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Late Night FDL: Court and Spark
I know late night is supposed to be lighthearted, but there's been something I've been wanting to talk about and it's not really what you'd call lighthearted. I'd really appreciate your being patient with me (you've been remarkably good about that so far…)
This past week I've been reading (mostly in less temperate climes than this, to be sure) that folks are going to sit out the election if their candidate doesn't win. I find this disturbing. Let me tell you why.
These heartbreakingly young faces belonged to three young men named Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman. They wanted to help.
Voting rights would play a central role in Mississippi in 1964 during Freedom Summer, when the Council of Federated Organizations and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, which included leaders like Fannie Lou Hamer, organized young northern college students to register black voters, form freedom schools, and investigate civil rights violations. Black Mississippians played a crucial role that summer working with and housing the students.
They've been dead for a long time now.
On June 21, 1964, three young civil rights workers—a 21-year-old black Mississippian, James Chaney, and two white New Yorkers, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24—were murdered near Philadelphia, in Nashoba County, Mississippi. They had been working to register black voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer and had gone to investigate the burning of a black church. They were arrested by the police on trumped-up charges, imprisoned for several hours, and then released after dark into the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, who beat and murdered them. It was later proven in court that a conspiracy existed between members of Neshoba County's law enforcement and the Ku Klux Klan to kill them.
The FBI arrested 18 men in October 1964, but state prosecutors refused to try the case, claiming lack of evidence. The federal government then stepped in, and the FBI arrested 18 in connection with the killings. In 1967, seven men were convicted on federal conspiracy charges and given sentences of three to ten years, but none served more than six. No one was tried on the charge or murder. The contemptible words of the presiding federal judge, William Cox, give an indication of Mississippi's version of justice at the time: "They killed one ni—r, one Jew, and a white man. I gave them all what I thought they deserved.
All three of them – the native mississippian and his two visitors from the north – weren't willing to sit still while citizens were denied the right to vote. They were killed for it.
Thing is: they won
For it was difficult to turn on the television without news of the Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman search. From late June to 4 August 1964, television regularly and consistently transmitted news of the tragedy to the entire nation. Television ultimately legitimated and lent new urgency to the decade- long struggle for basic human and civil rights that the Civil Rights Movement had difficulty achieving prior to the television age. The incessant gaze of the television cameras on the murders and disappearance of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman, following on the heels of the Evers and Kennedy assassinations, resulted in mobilizing national support for the Civil Rights Movement. In fact, it was television's coverage of the Civil Rights Movement's crises and catastrophes that became a prelude to the medium's subsequent involvement with and handling of the later social and political chaos surrounding the Black Power, Anti-War, Free Speech and Feminist Movements. As veteran civil rights reporters went on to cover the assassinations of Malcom X, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, as well as the ghetto uprisings thereafter, a whole new visual and aural lexicon of crisis-television developed, one that in many ways still defines how television news is communicated.
By 1968, it was clear that television's powerful and visceral images of the civil rights struggle had permeated many levels of American social and political reality. These images had helped garner support for such liberal legislation as the 1964 Voting Rights Act and President Lyndon B. Johnson's 'Great Society" and "War on Poverty" programs, all of which are legatees of the Civil Rights Movement.
although some disagreed
Understanding states' rights helps to explain why Reagan launched his 1980 presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi. He was invited to do so by then-US Representative (later Senator and majority leader) Trent Lott. In Philadelphia Reagan endorsed states' rights and in turn was endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan, which was present on that occasion. In 1964 Philadelphia was the site where civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney were murdered in the name of states' rights as they attempted to register blacks to vote in Mississippi. In 1980 Reagan was sending a states' rights signal to all conservatives, South and North, that their states would be given freedom even if it was at the expense of justice.
Link to the current election: that was the environment a young college student named Michelle Robinson had some issues with when she was attending Princeton
"My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before," the future Mrs. Obama wrote in her thesis introduction. "I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second."
Another link: a young man applying for a job in Reagan's Justice Department was less conflicted about issues of racial inclusion
Earlier this week, recently released documents drew attention for showing that, in a 1985 job application, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito '72 wrote that he is "particularly proud" of his work on cases arguing that "racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion."
Now, opponents to his nomination are using another piece of information from those documents to suggest he is far outside the mainstream in his political and social views: Near the end of his "Personal Qualifications Statement" for a high-level job in Ronald Reagan's Justice Department, Alito wrote that he was "a member of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton University, a conservative alumni group."
What's CAP?
To understand CAP, you really have to understand that until the late 60s, the almost total absence of black students at Princeton was a feature, not a bug. It was one of the reasons people went there.
"An alumnus wrote in 1974 in CAP's magazine that "We had trusted the admissions office to select young men who could and would become part of the great Princeton tradition. In my day, [Dean of Student Affairs] Andy Brown would have been called to task for his open love affair with minorities.""
"CAP supported a quota system to ensure that the vast majority of students would continue to be men. Asa Bushnell, then chairman of CAP, told the New York Times in 1974 that "Many Princeton graduates are unhappy over the fact that the administration has seen fit to abrogate the virtual guarantee that 800 [out of roughly 1,100] would continue to be the number of males in each freshman class.""
And for those conservatives who oppose affirmative action on the grounds that we should pay no attention to gender or ethnicity:
"Another article published that same year bemoaned the fact that "the makeup of the Princeton student body has changed drastically for the worse" in recent years–Princeton had begun admitting women in 1969–and wondered aloud what might happen if the university adopted a "sex-blind" policy "removing limits on the number of women." In an unsuccessful effort to forestall this frightening development, the executive committee of CAP published a statement in December 1973 that affirmed unequivocally, "Concerned Alumni of Princeton opposes adoption of a sex-blind admission policy.""
