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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
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As the weather has warmed up, I've noticed more and more patrons hanging out in the library's parking lot after the building has closed for the day. They are on their phones and tablets, taking advantage of the free Wi-Fi service that each Birmingham Public Library branch offers. I've even seen people take out a lawn chair and get really comfortable while searching the Internet. It made me start to think about how Birmingham Public Library offers services to our patrons, even when we're not open during business hours.
We have our catalog, which allows patrons to search for materials, put a hold request on them, and pick up that item at any location that they wish to. Have a paper that's coming due tomorrow and you're still looking for research? Enjoy access to one of our many databases available to you day or night as long as you have a library card. Got a new favorite song that you want to hear all the time? Download the song to your phone or device via Freegal. Your library card opens up a world of resources to you and most of these are available at any time that's convenient to you.
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We were up and at 'em having breakfast at the Attleboro, MA HI Express between 7:00 and 7:30 am. They were having trouble with their WiFi connection all afternoon and evening. That may be why some of you may have received an empty email or message from me yesterday. I resent it. I understand from folks that it worked. We made the mistake of asking …
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This newly-built hotel is located in the city centre close to one of the most beautiful cathedrals, the Preobrazhensky Cathedral. The main avenue, the Nevsky Prospekt is just a few minutes away. Numerous museums, theatres, shopping centres and restaurants are within walking distance of the hotel. The nearest underground station Chernyshevskaya may be found around a 10-minute walk away and Moskovskiy station is some 2 km from the hotel. Guests will find the ski region of Pulkovo within approximately 17 km of this establishment.
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Coral Gables, Florida (The Weekly Vice) - Eric Owens, a 28-year-old G4S Wackenhut security guard was jailed Sunday after he allegedly admitted to entering a home and then videotaping a 17-year-old girl while she was undressing.
According to Coral Gables police, a family who lived in a gated community called the guard house after their daughter reported seeing someone with a cell phone attempting to videotape her while she was undressing.
Wackenhut security guard Owens arrived on scene and assured the family he would contact police and report the incident, but apparently never did. The family reportedly became concerned when police never arrived to take a statement and decided to contact authorities themselves.
Investigators say detectives interviewed another security guard who informed them Owens stated the family did not want police to be contacted. The inconsistent stories eventually led Owens to confess that he had recorded the teen with his cell phone. He also admitted to videotaping the same girl just two weeks prior.
Owens' cell phone, which had conveniently disappeared, was later found during a search of the neighborhood. The phone reportedly contained images of the undressing girl.
It was later learned that Owens had been convicted in 2004 for peeping into someone's home while he resided in California.
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The Northern Lights had been brilliant all week long and had been clear in the sky as far south as San Fransisco. Satellite data indicated that the solar wind was blowing harder than ever and the energy of the bombardment from ionized particles in its currents had excited plasma over the Earth to such an extent that the glow discharge this caused began to extend much closer to the equator from the poles than it had in centuries. Glorious. Also, Grammarians noticed that sentences of unusual length were being written with increasing frequency. However, the weather this summer had been worse than ever on record. Hurricanes were larger and they were more plentiful. Tornados had also increased their frequency. Thunder storms ravaged the prairies almost daily. Many believed there must be some connection between the electrical current (it always seems silly to call it a "wind") flowing around our planet and the electrical storm activity on the ground. Many were of the opinion that it was the electricity which generated the storms, not vice versa.
Hank didn't care which caused what. He was wet. He was cold. No, he wasn't cold and this irritated him because usually when it rains in Calgary, it's cold. He expected to be cold, but wasn't. Hank hated to be disappointed — disappointed and wet. He shivered against the cold he didn't feel and crossed the street.
The office building he walked into had over its door a large, brass sign. It read, "Globotherm Geosystems Inc." It was Hank's sign. GGI was Hank's company. GGI was also in serious trouble. Pausing briefly to throw his newspaper onto an end table in the lobby, he approached the elevators.
"Good morning, George," Hank said to the security guard as he passed the desk.
"Good morning, Hank," said George. "Reporters are waiting for you upstairs. I take it you've seen the headlines?"
