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Implementing Dynamic Scroll with Ajax, JavaScript, and XML
The scrollable table is a good example of a rich client interface, which uses the Web 2.0 approach to the web content usability. The dynamic scroll is also possible in part because of the new CSS2 standards, which are supported by the main browsers as well. In the sample code, I will show how to implement scrollable table that occupies some part of the screen, but if CSS were not supported and only Ajax were, the dynamic table would just resize (and scroll) the whole page, and not part of it.
Here is the example of a dynamic table on the Google reader site. Note that there are 100 items in the table on the first screenshot and, as the vertical scroll bar is moved down more rows appear, the number changes to 140, and the scroll bar also resizes. All other elements remain in the same positions on the page.
Figure 1: A dynamic table showing 100 items.
Figure 2: The same table after 40 items have been added. Note the position of the scroll.
Presentation of the Dynamic Table
To create the scroll behavior of any HTML element (in this case a table), it needs to be enclosed in a scrollable area (or viewport) defined by an outer element (in this case a DIV), which should be smaller then the total table height. If there is no outer element (no viewport), the inner element would just grow on the page in place, and after a while the whole page would resize and start to scroll (within the browser's page viewport). For example, a div element with height of 100 pixels containing table with height of 200px would achieve this table/viewport encapsulation behavior.

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Figure 3: Example code to generate scroll behavior
Note: If you set the same properties on these two elements separately, only the div would scroll, but not the table.
Here is an example code and what looks like in the browser.

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Here is a screen shot of the HTML above.
Figure 4: Visual representation of HTML element properties (source MSDN)
Notice that the table height is set to 50, but it still does not scroll.
The two CSS properties overflow:auto; and overflow-x:hidden;* actually make the scroll bar appear on the right within the div element and make the table scroll within the div. The browser's CSS engine must support these two properties. Otherwise, the table would only grow in place without the scroll bar.
* These are CSS2 properties. If content in an element falls outside the element's rendering box for a number of reasons (negative margins, absolute positioning, content exceeding the width/height set for an element, etc.), the 'overflow' and 'overflow-x' properties describe what to do with the content that exceeds the element's width.
HTML element properties
Here is the cheat sheet of available HTML element properties for HTML BODY and a single DIV element in the center of the page. As you can see, there are a lot of them, but the three of the most interest are scrollTop, scrollHeight, and clientHeight.
Figure 5: Visual representation of Div element properties (source MSDN)
The scrollTop specifies the position of the content upper bound relative to the visible portion of the viewport (defined by the div's height and width), as the user scrolls. scrollTop would indicate the distance in pixels the content moved. The scrollHeight specifies the actual height in pixels of the inner element and clientHeight specifies height of the visible content (viewport height). In my case, the viewport is the outer div element and the content is the inner TABLE. The Height and Top properties do not account for element's borders, margins, or padding, and if your elements have any of these attributes, look into the offset group of properties, among others. Similarity to the height, there are width properties to deal with horizontal scrolling calculations.
Every element placed on the page has these properties and the way elements look (and behave) depends on the values of these properties.
Here is simplified depiction of the div element's properties in the page.
Figure 6: Code to generate scroll behavior within 500px Div
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After five months of obstacles, debates and halted progress, a series of ordinances related to Haile Gold Mine and mining in general received final approval by Lancaster County Council late Monday night, Nov. 12.
It's been a long journey for council members, mine officials and Kershaw residents, as several ordinances involving rezonings, development agreements and zoning definitions have been in flux since the measures were presented to council in June.
Patrons at a local nightclub called police early Saturday morning, Nov. 10, after someone fired several bullets into the building and a nearby car.
Officers responded at about 2:40 a.m. to Good Time Charlie's, 1366 W. Meeting St., about a report of shots fired, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.
A 911 dispatcher told responding officers that a car in the parking lot had been shot and a vehicle suspected to be involved fled the scene heading west on West Meeting Street.
Folks in Lancaster County and South Carolina have long been known for lending a hand in times of need.
Though it's been more than three weeks since Hurricane Sandy slammed the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States the week of Oct. 28, millions of people are still suffering.
That's why it should come as no surprise that Lancaster County residents are reaching out to help – or that they could still use your help.
The sounds of Susan Vinson Sherlock's dulcimer complemented the occasion well.
Sherlock played songs that captured the feel of the 1800s – the period used to draw inspiration for this year's See Lancaster SC Christmas ornament.
Visitors stopped by the Cultural Arts Center at the Olde Lancaster Presbyterian Church on Tuesday, Nov. 13, to see the unveiling of the 2012 ornament. Fittingly, it portrays one of the eight stained-glass windows from the West Gay Street church, which was built in the 1800s.
KERSHAW – Two Kershaw men were arrested on heroin charges after one of them led authorities on a chase late last month.
Jeffery Alexander Knight, 26, 8524 Old Jefferson Highway; and Robert Rhett Hunter, 25, 2187 Conservancy Road, were each charged Oct. 31 with possession of heroin.
Deputies went to Small's Food Center on North Matson Street that night in response to a call about a suspicious man entering and exiting the store and hanging around the parking lot, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff's Office incident report.
When it came to voting on Election Day, Marlena Norwood didn't have a hidden agenda.
Poll manager Casey Usher had flipped on the lights inside the fellowship hall at Spring Hill Baptist Church about 15 minutes before Norwood arrived at 6:05 a.m. and slipped inside to take the first seat.
The Spring Hill precinct has a little more than 1,700 registered voters. Discounting those who decided to vote absentee before Tuesday, Norwood was the first voter at that precinct.
INDIAN LAND – The U.S. Postal Service motto says, neither "snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night" will stop mail couriers from delivering the mail, but as it turns out there is one thing that will – Green Pond Road.
Located off Henry Harris Road, Green Pond Road is a mile-long, single lane road cutting through a beautiful rural slice of the Panhandle.
The road, and the smaller roads it feeds, is home to more than 31 families, none of whom have received mail in their home mailboxes since early October.
A volunteer firefighter was arrested last month on an embezzlement charge, according to newly released information from the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office.
Joshua Phillip Cauthen, 21, 994 Suttle Road, was arrested Oct. 12 on the charge of embezzlement of public funds less than $10,000, according to a sheriff's office press release.
Cauthen, a member of Gooches Crossroads Volunteer Fire Department, was jailed and released the same day on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond.
Details remain sketchy in a Monday night, Nov. 12, shooting that left one man seriously injured.
Lancaster Police Capt. Scott Grant released limited information about the shooting Tuesday morning, which happened at about 10:12 p.m. in the 200 block of Thomas Lane.
While Grant said he could not release many details about the case, he did reveal that one man was shot and his injuries were serious. The victim was flown by helicopter to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte for treatment, Grant said.
Despite complaints of right-of-way infringements and mysterious mailboxes along Indian Land's Green Pond Road, Lancaster County Council kept its focus solely on speed limits during its Monday, Nov. 12, meeting.
Council voted 5-1 to approve lowering the speed limit along the road to 15 mph, with Councilman Cotton Cole dissenting. Councilwoman Charlene McGriff was absent from the meeting.
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In fact, Chinese food more or less supplanted Jewish food in the Ashkenazic diet about fifty years ago - stir fried replacing long boiled, ginger replacing horseradish, wonton edging out kreplakh. There is even a well researched academic paper out that can be downloaded in PDF form entitled Safe Treyf - "New York Jews and Chinese Food: The Social Construction of an Ethnic Pattern" by Gaye Tuchman and Harry G. Levine. Beginning in the 1920s, New York Jews began eating at Chinese restaurants. Previous to that, observant East European Jews did not go out to restaurants because they did not know if the restaurant owners who claimed they kept kosher really kept kosher. But the sons and daughters of those immigrants, the first generation to be born in the United States, were a different story.One hurdle for Jews to get over was that Chinese food was filled with non-kosher ingredients like pork and shellfish. Some just held their nose and ate it, and I think after World War II, maybe in the late 1950s, there evolved this concept of "safe treyf." Obviously, treyf is forbidden but safe treyf means it's forbidden but OK. If you can't see the pork in the wonton soup stock, well, it's OK. Or if the shrimp in the shrimp chop suey is chopped up into little tiny pieces so that you really can't recognize what it is, then it's OK. On our last day in New York, we went out for lunch with two New York Jews who know an awful lot about Chinese food... in fact, they know an awful lot about a lot of aspects of New Yorks many Chinese communities, since Ethel Raim and Pete Rushevsky run the Center For Traditional Music and Dance, a foundation that promotes the music and cultures of New York's many immigrant communities. We met them at the Grand Sichuan Restaurant on Lexington Ave. in Midtown Manhatten where we had gone two nights before to have Sichuan hot pot for dinner. If you haven't tried hot pot, the drill goes like this: they bring out a bowl of boiling soup stock (half mild and half filled with red peppers) and you order items like fish balls, lamb, tofu, and vegetables to toss in the pot and then you fish them out with a sieve they give you and chopsticks and eat them with a variety of sauces. It's great for a party - heck, it is a party - one that leaves you splattered with hot sauce and soup.
All the Japanese papers in town rave about the Grand Sichuan's hot pot and Ma-po tofu, and theis place has been voted best Chinese restaurant in New York on the Serious Eats website as well as by Time Out! New York. So we had to see what the fuss was about. It was worth it. Pete and Ethel gave it the CTMD stamp of approval, a less than rare honor granted to only several dozen Chinese restaurants in the New York area. Incidentally, when they are not organizing cultural events, both Pete and Ethel are astounding musicians in their own right... Ethel Raim was on the of the founders of the womens singing group the Pennywhistlers, who first introduced Balkan and Bulgarian singing to American audiences during the folk boom of the 1960s. She followed that up by popularizing immigrant cultures and Balkan music in particular as a teacher and folklorist. You like Balkan Music? Ethel pioneered teaching this othwerworldly style of music to American ears. It was one of the unsung Crusades of the Great Folk Era of the 80s that we all learned how Bulgarian harmony and rythym worked from Ethel's workshops. Here the Pennywhistlers appear on Pete Seeger's "Rainbow Quest" network folk music television show around 1964 singng the now well known Macedonian folk song "Sto Mi e Milo." Ethel is the singer standing on the far right.Pete Rushevsky also gets around as one of the Klezmer scene's most active players and researchers of the small cimbalom in Klezmer music. He's been in these pages before, but never pass up a chance to spread some of his music around. Here is the lot of us accompanying Pete and Steven Greenman (Di Tsvey) for the midnight dance at the Ashkenaz festival last month in Toronto.


