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Opinion: Prison Blues in California
Hoover Institution Research Fellow Bill Whalen on California Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to use state reserve funds to keep roughly 10,000 prisoners behind bars. Photos: Getty Images
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I ... welcome back to Opinion Journal I'm well a federal court has ordered the state of California to reduce its prison population by ten thousand by the end of the year ... Governor Jerry Brown came up with a solution and a lot of people are shall we say up in arms over it ... here to talk with me about it is Bill Whalen a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution ... I don't Belle ... and Ariel ... the on the show ... I'd tell us a little bit about to fall Governor Brown has gone into this fix with his prison population apparently a federal court has indeed told them that by the end of the year ... they have to reduce the population by ten thousand prisoners ... that is correcting the end of year again so the governor's plan is to spend about three hundred and ten million dollars this year and four million dollars next year in ... California as my has about one point one billion answers or ... the money would go into putting prisoners extra states candy sales at its Thales ... facilities in Addie's California through the crisis ... you if they didn't and controlled by Democrats is that the berries into the prom is most powerful man in a state senators and interest over ... as if ... it ... was just a two hundred million dollars on drugs and medical care ... and is of course to postpone the release of prisoners for another three years ... is all ... it ... took to the Editor Dennis ... Brown is a very traditional politician telephone in terms of quantity she ... was incarcerated ... Steinberg is a different ... foreign Democrats who wants to go the more touchy feely side a tree ... well I got the impression that the ... the the the the summer the plaintiffs in the lawsuit of talk to Senator Steinberg and give the impression that up ... if the governor embrace that idea of the touchy feely drug rehabilitation mental health ... of that they might step back from their losses is that true ... the slow moving parts here no moving parts and as they have until sentiment of her team can figure something because the legislature insurance and ... um but this test wells if you well Sandberg Campbell R Graham was the biggest ... corporate money ... as leverage he can be to measures and Democratic senators want ... EPS ... by his line item veto the budget he contends of their money in the suit uses of the two will sit down and allowed to strike a deal the next two weeks ... of going out so well over my lap to what extent does this about the sentencing laws in California same issue that the Attorney General holder raised up on a week or so ago are there too many of too many of people serving time in California jails for minor drug offenses ... in the so called mandatory minimum loss to about half the drug offenders often it is right now off I knew that dance which I would wager is a brand is too ingrained Steinberg songs homes of residents the increases for next year so what you see is the governor of trying to change so one of those with older is proposed ... using penalties for marijuana probably one look it would be met this so-called ... returns a family investigator ... you think there are too many people was serving time in ... California prisons for those kinds of infractions ... or preserves your credit is no question that that it also has devoted time and time again for tougher laws in grocery people go next As Californians as various as local content companies do not want to be nibbled indicted by a low level offenses like burglaries and robberies ... getting a book or start sooner while so ... this is


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Another SouthEast LinuxFest is in the books. We have all the videos recorded, and they only need to be trimmed and uploaded. So look for them very soon on YouTube. In the interim, I encourage you to join SELF-Announce. All important announcements related to the event (Dates, Venue, RFP, Call For Sponsors, Schedule) will be pushed to that list. It will be low traffic and should be roughly 6-7 emails a year, so don't worry about a spam filled inbox.
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ATM machines could be coming to downtown Kinston.
With the economic growth in downtown Kinston, two local banks want to assist those trying to make financial transactions on the Magic Mile.
In Thursday�s Pride of Kinston board meeting, there was information given about Self Help Credit Union and State Employees Credit Union looking to place an automated teller machine downtown.
Adrian King, executive director of Pride of Kinston, said Self Help Branch Manager Ashley Pierce approached him with the idea about a month ago, prompting him to do research.
�Ashley asked me an estimate of how many people come downtown,� King said. �I did a non-scientific survey, but I came to an estimate of about 50,000 people per year.�
According to Kinston/Lenoir County Parks and Recreation, Pearson Park was rented 24 times from January to mid-September. Some of the programs needing a rental include Festival on the Neuse, Relay for Life and Sand in the Streets.
