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Dave Kopel's Second Amendment Newsletter
is based at the Independence Institute, afree-market think tank
in Golden, Colorado.
Delivery of this newsletter comes courtesy of
the Second Amendment Foundation, in Bellevue, Washington.
Dave phones Cam Edwards in this YouTube Video to discuss the implications of the elections, for Colorado and beyond.
Dave here provides a state-by-state scoring of the election results as known at the time of posting.
Dave's predictions and assessments of the then-upcoming vote's effects in the U.S. House of Representatives are worth a look back in retrospective of the known results.
Here's the companion piece to the above, discussing the potential implications of the vote in the U.S. Senate.
"Democrats constitute an indispensible part of the pro-Second Amendment majority of the current Congress. Without the NRA's strong working relationship with so many Democrats, 2009-10 would have seen the enactment of destructive legislation for gun rights, rather than the constructive legislation which has become law."
Dave here makes the point that the National Rifle Association must necessarily work across party lines to fulfill the organization's primary goal of preserving the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the United States.
"When Ronald Reagan first ran for elective office, Governor of California in 1966, the opposition attempted to tar him as an extremist. Reagan was running against incumbent Governor Pat Brown, father of the 2010 Democratic California gubernatorial nominee Jerry Brown. Notwithstanding the extremist charges, Reagan won the election, and served two terms as California Governor, and then two terms of President of the United States. Let's take a look at that the use of the extremism issue in 1966 campaign."
"Peruta v. San Diego is one of several cases challenging sheriff misapplication of California's concealed handgun carry licensing statute. The case features Chuck Michel as lead attorney for plaintiffs. The case does not assert that California's statute requiring a license to carry a concealed handgun for protection is unconstitutional. Rather, the argument is simply that the statute specifies that licenses should be issued to qualified applicants (training, good moral character) who have 'good cause.' Pursuant to Heller, lawful self-defense is not only good cause, it is the best possible cause. The case has already survived a motion to dismiss. Along with Prof. John Eastman, I filed an amicus brief in the case on behalf of the Independence Institute, the Law Enforcement Alliance of America, Doctors for Responsible Gun Owners, and the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. The arguments are:
David Kopel
America's First Freedom
October, 2010
Kopel interviews Halbrook about Halbrook's career, and reviews his new book on the 14th Amendment.
David B. Kopel, Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen
America's First Freedom
October 2010
"Simply put, the U.N. threats to your Second Amendment rights are intensifying, and the Obama administration is making the problem worse. Now is no time to let down your guard against the U.N."
"Reichskristallnacht was 72 years ago. Stephen Halbrook's 2009 article in the St. Thomas Law Review details the close connection between the disarmament of the German Jews and what came next."
Puerto Rico's new laws, ostensibly to bring the territory into compliance with Heller, contain requirements for shooting ranges to collect data upon the type and quantity of their users' ammunition. Another law limits range users' target practice to five hundred rounds per year. Both are extravagantly unconstitutional.
The Finnish government has raised the age for the purchase of handguns, shortened the duration of licenses to own firearms, and required psychologists to inform the police if they believe their patients are unfit to own a firearm.
"While fewer and fewer hunting licenses have been renewed each year for the past 10 years and no new licenses are granted at all, the sport could disappear entirely if a bill by the Environmental Protection Ministry passes into law."
"Despite laws imposing strict restrictions on gun ownership in Kuwait, firearms are openly on sale to unlicensed buyers at the Friday market in Shuwaikh, where anyone with the money can get hold of a handgun or hunting rifle for as little as KD30." The amount is roughly $100 USD.
"A much-touted federal effort to keep U.S. firearms out of the Mexican drug wars is unwieldy, mismanaged and fraught with 'significant weaknesses' that could doom gun smuggling enforcement on the border to failure, a U.S. Justice Department inspector general's review concluded yesterday, says the Los Angeles Times. Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents focus only on small gun sales and do not share information with law enforcement officials on both sides of the border, the review said. An effort to trace U.S. guns in Mexico too often comes up short because of missing data and the lack of U.S. training for Mexican police, it found."
"Searches of vehicles crossing into Mexico are yielding few weapons in what U.S. officials concede is a frustrating effort to slow the flow of guns to violent Mexican cartels operating across the U.S. border."
"'These weapons have proven popular with violent criminals who have, in the past, been able to own and use them without having to undergo the rigorous background checks required for a firearms licence.' PCP air rifles have been used in two fatal shootings in this country, including the murder of Police Sergeant Don Wilkinson."
"The impact of the economic downturn has meant attempts to change the controversial law have become a low priority, the Countryside Alliance acknowledged. As the traditional start of the season gets under way today, the Alliance conceded it was keeping a low profile because it was foolhardy to make hunting a priority issue when country was just recovering from a recession"
"Proposition 109 would have made hunting and fishing on par with freedom of religion, free speech and the right to bear arms. It also would have given the Legislature exclusive authority to regulate those activities, although it could delegate rule-making to the state Game and Fish Commission."
"Providing constitutional protection to the right to hunt and fish became an issue because Arkansas has approved an animal cruelty law that allows prosecutors to charge the offense as a felony. State Sen. Steve Faris, D-Malvern, was a key backer of the proposal."
The voters of Kansas overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment declaring a citizen's right to own guns for any lawful purpose.
"Legislators who added the hunting and fishing measure had argued the amendment was needed in case gun control supporters eventually try to restrict the sports."
"Sponsors of the ballot initiative said they wanted the right to hunt and fish embedded in the constitution where government couldn't infringe upon it."
"Many Blue Dog Democrats who strongly supported gun rights went down to defeat, but the Brady lobby is wrong to state they scored any victories for gun control in the election."
"'It's an enviable position for any group to be in," Cox said. "We have Republicans and Democrats fighting over who is more pro-gun and whose more pro-NRA. That's a great position for us to be in, and that's a great position for NRA members to be in.'"
A Phoenix Assistant City Attorney, Ted Mariscal, ordered a firm that had posted illuminated bus-shelter advertisements for a gun-safety program to remove them all. Mariscal when asked could not explain his criteria for removing the advertisements paid for by TrainMeAZ.com, a commercial joint-educational effort of the firearms industry in Arizona.
"Two gun rights groups have dropped a lawsuit against the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department and Sheriff John McGinness after authorities clarified that 'personal safety' is a sufficient reason to be issued a permit to carry a concealed weapon, according to a news release by the groups." Note the similarity of their settlement to Dave's amicus brief in Peruta v. San Diego above.
Florida's new governor-elect, Rick Scott, has voiced his support for an 'open carry' movement active in the Sunshine State.
"An investigation by the Illinois Policy Institute has revealed that the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) is pumping the state's Pittman-Robertson Act funds into two state universities at Champaign and Carbondale." Fund from the Pittman-Robertson Act come from the license fees charged to sportsmen and are dedicated by the Act to the improvement of sporting resources in a given state.
