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17 Ways The White House Made A Mockery Of Women's History Month
As Women's History Month draws to a close, it's difficult to feel like much was celebrated, or worth celebrating, this year. The nation's leaders spent a large chunk of the month figuring out how to take away even more basic rights from American women, so March didn't ring with the feminist spirit that it has in the past. In particular, Donald Trump and his executive branch found evermore surprising ways to denigrate both the past and present legacy of women in society. Here are 17 ways the White House mocked Women's History Month, even if they weren't intentional.
Trump's track record on women started off bad in the early days of his campaign and only proceeded to get worse. Between the Access Hollywood tape, his male-dominated cabinet, and his various anti-feminist regulations in office, it's almost like he isn't even trying to fight the perception that he's sexist anymore. His staff isn't helping much, either — Press Secretary Sean Spicer's gotten himself in some sticky situations trying to spin the administration's commitment to feminism this month, mostly because nobody in the whole country is buying it. Trump may never have been able to redeem himself after the horrendously sexist statements he made during the campaign, but these 17 examples of anti-feminism in the last month show that he isn't trying to, either.
By Giving Ivanka Trump A Job
When Sean Spicer Actually Said That Trump Made Women's Empowerment A Campaign Priority
Also, When Spicer Tried To Police A Black Female Reporter's Body
When VP Mike Pence Didn't Notice A Key Missing Component In This Conversation On Maternity Care
Wonder what's missing from this critical decision on women's health care? WOMEN.
When Trump Wouldn't Shake Angela Merkel's Hand
Spicer defended Trump by saying he didn't hear Merkel's request for a handshake, but given that he bashed her on Twitter just a few hours after she left the White House, the excuse doesn't hold much credibility.
When Pence's Self-Censoring Revealed His Attitude Toward Women
The Washington Post's recent profile on Second Lady Karen Pence sparked some outrage due to her husband's rule about never attending events where alcohol is being served or eating alone with women without his wife. It might seem nitpicky to some, and ultimately, it's between the Pences and their marriage, but it sends the signal that women can't be trusted to be professional and are little more than temptation to be avoided.
When Trump Talked To Truckers Without Addressing The Industry's Gender Gap
Trump invited members of the trucking industry to the White House to talk about health care (but ostensibly so he could play with their big rig). What wasn't mentioned was that women make up only 5 percent of the trucking workforce, leaving women out of these good-paying jobs.
When Trump Stayed Silent About The Missing Girls In His Own City
Despite tweets about The Apprentice, Snoop Dogg, and fake wiretapping this month, Trump hasn't said word one about the dozen black and Latinx girls reported missing in Washington, D.C. over the last several weeks.
When Pence Voted To Defund Abortion Providers
Pence broke a tie in the Senate Thursday, voting to overturn Title X and leave about 4 million women without access to birth control and affordable reproductive care.
When The Energy Department Banned The Phrase Climate Change
This is an insult to the women fighting on the front lines of climate change and the women who pioneered climate research.
When The Census Bureau Announced That LGBTQ+ People Won't Be Counted
Real feminism is LGBTQ+ inclusive and honors the incredible women like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera (#TransDayofVisibility) who created the movement that led to the freer and fuller understanding of human sexuality which mainstream American society holds today. Refusing to acknowledge the LGBTQ+ community in the Census should be an outrage to everyone who calls themselves feminist.
When Trump Appointed This Anti-LGBTQ+ Lawyer To Head The HHS Civil Rights Office
Trump's appointment of Roger Severino is another slap in the face to women's history, particularly to the trans women who have fought to have their gender identity validated over offensive and uneducated remarks like the ones Severino has made in the past.
When Trump Tried To Drag Hillary Clinton To Distract People From His Own Problems
Trump really tried to say that Clinton should be investigated for her ties to Russia, which could be listed in the dictionary as an example of the word irony.
When Trump Just Wouldn't Shut Up About Himself
Trump's Twitter timeline just shows no deference to the fact that not everything is about him — it's all about his jobs message, his health care plan, his successes. Many people hoped that being president would teach Trump the humility he lacked in the campaign, but so far, that change has yet to happen.


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and worn, so that it cannot be well handled, it is carried to the king's chamber, where there be moneyers appointed to this duty. And if the token or the king's name is at all to be discerned thereon, then the moneyer giveth new paper for the old, deducting three in every hundred for this renewal. All their royal grants are also made on paper.
The emperor's people are very worthily arrayed, and live in a rich and liberal manner. And though silk and gold and silver are in great plenty, they have very little linen, wherefore all have shirts of silk ; and their clothes are of Tartary cloth,' and damask silk,2 and other rich stuffs, oft-times adorned with gold and silver and precious stones. They wear long sleeves, coming down over their finger nails. They have sundry kinds of dishes made of canes, which are there' very great and thick.3 They eat meat of all kinds of beasts, and when they will make a great feast they kill camels, and make fine dishes of the flesh after their own fashion. They have fish in great abundance, and other things ; and on these they live after their manner, as other people do after theirs.
Tartary cloth is mentioned by Mandeville and other medieval writers. No doubt it was some rich Chinese stuff, for the Tartars proper could scarcely have been entitled to a reputation for fine textures.: Dante alludes to it-
" Con più color sommesse e sopraposti
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and his expressions seem to imply that it was of variegated colours; shawl-work or embroidery perhaps. I find that Dozy says Tatariydt were robes of satin garnished with borders of gold stuff. (Diet. des noms des vêtements chez les Arabes, p. 94.)
2 Tamotas (for Camo cas , regarding which see a note upon Pegolotti, infra.)
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Teledildonics was a name ascribed to basically anything that helped people get off remotely. And, since 1998, it's been the foundation of all Internet-connected sex toys — preventing many new start-ups from playing with the idea and making, for instance, a vibrator that you can control from anywhere. Some products, of course, already exist, but they are the exception. And given that just about everything I own can connect to the internet these days… why not floppy vibrating fleshy-things?
That world, though, is now about to get a lot more open. As of last night, the patent is no longer in effect and now businesses are free to innovate and expound on the idea.
"We're all screwed until August 2018," Kyle Machulis, a well-known sex-engineer who runs Metafish told the Future of Sex.