Pierce believes an ATM is needed in downtown because of how helpful it would be for the community.
�There are a lot of different residents downtown who need one, and it would help boost the economy,� Pierce said. �You�ve got people that come to things like the barbecue festival and Sand in the Streets who need access to cash, especially when you look at the many improvements in the city. You can walk around Kinston and go to the Boiler Room, Red Room or Tap Room.
�An ATM would help a lot of people in public housing facilities and the people who work downtown. We�re willing to take a shot at it.�
Laura Lee Sylvester, president of the Kinston-Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce, said an ATM would be great to have downtown.
�I feel as though we could use free-standing ATMs, not only to assist shoppers at local businesses, but also to be a convenience when the community hosts events,� Sylvester said.
Pride�s Economic Development and Property Committee endorsed the RiverWalk and intends on working with Duke Energy to develop a future plan for property along the Neuse River.
Pride of Kinston also approved three fa�ade grants of a combined $6,140 to CosignedDesign, Mother Earth Brewing Company and the Farmers� Market Annex.
In addition, Stephen Hill and Trent Mooring of Mother Earth were selected as the 2013 North Carolina Main Street Champions. The two will be the first from Kinston to receive the award since 2004.
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Project London is an elite track cycling team, inspired, created and managed by Rubicon Cycling, LCC. Rubicon Cycling will carry on the mission of benefiting the LIVESTRONG organization while pursuing the development of young cyclists into champion professional athletes and representing the United States of America in the Olympic Games.
Project London consists of five of the fastest sprinters in the United States. Michael Blatchford is a 12-time national champion and a 2008 Olympian. Kevin Mansker is a 2-time national champion and was a member of the 2009 USA Champion Team Sprint team. Dean Tracy is a 2-time national champion and was also a member of the 2009 USA Champion Team Sprint team. Daniel Walker is a 4-time national champion and was the 2010 Pan Am Kilo Champion. Jimmy Watkins is the current USA Sprint and Keirin champion and is a 2-time national record holder.
Project London athletes will compete in a variety of events across the US as a trade team and will also vie for slots on the USA National Team in international competition in the UCI World Cup, UCI World Championships, and the Olympic Games.
As members of Team USA, Project London athletes are preparing for competition at the 2011 UCI World Championships, taking their first steps on the journey back across the Atlantic to compete against the best of the best, in the 2012 London Olympic Games.


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Yarnell fire probe guidelines questioned
The public is unlikely to get a clear understanding of what went wrong if investigators use guidelines established by the National Interagency Fire Center, some experts say.
PHOENIX -- State officials refuse to say whether a report on the Yarnell Hill Fire tragedy, scheduled for release in coming weeks, will adhere to national guidelines that call for investigators to conceal causes of the accident and ignore wildfire safety standards in their analysis.
If the investigative team follows those guidelines, some wildfire experts say, the public is unlikely to get a clear understanding of what went wrong when 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots were killed June 30, or what can be done to prevent it in the future.
Wildfire fatalities automatically lead to detailed investigations, typically using guidelines from the National Interagency Fire Center. The goal is to find out what went wrong and what lessons may be learned to avoid similar tragedies.
Experts try to answer sensitive questions, such as: Was the blaze appropriately attacked early on? Did incident commanders take adequate precautions given the conditions? Were communication breakdowns a factor? Was there adequate air support? Did firefighters have required training, and did they follow safety rules?
But the NIFC's current "Interagency Serious Accident Investigation Guide" instructs those who conduct fatality inquiries to address causes of the tragedy only in a report that would be confidential.
The guide tells investigators to avoid analyzing whether basic fire-safety protocols were violated and to destroy draft documents after the inquiry is done. Similar instructions have appeared in previous versions of the guide.
It is unclear whether those instructions are being followed in the Yarnell Hill Fire review.