Fourteen clergymen, members of a national group called "Heeding God's Call, a Movement to End Gun Violence" protested peacefully at a Baltimore Gun Shop, where they received a polite hearing and a firm refusal to adhere to the group's demands for restrictions on the shop's sales beyond those required by Maryland law. Note the name of the feature containing the story.
"Some lawmakers hope the McDonald v. Chicago decision -- which one Supreme Court justice predicted will spark a slew of lawsuits -- will loosen New Jersey's regulations at a time when it seems most necessary."
Volokh prints and analyzes and questions proposed new restrictions on the issuance of such permits in New York City. The proposed criteria for the denial of a civil right are indeed questionable.
"North Dakota voters soundly rejected a ballot measure that sought to ban private hunting ranches that charge hunters to shoot deer and elk behind high fences."
"Sewell and his church celebrated the patron saint of hunters and hunting dogs during Sunday morning's services by blessing hunters, their dogs and establishing the Guild of Saint Hubert, a Christian hunters group that promotes spirituality, safety and respect in the hunt."
"Pro-gun activists are careful not to equate the open-carry movement with the epic struggles of blacks and gays to win basic civil rights, but they see plenty of parallels."
German discusses the abrogation of open carry of firearms in Wisconsin, and prints a Wisconsin Circuit Court decision upholding that right.
"The Colorado Supreme Court will hear arguments on the legality of the University of Colorado's campus-wide firearms ban, the court's justices announced Monday. In June, the CU Board of Regents voted 5-4 to appeal to the state's highest court in an effort to overturn a Colorado Court of Appeals decision that CU violated state law by banning concealed weapons from its campuses."
"The question at hand is whether a state, in this case Maryland, can deprive an individual of the right to possess a weapon over a misdemeanor."
Oyez.org is hosting a summary and audio files of the case's arguments. The summary is here, the audio arguments are here as an MP3 file.
"The preponderance of the evidence standard in this case means, 'Better that 1 dangerously mentally ill person get a gun than 1 non-dangerous person be disarmed — but just a little better, so that on the other hand it's better that 9 non-dangerous people be disarmed than 10 dangerously mentally ill people get guns.' A clear and convincing evidence standard might be, 'Better that 3 dangerously mentally ill people get a gun than 1 non-dangerous person be disarmed.' What do you think is the proper ratio?"
In its first full opinion of the 2010-11 term, the Supreme Court on September 15 upheld longer prison sentences for carrying or using a firearm while trafficking drugs. Justice Ginsburg authored the 8-0 opinion, which affirmed rulings by lower courts against defendants whose drug trafficking sentence received five additional years due to the presence of a firearm.. The cases came from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. Certain federal courts had said the additional five years could not be added onto related sentences for federal crimes. Newest Justice Elena Kagan did not take part in the case because she had represented the U.S. government at the court before becoming a justice.
"The Constitution of Virginia was amended in 2001 to provide: 'The people have a right to hunt, fish, and harvest game, subject to such regulations and restrictions as the General Assembly may prescribe by general law.' Currently, ten states recognize hunting as a constitutional guarantee, and proposed amendments are pending in other states. The oldest, dating back to the American Revolution, sought to guard against royal privilege as practiced in England, while the newest, adopted in recent decades, seek to preempt hunting bans sought by 'animal rights' zealots."
"This article reflects on District of Columbia v. Heller and proposes a new footing and limit to the right to bear arms: a person's inalienable right to self defense. Self-defense is a natural right embedded in personhood and is antecedent to the social contract that sets up a state. This right consequently remains with the person following the establishment of the state and allows her to use proportional force necessary for resisting aggression. The right to bear arms derives from the constitutional right to self-defense, which merits protection under both the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments. This instrumental nexus calls for a dynamic determination of the scope of the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment, along Heller's lines. The scope of the right to bear arms should be defined by an ordinary citizen's necessity to use arms in defending herself proportionally against criminals. This criterion will allow courts to deliver both predictable and balanced decisions that align with originalism."
"At least two kinds of prudential argument have been identified in the literature on constitutional interpretation: court-centered prudentialism and system-centered prudentialism. Commentators often characterize court-centered prudentialism as animated by concern over the Supreme Court's preservation of its public legitimacy, which can be undermined when the Justices decide controversial questions in ways that cause backlash. By contrast, system-centered prudentialism asks not only what judicial decision is best for the Court's effectiveness, but also what response is best for the constitutional system as a whole when the Court's legitimacy is not at stake. The Court's recent decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago illustrates the practice of system-centered prudentialism. Judging from the concerns raised by several Justices at oral argument, especially Justice Scalia, members of the McDonald plurality appeared to reason prudentially in deciding to use Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause — and not its Privileges or Immunities Clause — to apply the Second Amendment to state and local governments. But the Court reasoned prudentially in substantial part because it was troubled about the consequences for the American constitutional system of opening up a Pandora's Box of new assertions of unenumerated rights, not because its own legitimacy was threatened."
"After a review of Second Amendment jurisprudence over the past 200 years, as well as a specific review of case law relative to the Massachusetts right-to-bear-arms and the corresponding regulation of gun ownership in Massachusetts, this article will establish that the likely level of scrutiny for challenges to gun control laws will be a "sliding-scale"review; that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will have to revisit its interpretation of the Massachusetts right-to-bear-arms clause and hold it to bestow an individual right; that the proposed Massachusetts one-gun-per-month law will be held to violate the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article 17 of the Massachusetts Constitution; and, that the existing Massachusetts laws relative to owning a handgun, which require both a Firearms Identification Card (FID Card) and a License To Carry (LTC) permit, will be deemed unduly restrictive in violation of both the Second Amendment and Article 17."
"Predictably, the defensive gun culture is concerned with the legal ramifications of gun usage. Popular gun magazines are full of legal cautions by their columnists such as Massad Ayoob and with tales of defensive usage such as the American Rifleman's Armed Citizen column. Understanding these ramifications is important to gun users and legal professionals for a variety of reasons, and understanding how defensive gun usage affects others' views of gun users is equally important." This article is a full, cited, critiqued survey of legal issues that might turn up at trial after a self-defensive shooting.
"'Judicial restraint' and its counterpart 'judicial activism' are widely regarded as meaningless terms, useful primarily as rhetorical weapons with which to praise or condemn judicial decisions about which the speaker has strong feelings. The terms certainly are frequently used in that manner, but there may also be analytically distinct forms of judicial restraint to which different judges adhere. Academic commentators have articulated and defended various theories of judicial restraint, but my purpose here is to examine the debate 'at work,' so to speak, in an actual case. The Court's recent Second Amendment incorporation decision, McDonald v. Chicago, is an especially interesting example because strikingly different models of judicial restraint are adopted by subsets of the more conservative wing of the Court, and subtly different models are adopted by subsets of the more liberal wing. A close look at the opinions in the case suggests that each model has different strengths and weaknesses, but also that they are by no means created equal. Surprisingly, perhaps, the most radical sounding opinion in the case may on balance be the most restrained."
