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This is the 2014 Chevrolet SS, also known as the 2008 Pontiac G8 GXP. First it was dead, then it was alive again, but only for cops, and then people begged for it on the internet (where everyone wants what they can't have). So, here it is, alive once more for customers. Is it everything they asked for?
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Hamfest Saturday; family reunion suspended Sunday; arts center events next week
Amateur radio event Saturday at LCC
The 23rd annual Down East Hamfest will be from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Lenoir Community College gymnasium.
The public is invited to view vendor displays of radio equipment inside the gym and walk through the outside tailgate flea market area. FFC exams will be given at 11 a.m.
Admission tickets at the door are $6 each or three for $15. For more information, call 252-523-0988.
Family suspends reunion this year
The William �Grandpa Bill� Stroud annual reunion will not meet this year.
Traditionally held the fourth Sunday of April each year, descendants have suspended the reunion this year due to extenuating circumstances.
For information, call 252-523-5682 and leave a message.
Art happenings during Festival on Neuse
In anticipation of and during the 32nd annual BBQ Festival on the Neuse, set for May 3-4, the Community Council for the Arts is sponsoring several events.
The Plein Air Paint Out and Exhibition will begin Wednesday, and continue Thursday and Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. all three days. Painters will meet for coffee and donuts, then disperse to various downtown and riverfront locations to paint �in the open air.�
This competition will carry first-, second- and third-place prize money, with works on display and for sale Friday evening and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday of the festival weekend. Registration fee is $20.
Evening with the Stars, the official kick-off event of the festival, will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday at The Red Room, 220 N. Herritage St. The event will showcase local artists� work for sale, heavy hors d�oeuvres and beverages, and live musical entertainment by Sound Chemistry of Raleigh. Tickets are $35.
An Arts & Crafts Market will be from 6 to 9 p.m. May 3 and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 4, inside the Old Carriage Factory, 118 W. Blount St., also known as the Ellis Buggy Building. There will be activities for children and families, special musical presentations, and viewings of �Tobacco Money Feeds My Family� by filmmakers Cynthia Hill and Curtis Gaston.
Artfest will be Friday night and Saturday on Herritage Street between North and Blount streets, including the Old Carriage Factory and Overland Gallery. The Overland Gallery will open its doors for the first time to the public.
The Nnenna Freelon jazz concert at 8 p.m. May 4 will conclude the weekend of events.
For information on all events, contact the arts center at 252-527-2517 or Kinston.com.


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You're driving down the road minding your own business. As you stop at a red light, a motorist behind you slams into your rear end because she was not paying attention.
You're driving down the road minding your own business. As you stop at a red light, a motorist behind you slams into your rear end because she was not paying attention.
Police who respond to the scene quickly deduct that something was going on out of the ordinary. The officer asks the teen, and she admits she was texting her boyfriend.
Is it a big problem? I don't know, but common sense tells me anyone with half a brain must know that it's dangerous. As dangerous as taking shots of vodka, reading a newspaper, or looking in the mirror putting on makeup while driving.
The numbers on a cell phone are so small, and I doubt the average teenager can text without looking.
I shouldn't just be picking on teens or females, though. I suspect many adults, addicted to their crackberry, I mean Blackberry, drive down the highway checking e-mails as if it can't wait.
Just last week, Lord Nazir Ahmed, a member of the House of Lords in England, was sentenced to jail for 12 weeks after admitting sending texts while driving shortly before his Jaguar hit a stationary car, killing the 28-year-old driver.
According to an article in The Guardian, Ahmed received five texts as he drove his wife and elderly mother down the M1 from Dewsbury to their home in Rotherham on Christmas Day 2007. At the time of the accident, he was traveling 60 mph.
Recently, a 13-year-old Taunton, Mass., girl was killed by a driver who admitted in court that he lost control of his vehicle while texting on his cell phone.
To prevent future deaths, Massachusetts could soon join Alaska, California, Connecticut, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Jersey, Washington state and the District of Columbia, which have all banned texting while driving.
The bill, which was approved by the House in January and awaits the Senate's approval, would impose a $100 fine for the first offense, $250 for the second and $500 for each one thereafter.
I'm of two minds on this proposal. We need to do something to stop crazy drivers who don't get it, but I wonder how a law would work in practice.
Unless an officer is sitting next to, behind or in front of a driver at a stop, there's no way he or she can tell if a driver is texting. I suspect a law will only come into play if a driver is clearly swerving in or out of traffic, or after an accident.
This seems to be one of those feel-good pieces of legislation that pols pass to prove to constituents they're doing something, but in reality it doesn't work.
Taunton Rep. James Fagan, a Democrat, questioned the fairness of a law, noting in an Associated Press story that drivers can be distracted by smoking cigarettes, spilling coffee, applying makeup and eating food -- but don't face penalties.
"Tragically, there are occasions when through the exercise of poor judgment an accident and a tragedy occurs. No matter how much we try, we cannot legislate that away," he said.
The heart of this problem is that some people have allowed technology to control their lives, to make them lose common sense and courtesy.
Maybe we need to teach folks that it's rude to do things like talk on the cell phone while standing in front of the grocery store cashier, or to text while crossing a four-lane street.
Teach, yes. But please, let's not make it a law.
Jeff Adair is a MetroWest Daily News writer and editor. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Beebe Medical Center Registered Dietitian Kim Westcott Earns Recertification of her Oncology Nutrition Designation
Beebe Medical Center announces that Kim Westcott, MS, RD, LDN, CSO, has earned her recertification as a Board Certified Specialist in Oncology Nutrition (CSO), a designation she has held for five years.
In 2008, Ms. Westcott was the first Registered Dietitian in Delaware to pass the inaugural Oncology Board Specialty certification exam offered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration, the credentialing agency for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Today, she remains the only Registered Dietitian in Sussex County with this specialized certification, and one of four registered dietitians in the state of Delaware.
"We are proud to offer individualized nutritional expertise to our patients at Tunnell Cancer Center," says Cherrie Rich, RN, Executive Director of Oncology Services at Beebe Medical Center. "Kim's experience and expertise allow us to focus on their overall health as we treat their illness. This expertise is part of our holistic approach to cancer care."
The Academy's Oncology Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group provides these certified dietetic professionals with resources and networking opportunities to deal with the complexities of oncology practice. Cancer patients have unique nutritional demands. Not only does the disease itself impact the body, but chemotherapy and radiation also cause side effects that lead to malnutrition.
"Our goal is to help patients maintain good nutrition so that they can tolerate treatments, fight infection, and heal faster," Ms. Westcott says. "More and more survivors are living longer and nutrition plays a very important part in their lives. It also helps to prevent heart disease and diabetes."
