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Warren Buffett's Top Dividend Stocks
Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway is recognized as one of the the most successful long-term investors of all time. MarketWatch's Laura Mandaro looks at Buffett's long equity positions as of the end of December 2012. (Photo: Getty Images)
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BOSTON (MarketWatch) — If you thought the housing crisis was bad, think again.
It's worse.
New data just out from Zillow, the real-estate information company, show house prices are falling at their fastest rate since the Lehman collapse.
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Average home prices are down 8% from a year ago, 3% over the quarter, and are falling at about 1% every month, according to Zillow.
And the percentage of homeowners in negative-equity positions — with a home worth less than its mortgage — has rocketed to 28%, a new crisis high.
Zillow now predicts prices will fall about 8% this year and says it no longer expects the market to bottom before 2012.
"There's no way we can get to flat, from these depreciation levels, in the last nine months of the year," says Zillow economist Stan Humphries. "Demand is a lot more anemic than we had previously thought."
When in 2012 does Zillow see the market bottoming out? Humphries won't say.
What a foolish boondoggle those tax breaks for home buyers have turned out to be. The government spent an estimated $22 billion between 2008 and 2010 on tax breaks to prop up the housing market. All it achieved was a brief suckers' rally that ended last summer.
"As we said at the time, it was a giant waste of money," says Mark Calabria, economist at the conservative Cato Institute. "None of these things really turned the housing market around. They just put off the adjustment for awhile."
It's hard to overestimate the scale of the carnage in the housing market. Zillow found prices fell in all but four U.S. metro areas.
Falling real-estate prices mean spiraling hidden losses throughout the economy, from banks to homeowners.
Remember Japan's "zombie banks"? These were the financial institutions that haunted that country's economic recovery after the 1990 crash. They staggered on with huge losses they could never repay — the walking dead.


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From the juiced-box and the soundtrack: Eddie Redmayne, Daniel Huttlestone & Students – Drink with Me
[Press 'Play' for "Let the wine of friendship never run dry…"]
Ramblings: Less Miserable
Final Proof: 3 Shots
You know how you get drunk in a French karaoke bar? Everyone is singing in English but something's still not quite right and you don't know if it's you because of how fucked up you are or because of how fucked up everyone else is in the spotlight singing strange songs strangely, songs you've never heard of or heard before and you start to wonder if you haven't stumbled into French gay hell. Even weirder are all the people in the bar who are really getting into it and you don't know how you missed the ass they're riding in on but you're sure as hell not getting off at the same place they are. Still, it's fun to watch everyone from a distance because they're cute or drunk or funny but never all 3 together unfortunately. So you were kind of dreading going but it was distracting and more than once entertaining even if that was only from laughing at the show and the whack-jobs watching it. That's kinda what Les Misérables was like.
It's not the film's fault but i forgot this was a musical even if it technically isn't but is an opera instead. Yes, this is far worse. Not just bad. Opera bad.
One of the many things i have never understood is the concept of Musicals. i'm especially curious to know what the first ever musical was. i want to know this so i can go back in time and kill the fucker who wrote it and thus perhaps save the universe from the monumental pain the opera fat ass that is Opera.
People walk around spontaneously combusting into song at the drop of a top hat? What kind of sick ass word is that? Tell you what, i see some some beach dancing in the streets, i'mma run his skippy ass down. If god wanted us to sing everything that crossed our minds, he would of made me deaf. Not just deaf. Opera deaf.
So, what was good about this other than its ending? It was funny watching Russel Crowe sing, but no so much fun hearing it. Maybe my favorite part of the film was the French history in it, and that should tell you how much i didn't like the singing. Oh, Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter were cool and their songs sucked less than everyone else's. That's about it.
My absolute favorite part? Other than the special movie theater i went to that had first class airplane electronic recliner chairs with a tray and waiters that delivered to your seat (i shit you totally not), my favorite part was the 15 year old i was with telling me she liked it. i was so relieved that this automatically went to 3 shots for me. Plus, she may read this one day and i told her i liked it so i don't want to be a liar.
Speaking of underage…Isabelle Allen is only 10 so i'm going to card her cute little ID right here so that she doesn't get mixed up with all the vulgarity to follow. She played Young Cosette but there was nothing amateur about her performance. If the crazy skilz she displayed here are any indication, her future will be as winning as her smile. And not just winning. Opera winning.
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First off Anne Hathaway is beautiful and she's in this movie and she worked hard for the Oscar nom nom. She went so far as to flash her brillo patch to raise up awarenesses under the Motion Picture Board and i know she keeps saying she feels terribly embarrassed about it but there's no way a woman who was already smeared by the paps when she wore a see-through top [and if you've forgotten the glory of that precious moment, here's a Bar None Wallpaper to jog more than your memory] would forget to wear her underwear unless she was hoping for some big publicity or at least a gentle press.
Anyway, Hathaway did a good job playing Fantine in the movie and wants everyone to know it. Hell, don't hide your light under a bushel, Anne. Like i won't hide this.
There'll be some single shots of her lurking in my drawers down below. Just scroll to the bottom and click on the "Continue reading" link.
Amanda Seyfried (Cosette) showed up in this movie too which is nice because it gives me an excuse to show you this.
There's some single shots of her as well, in my drawers down there.
Plus i really liked the final female lead Samantha Barks / Éponine because she is more normal beautiful than the famous beauties and i'm a fan of normal beauty. Here's an example.
i'll have some more single shots of her in my drawers. Scroll down to see if Barks is worse than her bite.
Finally, Helena Bonham Carter, Her Lady of Ultimate Coolness did a great job in this movie as Madame Thénardier (to Sacha Baron Cohen's Thénardier). i've already exposéd her a couple of times here and clicking on the cleavage will take you to that stack of photos.
The supremely talented Frances Ruffelle played "Whore 1".
Not to be outdone, Charlotte Spencer plays "Whore 3". Lots of whoring going on in this movie with lots of not nudity. Seems the writers didn't really grasp the whole concept of whores.
For those of you more into Tenor 11 inches, there was Sacha Baron Cohen as Thénardier.
Aaron Tveit as Enjolras.
And Eddie Redmayne as Marius.
Drink: 1 Shot
Could've been worse. Not that there was tons of drinking but i liked what there was, which was basically Sacha Baron Cohen and his inn and people getting drunk inn there.
Here's the blow by blow:
- Gave Valjean wine & bread at the church he stole from
- Sacha Cohen wakes up with a keg, kisses it and tells it, "I love you."
- "Don't let the wine go to your brain" lyric [from "Red and Black"]
- A song called "Drink with Me" [included in the intro]
Rock & Roll: 0 shots
Seriously, did you know most of the songs here don't even rhyme? How fucked up is that? Just because you use a stupid singing voice when you say shit doesn't mean you're singing.
Check this out and read the lyrics…
Before you say another word, Javert
Before you chain me up like a slave again
Listen to me! There is something I must do.
This woman leaves behind a suffering child.
There is none but me who can intercede,
In Mercy's name, three days are all I need.
Then I'll return, I pledge my word.
Do you believe that bullshit? Or, as i write in my latest song:
Do you believe that bullshit.
It's so stupid.