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A few days ago we posted a fascinating story from Psychology Today to our FaceBook page about how children process fantasy in stories (read the full story here).
This is a subject that Dr. Montessori herself addressed, and one that particularly fascinates MNW's Director of Primary Training, Sarah Werner Andrews. In response to that article in Psychology Today, Sarah has contributed some fascinating perspectives within historical context to help Montessorians better understand the role of fantasy in storytelling.
Montessori acknowledged the controversy surrounding her views on fairy tales in 1919, when she spoke to the Child Study Society on the topic: Children's Imagination by Means of Fairy Tales. Montessori joked with the crowd that this topic was dictated to her; she would not have dared to choose it herself and face the audience! To her criticism of fairy tales, she answered, "When I have been so bold as to express my opinion of the value of the fairy tale, people have jumped to the conclusion that I was fiercely opposed to it. I do not really feel any such intense antagonism." Her point regarding fairy tales was simply, "Imagination really does not enter into the problem, because in telling fairy tales it is we (the adult) who do the imagining. The child only listens."
During that speech Montessori told the listeners, "(The young child) cannot distinguish well between the real and the imaginary, between things that are possible and things that are merely 'made up'." During this speech in 1919, Montessori was attempting once again to clarify her position regarding education based on cultivating credulity, instead of on reality. (Times Education Supplement, 1919, reprinted in AMI communications, No. 2, 1975)
And in a related study… By 15 months of age, young children can apply something learned from a picture book to real life, and also transfer that information in the other direction (DeLoach & Ganea, 2009). For example, a toddler can learn the name for a robin in a picture book, and then identify a robin in the backyard, and vice versa. After learning the name of a real object, children were more successful transferring that name to a photograph than to a cartoon drawing of the object. "The fact that the iconic nature of pictures seems to have an important role in children's ability to interact meaningfully with books has important educational implications; namely, that books with more realistic pictures are better for assisting young children's learning" (Ganea, Bloom-Pickard, & DeLoach, 2008). In general, the more young children are exposed to anthropomorphized books, (animals or objects given human attributes) the more likely they are to confuse their beliefs about the properties of real animals or objects (DeLoach & Ganea, 2009).


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A short time ago, the AP called the election for Barack Obama, and Tammy Baldwin – with Wisconsin leading the way. Earlier today, Badger Democracy posted predictions and commentary on the state races. Fortunately, I was correct on the Obama/Baldwin win. Unfortunately, I was also correct in saying the GOP would take back the State Senate. It appears Wisconsin will be controlled at the state level by a very conservative GOP led by Scott Walker.
We should take the next 24 hours to celebrate. As Wisconsin progressives, we have led the way in re-electing Barack Obama, and sending Tammy Baldwin to the US Senate. After the celebration, we have along road ahead of us. The recent redistricting has assured an uphill climb for the next decade to maintain a balance in the State Legislature.
More importantly, as progressives, it is time to change the way messaging and campaigns are run at the state level. The Democratic Party, on the whole, has been beaten badly in that regard over the last 18 months – and appears not to have learned from its mistakes. It is time to remedy this as progressives, and again lead the way to change the way we communicate our values and our message – because what is being done now is not working.
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Chicago Race Riot of 1919, most severe of approximately 25 race riots throughout the U.S. in the "Red Summer" (meaning "bloody") following World War I; a manifestation of racial frictions intensified by large-scale African American migration to the North, industrial labour competition, overcrowding in urban ghettos, and greater militancy among black war veterans who had fought "to preserve democracy." In the South revived Ku Klux Klan activities resulted in 64 lynchings in 1918 and 83 in 1919; race riots broke out in Washington, D.C.; Knoxville, Tennessee; Longview, Texas; and Phillips county, Arkansas. In the North the worst race riots erupted in Chicago and in Omaha, Nebraska.
Chicago racial tension, concentrated on the South Side, was particularly exacerbated by the pressure for adequate housing: the black population had increased from 44,000 in 1910 to more than 109,000 in 1920. The riot was triggered by the death of a black youth on July 27. He had been swimming in Lake Michigan and had drifted into an area tacitly reserved for whites; he was stoned and he shortly drowned. When police refused to arrest the white man whom black observers held responsible for the incident, indignant crowds began to gather on the beach, and the disturbance began. Distorted rumours swept the city as sporadic fighting broke out between gangs and mobs of both races. Violence escalated with each incident, and for 13 days Chicago was without law and order despite the fact that the state militia had been called out on the fourth day. By the end, 38 were dead (23 blacks, 15 whites), 537 injured, and 1,000 black families made homeless.
The horror of the Chicago Race Riot helped shock the nation out of indifference to its growing racial conflict. Pres. Woodrow Wilson castigated the "white race" as "the aggressor" in both the Chicago and Washington riots, and efforts were launched to promote racial harmony through voluntary organizations and ameliorative legislation in Congress. The period also marked a new willingness on the part of black men to fight for their rights in the face of injustice and oppression.


