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The federal government provides clear guidelines for colleges and universities to follow when responding to students' charges of sexual harassment. These guidelines come from Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Sexual misconduct is considered a form of sexual harassment under Title IX because it is discrimination on the basis of sex.
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No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is the federal office that oversees Title IX compliance. OCR tells colleges and universities that they have these responsibilities:
- A school has the responsibility to respond promptly and effectively to charges of sexual misconduct. If a school knows or reasonably should know about sexual harassment or sexual violence that creates a hostile environment, the school must take immediate action.
- Even if a student doesn't want to file a complaint or doesn't request that the school take action on the student's behalf, the school must make an effort to investigate the charge to determine what has occurred and then take appropriate steps to resolve the situation.
- Every school must have and distribute a policy against sex discrimination (including sexual misconduct). Here are the procedures that Title IX requires be in that policy:
- Every complainant has the right to present his or her case. This includes the right to adequate, reliable and impartial investigation of complaints, the right to have an equal opportunity to present witnesses and other evidence, and the right to the same appeal processes, for both parties.
- Every complainant has the right to be notified of the time frame within which a) the school will conduct a full investigation of the complaint; b) the parties will be notified of the outcome of the complaint; and c) the parties may file an appeal.
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• The school must follow that policy.
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Infoquake (Jump 225 Trilogy Series #1)by David Louis Edelman
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How far should you go to make a profit?
Infoquake, the debut novel by David Louis Edelman, takes speculative fiction into alien territory: the corporate boardroom of the far future. It's a stunning trip through the trenches of a technological war fought with product demos, press releases, and sales pitches.
Natch is a master of bio/logics, the programming
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How far should you go to make a profit?
Infoquake, the debut novel by David Louis Edelman, takes speculative fiction into alien territory: the corporate boardroom of the far future. It's a stunning trip through the trenches of a technological war fought with product demos, press releases, and sales pitches.
Natch is a master of bio/logics, the programming of the human body. He's clawed and scraped his way to the top of the bio/logics market using little more than his wits. Now his sudden notoriety has brought him to the attention of Margaret Surina, the owner of a mysterious new technology called MultiReal. Only by enlisting Natch's devious mind can Margaret keep MultiReal out of the hands of High Executive Len Borda and his ruthless armies.
To fend off the intricate net of enemies closing in around him, Natch and his apprentices must accomplish the impossible. They must understand this strange new technology, run through the product development cycle, and prepare MultiReal for release to the public—all in three days.
Meanwhile, hanging over everything is the specter of the infoquake, a lethal burst of energy that's disrupting the bio/logic networks and threatening to send the world crashing back into the Dark Ages.
With Infoquake, David Louis Edelman has created a fully detailed world that's both as imaginative as Dune and as real as today's Wall Street Journal.
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INFOQUAKE Volume I of the Jump 225 Trilogy
By DAVID LOUIS EDELMAN
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Chapter One Natch was impatient.
He strode around the room with hands clasped behind his back and head bowed forward, like a crazed robot stuck on infinite loop. Around and around, back and forth, from the couch to the door to the window, and then back again.
Behind him, the window was tuned to some frantic cityscape that Jara didn't recognize. Buildings huddled together at crooked angles like the teeth of old men, as tube trains probed the cavities. Singapore, maybe? Sao Paulo? Definitely a Terran city, Jara decided. Every few minutes, Natch would look in that direction and inhale deeply, as if trying to draw energy from the thousands of manic pedestrians ensconced within the four corners of the window canvas.
Natch stopped suddenly and wheeled on his apprentice. "Why are you just sitting there?" he cried, punctuating the question with a snap of his fingers.
Jara gestured to the empty spot next to her on the couch. "I'm waiting for Horvil to show up so we can get this over with."
"Where is Horvil?" said Natch. "I told him to be here an hour ago. No, an hour and a half ago. Can't that lazy bastard learn to keep a calendar?" Around and around, back and forth.
Jara regarded her employer in silence. She supposed that Natch would be devilishly handsome to anyone who didn't know he was completely insane. That casually athletic physique, the boyish face that would never know gray, those eyes predictably blue as sapphires: people like Natch just didn't exist on this side of the camera lens. Nor did they spout phrases like trouncing the competition and creating a new paradigm without a trace of irony or self-consciousness.
Natch shook his head. "I can only hope he remembers we've got a product launch tomorrow."
"I don't know why you're so uptight," said Jara. "We do twenty or thirty product launches every year."
"No," whispered Natch. "Not like this one."
Jara let it go. As usual, she had no idea what Natch was talking about. NiteFocus 48 was a routine upgrade that fixed a number of minor coding inconsistencies but introduced no new features. The program had an established track record in the marketplace, built on the well-known optical expertise of the Natch Personal Programming Fiefcorp. Unless Natch expected them to rework the rules of bio/logic programming overnight-and she wouldn't put that past him-the NiteFocus product launch would be a pretty routine affair.
"Listen," said Jara. "Why don't you let Horvil sleep for another hour? He was up all night tinkering on this thing. He probably just got to bed. Don't forget that out here, it's seven o'clock in the morning." Here was London: a sane place, a city of right angles. The city where both Horvil and Jara lived, and some six thousand kilometers away from Natch's apartment in Shenandoah.
"I don't fucking care," Natch snorted. "I haven't gotten any sleep tonight, and I didn't get any yesterday either."
"Might I remind you that I was up all night working on NiteFocus too?"
"I still don't care. Go wake him up."
For the third time that week, Jara considered quitting. He always had this condescension, this mania-no, lust-for perfection. How difficult would it be to find a job at another fiefcorp? She had fifteen years in this business, almost three times as much experience as Natch. Certainly PulCorp or Billy Sterno or even Lucas Sentinel would take her on board. Or, dare she think it, the Patel Brothers? But then she considered the three agonizing years she had spent as Natch's apprentice, and the scant eleven months to go before her contract expired. Eleven months to go until I can cash out! I should be able to keep it together that long.
So Jara didn't quit. Instead, she gave her fiefcorp master one last bitter look and cut her multi connection. True to form, Natch had already turned his back on her, probably heading into his office to do more fine-tuning on NiteFocus. You need to watch yourself, Jara thought. Natch's brand of insanity just might be contagious.
She slid into nothingness.
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The hollow sensation of a mind devoid of sensory input. Those blessed two and a half seconds of free time after one multi connection ends, but before the next begins. Emptiness, blankness.
Then consciousness.
Jara was back in London, but not at Horvil's place, as she had expected. Horvil must have refused her multi request, so the system had automatically stopped the feed of sensory information flowing through her neural cortex. She stood now on the red square tile that was her apartment's gateway to the multi network, staring at the walls she had never had time to decorate. She stretched her calves, slightly sore from five hours of multi-induced paralysis, and walked down the hall to the living room.
Jara's apartment insulted her with its desolation: a featureless space, a human storage chamber. She resisted the urge to blow off Natch's little summit and go shopping on the Data Sea for wall hangings. Eleven months, eleven months, eleven months, Jara told herself. And then I can cash out and start my own business and it won't matter. In the meantime, I'd better wake up Horvil.
