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But Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer seemed to complicate the question of institutional ambivalence with a post on his personal blog in which he inveighed against a "rush to judgment" concerning financial giant Goldman Sachs and a civil complaint by the SEC which accuses the Wall Street behemoth of fraud.
Glocer states an obvious fact: Goldman is guilty of nothing until the company is found guilty of something, or agrees that it broke a rule or regulation.
But now comes an object lesson into why this may not have been the best idea: News that federal prosecutors are now investigating the company prompted a rush to judgment on Wall Street as investors shot Goldman shares down 10% to a nine-month low.
Of course, Glocer's message is still valid and correct and (irony noted) probably not directed at the markets, whose amorphous, amoral, extralegal and essentially unchallenged power to literally take sides at all times on anything is precisely what Reuters' business is based upon (to say nothing of the basis of the broad charge that Wall Street created or at least exacerbated the global financial meltdown.)
I've lauded Glocer for being among the few CEOs who actually does blog. It is genuinely bold and refreshing: He has an unusually high burden to bear since he is not only a material person who can't say certain things publicly but the head of a media company which takes extraordinary pride in its impartiality.
So the problem isn't really that he's taken the side of a concept enshrined in the U.S. Constitution but that he picked this fight to take that stand -- a fast-breaking story being covered aggressively by people who report up to him who already know that they aren't supposed to pre-judge anything. And it doesn't help that Goldman is a major client -- at the very least an inconvenient truth.
Criticism when the context was only the sleepyish SEC civil case came quickly, from expected and unexpected quarters. The union representing US reporters seized upon the incident to renew its call for an ombudsman to advocate for editorial. The New York Times stepped in to say that Glocer's post was "an unusual step for a media executive." Michael Reupke, a former Reuters editor in chief and general manager, had much stronger language: "outrageous and inadmissible."
"Are the Trustees too sleepy to think of stepping in here?" Reupke wrote in a letter to "The Baron," a social network for current and former Reuters employees. "If this had happened in my day I doubt whether he could have survived in his job."
I'm inclined to think that there is nothing sinister going on, even though the atmospherics are terrible: Defending Wall Street, which pays many Reuters bills, as it digs it way out of the worst PR challenge since tainted Tylenol. The first non-editorial person to run the company in modern times, he screws the pooch in a way no Reuters journalist without a death wish could even imagine.
The Goldman story will play out for some time and there will be lots of opinions expressed about the company's comportment from all sides. In fact, Glocer need look no further for judge-and-jury-like conclusions than "The Great Debate" blog on reuters.com. Like in this post, from veteran columnist James Saft:
"Regardless of whether the actions of Goldman meet a legal hurdle of fraud, they very easily clear a very low hurdle of immoral and unethical behavior. Seriously, would you let these guys repair your car or treat your house for termites?"And that's the point. The hue and cry of the masses -- and even by British Prime Minister Gorden Brown, whom Glocer singles out for excess -- are not part of the process Glocer wants to protect, unless one is to believe that the SEC will be persuaded by the likes of Jon Stewart.
Goldman will get its day and its due and is still powerful enough to do as well as is humanly possible in their legal tussles no matter what the world thinks of them.
As Saft notes in that same column:
So remind me, why will clients continue to do business with Goldman Sachs?
I know, it is a stupid question; investors and corporations will continue to do business with Goldman even after the bank has been charged with an alleged fraud for the same reasons they always have: because they hope, like every gambler, to beat stacked odds and because they flatter themselves that they are not the sucker at the table.


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Somewhere in Germany, the imagination of an artist was captured by this portrait meant to commemorate Buzz Aldrin's moon landing. The artist's name was R. Meyer. Where others saw an American Hero, R. Meyer saw a muscle bound psychopath. No matter how many times people tried to paint over his strokes, R. Meyer would return and repaint his vision. Over and over, back and forth, R. Meyer would not be dissuaded, until finally it was time for us to move on to the next painting.
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In "The Sounds of the City" from PechaKucha Night New Westminster Vol. 16, Vincent Andrisani explains the important role that sounds play in our everyday lives. In his talk, Vincent argues that if we listen to the city with enough patience and curiosity, we can hear ideas for a more equitable approach to urban design and planning.


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Friday, December 11, 2015
Sawyer's Rose...
I finally got the final galley of Sawyer's Rose turned in and it looks like I should know a release date sometime in the next few weeks. It will be released in the spring of 2016. It has been a long road to this point. but it's very surreal to think one day in the near future I am going to actually hold this story as a book in my very own hands. When I was about twelve years old, I wrote in a journal that one day by the time I was fifty I wanted to be published--and that birthday is just right around the corner for me. I wonder how that will go, when the first book gets to me and I open the box it came in and can really hold it in my hands. I suspect I will just sit to the floor and begin reading once more. I will then show it off and of course like a kid on Christmas with a new toy, sleep with it cuddled in my arms for the first few nights. Don't laugh, I am being totally serious and I sure hope you guys out there will enjoy reading it as well!!!! Stay tuned!!!
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I have a newborn niece getting a lot of camera-time right now. It occurred to me recently that hundreds of people are often taking pictures of the same subjects and objects that I am. What sets mine apart? I've preached on the insignificance of gear over skill and intent, but admit there is increased quality between different lens and camera bodies that can carry over into pictures. So, let's say that better gear can be a factor in better pictures. Experience and a creative eye certainly play a large part, but with the availability of information in blogs and books on photography many camera owners are quite savvy about photographic fundamentals and are taking pictures from interesting perspectives and with sound compositions. What has struck me of late is the value of skilled post processing (PP) and it's ability to carry the message and feel of an image. I'm not speaking about the transparent attempts at using post processing as an unsuck-filter to save pictures lacking quality to begin with, but of PP's power to transform an image from interesting and competent to eye-catching and informative; to carry the intent of the photographer. The example below might exemplify my point a bit. The original picture was good: cute and well composed, but the processed image conveys the softness and innocence that I felt looking at my niece at the time. The work on this was relatively minor: some cloning, monochrome conversion, devignette-ing, a Gaussian blur and selective removal, and some slight skin softening. At other times I've used a heavier hand and extracted parts of an image or cloned more liberally, all for the clarity of my message in the image. Experience in PP and its use to improve the content of an image is, in my opinion, a separating factor between the basic photographer with a camera and the serious photographer with skill and experience. I'm sure this isn't a trade secret, but it seems rarely mentioned. Post processing almost appears to have a stigma attached to it from some corners; as if it's a cheater's trick or that the soul of photography is insulted through PP. Some of this is due to poor use and monotonous overuse of some processing. I've been guilty of poor use myself, but when done correctly, I think PP is vital to the final image and can set my pictures apart from the myriad of similar ones.
To be clear, in no way can PP overcome a poorly composed or uninteresting picture. The basics of composition have to be there for any PP to take the image to the next level. This is when experience with processing software is of importance. I'll often run a picture through a few different looks until I get the feel that I intend. Other times, I have the look and processing needed for an image pre-planned during my shoot; such was the case in the image above. Â A lot of my processing isn't as extreme as the example of above and typically includes just some sharpening, vignetting, color correction and minor tweaks; but if the image will gain from a heavier editing hand I go for it.
