price decline to lowest levels in almost 10 years, roughly the $2 mark.


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WOMEN'S SOCCER: No. 19 St. Edward's Skates Past McMurry, 4-0
AUSTIN, Texas - No.19-ranked St. Edward's University skated past McMurry University 4-0 Monday afternoon in Heartland Conference action.
Cailyn Trapani and Riana Soobadoo netted first-half goals and the Hilltoppers led 2-0 at halftime.
SEU (10-0-2, 5-0 Heartland) added two goals in the second half to put the contest out of reach.
Goalkeeper Anissa Arenas (Lubbock, Texas / Coronado HS) had a game-high nine saves.
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Locals pause to remember Sandy Hook shooting victimsUPDATED 10:27 PM CST Dec 14, 2013
A local grassroots groups honored the victims of 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.Video Transcript
ANNIVERSARY OF THE HORRIFIC SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHOOTING. HERE YOU CAN SEE PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE FIRST LADY LIGHTING CANDLES IN HONOR OF THE VICTIMS. THEY ALSO OBSERVED WITH A MOMENT OF SILENCE. PEOPLE IN THE NEWTOWN COMMUNITY HAVE SAID THEY HOPE TO GRIEVE TODAY IN PRIVATE. TOWN LEADERS HAVE ASKED NEWS MEDIA TO RESPECT THOSE WISHES AND STAY AWAY. TODAY THE PRESIDENT ALSO CALLS FOR A SOLUTION TO THE COUNTRY'S EPIDEMIC OF GUN VIOLENCE. WDSU REPOTER CASEY FERRAND IS LIVE WITH HOW LOCALS REMEMBERED THE SANDY HOOK VICTIMS AND WHAT LOCAL LAWMAKERS SAY ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF STOPPNG THESE TYPES OF TRAGEDIES. ON THE EVE OF THE NEWTOWN ANNIVERSARY... WE SAW THE LATEST SCHOOL SHOOTING... JUST A FEW MILES AWAY FROM COLORADO'S COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL. IT'S A CHILLING REMINDER OF THE PAST. AS LOCALS REMEMBER THE SANDY HOOK VICTIMS ... ONE LAWMAKER SAYS IT'S A PROBLEM WITHOUT A SOLUTION. ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHOOTING... THE COUNTRY REMEMBERS THE 26 VICTIMS... MANY OF THEM CHILDREN. THEIR NAMES ARE WRITTEN ON THE WALL OF ST. ANN EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN NEW ORLEANS ... WHERE COMMUNITY MEMBERS HELD A VIGIL IN THEIR HONOR. 12:41:17 this remembrance celebration is a reminder to everyone that we never forget. We never forget our local victims and other victims around the country that suffer tragedy at the hands of others 13 SATURDAY PRESIDENT OBAMA MARKED THE ANNIVERSARY WITH A CALL FOR STRICTER GUN CONTROL AND MORE SUPPORT FOR MENTAL HEALTH. Because we haven't yet done enough to make our communities and our country safer. We have to do more to keep dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun so easily. We have to do more to heal troubled minds. 13 OBAMA HAS REPEATEDLY URGED LAWMAKERS TO PASS STRICTER GUN LAWS. HOWEVER LOUISANA SENATOR DANNY MARTINY ARGUES NO LAW WILL PUT AN END TO SUCH TRAGEDIES. 12:44:20 as much as you want to think you can control it you can't. It's tragic what has just happened but then people start talking about gun control. A bad person is going to find a way to get a gun. 11 AFTER INSTANCES LIKE THE NEWTOWN KILLINGS A YEAR AHO AND AS RECENT FRIDAY WHEN A DENVER 18-YEAR-OLD WOUNDING A FELLOW STUDENT BEFORE KILLING HIMSELF FRIDAY ... MARTINY SAY THE PUBLIC TENDS TO OVERREACT... MOVING TO MAKE CHANGES AND CREATE LAWS. 12:54:00 it's a very sensitive area it's something that we as legislators have to do, every year we have to balance the interest of everyone involved and I think ultimately you come down to the realization is we can't totally fix the problem 14 FOLLOWING THE NEWTOWN SHOOTINGS THE PRESIDENT TOOK ACTION TO REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE ... SIGNING 25 EXECUTIVE ACTIONS INTO LAW THAT REQUIRED CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL. IN APRIL LEGISLATION TO STRENGTHEN BACKGROUND CHECKS AND BAN MILITARY-STYLE ASSAULT RIFLES AND HIGH-CAPACITY MAGAZINES FAILED IN THE SENATE. THIS MONTH THE HOUSE AND SENATE DID APPROVE FEDERAL GUN LEGISLATION THAT RENEWS A BAN ON MANUFACTURING PLASTIC FIREARMS... THAT ARE NOT DETECTABLE BY SECURITY-SCREENING DEVICES.