If Horvil wasn't answering her multi requests, he was either asleep or ignoring her. The engineer was not known for being an early riser. In Horvil's parlance, early meant any time before noon, and to a global professional who hopped continents with barely a thought, noon was a slippery concept. Jara gritted her teeth and called up Confidential-Whisper 66, the program de rigueur for remote conversation. If Horvil wouldn't see her, maybe he would at least talk to her.
The engineer accepted the connection-solid evidence he was, at least, awake.
Jara waited impatiently for an acknowledgment, a response, something. "Well?" she complained. "Are you coming over to Natch's apartment or what?"
Jara heard a number of fake stretching and groaning noises from Horvil's end of the connection. ConfidentialWhisper was strictly a mental communication program, not an oral one. "I could pretend I'm still asleep," said the engineer.
"If I have to be at this idiotic meeting, Horv, then you're not getting out of it."
"Tell me again why he wants to hold a meeting this early in the morning."
"Come on, you know how it works. Apprentice in a fiefcorp, work on the master's time."
"But what's this all about?"
Jara sighed. "I have no idea. Probably another one of his stupid schemes to take over the world. Whatever he's up to, it can't be good."
"Of course it can't be good," said Horvil. "This is Natch we're talking about. I ever tell you about the time in school when Natch tried to form a corporation? Can't you just picture him trying to explain laissez-faire capitalism to a bunch of nine-year-old hive kids-"
"Horvil, I'm waiting."
The engineer sounded unconcerned. "I'm tired. Call Merri. Call Vigal."
"They're not invited."
"Why not? They're part of this company too, aren't they?"
The question had occurred to Jara as well. "Maybe Natch trusts us more than he trusts them."
Horvil chuckled and made a sound like he was spitting out pillow lint. "Right, sure. Maybe he knows we're too cowardly to stand up to him." And before Jara had a chance to respond, the engineer cut the 'Whisper connection, leaving her alone with her empty walls.
How dare he call me a coward! she fumed silently. I'm not afraid of Natch. I'm just practical, that's all. I know I only have to put up with him for eleven more months. She called up her apprenticeship contract for the thousandth time and reread the clause on compensation, hoping as always to catch a glimpse of some previously unknown loophole. But the letters floating before her eyes hadn't changed: Jara would receive nothing except room and board until the end of the four-year term, at which time her shares matured. She blinked hard, and the illusory text on the surface of her retinas vanished.
Jara gave one last wistful glance at her apartment and stepped back down the hall to open another multi connection. Multivoid swallowed her empty walls and regurgitated Natch's metropolitan windows. The fiefcorp master was nowhere to be found, but Jara was in no mood to track him down. He had to be here somewhere, or she would have never made it into the building. Jara threw herself down on the couch and waited.
Five minutes later, Horvil materialized in the room wearing the same mixture of bonhomie and bafflement he always wore. "Towards Perfection," he greeted his fellow apprentice amiably as he plopped down in Natch's favorite chair. It was actually a chair-and-a-half, but still barely wide enough to accommodate Horvil's considerable bulk. "Who's ready to wallow around in the mud? I know I could use a good wallow right about now."
Jara frowned, wondering whether Horvil had concocted some algorithm to make even his virtual clothes look disheveled. "That makes one of us," she said.
The engineer yawned and sat back in his chair with a smile. "Stop being so dramatic, Princess. If you don't want to be here, go home. What's Natch going to do? Cancel your contract? Fire you?"
Jara extended her finger into an accusatory position by reflex. She lowered it when she realized she had nothing to say.
And then Natch returned.
Neither apprentice saw the fiefcorp master come in, but now there he stood with his arms crossed and his eyes glaring. For once, he was not pacing, and this made Jara nervous. When Natch chose to focus all that kinetic energy on some concrete goal instead of stomping it into oblivion, mountains moved. Jara examined the gorge in her stomach and came to a sudden realization: she was afraid of Natch.
"We're going to the top of the bio/logics market," he announced. "We're going to be number one on Primo's."
Horvil put his feet up on the coffee table. "Of course we are," he said breezily. "We've been over this shit before. Market forces, fiefcorp economics, blah blah blah. It's inevitable, ain't it?"
Natch closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened them, his gaze fixed on a spot of nothingness hovering midway between the two apprentices. Jara suddenly felt transparent, as if the world had gained presence at her expense. "You don't understand, Horvil," he said. "We're going to be number one on Primo's, and we're going to do it tomorrow."
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David Louis Edelman is a Web designer, programmer, and journalist. Over the past ten years, Mr. Edelman has programmed Web sites for the U.S. Army and the FBI, taught software to the U.S. Congress and the World Bank, written articles for the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun, and directed the marketing departments of biometric and e-commerce companies. He lives with his wife, Victoria, in Washington, DC.
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From the start you are thrown into a world that is controlled by bio/logics, a programmable code that extends the capabilities of the body and mind. You work backwards to figure out who Natch is and how he fits into a world of ruthless futuristic business tactics that surround bio/logics. It combines the cut-throat world of a competitive and ever-changing industry along with the philosophical and moral struggles that are attached to any society trying to progress through technology. This is a must read novel. I could not put it down after the introduction of MultiReal, a new technology that will revolutionize the way this futuristic world functions. You start this novel by investigating this new world and end up feeling like you are living in it. You become attached to all of the characters including Natch, Jara, Horvil, Serr Vigal and Quell-- flaws and all. This is just Book 1 of the Jump 225 Trilogy and you are left wanting more.
Infoquake is one of the best Sci-Fi novels I've seen in years - the plot speed, character development, and story are all perfectly thought out. The reader is left begging for more....
In the distant future, though relatively young, Natch is an extremely ambitious expert on the coding of nano-technical human bio-logics with a reputation that he will try anything and risk everything to be number one in his field. Margaret Surina owns a new technology MultiReal that others covet with High Executive Len Borda and his ruthless minion willing to do whatever to force her to give it to them. She offers Natch an opportunity to ¿sell¿ her new product including allowing him to use it if he can bring to market in three days he readily agrees. Natch and his team work on understanding MultiReal at the same time that Borda sends his army to take control of the product regardless of what they must do even killing Natch and his team while others make a ¿bid¿ on it too before the anticipated public market feeding frenzy. Meanwhile fear grows amidst the bio-logic world that the infoquake everyone fears is coming sooner than later to destroy their technology returning the world to the Dark Ages of stand alone CPUs and other supporting peripheral machinery. --- The reason this futuristic science fiction seems plausible is the depth of details interwoven into the cat and mouse story line so much so that the audience will accept nano-technology bio-logics as happening today, which is some ways are already here with artificial limbs and organs. Batch is not a heroic figure as his climb to the top is brutally and amorally stomping on competitors however, compared with Borda, he seems like a saint. In the first Jump 225 tale, David Louis Edelman writes an exciting thriller that grips the audience once Surina hires Natch. --- Harriet Klausner
Edelman is no Gibson, but then again neither is Gibson these days. If you like Cory Doctorow and need something to read in the interludes between Neal Stephenson's monoliths, give Edelman a try.
