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Aaron Swartz and Motel Caswell: Book ends to prosecutorial reform?
A judge this week dismissed a drug forfeiture case involving a motel owner. The prosecutor, US Attorney Carmen Ortiz, is also facing criticism for her role in the prosecution of Internet hacker Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide earlier this month.
A judge this week struck down a US government scheme to seize a Tewksbury, Mass., motel because it had become a haven for drug dealers, bolstering concerns about whether US prosecutors in some cases have too much power.
The decision in the long-running forfeiture case comes as the US attorney in Boston, Carmen Ortiz, is already under fire for her role in the death of Internet hacker Aaron Swartz, who killed himself on Jan. 11 as he faced a potentially long prison term for what many in the technology field have noted was nothing more than a breach of a contract involving Internet documents.
The two cases are feeding a simmering groundswell among constitutional law professors and others about the inherent discretionary powers of federal prosecutors, especially in an era of books like attorney Harvey Silverglate's "Three Felonies a Day: How the feds target the innocent."
"[M]ost of the time, prosecutors can be expected to exercise their discretion soundly," writes University of Tennessee constitutional law professor Glenn Reynolds, in a Jan. 20 paper called "Ham Sandwich Nation: Due process when everything is a crime."
"Unfortunately, these limitations on prosecutorial power are likely to be least effective where prosecutors act badly because of politics or prejudice," professor Reynolds writes.
In his article, Reynolds lists several possible solutions, including reform of the grand jury system – a supposed check on prosecutors but where some now say a "ham sandwich" could be indicted – as well as weakening prosecutorial immunity rules so US attorneys would have "some skin in the game." Banning plea bargains, the process by which the majority of prosecutors get their convictions, is referenced as the "nuclear option" in prosecutorial reform.
In the Swartz case, the young hacker and co-creator of the Reddit website faced 13 felony counts from Ms. Ortiz' office tied to his use of an MIT network to download millions of academic journal articles to his laptop computer. The problem, critics of the prosecution say, is that Swartz' actions constituted a breach of contract more than a felony crime.
On Saturday, the "Anonymous" hacker group announced it had infiltrated the US Sentencing Commission website in retaliation for Swartz's death. The group said it had copied sensitive documents that it may make public. The site was inaccessible Saturday.
"Anonymous has observed for some time now the trajectory of justice in the United States with growing concern," the group said in a statement. "We have marked the departure of this system from the noble ideals in which it was born and enshrined. We have seen the erosion of due process, the dilution of constitutional rights, the usurpation of the rightful authority of courts by the 'discretion' of prosecutors. We have seen how the law is wielded less and less to uphold justice, and more and more to exercise control, authority and power in the interests of oppression or personal gain."
On Jan. 16, Ms. Ortiz released a statement about her office's role in the Swartz case.
"I know that there is little I can say to abate the anger felt by those who believe that this office's prosecution of Mr. Swartz was unwarranted and somehow led to the tragic result of him taking his own life," Ms. Ortiz wrote. "I must, however, make clear that this office's conduct was appropriate in bringing and handling this case. The career prosecutors handling this matter took on the difficult task of enforcing a law they had taken an oath to uphold, and did so reasonably."
In the Motel Caswell case, U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith Gail Dein on Thursday dismissed the government's forfeiture action against owner Russ Caswell, ruling that Mr. Caswell took reasonable steps to prevent crime while "trying to eke out an income from a business located in a drug-infested area that posed great risks to the safety of him and his family."
"The Government's resolution of the crime problem should not be to simply take his Property," Ms. Dein wrote.
Federal agents first tried to seize Caswell's property in 2009, citing drug seizure laws that were triggered after numerous drug busts at the motel. Caswell's lawyers said the motel owner couldn't be held responsible for the actions of his guests, and even conjectured in court that the government intended to grab the property more for the $1 million it could fetch on the open market.
"It's bullying by the government," Mr. Caswell told the Boston Herald. "You work for all your life to pay for something and these people come along and think it's theirs. It's just wrong. The average person can't afford to fight this."
Boston College Law Professor George Brown told the Herald that the Motel Caswell and Aaron Swartz cases could lead to more scrutiny of aggressive prosecutions.
In fact, one member of Congress, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D) of California, has filed legislation that she calls "Aaron's Law," which would limit prosecutorial power to level felony charges in computer fraud and abuse cases that amount to contract breaches.
Rep. Darrell Issa, (R) of California, chair of the House Oversight Committee, has also vowed an investigation into the Swartz case.
"I'll make a risky statement here: Over-prosecution is a tool often used to get people to plead guilty rather than risk sentencing," Mr. Issa told the Huffington Post on Dec. 16. "It is a tool of question. If someone is genuinely guilty of something and you bring them up on charges, that's fine. But throw the book at them and find all kinds of charges and cobble them together so that they'll plea to a 'lesser included' is a technique that I think can sometimes be inappropriately used."
Such "scrutiny is a good thing," Mr. Brown told the Herald. "After all, it is a public office. What's going on here is a lot of things are happening at the same time that I think are making the public and the bar feel that maybe accountability and transparency is called for at the U.S. Attorney's office."


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Welcome to Ever After. A fairytale and a single, 54 minute track stitched from 12 discrete songs—the most audacious songs Marianas Trench has ever crafted.
Ever After is constructed around a story written by Ramsay himself and then finessed into an accompanying booklet. It's an actual physical experience; a warm throwback to the album era when your music was more than a bunch of orphaned songs sitting on an endless iPod playlist.
It's also the project that captures Marianas Trench at a soaring artistic peak. After the breakthrough of Masterpiece Theatre in 2009 and a lot of ensuing months on the road, Ramsay and bandmates Ian Casselman, Mike Ayley, and Matt Webb were eager to start recording again. They finally settled into Ramsay's studio to begin work on their next theatrical masterpiece by the end of 2010.
"All the songs live on their own as songs, but they also serve the purpose of telling the story throughout the record," he explains. As for the seamless hour-long symphony he constructed, Ramsay adds, "I wanted to do that on the last record but as a writer I wasn't ready. I had to step it up, which is also why I decided to produce Ever After on my own. If this is all gonna tie together, then you really need to see it through yourself."
The tale itself concerns the heartless Queen Carolina, the exiled King, and the stolen heart of his daughter Porcelain. We're lowered into this barren and heartless Toyland through the title track; a sweeping epic that makes good on Ramsay's promise that "some things are really over on the top" on Ever After. "It sounds like a chase scene," he says. "I was, like, 'If we're gonna do this, we're gonna do this right. We're gonna need 50 string players.' "
After that Michael Bay-sized opener, we get what you might call the basic working unit of Ever After. "Haven't Had Enough" has a lean '80s funk edge to it, as do skin-tight tracks like "Desperate Measures", "B Team", and the amazing "Stutter", but with Ramsay's jones for the Beach Boys and Queen-calibre vocal arrangements crash into something with the dimensions of Thriller-era Michael Jackson.
Ramsay is also playing up the underused R&B side of his voice on Ever After, turning the epic power ballad "By Now" into an emotional workout, soaring over the krushed groove of "Fallout", and generally manifesting his inner soul man all over the place. It's acrobatic work, but he was keen to push himself. "I like to sing in that style," he says, "it's something I really enjoy, but it's gonna be a challenge live, for sure."
