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The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respects this right in practice.
There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom during the period covered by this report.
The generally amicable relationship among religions in society contributed to religious freedom.
The U.S. Government discusses religious freedom issues with the Government in the context of its overall dialog and policy of promoting human rights.
Section I. Religious Demography
The country has a total area of 103,347 square miles, and its population is 1,225,000. Major religions practiced in the country include Christianity (Catholicism and Protestantism), Islam, and traditional indigenous religions. Government statistics indicate that approximately 60 percent of the country's citizens practice Christianity, almost 40 percent practice traditional indigenous religions, and only 1 percent practice Islam. However, Muslims make up a much larger proportion of the total population, especially among noncitizens. Many persons practice both elements of Christianity and elements of traditional indigenous religions. It is estimated that approximately 73 percent of the population, including noncitizens, practice at least some elements of Christianity, approximately 12 percent practice Islam, approximately 10 percent practice traditional indigenous religions exclusively, and approximately 5 percent practice no religion or are atheists.
Noncitizens constitute approximately 20 percent of the population. A significant portion of these noncitizens come from countries in West Africa with large Muslim populations. Approximately 80 to 90 percent of the 12 percent of the total population who practice Islam are foreigners. However, the country's President is a member of the Muslim minority.
Section II. Status of Religious Freedom
Legal/Policy Framework
The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respects this right in practice. A 1983 decree banning Jehovah's Witnesses, which the Government promulgated on the grounds that Jehovah's Witnesses allegedly do not protect adequately individuals who might dissent from the group's views, remained in effect; however, the Government did not enforce the ban.
The Ministry of the Interior maintains an official registry of some religious groups; however, it does not register traditional religious groups. The Government does not require religious groups to register but recommends that they do so to assemble with full constitutional protection. No financial or tax benefit is conferred by registration.
Islamic, Catholic, and Protestant denominations operate primary and secondary schools in the country. These schools are required to register with the Ministry of Education, which is charged with ensuring that these religious schools meet the same standards required for public schools. The Government does not contribute funds to private schools, whether religious or secular.
Both Catholic and Protestant radio stations broadcast in the country.
The Government promotes interfaith relations by facilitating meetings of leaders of the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy and the Islamic Council. Such meetings are held periodically, usually once every year or every other year.
Restrictions on Religious Freedom
The Government has refused to register approximately 10 religious groups, including Jehovah's Witnesses. In practice the Government allows Jehovah's Witnesses to assemble and practice their religion. In addition the Government has made uncorroborated claims that it permitted Jehovah's Witnesses to proselytize.
Some Protestants alleged that the government television station accorded free transmission time to the Catholic Church but not to minority religious groups. Others alleged that the armed forces favor Roman Catholics and Muslims in hiring and promotion. In previous years, some Protestant pastors alleged that local officials discriminated against them by making it difficult to obtain building permits to construct churches.
There were no reports of religious prisoners or detainees.
Forced Religious Conversion
There were no reports of forced religious conversion, including of minor U.S. citizens who had been abducted or illegally removed from the United States, or of the refusal to allow such citizens to be returned to the United States.
Section III. Societal Attitudes
The generally amicable relationship among religions in society contributed to religious freedom. There were no reports of interreligious violence or intrareligious incidents during the period covered by this report.
There were occasional incidents of violence in which practitioners of some traditional indigenous religions inflicted bodily harm on other persons; however, the details of these incidents were uncertain. The Ministry of the Interior has stated that violence and bodily harm to others in the practice of a traditional religion is a criminal offense and is prosecuted vigorously. Media reports suggested that this was true; however, little information about such prosecutions or their results was available.
Section IV. U.S. Government Policy
The U.S. Government discusses religious freedom issues with the Government in the context of its overall dialog and policy of promoting human rights. Embassy officials have met with leaders of the Catholic Church, as well as the Islamic Superior Council. Contacts are maintained with the Ministry of Interior to discuss the general state of religion in the country. The Embassy also maintains close contacts with various Christian missionary groups in the country.


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California's quest to build a high-speed rail system between San Francisco and Los Angeles suffered a heavy blow Tuesday when a peer-review committee recommended that state legislators not fund the project until major changes are made to the business plan for the increasingly controversial line.
In a scathing report, the California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group found that the business plan the California High-Speed Rail Authority unveiled in early November offers inadequate information about funding, fails to answer the critical question of which operating segment will be built first and features a phased-construction plan that would violate state law. The group, which is chaired by Will Kempton, recommends that the state Legislature not authorize expenditure of bond money for the project until its concerns are met.
The report deals the latest of several recent setbacks to the project, for which state voters approved a $9.95 billion bond in 2008. Since then, the project's price tag more than doubled and several agencies, including the Legislative Analyst's Office and Office of the State Auditor, released critical reports about the project.
High-speed rail has become particularly controversial on the Peninsula, where several grassroots groups have sprung up in the last two years to oppose it. Menlo Park, Atherton and Palo Alto had filed a lawsuit challenging the rail authority's environmental analysis and the Palo Alto City Council last month adopted as the city's official position a call for the project's termination.
In its letter to the Legislature, the peer review group highlighted some of the same flaws that local officials and watchdogs have long complained about, most notably a deeply flawed funding plan. The project currently has about $6 billion in committed funding and the rail authority plans to make up much of the balance from federal grants and private investments -- investments that would be solicited after the first major segment of the line is constructed. The peer-review group found this plan to be vague and insufficient.
"The fact that the Funding Plan fails to identify any long term funding commitments is a fundamental flaw in the program," the report states. "Without committed funds, a mega-project of this nature could be forced to halt construction for many years before additional funding could be obtained. The benefits of any independent utility proposed by the current Business Plan would be very limited versus the cost and the impact on state finances."
The group also faulted the rail authority's business plan for failing to choose the "initial operating segment" for the rail line. Though the authority has decided to build the first leg of the line in Central Valley, this segment would not be electrified and would serve largely as a corridor for testing the new line. The first "true" high-speed rail segment would be built later and would stretch either north toward San Jose or south toward San Fernando Valley.
Though the peer-review group acknowledged that a phased approach is the only feasible way to build the system, it also found that this plan violates a requirement of Proposition 1A, which mandates that the rail authority identify funding for the first usable segment of the line before construction begins. The Central Valley segment, the peer report notes, "is not a very high-speed railway (VHSR), as it lacks electrification, a CHSR train control system, and a VHSR compatible communication system. Therefore, it does not appear to meet the requirements of the enabling State legislation."
The peer review group also wrote in its letter that the authority should have determined in its business plan whether the first "operating segment" would go north or south from the Central Valley. Its letter states that "it is hard to seriously consider a multi-billion dollar Funding Plan that offers no position on which IOS should be initiated first."
"This indecision may also have consequences in obtaining environmental clearances. We believe that the Funding Plan as proposed should not be approved until the first IOS is selected."
The report reserves "final judgment" on the funding plan because the rail authority's business plan is still in draft form and subject to revisions. But it also makes clear that major changes would have to be made before the project warrants state funding. The letter notes that while legislators could potentially come up with a funding source for the project, without such a source "the project as it is currently planned is not financially 'feasible.'"
"Therefore, pending review of the final Business Plan and absent a clearer picture of where future funding is going to come from, the Peer Review Group cannot at this time recommend that the Legislature approve the appropriation of bond proceeds for this project," the peer group's letter concludes.
The new report presents a potentially devastating blow to the rail authority, which is banking on getting $2.7 billion in Proposition 1A funds for construction of the Central Valley segment. The agency has also received $3.5 billion in federal grants.
The state funds are particularly critical given the lack of private investment and increasing local opposition. The authority had acknowledged that private investment would not start coming in until later phases. Future federal funding is also deeply uncertain at a time when many Republicans in the House of Representatives are vehemently opposing the project.
The rail authority responded to the report by disputing many of its findings and by claiming that it "suffers from a lack of appreciation of how high-speed rail systems have been constructed throughout the world." The authority also said in a statement that the peer-review group's report "makes unrealistic and unsubstantiated assumptions about private sector involvement in such systems and ignores or misconstrues the legal requirements that govern the construction of the high speed rail program in California."
