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Right to Travel: A Virtually Unconditional Personal Right
I highlighted the travel portion of this case in yellow below. This case discusses three aspects of the right to travel under the US Constitution.
Saenz v. Roe, 526 US 489 - Supreme Court 1999
SAENZ, DIRECTOR, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, et al.
ROE et al., on
No. 98-97.
United States Supreme Court.
492*492 Justice Stevens, delivered the opinion of the Court.
In 1992, California enacted a statute limiting the maximum welfare benefits available to newly arrived residents. The scheme limits the amount payable to a family that has resided in the State for less than 12 months to the amount payable by the State of the family's prior residence. The questions presented by this case are whether the 1992 statute was constitutional when it was enacted and, if not, whether an amendment to the Social Security Act enacted by Congress in 1996 affects that determination.
California is not only one of the largest, most populated, and most beautiful States in the Nation; it is also one of the most generous. Like all other States, California has participated in several welfare programs authorized by the Social Security Act and partially funded by the Federal Government. Its programs, however, provide a higher level of benefits and serve more needy citizens than those of most other States. In one year the most expensive of those programs, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), which was replaced in 1996 with Temporary Assistance to 493*493 Needy Families (TANF), provided benefits for an average of 2,645,814 persons per month at an annual cost to the State of $2.9 billion. In California the cash benefit for a family of two—a mother and one child—is $456 a month, but in the neighboring State of Arizona, for example, it is only $275.
In 1992, in order to make a relatively modest reduction in its vast welfare budget, the California Legislature enacted § 11450.03 of the state Welfare and Institutions Code. That section sought to change the California AFDC program by limiting new residents, for the first year they live in California, to the benefits they would have received in the State of their prior residence.[1] Because in 1992 a state program either had to conform to federal specifications or receive a waiver from the Secretary of Health and Human Services in order to qualify for federal reimbursement, § 11450.03 required approval by the Secretary to take effect. In October 1992, the Secretary issued a waiver purporting to grant such approval.
On December 21, 1992, three California residents who were eligible for AFDC benefits filed an action in the Eastern District of California challenging the constitutionality 494*494 of the durational residency requirement in § 11450.03. Each plaintiff alleged that she had recently moved to California to live with relatives in order to escape abusive family circumstances. One returned to California after living in Louisiana for seven years, the second had been living in Oklahoma for six weeks and the third came from Colorado. Each alleged that her monthly AFDC grant for the ensuing 12 months would be substantially lower under § 11450.03 than if the statute were not in effect. Thus, the former residents of Louisiana and Oklahoma would receive $190 and $341 respectively for a family of three even though the full California grant was $641; the former resident of Colorado, who had just one child, was limited to $280 a month as opposed to the full California grant of $504 for a family of two.
The District Court issued a temporary restraining order and, after a hearing, preliminarily enjoined implementation of the statute. District Judge Levi found that the statute "produces substantial disparities in benefit levels and makes no accommodation for the different costs of living that exist in different states."[2] Relying primarily on our decisions in Shapiro v. Thompson, 394 U. S. 618 (1969), and Zobel v. Williams, 457 U. S. 55 (1982), he concluded that the statute placed "a penalty on the decision of new residents to migrate to the State and be treated on an equal basis with existing residents." Green v. Anderson, 811 F. Supp. 516, 521 (ED Cal. 1993). In his view, if the purpose of the measure was to deter migration by poor people into the State, it would be unconstitutional for that reason. And even if the purpose was only to conserve limited funds, the State had failed to explain why the entire burden of the saving should be imposed on new residents. The Court of Appeals summarily 495*495 affirmed for the reasons stated by the District Judge. Green v. Anderson, 26 F. 3d 95 (CA9 1994).
We granted the State's petition for certiorari. 513 U. S. 922 (1994). We were, however, unable to reach the merits because the Secretary's approval of § 11450.03 had been invalidated in a separate proceeding,[3] and the State had acknowledged that the Act would not be implemented without further action by the Secretary. We vacated the judgment and directed that the case be dismissed. Anderson v. Green, 513 U. S. 557 (1995) (per curiam).[4] Accordingly, § 11450.03 remained inoperative until after Congress enacted the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), 110 Stat. 2105.
PRWORA replaced the AFDC program with TANF. The new statute expressly authorizes any State that receives a block grant under TANF to "apply to a family the rules (including benefit amounts) of the [TANF] program . . . of another State if the family has moved to the State from the other State and has resided in the State for less than 12 months." 110 Stat. 2124, 42 U. S. C. § 604(c) (1994 ed., Supp. II). With this federal statutory provision in effect, California no longer needed specific approval from the Secretary to implement § 11450.03. The California Department of Social Services therefore issued an "All County Letter" announcing that the enforcement of § 11450.03 would commence on April 1, 1997.
The All County Letter clarifies certain aspects of the statute. Even if members of an eligible family had lived in California all of their lives, but left the State "on January 29th, intending to reside in another state, and returned on April 15th," their benefits are determined by the law of their State of residence from January 29 to April 15, assuming 496*496 that that level was lower than California's.[5] Moreover, the lower level of benefits applies regardless of whether the family was on welfare in the State of prior residence and regardless of the family's motive for moving to California. The instructions also explain that the residency requirement is inapplicable to families that recently arrived from another country.
On April 1, 1997, the two respondents filed this action in the Eastern District of California making essentially the same claims asserted by the plaintiffs in Anderson v. Green,[6] but also challenging the constitutionality of PRWORA's approval of the durational residency requirement. As in Green, the District Court issued a temporary restraining order and certified the case as a class action.[7] The court also advised the Attorney General of the United States that the constitutionality of a federal statute had been drawn into question, but she did not seek to intervene or to file an amicus brief. Reasoning that PRWORA permitted, but did not require, States to impose durational residency requirements, Judge Levi concluded that the existence of the federal statute did not affect the legal analysis in his prior opinion in Green.