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For those taking part in an assisted wheelchair, both the wheelchair entrant and the assister will need to register for a place in the event. Once entered into the event both will be allocated a race number and will be asked to line up towards the rear of the field.
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After this time no refund will be offered, however, for the Great North Run only, you will be eligible for a guaranteed entry the following year at the standard entry fee.
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A person who has been accepted as an entrant into the 2019 Simplyhealth Great North Run who subsequently decides not to run prior to the event is eligible for a guaranteed place at the standard entry fee in the 2020 event.
Once the entrant has committed to withdraw their entry you cannot be reinstated into the 2019 event. Your decision is final.
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If withdrawing your entry in person you must take your run number/timing chip to our Great North Run information point on Saturday 7th September. More information about our location and opening hours will be added closer to the event weekend once they are confirmed.
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Entrants opting for withdrawal will be added to a database and will be contacted via email in November, prior to the opening of the ballot for the 2020 Simplyhealth Great North Run. Charity withdrawals will be passed back to the relevant charity to action. Runners will be given a period of 28 days to commit and pay for the guaranteed place in 2020. Once this time period has passed the offer of the guaranteed place automatically lapses and the race organisers have no further commitment to providing a place to the runner in the 2020 event. Transferring the guaranteed place to another person will not be permitted.
Your starting time and wave allocation will depend on your estimated running time as stated on your entry form. Runners can determine what wave they have been allocated to by looking at their race number, which is sent out in the race pack. The background colour of the race number and letter will determine which zone runners are in. Full details of wave assembly points and start times can be found in your race pack and in the Competitors Information Guide, which can be downloaded from the events webpage.
We cannot guarantee that all runners who estimated the same running time will be allocated in the same wave. If you find that you have been allocated to different waves, the rule is you can move down a wave to meet your friends or family, but not up.
If you would like to run in a slower wave then you do NOT need to change your race number. All you need to do is assemble in the later wave on race day. Great Run does not need to be notified of your change down.
Due to the number of runners taking part in our events, we ask runners not to move to a faster wave (towards the start line). Runners should stay in the wave they've been allocated, or move further away from the start line to a slower wave. Race numbers have been allocated on the estimated time given on your application. If you feel you should be in a higher wave please email email@example.com for more details of how you can be moved to a higher wave.
All finishers will receive a finisher's pack as soon as they cross the finish line.Finishers' packs are sorted by size, so please take the t-shirt size you asked for on your entry form.
To view your race results please visit www.greatrun.org/resultsMake sure the correct event is highlighted and then you can search by your Race Number or Surname.
To view your race results please visit www.greatrun.org/resultsMake sure the correct event is highlighted and then you can search by your Race Number or Surname. If no result is displayed please email email@example.com with your full name, race number and the event in which you took part. We will then arrange for our results team to investigate. Please note timing chips must be worn in accordance with information printed within your pre-race information.
To see photos of you taking part during the event and download your free certificate please visit www.greatrun.org/photos Make sure the correct event is highlighted and then you can search by your Race Number or Surname. You can also download your Free Certificate from this page. Please note that unfortunately we cannot guarantee all runners will have a photo of themselves. Pictures are tagged by your race number clearly shown on the cameras. If your race number was obscured in anyway when running past the cameras, it will not pick up. If no photos are shown please try using the 'Find More Photos' link to enter a description of what you were wearing on race day. Or if you ran with a friend, please try entering their Surname or Race Number.Our official photographers are Marathon Photos. More information can be found by visiting their website www.marathon-photos.com
To see photos of you taking part during the event and download your free certificate please visit www.greatrun.org/photos Make sure the correct event is highlighted and then you can search by your Race Number or Surname. You should see photos of you displayed along with a link to download your free certificate Any problems please email email@example.com
You can purchase one of our Great Run Training Quick dry technical t-shirts via the link here.
They are 100% texture polyester with improved breathability, "Wicking effect" moisture control, lightweight fabric and have an exclusive 2019 Great Run Training print.
We have a short sleeve T-shirt for £12.99, a long sleeve for £16.99 or you can get both for £28 (prices include package and postage)
They are available in the following sizes (chest width is shown in inches)
Please note, these are on sale for the whole 2019 Great Run series (they are not event specific).
Our Great Run Training T-shirts are of a unisex design and cut, they are on the larger size so please choose the size below your standard T-shirt size.
Please contact email@example.com if you have any problems completing your order.
All T-shirts will be sent from February 2019 onwards or within 28 days thereafter. Subject to availability.
If your T-shirt hasn't arrived, please email firstname.lastname@example.com. Please include your name, date of birth and the T-shirt you have ordered (Short Sleeved, Long Sleeved or both) and we will verify your order and give you an update of when you should expect it.
Yes, you can, please return your T-shirt to the address below, you will need to include a covering letter stating your name, your address and what size you would prefer instead, and we will get a replacement sent out to you. You will need to cover the costs of returning it to us. Standard post (1st/2nd class) will be enough, no need to pay extra for special/recorded delivery but we do recommend getting proof of postage.
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We will confirm via email that your return has been received and when you should expect the replacement.
Please visit www.greatrunshop.com where you can find some event specific Great North Run Merchandise. This is run by Scimitar, our official merchandise supplier.
Their contact details can be found here
You can yes. We ask that the music is on a low volume so you are aware of things happening around you and please pay attention to instructions from marshalls on the day.
Unless specified on the event's webpage there are no cut off times
Unfortunately we are under pressure to reopen the roads we have closed, so we do have a race sweep vehicle. This travels at a 17-minute mile pace. If you fall behind this vehicle you will be asked to complete the remainder of the course on the pavement. The finish area will remain open until the last entrant has crossed the finish line.


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Keto Confidential Podcast: In The Begining, How Our Diet Has Changed Over 12,000 Years.
Terms & Definitions (0:50)
Body Mass Index (BMI) – Is the measurement of a persons body fat based on their weight in relation to their height to assess a persons overall percentage of body fat. A person with a BMI greater than 25 is considered overweight, greater than 30 obese, and greater than 40 extremely obese. While BMI is not the most accurate measurement of obesity, it is the measurement that is most often used by physicians.
