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During an acupuncture session, Dr. Jester will first take a thorough history of your pet. She will then perform a very specific exam that is focused on the musculoskeletal system. Areas that are an issue (ie: joint recovering from surgery or an arthritic joint in the body) as well as places on the body that are reactive as determined during the exam, will be treated during the session. Dr. Jester frequently massages and/or stretches any areas that are tight to make needle insertion more comfortable for your companion and to give a synergistic effect to the sessions. The acupuncture treatments last approximately one hour and Dr. Jester frequently uses electrical stimulation for longer-acting effects as well as an increased pain relief (endorphin) response by the animal's body. For more information, visit the page titled Acupuncture FAQs.
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During a holistic consult, Dr. Jester will ask very detailed questions about your companion's clinical condition(s) and inquire about relevant history. This goes beyond a brief exam/history taking that would be done in a conventional clinic. The objective of a holistic exam/consult is to try to identify the underlying reasons or causes for your animal's current issue(s) and then offer support in whichever way seems to make the most sense for that individual. Therapy recommendations may include any combination of acupuncture, herbs, supplements, behavioral modification or dietary changes.


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Lecture-Recital with Artem Belogurov (fortepiano) for the students of Cornell University in NY state. Discussion and performance of 19th-century interpretation of earlier music, with works by J.S. Bach (ed. Czerny), J.S. Bach/Grützmacher and Herzogenberg.
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Click on Mark Twains picture above to jump to Troutbirder II and my review of Elizabeth Berg's remarkable novel of the life of George Sand...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
The Dream Lover
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The Dream Lover -- will check it out through my local library -- tell them troutbirder sent me -- barbaraReplyDelete
Hi TB, you have such a diverse interest in books. Don't remember much about EBB from my school days but think her father was ridiculously wealthy. Didn't she work against slavery and the labor laws of her time?ReplyDelete
Thank you for the review...I always enjoy this, it helps me find new books to read.ReplyDelete
This is a must read for me. Thank you for the review.ReplyDelete
I've heard of her. She sounds like a character but my kind of woman.ReplyDelete
I just put a hold on the book at the library. I'm number 17 in line! :-)ReplyDelete
I have to read this! Thanks.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSat Jun 20, 11:22:00 AM
Instead of clicking on Mark Twain's picture this time I clicked the Troutbirder. All I can say is wow. Please, dear readers, don't.ReplyDelete
Stopping by to say Happy Father's Day Ray! :)ReplyDelete
I"m a fan of Elizabeth Berg. Headed to read your review.ReplyDelete


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Should MSP's fear large retailers entering their space?
So I always tell our Partners that are worried about the 800lb gorillas stealing their clients that the key to keeping them is their relationships with their clients. I'm confident that Microsoft, Dell, Ingram, Best Buy, Staples, Circut City, etc. would never be able to replace our relationship with our clients.
Well, Dell is stepping up their efforts. My friend Arlin Sorensen just sent me a telling CMP article chronicling Dell's latest move in alienating the channel:
Dell Launches Mega-Bundle, But Cuts Out Channel
By Edward F. Moltzen, CMP Channel
4:21 PM EDT Wed. Oct. 10, 2007
Dell is launching a new top-to-bottom bundle that includes desktops, servers, networking and service, but will only sell it directly — even as the company is working behind the scenes to hash out details on its forthcoming formal channel program.
The Round Rock, Texas-based company is cutting the channel out of its On-Demand Desktop Streaming solution. The offering, announced Wednesday, is a bundle that includes diskless OptiPlex desktops, a PowerEdge 2950 server, a PowerConnect Gigabit switch, Citrix Provisioning Server for Desktops Software, and a PowerEdge 2900 storage server.
The new solution is part of Dell's continuing initiative to streamline information technology products, the company said. During a press conference, though, Dell Senior Vice President Jeff Clarke said the product would not be available through the channel.
"This is going to be sold with our direct sales force, our direct service force," Clarke said. The offering is aimed at what the company describes as IT simplification, and allows for system images to be deployed, managed and refreshed across many desktops, remotely. The company says 100 clients can be managed across a single server.
"This is an evolution of Dell from being a hardware provider to being a solution provider," Clarke said.
Dell said the offering allows for software, applications and data to be streamed across a network to desk-based workers, and that it believes it can lower IT labor costs by as much as 56 percent.
The announcement and Clarke's remarks came on the same day when Dell Chairman and CEO Michael Dell appeared at the Gartner IT Symposium in Orlando, Fla., to be peppered with questions about Dell's channel strategy. To some in the channel, where skepticism about Dell's channel plans have run high, the move does not appear to be one that will change the mood.
"If you called me a month ago, I might have told you I felt differently, that they were truly committed to a channel, but it's just another day in the park with Dell," said John Riesenburger, chief operating officer of Vertical IT Solutions, a Tampa, Fla.-based solution provider and Dell reseller. "There is no channel program and they really need to not be saying they have that."
Riesenburger said the new Dell offering sounds like a move back to the mainframe model, "going back to centralized processing.
"If it pulls it off and it comes to fruition, it sounds like a pretty interesting initiative," Riesenburger said. He added, "Dell can't do anything from a service delivery standpoint. That's the good news."
Dell executives have said the company plans to roll out details of a new channel program by year's end, including deal registration and solution provider incentives. The company is in the midst of an overhaul of its business strategy after two years of under-pressure sales and profits and after losing the worldwide market share lead in PCs to Dell.
While my position regarding client relationships is still key to maintaning and growing any business partnership, it's also become increasingly more important for us as MSPs to remain vigilant of the 800lb gorillas…
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Such a delicate thing
Yet is so strong at the same time.
Sustains our lives
Stopping it would be fatal.
Do you ever wonder if it ever feels?
Or is it your subconscious fabricating "what the heart feels"?
Makes you wonder, huh?
As do I, and if the heart feels, what does the blood represent?
The emotions circulating through us, or shall it remain
forever fascinating with it's oxygen circulation?
Love…such a complicated thing you are to understand


