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As the debate on immigration policy intensifies, Americans are caught in a false choice between tougher border protection and amnesty for illegals. A compromise solution that both parties can rally behind is possible – but only if we have a revolution in the way we discuss our national identity and values.
At bottom, we must:
1. Substantially reduce levels of legal immigration and end illegal immigration, while providing amnesty – at a price – to most pre-existing illegal immigrants.
2. Be selective about future immigrants' country of origin, and terminate multiculturalism as a national value.
Not a right-wing concern
Concerns about immigration are not confined to the right end of the political spectrum or to "xenophobes" and "nativists." Both of us, we hasten to add, are avid supporters of President Obama.
The consequences of unchecked immigration affect all Americans. The US population in 1900 was about 76 million; today, it is about 310 million, of which about 47 million are Latinos. Richard Lamm observes:
In my twelve years as governor of Colorado, high levels of immigration, predominantly from Mexico, made virtually every major problem more difficult to solve. At least 50 percent of immigrants today come from Latin America, and they are acculturating much more slowly than prior immigration waves. Additionally:
• A substantial proportion of the patients at the Denver Public Hospital are illegal immigrants, virtually all poor and poorly educated.
• The percentage of Hispanic students in Denver public schools has risen quickly, to 54 percent.
• Public housing in Denver is filled with both legal and illegal immigrants.
• Nationwide, 20 percent of our prison space is occupied by foreign-born inmates, disproportionately Latinos.
Fifteen years ago, when these problems were less severe, Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, chair of the bipartisan US Commission on Immigration Reform, called for an end to illegal immigration and a calibration of legal immigration levels to the demonstrated needs of the economy. She understood then what is even more true today: High levels of legal and illegal immigration hurt all Americans, but they especially hurt US citizens, disproportionately black and Latino citizens.
With so many of our citizens unable to find jobs, we must be willing to lay aside our biases and work toward a solution that works for everyone.
Solving the amnesty issue
The first crucial step is to tackle the so-called amnesty issue.
We believe that amnesty for illegal immigrants is a bad idea, proven to encourage subsequent illegal immigration by the experience of the 1986 amnesty. But we also believe that the US government shares the blame because of its failure to enforce immigration laws. We consequently propose the following sketch of a compromise.
First, a bipartisan, commission must certify (1) that our borders are under control, and (2) that an effective system of employment verification is in place. Then, all illegal immigrants who can prove that they have been working or at school in the United States for at least five years are eligible for amnesty.
Each illegal immigrant who applies for amnesty must pay a fine of $10,000 per person, over a five-year period if necessary, before becoming eligible for amnesty. Family eligibility will be limited to the nuclear family: spouses and children who have lived in the United States for five years, or since their marriage/birth.
Some may argue that the $10,000 per person fine is excessive. But look at the numbers. In 2008, remittances from Latino immigrants in the United States, mostly to families in their homelands, totaled about $60 billion – $25 billion alone went to Mexico. That shows that Latinos in America are capable of generating serious income. With five years to pay, the $10,000 fine should be manageable.
This approach could generate as much as $100 billion in new federal revenues.
End multiculturalism
The second crucial step is to end multiculturalism as a national value and be much more selective about who we welcome into our country. Immigration isn't just about quantity. It's about quality. Since immigration should serve the national interest, it's fair to ask:
• What does America's work force need? What choices leave our children the best, most sustainable America?
• Aren't there significant differences in the speed and completeness of assimilation among different immigrant groups?
• Doesn't it make a difference whether we take 1,000 Chinese, Japanese, or Koreans as opposed to 1,000 people from south of our border? Just look at the astonishing Asian success rates, and the failure of so many Latinos to graduate even from high school – and the divisive evolution of Spanish to become, de facto, our second national language.
With an unemployment rate near 10 percent, why are we importing close to a million people a year? America has experienced zero job growth since 2000, yet we have added 10 million legal immigrants plus millions more illegally. By the Jordan Commission standards, we are importing too many immigrants, particularly too many unskilled immigrants.
America in 2050
In 2000, the US population totaled 281 million, of which 36 million, or nearly 13 percent, were Latinos. By 2050, the Census Bureau projects our population will reach 420 million, of which 103 million, or 24 percent, will be Hispanic. That's nearly a tripling of the Hispanic population in a half-century. Indeed, it means 1 in 4 Americans will be Hispanic. How might that change America and American values?
The late Mexican-American columnist Richard Estrada captured the essence of the problem in a letter he wrote in 1991:
"The problem in which the current immigration is suffused is, at heart, one of numbers; for when the numbers begin to favor not only the maintenance and replenishment of the immigrants' source culture, but also its overall growth, and in particular growth so large that the numbers not only impede assimilation but go beyond to pose a challenge to the traditional culture of the American nation, then there is a great deal about which to be concerned."
His point is underscored by the recent reports that more than half of the children born in California, Texas, and New Mexico were born to Latino mothers.
Action steps
The policy implications are clear:
• We must end illegal immigration by enforcing the laws on employment and strengthening our control of our southern border.
• We should calibrate legal immigration annually to (1) the needs of the economy, and (2) past performance of immigrant groups with respect to acculturation and contribution to our society.
• We should declare our national language to be English and discourage the proliferation of Spanish language media.
• We should end birthright citizenship, limiting citizenship by birth to children with at last one parent who is a citizen.
• We should provide immigrants with easy-to-access educational services that facilitate acculturation, including English language, citizenship, and culture.
In his controversial final book, "Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity," the late Harvard scholar Samuel Huntington got it right – as he usually did – when he identified growing Latino immigration and avoidance of the melting pot as the principal threat to our unity and progress as a nation.
If we can begin to speak honestly about who we are and where we'd like to go as a nation, we can meet this threat.
Richard Lamm was the governor of Colorado from 1975 to 1987. He is currently the codirector of the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the University of Denver, where he is also a university professor. Lawrence Harrison directs the Cultural Change Institute at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He is the author, most recently, of "The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself." Both Gov. Lamm and Mr. Harrison are members of the advisory board of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR); however, the views expressed above do not reflect FAIR's position on amnesty.


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SUBJECT: City offers new relicensing program
Kimberly Mills (206) 684-8602
The City Attorney's Office and the Seattle Municipal Court are offering a new relicensing program for drivers arrested for Driving While License Suspended Third Degree (DWLS3) or No Valid Driver's License (NVOL).
DWLS3 is the most prosecuted misdemeanor in the state, with more than 300,000 citations issued each year. The large majority of these cases lead to conviction, which can jeopardize employability and credit ratings.
The redesigned program is aimed at the most economically marginalized drivers who fall behind in paying their Seattle-only traffic tickets. "The data and experience regarding DWLS3 cases clearly showed that prosecuting these offenses in the traditional manner required a great deal of time preparing the cases for filing and court hearings, assigning public defenders and holding court hearings when truly it is a crime of poverty," said City Attorney Pete Holmes. "This continuing cycle caused increased jail costs due to arrests from the bench warrants, multiple court hearings and an inefficient use of personnel resources."
Eligibility for the program is carefully tailored for success: The individual must be a first-time participant; no accident or other criminal charges can be involved; and the person cannot be on deferred prosecution for a Driving While Under the Influence (DUI) gross misdemeanor.
A Court Ombudsperson assists those in debt to the Court who meet the stringent relicensing program guidelines (seattle.gov/courts/relicensing).
The new program, which began in February, is aimed at those people whose licenses have been suspended for not paying ticket fines. The ombudsperson's services are available to individuals who have been charged with DWLS3 and those who have not been formally charged by the City. Participants promise to pay down their debt, maintain law abiding behavior, and not drive without a valid license or insurance while on the program.
Participants will be given two options: Pay off the tickets on a schedule or do community service, if eligible. It will not be mandatory that participants regain their driver's licenses; it is encouraged, but optional. There are specified timeframes, and participants will be monitored for compliance while on the program.
Those who are currently charged with DWLS3 or No Valid Operators License (NVOL) may be able to have the charge dismissed by the Court if they obey all of the conditions.
For more information, contact Lillian Peck, Ombudsperson at Seattle Municipal Court, 206-615-0290, and Mindy Longanecker, Seattle City Attorney's Office, 206-684-8525.