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Angie Martinez Opens Up About New Radio Show With 'The Breakfast Club' [VIDEO]
It's all about moving her career to the next level and being in different markets. That's what radio personality Angie Martinez said about leaving New York's Hot 97 for rival station Power 105. In an interview on Power's morning show 'The Breakfast Club', the 43-year-old radio jock said the move was business, not personal.
"It's business and people leave jobs all the time," she said. "I'm not disloyal at all. I have always been extremely loyal. I put, I don't know how many years of my life down for that company. Even the highest of higher ups [weren't that loyal], which is when I went to make the phone call, when I decided to take this amazing offer that I got. They said, 'You've served this company so well, so many years. I can do nothing but wish you well.'"
The move was really about starting a whole new chapter in her life, she added.
"It was time for me to grow and do new things," explained the legendary radio host. "I want to be on in different cities. I want to be able to grow. I want to be able to have new challenges, see new things. I want to learn this studio, how this studio works."
Martinez also said that she didn't dislike anyone at Power 105, despite there being such a heated rivalry. "I never really subscribed to, because somebody works somewhere else we have to be enemies."
Her resignation from Hot 97 is the center of a new interview in Billboard.
"I tried to really look at what's best for my career, what's best for my life, what's best for my family, for me," she said. "I had to take my emotion out of it. It was a decision that I felt was right for me."
The new radio gig at Power 105 allows Martinez to communicate with audiences outside of New York City, as the Clear Channel-owned station is broadcast in other major markets like Miami. "The thing is about the move, it's not just going down the dial," she explained. "It's about joining a team and a company that really offers me all kinds of growth potential."
Basically, Martinez felt she was beneath a glass ceiling at her old job and she needed to break it. The New York native also said she's been trying to stay away from all of the hoopla surrounding her recent move.
"People keep texting me like this is such a big deal and keep forwarding me links to things," stated Martinez. "I've really tried to keep a quiet mind about it. I'm trying not to read too much of the comments on social media or too much stuff about it in general. It's emotional enough for me, and I just want to look forward and not get too wrapped up in the noise."
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Sports camera maker GoPro revealed today just how much it's looking to raise in its upcoming public bid.
The company intends to sell 17.8 million shares of stock at an estimated $21-$24 per share, according to an amended S-1 filing it submitted today to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
With those numbers, the initial public offering on Nasdaq could give GoPro as much as $427 million, with the company angling for a valuation as high as $3 billion, Bloomberg reported.
GoPro will use some of the money to pay off a loan through its credit facility, according to today's filing. The remaining cash will reportedly help GoPro execute on plans like developing specialty hardware, bringing in revenue through a content management system, and turning the company into an all-out media entity that sells user-generated content.
The big public bid starkly contrasts the way GoPro got started: with $264,000 check from founder Nick Woodman's parents. Woodman merely wanted a camera to strap to his wrist in order to film his surfing adventures.
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New Low-Frequency Spread Measures
Craig W. Holden
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance
May 26, 2009
I develop new spread proxies that pick up on three attributes of the low-frequency (daily) data: (1) price clustering, (2) serial price covariance accounting for midpoint prices on no-trade days, and (3) the quoted spread which is available on no-trade days. I develop and empirically test two different approaches: an integrated model and combined models. I test both new and existing low-frequency spread measures relative to two high-frequency benchmarks (percent effective spread and percent quoted spread) on three performance dimensions: (1) higher individual firm correlation with the benchmarks, (2) higher portfolio correlation with the benchmarks, or (3) lower distance relative to the benchmarks. I find that on all three performance dimensions the new integrated model and the new combined model do significantly better than existing low-frequency spread proxies.