Roelof van Ark, CEO of the rail authority, said in a statement that the recommendation of the committee "simply do not reflect a real world view of what it takes to bring such projects to fruition."
"It is unfortunate that the Peer Review Committee has delivered a report to the Legislature that is deeply flawed in its understanding of the Authority's program and the experience around the world in successfully developing high speed rail," van Ark said.
Rail authority officials also argued that the peer-review group's report could jeopardize federal funding for the project. Thomas Umberg, chair of the authority's board of directors, said the board takes seriously "legitimate critiques" of the rail program, including recommendations that the authority hire more staff.
"However, what is most unfortunate about this Report is not its analytical deficiency, but that it would create a cloud over the program that threatens not only federal support but also the confidence of the private sector necessary for them to invest their dollars," Umberg said in a statement.
The authority's Chief Counsel Thomas Fellenz called the committee's findings about the project's inconsistency with Proposition 1A "unfounded assumptions." The group's legal conclusions, he said in a statement, are not only "beyond the expertise of the authors, but attorneys at the state and federal government level and the legislative author of the bond measure, profoundly disagree."
The authority also submitted an eight-page letter to state Legislators responding to the peer-review group's criticisms. The authority disputed in its letter the peer-review group's finding that the "initial construction segment" in Central Valley would violate Proposition 1A and argued that the group's demand for a long-term funding plan fails to consider how major transportation projects are normally built.
"By this measure, none of the unconstrained regional transportation plans of any transportation authority should be pursued," the letter from Umberg states. "No project, in our experience, has fully identified funding sources for the entire project at this stage and it is both unfortunate and inappropriate for the Committee to apply this test only to high speed rail."

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Hello all, I have run into a bit of a dilemma in my program with regards to proper application of object cloning.
So here's what I am trying to make happen: I'm developing a small level editor for a game that I am making. In my game, I have an ArrayList containing all of the enemies in the game, each of which is an object. What I want to do is produce a second duplicate ArrayList that contains all of the same identical Enemy objects. This way I would be able to have an active, playable screen of my game, as well as an inactive one that can be used for editing, testing, and loading/saving levels.
After doing a bit of research, I discovered this approach: I add this method to the Enemy class and also add implementation to "cloneable":
protected Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException { return super.clone(); }
And then whenever I need to clone an object, I use something along the lines of this:
Enemy oldEnemy = new Enemy(); try { Enemy newEnemy = (Enemy) oldEnemy.clone(); } catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
This works for the most part, but there seems to be a fatal flaw. My Enemy ArrayList contains many different types of enemies that extend the Enemy Class, such as FlyingEnemy, ShootingEnemy, etc...
The above method of cloning only seems to work for a specific class, since I must cast it as an Enemy. Does anybody know how I might get it to work like I want? I have seen there are many different ways to clone an object, but I don't know which way would work the best for my purposes.
Thanks in advance to anybody who has advice!


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How Chinese Censorship Tries To Disappear References To Tiananmen Square
from the it's-not-working dept
We all know that China and their "Great Firewall" of censorship exist and we have a general idea of just how deep the censorship goes. We're also aware of the justifications that the Chinese government use for this censorship, including the notions that they're just protecting their innocent citizens from all the evil on the internet, as well as censorship committed by some of their antagonists (including the USA). But if you thought that this censorship was chiefly about pornography or current events, you're quite mistaken.
Take this fascinating piece about how China has attempted to disappear all reference to the 1989 incident in Tiananmen Square, which took place 25 years ago this week. The incident that culminated in hundreds of protesting students murdered on their own soil for the crime of wanting reforms within the communist government has been so thoroughly wiped from access that many young Chinese students aren't even aware it had ever happened.
In an example of George Orwell's "1984" dictum that "who controls the present controls the past", it reflects both the ruling Communist Party's immense power and its enduring sensitivity about its actions on June 3-4, 1989. A third of China's population today was born afterwards, while many of those alive at the time hesitate to broach the sensitive topic -- leaving a huge swathe of those under 25 ignorant of the event.We're not just talking about the internet, of course. China heavily censors their news, print media, literature, movies and music as well. And, for all the talk about protecting their people from the ills of the outside world, one result of all this censoring is that young, educated Chinese citizens don't even know the history of their own nation. It's quite obvious, as it always has been, that censorship in China has much more to do with protecting the Chinese government than it ever had to do with protecting the citizens.
"I don't know what you are talking about," a 20-year-old student at Peking University, one of China's most prestigious, told AFP when asked about the protests, looking slightly embarrassed.
Not that the censorship is 100% effective, of course.
Web users find workarounds such as "May 35", "63 plus 1" or homonyms of banned words, though they too are eventually blacklisted.This is a good thing, but almost besides the point. When censorship is so bad that a nation's own citizens don't even know that a major national event occurred merely twenty-five years previously, you see the real evil in censorship. Should this cause those of us that live in a climate with more liberty to try to push for liberty for our brothers and sisters in China? Sure. But even more than that, it should make us all the more vigilant against even the smallest encroachments on our own free speech rights, particularly any attacks on our newest communications tools, such as the internet. Otherwise, we, too, may find that our children won't know their own history.
"They are basically a mark of commemoration, like lighting up a candle somewhere even if no one understands what the reference is," said Jason Ng, a University of Toronto research fellow and author of "Blocked on Weibo".
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Enterprise Information Management using SSIS, MDS, and DQS Together [Tutorial]
Managing information in an enterprise typically involves integrating data from across the enterprise and beyond, cleansing the data, matching the data to remove any duplicates, standardizing the data, enriching the data, making the data conform to legal and compliance requirements, and then storing the data in a centralized location with all the necessary security settings.
SQL Server 2014 provides all the components needed for an effective Enterprise Information Management (EIM) solution in a single product. Key components that help you build an EIM solution are:
SQL Server Integration Services
SQL Server Data Quality Services
SQL Server Master Data Services
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) provides a powerful, extensible platform for integrating data from various sources in a comprehensive extract, transform, and load (ETL) solution that supports business workflows, a data warehouse, or master data management. See Integration Services Overview topic for a quick overview and typical uses of SSIS.
SQL Server Data Quality Services (DQS) enables you to cleanse, match, standardize, and enrich data, so you can deliver trusted information for business intelligence, a data warehouse, and transaction processing workloads. See Introducing Data Quality Services topic for the business need for DQS and how DQS answers the need.
SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) provides a central data hub that ensures that the integrity of information and consistency of data is constant across different applications. See Master Data Services Overview topic for brief descriptions of important features of MDS.
See Cleansing and Matching Master Data using EIM Technologies whitepapers for a comprehensive guidance on implementing an EIM solution using these Microsoft EIM technologies together and watch Enterprise Information Management (EIM): Bringing together SSIS, DQS, and MDS video for a cool demonstration of an EIM scenario.
In this tutorial, you learn how to use SSIS, MDS, and DQS together to implement a sample Enterprise Information Management (EIM) solution. First, you use DQS to create a knowledgebase that contains knowledge about the data (metadata), cleanse the data in an Excel file by using the knowledge base, and match the data to identify and remove duplicates in the data. Next, you use the MDS Add-in for Excel to upload the cleansed and matched data to MDS. Then, you automate the whole process by using an SSIS solution. The SSIS solution in this tutorial reads the input data from an Excel file, but you can extend it to read from various sources such as Oracle, Teradata, DB2, and Azure SQL Database.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with the following components installed.
Integration Services (SSIS)
Master Data Services (MDS)
Data Quality Services (DQS)
SQL Server Data Tools
See SQL Server 2012 Installation Guide for details about installing the product.
Configure MDS using Master Data Services Configuration Manager
Use the Configuration Manager to create and configure a Master Data Services database. After you create the MDS database, create a web application for MDS in a web site (for example: http://localhost/MDS) and associate the MDS database with the MDS web application. Note that, to create an MDS web application, you should have IIS installed on your computer. See Web Application Requirements (Master Data Services) and Database Requirements (Master Data Services) for details about the prerequisites for configuring MDS database and web application.
Install and Configure DQS using Data Quality Server Installer. Click Start, click All Programs, click Microsoft SQL Server 2014, click Data Quality Services, and then click Data Quality Server Installer.