"Truth or Dare" makes an even bolder statement with its choppy flamenco parts and a hook that sounds like a Maori singing backwards, but nothing touches "No Place Like Home" for outlandishness and high-flying ambition. On this climactic track, the band wraps up the third act of the story with a whirlwind battle and epilogue, piling stacked vocals on top of multiple switch-ups and fake-outs, making an end run through Brian May guitar and a touch of the Who's "Baba O'Riley" before hitting a blockbuster-sized finish and a final, sweet coda played on a harp and a child's music box.
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Union Sports Minister Jitendra Singh today said that appropriate action will be taken against Olympic bronze-medallist Vijender Singh only if the boxer is found guilty in the drug scandal that has rocked Indian boxing.
"At this point of time the investigation is going on by the Punjab Police. When the conclusion comes and somebody is implicated or chargesheeted, we will definitely take action," said Singh.
"The guilty will be punished but that is the matter of Punjab Police. Investigation is being done by the Punjab Police," he added.
Super heavyweight pugilist Ram Singh have already been expelled from the National Institute of Sports after admitting to consuming contraband.
Ram, a former national championships medallist, has admitted to experimenting with drugs along with Vijender, who has denied the allegations.
Their names cropped up after the unearthing of heroin worth Rs 130 crore from Fatehgarh Sahib at an NRI's flat. An SUV registered in the name of Vijender's wife was found outside the flat during the police raid.
Vijender, a former world number one, gave India its first Olympic medal in boxing when he clinched a bronze in the 2008 Games. Besides, he is an Asian Games gold-medallist and a multiple-time Commonwealth Games medallist.
Considered the poster boy of Indian boxing, Vijender has stated that he is not involved in the scandal and does not know the alleged drug peddler caught by the police.
Earlier, Ram claimed that the Vijender consumed drugs with him on a few occasions but insisted that the duo mistook the contraband for food supplements. Ram was Vijender's roommate at the NIS.


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My latest inquiry surrounds the exploration of the widespread belief that "knowledge is power." I am teaching a dialogue course this term and one of my students inspired this inquiry through a posting that enlightened my perspective on how limiting that assumption that "knowledge is power" can be. Dialogue asks us to explore collective thought in a way that can expand our horizons of understanding. It is a process of deep inquiry that avoids quick and easy answers and encourages living in the questions.
So the question I am living with is: to what extent does our reliance on knowledge power inhibit our ability to learn and change? For a number of years now, since embracing a new way of being in the world as a continuous learner, I have avoided assuming that I "know." Rather, I rely on my current understanding, always recognizing that there may be information, other perspectives, insights, and experiences that I have not yet encountered that will change my current understanding of any situation.
I seek to understand through inquiring, searching, exposing myself to new and different experiences and perspectives. This requires me to always keep an open mind, much like that of a child or a learner that is curious and full of wonder, seeking to expand my horizons or world view. Living in this continuous learner stance causes me to seek new experiences. I think this is why I have embraced the study of culture as it brings a lens through which I can interpret the different ways we human beings have made sense of the world and crafted ways of living within it.
In "I stand in place of knowing, relying on my knowledge power," I restrict my ability to encounter difference with a sense of wonder, to inquire into that which I may not understand, and to form relationships with others different from me who can teach me. Relying too much on knowledge power can also create a fear of not knowing, restricting my ability to take action when I am not confident in my knowledge. If I stand in a place of discovery and learning, I can always rely on the power of inquiry to inform me and the knowledge of others to support me in taking action.
Mary Catherine Bateson's book Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery, provides great insight into how we can travel through our lives as continuous learners, exposing ourselves to diverse cultures and experiences, opening our hearts to the wonders that we encounter, sharpen our thinking through understanding systems, and support our learning through reflection and dialogue.
I am blessed to work at Saybrook with a community of learners who are dedicated to creating the conditions in organizations, communities, and societies for humanistic values, systems thinking, and continuous learning to shape a sustainable future. Creating change in a world that is divided and cruel in far too many places requires a strong sense of purpose and commitment to learning. Leading and managing organizations also takes a commitment to learning and a reliance on generative inquiry, dialogue, and collaboration to support us in making sense of the current reality and creating a desired future.
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The Scariest Part of Red Riding Hood is the Script
- Christa Banister Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
- 2011 11 Mar
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Rating: PG-13 (for violence and creature terror and some sensuality)
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Horror, Adaptation
Run Time: 100 min.
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Actors: Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman, Billy Burke, Virginia Madsen, Lukas Haas, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons, Julie Christie, Adrian Holmes
Considering the adventures of Harry Potter, not to mention Edward Cullen and the rest of his Twilight cohorts are almost a wrap, and we've survived not one, but two versions of Justin Bieber's big-screen debut, Never Say Never, it's about time for a new teen craze, right?
Well without missing a beat, Hollywood has apparently decided "the next big thing" is giving fairy tales a thoroughly modern makeover, beginning with a grown-up rendition of Little Red Riding Hood.
Now given Tinsel Town's seemingly unshakeable case of sequel-itis lately, one can't help being intrigued by the creative possibilities. Sadly, the trend isn't exactly getting off to the most promising start with Red Riding Hood, however. While it's clear that plenty of effort went into nailing the film's appealing, decidedly moody aesthetic, that's where any signs of life end.
To put it bluntly, Red Riding Hood is a dud that should've gone straight to DVD. Or was scrapped altogether.
The trouble isn't an inspired cast, mind you. Amanda Seyfried (Letters to Juliet, Dear John), Gary Oldman (The Book of Eli, Harry Potter) and the always lovely Virginia Madsen (Sideways, The Haunting in Connecticut) do the best they can with what they've got to work with. Trouble is, that ain't much.
Not only is the script virtually devoid of a hook, let alone charm or humor, causing Oldman to improvise with hammy, way, way over-the-top theater actor shenanigans, but it's wildly unfocused to boot. One could almost imagine the screenplay's logline reading something like this: "Red Riding Hood is basically Twilight's red-headed stepchild meets the Salem witch trials. And when that inevitably disappoints, it's a big-screen whodunit that plays out like a big-screen game of Clue. In fact, all that's missing is some vegetarian sparkly vampires and Colonel Mustard with a candlestick in the conservatory, and it's a wrap."
Set in a joyless Ruritanian community where everyone is perpetually afraid of The Big Bad Wolf striking yet again, Red Riding Hood centers around the rather blasé love triangle of Valerie (Seyfried), the-love-of-her-life-that-she-can't-marry-because-he's-poor Peter (Shiloh Fernandez) and her wealthy-yet-barely-appealing fiancé, Henry (Max Irons).
Fortunately, the screenwriter quickly realized that storyline didn't have particularly long legs (as pretty as Seyfried is in that red cape, she doesn't really generate many sparks with either suitor), so the action officially jumpstarts when Valerie's older sister meets an untimely fate at the teeth of the aforementioned wolf. Unfortunately, the locals aren't quite sure how to stop the unwelcome predator from killing again, so they ask Father Solomon (Oldman) to help them solve the mystery.