"Designed to collect annual data describing the number of inquiries made in connection with presale handgun checks and the number and basis for rejection of such inquiries. Data are collected directly from state agencies conducting background checks and from local checking agencies and include the number of firearm applications made to the agency, firearm applications rejected by the agency, and the reasons for rejection. Data collection procedures are adjusted to reflect the differing presale check procedures under the permanent system (which became effective on 11/30/98) and the interim period (02/28/94 - 11/29/98)."
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Outdoor Lifehas recently launched a new website feature, OLWeather. The free service provides sportsmen with weather data from across the country and local to their area. There is are 5-day forecasts for hunters of deer and turkey, and anglers. The service predicts the best days for a given sportsman's success in a given area.
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The governing board for all 23 colleges in the Virginia Community College System is the State Board for Community Colleges. The governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia appoints the members to this board. Each community college establishes its own local board. The Northern Virginia Community College Board provides local leadership and approves items to be recommended to the State Board for consideration. Members of the College Board are appointed by the nine political jurisdictions served by the College. The local board is composed of three members from Fairfax County and one member from each of the other jurisdictions.
Members of the community serve on curriculum advisory committees for career and technical curricula offered at the College. Committee members are selected from career fields that are directly related to the career objectives of programs at NOVA. These committees provide the guidance necessary for planning new programs and insuring that courses and programs continue to provide instruction in the skills suited for the job market in Northern Virginia. The maintenance and operating budget for the College is provided through appropriations made by the Virginia General Assembly. The nine political jurisdictions of Northern Virginia provide local funding for the purchase of sites and site development. The General Assembly approves capital outlay funding for building construction and initial equipment.

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June 18, 2013:With title in Spurs' grasp, Miami rallies for OT win
MIAMI — Manu Ginobili strode to the free-throw line at AmericanAirlines Arena late Tuesday night. The Spurs were ahead by four points. A handful of Miami Heat fans had already begun streaming toward the exits, off to commiserate on South Beach.
The Spurs were 28.2 seconds away from a championship.
About 20 minutes of real time later, the Heat were celebrating a 103-101 overtime victory, a thrilling end to an instant classic. And the NBA Finals were headed to Game 7.
The Spurs fumbled their first chance to finish the defending champions in a hail of missed free throws and missed opportunities down the stretch.
The fear now: It might have been their best chance.
"It's a tough moment," Ginobili said. "We were a few seconds away from winning the championship and we let it go."
Ginobili and Kawhi Leonard each missed foul shots at the end of regulation, and the Heat erased a five-point deficit with 3-pointers from LeBron James and Ray Allen to send the game to overtime.
Both came off desperate offensive rebounds from the Heat. The shot from Allen - only the most prolific 3-point shooter in NBA history - came off a kickout from Chris Bosh with 5.2 seconds to go, knotted the score at 95 and gave Miami five more minutes to extend its season.
The teams will return to AmericanAirlines Arena on Thursday night, winner takes all.
"They're the two best words in team sports," Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said. "Game 7."
In one of the defining games of his Miami era, James shook off an uneven first three quarters to take over the game in the fourth.
The Heat star finished with 32 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists for his second triple-double of the series.
His tough basket in the paint gave the Heat a 101-100 lead with 1:43 left in overtime. The Spurs wouldn't score again.
Now it's on to Game 7, a proposition that hasn't been kind to road teams in the Finals.
Of 17 Game 7s in Finals history, 14 have been won by the home team. The last team to win a Game 7 on the road was the 1978 Washington Bullets, who won a championship in Seattle.
"We know we can win games that are here or anywhere else," Tim Duncan said. "We just have to execute for a longer period of time."
The Spurs were ahead by 13 late in the third quarter, and by 10 entering the fourth quarter, but couldn't overcome the resurgence of James, the NBA's four-time Most Valuable Player.
After going 3 of 12 in the first three quarters, James exploded for 18 points in the fourth quarter and overtime to lift the Miami off its death bed.
It was, Spoelstra said, due to "an absolute will and effort" from James that Miami lived to play another day.
Duncan, a former MVP himself, did his part to help push the Spurs over the top, especially in the first half. The team's 37-year-old captain made his first eight shots on the way to 25 first-half points — his best half since 2007, the year of the Spurs' last championship.
He finished with 30 points and 17 rebounds, going scoreless while Leonard — despite his crucial free-throw miss — added 22 points and 11 rebounds.
The Spurs could not get enough contributions from anyone else, particularly Tony Parker (19 points and eight assists, but 6 of 23 from the field) or Ginobili (nine points, eight turnovers).
Their last, best chance to end the series on Tuesday came with Ginobili weaving to the basket with 11.3 seconds to go, to be stripped by Allen. Replays appeared to show a clear foul on Allen, which went uncalled.
"It's a one-game series now," said Duncan, who was scoreless in the fourth quarter in overtime.
Still, as the fourth quarter sped toward its conclusion, the Spurs were so close to a title they could practically taste the champagne.
They couldn't close the deal. And now they've given a dangerous Miami team new life.
Forty-eight hours might not be enough for the Spurs to recover from the psychological blow they took Tuesday.
"I have no clue how we're going to be re-engergized," Ginobili said. "We're devastated. But there's no Game 8 afterward. So we're going to have to play our best game."
Their season is down to one more game. For the second game in a row, so is Miami's.
"We have no choice, we have to bounce back," Parker said. "We can't forget we have another opportunity to try to win a championship."


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There is so much to see and do at the Renaissance Festival. You will find a variety of shops to buy everything medieval you can think of!
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Nowadays, it's easier than ever to take your work with you wherever you go. Most airlines offer in-flight wi-fi services, companies regularly issue mobile devices to employees and many cars come equipped with smartphone chargers to help us stay connected.
These signs make it clear that workspaces are no longer confined to office buildings, so why should your business intelligence (BI) solution be any different?
BI software vendors are increasingly offering or developing apps that can be used via mobile devices (e.g., smartphones and tablets). This enables business leaders to access powerful data analysis tools without a desktop computer. Such tools help interpret and visualize different kinds of data that can benefit your businesses and help you make important decisions.
In this guide, We'll show you everything you need to know for selecting a mobile BI platform.
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What Is Mobile Business Intelligence?
Benefits of Mobile BI
Common Features of Mobile BI Tools
Mobile Business Intelligence Access Methods
Key Considerations
One of the biggest trends in Business Intelligence (BI) software is to offer access to applications through mobile devices. According to Gartner, enterprise mobile apps provide the convenience of data analysis in real time to better resolve issues and make immediate decisions.
Further advances in both device hardware and operating systems continue to push the capabilities of these mobile analytics tools. And as BI becomes a central component of a company's technology strategy, many businesses are choosing to deploy mobile applications either alongside or in addition to traditional desktop systems.
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The proliferation of smartphones and tablets has led to a rise in the number of BI applications. These applications allow users to access information and analyses while working with customers or colleagues in the field, while traveling or anytime they're away from their desk. Users can also stay up to date with alerts and notifications.