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So before buy the auto filters customer need to do a comprehensive inspection on the manufacturers, well from which aspects to inspect the automotive filters suppliers? 1. Manufacturer's strength Some company is the flying-by-night company, if you need to buy large lot of automotive filters, it is very necessary to visit the factory, to see the Manufacturer's size, equipment, and products 2. Manufacturer's experience
How many years of production experience in engine filter industry. 3. Manufacturer's customer If the manufacture's filters be approved by high-end market and have the famous customers in the line, this can tell that both in technical and product quality this supplier should be good. Like jieyu filter's product approved by European and American market, is the air filter supplier for Top 500 enterprise so customer so consumers more assured of their filters. 4. Manufacturer's testing equipment. Filter media is the main raw material of automotive filters but many small manufacturers do not have filter media test equipment, they always used the inferior quality filter media to reduce the cost, done a shoddy job with substandard material. 5. Manufacturer's technical level. Customer like to compare the price, but just from the automotive filters price can not show our value, in fact we more attention should paid on the Manufacturer's technical level, high technical level come out the excellent workmanship, you can feel it from the first sight. 6. Manufacturer's after sales service. As a automotive filter supplier we have been advocating no after sales is the best after-sales, but once one customer has a problem, a qualified automotive filters manufacturer need to be able to respond positively, responsible for the customers. Most of automotive filters suppliers want to sell you filters, Hebei jieyu more willing to support you to sell more. Welcome to contact us for more information about garden machinery air filter
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Cop cameras now keeping eye out for crime on Miami streets
Deep inside a new high-tech command center at Miami police headquarters, an officer on a computer controlling a series of high-definition TV screens takes aim at a young man sitting on the steps in front of the Torch of Freedom at Bayfront Park.
As the camera zooms in for a closer look, the cop clearly sees the man sitting on a skateboard, the shoelaces on his black sneakers undone, his green floppy hat and the white iPhone in his pocket attached to his ear by a wire.
"Pretty much, if he turns that around I can see who he's calling," said Marty Garcia, the point person behind the city's $700,000 plan to make virtual policing a real-time endeavor in Miami.
On Wednesday, just days before retiring as Miami's police chief, Manuel Orosa unveiled the city's ambitious plan to enhance homeland security by widening the lens of policing in Miami through the use of computers and high-powered cameras.
It couldn't come at a more appropriate time: Technology was a key component in identifying the three men accused of terrorizing Paris and killing 17 people last week. And video surveillance cameras helped identify the remaining Tsarnaev brother, whose trial for the bombings of the 2013 Boston Marathon is about to begin.
Today, Miami's control center — or its Virtual Policing Detail — is a dark room with a U-shaped table filled with eight computers linked to 28 large-screen, 55-inch high-definition TVs hung on four walls. They are all connected to 25 cameras, mostly along the Biscayne Boulevard corridor. The cameras look like giant eggs, white at one end, silver on the other.
The plan is to expand the system into Brickell, Little Haiti, Overtown and Model City, as well as some of the most crime-ridden public housing complexes. Think of hit television shows like 24, Homeland and NCIS, but on a smaller scale.
"The future of policing is virtual policing," Orosa said.
Though the system has the capacity for 2,500 cameras, Orosa hopes to eventually get 250 up and running in high-crime areas, at tourist destinations and near government buildings that could be targeted by terrorists. Homeland Security funds will cover half the cost. Three city agencies — the Community Redevelopment Agency, the Downtown Development Authority and the Bayfront Park Management Trust — are expected to pay for the rest.
The system now in place is fully capable of tracking the action at the controversial Ultra Music Festival held each year at Bayfront Park, where arrests are common and where security guard Erica Mack was almost trampled to death last year.
The plan is to hook cameras up to a ShotSpotter system the city purchased that uses GPS technology to triangulate gunfire, but that has yet to be installed. The city will eventually link the system to the 144 red-light cameras around town.
The system also can read 10,000 license plates an hour and is hooked up to a national database. The cameras have their eyes set not only on PortMiami, but on ports around the country as far away as San Diego.
In addition to general monitoring, police can focus in on specific details. If an officer types the words "red car" into a computer, for instance, all the red cars in a 10-hour span will pop up. Eventually the video will stream into patrol cars in real time. Similar systems on a larger scale are already in use in London, Boston, New York and Orlando.
Howard Simon, the executive director of the ACLU of Florida, has called the city's plan "mission creep," and worries that the new law enforcement tactics could invade people's privacy. He said his main concern is the possible abuse of the system with its zoom-in capability. The system does not include facial recognition.
Orosa, the police chief, brushes off Simon's concerns, saying privacy has been eroding as technology has advanced.
"Everyone has a telephone now with a camera, anyway," he said.
Inside the control room on Wednesday, Officer Alex Rivera pointed to a picture of Parking Lot 19 on Biscayne Boulevard across the street from the AmericanAirlines Arena. As the scene played out on the screen, he explained how on the afternoon of Christmas Day a group of tourists park their minivan, then leave. Moments later, a small car pulls up to the empty spot next to it. A man in the passenger seat reaches out and busts the door lock, then walks away with hundreds of dollars of camera and computer equipment.
The thieves weren't caught that day because police were notified of the incident after it happened. But now police have a clear picture of the vehicle they were driving and what one of the men looks like.
Orosa said the technology will help in how officers are deployed in a time of stretched staffing.
"This gives us more eyes on the community and more eyes on people who might be committing a crime," the chief said. "We won't need policemen in those areas as much."


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Tara Haynes
Canadian gets nearly 16 years for U.S. ecstasy bust, Montreal woman hid 70,000 pills in gas tank
Jan 31, 2012 (1)
A Canadian woman caught trying to smuggle more than 70,000 tablets of Ecstasy into the U.S. by sticking them in her car's gas tank has been sentenced in New York to nearly 16 years in prison.
The U.S. attorney's office in Albany announced Tuesday that 34-year-old Tara Haynes, of Montreal, was sentenced Monday to 15 years and eight months in federal prison. She was convicted in August of attempting to import a controlled substance.
U.S. inspectors at the border crossing in Champlain in northern New York searched Haynes' rental car in June and found the drugs vacuum-sealed and packed in the vehicle's gas tank.
Her lawyer had argued that she didn't know the drugs were there.
Authorities say the drugs were valued at $500,000 to $2.1 million.
On December 24, 2015, Tara Haynes BOP Register Number 19134-052 was successfully treaty transferred back to Canada. (2)


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Evil Things
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Revealing the horrifying stories of people who barely survived terrifying paranormal activity caused by possessed or cursed objects. Each twister mystery exposes the sinister secrets hiding within the most innocent items.
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The man who was behind the wheel of ZR125 when it overturned on Nursery Drive two years ago, resulting in a schoolgirl losing her forearm, has been found guilty of dangerous driving.
However, Matthew Ricardo Daniel, of Licorish Village, My Lord's Hill, St Michael is yet to know his fate, as Magistrate Graveney Bannister has ordered a pre-sentencing report on him. That is expected to take six to eight weeks to compile.
Daniel was found guilty of willful misconduct, causing bodily harm to Zakiyah Defreitas, driving in a manner dangerous to the public, driving without due care and attention, and driving the vehicle without reasonable consideration for other road users on June 9, 2015.
The accident, which made national headlines, resulted in the hand of the then 14-year-old Springer Memorial School student being severed.
In a written ruling issued Friday, Magistrate Bannister said that Daniel's "way of driving [on that day] was indeed dangerous".
The magistrate pointed to evidence given by the driver himself to support his ruling. He said Daniel testified that there was an obstruction ahead of him on that day that he was going to "overtake…[but] two Pine vans came around the same time".
"They were racing next to me and when I was going to pull back in, the girl next to me reacted when she see the vans coming."
Bannister stressed that a "reasonable and competent driver" would only overtake when it was safe to do so.
"A reasonable and competent driver would be looking ahead, and seeing an obstruction on his side, would have slowed enough to pull up his vehicle safely without attempting to overtake and then having to take evasive action from oncoming vehicles. The accused's way of driving was indeed dangerous," Bannister said.
Evidence presented to the court had also showed that Daniel Olliviere, who was travelling in the front passenger seat beside Defrietas, had told Daniel to stop.
Instead of complying, Olliviere said, the driver increased his speed when a student in the crowded van said, "I want shakes" as they were at the Mencea Cox Roundabout.
According to the evidence given by the passenger, the driver "circled" the roundabout twice and on reaching Nursery Drive Road continued shaking the van from side to side. Some of the passengers requested that he stop the van but he refused, saying "we will get there just now".
At the scene of the accident, Daniel had reportedly told the police: "I was [driving] the van to mek the turn and being gravel was on the road it buckled on me and picked up a slide and overturned."
The magistrate said that at no time did Daniel admit to gravel on the left side of the road on which he was travelling, although he admitted to going over to the other side.
"I do not accept the accused's story that the steering was pulled from his hand which caused the vehicle to overturn. The accused, in my view, was travelling at a fast rate of speed and doing shakes," Bannister's written ruling stated.
"The driver of a Public Service Vehicle has a high duty of care as they carry precious cargo (people) whose lives they transport. The road is not a playground and a driver of a PSV should not accede to any request to do foolishness on the roads and endanger people's lives by causing grave injuries," it added.
Bannister pointed to the aggravating factors in Daniel's case – disregarding the warnings of passengers, and evidence of excessive speed for a prolonged period from the Mencea Cox Roundabout to Nursery Drive Road.
On those grounds, the magistrate found Daniel guilty on each count.
Daniel who is represented by attorney Angella Mitchell-Gittens returns to court on August 2 when the pre-sentencing report is expected to be ready.
He remains on $15,000 bail in the meantime.