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More than seven decades ago, James and Lucille Bryant fell in love. Saturday, they celebrated 70 years of marriage.
James Bryant knows what love at first sight is.
At the tender age of 16, he saw a young girl modeling the dress she made in home economics class.
�You know what I�m going to do?� he asked a friend as they watched the modeling show at school. �I�m going to marry her someday.�
And he did. James married the love of his life at age 19 on May 5, 1943 in South Carolina, and Lucille was 18.
The two celebrated their 70th anniversary Saturday with more than 100 people attending at Immanuel Baptist Church.
The two don�t remember much about dating, but they do remember a little about their first date. They were sitting in a car at the school where they had attended an event together.
�That was the first time I ever kissed her,� James said, �and that was what made it significant.�
Lucille, though, hadn�t given James much thought until they started dating. She said it was probably his personality that eventually drew her to him.
�Well, he was a happy person,� she said. �... We dated about three years before we got married.�
It wasn�t an easy start for the Fountain natives. World War II was raging and James received a letter drafting him into the military. He chose the Navy and was sent to Bainbridge, Md., for boot camp the September after the couple tied the knot.
The Navy sent James to Oran, Algeria, on the Mediterranean Sea in North Africa.
He started as a seaman and was trained as a switchboard operator. Later, he was given jobs to do at a 500-bed Navy hospital made from 110 Quonset huts outside Oran.
A chief petty officer asked James to help clean the hospital�s bakery and, later, he ended up working there. He baked nearly 150 loaves of bread a day, and numerous desserts.
�I was just lucky,� he said, �being what you call a day late, so I didn�t have to fight.�
He did get to travel. He went to the Isle of Capri and by ship to Italy to pick up 5,500 Brazilian troops and bring them back to Rio de Janeiro after the war. He spent three weeks touring in Brazil.
�It was wonderful there,� he said. �It�s fascinating country.�
James said the vineyard-dotted landscape was similar to Western North Carolina.
Back in Oran, James had plenty to keep him busy. The temperature was around 120 degrees, and the baking only contributed to the heat. But the baked goods were a welcomed relief.
�On Sunday, we fed such good food,� he said, �the Army would come in to eat with us.�
When he wasn�t baking, he�d spend time at the beach on the Mediterranean or take a lunch and go hunting.
He and Lucille would exchange letters � it took about two weeks to get a letter and sometimes several would show up at one time.
He kept her picture in his seabag, and she kept his in her wallet.
Lucille also kept herself busy. She moved to Raleigh and attended beauty school. Upon completing the course, she took a job in Farmville at a beauty shop.
During the war, gas was rationed so she couldn�t go as far as the beach. She lived in a boarding house with a group of girls and they would go to the movies when they weren�t working.
After the war ended in 1945, James went to Norfolk, Va., that September, and Lucille went there to meet him.
�I saw him crossing the area,� she said, �and I took a running start.�
James said, �When I saw her, man � that lit up my world.�
They stayed with friends and relatives until he had to return to Norfolk in November. After he was discharged, James and Lucille moved to Raleigh where he went to business school and she worked as a cosmetologist until she became pregnant.
They moved to Fountain where James ran the service station owned by his father, James Oscar Bryant Sr., a Fountain police chief from 1927-1950.
James worked at various jobs, ending up as an insurance salesman. He was promoted to sales manager and sent in 1953 to Home Security and Life in Kinston, where he worked 20 years.
He became a field trainer at the home office, then managed the Gastonia office. In 1975, he came back to Kinston where he was the agency manager until 1989, when he retired. Lucille worked at DuPont for 17 years. The couple has three children.
�We did right much traveling when he first retired,� Lucille said. �... Now, we�ve gotten to the point where our legs won�t let us do much traveling anymore.�
They traveled around the country and Alaska and Hawaii, as well as Europe, Mexico and the Holy Land.
�We�ve had an excellent life,� James said. �We�ve been blessed.�
The two of them are rarely apart.
�Most of what we do,� Lucille said, �we do together.�
James took care of the children and did some housekeeping and cooking while Lucille worked at DuPont. Lucille said today he�s not good about doing the cooking, but he does wash the dishes.
They don�t do much arguing. Lucille said she makes her point and that�s that.
�We always make up before we go to bed,� James said, adding he loves her now as much as he did when he married her 70 years ago � maybe more.
Margaret Fisher can be reached at 252-559-1082 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @MargaretFishr.


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The studio-garage behind Serena Ryder's home in Toronto is lined with guitars, her two gold records and autographs from musicians such as Willie Nelson and members of Wilco.
How Serena Ryder got her groove back
By Ken Kaplan, Postmedia News
The studio-garage behind Serena Ryder's home in Toronto is lined with guitars, her two gold records and autographs from musicians such as Willie Nelson and members of Wilco. Outside, a lone bottle of Sleeman's sits on a picnic table next to an overflowed ashtray and inside, where Ryder wrote and recorded most of Harmony, her sixth record, the 29-year-old says she was able to step away from the box she'd forced herself into after winning the new artist of the year Juno in 2008.
"The record had to do with letting go of my own self-made stereotype of who I was," says Ryder, in knee-high black leather boots, second-skin silver pants and a vintage Yves Saint Laurent jacket.
"If I'm struggling, maybe I shouldn't be doing what I'm doing, so let's stop struggling with what my music is supposed to sound like and just allow the new music to happen."
The new music — from "For You," which reinterprets Screamin' Jay Hawkins, to "Stompa," a single that wouldn't be out of place on a Black Keys disc — came about after Ryder first played her manager 65 finished tunes. Ryder, who cut her first record at 16 and has been performing since she was eight, thought she'd written a terrific album. Her manager, however, who she's been with for 11 years and considers Ryder like family, wasn't sure.
"I was instantly super-defensive, but when I'm super-defensive, it's probably my problem, not hers'," says Ryder, who headed to Los Angeles in search of a producer and some fresh air. "There was no weight to it because I already had my record — I'm just going out for fun — but the fun ended up being the record, and I still ended up recording it in my backyard."
Ryder grew up singing in legion halls and hotel ballrooms in Millbrook, Ont., and her mix of country and folk acoustic guitar tunes made her an artist to watch, especially after she released Unlikely Emergency in 2005. In total, she's won three Junos, become pals with Melissa Etheridge and slid slowly into the warm fuzzy-slipper genre known as "adult pop." With Harmony, the intention is to kick a motorcycle boot through her preconceived notion of her sound.
"I expected the record to be a singer-songwriter folk thing, but it ended up an eclectic experiment and my voice sounds closer now to when I was younger, before I got tired of the game," she says. "I'm not even concerned with what other people think about it because I love what I'm doing. I have a sense of confidence I haven't had before."
For all her talk of reinvention, the music still sounds like a Serena Ryder disc. The wide vocal range is proudly on display and, despite the barroom thump of "Stompa," you can still imagine some of the tracks playing during the last sequence of a Zac Efron film. Still, Ryder seems to have gotten her groove back. The backyard studio feels comfortably lived in and she's tattooed her album title on her left wrist. Better than a gold record or a Juno, she says, is the feeling of playing music she loves.
"I've been in so many bands, but I figured I was playing around and then I'd go write my Serena Ryder music," she says. "Maybe that's why I had to write these 65 songs — to clear out some space to talk about what I felt in the moment instead of who I was. I feel it inside of me now. It just took me 15 years to get to this place."