Infoquake follows the rise of bio/logic programmer Natch who lets nothing stand in the way of his ambition. This natural programmer and status climber will do anything to claw his way to the top. But there are others who are watching Natch and will use him as a tool to advance their agendas which could alter the very nature of humanity's future. Margaret Surina has developed a software that could alter the fabric of ordinary life, but she cannot bring Multireal to the masses. She finds an apt tool in Natch. But who is using who? For there are plenty of other alternative forces at work who want to control Multireal. But Natch for there is only one choice - forward and anyone in his way had better move or be run down. Complex and enthralling- Edelman has created a world where everyone of us can be better than ordinary if we can afford it. But all in all we're still human and all of our flaws and urges only become magnified as we increase our abilities.
Very unoriginal, poorly written and chock full of junk technotalk that serves no purpose. By the end, there wasn't a single character I cared about and the story didn't seem to go anywhere.
a well meaning relative gave me infoquake for xmas. this book is jammed with geeky acronyms and it comes with an appendix listing them. if the story was as interesting as the technology, it would deserve three or four stars but most of the pages are taken up by three people talking about how to build and sell computer software (ho hum). at the end, natch is about to unleash a cool new piece of software on the world but we find out this isn't going to happen until book two. as a result, nothing interesting happens in book one!
Infoquake is a technology heavy book set in a near future Earth and based around a small company developing new biologic 'software' for trivial purposes such as changing your eye color or keeping a poker face. Few of the concepts presented seemed very original and there was a lot of jargon and irrelevant history along the way. None of the characters are particularly memorable and I was annoyed that the story is cut off very abruptly at the end of this book, when it finally seemed to be going somewhere. The core concept of 'Multireal' is poorly explained and we only see it in action once. Based on this, I doubt I will come back for future books in this trilogy.


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Ernest Moniz, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been confirmed as the new Secretary of Energy by a 97-0 vote in the Senate.
According to published reports, Moniz served on a blue ribbon panel studying nuclear waste issues during President Obama's first term. And during the Clinton administration, he served as Undersecretary of the Energy Department, where his responsibilities included the department's supercomputer projects. Earlier in the Clinton administration he was associate director for science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
The Senate confirmed him on May 16. As Secretary of Energy, he will succeed Steven Chu.
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Diana Nyad's decision today (Tuesday) to pull the plug on her fourth attempt in nearly 35 years to swim across the Straits of Florida really wasn't much of a choice. Her face stung by jellyfish, her body shivering from near-hypothermia, with sharks circling and lightning storms churning the seas, Nyad had only three options: swim, sink or get out of the water.
She made the right call.
Our culture seems to celebrate only success, and when so much is at stake – sponsorships, dedicated efforts by family and support crews, expenses and self-esteem – it's not surprising that so many epic adventures come to involuntary, tragic endings rather than humbling but rational decisions to get out while the getting is good.
In Nyad's case, this had been her third attempt since last summer to become the first person to cross the Florida Straits without a shark cage. She also bailed out of a Cuba-to-Florida swim with a cage in 1978.
Maybe it's me, but I don't quite embrace the glory in becoming the first to accomplish the swim without a shark cage. In my view, Australian Susie Maroney will still be regarded as the real pioneer as the first to swim the Straits in 1997, even though she used a shark cage.
Most of us could identify Edmund Hillary as the first man to climb Mount Everest in 1953, but few know, much less care, that 25 years later Reinhold Messner became the first to reached the highest point on Earth without the use of supplemental oxygen.
What's next: climbing (or swimming) while blindfolded? Wearing a crown of thorns or hair shirt? Lugging a giant rock? At some point this "first-ever" claim degenerates into a Guinness Book of World Records sideshow akin to growing the longest fingernails or pogo-sticking across the Alps.
As one who has embarked on a fair share of madcap pursuits over the years – running 50 miles on my 50th birthday, organizing a "Summit New England" expedition in which a group of friends and I tagged the high points of all six New England states in a round-the-clock marathon; and who has spent every New Year's Day in the past 41 years interspersing a 10-mile run with an icy plunge into Fishers Island Sound, among numerous other nutty exploits – I'm more inclined to celebrate than condemn the spirit of adventure.
But I like to think I've also had sense enough to call it quits when a goal moves out of reach.
I'm thinking of my attempt a few years ago to ascend Aconcagua on the Chilean-Argentine border, at 22,841 feet the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere. After holing up for days in a blizzard at 19,000 feet, our team finally had a shot at the summit, but I had run out of gas.
While spending nearly an hour fumbling in a futile effort to don boots and assemble gear, I realized I was in no shape to continue higher in my oxygen-starved, energy depleted state and stayed behind while others ventured upward. My goal was to come home safely, with or without tagging the top, not to get to the summit at all costs.
For every Edmund Hillary there is a George Mallory, whose frozen remains still lie below Everest's summit more than 80 years after his expedition met a tragic end.
Loyal readers may recall my having referenced this book in the past, but it still resonates: Geoff Powter's "Strange and Dangerous Dreams: The Fine Line Between Adventure and Madness."
Powter, a practicing clinical psychologist, uses the tales of 11 troubled adventurers, including Polar explorer Robert Scott and Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark fame, to illustrate the difficulty of differentiating passionate pursuits from life-threatening obsessions.
By dint of Nyad's decision to end her swim today after more than 41 years in the water, Nyad, who turns 63 on Wednesday, can be regarded as a passionate adventurer rather than a self-destructive madwoman.
She already has demonstrated her enormous capacities, having swum from Bimini to Florida in 1979, and by breaking a world record in 1975 in circling Manhattan in seven hours and 57 minutes.
Way to go, Diana. Live to swim another day.
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Cameron Backs King Over WikiLeaks Inexperience Remark
Prime Minister David Cameron backed Bank of England Governor Mervyn King today after WikiLeaks published a cable by the U.S. ambassador citing the central bank chief's concerns that the U.K. premier lacked experience.
Cameron "thinks he's doing a good job," his spokesman, Steve Field, told reporters today in London. "The issue of confidence simply does not arise. My experience is the Bank of England governor makes lots of statements on economic policy. That's what you'd expect."
The support for King, 62, caps a week of focus on the governor's role in Britain's political system. Policy maker Adam Posen said on Nov. 25 he was "uncomfortable" with the bank's support for Cameron's deficit reduction plans and former finance minister Alistair Darling cautioned the bank this week against getting too close to any political party. Former central bank policy maker David Blanchflower today called on King to quit.
U.S. Ambassador Louis Susman wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that in a Feb. 16 meeting with the governor, before the U.K. election in May, "King expressed great concern about Conservative leaders' lack of experience," the Guardian reported on its website yesterday, publishing the memo obtained by the WikiLeaks website. Cameron was leader of the opposition at the time.
A Bank of England spokesman said in a telephone interview today that the governor has a very effective working relationship with both the prime minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.
Confidential Cable
King "opined that party leader David Cameron and Shadow Chancellor George Osborne have not fully grasped the pressures they will face from different groups when attempting to cut spending," the Guardian cited Susman's confidential diplomatic cable as saying.
Before the election, King lobbied publicly for a "credible" plan to curb the U.K.'s biggest peacetime deficit. On May 12, after Cameron's Conservatives formed their coalition with the Liberal Democrats, the governor said he was "very pleased" with the new government's budget-cutting proposals.
Posen told a panel of lawmakers led by Conservative Andrew Tyrie that he was uncomfortable with the central bank's backing of government spending cuts in its Inflation Report in May. He said the support was "too political, too much of a statement."