Ms. Westcott works closely with patients at Tunnell Cancer Center, as well as at Beebe Medical Center. She has been a Registered Dietitian at Beebe Medical Center since September 1993, working in a variety of positions supporting the nutritional needs of the customers in the school-based wellness centers, outpatient facilities, in-patients and those attending community events. In the fall of 2002, Ms. Westcott started working with patients four days a week at the Tunnell Cancer Center. She also has a Master of Science Degree in Health Education.
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Checking in on… the Sun BeltPosted by rtmsf on December 25th, 2010
Daniel Spewak is the RTC correspondent for the Sun Belt Conference.
A Look Back: News and Notes
- The wait is over for Florida International. Jeff Goodman of FoxSports reported Tuesday that freshman forward Dominique Ferguson, a consensus top-100 recruit, is eligible for the second semester. Earning a start in his debut against Florida A&M Wednesday night, Ferguson missed nine of 12 shots from the field. Coach Isiah Thomas' other high-profile freshman, point guard Phil Taylor, likely will not join the squad this season after also sitting out the first semester. But after adding Ferguson to the mix with six new transfers from the Division I and juco ranks, Thomas should have more than enough to work with in the East division.
- Western Kentucky coach Ken McDonald dismissed point guard Ken Brown after nine games because of a "violation of a team academic policy." Brown led the team in turnovers and hadn't been the answer to WKU's point guard problems, but he also led the team in assists and may have been the Hilltoppers' quickest guard. He appeared to have a bright future with the program, but his departure will now mean more minutes for sophomore Jamal Crook. Freshman Snap Peters, who's played the point sparingly early in the season, will also see time at the position.
- Troy's leading scorer, Vernon Taylor, went down with an injury in a win over Western Michigan Tuesday. He missed Troy's loss to Idaho State Thursday night, but he's not expected to miss extended time.
- The SBC must have ACC-syndrome. That's the only explanation for why Florida Atlantic began conference play Dec. 16 with an 82-77 overtime win at Troy, two weeks before the rest of the Sun Belt kicks off. FAU won at Louisiana-Monroe three days later and now sits at 2-0 in the league. League competition begins for everyone else next week.
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- Ray Taylor is his old self again. Suspended for the season opener because of disciplinary problems, the FAU point guard did not start his first game until the SBC opener at Troy. He's made the most of his return to the starting lineup, averaging 18.3 points per game during the past three contests. Considering he's barely left the floor in those games, it's obvious that he's back on coach Mike Jarvis' good side.
- Taylor's teammate, Brett Royster, isn't scoring very much this season. At 7.6 points per game, he's hardly worthy of our pre-season First-Team All-Conference selection, right? Not exactly. The reigning SBC Defensive Player of the Year has actually elevated his game defensively and has blocked an astonishing 26 shots in his past five games. Excluding Dominique Ferguson, who's only played one game, Rosyter leads the Sun Belt in blocks by nearly two per game. And among players who have appeared in at least 10 games, Royster is fourth nationally in blocked shots.
- Denver freshman Chris Udofia scored a career-high 14 points in a win over Northern Colorado Dec. 18. He followed up that performance in another victory over Arkansas-Pine Bluff with 10 points in 22 minutes. Teammate Travis Hallam, a former high school rival of Udofia's, had high praise for the freshman's freakish athleticism in a television interview with Fox Sports Net after the UNC victory. Udofia's minutes should continue to increase into league play.
- Augustine Rubit is on fire. He's recorded a double-double in three of South Alabama's past four games and has grabbed at least 12 rebounds in each of those contests. Rubit tallied 18 rebounds against Georgia Southern and 17 against Alcorn State. And he's only a freshman, too.
Quote of the Week
"That sad thing is that it was two of our, supposedly, better shooters in Regis (Huddleston) and Travis (Lee). They were just terrible from the 3-point line. They couldn't hit a shot. I don't know what the reason was, but if they hit any shots at all, we win the game. I'm not putting the blame on them, I don't think any one person loses a game, but they could have won it for us."
–Troy coach Don Maestri after a 77-73 loss to Idaho State
Power Rankings
1. Western Kentucky (5-7): Louisville just put up 114 points on WKU—at home. Ken Brown's off the team. And the Hilltoppers are two games under .500 and blew every opportunity to bolster their resume against top competition by losing games to Minnesota, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Memphis and Murray State. It may be overkill to use the word "disastrous," but that's the term frustrated WKU fans may use to describe the non-conference season. In fact, Hilltopper Haven, one of the main message boards for Western Kentucky, polled its users about the fate of coach Ken McDonald—and 24 of 32 respondents want to "fire him immediately." The 5-7 start hasn't been pretty, and watching Louisville make 16 three-pointers had to have been discouraging. The fans are frustrated with a perceived lack of effort, but we've got a message for them: stay patient. WKU has one of the most difficult non-conference schedules in the nation, and the only thing we've learned from these first 12 games is that Western Kentucky won't be making the top-25 any time soon. If the shaky play continues next week, it'll be time to be worried.
Up Next: Jan. 1 at Arkansas State, Jan. 6 vs. Denver, Jan. 13 at Troy
2. Florida Atlantic (8-6, 2-0): It wasn't easy, but Florida Atlantic found a way to open the Sun Belt season with two road victories. After outlasting Troy in overtime Dec. 16, FAU escaped Louisiana-Monroe three days later with a 60-58 win after Tommy Sykes missed two free throws with 0.2 seconds on the clock. Known for its high-flying offensive attack, Florida Atlantic is showing the ability to win games at slower tempos this season. This is a different team defensively than last season, which has helped FAU grind out wins even when it hasn't done the job offensively.
Up Next: Dec. 30 vs. Manhattan, Jan. 3 vs. Florida Memorial, Jan. 6 vs. South Alabama
3. South Alabama (5-5): The Jaguars didn't fare very well against SEC and Big East schools early in the month, but they've responded with a three-game winning streak by defeating Houston Baptist, Georgia Southern and Alcorn State. Those three teams have a combined five victories, but USA will at least enter conference play with a little momentum. Augustine Rubit's mini-tear has helped, but we'll see if the freshman's 6 foot 6 frame holds up in conference play. He did have 15 points and 14 rebounds against Louisville from the big, bad Big East.
Dec. 27 vs. Mobile, Dec. 30 at Arkansas State, Jan. 2 vs. Middle Tennessee
4. Florida International (5-6): Former Kentucky and Illinois guard Alex Legion has joined the team for the second semester, and freshman stud Dominique Ferguson is now academically eligible. So how can we rank the Golden Eagles fourth in their own division? There are still question marks for Isiah Thomas' team. It has beat only three Division I schools this season and most of its roster is either a junior college or D-I transfer. Legion signed with Kentucky out of high school as a big-time recruit, but he's never caught fire during his career, and Ferguson had never played a game until Wednesday night. Thomas, who finished 7-25 in his first season, is another unknown as a college coach. Still, if all the pieces come together for FIU, there's no telling how good this squad could be.