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His most recent data indicated the global mean temperature had risen again. They also showed that greenhouse gas emissions had gone down again. The globe was warming alright, but everyone appeared to be wrong about the reasons why. Fingers were being pointed. Reputations were being lost. Characters were being assassinated. Currently Hank was under fire from the federal government. They had adopted economically dangerous policies for the sake of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. They were becoming embarrassed. Either the temperatures weren't rising (clearly they were) or emissions were not really down. The reporters upstairs didn't want to know what was causing the warming. They wanted to know who was paying to skew the data. They wanted to know who was misinterpreting the figures. They wanted to know why GGI was using faulty equipment. They wanted to know, once and for all, why Hank was lying to the world.
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President Obama could get an opportunity to fill as many as two vacancies on the Supreme Court if Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg announce retirement this spring for age and health reasons, according to an ABC News report.
The network said lawyers for Obama are "working behind the scenes" to prepare for that possibility.
If a vacancy or vacancies develop, it is unclear whether Obama could nominate replacements who would vote in a liberal way on ideological matters as consistently as Justice Stevens and Justice Ginsburg, due to increasingly partisan confirmation politics. Stuart Taylor of the National Journal told ABC News:
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Pharmacological Management of ADHD and Associated Comorbidities. Regina Bussing, M.D., M.S.H.S. Professor, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. ADHD: Etiology and Prevalence. Etiology No single cause Many possible etiologies Genetic causation increasingly implicated Prevalence
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Pharmacological Management of ADHD and Associated Comorbidities
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Nobody Remembers
Because we have no government, armed with power, capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
He was short, pudgy, and cantankerous, but the country would not exist without the actions and hard work of John Adams. Thomas Jefferson wrote the most famous political document in history, but it was John Adams and his cousin Sam who truly set the country on the course for our very Independence.
Besides being the ONLY founder who owned no slaves due to principles, this nobody wonders why John Adams did not earn his rightful place with a monument on the Mall. As David McCullough, one of America's most famous historians, pointed out once, John Adams, was truly the 'conductor' of the band.
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Nobody Remembers—" A Defense of the Constitution"
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In honor of the Anniversary of the Constitution, I thought a few words from John Adams would be an appropriate mark for the day: (Of course…no favoritism here. (haha)
Not many people know that John Adams wrote the FIRST and oldest Constitution in the United States. He wrote the Massachusetts Constitution, which pre-dated the United States' Constitution, which upon, believe it or not, our three branches of government: judicial, legislative, and executive were based.
While he was overseas during the making of the Constitution, he wrote a long dissertation called "A Defense of the Constitution" and "Thoughts on Government" and sent all members of Congress copies, upon which they all had read before the convention. Like his stance on slavery, which he received very little credit, and being the only member of the founding fathers who had no slaves on principle, John Adams also got little credit for his work in the construction of our own Constitution.
If not for the great American historian, David McCullough, not many people would even know about the many things John Adams did to help found the country, and that's including writing the pre-cursor of the original document that we all know and hail and the most perfect governmental document ever produced in the history of mankind.
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A Defense of the Constitution: By John Adams
—where the great and rich will have the greatest influence in the public councils, they will continually make unequal laws in their own favor, unless the poorer majority unite, which they rarely do, set up an opposition to them, and run them down by making unequal laws against them. In every society where property exists, there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal law can never be expected. They will either be made by numbers to plunder the few who are rich, or by influence to fleece the may who are poor. Both rich and poor, then, must be made independent, that equal justice may be done, and equal liberty enjoyed by all.
The passions and appetites are parts of human nature, as well as reason and the moral sense. In the institution of government, it must be remembered that, although reason ought always to govern individuals, it certainly never did since the Fall, and never will, till the Millennium: and human nature must be taken as it is, as it has been, and will be.
The passions and desired of the majority of the representatives in an assembly being in their nature insatiable and unlimited by anything within their own breast, and having nothing to control them without, will crave more and more indulgence, and, as they have the power, they will have the gratification: and Nedham's government will have no security of continuing free, —
There is no man so blind as not to see, that to talk of founding a government upon a supposition that nations and great bodies of men, left to themselves, will practice a course of self denial, is either to babble like a new-born infant or to deceive like an unprincipled impostor.
And last but not least…a word about the "press"…and a warming from Adams: who had studied history more than perhaps any of the founders:
The press, that great barrier and bulwark of the rights of mankind, when it is protected in its freedom by law, can now no longer be free: if the authors, writers, and printers, will not accept of the hire that will be offered them, they must submit to the ruin that will be denounced against them. The presses, with much secrecy and concealment, will be made the vehicles of calumny against the minority and, of panegyric and empirical applauses of the leaders of the majority, and no remedy can possibly be obtained. In one word, the whole system of affairs, and every conceivable motive of hope and fear, will be employed to promote the private interests of a few, and their obsequious majority: and there is no remedy but in arms. Accordingly we find in all the Italian republics, the minority always were driven to arms in despair.