In addition to improved access, these applications provide businesses the ability to shorten the time from question to action. Recent studies have found that managers who utilized mobile BI solutions were able to make decisions three times faster than those without them.
Here are some use cases to help you consider the benefits across industries:
The breadth and depth of a product's BI functionalities may differ depending on the vendor's offerings and the client's needs. However, there are some mobile-specific functionalities that are common among many BI vendors. Here they are:
|Allows users to view, create and share graphical representations of data, such as Key Performance Indicators (KPI) or other important business metrics. These visualizations include many different kinds of interactive chart types, such as scatter plots and heat grids.
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|Integrates mobile devices' GPS data and applies it to BI functions. For example, a retail CEO visiting one of their stores could pull up that team's sales performance data automatically on their phone based on the GPS information.
There are two ways users can access mobile BI technology:
Web-based mobile BI. In this method, users access the application through their device's Web-browser (just as one would access any Web-based BI solution through a Web browser on any device). Users will have a consistent experience across both mobile and desktop versions of the application, with access to similar or identical data and features.
App-based mobile BI. Here, the system is accessed through a special application installed on the device. This method can take advantage of specific mobile hardware features (e.g., touchscreens). This user experience will usually be better overall than trying to access a BI application through a mobile Web-browser, but will require learning a new interface and may mean losing some functionality.
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What kind of functions do you expect to use most often? It's no secret that the screens on mobile devices have limited real estate, so it's important to find a well-designed solution that addresses your most pressing needs. For example, if you need to consult data-driven dashboards regularly, your product's mobile interface should require minimal scrolling and unobstructive navigation.
Do you need mobile data management? Extending BI functionality to mobile devices means more devices and users for the IT team to manage. For large organizations, it's important to have a mobile data management strategy that defines how applications and updates are pushed to users, how to troubleshoot hardware and software malfunctions and how to access the data if the device is misplaced or stolen.
Who gets access? Businesses will have to define who gets access to these applications—and to which modules. For example, executives can utilize advanced reporting functionality to relay results to pertinent parties and monitor performance by utilizing dashboard features. Similarly, management teams can access dashboards and visualizations to share with colleagues and clients.
Should you invest in Apple devices? While mobile BI applications often support multiple device platforms (e.g., iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, RIM BlackBerry and Windows Phone), many vendors have made Apple the focus of their mobile strategy. In the most recent Mobile Business Intelligence Market Study conducted by Dresner Advisory Services, several leading BI vendors—including IBM, Information Builders, Jaspersoft, MicroStrategy, Oracle, SAP and others—listed the iPhone and iPad as two of the top three platforms these vendors are prioritizing.
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1WeddingSource necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 132 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
Looking for some different designs for a website that shares a bride and grooms story on the web to friends, family, and coworkers. We created the template that should be followed.
- Design must include a header that displays Bridgette & Jonathans Wedding Website. As this will eventually be dynamic.
- Must include a left navigation with the same sub pages.
- The Music Player must stay exactly the same
- All the content will remain the same, the text styles can change.
- The photos will remain the same, however you can create a different border style to match your design
- The footer content must remain the same, however have it match your design.
- Keep in mind that we intend on using you design, and allowing brides to select different color variations of your design.
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Assault Defense Attorney in Indio
As unpopular as violent crimes and violent criminals are in society, individuals accused of violent crimes have the same rights as any other criminal defendant, including the right to an attorney; the right to a jury trial, the right to cross-examine witnesses, the right against self-incrimination, and the right to produce evidence. Individuals accused of violent crimes are typically those most in need of these Constitutional safeguards, as emotion and character evidence is often used to taint and sway the minds of the public, the court, and the jury. At Dolan Law Offices we have assualt defense attorney in Indio representing clients charged with a variety of violent crimes in communities throughout the Indio area.
Definitions of Assault & Battery
Please note that the definitions that follow have been modified and abbreviated in order to make them easily understood by a person who does not practice law. For a full and complete description of the following charges, you must consult an experienced criminal defense attorney.
Penal Code Sections:
- 242: Simple Battery: Willful and unlawful use of force or violence against another person. Can only be charged as a misdemeanor.
- 240: Simple Assault: An unlawful attempt, coupled with a present ability, to commit a violent injury against another person. Can only be charged as a misdemeanor.
Important: Simple assault and battery charges can rise in seriousness and may even be charged as felonies when the victim is a member of a specified class: such as a police officer, emergency personnel or school employee. However, if such an enumerated individual is a victim in your case, you will be charged with a different section of the Penal Code than those listed above.
- 243(d): Battery with Injury: When a battery is committed against any person and serious bodily injury is inflicted on the person. Can be charged as either a felony or a misdemeanor.
- 245(a)(1): Assault with a Deadly Weapon: Any person who unlawfully commits an assault against the person of another with a deadly weapon or instrument other than a firearm or by any means of force likely to produce great bodily injury. Can be charged as either a felony or a misdemeanor.
Important: A conviction for this offense as a felony may qualify as a strike under California's Three Strikes Law. You must consult an experienced attorney who will discuss the specifics of your case with you and help you avoid a strike.
Also, if the deadly weapon is a car, you may be facing a lifetime revocation of your California Driver's License.
- 245(a)(2): Assault with a Firearm: Any person who commits an assault upon the person of another with a firearm. Can be charged as either a felony or a misdemeanor.
- 203: Mayhem: Any person who deprives, disables or disfigures a part of another person's body (i.e. slitting a nose, ear, or lip; putting out an eye). Can only be charged as a felony.
Important: A conviction for this offense will qualify as a strike under California's Three Strikes Law. Also, Aggravated Mayhem, in violation of Penal Code Section 205, can result in a life sentence in State Prison.
- 422: Criminal Threats: Any person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to another person with the specific intent that the statement be taken as a threat.
Important: A conviction for this offense as a felony will qualify as a strike under California's Three Strikes Law.
Minimum/Maximum Penalties
- Misdemeanor: Minimum: Minimum probation and fine
- Maximum: 180 days County Jail
- Misdemeanor: Minimum: Probation and fine
- Maximum: 1 year County Jail
- Felony: Minimum: Probation and fine
- Maximum: 3 years State Prison
- PC 245(a)(1); PC 245(a)(2); PC243(d):
- Misdemeanor: Minimum: Probation and fine
- Maximum: 1 year County Jail
- Felony: Minimum: Probation and fine
- Maximum: 4 years State Prison
- PC 203: Minimum: Probation and fine
- Maximum: 8 years State Prison
Probation is a period of time during which you must stay out of trouble and fulfill conditions set forth by the court or you will face the maximum penalty under the crime for which you have been convicted.
Duration: Probation will usually last anywhere from 3 to 5 years. However, in certain cases, you can get little or no probation. The less probation, the better. If unable to get the case dismissed entirely, an experienced lawyer will help you get the best probationary sentence available, thereby limiting your overall exposure following a conviction.