So was Michelle Obama uncomfortable as a woman of color at Princeton?
Well then: one Supreme Court Justice who wouldn't have ever happened without George W. Bush accomplished his youthful goals.
(Just hold on a little longer. We're getting there)
So guess what. The poll tax? Courtesy of two Supreme Court Justices who would have never happened without George W. Bush, it may be coming back.
When Indiana adopted its voter-ID law in 2005—requiring voters to present a government-issued photo ID before casting a ballot—the state purported to be beating back the malodorous tide of vote fraud that was ostensibly sweeping the nation. But as professor Richard Hasen has ably demonstrated here in Slate, this vote-fraud epidemic is largely fictional. The major bipartisan draft fraud report (PDF) on the subject concluded there's very little polling-place fraud in America. So, increasingly, the effort to stop fictional vote fraud looks like a partisan effort to suppress votes that tend to go to Democrats—and somehow, it's always indigent, elderly, and minority voters who are disproportionately affected. A Republican-controlled legislature passed Indiana's law on a party-line vote, and then a Republican governor signed it, and every judge to cast eyes upon it thereafter seemed to be for or against it based on his or her own political affiliation.The Indiana Democrats, joined by the ACLU and others, sued shortly after the voter-ID law was adopted. Both a federal district court and then the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals (in the most readable piece of legal writing in history) upheld the law. Judge Richard Posner, writing for the majority, argued that few registered voters, faced by the voter-ID requirement, "will say what the hell and not vote." Judge Terence Evans, retorting in dissent, was equally blunt: "Let's not beat around the bush: The Indiana voter photo ID law is a not-too-thinly-veiled attempt to discourage election-day turnout by certain folks believed to skew Democratic."
"But there's not a single recorded example of voter impersonation fraud in Indiana," begins Smith, who should have been allowed to sit down after making just this argument. But the chief justice offers up two fine pretend arguments for the pretend law: 1) Pretend Vote Fraud might become a real problem someday; and 2) it's so hard to detect that Pretend Vote Fraud might be a problem now—we just don't know it yet. Let's eradicate the pretend problem of invisible naked jugglers while we're at it, then.
Justice Samuel Alito points out that a 2005 bipartisan commission on election reform, co-chaired by Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker, also called for voter-ID laws. But Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reminds him that those IDs were supposed to be "easily and costlessly" procured over a period of time. Smith adds that the commission also found that 12 percent of eligible voters in this country don't have a driver's license.
See, they haven't been able to prove any fraud, but just in case there is fraud, poor people should have to pay for a license they don't need in order to vote. If they can pull this off, welcome back, poll tax.
So how does this all tie into this year's election?
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal's John Fund and Robert Novak reported that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., had allegedly privately told conservatives that he would seek Supreme Court Justice nominees like John Roberts, but Samuel Alito might be a judge too far because Alito "wore his conservatism on his sleeve."…
The National Review's Byron York asked McCain about it directly. "Let me just look you in the eye," the Arizona senator said, "I've said a thousand times on this campaign trail, I've said as often as I can, that I want to find clones of Alito and Roberts. I worked as hard as anybody to get them confirmed. I look you in the eye and tell you I've said a thousand times that I wanted Alito and Roberts. I have told anybody who will listen. I flat-out tell you I will have people as close to Roberts and Alito [as possible], and I am proud of my record of working to get them confirmed, and people who worked to get them confirmed will tell you how hard I worked."
Aw, he's just saying that to get elected.
Now, with Giuliani out, several conservative legal stars who had been with the former New York mayor — including former solicitor general Ted Olson, an icon of the Federalist Society set — have signed on with McCain.
Today, two other influential ex-Giuliani lawyers — Steven Calabresi and John McGinnis — published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal explaining their decision…
We make no apology for suggesting that electability must be a prime consideration. The expected value of any presidential candidate for the future of the American judiciary must be discounted by the probability that the candidate will not prevail in the election. For other kinds of issues, it may be argued that it is better to lose with the perfect candidate than to win with an imperfect one. The party lives to fight another day and can reverse the bad policies of an intervening presidency. The judiciary is different. On Jan. 20, 2009, six of the nine Supreme Court justices will be over 70. Most of them could be replaced by the next president, particularly if he or she is re-elected. Given the prospect of accelerating gains in modern medical technology, some of the new justices may serve for half a century.
There is much to support Calabresi's and McGinnis's diagnosis of the 2008 election's importance for the future of the Supreme Court. Four movement conservatives — Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Sam Alito — are on the nine-member court already. The latter three justices are also the court's youngest members, so upcoming vacancies are more likely to mean the replacement of one or more liberal justices, including 88-year-old John Paul Stevens, than one of the four lock-step conservatives.
Thus, the next president, especially if he or she also wins re-election in 2012, will be in a position either to give adherents of the Federalist Society philosophy a dominating majority on the court for decades, or to block the conservative legal revolution just a few inches from the goal-line. In the short-term, a fifth movement conservative on the court would have dramatic consequences for the shape of constitutional law over such currently controversial matters as abortion rights, the death penalty, gay rights, affirmative action, environmental regulations, and the scope of the president's power as commander-in-chief.
OK, now we're back at the beginning.
Brave men who look to me from the promontory of my middle age like kids were willing to die – did die – so these evil fuckers wouldn't win.
Now it's down to us.
We can snatch the federalist society's chance to rebuild the world in their own sick images away from them and see that they never get near a chance to hurt our country this way again.
Or you could decide that if your candidate doesn't win the nomination you'd rather see McCain choose the next three or four Supreme Court Justices than vote for the other Democrat.
I'd like you to try and find a way to explain that would have convinced Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman.
They died for this. All we have to do is reach out a hand and take it, which still leaves you one hand free to hold your nose if you need it.
Me, I think we owe it to them. I can do it either way.