An overlooked aspect of PP experience (at least by me initially) is that a photographer's time and money invested into software should be a factor rolled into their pricing structure for clients. Most jobs have a pay-scale based on schooling and job experience, why shouldn't photography? A client might have little interest in the process that led to the final image, but it is up to us as photographers to present an image that meets a client's needs and this often involves at least minor PP work.
This can be a scary concept for some because it implies that anyone who takes the time can become skilled in processing software and produce similar images, that is, become competition. Primarily that's true, but such thinking can quickly get converge with the doomsday laments and cries of those complaining of a flooded market and the devaluation of photography. I've had my fill of such thinking and reading and have no interest in rehashing it this post. No, a successful image is a recipe of sorts composed of several factors, not just good processing, and it's up to us as photographers to market and improve ourselves to stand out from others.
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I've neglected my blog and newsletter writing lately. Partly because I've been so busy making and partly because I've been putting all my writing efforts into my "paid" blog writing for Making Jewellery magazine.
I'm going to attempt to change that though and as its the beginning(ish) of a new academic year, the little bit of teacher that's still in me is telling me that this is a good time to start afresh. So, I have my laptop, mug of tea, nice music playing and this idea that I'm going to try my very best to make this a bi-weekly offering of what I've been up to in (and sometimes out of) my workshop!
I've actually just written a lot more than these couple of paragraphs. It was going to be part of todays "blog offering" but I've decided what I just written (kind of organically by accident) is just what I want to say in my next Making Jewellery article so, I'm afraid you'll have to wait a bit longer for my words of wisdom on what makes someone "successful"!
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The events were hosted under the theme "Love is the Best Protection," meaning that one's love for themselves and their partners is motivation for safer sex. Nearly all of the events included distribution of AHF's LOVE-branded condoms in high-traffic areas of each city. SFVRD was the only roller derby league in Los Angeles asked to participate and players volunteered to skate around in North Hollywood and distribute condoms to evening commuters as they came off of the Metro line at Lankershim and Magnolia. SFVRD was happy to work in partnership with the AHF to deliver their message. A special thank you to the skaters that volunteered their time!
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This column by ACRU Policy Board member Hans von Spakovsky and Brad Schlozman was published June 23, 2016 by Heritage.org.
On April 5, 2016, the voters of Ferguson, Missouri, rejected a proposed property tax increase that would have funded the city's settlement agreement with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Now personnel cuts are being prepared, and bankruptcy looms. The police department, in particular, must transform its operations, subjecting itself to unprecedented new oversight and surrendering much of its authority to the federal government. Rather than resisting the Justice Department's overreach, the Ferguson City Council has capitulated to pressure from an array of advocacy groups and interest groups. Emboldened, these radical elements are now flexing their muscles, requiring the city's police department to cede virtually all power to the consent decree monitor and federal government overseers.
In March 2016, the City of Ferguson, Missouri, announced that unless voters agreed to a massive tax increase to fund its debilitating consent decree with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, the city would have to lay off 12 police officers and six firefighters and close one of the city's two fire stations1. The cuts would represent more than 20 percent of the police and fire departments' current staffing levels. Furthermore, the mayor informed city employees that even if the tax hike was to be approved, the crippling costs of the consent decree would make it necessary for all municipal employees to take a 3 percent pay cut and endure a reduction in the city's contribution to their retirement benefits.
Despite that warning, on April 5, 2016, voters rejected the proposed property tax increase2. Pink slips are apparently being prepared, and city services will soon be slashed. Bankruptcy could be just around the corner. The city manager noted simply that repudiation of the tax hike "will force a close look at the city budget3."
Those are just the fiscal costs. The wide-ranging, judicially enforced settlement agreement (consent decree) will require that the police department radically transform its operations, subject itself to unprecedented new oversight, and surrender much of its authority to the federal government. Yet these consequences could have been avoided if the city had better understood the law and the general tenor of the attorneys inside the Civil Rights Division's Special Litigation Section (SLS), which investigated Ferguson's police department and imposed the settlement agreement on the city4.
Had city leaders been willing to stand up to the Justice Department, resolution of this matter would have been cheaper and far less oppressive. Had the city demanded that the Civil Rights Division prove at least part of its case in court — which would have been no small task for DOJ, given the often flimsy nature of the allegations in its March 4, 2015, "findings letter"5 on the supposed practices of the Ferguson Police Department—there would be little talk of municipal bankruptcy. Had the City Council insisted on long-term fiscal prudence and rejected those provisions in the proposed consent decree that have little or no connection to federal constitutional mandates, the public safety crisis and loss of confidence in law enforcement would have been far more fleeting. There still would have been substantial smoke, but the raging conflagration — in both fiscal and local authority terms — would have subsided.
Instead, after briefly displaying commendable fortitude, the council capitulated to pressure from the usual array of liberal advocacy groups and racially-centric organizations, most of which tend to act as surrogates for the Civil Rights Division during Democratic Administrations. Like any bully confronting a victim who is afraid to fight back, these radical elements are now flexing their muscles more than ever, calling for the city's police department to cede virtually all power to the consent decree monitor and his federal government overseers6.
Whatever political expediency and public relations may have achieved in the short term, the long-term consequences that the city is about to experience, both economically and in terms of diminished public safety, will be far more acute.
Police Departments Do Not Understand How Narrow DOJ Jurisdiction Is
All but lost in the typically overheated and nearly always misguided political rhetoric attacking the Ferguson City Council's original, but ultimately temporary, decision to resist a full-scale surrender in this case is the Justice Department's extremely narrow jurisdictional justification for getting involved in the first place. DOJ's authority is rooted in a federal statute, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, that prohibits law enforcement agencies from engaging in a "pattern or practice" of conduct that violates the federal constitutional rights of the local population.
Passed in the wake of the infamous Rodney King beating, Section 14141 was designed to fill a gap in the federal judiciary's ability to impose broad injunctive relief against law enforcement organizations that systematically contravene individuals' federally protected rights. Other laws (particularly 42 U.S.C. § 1983) were deemed unable to achieve systemic reforms because, while they allowed damage actions by individual plaintiffs who themselves had suffered some sort of particularized injury, they provided no legal basis for a court to order comprehensive changes in the operations and policies of an entire agency. The new law gave the Attorney General of the United States, rather than individual citizens, the right to commence a lawsuit seeking "appropriate equitable and declaratory relief to eliminate the pattern or practice" of constitutional violations.
Section 14141, however, imposes a very high threshold for establishing liability. As an initial matter, the Attorney General cannot predicate her case on principles of respondeat superior (a legal doctrine providing that an employer is responsible for the actions of employees performed within the course of their employment). Instead, there must be proof that the agency had some officially promulgated or de facto custom or policy that triggered the violation of constitutional rights. That is an uphill slog for any plaintiff.