Important: You are responsible for maintaining your probation in good standing. When you are placed on probation, you will probably have specific terms and conditions, such as fines and community service, that you must complete in order to remain in compliance. If you fail to satisfy any of those terms and conditions, ignorance will not be a valid excuse. If you are in violation of probation, the judge can sentence you to the maximum punishment available under the law, which often includes custody time.
Remember: If you are facing a probation violation, you are entitled to a probation violation hearing. An experienced attorney should be able to get you the best possible results and often will be able to keep you out of custody entirely.
Misdemeanor Probation: If you are placed on probation following a misdemeanor conviction for any of the above offenses, it will most likely be summary probation with specific terms and conditions. Summary probation simply means probation without a probation officer and without probation fines. However, you must understand that you can both go to jail for an amount of time less than the maximum and also be placed on probation.
Felony Probation: If you are placed on probation following a felony conviction for any of the above offenses, it will most likely be formal probation. This means that you have a probation officer to report to and probation fines that must be paid (these fines often reach amounts in excess of $1,500.00). Remember, you can be sentenced to up to 365 days in the County Jail and still be on probation.
Important: An experienced lawyer can often get a felony charge reduced to a misdemeanor, saving you money and time, while also dramatically reducing your maximum penalty.
If your case resulted in injury to the victim, you will be responsible for the damages that were a result of your conduct. This will most often include medical expenses and loss of income. Obviously, depending on the type of injury, the amount of restitution can reach well into the thousands of dollars. Any willful failure to pay back the victim can and most likely will result in a violation of your probation and time in jail.
An experienced attorney can help you avoid restitution completely or reduce the restitution to a reasonable amount and assist in arranging a payment plan within your financial ability to pay.
If you have been contacted by the police, arrested or charged with a violent felony or misdemeanor in Indio please call Certified California assault defense attorney in Indio John Patrick Dolan, an expert attorney experienced in violent crimes defense, at 760-775-3739 or 562-824-4007.


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The Boys launched their book, India Fantastique, amidst mega fanfare at Ántilia. It was nothing less than magnifique!! More on that soon... it was great to see senior models on the ramp. These ladies are still the asli Catwalk Queens.... as for the glittering crowd, I think it would be fair to say the real show stopper last night was Amitabh Bachchan, who stood ( literally!) head and shoulders above the rest.
This appeared in the Sunday Times today....
Time for some 'serious work', folks…
Thanks Rahul Baba! For once, the nation is one hundred per cent behind you. Last week, the Son of India declared he was 'seriously' not interested in what Baba Ramdev was saying or doing. Because he was more interested in investing his precious time doing 'serious work'. This is seriously, the most serious thing he has ever said. And we should take him seriously. Oh come on… it isn't that tough. 65 years after Independence, we haven't taken ourselves seriously. Or, at any rate, seriously enough. No wonder nobody else does, either!Two extraordinary events polarized India last week, and had we paid more serious attention to the gravity of both situations, perhaps things wouldn't have reached this sorry state. Today, we are dealing with a seriously nasty situation in which we are turning on ourselves - our own people are being chased out of one state after another and more or less ordered to go back to their home states in the North East. This is just too shocking for words! What crime have these Indian citizens committed? Why can't assorted state administrations offer them the protection they are entitled to by right? What message is Delhi sending across the nation by making special trains available to hapless, terrified young people, to flee the Capital like petty thieves scurrying for cover? Yes, Rahul Baba. Serious (and immediate) work is indeed needed on a war footing, before the situation worsens.
Ditto for what Mumbai experienced just a few days before our 65th Independence Day, when for the first time in public memory, rampaging mobs systematically attacked the police, snatching service weapons, firing in the air, molesting female constables, torching police vans, fire engines, OB vans, private cars and two wheelers. Such a daring and dangerous development does not take place 'spontaneously'. Someone was clearly testing the waters. But who? It was an unprecedented lethal attack on the vardiwalas, possibly to check the official response to it.Would the incensed cops retaliate brutally to the provocation, leading to a carnage?Would a bloodbath follow?Nothing of the sort happened mercifully - Mumbai cops displayed both maturity and restraint.Worse, the same hooligans desecrated the Amar Jawan Memorial smashing the glass case and stomping all over the site. Post the mayhem, several questions remain unanswered. No matter how efficiently Mumbai cops handled the aftermath of this awful incident, one thing cannot be dismissed easily.The Mumbai attacks on cops were carefully planned. They were the prime targets. All the other acts of wanton violence were incidental. What we mutely witnessed was the ugliest manifestation of power play involving warring politicians settling old scores and using the police force to do their dirty jobs for them. When cops become puppets of politicos, what faith can the public have in their ability to protect the city? Today, most sensitive appointments in the police force are determined by conniving politicians.The nexus is blatant and brazen. The home ministers of several states report to their bosses operating from Delhi. The most critical positions are filled by cops who are openly identified as being so-and-so's men. There is no unity within the state cabinet, leading to divided loyalties in the police force. The day a top cop becomes someone's man, anarchy rules.
We have reached the tipping point. The violence against citizens, be they students from the North East or Mumbai cops , is being strategized and manipulated by shadowy people with nothing to lose. Not a hair on their heads is likely to be touched in the chaos. Their names may never be known to us. It is a truly terrible situation with bureaucrats at war with other bureaucrats, cops at war with other cops, ministers, their hirelings…. everybody at war with everybody else.That leaves our preachers, maulanas, godmen and gurus – perhaps the most dangerous bunch of the lot. In such a strife driven environment, the few sane voices around don't stand a chance of getting heard. Even if they do manage to articulate what needs to be strongly stated, who's listening? Weak at the Centre, weak at the State level… India is about to commit hara kiri. 65 years ago, there was hope in the air. And great expectations. Today, those we entrust to lead the nation are on the backfoot, busy offering alibis and excuses. It has come to a point where we are passively permitting religious fissures to further divide us. Will our desperation compel us to pin all our hopes for salvation on an unlikely savior? Will the next Indian political blockbuster be titled 'Ek Tha Rahul?' Or wait… it could also be, 'Ek Thi Priyanka…" Yup, folks. Serious work ahead!


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Windows 8 vs. OS X Mountain Lion: Feature by Feature
It's surprising when you consider that Apple has released two new versions of its operating system versions in the time since Microsoft let the world know that Windows 8 was baking. The Redmond software giant first announced plans for its upcoming desktop and tablet operating system in January 2011 at CES. Meanwhile, Apple released Lion, a major update, in July of that same year, and then Mountain Lion, a more incremental update, this past July.
In some ways, however, it's not so surprising: Windows 8 is a drastic re-imagining of the operating system, combining a touch-centric tablet OS with the traditional Windows desktop environment. Apple's strategy has been to more cautiously insert features from its mobile operating system, iOS, into the Mac's. It's also added multitouch gesture input support that assumes a touchpad for laptops or desktops. The result is ever-closer integration, with a minimum of dislocation to users—but no evolutionary leaps, either.