While the townspeople always assumed the wolf was an actual animal, Father Solomon assures them the wolf is actually living among them in human form. Telling them to suspect any—and everyone—Valerie makes it her mission to uncover his identity. Of course, one minute you're thinking it's Peter with the mysterious brown eyes that Father Solomon warned everyone about, and the next it's Grandma (Julie Christie) with the "big eyes and teeth she has," a shameless nudge to the real story that draws nothing more than unintentional laughs.
And just in case that wasn't enough to fill the movie's 100-minute running time, there's also a tedious side plot involving the guilty-until-proven-innocent harm of anyone even rumored to be connected with black magic and witchcraft, punishment that Father Solomon seems all too happy to carry out.
Still, with all those threads randomly thrown out like spaghetti, absolutely nothing seems to stick. Worse yet, with all this talk of wolves, you'd expect them to be at least a little scary. But thanks to some particularly horrendous CGI work, these supposed harbingers of doom look about as scary as a Golden Retriever. Even the wolves in Twilight were more ominous, and well, for anyone who's watched closely, that's saying something.
So what could've made Red Riding Hood better? It's anybody's guess. Really, one can only hope that future fairy tale adaptations won't be such a shameless cash grab. After all, every moviegoer, even teenagers looking for their next pop culture fix, deserve way, way better than what Red Riding Hood has to offer.
- Drugs/Alcohol: Social drinking during the village celebration.
- Language/Profanity: None.
- Sex/Nudity: Valerie and Peter have a couple of frolicking scenes with passionate kissing, groping, and eventually, it's implied they have sex in a later scene. No nudity, but the scenes definitely get a little heated. At the village celebration, Valerie tries to get Peter's attention by dancing suggestively with another girl.
- Violence: A young Valerie and Peter hold a knife to a rabbit's neck (it's later killed offscreen). The wolf isn't shy about killing the townspeople, and several human and animal lives are taken as a result (not much blood is shown, but the lifeless bodies are shown on occasion). Solomon makes sure any "practicers of magic" are thrown into an ancient Roman seclusion chamber and also ends the lives of a few people (including his wife) along the way, too.
Christa Banister is a full-time freelancer writer, specializing in music, movies and books-related reviews and interviews and is the author of two novels, Around the World in 80 Dates and Blessed Are the Meddlers. Based in Dallas, Texas, she also weighs in on various aspects of pop culture on her personal blog.
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Ten Republican House members — including the No. 3 House GOP leader — supported efforts to impeach President Donald Trump over the deadly insurrection at the Capitol
Led by Cheney, 10 House Republicans back Trump impeachmentBy MATTHEW DALYAssociated PressThe Associated PressWASHINGTON
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten Republicans — including Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House GOP leader — voted to impeach President Donald Trump Wednesday over the deadly insurrection at the Capitol. The GOP votes were in sharp contrast to the unanimous support for Trump among House Republicans when he was impeached by Democrats in December 2019.
Cheney, whose decision to buck Trump sparked an immediate backlash within the GOP, was the only member of her party's leadership to support impeachment, which was opposed by 197 Republicans.
"There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution," said Cheney, whose father, Dick Cheney, served as vice president under George W. Bush. The younger Cheney has been more critical of Trump than other GOP leaders, but her announcement hours before Wednesday's vote nonetheless shook Congress.
Trump "summoned" the mob that attacked the Capitol, "assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack," Cheney said, adding, "Everything that followed was his doing." Trump could have immediately intervened to stop his supporters from rioting but did not, she noted. The riot resulted in five deaths, including that of a Capitol police officer.
Nine other House Republicans also supported impeachment: Reps. John Katko of New York; Adam Kinzinger of Illinois; Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio; Fred Upton and Peter Meijer of Michigan; Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse of Washington state; Tom Rice of South Carolina; and David Valadao of California.
Rice's vote may have been the most surprising. His coastal district strongly backed Trump in the election and he voted last week to object to certification of electoral votes in Arizona and Pennsylvania. "I have backed this president through thick and thin for four years. I've campaigned for him and voted for him twice. But this utter failure is inexcusable," Rice said in a statement after the vote.
While he's not sure if Trump's Jan. 6 speech amounted to incitement of a riot, "any reasonable person could see the potential for violence," Rice said. "It is only by the grace of God and the blood of the Capitol Police that the death toll was not much, much higher."
Rice said he was disappointed that Trump has failed to show remorse over the riot or address the nation to ask for calm. After the impeachment vote, Trump released a video calling on his supporters to remain peaceful amid concerns about additional violence in the days before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.
Katko, a former federal prosecutor who represents the Syracuse area, said allowing Trump "to incite this attack without consequence" would be "a direct threat to the future of our democracy."
"By deliberately promoting baseless theories suggesting the election was somehow stolen, the president created a combustible environment of misinformation, disenfranchisement and division," Katko said. Trump's refusal to call off the riot put "countless lives in danger," he said.
Upton, a former chairman of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee who is in his 18th term representing the Kalamazoo area, said he would have preferred a bipartisan, formal censure rather than impeachment. But he said Trump's refusal to take responsibility for the riot left him no choice.
Trump claimed Tuesday that his remarks at a rally just before the riot were "totally appropriate," an assertion that Upton said "sends exactly the wrong signal to those of us who support the very core of our democratic principles and took a solemn oath to the Constitution."
"The Congress must hold President Trump to account and send a clear message that our country cannot and will not tolerate any effort … to impede the peaceful transfer of power," he said.
Kinzinger, an Air Force veteran who has emerged as a leading Trump critic, said he had no doubt that Trump "broke his oath of office and incited this insurrection.″ Trump "used his position in the executive" branch to attack the legislative branch, said Kinzinger, who is in his sixth term representing northern Illinois.
Herrera Beutler, in her sixth term representing southwestern Washington, said that while many lawmakers fear Trump, "truth sets us free from fear. My vote to impeach a sitting president is not a fear-based decision," she said. "I am not choosing a side. I'm choosing truth."
Newhouse said the Democratic-led articles of impeachment were flawed, but he would not use process as an excuse to vote no. "There is no excuse for President Trump's actions," said Newhouse, in his fifth term representing central Washington.
Meijer, a freshman who represents the Grand Rapids area, said Trump betrayed his oath of office and "bears responsibility for inciting the insurrection we suffered last week." Like other Republicans, he said he supported impeachment with a heavy heart.
Trump's fate is now up the Republican-controlled Senate, which acquitted him last year without hearing witnesses in a trial. This time, however, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is said to be angry at Trump, not only over the Capitol insurrection but also the twin defeats in Georgia the day before that cost the GOP its Senate majority, according to a Republican granted anonymity to discuss the situation.
McConnell said Wednesday he has not made a final decision on how he will vote n a Senate trial, which may not be concluded before Biden's Jan. 20 inauguration.
At least two GOP senators — Alaska's Lisa Murkowski and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania — have said they support impeachment or have called on Trump to resign. Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., has said he will consider impeachment.
Only one Republican senator, Mitt Romney of Utah, voted to convict Trump last year.


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African Americans: MLK: The Bravest of Men.
(ThyBlackMan.com) Friends, allow me to take you on a journey back in time. Contemplate these words: I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!
Those words were spoken by the late, great Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. Those words were delivered by him on April 3rd, 1968 at the Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters) in Memphis, TN. It was to be his final public appearance in life. Hours later, he would be felled by an assassin's bullet. By morning, Dr. King would be dead.