DOJ is well aware of this rough terrain and routinely argues for a more liberal standard that holds a city responsible for any misbehavior of a police officer even when the city was unaware of the misbehavior and even when such behavior clearly violated the standards, policies, or regulations of the police department. It appears, however, that the courts have rejected all such efforts, most recently in litigation with Alamance County, North Carolina7; Erie County, New York8; the State of Arkansas9; the State of Pennsylvania10; and the City of Columbus, Ohio11.
Another roadblock the Justice Department encounters is that it has to prove true constitutional violations, not mere deviations from "best practices." This distinction is critical and, in our experience, often ignored by those who are charged with enforcing the statute. In a jail setting, for example, where the Justice Department is investigating the administration of the prison, it is well settled that mere medical malpractice does not equate to a constitutional infirmity. Similarly, the fact that a police department may be using an antiquated device to control suspects or that its record-keeping practices may have failed to keep pace with advancing technology does not automatically translate into a constitutional violation.
An agency's practices may be unorthodox and cry out for modernization. They may cause great consternation to academics and so-called experts in the field. Reform may be in order. But establishing a violation of the minimum standards mandated by the U.S. Constitution requires a great deal more. The mere fact that a police department could do a "better" job in the view of federal bureaucrats does not violate the "pattern or practice" statute.
Further, demonstrating a "pattern or practice" of constitutional violations is no small task. Although the case law defining this term is somewhat sparse, the Supreme Court of the United States has stated generally that the phrase refers to situations in which the legal violations at issue are the "standard operating procedure," the "regular rather than the unusual practice."12 A few rogue officers or a handful of isolated incidents over an extended period of time do not a "pattern or practice" make.
Perusing the "findings letters" on the Civil Rights Division's website13 against other states and cities, it is easy to identify many where the alleged incidents triggering the Attorney General's Section 14141 jurisdiction are spread out over such an extended period of time. Characterizing these incidences as a true "pattern or practice" of misconduct is therefore difficult, even assuming the allegations' validity — which is no trivial matter, given the occasional proclivity for exaggeration by the complaining individuals who find themselves on the wrong end of the criminal justice system.
Moreover, even when Section 14141 has been properly invoked, its remedial breadth is hardly all-encompassing. Any injunctive relief must be limited to the specifically identified pattern or practice of constitutional violations. Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment does not confer upon the federal government the authority to require a state or municipality to engage in "best practices" in law enforcement as defined by the federal government14.
While a judicially directed remedy may be broader than the constitutional right protected in order to safeguard that right prophylactically15, the remedy still must be congruent and proportional to the identified constitutional violation16. Again, based on a review of the consent decrees available on the Civil Rights Division's own website, many show little deference to this constitutional constraint.
For example, mandating new requirements for a citizen review panel or — worse yet — insisting on the establishment of an entirely new citizen oversight commission for the police department, as many recent decrees do is attenuated from any constitutionally grounded requirements. Such bodies may well advance the goal of community engagement and may even be a good idea as a matter of policy, but they are in no way constitutionally compulsory, and they certainly do not prevent any particular constitutional violation.
A prime example of how the Civil Rights Division goes far beyond its statutory authority is a peculiar letter that SLS Deputy Chief Christy Lopez sent to Ferguson in the middle of its investigation17. That September 16, 2014, letter ordered Police Chief Thomas Jackson to "prohibit Ferguson Police Department officers from wearing 'I am Darren Wilson' bracelets while in uniform and on duty." The types of uniforms worn by a police department are not even within the purview of the Justice Department, and it had no authority of any kind to order the officers to stop wearing a bracelet in support of their fellow officer who was erroneously accused of wrongdoing.
Legal Deficiencies in DOJ Investigation of Ferguson Police Department
A careful review of the "findings letter" that the Civil Rights Division's SLS issued following its investigation of the Ferguson Police Department demonstrates that many of the cited examples of unconstitutional policing used by the SLS to support its "pattern or practice" lawsuit wither under scrutiny18. In fact, according to Peter Kirsanow, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the letter was "so replete with conclusions unsupported by facts, so lacking in basic methodological rigor," that it "is an embarrassment."19
SLS claims there was a "pattern and practice" of unconstitutional behavior because "African Americans account for 85% of vehicle stops, 90% of citations, and 93% of arrests made by" Ferguson police officers, despite the city's population being only 67 percent black. This claim ignores the fact that numerous studies, including data from DOJ itself, demonstrate that blacks commit crimes and routine traffic violations at a much higher rate than whites. Other than this statistical disparity that is easily explained by such higher crime rates, SLS is unable to point to specific, intentional, knowing conduct and discriminatory policies promulgated by the city that are causing any unconstitutional policing.
In other words, SLS appears to be relying on guilt by political correctness.
In another example, SLS complains about an officer who broke up "an altercation between two minors and sent them back to their homes." The officer told one of the minors to stay in her home and not return to the other minor's house. The two minors, however, got into a fight again outside the first minor's house. This time, the same officer arrested them both for "failure to comply" with his earlier order.
What the officer did seems perfectly reasonable. He did not arrest the minors the first time he was called to the scene; instead, he gave them a chance to cool off and not get arrested. But what may seem like common sense to us is not common sense to SLS. Its report faults the officer for arresting the minors without probable cause. That is one of the incidents that constitutes a "pattern or practice" of violating the Fourth Amendment. If these sorts of allegations were held up to scrutiny — say, before a jury — many would quickly be refuted.
SLS also complained that Ferguson was too focused on collecting revenue through its court system. As much as city residents may not like that, and while most would probably say that the city's law enforcement practices should be shaped by the need for public safety and not revenue, using traffic violations or "aggressively enforce[ing] the municipal code," as SLS complained, is not a "pattern or practice" of unconstitutional policing or intentional racial discrimination.
Ironically, on the same day that the SLS issued its report on the supposed "pattern or practice" of unconstitutional behavior by the Ferguson Police Department, a different part of the Civil Rights Division (the Criminal Section) issued a far less publicized report completely clearing former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown. This should hardly have been surprising, given the overwhelming evidence uncovered by the FBI and a local grand jury that proved the original storyline about Brown peddled by certain media and racial agitators was a total fabrication conjured up by dishonest witnesses who lied to the police and reporters. Given the enormous pressure on the Justice Department, however, it is not difficult to imagine that there may have been a political motivation to "get" Ferguson in some way and placate anti-police and civil rights organizations in the wake of Wilson's exoneration.