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Mark Sanchez Could Become the No. 1 PickJanuary 17, 2009
It's too early to place accurate mock drafts, but it's the first time I hear a Mexican boy will hear his name on the draft.
I understand Mark is American, but as much as I know, Mark Sanchez has right to double nationality since he's son of a Mexican and under Mexican laws, that makes him a Mexican. He can't pretend to be President of Mexico, because he's born in the USA, but he's as Mexican as tequila itself.
But that's a mere formalism, the kid's proud of his origin as shown when he uses a Mexican flag on his mouthpiece. In fact, he's trying to better his Spanish pronunciation in order to become a role model for US latin community, and for a large NFL Mexican fan base.
He declared for NFL Draft after having an amazing Rose Bowl and knowing Tim Tebow, Colt McCoy and Sam Bradford are returning for their senior seasons. As today, some analysts like scout.com's Chris Steuber are picking him as the best QB in this draft, and given the current situation of Detroit that means he would be selected first overall.
On my Mexican ears that sounded too good to believe, but then I started a small research to try to find some valid arguments about it.
Obviously, his performance at the Rose Bowl was like a dream come true, whose stats are astonishing, by completing 28 of 35 passes, meaning 80 percent of completions, consolidating four passing TD without INT and a 216.83 of QB rating. Also he added 16 yards and a running TD.
By comparing Mark Sanchez with previous USC stars, there's a high expectation for such a high pick for Mark. Why? Starting with Matt Leinart whose record in his final season was the same at 12-1 (bowl included) with very similar percentage of completion, but unlike Leinart, Sanchez won the bowl game.
Matt Leinart and Carlson Palmer got Heisman on their resume, but Mark Sanchez set a new school record of 34 TD in a season. Another way to compare these players is by their percentage of completions, where Mark Sanchez leads with 65.8, over 63.2 of Carlson Palmer, 65.7 of Matt Leinart and 63.2 of John David Booty.
Mark's best single season QB rating is 164.64 versus 157.74 of Leinart (during Sr season in 2005), 144.01 of John David Booty (during JR season in 2006). There's no QB rating for Palmer because this stat wasn't calculated during his college years.
Unlike Leinart and Booty, there hasn't been any argument of Mark's success being product of the system, something that analyst said caused them to fall deeper in the draft.
With a team coming from 0-16, there´s a big chance that Detroit will fill holes on defense since they never stopped anyone during 2008, but after watching Joe Flacco and Mat Ryan having very satisfying rookie seasons, the hype is on QB.
Mark Sanchez isn't alone as talented passer entering NFL, and Mattew Stafford is tagged as the best for many scouts, so there seems it will be a close race for the top position.
Thus said, I see a brilliant future for Mark, who must prepare a hell to show his worth and keep a high stock for draft day.