Microsoft Excel 2010 (32-bit is preferred).
Install Master Data Services Add-in for Excel (32-bit or 64-bit based on the version of Excel you have on your computer) from here. To find the version of Excel installed on your computer, run Excel, click File on menu bar and click Help to see the version in the right pane. Note that you need to install Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime before installing the Excel Add-in.
(Optional) Create an account with Azure Marketplace. One of the tasks in the tutorial requires you to have an Azure Marketplace (originally named Data Market) account. You can skip this task if you want and proceed with the next task.
Download the Suppliers.xls file from Microsoft Download Center.
DQS does not allow you to export the cleansing or matching results to an Excel file if you are using 64-bit version of Excel. This issue is a known issue. To work around the issue, do the following:
Run DQLInstaller.exe -upgrade. If you installed the default instance of SQL Server, the DQSInstaller.exe file is available at C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL12.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Binn. Double-click the DQSInstaller.exe file.
In Master Data Services Configuration Manager, click Select Database, select existing MDS database, and then click Upgrade.
|Brief description
|Estimated time to complete (in minutes).
|Lesson 1: Creating the Suppliers DQS Knowledge Base
|In this lesson, you create a DQS knowledge base named Suppliers.
|Lesson 2: Cleansing Supplier Data using the Suppliers Knowledge Base
|In this lesson, you create and run a DQS project to cleanse the supplier data in an Excel file by using the Suppliers Knowledge Base you created in the first lesson.
|Lesson 3: Matching Data to Remove Duplicates from Supplier List
|In this lesson, you create a DQS project to perform matching activity to identify and remove duplicates from the cleansed suppler list.
|Lesson 4: Storing Supplier Data in MDS
|In this lesson, you upload the cleansed and matched supplier data to Master Data Services (MDS) by using the MDS Add-in for Excel.
|Lesson 5: Automating the Cleansing and Matching using SSIS
|In this lesson, you create an SSIS solution that cleanses input data by using DQS, matches the cleansed data to remove duplicates, and stores the cleansed and matched data on MDS in an automated manner.
Next Steps
To begin the tutorial, continue to the first lesson: Lesson 1: Creating the Suppliers DQS Knowledge Base.


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Matfield sets retirement date
August 28, 2010
Springbok lock Victor Matfield will retire from rugby next year © Getty Images
James O'Connor sweeps past Francois Hougaard to score his second try for the Wallabies Pierre Spies can only watch as Kurtley Beale celebrates James O'Connor's first try and Australia's second Quade Cooper lookes to offload out of the tackle against the Springboks Schalk Burger passes the ball out of David Pocock's tackle Will Genia scorches over for Australia's opening try
Victor Matfield has re-iterated his intention to retire from playing after next year's Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.
The Springbok lock will win his 100th Test cap at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday against Australia and while the 33-year-old wants to add to that total he is aware that the end is in sight. "You can never say never but at the moment that's the decision," he said. "I think the World Cup will be the last of me, I'll play no more than that."
His latest career landmark comes just a week after captain John Smit achieved the same milestone but Matfield has the added bonus of reaching a century of Springbok appearances at Loftus, the home ground of his Super 14 team the Bulls.
"It will be great to play my 100th Test at Loftus, it has been a great place for me. It's like a second home, I have a lot of friends there and I've had some unbelievable times there. It's going to be very special playing at Loftus and with the crowd and the field, hopefully it can inspire us to win because that's what's most important.
"I feel like I could play 10 more (Tests). My body feels fine, but I am looking forward to the break after the Tri Nations where I can get some rest and put in some good conditioning work."
Matfield is already considering his retirement plans and he intends to remain in the game in Boland, where he has financial investments. "I hope after my playing career that I will keep in the game because this is my passion, rugby is my life. I'm still involved with the Boland Rugby Union but I'm not sure I'll go into coaching there immediately, I'll probably stay behind the scenes but make rugby decisions. But I am still playing, so those sort of decisions will only be made next year."
The Springboks come into the game on the back of a four game losing streak against an Australian team who beat them in Brisbane earlier this campaign. The Wallabies have not won on the Highveld since 1963, and captain Rocky Elsom is expecting a fearsome response from the world champions.
And the Wallaby skipper believes the occasion, coupled with the decision to hand out masks with Matfield's face on them to the spectators, will spur the hosts on. "Victor has served his country well," he told Sport 24. "It will definitely serve as great motivation for them. But I don't think the guys will be intimidated to play against a full house with 30,000 fans wearing Victor Matfield masks. The Boks have a great record here and they obviously enjoy playing here. It probably does more for them than it does for us.
"The Boks are going to absolutely charge out at us. Judging from the opening minutes of last weekend's Test, they will be hovering around all of us. In the first two Tests against the All Blacks, they couldn't get a hand on their full-back, Mils Muliaina. Then last weekend he had a pretty tough day at the office. No doubt they will come out in a similar fashion against us, so what chances we get we have to take."
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CNN mistakes cruise ship story for Normandy landing
CNN decided wall-to-wall was the way to go on the tale of the debilitated Carnival cruise ship. The network announced coverage plans as follows:
CNN's Erin Burnett will anchor "Erin Burnett OutFront" from Mobile, Alabama, where the ship will dock. Sandra Endo covers the ship's arrival by helicopter; Victor Blackwell monitors by boat; and David Mattingly and Martin Savidge report from the dock in Mobile. CNN.com/live and the CNN apps will live stream the docking. CNN International will simulcast the arrival later tonight.
On Saturday at 7:30pmET and 10:30pmET, CNN will broadcast "Cruise from Hell: Stranded at Sea," a 30 minute special reported by Martin Savidge.
At one point, CNN was covering the floating cesspool story with photos of a toilet. You could already feel the "Cruise from Hell" made-for-TV movie in the works. CNN's new boss Jeff Zucker has made a point of pushing a "broader" definition of news. Is this what he means by broader? Not to make light of an uncomfortable, potentially hazardous situation. But, really, this was a bit of overkill.


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WASHINGTON — The drive to end the bulk collection of phone records by the National Security Agency is gaining strength, as Senate Democrats said Sunday that Congress will change the law to ban the practice if President Obama does not do it first.
"It's time to have real reform, not a veneer of reform," said Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), a longtime critic of the NSA. "We have got to rebuild the American people's trust in our intelligence community so we can be safe," he said on ABC's "This Week." "But we don't do that by bulk data collection that violates the privacy of Americans. That's unconstitutional, and has shown to not be effective."
Last week, a federal judge said the routine collection of the dialing records is probably unconstitutional, and a panel appointed by President Obama recommended a major change.
"We believe the government shouldn't hold this data any longer," Michael Morrell, a former acting director of the CIA and a panel member, said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
He said the phone records could be held by the phone companies or by another private group. Then, the government would "need a court order every time they wanted to query that data," he said.
Despite the need for reforms, Morrell said the original purpose of the program still makes sense. He said it is crucial the NSA and the FBI can move quickly if there is reason to believe that a "terrorist overseas is talking to someone in the United States."
But the government does not need to collect and store all of these dialing records, he said, so long as they are held in private hands.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) said he will press ahead in January to pass a bill that forbids the NSA from collecting phone records. He is sponsoring the USA Freedom Act with former House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) to close what they now see as a loophole in the law.
The USA Patriot Act authorized the government to collect phone records and other data that would be "relevant to an authorized investigation."
To the surprise of many in Congress, the NSA went to a secret court and won the authority to collect all the dialing records of phone calls in the United States because they might prove useful in a future investigation.
The Leahy-Sensenbrenner bill would change the law and forbid this bulk collection of phone data. "Momentum is building for real reform," Leahy said Sunday.