Up Next: Dec. 28 at Utah Valley, Jan. 2 at Louisiana-Monroe, Jan. 6 vs. Arkansas State
5. Middle Tennessee (4-8): Kermit Davis' team took a bit of a tumble during the past two weeks, losing four straight games. Middle Tennessee fell apart in a 15-point loss to Furman Dec. 12 and then lost at Evansville by two points– after beating the Aces at home earlier in the season. The Blue Raiders have struggled to find consistent scoring, but their 4-8 record is a little deceiving. They've lost in overtime twice, lost to Evansville on a buzzer-beater and have been blown out in only three losses.
Up Next: Dec. 29 vs. Tennessee State, Kan. 2 at South Alabama, Jan. 5 vs. North Texas
6. Troy (2-10, 0-1): The Trojans can't play without leading scorer Vernon Taylor much longer. If he's back for the start of Sun Belt play, his team can't be taken lightly on any night. Despite the horrid record, Troy hasn't been a pushover for anyone. Florida Atlantic knows that as well as anyone after the Trojans forced overtime. Coach Don Maestri's track record can't be questioned, and this team showed signs of life in an overtime win at Western Michigan Tuesday. Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot of firepower on this team at the moment, especially without Taylor.
Up Next: Dec. 23 at Utah State, Jan. 6 at Louisiana-Lafayette, Jan. 8 at Arkansas-Little Rock
1. North Texas (10-2): LSU doesn't have Shaquille O'Neal, Pistol Pete or Tyrus Thomas on its roster anymore, and the Tigers will probably slide to the bottom of the SEC West this winter. But that doesn't make North Texas' 75-55 win in Baton Rouge Wednesday night any less satisfying for anyone involved. Against the inexperienced Tigers, the grizzled Mean Green veterans dominated from start to finish and won the game with stifling defense and efficient offense. North Texas missed just one free throw and held LSU to less than 37 percent from the field. That has to please coach Johnny Jones, a former LSU point guard. North Texas has now ripped off three straight wins after a humbling loss at Sam Houston State by recommitting itself to the defensive end.
Up Next: Dec. 28 vs. Panhandle State, Dec. 30 vs. Arkansas-Little Rock, Jan. 1 vs. Louisiana-Lafayette
2. Arkansas State (4-8): The record hasn't exactly reflected it yet, but Arkansas State is improving with each week. After starting 1-6—a stretch that included a 33 point loss to Belmont—ASU has won three of five games, with two respectable losses at Georgia and Missouri State. This team still has issues. Most notably, Donald Boone hasn't been the scorer we all expected him to be. And this team still can't quite put everything together. In stretches, Arkansas State has played very well: in second-half rallies against UGA and Missouri State, in an overtime loss to Memphis, and in the first half of the season opener against Mississippi.
Up Next: Dec. 28 vs. Central Baptist, Dec. 30 vs. South Alabama, Jan. 1 vs. Western Kentucky
3. Arkansas-Little Rock (7-6): Steve Shields has won four division titles at UALR, so last season's 8-22 record was an anomaly. That's evident here in 2010-11, as the Trojans are one of the league's more improved squads. After losing at Oral Roberts by 26 in November, Arkansas-Little Rock got revenge with a three-point win in Las Vegas Wednesday night. At 7-6, UALR has overachieved with solid point guard play, leadership from its four seniors and an improved defensive effort. The Trojans have lost only once at home, to Mississippi.
Up Next: Dec. 23 vs. Stetson, Dec. 30 at North Texas, Jan. 2 at Denver
4. Denver (4-9): The team that donned the Denver uniforms in November is not the same team that's playing now. The Pioneers have won two straight games and cannot be taken lightly in SBC play. Joe Scott's teams normally run the Princeton offense as effectively as anyone, but early in the season it hadn't been crisp enough for his liking. In two home wins over Northern Colorado and Arkansas-Pine Bluff, the entire offense has improved. Chris Udofia's giving Denver a lift off the bench, and the three-pointers are starting to fall—DU made 10 against UNC and nine against Pine Bluff. Travis Hallam, who's scored at least 17 points in the past three contests, also seems to be developing into a go-to scorer.
Up Next: Dec. 30 vs. Louisiana-Lafayette, Jan. 2 vs. Arkansas-Little Rock, Jan. 6 at Western Kentucky
5. Louisiana-Lafayette (2-9): Bob Marlin finally has a full team. With Josh Brown and Travis Bureau back in the lineup, ULL beat Lamar and lost by just six points to a New Mexico State team that beat the Rajun Cajuns by 16 on their home floor in November. Thanks to a rash of personnel issues, Louisiana-Lafayette suffered through a seven-game losing streak before beating Lamar, but Marlin's squad may have seen the worst of its season. Much like Don Maestri's Troy squad, it's hard to bet against the proven success of Marlin. As his players continue to get acclimated to him—and as they get healthier– there's a chance for ULL to move up the standings.
Up Next: Dec. 30 at Denver, Jan. 1 at North Texas, Jan. 6 vs. Troy
6. Louisiana-Monroe (4-9, 0-1): After letting the game get out of hand early against UTEP in a blowout loss, the Warhawks responded with two encouraging performances last week. First, they nearly knocked off East contender Florida Atlantic in its SBC opener. Then, they edged Northern Colorado at home, holding one of the nation's better three-point shooting teams to just 33 percent from beyond the arc. ULM was even able to win the game with do-it-all guard Fred Brown on the bench for much of the game due to foul trouble. He took only six shots and scored 10 points, allowing for forward Lawrence Gilbert to explode for 28 points. That's great news for a team that must find other options besides Brown.
Up Next: Dec. 29 at Stephen F. Austin, Jan. 2 vs. Florida International, Jan. 4 vs. Union


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KALAMAZOO--Western Michigan University's Board of Trustees will elect a new board chair and vice chair when it meets in formal session at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, in Room 157 of the Bernhard Center. The meeting was originally scheduled for Feb. 1, but was canceled.
The meeting agenda includes consideration of a new WMU/Kalamazoo College collaboration, a recommendation to approve two property leases and proposed adoption of the Kalamazoo County Hazard Mitigation Plan.
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Arts education is emphasized for all ages, and we are proud of our reputation for award-winning programs in drama, music and fine arts. More than 5,000 of our students participate in choir, band and orchestra. Robbinsdale Area Schools developed discipline-based arts education that is now used nationally. District music students perform annually at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis and at prestigious locations around the world. We are the first school district in the nation to receive the Medallion Award from the Children's Theatre Foundation for exceptional contributions to K-12 theatre, and our school board received the 2002 Arts Education Leadership Award from the Minnesota Alliance for Arts in Education for its commitment to arts education for students. As well, we have been named one of the 100 Best Communities for Music Education in America.