The City of Baltimore, Maryland, which is awaiting the results of a similar investigation by SLS, can expect the same treatment. As Paul Mirengoff points out, at a time when the police department has experienced mass resignations and crime in the city has skyrocketed, the Justice Department's investigation "seems virtually guaranteed to destroy whatever is left of department morale."20 The Obama Justice Department "can be expected [to] promote the twin goals of grandstanding and upholding a leftist narrative about the police at the expense of fair play for those who try to protect Baltimore's residents."21
Capitulation to Department of Justice Comes at a Steep Price
Jurisdictions that do not want to find themselves in Ferguson's position — teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, awash in escalated violent crime, and surrendering vast amounts of precious local authority in the name of short-term political expediency — must understand that there is a steep price to pay for unconditional acquiescence to the Department of Justice and its Civil Rights Division. As The Washington Post and Frontline observed in a comprehensive piece last November, consent decrees foisted on local law enforcement agencies during the Obama Administration virtually never end by the targeted completion date and nearly always cost exponentially more than anyone envisioned22. The article noted that "in 13 of the police departments for which budget data was available, costs are expected to surpass $600 million, expenses largely passed on to local taxpayers."23
In addition to mandating standards that often far exceed anything compelled by the Constitution, the monitors who oversee them have financial incentives to take aggressive positions toward the targeted police department and prolong federal oversight. The monitors are afforded broad latitude by the courts, of course, but if they run afoul of their ultimate patrons — the Civil Rights Division bureaucrats who were responsible for their appointment — their lucrative work could soon dry up. And lucrative it is: The Washington Post / Frontline exposé, for example, cited the fees paid to the monitor overseeing a consent decree with the Puerto Rico Police Department. His annual tab: approximately $1.5 million, which he claims "is by far the cheapest consent decree budget in the entire nation."
The point here is not that all monitors are biased or unfair, which is assuredly not the case. The fundamental takeaway, which far too few jurisdictions appreciate, is that the promise of a pat on the back at a press conference for agreeing to a settlement agreement proposed by the Justice Department or the glimmer of temporary relief from media criticism and liberal advocacy group attacks is no reason for a local government to jeopardize its fiscal sanity, compromise the safety of the public, and jettison its proper authority.
States and municipalities need to recognize that, notwithstanding all the bluster and bellicose rhetoric from the Justice Department leadership and many leftist civil rights organizations, principled resistance to Civil Rights Division investigations is not tantamount to opposition to reform or approval of discriminatory conduct. It is merely an acknowledgement that the Constitution does not entrust the federal government with the responsibility of local policing or overseeing local law enforcement agencies.
In the face of actual, demonstrated abuses by those local agencies, Washington may be empowered to impose reforms designed to ensure that minimum constitutional standards are being met, but the federal government's authority ends there. It often takes courage to fight a bully, and too many states and municipalities have been unable or unwilling to stick up for themselves when the Civil Rights Division flexes its muscle. Instead, they come to a gunfight armed only with a pocketknife.
The consent decree to which Ferguson agreed is full of requirements that go far beyond the relief the Justice Department likely could obtain — even if it actually proved a pattern or practice of unconstitutional policing in violation of Section 1414124. For example, there has never been any finding that the Ferguson Police Department engaged in unlawful discrimination in its hiring, yet the Justice Department uses the consent decree as a tool to force discriminatory hiring criteria on Ferguson. Paragraph 281 of the consent decree requires Ferguson to have "throughout the ranks of the Department… diversity in life experience, cultural background, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and language." The objective of police departments should be to hire the best-qualified law enforcement personnel who will protect the public regardless of their skin color, sexual orientation, or other such characteristics.
Moreover, the social engineering does not stop with paragraph 281.
- The consent decree requires Ferguson to have "goals" and "objectives" for "attracting and retaining a high-quality and diverse work force with the attributes" previously mentioned. Based on past practice, there is little doubt that Justice will use quotas to measure whether Ferguson has hired enough women, racial minorities, homosexuals, transgenders, and individuals in every other "diversity" category.
- There is a requirement that the police department's hiring criteria must "ensure that no process, criterion, or requirement has a statistically significant disparate impact on members of a protected group."
- The consent decree even requires "competitive" salaries for its police officers. Neither the Constitution nor federal law lays out some optimum standard for the salaries paid to a police officer.
These overreaching provisions are just the tip of the iceberg. The 129-page agreement between the city and the Justice Department is filled with such extralegal requirements. While there is an ongoing debate about the effectiveness and wisdom of having law enforcement officers wear body cameras, this agreement requires all Ferguson police officers to do so. Wearing body cameras is not a minimum constitutional requirement; neither is requiring the Ferguson Municipal Court to provide "a comprehensive amnesty program" for all open prosecutions "not yet adjudicated that were initiated prior to January 1, 2014."
This Legal Memorandum is not advocating a "bury your head in the sand" approach. Rather, it seeks to underscore that while the Civil Rights Division is insisting on certain reforms, the potentially troubled police department can and should still insist on far less burdensome reforms. For example, it should ask: Is the proposed reform critical to the department's professional operation or merely a thinly disguised effort at social engineering by federal bureaucrats? Is it truly mandated by the Constitution or merely a "best practice"? It is one thing to strive for best practices, but it is something altogether different to bind the department legally to those often prohibitively expensive best practices and face judicial sanctions and millions of dollars in monitor costs for failing to achieve them.
Finally, any conversation about these issues must consider the inevitable "Ferguson effect" of many law enforcement consent decrees. Much has been written on this "de-policing" issue, some of the best of which comes from the pen of Heather MacDonald, a scholar at the Manhattan Institute. As she explained in The Wall Street Journal late last year:
Now cops making arrests in urban areas are routinely surrounded by bystanders, who swear at them and interfere with the arrests. The media and many politicians decry as racist law-enforcement tools like pedestrian stops and broken-windows policing — the proven method of stopping major crimes by going after minor ones. Under such conditions, it isn't just understandable that the police would back off; it is also presumably what the activists and the media critics would want. The puzzle is why these progressives are so intent on denying that such de-policing is occurring and that it is affecting public safety25.
As part of her column, Ms. MacDonald interviewed William Bryson, chairman of the Delaware Police Chiefs Council, who pointed out what should be obvious: "Proactive policing is what keeps our streets safe. Officers will not hesitate to go into a situation that is obviously dangerous, but because of recent pronouncements about racism, they are not so likely to make a discretionary stop of a minority when yesterday they would have."
FBI Director James Comey echoed these same concerns last October in a speech at the University of Chicago Law School26 — much to the chagrin of the White House27. Comey underscored the consequence of this de-policing: Increases in violent crime — especially homicides and shootings — have hit nearly every big city in the country. He reiterated those same concerns recently in lamenting the soaring homicide rates in more than two dozen major cities28.
Throughout the United States, particularly in heavily minority areas, the tension and distrust between law enforcement and the communities they serve are as great today as they have been in many decades. Officer morale has plummeted29. Yet Civil Rights Division officials — many of whom were previously employed by or financial supporters of the same activist organizations that are now responsible for the often groundless attacks on local law enforcement — all too frequently exacerbate the problem30.[30]
No one disputes that rogue officers can be found patrolling America's streets, and no one denies that constitutional violations occur. Enforcement of federal civil rights laws is clearly important. But to capitulate reflexively to federal bureaucrats in Washington who believe that cries of racism and unconstitutional policing are nearly always true, who believe that every police department should adhere to a uniform standard of conduct determined by national "experts" with Ivy League degrees, who believe that city coffers are bottomless and that the cost of "best practice" reform is irrelevant, and who consider state sovereignty to be little more than a quaint and antiquated notion is an even greater danger for society. The citizens of Ferguson, Missouri, are going to find that out.