The Arizona State Forestry Division, which directed the firefighting effort and assigned a Serious Accident Investigation Team of experts to conduct an inquiry, turned down The Arizona Republic's repeated requests to answer questions about specific guidelines that the Yarnell Hill Fire investigation will follow.
The team leader, Florida State Forester Jim Karels, has declined interview requests.
The NIFC, based in Boise, Idaho, is the nation's support center for wildland firefighting, responsible for deployment, coordination and oversight of incident-management teams that supervise blazes throughout the United States.
Donald Smurthwaite, a spokesman at the Fire Center, declined to answer questions about the accident-investigation guide. In emails, he said discussion of investigative processes in the Arizona tragedy "would not be appropriate."
Experts said the guidelines — and the refusal by authorities to discuss them — signify a hot-button dilemma in the wildfire community: If investigators identify causes behind a tragedy, their findings may be used in criminal prosecutions or wrongful-death lawsuits against firefighters or commanders. But if investigators don't spell out critical mistakes, accidents could reoccur.
The NIFC guide says information from investigations "should only be used by the agencies for accident prevention purposes, not to assign blame or serve as the basis for disciplinary action."
The manual also stresses "reasonableness" in evaluating mistakes made in the midst of a firefight: "If a person's performance or judgment was reasonable considering the accident circumstances, performance or judgment might not be a causal factor. To expect extraordinary or uniquely superior performance in such cases is not appropriate."
Stephen Pyne, a former Hotshot and regent's professor at Arizona State University's School of Life Sciences, said a failure to fully analyze the tragedy, or to publicly disclose causes, would undermine the credibility of any public report.
"If they do that, it's just going to make it worse," Pyne said.
Among the NIFC guidelines:
• The investigative team should compile two reports. One, for public consumption, should list factual information about the fire and tragedy. Another, the "Management Evaluation Report," should identify causes of the accident "for internal agency use only."
• Investigators "should refrain from conducting a separate analysis of the 'Standard Firefighting Orders' and '18 Watch Out Situations'" as part of their inquiry. Those protocols are the fundamental safety standards for Hotshots. The NIFC manual says violations of those standards constitute symptoms of an accident and are "not causal factors."
• The NIFC instructs accident investigators to submit their findings to the delegating agency — in this case Arizona's Forestry Division — for review and analysis. It says only that the agency has authority to release a final document and that the investigative team "must ensure that all previous working draft copies of the report are destroyed."
• The NIFC guidelines also say that witness statements, photographs and evidentiary records used by investigators should be excluded from the publicly released report, along with photographs that are "unfit for distribution."
A special Incident Management Team under the auspices of the NIFC is coordinating the release of the Yarnell Hill Fire report. Forestry Division spokeswoman Carrie Dennett is a team member.
In an email to The Republic, Dennett said the accident review is based on "a methodology that incorporates current investigation theory and practice but also utilizes extensive experience of members of the team."
She confirmed that the team is using the NIFC manual as a "guideline," but she would not disclose whether causal findings, witness statements and other inquiry elements will be concealed from the public.
Dennett said all documents and files supplied by investigators eventually will be archived at State Forestry Division offices and "will be accessible for review in a reasonable time." She did not disclose whether the team will withhold some documentation, nor did she define "a reasonable time."
Serious-accident investigations of other fatal wildfires have identified primary causes and listed specific contributing factors, including errors made by commanders, victims and other colleagues. The reports sometimes generate anguish among survivors even as they offer lessons learned.
An accident report after Colorado's 1994 South Canyon Fire, for example, noted that disaster struck as a result of numerous misjudgments, but "none of the people involved would have knowingly made decisions that led to the deaths of 14 firefighters."
Among the findings: Hotshots violated eight of the 10 "Standard Firefighting Orders" and 12 of the "18 Watch Out Situations." The report also found that firefighters might have averted tragedy if the initial attack had not been thwarted by a shortage of air support and other resources.
It is unclear whether the team led by Karels will arrive at such specific findings in the Arizona tragedy — at least in public documents.
Dennett said officials will spell out investigation protocols in the final report, but not prior to its release.