Athletics and extra-curricular activities are also an important part of student life in Robbinsdale Area Schools. Our district offers a full selection of athletics for girls and boys. In addition, students may participate in more than 30 extracurricular activities, including chess club, yearbook, Math Masters, Destination ImagiNation and many other creative and academic enrichment opportunities.


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Friday, August 12, 2011
The Imperative of Questions
5 comments:
I love you, Lockwood.
- August 12, 2011 at 4:20 PM
- Dana Hunter said...
Got so used to the American "Here, I'm going to babble at you, learn this!" way of teaching that questions threw me completely off. My teachers, for the most part, only asked questions when they suspected us of being enormous slackers, not because they were trying to jolly our thought process along. And then, when you asked, it was like "WTF? I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!!! How am I supposed to answer with anything other than, 'Um, a rock?'!?!"
This year, I know more than I did last year, and might even be able to provide an answer or two! I've also gotten used to asking myself questions when looking at something, and trying to come up with a few possibilities, find a loose end that can be teased free and tugged so an answer will eventually come spilling out. Oh, and I can just be like, "Hey, geos, I haven't the foggiest - your thoughts?" ;-) Ignorance isn't bliss, but at least it's often easily remedied with a question or two!
- August 12, 2011 at 4:59 PM
- Lockwood said...
The point of the questions you describe is part and parcel of my disgust with education, or more to the point, our society's expectations of education. And I suspect students who are consistently exposed to a "motivational" style of questioning become better self-questioners and in turn, better self-motivated and self-directed learners. One of the reasons I turned out as such a good learner was that I learned early on to continuously question the degree to which I understood whatever I was studying... essentially, using self-questioning to highlight weaknesses, and focusing my efforts there.
- August 12, 2011 at 5:11 PM
- Rockdawg said...
I love you too Lockwood.
You were always good at challenging me with your questions. I learned a lot from you. Thanks!
I hope you have a great trip with Dana and you both come back with a lot of new insights. I look forward to reading all about it.
- August 16, 2011 at 4:40 PM
- Unknown said...
Please help me for Christ sake
- August 25, 2011 at 10:47 PM


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Video panoramas are the next logical step in visual media synthesis, merging still panos with "flatview" videos. The capture system developed by Netherlands-based technologists yellowBird is the video equivalent of the camera used to create StreetView shots in Google Earth and Google Maps. YellowBird's camera has 6 lenses and can be mounted on a walking frame (see image at right) or a vehicle using fibre-optic cables to deliver a data stream of 1200 Mbit per second. The integrated surround-sound mike system can record hi-fi audio at 96 khz.
Here's a pano video shot in Avenue Martin Luther King, Port-au-Prince, Haiti using Immersive Media's 11-lens Dodeca 2360 system (the screenshot is to the left). Try panning around the full 360 degrees or up and down as the video plays. This added control of the video playback really gives you a sense of being in the scene.
Pausing and panning around lets you pick up details you'd miss in a straight video, so this is really extra information under the user's direct control. The subject matter is confronting – endless streets of buildings reduced to rubble – but also heartening as you follow individuals walking through the scene. You get a sense that Haitians are really trying to get on with the business of survival and reconstruction of their shattered world.
Immersive Media's camera has also been used for strictly commercial purposes. Have a look at this ad for Armani Jeans with teenagers running through alleyways and managing to sell expensive jeans along the way. Key points in the video let you zoom in or access the Man/Woman catalogue. The immersiveness of the technology gives you the feeling of being part of the gang. This could be the ultimate "lifestyle" commercial – where you don't just get a glimpse of how carefree, stylish young people live (think Coca-Cola), you virtually experience it.
Swiss company Globalvision has integrated video panos with Google Maps, giving you a 360 degree video tour of main streets in Geneva. The interface includes controls for panning, tilting and zooming as the video plays. See the first Related article below for more detail.
(images: camera – yellowBird, Haiti – mashable.com)
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School District, Township, and Local Hospital Join Forces to Fight Opiate Epidemic
The Old Bridge Township Public School District has entered into a partnership with the township and the local hospital to fight the Opiate epidemic.
This marks the first time in recent memory that all three entities have agreed to work together on a township-wide project.
According to Schools Superintendent David Cittadino, the township asked him if the school district could partner with the Municipal Alliance, paying half the coordinator's salary, which would extend the position to a full-time job.
The purpose of the Municipal Alliance is to eradicate illicit drug use and substance abuse throughout the township. Membership includes a mayoral representative, the police chief, president of the Board of Education, the superintendent of schools, local mental health agencies, and private citizens, including youth representatives and individuals recovering from drug and/or alcohol abuse.
"I told the mayor that funding was tight," Cittadino said. "But I asked the mayor if he minded if I reached out to the hospital to help fund the position. It was a perfect marriage."
Cittadino contacted Michael D'Agnes, president of Hackensack Meridian Health Raritan Bay Medical Center in Old Bridge. He asked him for key resources, programs, and $15,000 to help pay for expanding the coordinator's position with the Municipal Alliance.
"I told him if we're not providing information to students and parents, they will wind up in the emergency room," Cittadino said. "I said, I believe this is a great opportunity for you; it is your civic responsibility to be part of the education process, to explore every opportunity to put together an education plan to assist our young people."
D'Agnes said he is pleased to be part of a collaborative effort with the Board of Education and the township in dealing with this crisis and "to work with youth at an early stage in attempt to educate them on the dangers of substance abuse."
While the specifics of the plan have not been firmed up, the Municipal Alliance will bring in guest speakers and will utilize the hospital's resources, including a tremendous behavioral science program, to bring additional programs to Old Bridge schools.
"The fact that this partnership is taking place says a lot about the level of importance that this holds for the township," said Mayor Owen Henry "I want to thank everyone for their cooperation in helping to launch forward thinking alliances like the one we have created between the township, hospital, and schools." The invaluable knowledge that the hospital and the schools provide us, strengthen our efforts, and give us the tools needed to fight this epidemic head on."
Township Business Administrator Himanshu Shah pointed out the importance of creating "public private partnerships."
He said that this partnership enables us to "share costs and increase services to fight this epidemic."


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Courtesy of Jennifer Tyrrell / file
Jennifer Tyrrell, who was expelled last year as a den master for the Cub Scout den of her son Cruz Burns, said she feared some scouts would be "thrown out when they reach the age to become leaders."
The Boy Scouts of America will vote next month on a proposal that would lift its ban on allowing gay boys to be scouts but would continue to bar gay adults from being scout leaders, the organization said Friday.
The proposal — a revision of a plan the Scouts floated in January that would have left it up to local troops whether to accept gay members and leaders — left advocates on both sides of the issue dissatisfied.
Opponents of accepting gay scouts complained that the organization would be abandoning its decades-old values, while supporters said the organization would be abandoning gay youths on their 18th birthdays.