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Another Front Facing Book Display
A question we get asked a lot by parents involves front facing book displays - where to buy and how to make.
We really appreciate the simplicity of this DIY book display we found over at Mondo Cherry. The shallow box frame doesn't look too difficult to put together. For more inspiration check out some of the other book displays we've blogged:
- floor to ceiling corner book displays
- rain gutter bookshelves
- a more traditional homemade display
- how to hack any ordinary bookcase like the IKEA Billy into a front facing style
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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Rover, named Curiosity, is set to land on Mars on August 5, 2012 at 10:31 PM PST.
NASA has recently tightened Curiosity's landing ellipse to put it closer to the science objective, which is a large uplift structure (mountain) called Aeolis Mons (Mount Sharp) in the center of Gale Crater.
Gale Crater is 154 km (96 mi) in diameter and is located in the Aeolis quadrangle at 5.4°S 137.8°E (see map).
Mount Sharp is a heavily eroded layered structure, which can be made out in this HiRISE image taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO):
Curiosity will land by employing retrorockets and lowering itself down on a tether. Here is a video of the planned landing sequence:


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Five Things to Downplay or Ignore on Draft Day
1. Bye Weeks
In standard 12-team leagues where you can pick up players off waivers every week, there's virtually no reason during your draft to pay attention to what weeks your players are off. For starters, if you draft a team with key players who are off the same week, that just means you'll take your medicine all at once, something that's arguably better than being at less than peak strength for 4-5 different weeks. In fact, because your team can easily lose even with everyone active, losing with everyone on bye just makes it likely it'll be by a wider margin than usual - something that's good as each loss counts the same regardless of the score. And in the unlikely event you win, you've just hit the jackpot.
So if anything, I'd want all my byes to occur the same week, but it's so unlikely you'd be able to build a team like that it's not even worth taking into consideration at the draft. You draft the best combination of players and let the byes fall where they will.
The one exception might be at quarterback where you'd want to take a backup that doesn't have the same bye as your starter. But in a 12-team league it's (a) not even necessary to take *any* backup quarterback - so plentiful is the supply of them on the waiver wire; (b) even if you did draft a backup with a different bye week on purpose, you'd also have to ensure he had a good enough matchup that he's more valuable than quarterbacks available on the waiver wire - something that's not going to be apparent until that particular week; and (c) that your backup quarterback was good enough to be worth holding on your roster until your starter's bye occurs - which could be as late as Week 12.
In deeper leagues - 14 and especially 16-team ones - it makes a little more sense to consider the quarterback's bye, simply because there might not be viable options on the wire. Even so, it's not hard to trade for or pick up some low-end option for one week.
In sum, your backups (including at quarterback) should be on your roster because you think they might pop, either giving you starter's production, or a valuable trade chip.
2. Strength of Schedule
It might be tempting to boost players who appear to have easy defensive match-ups and downgrade those who have difficult ones. In rare cases, this might be worth considering, but for the most part it's an exercise in folly.
First off, there's a good deal of year-to-year variance among NFL defenses - some that were terrible last year are better this season, in part due to injuries which aren't predictable. Second, variables like time on the field and field possession can affect defensive performance, both of which are in large part determined by the team's offense, adding more uncertainty. Third, the further one looks ahead in the schedule, the less reliable one's forecast for quality of opponent, meaning strength of schedule has the most usefulness early in the year. At best, use it as a tiebreaker among otherwise equal players.
3. Handcuffs
It's tempting to think if you draft Arian Foster, you must draft Ben Tate, but at what cost? Tate has value as a skilled back in a great system who's the clear backup should Foster go down whether you have Foster or not. If we say he's an eighth-round pick on that basis, then by all means take him if he falls to you. Maybe you can reach half a round and grab him in the seventh, reasoning that having the Texans starter locked down should go a long way toward ensuring your team at least makes the playoffs. But to take him in the sixth and forgo a significantly more valuable player is too much of a vig. For starters, you could draft a useful starter in that round and still take someone else's clear backup like Bernard Pierce in Round 8, giving yourself a chance to have both the Texans and the Ravens starters should Ray Rice rather than Foster go down, i.e., by handcuffing you limit your ceiling. Moreover, even getting the clear backup doesn't always lock down the team's RB production. If you took C.J. Spiller and Fred Jackson last year, for example, there are times when both players get carries, and you don't know which one to start, or how they'll be used. That might sound farfetched with Foster/Tate, but if Foster were playing through an injury where the team limited his workload, that could easily happen.
4. Drafting Players on the Same Team
I get this question from both sides. Some people want to get the QB and WR on the team, so they get 10 points for a TD pass between them, and other people don't want to take players on the same team because it's more likely they get shut down together. In both cases, my answer is the same: It doesn't matter enough to consider while you're drafting. Get the best players available whether or not they play for the same real-life team. A QB and a WR can have bad days even if they're on different teams, and to the extent your same-team QBs' and WRs' good and bad days are more strongly correlated, that's not a problem if they're on a team that has more good games than bad. And if your goal is to stack players on an elite offense in hopes of winning it all, that's only worthwhile in a contest like the NFFC where you have to beat out hundreds of people to win the big prize. In a typical 12-team league, that's not something for which you should pay extra.
5. Backup QBs, Tight Ends, Kickers, Defenses
In a standard 12-team league where you start only one of each of these positions, it's not especially important you draft a backup. In 2010, Michael Vick wasn't drafted, in 2011, Cam Newton was a waiver pickup and in 2012 Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick emerged as viable starters during the year. Even if you don't come across stars like those, you can easily find serviceable quarterbacks when yours goes down, and in any event, quarterbacks simply don't get hurt nearly as much as they used to. Tight ends are dime a dozen once you get past the first four or five and go about 25 deep, so there will almost always be someone useful on the waiver wire should the player you drafted go down. In fact, you should probably churn all non-top-five TE anyway. Kickers and Defenses merit little explanation. While it's untrue that they don't matter - having the Bears last year or David Akers in 2011 was actually a game changer - no one on the planet can predict which ones will be especially good or bad with any accuracy. That means the options on the waiver wire are just as likely to be as good as your backup (or starter even).
Use those reserve spots as much as possible on wide receivers and running backs, positions that actually do get scarce on the waiver wire, even in 12-team leagues.


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Coherent Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
This paper presents a family of multidimensional poverty indices that measure poverty as a function of the extent and the intensity of poverty. I provide a unique axiomatics from which both extent and intensity of poverty can be derived, as well as the poor be endogenously identified. This axiomatics gives rise to a family of multidimensional indices whose extremal points are the geometric mean and the Maximin solution. I show that, in addition to all the standard features studied in the literature, these indices are continuous (a must for cardinal poverty measures) and ordinal, in the sense that they do not depend upon the units in which dimensions of achievements are computed. Moreover, they verify the decreasing rate marginal substitution property: the higher one's deprovation (or the extent of poverty) in one dimension, the smaller the increase of achievement in that dimension that suffices to compensate for a decrease of achievement in another dimension
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Learning Tree Linux courses
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- I've updated http://lalugs.org/#education
with a link to the Linux sysadmin courses offered by Learning Tree.
At the moment, they only have a single page describing their Unix
program; hopefully they'll keep this URL alive as they fill out
their web site, and enhance it with links to the actual courses.
I've also added more details about the courses at LACC,
and deleted the Thousand Oaks course (since it still wasn't
showing up on their site).
If anyone knows of more URLs for Los Angeles Linux educational
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Prior to Samsung unveiling it's flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone last week, it was known by company insiders as 'Project J.' As rumors and leaks led up to the event, there were simultaneous talks about the project entailing more than just the S4 — something not uncommon for the company to do. It seems especially true now that our trusted SamMobile blog has published reader-submitted photos of what appears to be the company's S4 Mini.
Specs are rocky but from that 'About this device' photo, we can see it's running on Android 4.2.2 with a 256ppi Super AMOLED qHD display at 4.3-inches. It packs a 1.6GHz dual-core processor and it's software is based on TW Nature UX. The S4 mini is said to be made available in a single and dual-SIM card variants and is expected this summer — roughly June/July.
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Legal Question in Employment Law in Georgia
forced to clock out but still work
My boyfriend works for a chain of restaurants and keeps getting ''clocked'' out but is forced to still continue to work until the work is finished. Apparently they have time quotas they can't go over. Additionally, he is not provided adequate breaks and was not allowed to eat during a 9 hour shift. He's afraid of being fired if he doesn't do what they say and we really can't afford to lose the pay. What should he do?
Asked on 3/06/05, 11:31 pm
1 Answer from Attorneys
Patricia Chandler Law Offices of Patricia A. Chandler
Re: forced to clock out but still work
Your boyfriend's employer may be in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"). However, I would need further details to give you an opinion. Feel free to contact my office.
Answered on 3/07/05, 4:14 pm