The Hotshots perished when they became overrun by flames in a box canyon near Yarnell, about 30 miles south of Prescott. The death toll was the highest for any U.S. wildfire in at least a half-century.
Questions about what went wrong during the Yarnell Hill Fire already have churned up controversy. One news outlet questioned the Granite Mountain crew's qualifications to be on the fire line. Another blamed the deaths on a shortage of slurry bombers.
A state forestry official suggested that safety protocols were violated when the Hotshots abandoned a secure zone to enter a box canyon without a lookout or adequate escape route.
Bill Gabbert, a former Hotshot and chief editor of the online site Wildfire Today, said, "If causes of the accident are not in the (public) report, any lessons learned will be impossible to decipher."
Gabbert added that serious-accident investigations became especially controversial after Washington state's Thirty Mile Fire killed four firefighters in 2001. An incident commander, Ellreese Daniels, was charged with manslaughter and other felonies based in part on findings by experts.
The most serious charges were dropped when he agreed to a guilty plea for making false statements.
Gabbert said that scenario and the threat of wrongful-death litigation had a chilling effect on fire officials' willingness to cooperate with such investigations.
Today, some firefighters "clam up" or "lawyer up" after serious accidents, he said, and many have purchased personal-liability insurance. As a result, Gabbert said, protocols have been revised in an effort to conduct useful inquiries without jeopardizing careers and reputations.
"They don't want firefighters to go to jail for making instantaneous errors in judgment," Gabbert explained.
Pyne, the professor who has authored books on wildfire safety, expressed alarm that a national wildfire organization might conceal the causes of a tragedy. "I'm sure it's an innocent attempt to protect innocent people," he said. "But it's also going to protect guilty people.
"There are going to be lawsuits in this fire, so everybody's positioning for that. ... It's going to be a mess, and everybody's going to look awful."
Dick Mangan, a retired U.S. Forest Service investigator from Montana who has participated in about two dozen accident inquiries across the nation, said he supports the guidelines.
He said investigative findings about mistakes made by fire personnel should not be made public, because they involve personnel issues: "You should put your emphasis on what happened, not on the who. It doesn't do any good to blame Suzy Smith or Johnny Jones for making a mistake."
Mangan warned against second-guessing decisions made by the Granite Mountain crew because the 19 men involved are dead, and no one knows what factors influenced them.
A lightning strike on tinder-dry chaparral slopes ignited the Yarnell Hill Fire on June28. Driven by winds from a thunderstorm two days later, flames shifted direction and raged out of control toward the communities of Yarnell, Glen Ilah and Peeples Valley. In just a few hours, the burn area grew from 400 acres to 8,400 acres.


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|Map of Alabama with percentage of white population. Map based on image courtesy of Social Explorer.
Seven years ago, as I sat doing research at the historical society of Shelby County, Alabama, a county commissioner arrived, hailing the librarian and me. "Happy Martin Luther Coon Day!" he shouted. Earlier this year, on the last day of February, Shelby County's lawyers appeared before the US Supreme Court to argue that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is no longer constitutional. By the end of June, the Court is expected to rule whether the "burdens of preclearance" on our federal system of government outweigh the continuing burden of southern history with regard to race. The decision will have a monumental impact on the voting rights of African Americans and on the nation's faith in its democratic promise.
Since 1965 Section 5 has required the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia as well as scattered counties in North Carolina to seek clearance from the US Justice Department or a DC federal court before implementing a change in voting laws. In 1972, Texas, Arizona, Alaska, and a few local jurisdictions in five other states were added due to more recent voting rights problems.1
Congress enacted Section 5 because state and local officials habitually obstructed the voting rights of black and Hispanic citizens in innumerable ways. Any jurisdiction can remove the need for pre-clearance if it shows it has had a clean record of not denying the voting rights of people of color during the last ten years, and more than one hundred towns and counties across the South and nation have done so.