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The women behind the music. Meet the ladies nominated in this year's Industry Observer Awards
Australian music industry publication The Industry Observer has created a brand new awards event to recognise people working in music management, publishing, publicity, community radio and more.
The shortlist for each category has been announced today and Music Love thought it ought to highlight and celebrate the women who were nominated in each category.
The awards will be given out in Sydney Tuesday March 27.
Manager of the Year
Clara Iaccarino (MAKEbeLIVE Productions)
Rachel Comerford along with Jaddan Comerford (UNIFIED Music Group)
Niriko McLure (Wonder / 1825 Records)
Record Label A&R of the Year
Coco Eke (Bad Apples)
Publisher A&R of the Year
Leonie Conley along with Robert Conley (Specific Music)
Maree Hamblion (Sony/ATV)
Amy Jarman (BMG Australia)
Marketing Manager/Director of the Year
Mardi Caught (Warner Music)
Kimberley Galceran (Bluesfest)
Nicole Richards (Universal Music)
Petrina Convey (Sony Music)
Viktoria Juryga (Universal Music)
Publicist of the Year
Amy Simons (UNIFIED Music Group)
Anna Fitzgerald (TMRW Music)
Bronwyn Tasker (Sony Music)
Ella Cochrane (Mushroom Group)
Emily Cheung (On The Map PR)
Genna Alexopoulos (Super Duper)
Natalie Files (The PR Files)
Rachel Jones-Williams (Caroline Australia)
Samantha Anschau (Beehive PR)
Sarah Guppy (This Much Talent)
Booking Agent of the Year
Casey O'Shaughnessy (Select Music)
Katie Rynne (Select Music)
Radio Host of the Year
Ash London (SCA)
Jackie O (KIIS)
Emma Chow from Mike E and Emma (ARN)
Community Radio Host of the Year
Brooke Olsen (Amrap)
Caitlin Nienaber (RTRFM 92.1)
Julie Reynolds
Lauren Taylor along with Simon Winkler (Triple R)
Stephanie Latella
Vickiree Melouney
The Industry Impact Award
Erica Hart (QLD Music Festival)
Maggie Collins (Bigsound)
Michelle Grace-Hunder (Her Sound, Her Story Project)
Milly Petriella (APRA AMCOS)
Stacey Piggott, Alycia Emmerson & Emma Thornton along with Rhett McLaren(Your Choice)
Pixie Weyland (FEED MUSIC)
Vicki Gordon (Vicki Gordon Music Productions)
Executive of the Year
Jacqui Louez-Schoorl (Jaxsta)
Susan Heymann (Chugg Entertainment)
Guardian of the Year (Recognising mums, dads and guardians of musicians)
Alana Dow (Jai Waetford)
Tara Hart
Laurelle Mellet along with her partner Shaun Mellet (Troy Sivan)
Music Lawyer of the Year
No women nominated
Awards will also be given out for Industry Tweet of the Year, Festival of the Year, Boutique Festival of the Year and Music Retailer of the Year. More details here


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Published at Saturday, August 24th 2019, 02:38:42 AM by Frederique Perillard. Living Room
A general rule of thumb is that lighter colors make the room feel larger and reflect the light. On the other hand, a darker color of carpet makes the room look small and it absorbs light. If you want to have a carpet of cool colors, you can go with shades of greens and blues as these colors have a calm and subtle feel. Similarly, if you use warm colors like reds, orange tones and yellows, it will give a more creative feeling to your living room. If you are not sure about which color to choose, or are afraid of experimenting, you can go with neutral colors like beige and gray.
No matter what you want the purpose to be for your living room, the way that you lay it out, the furniture you use, the fabric, even the colors you use will complete the look. You can create a natural look, rustic, contemporary, or elegant with just a few simple changes. The look you decide on doesn't have to be the only look you can have in the living room. Feel free to experiment with different looks until you find one that you like. It's okay to change the look of your room every season or just once a year.
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We granted certiorari as the case presents important questions in respect of the asserted privilege and immunity of citizens of the United States to advocate action pursuant to a federal statute, by distribution of printed matter and oral discussion in peaceable assembly; and the jurisdiction of federal courts of suits to restrain the abridgment of such privilege and immunity.
The respondents, individual citizens, unincorporated labor organizations composed of such citizens, and a membership corporation, brought suit in the United States District Court against the petitioners, the Mayor, the Director of Public Safety, and the Chief of Police of Jersey City, New Jersey, and the Board of Commissioners, the governing body of the city.
The bill alleges that acting under a city ordinance forbidding the leasing of any hall, without a permit from the Chief of Police, for a public meeting at which a speaker shall advocate obstruction of the Government of the United States or a State, or a change of government by other than lawful means, the petitioners, and their subordinates, have denied respondents the right to hold lawful meetings in Jersey City on the ground that they are Communists or Communist organizations; that pursuant to an unlawful plan, the petitioners have caused the eviction from the municipality of persons they considered undesirable because of their labor organization activities, and have announced that they will continue so to do. It further alleges that acting under an ordinance which forbids any person to "distribute or cause to be distributed or strewn about any street or public place any newspapers, paper, periodical, book, magazine, circular, card or pamphlet," the petitioners have discriminated against the respondents by prohibiting and interfering with distribution of leaflets and pamphlets by the respondents while permitting others to distribute similar printed matter; that pursuant to a plan and conspiracy to deny the respondents their Constitutional rights as citizens of the United States, the petitioners have caused respondents, and those acting with them, to be arrested for distributing printed matter in the streets, and have caused them, and their associates, to be carried beyond the limits of the city or to remote places therein, and have compelled them to board ferry boats destined for New York; have, with violence and force, interfered with the distribution of pamphlets discussing the rights of citizens under the National Labor Relations Act; have unlawfully searched persons coming into the city and seized printed matter in their possession; have arrested and prosecuted respondents, and those acting with them, for attempting to distribute such printed matter; and have threatened that if respondents attempt to hold public meetings in the city to discuss rights afforded by the National Labor Relations Act, they would be arrested; and unless restrained, the petitioners will continue in their unlawful conduct. The bill further alleges that respondents have repeatedly applied for permits to hold public meetings in the city for the stated purpose, as required by ordinance, although they do not admit the validity of the ordinance; but in execution of a common plan and purpose, the petitioners have consistently refused to issue any permits for meetings to be held by, or sponsored by, respondents, and have thus prevented the holding of such meetings; that the respondents did not, and do not, propose to advocate the destruction or overthrow of the Government of the United States, or that of New Jersey, but that their sole purpose is to explain to workingmen the purposes of the National Labor Relations Act, the benefits to be derived from it, and the aid which the Committee for Industrial Organization would furnish workingmen to that end; and all the activities in which they seek to engage in Jersey City were, and are, to be performed peacefully, without intimidation, fraud, violence, or other unlawful methods....
The first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment settled the old controversy as to citizenship by providing that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Thenceforward citizenship of the United States became primary and citizenship of a State secondary.
The first section of the Amendment further provides: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; . . ."
The question now presented is whether freedom to disseminate information concerning the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act, to assemble peaceably for discussion of the Act, and of the opportunities and advantages offered by it, is a privilege or immunity of a citizen of the United States secured against state abridgment by § 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.... The bill alleges, and the findings sustain the allegation, that the respondents had no other purpose than to inform citizens of Jersey City by speech, and by the written word, respecting matters growing out of national legislation, the constitutionality of which this court has sustained.
Although it has been held that the Fourteenth Amendment created no rights in citizens of the United States, but merely secured existing rights against state abridgment, it is clear that the right peaceably to assemble and to discuss these topics, and to communicate respecting them, whether orally or in writing, is a privilege inherent in citizenship of the United States which the Amendment protects.
In the Slaughter-House Cases it was said, 16 Wall. 79: "The right to peaceably assemble and petition for redress of grievances, the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, are rights of the citizen guaranteed by the Federal Constitution."
In United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542, 552-553, the court said:
"The right of the people peaceably to assemble for the purpose of petitioning Congress for a redress of grievances, or for any thing else connected with the powers or the duties of the national government, is an attribute of national citizenship, and, as such, under the protection of, and guaranteed by, the United States. The very idea of a government, republican in form, implies a right on the part of its citizens to meet peaceably for consultation in respect to public affairs and to petition for a redress of grievances. If it had been alleged in these counts that the object of the defendants was to prevent a meeting for such a purpose, the case would have been within the statute, and within the scope of the sovereignty of the United States."
No expression of a contrary view has ever been voiced by this court.
The National Labor Relations Act declares the policy of the United States to be to remove obstructions to commerce by encouraging collective bargaining, protecting full freedom of association and self-organization of workers, and, through their representatives, negotiating as to conditions of employment.
Citizenship of the United States would be little better than a name if it did not carry with it the right to discuss national legislation and the benefits, advantages, and opportunities that accrue to citizens therefrom. All of the respondents' proscribed activities had this single end and aim.
What has been said demonstrates that, in the light of the facts found, privileges and immunities of the individual respondents as citizens of the United States, were infringed by the petitioners, by virtue of their official positions, under color of ordinances of Jersey City, unless, as petitioners contend, the city's ownership of streets and parks is as absolute as one's ownership of his home, with consequent power altogether to exclude citizens from the use thereof, or unless, though the city holds the streets in trust for public use, the absolute denial of their use to the respondents is a valid exercise of the police power.
The findings of fact negative the latter assumption....
Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly, communicating thoughts between citizens, and discussing public questions. Such use of the streets and public places has, from ancient times, been a part of the privileges, immunities, rights, and liberties of citizens. The privilege of a citizen of the United States to use the streets and parks for communication of views on national questions may be regulated in the interest of all; it is not absolute, but relative, and must be exercised in subordination to the general comfort and convenience, and in consonance with peace and good order; but it must not, in the guise of regulation, be abridged or denied.
We think the court below was right in
holding the ordinance quoted in
Note 1 void upon its face. It does not make comfort or
in the use of streets or parks the standard of official action. It
the Director of Safety to refuse a permit on his mere opinion that such
refusal will prevent "riots, disturbances or disorderly assemblage." It
can thus, as the record discloses, be made the instrument of arbitrary
suppression of free expression of views on national affairs, for the
of all speaking will undoubtedly "prevent" such eventualities. But
official suppression of the privilege cannot be made a substitute for
duty to maintain order in connection with the exercise of the right....
I do not doubt that the decree below, modified as has been proposed, is rightly affirmed, but I am unable to follow the path by which some of my brethren have attained that end, and I think the matter is of sufficient importance to merit discussion in some detail.
It has been explicitly and repeatedly affirmed by this Court, without a dissenting voice, that freedom of speech and of assembly for any lawful purpose are rights of personal liberty secured to all persons, without regard to citizenship, by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. It has never been held that either is a privilege or immunity peculiar to citizenship of the United States, to which alone the privileges and immunities clause refers, and neither can be brought within the protection of that clause without enlarging the category of privileges and immunities of United States citizenship as it has hitherto been defined....
It has been said that the right of citizens to assemble for the purpose of petitioning Congress for the redress of grievances is a privilege of United States citizenship protected by the privileges and immunities clause. We may assume for present purposes, although the step is a long and by no means certain one, that the right to assemble to discuss the advantages of the National Labor Relations Act is likewise a privilege secured by the privileges and immunities clause to citizens of the United States, but not to others, while freedom to assemble for the purpose of discussing a similar state statute would not be within the privileges and immunities clause. But the difficulty with this assumption is, as the record and briefs show, that it is an afterthought first emerging in this case after it was submitted to us for decision, and like most afterthoughts in litigated matters it is without adequate support in the record....
No more grave and important issue can be brought to this Court than that of freedom of speech and assembly, which the due process clause guarantees to all persons regardless of their citizenship, but which the privileges and immunities clause secures only to citizens, and then only to the limited extent that their relationship to the national government is affected. I am unable to rest decision here on the assertion, which I think the record fails to support, that respondents must depend upon their limited privileges as citizens of the United States in order to sustain their cause... I think respondents' right to maintain it does not depend on their citizenship and cannot rightly be made to turn on the existence or non-existence of a purpose to disseminate information about the National Labor Relations Act. It is enough that petitioners have prevented respondents from holding meetings and disseminating information whether for the organization of labor unions or for any other lawful purpose.
If it be the part of wisdom to avoid unnecessary decision of constitutional questions, it would seem to be equally so to avoid the unnecessary creation of novel constitutional doctrine, inadequately supported by the record, in order to attain an end easily and certainly reached by following the beaten paths of constitutional decision.....
It will be observed that the cause of action, given by the section in its original as well as its final form, extends broadly to deprivation by state action of the rights, privileges and immunities secured to persons by the Constitution. It thus includes the Fourteenth Amendment and such privileges and immunities as are secured by the due process and equal protection clauses, as well as by the privileges and immunities clause of that Amendment. It will also be observed that they are those rights secured to persons, whether citizens of the United States or not, to whom the Amendment in terms extends the benefit of the due process and equal protection clauses.
Since freedom of speech and freedom of assembly are rights secured to persons by the due process clause, all of the individual respondents are plainly authorized by § 1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 to maintain the present suit in equity to restrain infringement of their rights....
MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS, dissenting:
I am of opinion that the decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals should be reversed and the cause remanded to the District Court with instructions to dismiss the bill. In the circumstances disclosed, I conclude that the District Court should have refused to interfere by injunction with the essential rights of the municipality to control its own parks and streets. Wise management of such intimate local affairs, generally at least, is beyond the competency of federal courts, and essays in that direction should be avoided.
MR. JUSTICE BUTLER, dissenting:
I am of opinion that the challenged ordinance is not void on its face; that in principle it does not differ from the Boston ordinance, as applied and upheld by this Court, speaking through Mr. Justice White, in Davis v. Massachusetts, 167 U.S. 43.