Microsoft has taken a far more drastic approach. It's designed Windows 8 to actually run on mobile tablets. Apple's wildly popular iPad by contrast runs its own version of iOS. While many old-timers have railed against the emphasis on touch input, it's easy to see why Microsoft took this approach: The company wants to leverage its massive 80 percent market share in desktop operating systems, while simultaneously familiarizing people with the new tile-based interface (formerly known as "Metro") first used in Windows Phone. But desktop users get benefits from Windows 8, too, including much faster startup and better boot security.
While Lion and Mountain Lion have been at large in the wild for months, we've also gotten a pretty good look at Windows 8, thanks to three pre-release publicly available versions: Developer Preview, Consumer Preview, and Release Preview. There's little mystery at this point about Windows 8's final shape when it's finally released on October 26, and developers and journalists have even already reviewed the RTM—release to manufacturing—version. So how do these two new operating systems' stack up? I'll take a look in some key areas. If there are important contrasts you'd like to point out, please do so in the comments; this list is by no means exhaustive!
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Toronto: Jia Zhang-ke, etc.
Of the eight TIFFs I've attended, I think this year's was probably the strongest. Unlike last year, I took my laptop with me and fully expected to blog the fest, but it turned out that many of the films I saw were not so casually bloggable. I'm still trying to figure out how to think about many of them.
Of the twenty-five films I saw in Toronto, there were two flat-out masterpieces: Jia Zhang-ke's Chinese diptych Still Life/Dong; and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes And A Century from Thailand. Other favorites: Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth (Portugal); Alain Resnais's Coeurs (France); Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Climates (Turkey); Abderrehmane Sissako's Bamako (Mali); Sophie Fiennes' The Pervert's Guide To Cinema (UK); Hong Sang-Soo's Woman On The Beach (S. Korea); Bong Joon-Ho's The Host (S. Korea); Jafar Panahi's Offside (Iran); etc.
Jia Zhang-ke's Still Life appeared in the Venice line-up as a last-minute 'secret' film, won the Golden Lion there over a weekend, and was added to TIFF mid-festival the following Tuesday, causing much (deserved) excitement. The film is set in the Chinese town of Fengjie, soon to be submerged as part of the Three Gorges hydroelectric dam project. There are two storylines, both having to do with spouses trying to reconnect after years of separation.
But the stories feel suitably casual, dwarfed by the breathtaking setting of the river and the mountains which nestle the town and its perpetually sludgy roads. Everywhere we look, the process of demolition is underway as the town prepares for its own disappearance.
Dong, which screened as part of the documentary program, follows one of China's leading figurative painters, Liu Xiao-dong, as he paints two sets of multi-paneled portraits: one of laborers at the Three Gorges dam (thus its connection to Still Life—we see these laborers and occasionally the same footage in both films); and then of models, probably prostitutes, in Bangkok.
The filmmaker Jia and the painter Liu seem like kindred spirits, and Still Life/Dong is a two-paneled work that is rich in internal resonance. Though it showed on separate days in separate programs, I'd claim that these two films should always be shown on the same bill—they belong together. They also mock the fiction/documentary boundaries we erect around film-works. Yes, Still Life has a plot (however loose), and some professional actors, but most of the faces and all the settings we see in the film are as 'real' as in any documentary. On the other hand, as Darren pointed out, Dong has a sequence, in a 'sub-plot' involving one of the models watching television and rushing to the train station afterwards, that could easily have been scripted. There's also the exact same shot of a tumbling wall in both films that is applied to entirely different ends, the exact same event meaning two different things in the two films.
Jia is fascinatingly drawn to the juxtaposition of 'reality' and 'artifice.' His last fiction film, The World, was set in a Beijing theme park with brazenly fake replicas of the Taj Mahal and the Eiffel Tower. The wind-beaten cliffs and weathered faces of Still Life could not be less fake, but there's plenty of artifice tucked into the film if you look. Out of the blue, the two stories of the film are bridged not by a normal cut but (I kid you not) a CGI flying saucer that glides from one narrative to another like the bone-turned-spaceship in 2001. (Jia used a similar surprise CGI touch in The World, the candy-colored animations that can be seen in this trailer to the film introduced by Jonathan Rosenbaum.)
Going hand in hand with Jia's penchant for blatantly—even joyously—inserting these markers of artifice is an attraction to performance. We saw actors mount spectacles in both The World and Unknown Pleasures, and Still Life opens with a gorgeous unbroken panning shot of the passengers on a ferry which includes magic trick acts and a palm-reader. A bit later, four prostitutes step out onto the balcony of a half-destroyed building, posing for a prospective client. A character makes like Chow Yun-Fat the way Michel Poiccard did Bogart in Godard's Breathless. In Dong, a slow pan across the rain-splattered windows of a van on a ferry shows passengers in a variety of poses: sleeping, worried, reflective, as if each window were a little movie screen. We see the Three Gorges not just in its awesomeness but also in diminutive representation as a painting on a ten-yuan note. Finally, the laborers and prostitutes perform as models for Liu's paintings in Dong, and Liu himself is performing for Jia as the subject of the film itself.
Jia's great visual coup here is the use of high-definition digital video, the colors popping like firecrackers: the brownish-red rust of old machinery, the blazing green of grass, etc. In addition, he employs an almost agonizingly beautiful slow pan that tells stories by simply including new information in the frame as it crawls across the landscape or a room. Rob Davis pointed out the amazing depth of focus of high-definition video in these films (I had no idea DV by nature had significantly higher depth of field than film), and Rob's wife Lorraine Vendrely remarked that the figures of the workers in Still Life were often pitched below the horizon line, with the mountains or the ruined buildings towering over their heads; their body postures even reminded her of the stooped gleaners in Millet. (As I've said before, it's rewarding to 'festival' with friends.)
Argentine director Lisandro Alonso's Fantasma takes place entirely in a large building, the Teatro San Martin complex in Buenos Aires. The lead actors of his two previous films, La Libertad and Los Muertos (both set in the Argentinian rural wild), wander through the building looking for a screening of Los Muertos. The former gets lost, the latter (Vargas) makes it to the screening, which is attended by him, the security guard and only one other person, a woman who is a sort of stand-in for us, the cinephile audience.
One way to view this film might be as a piece of conceptual art, in that the ideas generated by the film are as important—perhaps even more so—than the actual art object itself. The film is the third and final part of a closed circle trilogy which includes La Libertad and Los Muertos. The very subject of this film is (allegorically, humorously) the state of art cinema in relation to multiplex cinema. The fact that the screening is almost empty and that even the director doesn't show up for the screening is sadly funny. After the screening, the cinephile walks up to Vargas and tells him how much she enjoyed the film. Vargas says, "I was entertaining myself….watching myself." (Apparently, this was the first time Vargas had ever seen a film!) Another in-joke that resonates well at a festival: the building in the film is the setting of the Buenos Aires International filmfest, the Toronto equivalent being the Manulife Centre, where we spent most of our days.