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I have these great little greenhouses with little peat circles for the seeds.My 3yo is loving the fact that every morning he can see how much his plants have grown. He is growing cucumbers and watermelon. We are also growing a pumpkin seed in the window because he wanted to see the roots grow too. Just put a seed is wet paper towels, and then in a quart ziploc bag, and tape it to a window and wait. it is really neat to see.
We are also taking date stamped pictures of all the seed trays we have to see what the germination periods are and how fast they come up.
As long as they get to play in the dirt and see something grow they are happy!!
We are also taking date stamped pictures of all the seed trays we have to see what the germination periods are and how fast they come up.
As long as they get to play in the dirt and see something grow they are happy!!
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SopPlayer Manual
Version 3.0.3
Sep 9, 2008
Nowadays SopPlayer, also named SopCast Client, is totally free P2P software to view live TV channels and movies.
This manual takes you through the first steps of getting SopPlayer and provides the initial pointers to get up and running in no time.
SopPlayer can be run on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Linux, but this manual is only for Windows platform.
Step 1. Download SopPlayer from http://download.sopcast.com/download/SopCast.zip.
Or you can download it from mirror sites which are listed on page http://www.sopcast.com/download/.
Step 2. Unzip SopCast.zip with Winzip or Winrar to your hard disc.
Step 3. Go to the directory unzipped and Run Setup-SopCast-verion-num-build-time.exe to install SopCast, the Setup file looks like Setup-SopCast-2.0.4-2007-12-13.exe.
Step 4. Find SopCast in your "Start Menu" and run SopCast.exe.
Click the SopCast.exe to start your SopCast experience!
Sign in with your username account register on www.sopcast.com . If you don't have a user name yet, you may choose to sign in anonymously or click the link on the bottom right to create a new account.
[notes] Most channels are available for anonymous users, so if you can't sign in with your account at peak time, please always try with anonymous user.
When you sign in successfully, you will now see the home frame of SopCast as the picture shown below.
Some key links of Sopcast is listed in home tab, we can find more detail information about SopCast by clicking these links.
The layout of SopCast contains 3 sections as below:
Address Area: channels viewing history will be listed in drop-down box, you can input a sop address (such as sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/6001) or just the channel id 6001 in it to view a channel.
Tabs Area: includes Home, Live Channels, VoD Channels (from version 2.0.4), MyServer and FAQ 5 tabs.
Option Area: includes Sub(subscribe), Apply, Option and Logout 4 Buttons. Click Sub button to gain more channels (todo), click Apply button to Apply your own channel (todo).
Clicking "Live Channels" tab will list all available live channels now, as shown below:
Channel List
Channel list will be refreshed by system automatically. You can also refresh it by click "refresh" button.
The channels you subscribed will be listed on the top of the channel list if you have subscribed some.
Double-click channel name to open Player window and the channel will start automatically.
Channel list control buttons
Press this button down to list all your favorite channels, press this button up to list all channels.
Press this button to Expand/Collapse channel list.
Press this button to Refresh channel list manually.
Press this button to choose the way of sorting channels, this can be by channel group, by class, by channel id, by regions, by language and by favorite. You can also choose to view channel list in which language, nowadays English and Chinese are available.
This blue bar is a channel quality indicator, click this bar to view detail information about this channel (as shown in the picture below).
Next to quality indicator are channel id, channel name and channel ratio in turn, channel ratio is marked by square brackets.
Channel Info Frame
Double-click channel name to open Player window and the channel will start automatically.
Player Option Buttons
Press this button to hide main window and set player window top most. You can drag this window to any corner of your screen, thus you can watch channels while you surfing over Internet. Enjoy it.
Press this bottom to display main window, and switch channels.
Press this button to zoom out player window.
Press this button to zoom in player window.
Press this button to Add the channel to your favorites.
Press this button to record the channel.
No channel is playing, the record button is disabled.
This button will displayed when the channel is recording.
Press this button to hide player window, this button is disabled when main window is hide.
Player control buttons
Information bar, name of the playing channel, buffer, and live massage will be shown in it.
Buffer indicator, when the buffer grow up over 60, the channel will be played fluently.
Open in external player, Press this button to player the channel in external media player, such as Windows Media Player, vlc and RealPlayer etc.
Nowadays, SopCast system doesn't provide VoD channels temporarily, so the area under this tab is always blank. If you find some, that means SopCast are recovering this feature.
A well-known main feature of SopCast system is anyone can broadcast his(her) own channel over Internet. MyServer is design for this intention.
More information of MyServer is detailed in other another manual: SopServer manual.
Frequently Asked Questions are listed under "FAQ" tab. If you have any questions, please refer to this page for answer, or visit our official website to find more FAQ.
Click the "Option" button in option area to open the option window.
General Option
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If you tick off the "Allow only one instance of SopCast" checkbox, you can open multiple SopPlayers simultaneously to view different channels if you have enough bandwidth and hardware resource.
Always keep "Check for new version when starting" checkbox checked for getting latest release.
SopPlayer uses Windows Media Player to play media data received by default, but you can specify your preferred media player to do that.
Default service port is 3902, change it if need. If you opened more than one SopPlayers, their server ports will be started with this port.