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DURHAM, North Carolina - November 12th, 2010 - CASA today released Sing 7: Lucky, the latest installment in the critically acclaimed SING series, as a free digital download to all members. This album features 20 incredible tracks of some of the greatest scholastic and professional a cappella groups in the world.
Sing 7: Lucky
1 You Were Everything - The House Jacks from level
2 Good Love - Cadence from Speak Easy
3 So Insane - Fifth Element (University of Wisconsin Eau Claire) from Runaway
4 Higher Ground - Scattertones (University of California Los Angeles) from Wherever You Stand
5 Calling Out - The Pitchforks (Duke University) from All In
6 Damaged - Aural Pleasure (Emory University) from Afterglow
7 Earth - XIV Hours (Durham Academy) from The Acapelican EP
8 Whipping Post - N'Harmonics (New York University) from Balls to the Wall
9 No More I Love You's - The Swingle Singers from Ferris Wheels
10 Ramalama Bang Bang - The Chordials (Cornell University) from Shake the Poet
11 The Quickest Road - The Duke's Men (Yale) from The Chase
12 Boomerang - Voices in Your Head (University of Chicago) previously unreleased
13 Eisdame - muSix from Heute Wie Neu
14 Lighthouse - On The Rocks (University of Oregon) from A Fifth
15 If Tha Mood - Loreleis (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) from Philophony
16 Tefillin - Six13 from Tefillin (single)
17 Reality - The Essentials from Nothing But Blue
18 Woods - Cary-Grove Jazz Choir (Cary-Grove High School) from Half Step Up
19 Tainted Love - Sweet Signatures (Elon University) from Love Affair
20 Hello Goodbye - Overboard from Help!
How to download Sing 7: Lucky on casa.org
Step 1: If you are not a full CASA member, please register or upgrade your account at www.casa.org/individual_membership. Then make sure you are properly logged into the website.
Step 2: Go to www.casa.org/singseven and click "buy album". Each member only has one attempt to download the album so make sure that your computer is ready to handle a big file. The total download is around 200 MB and includes cover art and a digital booklet.
Step 3: Enjoy listening to one of the best a cappella albums of the year! Keep in mind that this copy is for personal use only so please do not share it. For security purposes the files are watermarked with your username.
SoJam Limited Physical Edition:
If you would like to purchase the limited physical edition, you may do so at SoJam, the incredible CASA festival that will take place from November 12-14, 2010 in Durham, NC. Please note, however, this will be your only chance to purchase the album in its physical form. We anticipate that these copies will sell out at the event, but if you are not attending SoJam, you may email email@example.com to reserve a copy (if there are any left after the festival). Additional copies will be available on a "first come, first served" basis.
Sing 7: Lucky is now available for free to CASA members. The Special SoJam Limited Edition will only be available at SoJam to attendees for $15. The album will be released to the general public on Tuesday November 16th through A Cappella Records.
Sing 1-6 are currently available on iTunes.
Sing 7 Team:
Executive Producer: Julia Hoffman
Producers: Jon Pilat, Thomas "TeKay" King, Matt Emery
Design donated by: Benjy Rose
Mastering donated by: Bill Hare Productions