Boring Technical Crap
Written by:
Victor Hugo (novel)
Claude-Michel Schönberg & Alain Boublil (book)
Herbert Kretzmer (lyrics)
Alain Boublil & Jean-Marc Natel (original: French text)
James Fenton (additional text)
William Nicholson (screenplay)
Directed by: Tom Hooper
Anne Hathaway – Fantine
Amanda Seyfried – Cosette
Helena Bonham Carter – Madame Thénardier
Samantha Barks – Éponine
Isabelle Allen – Young Cosette
Frances Ruffelle – Whore 1
Charlotte Spencer – Whore 3
Hugh Jackman – Jean Valjean
Russell Crowe – Javert
Sacha Baron Cohen – Thénardier
Eddie Redmayne – Marius
Aaron Tveit – Enjolras
Bottom Line
Apart from the singing parts, though, Les Misérables was OK. Take out the songs and you got yourself a so-so movie here.
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I's all over but the hotness. Keep going for the hot shots.
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Amanda Seyfried
Samantha Barks
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Integrated Pest Management
Integrated Pest Management (IPM), a program created by the Missouri Department of Agriculture for educational and demonstration purposes, employs all available tools— cultural, biological, chemical and regulatory control methods to keep pests below an economic injury level. The IPM Program uses control methods in a compatible manner that is economically feasible and environmentally sound.
Since 1995, the IPM Program has been involved in many cooperative projects with the University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Missouri-Delta Center, Meramec State Park, Thomas Jefferson Institute, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-Agriculture Research Service (ARS) and USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Integrated Pest Management and Pesticide-Sensitive Crops
The IPM Program administers the Missouri DriftWatch site, a voluntary, online pesticide-sensitive crop locator service to provide a place where producers of pesticide-sensitive specialty crops, including bees, can map their crop and hive locations. Pesticide applicators can use the site to find sensitive crop locations in an effort to minimize the potential for damaging pesticide drift. For more information about this service visit DriftWatch.
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IPM and Noxious Weeds
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IPM currently provides support for the Missouri Department of Agriculture's Sustainable Agriculture Demonstration Award Program and cooperates with the Community Food System and Sustainable Agriculture Program at the University of Missouri on sustainable agriculture topics. The program participates on the Administrative Council of USDA's North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Organization as the state agency representative.
IPM and Hypoxia
IPM manages an EPA funded Hypoxia Education and Stewardship program. This program provides information on nutrient management practices to Missouri farmers to assist them in conserving nitrogen inputs and reduce runoff into the Mississippi River Basin.
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Season 2010 is almost upon us and Lisa's Mum has dusted off her commentary jacket and matching tea towel and pulled up a chair at the table of truth. Mum has made the following bold predictions for 2010. Just a warning, if you are easily offended, you'll have to take it up directly with Mum - I have no control over what she says.
- Lance will admit, "Actually, it IS all about the bike." In his 14th biography, Lance reveals that earning squillions and dating rock stars and models was OK for a while, but not nearly as fun as busting a lung up Alpe d'Huez and having doping officials watching you pee 4 times a day. His reason for his return? Mike Rann has promised him a trip to Puzzle Park next time he comes to Adelaide for the Tour Down Under. Let's hope his cancer campaign works... at least we know that if he does come up with some miraculous cure drug, WADA won't be able to find it.
- Cadel's signing to BMC race team for 2010 will come under a cloud when it is revealed that, after an unfortunate encounter between his dog Molly and the BMC mechanic's pet cat, Cadel actually does make good on his promise that, 'If you touch my dog, I'll kill you.'
- Jan Ulrich will make a return to the sport, 4 years after his disgraced exit from the Tour de France for doping. He'll lose 20 kilos and win a grand tour before mysteriously going AWOL and being found 3 weeks later doing lines with Tom Boonen at the discotheque. His excuse? 'Dr Fuentes told me they were vitamins.'
- Alberto Contador will still be the world's No.1 tour rider, but the next time he does that stupid little trigger finger victory salute, someone will run out of the crowd and smack him in the face because IT'S REALLY GETTING ANNOYING, ALBERTO.
- Bike manufacturers around the world join forces to create the world's lightest bike. Made from a unique compound of polystyrene foam and baby duck feathers, the frame will weigh in at 200g (plus fork) and retail for $18,000. Corporate execs around the world are already lining up for the Cadel Evans commemorative edition, which comes with a free Tibetan child.*
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Coffee Fest Comes To New Jersey
People from all over the East Coast flocked to the Meadowlands Exposition Center in New Jersey last weekend to experience a taste of the specialty coffee tradeshow Coffee Fest, held from March 5 to 7. This gathering of coffee enthusiasts originated back in 1992 in Seattle as a way to connect specialty coffee producers with its growing fan base.
With my press pass around my neck, I glanced through my Coffee Fest Official Show Guide to plan out which booths I had to visit. I started at catching the tale end of the Latte Art Competition, where one of my coffee heroes, Erin Meister of Counter Culture Coffee, was competing. Meister had five minutes to prepare and another five minutes to pour three impeccable lattes, which she most certainly did. Three reputable judges decided which of her masterpieces was the most exquisite and awarded her a score that tied her for first place for the Friday competitors. With Erin being the hometown hero, the entire audience cheered as her score was revealed. The Show Room opened shortly after and I was ready to explore this coffee carnival.
The sky is the limit in this huge New Jersey warehouse. Classes for just about anyone interested in everything from roasting beans, to creating new profit strategies, or a special seminar by Dr. Smoothie are all available, and from their short blurbs they seem anywhere from extremely informative to down right entertaining. As I stepped onto the showroom floor I noticed all walks of life enjoying the festivities. I was reminded of a perfect marriage of my child years eating Costco Samples and accompanying my father on his yearly pilgrimages through the Seattle Boat Show.
I had to check out to the big boys of the industry: the Intelligentsia, Counter Culture, and Espresso Parts booths. All three full of wide-eyed connoisseurs salivating over the straight shots, pour-overs, and latest espresso gadgets. The Astoria booth with its fancy new espresso machine with exposed group heads covered in a beautiful coat of Ferrari red (is there really any other red?) was a sight to behold, while the samples at the Hale and Hearty station curbed your hunger when you just couldn't eat another complimentary biscotti.
The next time I go to Coffee Fest I'll take full advantage of the seminars and guest speakers—and perhaps steer clear of the pastries. I may even enter in the latte art competition and show off some skills.
Coffee Fest may be over in New Jersey, but it will be taking place later this year in Minneapolis from June 4 to 6, and Seattle from October 29 to 31. Visit coffeefest.com for more information.
About the Author: Erin Hulbert, a native Seattleite, has been in the coffee world for well over a decade working with and learning from some of the most influential coffee minds in the industry. She now lives in the West Village in New York City, where she teaches, consults, and recently finished her first book Finding the Grind: A Barista Guide, due out this year. She also can be found pouring lattes as one of three trainers at Joe on Waverly Place. Read more from Erin at her blog Finding the Grind.
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We need to find a way to get Dolan and Isiah fired. Its too hard for me to stop watching the games and I think alot of us share that problem.
The question is, what can we do?
- Protest infront of the Garden
- Get all none-Isiahsexuals to go to game, sit together, hold up big sign and make alot of noise
- Hire an assassin to murder them
- Find someone with mobb ties to have Isiah and Dolan threatened
- Find someone to hack into www.Knicks.com and display hateful messages directed at Isiah and Dolan
- Start a new trend of going to KNick games and supportin opponents, hoping it spreads throughout the Garden. Make home games away games.