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Tom Morello Dishes on Working With Bruce Springsteen on the Road and In the Studio
Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello is an influential musician in his own right but in a new interview with UltimateClassicRock, he talks all about working with legendary Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Morello not only filled in for guitarist Steve Van Zandt during an Australian trek, but he also plays on eight tracks on the new Springsteen album 'High Hopes.'
On playing with Springsteen and company, Morello says, "I try not to over-intellectualize it. My No. 1 job is to not mess it up. The E Street Band is one of the greatest live bands of all time without me in it. So don't f— it up, first and foremost. And then when Bruce gives me the nod, blow the roof off the joint. That's the way I look at it."
He also talks about the very nerve-wracking experience of performing with Bruce Springsteen for the first time, "I rarely as a grown man get nervous before a performance. I'm often excited, but I rarely get nervous, and I was really nervous."
The guitarist continues, "I was about to play onstage with the E Street Band, and Bruce had modulated the key of the song for the electric version and I thought it might be out of my range, and I was sort of stewing downstairs with a half-empty bottle of Jameson's Irish whiskey, then went up there and played it with them. It was like, "Holy s—, what just happened in this room?" It was a combustible chemistry, and I've had the honor to relive that chemistry a number of times over the years, and that began a musical relationship that has culminated in playing eight songs on this record."
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Livonia elementary school installs surveillance cameras inside after student abuse accusations
Indoor surveillance cameras installed at Livonia's Webster Elementary School after staff accused of abusing students
LIVONIA, Mich. – Students in two special needs pre-school and kindergarten classes at Livonia's Webster Elementary School will be learning under lenses.
The indoor surveillance cameras will capture the teacher/student interaction throughout the school day.
The cameras have been installed after a teacher and para-pro were accused of abusing students. They face allegations including slapping the children, grabbing them and force-feeding them. No criminal charges were filed.
However, the Livonia School District did not take the accusations lightly. Webster's principal at the time has been moved to a different school. The para-pro was let go. The teacher, Sharon Turbiak, is on paid administrative leave.
The cameras were installed in the those rooms where the alleged abuse took place.
"After we talked to the parents who were inside the classroom last year, this is one request that they made," said Randy Liepa, superintendent of Livonia schools.
Turbiak was having a garage sale when Local 4 paid her a visit this week. However, when Local 4 showed up, she shut the garage and was closed for business.
In a meeting earlier this week, some Livonia parents came to the teacher's defense saying they never had any problems with Turbiak.
"There is a process that we go through, a tenure process, that has to occur. So she has the right to appeal that," said Liepa.
The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office decided there was insufficient evidence needed to bring charges.
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What if there were a potentially-life saving material that the US medical community were perpetually short of? Unfortunately, that's the reality of the nation's blood supply. A combination of disinterest and rigorous screening have left the country in a perpetual state of blood shortage. In a development that may point the way towards making time spent bleeding through a needle in your arm a thing of the past, researchers in Japan have developed a technique that induces human embryonic stem cells to form mature, blood carrying erythrocytes.
Most people are probably aware that stem cells in the bone marrow are responsible for replenishing the supply of red blood cells that carry oxygen throughout the body. Less well known is the fact that the bone marrow is actually the third stop for these stem cells. In mammalian embryonic development, these cells arise initially in tissue that's outside the body and destined to be lost at birth. From there, they initially take up residence in the fetal liver. It's only late in development that they migrate to the bone marrow.
The researchers behind the new research reasoned that the fetal liver was more than a passive residence, and instead was likely to produce factors that promoted the production of blood cells. So, they isolated fetal liver cells from mice and cultured human embryonic stem cells with them. After ten days of culture, the first indications of red cell formation were visible, as hemoglobin expression started. By twenty days, many cells were producing adult forms of hemoglobin, and many cells had eliminated their nucleus, a typical sign of red cell maturity.
Tests with the resulting cells indicate that they have oxygen carrying capacity and express enzymes that are used for coping with oxygen-related stress. The oxygen dissociation curves show that these cells behave a bit like fetal red blood cells (as might be expected), as they have a higher affinity for oxygen.
Still, that sort of behavior could be more than sufficient for emergency applications, especially given that some of the alternative approaches for dealing with the blood shortage aren't very good. Still, there's a long way between these results and practical applications—nobody's going to want to dissect out enough fetal mouse livers to get this to work on an industrial scale.
Still, as the authors themselves note, a functioning system like this is a key first step towards studying what's needed to eliminate its reliance on animal cells and scale it up for practical use. So, it will definitely be a minimum of several years before we're likely to have a stem cell based blood supply.
In the mean time, think about donating some blood.
PNAS, 2008. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802220105


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Kuwait's Emir has pledged the full application of the law, insisting that no preferential treatment will be extended to anyone, including members of his own family.
"We are not enemies and Kuwait will always remain safe," Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah said. "We will make sure that nobody transgresses the law because it is above all. We do not have big names or small names and the law would apply to everyone. In fact, we have already applied it against two members of our family," Shaikh Sabah told a gathering of diwaniya — a private social gathering hall— heads.
"Please do speak out your views and opinions. We cannot do without them. We are not angels. So, if you have any view that would benefit Kuwait, please say it. The crown prince and I welcome your views," he said.
The capital, Kuwait City, was this week rocked by the worst violent standoff between anti-riot police and demonstrators who wanted to push their way to the government's seat to protest against the amendment of the 2006 electoral law through a necessity decree. The law up to last week gave each Kuwaiti voter the right to elect four candidates in parliamentary elections in the five constituencies. However, the new law limits the number of votes to one candidate and promotes the principle of "one man, one vote".
The opposition claimed the amendment meant to have a more compliant parliament and pledged to take to the streets to press against any changes to the electoral law. On Sunday evening, three rallies were staged in the capital. Police used teargas and stun grenades to disperse the demonstrators who challenged instructions from the interior ministry to confine protests to the Irada Square and to avoid street rallies.
No final official figures about the casualties have been released, although 14 service men were believed to have sustained wounds in the violence.
The Emir said that Kuwait should move forward instead of being held back. "I want to assure you that there is nothing to fear. There was just a small number of people who abused the situation. We remained patient for around three years and we pray that God guides them," the Emir said.
"Unfortunately, the country has reached a dangerous level and was almost lost. There was chaos and we were forced to use peaceful ways to address the situation. The interior minister and officers were keen that nobody gets hurt. Unfortunately, 14 security men were attacked and the units had to intervene." Demonstrators claimed that they were moving on peacefully and that they were attacked by the police.
However, officials said that the rallies were illegal and that the interior ministry had warned that it would apply a zero-tolerance policy against those who broke the law. "We told the authorities to release the young people who were arrested and to allow them to spend Eid with their families," Shaikh Sabah said. Opposition figures said that they would look at their options following Eid Al Adha, to be celebrated this weekend.
Do you think the Kuwaiti authorities are worried? Or have the significance of the protests been overblown? Tell us what you think below.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (June 17, 2008) - The East Tennessee State University women's soccer team looks to build on a successful 2007 season in the upcoming months, however many Buccaneer student-athletes are already taking that next step. Here's a quick look on how some of the players are performing this summer.
Rising sophomore and Atlantic Sun second-team all-conference member Kelly Brinkman, along with fellow sophomore Terri Miller and newcomer Carly Hunt led the RSL Soccer Club to a FYSA state championship. Coach Grande Streets' team automatically earns a birth into the 2008 US Youth Soccer National Championships that will begin later this month.
"I am very excited to have eight of our ladies competing for their state and respective regional tournaments, "said head coach Heather Henson. "These girls bring a winning attitude that we try to have here at ETSU. To have lots of players win or compete in State Cup and Regional Premier League spots it's only going to help improve their skills for the fall.
Incoming freshmen Casey Ulrich, Kaitlin Bevins and Lindsay Matijevich help led the Smokey Mountains Soccer Club to the 2008 Tennessee State Cup Finals, losing a heartbreaker 2-1. Coach Antonio Almeida team also qualified for the 2008 US Youth Soccer National Championship Series but will not get to participate due to scheduling issues. Fellow teammate and rising sophomore Alex Meehan, of the TN FC Tanasi, incoming freshman
"Something we look to get in our players is lots of drive and determination," said Henson. "This shows the strength of our student-athletes on and in the ETSU soccer program."
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- Watch the five finalists in New York's mask-awareness video competition
- Lottery launches for 22 affordable apartments at Waterline Square, from $741/month
- What will the summer real estate market look like in NYC this year?
- David Rockwell designs template for outdoor dining in NYC
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Question: Our team has been discussing causes of index fragmentation and someone argued that DELETE operations can cause fragmentation just like INSERT and UPDATE operations. This doesn't make sense to me – can you explain how this is possible?
Answer: Record deletion can indeed cause fragmentation.
There are two kinds of fragmentation described by SQL Server Books Online: logical fragmentation and low page density. Some people have other names for these, including external, internal, and physical fragmentation. I always discourage people from using these names, as they are not referenced or explained by Books Online (and I wrote the Books Online around fragmentation :-)
Related: How Does Index Fragmentation Affect SELECT Performance?
Logical fragmentation is where the data file page with the next set of key values in an index is not the next physically adjacent page. A variant of this is extent fragmentation, where the adjacency is at the extent (8 contiguous data file pages) level rather than the page level. Both of these lead to reduced range scan efficiency through reduced readahead I/O size.
Low page density is when there is empty space on data file pages in an index, either caused by page split operations, record deletion, or record size where only a few records can fit on a page, forcing empty space (e.g. a 5000-byte clustered index record size, where only one record can fit per 8KB page, leading to 3000 bytes of empty, wasted space per page). This leads to reduced data density – extra space required on disk to store the data, wasted buffer pool memory, and more I/Os are required to read the same amount of data. You can read more about the performance implications in my in-depth blog post here.
As I mentioned above, record deletion can cause low page density, which is a form of index fragmentation. Consider the case where a table has a clustered index with an INT IDENTITY key. New records will always be inserted with a key value higher than all previously inserted records, so the record insertion point will be (conceptually) on the right-hand size of the index structure.
If records are randomly deleted from the table, this will cause free space 'holes' throughout the index structure. As the index key means that all new records are inserted at the right-hand side of the index, the free-space holes will never be filled by newly inserted records. Over time, with many deletes, the amount of free space in the index may become significant, leading to classic low data density issues as I described previously. This will necessitate removing the free space with an ALTER INDEX … REORGANIZE or ALTER INDEX … REBUILD operation.
To summarize, all DML operations (INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE) can cause index fragmentation, if you consider both logical fragmentation and low page density, and the index structure lends itself to index fragmentation of one kind or the other occurring.