"The Boy Scouts are once again forcing me to look my children in the eyes and tell them that our family isn't good enough," said Jennifer Tyrrell of Bridgeport, Ohio, who was expelled last year as a den master for her 7-year-old son's Cub Scout den because she is a lesbian.
"My heart goes out to the young adults in Scouting who would be able to continue as scouts if this is passed, but then be thrown out when they reach the age to become leaders," Tyrrell said Friday.
But John Stemberger, founder of On My Honor, a coalition of Scouting parents and leaders who support the ban, said the proposal was "cleverly worded ... to dodge criticism from gay activists" while creating "a myriad of problems for how to manage and ensure the safety of the boys in the program."
"When it comes to young boys, parents should still have the final say on the issues of sexuality and politics, Stemberger said in a statement. "Allowing open homosexuality in the BSA injects both those topics right into the program."
The Scouts, one of the U.S.'s most popular private youth groups, said Friday that its National Council would vote on the proposal the week of May 20.
In an unexpected move in January, the organization proposed a resolution that would let local Scouting organizations decide for themselves whether to admit gay scouts and adult leaders. But it said Friday that it changed its mind after it was flooded with hundreds of thousands of responses to surveys it commissioned on the idea.
Among the 280 administrative local councils, half recommended no change, 38 percent recommended a change and 14 percent took a neutral position, the Scouts said.
"While perspectives and opinions vary significantly, parents, adults in the Scouting community and teens alike tend to agree that youth should not be denied the benefits of Scouting," the organization said in a statement.
Read the entire proposed resolution (.pdf)
The membership policy has roiled the Boy Scouts in recent years, particularly after the ouster of Tyrrell and the denial of the Eagle Scout rank to California teenager Ryan Andresen because he is gay.
While many of the more than 116,000 local Scouting organizations nationwide are sponsored by religious groups that oppose gay and lesbian rights, the new resolution declares that "the Boy Scouts of America does not have an agenda on the matter of sexual orientation, and resolving this complex issue is not the role of the organization."
Zach Wahls, founder of the nonprofit activist group Scouts for Equality, disagreed. "We will continue to fight to push discrimination out of Scouting once and for all," he said.
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While "we are glad that the Boy Scouts of America is taking this historic step forward," the proposed ban on gay leaders would "continue to prevent many great and loving parents from sharing the joys of Scouting with their children," he said.
But Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian advocacy group, urged the Boy Scouts not to "jettison the core value that homosexual conduct is immoral."
"This resolution would introduce open homosexuality into the ranks and eventually the leadership of Scouting," Perkins said in a statement. "This is totally unacceptable to the vast majority of Scouting parents who want to keep their exclusive right to discuss issues of sexuality with their sons."
Hundreds of comments on the Scouts' Facebook page reflected those divisions, with many weighing in to urge the Scouts to continue its ban and others saying they were disappointed that the organization was splitting the difference by differentiating between gay youths and adults:
- "No person — youth or adult — should be denied Scouting membership because of their sexual orientation. This proposed resolution is a step in the right direction, but it is wholly insufficient. Now is the time for the Boy Scouts of America to take a firm stand and become a preeminent leader in morality and equality. Intolerance and bullying are not Scouting values."
- "Possibly the worst solution they could have come up with. It will satisfy no one, and will only prolong the issue. Almost any other alternative, from a complete acceptance of gays to a complete upholding of current policy would have been more defensible."
- "Evasive once again! They need to change the policy across the board and be done with it. Enough "beating around the bush" and trying to avoid the issues at hand! As a Cubmaster, I am truly fed up with the whole thing and can't wait to be done!"
Boy Scouts survey members on anti-gay policy
'Nasty internal fight' or 'strategic pause': Boy Scouts supporters weigh delay on gays


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The Jackson Five might be launching a return into the spotlight, albeit with an updated lineup, in a new reality TV show, E! Online reports.
"The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty" will air on cable network A&E and focus on Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Randy Jackson and their respective families. Filming originally started around a year ago but was canceled when Michael Jackson nixed plans for a Jackson family reunion concert.
Michael's death apparently renewed interest in the show and filming resumed shortly after.
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"We are discussing the direction of the show with the family," a spokesman for the A&E network said after filming was restarted.
There have also been conflicting reports on whether or not Michael's children, his sister Janet or mother Katherine will appear in the show.
"A&E's series will chronicle the unscripted real lives of, principally, four Jackson brothers Jackie, Jermaine, Tito and Marlon as they go about their lives following the death of their brother Michael," the spokesman confirmed. "However, we cannot at this point definitively know who else may make an appearance in the series."
"The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty" premiers Dec. 13 with two back-to-back hour-long episodes. The show will run a total of six episodes.


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The Randolph County School Board in North Carolina got a jump on Banned Books Week, which was last week, when earlier this month it banished Ralph Ellison�s 1952 novel �Invisible Man� from its public schools. According to news reports, the book�s removal resulted from one protesting parent � one � who felt the book was �too much for teenagers.�
�You must respect all religions and point of views when it comes to the parents and what they feel is age appropriate for their young children to read, without their knowledge,� parent Kimiyutta Parson wrote to the board, which voted 5-2 on Sept. 16 to ban the book, one of three options on Randleman High School juniors� summer reading list.
Ten days later, in the glare of a national media spotlight, the board reversed its decision during a special meeting, voting 6-1 to keep the book on the library shelves. Closer to home, the ban had been opposed by the Randolph County chapter of the NAACP, and a local book store distributed free copies of the book to high schoolers.
The parent who leveled the original complaint reportedly also objected to the book�s coarse language and sexual content. The Amazon.com review of �Invisible Man� sums up the plot neatly: �A classic from the moment it first appeared in 1952, �Invisible Man� chronicles the travels of its narrator, a young, nameless black man, as he moves through the hellish levels of American intolerance and cultural blindness.� Do those who wish to ban books from school libraries believe that doing so will shield teens from undesirable language, bawdy images and intolerance?
Perhaps we should encourage teens to read �Invisible Man� rather than watch �Dancing with the Stars.� Why that particular program? A colleague told me that her students tell her that �Dancing� is a show they can watch with their parents, so she decided to tune in to see what she had been missing. What she saw was highly sexualized dance routines that seemed inappropriately suggestive, especially in prime time. My colleague is a parent but has not clamored for the censoring of the show, understanding that others do not share her views.
TV is not the same as school, thankfully. And don�t get me started on Miley Cyrus.
Banning a piece of classic literature, though, published a dozen years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, deprives students of the historical context of social and racial repression and its lingering effects.
I grew up working in my father�s drug store in Kenansville, a small rural town in eastern North Carolina. As a kid I devoured the new comic books that came in every week. When I was about 12, a customer saw me choosing some comics off the magazine rack and went to my dad, who was filling prescriptions behind the counter.