"The bank must think long and hard about what it says," Darling wrote in the Financial Times on Nov. 29. "To become identified with one political party would be fatal to its reputation. It is imperative that the independence of the bank remain absolute."
Bank's Autonomy
The central bank won autonomy in setting monetary policy in 1997. Bank and government officials tended to refrain since then from commenting on each others' policies. The bank's authority has become entangled with government funding plans since policy makers began a program in March last year to buy gilts to stoke economic recovery.
Blanchflower, who was on the bank's rate-setting panel from June 2006 to May 2009, wrote today on the Guardian's website that King should resign over his remarks on the public finances. The Bank of England spokesman declined to comment on the remarks.
"It's the compromise of the independence of Bank of England that's the issue," Blanchflower, who is a columnist for Bloomberg News, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. "It's been an ongoing issue for some time, and I think this is the final straw."
When Blanchflower was on the Monetary Policy Committee, "we were told very sensibly that we should stay out of party political issues," he said. "That advice was given directly to me by the governor himself, so it's rather a surprise that he doesn't follow that advice."
Were politicians from opposing parties to seek the governor's opinion, "it's very hard for him to give them advice that they would trust," Blanchflower said.


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Honduras: Will the Rule of Law Prevail?
Watching the events unfold in Central America over the past week has been an infuriating and dismaying exercise. Too many people, either sadly uninformed or maliciously misinforming, have referred to the ouster of Mel Zelaya by the unified government of Honduras as a "military coup" and an illegal transfer of power. Not only are such castigations dead wrong, they are made without any justification and completely against the actual Honduran Constitution.
To understand just how far off base these accusations of illegality are, ask yourself what law is alleged to have been broken. Has anyone cited an actual provision of the Constitution or a statute that's been violated? Of course not, because there is none. In fact, if any of those who have been so quick to condemn the Honduran government had actually done just a smidgeon of research, they would have found the ouster of Zelaya to be self-perpetuated and entirely within the rule of law.
To wit, here is Title II, Chapter 4, Article 239 of the Honduran Constitution, first in Spanish:
ARTICULO 239.- El ciudadano que haya desempeñado la titularidad del Poder Ejecutivo no podrá ser Presidente o Vicepresidente de la República.
El que quebrante esta disposición o proponga su reforma, así como aquellos que lo apoyen directa o indirectamente, cesarán de inmediato en el desempeño de sus respectivos cargos y quedarán inhabilitados por diez (10) años para el ejercicio de toda función pública.
And in English#:
Article 239 — No citizen that has already served as head of the Executive Branch can be President or Vice-President.
Whoever violates this law or proposes its reform, as well as those that support such violation directly or indirectly, will immediately cease in their functions and will be unable to hold any public office for a period of 10 years.
The plain text of Article 239 quite clearly states that Zelaya, through his own actions, ended his presidency. By seeking to hold a referendum on whether Hondurans should consider changing the term-limits portion of the Constitution, Zelaya's official duties were ended "immediately" and he was further barred from participating in public office for a period of ten years. Period, the end.
Some may try to argue that Zelaya did not receive any due process in his ouster, but that argument must fail. Even under U.S. jurisprudence, due process is simply all the process that is due. In this case, once Zelaya was determined to have violated the term-limits provision of Article 239 by proposing its reform, which Zelaya has basically admitted and which the Honduran Supreme Court derivatively found, then he received his due process. Despite the decisions against him, Zelaya decided to go ahead with his illegal referendum, gathered a mob together, and invaded the military compound where the (Venezuelan-created) ballot boxes were being kept. He fully intended to hold the referendum on Sunday June 28th had he not been stopped.
These, among other actions, were what led the Congress to pursue impeachment, the Attorney General to issue an arrest warrant on Saturday June 25, 2009, and the Supreme Court to issue its own arrest warrant on Sunday resulting in Zelaya's removal from the country:
Honduras's military acted under judicial orders in deposing President Manuel Zelaya, Supreme Court Justice Rosalinda Cruz said, rejecting the view of President Barack Obama and other leaders that he was toppled in a coup.
"The only thing the armed forces did was carry out an arrest order," Cruz, 55, said in a telephone interview from the capital, Tegucigalpa. "There's no doubt he was preparing his own coup by conspiring to shut down the congress and courts."
Cruz said the court issued a sealed arrest order for Zelaya on June 26, charging him with treason and abuse of power, among other offenses. Zelaya had repeatedly breached the constitution by pushing ahead with a vote about rewriting the nation's charter that the court ruled illegal, and which opponents contend would have paved the way for a prohibited second term.
The arrest order she cited, approved unanimously by the court's 15 justices, was released this afternoon along with documents pertaining to a secret investigation that went on for weeks under the high court's supervision.
Cruz said the military decided to shuttle Zelaya out of the country for his safety and that of other Hondurans because riots would've erupted had he been held for trial.
"If he had been allowed to stay in the country, there would've been blood on the streets," she said.
To recap, Zelaya violated Art. 239 by proposing and then attempting to hold a referendum to change his term limits, which referendum was declared illegal by the Supreme Court and the Congress, and then he tried to go ahead with it anyway. In the meantime, aside from the secret, court-approved investigation going on for some time behind the scenes, the Attorney General and the Congress sought Zelaya's impeachment, and the Supreme Court and the Attorney General each issued arrest warrants when Zelaya pressed ahead with his illegal referendum. The military responded to the court-ordered arrest and took Zelaya into custody on June 28th.
But what about the deportation to Costa Rica? Surely that was an illegal action? Heck, even a top Honduran military official is saying so:
The military officers who rushed deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya out of the country Sunday committed a crime but will be exonerated for saving the country from mob violence, the army's top lawyer said.
In an interview with The Miami Herald and El Salvador's elfaro.net, army attorney Col. Herberth Bayardo Inestroza acknowledged that top military brass made the call to forcibly remove Zelaya — and they circumvented laws when they did it.
It was the first time any participant in Sunday's overthrow admitted committing an offense and the first time a Honduran authority revealed who made the decision that has been denounced worldwide.
"We know there was a crime there," said Inestroza, the top legal advisor for the Honduran armed forces. "In the moment that we took him out of the country, in the way that he was taken out, there is a crime. Because of the circumstances of the moment this crime occurred, there is going to be a justification and cause for acquittal that will protect us."
Of course, it wasn't the first time anyone took credit for the decision (the Supreme Court has been saying for days that it order Zelaya's capture), and Inestroza also declares that whatever "crime" may have been committed against Zelaya would be absolved anyway:
"What was more beneficial, remove this gentleman from Honduras or present him to prosecutors and have a mob assault and burn and destroy and for us to have to shoot?" he said. "If we had left him here, right now we would be burying a pile of people."
This week, Deputy Attorney General Roy David Urtecho told reporters that he launched an investigation into why Zelaya was removed by force instead of taken to court. Article 24 of Honduras' penal code will exonerate the joint chiefs of staff who made the decision, because it allows for making tough decisions based on the good of the state, Inestroza said.