Empty Calories – A term applied to foods and beverages that supply food energy but contain little or no other nutritional value. These foods are composed primarily of sugar, triglycerides, and or refined flours. Foods considered empty calories are soft drinks, energy drinks, white bread, chips, french fries, cake, cookies, sweets, candy, fruit-flavored fruit juices, and other beverages or foods containing mostly added sugars.
Paleolithic Man 120,000 BC. (2:00)
Some Common Hunter / Gather Diets
Inuit Diet: 95% animal protein and fat, 5% fruits and vegetables.
Hiwi Diet: 78% animal protein and fat, 5% fruits and vegetables, 15% roots and tubers.
!Kung Diet: 15% animal protein and fat, 20% fruits and vegetables, 2% roots and tubers,
60% nuts and seeds, 3% milk and corn meal.
Hadza: 57% animal protein and fat, 13% fruits and vegetables, 30% roots and tubers.
Middle Ages (500 – 1500), (6:02)
Agricultural Based Diet:
Nobility: 65 – 70% carbohydrates, 15 – 25% protein, 5 – 10% fat
Clergy: 75 – 85% carbohydrates, 10 – 15% protein, 5 – 10% fat
Commoners: 80 – 90% carbohydrates, 5 – 10% protein, 5% fat
800 – 900 The Arabian Expansion and Conquest Of Southern Europe.
1100 – 1300 The Crusaders bring sugar back to the Holy Land.
1390's New technologies make the extraction of sugar juice easier and more profitable.
1480's Sugar production begins in the Canary Islands.
1501 The first sugar is harvested in Haiti.
The common man or peasant was tied to the land (serifs). Dietary restrictions were enforced by the Church and wealthy land owners. Only the wealthy and clergy could afford to eat meat on a regular basis. The majority of carbohydrates came in the forms of rough coarse bread made for barley or rye, and or a porridge made of these same grains. Vegetables, fruit, and local herbs may have also been added to the porridge, as well as meat when it was available. In general, only the wealthy and clergy could afford to eat soft wheat bread or meat on a regular basis. The poor are plagued with rickets and scurvy, obesity is only noted in the nobility and clergy.
Early America 1700 – 1898 (12:45)
Agricultural Based Diet:
60 – 65% Carbohydrates, 15 – 21% protein, 18 – 23% fat.
1620 The first settlers arrive in America from England.
1621 Settlers learn to plant corn from local Indian tribes.
1765 The American Revolution or War For Independence begins.
1770 It is recorded that in British citizens now consume 5 times more sugar than they did in 1710.
1775 The Massachusetts Provincial Council sets ration guidelines for Colonial soldiers.
1783 The American Revolution or War For Independence ends.
1813 The process for refining sugar is developed making sugar production even more profitable.
1820 The average American consumes about 5 pounds of sugar a year.
1852 The process for separating sugar from molasses is developed.
1873 – Edmond LaCroix developed the system to produce refined white flour.
1876 Root beer was first bottled for mass production.
1885 Charles Aderton invents Dr. Pepper in Waco, Texas.
1886 Dr. John Pemberton invents Coco-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia.
1890 The average American consumes about 39 pounds of sugar a year.
1898 Caleb Bradham invents Pepsi-Cola.
New agricultural practices, brought about increased productivity. Selective breeding, crop rotation, and mechanization freed up a large part of the world's population which helped fuel the industrial revolution. It was also during this time that sugar produced from sugarcane planted and cultivated in tropical climates began to become more accessible to the general population.
The majority of carbohydrates came in the forms of rough coarse bread made for barley, rye, and corn, or a porridge made of these same grains. Vegetables, fruit, and local herbs may have also been added to the porridge, as well as meat when it was available. The colonial farmer had more access to fresh vegetables, and meat, especially on the frontier reducing the incidences of rickets and scurvy. Soft English wheat and sugar were in still expensive in the 1700's and only consumed by the wealthy until the mid 1800's. The urban poor that moved to the cities during the Industrial revolution were especially plagued with rickets and scurvy.
The Modern American Diet (21:23)
Agricultural Based Diet:
1910 – Calories 2390, 55% carbohydrates, 11% protein, 31% fat.
12% of carbohydrates come from refined sugar or products containing refined sugar.
1950 – Calories 2160, 50% carbohydrates, 12% protein, 40% fat.
23.6% of carbohydrates come from refined sugar or products containing refined sugar.
1970 – Calories 2200, 46% carbohydrates, 12% protein, 43.3% fat.
23.6% of carbohydrates come from refined sugar or products containing refined sugar.
1990 – Calories 2405, 50% carbohydrates, 15.5% protein, 33.5% fat.
38.3% of carbohydrates come from refined sugar or products containing refined sugar.
2010 – Calories 2600, 50% carbohydrates, 16% protein, 33.1% fat.
51.5% of carbohydrates come from refined sugar or products containing refined sugar.
1900 Millers start bleaching flour by adding chemicals destroying any remaining nutrients.
1900 Milton Hershey starts producing the 'Hershey Bar', the first chocolate bar in America.
1900 The average American consumes about 42 pounds of sugar a year.
1911 Crisco began being sold in America.
1920 The average American consumes about 60 pounds of sugar a year.
1950 Although it has been around since the 1900's, fast food begins to become a staple of the
American diet.
1950 The average American consumes about 74 pounds of sugar a year.
1970 The average American consumes about 80 pounds of sugar a year.
1970 Americans spend 42.8 billion dollars on fast food.
1990 The average American consumes about 90 pounds of sugar a year.
1990 Americans spend 239.3 billion dollars on fast food.
1997 Red Bull energy drink introduced in America.
2000 Americans spend 350 million dollars on energy drinks.
2002 Monster energy drink developed in America.
2009 AMP energy drink introduced in America by Pepsi-Co.
2010 The average American consumes about 128 pounds of sugar a year.
2010 Americans spend 586.7 billion dollars on fast food.
2012 Americans spend 12.5 billion dollars on energy drinks.
2015 The average American consumes about 130 pounds of sugar a year.
2015 Americans spend 745.6 billion dollars on fast food.
By 1900, most mills were bleaching flour by adding chemicals or gasses to improve the baking qualities and appearance of the finished product. Unfortunately, bleaching destroys the natural nutrients in the flour and additional nutrients have to be added back in, a process known as enriching. In addition, during the last 200 years Americans went from eating on average 5 pounds of sugar per person per year to about 130 pounds of sugar per person a year. That's about 24 times more sugar than our great, great grand parents consumed. This combined with an increased number of Americans working in white collar jobs and a more sedentary lifestyle have led to skyrocketing levels of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Ketosis & The Ketogenic Diet (32:50)
Calorie restricted diets just do not work because of the constant hunger that most dieters experience cause them to return to their previous eating regimen. A ketogenic diet allows you to eat until your are satisfied without having any hunger pains.