�Do you think Anthony should be reading those comic books?� she asked.
�At least he�s reading,� my father replied. I have moved on to New Yorker-style humor, and am proud of my collection of cartoon volumes.
When I was in high school, I discovered in our small library Down Beat magazine, a publication that I credit with sparking my lifelong love of jazz. Over the years I�ve had the opportunity to hear some wonderful musicians, and I got to meet Dave Brubeck, among others. What a pity it would have been if someone had banned Down Beat, saying the drug-fueled lifestyle of jazz music was inappropriate for a teenager to read about.
I became an English major and later a journalist. I taught a couple of years of high school, and now I�m a college professor. I own books of every description, including a 1911 edition of �Phantom of the Opera,� books by local authors and hundreds of other works ranging from paperback mysteries to classics. Some of these I read first as a teen and have revisited them over the years. Books have enriched my life immensely.
In a world in which I actually have to teach many students coming out of high school the difference between a novel and a work of nonfiction, I see little harm in allowing our schools to stock difficult works of literature. I am pleased that cooler heads prevailed in this case, and �Invisible Man� is back in the school library.
Let�s hope it doesn�t always take the prospect of a book banning to remind us of how important reading is, no matter how difficult the subject matter.
Anthony Hatcher is an associate professor of communications at Elon University. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Prosecutorial Indiscretion
by S.H. Chambers | Posted June 27, 2012
On June 15, 2012, hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals living illegally in the United States turned on their television sets to hear that they had become eligible for (1) a renewable two-year deferral of removal from the country and (2) a work permit.
While this may seem like a big change for those immigrants, the focus here will not be on what it might do for them, but how it was done, and why.
How do you think it was done? Choose one of the following: (a) Congress passed a new law and the president signed it, (b) the Supreme Court struck down an existing law, (c) the president issued an executive order, or (d) none of the above.
If you chose (c), it would be understandable, as it was President Obama who announced this change in front of the cameras outside the White House. There was, however, no executive order. An executive order cannot be used to overturn an existing law. On September 28, 2011, President Obama told a group of Hispanic journalists that "this notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is not true. The fact of the matter is there are laws on the books I have to enforce." The rest of the transcript is here:
The correct answer is (d), none of the above, which leaves the question, "Then how?"
On June 15, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, sent a memo to three of her underlings directing them to "exercise prosecutorial discretion" in the cases of certain "low priority" illegal aliens, "effective immediately." (Yes, she ordered them to exercise discretion.) The memo enumerates the criteria to be used to determine which illegal immigrants will get the deferrals and work permits. The memo is here:
That's right; it was done by interoffice memo.
It seems odd, doesn't it? When I hear of prosecutorial discretion, I think of cases in which discrepancies in the chain of custody of a bag of pot lead the prosecutor not to bring charges or perhaps to drop charges, that sort of thing. But in this case, according to the June 15 New York Times, "more than 800,000 young people" are now eligible for deferrals and work permits because an unelected bureaucrat fired off a memo. Upon reading that, I had three thoughts: first, "That's quite a few people." Then, "That's a pretty sweeping change." And finally, "That's some discretion."
In any case, that seems to be how it was done. But why was it was done in just that way?
What follows is an informal examination of the power of prosecutorial discretion in the United States that may help explain the Secretary's memo.
I once stayed with a friend who lived in the country just outside Düsseldorf. To go into town, I had to walk a few hundred yards to the end of a narrow lane and then cross a road to get to the bus stop. There was a crosswalk with a signal light activated by a button.
The first time I went to town, I walked down the lane, pressed the button and waited. Then I waited some more. With nothing but time on my hands, I looked down the road toward town and saw a straight, empty road that disappeared into some trees about of a quarter mile away. There were neat fields on either side. I turned my head and looked the other way and saw the same thing, fields and all. I then looked across the road toward the bus stop. After a minute or so, the light changed and I crossed.
On my second trip to town, I pressed the button, looked both ways, and, seeing exactly what I had seen before, quickly crossed the quiet, two-lane road.
In the shade of the bus shelter sat a German woman who did not approve of what I had done. I could tell that she did not approve because she told me so. Though my German is limited, I pieced together her strasse, verboten, and dummkopf, along with her gestures and facial expressions, and got the message. As I stood listening, I was reminded that German could do with more vowels and less phlegm. I was also reminded that I was not in Kansas.
Under the signs that tell pet owners to use plastic bags one often finds a fresh reminder of American pragmatism that would make William James proud.
Americans tend toward pragmatism. An American might say, "The purpose of the light is to prevent people from being run over by cars. If there are no cars, then the light, pragmatically speaking, has no purpose."
Germans tend toward what might be called legalism. A German might say, "The purpose of the light is to tell the pedestrian when it is permitted to cross the street and, more importantly, when it is forbidden to cross the street." To the German, the cars have nothing to do with it. While this is a simplification, it is not wrong.
In Southern California, where I live now, American pragmatism is on display for all to see. Each citizen sifts all rules, regulations, and laws through a personal pragmatic filter that removes those that are without purpose or of low priority.
A few examples will make the point. Speed limit signs are, of course, viewed as suggestions. Simple rules of the road regarding merging, tailgating, and signaling lane changes are ignored more often than not. Bicyclists are generally oblivious to traffic lanes, signs, and signals. Many locals feign surprise when told that the recreational use of marijuana is not legal. Only tourists stop at the signs that read "STOP"; locals just glide through. Under the signs that tell pet owners to use the plastic bag provided in the little dispenser one often finds a fresh reminder of American pragmatism that would make William James proud.
A German might ask, "What about the police?" In general, the police exercise a great deal of discretion. They use their personal pragmatic filters to screen out low priority violators and violations. Germans are surprised to see that people continue to disobey many laws even when the police are watching. Some of these violations, like dope smoking, depend on the jurisdiction, while others, like breezing past stop signs, are universal. What really shocks the Germans is that the police disobey many laws themselves. Those who doubt this can follow a squad car through traffic in Southern California and count the violations.
Some Germans find all this pragmatism bracing. Once, when I was camping in Zion National Park, a German with an RV and a sunburn walked up to me. In a beer-fed state of shirtless ecstasy, he threw out his arms and shouted, "Everything in America feels so free!" Most Germans, however, are appalled by our pragmatism. To them, it just seems stupid. I know this because they have told me.