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WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- The bitter fight over healthcare is rolling toward the U.S. Supreme Court like a big wheel, destined for a probable resolution of the legal and constitutional debate, if not the larger political debate.
While Republicans use the Affordable Care Act as a hammer against embattled Democrats across the nation -- a spot prepared for the West Virginia gubernatorial race was airing on Washington television, citing unnamed "experts" who said the law would destroy jobs -- the fight in the nation's highest court is supposed to be non-political.
Except it won't be. Not completely.
The justices have proved time and time again, in cases such as 2000's Bush vs. Gore and 2010's Citizens United vs. FEC, they can be just as political as the rest of the country when the stakes are high enough though their language may be couched in the gracious phrases of the Constitution.
Petitions from the 26 states challenging the core provisions of the act; from Virginia, which has mounted its own challenge separate from the other states, and from the Obama administration cascaded into the Supreme Court late last month, all asking the high court to hear the debate this term.
Though some legal experts may dispute it, the challenges carry with them shadows of the old fight over federalism, the jealously defended rights of the states against the iron power of the central government.
The heyday of the federalism debate occurred in the 1990s under the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the paladin of states' rights.
An August 2000 article, posted online on the American Enterprise Institute's Web site, said the Supreme Court's normally reliable moderate conservatives consistently made up a narrow five-member majority, and " the 1999 term suggests that the court's federalist majority is prepared to enforce federalist principles against powerful nationalist constituencies."
In States vs. Morrison, the federalist majority -- Rehnquist and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas -- struck down the civil remedies provision of the 1994 Violence against Women Act, "which authorized the victims of gender-motivated violence to sue their aggressors for damages in federal court."
The narrow majority said neither the 14th Amendment nor the commerce clause -- which for decades had been used to underpin hundreds of laws only vaguely connected to interstate commerce -- allowed Congress to enact the civil remedies provision.
O'Connor has retired and Rehnquist has passed on but three of Morrison's 5-4 majority still sit on the court: Kennedy, Scalia and Thomas. The three join Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito to make up the new five-justice conservative majority that often holds sway in the current court.
To suggest that federalism wouldn't have an effect on how those five justices analyze the healthcare challenges would be to engage in liberal denial of the first order.
The 26 states challenging the Affordable Care Act -- Florida, South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Louisiana, Alabama, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Washington, Idaho, South Dakota, Indiana, North Dakota, Mississippi, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Alaska, Ohio, Kansas, Wyoming, Wisconsin and Maine, and the Michigan attorney general and the Iowa governor -- are controlled by Republicans.
Their petition asks the Supreme Court to resolve several questions: "Does Congress exceed its enumerated powers [in the Constitution] and violate basic principles of federalism when it coerces states into accepting onerous conditions that it could not impose directly by threatening to withhold all federal funding under the single largest grant-in-aid program [Medicaid]? ..." "May Congress treat states no differently from any other employer when imposing invasive mandates? ... " and "Does the Affordable Care Act's mandate that virtually every individual obtain health insurance exceed Congress' enumerated powers and, if so, to what extent (if any) can the mandate be severed from the remainder of the act?"
The last question has received the most attention in the lower courts. The challenge by the 26 states was largely sustained in the U.S. appeals court in Atlanta, the only U.S. appeals court to do so. But any Medicaid cutoff is a very serious issue for the states.
Medicaid accounts for more than 40 percent of all federal funds dispersed to states -- $251 billion in 2009 alone -- and approximately 7 percent of all federal spending.
The petition filed by Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli II takes a different tack, as did the arguments in the lower courts.
As Congress enacted healthcare reform, Virginia's Legislature enacted a law specifically blocking its requirement that most Americans get health insurance. But a U.S. appeals court in Richmond said the law did not give the state "standing" -- the right to file the challenge. Standing requires a plaintiff to show an "injury-in-fact" has occurred.
"The [state law] merely declares, without legal effect, that the federal government cannot apply insurance mandates to Virginia's citizens," the appeals court opinion said. "This non-binding declaration does not create any genuine conflict with the individual mandate, and thus creates no sovereign interest capable of producing injury-in-fact."
The Virginia petition to the U.S. Supreme Court asks whether the appeals court in Richmond "erred when, contrary to well developed sovereign standing law in this court and in other [U.S. appeals court] circuits, it became the first circuit to deny that a state of the Union has standing to defend its own code of laws."
The petition also asks whether the appeals court "erred, and opened a circuit split, when it construed the Virginia Health Care Freedom Act contrary to the construction placed upon it by the chief law officer of the Commonwealth of Virginia by holding it to be merely symbolic and therefore not a real law capable of giving rise to a sovereign injury, basing this holding in part upon a misreading of the Virginia Constitution and acts of the Assembly."
Among other questions, the petition asks, "Whether the power claimed by Congress in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ... to mandate that a citizen purchase a good or service from another citizen is unconstitutional because the claimed power exceeds the outer limits of the commerce clause even as executed by the necessary and proper clause."
The commerce clause of the Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate interstate and foreign commerce. The necessary and proper clause gives Congress the power to do what it takes to enforce its enumerated powers.
For its part, the Obama administration's petition to the Supreme Court relies secondarily on federal law, but principally cites the commerce clause in Article I of the Constitution.
The requirement that most individuals get health insurance -- those who could afford it -- "is a valid exercise of Congress' commerce power," the government petition said. "It prescribes a rule that governs the manner in which individuals finance their participation in the healthcare market, and it does so through the predominant means of financing in that market -- insurance. It directly addresses the consequences of economic conduct that distorts the interstate markets for healthcare and health insurance -- namely the attempt by millions of Americans to self-insure or rely on the back-stop of free care, and the billions of dollars in cost-shifting that conduct produces each year when the uninsured do not pay for the care they inevitably need and receive."
Citing a 1995 Supreme Court decision that reinforced the principle of federalism by striking down a U.S. law banning guns near schools, the administration's petition said, "'Where economic activity substantially affects interstate commerce, legislation regulating that activity will be sustained.' And it is necessary to make effective the insurance market reforms ... that all agree Congress has the authority to impose.
"Congress' enactment of the minimum coverage provision thus rests upon direct, tangible and well-documented economic effects on interstate commerce ... not effects 'so indirect and remote that to embrace them would effectually obliterate the distinction between what is national and what is local."
Bottom line from United Press International: The Supreme Court will accept at least the challenge by 26 states, and possibly Virginia's, for argument this term -- no surprise to anyone, of course.
But any eventual high court ruling in the dispute would at this point be too close to call -- with only a very slight edge going to the states. A better picture may emerge if the justices hear and comment on the case from the bench later this term.


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Sunday, August 22, 2010
Last Day of the FGS Conference
For the 9:30 presentation I decided to go to J. Mark Lowe's "The Land Grand Processes of North Carolina and Tennessee." This time I was alert to look for other GeneaBloggers and, sure enough, found "our row." We compared our evolving strategies for selecting lectures to attend. In addition to delivering a great presentation, Mr. Lowe recommended a number of publications of the North Carolina Genealogical Society for reference. This group has some great publications, and I always like to see what new books Bruce Pruitt has put out.
Next came Christine Rose's "The Anatomy of a Will and the Records It Spawns." Ms. Rose explained various aspects of wills and what we should look for to indicate the existence of additional documents. I am taking her book on courthouse research with me to Greenville.
Afterwards we all went to Market Square (Amy, Missy, Jennifer, Tonia, Linda, Tina, her husband, me, and my husband) for lunch. It is so much fun to talk with other genealogy people! We all have some "wild and crazy" ancestor stories; Linda and I compared stories of her relative who was hanged and the guy connected to one of my lines who was the first man to be executed by electric chair in Oklahoma. We also talked about relatives and other people interested in our ancestors who will not accept the less-than-glamorous truth about those ancestors. The two "genealogy widowers" (Tina's husband and my husband) were able to talk about non-genealogy subjects. My husband thinks that the big genealogy conferences should include a "genealogy widow/widower" track for spouses who don't do genealogy. I told him there is enough history in these conferences to keep him happy, but he isn't convinced, yet.
During lunch my husband and I were outed as thorough Mac-a-holics, and after lunch I went to Donna Moughty's presentation on "Tools for Macintosh Users." Donna is such a power user! I am inspired to actually take advantage of some of the neat applications. This was a very enjoyable presentation and the level of enthusiasm was very high in the audience.
My next two presentations involved the Scots-Irish: David Rencher spoke on "From Ulster to the Carolinas: The Scots-Irish" and George Schweitzer delivered a smashing performance/presentation on "Scots-Irish (Ulster) Genealogy." There must be something about Scots-Irish and humor. Mr. Rencher's presentation was fast-paced and informative, yet he managed to sneak in some very dry humor from time to time. And Dr. Schweitzer? He is just amazing. If you ever have a chance to see him speak, do. I confess that I decided to attend this last presentation of the last day when I was attending a presentation in the room next to the room where he was speaking on the preceding day; quite frequently we could hear the audience breaking into laughter. You feel as though you are "raht thar" hearing an old Scots-Irish backwoodsman delivering his version of the history of the Scots Irish in Ulster and this country.
My husband and I ended the day with dinner at The Butcher Shop, which is right behind the hotel. Below are pictures of the fountain in the World's Fair Park on the way to the restaurant and the old train station right next to the restaurant.
Instead of Highway 81, we decided to take Route 11 and other less traveled routes home. Below is a picture I took at a gas station up in the mountains. (I think "American Pickers" is starting to have an influence on me.)
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I'm so sorry I missed the David Rencher session on the Scots-Irish in North Carolina. I made a last-minute schedule change, which was a mistake.ReplyDelete
I so wish I could have been in Knoxville, but then you mentioned US 11. That brings back even more memories than thinking of Knoxville. We drove it twice a year long before 81 was built. Long, lazy, lovely drives through East Tennessee and Virginia, squabbling with my sister most of the way. The good old days ;)ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for the great updates. For those of us who couldn't be there it was great to get updates from all the bloggers in attendance. And btw - I LOVE American Pickers! :-)ReplyDelete
I'm glad the boys got to talk at lunch instead of having to endure more of our genealogy talk.ReplyDelete
Greta, I forgot to tell you that I thought it was so funny how your husband walked so far ahead at lunch. I am so glad I'm not the only one whose husband is a fast walker. I'm always being left in the dust. Now my son is growing up the same way. They're always turning around and staring at me impatiently. :)ReplyDelete
Tonia - I wish you could have been there, too; it was an excellent session.ReplyDelete
NR - We like Route 11 much better than 81. And those backseat squabbles - ah, yes...
Diana - American Pickers has me so hooked, too! Now I want to go around taking pictures of that stuff (but NOT buy it!).
Tina - Yes, it was great not having to feel guilty!
Amy - I'm so glad to hear I'm not the only one! And I'm also the slowest at the dinner table, so my family spends enormous amounts of time looking at me and waiting for me to catch up. Oh, well...