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Photographer's Note
A night view of Melbourne, looking across the Yarra River from Southbank. On the left is the dome on Flinders Street railway station.
Sharpness, saturation and contrast adjusted in Photoshop. This photo is another result of my first photo shoot with a tripod.
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Sergiom (96603) 2011-04-21 5:15
Bonjour Vincent,
Superbe image nocturne de Melbourne. Le temps d'exposition est parfait et fait bien ressortir toutes les beautés de cette ville. Les couleurs sont magnifiques.
Sonata11 (34009) 2011-04-21 7:28
Hello Vincent,
This night picture of the city is perfect excecuted,good quality, fantasic sharpness, colors, contrast, POV is great, spectacular reflection. Wonderful architecture. I like it a very much so. Well done.
All the best,
ifege (11110) 2011-04-21 14:35
Great night time view of Melbourne Vince - the amount of light is perfect.
timecapturer (49288) 2011-04-22 3:06
Hi Vincent
an impressive shot, with amazing clarity and controlled light. It is difficult to get this type of shot spot on, but you have accomplished it perfectly. A striking and stunning presentation. Well done!
mozzy27 (2) 2011-05-02 4:24
Hi Vincent
Superb night scene of the city of Melbourne with wonderful reflections in the Yarra River. The lighting is brilliant, the lit up windows in the buildings are so sharp and defined, one of the best I've seen, congratulations TFS
Cheers Peter
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- Copyright: Vincent Morand (vjmite) (4216)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2011-04-06
- Categories: Architecture
- Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ28
- Exposure: f/5.6, 3 seconds
- Details: Tripod: Yes
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Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Rhode Island
what are squatters rights?
My family owns a large amount of property and has not paid taxes in years, my question is if I pay the taxes owed is there any legal way I can pay these owed taxes and possibly take over this property in question, before they lose this property?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: what are squatters rights?
Generally when taxes are owed on a piece of property and are not paid for a number of years, the municipality where the property is located will put the property up for a "tax sale". The sale is basically an auction where anyone can bid on the property and "buy" it for the amount of the outstanding taxes due on the property. Thereafter, the owners of the property have one year to redeem the property by paying the tax sale buyer the amount paid as well as any other costs incurred. If the owner does not redeem in one year then the buyer can file an action to foreclose the right of redemption against the owner on the property and will own it outright without any lien by the owner. Therefore you should look into whether the property has already been sold at tax sale and if there is another owner of the property. This firm can certainly help you with this problem, please feel free to contact us.


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Around here, children are in the kitchen almost as much as the adults. The minute the grandbabies hear me putzing in my kitchen or every night when Michelle starts dinner, we know it's only moments before we hear, "Can I help?" And the answer is always the say, "Sure". Sometimes it is hard coming up with a task that they can perform, but it is always possible to find something for them to do. They are especially enthusiastic about helping in the kitchen when there is holiday baking to be done! Who can blame them? The sites and smells are enough to drive anyone to distraction.
Here you can see them helping us make Kiss Cookies. Notice the hair on the girls.! This is definitely a Gammy thing. The minute I enter the kitchen my hair goes up in a truly no fuss, no fashion sense bun! (And there are times I forget and leave the house with a nest like this piled on my head!)
The Kiss Cookie was not one of our family's holiday cookies. It came with Tim, via his sister Lisa… thank you Lisa 🙂 It is now a mainstay in our holiday baking, and it is the tin of cookies that mysteriously losses volume at an alarming rate. (You can't see it but I'm giving a sideways glance at Tim…) Anyway… they are fun to make, encourage child participation, and are yummy to eat. Hope you enjoy!
Kiss Cookies – make 4 dozen
1 3/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
2 tablespoon milk
1 teaspon vanilla
14 ounce Hershey Kisses
Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Cream butter, peanut butter, sugar, brown sugar, egg, vannilla and milk together. Add dry ingredients. Roll into balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten with fork in criss cross pattern. Bake for 8 minutes. Take out of oven, press chocolate kiss into cookie, return to oven for 2 minutes.