Compare these thoughts to the men from "Harvard" of today…and speaking of Harvard, John's grandson, Henry Adams, tells you all you need to know about "Harvard" in his book…
"The Education of Henry Adams."
It's one of the reasons I don't always abide by "Harvard" standards.
Now, let's see what politician even mentions the Constitution today…shall we?
I'm guessing Ted Cruz. Let's see if I win.
John Adams Built the Navy that Jefferson Would Use…Right Mr. Meacham?
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I remember how excited I was the day I finished reading David McCollough's biography of John Adams. I was even more excited when Tom Hanks brought his book to life in an HBO series. So you can imagine how surprised I was to hear a different version of history about John Adams and Thomas Jefferson last night on Mark Levine's show. This historian, Jon Meacham, gave Jefferson all the glory and made John Adams out to be the stupid one when it came to Barbary pirates.
Funny, I thought—- that's not how David McCullough reported it.
The author, Jon Meacham, was promoting his new book called Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power.
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Mr. Meacham made it sound like, it was Jefferson that stood up to the Barbary Pirates, against the wishes of John Adams. It wasn't that he was wrong, it was the way he was presenting Jefferson as being so much wiser than John, and leaving out the particulars that was annoying.
To sum it up, in order for America to be able to use the shipping lanes in the Mediterranean, back in the early days of our country, they had to 'pay' the Sultan of Tripoli for safe passage. The Sultan, Abdrahaman, wanted more than Congress was willing to give, even though both France and Britain were already paying them. Jefferson had gone to Paris to help John negotiate with them.
(This bribery has NOT changed in all these years)
From John Adams (p. 352)
From Philadelphia, John Jay sent instructions to negotiate with the Barbary States. Funds were made available by Congress up to $80,000. But Adams and Jefferson had not money at hand. When Jefferson inquired whether Adams might borrow again from the Dutch, and reported that French officers in Paris were angry over not having been paid what they were due for services in the Revolution, Adams was helpless to do anything.
Remember, John Adams got a loan from the Dutch, (and he did this all by himself without the help of any of his 'friends' in Congress) so that George Washington could then go on with his battles and win the Revolutionary war. Without that loan, the war might have been lost.
Jefferson and Adams wrote to each other, when Jefferson left London and went to Paris…
From John Adams (P. 366)
In an exchange of letters between London and Paris , meantime, he and Jefferson considered the question of whether to pay tribute to the Barbary pirates or wage war with them. Jefferson recommend war as more honorable and proposed that an American fleet be built. Adams agreed in principle and promised, "I will go all lengths with you in promoting a navy." Like Jefferson, he detested any prospect of paying bribes. But given that there was no American navy at present and that it would be years most likely before Congress voted such a resolution, Adams though it sensible to pay the money. "We ought not fight them at all, unless we determine to fight them forever" he told Jefferson who willingly deferred to Adam's judgment. Later in January 1787, they would sign a pact with Morocco, whereby the Unites States, like France and Britain agreed to pay for protection.
Then Meacham, went on to give Jefferson the credit for building the Navy, at least I thought that's what he said. I couldn't believe it. Did I just hear that? All throughout McCullough's book, Jefferson is seen hiding out on Monticello throughout the revolution…it was Adams that built that Navy.
When he became President, Adams asked Congress for the funds, and a bill for a 'provisional army' was passed.
From John Adams (p. 501)
The rebirth of the navy the 'wooden walls' he wanted above all for defense of the country, and a new Department of the Navy, separate from the War Department were his pride and joy.
The new navy, in Vice President's Jefferson's view, was a colossal waste of money.
Add to that the fact that when Jefferson became President, he disbanded much of our military, (typical democrat) and so, when the British invaded again in the war of 1812, it was Jefferson's own fault, the country was unprotected. Adams begged him not to.
John Meacham, was obviously, making a not so accurate picture of Jefferson…the father of the democratic party. Jon is now helping Daddy Bush polish up the history of his son with 41's new biography.
It's easy enough to explain: Jon Meacham has connections to all the right people…many of them 'progressives' and who know to twist words, and report the right propaganda to affect the nation and the voters.