I'm writing this Op-Ed piece in stream-of-consciousness fashion. It's the afternoon of Friday, January 13th. An existential question lingers on my mind: just why is it that so many people don't appreciate something until it's gone? Critics of Reverend Dr. King were innumerable during his life. I consider myself something of a scholar as it relates to the topic of Dr. King's life and civil rights efforts. His enemies were black, white, both, and neither. His opponents were both progressive and conservative. His detractors were young, old, and in-between.
He was called many names – most of which remain as despicable as they are unprintable in any newspaper. Even his supporters must have wondered at times if Dr. King was too radical, too intelligent, too articulate, too polished, too well-dressed, and/or too educated to advocate for civil rights on behalf of Black Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. Even his friends must have questioned if Dr. King pushed the envelope too hard. Did they ask him to slow down? Did they ask him to pull back? Did they warn him not to anger White people (i.e.: the establishment) back then? Absolutely. Did Dr. King listen? Absolutely not.
Provided I have the money, I can dine in virtually any restaurant; shop in virtually any store, stay in virtually any hotel. These facts are due in great part to the sacrifices of Dr. King – and to the countless Christian soldiers of all backgrounds, all ethnic origins, all socioeconomic subgroups, all systems of faith, all educational levels, and all political affiliations who stood with Dr. King. Many God-fearing, law-abiding, tax-paying, patriotic Americans paid a heavy price for moving this nation towards equality. Some people were beaten, incarcerated, and killed. Other people were ruined financially, socially, and politically. Some were disappeared – never to be seen or heard from again. I am keenly aware of all these things whenever I dine out and shop and travel.
Change frightens people. Former President Obama referenced his own political enemies/critics in an address on the Affordable Care Act a few years ago: "A lot of times folks would prefer the devil they know to the devil they don't." During the civil rights movement – misguided individuals and groups didn't use the ballot box to affect change. Some used pipe bombs instead. Some used burning crosses. Some used high-powered rifles.
Even in the midst of death threats by mail, by phone, and in person, Dr. King stated: …as I move to my conclusion, we've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point in Memphis. We've got to see it through. And when we have our march, you need to be there. If it means leaving work, if it means leaving school – be there. Be concerned about your brother… either we go up together, or we go down together.
I'm convinced that Dr. King knew with certainty that he would be killed. And yet, there he was in Memphis – demanding fair wages and benefits for the city's Sanitation workers: the white ones and the black ones. That is a singular courage which must be honored. MLK was not a perfect man; but he literally gave his life to make America a more perfect union: Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.
Thank you, Reverend Dr. King. I salute you as the bravest of men. Rest in peace, sir.
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Global Warming Worsened Australia's Record Hot Summer
Human-caused global warming played a role in making this past summer Australia's hottest on record, a new study suggests.
The summer of 2012-2013 probably won't retain its title for long; researchers say record-breaking scorching summers are five times more likely to occur now in Australia due to climate change.
"Our research has shown that, due to greenhouse gas emissions, these types of extreme summers will become even more frequent and more severe in the future," study author Sophie Lewis of the University of Melbourne said in a statement.
Australia's summer occurs from December to February, during the Northern Hemisphere's winter. In those three months between 2012 and 2013, the country's average temperature was 83.5 degrees Fahrenheit (28.6 degrees Celsius), 2 degrees F (1 degree C) above normal, according to Australia's Bureau of Meteorology. It broke the previous summer temperature record, set in the 1997-1998 season, by 0.18 degree F (0.1 degree C). Unusually high temperatures gripped nearly the entire country, with just three percent of Australia experiencing below-normal temperatures. Bush fires and flooding, combined with the extreme heat, prompted Australians to call it the "angry summer."
Lewis and colleagues looked at climate observations and more than 90 climate model simulations of summer temperatures in Australia over the past 100 years. They found that human influences likely stoked the record heat during a summer when Australians may have otherwise expected cooler temperatures.
"This extreme summer is not only remarkable for its record-breaking nature but also because it occurred at a time of weak La Niña to neutral conditions, which generally produce cooler summers," Karoly said. "Importantly, our research shows the natural variability of El Niño Southern Oscillation is unlikely to explain the recent record temperatures." The El Niño Southern Oscillation is a climate cycle that can impact weather and cliamte systems around the globe; it's El Niño phases features warmer-than-normal sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, while the La Niña phase features cooler-than-normal temperatures.
Climate describes weather that occurs over long periods, such as decades, centuries or millennia, and scientists are typically quick to point out that no individual storm, heat wave or unusual season can be directly blamed on climate change. But researchers have said that global warming can make some events, on average, more severe and more frequent than they would have been in the past.
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Professor Irani joined the Williams School as an Associate Professor of Accounting in 2010 after spending 12 years at the University of New Hampshire where he was the Academic Director of the Master of Science in Accounting program at the time of his departure. Professor Irani received his Bachelor of Arts from The College of Wooster in 1990 and his Ph.D. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting from The Pennsylvania State University in 1998. He has taught a variety of courses in the financial accounting area at both undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, Professor Irani has extensive experience in executive education.
Professor Irani's research interests are in examining management and investor behavior as reflected in activities such as voluntary disclosure, earnings management, financial restatements, executive compensation, insider trading and standard setting. His recent projects have included investigating the impact of job complexity and firm performance on CFO compensation and the impact of financial restatement on non-restating clients of involved auditors. His prior work has been published in various academic journals including Accounting Horizons, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Accounting Research Journal and Research in Accounting Regulation.
Ph.D. in Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University (1998)
Passed the Certified Public Accountant Examination (1992)
B.A. in Business Economics, The College of Wooster (Departmental Honors, 1990)
Empirically investigating management and/or investor behavior as it relates to voluntary disclosure, earnings management, financial restatements, executive compensation, insider trading, and standard setting.
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A rebozo (pronounciation) is a woven piece of fabric used by Mexican women as a shawl, a baby carrier (similar to the way I use a wrap, but the fabric is not as long), and a comfort and positioning tool for pregnancy and childbirth.
Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Techniques for the Rebozo in childbirth include:
- "sifting" the mother
- to aid in the double hip squeeze
- rocking or dangling the mother
- covering the mother's eyes and ears to block distractions
- for the mother to pull on, especially during pushing
Here is the above technique being used in at the hospital during a pitocin induction:
The technique used in the above two videos are explained more in-depth at the Spinning Babies website.