In 2009, Chief Justice John Roberts set the stage for the Shelby County case when he observed in an opinion: "The historic accomplishments of the Voting Rights Act are undeniable, but the Act now raises serious constitutional concerns . . . Things have changed in the South."2 Like opponents to Section 5, Roberts cited increases in black and Hispanic voter registration and in the number of elected officials as evidence of how much the South has changed since 1965.
|Map of Section 5 covered jurisdictions, 2008. Courtesy of the US Department of Justice.
In February of this year, during oral arguments before the Supreme Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor challenged Shelby County's lawyer as soon as he repeated the Chief Justice's claim that it was "unmistakable that the South had changed." The Court's only Hispanic justice pointed out that since 1965 Shelby County's officials and representatives had attempted to enact 240 different discriminatory voting laws that were blocked by Section 5 in a place where African Americans have never comprised more than eleven percent of total population.3 The case before the Supreme Court involves a redistricting plan for one of Shelby County's small towns, Calera, which redrew political boundaries that eliminated the only district in which black voters were able to help elect the candidate of their choice.
Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia were more interested in discussing race relations in the South than voting rights in Calera. Roberts asked the lawyer for the Justice Department: "Is it the government's submission that the citizens in the South are more racist than citizens in the North?"4
Was Chief Justice Roberts slyly proposing that Section 5 should extend from sea to shining sea? Probably not. Roberts's question sounded more like the political posturing that Alabama's late Governor George Wallace used to make when he was playing politics with black citizens' voting rights.
There is polling data from recent years strongly suggesting that southern whites do continue to have decidedly more negative racial attitudes than whites in other parts of the nation. In a detailed 2005 study, political scientists Nicholas Valentino and David Sears concluded that at the end of the 1960s civil rights campaigns, and in recent years, southern whites "remain more racially conservative than whites elsewhere on every measure of racial attitudes ordinarily used in national surveys."5 On the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's beginning, a 2011 Pew Center survey found that twenty-two percent of self-identified southern whites react positively when they see the Confederate flag displayed, compared with just four percent of whites who do not consider themselves southerners.6
But Chief Justice Roberts's question is as immaterial as it is politically charged. At issue is not whether the white South is more biased but whether southern states continue to enact voting schemes, including redistricting plans, that disadvantage African American voters.
Because of the stubborn pattern of racially polarized voting that dilutes the strength of non-white voters, the Supreme Court should consider what have been the mechanisms of change in the South during the last four and a half decades of federal voting rights enforcement. For example, how many southern states have voluntarily enacted statutes and procedures that make voting more convenient for African Americans and Hispanics—populations that are more likely than whites to be low-income? How many southern states voluntarily cleared out their old and new barriers to black and Hispanic voting over the decades without civil rights activist and Justice Department intervention? In how many southern states today are there winning political coalitions in which white, African American, and/or Hispanic voters join at the polls in common cause to elect candidates? The answers: few to none.
In Calera and in the South today, the simple fact remains that when given a choice, most whites will not vote for a candidate (black, brown, or white) who is the open, clear choice of most black or Hispanic voters.
|Map of percentage of white voters in 2008 supporting President Obama.
The simplest illustration of this lingering pattern is found in exit polling in the 2008 presidential election, the last time exit polling was done in all fifty states. In the South, only West Virginia, with an African American population of less than four percent, was among twenty-seven states where whites voted for Barak Obama at or above forty-four percent, the national average of his white support. In eighteen non-southern states and the District of Columbia, a majority of white voters supported Obama in 2008. The nine states with the lowest percentage of white votes for Obama were southern. Alabama had the lowest at ten percent. Six of the seven states completely under the rules of Section 5 had the nation's lowest white voting percentages for Obama.7
The Congress held extensive hearings documenting a continuing need and a persisting pattern of southern resistance to non-white voting before renewing Section 5 and the Voting Rights Act in 2006 for a second time (the first was in 1982). The 2006 renewal had overwhelming, bi-partisan support: no votes against the bill in the Senate and only thirty-three nays in the Republican-controlled House. "The right of ordinary men and women to determine their own political future lies at the heart of the American experiment," stated President George W. Bush when he renewed the Act in July, 2006. "Congress has reaffirmed its belief that all men are created equal."8
But, during oral arguments, Justice Scalia suggested he knew the reason for this overwhelming support by the two other branches of the federal government. "Now, I don't think that's attributable to the fact that it is so much clearer now that we need this [Act]. I think it is attributable, very likely attributable, to a phenomenon that is called perpetuation of racial entitlement . . . . Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes."9
Scalia's description of the Voting Rights Act as a "racial entitlement" is an outrageous, ahistorical use of language—undertaken by a judge who repeatedly has written that his judicial philosophy is governed by the historical, original intent of the Constitution.