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Get out of bed, roll out your mat, and use this move to release accumulated back tension and work your abs. Sit with knees bent and soles of feet touching. Holding ankles, roll onto your back, then roll back up to sitting. Keep chin tucked into chest. Repeat.


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In a presidential election that could feature two Harvard-trained candidates not known for their common touch, President Barack Obama's campaign deployed a new weapon on Thursday: Vice President Joe Biden.
With a tough re-election fight looming in November, Obama campaign officials hope Biden's back-slapping demeanor and humble origins will help win the support of blue collar voters.
Though Obama did not win the white working class vote in 2008, he will have to hold losses to a manageable level in order to win industrial Midwestern states like Ohio that will be crucial battlegrounds in the fall, analysts say.
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Biden flew to this battered industrial city to celebrate the revival of the Us auto industry and criticized the Republican presidential candidates who say the government should not have stepped in to help it.
He had another message for the auto workers who have seen factories go dark and neighborhoods empty out: I understand what you are going through.
"As a kid I saw my dad trapped in a city where all the good jobs were gone," Biden said, referring to his childhood in the faded industrial town of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
The election is likely to turn on the state of the economy and the Obama administration sees the auto bailout as one of its best chances to convince voters that the deepest recession since the 1930s could have been much worse.
For Obama, the auto industry bailout is a chance to win back working-class white voters who have abandoned the party in droves over the past decades.
Obama won in 2008 thanks to a coalition of minorities, young people and college-educated white voters. In Ohio, he lost the white working-class vote by 10 percentage points even as he carried the state.
But those voters can still swing an election, as Obama's fellow Democrats found out in the 2010 midterm elections when strong support from seniors and working class voters helped Republicans win control of the House of Representatives.
Obama will need to limit his losses among this group in order to win Ohio and other Rust Belt states, according to an analysis by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank.
He could catch a break if front-runner Mitt Romney secures the Republican nomination. Romney, a former private equity executive worth as much as $250 million, has struggled to win working-class voters as he battles Rick Santorum, a former U.S. senator, and Newt Gingrich, former U.S. House speaker, in the state-by-state Republican nominating contest.
A number of gaffes - such as challenging a rival to a $10,000 bet and stating that "I like firing people" - has given critics ammunition to argue that he is out of touch with ordinary voters.
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Obama has rolled out new initiatives designed to appeal to working class voters. In January, he unveiled a plan to boost domestic manufacturing, which is seen as a source of good jobs for people without a college degree, and he has proposed increased spending on road construction and other infrastructure to generate more construction work.
These initiatives have been portrayed as part of a larger effort to build an economy in which hard work pays off for everyone, not just the most affluent. And as they are blocked by Republicans in Congress opposed to more government spending, they serve as fodder for the campaign trail.
"A job is about a lot more than a paycheck - it's about your dignity, it's about respect, it's about your place in the community, it's about being able to turn to your kids and say, 'it's going to be OK.' I don't think these guys understand that," Biden said.
Biden was picked as vice president in 2008 in part because of his ability to appeal to working-class voters, said Terry Madonna, a political science professor at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania.
"My sense is that the fairness issue he has been using is part of an appeal to those voters," he said.
Biden said the auto-industry bailout provided the clearest contrast between the administration's efforts to preserve middle class jobs and the hands-off approach advocated by Republicans. Republican candidates say the industry would have recovered on its own and have criticized the bailout as a giveaway to unions.
"If you give any of these guys the keys to the White House they will bankrupt the middle class again," Biden said.
Auto-industry analysts say more than 1 million jobs would have disappeared had the government not stepped in at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009 to extend loans to General Motors and Chrysler and guide them through the bankruptcy process.
The industry has added 200,000 jobs since then and GM has regained its perch as the world's biggest automaker.
Public support for the bailout has increased. A February 2012 Pew Research Center poll found that 56 percent said the GM and Chrysler loans were "mostly good for the economy," up from 37 percent in October 2009. Other recession-fighting efforts, such as the Wall Street bailout of 2008 and the 2009 stimulus package, remain unpopular.
The auto bailout could help Obama hold Ohio, Michigan and other Midwestern battleground states in the fall. One in eight Ohio jobs is connected in some way to the auto industry, and the unemployment rate has fallen from 8.9 percent in July 2011 to 7.7 percent in January, below the national average.
Chrysler recently announced it was adding a second shift at its Toledo plant, creating 1,100 jobs in 2013. A nearby GM transmission plant now employs 1,600, up from 400 during the depths of the crisis, according to workers.
"I've never seen a Republican yet that's ever come close to supporting working families," said Bill Lewis, a GM transmission plant worker at the rally. "We owe our livelihood to the Democrats." (Editing by Alistair Bell and Vicki Allen)
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I'm working on a basic simulation system which will include planets with rings, I want to create dust and asteroids within a 3D ring but I'm struggling to find any stats on the sort of height ranges a ring might have (I can find inner and outer radius estimates, but not the height ranges).
Does anybody know a good resource on planetary ring stats? Or celestial bodies in general.


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On March 24, near the end of the first half of Broadway Backwards, the annual gender-bending concert benefitting both Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and Manhattan's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, something stunning and unexpected happened. The curtain rose to reveal Patricia Morison, decked out in diamonds and looking far younger than her ninety-nine years, sitting onstage with a music stand in front of her. The applause was overwhelming, and Morison was quite visibly moved, putting her hands up to her face more than once. Dimly remembered as a leading lady of minor '40s films, but a Broadway immortal, thanks to her performance as Lilli Vanessi/Katherine in the original 1948 production of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, Morison explained to the audience that she had chosen something appropriate for the evening's sex-reversal theme: "Brush Up Your Shakespeare," which she used to sit backstage and listen to "two very funny men" (Harry Clark and Jack Diamond) sing. She then sang the complete number with great panache and style, nailing every laugh. The ovation dwarfed the one that had greeted her entrance; the shouting, stomping and clapping went on for what seemed like minutes.
Miraculously, this was followed by the biggest laugh of the evening. Julie White, who hosted the evening with The New Normal's Bebe Wood, strolled onstage to announce the closer for the first half: Norm Lewis, singing "Home" from The Wiz. "This next performer . . ." White said, " . . . is just fucked." (Lewis came through with a lovely performance.)
The show, directed and written by Robert Bartley, offered plenty of other show-stoppers, among them: Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Andy Kelso in a hilarious performance of "The History of Wrong Guys" from Kinky Boots; Robin de Jesús and six terrific dancers (including standout Marty Lawson), with "Prehistoric Man" from the 1949 movie version of On the Town; Beth Leavel with a brilliantly inventive "She Likes Basketball" from Promises, Promises; and Michael Berresse and Tony Yazbeck with a deeply touching and resonant "Nowadays/Hot Honey Rag" from Chicago, featuring the original Ann Reinking Fosse-based choreography. In the end, the evening raised an impressive (and record-breaking) $423,000.