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LATEST NEWS: The new Ian Toms Trio CD, Playbook, has been nominated for ECMA Jazz Recoring of the Year as well as two Music PEI Awards: Jazz & Blues Recording of the Year and Group Recording of the Year. You can buy it at Back Alley Music, Indigo in Charlottetown, cdbaby (CD or mp3 verions), or on iTunes. Check it out for free on Soundcloud.
With influences like Jim Hall, Lenny Breau, Pat Metheny, & Grant Green, guitarist Ian Toms combines a strong melodic sense with a lush chordal technique. A graduate of McGill's Masters in Jazz program, he has performed with top-notch musicians including Phil Woods, Doug Riley, Pat Labarbera, Kevin Dean, & Mike Murley.
Ian's debut album, OPEN, earned him 2 Music PEI awards as well as an ECMA nomination. He is a first-call session musician in his hometown of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. As a sideman, his work has been featured on over a dozen Music PEI awards and 4 ECMA nominations.
Recently, he has performed with Symphony Nova Scotia, was the house guitarist for the 2011 ECMA Industry awards, and played for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Catherine. Currently, Ian is promoting his new trio album, Playbook.
Check out soundcloud to listen to samples from both albums!
Ian uses Diamond Pedals and plays guitars by Denis Larocque and Brian Monty.


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Discover The City Of Dunedin
As New Zealand's oldest city, Dunedin is home to historic buildings of Scottish heritage, a busy University culture and world-famous wildlife reserves.
As New Zealand's oldest city, Dunedin is home to historic buildings of Scottish heritage, a busy University culture and world-famous wildlife reserves. There's plenty to see and do - but here are a few of the most popular attractions.
Lanarch Castle
As New Zealand's only Castle, Lanarch Castle is a must-see while you are in Dunedin. Explore the gardens and grounds, take a tour through the historic building, and learn about the tragic history of the Lanarch family. The castle also offers accommodation and high tea in the Lanarch Castle Ballroom café.
Speight's Brewery and Ale House
Take the Speight's Brewery Tour for an interactive and informative guide through this historic working brewery. See, taste and touch the ingredients as you learn how Speight's beer is made. After your tour, stop by the Speight's Ale House to enjoy local cuisine and the full range of Speight's beer.
Olveston Dunedin
You'll feel like you walked back in time when you visit Olveston - Dunedin's most famous historic house. Built in the early 1900's, this building showcases the life of the privileged family who lived there over 100 years ago.
Otago Peninsula
To experience beautiful scenery and New Zealand native wildlife, visit the Otago Peninsula. It's a great place to walk and explore, and you get the chance to see Little Blue Penguins, the Stewart Island Shag and Hooker Sea Lions.
The Dunedin Botanic Gardens
Recognised internationally, this stunning botanic garden features over 6,800 of plant species, wild native bellbirds, wood pigeons and tui, as well as a winter glasshouse and garden café.
Otago Museum
The Otago Museum is Dunedin's most visited attraction. Explore various collections, exhibitions, and learn about New Zealand culture and history, or visit the Discovery World Tropical Forest to experience a real living tropical environment with exotic butterflies and creatures.
Cadbury World
Another not-to-be-missed destination in Dunedin is Cadbury World. Tours are run daily where you can see how all your favourite chocolates are made, learn about the history of chocolate and the Cadbury brand, and taste a few chocolates too!
Baldwin Street and The Octagon
The main city centre (The Octagon) of Dunedin is worth exploring for those new to the region. See the historic buildings, the famous 'Scarfies' of Otago University, and check out Baldwin Street while you're there - it's the steepest street in the world. Try walking it for a real challenge!
There is a range of accommodation options to choose from in Dunedin - local bed and breakfasts, historic homesteads, hotels and New Zealand campgrounds. But no matter where you stay, you won't be short on things to see and do!
For a true Kiwi holiday experience, book your accommodation at the best New Zealand campground, Dunedin Holiday Park http://www.kiwiholidayparks.com.


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Last month, Sun Microsystems released the source code of its Solaris operating system to the general public in an attempt to increase community interest. Now they are at it again, with a far more ambitious plan. Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz has announced that the company plans to offer all of it's software for free.
Details are still a little bit thin and the exact nature of Sun's new distribution model has not yet been made clear. Yo, Schwartz, do you mean free as in freedom or free as in Java? Sun has had a tough time staying relevent in an open source world where IBM and Redhat are the latest buzz. The liberation of Solaris source code helped Sun to establish a community, perhaps this new development is part of a plan to expand that community.
Impediments abound as limitations in Sun's open source license deter involvement of many open source community members. The open Solaris code has been released under the OSI certified Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), which is mostly based on the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Unfortunately, the CDDL contains conditions that make it incompatible with the GPL, the popular open source license used by the Linux kernel and many other notable projects. It is likely that Sun will use the CDDL if they choose to open the rest of their offerings.
At this point, it is hard to tell if "free" is synonymous with "open" in Sun's vernacular. Frankly, I don't think Schwartz is quite sure either, he says things like: "We've been trying to faithfully explore how to deliver our products and technologies for free." In his favor, he does seem to be rather enthusiastic about open source, which he says "is having a [highly] productive role in driving innovation, driving down cost." Of course, now that he is on the bandwagon, he won't miss an opportunity to deride those that are not:
It's going to be tough for folks that are keeping their technologies in a closed-source environment to convince [the market] that they're serious about interoperability.
Sun has a history of open source hypocrisy. They have been promising open source Java for over a year now. Maybe they will finally make good on that promise. Last month, Sun open sourced the Java System Application Server Platform Edition (Glass Fish), which Schwartz says is "the first step in open-sourcing all of Sun's Java software assets."
Sun has dropped a few hints about how they plan to profit from their slow crawl towards open source. Matt Thompson, Sun's director for technology outreach said that by opening Solaris, "we stand to gain more because we will still charge for technical support contracts." Schwartz has said that "The net upside of [a free distribution model] is we get more people engaged in our community." In his blog, Schwartz says:
Free is a compelling price to drive adoption. Best of all, it's not subject to bizarre multipliers based on the number of cores or threads on a computer's microprocessor. And as much as my friend Linus helped change the world of operating systems, something tells me Postgres and MySQL are going to have an interesting blowback effect on the database marketplace - and JES (stay tuned for a momentum update) will bring the same to web application platforms. After all, why spend money when the free stuff is setting performance records. And to re-answer the same question: am I worried that changing the price of our software to free will diminish software revenues? No, quite the opposite: I believe it's vital to cause software revenue to grow - based on accelerating adoption. It's far easier to convince a customer to pay for a product they're already using, than one they haven't even tried.
I'm sure many of you have seen the recent surprise box office hit "March of the Penguins", which is oddly characteristic of the corporate open source community. In the movie, the penguins take turns marching back and forth between the sea (where they gorge themselves on fish and krill) and the inland location where they fulfill their obligation to the species by perpetuating it. The harsh antarctic climate is reminiscent of the tech industry, the newborn penguins struggling to survive are like innovation, and the fish and krill are like the fiscal sustenence that a company needs to survive. The penguins must balance their own needs with the needs of their hatchlings in order to ensure mutual survival. Many corporations committed to open source have found themselves in a delicate juggling act as they try to increase revenue while fostering the innovation that will ensure their perpetuation. Sun is like the penguin that strayed from the group and found itself lost in the icy wasteland. Will Sun's instincts enable it to rejoin the group?