In my doula training, I learned how to do a technique called a "double hip squeeze" with my hands to open the pelvis. This video explains how to use the Rebozo to make the double hip squeeze easier:
More articles and pictures:
- The Rebozo: a transcript of a rebozo workshop given by Doña Irene Sotelo and Naolí Vinaver, published in Midwifery Today (more pictures can be seen by following the link below the photo shown)
- "Comfort Measures for Childbirth: Let's do it with a Rebozo"--a collection of images by Patti Ramos taken at a rebozo workshop with Guadalupe Trueba, including images of the rebozo used for rocking , putting it over the eyes to block out distractions, to pull on while pushing, and other uses
- The Many Uses of a Rebozo at Birthing Essentials--short explanations with pictures of many of the techniques


text: NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, who wasn't scheduled to be released from prison for another 15 years, is trying to hatch a deal with the Feds to shorten his sentence, according to the Justice Department. "The Department of Justice is considering entering into a sentencing agreement with the defendant in this matter," said the federal agency on Thursday, referring to Skilling. Skilling, 59, was sentenced to 24 years in 2006, after being convicted of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading and lying to auditors. He was ordered to pay about $50 million in restitution to the victims after orchestrating the largest corporate fraud in history. Now known as inmate #29296-179, Skilling maintained his innocence throughout the court hearings. He currently resides at the Englewood federal prison in Littleton, Colo., and is scheduled to be released in February 2028. Enron, an energy trading company, collapsed under the weight of massive fraud perpetrated by some of its executives, and the name is as notorious as that of legendary Ponzi mastermind Bernard Madoff. The Justice Department would not comment on what precipitated Skilling's resentencing hearing. The purpose of the announcement is to invite victims, including former Enron employees and stockholders, to participate in Skilling's hearing. The Justice Department said victims have until April 17 to respond but did not say when the hearing would take place. More than 4,000 Enron employees lost their jobs, and some also lost their life savings, when the company declared bankruptcy in 2001. Investors suffered losses in the billions of dollars. Skilling's lawyer, Daniel Petrocelli, was not immediately available for comment. Andrew Fastow, one of Skilling's partners-in-white-collar-crime, was released from prison on Dec. 16, 2011, at least four years early, after making a plea bargain. Kenneth Lay, who was CEO of Enron before Skilling took over, was also convicted but died in 2006 at 64 while awaiting sentencing.


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Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 24, 2012. Chevron Corp. paid thousands of dollars to sponsor an exclusive corporate reception today in Washington, DC, which will be attended by foreign ambassadors and U.S. state governors, in an effort to influence ongoing talks of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This influence peddling occurs on the heels of Chevron's latest attempt to evade justice in a historic Ecuadorian Amazon contamination case by using extreme foreign investor rights in a little-known investment treaty—rights which would be expanded to eight new countries under the TPP.
Last Friday, Chevron used this arcane provision in the U.S. Ecuador Bi-Lateral Trade Agreement (BIT) to ask a secret foreign tribunal to allow them to avoid complying with a court judgment to pay $18 billion in environmental cleanup costs. The controversial legal instrument, known as 'investor-state' enforcement, allows corporations to sue nations to avoid regulations and potentially even overturn national court rulings. After 18 years of litigation in U.S. and Ecuadorian courts, Chevron was ordered to pay $18 billion to cover the cleanup costs in the Amazonian region of Lago Agrio. For over three decades of oil drilling in Ecuador's Amazon, Chevron dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste into waterways, left toxic pits of sludge in the open air and created a humanitarian crisis that affected thousands of local people.
"Chevron won't pay to clean up the 18 billion gallons of toxic oil waste it deliberately dumped in the Ecuadorian Amazon, which has resulted in a human health crisis for the people living in the region. But it will pay thousands to lobby state leaders and ambassadors to extend its extreme investor rights, and continue to evade justice elsewhere," said Ginger Cassady, campaign director at Rainforest Action Network. "The expansion of the 'investor-state' system to eight more countries would allow companies like Chevron to continue to disregard the environment and public health, knowing they have this trade provision to protect them against liability."
"Chevron's own misuse of 'investor-state' arbitration is proof that this system should not be allowed in any new trade deal, despite what corporate lobbyists for Chevron or Phillip Morris may say," said Robert Collier, Corporate Campaigns Director for Amazon Watch. "Today it's the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest inhabitants who are getting the shaft from the investor-state system. Tomorrow, it may be U.S. environmental protections and court rulings that are vetoed by these international corporate star chambers, which is probably why Chevron sees sponsorship of the Trans-Pacific Partnership event as such a great opportunity."
The TPP is being negotiated behind closed doors. Members of the press, the public and even elected officials in Congress are forbidden to see any of the draft agreement. However, the process is open to 600 official U.S. corporate "trade advisors," including the companies sponsoring Friday's soiree. The next round of the talks will be in Melbourne Australia the first week of March.
Chevron- Ecuador Case:
In 2002, to avoid a trial in U.S. federal court, Chevron selected Ecuador as the venue to resolve the legal claims of indigenous groups and farmer communities affected by the company's oil operations in the Amazon region of that country. Chevron operated in Ecuador from 1964 to 1992 under the Texaco brand; during this time it admitted to dumping more than 16 billion gallons of toxic "water of formation" into the streams and rivers used by local inhabitants for their drinking water, decimating indigenous groups and causing dramatically increased rates of cancer.
In 2011, after conducting an eight-year trial that generated over 220,000 pages of evidence, the Ecuador court ordered Chevron to pay $18 billion for a clean-up. An Ecuadorian appellate court affirmed the decision on January 3, 2012. Anticipating an adverse judgment, Chevron had stripped its assets from Ecuador. Its executives vowed never to pay despite having promised U.S. courts that it would abide by the decision as a condition of moving the trial to Ecuador.
Arbitration as Escape Hatch:
Having lost on the merits, Chevron sought to escape its liability by commencing a private arbitration to shift the clean-up costs to Ecuador's government. Essentially, Chevron – one of the wealthiest corporations on the planet with revenues of $240 billion in 2011 – sought a taxpayer-funded bailout in Ecuador where the per capita income is $4,000 per annum. In other words, it wants the victims of its contamination to pay for the clean-up of their ancestral lands – sort of like executing someone before a firing squad and sending their family an invoice for the bullets.
U.S.-Ecuador Bilateral Investment Treaty:
The tool for Chevron's latest maneuver is to convene a secret investment arbitration panel under the U.S.-Ecuador Bilateral Investment Treaty, or BIT. The U.S.-Ecuador BIT allows U.S. investors to seek monetary damages from the government of Ecuador if they can show unfair treatment. In this case, Chevron has turned the treaty on its head to use it as a tool to try to immunize itself from liability in a private litigation. Further, the BIT should not even be available to Chevron given that it took effect in 1997, five years after the oil company abandoned its Ecuador operations. Interestingly, Chevron has retained as a consultant to its legal team the former Ecuador foreign minister (Benjamin Ortiz) who negotiated the BIT that the company now uses to evade its legal obligations.
The investor arbitration is a grossly unfair process. The panel of three arbitrators – all private sector lawyers – meet in secret. They reap enormous sums of money so they are incentivized to assert "jurisdiction" over any claim, regardless of how trivial or abusive. Members of the panel claim the outrageous power to override decisions of any public court system of any sovereign nation. Rules prohibit third parties who are the most affected (such as the rainforest communities) from even appearing. Chevron essentially gets a private "court" where it has no effective opposition. In reality, the arbitration panel in this instance is functioning as a "kangaroo court" that violates any notion of due process and flouts the fundamental human rights of thousands of Ecuadorians to seek legal redress for the contamination.
Last Friday, the secret 'investor-state' tribunal ordered the Ecuadorian government to stop its courts from enforcing the $18 billion penalty. Essentially, the tribunal demanded that the Ecuadorian executive branch violate its own constitution and tell the independent judiciary to stop enforcement. This would be like President Obama telling the Supreme Court not to rule on something.