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Letter, Augusta [J. Augusta Goodrich Griffing] to My Dear Husband [James Griffing]
Author: Griffing, Jemima August (Goodrich)
Date: September 17, 1859
J. Augusta (Goodrich) Griffing wrote from Hartford, Connecticut to her husband James in Topeka, Kansas Territory. Mrs. Griffing was visiting family and friends in the East for the first time since her arrival in Kansas in 1855. She reported on her trip from Owego, New York to Hartford and her decision to leave her young son, Johnny, in the care of Mr. Griffing's family in Owego. She described Johnny's behavior in some detail. She informed Mr. Griffing that she planned to start her trip back to Kansas Territory in October 1859.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: James Sayre Griffing Collection, #364, Box 1, Folder 6
Item Number: 102901 Number of images: 4
Keywords: Children; Connecticut; Griffing, James Sayre; Griffing, Jemima Augusta (Goodrich); Hartford, Connecticut; Travel; Women
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Portable GPS manufacturer Garmin has posted the source code for its Linux-based Nuvi 8xx and 5xxx series portable in-car GPS devices on its Web site.
Rumours circulated earlier this year that these devices were based on embedded Linux, but Garmin had said that "the information about the operating system of Garmin devices is considered proprietary". Under the GNU General Public License 2, under which the Linux kernel is licensed, anyone distributing this code must also make the source available.
However, the company has now made this information available publicly on its Linux Source Code page.
The page allows you to download the source code used by version 3.70 and 3.80 of the Nuvi 5xxx series, as well as versions 2.60, 2.70, and 2.80 of the Nuvi 8xx series.
The downloadable files are bzip2-compressed tarballs.
As yet, no models in the 5xxx or 8xx series have been released in Australia.


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Federer faces Soderling challenge in quarters
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have not put a foot wrong so far at this year's French Open and all signs point to the world's two outstanding men's players duelling for the title on Sunday.
There are still some pitfalls lurking on the Parisian clay, however, and Tuesday and Wednesday's quarter-finals will be a better yardstick of their form after they both arrived at the business end of the tournament with a 12-0 sets record.
On Tuesday Federer faces Robin Soderling, the man he beat in last year's final to complete a career Grand Slam after the Swede cleared the decks with a sensational defeat of Nadal.
Four-times champion Nadal, hungry to prove that last year's fourth-round shocker against Soderling was an aberration, will have to pass fellow Spaniard Nicolas Almagro, a player whose five career titles have all been on clay.
Image: Roger Federer
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'You will get a few chances against Roger'
Since beating Nadal last year Soderling has transformed into a genuine top-10 player and his form here has been only marginally less impressive than Federer's.
He has never beaten the Swiss master in 12 attempts though and Federer oozed confidence when he looked ahead to another clash with the powerhouse Swede.
"He's going to be fitter than in the past when I played him during the third round or second round," Federer said.
"But I'm really looking forward to this match because he hits very strongly, forehand, backhand and serves. This is what I like. This is why I have a good record against him."
Soderling knows the odds are against him but his body language now suggests a player who believes he can beat anybody when his game clicks into place.
"Even against Roger you will always get a few chances," he said. "Then you have to take them, because he won't give you any second opportunities. You have to play well in the important points, which he does so well, that's why he's so good."
Image: Robin Soderling
Nadal wary of compatriot Almagro
After a patchy start against French teenage wildcard Gianni Mina, Nadal's game has gone up several levels and he appeared to be peaking at the right moment but is still not taking the threat posed by Almagro lightly.
"It's going to be complicated, he's going to be very aggressive, but I'll do my best to make him feel uncomfortable," Nadal said after beating Brazil's Thomaz Bellucci in straight sets on Monday.
The other men's quarter-final in the top half features Czech Tomas Berdych against Russian Mikhail Youzhny, both enjoying their best runs at Roland Garros.
Should Nadal overcome Almagro he will be up against either world number three and regular sparring partner Novak Djokovic or Grand Slam quarter-final debutant Jurgen Melzer - the first Austrian to reach the last eight at Roland Garros since 1998.
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Repair Bobblehead
"Why go down with the ship when you can try to fix it?" -- Repair +10
You'll likely learn about a settlement called Arefu as you explore Megaton near the beginning of the game, especially if you search for information amongst the drunk patrons at Moriarty's Saloon. Otherwise, you'll have to stumble on it by yourself. Arefu is a small village on top of a half-destroyed highway bridge. It's on the west side of the map (more towards the center), due west of Hamilton's Hideaway, northwest of Vault 106, and southwest of Paradise Falls. Just keep an eye on the horizon for a huge bridge, and you'll find what you're looking for.
Arefu is a place in trouble, but that has nothing to do with what you're doing here. In fact, though you'll likely visit this area during the side quest known as Blood Ties. But that's all irrelevant, because you can get this Bobblehead before, during, or after you complete the quest, if you choose to do it at all. Evan King is the sheriff and protector of the small settlement. Of the four or five houses you can enter in the settlement, Evan King's is one of them, but it's locked. Pick the lock and search a table inside the house to find the Bobblehead. Then, get out of that house before the well-armed King finds you!
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Models 670 and 675 true-rms clamp-on meters are designed to measure and display amps and volts simultaneously. The meters also feature auto-ranging capability and provide enhanced measurement range and resolution for troubleshooting. Sized for one-handed operation, the devices offer measurement options that include: AC amps, DC amps (675 only), AC volts, DC volts, ohms, continuity with beeper, frequency from V or A, and temperature.
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Thursday, October 20th, 2016
with Jaill, Metasota
9 pm, 21+, $8 adv / $10 door
Busdriver is fixed as one of LA music's most dynamic indie artist. From his years as a cyher phenom at Project Blowed to his years as a recording artist on Epitaph to his current role as co-head of Hellfyre Club, Busdriver has always challenged rap in the most particular and thoughful of ways.
BD's first record, Memoirs of the Elephantman, was self released thru Afterlife records (a Project Blowed subcrew at the time)in 1999. Not until his second self-released record, Temporary Forever, came out in 2002 did Busdriver step on the world stage. Sleeper hit "Imaginary Places" turned him into one of many beacons of left-leaning hip-hop at the moment. During this time he was also emceeing at the Hiphop/Drum'n'bass night weekly Concrete Jungle with Daddy Kev, Myka 9, edit and DJ Hive.
After the new success of Temporary Forever, Busdriver signed with Mush records to do a collaborative album with beat/production guru Daedelus and quirky rap talent Radioinactive in 2003. The project was called 'The Weather'. Their album toyed with daring disjointed production and dexterous rap writing in a way that Busdriver hadn't in the past. The project amassed a small cult following all its own and aligned Driver's taste with the output of LA's electronic music scene.
In 2004, Busdriver began his relationship with Big Dada by releasing with them the Daddy Kev-produced mini-LP, Cosmic Cleavage. This was followed by Busdriver's official 3rd album, Fear of a Black Tangent, released via Big Dada in the EU and on Mush in the US.
Busdriver's label dealings grew outside of the rap arena in 2007 when he signed to indie-punk mega-label Epitaph and eventually, it's more indie-music driven sister label, Anti-. Through them he released RoadKillOvercoat in 2007 and Jhellibeam in 2009. Both albums featured production from DJ Nobody, Nosaj Thing, Free the Robots and Boom Bip. During these years, rap producer culture was in flux in LA and the newly founded Low End Theory began gaining momentum. Producer eDIT (who becomes the head of Glitch Mob) featured Busdriver on "Crunk De Gaulle" (also featuring TTC) off his Alpha Pup debut, Certified Air Raid Material.