I can do no better than point you to some great thoughts on the film by Harry Tuttle, including his assessment of it as "….a dichotomy opposing rural and urban, ancestral forest tradition and cold city anonymity, the personal and the industrial, and even, why not, Alonso's lonely Avant Garde cinema and the indifferent commercial mainstream industry."
People fled our screening in droves, and afterwards I saw Alonso hanging about outside the theater by himself. Like the woman cinephile in Fantasma, I approached him cautiously and then wound up chatting with him for about fifteen or twenty minutes. Possessing none of Michael Guillen's admirable interviewing skills, I rambled through some questions and forgot to take notes. Alonso said that his two favorite filmmakers were Tsai Ming-Liang and Apichtapong Weerasethakul and that Fantasma was a comedy and a sort of tribute to Tsai's Goodbye Dragon Inn. I made the mistake of (albeit gently) bringing up the words 'documentary' and 'fiction' in the same sentence in a question. He asked me if I liked the films of the Lumière brothers, and when I said yes, he said sternly: "They didn't worry about whether their films were documentary or fiction, right?" Right.
The new Tsai film, I Don't Want To Sleep Alone, takes place in Kuala Lumpur and contains more than a few connections to Jia's film. In Still Life, the town of Fengjie is half-destroyed but the large, ruined building in the Tsai film is only half-constructed, and then abandoned. In both films, migrant laborers are key characters and they have difficulty with spoken language or dialect. Partly as a consequence, there are long stretches of silence in both films. There is a stunning shot near the end of the Tsai film of a building upside down, and when a ripple starts to streak across the image, followed by a floating mattress, we realize that we're seeing the reflection of the building in water. Suddenly, this behemoth structure looks as if it were submerged, exactly as the buildings in Still Life will be....any day now.
Now, a critic's gotta be honest and true to himself, right? So let me just say this. The Tsai film is terrific but there's a part of me that misses the productive dissonances of The Wayward Cloud. (To get an idea of what wonderful thought such dissonances can produce, see Adrian Martin et al.'s brave grappling with the film's ending in Rouge and Harry's five-part exegesis.) Good though the new film is, it is unlikely to produce such rich critical thought. It feels like an aesthetically safer and more familiar work. But really—next to The Wayward Cloud, what film wouldn't look safer and more familiar? So, please: ignore my nit-picking and see the new one. It's a strong film, and I look forward to seeing it again.


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Faith as a Moral Instance
Wolfgang Schäuble has an image as a tough law and order politician. For many of his critics, particularly those left of centre, he has a reputation for fostering an authoritarian surveillance state through his strict security measures. Yet anyone who reads Wolfgang Schäuble's new book will soon see that this is only half the truth – or even less than that.
The book, Braucht unsere Gesellschaft Religion? (Does Our Society Need Religion?), is part of a series of speeches on religious policy published by Berlin University Press since 2008. Other titles include Udo Di Fabio's Gewissen, Glaube, Religion (Conscience, Belief, Religion), criticising Europe's rigid rejection of faith, and José Casanova's Europas Angst vor der Religion (Europe's Fear of Religion) on a similar subject. The series editor Rolf Schieder has also published his own volume with the title Sind Religionen gefährlich (Are Religions Dangerous?), aiming to rehabilitate faith and religion.
Regressive "back to the roots" approach
And now Wolfgang Schäuble, a doctor of law, has set out to define the value of faith for politics. This is an interesting and brave attempt, for more than one reason. Firstly because religion has been absolutely sidelined for years within his party, the CDU – despite its name of Christian Democratic Union. And secondly because many renowned academics before him have made downright fools of themselves with their answers on the same topic.
Either their ideas remain so vague and imprecise that they lose all meaning, or they adopt a defiantly regressive "back to the roots" approach, condemning all traces of enlightenment and rationalism. Germany's interior minister, however, blithely clears these two hurdles with seemingly effortless intellectual command of his subject matter.
Referring back to the likes of Niccolò Machiavelli, Pope Alexander VI and Friedrich the Great, Schäuble precisely stakes out the boundaries of his subject matter, never claiming any more than he can prove convincingly. A trained dialectic thinker, he also takes possible counter-arguments into account – making his own argumentation all the more sound and convincing.
Knowledge of an entity beyond our control
Schäuble starts out by posing a key question: how can we unite people through religion and yet at the same time avoid new rifts opening up on the basis of differing religious faiths?
Schäuble writes that the relationship to God central to all monotheist religions could play a major role in this respect. In essence, it is a question of people knowing that their own lives and actions are responsible to an authority not appointed by them themselves.
Religions, he writes, bestow people with the certainty "that there is something greater than themselves. That there is something which is not made by them but must be respected by them. (…) This alone has far-reaching consequences for political and social behaviour. Knowledge of an entity beyond our control is a precaution against totalitarianism and abuse of power."
Tightrope act
One could of course point out that belief in God can be wrongly understood and does not automatically bestow people with humility; it has also been known to transform them into hot-headed fanatics. Yet one must first realise what a tightrope act it is to define the role of religion in an enlightened and pluralist society.
Schäuble masters this tightrope act, putting his definition into precisely chosen words. The resulting ideas may not look like much; but they are more than most authors have come up with on the subject.
Wolfgang Schäuble's book also looks at Islam in Germany. But neither does he conjure up the phantom of a "parallel society" so popular with many of his conservative colleagues, nor does he resort to hysterical alarmism. Quite the opposite, in fact: he points out that it took several centuries to regulate Christianity's relationship to the state. With this in mind, he comments, we must not expect the problems between the state and Islam in Europe to be solved overnight or without conflict. Schäuble contends that a great deal has already been achieved in a very short time.
And there is no alternative to integrating Islam in Germany, he adds. It is not only undesirable for Islam to exist merely alongside European society, Schäuble writes; it is de facto no longer possible.
Unease among Germany's majorities
"Which is why we must ensure that above all Muslims who have come to us as immigrants or live here in the second, third or perhaps even fourth generation feel safe and at home here. Muslims will never want to integrate into a Europe where they do not feel at home or even feel excluded."
Yet Schäuble shares none of the uncertainty that makes the debate on Islam so difficult, the unease among Germany's majorities in particular. He makes it perfectly clear that certain basic values are not up for negotiation from his point of view.
"Integration is not a one-way street, it is a bilateral process," writes Schäuble. "It requires that immigrants want to make this country their home. Anyone who does not want that, for example does not want their children – and particularly their daughters – to grow up in an open western society because they disapprove of various aspects, is making the wrong decision to settle permanently in Central Europe. One has to accept the conditions of one's new home (…) as we are not prepared to put the rules of tolerance, diversity and pluralism up for discussion."
Integration – the golden mean
This is what makes the book such a valuable piece of writing: it shows that Germany and Europe are not faced with the alternative of either being overrun by an alien, "foreign" culture, or subjugating all those who come here to a chauvinist national culture dictated by the majority.