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Definition of noisecore in English:
Entry from US English dictionary
A type of rock music derived from hardcore punk, characterized by the use of loud distorted guitar and feedback: a '90s noisecore quartet whose songs all kinda sounded alike
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- The lead vocalist destroys all preconceptions of noisecore with his guttural screams and his distinct projections.
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Doctor's office or hospital.
A resting heart rate monitor. (Musical Note: C)
beep like a hospital heart monitor. beeps, speeds up, the ends.
Old Mechanical alarm clock is ticking -- Recorded mono with Sennheiser MKH40
clock ticking. Sennheiser MKH60 + MKH30 into Shure FP24 preamp, Edirol R09 recorder
A police car turns on its siren and speeds away into the distance. Recorded with: Fostex FR2Le, BP4025
siren of a passing ambulance, some voices and traffic in background. Olympus LS10 internal mics. Gran Via, Madrid
Closing a Car door
Newer Car door shuts
This is a sound that I changed, Its one of the best action sounds that I have fond on Freesound. ...
This was a shotgun I recorded With 6 Mics then layered it to big it sound very fat and powerful ...
Car driving
A good, steady, and classic heart beat sound. You may need good bass speakers or earbuds to hear this.
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Opened 9 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#6475 closed (duplicate)
some SQL constraint statements commented out in generated sql
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To Reproduce
Set up a django project and app, and set up an appropriate database. Put the following code in the app's models.py:
from django.db import models class A(models.Model): b_ref = models.ForeignKey('B') class B(models.Model): a_ref = models.ForeignKey(A)
Then run python manage.py sql <appname>
BEGIN; CREATE TABLE `testapp_a` ( `id` integer AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, `b_ref_id` integer NOT NULL ) ; CREATE TABLE `testapp_b` ( `id` integer AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, `a_ref_id` integer NOT NULL ) ; ALTER TABLE `testapp_a` ADD CONSTRAINT b_ref_id_refs_id_2727239a FOREIGN KEY (`b_ref_id`) REFERENCES `testapp_b` (`id`); -- The following references should be added but depend on non-existent tables: -- ALTER TABLE `testapp_b` ADD CONSTRAINT a_ref_id_refs_id_3bce8de8 FOREIGN KEY (`a_ref_id`) REFERENCES `testapp_a` (`id`); COMMIT;
Expected Output
Same as output except that the last ALTER TABLE statement should not be commented out.
I have made a patch, but my python is a bit rusty...
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Change History (4)
Changed 9 years ago by railk
fix for commented-out constraints. my python is rusty, so may need cleanup.
comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by ramiro
- Needs documentation unset
- Needs tests unset
- Patch needs improvement unset
Which database engine/backend are you using?. See #4193
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by railk
It's not the backend, it's the circular referencing; Previously, when a model was processed in django.core.management.sql.sql_create, only pending references with this current model as the reference target where processed. The patch modifies sql_for_pending_references so it processed all references where the current model is the target *and* all references where the target is a known model and the reference's source is the current model... did that make any sense?
But to answer your question, I'm using MySQL.
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by ramiro
- Resolution set to duplicate
- Status changed from new to closed
Duplicate of #4193


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Liz Jansen, Guidance Counselor at Lake Career and Technical Center, has been named Camdenton Teacher of the Week. In the short time Jansen has been with LCTC she has established herself as an outstanding educator.
She has generated relationships built on trust with both students and staff members. Helping students identify their goals and achieve them is a high priority for Jansen. She is always looking out for the students' best interest. Jansen is professional and trustworthy and maintains high expectations for the students. Teacher of the Week is sponsored by Smith Law Firm and recognizes teachers for positive contributions made to the Camdenton students and district.