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An heir to the Scripps media fortune was convicted Friday of stealing $3.6 million from his mother and a disabled uncle.
Michael Scripps, 36, who lives in a Detroit suburb, spent the money on cars, jewelry and women, including a stripper and porn star, according to testimony at the two-week trial in Philadelphia. He faces more than seven years in prison at sentencing.
His mother, Melissa Scripps, told jurors that she received $11 million from the 1980s-era sale of some family holdings, while her brother, David, received more, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer ( https://bit.ly/16SISij ).
Her son had a six-figure trust fund, along with a $3,900 monthly stipend she provided, she said. Yet he persuaded her to steer money to his friend, a financial adviser in the Philadelphia suburbs, then proceeded to raid the accounts, she said.
"I don't want anyone else to go through what we've been through as a family," Melissa Scripps testified.
The E.W. Scripps family owns newspapers and television stations, and it is the name behind Scripps College and the Scripps Oceanography Institution.
Melissa Scripps, 62, acknowledged that she has gone through much of the fortune. She spent more than $1 million on family cruises, flew her dogs to her second home on St. Maarten, and purchased two of Princess Diana's dresses and a Napoleonic tiara. She said she smokes marijuana daily and has been married four times.
"Michael thought his mom was spending too much money, she was spending his inheritance," Assistant U.S. Attorney Linwood C. Wright said Wednesday in closing arguments.
U.S. District Judge Legrome D. Davis reminded jurors that they had to decide if a crime occurred, not if people had "squandered, in a profound way, their lives."
The 1980s sale was valued at more than $700 million. The defense maintained that Melissa Scripps received more than $100 million.
Michael Scripps did not testify, but his lawyer argued that he had his mother's permission to use whatever funds he needed.
After the verdict, the judge denied a defense bid to have Scripps remain free on bail until his July 15 sentencing.
"I have absolutely no comfort with how your client behaved," Davis said.


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Morenci's recycling center had the distinction of being one of few that accepted plastic packaging foam. That's no longer the case.
Vance Jacobs of Frontier Insulation said that at least for the current time, he will not be accepting foam from the recycling center.
Because of that change, foam should not be taken to the center.
Jacobs said the situation could change in the future if the demand for foam changes.


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Mississippi gains national attention over late abolition of slavery
State ratified 13th Amendment in 1995, but finished process in 2013
The state of Mississippi has corrected a clerical error that left unrecorded the ratification of the 13th Amendment for 18 years.
But the error hasn't gone unnoticed by national media and entertainment outlets.
The Legislature formally ratified the amendment, which outlawed slavery, in 1995. However, the office of then-Secretary of State Dick Molpus didn't present the ratification document to the U.S. Archivist, so it was never official.
The Clarion-Ledger reported that on Jan. 30, current Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann sent the Office of the Federal Register a copy of the 1995 Senate resolution, adopted by both the Mississippi Senate and House. On Feb. 7, Charles A. Barth, director of the Federal Register, wrote back that he had received the resolution and recorded the state's action.
Hosemann said he doesn't believe it was a dark conspiracy, just a clerical error that the measure wasn't officially ratified until now.
The oversight was found by Dr. Ranjan Batra, a University of Mississippi Medical Center researcher, who after seeing the movie "Lincoln" looked up historical accounts of Mississippi's action.
Sen. Hillman Frazier, D-Jackson, authored the resolution vote in 1995. He said it's slightly embarrassing for a state with a controversial racial history to in 2013 complete the process of abolishing slavery -- which began in 1865.


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Matthew 8:20-22; Mark 5: 25-34; Luke 8: 43-48
As Jesus traveled around throughout the country teaching and working miracles He was approached by "a certain ruler" of the synagogue named Jarius. Jarius knelt before Jesus and begged, "My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live." (Mark 5:23) Jesus went with Jarius right away but "much people followed him, and thronged him." (Mark 5:24) As He made his way through the crowd a woman with an issue of blood touched His robe.
- She was "diseased with an issue of blood twelve years" (Matt. 9:20)
- She had "suffered many things of many physicians" and had spent " all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse." (Mark 5: 26);
- She had heard of Jesus and when she saw He was near she joined in the throng of people following Him as He made His way to Jarius' house. She said within herself," If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole." ( Matt. 9: 21);
- She came behind Him and touched the hem of His garment ( Matt 9:20). As soon as she touched Him "the fountain of her blood was dried up" and she "felt in her body that she was healed of that plague" ( Mark 5: 29);
- As soon as she touched Him Christ "immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him" (Mark 5:30) stopped and asked "Who touched me?" Everyone around Him denied it and Peter asked him " Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee and sayest thou, Who touched me?" (Luke 8: 45).
- When the woman saw that she was unable to hide from the Lord she "came trembling and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately." (Luke 8: 47)
- Christ looked on her and told her, "Daughter be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace." (Luke 8:48)
- Under the Mosaic law a woman with an issue of blood (referring to menstrual or postpartum bleeding) was considered unclean and was "put apart" for 7 days. During this time anything she lay on or sat on was considered "unclean" meaning that if anyone touched one of those things he would have to wash his clothes and bathe in water to become clean again. Also during this time if any man was sexually intimate with her he was also unclean for 7 days and must adhere to the same sort of "setting apart" as a woman (and actually the guidelines for a man who has an issue of blood, or who was unclean were more strict than for women, see Leviticus 15:1-30).
- The Mosaic Law also specified that if a woman had an issue of blood that lasted longer then 7 days that all the days of her issue were considered unclean and she must be treated as such (Leviticus 15: 25). This means that this woman had probably been unclean for 12 years and that she had to live "put apart" from others for all that time. If she had been married her husband probably would have divorced her as she would have been unable to care for her children or for others without making them all unclean. Her unclean status would also have meant that she was probably unable to attend the temple or other worship services.
- I did a quick Google search for information about "prolonged menstruation" and I discovered that today this woman probably would have been diagnoses with menorrhagia, which is abnormally heavy and long menstruation that causes enough cramping and blood loss that it makes normal daily activities impossible. The scriptures are right in calling it a "hemorrhage" because the amount of blood lost is significant—enough to fill a maxi pad at least every hour for several weeks (not to mention 12 years!). According to the Mayo Clinic common causes of menorrhagia are:
- Uterine fibroids, non-cancerous growths of the uterus wall
- Endometrial hyperplasia, a thickened endometrium
- A bleeding disorder, like von Willebrand disease
- Problems with clotting
- Thyroid functioning
- Glandular issues
- Infection
- Ovarian cysts
- Uterine polyps
- Cancer
It is a beautiful song and I have been thinking about it a lot the last few months. I asked our choir director if we could sing it again this year and after some pondering she said she felt like the Lord wanted me to sing the solo, the part of the woman with the issue of blood. I am not a strong singer. I've sung two solos in my life and both times I thought I might die of fright before they were over. Yet I knew, just like the choir director knew, that I needed to sing this song. I had been healed by the Savior and, like the woman with the issue of blood, I knew that I needed to bear testimony of the great miracle that Christ had performed for me.
- Why do you think that this woman's story is included in three of the Gospels? What is it about her story that made Matthew, Luke and Mark think it was important enough to share?
- We know that God and Christ are in perfect accordance with The Law. This means that they are perfectly obedient to both spiritual and physical laws. This means that even miracles must obey the physical and spiritual laws of the earth in order to occur, and so it intrigues me how Christ healed people (of seemingly incurable thing like blindness) by only touching them. What physical process that we don't understand did Christ use to heal her body completely through only a touch-- and not even the touch of His hand, merely His clothing?
- What possible significance do you see in the fact that the daughter of Jarius, whom Christ raised from the dead was 12 yeas-old (around the age when girls start menstruation) and that this woman who was healed by Jesus had been suffering with her " issue of blood" for 12 years? Coincidence?
- How can you relate to this woman? When have you "touched" Christ?