text: Main Content Senate Bill 0864 (2011) rss friendly link printer friendly Friendly Link: http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?2011-SB-0864 Public Act 274 of 2011 (Effective: 12/20/2011) Find this PA in the MCL Sponsors Howard Walker - (primary)Roger Kahn, Bruce Caswell, Tonya Schuitmaker, Darwin Booher, Bert Johnson, Steven Bieda, Mike Nofs, John Proos, Judith Emmons, James Marleau, Rick Jones, Coleman Young, Thomas Casperson, Glenn Anderson, Jack Brandenburg, Patrick Colbeck, Michael Green, Goeffrey Hansen, Hoon-Yung Hopgood , Mark Jansen, Michael Kowall, Arlan Meekhof, John Moolenaar, John Pappageorge, Randy Richardville, Rebekah Warren (click name to see bills sponsored by that person) Categories Public utilities: public service commission; Public utilities: consumer services; Public utilities: natural gas utilities; Public utilities: electric utilities; Public utilities: municipal utilities; Consumer protection: other; Public utilities; public service commission; vulnerable household warmth fund; create and authorize the payment of certain individual's heating bills. Amends secs. 6e, 9q & 10u of 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.6e et seq.). Bill Documents Bill Document Formatting Information [x] The following bill formatting applies to the 2011-2012 session:- New language in an amendatory bill will be shown in BOLD AND UPPERCASE.- Language to be removed will be stricken.- Amendments made by the House will be blue with square brackets, such as: [House amended text].- Amendments made by the Senate will be red with double greater/lesser than symbols, such as: <<Senate amended text>>. (gray icons indicate that the action did not occur or that the document is not available) Documents Senate Introduced Bill Introduced bills appear as they were introduced and reflect no subsequent amendments or changes. As Passed by the Senate As Passed by the Senate is the bill, as introduced, that includes any adopted Senate amendments. As Passed by the House As Passed by the House is the bill, as received from the Senate, that includes any adopted House amendments. Senate Concurred Bill Concurred bill is the version passed in identical form by both houses of the Legislature, issued prior to availability of the Enrolled bill. Public Act Public Act is a bill that has become law. Bill Analysis Senate Fiscal Analysis COMMITTEE SUMMARY (Date Completed: 12-5-11)This document analyzes: SB0864 FLOOR SUMMARY (Date Completed: 12-7-11 )This document analyzes: SB0864 SUMMARY AS ENACTED (Date Completed: 9-5-12)This document analyzes: SB0864, HB5190 History (House actions in lowercase, Senate actions in UPPERCASE) Date JournalAction 12/1/2011SJ 94 Pg. 2687REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY 12/7/2011SJ 96 Pg. 2755REPORTED FAVORABLY WITH SUBSTITUTE S-2 12/7/2011SJ 96 Pg. 2755COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED IMMEDIATE EFFECT 12/7/2011SJ 96 Pg. 2755REFERRED TO COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE WITH SUBSTITUTE S-2 12/7/2011SJ 96 Pg. 2730REPORTED BY COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE FAVORABLY WITH SUBSTITUTE S-2 AND AMENDMENT(S) 12/7/2011SJ 96 Pg. 2730SUBSTITUTE S-2 AS AMENDED CONCURRED IN 12/7/2011SJ 96 Pg. 2730PLACED ON ORDER OF THIRD READING WITH SUBSTITUTE S-2 AS AMENDED 12/7/2011SJ 96 Pg. 2731RULES SUSPENDED 12/7/2011SJ 96 Pg. 2731PLACED ON IMMEDIATE PASSAGE 12/7/2011SJ 96 Pg. 2733PASSED ROLL CALL # 742 YEAS 34 NAYS 2 EXCUSED 2 NOT VOTING 0 12/7/2011HJ 98 Pg. 2773received on 12/07/2011 12/7/2011HJ 98 Pg. 2775read a first time 12/7/2011HJ 98 Pg. 2775referred to Committee on Energy and Technology 12/13/2011HJ 100 Pg. 2849notice given to discharge committee 12/14/2011HJ 101 Pg. 2915motion to discharge committee approved 12/14/2011HJ 101 Pg. 2915placed on second reading 12/15/2011HJ 102 Pg. 2935read a second time 12/15/2011HJ 102 Pg. 2935substitute H-3 adopted and amended 12/15/2011HJ 102 Pg. 2935placed on third reading 12/15/2011HJ 102 Pg. 2935placed on immediate passage 12/15/2011HJ 102 Pg. 2935read a third time 12/15/2011HJ 102 Pg. 2935passed; given immediate effect Roll Call # 616 Yeas 106 Nays 1 12/15/2011HJ 102 Pg. 2935returned to Senate 12/15/2011SJ 100 Pg. 2895HOUSE SUBSTITUTE H-3 CONCURRED IN 12/15/2011SJ 100 Pg. 2895 ROLL CALL # 844 YEAS 37 NAYS 1 EXCUSED 0 NOT VOTING 0 12/15/2011SJ 100 Pg. 2895GIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT 12/15/2011SJ 100 Pg. 2895ORDERED ENROLLED 12/28/2011SJ 101 Pg. 2902PRESENTED TO GOVERNOR 12/20/2011 @ 10:26 AM 12/28/2011SJ 101 Pg. 2905APPROVED BY GOVERNOR 12/20/2011 @ 12:48 PM 12/28/2011SJ 101 Pg. 2905FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE 12/20/2011 @ 1:20 PM 12/28/2011SJ 101 Pg. 2905ASSIGNED PA 0274'11 WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT


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Event Date:
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 -
6:30pm to 7:30pm
Adult & Teen Program
Wood wick candles crackle like a wood-burning fire when lit and help to make candle scent stronger. Learn how to make this new type of candle and take home a candle to try!
All supplies will be provided, teens and adults only please.


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Season 2 makes Clementine the focus and introduces many new characters, accompanied by an oddly upbeat sensibility. At least, if one were to define "upbeat" by horror, horror everywhere!
Mechanically and stylistically, the game is precisely what players got from Season 1, though for some reason, at least in this first episode, the game is less about adventuring and feels much more akin to an interactive story, where Clementine's dialogue choices are about the only interaction allowed to the gamer.
And just why are there still technical problems with this game? TellTale has been using and refining the same engine over multiple games and there are still some really awful bugs. Not game breaking by any means, but when non-interactive character models appear, stock still, in the middle of a room it breaks my focus on the story. Rather, I stroke my chin, and chide the developers, and say, "Oh, c'mon!"
Then wait for Episode 2...
- Aaron Simmer
The Good:
- Clementine may just be the most believable game character ever
- Has all the makings of a good story
- Looks great
The Bad:
- Some really off-putting bugs
Score: 8.5 / 10