Rainforest Action Network runs hard-hitting campaigns to break North America's fossil fuels addiction, protect endangered forests and Indigenous rights, and stop destructive investments around the world through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action. For more information, please visit: www.ran.org


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by David Crane
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DefRev's recent article, "GDATP XM307/XUV OCSW Video, ATK/HK XM29/OICW, HK XM8, and Metal Storm" contains an email communication in which I discuss some of my views on the ATK/HK XM8 "Lightweight Modular Carbine System" (LMCS) .
We also recently published an update on the ATK/HK XM8 Lightweight Modular Carbine System (LMCS) titled "U.S. Army Requests Additional $26 million to Purchase 7,000 New Infantry Weapons". In that piece, we linked to a news release on the Program Executive Office Soldier (PEO Soldier) website titled "Service requests $26 million for fielding: Army Reorganizes Plan to Field New Family of Infantry Weapons".
Well, "Defense Tech" has just published a new blog on the ATK/HK XM8 LMCS, a.k.a. "Lightweight Assault Carbine". In the blog, they provide a link to a Fayetteville (NC) Observer article on the XM8. The Fayetteville (NC) Observer is reporting that the ATK/HK XM-8 "Lightweight Modular Carbine System" is receiving some positive feedback from military testers at Ft. Bragg, NC, Ft. Stewart, Ga., and Ft. Campbell, Ky. The story is titled "New firearms are light and deadly", and it…
contains a link to pics of the weapons demo that DefRev believes were taken at Ft. Bragg. "Defense Tech" also links to the Thursday, June 10, 2004 "Atlantigeeks" blog on the XM8 carbine titled New firearms are light and deadly.
The Army's Program Executive Office Soldier at Fort Belvoir, Va. is the office running the tests. The Project Manager (PM) Soldier Weapons is Col. Michael J. Smith. Col. Smith overseas PM Crew Served Weapons and PM Individual Weapons. PM Individual Weapons is most likely the office directly in charge of the XM-8 testing and demo sessions.
It would seem that not everybody's as enthusiastic about the ATK/HK XM8 carbine as the U.S. Army personnel who test fired it at Bragg. The "Army Times" published some not-so-positive feedback letters on the ATK/HK XM-8 LMCS on April 26th, 2004. These letters on the XM8 were written by U.S. Army personnel who are obviously nonplussed about the new weapon.
Here are some more Army Times articles on the ATK/HK XM-8 Lightweight Modular Carbine System:
"1 killer weapon: 8 things you'll love about the XM8", by John G. Roos, editor of Armed Forces Journal International (AFJI).
Taking the first shot: A chance to test battle-rifle prototype", by Matthew Cox
XM8 prototypes surpass M16, Army experts say", by Matthew Cox
Click here to visit the XM8 page on Heckler & Koch (HK) USA's site.
Click here to view the Shot Show 2004 XM8 Compact Carbine Photo Gallery on the Heckler & Koch (HK) USA website. It features photos taken at the ATK/HK XM-8 Compact Carbine demo in Las Vegas, NV.
Click on this link to read "Air Combat Engineer's" review of Gary Paul Johnston's ATK/HK XM8 article that came out in the February 2004 issue of "Soldier of Fortune" (SOF) Magazine.


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NEW YORK (AP) — This year's list of nominees for Webby awards celebrating Internet achievement range from celebrities such as Beyonce and Ellen DeGeneres to Google and GoPro, the maker of popular mountable video cameras.
The organizations with the most nominations are Vice Media with 11, The New York Times with 10 and Google Inc. with nine. Among the online videos nominated is "24 Hours of Happy," a 24-hour music video starring Pharrell Williams.
The winners of the 18th annual awards will be announced on April 29. The Webbys are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a group of about 1,000 Internet experts and professionals. Webby categories are split into a regular award, chosen by the academy, and a "people's voice" award, which lets members of the public vote.
Among the mobile apps and games nominated are the secret-sharing app Whisper, vacation rental site Airbnb and QuizUp. The viral ads category includes "The Epic Split" featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme, in which the action film star does a split in between two Volvo trucks, along with "Real Beauty Sketches" by Dove. The Citi Bike app, used for New York City's bike sharing program, is among the apps nominated in the city and urban innovation category which also includes PulsePoint, an app that lets people trained in CPR help people nearby who are in need of assistance.
This year's awards received more than 12,000 entries from over 60 countries. Of these, 8 percent were selected as nominees.
The public can vote for the People's Voice award starting Tuesday until April 24: https://www.webbyawards.com/


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Félix Meynet was born in the snow covered mountains of Chablais, so he initially became a ski instructor. For fun, he decorated monoskis and snowboards with his art, before he eventually started out working as comic artist. He joined the editorial team of Circus, where he met the scenarist Pascal Roman. Together, they made a couple of short stories and started the 'Double M' series at Dargaud in 1992.
While working on this series, Meynet illustrated several stories with 'Marie Adélaïde' for the biker magazines Wanted Komiks and Bikers, and created the character of 'Fanfoué', a "mountain granddad" for the local press. The Fanfoué character also made several guest appearances in 'Double M', and is used in local advertisements. In January 1998, Félix Meynet teamed up with the scenarist François Corteggiani and created 'Tatiana K.' for Dargaud until 2001. With Yann, he subsequently produced 'Les Éternels' for BoDoï magazine and Dargaud.


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CSS be used for more than the mere transformation of elements; it can also be used to animate them.
This new ability in CSS definitely rubs up against JavaScript, which has traditionally been used for animation on web pages. However, animation still falls under the purview of CSS: remember, CSS is about the appearance of elements. That includes animation. The domain of JavaScript is behaviour, which is now defined at a deeper and (in some ways) more basic level. If you want to highlight alternating rows of a table, that's CSS (the way something looks). If you want the data in the table to be sortable based on different criteria, that is JavaScript (the way something acts on a page).
The principles of CSS animation are very simple:
- Set up the default state of the element in CSS.
- Define how the element will appear in its final state.
- Write a transition, triggered by an event.
- Specify the period of time for the transition. You can also set what properties of the element should change during the animation, and the rate of change.
You can transition most every CSS property you can imagine, and some you likely cannot. Animating properties like
opacity, to create fade in and fade out effects, or CSS3 transforms, like
translate and
scale, are obvious… but you can also animate
line-height and
font-size, to name just a few.
Let's say we have an image with an
id of
biplane on the page. We want to bring the page to life by having this image rotate slightly when the user places their mouse over it. If we were to do this without animation, but still in CSS, the code would be very simple (at least without vendor prefixes):
img#biplane {
width: 500px;
height: 415px;
border: 20px solid #ffe;
box-shadow: 10px 10px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
img#biplane:hover {
transform: rotate(7deg);
This works fine, except for the fact there is no transition between one state and the other: the image "jerks" when it rotates, as it moves in a single step. Let's smooth this transition with a little more CSS. At the very basic level, we need to specify only one property: how long it takes for the element to animate between its original state and the new orientation, a draft property called
img#biplane:hover {
transition-duration: 1s;
transform: rotate(7deg);
That's it. Up-to-date browsers will transition the rotation of the image over 1 second. Those closely observing the movement of the image will have noticed that the animation is automatically eased in and out: the rotation starts off slow, speeds up to reach a terminal velocity, and then slows down before it comes to rest (increasing the amount of rotation and/or the time taken to do so may enhance your perception of this).