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Hardee's Gives Sit-Down Restaurants a Run for Their Money
Dec 17, 2008
New Breakfast Burrito and Potatoes Rival Those Found at Great American Diners
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – December 17, 2008 – Hardee's® introduced the popular Thickburger® line in 2003 and elevated its lunch/dinner menu to rival those found at higher-end, sit-down restaurants. As a QSR Magazine writer reported at the time, "The Thickburgers really are good, and Hardee's has in fact supplanted the casual dining restaurant I used to favor when I needed a burger fix." Hardee's breakfast menu, already a standout in the fast-food world thanks in large part to the chain's signature Made from Scratch™ Biscuits, now moves even closer to sit-down restaurant fare with the introduction of its Ham & Three Cheese Breakfast Burrito™ and Country Potatoes side item.
Hardee's has taken a popular diner-breakfast omelet offering, ham and three cheeses, and rolled it up in a tortilla to make it portable. The new Ham & Three Cheese Breakfast Burrito starts with two folded eggs and is packed with diced ham and melted cheddar, American and Swiss cheeses, all wrapped up in a warm, flour tortilla.
The chain's new Country Potatoes are cubed chunks of whole potatoes, with the skin left on, that are lightly seasoned with salt and pepper, like those served in most sit-down diner restaurants. The new side item replaces Hardee's Hashround potatoes, which were more like the ubiquitous formed, shredded potato offerings common to virtually all other fast-food chains' menus.
"Hardee's has had a great deal of success in the past by bringing sit-down restaurant-quality food to fast-food consumers, most notably with our award-winning line of 100% Black Angus beef Thickburgers," says Brad Haley, EVP of Marketing for Hardee's. "Our famous Made from Scratch, buttermilk biscuits have always been very popular as well but we still had a few opportunities to further narrow the gap with sit-down restaurants on our breakfast menu. So, we have taken a very popular breakfast omelet and made it easy to eat on-the-go with our new Ham & Three Cheese Breakfast Burrito. And, what better complement to a great diner-style breakfast entrée than our new Country Potatoes, which were created to match the kind of potatoes served at most sit-down restaurants."
The Ham & Three Cheese Breakfast Burrito will be sold at participating Hardee's restaurants for $2.69 and is available in a small combo for $4.29 including the new Country Potatoes. Country Potatoes are also available as a small a la carte item for $1.09. Price and participation may vary.
About Hardee's
Celebrating more than 45 years in the quick-service industry, Hardee's Food Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) of Carpinteria, Calif. As of the third fiscal quarter ended November 3, 2008, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,110 franchised or company-operated restaurants in 42 states and in 14 countries, including 1,185 Carl's Jr. restaurants and 1,912 Hardee's restaurants. For more information, or to find a Hardee's near you, go to www.ckr.com or www.hardees.com.


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Albufeira is a city in Algarve, in the south of Portugal. Once a small fishing village it has now developed to be a very touristic area. Many holiday makers return year after year because of the lovely beaches, very good climate and the many restaurants, bars and pubs.
The town is divided into two parts, 'The Old Town' and the 'STRIP', or newer town, including Montechoro, Arias de Sao João.
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The train station (Albufeira - Ferreiras) is 6km from the centre. There is a city bus that can take you into town. A small number of taxis are also available, and are generally timed with the train stops. Be sure to grab one quickly, as it may be a while before another one turns up. Although no Wi-Fi is offered at the station itself, a small café nearby offers free Wi-Fi for its customers (and surprisingly delicious pastels de nata!).
Trains to Lagos and Faro take about one hour each. The train to/from Lisbon takes 3-4h. There is now a rapid train that takes 2.5h but with more limited runs. A student fare costs €17 (for Portuguese students only).Timetables and Prices
Long distance buses are also available in the city centre. If you're travelling by plane, you can also ask for a private airport transfer.
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There are local buses that run throughout town - ask your hotel for a timetable.
Taxis are available and can usually be found in the city centre.
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Car rental facilities are located in the city centre and include major international chains (Hertz, Europcar) as well as local ones. Even for the expert driver, getting around can be quite challenging in Albufeira as there are no street signs to navigate you through the maze-like structure of the endless roundabouts, making maps similarly difficult to interpret. Coupled with the high cost of car rentals, taxis or buses may be simpler modes of transportation.
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The main attraction of the Algarve is the extended coast line with its numerous beaches. Especially during the busy summer holidays, you will find the larger beaches filled with beach chairs and parasols and usually one or more places where you can book water sport activities like parasailing and jet-skiing. Most beaches have life guards on duty during the summer period.
In Albufeira there are a great variety of beaches:
If you don't like the large crowds, there are many smaller secluded beaches, ideal if you travel with small children or just if you like something more characteristic:
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There are many restaurants to choose from, with many of them offering traditional Portuguese fare as well as a wide variety of fresh seafood. Dishes involving different preparations of codfish are plentiful, and the Cataplana styled dishes are well known in this region. Shellfish such as prawns, lobster, and crab tend to be very expensive, while fish is much more affordable. For a break from seafood, try the chicken piri-piri (roasted chicken with a sort of spicy sauce).
As a general rule, places near the beaches tend to offer average to downright bad quality food for 'touristy' prices, but as you go uphill the quality gets better. Unfortunately the touts outside most restaurants tend to be very pushy and will stand in your way and try to engage you in conversation about their menu/prices etc. This makes walking through the Old Town a real chore, especially in the evening.
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Nightclubs, cafés and snack bars are abundant in both Old Town as well as The Strip. Since 2009, prices have been reduced considerably due to the European recession.
Everything is a bit more expensive in the discos at night, so many holiday makers will drink in the bars and go to the disco after 1am (they are open until 06:00 in the summer!)
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Lagos, Silves, Lagoa, Tavira, Evora, Milfontes, Troia, Lisbon.
Lisbon: From the Old Town to the railway station the easiest route is by taxi (it's 6km). This can be bought quite reasonably for 8-10€, and the journey time is 5-10min. The first train leaves for Lisbon at 07:19 and takes 2h 40min, other services take 3h 20min so be sure to check when the trains arrive/depart. Definitely book and print tickets in advance, (there's an English version, just click the flag). Return journey cost €32 for a regular class seat. It's well worth the money and you see lots of Portugal on the way.