Computer Cooties came out in 2010 after BD parted with Anti-. It was a free mixtape featuring collaborations with Flying Lotus, Anti-Pop Consortium, Sister Crayon, Daedelus and Open Mike Eagle. He followed this by joining Hellfyre Club and forming Flash Bang Grenada, a two-man group made of Nocando (founder of Hellfyre Club and original resident of Low End Theory) and himself, created solely to let their musings on popular rap themes run amok. They released their debut 10 Haters in 2011.
In 2012, BD released Beaus$Eros through Fake Four. The album was produced entirely by Loden and had features from Cocorosie and Mike Ladd. It was a departure from rap writing into microclimates of experimental pop but then completely not also. The record was coupled with Regan Farquhar aka Busdriver (Driver) fronting an progressive power pop outfit briefly called Physiccal Forms.
That same year Driver released Arguments with Dreams, an EP marking a return to Big Dada. It was mostly self-produced with stand-out appearances from Das Racist on "Firehydrant" and HFC members Nocando and Mike Eagle on "Wernor Herzog".
In 2013, Driver helmed and oversaw the production of Dorner Vs. Tookie, the joint mixtape featuring efforts from all the members of Hellfyre Club (Nocando, Busdriver, Open Mike Eagle, milo, Rheteric Ramirez, Kail, VerBS, Taurus Scott, The Kleerz). While doing this Busdriver completed his 8th proper studio album, Perfect Hair. The album features production from Mono/Poly, Jeremiah Jae, Great Dane, Kenny Segal and Riley Lake with guest performances from Danny Brown, Aesop Rock and Mike Eagle.
More recently Driver has done collaborations with Modeselektor, Son Lux, Latyrx, Kool AD, Lapalux, Sonnymoon, P.O.S, and others on various albums.
Busdriver Links
Pop Matters 'Perfect Hair' Review
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Relive the magic of arcades without the sticky floors and greasy knobs
'80s arcade management sim Arcadecraft is now available on Xbox Live Indie Games (240 Microsoft points; $3.00), where indie games go to die unless they are zombie-based or Minecraft rip-offs. Bringing to mind that title in name only, Arcadecraft harkens back to the Bullfrog sims of the '90s (Theme Hospital, Theme Park) and sports a pleasant colorful look.
Like any good sim, the player is constantly pressured to meet the demands of a divisive public. Picking the right genre of game, style of cabinet, game difficulty, and game price all factor into running a successful establishment. There is also the growing threat of jammed coin slots, coin boxes that need cleaning, and hardware malfunctions. Having followed Austin's Arcade UFO owner on Twitter, all of this sounds about right.
I haven't had a chance to check out Arcadecraft yet, but I plan to, especially since Jordan Devore had good things to say about the trial. If you've played Aracadecraft, share your thoughts with us.
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Miami Marlins, Florida Panthers cannot get out of their adolescent phase
The Marlins and Panthers remind me of a line from sports mogul and lifelong rich guy Lamar Hunt.
Hunt, who eschewed extravagance, said he owned only one pair of shoes because, "You can only wear a single pair at a time. The rest sit there, depreciating."
That's the Marlins and Panthers.
They sit on the sidelines, literally for the moment and in the South Florida sports scene now, depreciating in interest (if not value).
If I need to recount the Marlins' most recent kneecapping of trust, you're probably reading this only because you flipped to the wrong section and thought the balding dark head above was Leonard Pitts (I apologize for your disappointment).
The NHL lockout has stalled the Panthers' momentum from last spring's first playoff berth since 2000 and plucky seven-game loss to eventual Stanley Cup finalist New Jersey.
This period, which should be their adulthood, epitomizes the perpetual adolescence in which these franchises arrest themselves.
To call either franchise "young" or to say "It still feels weird for there to be Marlins/Panthers," brands you as middle-aged or old.
The Marlins just finished their 20th season.
The Panthers would be playing their 20th season if not for the current NHL lockout.
And the NHL lockout that eliminated the 2004-05 season.
That means to those 20 and under, here and everywhere, the Marlins and Panthers have existed for as much of their lives as Red Sox and Red Wings.
Especially in the latter case, the only way they know differently is musty media types repeating, "It still feels weird …"
Their fandom should be flowering.
The 20-to-30 set who were taken to Marlins and Panthers games as kids should now be going on their own, perhaps taking their own young children.
Fandom should be being passed down.
In South Florida, our wavering passion for our local teams isn't that we have too many transplants.
It's that, with one exception, our franchises have just hit the stage upon which they can call upon tradition.
The Dolphins benefitted from being the only pro game in town, getting very good relatively quickly (Super Bowl appearance in season No. 6), historically great soon after (Perfect Season followed by a second consecutive Super Bowl win) and staying consistently good for all but a few years of the 26-season Shula Era.
That built a mighty fan foundation cracked only by the current decade of failure.
By every measure, we have been a terrible basketball market, NBA and college.
Our most consistently successful franchise of the past 15 seasons on the record, the Heat, dropped the tarp over its upper deck for many games in 2002-03 and 2003-04.
Even the Shaq Era, the omnipresence of activist/center Alonzo Mourning and iconic figure Pat Riley couldn't cultivate a fan base that would sustain interest through dark years (or year — see, 2007-08).
It has taken more success and the buzz of combining two of this NBA generations biggest stars, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James, for the Heat to build what it would have long before had in most other cities.
But the Heat did it.
Meanwhile, the other team in town that has won two "world" championships damaged itself with two eras of uncompetitive austerity, 1998-2002 and 2006-2011.
marlins don't care
That first run of years, in the wake of the 1997 World Series team sell-off, began with the 1998 Mark McGwire/Sammy Sosa/record Yankees season that brought baseball almost a full recovery from killing the 1994 World Series.
The Marlins couldn't drink of that elixir.
Two stretches of playing it cheap while hustling for a new home held the line on Marlins fans.
How do you maintain a love for a team that doesn't seem to care about repaying your love by making you happy with wins?
At some point, even kids shake their heads and say, "Can't hang with you."
And, now, whether they have abused fan trust again, it feels like it.
How many years for this stunting of growth?
Cats can't be embraced
The Panthers did theirs through sheer ineptitude — bad drafts and bad trades, leading to an NHL-record 10 consecutive seasons out of the playoffs.
Ice rinks were built, expanded. Travel teams win tournaments around North America.
High schools added hockey.
Some kids and adults who didn't play learned the rules and NHL stars via video games.
Yet the Panthers repeatedly stumbled away from that generation's embrace.
Now, the NHL and NHL players' association are doing the stumbling for them.
Only two franchises in our so-called major leagues, the Chicago Cubs and the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs, can have extended runs of abysmal play without hurting attendance or local status.
Everyone else is three to six losing seasons from humility.
The Marlins and Panthers are well past that, just as they should be well past being South Florida sports problem children.
This failure to launch stuff is tired.


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In January, President Barack Obama made his singing debut on the stage of Harlem's Apollo Theater. During a campaign fundraising speech, he leaned into the microphone, gently slid his State of the Union baritone up to a whispery falsetto, and nailed the opening line from "Let's Stay Together," the Al Green soul classic that has melted hearts and warmed sheets since its release in 1971. "I-I-I-I, I'm so in love with you," Obama cooed. The video of his impromptu performance has logged more than four million views, and the song has become an unofficial re-election theme. Obama's rendition is available as a ringtone; inevitably, Green showed up to sing it at an event in February.