Recipe Of The Episode: (36:30)
Keto Liquid Coffee Creamer (French Vanilla)
Nutritional Information (French Vanilla)
Per Tablespoon – Calories 51, protein 0 grams, fat 5 grams, carbohydrates 0.42 grams
You can check out the complete article on how to make your own ketogenic coffee creamers on my keto food blog by clicking on the following link 'LCHF French Vanilla Creamer.
Wrapping It Up (41:05)
Agriculture, Declining Mobility Drove Humans' Shift To Lighter Bones: John Hopkins Medicine, May 18, 2015. Accessed December 17, 2017.
Chocolate Class, Britian's Sweet Tooth Revolution: Sugar Consumption from 1700 to 1900, Chocolate Class: Multimedia Essays On Chocolate, Culture And The Politics Of Food, March 13, 2015.
Cheng, Dong, Prevalence, Predisposition, And Prevention Of Type II Diabetes, U.S. National Library Of Medicine National Institutes Of Health, October 18, 2005.
Center For Disease Control And Prevention, New CDC Report: More than 100 million Americans Have Diabetes Or Prediabetes. CDC, July 18, 2017, Accessed January 1, 2018.
Cummins, Joseph, During The Early 1800s, Most Americans Earned Their Living As What?, Sciencing, April 25, 2017.
Dobmeier, Christine, Should Your Diet Like It's 1812?, Baltimore Sun, June 12, 2012.
Ferdman, Roberto, How Corn Made It's Way Into Just About Everything We Eat, Washington Post, July 14, 2015.
Gibbons, Ann, The Evolution Of Diet, National Geographic, February 2013.
Gortner, Willis, Nutrition In The United States 1900 to 1974, U.S. Department Of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, November 1975.
Group, Edward, DC, NP, The Hidden Truth About Enriched Flour, Global Healing Center, Updated March 29, 2017.
Health Library, A History Of American Eating Habits, Winchester Hospital, Accessed February 11, 2018.
Jabr, Ferris, How To Really Eat Like A Hunter Gather: Why The Paleo Diet Is Half-Baked, Scientific American, June 3, 2013.
Komlos, John, and Barbec, Marek; The Evolution Of BMI Values Of U.S. Adults: 1882 – 1986, August 31, 2010.
The Crops Of 1860, And Their Influence Upon Commerce And Industry, The New York Times, August 4, 1860.
The State Of Obesity: Better Policies For A Healthier America, Obesity Rates & Trends Overview, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Accessed January 22, 2018.
Restaurant Industry Food And Drink Sales In The United States 1970 – 2017, Statista, Accessed January 1, 2018.
Rupp, Rebecca, Prehistoric Dining: The Real Paleo Diet, National Geographic, April 22, 2014.
Sugar: The Bitter Truth, Kolp Institute, November 5, 2012, Accessed January 15, 2018.
European Association For The Study Of Obesity, Obesity Facts & Figures, World Health Organization Fact Sheet, Accessed February 20, 2018.


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If you're anything like us & the thought of going to a crowded gym full of people who know what they're doing (or are really good at faking it & you feel like they're silently judging you) is a little intimidating, we've got your back.
While Chelsea is at her gym doing Crossfit, we take the opposite route & stay true to our homebody selves. We decided to let you in on some of our favorite workouts to do from the comfort of your own home.
YouTube is one of the best places to look for workouts. Adriene's channel is organized with different playlists for whatever you need: 10-15 minute practices, yoga for weight loss, 30 day challenges, yoga for runners, gentle yoga, seated yoga, yoga for beginners… All the variations of yoga you could ever need all for FREE.
One of our favorites is the "Morning Yoga" video. It's a great flow to do first thing (after a cup of coffee of course) before starting the day. We're planning on taking on the 30-Day Yoga challenge this September, so be watching our Instagram for updates!
Yet another YouTube gem. These workouts are more cardio based and will kick your butt. Again, there are playlists where you can easily choose between 20 minute workouts, full-body, strength training, no equipment needed, dance workouts and anything else you can imagine.
We tend to gravitate towards the 30 minute range, no equipment videos. Just be prepared to sweat. A lot.
- Challenges
We're all pretty competitive, so any time there's a challenge involved – #challengeaccepted.
One of Chelsea's favorites is the MyFitnessPal 28-Day squat plan. Stay tuned, because we're planning to take on this challenge and will need some audience participation.
Lastly, Pinterest is one of the easiest places to find some great challenges. Just search "fitness challenge" and you'll be met with butt challenges, ab challenges, plank challenges, and all the "Slim & Sculpt" challenges you've ever wanted (or didn't know you wanted).
So there you have it! These are some of our favorite ways to stay in shape without ever stepping foot outside. Let us know if you try any of these workouts!


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Windows 7 migration tools and planning
Find out about Windows 7 migration tools, such as the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit and how to properly plan for a Windows 7 migration.
Properly preparing for a Windows 7 migration will go a long way toward creating business opportunities for solutions providers. As Windows 7 continues to gain popularity in the operating system market, more customers are asking for Windows 7 implementations.
In this interview, Windows 7 migration experts Stephen Kolbe and Thomas Nieto of Analysis Enterprise Inc. talk with SearchSystemsChannel.com Assistant Editor Pat Ouellette about planning a migration. Kolbe and Nieto use their understanding of what their customers look for to identify key Windows 7 migration tools. They also outline the reasons why these tools are both useful to solutions providers and cost-efficient for customers.
Pat Ouellette: What are the steps a solutions provider should take to properly plan for a Windows 7 migration?