He did, however, make certain additional comments on the parties' factual contentions. He noted that the State did not challenge plaintiffs' evidence indicating that, although 497*497 California benefit levels were the sixth highest in the Nation in absolute terms,[8] when housing costs are factored in, they rank 18th; that new residents coming from 43 States would face higher costs of living in California; and that welfare benefit levels actually have little, if any, impact on the residential choices made by poor people. On the other hand, he noted that the availability of other programs such as homeless assistance and an additional food stamp allowance of $1 in stamps for every $3 in reduced welfare benefits partially offset the disparity between the benefits for new and old residents. Notwithstanding those ameliorating facts, the State did not disagree with plaintiffs' contention that § 11450.03 would create significant disparities between newcomers and welfare recipients who have resided in the State for over one year.
The State relied squarely on the undisputed fact that the statute would save some $10.9 million in annual welfare costs—an amount that is surely significant even though only a relatively small part of its annual expenditures of approximately $2.9 billion for the entire program. It contended that this cost saving was an appropriate exercise of budgetary authority as long as the residency requirement did not penalize the right to travel. The State reasoned that the payment of the same benefits that would have been received in the State of prior residency eliminated any potentially punitive aspects of the measure. Judge Levi concluded, however, that the relevant comparison was not between new residents of California and the residents of their former States, but rather between the new residents and longer term residents of California. He therefore again enjoined the implementation of the statute.
Without finally deciding the merits, the Court of Appeals affirmed his issuance of a preliminary injunction. Roe v. Anderson, 134 F. 3d 1400 (CA9 1998). It agreed with the 498*498 District Court's view that the passage of PRWORA did not affect the constitutional analysis, that respondents had established a probability of success on the merits, and that class members might suffer irreparable harm if§ 11450.03 became operative. Although the decision of the Court of Appeals is consistent with the views of other federal courts that have addressed the issue,[9] we granted certiorari because of the importance of the case. Anderson v. Roe, 524 U. S. 982 (1998).[10] We now affirm.
The word "travel" is not found in the text of the Constitution. Yet the "constitutional right to travel from one State to another" is firmly embedded in our jurisprudence. United States v. Guest, 383 U. S. 745, 757 (1966). Indeed, as Justice Stewart reminded us in Shapiro v. Thompson, 394 U. S. 618 (1969), the right is so important that it is "assertable against private interference as well as governmental action . . . a virtually unconditional personal right, guaranteed by the Constitution to us all." Id., at 643 (concurring opinion).
499*499 In Shapiro, we reviewed the constitutionality of three statutory provisions that denied welfare assistance to residents of Connecticut, the District of Columbia, and Pennsylvania, who had resided within those respective jurisdictions less than one year immediately preceding their applications for assistance. Without pausing to identify the specific source of the right, we began by noting that the Court had long "recognized that the nature of our Federal Union and our constitutional concepts of personal liberty unite to require that all citizens be free to travel throughout the length and breadth of our land uninhibited by statutes, rules, or regulations which unreasonably burden or restrict this movement." Id., at 629. We squarely held that it was "constitutionally impermissible" for a State to enact durational residency requirements for the purpose of inhibiting the migration by needy persons into the State.[11] We further held that a classification that had the effect of imposing a penalty on the exercise of the right to travel violated the Equal Protection Clause "unless shown to be necessary to promote a compelling governmental interest," id., at 634, and that no such showing had been made.
In this case California argues that § 11450.03 was not enacted for the impermissible purpose of inhibiting migration by needy persons and that, unlike the legislation reviewed in Shapiro, it does not penalize the right to travel because new arrivals are not ineligible for benefits during their first year of residence. California submits that, instead 500*500 of being subjected to the strictest scrutiny, the statute should be upheld if it is supported by a rational basis and that the State's legitimate interest in saving over $10 million a year satisfies that test. Although the United States did not elect to participate in the proceedings in the District Court or the Court of Appeals, it has participated as amicus curiae in this Court. It has advanced the novel argument that the enactment of PRWORA allows the States to adopt a "specialized choice-of-law-type provision" that "should be subject to an intermediate level of constitutional review," merely requiring that durational residency requirements be "substantially related to an important governmental objective."[12] The debate about the appropriate standard of review, together with the potential relevance of the federal statute, persuades us that it will be useful to focus on the source of the constitutional right on which respondents rely.
The "right to travel" discussed in our cases embraces at least three different components. It protects the right of a citizen of one State to enter and to leave another State, the right to be treated as a welcome visitor rather than an unfriendly alien when temporarily present in the second State, and, for those travelers who elect to become permanent residents, the right to be treated like other citizens of that State.
It was the right to go from one place to another, including the right to cross state borders while en route, that was vindicated in Edwards v. California, 314 U. S. 160 (1941), which invalidated a state law that impeded the free interstate passage of the indigent. We reaffirmed that right in United States v. Guest, 383 U. S. 745 (1966), which afforded protection to the "`right to travel freely to and from the State of Georgia and to use highway facilities and other 501*501 instrumentalities of interstate commerce within the State of Georgia.' " Id., at 757. Given that § 11450.03 imposed no obstacle to respondents' entry into California, we think the State is correct when it argues that the statute does not directly impair the exercise of the right to free interstate movement. For the purposes of this case, therefore, we need not identify the source of that particular right in the text of the Constitution. The right of "free ingress and regress to and from" neighboring States, which was expressly mentioned in the text of the Articles of Confederation,[13] may simply have been "conceived from the beginning to be a necessary concomitant of the stronger Union the Constitution created." Id., at 758.