Yet the power of the clipped cover version was its resurrection of the ghosts of Obamas past. The serenade was a reminder not just of the subtle swagger that found Obama brushing the dirt off his shoulders à la Jay-Z back in 2008 but also of a tradition of civil rights–era black culture and politics that Obama seemed to have shed since gaining the presidency. Here were echoes of the Obama who'd been no stranger to love songs or political hope, the Obama who, as he wrote in his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, stayed up late listening to Billie Holiday and schooling himself in the corrosions of American racism by reading James Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. For anyone who winced just a little when Obama invited Beyoncé to sing "At Last" at his inauguration dance instead of Etta James, the road-worn R&B veteran who made it famous, Obama's bedroom-soul-man turn was a musical olive branch and a return to form.
"Let's Stay Together" has never been just a love song. When Green, the son of a sharecropper in the segregated South, recorded it in Memphis, the city where Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated three years earlier, its message quickly became a gospel proposition to keep on loving, even in the face of breakups that by then were economic and cultural and stretched from Watts to Vietnam. Like so much black music of the 1960s and 1970s, Green's songs became political because of the experience that gave birth to them and the experience they spoke to at the bloody crest of the civil-rights movement.
As Gil Scott-Heron, the author of Black Power–era standards like "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and "Whitey on the Moon," puts it in his recently published posthumous memoir, The Last Holiday:
If you were alive on the planet earth and Black, particularly a Black American, in the most awkward and uncomfortable position imaginable, that of a certified, tax-paying citizen, with roots in the land around you that went back three hundred years, you still got the short end of every stick except the nightstick, and there was damn near no way you could not have political pressure on you and therefore have political opinions.
In the face of that default politicization, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, and the Temptations waged what Scott-Heron dubs "a melodic form of guerrilla warfare," turning the long end of the nightstick into a song. By the start of the 1960s, saxophonist Sonny Rollins had already hitched jazz to black liberation, and We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite had captured the sound of injustice in Abbey Lincoln's piercing scream. In 1964, after the murder of civil-rights activist Medgar Evers and the Birmingham church bombing that left four African American girls in its rubble, Nina Simone delivered the ferocious musical accusation "Mississippi Goddamn"—"a show tune," she quipped, "but the show hasn't been written for it yet." James Brown, of course, energized marches with calls of "Soul Power" and recorded "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)," a personal manifesto that became a generational anthem.
Music was also an indispensable part of the Black Power message, from the movement's founding call, at a 1966 Mississippi protest, by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) chair Stokely Carmichael ("We been saying 'Freedom' for six years. … What we are going to start saying now is 'Black Power!'") to its decline by the late 1970s. In the recent documentary The Black Power Mixtape, a collection of rare movement interviews and footage shot by Swedish journalists and spliced with modern commentary, UCLA historian Robin Kelley suggests that the boycotts, free breakfast drives, and self--published newspapers were all an expression of what Kelley calls "the Black radical tradition, a tradition of struggle, of organization." Despite the promise of the film's title, though, The Black Power Mixtape ends up only implying that music was central. Ahmir Questlove Thompson of the current hip-hop band The Roots provides the score, and singer Erykah Badu and rappers Talib Kweli and John Forté weigh in on the old clips. But save for an uncredited blues performance under the closing titles and a brief, stunning scene of a children's choir at the Black Panther headquarters, turning the shimmying 1960s rock hit "Land of 1,000 Dances" into anti-cop pop (put "Guns, pick up the guns, pick up the guns and put the pigs on the run" in all the places where "Na, na, na" used to be), The Black Power Mixtape is missing a mixtape.
That is where Pat Thomas's new book Listen, Whitey!: The Sounds of Black Power, 1965–1975 comes in. A detailed chronicle of an era when revolutionaries preached on records and pop rebels preached in song, Listen, Whitey! is anchored by revelatory archival research as well as interviews with former Black Panther leaders David Hilliard, Elaine Brown, and Bobby Seale. It shines, though, as a showcase for Thomas's audiovisual treasure chest: 250 full-color reproductions of LPs, 45s, and cassettes containing everything from jazz and soul to speeches, comedy routines, sermons, and accounts of black soldiers in Vietnam. Thomas is a veteran producer of reissue CDs, not a scholar, and his book, which takes its title from a 1972 Folkways album of interviews with everyday African Americans about King's assassination, sometimes reads like impassioned fan history. Yet whether he's unearthing the Black Panther house band The Lumpen, forgotten progressive record labels like Folkways' Paredon and Motown's Black Forum, or Amiri Baraka fronting his own raucous Afro-centric funk band on It's Nation Time, Thomas shows how hard it is to separate the era's black recordings from its freedom movements.
He reminds us that The Supremes' "Someday We'll Be Together" was played during the funeral of slain Black Panther Fred Hampton. The Temptations' Eddie Kendricks, on the cover of his 1972 solo album People … Hold On, paid tribute to Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton by sitting in a cane chair while gripping a large spear. On RAP, a 1970 album issued by the SNCC, a speech by its leader H. Rap Brown shared space with a live set from psychedelic jazz yodeler Leon Thomas at the Fillmore East. Before Elaine Brown became the Black Panthers' deputy minister of information, she released two respectable albums of poetic, agitprop soul ballads with arrangement help from Watts jazz activist Horace Tapscott.
One of Brown's songs, the rousing "Until We're Free" (recalling "desperate kisses in alleyways" that "laid to waste our little lives"), is included on the book's invaluable companion CD. Other finds include a stark piano solo version of Scott--Heron's political weather report, "Winter in America," and both sides of a rare, finger--snapping slice of Nation of Islam jazz poetry, "Invitation to Black Power," from the Shahid Quintet.
Early on in Listen, Whitey!, Thomas says that he sees his project as a rebuttal of caricatures of black revolutionaries as gun-strapped, "white devil"-baiting nationalists. The surprising diversity of the recordings he covers (including a welcome section on black women poets) certainly challenges some myths. Black Power's political pitfalls, though, get shorter shrift here. For all of its push for what Nina Simone called "returning the black man's pride," the movement's romanticizing of militant rhetoric and Maoism and even occasional spilling over into criminality have dampened its revival appeal. The era's music, however, has aged more gracefully, and the songs and speeches Thomas surveys speak to tensions that continue in the present: prison reform, economic injustice, Wall Street greed. The era's sepia-toned institutionalized racism also lingers, of course, sometimes in all too vibrant color. A black president may sing Al Green at the Apollo, but conservative leaders like Newt Gingrich don't think twice about linking him to food stamps and "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior."
As Listen, Whitey! suggests, the end goal for many was a larger reimagining of American society that involved thinking across racial lines. Which is where Thomas begins, with Huey P. Newton listening to Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man" and deciding it must be an American racial parable, starring the white Mr. Jones as a black ghetto voyeur. Agree with it or not, Newton's remix was in its own way a love song for an America that didn't exist yet, an acidic vision of a society struggling to stay together. As the singer of that new ringtone suggests, it's a struggle that has still not left us.


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A Wise Decision
When Carlos Quentin was activated from the DL recently, the big question was: Who will be the odd man out? The most likely candidates, of course, were Dewayne Wise and Brian Anderson.