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Nirmit's chess 960 room
We finally have an official Chess 960 room, where all the chess 960 lovers can meet, challenge each other and discuss chess 960. The main purpose of this room to promote chess 960. If you're a chess 960 lover, you will have a lots of fun in this room. I will be giving out free crowns/VIP memberships. The key to get this stuff is to be there in the room.
I would also like the users to select their own moderator for this room. Yes, you read it right, you get to chose your moderator.
Don't know what is a ChessCube Moderator? Here's the link that will answer your questions: viewtopic.php?t=26
Any suggestions are welcome to nominate your favorite mod. You could go ahead and post their names in this thread or you could email me your suggestion at [email protected]. We will have an election for a new moderator very soon. You can only nominate one user. It could be yourself as a nominee. I will be watching over the users who are nominated. I will be selecting 3 users from all the nominated users and will have an election. The main things I will be looking out for are behavior, participation and activeness.
Good luck guys,


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i do most of my electric shows by carrying a fender pro junior on my bike. i am finding the pro junior to be less reliable than i'd like.i know the wear and tear of motorcycle travel is hard on an amp,but so is the back of a pickup truck.
i tried solid state,and that seemed reliable,but they too eventually broke down.
what do people think of as a highly reliable amp,no bigger than a 1x12 combo. tweed deluxe? needs to be at least 15 watts
anything bigger would be hard to carry on my motorcycle.(1970 BMW R75/5)


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With the 17th pick in this years draft also being their only pick in the next 2 drafts, the Knicks need to hit a home run with that selection. Kenneth Faried has been widely rumored to have impressed Knicks management and a lot of mock drafts have him being the selection at 17. If I was picking, I'd give a good hard look at Faried. Obviously it would be relative to who's on the board but I believe Faried is one of the top players in this draft. Obviously it's hard to make a comparison to an NBA hall of famer but I think Faried could be the next Rodman. Rodman was 6'8 to Faried's 6'6 but in today's NBA filled with lazy rebounding and defense, I think Faried has the potential to be a great impact player off the bench. He's the consummate effort and rebounding power forward with his only downside being his size. I've heard multiple people say that if he was 6'10, he'd be the first pick in the draft. While he's only 6'6 he's got a 7'0 wingspan and great jumping ability. He scored 17 points a game and averaged 14 rebounds last year at Morehead St. His NCAA tournament game against Louisville was awesome as he blocked Louisville's last second shot to win the game. This play showed me his fire and passion that he plays the game with. I love this kid. I think he's got the potential to be one of the great rebounding forwards in this league. One of the knocks on Faried is that his family lives in New Jersey and he may be a distraction to him. I think with Amare Stoudemire tutoring him, they both play power forward, I think Faried's focus would be on the job at hand and I think that Amare would provide a great role model for Faried to take after. Overall I would say that Faried would be a great pick at 17, I am not confident that the Knicks will pick him or even that he'll be there at 17 but if he were to be there, I would love to see Kenneth Faried in blue and orange.
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Earlier this morning while working on a CentOS Linux development server I received errors when doing anything with the yum package manager. I believe the error started after upgrading the kernel on the server from kernel version 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 to kernel version 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5. After upgrading the kernel yum would output the same error multiple times as shown in the below output example.


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Averna, Averna Everywhere
Weekly insight into the world of drinks with Paul Clarke from the Cocktail Chronicles and Imbibe magazine.
As the interest in fine spirits and cocktails has grown in recent years, demand has likewise increased for Italian amaros. The garnet-red Campari has long held a place of prominence, and recently the milder flavored Aperol has earned fans in the cocktail community. Now, the Sicilian herbal tonic called Averna—already the leading amaro in many parts of the world—is hoping to become the next indispensable ingredient in the American bartender's arsenal.
With a recipe dating to the 1860s, Averna is a much different style of bitter spirit than the more familiar Campari. Where Campari is sharp and bright (essential elements for an aperitivo), Averna is deep and rich, with a gentle, slightly sweet bitterness and a full, firm body that makes it great as an after-dinner drink.
These characteristics also make Averna a good cocktail ingredient. As with the Milanese digestivo Fernet Branca, Averna has many talented fans in San Francisco. The last time I was in town I had a fantastic Black Manhattan at Bourbon & Branch that featured Averna in place of vermouth, and the company recently selected Bay Area bartender Duggan McDonnell to design drinks using the spirit.
Now, Averna is hoping to supplement McDonnell's recipes with those from mixologists from around the country. In a competition that runs through March 31, Averna is soliciting drink recipes from professional bartenders and avid amateurs that feature the product; five regional winners will be flown to Sicily to compete in finals. With a grand prize that includes an additional three-day stay in Sicily and a shopping spree, don't be surprised if you see bartenders across the country working up their own Averna cocktails. (And if you want to make a bid for the prize, go for it: details are available on Averna's website.)
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| August 7, 2012, 9:19 am
Things are wrapping up at the Central City Opera this weekend and that means it's time to start looking ahead to next year. The 2013 season is now in order and ready for a close look.
The three-title lineup follows Central City's formula: one opera world standard (for regulars), one piece borrowed from Broadway (always, a sure seller) and something a little more adventurous (to keep the company artistically credible).
The old fave: "The Barber of Seville," by Gioachino Rossini. If you're going to reach for the familiar, here's a good place to aim. Everyone knows how this adventure goes for Figaro and his pals and Rossini's comic work has terrific music as well. Marc Astafan directs. John Baril conducts.


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Written by Gradye Parsons
Each month the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Moderator or Vice Moderator of the 220th General Assembly write a column of general interest for the church-at-large.
The lectionary gospel text for Ash Wednesday this year is Matthew 6:1–6. The first verse of which is: "Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven."
This is an interesting verse to think about when you leave a worship space with ashes smeared on your head. What does the ash cross on our forehead say to others? I suppose that people who are Christians have some idea what it is about. Many times we forget that it is there and wonder why people are looking at our heads.


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By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer
Did you know that you can get local produce and food stuffs year round at the Elgin Winter Market- A huge, heated indoor Winter Market in the hub of the Chicago suburbs! The heated Historic Warehouse is Handicapped Accessible and parking is free!
The Elgin Winter Market Objective's is to sustain local producers and their laborers year round. The Winter Market aims to decrease the number of food miles from farm to table as well as to educate consumers about buying, storing and using produce during the winter. Vendors include the farmers market, antiques, collectibles, crafts, bakery, cheeses, spices, artwork, and more.
Market Days Saturdays:
Nov. 5,12,19, 26
Dec. 3,10,17,24,31
Jan. 7,14,21,28
Feb. 4,11,18,25
March 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31
Hours: 9AM-2PM
Admission: Free
166 Symphony Way, Elgin, IL 60120
For more info go to the Local Harvest website here.