The second component of the right to travel is, however, expressly protected by the text of the Constitution. The first sentence of Article IV, § 2, provides:
"The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States."
Thus, by virtue of a person's state citizenship, a citizen of one State who travels in other States, intending to return home at the end of his journey, is entitled to enjoy the "Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States" that he visits.[14] This provision removes "from the citizens of each State the disabilities of alien age in the other States." Paul v. Virginia, 8 Wall. 168, 180 (1869) ("[W]ithout some 502*502 provision . . . removing from the citizens of each State the disabilities of alienage in the other States, and giving them equality of privilege with citizens of those States, the Republic would have constituted little more than a league of States; it would not have constituted the Union which now exists"). It provides important protections for nonresidents who enter a State whether to obtain employment, Hicklin v. Orbeck, 437 U. S. 518 (1978), to procure medical services, Doe v. Bolton, 410 U. S. 179, 200 (1973), or even to engage in commercial shrimp fishing, Toomer v. Witsell, 334 U. S. 385 (1948). Those protections are not "absolute," but the Clause "does bar discrimination against citizens of other States where there is no substantial reason for the discrimination beyond the mere fact that they are citizens of other States." Id., at 396. There may be a substantial reason for requiring the nonresident to pay more than the resident for a hunting license, see Baldwin v. Fish and Game Comm'n of Mont., 436 U. S. 371, 390-391 (1978), or to enroll in the state university, see Vlandis v. Kline, 412 U. S. 441, 445 (1973), but our cases have not identified any acceptable reason for qualifying the protection afforded by the Clause for "the `citizen of State A who ventures into State B' to settle there and establish a home." Zobel, 457 U. S., at 74 (O'Connor, J., concurring in judgment). Permissible justifications for discrimination between residents and nonresidents are simply inapplicable to a nonresident's exercise of the right to move into another State and become a resident of that State.
What is at issue in this case, then, is this third aspect of the right to travel—the right of the newly arrived citizen to the same privileges and immunities enjoyed by other citizens of the same State. That right is protected not only by the new arrival's status as a state citizen, but also by her status as a citizen of the United States.[15] That additional source 503*503 of protection is plainly identified in the opening words of the Fourteenth Amendment:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; . . . ."[16]
Despite fundamentally differing views concerning the coverage of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, most notably expressed in the majority and dissenting opinions in the Slaughter-House Cases, 16 Wall. 36 (1873), it has always been common ground that this Clause protects the third component of the right to travel. Writing for the majority in the Slaughter-House Cases, Justice Miller explained that one of the privileges conferred by this Clause "is that a citizen of the United States can, of his own volition, become a citizen of any State of the Union by a bonâ fide residence therein, with the same rights as other citizens of that State." Id., at 80. Justice Bradley, in dissent, used even stronger language to make the same point:
"The states have not now, if they ever had, any power to restrict their citizenship to any classes or persons. A citizen of the United States has a perfect constitutional 504*504 right to go to and reside in any State he chooses, and to claim citizenship therein, and an equality of rights with every other citizen; and the whole power of the nation is pledged to sustain him in that right. He is not bound to cringe to any superior, or to pray for any act of grace, as a means of enjoying all the rights and privileges enjoyed by other citizens." Id., at 112-113.
That newly arrived citizens "have two political capacities, one state and one federal," adds special force to their claim that they have the same rights as others who share their citizenship.[17] Neither mere rationality nor some intermediate standard of review should be used to judge the constitutionality of a state rule that discriminates against some of its citizens because they have been domiciled in the State for less than a year. The appropriate standard may be more categorical than that articulated in Shapiro, see supra, at 499, but it is surely no less strict.
Because this case involves discrimination against citizens who have completed their interstate travel, the State's argument that its welfare scheme affects the right to travel only "incidentally" is beside the point. Were we concerned solely with actual deterrence to migration, we might be persuaded that a partial withholding of benefits constitutes a lesser incursion on the right to travel than an outright denial of all benefits. See Dunn v. Blumstein, 405 U. S. 330, 339 (1972). 505*505 But since the right to travel embraces the citizen's right to be treated equally in her new State of residence, the discriminatory classification is itself a penalty.
It is undisputed that respondents and the members of the class that they represent are citizens of California and that their need for welfare benefits is unrelated to the length of time that they have resided in California. We thus have no occasion to consider what weight might be given to a citizen's length of residence if the bona fides of her claim to state citizenship were questioned. Moreover, because whatever benefits they receive will be consumed while they remain in California, there is no danger that recognition of their claim will encourage citizens of other States to establish residency for just long enough to acquire some readily portable benefit, such as a divorce or a college education, that will be enjoyed after they return to their original domicile. See, e. g., Sosna v. Iowa, 419 U. S. 393 (1975); Vlandis v. Kline, 412 U. S. 441 (1973).
The classifications challenged in this case—and there are many—are defined entirely by (a) the period of residency in California and (b) the location of the prior residences of the disfavored class members. The favored class of beneficiaries includes all eligible California citizens who have resided there for at least one year, plus those new arrivals who last resided in another country or in a State that provides benefits at least as generous as California's. Thus, within the broad category of citizens who resided in California for less than a year, there are many who are treated like lifetime residents. And within the broad subcategory of new arrivals who are treated less favorably, there are many smaller classes whose benefit levels are determined by the law of the States from whence they came. To justify § 11450.03, California must therefore explain not only why it is sound fiscal policy to discriminate against those who have been citizens for less than a year, but also why it is permissible to apply such a variety of rules within that class.