Another provision to keep in mind is Title II, Chapter 3, Article 42:
Article 42: The legal rights of any citizen is lost:
5) If the citizen incites, promotes, or supports the continuance or the re-election of the President of the Republic;
Accordingly, not only has Zelaya lost his ability to continue in office through his own actions, he has also lost his rights as a citizen, among those which would presumably be the right to remain in the country. In the end, that all spells a one-way ticket to anywhere but Honduras for the would-be Chavista dictator. Moreover, Zelaya should be very thankful that he wasn't ousted in the old-fashioned way which was much more permanent and painful.
The only question remaining is, why would our President, as leader of a country founded on the rule of law over the rule of men, opt to side with flouter of constitutional democracy instead of the leaders who took great pains to ensure that the country's constitution was adhered to? Unfortunately, I'm afraid that there are no good answers to that question, and that our President is helping to precipitate a major crisis in Central America. Was this the change we were hoping for?
[General HT to Fausta for many of the above links]
# I've checked the translation against some Spanish to English translators and it appears to be essentially correct to me. Any suggested changes are welcome.
Welcome To One-Party Rule (Updated)
It's now official: only one party has the reins to power in Washington, DC:
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously ruled Al Franken the winner of last November's Senate race, putting the former "Saturday Night Live" star on the brink of becoming a United States senator and Democrats on the cusp of holding a dominant 60-vote supermajority in the Senate.
In a unanimous 5-0 decision, the court upheld a three-judge panel's April 14 ruling that Franken defeated Republican Norm Coleman in the race by 312 votes out of 2.9 million cast. The 32-page was remarkably decisive, picking apart and rejecting one Coleman legal claim after another.
If Franken is seated, Democrats would hold a 60-40 majority in the Senate, the largest the party has enjoyed in a generation. Sixty votes are needed to break filibusters, ensuring that if Democrats stay united they would be able to cleave the GOP's last lever of power in Washington. A Franken "yes" vote on health reform, climate change legislation and Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor gives Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) even more of a margin for error on these major votes.
Democrats were already celebrating the result.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty already stated that he would sign the election certificate for Franken if directed to do so by the Supreme Court, so this is pretty much a done deal. Coleman has not indicated whether he would appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Minnesota Republican Party doesn't seem to sanguine about pushing further:
Even Minnestoa Republicans – highly disappointed by the ruling – weren't ready to call for a federal legal challenge.
The Minnesota Republican Party issued a strongly worded statement, saying the ruling "wrongly disenfranchised thousands of Minnesotans who deserve to have their votes counted."
But the chairman-elect of the party, Tony Sutton, made no mention of next steps, only saying, "As we move forward, our deeply flawed election system must be dramatically improved to ensure our state's elections are fair, accurate and reliable."
Assuming that Coleman doesn't seek cert., or if he does that no stay of the decision is put into place, then Franken will be seated as early as next week. With a
vetofilibuster-proof majority in the Senate, the Democrats won't need to play parliamentary games like using reconciliation bills, or the like, and instead will simply shove legislation down the throats of the minority. So get ready for cap-and-trade, government health care, huge tax increases, and a host of other government programs that don't need and can't pay for.
The only downside for Democrats is that they can't credibly blame the fiscal and economic woes on Bush anymore as they will have cornered the political market. I say "credibly" because they will continue to do so, and the media mostly won't call them on it, but such claims will be laughably false. The real question is, how and when will this come back to haunt them?
UPDATE: Coleman concedes.
Podcast for 28 Jun 09
In this podcast, Bruce, Michael, and Dale discuss the situations in Honduras and Iran, and the cap-and-trade energy bill.
The direct link to the podcast can be found here.
The intro and outro music is Vena Cava by 50 Foot Wave, and is available for free download here.
As a reminder, if you are an iTunes user, don't forget to subscribe to the QandO podcast, Observations, through iTunes. For those of you who don't have iTunes, you can subscribe at Podcast Alley. And, of course, for you newsreader subscriber types, our podcast RSS Feed is here. For podcasts from 2005 to 2007, they can be accessed through the RSS Archive Feed.
"There's no thought to rescinding the invitations to Iranian diplomats" (Updated)
There have probably been moments where I've been more disgusted with my country's leadership, but I'm having great difficulty bringing them to mind. Somehow, having repressive and murderous regimes over for lunch clouds my memory of indiscretions gone by:
The United States said Monday its invitations were still standing for Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at US embassies despite the crackdown on opposition supporters.
President Barack Obama's administration said earlier this month it would invite Iran to US embassy barbecues for the national holiday for the first time since the two nations severed relations following the 1979 Islamic revolution.
"There's no thought to rescinding the invitations to Iranian diplomats," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters.
"We have made a strategic decision to engage on a number of fronts with Iran," Kelly said. "We tried many years of isolation, and we're pursuing a different path now."
The only thing I can think to say is, how dare you?
How dare the representatives of a country founded on freedom from tyranny and the principles of inalienable rights not give any thought — no thought whatsoever — to reexamining its invitation to theocratic sponsors of terrorism who violently deny their own people access to any say in how their lives are governed?
How dare the supposed leader of the free world not ponder, even for a moment, that perhaps treating thuggish dictators as legitimate state actors, on our nation's birthday no less, might be sending the wrong signal?
How dare the supreme ambassadors of everything we hold dear as a country extend anything more than a single, firmly-flexed digit in the direction of a bully state that clearly has no business pretending to represent the interests of its citizens?
President Obama, how dare you slap your own countrymen in the face with such a rude and thoughtless gesture?
How dare you forgo "thought" on the matter; aren't you supposed to be the intellectual president … y'know, The One who thinks about things?
I can only hope that our government hasn't become so comfortable with its own power-grabbing that it fails to recognize blatant state repression when it's invited over for hot dogs and fireworks.
It's one thing to hold one's tongue, or to speak in moderate tones when addressing momentous historical events as they unfold. It's entirely another thing altogether to look tyranny in the face and smile as you invite it into your home. Even more significantly, our duly elected representative to the world is doing all this on the day to commemorate the culmination of the blood, sweat and tears our forefathers spent in casting off the yolk of dictatorial control so that we might have a nation of laws, and freedom to pursue our own individual happiness — freedoms that our "guests" routinely spit upon. President Obama should be ashamed.
[HT: Hot Air]
UPDATE: Bruce helpfully makes the point I was trying to get at above, but somehow failed to include in my rant:
And, for those who find "hot dogs on the 4th" still acceptable for members of a regime presently engaged in viciously and murderously silencing their own people, on has to assume you believe in rewarding bad behavior by pretending it hasn't happened. That's not "diplomacy", that's simply an abysmally poor choice that signals weakness.
Obviously we've coddled repressive regimes before, to our and their people's detriment, but I'm not trying to suggest that we simply disengage from any discussions whatsoever. There are times and places for diplomatic discussion, even with tyrannical governments such as Iran's. While that regime is busy slaughtering peaceful protesters and on a national holiday celebrating our hard-won freedoms is not such a time.
Podcast for 21 Jun 09
In this podcast, Bruce, Michael, and Dale discuss the Letterman/Palin controversy, and the situation in Iran.
The direct link to the podcast can be found here.
The intro and outro music is Vena Cava by 50 Foot Wave, and is available for free download here.