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Sarah Palin tells NRA convention leaders that DC exploits shooting tragedies to limit freedom
HOUSTON – Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin says recent mass shootings have prompted leaders in Washington, D.C., to exploit tragedy in order to limit the freedoms of law-abiding people.
Palin spoke at the National Rifle Association's convention Friday afternoon in Houston.
She said while she and others were saddened and angered by December's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, the emotions that have resulted from it won't make anybody safer and won't "protect the good guys' rights."
The former governor of Alaska asked those at the convention to "keep the faith" and "stand up and fight for our freedoms."


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IRS Targeted Open Source Groups Seeking Non-Profit Status
from the don't-they-have-better-things-to-do-with-their-time deptThe latest revelations into the IRS improperly targeting certain types of groups seeking non-profit status revealed a bit of a surprise: open source software operations were apparently a trigger for extra scrutiny. The "be on the lookout" list the IRS used in 2010 included the following entry:
Open Source SoftwareKevin Drum wondered why that would happen, and a reader of his sent in an explanation, suggesting that the IRS suspected that many open source projects were really commercial projects in disguise, and the attempt to get non-profit status was to hide a commercial endeavor:
These organizations are requesting either 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(6) exemption in order to collaboratively develop new software. The members of these organizations are usually the for-profit business or for-profit support technicians of the software.
There is no specific guidance at this point. If you see a case, elevate it to your manager.
In short, the IRS is concerned that some of these organizations exist simply to market companies' software, and perhaps the associated services sold alongside them. The IRS suspects that such organizations would be a better fit for 501(c)6 classification, if anything.Honestly, this raises questions about the whole concept of what qualifies as a "non-profit" in the first place, but targeting open source software operations, considering how important open source software has been to the growth of technology and innovation over the past two decades, is fairly crazy when you think about it.
I worked in the field for several years, and while it'd be pretty easy to convince me that some of these organizations deserve closer scrutiny, the IRS' "screening" has been wildly disproportionate. Groups that are unquestionably above board have been in limbo for years, unable to start fundraising in earnest, because the IRS refuses to finally approve or reject their application for 501(c)3 status.
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The contract between the University of Colorado and Wyclef Jean — the former Fugees member who's headlining a free, students-only concert at the Coors Event Center today — prohibits the performer from mentioning marijuana or 4/20 during the show.
The agreement, dated March 1 and released Thursday by CU's student government, directs Jean to avoid "making direct references to marijuana and other illegal drugs or make 4/20 related remarks as this is a university sponsored event."
The contract indicates that CU will pay Jean a flat fee of $80,000 on the day of the concert. Student leaders previously have said the entire event will cost about $150,000.
When asked whether Wyclef would risk forfeiting his $80,000 payment if he references pot or 4/20 during his performance, CU Student Government Vice President Carly Robinson refused to speculate.
Robinson said the student administration asked Program Council, the campus entertainment group hosting the show, to include the prohibited language in the contract.
"It was added per CUSG's request," Robinson said. "We're not trying to make a statement of any kind about marijuana. We just wanted to make sure it didn't become a political event of any kind."
The concert was announced by the university in early April along with a series of measures intended to curtail the annual 4/20 smokeout, which in recent years has attracted more than 10,000 people to CU's Norlin Quad.


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TALLADEGA, Ala. — Kyle Busch nudged Kasey Kahne and sparked a massive pileup early in Sunday's Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway, causing 16 cars to be damaged in the process.
The wreck was similar to one in the Daytona 500 which also involved some of the same big names: Busch, Kahne, Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart.
Others collected in the lap-43 mess included Martin Truex Jr., Jamie McMurray, Greg Biffle, Marcos Ambrose, Jeff Burton, David Stremme, Kurt Busch, David Reutimann, Casey Mears, Scott Speed, Clint Bowyer and Jeff Gordon.
WATCH: Memorable wrecks at Talladega
"I was trying to go to the outside of him, but he just moved up in front of me and I wasn't expecting it," Busch said. "I tried to go to the outside of him and before I could get to the outside of him, I got in the back of him.
"I just hate that I caused a hell of a melee for everybody. I hate that."
Most of the cars were able to continue, but Kahne, Busch and Harvick were among those who could not get back in the race.
Biffle, who was also collected in the crash, walked out of the care center carrying his young daughter.
"It can happen at any time," he said. "You just never know. We were trying to be cautious, but that didn't work."
The wreck also caught Brian Vickers, who had just subbed for Denny Hamlin in Joe Gibbs Racing's No. 11 car. After much talk and buildup, Hamlin was cleared by doctors late Thursday to return.
He immediately dropped to the back at the start of the race and friends Michael Waltrip and Stewart came with him to help keep the draft. He drove 24 laps then climbed out of a specially installed roof hatch when a caution came out for Trevor Bayne's blown engine.
Vickers hopped into the No. 11 car, making a seamless switch.
"The exchange went great," Hamlin said afterward. "That was about as smooth as it could have went for us. Everything went well. I had a checklist in the car with things that I needed to do before I got out to switch over for the next driver."
Hamlin added: "Anything Brian gets us for points today is strictly a bonus. We're going to start next week in Darlington with our hairs on fire."
But just moments after Hamlin said those words, Vickers got a piece of the wreck and had to go to the garage. Vickers eventually returned, but may only gain seven points for the team after all the effort.
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That sentence could probably be etched as my epitaph. It's always my favorite conversation starter but really the question is driven by my own selfish desire for new titles and authors to explore.
There was an earlier discussion here on Crosstalk and there's always Wednesday Book Club on O-Deck. (Which, now I am realizing, must be today, making my plan to share this to that forum redundant bordering on obnoxious.) This thread on Jezebel was also a wealth of information. As was this brilliant post from Croguesberg. But I'm always looking for more, more, more.
Most recently I finished Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong and The Dinner by Dutch writer Herman Koch.
Armstrong's Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted was very good, though not as good as I'd wanted it to be. Still, well worth reading, with some truly fascinating stories about the experiences of women television writers in the 1970s. The description of shooting the final episode of MTM was riveting and so moving that I found myself teary-eyed.
The Dinner was superb. No surprise with all the accolades it got. The writing was enthralling and created an increasing sense of unease as the story went on. I won't describe it too much because there are secrets and twists, but it is dark and graphic. That much I will say.
Presently I am reading Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA by global public health journalist Maryn McKenna, which is fascinating and disturbing and is an astonishingly gripping read.
I was very excited to stumble upon some Fredric Brown pulps last week. The Lights in the Sky are Stars, Paradox Lost, and What Mad Universe. If you are not familiar with Fredric Brown, I suggest you do yourself the favor of picking up some of his work. He was a profoundly prolific writer, churning out both sci fi and mysteries and was a master at conveying vast stories with an economy of words. He was well known for his "short shorts."
Up next for me I have The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, and Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver. I'm not sure which I will start with. I am eager to keep going with the Atwood series but Fforde has been recommended to me so often that I am intrigued. I have never gotten much into Kingsolver's fiction, though I did like Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.
Life by Keith Richards was also bequeathed to me over the holidays. (Well, not really. Someone just left it at my house over Christmas, but "bequeath" is such a compelling word it was begging me to use it. My family is not the type to have a will so I don't have much cause to use the term.) It's not something I probably would have picked up for myself but I do like biographies and it does look fairly interesting. Anyone read it? Should I move it up the stack?
So, people of Kinja, what are you reading now?
ETA: Clearly, I do not know how to format in Kinja. I will have to fix this later because I realize now it does not make a lot of sense.