David McCullough is his own man.
Jon Meacham is executive editor and executive vice president at Random House. He is a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek, a contributing editor to Time Magazine, editor-at-large of WNET, and a commentator on politics, history, and religious faith in America. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his work American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. en.wikipedia.org
It's an election year…the democrats LOVE to bring out Thomas Jefferson, FDR, and the Kennedy's and polish their stars.
It wasn't too long after this that I hear ANOTHER biography on the great genius of FDR just came out. Propaganda to get the masses into voting for the RIGHT progressive, whether it be a Bush, or a Clinton.
And as my mother always said, when in life, most times it's always wise to 'consider the source." When it comes to historians, it's best to check who they are 'associated" with.
That's where you will usually find the truth.
Did we NEED another biography of Thomas Jefferson? No. But, it's an election year…EVERYBODY is writing books.
Nobody Flashes A Reminder From John Adams–Have a Great Fourth!
Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.
John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776
Nobody Remembers the Pandemic of 1776
Nobody Remembers
When you have a President who says "If you LIKE your doctor, you can KEEP your doctor..period."—- And then you find out, it was the biggest lie of his Presidency, you tend not to believe anything else he says: and when he says that Ebola will not become a pandemic in America, he could put a "period" behind that statement, and it wouldn't matter.
Who in their right mind would believe him?
Ebola has been all over the news today…so naturally, it lead right into my Friday historical remembrances—- of another pandemic in our history, and how it affected MY favorite founder at that time:
The Smallpox pandemic of 1776.
It was the summer of 1776, and the Continental Congress had just celebrated their Declaration of Independence. John Adams was appointed chair of the Committee on War and Ordnance on July 13. John was responsible for all the large and small policy decisions governing the Continental Army. As many of you know, it was John who suggested George Washington be the commander of that army.
And what was going around America that summer? Smallpox.
Washington was coming out of Boston with 12,000 smallpox-infested men, and he faced a British force of over 30,000.
John couldn't leave his duties in Philadelphia…and he had taken the smallpox vaccination earlier, and survived, so Abigail, on her husband's advice, took the family to Boston for inoculation against smallpox.
Most of the kids got deathly sick.
John wrote that he felt like "a savage to be here, while my whole Family is sick at Boston."
From First Family by Joseph E. Ellis
In John's mind's eye he could simultaneously envision patriotic celebrations throughout the land, the largest fleet ever to cross the Atlantic gathering in Long Island Sound, and his entire family confined in quarantine amid a raging smallpox epidemic that, according to Abigail, had infected seven thousand people in and around Boston.
She wrote to John:
"Nabby (their daughter) has enough of the small pox for all the family beside. She is pretty well covered, not a spot but what is so soar that she can neither walk, stand, or lay with any comfort. She has above a thousand pussels are large as a great Green Pea. Little Charles in delirium for 48 hours. Has caught the pox in the natural way. " She told John he should prepare for the worst.
While this was going on, John learned that only half of Washington's troops were fit for duty.
He wrote back to her:
"The Small Pox had done Us more harm than British armies, Canadians, Indians, Negroes, Hanoverians, Hessian, and all the rest. And now it was threatening to carry off "my little babes."
While John's boy lay dying… The Continental Army had suffered a devastating defeat, and retreated up Manhattan.
John desperately wanted to return home, but did not feel he could leave his post with the Continental Army in such disarray. He had been working eighteen to twenty hour days for over two months, his eyes were permanently bloodshot, and his sight was strained, making it difficult to read, especially at night. The emotional l toll of witnessing a colossal blow to the American cause was high, and he knew better than most that Washington's army had gone through a near death experience. The celebratory mood of early July was now replaced by the somber recognition that it was going to be a long war.
After his great victory, General William Howe told the Continental Congress that he would put an end to it all, and was prepared to offer a new and more acceptable reconciliation.
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Edward Rutlege of South Carolina met with Howe, and found out that Howe had no authority to negotiate.
John informed him, ( And I LOVE this…sorry amfortas) that American had no need for pardon, because they had done nothing wrong.
Luckily little Charles survived until much later when he killed himself in a drunken stupor, but Abigail pulled the kids through the worst the summer of 1776, and John help pull the new country through its new birth.