|Brian McFadden, "The injustice of racial entitlements," The New York Times Sunday Review, March 3, 2013.
The US Constitution, written in 1787, provided white southerners with extraordinary political power by counting slaves as three-fifths of persons for purposes of determining representation in the Congress. This "three-fifths compromise" gave the white South oversized political power in both Congress and the Electoral College by allowing white southern men who owned property the opportunity and means to block any legislative effort or Presidential candidate attempting to end slavery. This racial entitlement was the undisputed, original intent of the Constitution.
The three-fifths rule was only for empowering the South and slavery in national politics—not for distributing power within the South's own all-white male politics. At the time of the Constitution's drafting, no southern state government permitted slaveholding southerners to count their slaves in any manner for purposes of distributing political power among whites within state and local governments. And afterwards rarely did any southern state permit such a distortion of a state's political system.
This constitutional entitlement was an essential part of US democracy and politics for more than seventy-five years, until the Civil War and the adoption of the Civil War Amendments—the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth—from 1865 to 1870. These amendments placed into national law five new principles of democracy:
- the abolition of slavery;
- equal rights and privileges of all persons born or naturalized in the United States;
- due process and equal protection of the laws;
- House apportionment based on "the whole number of persons;" and
- "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" cannot be used to deny citizens the right of citizens to vote.
These new democratic entitlements were designed to bring into lawful personhood and US citizenship a specific racial population—the former slaves and their descendants. Yet, these principles had a very brief period in which to take hold before the two national parties agreed to the Tilden-Hayes Compromise of 1876, which signaled the withdrawal of federal protection of these new entitlements for African Americans in the South.10
The US Supreme Court did as much or more than the other two branches of the national government to ensure that these new entitlements were annulled in the South, where close to ninety percent of African Americans lived during the last half of the nineteenth century. In the Slaughterhouse Cases, the Court decimated the civil rights laws that Congress had passed to enforce the nation's new constitutional entitlements to protect African Americans in the South from violence and persecution. The Court decision was handed down three years before the Tilden-Hayes compromise. In 1886, the Court held that the word "person" in the Fourteenth Amendment included corporations and afforded them protections while, in keeping with Court opinions, southern states denied the rights of former slaves and their descendants.
In 1896, the Supreme Court decided that the provisions of the Civil War Amendments were not meant to interfere with the southern states' efforts to build a system of racial segregation under the legal pretense of "separate but equal." Plessy v. Ferguson enabled white southerners to proceed for the next half-century to enact and establish Jim Crow segregation.
The Supreme Court not only voided the protections of the Civil War Amendments for African Americans, it provided southern white men more power in national and southern politics than did the three-fifths compromise in the original Constitution. By allowing white-controlled southern states to place disfranchising clauses in their state constitutions, the Court allowed the white South to count black bodies (who like their slave forbearers could not vote) as whole persons—not simply three-fifths—and thereby achieve more clout in national political decision-making than they had before the Civil War under slavery.
Court sanctioned segregation also gave whites in the former slave holding counties of the South the means to have disproportionate political control within their own states. Since political representation now had to be based on all persons, white southerners in majority-black counties counted black citizens fully in aggregating political power without having to count any black votes. This arrangement allowed whites living in the historical Black Belt to control many southern state legislatures for decades.