The legal systems of the two countries reflect the difference between pragmatism and legalism. In the United States, as Rebecca Krauss explains in her essay The Theory of Prosecutorial Discretion in Federal Law: Origins and Development,"Prosecutorial discretion is a central component of the federal criminal justice system. Prosecutors decide which cases to pursue and plea bargains to accept, determining the fates of the vast majority of criminal defendants who choose not to stand trial." She concludes the paragraph by pointing out: "In Germany, however, a rule of compulsory prosecution constrains prosecutorial discretion, checking the prosecutor's ability to pick and choose which cases to pursue. No comparable regime restrains American prosecutors." The entire essay can be found here:
Generally, then, in Germany, citizens obey the laws, the police enforce them, and the prosecuting attorneys, if the evidence is sufficient, take cases to trial. By contrast, in the United States, the pragmatic citizenry exercises what might be called perpetratorial discretion, deciding which laws to obey; police exercise enforcement discretion, deciding which offenses and offenders merit citation or arrest; and prosecuting attorneys exercise prosecutorial discretion, deciding which cases will be brought to trial. While this is an exaggeration, it is not wrong. (In China I was told, in response to a question about driving with my headlights on during the day, that "any behavior that is not explicitly permitted should be considered to be prohibited." They make Germans look like softies.)
There is another connection between American pragmatism and Secretary Napolitano's use of prosecutorial discretion. Pragmatism is at the root of the illegal immigration problem.
It is obvious that for millions of foreign nationals to reside illegally in the United States, millions of foreign nationals must be exercising perpetratorial discretion and knowingly disobeying what they deem to be low priority laws that cover border crossings and residing in the country without authorization.
In the United States, the pragmatic citizenry exercises what might be called perpetratorial discretion, deciding which laws to obey.
In order for them to stay, of course, it is also necessary for millions of American citizens to exercise their own perpetratorial discretion and knowingly disobey low priority laws that ban hiring illegal aliens. So, undocumented immigrants are hired to pick crops, mow lawns, frame houses, flip burgers, clean hotel rooms, assemble mobile homes, and take care of wealthy people's children. It is not difficult to find workplaces in Southern California where most of the employees are in the county illegally. Both those doing the hiring and those being hired are getting what they want. As they see it, pragmatically speaking: no harm, no foul.
In addition, entire municipalities, counties, and even states are exercising enforcement discretion, looking at (or not looking at) the offenses and the offenders and deciding that immigration regulations are low priority laws that do not warrant action. Sometimes, the federal government even gently thwarts the efforts of smaller jurisdictions to give these laws a higher priority. Put another way, the crosswalk light says, "Don't walk," but there are few, if any, cars.
The consequence of all this perpetratorial and enforcement discretion is that there are very roughly estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. What could be a more fitting a punch line to this droll tale than to have the welcome mat put out for 800,000 of these immigrants with an act of mass prosecutorial discretion?
But back to the question: why was the memo sent?
The memo was sent so that the president could announce the good news in front of cameras on the White House lawn. He was pandering for Hispanic votes. Secretary Napolitano could not have sent the memo without his approval. He gave his approval because he wants to keep his job and, for that to happen, there must be a strong Hispanic turnout. The memo will help him get that turnout.
If the release of the memo and its theatrical announcement were not a reelection stunt, the policy could have been quietly announced to the press long ago.
Oh, wait. It was.
According to the Los Angeles Times (August 18, 2011), "The Obama administration announced Thursday that undocumented students and other low-priority immigration offenders would not be targeted for deportation under enforcement programs. . . . The move means that those who are in deportation proceedings will have their cases reviewed and, if they are set aside as low-priority, could possibly be given work permits." Here is the entire article:
So, in effect, the change had already been quietly launched last August. The June 15 memo and White House announcement really were a political circus act.
There is a more serious problem with this memo. Prosecutorial discretion has traditionally been used by government attorneys to quietly decide if individual cases should be tried. If the circumstances of a specific undocumented immigrant's case were such that the attorney in charge of the case judged deportation to be inappropriate, that attorney already had the discretion to defer removal. With this memo, there is not much discretion left. The criteria for deferring removal are enumerated. Discretion has also ceased to be discrete. Prosecutorial discretion has been transformed into a mass political weapon launched by the president from the White House lawn. Its purpose is not only to win millions of votes and the election in November, but also to circumvent the legislative process.
The memo was sent so that the president could announce the good news in front of cameras on the White House lawn. He was pandering for Hispanic votes.
Since the failure of the DREAM Act to pass the Senate, one of the president's slogans has been, "We can't wait for Congress to act." With this memo, we now see what the slogan means. Executive impatience with the legislative and judicial branches of government has a long and colorful history. Historically, many elected executives have become so impatient with the separation of powers that they have arrogated legislative and judicial powers to themselves. While using prosecutorial discretion to alter, practically speaking, the status of 800 thousand people under existing law in order to win an election may not sink to the level of abolishing the legislature, it is an unfortunate step in that direction.
In her essay (see link above), Rebecca Krauss makes three points about this expansion of prosecutorial power. First, far from being embedded in the constitution, prosecutorial discretion does not make its first appearance in American case law until 1961. It has been cited with increasing frequency ever since. Second, prosecutorial discretion is not subject to normal judicial review, and is consequently outside the balancing framework of the separation of powers. Third, the rapid growth of prosecutorial discretion in both its breadth of scope and its frequency of use has been of increasing concern to legal scholars. Summing up these points, Krauss writes:
The Framers' "constant aim [was] to divide and arrange the several offices [of government] in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other," yet the other branches of government provide almost no check on prosecutorial powers. Rachel Barkow has remarked that "[o]ne need not be an expert in separation-of-powers theory to know that combining [modern prosecutorial] powers in a single actor can lead to gross abuses."
The Napolitano memo was an abuse of prosecutorial discretion. While it may have been legal, it was an electioneering gimmick and a contrived expansion of prosecutorial discretion. Some day, the shoe may be on the other foot. What if a future president, exercising prosecutorial discretion, deems an array of federal gun control laws to be "low priority," and directs the responsible authorities to defer all action in enforcing those laws and in bringing such cases to trial? What do you suppose the New York Times editorial page will have to say about prosecutorial discretion then? Or suppose a president deems the laws that defend private property to be "low priority" and has one of his secretaries fire off a short memo that suspends "effective immediately" all enforcement of private property rights? What do you suppose libertarian journals will have to say about prosecutorial discretion then?
Our democracy is an untidy system, with its checks, balances, two houses, three branches, and 50 states. It's full of squabbles and compromises, contradictions and delays. It is that way by design.
Tyrannies are neat. All you have to do is send a memo.
rdquo;; locals just glide through. Under the signs that tell pet owners to use the plastic bag provided in the little dispenser one often finds a fresh reminder of American pragmatism that would make William James proud.
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If it's OK for 11,000,000 "undocumented" immigrants to break the law, then why wouldn't it be OK for (say) 11,000,000 "undocumented" marijuana smokers to light up on the Capitol Mall? Or for 11,000,000 "undocumented" full auto weapons owners to march down Pennsylvania Avenue? Or for 11,000,000 "undocumented" tax resisters to not file their 1040s?