A mini-controversy arose when the Sox brass made the decision to keep Wise over Anderson despite the former's batting average being below the Mendoza line. There was outrage among White Sox World, even ridiculous accusations of the club being racist.
My take was and is that the Sox made the right call. BA had enough chances with
the Sox and needed a fresh start. While DWise's batting average isn't
what we'd like, he's a battler and proved last year he can make an
So how has the move worked out so far? Since the decision was made, Wise made one of the greatest catches in baseball history to save Mark Buehrle's perfect game and then last night singled in the game-winner in the bottom of the ninth to beat the mighty Yankees at the Cell.
The irony of this story is that some of the criticism regarding the choice of Wise over Anderson was that BA is so superior defensively. Now that Wise's glove is going to be in the Hall of Fame as a result of saving the perfecto, it's safe to say he can hold his own in the outfield–don't you think?
Note of the day: As a life-long Sox fan living in New York for about 35 years, I've taken my share of ribbing. Oh, you're from Chicago, you must be a Cubs fan. Oh, you're a Sox fan, how about those Red Sox? Ugh. But the real ribbing has come when the Yankees have beaten up on the Pale Hose. So last night's win was very sweet. I don't even want to think about what today would have been like for me if we hadn't rebounded from the Swisher homer. Thanks to DWise for his clutch hit, Gavin for his gem and AJ for his hard slide.


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Two recent polls show that Americans support Arizona's tough immigration law that the Obama administration is trying to overturn in the U.S. Supreme Court.
The CNN and CBS/New York Times surveys both show that most Americans clearly don't think the law is racist and believe the states should play a role in enforcing immigration law.
Arizona's law, passed in 2010, has been under siege ever since the Obama administration declared it racist and launched a full-scale legal assault on the Grand Canyon State that is now awaiting a settlement by the highest court in the land.
The Polls
According to CNN, 75 percent of those answering its poll favor the law, with 24 percent opposed. CNN did not offer much detail about its poll beyond those numbers; but the numbers show that most Americans clearly believe that Arizona — which pays $2.1 billion annually to support its illegal alien population, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) — has the right to protect its borders.
The CBS/New York Times poll offered a little more detail. It reported that 52 percent said the law is "about right," with 11 percent saying SB 1070 "doesn't go far enough." About 33 percent think the law "goes too far."
The numbers mean that 63 percent of those polled, a clear majority, believe the law is a good one that may be too lax. Those opposing the law are a clear minority.
Oddly, the New York Times did not report the 11 percent figure that CBS put in its story, but did add an interesting bit of detail: "As a general matter, more than 6 in 10 Americans said both the federal and state governments should play a role in addressing illegal immigration. A quarter said the federal government should have sole responsibility, and 11 percent said only state governments should address the matter."
Again, then, the polls show that most Americans want the states to help the government enforce immigration law. They likely understand the federal government cannot hire enough border agents to tackle the problem across the 50 states.
Last year, an official with the General Accountability Office told Congress that the federal government has little or no control over the border with Mexico.
The Law
SB 1070 has enraged the Obama administration and the radical Left in general since it was first passed in Arizona.
The law's most "controversial" provision requires police to check the immigration status of anyone they lawfully encounter if they have a reasonable suspicion that the person is in the country illegally. As well, the bill stops municipalities in the state from becoming "sanctuaries" for illegals and punishes employers who hire illegal aliens. And it prohibits employers from stopping at street corners to pick up work gangs of illegals. The bill requires the state and its local law-enforcement agencies to help enforce immigration law.
The left-leaning U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck down SB 1070, backing the administration's argument that the law is irredeemably racist. The court also agreed that the law would trespass the federal government's prerogative to make immigration policy and impede the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. Several foreign nations even voiced their objections to the law.
Ninth Circuit Judge Carlos Bea dissented, pointing out that Congress required the states to assist the federal government to enforce immigration laws. He also observed that listening to the complaints of foreign nations about SB 1070 gave those nations a "heckler's veto" over American law.
Congress has clearly expressed its intention that state officials should assist federal officials in checking the immigration status of aliens and in the identification, apprehension, detention, or removal of aliens not lawfully present in the United States.... Congress has clearly stated its intention to have state and local agents assist in the enforcement of federal immigration law, at least as to the identification of illegal aliens, in two federal code sections.
Arizona appealed, and now awaits a decision from the Supreme Court. The state argued that its law is not only constitutional, citing Bea's dissent, but also that federal immigration enforcement, as a practical matter, is "broken."
This broken system leaves the people and government of Arizona to bear a disproportionate share of the burden of a national problem. The Arizona border is so porous that an estimated 50% of illegal aliens entering the United States come through the State. Its status as a conduit for human and drug smuggling has rendered large areas of southern Arizona highly dangerous. Significant swaths of public lands have become so dangerous that National Park rangers have been forced to patrol with M-16 carbines and public access is forbidden or sternly discouraged. Strongly-worded warning signs are posted as far as 80 miles from the border and only 30 miles from the city of Phoenix. Police officers in the border town of Nogales, Arizona have received death threats from Mexican drug cartels. Private ranchers living near the border constantly face the problems and safety risks associated with a steady flow of illegal crossings of their land.
Approximately six percent of Arizona's total inhabitants — an estimated 400,000 individuals — are aliens who are unlawfully present and not authorized to work. Nonetheless, over half — 230,000 engage in work, composing 7.4% of all Arizona workers.
The Left's Attack
The main line of attack against the law, as is typical for the left, is that it is racist because it will encourage "profiling," given that most illegals are Mexicans and Hispanics.
But SB 1070 prohibits "profiling," which used to be called good police work. Moreover, observers have noted that it stands to reason that most border jumpers collared because of the law will be Hispanics because, again, they constitute the largest population of illegals. After all, they point out, the country is not suffering an invasion of Swedes.
No matter. The Left began beating the drums the minute the law passed. A group of "civil rights" organizations, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the League of United Latin American Citizens, and other leftist groups, has filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that "S.B. 1070 will transform these routine traffic stops into mini-trials where detained citizens bear the burden of proving their status."
In its press release, the long-ago discredited Southern Poverty Law Center argued that "these laws are blatantly unconstitutional and have wreaked havoc for citizens and non-citizens alike in the states where they have, even in a very limited way, gone into effect," and "will harm racial and ethnic minorities in particular."
Analysts point out that these groups fail to mention what harm illegal immigration does to the United States, such such as costing American taxpayers $113 billion annually, according to the latest estimate by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
For his part, President Obama also attacked Arizona. And he did so with Mexico's President Felipe Calderón standing by his side. "In the United States of America, no law-abiding person, be they an American citizen, a legal immigrant or a visitor or tourist from Mexico, should ever be subject to suspicion simply because of what they look like," Obama declared.
Unsurprisingly, Calderón agreed, calling Arizona's law "discriminatory."
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said the administration's attack against her state was nearly unimaginable. She commented that she was "stunned at the audacity of the Obama administration to file suit against an individual state seeking to safeguard its people."
Georgia, Alabama, Texas, and other states joined Arizona in passing similar laws, with federal judges ruling differently from the Ninth Circuit.