As political scientist V. O. Key wrote, every white voter registrar became a law unto himself and every southern state and jurisdiction had a wide array of laws, customs, and practices designed to assure that African Americans could not vote or could not have any political influence if they were allowed to vote in small numbers in border South states.11 In 1944, after the Supreme Court reversed its blatant disregard of the Fifteenth Amendment and found in Smith v. Allwright that the all-white primary systems of elections were unconstitutional, very little changed in southern politics. The white South had a vast array of tactics to evade the enforcement of the right to vote.
For more than two decades after Smith v. Allwright, the white South successfully dodged, lied, and manipulated processes and people in a thousand and one different ways to maintain barriers to black voting and black political power. While professing that all adult persons were free to register and vote, local voter registrars frequently changed office hours, required African American applicants to recite whole sections of the federal and state constitutions, kept color-blind records so that no one could count how few African Americans were on the voter rolls, and purged names from voter rolls. The state legislatures and local county governments were equally busy in passing new terms, conditions, and procedures for the same purpose.
|Ariel view of marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus bridge during the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, 1965. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, LC-USZ62-126846.
Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, including Section 5, to put a stop to such deep-seated, malicious mischief. The law passed only after the nation watched newsreels of how, under the command of Governor Wallace, state troopers trampled and beat voting rights protestors crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma's Bloody Sunday. Before and after Selma, many activists were wounded or killed attempting to overturn the denial of black voting rights.
The testimony before Congress in 1982 and 2006 documented that, while violence and official intimidation have largely faded away, efforts to dilute and belittle the voting choices of black citizens in the South have not. As Justice Sotomayor noted, there have been over two hundred violations since 1965 in Shelby County where only one in ten citizens are African American.
If southern history evidences a "racial entitlement" in voting, it has been an entitlement to white southerners—an entitlement that the US Supreme Court sustained, enabled, and enlarged. Efforts to end this entitlement and to provide African Americans with their democratic right to vote met with violence, intimidation, chicanery, custom, and legislation, which the Supreme Court ignored or upheld for most of the nation's history. In recent decades, this resistance to voting rights has diminished, but political resistance unquestionably remains.
"Equality [is] a far more revolutionary aim than freedom," wrote C. Vann Woodward in 1955 in The Burden of Southern History.12 An equality of voting rights means that the power to control society should be equal in every adult person. This radical ideal of democratic power has advanced slowly in the South since 1965, almost exclusively through the persistence of African American citizens buttressed by the federal mechanism of voting rights enforcement.
The Supreme Court will decide before this year's Independence Day which is more important: our constitutional framework of federalism in which each state is equally sovereign in all matters, or our constitutional guarantee of equality in voting. Since it outlawed the all-white primaries in 1944, the Court has recognized that the right to vote involves more than the right to cast a ballot. It includes assuring that a vote does not count less because of race. It took more than a hundred years after adding the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution for southern states to begin to establish a pattern of compliance and respect for the voting rights of black and brown citizens—and only after passage and vigorous enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.
Like old habits of speech and thought, the worst features of southern history linger far longer than we admit. Today we even can hear remnants of the white South's worst past at the Supreme Court, where justices engage in a version of cable television polemics more than informed inquiry. As an institution that for many decades was instrumental in entitling segregated, repressive political power, the Court should now give what the Civil War Amendments authorized and Congress has twice granted when it renewed the Voting Rights Act: the proven, peaceful mechanism by which the South and the nation can move closer to the revolutionary aims of a diverse democracy.
About the Author
A native of Winston County, Alabama, Steve Suitts is an adjunct faculty member of the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University and vice president of the Southern Education Foundation.
- 1. For more information about covered jurisdictions see "Section 5 Covered Jurisdictions," United States Department of Justice, accessed May 21, 2013, http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_5/covered.php.
- 2. Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. One v. Holder, Transcript, No. 08-322, 557 US 193 (2009), 195, 202, http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Northwest_Austin_Mun_Utility_Dist_No_One_v_Holder_129_S_Ct_2504_1.