And so, the smallpox epidemic that hit Boston, went on around the world—
From Wikipedia
During the 18th century the disease killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans each year, including five reigning monarchs, and was responsible for a third of all blindness.
Between 20 and 60% of all those infected—and over 80% of infected children—died from the disease. During the 20th century, it is estimated that smallpox was responsible for 300–500 million deaths. In the early 1950s an estimated 50 million cases of smallpox occurred in the world each year. As recently as 1967, the World Health Organization estimated that 15 million people contracted the disease and that two million died in that year.
Many are saying that Ebola WILL be the new epidemic and will kill millions…and even the very rich will not be immune.
Let's hope we all can find the same courage that our forefathers had. As for believing anything that Obama says about Ebola? Let me refer us all, to a more recent reminder, about what to do when politicians lie:
GOP Comes Up with New Plan: DUCK!
Nobody Wins
Since the GOP seem eternally helpless in attacking Obama for the "madman" that he is (According to Bob Woodward today), they've come up with a fantastic idea!
Why…just give the President more power! (Politico)
Days before the March 1 deadline, Senate Republicans are circulating a draft bill that would cancel $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts and instead turn over authority to President Barack Obama to achieve the same level of savings under a plan to be filed by March 8.
The five- page document, which has the tacit support of Senate GOP leaders, represents a remarkable shift for the party. Having railed against Senate Democrats for not passing a budget, Republicans are now proposing that Congress surrender an important piece of its Constitutional "power of the purse" for the last seven months of this fiscal year.
Wow. What "out of the box" thinking. It reminds me of the time Rush Limbaugh was rallying the nation to go and vote for Hillary Clinton. How did that work out?
In other words, the system is so broken, and our leaders in Congress so impotent, they can't think of what they really SHOULD have done long ago.
Supreme Court or not…impeach. Do what Obama does….get out of Washington and travel to all the cities and attack, attack, attack.
But no. We have wusses. Obama has committed so many "crimes and misdemeanors" over the American people, all you would need to do is stand him up and read him the Constitution.
Where's our Jefferson? Where's our Washington? Who ARE these people?
Perhaps John Adams had it right: Without an educated populace, the tyrants will rule, as they always did in the first half of the history of humanity.
"In the earliest ages of the world, absolute monarchy seems to have been the universal form of government. But the fact is certain: and wherever a general knowledge and sensibility have prevailed among the people arbitrary government and every kind of oppression have lessened and disappeared in proportion.
The poor people it is true have been much less successful than the great. They have seldom found either leisure or opportunity to form a union and exert their strength: ignorant as they were of arts and letters. They have seldom been able to frame and support a regular opposition."
So even back THEN, it was known that if you keep the people stupid, you will have no problem taking control over them, and to this Nobody it seems we are going back to the ages of tyrants.
So right…go ahead and give him more power: Do you think he will EVER give it back? You not going to convince any democrat at all, of how Obama has done anything wrong.
To them, he's a god.
Nobody Remembers Alice Addertongue
Nobody Remembers
It's said, Sam Adams started the Revolution, and he did it with the mighty pen. And since he really didn't want his name on all his ranting against the crown…he made up all kinds of names for his penname:
Philo Patriae and Paces, Vindex the Avenger, Determinatus, Decant Ara Togae, (weapons are under my cloak!) Principiis Obsta: (principle obstacle) , Valerius Poplicola, Candidus, and Populus. He was also: An American, A Tory, Alfred, A Son of Liberty, A Puritan, and A Religious Politician– among many.
And Sam wasn't the only one who wanted to remain anonymous.
Alexander Hamilton pens names included Publius, Pacificus, Catallus, Americanus, Metellus, Horatius, Philo Camillus, Tully, Monitor, Phocion, The Continentalist, and H.G.
Benjamin Franklin was Silence Dogood, and Polly Baker and Richard Saunders and Anthony Afterwit, Martha Careful, Alice Addertongue, Celia Shortface, Harry Meanwell, Fanny Mournful, Obadiah Plainman, Busy Body, and Sidi Mehemt Ibrahim.
John Adams was Sui Juris, U, Davila, and Humphrey Ploughjogger…and my personal favorite: Novanglus. (which means New England.)
James Madison was Helvidius and Cato…
After Thomas Paine wrote an anonymous pamphlet criticizing President George Washington's policies, John Quincy Adams (John's son) wrote a series of anonymous articles called "Publicola", defending the president. They were so well done people assumed his father wrote them.