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PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth Garden Club and the New Hampshire Department of Resource and Economic Development, Division of Forests and Lands, Urban Forestry Center are accepting applications for the annual Festival of Trees Scholarship in partnership with the N.H. Charitable Foundation.
PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth Garden Club and the New Hampshire Department of Resource and Economic Development, Division of Forests and Lands, Urban Forestry Center are accepting applications for the annual Festival of Trees Scholarship in partnership with the N.H. Charitable Foundation.
Applications and eligibility criteria are available at the Urban Forestry Center, 45 Elwyn Road, Portsmouth.
Information and applications will also be available online in the near future at www.PortsmouthNHgardenclub.com and at www.nhcf.org.
The deadline for applications is Friday, April 9. After recipients are selected, the Festival of Trees Scholarship(s) will be presented on Wednesday, May 5, at the Urban Forestry Center in Portsmouth. Previous scholarship awards have been up to $1,000.
For information, call Sandy Fone, program assistant, Urban Forestry Center at 431-6774 or Mary Flannery, committee chairwoman at 436-4694.
The Festival of Trees is co-sponsored by the Portsmouth Garden Club and the N.H. Division of Forests and Lands — Urban Forestry Center. Held every other year at the Urban Forestry Center, this event is a major fund-raiser.
Because of the public's interest and generosity, more than $85,000 has been donated since 1983 to help support educational programs and beautification projects throughout the city of Portsmouth.
NASHUA — The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's 2010 Light the Night Walk registration and fund-raising is under way and the society has announced a special, early fund-raising incentive and a new way to help walkers boost fund-raising efforts.
From March 15 through May 31, registered walkers can earn free movie tickets by raising $100 or more. For every $100 raised during the promotion period, walkers will earn one free Fandango movie ticket. Funds may be raised online or offline, and there is no limit to the number of passes any walker can earn; but funds must be submitted to the local chapter by May 31 to qualify.
Light the Night is the nation's night to pay tribute and bring hope to those battling cancer. Funds raised through Light the Night support the Society's mission to cure leukemia, Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's New Hampshire Light the Night Walk will take place on Saturday, Sept. 25, at Greeley Park in Nashua.
Walkers who are already registered for Light the Night can simply go to their fund-raising Web page any time to get started.
To register to walk or to learn more about the terms and conditions, visit www.lightthenight.org/ma or contact Claire Hennessy at the Society at email@example.com, toll free (800) 688-6572 or (508) 810-1315 direct.
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EXETER — RiverWoods at Exeter has selected the 2010 non-profit partner for its annual gala auction, the RiverWoods Event. The recipient this year is Child and Family Services, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the well-being of children and families throughout New Hampshire.
RiverWoods announced it was seeking other nonprofits to host an auction for last year. The goal was to choose an organization that met the theme "family health." Fifteen nonprofit organizations from across the Seacoast region submitted applications. The selection was made by a committee of RiverWoods residents.
Child and Family Services (www.cfsnh.org) was selected, in part, because of the wide range of services it provides to poverty-level children and families. In this tough economic time their help makes a critical difference to many in the Seacoast. They provide direct services to young children, teens in trouble, new mothers, and families who are struggling to stay together. They serve 1,365 children and families in the Seacoast each year.
The gala auction will be held at the newly opened Boulders campus at RiverWoods on Oct. 16.
For tickets or more information about the event, call Penny Teodorczyk at 658-3031.
NEW CASTLE — Artists and crafters are wanted to take part in the New Castle Juried Arts and Crafts Fair on June 26, on the grounds of the New Castle Congregational Church on Route 1B in New Castle.
E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com for an application and further information.
Applications are due by May 31.
NORTH HAMPTON — Spring cleaning? Consider donating your used, old or simply unwanted golf clubs to the First Tee of New Hampshire.
The First Tee of New Hampshire uses golf as a platform for teaching young people life skills and core values that help them in all areas of their lives.
Bring your donated clubs to Sagamore Golf Center, 22 North Road, North Hampton. Don't forget your receipt for tax purposes.
DERRY — The 2010 Miss New Hampshire Scholarship Competition, at the Stockbridge Theatre at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, begins Thursday, April 29, at 7 p.m., followed by a second evening of preliminary competition Friday, April 30, at 7 p.m.
Twenty-six young women will compete for the title of Miss New Hampshire 2010, $80,000 in scholarships and the right to compete for the title of Miss America.
Preliminary night tickets are $10, final night is $35 for adults and $20 for under 18 years of age.
To reserve your ticket or for information call 437-9027 or visit www.missnh.org.
NORTH HAMPTON — Nearly every day there is some type of musical instrument lesson, art instruction, bridge play, theater class, career training and scout meeting now available at Centennial Hall. One time each year the group reaches out to the community for financial assistance, to help the organization continue to maintain and renovate the Hall, in order to provide these exceptional programs.
This year the Friends are offering a "thank you" gift in return for continued support. Award-winning resident artist Robert Steedman has agreed to offer a limited-edition 9-inch by 12-inch, personally signed giclee print for donations over $100. The highly collectible, archival-quality giclee is of one of Steedman's original watercolors, "Lands End." The artist has not previously distributed or sold prints so this is an offer that will support the important restoration efforts currently under way.
The nonprofit group can be reached at The Friends of Centennial Hall, P.O. Box 200, North Hampton, NH 03862, or at www.centennialhall.org.