506*506 These classifications may not be justified by a purpose to deter welfare applicants from migrating to California for three reasons. First, although it is reasonable to assume that some persons may be motivated to move for the purpose of obtaining higher benefits, the empirical evidence reviewed by the District Judge, which takes into account the high cost of living in California, indicates that the number of such persons is quite small—surely not large enough to justify a burden on those who had no such motive.[18] Second, California has represented to the Court that the legislation was not enacted for any such reason.[19] Third, even if it were, as we squarely held in Shapiro v. Thompson, 394 U. S. 618 (1969), such a purpose would be unequivocally impermissible.
Disavowing any desire to fence out the indigent, California has instead advanced an entirely fiscal justification for its multitiered scheme. The enforcement of § 11450.03 will save the State approximately $10.9 million a year. The question is not whether such saving is a legitimate purpose but whether the State may accomplish that end by the discriminatory means it has chosen. An evenhanded, across the-board reduction of about 72 cents per month for every beneficiary would produce the same result. But our negative answer to the question does not rest on the weakness of the State's purported fiscal justification. It rests on the fact that the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment expressly equates citizenship with residence: "That Clause does not provide for, and does not allow for, degrees of citizenship based on length of residence." Zobel, 457 U. S., at 69. It is equally clear that the Clause does not tolerate a hierarchy of 45 subclasses of similarly situated 507*507 citizens based on the location of their prior residence.[20] Thus § 11450.03 is doubly vulnerable: Neither the duration of respondents' California residence, nor the identity of their prior States of residence, has any relevance to their need for benefits. Nor do those factors bear any relationship to the State's interest in making an equitable allocation of the funds to be distributed among its needy citizens. As in Shapiro, we reject any contributory rationale for the denial of benefits to new residents:
"But we need not rest on the particular facts of these cases. Appellants' reasoning would logically permit the State to bar new residents from schools, parks, and libraries or deprive them of police and fire protection. Indeed it would permit the State to apportion all benefits and services according to the past tax contributions of its citizens." 394 U. S., at 632-633.
See also Zobel, 457 U. S., at 64. In short, the State's legitimate interest in saving money provides no justification for its decision to discriminate among equally eligible citizens.
The question that remains is whether congressional approval of durational residency requirements in the 1996 amendment to the Social Security Act somehow resuscitates the constitutionality of § 11450.03. That question is readily answered, for we have consistently held that Congress may not authorize the States to violate the Fourteenth Amendment.[21] Moreover, the protection afforded to the citizen by 508*508 the Citizenship Clause of that Amendment is a limitation on the powers of the National Government as well as the States.
Article I of the Constitution grants Congress broad power to legislate in certain areas. Those legislative powers are, however, limited not only by the scope of the Framers' affirmative delegation, but also by the principle "that they may not be exercised in a way that violates other specific provisions of the Constitution. For example, Congress is granted broad power to `lay and collect Taxes,' but the taxing power, broad as it is, may not be invoked in such a way as to violate the privilege against self-incrimination." Williams v. Rhodes, 393 U. S. 23, 29 (1968) (footnote omitted). Congress has no affirmative power to authorize the States to violate the Fourteenth Amendment and is implicitly prohibited from passing legislation that purports to validate any such violation.
"Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment gives Congress broad power indeed to enforce the command of the amendment and `to secure to all persons the enjoyment of perfect equality of civil rights and the equal protection of the laws against State denial or invasion. . . .' Ex parte Virginia, 100 U. S. 339, 346 (1880). Congress' power under § 5, however, `is limited to adopting measures to enforce the guarantees of the Amendment; § 5 grants Congress no power to restrict, abrogate, or dilute these guarantees.' Katzenbach v. Morgan, 384 U. S. 641, 651, n. 10 (1966). Although we give deference to congressional decisions and classifications, neither Congress nor a State can validate a law that denies the rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. See, e. g., Califano v. Goldfarb, 430 U. S. 199, 210 (1977); Williams v. Rhodes, 393 U. S. 23, 29 (1968)." Missis- sippi Univ. for Women v. Hogan, 458 U. S. 718, 732-733 (1982).
509*509 The Solicitor General does not unequivocally defend the constitutionality of § 11450.03. But he has argued that two features of PRWORA may provide a sufficient justification for state durational requirements to warrant further inquiry before finally passing on the section's validity, or perhaps that it is only invalid insofar as it applies to new arrivals who were not on welfare before they arrived in California.[22]
He first points out that because the TANF program gives the States broader discretion than did AFDC, there will be significant differences among the States which may provide new incentives for welfare recipients to change their residences. He does not, however, persuade us that the disparities under the new program will necessarily be any greater than the differences under AFDC, which included such examples as the disparity between California's monthly benefit of $673 for a family of four with Mississippi's benefit of $144 for a comparable family. Moreover, we are not convinced that a policy of eliminating incentives to move to California provides a more permissible justification for classifying California citizens than a policy of imposing special burdens on new arrivals to deter them from moving into the State. Nor is the discriminatory impact of § 11450.03 abated by repeatedly characterizing it as "a sort of specialized choice-of-law rule."[23] California law alone discriminates among its own citizens on the basis of their prior residence.
The Solicitor General also suggests that we should recognize the congressional concern addressed in the legislative history of PRWORA that the "States might engage in a `race to the bottom' in setting the benefit levels in their TANF 510*510 programs."[24] Again, it is difficult to see why that concern should be any greater under TANF than under AFDC. The evidence reviewed by the District Court indicates that the savings resulting from the discriminatory policy, if spread equitably throughout the entire program, would have only a miniscule impact on benefit levels. Indeed, as one of the legislators apparently interpreted this concern, it would logically prompt the States to reduce benefit levels sufficiently "to encourage emigration of benefit recipients."[25] But speculation about such an unlikely eventuality provides no basis for upholding § 11450.03.