As a reminder, if you are an iTunes user, don't forget to subscribe to the QandO podcast, Observations, through iTunes. For those of you who don't have iTunes, you can subscribe at Podcast Alley. And, of course, for you newsreader subscriber types, our podcast RSS Feed is here. For podcasts from 2005 to 2007, they can be accessed through the RSS Archive Feed.
Possibly Real Iranian Election Results Leaked
Before anyone gets too worked up about this development, it should be noted that there is probably no way to authenticate this alleged letter, and its existence comes to us via Robert Fisk (yes, that "Fisk"). Nevertheless, there is a purported letter from the Ministry of the Interior running around Iran that states the following:
Salaam Aleikum.
Regarding your concerns for the 10th presidential elections and due to your orders for Mr Ahmedinejad to be elected President, in this sensitive time, all matters have been organised in such a way that the results of the election will be in line with the revolution and the Islamic system. The following result will be declared to the people and all planning should be put in force to prevent any possible action from the opposition, and all party leaders and election candidates are under intense surveillance. Therefore, for your information only, I am telling you the actual results as follows:
Mirhossein Mousavi: 19,075,623
Mehdi Karroubi: 13,387,104
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: 5,698,417
Mohsen Rezai: 38,716
(signed on behalf of the minister)
Fisk has this to say about it:
They were handing out the photocopies by the thousand under the plane trees in the centre of the boulevard, single sheets of paper grabbed by the opposition supporters who are now wearing black for the 15 Iranians who have been killed in Tehran – who knows how many more in the rest of the country? – since the election results gave Mahmoud Ahmadinejad more than 24 million votes and a return to the presidency. But for the tens of thousands marking their fifth day of protests yesterday – and for their election campaign hero, Mirhossein Mousavi, who officially picked up just 13 million votes – those photocopies were irradiated.
In a highly sophisticated society like Iran, forgery is as efficient as anywhere in the West and there are reasons for both distrusting and believing this document. But it divides the final vote between Mr Mousavi and Mr Karroubi in such a way that it would have forced a second run-off vote – scarcely something Mousavi's camp would have wanted.
Could this letter be a fake? Even if Mr Mousavi won so many votes, could the colourless Mr Karroubi have followed only six million votes behind him? And however incredible Mr Ahmadinejad's officially declared 63 per cent of the vote may have been, could he really – as a man who has immense support among the poor of Iran – have picked up only five-and-a-half million votes? And would a letter of such immense importance be signed only "on behalf of the minister"?
That the Independent's intrepid reporter is cautioning against assuming the veracity and provenance of the letter should tell you something (and, it should be noted, "intrepid" is truly meant here as Fisk is openly and flagrantly defying the journalist ban at great personal risk, for which he deserves great praise and admiration). Whether or not it's real, the mullahs have their work cut out for them in damage control. If the protesters are fairly enough convinced (and it would appear, for now, at least some of them are), then little more fuel will be needed for the fire. Moreover, others who have been either sitting on the fence, or who thought the election was legitimate, are convinced of a sham due to this letter, then it's difficult to see how the regime can retain any legitimacy.
In any event, this alleged letter may have a significant effect on the outcome of events in Iran.
NoKo: Pressing Buttons
Kim Jong-Il is apparently not content with good old-fashioned saber rattling, and instead wants to push the envelope (or the button, as it were) a little further:
North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program.
The missile, believed to be a Taepodong-2 with a range of up to 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers), would be launched from North Korea's Dongchang-ni site on the northwestern coast, said the Yomiuri daily, Japan's top-selling newspaper. It cited an analysis by the Japanese Defense Ministry and intelligence gathered by U.S. reconnaissance satellites.
The missile launch could come between July 4 and 8, the paper said.
While the newspaper speculated the Taepodong-2 could fly over Japan and toward Hawaii, it said the missile would not be able to hit Hawaii's main islands, which are about 4,500 miles (7,200 kilometers) from the Korean peninsula.
A spokesman for the Japanese Defense Ministry declined to comment on the report. South Korea's Defense Ministry and the National Intelligence Service — the country's main spy agency — said they could not confirm it.
If North Korea does carry out such a plan, it would be a most provocative act, bordering on a casus belli. Figuratively speaking, it would not be any different than the child's game of swinging one's arms within inches of one's sibling while declaring "not touching!" In realpolitik terms, it is simply a threat.
Of course, the real question is, what do we do about it?
President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak met in Washington on Tuesday for a landmark summit in which they agreed to build a regional and global "strategic alliance" to persuade North Korea to dismantle all its nuclear weapons. Obama declared North Korea a "grave threat" to the world and pledged that the new U.N. sanctions on the communist regime will be aggressively enforced.
In Seoul, Vice Unification Minister Hong Yang-ho told a forum Thursday that the North's moves to strengthen its nuclear programs is "a very dangerous thing that can fundamentally change" the regional security environment. He said the South Korean government is bracing for "all possible scenarios" regarding the nuclear standoff.
In a rare move, leaders of Russia and China used their meetings in Moscow on Wednesday to pressure the North to return to the nuclear talks and expressed "serious concerns" about tension on the Korean peninsula.
The joint appeal appeared to be a signal that Moscow and Beijing are growing impatient with Pyongyang's stubbornness. Northeastern China and Russia's Far East both border North Korea, and Pyongyang's unpredictable actions have raised concern in both countries.
After meetings at the Kremlin, Chinese President Hu Jintao joined Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in urging a peaceful resolution of the Korean standoff and the "swiftest renewal" of the now-frozen talks involving their countries as well as North and South Korea, Japan and the United States.
"Russia and China are ready to foster the lowering of tension in Northeast Asia and call for the continuation of efforts by all sides to resolve disagreements through peaceful means, through dialogue and consultations," their statement said.
Keep in mind, as well, that North Korea need not tip anyone of those missiles with a nuclear warhead (which it does not yet have the capability to do) in order to pose a significant threat. Reportedly, the Stalinist regime is well-equipped with chemical weapons as well:
The independent International Crisis Group think tank, meanwhile, said the North's massive stockpile of chemical weapons is no less serious a threat to the region than its nuclear arsenal.
It said the North is believed to have between 2,500 and 5,000 tons of chemical weapons, including mustard gas, phosgene, blood agents and sarin. These weapons can be delivered with ballistic missiles and long-range artillery and are "sufficient to inflict massive civilian casualties on South Korea."
Although the nations involved have been ready to talk sternly about "grave threats" and to urge further negotiations to quell the tensions, Kim Jong-Il is notably unimpressed. Rather than seeking to retard the North Korean leader's ambitions, everyone seems insistent upon being cautions in order to avoid "provoking" Kim Jong-Il. That is a shrewd plan when dealing with a crazy person, but in the end, a bully is just a bully, whether he's crazy or not.
Unfortunately, at some point a swift smack on the nose will be necessary if we truly want to back the recalcitrant dictator up a step or two, which admittedly carries its own unfortunate possibilities. Even if that point is not now, or if and when North Korea sends its missiles hurling dangerously close to our sovereign territory, it does seem to be approaching quickly. Given the rather meek approach taken by all nations thus far, one can only hope that Kim's own machinations do him under before the international community's hand is forced.