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The day you give up on love is also the day you will find the kind of love that works for you. It's the day you put aside your own perception of all that means anything to you. Your ego is humbled, wisdom is gain, appreciation increases.
You now have a choice. A choice to live a jaded life, safely cocooned in a world of black and white or to find a balance that works for you, one that includes self-love and mutuality.
Yes, you can continue to live in a world of self-denial that happiness is out of bounds, build fences that shelter you from the storm. But soon, you find yourself moving away from the very same thing you yearn for.
We all get overwhelmed by chemistry, it sneaks up on you, promises to give you the world and then we feel disappointed when there isn't a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Doesn't love conquer all? Isn't love unconditional? Where did we go wrong?
We are conditioned to believe in romanticised fairytales and to perceive otherwise is party pooper behaviour. We let one bad apple become a generalisation, conveniently making sweeping statements about the world when all it does is prevent someone new to sweep you off your feet.
We go all hush-hush about our own relationships that don't hit the impossible mark and speak no evil about the relationships of others that don't fit into this erroneous narrow definition of what love is. Neglecting the aspect of soul connections, pretending it doesn't exist and knowing deep in our hearts that it does.
We want to believe in the possibilities of love so much that we forget the realities of love. We set the bar according to love stories that inspire the world while forgetting the oh-so-very-human lessons that the same people go through. It's not that love cannot conquer all or it isn't unconditional.
It just doesn't conquer all or is unconditional all the time.
Love, light and peace,
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The 2016 Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
It is our pleasure to introduce the 2016 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Young Innovators. This is the third year of this competition, and we are excited to see the depth and quality of research in the field of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering continuing to grow, including new methodologies and approaches that may change the field for years to come.
The corresponding authors in this issue were selected through a competitive process that was initiated in Fall 2015 when self-nominations were solicited from members of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). The competition is open to all researchers holding the rank of assistant professor (or equivalent) working in the field of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. Applicants were asked to submit a biosketch and an abstract to be considered for the competition. This year's Young Innovators were chosen from a highly competitive pool of candidates. As a result of the selection process, chosen authors were invited to submit full-length manuscripts that underwent a rigorous peer-review process prior to publication in this invited issue. The application pool was outstanding and as a result, the Young Innovators featured here include many of the best and brightest working in the field.
A group of Young Innovator articles are focused on bioengineering research at the molecular scales. Kathryn Whitehead and colleagues show that the tail length and structure of lipidoid molecules assembled into nanoparticles significantly affect the efficacy of siRNA delivery. Steven Jay and colleagues demonstrate that the HER2 oncogene can be knocked down via small RNAs loaded into extracellular vesicles. Xiaojun Lian et al. examined Wnt signaling in human pluripotent stem cells using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. Gregory Hudalla and colleagues present a new approach for the self assembly of biomaterials termed "CATCH", which stands for "co-assembly tags based on charge complementarity" and show that this tool can be used to incorporate folded proteins into fluorescent nanofibers and other functional structures.
At the cellular level, Stacey Finley and colleagues present a predictive computational model of T cell activation via lymphocyte-specific protein tyrosine kinase autoregulation. Craig Duvall and colleagues show that oppositely charged peptide inhibitor and pH-responsive polymer "nano-polyplexes" are able to significantly increase cellular uptake and intracellular retention. Through electron microscopy and endocytosis inhibition they found that the uptake involves both macropinocytosis and clathrin-mediated endocytosis, whereas free peptide is internalized solely via the clathrin-mediated mechanism. Minglin Ma and colleagues describe an interesting new approach that coats individual cells with a drug-eluting mixture of cholesterol and dextran nanoparticles, and demonstrate their technology by delivering therapeutic curcumin to individual cells. In another Young Innovator study led by Kandice Tanner, the mechanical properties of the tumor stromal microenvironment was probed via optical trap-based microrheology, finding nonlinear stress–strain responses and different physical properties at the microscale.
Finally, several of the Young Innovator articles are focused on multicellular phenomena. Christopher Jewell and colleagues used intra-lymph node injection to study the local and systemic responses to microparticle vaccines encapsulating toll-like receptor agonists for melanoma therapy. Erkin Seker and colleagues present nanoporous gold nanotopographies that can maintain high neuronal cell coverage while reducing astrocyte surface coverage for use as neural electrodes. Finally, Ting Lu and coworkers describe their development of an integrated model of bacteriocin synthesis and quorum sensing in a two-species growth environment, with important implications for microbial ecology.
The 2016 CMBE Young Innovators will present their research at the 2016 Annual Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 5–8, 2016. A special two-part platform session will be held as part of the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering track, and each corresponding author will present his or her research and be recognized as a 2016 CMBE Young Innovator. We encourage you to attend and learn more about the exciting and innovative research being conducted by these investigators, and further interact with the journal on Twitter (www.twitter.com/CMBEjournal) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/CMBEjournal) throughout the year.
The 2017 CMBE Young Innovators competition is now underway, with self-nominations due by November 4, 2016. Interested researchers who hold a position at the rank of Assistant Professor (or equivalent) are invited to submit a 200-word abstract and a 2-page NIH-style biosketch to Editor-in-Chief Michael King at firstname.lastname@example.com. Note that starting with the 2017 competition, CMBE Young Innovators will no longer be required to be members of the Biomedical Engineering Society, and non-members are eligible and welcome to submit their nominations. Please consider nominating yourself or encouraging your eligible colleagues to do so. We hope that you will enjoy this year's Young Innovators issue, and we look forward to communicating more of the most innovative research in CMBE in 2017 and beyond!