Finally, the Solicitor General suggests that the State's discrimination might be acceptable if California had limited the disfavored subcategories of new citizens to those who had received aid in their prior State of residence at any time within the year before their arrival in California. The suggestion is ironic for at least three reasons: It would impose the most severe burdens on the neediest members of the disfavored classes; it would significantly reduce the savings that the State would obtain, thus making the State's claimed justification even less tenable; and, it would confine the effect of the statute to what the Solicitor General correctly characterizes as "the invidious purpose of discouraging poor people generally from settling in the State."[26]
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Citizens of the United States, whether rich or poor, have the right to choose to be citizens "of the State wherein they 511*511 reside." U. S. Const., Amdt. 14, § 1. The States, however, do not have any right to select their citizens.[27] The Fourteenth Amendment, like the Constitution itself, was, as Justice Cardozo put it, "framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division." Baldwin v. G. A. F. Seelig, Inc., 294 U. S. 511, 523 (1935).
The judgment of the Court of Appeals is affirmed.
It is so ordered.
[9] See Maldonado v.Houston, 157 F. 3d 179 (CA3 1998) (finding two tier durational residency requirement an unconstitutional infringement on the right to travel);Anderson v. Green, 26 F. 3d 95 (CA9 1994), vacated as unripe, 513 U. S. 557 (1995) (per curiam); Hicks v. Peters, 10 F. Supp. 2d 1003 (ND Ill. 1998) (granting injunction against enforcement of durational residency requirement); Westenfelder v. Ferguson, 998 F. Supp. 146 (RI 1998) (holding durational residency requirement a penalty on right to travel incapable of surviving rational-basis review). Two state courts have reached the same conclusion. See Mitchell v. Steffen, 504 N. W. 2d 198 (Minn. 1993), cert. denied, 510 U. S. 1081 (1994) (striking down a similar provision in Minnesota law);


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Folklore, facebook, oilseed rape, the Higgs boson 'God particle', Scientology and instruments of medieval torture have all played a role in the thought process driving Tamsyn Challenger's residency with Beaconsfield, now opening into an exhibition.
The building-wide project, Monoculture, combines participatory sculptural objects with digital projection and a small farm.
When Challenger joined facebook and Twitter, in order to communicate with fans from a previous project, 400 Women, she started to notice the 'same' self-portrait – particularly taken up by young women – proliferating across social networking technologies. The artist found these 'selfie' avatars disturbing for their emulation of a certain submissive 'beauty' and discovered that some scientific forecasting of physiognomy suggests that we are knowingly or unknowingly highly influenced by the 'digital face' and will even use medical intervention to attain it.
Challenger notes mass objectification of the self and draws a parallel with the agricultural practice of cultivating a single cash crop. Oilseed Rape is farmed on a large scale due to its high yield, using the pesticide linked to the so-called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) which can decimate sections of the eco-system. She asks her audience to join her in questioning the level of control being wielded by a supposedly 'free' environment like the internet.
Habitual performance, viral infiltration and feminine identity are themes informing these new interactive sculptures and a series of related events: linking earlier forms of human control by pseudo-sexual torture (predominantly exacted upon women who asserted their individuality) with cultural homogenisation on a global scale.
Monoculture expands beyond the galleries and works on the public in a truly viral way through online interaction and time-based events off-site.
3 February Thames Southbank: Tamsyn Challenger with Darren Ellis and Filipe Alcada
20 February – 13 April 2013 Wednesday-Saturday 11am–5pm
Exhibition opening Friday 22 February 6-8pm as part of SLAM LAST Fridays
Tamsyn Challenger has been in residence with Beaconsfield between June 2012 and February 2013 – as a TestBed artist. TestBed signals Beaconsfield's role as a mentoring organisation, demonstrates our function as an incubator and generates visual/digital technology commissions tied to residencies.
Beaconsfield 22 Newport Street London SE11 6AY For More Info: www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk

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Sam: Uh, excuse me, Kermit. May I speak with you?
Kermit: Uh, sure Sam. Whatcha want?
Sam: I think you know why I am here?
Kermit: Uh, well, actually Sam, to tell you the truth, I never know why you're here.
Sam: I feel my job is to make sure this program is morally upright and cultural and wholesome.
Beautiful Day Monster: That's work cut out for ya, bird.
Sam: Now that was unwholesome. That was not cultural.
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Sam: I want to know who is going to be on tonight's show.
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Sam: Ah good. Yes, tell me more.
Kermit: Uh, lets see ,uh , we got Fozzie is doing a pantomime with Zero Mostel.
Sam: Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
Kermit: Got a musical number.
Sam: Musical Number. Good. Good.
Kermit: With Zoot and Rowlf. And of course we got...we got the lady uh--...er-- lady wrestlers.
Sam: What?
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Sam: Lady what?
Kermit: Oh...lady wrestlers.
Sam: Wrest what?
Kermit: Lers.
Sam: LADY WRESTLERS!? LADY WRESTLERS!?!?!?!?? HAVE WE NO SHAME!? Kermit, something- something must be done here.
Kermit: Yeah but--
Sam: Someone must work for integrity and decency. Someone must do this. And I shall continue to speak out. Knowing someday, I will get my just desserts!
Kermit: Uh, Sam. You will someday get your just desserts.
(Beautiful Day Monster slams a cream pie on Sam's beak)
Kermit: What was that?
Beautiful Day Monster: Just Dessert.
Sam: The road is long...the path is steep...
Scooter: Zero Mostel, twenty five seconds, stand by. Mr. Mostel? Hey Fozzie, where's Mr. Mostel?
Fozzie: Oh, he's in his dressing room eating.