Animation in CSS has easing: built-in organic, natural motion. If you want a more "mechanical" feel to the motion, you can achieve it by changing a property known as the
transition timing function to
img#biplane:hover {
transition-duration: 1s;
transition-timing-function: linear;
transform: rotate(7deg);
It's possible to set the timing function to other values, or even to mathematically plot out Bezier function easing curves:
transition-timing-function: ease | linear | ease-in|ease-out | ease-in-out |cubic-bezier(<number>, <number>, <number>, <number>)
Finally: if you've used the code above, you'll see that the transition works on mouseover, but not when you move the mouse off the element: when that occurs, the image jerks back to its original position. To solve this problem, we do something that may appear counter-intuitive at first: we move the transition information out of the
:hover state declaration and into the default state. At the same time, we should recognize that this code is getting a little long, even for CSS: transition properties, like everything else, can be shortcut. Let's move the code and re-write it at the same time:
img#biplane {
width: 500px;
height: 415px;
border: 20px solid #ffe;
box-shadow: 10px 10px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
img#biplane:hover {
transform: rotate(7deg);
Perhaps the easiest way to think of this is that we previously indicated that the transition only occurred on the way to the hover state; with this change, we are indicating that the transition affects all effects, over a 1 second period, using ease-in and ease-out, both to and from the default state.
Photograph of Spartan C3 biplane provided by San Diego Air & Space Museum archive, licensed under Creative Commons.
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Die-cast text imprinting uses type slugs cast from molten metal, and you have a greater flexibility in choice of size and font. We have 15 choices across various popular fonts. As you may expect, setup costs are higher and turnaround time is typically 3-6 business days. However, the per-folder stamping cost is the same. Die-cast text, therefore, is also a very reasonable choice for repetitive imprinting of choir names since the setup cost spreads out nicely across a choir-size order.
For a single order, where a singer chooses a font for their name which they really like from the choices below, the imprinting may cost more than the folder! However, given the quality and longevity of our folders, people do, and are very happy with the result. Given the higher setup cost compared to Economy text imprinting, we see this style of imprinting more often on individual orders which are gifts.
Note that if none of our listed fonts matches your existing typestyle, we can print anything in any font when it is done graphically as a logo (see the Logo imprinting section in the index at left).
Here are the font choices for Die-cast text imprinting:
N.B. Don't trust the screen or print size which you see to be precise, but rather, note that we have listed the point size of each font.
Click a link in the table above that lists what you want, and you will be directed to the correct form to enter your Die-cast text imprinting details.
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Logo Imprinting
We can imprint your folders with a logo, or imprint any text layout in any font exactly as you want, because it is done as an image.
These can look amazingly elegant whether in colour (gold is the standard option) or blind debossed (i.e. indented using heat and pressure but no colour) into the folder.
Your image is printed to film then exposed under UV light on a coated plate, then etched, to produce the hot-stamping die which is carefully leveled on the press to produce an even imprint. There is a setup charge, then a stamping cost per folder.
The setup charge is based on area. Math is not your friend here, as you may recall that doubling the width of a square quadruples the area, and the cost. 1 inch=2.54cm for the metrically inclined; the print industry here still uses Imperial measurements.
Depending on the logo, you do want sufficiently large area to prevent fine detail from being obscured, or small detailed spaces filled in, when printing on the textured leatherette material. Our maximum imprint area without outsourcing is 5"x12" (or 12"x5") but logos with good line separation can be done very nicely at a 2x2 or 3x3 size, for example. Roughly 90% of the logos we print are between 4 and 12 square inches.
Enter the specifications for your logo as you choose your folder options. Then e-mail your file (minimum resolution must be 300 dpi) to email@example.com
Preferred format is PDF. EPS, TIFF, GIF, JPG may also be acceptable.
Usual position for choir name imprinting is mid-top front center of the folder, and individuals at lower right front.
Please take a picture of your "logo on a music folder" from your previous order and send it to the following email: email@example.com


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Help / Pcre / pcreprecompile specification
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If you are running an application that uses a large number of regular expression patterns, it may be useful to store them in a precompiled form instead of having to compile them every time the application is run. If you are not using any private character tables (see the pcre_maketables() documentation), this is relatively straightforward. If you are using private tables, it is a little bit more complicated.
If you save compiled patterns to a file, you can copy them to a different host and run them there. This works even if the new host has the opposite endianness to the one on which the patterns were compiled. There may be a small performance penalty, but it should be insignificant.
The value returned by pcre_compile() points to a single block of memory that holds the compiled pattern and associated data. You can find the length of this block in bytes by calling pcre_fullinfo() with an argument of PCRE_INFO_SIZE. You can then save the data in any appropriate manner. Here is sample code that compiles a pattern and writes it to a file. It assumes that the variable fd refers to a file that is open for output:
int erroroffset, rc, size; char *error; pcre *re; re = pcre_compile("my pattern", 0, &error, &erroroffset, NULL); if (re == NULL) { ... handle errors ... } rc = pcre_fullinfo(re, NULL, PCRE_INFO_SIZE, &size); if (rc < 0) { ... handle errors ... } rc = fwrite(re, 1, size, fd); if (rc != size) { ... handle errors ... }
In this example, the bytes that comprise the compiled pattern are copied exactly. Note that this is binary data that may contain any of the 256 possible byte values. On systems that make a distinction between binary and non-binary data, be sure that the file is opened for binary output.
If you want to write more than one pattern to a file, you will have to devise a way of separating them. For binary data, preceding each pattern with its length is probably the most straightforward approach. Another possibility is to write out the data in hexadecimal instead of binary, one pattern to a line.
Saving compiled patterns in a file is only one possible way of storing them for later use. They could equally well be saved in a database, or in the memory of some daemon process that passes them via sockets to the processes that want them.
If the pattern has been studied, it is also possible to save the study data in a similar way to the compiled pattern itself. When studying generates additional information, pcre_study() returns a pointer to a pcre_extra data block. Its format is defined in the section on matching a pattern in the pcreapi documentation. The study_data field points to the binary study data, and this is what you must save (not the pcre_extra block itself). The length of the study data can be obtained by calling pcre_fullinfo() with an argument of PCRE_INFO_STUDYSIZE. Remember to check that pcre_study() did return a non-NULL value before trying to save the study data.
Re-using a precompiled pattern is straightforward. Having reloaded it into main memory, you pass its pointer to pcre_exec() or pcre_dfa_exec() in the usual way. This should work even on another host, and even if that host has the opposite endianness to the one where the pattern was compiled.
However, if you passed a pointer to custom character tables when the pattern was compiled (the tableptr argument of pcre_compile()), you must now pass a similar pointer to pcre_exec() or pcre_dfa_exec(), because the value saved with the compiled pattern will obviously be nonsense. A field in a pcre_extra() block is used to pass this data, as described in the section on matching a pattern in the pcreapi documentation.
If you did not provide custom character tables when the pattern was compiled, the pointer in the compiled pattern is NULL, which causes pcre_exec() to use PCRE's internal tables. Thus, you do not need to take any special action at run time in this case.