And I even write under a pen name…Joyanna is a combination of my first name and my grandmother's name…and Adams is not my married name, but I picked it out of respect to the founding Adams, as I am a direct descendant of that family on my mother's side.
I really didn't want anyone to know my married name.
In this country, writing under a pen name, thus remaining anonymous, has been protected by the Supreme Court.
In its 1960 decision in Talley v. California, the Supreme Court ruled that a law forbidding individuals from distributing handbills without identifying their identity unconstitutionally infringed on the First Amendment's guarantee to free speech. The Court declared:
Anonymous pamphlets, leaflets, brochures and even books have played an important role in the progress of mankind. Persecuted groups and sects from time to time throughout history have been able to criticize oppressive practices and laws either anonymously or not at all. . . . Before the Revolutionary War colonial patriots frequently had to conceal their authorship or distribution of literature that easily could have brought down on them prosecutions by English-controlled courts. . . . It is plain that anonymity has sometimes been assumed for the most constructive purposes.
SO…what in the world is this new bill being proposed in the Illinois Senate all about?
A new bill proposed in the Illinois State Senate looks to completely wipe out any form of anonymity on the internet by requiring that the operators of basically any website on the entire internet take down any comment that isn't attached to an IP, address, and real name-verified poster.
It's called the Internet Posting Removal Act and was introduced on February 13th by Illinois General Assembly veteran Ira I. Silverstein [D]. Not wanting to leave any bases uncovered, Silverstein includes that an "Anonymous Poster" means "any individual who posts a message on a web site including social networks, blogs, forums, message boards, or any other discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages."
If James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay were alive and publishing under the false name "Publius" today, they would be prime candidates for prosecution under Virginia's anti-spam law, and the Internet Posting Removal Act. They would most likely be using the Internet to get their message out to as many fellow citizens as possible. They could be arrested for speaking their minds on important issues of the day.
Clearly, Obama's government wants to know WHO is writing the essays and blogs against them. Sure, there are some bad people out there spamming, but making it a crime to not sign your real name is not how are country was founded.
It is a right, given to us by our founders. If not for them, we wouldn't be here.
And I'm sure Alice Addertongue would agree with me 100 percent!


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So, you feeling OK about sending such a proposal to Google guys? They will
forward to Apache people, so I will post proposal to derby-dev mailing list
also for conversation in community
By the way - MySQL use special XML mode for client, where needed,
instead of normal XML formatting:
I see that like a big disadvantage because of inability of XML validation
threw XMLSchema after retrieving on client
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/sql/SQLXML.html: there is
something about XSLT, but that should not be a database feature, nor JDBC
itself. It is pure client stuff (read: code, initiated database requests
threw JDBC). John


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NRF: BTS, BTC Shoppers Still Prefer Discounters But Also Liking Department stores
October 21, 2011,
NRF's 2011 Back-to-School and Back-to-College surveys, which were conducted by consumer research firm Big-research, showed that among college-bound shoppers the discount stores circuit is the top destination for almost half - or 48.2%, followed closely by department stores (39.6%). Clothing stores rose among that crowd with 27.7%.
Among the K-12 grades set, the gap between discounters and department stores was slightly wider but still narrower than last year's results. More than half -- 56.9% -- of shoppers surveyed selected discount retailers as the top shopping destination for last-minute BTS shopping, while 47.1% -- representing a 10% increase over 2010's 42.7% -- chose department stores. Also gaining traction are two others: specialty clothing stores with 40.8%, up 19% from last year's 34.3%; and online, which rose 16 points to 21.7%
Overall, the report noted the average family has already completed 43.0% of their shopping for their K-12 students, similar to last year's 43.2% rate. College students and their parents have completed 44.3% of their shopping, up slightly from last year's 43.1%.
NRF's 2011 Back-to-School and Back-to-College Consumer Intentions and Actions surveys were designed to gauge consumer behavior and shopping trends related to back-to-school and back-to-college spending. The surveys were conducted August 2 through 9 and polled 8,632 consumers.
"As school begins in many areas around the country, parents and students are furiously visiting stores and websites to cross the final items off of their back-to-school lists," said Matthew Shay, NRF president and ceo. "Retailers know the final stretch of the back-to-school season is crucial and are continuing to offer exceptional values on everything from clothing to computers."
Thomas Russell | Associate Editor, FurnitureToday
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