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Thirteen Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
Analysis: Allusions
When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it's usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literary and Philosophical References
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In the Rye (8.30)
- William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow" (9.12)
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (11.46)


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Revenue Control System Increases Parking Efficiency
By Triphenya Bailey
Improving the efficiency and speed at which customers enter and exit the on-airport parking lots is one of the main goals of the Parking Revenue Control System project at Hartsfield-Jackson.
"This project covers everything," said Aviation Assistant Parking Manager Tracy Harrison. "From the entrances to the exits, it's designed to enhance our operating efficiency," she said.
The $21 million parking improvement plan, launched in 2005, includes a state-of-the-art revenue control system that provides Airport parking customers with a wider array of payment methods. This includes pre-pay stations that allow passengers to pay for parking prior to reaching the exit lanes in the parking lots. The pre-pay stations, also referred to as pay-on-foot machines, allow passengers to pay by cash or credit card before returning to their vehicles. More than 40 walk-up pay stations are placed throughout the lots.
A new subscriber-only parking area known as the Silver Reserve Lot is scheduled to open on the South Terminal side of the Airport in late June. Once the project is complete, it is expected to bring the number of on-airport parking to more than 32,000 spaces.
For updated information on parking at Hartsfield-Jackson, log on to www.atlanta-airport.com.
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Silicosis: Number of deaths, death rates (per million population), and years of potential life lost (YPLL) by state, U.S. residents age 15 and over, 1996–2005
See Appendix for information about data sources, methods, ICD codes, and limitations.
Mortality multiple cause-of-death data from National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System. Population estimates from U.S. Census Bureau.
Reference Number: 2009-483
Date Posted: March 2009
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Goat Simulator Could be the Best Video Game Ever Made! [VIDEO]
So I'm just a little late to the party, as usual. I just found out about this game yesterday called "Goat Simulator" for P.C. and I have to get it! This game has it all from exciting interactive landscapes, stupidity, incredible stunts, hilarity, death, destruction and extremely unrealistic gratuitous violence!
I haven't even told you the absolute best part, you're playing as a goat! I mean who the hell hasn't thought about running around a virtual world as a goat virtually leaving a wake of utter destruction in your path? No one that's who. This game will unite all people and could very well be the answer to world peace!
If you're into the mindlessness of time wasting games this one's for you. I could easily spend hours and hours on this and never get tired of it. I'll be downloading this very soon and losing myself in a world gone mad and reeking sweet glorious havoc…As a goat! Check it out and best of luck getting the song out of your head!
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Now that Amy Pond and Rory are going to be gone, who's the Doctor going to have as his companion? Well, it was just announced that 25 year-old Jenna-Louise Coleman will take over. She may be well remembered in the British TV series, Emmerdale, which she was in for 4 years, playing Jasmine Thomas. Or maybe you've seen her short stint in Waterloo Road as Lindsey James. She was also in 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger.
This is what BBC America has to say about her:
Well luckily for us, she's something of a veteran of British TV already, having made a name for herself in Emmerdale, one of Britain's biggest soaps. During her stint, she was nominated in the National Television Awards, TV Choice Awards and British Soap Awards.
So, apparently, she should be able to handle being on the most popular show in British television.
The Guardian gave this bit about her anticipated appearance:
Coleman, 25, who played lesbian Jasmine Thomas in the soap, will make her first appearance in the Doctor Who 2012 Christmas special.
However, Doctor Who executive producer and showrunner Steven Moffat, who delights in keeping viewers and journalists guessing, declined to reveal what Coleman's character would be called.
Coleman is reported to have impressed TV bosses in screen tests with Doctor Who star Matt Smith.
One Doctor Who fan texted me this:
She is young but I trust Steven Moffat completely. He has never let the fandom down.
Probably the same can be said for Jenna-Louise, right? Let's hope!
So, what's next for the exiting Amy Pond?
After what will certainly be a heartbreaking departure from the show, according to IMDB, she'll be seen in a TV movie called We'll Take Manhattan. We wish her well in her future endeavors outside of the Whoverse, along with co-star Arthur Darvill. I know many Whovians will miss both of them.


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A 21-year-old Burlington man died after he was found unresponsive in a pool at Burlington Tennis Club early Sunday morning, police said.