If you saved study data with the compiled pattern, you need to create your own pcre_extra data block and set the study_data field to point to the reloaded study data. You must also set the PCRE_EXTRA_STUDY_DATA bit in the flags field to indicate that study data is present. Then pass the pcre_extra block to pcre_exec() or pcre_dfa_exec() in the usual way.
The layout of the control block that is at the start of the data that makes up a compiled pattern was changed for release 5.0. If you have any saved patterns that were compiled with previous releases (not a facility that was previously advertised), you will have to recompile them for release 5.0. However, from now on, it should be possible to make changes in a compatible manner.
Notwithstanding the above, if you have any saved patterns in UTF-8 mode that use \p or \P that were compiled with any release up to and including 6.4, you will have to recompile them for release 6.5 and above.
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Rundale Palace is a true treasury of Baroque and Rococo art in Latvia. The palace with an adjacent French Regular park were designed by a famous Italian architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli in the 18th century as a summer residence of the Duke of Courland Ernst Johann Biron, the favorite of the Russian Empress Anna Ioanovna. In the course of time and political rush the palace has changed many owners, had once even hosted an elementary school until finally reached a quite "harbour" when Rundale Palace Museum was founded here in 1972. Some 30 years later the palace, restored from misery, has become a refined bridge to the grandeur and splendour of the quaint epoch…Launch tour


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Thursday, October 27
Daily Farm Photo: 10/27/05
Where Sheep Sleep, Take Two
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With that background, who could sleep? I would just look and look and look for hours. Of course, I haven't seen fall foilage in years,though.ReplyDelete
Oh yeah, and I'm first, girls.
OK, your trees color up much nicer than ours, but then 24 F is -4.444 C and that we rarely get. Neither of us can rival the fall colors of Maine where I grew up, but we know the price for that.ReplyDelete
OTH, our skies are so gorgeous I think you should layer one of my hiking photos as skyground for one of your color shots. Madonna blue, at one time available to painters only from ground up lapiz lazuli at a king's ransom.
Oh u think ur soo good Amy :P LOLReplyDelete
Lucky sheep!
- Anonymous10/27/2005 9:26 AM
Sheep sleep in trees? I had no idea.. hee hee hee :)ReplyDelete
Do Becks & And Posh have Egyptian cotton sheets and eiderdown pillows?ReplyDelete
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Oh the sheep figured out a solution to that problem. They sleep at night when it's dark--no view. : )
Hi Judith,
Yes, Maine has long been on my 'I Fantasize About Moving There' List, but honestly I probably wouldn't handle the winters very well.
Your hiking photos are indeed gorgeous, and 'Madonna blue' sounds so dreamy. Blue is one of my favorite colors, and I especially love the lighter shades.
As far as our sky goes, looking back at a few photos, I can see why you think it needs help! It actually is quite beautiful (especially in the morning and evening), but my little automatic camera has a mind of its own when it comes to deciding what color to make what--like the sky.
Since I don't put my photos through PhotoShop or anything (what I take is what you get), I am at its mercy. (I am also asking Santa for a new camera.) : )
For example, check out the difference in these three photos.
Hi Clare,
Well, she was first. (For once.) : )
Hi Jeff,
Of course sheep sleep in trees. They swing themselves to sleep in little hammocks hung from sturdy branches. (Counting each other keeps them awake). You didn't know? : )
Hi Sam,
Um, that would be no. Geez, I don't even have those things! : )
But the hammocks are made from raw silk, right?ReplyDelete
errr... nor do i actually have those things, but there was no harm in looking out for my namesakes, eh?
- Anonymous10/27/2005 9:14 PM
If little Alisha is anything like me, she probably stands for hours just staring at that amazing view, even in the dark! Of course, if she's anything like me she stands and stares at pretty much anything.ReplyDelete
The contrast between the 2 pictures is amazing!
It really was that color toward the East, but paler toward South. Here a lot depends on humidity, but when she goes blue, she goes BLUE and knocks my calze off.ReplyDelete
To change that sky, all you had to do was slightly reorient the camera, it looks like mere inches to me.
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Obama's Totally Cool Body Man
Reggie Love is Senator Barack Obama's amusingly named "body man." He's a 26-year-old former college football and basketball player. Also he's really cool! The Times has a total crush on him, and they tell us all about how Mr. Love is totally good at sports and got Obama into hip-hop and fist-bumps reporters. (Or, as they put it, he "offers closed-fist high-fives to members of the news media.") He's with Barry all the time, and has pens and Sharpies and nicotine gum and stuff. He also makes sure no one ever tries to give the senator mayo or a second beer. And they play basketball! Soooo cool! No, seriously, he's really really cool.
Young, eager campaign aides are stock characters in movies and on television, but few have quite the élan of Mr. Love, who, at 6-foot-5, is about three inches taller than the tall candidate, fitter than the fit candidate (he can bench press more than 350 pounds) and cooler than the cool candidate.
"There's no doubt that Reggie is cooler than I am," Mr. Obama said, laughing, in a phone interview. "I am living vicariously through Reggie."
The Times basically runs this story (the candidate's shadow who makes sure he never has to make his own sandwiches ever again) every election season. As we read we tried to remember the name of John Kerry's guy but then they conveniently linked to the 2004 story. The New York Times is adapting to the digital age and making our "this story looks like that story" posts so much easier!
John Kerry's "body man" was Marvin Nicholson Jr, which is not as cool of a name as Reggie Love. But Nicholson was "a former bartender and golf caddie," which is almost as cool as former college football player. He spent most of his time making John Kerry peanut butter sandwiches and never introduced Kerry to Jay-Z, which is why John Kerry was such a lousy candidate.


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Adorable PC Battle at Horace Mann
Breaking Horace Mann news: "Former Student Body Presidents' performances in last Tuesday's assembly caused heated discussions regarding sexism, men's bigotry, and the boundaries of comedic relief among students and faculty in classrooms, advisories, and club meetings this past week."
As Horace Mann is a famous "prep" school, the students are now "preparing" for heated and ridiculous political correctness fights they will have at college.
Apparently, "former SBP and current comedian Scott Rogowsky '03" got a laugh at the assembly by saying the word "bazongas." Which led, naturally, to a wonderful op-ed in The Horace Mann Record by student and Assembly Committee member Leah Byland about how this reveals a misogynist double-standard. We quote: "If I were to bring up 'bazonga' cancer in my biology class, I'd probably be sent out of the room." Yes, well, that's a facile analogy because any rational person would agree that certain expressions are more or less appropriate based on context and audience and also HA HA HA HA "'BAZONGA' CANCER."
In the following issue, well, jeez. There was "Editor's Take: On 'Bazongas'" And then "Editor's Take: On the Editorial." And then a letter to the editor from a member of the English department praising Leah's "inspired outrage" and damning the anonymous editors who dared defend "bazongas." There is also a news story on the whole outrage. It is delightful. From a distance. A great distance.
Hello, editor Nick Gerad:
Moreover, the speech as a whole was deliberately written to be absurd. A large portion of it was dedicated to describing a Freemason-esque secret society of former SBPs that controls major worldwide corporations. Rogowsky spent a significant portion of his stage time describing massive, to-the-death street melees between students and sewer monsters called "grawl dogs."
What? Also, why won't anyone tell us if Charles Stam was involved?


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