Quite the opposite: Schäuble shows that the ideal solution does not look to the extremes but rather finds the golden mean. "Integrating people, helping them to feel part of society, is (…) something that has helped our continent to grow together," he writes, reminding us that precisely this growth – despite all its vagaries and difficulties – has brought us one of the longest periods of peace in European history.
It may be a slim volume, but Wolfgang Schäuble's book contains a wealth of ideas. In a time of uncertainty and unease, he points out the stuff of true European values, how strong these values are and what future they have.
Lewis Gropp
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"Muslims Should Feel at Home in Germany"
A dialogue between the religions is absolutely essential for the German State, writes Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble. It strengthens the foundations of the community, beyond questions of religious claims to truth
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His long-term goal is to give Islam equality in Germany. German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble talks about the dialogue with the Muslims, German fears, and the Milli Görüs movement. Interview Sabine am Orde and Ulrich Schulte
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"We Must Give the Muslims Time"
How can one bring about peace among the various religions? An interview with the German interior minister and protestant Wolfgang Schäuble on the integration of Muslims into the value system of the German constitution. Interview: Patrick Bahners
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No no hold on -- Wulfgang Schaueble is a hardline guy, conservative and intolerant, no?! What happened to conservatives in this country of yours?! And the president Wulfi says Islam is a part of Germany, too, no?! I don't understand. How did the CD Union become so tolerant?! Frans Joe Strauss is now having a hard time in his grave, twisting and turning like like like a twisting turning thing.Ken Jobanputra28.04.2011 | 00:27 Uhr


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PLAINVIEW – When Debbie Stennett signed on as director of Wayland Baptist University's continuing education program to kick start the new effort, she figured she'd be involved in helping educate others. Coming from the teaching field, that was a comfortable role.
Little did she know, she'd be the one getting a major education.
In the past year since the program's rebirth as the Community Classroom, Stennett said she's learned much about community education programs, what folks are interested in and what they will and won't pay to learn. The lessons have been eye-opening.
"The major challenge in any adult education program is competing for their time," said Stennett. "It's one resource we all struggle with. Young adults with kids are overprogrammed with their kids' activities, and older adults are often involved in volunteer activities."
Couple that with economic issues and the challenge of coming up with programs that appeal to many residents and Stennett's task becomes even more difficult.
"The last year has definitely been a lot of trial and error," she said. "It's still a huge grand experiment, so we're working it out."
The trial and error process has landed on some winners and has helped Stennett refine the programming to better fit her audience. One area that has seen revamping has been the computer offerings. Beginning immediately, many of the Computer Bytes classes will now be offered as one-on-one individual instruction sessions with trained instructors, at a rate of $30 for a two-hour session.
Interested students will call Stennett to set up the initial visit with an instructor according to their own schedule, then the student and teacher will determine if more sessions are needed to further the skill base.
"We were finding that in larger classes, there would be some who would need much more individual attention and it made it hard to teach everyone on the same level," Stennett explained, adding that the change should increase students' comfort level.
"For a lot of folks, if they haven't been in school for a while, classes are intimidating. The threat of not knowing something and being embarrassed in the class is minimized in a one-on-one situation."
Stennett added that the James and Eva Mayer Computer Lab will be split into two smaller areas in order to allow for privacy in individual instruction sessions. Textbooks will also be made available for those needing additional resources for computer classes. The courses are offered for a variety of software, including the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Publisher, Access, Outlook and Power Point) and general classes on email and Internet usage.
Stennett said the Classroom will continue to offer the CompTia computer software and hardware certification courses through the Lubbock campus, as well as the Linux and Microsoft Office certification classes. A new cycle of those should be coming soon.
A new offering on the horizon is the Holiday Help series featuring four events related to the holiday season. One session is a tasting bee format with recipe swap; others involve holiday décor, dealing with holiday stress and using technology for holiday mailings. Those are offered in November.
Some of the programs that have met with success include the Literary Lunch Bunch, which meets monthly for discussion about books read the previous month. Though Stennett said the group is not a huge one in numbers, their enthusiasm and commitment to the group is encouraging.
"It's not a threatening, collegiate literary analysis that scares people to death," she said. "It's very relaxed."
That group meets again Nov. 7 from noon to 1:30 p.m.
The poverty training sessions also continue to be popular for both teachers and agency representatives, and Stennett leads those herself thanks to her past life in education and extensive training in the work of Dr. Ruby Payne. A session on poverty training for agencies is set for Nov. 6-7.
Another popular offering is the English as a Second Language classes, which Stennett said are offered at the intermediate level at the Community Classroom with instruction by longtime ESL teacher Lynette Bowen.
"These are people that are licensed and degreed in places like Mexico or other countries but need a better handle on their grammar and writing skills," she said.
The recent partnership with the Hale County Literacy Council has proved beneficial, Stennett said, in providing a continuum and a crossover of services within the entities. Several of the council's adult tutoring students have also enrolled in ESL courses and vice versa.
The partnership is also going to make it easier for Stennett to add two new components to the Community Classroom in the spring. A citizenship preparatory class will be offered, featuring lessons to help residents prepare for the interview and exam portion of the process to American citizenship.
The Classroom will also begin offering Pre-GED and GED Prep courses emphasizing tutoring in reading, writing, math and language skills. Though the area offers several GED programs already, Wayland's program will aim at bringing students up to the level where they can successfully maneuver a program at Houston Street School or Caprock Community Action.
The difference will be in one-on-one tutoring sessions with trained volunteers, and sessions will be scheduled around the student and teacher. The minimal cost will cover class materials.
"There are other GED programs in town and we're not looking to compete with them," Stennett said. "We're looking to make this an extension of the Literacy program and provide additional help to prepare them for those other programs."
Stennett still welcomes input from the community on classes of interest, and welcomes any questions or feedback to make the Community Classroom better serve the residents of the area. For information, contact her at 291-3650.


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The Obama administration is dropping some new hints about how it has moved money around to fund Obamacare without Congress — but not nearly enough to put the controversy to rest.
Forced to reveal more details under a provision tucked in this year's bipartisan budget deal, the Department of Health and Human Services declared Friday how it used Secretary Kathleen Sebelius's authority to move about $1.6 billion in departmental funds around last year — the Cabinet secretary's version of looking for change under the couch cushions and hitting the jackpot.
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"In their half-hearted attempt to respond to Senate language requesting detailed Affordable Care Act expenditures, the administration refused to reveal how much was spent on specific activities and projects," Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran, the top Republican on the appropriations subcommittee responsible for HHS, said in a statement. He said he was disappointed in the "budgetary smoke and mirrors" of the new accounting.
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The law provided vast amounts of money for the states setting up their own health insurance exchanges, but no one knew at the time that three dozen states would refuse to do that and rely on the federal exchange instead. That development turned the federal exchange into a bigger, and likely more expensive, project than it was supposed to be.


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