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Iola Russell
Iola Fern Russell, 66, died Thursday, Jan. 31, after a lengthy battle with breast cancer. She is pre-deceased by her father, Curtis Lee Russell.
She is survived by her mother, Iola G. Russell; brothers, Curtis Lee Russell and Jerry Allen Russell; and her sister, Debora Gaye Russell Baier.
Iola earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Wichita State University in 2002. She worked at WSU as an accounting specialist in the financial operations department for 28 years, retiring in 2012.
She was content with a quiet life, being a constant reader, avid gardener, and one who valued animal companionship.
Donations in her memory can be made to Victory in the Valley, Inc., 3755 E. Douglas Ave., Wichita, Kan.
Baker Funeral Home in Peabody is handling the arrangements. A graveside service was scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 11 at Prairie Lawn Cemetery in Peabody.


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Politics & Government
Obama notifies Congress about targeted airstrikes in Iraq
President Barack Obama on Sunday sent Congress a report notifying lawmakers that he had authorized military to conduct targeted airstrikes in Iraq to help the government retake the Mosul Dam as part of an ongoing campaign against Islamic militants.
The notification is required under the War Powers Resolution.
National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said the mission is consistent with Obama's directive that military protect U.S. personnel and facilities in Iraq. The failure of the Mosul Dam could threaten lives of a large number of civilians, threaten U.S. personnel and facilities, including the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, and prevent the Iraqi government from providing services to the Iraqi people, she said.
The operations, which the White House says are limited in duration and scope, are being undertaken at the request of the Iraq government.
The administration says it will continue to consult with the Congress on activities in Iraq against the Islamic militants knowsn as ISIS or ISIL.


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If youve ever been to the Sideshow Emporium in Dolores, youve been privy to one of the funkier and quirky secondhand stores this side of Broadway in Denver.
Its vintage clothing, used offerings and random knickknacks, from tacky hipster pins to local artwork, may be similar to stores of its kind around the country. But its double duty as occasional art gallery and music venue put it a notch above any big city kitsch store.
On Saturday, the Sideshow will host Rural-Gothic: Music, Art and Video, a collaboration of offerings from artist Rosie Carter, filmmaker Sam Lyons and photographer Dustyn Lyon. Music will be provided by The Holy Smokers, the duo of Chuck and Rosie Carter who play a Hawaiian take on the spaghetti western sound. Also on the bill will be singer songwriter Ole Bye, and Kustom Fronts, which is the solo work of Hardison Collins, one half of the Mancos-based reverb-drenched folk duo Baby Toro. This whole event is too good of a thing to keep La Plata County lovers of all things odd from making the hourlong drive to Dolores.
The man behind the event is Collins, a business owner, musician and show promoter of small concerts throughout Montezuma County. He has paired up on this event with Sideshow Emporium owner Heather Narwid.
Its us embracing the darker aspects of small town America, through film, music and art, Collins said. Were exposing the underbelly and enjoying it for what it is.
That underbelly, although not necessarily a seedy one, is an art exploration of rural America, an important subject and one that may get forgotten about in larger art communities throughout the world. But that doesnt make them any less important, and at times can make for more compelling subject matter than anything found in art galleries in New York or Paris.
Its the juxtaposition of opposing things. To me, a gothic vibe would be thwarted endeavors, like trying and cant do it, Narwid said. Opposing and intense emotions at the same time, creating tension and anger and darkness. We live these things every day, like the Hollywood burning down. The Hollywood Bar, a legendary Dolores watering hole, burned in August.
That tragedy will be the subject of Lyons short film. After being a staple in the community for nearly a century, its demise was on the lips of everyone who ever tipped one back in its confines. The video will be not so much a why or how of the fire, but more of a video centering on the tragic imagery.
An event like this also is a chance for Collins to showcase his music in a nontraditional venue.
Ive wanted to set up a show to play new material I have, Collins said. I never want to play at a bar. I want to have a comfortable environment where people are interested in stuff other than what was on television. In many respects, I made it for me, but then theres also these other friends and associates to pull in. So its turned out to be kind of a big deal.
email@example.com. Bryant Liggett is a freelance writer and KDUR station manager.


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This former B list mostly television actor who was on a very hit network show does not have many gigs that involve showing his face. Always a bit of a playboy, this actor is living with a woman he met a few months ago while out of town. His on/off again B list entertainer(singer) girlfriend thinks he is living with a guy. She has never been allowed to visit.


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Why Paul and Christie went to war
Well, that was a splendid little war.
Over the past week, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul took the GOP's intraparty bickering to a new level, openly savaging each other on issues of national security, privacy and government spending. When Christie wasn't challenging Paul to explain himself to the families of Sept. 11 victims, Paul was accusing Christie of demanding federal handouts for hurricane relief and, in an obvious double entendre, labeling the Garden Stater the " king of bacon."
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Both men stepped back from the brink of nuclear-level confrontation on Wednesday, as Paul told a New Hampshire radio station that while Christie started the fight, he'd be glad to "ratchet it down." Christie dismissed Paul's barbs as "juvenile" in his own radio appearance.
( PHOTOS: Chris Christie's career)
But the battle lines between the two men have been drawn in a more lasting way. More than anything else, what the firefight revealed was the extent to which Paul and Christie — two pols who have thrived on the appeal of their raw authenticity — have placed drastically different bets on the future of the Republican Party. And as they approach the start of the long 2016 campaign, both men are so deeply confident that they have the political and ideological high ground, that each can scarcely understand how his adversary could be making such an epic miscalculation.
In some respects, the Christie-Paul blowup is a case study in the Republican Party's internal divisions: The two men hail from such different wings of the GOP, and both are so nationally ambitious, that there is little short-term risk in escalating their rivalry.
A Pew survey published Thursday showed that Paul and Christie currently draw their support from starkly different constituencies. Paul's strongest support comes from self-identifying tea party Republicans, 70 percent of whom said they view him favorably. Among other Republicans, Paul's favorability rating was 43 percent. For Christie, those numbers were closer to even: Forty-seven percent of tea partiers viewed him favorably (while 35 percent said the opposite) and 48 percent of other Republicans said they had a positive impression of him.
Advisers to both Paul and Christie say that neither man was seeking out a total-war confrontation. As the Paul camp sees it, it was responding to an unprovoked attack from Christie: The popular governor tore into the libertarian wing of the party, including Paul, at a Republican Governors Association event last Thursday, for what he called their impractical and "esoteric" views on national security.
According to Christie-world, that cannon blast wasn't intended to be the start of a drawn-out fight. That's just the way the famously flamboyant Christie operates, they say; he was answering a question, and he always turns things up to 11.
( Also on POLITICO: Paul calls for Christie beer summit)
But both men also have short- and long-term political incentives to fight so furiously. For Christie, being perceived as the straight-talking champion of Sept. 11 families, taking on a clueless Washington GOP, can be only a positive in his 2013 reelection campaign.
Over the long haul, any Christie presidential campaign would want to be perceived as tough on defense, a traditional weak point for governors seeking the Oval Office, though several Republicans in Christie's orbit strenuously played down the notion that his jabs at the Paul cohort were part of a deliberate 2016 strategy.
( WATCH: Rand Paul says Chris Christie's hiding behind 9/11)
Paul, meanwhile, knows he must clear the commander-in-chief test as he crafts himself into a national candidate. The libertarian-leaning senator was attacked in his first campaign – back in 2010 – as a national security squish whose devotion to civil liberties was at odds with fighting terrorism.
Three years later, Paul has grown more confident not only that he's on the right side of the issue, but that substantively the politics have moved in his favor. Paul's celebrated anti-drone filibuster was Exhibit A on that count.
Doug Stafford, a senior adviser to the senator, said that Paul's spat with Christie should be viewed in the context of a national conservative advocate giving no quarter to a familiar set of critics.
"Rand is out there saying, 'We can have a strong defense, a robust national security policy and keep our respect for rights at the same time.' It's the same message he's been talking about for several years now," Stafford said. "And I don't think it's risky, I think more and more people are agreeing with it."
Another Paul adviser shared internal polling from the 2010 campaign showing that it was Paul's showdown with his GOP primary opponent, Trey Grayson, over national security that propelled the insurgent to a 13-percentage-point lead over the establishment-backed Grayson (Paul eventually won the primary by 23 points.)