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AutoStream necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 37 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
We are a new Internet network launching our own web series, destined to be one of the most popular for car enthusiasts around the world.
We have other shows in our network, created by other producers, but this is our first wholly-developed and produced series.
We will have internationally ranked driver/hosts testing the ultimate cars and comparing their performance in a lively, fun and funny format. Guest hosts from the X-game, film and music world will drop in occasionally.
They'll be wringing out cars like the Novitec Ferrari, Hennessey Viper and Ruf Porsche Turbo for your enjoyment.
This is not drag racing or drifting or off-road. This is road course racing and lateral acceleration, 0-60 and 100-0 tests. Cars we test will be in the $300K to $1.2 million range.
Auto enthusiasts, with an emphasis on males 18-34, who comprise the largest subsegment currently watching automotive video online. These are guys who aspire to drive like our drivers and perhaps to one day own cars that will rip around a road course like the top tuners.
Our preference is vector art, but if the best design is in .tif or .psd format, we can live with that. We have no immediate need to use the logo larger than 2400 pixels wide.
We have a design (attached) that we like, and a fully finished rendering similar to it will meet our requirements.
Having said that, we will look at some variations if they follow these rules:
We like the show's initials (TT) on a badge or crest. The shape of that badge needs to be different from that of the top perfomance marques. Our current rendering is somewhere between the badge shape of a Lotus and a Lamborghini. Porsche and Ferrari also use badges. We need to be dissimilar, but obviously still automotive.
That we envision this design as a car badge, which would have a glossy surface and be slightly convex. (We may add a reflection animation to emphasize that at some future date.)
The TT portion may be raised from the badge, but we are seeking something that give the impression of power and performance in an automotive context. The current rendering is basically the Audi TT logo, and we need to separate ourselves from that.
Please resist the impulse to do '50s chromed lettering. There is nothing 'retro' about the show.
The only identity on and around the badge is Top Tuner and/or TT. We are not looking to put AutoStream in this logo.
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Fewer crabs caught in Indian River Lagoon, fishermen say
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Crab catchers usually bring in triple the catch they brought in on Tuesday, a concern local business owners have been facing for the past year.
"This has been the worst year we have seen since we've been in business and we've been in business for 46 years," said Jan Walker with Clayton's Crab Company in Rockledge.
On a normal September day, Brevard County seafood businesses would be getting a fresh catch of blue crabs from local, independent crabbers, but this year, it's not the same.
"Normally they would be coming in every day with their catch. Currently, they are only coming in about every other day," said Walker.
Walker says her crab profits have been cut in half this year and Jim Ritter with Ozzie's Crab House in Palm Bay says he's also facing the same spiraling decline in their best-selling local blue crab.
Ritter said, "I've been around here for 50 years and there has never been a crab shortage like there was this year."
Both seafood companies buy their blue crabs from crabbers who harvest in the same waters that have been blamed for the deaths of 60 bottlenose dolphins, 280 manatees, and 250 brown pelicans -- the Indian River Lagoon.
Last month the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared the deaths in the lagoon as "unusual." That word will open up federal funding to further study the die-off.
"Something is happening out there. It is either too many toxins in the water, too much fertilizer possibly," said Ritter.
Local 6 reached out to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission about the shortage of blue crabs and they aren't sure there's been a decline, but plan on looking into the problem.
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It was never publicly announced or anything, but the whispers going around the WACA members (which, back in the 1980s and 90s was a pretty reliable bush telegraph) it was a directive from the WACA board to the groundsmen, as an attempt to head off a push by the TV people to move at least some of the Perth tests to Bellerive.
The broadcasters made little secret of their hatred for the timezone issues of holding international cricket in Perth, and they were pushing to get Bellerive into the regular rotation. Keep in mind that this was when the norm was to hold just five tests per summer, so adding matches to Bellerive meant that someone would lose out. That someone was going to be Perth- at the very least in alternating years.
At one stage, it was even suggested that the commentators were under strict instructions to talk up Bellerive as a venue as much as possible. I have no idea if this is true or not, but at the time Richie and the boys did seem to fawn over Bellerive quite a bit.
As a part of this campaign, the broadcasters started making noises about the number of Perth tests finishing in three or four day, and the hit that they were taking in ad revenue. This started to gain a bit of traction within the ACB, and the WACA completely freaked out at the thought of losing their tests.
The WACA honchos, being lovably simple folk, looked across the Nullabor at Burdett's Adelaide and told the WACA groundsmen to get to work.
Now that they messed up the best and most marketable thing about the WACA, and now they're moving heaven and earth (lots of earth, from just south of Collie) to get it back.


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William Saletan is a Leftist who writes a political column for Slate. His prescience at predicting the future was amply demonstrated on September 14, 2000 when, based on then current polls, he stated that the election was over and Gore was a sure winner. Go here to read that masterpiece of prognostication. Now he has a piece attacking Romney for standing up for American freedom of speech as opposed to the craven apology for our freedom issued by the Cairo embassy. Christopher Johnson, a Protestant who has taken up the cudgels so frequently for the Church that I have named him Defender of the Faith, gives Saletan a fisking to remember at Midwest Conservative Journal:
to Slate's William Saletan, freely expressing your opinion can be an abuse of your right to freely express your opinion:
Mitt Romney says the U.S. Embassy in Cairo has betrayed "American values." He's wrong. The embassy is standing for American values. It's Romney who's betraying them.
How's that, Sally?
The fight began brewing Tuesday morning as Egyptian protesters gathered outside the embassy. They were furious at a sophomoric American-made movie that ridiculed the prophet Mohammed. In response, the embassy issued a statement saying that it "condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims—as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions." The statement added: "We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others."
Quick observation. If the universal right of free speech can be "abused," then the universal right of free speech is not universal at all but has definite limits. Saletan most emphatically agrees.
When you read the tweets alongside the initial statement, the message is clear. Free speech is a universal right. The Muslim-baiting movie is an abuse of that right. The embassy rejects the movie but defends free speech and condemns the invasion of its compound.
You keep using the word "universal," Sally. I do not think that word means what you think it means.
At his press conference, Romney accused Obama of "having that embassy reiterate a statement effectively apologizing for the right of free speech." Romney claimed that the embassy had said, in his paraphrase, "We stand by our comments that suggest that there's something wrong with the right of free speech." This, too, was a Romney lie. The embassy had declared five times in writing that free speech was a universal right.
In other words, everyone has, or should have, the right to free speech. But there are some things that you shouldn't be allowed to say.
What made Romney's statement and press conference disturbing, however, was his repeated use of the words sympathize and apology to conflate three issues the Cairo embassy had carefully separated: bigotry, free speech, and violence. The embassy had stipulated that expressions of bigotry, while wrong, were protected by freedom of speech and didn't warrant retaliatory violence.
Then why did the embassy grovelingly apologize for them?
Romney, by accusing the embassy of "sympathizing with those who had breached" the compound, equated moral criticism of the Mohammed movie with support for violence. In so doing, Romney embraced the illiberal Islamist mindset that led to the embassy invasion: To declare a movie offensive is to authorize its suppression.
Um..what?!! Project much, Sally? It was the embassy that declared that movie "offensive," idiot. Why else would they have apologized for it and prattled on about some alleged hurt feelings Muslims may or may not have actually had?
"The Embassy of the United States issued what appeared to be an apology for American principles," Romney asserted at the press conference. "It's a terrible course for America to stand in apology for our values. … An apology for America's values is never the right course." Lest anyone miss his buzzwords, Romney called the embassy's comments "a disgraceful statement on the part of our administration to apologize for American values."
One of the foremost of which is basically unrestricted freedom of speech.
What, exactly, does Romney mean by "American values"? The embassy never apologized for free speech or diplomatic sovereignty. The only American offense it criticized was the movie's "bigotry" and "efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims." Does Romney regard this criticism as an "apology for American values"? Is bigotry an American value? Is it weak or un-American to repudiate slurs against Muslims?
National Review will have none of "yes, but" attitudes like Sally's.
Nobody in the U.S. government, least of all the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff acting in his official capacity, should be calling Terry Jones or any other American citizen about the Mohammed spoof. Not only does that elevate Jones to some sort of semi-official status, but spoofs of deities are entirely within our rights and absolutely no business of the government's. The U.S. government should not be taking an official position on the Mohammed spoof. It is entirely outside the official competence of United States military to be calling private citizens asking them be quiet, especially when they are exercising a constitutional right. Offending people is not an incitement to violence. Otherwise I could get everyone who wears a Che Guevara t-shirt brought up on charges of incitement.
Do I enjoy it when some work of "art," some movie or some television show blasphemes Jesus Christ or insults and belittles Christians? Of course not. But unlike adherents of the Islamic religion, I've figured out a civilized way to deal with it. I simply don't patronize or stop patronizing those businesses who produce or support such works.
Conversely, if a work of art exalts Christ or displays Christians as they truly are, that work of art, whatever it is, will receive whatever support I can give it. So what William Saletan is essentially saying here is that speech should be suppressed if someone anywhere is angry enough about that speech to kill people and burn things.
Saletan's mindset basiclly gives the savages editorial control over all forms of expression everywhere which means that my opinions must perfectly accord with theirs or my expression of my opinion is an "abuse" of free speech. I don't know if Saletan realizes this or not but that is precisely why so many of us made a point of patronizing Chick-fil-A's during that recent controversy.
Go here read the brilliant rest. As I indicated in my post yesterday, which may be read here, the support of many Leftists for freedom of speech for views they despise is distinctly underwheming.