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GODORT Chair
On FGI John Shuler has been blogging this past month and one of his topics was "What to Teach Government Information Students" in grad school. I wanted to share with GODORT my response as I think it is also an area where we in GODORT can and should make a contribution – professionalism and a commitment to the profession. You can read the entire thread of John's blog at FGI [[1]] :
"An interesting question but since I don't teach government information I am hesitant to weigh in on specific topics that students should cover in class. But your question did force me to think back over my own career and consider what was the most helpful of topics covered in library school. I think what I have come to value the most about my own coursework was the emphasis that was always present on making a commitment to the profession. Similarly, I hope that your students would leave your class with a commitment to the profession and to the government information community. I was extremely fortunate to work with the wonderful Joan Durrance when I attended University of Michigan. Although I can't recall her ever saying it outright Professor Durrance instilled in us a sense of responsibility to the community we were seeking to join. I left her docs class not just interested in documents but convinced of the importance of access to government information and committed to ensuring it.
"Professionalism" isn't something that can be taught really but modeled; it comes from mentors and fine teachers, like you John, who are committed to the profession. What do I think you should teach to government information students – t hat our profession and our cause is a noble one. I think that you (and others who teach government information) are in a unique position to not just teach the content and resources but to nurture that sense of commitment that will help us to create professional leaders for our future. " Sleeman 11:42, 30 January 2008 (CST)
It was wonderful to see so many of you in Philadelphia earlier this week. It was quite a conference and I appreciate all of the hard work and effort that each of you contributed to making the GODORT meetings and events successful.
By now you may have heard that all three of our resolutions were passed by ALA Council. I understand that the three will be forwarded to GPO. As soon as I get the official approved version I will also forward the Tribal Colleges resolution to those interested parties that helped bring this issue to our attention.
The GODORT Update was very well attended and I am especially appreciative of the attention to detail that went into planning that program. The speakers were great!
Kevin McClure attended the ALA/WO breakout session on E-government and came back with a better understanding of how we can be a part of the conversation within ALA about this important service. One immediate outcome was a request to work with LRRT on their program devoted to E-government for Annual 2008.
At Steering two on Monday we approved both the ballot for officers of the Round Table and the recipients of our various awards. These will be presented at ALA Annual in Anaheim at what sounds as if it will be an excellent reception. I hope that you are planning to be there. The Program and Pre-Conferences are coming together nicely and I am grateful that the Program Committee has found a way to work around the spread out nature of the next ALA Conference site. The downside of a successful business meeting is that as Chair I come back with less paper but more things to do. I am busily trying to resolve the spacing issues that the Anaheim Conference site for Annual presents. Our Past-Chair Aimee Quinn is doing a great job trying to make everything fit in the abbreviated time frame that ALA is employing for the Conference. I have also been busy following up with letters and in trying to craft a statement on the ALA Draft Protocol for Responding to Requests from Outside Organizations for ALA's Official Position.
That's all for now. Again, thanks for all of your hard work in Philly. Sleeman 14:42, 28 January 2008 (CST)
A very good report from OMB Watch - Hiding in Plain Site on how commercial search engines fail to fully identify government information. Take a look at this report if you have not as it is yet another example of how we can all do better if agencies (at all levels) made greater use of the technical resources available to them. [2]Sleeman 14:26, 17 December 2007 (CST)
If you have not seen this article by Greg Lastowka on the nexus of Google and intellectual property it is worth taking a look at. [3]
As I have said several times, I think what Google is doing to the established practice of Fair Use (as it 'works' in libraries) is a danger to libraries. If the Google position that scanning the entire book and only making small portions available online is fair I would expect to see push back from the publishing industry; push back that could fall on our ILL and reserves practices. Personally, I don't think what Google claims is an accurate presentation of the concept of fair use (but I'm not a lawyer).
Anyway, the Lastowka article is an excellent piece of analysis. Sleeman 10:08, 16 November 2007 (CST)
A couple of thoughts on the developing "Hillary Gate" -
As Hillary Clinton continues her campaign for President access to her papers at the Clinton Presidential Library has been much in the news of late. In response to the questions about these papers NARA staff plead poverty claiming that they don't have enough staff to process all of the material so journalist interested in these resources will just have to wait. Interestingly, the former President, Bill Clinton, claims that if it were up to him all of the materials would be released but then he relies on the November 2001 Executive Order (E.O. 13233) of President Bush as an excuse for not releasing the material.
In the past few months ALA and many of our colleagues in other library organizations have been pushing for the passage of H.R. 1255 - the Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007. Many of the arguments used to advocate for the passage of the bill have hinged, rightfully, on the understanding that the papers of the president are essential for an informed citizenry and should not be blocked. Yet I have heard no similar swell of anger over the lack of access to the Hillary Clinton papers by the library community. I wonder if this is because she is perceived as one of us while Bush, a conservative Republican, is not.
It seems to me that the Hillary Clinton "paper gate" offers the American Library Association an opportunity to continue to agitate for the passage of H.R. 1255 while simultaneously demonstrating that our commitment to the issue isn't tied to a particular political philosophy but transcends parties. Sleeman 10:08, 16 November 2007 (CST)
Communicating with ARL
It was good to see so many of you at FDLC this past week. Although there is a lot that I need to follow up from that conference I wanted to let you know that Cass Hartnett, Chair-elect, and I had a very good meeting on Wednesday afternoon with Prue Adler, Associate Executive Director of ARL. She had a number of suggestions and ideas about GODORT and government information many of which were in line with my own stated goals for GODORT.
I know that in the past the Roundtable's relationship with ARL has been a matter of concern with many of our members and I want to assure you that I will be taking Prue's recommendations to heart. One area that I will try to immediately work into my routine is to share with Prue issues that may directly affect ARL libraries but I need those of you in ARL institutions to help me recognize those issues.
As always I welcome your recommendations on how to work more effectively with those organizations that I am not directly "plugged into." By working together with our fellow professional organizations we can build a stronger GODORT and more effectively influence the future of access to government information.
Thanks, Bill
I had a chance earlier in the month to travel to GPO (the advantages of being in Baltimore) and see a brief presentation - "proof of concept" - of the FDSys for agencies. It was very well thought out and seemingly effective. The biggest concern expressed by those who attended seemed to be less about the product and more about the inability of GPO to get the agencies to participate. As suggested by one GPO official a change in how Title 44 is applied would help this but I, for one, am reluctant to open up Title 44 for revision until we have a closer agreement on what sort of outcome we would like. Getting back to FDSys another concern was the creation of two silos of data. While GPO officials claim that a search in the Catalog of Government Publications would turn up FDSys publication submission data they were not exactly clear on how, or at what point in the process it would happen.
Still, they are clearly on the right track product wise and it was gratifying to see even a small portion of the effort getting underway.
How Do Journalists Use Government Information?
Ever wonder how journalists find and use government information? On October 15, New York Times reporter Scott Shane (http://tinyurl.com/2nfugw) and Washington Post research editor Alice Crites, MLS (http://tinyurl.com/2mrybn) will address this question and related issues. Join us for a lively program sponsored jointly by ALA's Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) and SLA's Government Information Division (DGI).
DATE: Monday, October 15 TIME: 7:00 p.m. PLACE: Crystal City Doubletree Hotel. Room - TBA [[4]]
For more information contact Bill Sleeman, GODORT [firstname.lastname@example.com] or Peggy Garvin, SLA [email@example.com]
An excellent proposal for the future of government information can be found in Congressional Information & the Internet from the "Openhouse Project." [5]
This is a conversation that GODORT might want to be more involved in.
I wanted to let you all know that we had a very good meeting with staff from the Joint Committee on Printing on Tuesday during the ALA Day on the Hill event. Both Matt McGowan and Mike Harrison participated and the discussion was quite good. They were both engaged in the conversation and the Q&A was wide ranging. While I am not so naive as to believe that they rushed back to their office to change their approach I do think that they heard us and appreciated our frank comments. I hope that we can build on this initial successful contact in order to give JCP access to some new voices on the issue of access to government information.
I want to express my appreciation to Lynne Bradley and Tara Olivero for setting the meeting up and I hope that you will thank them too if you have a chance.