1. Jim Salter, Ferguson Settlement Could Be in Jeopardy If Tax Hikes Fail, U.S. News & World Report, Mar. 30, 2016, http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2016-03-30/ferguson-settlement-could-be-in-jeopardy-if-tax-hikes-fail.↩
2. See Associated Press, Ferguson Official: Tax Vote Shouldn't Affect Police Reform, Apr. 7, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ferguson-official-defeat-of-tax-hike-should-not-stall-police-reform/2016/04/07/15aaa4a4-fc40-11e5-886f-a037dba38301_story.html.↩
3. Id. ↩
4. See Hans A. von Spakovsky, Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder's Special Litigation Section, PJ Media (Aug. 16, 2011), https://pjmedia.com/blog/every-single-one-the-politicized-hiring-of-eric-holders-special-litigation-section/.↩
5. Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department (Mar. 4, 2015). Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, "Findings Letter," https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report_1.pdf (last visited June 16, 2016).↩
6. See Brett Blume, Ferguson Collaborative Lays Out Consent Decree Demands, CBS Radio (May 23, 2016), http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2016/05/23/ferguson-collaborative-lays-out-consent-decree-demands/.↩
7. United States v. Johnson, 122 F. Supp. 3d 272 (M.D.N.C. 2015).↩
8. United States v. Erie County, N.Y., 734 F. Supp. 2d 357 (W.D.N.Y. 2010).↩
9. United States v. Arkansas, 794 F. Supp. 2d 935 (E.D. Ark. 2011).↩
10. United States v. Pennsylvania, N.Y., 902 F. Supp. 565 (W.D. Pa. 1995).↩
11. United States v. City of Columbus, Ohio, 2000 WL 1133166 (S.D. Ohio Aug. 3, 2000).↩
12. See International Bhd. of Teamsters v. United States, 431 U.S. 324 (1977).↩
13. United States Department of Justice, Special Litigation Section Cases and Matters, https://www.justice.gov/crt/special-litigation-section-cases-and-matters0 (last visited June 16, 2016).↩
14. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees that no state shall make or enforce any law depriving a person of "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" or denying any person the "equal protection of the laws." Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment empowers Congress to enforce those guarantees by appropriate legislation. The Supreme Court made clear in City of Boerne v. Flores, 521 U.S. 507, 518–20 (1997), though, that Congress's authority under Section 5 is restricted to legislation that is "preventive or remedial" of constitutional violations. Substantive changes in the governing law, as opposed to measures designed simply to enforce an existing constitutional right, are not within the ambit of Congress's power.↩
15. See Brown v. Plata, 563 U.S. 493, 531–39 (2011); Milliken v. Bradley, 433 U.S. 267, 281–82 (1977).↩
16. The Supreme Court has held that Congress's power to pass remedial legislation pursuant to Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment is subject to two conditions: First, "there must be a congruence between the means used and the ends to be achieved," City of Boerne, 521 U.S. at 530; and second, the legislation cannot be "so out of proportion to a supposed remedial or preventive object that it cannot be understood as responsive to, or designed to prevent, unconstitutional behavior." Id. at 532.↩
17. Letter from Christy E. Lopez to Chief Thomas Jackson (Sept. 26, 2014), https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/2014/11/04/ferguson_ltr_bracelet_9-26-14.pdf.↩
18. See Hans A. von Spakovsky, What the Ferguson Report Really Exposed, The National Interest, Mar. 13, 2015, http://nationalinterest.org/feature/what-the-ferguson-report-really-exposed-12417.↩
19. Id.↩
20. [Text of footnote 1]↩
20. Paul Mirengoff, Baltimore's Shrinking Police Department, Powerline (Apr. 30, 2016), http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/04/baltimores-shrinking-police-department.php.↩
21. Id.↩
22. Kimbriell Kelly, Sarah Childress, & Steven Rich, Forced Reforms, Mixed Results, Wash. Post, Nov. 13, 2015, http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/11/13/forced-reforms-mixed-results/.↩
23. Id.↩
24. Consent Decree, U.S. v. City of Ferguson, No. 4:16-000180-CDP (E.D. MO. Mar. 17, 2016), https://www.justice.gov/crt/file/833701/download.↩
25. Heather MacDonald, Trying to Hide the Rise of Violent Crime, Wall St. J., Dec. 25, 2015, http://www.wsj.com/articles/trying-to-hide-the-rise-of-violent-crime-1451066997.↩
26. See James B. Comey, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation, speech at the University of Chicago Law School Chicago, IL (Oct. 23, 2015), https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/law-enforcement-and-the-communities-we-serve-bending-the-lines-toward-safety-and-justice.↩
27. See Michael Schmidt & Matt Apuzzo, White House Disagrees with FBI Chief on Scrutiny as a Cause of Crime, N.Y. Times, Oct. 26, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/us/politics/white-house-disagrees-with-fbi-chief-on-scrutiny-as-a-cause-of-crime.html?_r=0.↩
28. Mark Berman, Homicides Up Again This Year in More than Two Dozen Major U.S. Cities, Wash. Post, May 14, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/05/14/we-have-a-problem-homicides-are-up-again-this-year-in-more-than-two-dozen-major-u-s-cities/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_pn-homicides-808am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory.↩
29. See Aaron Davis, YouTube Effect Has Left Police Officers Under Siege, Law Enforcement Leaders Say, Wash. Post, Oct. 8, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/10/08/youtube-effect-has-left-police-officers-under-siege-law-enforcement-leaders-say/.↩
30. See von Spakovsky, Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder's Special Litigation Section.↩


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Share Yaraicho
In the first Tokyo shared house, Satoko Shinohara and Ayano Uchimura have instilled a sense of rediscovered sensitivity towards nature and social responsibility, owed to the effect of energy-rationing post-Fukushima.
Share Yaraicho is situated near Kagurazaka, in the district of Shinjuku, in one of the most densely populated areas of Tokyo. With this project, Satoko Shinohara of Spatial Design Studio and Ayano Uchimura of A studio offer two original considerations regarding some of the changes taking place in Japanese society: they respond to both the demand for socialisation from Tokyo inhabitants and a need to develop awareness with regard to saving energy, necessary after the tragic events of 11 March 2011.
First shared house in Tokyo
Share Yaraicho responds to a growing demand for alternative patterns of living and is the first shared house in Tokyo that has been specifically designed as such. It may seem strange but in Japan, all the other existing shared houses are the result of buildings being adapted and converted for the purpose. Over recent years, due to economic and cultural issues but above all for reasons of social transformation, Japan has changed considerably, in fact in 2012 for the first time the percentage of people living alone in Tokyo has topped 50%. Most Japanese young (and old) people live alone and this represents a major difference with respect to their European and American counterparts for whom sharing a house with other students or workmates is a widespread practice. Share Yaraicho – thanks to spaces for socialising and living together – offers an alternative in response to an increasingly widespread request to oppose the trend of social solitude destined to increase over the coming years.