Conference on Health Care Reform
Cato Institute is hosting a conference on health care reform today that will be webcast live. It will feature the following speakers:
* Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
* Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX)
* Rep. Jason Altmire (D-PA)
* Karen Davenport, Director of Health Policy, Center for American Progress
* Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Former Director, Congressional Budget Office, and Director of Domestic and Economic Policy for the McCain presidential campaign
* Tom G. Donlan, Barron's
* Karen Tumulty, Time Magazine
* Susan Dentzer, Health Affairs
* John Reichard, Congressional Quarterly
This represents a wide range of views and promises to be much more interesting and informative than the White House/ABC News infomercial scheduled for next week. so if you're interested in this topic at all, take some time to check it out.
Obama Media
While it comes at no real surprise given how they behaved during the presidential campaign, the MSM has finally decided to go all in with its support for the President. Next Wednesday night, June 24, ABC News will host a program about health care reform from inside the White House, but only one side will be presented — i.e. Obama's. The Chief of Staff for the RNC is not happy about this decision and sent the following letter to David Westin, the President of ABC News:
Dear Mr. Westin:
As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC's astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue on June 24, 2009. Next Wednesday, ABC News will air a primetime health care reform "town hall" at the White House with President Barack Obama. In addition, according to an ABC News report, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WORLD NEWS, NIGHTLINE and ABC's web news "will all feature special programming on the president's health care agenda." This does not include the promotion, over the next 9 days, the president's health care agenda will receive on ABC News programming.
Today, the Republican National Committee requested an opportunity to add our Party's views to those of the President's to ensure that all sides of the health care reform debate are presented. Our request was rejected. I believe that the President should have the ability to speak directly to the America people. However, I find it outrageous that ABC would prohibit our Party's opposing thoughts and ideas from this national debate, which affects millions of ABC viewers.
In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this primetime infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform ideas or on free airtime. The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this primetime event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime.
Ken McKay
Republican National Committee
Chief of Staff
This comes on the heels of a Politico report about how Obama has been "wooing" the New York Times (as if it needed wooing), and further evidences a disturbing level of acquiescence to the White House. It's one thing to have a broadcast from inside the White House, although it does strike an appearance of impropriety, but its another thing altogether to so blatantly snub an opposing views when the production is supposed to be one of news reporting. Presenting the view of those in power without question or examination, and refusing to allow any other voice, is pretty much the textbook definition of propaganda.
Since there is sure to be an uproar over this in the blogosphere, however, I'm wondering whether ABC News will back down and either allow some token opposition voice, bring on a known opponent of the President's plan to raise some issues, or allow some questions of the President from actual reporters (Jake Tapper does still work for ABC News, doesn't he?). Either way, its awfully pathetic that the MSM can't seem to figure out how to get it right the first place. They are so blinded by their fascination with all things Obama, apparently, that any semblance of actual news reporting has gone out the window, and is being replaced with unabashed cheerleading for The One.
UPDATE: Oops! I didn't realize that Bruce was writing on the same topic until after I posted. See his take below as well.
Podcast for 14 Jun 09
In this podcast, Bruce, Michael, and Dale discuss hate speech, Iran and North Korea.
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Spider John Koerner gives us a reason to whiskey tonight and tomorrow
Seeing Spider John Koerner live is a lucky thing, something we get treated to more often than, say, we deserve. Memories or wishes of north woods hootenannies and smoke-filled parlors in the sixties as all those jubilantly drunk revelers stomp and squall towards sunrise. Something like: "Drinkin' and dancin' / All night long / Early in the morning / Yet it's still goin' strong." Something like that, maybe.
And so it is that Spider John is playing with some severely talented people tonight and tomorrow. Bully for us!
Tonight Spider John will be joined by his longtime co-conspirator and folk legend in his own right Tony Glover, kicking off the Mill City Museum's Mill City Live outdoor concert series. If, for some reason, there's no room in your cold cold heart for amazing folk (music or otherwise), you'd be well-served making this a must-show. It will change your mind.
Massive festivities are in order for tomorrow night. Koerner moves over to the Cedar Cultural Center for a Nero's Neptune triple CD-release bonanza. Koerner is having his 1972 record Music Is Just a Bunch of Notes and March 1963 repressed, as well as Charlie Parr's When The Devil Goes Blind, who, but of course, is also playing. Also taking place is a screening of Koerner's film The Secret of Sleep - it's the first time in forty years that it's been publicly shown, and a DVD is also bundled with Music Is Just a Bunch of Notes.
As a postscript I would like to say that Spider John and Willie Murphy's record Running, Jumping, Standing Still is one of my favorite records of all time and you should do anything in your power to hear it. That is all.
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Tickets available at Treehouse Records and Cedar ticket outlets
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The thirty-second annual Symposium on Chemical Physics, will be held on the weekend of November 4-6, 2016 at the University of Waterloo. As usual, the Symposium will include both invited and contributed oral papers, as well as a Poster session. This year's invited speakers and their topics are:
Invited Speakers
|The Roger E. Miller Lecturer
Frank Neese
Department of Molecular Theory and Spectroscopy
Max Planck Institute
Mülheim, Germany
Ralph Ernstorfer
Department of Physical Chemistry
Fritz-Haber Institute
Berlin, Germany
Patrick Ayotte
Département de Chimie
Université de Sherbrooke
Québec, Canada
Zlatko Bačić
Department of Chemistry
New York University
New York, USA
Paul Mayer
University of Ottawa
Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
Ottawa, Canada
Dominika Zgid
University of Michigan
Department of Chemistry
Ann Arbor, USA
As usual, contributed papers will be a key component of the program. A limited number of them can be presented orally, although most will be part of a poster session, to be held in a relaxed atmosphere with appropriate refreshments available. We very much hope to have a substantial degree of participation by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Please circulate this notice and the conference URL to any colleagues or students who you think might be interested in attending.
Once again, all regular conference sessions (including the poster session) will be held in or adjacent to Room 1015 of the EIT building (EIT on the Waterloo campus map, just south of the Davis Center where sessions had been held in earlier years), while the dinner again will be at South Campus Hall (SCH on the campus map, by the main entrance to the University from University Avenue; pay parking lot HV is beside that entrance). For the sessions, on-campus parking is available in lots HV and H (which are near SCH), B, N and M (which are closer to EIT); see the Waterloo campus map for location of these buildings and parking lots. All of these lots are coin operated or pay-and-display. See the following link for details regarding parking costs: parking details. A schematic map of the Kitchener-Waterloo area showing how to reach the University of Waterloo may be readily printed from the above link.
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US study: Breast-feeding varies by race, place
ATLANTA A new study confirms that Hispanic women generally breast-feed more than white and black women do. But it finds surprising regional differences in U.S. breast-feeding rates.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released its did first state-by-state analysis of racial and ethnic differences. It found that Hispanics in the East breast-feed the most. But in some Western states, white women had higher rates.
A leading theory for the difference is that the longer Hispanic immigrants are in the United States, the more they turn to infant formula. Health experts recommend breast-feeding for the health of the baby.
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Some good news from the world of awesome: Everyone's favorite Mother of Dragons and favorite kvetching lobster-alien doctor will be giving fans the ultimate slashfic scenario they never knew they wanted: Game of Thrones actress is set to guest star in the final season of Futurama as a potential love interest of Dr. Zoidberg ().