If you have not taken a look at the July 2nd report from the National Security Archive on FOIA you should. Like all of their efforts this it is an excellent review of the challenges faced in getting FOIA requests filled. 40 Years of FOIA, 20 Years of Delay[6]
Introductory comments from ALA Annual 2007
Thank you for the opportunity to serve as the Chair of GODORT. It is indeed an honor and I appreciate the trust that you have placed in me. As many of you already know if you read my nomination statement when I ran for Chair and I hope that only a few of your are hearing this for the first time. I really intend for my tenure as Chair to be focused on positioning GODORT for the future. To that end I want to encourage all of you to think seriously about the type of organization we want GODORT to become in the next few years. The implementation of virtual membership, decreasing the number of meetings at annual 2008 (perhaps by relying more on e-mail and the GODORT Wiki in-between Midwinter and annual) and increasing the education and training opportunities for our members will be my priorities in the coming year. One very important effort that has just gotten underway is our Roundtable's strategic planning effort. The strategic planning process will be lead by Linda Johnson and Marianne Ryan and includes a mix of "old hands" and newer GODORT members who have been asked to focus on the needs of the organization and to help us improve our services and outreach efforts. As part of this process the Membership Committee will be sending out a survey to evaluate our services and mission. I know that many of us are bombarded with survey requests but I really want to encourage each of you to respond to this survey. It will help us to better prepare a plan for the future if we know with some degree of assuredness what our members value (or not) about GODORT. We will also be working with ALA to get the survey out to former members as well. Another challenge that I have asked Steering to consider is the question of virtual membership. I had several people ask me about this as an option when I approached them about serving in GODORT and it quickly became apparent that our organization must explore this opportunity for membership. I am calling on each Committee and Task Force Chair to communicate with your members about this so that by Mid-Winter we might be in a position to move forward on a plan to share with membership. Although you have been kind enough to elect me as your Chair I want to stress that I do not claim to be an expert on ALA or on the myriad of government information issues we will likely face in the coming year. I not only welcome in-put and guidance from the membership I will require it if we are to be effective. So please feel free to call on me if you have questions or just want to talk as I will certainly be calling on you. I am looking forward to a truly collaborative year. Bill Sleeman[7]


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Vanderbilt Visits Mizzou as Both Seek First SEC Win
COLUMBIA (AP) -- One school is looking for its first Southeastern Conference win - ever. The other continues a century-long quest for SEC respect, let alone a rare winning season.
Saturday's match-up between Missouri (3-2, 0-2 SEC) and Vanderbilt (1-3, 0-2) isn't much of a rivalry. The schools have only played four times and last met more than 50 years ago.
Missouri seeks SEC success in its first season after leaving the Big 12. The Tigers lost lopsided conference games to No. 5 Georgia at home and No. 6 South Carolina on the road. They will be without wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham, one of five freshmen suspended one game after a campus drug bust.
Vanderbilt coach James Franklin led the once-woeful Commodores to just the fifth bowl berth in school history in 2011.


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US may stop spying on allied leaders
The Obama administration is considering ending spying on allied heads of state, a senior administration official said, as the White House grappled with the fallout from revelations that the U.S. has eavesdropped on German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering ending spying on allied heads of state, a senior administration official said, as the White House grappled with the fallout from revelations that the U.S. has eavesdropped on German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The official said late Monday that a final decision had not been made and an internal review was still underway.
The revelations about National Security Agency monitoring of Merkel were the latest in a months-long spying scandal that has strained longstanding alliances with some of America's closest partners. Earlier Monday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called for a "total review of all intelligence programs."
Feinstein, D-Calif., said in a statement that the White House had informed her that "collection on our allies will not continue." The administration official said that statement was not accurate, but added that some unspecified changes already had been made and more were being considered, including terminating the collection of communications from friendly heads of state.
The official was not authorized to discuss the review by name and insisted on anonymity.
As a result of the spying allegations, German officials said Monday that the U.S. could lose access to an important law enforcement tool used to track terrorist money flows. As possible leverage, German authorities cited last week's non-binding resolution by the European Parliament to suspend a post-9/11 agreement allowing the Americans access to bank transfer data to track the flow of terrorist money.
A top German official said she believed the Americans were using the information obtained from Merkel to gather economic intelligence apart from terrorism and that the agreement known as SWIFT should be suspended.
Feinstein said while the intelligence community has kept her apprised of other issues, like the court orders on telephone record collection, intelligence officials failed to brief her on how they followed foreign leaders.
Her statement follows reports based on new leaks from former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden indicating that the NSA listened to Merkel and 34 other foreign leaders.
"With respect to NSA collection of intelligence on leaders of U.S. allies — including France, Spain, Mexico and Germany — let me state unequivocally: I am totally opposed," Feinstein said. She added that the U.S. should not be "collecting phone calls or emails of friendly presidents and prime ministers" unless in an emergency with approval of the president.
European Union officials who are in Washington to meet with lawmakers ahead of White House talks said U.S. surveillance of their people could affect negotiations over a U.S.-Europe trade agreement. They said European privacy must be better protected.
Many officials in Germany and other European governments have made clear, however, that they don't favor suspending the U.S.-EU trade talks which began last summer because both sides stand to gain so much through the proposed deal, especially against competition from China and other emerging markets.
As tensions with European allies escalate, the top U.S. intelligence official declassified dozens of pages of top secret documents in an apparent bid to show the NSA was acting legally when it gathered millions of Americans' phone records.
Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper said he was following the president's direction to make public as much information as possible about how U.S. intelligence agencies spy under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Monday's release of documents focused on Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows the bulk collection of U.S. phone records.
The document release is part of an administration-wide effort to preserve the NSA's ability to collect bulk data, which it says is key to tracking key terror suspects, but which privacy activists say is a breach of the Constitution's ban on unreasonable search and seizure of evidence from innocent Americans.
The release of the documents comes ahead of a House Intelligence Committee hearing Tuesday on FISA reform.
The documents support administration testimony that the NSA worked to operate within the law and fix errors when they or their systems overreached. One of the documents shows the NSA admitting to the House Intelligence Committee that one of its automated systems picked up too much telephone metadata. The February 2009 document indicates the problem was fixed.
Another set of documents shows the judges of the FISA court seemed satisfied with the NSA's cooperation. It says that in September 2009, the NSA advised the Senate Intelligence Committee about its continuing collection of Americans' phone records and described a series of demonstrations and briefings it conducted for three judges on the secretive U.S. spy court. The memorandum said the judges were "engaged throughout and asked questions, which were answered by the briefers and other subject matter experts," and said the judges appreciated the amount and quality of information the NSA provided.
It said that two days later, one of the judges, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, renewed the court's permission to resume collecting phone records.
The documents also included previously classified testimony from 2009 for the House Intelligence Committee by Michael Leiter, then head of the National Counterterrorism Center. He and other officials said collecting Americans' phone records helped indict Najibullah Zazi, who was accused in a previously disclosed 2009 terror plot to bomb the New York City subways.
The documents also show the NSA considered tracking targets using cellphone location data, and according to an April 2011 memo consulted the Justice Department first, which said such collection was legal. Only later did the NSA inform the FISA court of the testing.
NSA commander Gen. Keith Alexander revealed the testing earlier this month to Congress but said the agency did not use the capability to track Americans' cellphone locations nor deem it necessary right now.
Asked Monday if the NSA intelligence gathering had been used not only to protect national security but American economic interests as well, White House spokesman Jay Carney said: "We do not use our intelligence capabilities for that purpose. We use it for security purposes."
But National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden later clarified that: "We do not use our intelligence capabilities to give U.S. companies an advantage, not ruling out that we are interested in economic information."
Carney acknowledged the tensions with allies over the eavesdropping disclosures and said the White House was "working to allay those concerns," though he refused to discuss any specific reports or provide details of internal White House discussions.
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Associated Press writers Ted Bridis and Jack Gillum in Washington, Frank Jordan, Geir Moulson and Robert H. Reid in Berlin, Juergen Baetz in Brussels, Ciaran Giles, Jorge Sainz and Alan Clendenning in Madrid and Sarah DiLorenzo in Paris contributed to this report.


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As often is the case, it all comes back to Oprah.
Charice, the performer once dubbed the most talented girl in the world by Winfrey stood on the field on Saturday after singing the national anthem at U.S. Cellular Field, wishing the woman who helped launch her to stateside fame could've seen her sing that day.
"She's one of the big reasons why I'm here right now," said Charice, a Filipina pop star who caught Oprah's eye and made several appearances on her show before it ended. "Hopefully I'll be seeing her again because it's been a long time since the last time we saw each other."