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Shinohara and Uchimura's project is situated on a quiet site, set back from Kagurazaka's main thoroughfare and consists of a 10-metre-high building with a load-bearing structure in metal – a kind of box open on the front and rear elevation with seven units inserted into it. Some of the units are suspended from the structure in such a way as to leave gaps for storing low furniture and seating. The external facade – made from a semi-transparent waterproof plastic membrane that reflects the external landscape – contributes to the serene atmosphere given by the design. The membrane can be partially opened during the summer via the use of zips, encouraging natural ventilation and contact with the outside. There is in fact no door and solid wall but a zip that opens to take you into the house. Once past the semi-transparent facade, one finds oneself in an airy full-height transition space that serves as a buffer between inside and outside.
PROJECT TEAM: Taichi Kuma / Satoko Shinohara / Spatial Design Studio + Ayano Uchimura / A studio
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING: Ohno Japan
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– Famous Evangelist Mike Bamiloye shares marriage proposal story
– Celebrates wife as she turns 52-years
– Mike Bamiloye shares adorable family pictures
Popular Christian movie producer and Evangelist Mike Bamiloye celebrates wife, Gloria Bamiloye as she turns 52-years on Thursday, February 4 and seized the opportunity to narrate how it took his wife one month to accept his marriage proposal.
Narrating his ordeal in the hands of his beautiful wife, Mike Bamiloye disclosed that it took his wife one month to accept his marriage proposal saying:
"The day I went to propose to her, I never beat about the bush or rehearsed any Love persuasive Poem. I never said anything like, the Lord sent me or I felt the Lord is leading me. Or I dreamt and saw you Or I heard a voice from Heaven that. I had said some of those things before to some sisters whom I thought the Lord was leading me to, and I was wrong. This time around, I went to this new sister, after my usual much Prayers and Waiting. I was not even sure if the Lord was leading me or not again. My computers have been crashed and the memory virused by the previous disappointments I had met from the sisters I had thought were the will of God."
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"So, I arrived the campus and the brethren were happy to see me. I usually came at evening time, for Drama rehearsals or if there were drama outreaches, I would come to go with them or lead them to the programs. But this time, I came during the day, at lecture time and many of the brethren were coming to me to know why or what information I had brought for the Fellowship Drama Unit members. I simply said I came to see Sister Shola. And that was unusual of me. I don't come asking for sisters in the fellowship."
"So, some brethren spread out to look for Sister Shola. And one sister found her in the school Library and grabbed her hand: Bro. Mike is around. He is looking for you. The sister brought her and left. Sister Shola stood before me smiling, and waiting for the instructions, probably to the Drama Unit, or information of her being casted into a new Drama Unit presentation. I greeted her. She replied with a smile. I told her bluntly, that the Holy Spirit had not sent me neither did I see any vision. Then, I asked her: WILL YOU MARRY ME?"
"She stood before me speechless for some minutes, looking at me with some astonishment and confusion. She was never expecting to hear such question from "Bro. Mike" of all people! She was lost for words, because it was the last thing she would expect to hear from me."
"I got my answer after one month of waiting. It was on a Sunday Morning. After the church service, I went to wait for her at the front of her house. I just wanted to greet her again and look at her again, and maybe the Lord would answer my prayers this time. She came not so long and ushered me into the house quietly. She was quiet. She was not showing any excitement, which got me more worried again. I sat down on a chair while she was writing something on the table. Then, she finished writing, and she turned to me with a small piece of paper containing ONE SINGLE LINE OF SENTENCE: "I WILL MARRY YOU"
Mike Bamiloye further revealed that he proposed to his wife on Sunday, August 4, 1985, when she was 21-years and he was 25-years, as he asked himself a question: "is it not evident that the Lord actually led me?"
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Turrones, a typical nougatine Christmas confection, are everywhere. In every flavor imaginable, with as many variations as there are cities in Spain. Turron is to this country as pie is to America.
People are shopping the streets lined with lights, fake icicles, and stalls of roasted chestnuts. Decorations are everywhere, and the giant Christmas tree just went up at the Ayuntamiento.
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John Wood (ABC Economics) – In the aftermath of the Iowa caucuses, The New York Times gave insight into the race for the Republican nomination. "To win, the three leading candidates must build diverse coalitions of voters and capitalize on states where they have natural strengths", the New York Times correspondent observed.
Hereafter we report a series of New York Times info-graphics highlighting the key States the top three Republican hopefuls – namely Cruz, Trump and Rubio – need to win in order to secure a ticket ahead of the 2016 US presidential race.


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Minden: 'Sweet, Simple Things'
There's a subtle sexuality that penetrates Minden's saccharine indie pop. Erotic themes of bondage and role playing juxtapose with frontman Casey Burge's lighter subjects, such as searching for authenticity while selecting the right soda pop — it's all enough to leave one wiping his brow and licking her lips.
On the Portland quintet's new album Sweet, Simple Things, Burge and his band hone an evocative collection of smooth and danceable tunes, indulging in confectionary hooks laid over funky grooves. The nine song LP is delicious in its oddity, befitting feel good moments from West Coast summers to Parisian night clubs.
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Celebrate with Overton Square at this annual event, where families are invited to honor ancestors and celebrate the cycle of life and death.
10:30 a.m. - Parade begins in Overton Square in the Tower Courtyard
12:15 p.m. - Festival begins at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Enjoy face painting, art-making, music, dance and theatrical performances and place an offering on our communal altar. Dress up and compete in the Frida Kahlo costume contest!
Admission is free. Family-friendly!
This event is hosted in partnership with The Brooks Museum, Cazateatro Bilingual Theatre Group and Danza Azteca Quetzalcoatl.


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- Pascal Billand & Christophe Bravard & Marie Sudipta Sarangi, 2012. "Mutual Insurance Networks in Communities," Working Papers 1234, Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon.
- Martin Brown & Stefan Trautmann & Razvan Vlahu, 2012. "Contagious Bank Runs: Experimental Evidence," DNB Working Papers 363, Netherlands Central Bank, Research Department.
- Chia-Lin Chang & Michael McAleer & Les Oxley, 2013. "Journal Impact Factor, Eigenfactor, Journal Influence and Article Influence," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 13-002/III, Tinbergen Institute.
- Stefania Vitali & Stefano Battiston, 2013. "The Community Structure of the Global Corporate Network," Papers 1301.2363, arXiv.org.
- Saeed Mehraban & Amirhossein Shirazi & Maryam Zamani & Gholamreza Jafari, 2013. "Coupling between time series: a network view," Papers 1301.1010, arXiv.org.
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Summer Week 4 - July 10th, 2015
Using CATIA's all-in-one, we converted our wind tunnel model into code that we could upload to a vertical mill and started making our wind tunnel model a reality. We also have our first parts of the suspension and in the garage. A huge thank you to Cummins and its Experiment Machining Shop for helping make that possible.


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Andrew Bogusch Previews Wimbledon on One on One
Bogusch talks Federer, Nadal, Murray and more heading to Wimbledon
WFUV alumn and CBS Sports Radio's Andrew Bogusch joins Matt Moro and DJ Sixmith on One on One to talk Wimbledon.