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QA teams have less time to report bugs, it's easy for them to feel like they are running out of time. Feeling this way can soon lead to rushing through work, cutting corners, and eventual burnouts among team members. This is why testers need to take a closer look at the project workflow as a whole and find ways to be more effective. If you feel uneasy about tough deadlines dictated by project managers then the team culture or work habits amongst employees need to be assessed. In addition, testing requires a certain amount of creativity think exploratory testing, but creativity is naturally reduced by stress. There needs to be empathy when managing teams, especially when any defect that is overlooked can cause tremendous loss of company credibility after a product launch.
I attended a conference held in Boston this past week, and was fascinated by a speech given by Arianna Huffington. She's not a software tester, but you can't deny her qualifications in project management when she has amassed one of the most popular media outlets in the world. Her speech really resonated with me, particularly her points emphasizing that most project teams need to rethink their workflows and culture. When meeting strict deadlines is the norm, it's easy to fall victim to toxic work patterns in order to "get the job done," but that doesn't mean the project was completed effectively. Mrs. Huffington stated three points that should be taken into account:
- Being in a hurry all the time leads to burnout.
- Some projects CAN be completed by simply dropping them altogether.
- Creativity flourishes only when we can shut out the rest of the world.
Burning Out
It's time to take a closer look at what you are rushing to get done.
Let's face it; we all succumb to vicious cycles that spawn from being under constant pressure – we're all human. Taking a step back to invoke change may be a scary thought when our daily routine is so deeply ingrained in us, but it's the best way to do away with these viscous cycles to avoid burnout which leads to hefty mistakes in the QA process.
Mrs. Huffington's philosophy on work culture and employee well-being is a big reason why The Huffington Post has become so successful. For instance, she spoke about how she introduced "nap rooms" for her company in order to allow her employees a place to relax and recharge. It makes sense. People simply don't work as effectively when they are constantly tired and stressed out. Everyone is different. Some people probably DO need a nap or a few minutes to stop and smell the roses during the day, and it shouldn't be indicative of the type of employee they are.
Personally, I would be reluctant to be seen walking into a "nap room" in the middle of a work day, but that's exactly the problem. Our society has built a culture of racing to the finish line without stopping to unwind. In the case of software testing, mental bandwidth is a limited resource, and walking away from testing once in awhile to "relax" can allow you to come back with new a approach to see things in a different light.
Quitting in the Name of Success
Another one of Mrs. Huffington's points was that sometimes the best way to complete something is to drop it altogether; that we have a terrible habit of trying to complete projects that don't matter. Instinctively, not finishing a project brings out our guilty conscience. When a project is incomplete we feel guilt until the task at hand is completed. An example of this would be creating a lengthy test script for added features to software that will unlikely even be used by the end user. It may be a better approach to avoid building that test script altogether, and to just do a quick manual test of that add-on feature. Of course, dropping important test cases is not recommended, but a lot of the work testers perform may be due to habit, irrelevant testing procedures, or even peace of mind for the tester.
Getting Creative
In relation to Mrs. Huffington's last point about creativity, being creative with your exploratory tests is very important to find bugs that would otherwise be overlooked by test automation or manual test scripts. If testers are stressed out or dealing with a an influx of emails from other teams, they cannot focus on the creative aspects of their testing. You need to have time to shut out the rest of the world to allow creativity to flourish, since constant distractions limit your creative process.
We, as a society, have built this troublesome work environment in order to be more efficient in our day-to-day lives, but are we really being efficient? Only when we are not in a hurried, rushed, or tired state of mind can we truly be effective with our work and lives in general. The old culture of racing to the finish line as a reaction to the fear that we'll get left behind needs to end.
What do yo think? Does Arianna Huffington have a valid point, or is she just expressing what the average worker wants to hear? Can we be more efficient workers and be less stressed at the same time? Comment below to let me know what you think.
See also:
- Ingrained Biases in Software Testing That Work Against You
- Yes, Open Source Jobs are Hot – and We Have Stats to Prove It
- 5 Signs That Your Team Member Wants a Promotion (as told by Star Trek)


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Roaming buffalo create management challenges
By Summit Voice
FRISCO — A herd of bison brought to northern Arizona in the early 1900s has moved from a state-run wildlife area into Grand Canyon National Park, and now park rangers want to develop a plan to manage the animals.
Initially, the bison were managed in the House Rock Wildlife Area for big game hunters, but in the late 1990s, the animals have pioneered their way to the top of the Kaibab Plateau and into Grand Canyon National Park.
Resource managers say combination of public hunt pressure, drought and fire, and reduced forage quality in House Rock Valley during the 1990s may have contributed to the bison moving through Saddle Mountain Wilderness and onto the higher elevations of the Kaibab Plateau. Over the past several years, very few bison have returned to wildlife area. Most now spend a majority of their time inside the park.
With input of a working group that's been meeting since 2008, the National Park Service now wants to figure out how to manage the current and future impacts of bison on natural and cultural resources of GCNP while supporting goals for management of a free-ranging bison population outside the park.
"Stakeholder input is a central and critical part of this planning process," stated Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent Dave Uberuaga. "We look forward to engaging interested members of the public, other agencies, tribes, and organizations to get their ideas.
We appreciate the on-going collaboration of the U.S. Forest Service, the Arizona Game and Fish Department, and look forward to working with the Bureau of Land Management as we work through this process," Uberuaga said.
The first opportunity for such involvement will be during a 60-day public scoping period beginning when the Notice of Intent is published in the Federal Register. Scoping will provide the public and other interested parties the opportunity to participate early in identifying the range of issues to be considered when the NPS studies the potential environmental impacts of managing bison in the park; to identify topics and concerns that should be addressed in the EIS; and to bring forward any new information that NPS may not be aware of that would be useful in preparing the plan and EIS.
The NPS will host three in-person open house meetings during this comment period, as follows:
- Monday, April 28, 2014 Kanab Middle School 690 S. Cowboy Way Kanab, UT 84741 6:00-8:00 p.m.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2014 High Country Conference Center 201 W. Butler Ave Flagstaff, AZ 86001 6:00-8:00 p.m.
- Wednesday, April 30, 2014 Arizona Game and Fish Department Activities Center 4044 W. Black Canyon Boulevard Phoenix, AZ 85086 6:00-8:00 p.m.
The NPS also plans to hold two informational web-based meetings the week after the in-person open houses. In the coming weeks, please check the NPS Planning, Environment, and Public Comment website at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/grca_bison_eis.
Interested parties will be able to submit scoping comments either electronically on the PEPC web site (the preferred method of receiving comments); via U.S. Postal Service at Grand Canyon National Park, PO Box 129, Attn: Bison Management Plan EIS, Grand Canyon, AZ 86023; or at one of the in-person public meetings the NPS will be holding during the 60-day scoping period. Public comments will not be accepted during the web-based meetings; rather participants will be directed to the PEPC web site to enter their comments.