Stephen Kolbe: First, before you do anything else, you absolutely need to have competent, qualified staff. Microsoft provides a tremendous amount of resources to help partners get trained on all the new technologies it's offering.
The second step is to take the time to identify the right tools, like the migration assistant tool that Microsoft has developed. Different tools work for different scenarios and different-sized organizations. Understanding what each tool does and how it is relevant to a particular scenario is critical.
Third, it is also critical to have a comprehensive understanding about the environment. If it's a new customer, it's extra important to take the time to assess their inventory and their environment.
Ouellette: Could you elaborate on a few of the Windows 7 migration tools that would be the most beneficial to solutions providers?
Thomas Nieto: The tools that you would typically use for most deployments would be the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit. Microsoft software analyzers are great tools to use as well; they will actually run through the steps necessary to perform an install or an upgrade. It is just a dry run, so to speak, and if it has any problems, it reports back to you with the exact nature of the problem, and in most cases, a solution. You'll also get a link to a knowledge-based article.
Kolbe: On the software side, the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit is great to use if you have a lot of computers you want to scan. If you only have a few computers, you can go right to Microsoft's website, and the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor allows you to do a one-off scan on the computer in question.
Cloning resources such as Symantec Ghost and Acronis True Image or Migrate Easy are also useful tools.
Nieto: The imaging features that are just now part of Microsoft's operating system (OS) are also great Windows 7 migration tools. They have just made disk imaging a part of the backup system, and because it's integrated with the OS and the software, it makes using Microsoft disk imaging tools a lot simpler for deployment. You can create your baseline computer, use Microsoft software, and you don't have to pay for anything.
That imaging software is also used with new deployment service packages and software that Microsoft has for deploying machines on a network. There are a bunch of new features that make it very simple to create one system image and then custom tailor it at user startup. This provides you with the option to make a secure template for one user and a slightly different template for another user, based on the same image.
Kolbe: When we talk about imaging, we're not talking about a Microsoft tool, but a practice we engage in sometimes. If you're doing a desktop deployment, before you engage in the upgrade, if you plug a USB in the hard drive and you use the imaging tool to make a copy of the disk, you're adding about 10 to 15 minutes, depending on the system, to the deployment process. But the great insurance policy is that if anything goes wrong, you just re-image that old operating system back on and you're back to square one again. It's really great for companies and solutions providers that need to do an in-place upgrade.
Ouellette: What are some features that will make Windows 7 migration easier for solutions providers?
Kolbe: Desktop virtualization is prime time in Windows 7. We're seeing the use of thin clients as opposed to desktops for companies. Windows 7 also supports multiple monitors through remote desktop services. Previous versions did not support multiple monitors, but Windows 7 does through a remote desktop guest. I think this is huge from a feature standpoint.
About the authors:
Steve Kolbe founded Analysis Enterprise Inc. in 1995 and is the president and CEO of the company. Kolbe has received awards such as Smart CEO's 2008 Smart 100, 2009 Circle of Excellence Winner for excellence in customer service and the Entrepreneur's Exchange 2010 Entrepreneur of The Year. He has also served as an advisor on various technology, educational and local boards and committees, including The Baltimore County Executive Advisory Board for Higher Education.
Thomas Nieto is a Microsoft accredited professional and the Director of Strategic Consulting Services for Analysis Enterprise Inc. Nieto presently oversees strategic planning for clients and directs a team of consultants engaged in projects, project management and consulting services. Prior to his present role, Nieto was the IT Director for Santé Group.


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If the Republican plan to privatize Social Security is so great, why can't they be honest about it? From the latest GOP Newsline (a publicantion from Minnesota Republicans):
To put pressure on Dayton to do the right thing, the Republican Party of Minnesota is encouraging Minnesotans to sign an online petition here . The launch of the Social Security petition is part of an aggressive statewide campaign to put pressure on Dayton to support efforts to strengthen and preserve Social Security. The petition points out the fact that while the number of workers paying into Social Security is going down, the promised benefits are going up. For instance, a 20-year-old worker today is being promised retirement benefits that are 40 percent higher than a retiree today receives from Social Security after adjusting for inflation, but the system does not have the resources to pay those promised benefits.
President Bush's plan will not change Social Security for those at or near retirement, and will not change payroll taxes but will allow younger workers to place some of their own payroll taxes in a voluntary personal retirement account - a nest egg they can call their own, government cannot take away, and they can pass on to their children.
What are the three benefits of the Bush Social Security plan?
Naming rights! Huzzah! Nest egg, I dub thee "Calvin". Arise, Sir Calvin of Nest Egg.
The libruls in guvmint can't take away Calvin the Nest Egg. Except, of course, that under the Bush plan, the government -- get this -- actually does take money away. You only get to keep what you earn over and above the standard rate of return -- say, 3%. So if your investments earn 4.5% over your lifetime, the government can and will take back two-thirds of Calvin the Nest Egg. The Social Security plan where the government doesn't take benefits away? That's the one we already have.
You get to pass Calvin the Nest Egg on to your heirs, but only if you are fortunate enough to die before you retire. Upon retirement, the Bush plan requires workers to turn Calvin the Nest Egg into an annuity. Sorry, no inheritance rights there. If you are fortunate enough to die early with young children (think of all the taxes you'll never have to pay!), your kids will no longer be burdened with a
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until they turn 18. Instead, they'll get a piece of Calvin the Nest Egg. If you have two kids and contributed $1000 a year to Calvin the Nest Egg for 10 years, your kids will come out way ahead -- for about six months.
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Friday 29th June 2018 - 09:00 to 09:45
INI Seminar Room 1
We exhibit estimators that interpolate the data, and yet achieve optimal rates of convergence for the problems of nonparametric regression and prediction with square loss. This curious observation goes against the usual intuition that a good statistical procedure should forego the exact fit to data in favor of a more smooth representation. A motivation for this work is the recent focus within the machine learning community on the out-of-sample performance of neural networks. These flexible models are typically trained to fit the data exactly (either in their sign or in the actual value), and yet they have good prediction behaviour. This talk is based on joint work with Misha Belkin and Sasha Rakhlin.


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Welcome to Rose Hill Primary School!