Zero Mostel: I'm not in my dressing room eating! I'm in my dressing room being eaten!
Waldorf: You know, I'm really going to enjoy tonight.
Statler: You plan to like this show!?
Waldorf: No, I plan to watch television.
Jerry Nelson now provides the voice of Crazy Harry.
Doesn't the woman in the wrestling ring with Kermit look and sound a lot like Hilda?
This marked Zero Mostel's last television appearance. Taping was completed three months before his death and aired three months after.
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Time for a new story on how we honour the Great Lakes. A water-commons ethic and practice sees these waters as sacred, bioregional, a gift from the past, and a duty to protect into the future. Join this Great Lakes Commons today.
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Nothing. Nada. Zero. Zilch. That's about it in a nutshell as far as the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has gone, if we are to believe advance word of a Bush administration report on the search so far.
According to stories both here and in England, a preliminary draft of an interim report by David Kay, former United Nations weapons inspector who has headed the hunt for WMDs, says his team of hundreds of sleuths have not found any of the weapons cited by President George W. Bush and others in his administration as they led the United States to war in Iraq in March.
Given the track record of the administration in pressuring officials to say what it wants them to say (just ask George Tenet at the CIA), when the report is put down in black and white in the next few weeks, there are likely to be enough equivocations in the document to let some of the war hawks still say Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat and had to be taken down.
Already, sources are saying that while Kay, who has spent nearly four months searching for unconventional weapons after Bush declared "mission accomplished" on May 1, will have no smoking guns (or biological beakers, chemical canisters or nascent nukes) to show the world Saddam was on the verge of launching a holocaust, he may report the discovery of "evidence of precursors" for such weapons and enough "dual-use" equipment to make the case that Saddam was still dreaming of WMDs.
However, apocalyptic dreams (at least not those of the Iraqi dictator) did not constitute the primary argument used by Bush in the run-up to war. That argument, made almost day in and day out by Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice and others in the administration, was that Saddam already was armed to the teeth and was poised to attack the United States either directly or covertly though his close friends in al Qaeda (another alleged link that has yet to be given any real credence).
The initial official reaction to these early stories about the "draft interim report" came from CIA spokesman Bill Harlow, who said in a statement that Kay was still receiving information from the field and that his progress report would "not rule anything in or out" (at least, he could have added after his agency's earlier disagreements over intelligence with the administration, if Kay knows what's good for him).
Harlow said Kay's report was still being put together and it would be premature to describe the draft as reflecting even an interim assessment, despite numerous news stories to the contrary and the fact that had anything of substance turned up the whole world would know about it by now.
After all, before returning to the United States about a week ago, Kay was on the ground for months in Iraq with a 1,400-strong Iraq Survey Group composed of American and British weapons experts, security teams and support personnel.
As has been argued here before, the world is a much safer place with Saddam out of power, and conditions in Iraq eventually will improve.
To many, if not most Americans, that alone is a good and persuasive argument for President Bush to make in moving against Saddam's murderous regime.
Bush's decision instead to base his primary rationale for war on the elimination of Saddam as someone armed to the teeth with weapons of mass destruction will be something for history to judge. With a pack of Democratic candidates for president next year already sensing a weakness in that argument, history may not be long in making that judgment.


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American-Made Firearms
I am just curious which firearms manufacturers are still truly American-Made. I used to think Springfield was all American, but found out their XDs are made in Croatia. :(
I'm a big supporter of American made stuff, so I don't want to buy a pistol that is made in some far off European country.
Here's a few off the top of my head.
Nighthawk Customs - Berryville, Ark
Kimber ( Pistols ) are American Made
Les Baer - Pistols & AR's
Dave Lauck ( D&L Sports ) - Pistols & AR's
I think Wilson Combat are 100% American Made - Pretty sure on that one.
Any of the good custom rifle stuff:
Lawton Actions / Hart Barrels & Actions / Krieger Barrels / Mike Rock 5R / BAT actions / Bartlein Barrels / probably forgetting a few but it's early...
Badger Ord. Action & parts
Barrett Rifles - Pretty proud about their USA made stuff
Chey-Tac ( Probably going backrupt - but still all made at home )
There are several AR production houses that are mostly USA made parts and labor, but to name any would just lead to someone pointing out they get take down pins from Argentina or something. :p
Some more will come to me later I am sure...
S&W, Ruger
Henry Repeating Arms, Brooklyn, New York
Dan Wesson
Les Baer
Ed Brown
Wilson Combat
medium to higher end 1911's.
Wilson 1911's are made here. I think Kimber makes em here as well. 1911's are a matter of Pride for the US.
Kimber FTMFW! w00t!
Strayer-Voight (SVI) Texas
Remington - New York
Thompson Center Arms - New Hampshire
Kahr Arms - New York and Worcester Mass.
U.S. Firearms - Connecticut
Seecamp - Connecticut
Marlin - Connecticut and Mass.
Freedom Arms - Wyoming
Caspian - Vermont
Thanks for the input, everyone.
I'm building a new firearm collection, and I making sure it's going to be all American made. Kinda getting tired of supporting overseas operations....lol.
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In addition to winning the much-desired Sri Lanka Premier League trophy, Uva Next also earned a place in the Champions League T20 to be played in South Africa later this year.
Pakistani all-rounder Hammad Azam who was a member of the SLPL-winning squad also highlighted the importance of such a high profile event for the development of a cricketer.
He stated that whilst cricketers from around the world have been benefiting from high profile T20 events like the IPL and the Champions League, the Pakistani players have been unable to compete against the world's best – and this is a major reason why the SLPL holds a special significance for the Pakistani cricketers, as it has provided them with an in-valuable chance pit their talent against world class cricketers.