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On April 20, 2016, a motion for authority to sell assets of the estates pursuant to section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code was filed in the bankruptcy case of Malibu Lighting Corporation (f/d/b/a The Brinkmann Corporation) and its affiliates.
The filing was assigned docket number 630 and is described on the court's official docket as follows:
Motion to Approve Motion of Debtor Outdoor Direct Corporation f/k/a The Brinkmann Corporation for Order: (A) Approving Bidding Procedures and Bidding Protections for the Auction of Debtors Real Property Located in Dallas County, Texas, (B) Scheduling an Auction and Sale Hearing, and (C) Granting Related Relief Filed by Malibu Lighting Corporation. Hearing scheduled for 5/11/2016 at 10:00 AM at US Bankruptcy Court, 824 Market St., 6th Fl., Courtroom #3, Wilmington, Delaware. Objections due by 5/4/2016. (Attachments: # (1) Notice # (2) Exhibit A) (O'Neill, James)
Malibu Lighting Corporation (f/d/b/a The Brinkmann Corporation) filed for bankruptcy protection, or had an involuntary bankruptcy petition filed against it, on October 8, 2015. The bankruptcy case is pending before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The case number for the lead bankruptcy case is 15-12080. The bankruptcy case is currently assigned to United States Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross. The law firm of Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP is acting as lead bankruptcy counsel to Malibu Lighting Corporation (f/d/b/a The Brinkmann Corporation) in the bankruptcy case.


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kindly move this thread if it was in the wrong section.
okay, i wrote this simple script to easily fix and regenerate the md5sum of our Nandroid backup to avoid mismatching when restoring it.
Please don't blame me if anything happens on your phone by doing this. :P
- Terminal Emulator
- Brain.apk
- Experience on flashing
- flash the Nandroid_md5_fixer.zip thru cwm or stock recovery
- go to terminal emulator and type "md5fix"
- select your damaged backup and wait until it finish!
- fix bootloop problem :P
- compatible with console provided by Aroma File Manager
NOTE: avoid using 'space' when renaming backup's folder. It must be in one word.
i hope this will help you


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The survey recorded five species of freshwater mussels within the CVNRA: Pyganodon grandis , Toxolasma parvus , Potamilis alatus, Utterbackia imbecillis and Fusconia flava . Of these five, Pyganodon grandis is by far the most abundant unionid in the park. This species was found at one site in the Cuyahoga River and appears to be thriving in two ponds, Armington Pond and Horseshoe Pond. In addition, Boy Scouts counted 862 shells of Pyganodon grandis in a 1.5 mile stretch of the drained Ohio & Erie Canal. Based on this information, we estimate that the population in the flooded portion of the canal could number in the thousands. Pyganodon grandis is fairly widespread, but prefers slow moving, quiet water and muddy substrates; the Canal therefore is ideal habitat for this species. Toxolasma parvus was observerd only in the Canal. However, several individuals were found in small pools that formed in the drained bed, which makes it likely that the flooded portion of the Canal is also home to a large population of Toxolasma parvus. This species is a comparatively small mussel, which also prefers slow moving or quiet water and muddy substrates. Divers found Utterbackia imbecillis in Kendall Lake. Utterbackia imbecillis, the paper pondshell, prefers ponds and lakes, or slow, sluggish moving rivers with muddy substrates.
The number of individuals found suggests that, in general, the mussel populations in the Canal and in ponds seem to be in good health. The Ohio & Erie Canal, especially, may be home to thriving populations of at least 2 species of mussels. The status of freshwater mussels in the lower Cuyahoga River is problematic. In addition to Pyganodon grandis, only two individuals of Potamilus alatus and one individual of Fusconaia flava were found alive in the river. The scarceness of these mussels in the river suggests that the Cuyahoga River does not provide adequate habitat or living conditions for unionids. However, the occurrence of any live freshwater mussels in the river can also be seen as a hopeful sign. In June, 1969, the polluted Cuyahoga River made national headlines as it caught on fire. The image of the burning river dramatically highlighted the plight of this nation's waterways. The recurrence of freshwater mussels may be a sign of improving water quality and ecosystem function.


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In case you aren't in possession of a Revenge-y advent calendar filled with tiny-yet-practical weapons for the modern woman—sharpened carpenter nails, sharpened wine bottle openers, cans of lipstick duct taped to cans of mace (and then sharpened)—I'm here to tell you that the season 2 premier of Revenge debuts THIS SUNDAY:
SQUEEEEEE! I'm criss-crossing my legs every 30 seconds to keep from PMPing*!!!
Any hopes or predictions for Season 2? Personally, I hope lonely billionaire Nolan Ross's heterosexuality is awakened by the volumes of erotic fan-fic I've been writing on the Internets and he invites me to live in his glass castle filled with tasteful whale art, where we can bicker over who owns the cutest collection of sweater vests for the next 50 years. But I'm predicting that won't happen.
I also predict that fake Amanda Clark gives birth to a bottle of Jack and that Victoria Grayson will RISE AGAIN. FROM THE DEAD, if need be! She can't be dead—Emily Thorne and I would miss her elegantly cruel, puffy face much too much.
Revenge simply isn't Revenge without a woman like Vicky.
*Pee my pantsing.