Related stories:
Supreme Court to Settle Obama Fight with Arizona over Illegal Immigration
Federal Judge Upholds Most of Ala. Immigration Law
Texas to Join Georgia, Alabama in Fight Against Illegals
Georgia's Law Sends Illegals Fleeing; Leftists File Suit
L.A. Times: Border Agents Bored; Ariz. Sheriffs: Border Out Of Control
Ninth Circuit Joins Obama's War on Arizona


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Last month, director James Gunn turned a comic book story into the movie hit of the summer. "Guardians of the Galaxy" has raked in hundreds of millions of dollars, making fans out of people who had never heard of the Marvel series.
"Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" is not that kind of comic book adaptation. Director Robert Rodriguez first brought "Sin City" to the screen nine years ago, and here, he has turned more of Frank Miller's brutally violent stories into a stylishly constructed neo-noir nightmare. Both "Sin City" films are for a niche audience that can handle copious amounts of eye-gouging, dismemberment, finger-breaking, decapitation and self-inflicted slicing.
"Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" is as visually imaginative as its predecessor. It's almost entirely in black and white, with the exception of periodic pops of color — a halo of orange curls, a blue coat, a river of blood — and most of the action was shot against a green screen, so the finished product is a slick hybrid of live action and animation.
Part sequel, part prequel, the movie doesn't exactly pick up where the last one left off. The chronology is as hazy as the smoke-filled Kadie's, a seedy strip club where the characters hang out. A man who died in the last movie reappears, very much alive, while others remain dead. One even shows up as a ghost.
Among the returning characters: Dwight (Josh Brolin, taking over for Clive Owen), a private investigator with a moral code; Marv (Mickey Rourke), a pill-popping bouncer with Hulk-like tendencies; the good-natured stripper Nancy (Jessica Alba); and the grotesquely villainous Sen. Roark (Powers Boothe, oozing evil).
Like the first movie, "Dame" is a series of vignettes, and the name of the game in these stories is revenge. Slick operator Johnny (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has it out for Roark, as does Nancy, but for very different reasons. Dwight, meanwhile, has a score to settle with the one who got away, Ava (Eva Green). Marv doesn't really have any revenge plots to speak of, though he's always happy to lend a hand when violence is involved.
And there's plenty of violence. It's all very stylized, with a gunshot producing a waterfall of white spouting from a character's back, or a samurai sword sending heads flying. But the audience still groaned during a recent screening when one character relieved another of an eyeball. The sound effects are sickeningly visceral and far more realistic.
Where "Sin City" was equally vicious, it also was quite funny at times. "A Dame to Kill For" feels less incisive and sillier. Maybe the novelty of hearing characters use 1940s-style verbiage has worn thin, or maybe the inner monologues, filled with some really lame lines, is to blame. ("An atom bomb goes off between my legs," Dwight says after being kicked in the groin.) And the sequel isn't nearly as exciting or visionary. The aesthetic quality is still there, even if there haven't been too many great leaps since Rodriguez unveiled "Sin City" in 2005. But the stories aren't nearly as engrossing.
Fans of Frank Miller's work will, of course, see the movie, and they won't care about curious leaps in time or dialogue that might look better on the page than it sounds out loud. This isn't going to reach a "Guardians"-size audience. Then again, Rodriguez, who's a huge fan of Miller's work, probably didn't intend for it to.
★ ★
R. At area theaters. Contains brutal, stylized violence throughout, sexual content, nudity and brief drug use. 102 minutes.


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José and Bruno write:
We have concluded the documentation on:
- installation procedures
- load balancing
- reverse proxy
- web server
We have also listed several features we didn't contemplate originally but that we feel must be documented too, so we're going through them as well.
We're one week late (according to our original plan we should have also completed the management section by now), but since we accounted for a two weeks delay on the proposal, we're still good. The target date remains at December 6th.
We created a to-do file where we're listing some of the things we plan to do; it should be noted that some of those tasks consist of reviewing things that we've already documented (there's a week planned for that in our proposal); this basically means that if a mistake or omission is found on the current documentation we will appreciate the notice, but we'll also appreciate the understanding that what we've written so far is not the finished product yet :-)
Some of the work for the upcoming weeks has already been planned and prepared.
We have all our development available at
http://github.com/cog/perlbaldoc (we have plans to merge it with
http://github.com/perlbal/Perlbal); comments and patches welcome :-)


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Isaac delays start of GOP convention
Republicans will cancel the first night of the Tampa convention due to the onset of Tropical Storm Isaac, GOP officials announced Saturday night.
Party officials have been monitoring the storm for 72 hours along with Florida Gov. Rick Scott and made the decision to scratch the opening night's events out of an abundance of caution.
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( Also on POLITICO: Full Republican National Convention 2012 coverage)
The decision casts a veil of uncertainty over the week's events in Florida, where Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are to be formally nominated for president and vice president. The convention is a critical opportunity for Republicans to deliver their message to a national audience and regain political momentum heading into the fall campaign.
Party leaders described the cancellation of Monday's events as a move brought on by pure necessity and a desire to put safety first.
"Our first priority is ensuring the safety of delegates, alternates, guests, members of the media attending the Republican National Convention and citizens of the Tampa Bay area," RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement.
On a conference call with reporters, Priebus said there was full agreement among convention planners on the need to postpone the start. While several officials on the call said proceedings would certainly start Tuesday, Priebus appeared to leave the door open to additional changes in the schedule.
"We're remaining in constant contact with state and federal officials and we may make future scheduling alterations and announcements on an as-needed basis," said Priebus. "The decision was a unanimous decision among members of the RNC, the Romney staff and the officials that are conducting the convention."
The national GOP chairman underscored the potential danger of moving large numbers of delegates around Tampa and its sprawling environs, saying he didn't want "to put buses over the bridges from Clearwater and St. Petersburg" without knowing they'd be safe.
Updated information on the convention schedule will be released starting Sunday, said officials, who emphasized they'd be making every effort to accommodate as many of the previously announced speakers as possible. Events could begin at an earlier time Tuesday in order to accommodate that goal.
( Also on POLITICO: Florida: The nation's political ground zero)
Romney strategist Russ Schriefer, who has been heading up convention planning for the GOP presidential candidate, said they would be "consolidating everything to a three-day program." He professed confidence that the convention would still be an effective "opportunity to tell to the American people the story of the last four years" and explain how Romney would make things better.
"We think that we can absolutely do it in three [days] and we look forward to telling that story," Schriefer said.
The Romney adviser said that the roll call vote, whereby Republican delegates will formally name Romney as their presidential nominee, will be held on Tuesday.
This is the second consecutive Republican National Convention to jettison its Monday programming due to a storm. In 2008, Republicans cut back their opening-day events in St. Paul, Minn., due to Hurricane Gustav in the Gulf.
The National Weather Service is projecting that Isaac will move up the Gulf Coast of Florida over the next several days and could affect Tampa directly on Monday and Tuesday. It is not yet clear whether the storm will become a hurricane or whether it will hit Tampa head-on.
Scott declared a state of emergency across Florida Saturday in order to mobilize resources as the southernmost part of his state braces for impact. The governor, who was previously set to address the convention Monday, has cleared his schedule of political events to deal with storm response.
( PHOTOS: 5 crazy convention moments)
Multiple sources signaled earlier Saturday that planners were in a state of anxiety over the start of the nominating convention, thanks to Isaac's expected arrival.


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