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The Coastal Law Academics page is the source for all aspects of academic life at the law school. Here you will find course-related information, including class schedules, suggested schedules, certificate programs, and grade postings, as well as links to the Registrar's Office.
Here you can also find information about experiential learning opportunities at Coastal Law, through its clinical programs, externships, and judicial internships.
The Academics page also provides links to crucial policies and procedures contained in the Student Handbook, Honor Code and Student Code of Conduct.


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Mother Banned from Mentioning Her Kids on Social Media After She Insults Son with a Dirty Word
A judge didn't throw the book at one upstate New York mom as much as he threw the Facebook at her.
The woman, identified only as "Melody M.," has been banned from posting anything about her children on any social networking site.
The woman called her 10-year-old son a dirty word on Facebook. We can't what the salty word is, so let's just say it rhymes with "mass coal." She told the court she did so because that's what "he is."
Talking about your child in such a manner is already a head-scratcher, but it's even more puzzling in this case because the boy has emotional problems.
The court was also baffled by Melody's actions:
Charitably stated, her testimony reflected a lack of insight as to the nature of her conduct toward her oldest child."
As a result, Melody is barred from "posting any communications to or about her children on any social network site."
Her lawyer does not agree with the decision, claiming the ruling means Melody cannot brag about her kids' accomplishments, like many parents do online. The attorney said, "It is unfortunate that it prevents her from telling all of her friends that her son hit a game-winning home run in a baseball game or scored the winning goal or was on the honor roll."
Sure, that may be true, but you can only wonder what she'd write if her son struck out with the bases loaded or brought home a report card full of Cs.


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Scallop row: French fishermen wary of UK deal
Scallop row: French fishermen wary of UK deal
Scallop settlement
Representatives of the French and UK governments and their respective fishing sectors have reached an agreement following clashes that took place a week ago in the Baie de Seine between British and French fishing vessels.
The meeting is described as having been constructive and a deal has been struck between the two sides on the principles of an agreement on scalloping in the eastern Channel, which includes the Baie de Seine.
According to a brief joint statement issued by the French and UK authorities, there is a voluntary agreement for the entire UK fleet to respect the French closure period in the Baie de Seine, which runs from mid-May to the 1st of October.
In addition, the previous agreement concerning vessels over 15 metres is to be renewed. In principle, UK fishing vessels under 15 metres will also be brought under the terms of the agreement, subject to a 'reasonable compensation package,' the details of which have yet to be hammered out in Paris later this week.
Source: DEFRA
UK and France fail to agree scallop fishing deal
Scallop wars isn't over: French and British fisherman fail to finalise deal
Scallop wars: British and French fail to reach agreement during Paris talks
Rebecca Williams
Verified account @RebeccaTVnews
Brixham based fishermen have gone back to the Bay de Seine, despite an agreement reached earlier this week stating that they wouldnt harvest scallops off French coast until October. Brits not happy with compensation deal. Told they havent encountered any resistance there...
No scallop agreement for 2018
According to French fishing industry body CNPMEM, the French industry has decided to withdraw from negotiations between France and the UK over access to scallop fisheries in the English Channel.
CNPMEM has issued a statement to this effect, commenting that the decision was made with regret and it leaves them bitter over the failure to reach an agreement, which CNPMEM attributes to the lack of flexibility displayed by the British side on sensible management of a shared resource.
'Despite the considerable efforts that French fishermen working in the Channel were willing to make in terms of compensating the British for suspending their activities, the British side pressed for exorbitant amounts in compensation. We can not accept that French fisheries should be held to ransom in this way,' CNPMEM's spokesman said.
'We regret that it is not possible to reach an agreement and we have informed the Minister of Agriculture that we are ending the discussions.'
According to the French industry body, they intend to continue to promote sustainable and responsible scallop fisheries on a voluntary basis, with a view to reaching common long-term management of this species both in terms of fishing periods and the selectivity of the gear.
Source: CNPMEM
UK minister comments on scallop debacle
George Eustice has commented on the Baie de Seine scallop debacle
UK fisheries minister George Eustice has made a statement on the breakdown of negotiations over scallop fishing in Baie de Seine, which came to an end when the French negotiators pulled out, citing 'extortionate' compensation demands by the UK representatives. George Eustice stated that he has written to French minister Stephane Travert to register his disappointment that no agreement was reached.
An initial agreement under which the UK vessels would respect the French closure in return for compensation in the form of a quota transfer of other species from France to the UK, providing compensation for the scallopers affected, hit the rocks as it emerged at a subsequent meeting that the two sides had different ideas on the level of compensation.
'Minister Travert and I discussed the progress of the negotiations twice, including on the evening of 7th September,' George Eustice said.
'However, the offer made by French industry remained unchanged from that discussed in Paris on Friday. UK industry does not believe that the compensation package proposed by the French fishing industry provides sufficient recompense for their projected loss of earnings and has therefore rejected it on that basis. The French industry are currently unwilling to accept an offer to put back in place the agreement that has applied to the over 15 metre fleet for a number of years. As a result the talks have broken down and there remains no agreement at all,' he stated.
George Eustice commented that the UK government has offered to assist French enforcement authorities with MMO personnel should they want to consider joint operations given the risk of further altercations, and has also asked the French government to consider alternative options available to them.
'Firstly, it seems to me that putting back in place the agreement for the over 15 metre fleet which has stood the test of time over the last five years would be preferable to no agreement at all and I hope that the French industry will reconsider their position in this regard. Secondly, it is open to the French government to lift the domestic restrictions they have in place earlier than they normally in order to address concerns that their industry have expressed about the lack of a level playing field,' he said..
'The UK industry is legally allowed to fish in the Bay of Seine. They have shown commendable restraint during the negotiations and I welcome their cooperation and understanding. I hope a mutually beneficial outcome might still be agreed between the two industries but in the meantime we stand ready to offer what assistance the French government may wish to consider.'
Source: DEFRA
Last-minute agreement reached on scallops
Agreement has been reached between UK and France on the Channel scallop fishery
Representatives of the French and UK fishing sectors have thrashed out a settlement over the scallop fishery, following several rounds of talks that had initially looked promising, before failing to reach agreement. This belated agreement will see UK scallopers leaving Eastern Channel grounds from midnight on 17th September until midnight on 31st October – applies only to those over 15 metres.
The last round of negotiations ended with the French negotiators branding the UK compensation demands as 'extortionate' for an arrangement that would take the under 15m UK scallopers out of the Baie de Seine.
Talks resumed yesterday following a proposal from the French industry and a deal was reached last night. Under the terms of the agreement hammered out this week, UK scallopers over 15 metres will leave the Eastern Channel no later than midnight on the 17th September. In return, France transfers 720,000kW/days to the UK that can be used throughout Area 7, but not in 7d until 1st November.
The current situation arose after the gentlemen's agreement that had kept the peace over the scallop fishery in Baie de Seine broke down, resulting in French vessels sailing en masse in August to protest against the presence of UK scallopers on grounds that are not open to the French fleet until October.
The present agreement may be enough to keep the peace on the scallop grounds for this year, although it is clear that neither side is fully satisfied with the situation.
British representatives claim to be unhappy that the French effectively held them to ransom after failing to sign an accord earlier this year.
'This agreement is a better outcome for everyone,' Jim Portus of the SWFPO said following the conclusion of negotiations.
The French industry remains dissatisfied with this agreement not being applicable to the UK under 15 metre scallopers, which remain free to operate in the Baie de Seine without restriction.
'We were forced to drop the under 15s,' said Pascal Coquet of the CNPMEM scallop group. 'They are wreaking havoc,' he said.
I'd bet the country on there being NO DSP or PSP in those Scallops , that is a very very cynical way to "legally" close those grounds and you can absolutely bet the house on those grounds being reopened at 0001hrs 1st October. France very clearly breaking the law. I am absolutely sure this is a deliberate lie as DSP/PSP outbreaks happen in the summer months ( need an algal bloom to happen which doesn't happen at this time of year ) not in September , I have helped work up the samples sent in for testing in the 1990's and I cannot remember a single closure this late in the year.