Brian Clark of CineSport on The French Open
US Open Diary Part 3
One on One Examines Wimbledon 2013 with Filip Bondy
Topsy-turvy Wimbledon draws close to the finale
With Wimbledon about to wrap up, Nolan Silbernagel and I talked with the New York Daily News's Filip Bondy from across the pond about the tournament. We talked about the surprising early round upsets and the future of American tennis. Filip also previews the Gentlemen's Final, Brit Andy Murray against top-ranked Novak Djokovic.
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Super Falcons protest non-payment of allowance, storm NASS Abuja
TVC E. Protest is currently on-going at the National Assembly in Abuja by the the Super Falcons over non-payment of allowance by the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF)
According to an eye witness present at the scene, the Nigerian ladies are asking for the full payment of their allowances as they will soon be thrown out of the hotel where they lodged.
The victorious team members have been held up in a hotel in Abuja, many days after they returned to the country with the trophy.
They protest daily on the streets of Abuja and have vowed never to leave the hotel until their allowances were paid.
The team won the 10th edition of the African Women championship just held in Cameroon and this will be the 8th time Nigeria has won the competition.
Professional footballers have begged NFF to pay the Falcons.
The ladies are hoping that President Muhammadu Buhari, who is due to visit the National Assembly today to present the estimates of the 2017 budget to lawmakers, will see them and show pity on their plight.
Some of their placards read, "We are your children, pity us"; "Let us respect women"; "female football deserves respect."
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A regularly held belief is that as fine wine auctioneers we must spend our whole time drinking the good stuff. In reality this is not true (I probably manage a bottle a week if I'm lucky!). Yesterday was a rare and (extremely pleasant) exception as Chris and I were being treated to lunch at 28-50 by a very generous client.
I arrived to find Graham and Xavier (co-owner and founder of the restaurant) tucking in to a bottle of the sublime 1982 Chevalier Montrachet from Bouchard. This is the oldest white Burgundy I've ever tasted and one of the finest. The nose was incredible – loaded with melted butter, a touch of hazelnut and spice. The wine possessed amazing precision too and had a firm acid backbone which must have made it pretty challenging in its youth! It made a great pairing with my starter of squid, cauliflower puree and curry oil.
To follow we had a pair of wines which were bought via a BfW sale a couple of months ago – a 1982 La Mission Haut Brion and its younger cousin the 1990 Haut Brion. Sadly the 1982 was showing its age and creaked a little (though this was probably partly because we were comparing it with the '90 – it was still a really fine glass of wine!). The 1990 was stupendous and crackled with life and energy – lots of cedar and black fruit on the nose – a real demonstration of why the Chateau is held in such high esteem.
If the treats we'd enjoyed so far were not enough a bottle of Graham's 1994 Vintage port rounded things off. This was so vibrant and young that it was hard to believe we were drinking a 20 year old wine. Whilst not a crime to drink it now if I had any in the cellar I'd probably give it another 5 years or 24 hours in a decanter.
I could go on to write about the wine trade dinner I rolled on to afterwards but frankly that would just make me look greedy. I'll simply say that Prum's 2001 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese was everything one might hope for from one of Germany's finest producers and that a 1978 Knudsen Erath Yamhill County Pinot Noir was a revelation – everyone was guessing early '90s Burgundy!


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We all have our jobs and we do them.
We have our lives and our rented rooms.
We pass through time. We are born with our mouths
open. The glass diminishes, the bartender fills it.
The broken clock, stuck, still ticks.
Sometimes, the day passes easily and we rejoice
at how we've been brought seamlessly
closer to death. We work and sleep until somebody slips. Until
somebody leaves. One thing I've learned, and it still needs work:
The stranger the lights the more arbitrary the lord.
He's from South America, so the suits named Sir call him Tequila.
He cleans the marble lobby with Windex. Spritzes, wipes.
Have you seen the trees? is a question that deflects
almost successfully. Without weather, what would we say
to each other? White petals blossom and fall. He whitewashes
the red brick wall. For just how long can a person be treated
like a wounded swan before growing wings to complete this hall's
thankless decoration? In Arlington Cemetery, on New Year's Day,
I watched the outcropping of marble grown suddenly over new graves.
Our expectations are tempered now,
like the hard soil where my mother once planted simple flowers,
tamped town. Today, I've decided Beauty can still be found.
Under hung lights, he pours across the spotless floors
a tonic of water and bleach. To chart obstructions is also
a profession, disclosing wreckage on the cruel sea floor.
The German painter goes through the door.
No man is born with mop in hand.
We'll work and sleep until somebody sings.
A woman clutches fistfuls of change.
When the phones ring, my arms lift like wings.
All day, by glass doors, Isaiah stands guard, hard of hearing,
bad knees, humming Tchaikovsky. Give a man a square inch plot
of shoddy land and he'll put his whole life there,
he'll put his whole mind there. The German painter paints
ruined temples the way they might have been. There is
no reason. On the street this morning, a bird's severed wing.
Wind blows across an old sun.
I too have tried to move through the world without thinking.
Some things we write down so we can forget; others, to bring us back.
There's a song. It goes, The cloud of ash is coming
to ruin the corn, to wash away the stalks, to coat the fruit in dust, coming
to blanket the flock, and cover us.
There's a song that goes, Someday I'll take off, and won't come back.
Someday I will have been traveling. This, then, to bring me back.


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Monday, 28 August 2017
Lace at Ooh La La Creations
You might recognise the paper and topper I have used - they are the remainder of the sheets I printed from the Carnival of Colour CD for my last Ooh La La DT post, two weeks ago today. But used in a very different way!
I die cut the image with a Gummiapan stitched ovals die and backed with a Spellbinders lace oval. The sentiment is stamped on a panel cut with a Creative Expressions die. I have finished it with lace, ribbon, roses and gems.
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A beautiful card Jane, I love the colours in this collection and your lace is so pretty.ReplyDelete
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I stumbled upon my college classmate K's blog and got so inspired with her post about goals and now I'm posting mine too which also turned out to be somewhat similar to hers. I didn't make it to 10 so I'm only posting 9 (isa na lang noh!). Here goes..
- Get fit. Remove my baby fats a.k.a. postpartum belly fats. They said that it took 9 months for your tummy to grow while you're pregnant so it will also take about 9 months for things to really go back into place but it's been almost 2 yrs and I still have that squishy tummy from it.
- To learn baking and cake decorating. I can't make it in a formal class as I don't have the moolah for it. I'll just try to learn on my own by researching from the net and by baking at least one cake or other pastries every month.
- Print all the pending photobooks of my son which I have mentioned here before.
- Teach my toddler how to read. I already have gathered some materials from the net but haven't really started.
- Take a family vacation. We're supposed to have it this month since I have some expiring miles but H won't allow the toddler to go with us if we have to take the plane so we postponed it. H said that he's too young to fly and it's not so safe for him.. oh well.. pero sayang ang miles noh!