In town for the festivities surrounding this weekend's Civil Rights Game at the Cell, Charice was making her first stateside performance since announcing she is gay to a Filipino TV host back in June.
"I'm just glad to be here because this is the first time that I've performed here in America with all the changes and everything, so I'm very happy," she said. "I feel so proud to be here today. Not only for myself but for other people who want equality for everyone. I'm very happy to be a part of this."
Since that interview aired, Charice said she's felt nothing but love from fans.
"I want to thank all my fans for still supporting me and everything," she said.
Her summer has been so busy that she actually had to cut her stay in Chicago short so she could get back to work.
"After this, I'm gonna go back to the Philippines," she said. "I just finished recording an album there.Probably promoting that album."
Her unforgettable voice has left fans clamoring for more. Charice vaulted to worldwide fame in May 2008 when she went on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and blew the audience away with a rendition of Whitney Houston's "I Have Nothing."
When fans found out she was going to be in Chicago this weekend, several tweeted her asking when she's going to release new music.
"It's hard to tell right now," she said. "Probably maybe next year I'm gonna start working on some international songs and everything because I know that they've been waiting for it."
They've also been waiting for "Glee" to bring back her Sunshine Corazon character, one of the few to challenge the notoriously strong Rachel Berry, played by Lea Michele. Charice said she hasn't been approached by producers but isn't ruling anything out.
"It would be interesting to see a new Sunshine," she said. "I would do it if they let me."
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Boatright feeds off defensive disruption
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Ryan Boatright plays defense like a personal-space-invading bully, getting into his opponent's chest, bumping him around, chopping at his arms, tangling up his feet.
It can be uncomfortable, infuriating, definitely disruptive – and that's just the way the UConn junior guard likes it.
"I know going into the game if I can make him uncomfortable and irritate him, to any point, or get him fatigued, it's going to lead to mistakes," Boatright said.
Boatright has done plenty of that so far in the NCAA tournament, helping put the Huskies within one win of their fourth national championship.
At 6-foot, 168 pounds, the versatile guard is often one of the smallest players on the court. He makes up for it with tenacity and a strength well beyond his size, muscling opposing point guards out of position and their comfort zones.
Boatright was at his disruptive best in the national semifinals Saturday night in a 63-53 win over Florida, hounding Gators point guard Scottie Wilbekin into his worst offensive game of the season.
Fighting over screens like it meant his survival and practically gluing his chest to Wilbekin's, Boatright helped hold the SEC's player of the year to four points on 2-of-9 shooting while committing three turnovers. Wilbekin had to battle through cramps in the Final Four game, but Boatright's tenacity may have had something to do with that, too.
Overall, Florida had 11 turnovers and just three assists – just one coming after the opening two baskets of the game.
"That's crazy," Wilbekin said. "That's not usually what we do. All credit goes to them and their guards and the way they were denying and putting pressure on us."
The victory over the Gators put UConn in the national championship game Monday night against Kentucky, a chance to win the program's fourth title on the line.
Boatright has gone through some difficult times to get here.
Early in his career, he was talented but inconsistent and sometimes stubborn, not always willing to do what the coaches wanted without a fight.
In January, his cousin, 20-year-old Arin Williams, was shot to death in Boatright's hometown of Aurora, Ill. The cousins grew up in the same household and were like brothers, so the news hit Boatright hard and he went through a funk.
"As much as I love playing basketball, I just didn't care anymore," he said.
Eventually, Boatright got through it and went back to teaming with 6-1 Shabazz Napier in the nation's best small-guy backcourt.
Napier has been the unquestioned leader of this team, but Boatright's versatility has allowed the senior to do what he does.
Both guards can play either position and spend time in practice learning the demands of both. When Napier runs the point, Boatright easily slides into the shooting guard spot. If Napier is out of the game or playing the 2-guard, Boatright seamlessly runs the show.
Boatright averages 12 points, 3.3 assists and 3.2 rebounds, and has had some big games in the NCAA tournament, including 13-point, six-rebound performance against Florida.
"Ryan Boatright has done a 360," UConn coach Kevin Ollie said. "If anybody had seen him his sophomore year to know, it's like night and day, him being a facilitator, making people better. That's what you do. That's how you mature as a basketball player, that's how you mature as a man."
Next up for Boatright is a huge challenge: Stopping Kentucky's athletic twin guards, Aaron and Andrew Harrison.
They've been a handful for teams throughout the NCAA tournament, particularly Aaron, who has hit game-winning shots in three straight games, including a long 3-pointer with 5.7 seconds left to knock off Wisconsin in the national semifinals.
"I ain't going to reveal all my secrets, but I'm going to do my best to turn them up and down the floor, try to make them uncomfortable," Boatright said. "(I'll) just try to get up in them and be a little physical with them."
Boatright has been successful with the approach so far in the NCAA tournament. If he can do it again against Kentucky, the Huskies could be NCAA champions again.


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Charles Murray (1943-2019) hates black people. His evil mind uses facts and logic to corroborate his theory. Which is by itself proves that he is evil. Who defend ideas with logic besides evil people?!? That's not a pointless Kanye West reference - Murray hates black people to the God damn death, as he has proven his points on Blacks using scientific methods! This is an infamy!
Murray probably went to a private school in his youth, where he was inevitably observed society and, as a consequence, socialized into racist beliefs such as that black people are bad. As a teenager, he frequented hangouts for rare non-blacks teenage delinquents, which is pretty hypocritical. Just pick them at random! He received a BA from Harvard, a low-budget and highly unreliable university in Iowa where he grew up. He then went to Thailand to spend his time partying hard. There he met an Asian bride called Suchart Dej-Udom, who he was married to for a while. Now comes a question: why she was not black? I said, he is evil! But he got divorced, showing further hypocrisy. At some point he became a leading member of the New Right, a conservative political movement which promotes being white and male. Murray eventually became a political analyst, when he became worried his life was not adequately bland. Most of his work revolves around hating black people, Racism, decreasing welfare. He even condemned his state for babysitting blacks with food stamps. Can you believe? Foods stamps are free idiot!!!
Murray's views can be summarized with a few main points.
- Divorce, single parents, teenage pregnancy, and other deviant family forms, are all the Devil and make their children more likely to be criminals.
- Families of black people are very often like those described above, indeed 75% of Black children are born in a fatherless household or do not live with their biological father and, on average, 1/3 of the Black male population will be in prison at some point is life. He misunderstands the simple fact that statistics are not meant to be used in any academic debate.
- Blacks males also commit seven times more crime that white males, but this he missed, which points out his poor academic skills.
- This is why black people are evil and mostly criminals (it is wrong, it is actually only one third (of males)).
Charles Murray helped some other Nazi to publish a book called The Bell Curve. The book was about intelligence (or lack of intelligence of a few...), and the socio-economic reasons why dumb people should be gassed. Among its chapters was one, 'Race and Intelligence', in which Murray scientifically proved that black people are on average stupid. As if stupid people care about science! He missed the point, obviously!
Other work[edit]
- A Behavioral Study of Rural Modernization: Social and Economic Change in Thai Villages (Praeger Publishers, 1977)
- Beyond Probation: Juvenile Corrections and the Chronic Delinquent - co-authored with Louis A. Cox, Jr. (Sage Publications, 1979)
- Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980, Basic Books (1984) ISBN 0465042317
- In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government, Simon & Schuster (1989) ISBN 0671687433
- Apollo: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of One of Humankind's Greatest Achievements - co-authored by Catherine Bly Cox, Simon & Schuster, 1989.
- The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, with Richard Herrnstein, (1994) ISBN 0029146739
- What it Means to be a Libertarian, Broadway Books (1997) ISBN 0553069284
- Income Inequality and IQ, AEI Press (1998) PDF copy
- The Underclass Revisited, AEI Press (1999) PDF copy
- Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950, HarperCollins (2003) ISBN 006019247X
- In Our Hands: A Plan To Replace The Welfare State, AEI Press (March 2006)
Charles Murray died in 2019. He first received bomb threats after publishing Mein Kampf. However these were only carried out after he published his marginally more racist book that became controversial among non-white people. He was missed among his friends in the Klan.