Our vision for our school is that, by working in partnership with parents and the community, we will provide an outstanding education for the children of Rose Hill. We hope that they will grow into adults who are well-educated in the fullest sense; thoughtful, confident in themselves, and enthusiastic to continue learning all their lives. We want them to know that they are valued for themselves as individuals and as members of society.
We aim to be an open and welcoming place for all our families. Please contact us if you would like to visit the school with a view to enrolling your child as a pupil, or if you are interested in working here.
I hope that you find all the information that you need on the website, but please ring or email if you want to know more.
Rose Hill Primary converted to Academy status on the 1st September 2018. You can access more details of the trust via the following link: www.riverlearningtrust.org/
Sue Vermes
Headteacher Rose Hill Primary School
Important Notices
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- Nursery School. PLACES AVAILABLE NOW (15 & 30 HOURS), please get in touch. We offer 30 hours in Nursery. Click here to go the website where you can see if you are eligible for the 30 hours and register online. Register by the end of December 2019 to start 30 hours funded in January 2020. If you are not entitled to the extra funded hours we also offer fee paying sessions at £10.00 per session, please ask for details.
- After School Care. We are delighted to announce that After School Care is now in place. It runs from 3 – 6pm, Monday to Friday. Your our child is able to stay at school, in the care of professionals and take part in clubs and activities. If you would like more information please ask in the office. We are considering trialing half sessions – let us know if you would be interested in that.


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Arduino Touch Screen Shield w/SSD1963,Library for Mega/Due
Arduino Rotator Computer Interface and Controller. this unit could also serve as a total replacement for a rotator control unit or serve as the basis for a 100% homebrew rotation system. Several azimuth and elevation position sensors including potentiometers, rotary encoders, and I2C devices are supported. I ordered a arduino uno r3


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The way you prepare your finances for divorce will affect you during the process, as well as in the future. This is why it's so important to take all the right steps at the right time.
Use a property division checklist to save time, reduce stress
There are many things that can stand between you and finalizing your divorce. For example, matters of property division often get in the way. While you have one thing in mind, your soon-to-be ex-spouse is thinking about something entirely different. It's this type of disagreement that can slow things down.


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- 1,030 total downloads
- last updated 5/19/2016
- Latest version: 1.1.0
KoduStore makes marries objects and LevelDB UWP in a delightful way. It's a really basic document store with support for primary and secondary index support; this will solve most of your problems. Right now it's a PCL (for UWP).


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Service Bartenders
- Depends on experience
- Part Time / Full Time
- Employer Fairly Likely to Respond
Doc B's Restaurant + Bar is located in the McKinney & Olive building, a premier dining and retail destination in Uptown Dallas, TX. We are looking for wonderful people to join our growing company!
We are currently seeking a SERVICE BARTENDER to join our team. This is a perfect opportunity for a barista or barback, or anyone new to the restaurant/bar industry hoping to gain coveted bartending skills. As a growing company, we love to promote from within, so the opportunities are endless for the right individual!
Our ideal candidate is passionate, driven, and wants to be part of a company that's continually rated as one of the best in the industry. This person is also good at multi-tasking, genuinely eager to learn, has a strong work ethic and a desire to create a dining experience that is genuinely inviting for all guests.
Past drink making experience is NOT required! If you are open and willing to learn, we love to teach!
We provide flexible hours with both full time and part-time schedules, employee meal discounts, Health and Dental benefits, and a professional working environment. Lunch and Dinner shifts are available.
You may also visit the restaurant (2021 McKinney Avenue) for an on the spot interview Monday thru Friday between 2:00PM - 5:00PM. Please arrive in professional attire with a current resumé.
Words we believe in
Not proud or arrogant; modest
The mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual
To concentrate attention or energy
A feeling of thankfulness or appreciation
To gain the love of someone by force of personality
Great excitement for or interest in a subject or cause


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1-click Applications Installer in Website Hosting
If you get a website hosting package through our company, you will get a 1-click script installer with over fifty different apps which you can use to create your site. You could have just about any kind of Internet site - a personal blog, an e-learning portal, a discussion board, an on-line store or anything else you can think of. All that you should do is to choose the script and the domain name you want to use, to choose the administration login details and to press the Install button. In just a couple of minutes our system will do the rest, to enable you to log in to the script back office and begin adding your website content. The scripts that we offer you are up-to-date and for some of them you can choose one of the 100+ themes that we offer during the installation process. You'll save lots of money from web design services and you'll easily build a dynamic, feature-rich site.
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My PCSpecialist custom build desktop machine has been sat on my desk for @ 2 years, and starting to get a bit noisy, so time for a spring clean.
Sides off, graphics card out, CPU cooling fan off, case fan off. Left PSU in place.
Crevice tool on the vacuum cleaner, and old camera lens brush, loads of dust/human cells! Used a straw on the end of the crevice tool for awkward corners.
All back together and quiet as a mouse.


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Just want to get in one or two more short excerpts before the night is over. These two brief scenes from A Boy Named Rabbit come about after some very tense and frightening things happen to Rabbit. Mac wanted to give him a few hours of fun, so he took him to the waterfall and pool where Rabbit first camped upon reaching Wake-Robin Ridge. Rabbit doesn't believe for one minute that Mac can be crazy, having mostly seen him in serious mode. And since Mac is notoriously angsty and always worried about something, Rabbit has good reason for his doubts. This is his response after finding out Mac does have his moments.
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…I closed my eyes, braced for Rabbit's reaction, but to my surprise, he didn't start crying again. Instead, he squared his shoulders and with a determined nod of his head, announced, "Well, then—I reckon we need us a plan."
"I think you're right. We do need a plan. But what we need even more right this minute, is a break from all this worrying. Why don't we do something fun for a couple of hours, and then come back and tackle the problem when we've cleared our heads a bit? Nothing like looking at things with fresh eyes, you know. What do you think, partner? Want to go have some laughs?"
The boy stared at Mac like he'd grown another head.
"Why are you giving me that look? I know how to laugh, Rabbit. I do."
"You ain't laughed much that I've seen."
"Well, maybe that's because there hasn't been a lot to laugh about. But that doesn't mean I don't know how to have a good time. Tell him, Sarah."