If the President can amnesty non-citizens for breaking US law, then why not citizens for exercising their liberties? But the prevailing system of anarcho-tyranny does not allow for that. Instead, citizens are to be prosecuted under zero tolerance policies, have SWAT teams kicking in their doors, and be denied the right to speak to juries about the constitutionality of federal policies (cf Peter McWillians, Irwin Schiff). Or to be massacred along with their families at places like Waco.
It's quite clear that America's ruling elites do not represent the citizenry, nor defend their rights.
Sun, 2014-05-11 18:53
It is basically impossible for an average person to immigrate to this country legally.
So, it is obviously necessary to change these laws. Of course the US congress will not address such an issue. Just like they would never address the fact that a great many americans enjoy illegal drugs.
It's not popular to address such issues. Because the over 65 crowd, who vote, prefer to bury their heads in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist.
Fri, 2012-06-29 11:43
The american political system is totally broken. Has been for a great many years.
US presidents have been sending american men and women to war for years with no other approval than it's popular among the majority.
This is true democracy, come home to roost. If the majority want you to pay for others' retirement, that's democracy. If others' want you to fight and die for lies. That's what the majority demands. If the majority doesn't want you to love and marry who you love, that's democracy.
Majority rules. Human rights be damned. What the result is that I must make sure that my group is the majority, so I can repress you, and not have you repress me.
Fri, 2012-06-29 11:35
Jon Harrison
What an interesting and entertaining article. The author is certainly on the mark in calling Obama's action 100% politically motivated, but I don't know that it really pushes us much farther down the road to tyranny. I'm more concerned about warrantless wiretaps and suspending habeas corpus for U.S. citizens than I am about the executive stopping the deportation of illegals who were brought here as children and went on to either distinguish themselves academically or serve honorably in the armed forces. I certainly get the author's point regarding respect for constitutional limits, and I'm also generally a hawk on illegal immigration, but I think we benefit from keeping the people covered by Obama's action. Heck, is it worse than Congress permitting itself to buy and sell stocks using inside information, while regular citizens went to jail for doing the same thing?
This is rather a mote compared to the logs of iniquity the federal government has shoved in the citizenry's eyes. Name a president who would have refrained from doing what Obama did if it would have benefited him politically.
Thu, 2012-06-28 21:19
Jim Henshaw
I can think of lots of things the federal government does that it would be good if it stopped doing them. Deporting immigrants who have not harmed others is one of them.
But, turning a blind eye to a president trampling on the Constitution does not seem to be something that will turn out well.
Now, if Obama were to say that he can find no enumerated power in the Constitution to deport these kids, or any other non-harmful immigrant for that matter, and so will not execute an unconstitutional law, then fine. I'd be delighted with a president who actually refused to enforce such Congressional edict. But, Obama won't, because that would call into question all of HIS unconstitutional acts.
Sun, 2012-07-01 00:15
S.H. Chambers
Thank you for your comment.
This newly souped-up and tricked-out version of prosecutorial discretion was deployed on its first field test to accomplish what might be called a humanitarian mission. As a result, there are few critics and those who dare to criticize can easily be labeled inhumane.
Meanwhile, read narrowly, the precedent has been set that a duly enacted law can be publicly deactivated by a sitting president if it helps him in the electoral college. Read more broadly, he can deactivate any law that the Congress refuses to deactivate. More broadly still, he can refuse to uphold any federal statute that he doesn't want to uphold. It is, after all, called discretion.
It would be comforting to think that this power had a systemic check on it that is less clumsy than a presidential election. A lot of damage can be done in four years.
Has prosecutorial discretion ever been used for political gain on such a scale before? I don't know.
Sat, 2012-06-30 21:27
Jon Harrison
My wife is calling me to sit with her, so I can't start researching past abuses of prosecutorial discretion. I don't have an answer to that final question posed in your comment, but if we consider the abuses of power committed by presidents, particularly from FDR on (Lincoln gets a pass because, after all, there was a Civil War), I still don't think this amounts to the beginning of the end of liberty as we know it. Maybe I'm not thinking deeply enough about the issue; I'll try to do so at some point.
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Efforts to re-institute a state minimum wage law then up that wage from the federally-mandated $7.25 to $8.00 or $9.75 (depending on which of two bills passes) is simply wrong-headed.
First, it solves few to none of the problems sited by proponents. And if it does, the risks are too great.
By no stretch of the imagination do the proposals being discussed establish a living wage or come even close.
The baseline for a living wage requires that no more than 30 percent of it needs to be spent on housing. That means, based on a moderate apartment rental in New Hampshire, the minimum wage — at a bare minimum — needs to be $17 an hour, but more in the vicinity of $20 or better.
And "It's not a cure-all to poverty," Bob Pollin of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst told Marketplace.org. "In fact, the biggest source of low-income poverty is that people don't have jobs at all." (http://dailycaller.com)
What it does do is raise costs and thereby gamble with existing jobs — in New Hampshire as many as 14,000 of them, particularly the low-skilled such as those held by high school students.
Steve Grenier, co-owner of Lago's Ice Cream in Rye, told the House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee that he would have to sell 40,000 more cones a season to pay for just the 75-cent increase. Of course, he could up his prices, lose some undetermined amount of business because of it and hire fewer workers this coming summer.
All of which leads us to ask: can New Hampshire afford to gamble with its unemployment rate and increasing the looming state budget deficit.
Legislators inclined to vote for a minimum wage bill should be reminded that a good chunk of state revenues comes from the rooms and meals tax, levied on many minimum-wage employers, like Lago's, which stand to lose business and revenues of their own along with the state. Can the state also handle the added costs which must be born in social services for some of those unemployed?
Instead of risking a downward spiral of higher unemployment and lost state revenues, legislators should focus on job creation. These would be jobs that make employers compete for workers and which naturally raise incomes.
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There are two bars at the ground itself. One is huge and would have catered perfectly for most of the crowd of 605. Not today though old chap. It was closed for an after match function for the Sussex FA blazer brigade. Quite why they couldn't have set it all up after the game was a mystery. As it was then, we were shoe-horned into another bar around the corner, which was jam-packed with a couple of hundred vociferous and colourful Bognor fans.
Eastbourne Borough isn't the most accessible ground in Sussex. I think the final has been held here over the past few years for its exemplary selection of shiny cutlery and napkins for the aforementioned committee knees up rather than its actual location.
Bognor Regis did themselves proud, backed by their tremendous green army of fans but the Albion reserves won quite comfortably in the end. In truth, it's a bit of a folly that Brighton are allowed to field a side in this competition. Pitching Adam Virgo who was playing for Celtic not long ago against the Rocks isn't really on. The half arsed celebrations at the end showed what it meant to Brighton players and fans alike - not much. A Bognor v Worthing final for example would have been a better showpiece for a competition with bags of history.
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