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Playstation Move
Well, with the Playstation Move soon arriving, I was curious about if anyone had already pre-ordered it and any games, or thinking about doing so? If you have/are, then why? And vice-versa, if you you're not even gonna bother with the PS Move, then why?
As for myself, yes it's just a Sony style upgrade of the Wii motion control system with some improved mechanics behind it, but it still seems interesting to me. I'm personally looking forward to trying out The Fight: Lights Out, hope they come out with some more interesting titles as well, and with the reduced price on the games, maybe i might buy more games.
It just seems like a rip off of the Wii-mote to me. There aren't any games that exclusively use it that I want so I definitely won't be getting it.
News to me. And I don't I'll go watch it.
@Laharlt, I understand where you are coming from, but it's not just a rip-off, it has upgrades to it, making it superior tech-wise at least. Is it something that'll revolutionize the PS3? No, but it'll add some more depth, and that's not a bad thing. Plus, I'm thinking of how already established games like Resident Evil 5 and Heavy Rain are gonna fare with the new controls, and if we already have the game do we need to shell out another $40 for the same game with new controls or can they use a patch to incorporate the new controls if we already own the games.
and @mystic17, sorry I kinda assumed people knew about it since it was one of the focal points of Sony's E3 presentation. Well, in case other people who don't know what the Playstation Move is all about then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0puP8nrIU8 I chose this video cause KB is the man, and well they only "show" 2 games, but it gets the point across. Enjoy
I really don't see how its going to be that much better and I doubt many (if any) companies will go back and release patches to incorporate motion controls. The cost alone is enough to turn me away from it. Most games will probably still provide regular controls anyways so I don't see this being a big seller.
i agree its like a wii controller just a cool ball on it
but what sucks is that Microsoft kinda got the Kinect idea from the Eye Toy but they just made it better
what i wish was that with the preorder is they give the nunchuk with the controller n let you pick with game you want
@soraenes DUDE!!! i totally agree with you, the bundle should come with the navigation controller *cough* let's not use nunchuk next time so we don't give more people reason to believe it's just a rip-off *cough* AND let you pick out what game it'll come with. Or at least customize our bundles, cause i already have the PS Eye, so swapping it out for the navigation controller would be sweet.
On a side note, I had a weird dream the other night that I was playing a game on the PS Move, and the screen was blurry at first so I couldn't recognize the game. I was just watching my arms flailing around and swinging at the air. After what seemed like a couple of minutes I could finally tell what I was playing....a Dynasty Warriors game!!! Dunno who I was playing as, but i was a spear dude just sweeping through all those lowly peons. KOIE if you're reading this take note Beating on thousands of soldiers with single button presses gets old sometimes, so why not try something new, eh?
Just get freaking DDR when it comes out
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I like to see how Heavy Rain plays with it.
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A rather late update, but I just remembered that the PS3 is getting No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise...with updated HD graphics and Move support Never played the series for the Wii, but wanted to, and now I can when this gets released.
Playstation Move is pretty good :P, killzone 3 you can use the move thing for it
Do you have your own Bentendo OwEe????, made by Zony :P
PS move killed MAG for me...
Perfect aim and no recoil without needing to turn
Hate it.
I'd only use it for non fps games.
(Like Metal Gear Rising.)
It not bad. Sport Champions is a fun game. The accuracy is pretty amazing. The other game I've used Move for is High Velocity Bowling. It works a lot better with Move.
Yow! Thats unfair, givin a guy a shot down there!
I still haven't tried it myself yet, but I kind of expect it to be similar to the wii. If so, then I might get one because it makes the user feel like they're part of the game.
"Happiness equals reality minus expectations."
Huge difference guys.. The PS Move can actually tell all the angle the PS Move is currently at. Wii is limited...
Hard to explain, but if you try it, you'll see the difference.
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COLUMBIA — From limiting new road projects to marketing nature-based industries and promoting solar energy, green special interest groups are pushing an agenda that they say melds conservation with economic prosperity.
During a briefing organized by the Conservation Voters of South Carolina, Jack Schuler, co-chair of the Rural Resource Coalition, urged lawmakers to better fund state agencies that manage South Carolina's natural assets.
He said the combined budgets of the state Department of Agriculture, the Forestry Commission, the Department of Natural Resources and the Parks, Recreation and Tourism department account for less than 1 percent of the state budget. But they regulate assets that support industries responsible for 30 percent of the total state economy and about one in every four jobs.
"Imagine how the state could be spotlighted, the number of jobs that could be added with a fair distribution of state revenue," said Schuler.
Another key priority activists detailed Wednesday was reforming the way the S.C. Department of Transportation chooses road projects.
"We have allowed politically motivated projects to crowd out basic needs," said Dana Beach, executive director of the S.C. Coastal Conservation League.
"Basic needs like fixing potholes, relieving flooding, repairing bridges, adding wider shoulders where they're necessary, guard rails, and improving intersections."
Beach took issue with projects that are "unimportant, unnecessary and often environmentally damaging." Environmentalists have directed their ire to $2 billion-plus plan to build I-73 from North Carolina to Myrtle Beach and another effort to extend I-526 in Charleston.
"Jobs depend on our ability to move freight and people around and in and our of the state," said Beach.
"Every year we wait, we fall further behind."
The same day Sen. Vincent Sheheen, D-27th District, introduced S. 1090, dubbed the "Fix-it-First" bill, which would require the state to prioritize the maintenance and rehabilitation of existing roads and bridges.
Wednesday's event also promoted the Palmetto Green Schools Program, which promotes energy-efficient school campuses and conservation education.
And like in recent years, renewable energy will loom as a key priority this year.
Advocates highlighted a tax-credit bill, H. 3346, which would raise the state's solar tax credit from 25 percent to 35 percent of the cost of the equipment, in order to put the Palmetto State on competitive footing with it neighboring states. It's projected to nick the general fund by $271,000. The House passed the bill in April, and it awaits Senate committee action.
Part of the argument for pushing renewables in South Carolina is to reduce the flood of dollars — estimated in the billions — that leaves the state annually to purchase energy, since South Carolina lacks coal, uranium and natural gas.
Sen. Chip Campsen, R-43rd District, also pressed for the Senate to pass a 10-year extension of the life of the S.C. Conservation Bank, which is set to expire at the end of 2012. The bill has already been approved by the House, which is where stronger opposition to the bank has resided in recent years.
The bank, which uses a portion of the revenue from state documentary stamps to purchase land or conservation easements from willing property owners, was created in 2002 by Campsen's legislation.
Advocates of the bank say South Carolina's natural beauty and outdoor recreation have helped draw families and businesses. But the land must be protected to make sure people continue to move to the state and invest here.
"When there is talk about the need to reduce protections to help business, we think that is misguided," said Ann Timberlake, executive director of Conservation Voters of SC. "We think conservation is South Carolina's business."
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott supports Medicaid expansion
Gov. Rick Scott said Wednesday he supports expanding Medicaid and funneling billions of federal dollars to Florida, a significant policy reversal that could bring health care coverage to 1 million additional Floridians.
"While the federal government is committed to pay 100 percent of the cost, I cannot, in good conscience, deny Floridians the needed access to health care," Scott said at a hastily called news conference at the Governor's Mansion.
Scott, a former hospital executive, spoke with unusual directness about helping the "poorest and weakest" Floridians — a stunning about-face for a small-government Republican who was one of the loudest voices in an aggressive, and ultimately unsuccessful, legal strategy to kill a law he derided as "Obamacare."
Throughout his 2010 campaign for governor, as Scott sought support from tea party members, he called the law a "job-killer" that would hurt Florida.
On Wednesday, he called the proposed Medicaid expansion, at least for an initial period, "common sense."
Tea party activists bitterly criticized Scott's declaration.
"This is just another example of Republicans lying to Floridians," said Everett Wilkinson of Palm Beach Gardens, calling Scott "the Benedict Arnold to the patriot and tea party movement in Florida."
Scott was careful to point out that the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature will ultimately decide whether or not his proposal is worth implementing. That is far from certain, particularly in the more partisan House.