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In June 2010, California voters changed the election system in California by approving Proposition 14 ("Prop 14"), to instate a non-Partisan open primary system. The objective of Prop 14 was to produce more competitive elections and to give independent voters and other non-majority-party voters a say in the election. According to longtime Republican strategist, Allan Hoffenblum, it would reduce "meaningless runoffs."
California tried to implement a 'blanket primary' by way of referendum in 1996. The law allowed voters, regardless of political party, to vote in the partisan primary election of any party. The Sumpreme Court held that the system was unconstitutional in California Democratic Party v. Jones, 530 U.S. 567 (2000). Prop 14, however, was modeled after Washington State's Top Two Open Primary system. The system has been held constitutional "on its face" by the Supreme Court in Washington State Grange v. Washington State Republican Party, 552 U.S. 442 (2008).
The polarization that is fostered by low primary election voter turnout is reduced by Prop 14. The Top Two Open Primary "would force candidates to face all voters, including independents, in both the primary and the general elections." According to IVN, this means that, in most communities, "candidates and elected officials will have to answer to, and appeal to, a broader electorate rather than to the more narrow interests that can dominate low turnout primaries." Under this system, the two candidates with the highest and second highest vote totals in the primary election move on to the general election, ensuring that "elections are decided in the November general election when the highest numbers of people vote."
All six qualified parties in California opposed Proposition 14. Both the California Republican Party and Libertarian Party candidate for Secretary of State Christina Tobin funded dedicated websites in opposition to Prop 14: www.stopprop14.com and www.stoptoptwo.org. It is worth noting that IVN.us, promoters of the Open Primary, published several articles written by Proposition 14 opponents Christina Tobin and advocacy partner of long-time ballot access lawyer Richard Winger.
Ironically, then Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring said Proposition 14 would put the selection of nominees in the hands of party bosses, instead of the voters (because bosses would choose who to endorse). Nehring did not point out that absent Proposition 14, the parties have always issued endorsements in partisan primaries.
Effect of Prop 14 - The non-Partisan Open Primary Initiative
Through a series of amendments to the Elections Code, Prop 14 addressed a number of disparities that disproportionately burden Independent voters and candidates. It has created a "voter nominated primary election" system for most partisan offices that are elected by statewide election. The proposition did not affect the partisan presidential primary election, in which parties may still choose to exclude non-member voters.
Under the new Prop 14 system, parties no longer nominate candidates for the general election. Further, parties are no longer guaranteed to have a candidate advance to the general election. Rather, all candidates for office appear on one primary ballot, and voters cast a ballot for any of those individuals, regardless of party affiliation of either the voter or the candidate. The two candidates for each office who garner the highest vote totals advancing to the general election. This is similar to how Californians currently elect school boards, city councils, and county boards of supervisors, and how many governments conduct local non-partisan elections.
Of particular note, Prop 14 eliminated the requirement that candidates not be affiliated with a party within 13 months prior to the election. Prop 14 also reduced the signature barriers for independent candidates by subjecting them to the same nominating signature requirements that currently apply to partisan candidates. Although candidates may express a party preference, the party does not nominate them. As a result, party nominees are no longer guaranteed a spot on the general election ballot. Moreover, it is possible that both candidates may express the same party preference for the general election run-off.
Political parties can still endorse candidates and give candidates financial and organizational support. Prop 14 did not affect the current partisan primary elections for President, or for party committee offices. However, Prop 14 does enable greater dialogue in the primary portion of each campaign, because it shifts the dialogue of the campaign at an early point in the process. Rather than campaigns that focus on partisan-based issues that appeal to the small portion of the electorate that actually votes in partisan election, candidates are incentivized to appeal to a broader base of voters, across partisan lines.
Proposition 14 and the Implications on Voter Turnout
The historically low voter participation among non-partisan voters should be contrasted with the 2010 primary election in which Proposition 14 was on the ballot. In that election, the Independent Voter Project, among other organizations, conducted voter education programs to inform Independent Voters that there was a proposition on the ballot that would affect the way they participated in the process. As a consequence, there was a 90% increase in Independent voter participation over the previous non-presidential primary election of 2006, an increase of over 400,000 voters.
While political consultants and the media in general often attribute Independents' general lack of participation to apathy or disengagement, the unprecedented increase in non-partisan voter turnout in 2010 proves that independent voters are motivated to participate in the process when they have an opportunity to give a 'meaningful vote.'
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Caught By The River is a website brought to you by the Heavenly Records gang – a lovely lot of London label folk headed up by legendary press man Jeff Barrett. I get the feeling Caught By The River came about when Jeff and his lot got a bit bored of putting out records so started doing something else based on their other interests – fishing and nature etc – and through doing what they really wanted came back round to finding their love of releasing great music again. So basically they bolted on another bit to Heavenly and thats Caught By The River. I just made that all up but I reckon its true.
Anyway, they do these magazines called 'An Antidote To Indifference' that all have different subjects and the current one is all about records and is edited by our new favourite writer Richard King (check his recent 'Original Records' book on Faber & Faber).
In the magazine there are articles from Emma Warren on white labels, Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley on our much missed South London second-hand record shop Beano's, Richard King on the British Library Sound Archive, Pete Paphides on the great B side and loads more. The Pete Paphides piece led me to this beauty below which I was going to keep but its too good to be selfish over. Here's The Lilac Time going all Penguin Cafe Orchestra on us and its a really wonderful thing. A B side and the perfect reason to go buy this ace magazine as you'll learn stuff, find some music and read the writing of some kindred spirits.
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Vanessa Thevathasan (Non-Executive Director) offers a quarterly summary of Grassroot Diplomat's latest activities and innovations for April - August 2018.
It's been a busy few months at Grassroot Diplomat HQ! Reflecting on my tenure as Non-Executive Director, our CEO Talyn Rahman-Figueroa and her Executive team have taken Grassroot Diplomat forward in big strides. A few years back, I was inspired to join the board as I was attracted to how the organisation prioritised people at the centre of diplomacy and governance. Citizen diplomacy has always been important for bringing attention to accountability where its needed, and in these unpredictable times, civil society across the globe is consolidating the old and creating new movements to challenge regressions to people's rights.
Grassroot Diplomat provides a critical platform that supports practitioners in responding to local and national issues, while training the next generation of leaders to be dynamic and agile in a complex, disruptive future. This is why I am committed to further strengthening the work of Grassroot Diplomat at board level.
Recruiting New Board Members
Over the past months, we have been busy recruiting new board members with four new openings established. As a member of the Nomination Committee, we are looking for professionals who have experience working in international relations and recognise the role of civil society, governance and diplomacy. If you think you can take Grassroot Diplomat forward and support its strategic aims, please put yourself forward as a candidate.
Our new website showcases the full range of activities and services that caters to students, early career professionals and mid-career practitioners, while our Grassroot Diplomat Talks monthly podcast helps our readers understand the role diplomacy plays at grassroots level. For the first and second quarter of 2018, the team have been assessing the needs of the organisation to help those strategising a career in the world of diplomacy and how dramatic shifts in the status quo will shape our society.
Upcoming Launch of the Brexit Handbook, Online Academy and Diplomatic Planner
Of the most poignant and pertinent projects upcoming is the launch of the Brexit Handbook, which has been in development since 2016. Our Handbook aims to advise diplomats on the management of civil society during this transition phase and ensure that civic engagement remains a priority for those working on behalf of communities in the UK. Targeting practitioners, the team is also developing our new Grassroot Diplomat Online Academy, a membership platform where we create and design resources specifically for those operating in international relations. Even more excitedly, our Diplomatic Planner written by our CEO Talyn will be launched soon. The Planner is a 12-month career toolkit designed for those wanting to get into international relations and diplomacy, which is a popular topic we engage in with fellow practitioners.
Grassroot Diplomat Initiative Award
I am also excited for our Grassroot Diplomat Initiative Award taking place next year, which will focus on the theme of climate change. The Awards are an important time to reflect on the positive work of leaders in politics and diplomacy that are connecting people's voices and the needs of social change and policy. We look forward to an inspiring event that highlights governments who are pushing our mantra: "diplomacy starts with you."
2018 has continued to be one of progress and change at Grassroot Diplomat. As we roll out new products and services over the third quarter, we look forward to hearing your feedback and reaction. Continue to check out our website and social media platforms for the latest updates on our various launch, and we look forward to helping you navigate our changing times.
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CNN host Mike Rowe – the longtime host of a show dedicated to hard and messy work called Dirty Jobs, and a tireless advocate of blue-collar jobs – had an interesting response to the latest burst of politically-correct idiocy from MSNBC.
Rowe is praising hard work, and provides an outstanding explanation for why working hard is not the same thing as slavery. Along the way, he made a cutting observation about the Left's assault on the American work ethic.
Rowe quotes MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry in full:
I want us to be super careful when we use the language "hard worker." I actually keep an image of folks working in cotton fields on my office wall, because it is a reminder about what hard work really looks like. But in the context of relative privilege, when you talk about work-life balance, the moms who don't have health care aren't called hard workers. We call them failures. We call them people who are sucking off the system.
What makes this outburst especially odd is that Harris-Perry was responding to praise for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's work ethic. Ryan is widely praised for his energy, but it would seem like a very long and tortured intellectual journey to connect it with involuntary manual labor.
Rowe picked up on Harris-Perry's talk of "relative privilege," and pointed out one of the most important distinctions between "hard work" and slavery: the former is voluntary.
First of all, slavery is not "hard work;" it's forced labor. There's a big difference. Likewise, slaves are not workers; they are by definition, property. They have no freedom, no hope, and no rights. Yes, they work hard, obviously. But there can be no "work ethic" among slaves, because the slave has no choice in the matter.
Workers on the other hand, have free will. They are free to work as hard as they wish. Or not. The choice is theirs. And their decision to work hard, or not, is not a function of compliance or coercion; it's a reflection of character and ambition.
This business of conflating hard work with forced labor not only minimizes the importance of a decent work ethic, it diminishes the unspeakable horror of slavery. Unfortunately, people do this all the time. We routinely describe bosses as "slave-drivers," and paychecks as "slave's wages." Melissa though, has come at it from the other side. She's suggesting that because certain "hard workers" are not as prosperous as other "hard workers," – like the people on her office wall – we should all be "super-careful" about overly-praising hard work.
I suspect this is because Melissa believes – as do many others – that success today is mostly a function of what she calls, "relative privilege." This is fancy talk for the simple fact that life is unfair, and some people are born with more advantages than others. It's also a fine way to prepare the unsuspecting viewer for the extraordinary suggestion that slavery is proof-positive that hard work doesn't pay off.
Rowe makes some terrific points in the brief space of his blog post, and skirts along the beaches of a very deep, dark ocean of collectivist thought. Many on the Left argue that all work is essentially involuntary. They see the vital mission of socialist government as a crusade to free people from need. Need forces people to work at jobs they find unpleasant or unsatisfying. It forces them to put up with demeaning treatment from those who sign their paychecks.
Remember how Democrats tried to spin the wave of unemployment prompted by ObamaCare as a wonderful example of people being "freed" from "job lock?" Remember how House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi celebrated ObamaCare because it would set people free to pursue lives as poorly-compensated artists and poets, without having to worry about paying for health care?
As a centuries-old strain of collectivist thought puts it, the necessity of working for sustenance forces the Little People to be inauthentic. They are enslaved by their need for food and shelter, forced to hide their true identity and honest thoughts for the sake of earning a paycheck, and getting along with the arrogant jerks who sign it.
Unsurprisingly, this line of thinking is an easy sell to young people, and immature people who are no longer young.
Another common strain of Leftist thought involves changing the definition of "work." It is very common to hear the labor of upper-income people dismissed as cream-puff activity, compensated at outrageously high rates, even though it's nowhere near as difficult as the labors of the working poor. Phrases such as "working families" were coined to separate lower- and middle-income people from the high wage earners they're supposed to despise, so they'll withhold any moral objection to seizing the "unfair" wealth of those tax revenue targets. Even high-income people who work insanely long hours are treated as overpaid under this philosophy.
Notice how Harris-Perry cites "moms who don't have health care" as her example of true, but unsung, "hard workers." This appropriates the language of productive labor for other political ends. Lacking health care may be lamentable, but it has nothing to do with working hard. (Also, why are moms lacking health care, after President Obama nationalized health insurance?)
The Left has been pushing the notion that no one should have to work hard for a long time. It wants the acclaim and respect for hard work bestowed on their preferred constituencies, but in the end they think work should be optional. Encouraged, perhaps – but the socialist welfare state is explicitly premised on the notion that it's cruel to force people to work for their basic necessities of food and shelter. Rowe might be surprised at how many people would strenuously argue with his contention that hard work is fundamentally different from slavery.