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Digital Literacy & Citizenship. (2013). 1st ed. [ebook] Common Sense Media. Available at: http://www.commonsensemedia.org [Accessed 13 Jan. 2015].
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GENDER: social ideas about what it means to be masculine or feminine
STEREOTYPE: a popular believe about a group of people, based on the assumptions that are often extreme and inaccurate
AVATAR: an image or character that represents a person online
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The Sr. Optical Engineer works with the design team in developing novel Optics and Optoelectronic systems, assemblies, tools and processes for emerging product categories such as silicon photonics, 3D cameras and mixed reality headsets.
Job Responsibilities Include (but are not limited to):
Work with suppliers to ensure components meet design requirements.
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Responsible for selecting optimal components, developing assembly processes, testing parts, test protocols, training other engineers and technicians on assembly procedures, parts handling and testing.
Help the design engineers develop prototypes, specifications, test methodologies, and test equipment to evaluate design concepts.
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Help ensure designs meet and exceed product specifications, cost goals, regulatory requirements, and international standards
Work with mechanical and electronic engineers to develop system requirements, participate in combined design reviews, discuss design implementation, discuss needs and support requirements from other engineering functions for successful completion and execution of the device as a whole
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Minimum of 5 years of relevant industry experience in Optics and Optoelectronics.
Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optics, Mechanical Engineering and/or related field of study
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The Electoral College, also known as the Electoral Dubbing University or simply Elect Dub U, is an educational establishment which focuses on Presidential election analysis, basketball and liquor brewing.
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It is known as being the most partying, hardcore school in the nation. It is also where George W. Bush went to school and where Al Gore got schooled. The Electoral College begged Stephen Colbert to attend. But instead he chose to grace Northwestern University and Knox College with his presence.
99% of alumni hold degrees in Underwater Basket Weaving, which makes them fully capable of leading first-world countries and choking on various bite sized snack foods.
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SMEs Not Off IFRS Hook
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) recently released International Financial Accounting Standards (IFRS) for small- and medium-sized entities. What's the impact?
July 20, 2009
Where there's IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards), there has been much speculation. In recent days, most of that buzz has been about the extended deadline (2011) when large U.S. companies need to adopt IFRS. And yet, the IASB (International Accounting Standards Board) just released an IFRS for small- and medium-sized entities (SMEs). Why the rush? Why peg these SMEs for an earlier adoption? And by the way, which companies fall in this precious group?
"IFRS — SMEs is designed to meet the financial reporting needs of entities that: a) do not have public accountability and b) publish general purpose financial statements for external users e.g. owner not involved with managing the business," said Cecil Nazareth, CPA/ACA.
Digging deeper, Remi Forgeas, CPA and audit and assurance partner at the U.S. branch of Mazars LLP, said that "public accountability" went beyond simply the source of financing. "Obviously, a company that has debt or equity instruments publicly traded is publicly accountable. Other entities that are viewed as publicly accountable are those holding assets in fiduciary capacity for a broad group of outsiders as one of their primary businesses. This category includes banks, mutual funds insurance companies," said Forgeas. "Most of private companies in the USA would meet the criteria set by the standard for SME," he added.
Since IFRS is being adopted as a "global" unified standard, we wondered whether this new standard would apply even to those SMEs that did not have dealings globally or have such a presence. According to Forgeas global refers to IFRS itself and not companies applying IFRS. "As stated in the preface of IFRS for SMEs, the decision on the use of IFRS rests with 'legislative and regulatory authorities and standard setters' individual jurisdictions'," said Forgeas. "In the United States, following the decision of the AICPA in May 2008 to recognize the IASB as a standard setter, IFRS for SMEs would be an acceptable accounting standard for a U.S. company that meets requirements set in the standard," he explained.
Adoption of IFRS by SMEs
According to IASB's press release issued on July 9, IFRS for SMEs is effective immediately and yet IFRS adoption for public companies does not take place till 2011. Why the rush? "IFRS for SME is considered distinct and separate from IFRS–full," noted Nazareth. "Hence SMEs can benefit from simplified reporting and disclosure right away without waiting from countries to adopt IFRS–full on a national basis." Forgeas differed and opined that this statement meant that each country could choose the date it implemented these standards. "I would believe that a calendar-year company will be able to choose to adopt IFRS for SMEs for the year ending December 31, 2009. Obviously, it would have to apply the transition rule set in Section 35 of the standard for first-time adopters."
In case you're confused about the IFRS deadline extension to 2011 and the current immediate adoption of IFRS by SMEs, Forgeas noted that they are two different matters. He explained that while SEC's roadmap and time frame are for first-time adopters of IFRS, IASB's new standard is geared towards those European Union (EU) countries that have already adopted IFRS or countries that authorize the use of IFRS such as the U.S. He did not believe that there has been any rush in creating these standards. In fact, he pointed out that the need for SME standards had been raised as early as 2000 and that the main "objective of the standard is to address the concerns raised by constituents from countries with limited or non existent financial markets."
Pros and Cons
There's always two sides of a coin and we wanted to know what they were for IFRS for SMEs. Both Forgeas and Nazareth noted that while a key benefit is a simplified and comprehensive accounting standard that is comparable globally, it can also be a detriment in that this oversimplification of complex transactions can lead to non-disclosure and therefore misleading financial statements. Forgeas exemplified this: "IRS agents will need to get used to the standard and first tax returns with adjustments from IFRS to tax may be subject to more scrutiny. As well, a company that entered in a loan agreement with covenants based on U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), measures may prefer to delay the adoption of IFRS."