"Gov. Scott has made his decision and I certainly respect his thoughts," said House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel. "However, the Florida Legislature will make the ultimate decision. I am personally skeptical that this inflexible law will improve the quality of health care in our state and ensure our long-term financial stability."
"I respect the governor for staking out a clear position," added Sen. Joe Negron, R-Stuart, who chairs a Senate committee studying the health care law. He said senators would reach their own conclusions likely in early March.
In Miami, Carlos A. Migoya, Jackson's president and chief executive officer, applauded Scott's announcement. "Anything that provides coverage for our currently uninsured residents certainly advances our community and Jackson Health System's mission," he said. "The impact on Jackson's budget, however, will be based on how the details are written and how the funding is allocated."
Scott said he would support an initial three-year expansion of Medicaid but made clear he would not twist legislators' arms to make it happen. He reiterated that his top priorities are a $2,500 pay raise for teachers and a sales tax break for manufacturers' equipment purchases.
Under the governor's proposal, the Legislature — after three years — would have to vote to reauthorize the program to keep it going.
"It is not a white flag of surrender to government-run health care," he said, as if anticipating a political backlash from his most conservative supporters.
Part of his self-described "new perspective" came from the death of his mother Esther last year, he said.
"A few months ago, my mother passed away, and I lost one of the only constants in my life," Scott said. "Losing someone so close to you puts everything in new perspective ... especially the big decisions."
For weeks, Scott has said the debate on expanding Medicaid was directly tied to the state's application for waivers it needs to allow private companies to run the program.
His endorsement of the expansion came hours after the federal government agreed to grant Florida a conditional waiver to privatize Medicaid statewide for the state's more than 3 million current recipient, more than half of whom are children or people under age 21.
Scott and GOP lawmakers have repeatedly warned that Medicaid's roughly $21 billion annual costs were consuming Florida's budget and proposed the managed care plan to save money and improve care.
The privatization expands on a five-county pilot program that has been rife with problems. Critics worry for-profit providers are scrimping on patient care and denying medical services to increase profits. Some doctors have dropped out of the pilot program, complaining of red tape and that the insurers deny the tests and medicine they prescribe. Patients have complained they struggled to get doctor's appointments. The participating counties included Broward.
Several health plans also dropped out of the pilot program, saying they couldn't make enough money. Patients complained they were bounced from plan to plan with lapses in care. Nearly half of the 200,000 patients enrolled in the pilot have been dropped from at least one plan, federal health officials noted at one point during negotiations.
Lawmakers say they have fixed the pilot program's shortcomings, with provisions including increased oversight and more stringent penalties, including fining providers up to $500,000 if they drop out. The measures also increase doctors' reimbursement rates and limits malpractice lawsuits for Medicaid patients in hopes of increasing doctor participation in the program.
Medicaid, a joint state-federal, government-run health care program, is voluntary for states. But every state participates, in part because of the good financial terms. The federal government covers about 55 percent of all Medicaid costs in Florida and covered about 68 percent in recent years with additional stimulus funding.
The health care law tried to entice states to expand eligibility to Medicaid by raising income eligibility limits. To do so, the federal government agreed to fund 100 percent of the cost for states to expand Medicaid for three budget years. The federal government would then cover 95 percent of the costs in 2017, 94 percent of the costs in 2018, 93 percent of the costs in 2019 and 90 percent of the costs in 2020 and beyond.
Recent polls conducted by the American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network and the Florida Hospital Association indicated that most Floridians supported the Medicaid expansion, though conservatives were less likely to agree.
Scott said Wednesday that he had to look past his long-standing opposition to the health care law to reach his decision.
"It doesn't matter what I believe. It doesn't matter what anybody believes," Scott said. "The Supreme Court's already made their decision. We had an election in the fall, and the public made their decision."
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Skinny & Happy
Not a bad problem to have, but I am a creature of habit (as you may have noticed). Now that we're back home, I can't get myself to stop eating my oatmeal, acorn squash, sprouts, tomatoes and lefse. I have been adding TVP to the oatmeal, which helped with the protein situation. And supplement bananas, apples, tofu and cottage cheese as needed. But there just aren't many calories in those. And, of course, I should mention that breastfeeding burns 500-700 calories a day.
So how thin is too thin? I think I'm actually where I want to be, but don't want to stop the diet! The thing is, I pride myself on being a strong woman who can run ultras and swim miles at a time, but I like the fact that I'm losing weight without trying. And SR is giving me tons of positive feedback (no one minds being called "gorgeous skinny b####"). Although he does find all the oatmeal and gords a bit weird.
Dare I say staying at a healthy weight is as challenging as losing weight? At least I find this to be true while I'm breastfeeding. So now that my BMI (18.2) is underweight, I've probably got to stabilize, but I still feel healthy and strong. And the lighter you are, the faster you can run, to a point. From the information I found on the internet, Paula Radcliffe's BMI is 18.0, so I probably don't want to be below that.
Stay tuned, I'll hopefully end up staying at this weight, which seems about right for me. And if you're feeling adventurous, try the oatmeal diet and let me know how it works for you.
7 comments:
- Lisa said...
Sea Legs...I would cry and die if I had to eat that much oatmeal. LOL! You don't alternate egg whites or something? Glad you are happy with your weight. Kiss the Bois! Enjoy!
- 21 May 2008 at 21:01
- sea legs girl said...
Ha, Lisa. Cry and die. I love it. Maybe that's why the oatmeal diet is not a staple among diets. Perhaps I'm the only one who enjoys that much oatmeal. And, yes I'll kiss the Bois!
- 21 May 2008 at 22:18
- olga said...
I guess I should try and like oatmeal (love would be overstatement). I can eat a cup for breakfast, but don't fill up on it. Good for you!
- 21 May 2008 at 22:47
- Heather said...
Just be careful, sealegs.
As someone who once had an eating disorder, and not as a competitive runner, etc, I have to give the word of caution pretty much whenever someone is talking about losing weight past for medical reasons.
- 22 May 2008 at 01:12
- Danni said...
If you want to maintain your weight but stay on your oatmeal diet, it sounds like you need to supplement your oatmeal with yet more oatmeal. Or do you mean you don't want to stop dieting?
I think it's harder to maintain weight than to lose it -- you are rewarded directly by dieting -- you see the low number on the scale. The reward of not gaining weight isn't as palpable and can be boring. Perhaps a new goal, such as how much weight you can lift, would satisfy the number-oriented/goal-oriented/fitness-oriented cravings?
- 22 May 2008 at 05:32
- SteveQ said...
I never connected this blog and you until you contacted me! There's a built-in failsafe for runners who diet; decreased performance. In my case, in college, I started to fall apart at 130 lbs (at 6 feet). I'm 30 lbs. heavier now and slower, but healthier overall.
- 22 May 2008 at 17:34
- sea legs girl said...
Good point, Danni, that the GOAL needs to be feeling good and strong (and maybe a number goal like that is the way to go... interesting idea). And to Danni & Steve, I often find it hard to know weather it's actually the affect of the diet itself that makes me a bit slower (albeit temporarily), or if it's the fact that I weigh too little. People can be weak from eating too little and still weigh too much, obviously. So, I guess it takes a lot of experimentation to figure out what your ideal performance weight is (and obviously depends on your sport). That is part of the reason I'm a little hesitant to stop the diet now. Steve, your BMI was 17.6 - holy wow - that is low!
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The Good: Excellent in terms of distance; fairly good in accuracy. Mine sets up with almost a closed face so draws are easier, though hooks and duck hooks sometimes are a bit too easy. When you hit it flush, it makes a distinctive crack which announces to the entire range or course that a serious player has hurt the ball.
The Bad: There are more forgiving clubs out there for mid to high handicappers. When I miss, I either duck hook or block it so far right, only Rush Limbaugh could find it. I have an 8.5 loft and still tend to hit the ball higher than I would like. I have heard rumors this club is not as durable as others, though I have had no problems with mine.
Overall: As serious as I take my golf, my driver has to instill total confidence in me in every regard. I have tried other clubs for various times, but always seem to come back to Old Faithful. A big thanks to my friend who talked me into buying the club.


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