I rolled my eyes, and grinned. "Um, yeah, okay. Mac knows how to have fun. Sort of."
Grabbing his heart, Mac slumped down on the couch. "Et tu, Sarah? Why does everyone think I'm so anti-fun? Am I really that bad?"
He was pathetic, and I had to work to keep a straight face, while Rabbit glanced back and forth between the two of us, not knowing what to expect. "Not always, but you'll have to admit, it's been a long time since you've done anything really crazy."
"Crazy? You want crazy? I can do crazy, you know."
That did it. Rabbit started to laugh in spite of himself, his youthful exuberance happy to push his worries aside for another time. "I don't believe you," he choked out between giggles. "You don't know how to do no crazy stuff."
Mac jumped up off the couch. "Okay, that does it. If crazy is what you want, I'm your man. Start making some peanut butter sandwiches, Rabbit. I've got some things to get together and then you and I are gonna go for a walk. I'll show you crazy, all right!"
Rabbit headed for the kitchen, happy excitement all over his face. I followed Mac upstairs where he grabbed some old jeans and a lightweight shirt. "It's getting warmer every day. Time to ditch the flannel, I think."
"What do you have up your sleeve, husband of mine?"
"Well, honestly…I don't have the slightest idea, but I'm sure I can think of something funny when the time is right. This perception of me as a stuffy old fogey has to go."
Sitting on the edge of the bed, Mac laced up his shoes, his expression sober. "He needs something fun, Sarah. I couldn't look at his sad little face another minute. One second, he's crying in fear, and the next, he's trying to pull it together and come up with a plan, for God's sake. A kid his age ought to be spending his days laughing and enjoying his childhood, not trying to figure out how to hide from the Bad People, and interpreting nightmares, so he'll know how to stay safe. It's all wrong."
He shrugged, giving a sad shake of his head. "I just want him to have some time to laugh, that's all."
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"SARAH! MAC DID IT! He was crazy!" Rabbit practically fell through the glass door, trying to get inside. "You shoulda seen him. He jumped in the water—NEKKID!"
He collapsed on the living room floor, holding his sides and shrieking with laughter, as Rosheen joined in the fun, covering his face with kisses. "Aaack! Stop, Rosheen. I'm tryin' to talk."
He sat up, still laughing, face flushed and eyes sparkling. "Oh, Sarah, it were so funny. He hung a new rope from the tree by the pool, an' he said we was gonna go for a swim with the fishies, but then he 'membered he didn't have no shorts, an' I said me an' my grampa used to go skinny-dippin' in the creek. Mac said he hadn't done that in a long time, an' next thing I knew, he pulled them ol' clothes off, an' he swung out over the pond, nekkid as a jaybird, an' yellin' somethin' about bein' king of the jungle, an' he dropped right in the water."
I started laughing, too. "Mac went skinny-dipping in the pool?"
"Yep, but that's not the funniest part, Sarah. He thought 'cause it was warm out an' all, that it would be a good day to swim, but that ol' water weren't no kinda warm, an' he shot back up outta there like backwards lightnin'! He weren't doin' no jungle yell, neither. He was screamin' all high an' squealy, like my gran when she had a spider crawl on her."
He collapsed back onto the floor, shrieking with laughter again. When he recovered, he sat up, wiping the tears from his eyes, and shaking his head. "I wish you coulda seen it, Sarah. Mac bein' crazy's 'bout the funniest thing I ever did see in all my whole life."


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E-safety or online safety as it also referred to is the need to educate children and young people about the benefits, risks and responsibilities of using information technology. In an ever increasing technological world, it is becoming more of an important issues and here at Westbrook Lane we place great importance on this.
Our curriculum covers online safety across the school reflecting how children's interests and use of technology changes as they grow older.
As technologies continue to develop and children's online behaviour changes it can often be hard for parents to keep up. Parent workshops regarding internet safety are held on a regular basis. Please see below for the presentation from our most recent workshop. A comprehensive list of resources for you to view can be found further down this page.
If you would like any further information regarding e-safety, then please contact Mr Hooson.
In addition to our workshop information posted above, we would like to recommend the following useful e-safety websites for children and parents.There are some fantastic resources available to support you and your children in learning how to be safe online. The PDF file below will provide you with a series of links for some age appropriate E-safety resources that we use in school. Should you choose to use them with your children, it is advisable to read or watch any of the resources first so you can consider the types of question your child/children may ask.
Please click here for Internet Safety Resources For Parents
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This series follows the adventures of Alfie, Ellie and Sam as they form a band and enter their school's Battle of the Bands contest, taking on the mean but 'cool' Popcorn Wizards as they go. The three friends learn that while the internet can help them in pursuit of their goal, they need to use it wisely and safely and that ultimately, doing your best, including others and nurturing genuine friendship is much more important than how popular you are.
One of our key messages for our online safety teaching, is to check your privacy settings and be careful regarding who can see your information online.
The following resource explores this and is aimed at Year 4, 5 and 6 children.


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It was more than three years after her retirement when Justice Sandra Day O'Connor publicly acknowledged her regret over seeing pieces of her legacy erased by a rightward-turning Supreme Court. "What would you feel?" she asked her biographer, Joan Biskupic, in a September 2009 interview. "I'd be a little bit disappointed. If you think you've been helpful and then it's dismantled, you think, 'Oh, dear.' "
The legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia, two years after his death, is being erased as well. (He isn't here to see it, of course, and he would no doubt have expressed his reaction differently.) When faced with interpreting an act of Congress, his colleagues evidently now feel free to invoke legislative history — committee reports, floor debates and the like — without tiptoeing over the hot coals of his scorn.
Legislative history without apology. It may seem a small thing compared with Justice O'Connor's worries about the future of affirmative action and the right to abortion. But interpreting statutes is what the Supreme Court does most of the time, and given Congress's affinity for using language that is deliberately or carelessly obscure or internally contradictory, it matters a great deal how the court approaches its interpretive task.
It would be easy to regard the fate of legislative history in the Roberts court as so much inside baseball, of interest only to fanatical Supreme Court groupies. But the fact is that powered by the force of his personality and rhetoric, Justice Scalia's antipathy toward legislative history influenced the way lawyers framed and argued their cases and the way lower courts approached their statutory work.