Unlike Nazareth, Forgeas believed that an added benefit of IFRS for SMEs was the "increased comparability even for small entities is deemed to have a positive impact on transactions (exports/imports, mergers and acquisitions) and financing." Likewise, he also thought that the reluctance of moving from one standard to the other will prove to be a major hurdle. "Even if IFRS for SMEs are less complex than U.S. GAAP the transition may require expertise that could be not easily accessible to small companies (time and cost concerns)." He expected these problems to eventually subside once the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made its final decision on IFRS.
To simplify the complexities of IFRS for SMEs, the IASB and other standard-setters decided to leave out topics that were not necessarily relevant to SMEs. These omissions include:
Other topics that have been omitted in IFRS for SMEs, but are included in the full IFRS are:
One topic that is not being included in IFRS for SMEs is "financial instrument options, including available-for-sale, held-to-maturity and for tangible assets." And yet, under subtopic of Recognition and measurement simplifications, it suggests that financial instrument is one of the topics that have been simplified for SMEs from the full IFRS. So if your firm is an SME, should you or should you not address financial instruments?
Forgeas said that under IFRS for SMEs, small- and mid-sized businesses can choose whether they want to fully implement IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurements or simply adopt the requirements set in the standards. "A company that elects to apply requirements set in Section 11 and 12 of the Standard has to record changes in the carrying or fair value of the financial instruments through income statement," explained Forgeas.
IFRS Training
Whether you adopt IFRS now or later, training seems to be an issue that is often overlooked. Where's the best place you can get some good IFRS training? "AICPA's Web site on IFRS is a good source, along with the IASB Web site," said Forgeas. Nazareth agreed and also points CPA Insider™ readers to the IASC foundation, which has developed a "comprehensive training manual" and works with individual agencies to provide instructors for regional workshops.
As with anything that's new, accountants and auditors this side of the pond are apprehensive in adopting the new standards. While both Forgeas and Nazareth pointed out a unified global standard is a necessity with the shrinking global stratosphere, Nazareth noted that there were more similarities between U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) than the IFRS and exemplified it as more a "philosophical rather than a complex issue."
Like your PDA, all you need to do is sit back and check your PJD. "The basic transition needs to be looked at," advised Nazareth. "It all has to do with Principle, Judgment and Documentation," he quipped.
Sukanya Mitra is Managing Editor of the Insider™ e-newsletter group. Please note the opinions expressed in this article are strictly those of the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the views of the AICPA or AICPA CPA Insider™. Should CPA Insider™ readers have questions about IFRS, they are free to either participant via the e-mail links in their names that are embedded within the article.


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Exposure to everything... people, media, society! If I could place them in a happy bubble I would but until that can happen I just have to wish I have exposed them to the right things and raised them right and wish for the best!
I agree with you, especially with the internet. But I don't want to keep her from it, it is the reality of her world, and it want to teach her how to live well within it
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Somewhere in the Stage 3 plan, it is suggested to revisit a fast break goal. I decided that getting in a daily walk would make a reasonable goal. I can get up at 6:30 and walk the dog each morning for two weeks, right?
Assuming there's not a torrential downpour, that is.
And so I did. I also brought along my trusty iPod and listened while I walked. And walked, and walked, and walked. I'm not sure how much time I spent walking, but I logged 15.5 miles last week, most of which was on the morning walks. (Around here, we also walk to the post office and bank). The scales cooperated ZILCH.
Until this morning. Fickle scale, it showed me down 1.6 lbs down from yesterday. Now, after a MONTH - nay, six mortal WEEKS - of watching the scale dink around by .2 and .4 lbs, a 1.6 lb drop is startling. Do I trust it? Not too particularly. It was water weight, certainly. 1.6 lbs is three or four days worth of caloric intake. Maybe the heat breaking induced my body to shed some extra water? Maybe those chocolate chips I nibbled on in lieu of granola scared some cells? Who knows. But once again (the last time was in the first week of June) I am a scant 0.8 lbs from my goal weight of 130. And again, I've got until September 1st to make it.
Being on a plateau this long has made me think "What IS a good goal weight for me?" I'm 5' 5.5", and have, according to a doctor, a small frame. My wrist is about 6.25" - so according to what I see on the web, I'm right on the boundary between small and medium frame.
So really, I'm pretty darn close to my theoretical 'ideal' weight. And nothing I can find on the web suggests that I would be healthy at under 125 lbs. So perhaps, just perhaps, competitive little me shouldn't try to sneak down to 121 lbs for a BMI of under 20? Probably. (Of course, if I decide not to do that, the fickle little scale may decide to do it anyways.)
I'd like to see 128.6 - for a total of 20 lbs lost. That's just one wee kilogram under where I am now, and I'd like the scale to say it just once.
Next stage: Maintenance!
But let's not get ahead of ourselves quite yet. There's a whole 'nuther week of my fast break, walking with Bandit at 6:30. We go through the woods, over the river, and past several cornfields. On a US Highway shoulder, but hey - that's life in rural Minnesota. So are those mosquitoes.
And maybe, just maybe, those .8 lbs will be gone next Sunday!
I'm thinking of setting aside a dollar for new clothes each time I walk 2 miles. That'll keep me walking even when the two weeks are up. I have some XL t-shirts to replace.
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I like the idea of rewarding yourself with some new clothes as a way to stay motivated. No more XLs!
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Rural MN? Where are you? I'm in the southern suburbs of Minneapolis/St. Paul!
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Your perseverance through that long plateau is awesome! Our bodies don't give up fat as easily as we approach a healthy weight, so yours seems to be just doing what it's designed to do. As for the right goal, maybe just keep on keeping on, and see where your body, in its infinite wisdom, decides to settle? In any case, with maintenance not too far ahead, my crystal ball is showing granola in the picture!
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