Derek Schueler was discovered in the pool at the club at 12½ East Terrace, South Burlington police said. One of Schueler's friends called 911 at 4:08 a.m., police said
First responders performed CPR and Schueler was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
There was no evidence of foul play, police said.
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Definition of piping plover in English:
piping plover
A small buff-colored bird of coastal areas in eastern North America.
- Charadrius melodus.
Example sentences
- Another plover you probably hope to view is the piping plover, cause of both agitation and celebration, depending upon your particular point of view.
- The endangered piping plover, found nowhere else in Quebec, nests on the islands' beaches.
- Three piping plovers, 50 least terns, and one oystercatcher were raised.
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Ricky Burns did more than just demonstrate he is a force to be reckoned with in the lightweight division, he proved a whole array of so-called boxing experts wrong. Very wrong, indeed.
That was the message from the 28-year-old Scottish star after securing a one-sided unanimous decision against Australian Michael Katsidis at Wembley Arena, London, Saturday to take the WBO interim lightweight title.
Burns, who gave up his junior lightweight belt two months ago to step up to the 135-pound limit, had been written off by almost everybody in the build-up to the clash. The general consensus among the critics was that Katsidis, the renowned brawler from Queensland, was too powerful, and his relentless pressure-cooker style too much to handle.
How wide of the mark the tipsters were. Burns, 28, dominated the contest from the first bell, his lethal jab, superior ring skills and an ability to unload when forced back against the ropes nullifying the commendable, albeit rather obvious tactics of one-track pony Katsidis.
And following the eye-catching display, Burns, from Coatbridge, Glasgow, could scarcely conceal his delight, understandibly; he had announced himself as a genuine lightweight contender, and he had trashed all those pre-fight predictions.
"Everybody doubted me going into that fight, they all had Michael walking all over me. But I've always said that I am at my best when I have to fight the best. I have proved a lot of people wrong," said Burns (33-2, 9 knockouts). "The better the person in front of me, the better I am going to be. I hope the fans enjoyed that because I certainly did.
"I keep telling people that I treat boxing as my job and, when I say I would fight anybody, I honestly mean anybody at all in the world. I am not afraid of getting beat, either. I think that's the right attitude to have. No matter who I fight, I believe that I will win. One hundred per cent.
"I give my life to boxing and this just shows that if you put in the all hard work, with the right attitude, it pays off in the end. "
The judges scorecards of 117-112, 117-111, 117-111 suggested Burns' lightweight debut was a 12-round stroll in the park. Do not be fooled, though, because many observers had the fight considerably closer until Burns regained control to take the last three rounds against a visibly tiring opponent. Former titleholder Katsidis (28-5, 23 KOs) is not called 'the warrior' for nothing.
"My jab was the key to the fight – although it was hard to keep him off in some of the rounds because he was rushing in so much," Burns said. "At times I did have to stand my ground. Michael is a banger and you can see why he causes people a lot of trouble. He just kept coming and that is hard. He was giving me trouble but, again, I am good at hiding it. I don't show it when I'm hurting. I just grit my teeth and go on.
"I always say the preparation and the dieting is the worst bit of a fight – but when you get the weigh-in over that's when you can concentrate on the fight. For me that's the best part of it. I love boxing. Making the move up to lightweight has definitely been the right thing to do. I was really struggling to boil down before fights whereas now I can relax and do more upper-body work."
As for the immediate future, Burns, who will take a couple of weeks off, is looking to get back into action in the spring of 2012 against whoever is willing to face him – and that includes THE RING, WBA and WBO lightweight holder, Juan Manuel Marquez (53-5-1, 35 KOs), who meets Manny Pacquiao this Saturday for the pound-for-pound number one's WBO welterweight title.
"Now, I am the WBO interim champion, so we will need to see what Marquez does. Obviously he is fighting Pacquiao – but to step in the ring with a legend like him would be a dream come true," he said. "I would fight anybody at all. The fact that I am not afraid to lose makes me dangerous. No matter who I am fighting, I am going to give it my all."
If a shot against Mexican Marquez, fifth in the pound-for-pound list, sounds a step too far at this stage, be careful what you assume. Burns, after all, has a habit of proving people wrong.