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"Airtight" (Minotaur Books), by David Rosenfelt
The brutal death of a judge opens "Airtight," David Rosenfelt's latest tale of mystery, family dynamics and paranoia.
New Jersey police officer Luke Somers gets the case, and a suspect quickly becomes apparent. Somers and his partner arrive at the home of Steven Gallagher and find him holding a gun. Somers opens fire and kills him. Evidence shows that Gallagher killed the judge, so the case is closed.
Chris Gallagher doesn't believe that his brother killed the judge. He decides to force Somers to continue the investigation by kidnapping Somers' brother. Somers has seven days before his brother, Bryan, who's locked in an underground bunker, runs out of air.
Somers begins to balance the line between doing his job and ethics. Should he fabricate evidence to save his brother, or was Steven Gallagher innocent?
As the clock continues ticking, Rosenfelt takes readers on a tight journey that examines the family bond and what a person might do to save a loved one.
The thriller elements are intense, but the introduction of characters from a small town along with the issue of fracking distract from the main story. Even with that minor issue aside, readers will be waiting to see how airtight the case, and Bryan's prison, truly are.


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I searched and didn't find a reference to this, if it's posted already I apologize.
This was reported back in June of '02 but the only Windows Update that patches the vulnerability is Service Pack 1.
Delete arbitrary files using Help and Support Center
MS Tracking ID: [MSRC 1198dg]
Date Reported: 25/06/02
Date Published: 15/08/02
Vendor: Microsoft
Impact: Delete files through CSS condition in Help Center
Resolution: To be fixed in XP SP1
Tested Applications: IE6 + all service packs (to date of publishing)
Windows XP + all patches (to date of publishing)
Help Center (HelpCtr.exe v5.1.2600.0)
File used: C:windows\PCHEALTH\HELPCTR\SYSTEM\DFS
Possible Fixes: Service Pack 1, XPdite , manual deletion/renaming of file
It is possible to test your system for the vulnerability by entering into any address bar :
I created a file in C called test and put in some useless files and found that this does infact work. It does not delete the subdirectories, only the files in the directory specified. It is not limited to C: directories, subdirectories can be specified with the same results.


text: Every now and then you hear a cacher tell a story, that will be remembered for a very long time. Today was one such day for Kaching Karen, and here is the story. She conquered the DeLorme Challenge around 10:30 am, and then only 3 hours later. She found Rip dam rock-slide, and that gave her, 500 finds. Congrats Karen on the big milestone. She celebrated by climbing up to the top of the sheer cliffs and enjoying the view. TAT, kayakerinme and I were there to share in the cold beverages after the find. She revisited a few caches from a previous trip, last year. Checking out some of her logs and reliving some of the nicer Maine caches. Beautiful days and cold nights camping in the Northern Maine woods. Now on to 600 and beyond. Thanks for everything.:D :cool: :p :)


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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Columbus Crew announced on Wednesday that they have hired Asher Mendelsohn as the club's first director of soccer operations and Josh Wolff as assistant coach, giving the team two new faces long familiar with the workings of U.S. Soccer.
But new Crew head coach and sporting director Gregg Berhalter – who played in two World Cups for the USMNT himself – insists that neither move was based on familiarity or connections with the national team. Mendelsohn is the former U.S. Soccer director of referees, while Wolff (above, in 2006) is a veteran of the USMNT.
"You could also say the last staff had a lot of U.S. Soccer," Berhalter told MLSsoccer.com. "[Crew assistant] Mike Lapper played for the national team, [technical director] Brian Bliss played for the national team.
"There are a lot of guys at these levels that played for the national team. I was familiar with Josh as a player, and I think Asher is more than qualified for this type of role."
Berhalter and Wolff were teammates of Crew brand ambassador Frankie Hejduk, and Wolff said that the reunion is "unique."
"Whether that garners success or not, we'd like to believe it will; we'd like to believe we all bring something that will raise the profile of this club in a big way," Wolff told MLSsoccer.com. "It's infectious around the league. You can see a lot of previous players or guys that have been in our league or with the national team moving on into these positions."
Though he appreciates the group coming together, Wolff knows where his priorities need to be.
"It's exciting to be a part of, it's exciting to have those guys around; there are a lot of good memories," he said. "But first and foremost, we all understand what it takes to get this thing in the right direction and to get success. We're up for the challenge, and it'll be exciting to get started."
Berhalter, a defender in his playing days, said that he had offense in mind when making Wolff's appointment.
"[Wolff] has a great offensive mind," he said. "We have a good young group of players that he can work closely with. I think it's a good complement to my skill set ... We have game analysis, individual video edits, individual training and group offensive training. And I see [him] overseeing that entire area."
Berhalter said that the two hirings would not have any effect on Lapper's future, though he made it clear that things will be more certain in the coming days.
"I want to get the other assistant coach position filled by the end of the week or early next week, as well as a goalkeeper coach and maybe a scout," Berhalter said. "So we're talking about rounding that out for the year with a nice tight staff."