- Have a business. Maybe something about clothes..
- Read the Twilight saga books. This is so overdue, I know.. Have started to read the first few pages with Jared and I think he's liking it too hehe!
- Join a marathon. This will also help me in my goal #1 but I still need to find running mates for this.
- And finally, my main goal which I am not yet sure if it's short-term or long-term.. to live on our own. Still saving up to buy a house. Hope we'll get there soon. Just need to save! save! save! and earn more! OK, to earn more, I think I need to pursue goal#6.


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Seagate are planning to stop manufacturing 7200rpm 2.5" laptop drives at the end of 2013 in favour of SSD drives. David Burks, director of marketing and product management at Seagate Technology, during a conversation with X-bit Labs said…
"We are going stop building our notebook 7200rpm hard disk drives at the end of 2013."
However Seagate do appear to be continuing to produce 5,400rpm drives, which are used in most mainstream laptops. So how is that a problem for audio professionals? Initially if 2.5" 7200rpm drives are no longer available that will impact on the 'pocket drive' market. With one mjor player out of that sector the availability of 7200rpm will be reduced and Seagate tend to lead the way in hard drive developments.
But my biggest concern is the direction of travel. As we discussed in Podcast 50, with reports from the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) and Storage Review about the suitability of SSD drives as audio media drives. Even though Avid have quietly announced on their hard drive compatibility page that they have approved SSD drives for both system drives and audio drives, our advice is to use SSD drives for your system drive but not for audio drives.
The benefits of SSD drives are that they can retrieve data very quickly because you don't have to wait for the heads to get to where the data is on the disc, but there has been a limit to how fast they can deliver data in a stream or how fast they can write data, and there is a limit on the number of reads and write to each sector on the drive. Also they deteriorate with age and use. The EBU did some experiments and their findings were that for an audio drive SSD didn't cut it over time, yes with a brand new drive in ideal conditions they were great but over time their performance deteriorated and once a sector has reached the maximum number of writes (between 10,000 and 100,000 depending on the type of chips used in the SSD) it can no longer be used. So for a system drive there are definite benefits but for audio drives, not yet would be our continuing advice. Although they would make good sample playback drives as they can retrieve data very quickly.
We need to lobby the drive manufacturers to develop SSD drives that will work reliably and have longevity for our kind of applications.


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A monstrous tornado at least a half a mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening neighbourhoods and destroying a school as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200mph.
At least 51 people were killed, including at least 20 children, and officials said the death toll was expected to rise.
The storm laid waste to scores of buildings in Moore, a community of 41,000 people about 10 miles south of Oklahoma City. Street after street lay in ruins, homes were crushed into piles of broken wood and cars and trucks were left crumpled on the roadside.
The National Weather Service issued an initial finding that the tornado was an EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale, the second most-powerful type of twister.
More than 120 people were being treated at hospitals, including about 50 children. Search-and-rescue efforts were continuing through the early hours.
Tiffany Thronesberry said she heard from her mother, Barbara Jarrell, shortly after the tornado.
"I got a phone call from her screaming, 'Help! Help! I can't breathe. My house is on top of me!"' Ms Thronesberry said.
She hurried to her mother's house, where first responders had already pulled her out. Her mother was treated in hospital for cuts and bruises.
Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin deployed 80 National Guard members to helpt with rescue operations and extra highway patrol officers.
She also spoke to President Barack Obama, who declared a major disaster and ordered government aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts.
Many landlines to stricken areas were down, and mobile phone networks congested.
In a video of the storm, the dark funnel cloud could be seen marching slowly across the green landscape. As it churned through the community, the twister scattered shards of wood, awnings and glass all over the streets.
The tornado also destroyed the community hospital and some stores. Moore's mayor Glenn Lewis watched it pass through from his jewellery shop.
"All of my employees were in the vault," he said.
Chris Calvert saw the menacing tornado from about a mile away.
"I was close enough to hear it," he said. "It was just a low roar, and you could see the debris, like pieces of shingles and insulation and stuff like that, rotating around it."
Even though his sub-division is a mile from the tornado's path, it was still covered with debris. He found a picture of a small girl on Santa Claus' lap in his yard.
Volunteers and first responders raced to search the debris for survivors.
At Plaza Towers Elementary School, the storm tore off the roof, knocked down walls and turned the playground into a mass of twisted plastic and metal.
Children from the school were among the dead, but several were pulled alive from the rubble. Rescue workers passed the survivors down a human chain to the triage centre in the car park.
James Rushing, who lives opposite, heard reports of the approaching tornado and believing he would be safer there, ran to the school, where his five-year-old foster son Aiden is a pupil.
"About two minutes after I got there, the school started coming apart," he said.
The pupils were sent into the restroom.
A man with a megaphone stood near a Catholic church and called out the names of surviving children as parents waited nearby, hoping to hear their sons' and daughters' names.
As dusk began to fall, heavy equipment was rolled up to the school, and emergency workers wearing yellow crawled among the ruins, searching for survivors.
Because the ground was muddy, bulldozers and front-end loaders were getting stuck. Crews used jackhammers and sledgehammers to tear away concrete, and chunks were being thrown to the side as the workers dug.
A map provided by the National Weather Service showed that the storm began yesterday west of Newcastle and crossed the Canadian River into Oklahoma City's rural far south-western side about 3pm local time. When it reached Moore, the twister cut a path through the centre of town before lifting back into the sky at Lake Stanley Draper.
Captain Dexter Nelson of Oklahoma City Police said downed power lines and open gas lines posed a risk in the aftermath of the system.
The weather service estimated that the tornado was at least half a mile wide. The 1999 storm had winds clocked at 300 mph.
Kelsey Angle, a weather service meteorologist in Kansas City, Missouri, said was unusual for two such powerful tornadoes to track roughly the same path.
It was the fourth tornado to hit Moore since 1998. A twister also struck in 2003.
Don Denton had not heard from his two sons since the tornado hit the town, but the man who had endured six back surgeries and has a severe limp said he walked about two miles as he searched for them.
As reports of the storm came in, Mr Denton's 16-year-old son texted him, telling him to call.
"I was trying to call him, and I couldn't get through," he said. Eventually,his sons spotted him in the crowd, fine, but upset to hear that their grandparents' home was destroyed.
Here is a list of the 10 deadliest tornadoes in the United States since 1900.
:: 695 deaths. March 18, 1925, in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
:: 216 deaths. April 5, 1936, in Tupelo, Mississippi.
:: 203 deaths. April 6, 1936, in Gainesville, Georgia.
:: 181 deaths. April 9, 1947, in Woodward, Oklahoma.
:: 158 deaths. May 22, 2011, in Joplin, Missouri.
:: 143 deaths. April 24, 1908, in Amite, Louisiana, and Purvis, Mississippi.
:: 116 deaths. June 8, 1953, in Flint, Michigan.
:: 114 deaths. May 11, 1953 in Waco, Texas.
:: 114 deaths. May 18, 1902 in Goliad, Texas.
:: 103 deaths. March 23, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska.
Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.