The lovely Clarke is set to play the owner of a flower shop who has no sense of smell, which makes her the perfect match for the aromatically-challenged Dr. Zoidberg (Long-time fans of the show get the running joke that he is often malodorous). However, their relationship is tested when Dr. Zoidberg has the chance to restore his new love's sense of smell, thereby potentially ending their blossoming relationship.
As it looks like this might be really for real the last season of the little show that could, it's no surprise that they're pulling out all the stops on guest stars. Expect to see a few more big names lining up to help the cult-favorite cartoon go out with a bang.
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The Portable Nietzsche (Paperback)
The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, Few writers in any age were so full of ideas, and few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted. The Portable Nietzsche includes Kaufmann's definitive translations of the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsche's four major works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche Contra Wagner and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In addition, Kaufmann brings together selections from his other books, notes, and letters, to give a full picture of Nietzsche's development, versatility, and inexhaustibility. In this volume, one may very conveniently have a rich review of one of the most sensitive, passionate, and misunderstood writers in Western, or any, literature. Newsweek.
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Nietzsche has been proclaimed the seminal figure of modern philosophy as well as one of the most creative and critically influential geniuses in the history of secular thought.
Walter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was professor of philosophy at Princeton University from 1947 until his death. He had visiting appointments at Columbia, Cornell, the University of Michigan, and the University of Washington among others. His books include The Future of the Humanities, Religion from Tolstoy to Camus, and the three volume series entitled Discovering the Mind.


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A Beastly Family Picnic by spicysteweddemonWatch
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How sweet. Daddy has his little rambunctious girl and momma has a daughter that wants to be as pretty as she does.
I love them
Always thought he looked much better as a beast Awesome drawings. All of them!
Always thought he looked much better as a beast Awesome drawings. All of them!
Love the design of Belle and Beast's children
How swet littee best girls!
Do they have names?
Adorable little abominations, aren't they?
Spicysteweddeamon- I love you. I really do. But I cannot for the life of me wrap my head around this series. XD
The half breed thing is creeping me out.
The half breed thing is creeping me out.
You did a good job, making them look like a halfbreed, Highbred. Then just another Anthro
Beast would be the sweetest father in the world! I love these so much!
So cute~!♥
So cute! I'm in love with this picture. *-*
daw~ i love there little crossbreed babies~ very nice and cute~
Great job... MARRY ME!! lol kidding.
thats my real happy ending!!!
Aww...how sweet!~ <3 ^_^
Through some grave error I had not favorited your BatB family pics! But don't worry--that has been rectified. ^_^
I love this whole little series you have going on. it's lovely~ c:
love the kids
Beautiful! Infinitely prefer this to the reverted beast. Their children are beautiful.
Omfg, what would I give for the movie to end like this!? O.O
Love it!
I'm absolutely enchanted by your style. I've put the first two of this series on tumblr (full credit given) and want to know if its alright with you, if I can post a link to your gallery and the rest of the beastly family pictures! They're too awesome not to share.
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I wish the movie ended like this !
Your style is so beautiful!
As disturbing as the thought is, this is utterly gorgeous I love your art style.
Isn't it funny how people prefer the whole bestiality thing in this particular film than his creepy human form?
great series
I suggested this for a DD. Good Luck!
I like your style
D'aww, I love this alternate ending
one of the cutest pict EVER.
Omgsh! The girl in Belle's lap is so cute! ^^ She reminds me of a deer. :3
Absolutely fantastic!
So cool !
Bella is my favorite princess, well . .the only one i like !
I like the shape you gave to her body and the clothes textures
You have a great technique !
Bella is my favorite princess, well . .the only one i like !
I like the shape you gave to her body and the clothes textures
You have a great technique !
Human Beast is so freaking ugly, even without a tendency for guys who are "animals in bed," I think any woman would rather choose actual Beast. God. This is how it should have ended. So adorable!


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June – Feast Week
Some kind of celebration has been held in Mevagissey for hundreds of years and was originally held in December. However this coincided with a busy fishing period and so in 1752 Mevagissey adopted St Peter as its patron saint and has held a festival to celebrate this date 29th June ever since. Feast Week which marks the feast of St Peter and the church celebrates in a traditional way with a tea, children's sport and an evening procession around the village with hymns, Bugle Silver Band and the Flora Dance.
Annually, usually around 29th June
2011 – June 26 to July 2
2012 – June 24 to June 30
All events free, except for concert.
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Cornish Pasties
Forget the Cornish Pasties you see in the Supermarkets,Try a real Cornish Pastie
They were originally designed for tin Miners as a complete meal.
I am sucker for them,and will eat at least one a day when I am there.
The origins of the Cornish Pasty go back into the mists of time, but probably developed from the simple diet of Cornish people hundreds of years ago. Apart from locally caught fish, many people existed on a diet consisting mainly of swede (turnip) and potato, with meat as an added bonus when available.
The Cornish Pasty rose to prominence in the last two centuries, the era of the hard rock metal mines, offering an easily portable, substantial meal for men working in tough conditions to wrest copper, tin and other minerals from deep underground.A real Cornish Pasty was a self contained feast. It had the initial of the miner marked on the pastry, so that every miner knew his own pasty. It also had the mark of a thumbnail pressed into it by the cook, to protect the owner from the "knockers" or little men, who lived in the mines and brought harm to miners. It is said that a decent Pasty could be dropped a thousand feet down a tin mine without being "scat to pieces".
Arguments over the exact recipe, or proportions of contents, or the amount of pepper or crimping "over the top" or "around the edge", are the stuff of civil war in small communities. There were many variations on what went into a Pasty - it is even said that the Devil himself came down to the West Country, but stopped on the Tamar River on the Cornish Border, afraid that he would be put into a pasty!
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Of course everybody should know that Cornish pasties are THE thing to eat here.
Originally designed as the miner's working lunch - the pastry would have a thick crust, enabling it to broken open by grimy hands and would have contained sweet and savoury contents such as meat/potato and apple.
These days the cornish pasties come in all sorts of flavours - I liked the steak and stilton variety - and jumbo sizes!
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TEP offers several resources – free to teachers – that allow students to participate in interactive museum exhibits, solar array sites, and virutally through downloadable materials.
Schools where 50 percent or more of the student population is eligible for the federal school lunch program can receive educational tours free. TEP provides the funding for qualifying school groups.
Electri-City is fantastic learning opportunity – and it's fun!
View a museum tour in action.
Free tours are booked on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Originally installed in 1995, TEP's hands-on exhibit at the Tucson Children's Museum (TCM) teaches visitors about electric safety, the history of electric power and the science behind their electric service.
The exhibit updates periodically so that return visitors learn new lessons. Recently, solar panels were installed on top of a constructed outdoor playhouse, creating an interactive environment for children to see renewable energy in action.
To find out if your school qualifies and to book your tour, teachers should call the museum at 520-792-9985, ext. 105, during regular business hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
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Solar energy production is a critical aspect of TEP's power production as we strive to supply clean, sustainable energy to our customers. Our test yard helps us find the most productive, cost efficient equipment to achieve that goal.
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Prior to taking your tour, view this video to ensure the safety of all visitors to TEP's Solar Test Yard.
We are changing the way we create electricity at the H. Wilson Sundt Generating Station. Check back soon for a new virtual power plant tour.
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