I don't mean to overstate the case. Just as a majority of the court never accepted Justice Scalia's view that the only legitimate basis for interpreting the Constitution is the original intent of its framers, there was never a majority for his position that trying to figure out what Congress actually meant, no matter how obtusely it expressed its intention, is a fundamentally illegitimate quest for a judge. "The text is the law," he would say — the text of the statute and nothing but the text. Anything else was "a kind of ventriloquism," he once wrote in dissent because "words appear to come from Congress's mouth" that might actually have been put there by staff aides, lobbyists or who knows who else. By offering "something for everybody," he wrote in his 1997 book, "A Matter of Interpretation," legislative history invites judges to cherry-pick whatever committee reports or snippets from the Congressional Record support their favored policy outcomes.
While I'm not claiming that everyone on the court once agreed with Justice Scalia and that now no one does, it's clear that something is changing. The change jumped out at me from the pages of a decision last month, Digital Realty Trust Inc. v. Somers. The case required the court to interpret language in the Dodd-Frank law that provides a shield against retaliation for whistle-blowers who disclose violations of securities laws. To decide what kinds of disclosures qualify, the court had to explore the relationship between Dodd-Frank, enacted in 2010, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act from eight years earlier; both offer whistle-blower protection that is similar but not identical. The majority opinion's author, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is one of the court's clearest writers, but even her clean prose couldn't lift a dense opinion from the complex statutory thicket in which the case was mired.
In the course of settling on the narrower of two possible interpretations of Dodd-Frank's whistle-blower protection, Justice Ginsburg cited legislative history six times in the opinion's 21 pages. All six citations were to the Senate report, No. 111-176, which she found to illuminate Congress's purpose in drafting the language as it did. Five justices agreed with her: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. None felt the obligation to defend or even explain the use of legislative history. There was no "tried and true circumlocution," as Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., in a tribute to Justice Scalia, put it in describing the usual effort by justices and lawyers alike to avoid Justice Scalia's wrath by including such apologia as "For those who find legislative history helpful, I note …." This time, the majority used legislative history because it was there to be used: It was useful.
The vote in the Digital Realty case was unanimous as to the outcome. But Justices Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch withheld their signatures from Justice Ginsburg's full opinion. Their objection was to the citation of the Senate report.
Justice Thomas, in a concurring opinion the other two joined, wrote that "even assuming a majority of Congress read the Senate Report, agreed with it, and voted for Dodd-Frank with the same intent, 'we are a government of laws, not of men, and are governed by what Congress enacted rather than by what it intended.'" The quotation was from a 2014 concurring opinion by Justice Scalia, who for years had provided the model for refusing to give full assent to any opinion citing legislative history.
In an article in the latest issue of the Harvard Law Review titled "Statutory Interpretation on the Bench," Richard A. Posner, the former federal judge, and Professor Abbe R. Gluck of Yale Law School describe the contortions required by Justice Scalia's obstinacy. Before his death, the authors write, "it was common to see opinions that placed all discussion of legislative history in a final, separate part so that Justice Scalia could join the entire opinion except for that part."
In last month's case, Justice Thomas's separate opinion in turn provoked Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justice Breyer, to issue an opinion underscoring their agreement with Justice Ginsburg's use of legislative history. Their concurring opinion reads like a declaration of independence in a post-Scalia world. "I write separately only to note my disagreement with the suggestion in my colleague's concurrence that a Senate Report is not an appropriate source for this court to consider when interpreting a statute," Justice Sotomayor wrote. She continued: "Legislative history is of course not the law, but that does not mean it cannot aid us in our understanding of a law." Her opinion concluded: "I do not think it wise for judges to close their eyes to reliable legislative history — and the realities of how members of Congress create and enact laws — when it is available."
If the days of linguistic contortions are over for those who would use legislative history, contortions may now be the order of the day for those justices who object to its use — only to find that they have to use it anyway. On the same day that it decided the Dodd-Frank case, the court also issued an opinion in a criminal case, Class v. United States. The question was whether a defendant who pleads guilty can then proceed to challenge the constitutionality of the statute that he has just admitted violating. The answer, in a 6 to 3 opinion by Justice Breyer, was yes. Justice Alito wrote a dissenting opinion, arguing that Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure treats a guilty plea as waiving such a claim. The notes of the advisory committee that drafted the current rule in 1983 "make this clear," Justice Alito wrote.
Notes? A committee? Sounds like legislative history, but Justice Alito took pains to explain in a footnote why, in his estimation, it wasn't. "Advisory Committee's Notes should not be equated with congressional committee reports and other items of legislative history," he wrote, explaining that the notes are part of the official package of recommendations that the Supreme Court eventually submits to Congress.
I find Justice Alito's distinction elusive at best. Under the Rules Enabling Act, proposed amendments to the rules governing federal court procedure become effective unless Congress acts by a specific deadline to disapprove them. In other words, the default rule is adoption by congressional passivity. Why should this make the preliminary committee paperwork more rather than less reliable as an indication of congressional intent than for a bill on which members actually vote? It is a question that Justice Alito's footnote hardly answers.
No matter. In his majority opinion, Justice Breyer dug deeper into Rule 11, found that the committee notes actually pointed in the opposite direction, and concluded that the rule "cannot resolve this case."
During the Scalia era, useful clues to legislative meaning were studiously ignored by lawyers and judges alike, even though very few lower-court judges were ever as rigid as Justice Scalia in their approach to statutory interpretation. For their Harvard Law Review article, Judge Posner and Professor Gluck interviewed 42 federal appellate judges and found none who flatly refused to use legislative history — and a number who spoke, anonymously, with surprising disdain toward the Supreme Court's rule-bound approach to interpreting statutes.
With a handful of exceptions, most notably his 2008 majority opinion that established a right under the Second Amendment to keep a handgun at home for self-defense, Justice Scalia's 30-year Supreme Court tenure left surprisingly little imprint on the law in terms of majority opinions that bear his name. Invited to assess his legacy, his admirers invariably point to the influence of his insistence on originalism in constitutional interpretation and textualism for statutes. Debates over how to read the Constitution preceded Antonin Scalia and will be with us forever. But the debate about legislative history is a fading memory.