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Bermuda is a very different place than it was 50 years ago when I was a child, but one of the few things that has endured from that time is the Bermuda Fitted Dinghy. Fourteen feet one inch long, alarmingly overcanvased, stubbornly old fashioned and raced with a six person crew, one of whom bails continuously when going up-wind—there is nothing quite like them anywhere else.
It was great to see one out practicing last night. Oh, by the way, the rig she is carrying in the photographs is a small one! You see, Fitted Dinghies don't reef, they change the whole rig: mast, boom and sails. The skipper must make the decision before the race; too small and you are last, too big and you are swimming.


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Legal action on college book plan
Writers from Australia, Britain and Canada are suing five US universities for creating online libraries made up of millions of books scanned by Google.
They argue that the books were digitised without authorisation.
The lawsuit accuses the universities of "engaging in one of the largest copyright infringements in history".
The case could have implications for the long-running court battle between Google and publishers.
The lawsuit centres on the HathiTrust repository, set up by the University of Michigan to allow students and university staff members access to so-called orphan works.
Orphan works are defined as out-of-print books whose writers could not be located.
The other universities named in the lawsuit are the University of California, the University of Wisconsin and the universities of Indiana and Cornell.
Paul Courant, the dean of libraries at Michigan University, told the AP newswire he was surprised by the lawsuit.
"I'm confident that everything we're doing and everything we're contemplating doing is lawful use of these works," he said.
He said that Google had so far digitised about five million books from Michigan's library, with several million more to scan.
But authors are convinced that the project is a massive infringement of copyright.
"This group of American universities has no authority to decide whether, when or how authors forfeit their copyright protection. They aren't orphaned books, they're abducted books," Angelo Loukakis, executive director of the Australian Society of Authors told the AP news service.
His views were echoed by Daniele Simpson, the president of Canadian authors guild the Union Des Ecrivaines et des Ecrivains Quebecois.
"How are authors from Quebec, Italy or Japan to know that their works have been determined to be 'orphans' by a group in Ann Arbor, Michigan? If these colleges make up their own rules, then won't every college and university, in every country, want to do the same?" she asked.
Unfair advantage
Alongside the US Authors Guild and eight individual authors, the groups aim to prevent the first release of 27 works by French, Russian and American authors scheduled for October.
The authors said books from nearly every nation have been digitised, including thousands of works published in 2001 in China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Spain and the UK.
"This is an upsetting and outrageous attempt to dismiss authors' rights," said Mr Loukakis.
Mr Loukakis and Ms Simpson are among the authors involved in the lawsuit. Others include UK author Fay Weldon, poet Andre Roy and Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro.
The lawsuit comes ahead of the next hearing in the six-year battle between Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers.
Lawyers for authors and publishers are due to go back to court in 10 days time to see if a new deal can be done with the search giant.
A $125m (£79m) royalties settlement was rejected by Judge Denny Chin who argued that the deal would give Google an unfair advantage.


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DAB is a form of radio broadcasting whereby analogue audio is translated into a digital signal. Typically gives better quality sound than FM/AM and is not region dependent.
How does DAB digital radio work?
DAB car radios pick up stations broadcasting digitally over the airwaves. DAB signals contain more information, so you get a richer, cleaner digital sound quality and often there'll be a track title or program name on the radio's digital display too.
Do I need it?
Avid radio listeners will enjoy the extra station choice and better sound quality. Listeners of popular AM programmes with inferior sound quality should certainly consider investing if their favourite station is broadcast on DAB as well as medium wave.
Those who listen mostly to CDs or MP3s will seldom see the benefits. Remember also that the Government has committed to switching off analogue radio at some point - so one day, all UK motorists will need digital radio unless they like driving in silence...
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Name: Camille Alexa
Age: old enough to know better
Author of: "Skin of her Skin"
Current Geographic Location: the Pacific Northwest
Original Hometown, if different: Austin, Texas
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Recent publications: as author: PUSH OF THE SKY (released 2009, Endeavor Award Finalist 2010). As editor: MASKED MOSAIC: Canadian Super Stories (February 2013)
Which zodiac sign where you born under? Aquarius, year of the Dog
If a magic fish granted you one wish, what would it be? The fish would be an enormous anglerfish and it would grant my wish that I not be eaten by it.
What inspired your story? Carrie Cuinn's tattoos as glimpsed during breakfast at Readercon 2011. That and, you know, an abiding deep-rooted love of mythos.
Did you listen to music while writing it? No. The dog gets banished to another room if he's snoring too loudly when I'm trying to write, and I've been known to unplug the refrigerator to stop its hum. Silence is good.
How many rewrites did you do before submitting? Zero. I polish a story, but rarely rewrite.
What is your favorite bit?
Until now, the butterfly koi has lived only to exist as part of the girl. They feel beautiful together–much more beautiful than they would feel without each other. Without him, she would simply be a pretty canvas. Without her, he would be nothing more than ink.
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What would Kevin Durant look like as a Knick?
There have been some Photoshopped jersey swaps posted on social media, and now there's an illustration on a billboard near Madison Square Garden.
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Durant, currently in his third season with the Golden State Warriors, has been rumored to be interested in becoming a Knick when he becomes a free agent next summer.
The Knicks reportedly have a "very good shot" at landing Durant, the nine-time All-Star and former MVP, and ESPN's Zach Lowe predicts Durant will be a Knick next season as well. Center Enes Kanter, who can also be a free agent next summer, has also said he will try to recruit Durant to New York.
Durant himself has said he's focused on the 2018-19 season and trying to lead the Warriors to their third straight NBA title, however the speculation has continued. His brother hinted at the two-time Finals MVP leaving Golden State after this season earlier this month.
The 30-year-old Durant, who has led the league in scoring four times in his career, has averaged 27.4 points, 8.0 rebounds and 6.0 assists in five games this season. He is expected to opt out of his two-year, $61.5 million deal after this season and pursue a long-term max contract next summer.
Durant will be around to see the billboard sooner rather than later. The Knicks host the Warriors on Friday at 7:30 p.m.


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I'm trying to get a log of the database activity to help debug a locking problem. I have the derby database in a directory. In that directory I have a derby properties file with the following contents: derby.infolog.append=false derby.language.logStatementText=true derby.stream.error.logSeverityLevel=0 I run my application. I can see from the log4j trace that I've gone through the code that adds records to the database 10 times. In the directory that is the direct parent to the database directory, I see a derby.log file. It contains the following: ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2010-03-16 20:13:18.186 GMT: Booting Derby version The Apache Software Foundation - Apache Derby - 10.4.2.0 - (689064): instance a816c00e-0127-689b-da4c-000007753e80 on database directory /u/aa/efhwff0/FM120100/FaultMgr Database Class Loader started - derby.database.classpath='' 2010-03-16 20:14:07.872 GMT: Shutting down instance a816c00e-0127-689b-da4c-000007753e80 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a code snippet for one instance where the database is updated. private String addQuery = "INSERT INTO FaultMgr.MEP_Events VALUES(DEFAULT, ?, ?, ?, ?)"; conn.setAutoCommit(false); sqlPS = conn.prepareStatement(addQuery, Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS); SQLWarning sqlWarn = conn.getWarnings(); if (sqlWarn != null) MEPErrorUtil.logSQLWarning(sqlWarn); //Set values into the prepared SQL statement sqlPS.setLong(1, dbTime); sqlPS.setLong(2, nmbrOfDays); sqlPS.setInt(3, event.length()); sqlPS.setString(4, event); //Execute the query which adds the record to the database. sqlPS.execute(); //Get generated key ResultSet rs = sqlPS.getGeneratedKeys(); if (rs == null) { //Error handling code is here } conn.commit(); conn.setAutoCommit(true); rs.close(); sqlPS.close(); I expected a log more in the log file. What am I doing wrong? Walter Falby The contents of this e-mail are intended for the named addressee only. It contains information that may be confidential. Unless you are the named addressee or an authorized designee, you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you received it in error please notify us immediately and then destroy it.
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