- 3. Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, US Supreme Court Oral Arguments, Transcript, No. 1296, February 27, 2013, 3–4, http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/12-96.pdf.
- 4. Shelby County v. Holder, Oral Arguments, 40–41.
- 5. Nicholas A. Valentino and David O. Sears, "Old Times There Are Not Forgotten: Race and Partisan Realignment in the Contemporary South," American Journal of Political Science 49, no. 3 (July 2005): 685, http://web.posc.jmu.edu/seminar/readings/4a-realignment/race+party%20realignment%20in%20the%20south%20old%20times%20not%20forgotten.pdf.
- 6. Andrew Kohut, Carroll Doherty, Michael Dimock, and Scott Keeter, "Civil War at 150: Still Relevant, Still Divisive," Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, April 8, 2011, http://www.people-press.org/2011/04/08/civil-war-at-150-still-relevant-still-divisive/.
- 7. Stephen Ansolabehere, Nathaniel Persily, and Charles Stewart III, "Race, Region, and Vote Choice in the 2008 Election: Implications for the Future of the Voting Rights Act," Harvard Law Review 123, no. 6 (2010): 1422–1423, http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/123/april10/Article_6958.php. Virginia, the seventh covered state, was thirty-nine percent.
- 8. Raymond Hernandez, "After challenges, House approves renewal of Voting Rights Act," New York Times, July 14, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/washington/14rights.html. "Bush signs Voting Rights Act extension," NBC News, July 27, 2006, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14059113/ns/politics/t/bush-signs-voting-rights-act-extension.
- 9. Shelby County v. Holder, Oral Arguments, 47.
- 10. C. Vann Woodward, "Seeds of Failure in Radical Race Policy," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 110, no. 1 (1966): 1–9.
- 11. V.O. Key, Jr., Southern Politics in State and Nation (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1949), 563.
- 12. C. Vann Woodward, The Burden of Southern History, 3rd ed. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008), 79.


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BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 19 (UPI) -- A Syrian military attack along the Lebanese border suggests the civil war is spreading and may engulf the region, a policy expect on the Middle East said.
Syrian forces struck alleged rebel targets along the Lebanese border Monday. The Daily Star newspaper in Lebanon reported there were no casualties, though the attack made long-standing fears of spill-over a reality.
"It is one more step toward Lebanon's entanglement and engagement in the Syrian conflict," Beirut director of the Carnegie Middle East Center Paul Salem told the newspaper.
Damascus sent a letter to Lebanese defense officials last week warning that it may take military action against armed gangs suspected of crossing the Lebanese-Syrian border. U.N. officials had expressed concern that two years of civil war in Syria was putting a strain on regional stability.
Retired Lebanese army Gen. Elias Hanna told the Lebanese newspaper that Syrian war was "widening (and) threatening to further engulf Lebanon in the melee."
Last week marked the seventh anniversary of the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon that diminished Syrian influence over Beirut politics.


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Vacation Overview
The Winter Wanderer is like a leisurely stroll through Europe's top destinations. Some of the highlights of the vacation include: driving along the French Riviera, exploring the Eternal City of Rome (it's never too cold for Gelato!) and sampling traditional Spanish tapas in Barcelona not to mention retracing the history of WW2 and the Cold War in Berlin and Prague. Winter in Europe is not only magical, it's less crowded and has its very own charms that go unnoticed in the heat of summer. The epitome of a winter wonderland.
Vacation Itinerary
Vacation Day 1 - Arrive London
Check-in to your hotel after 2pm and the remainder of the day is free to relax before meeting your fellow travellers for your Kickstart meeting this evening. Afterwards why not grab some dinner at one of the local restaurants or take a short walk to explore nearby Covent Garden.
Vacation Day 2 - London to Paris
Meet up with your 18-35 team before we hit the road and take a ferry past the White Cliffs of Dover. We travel via World War I battlefields in the Valley of the Somme, to Paris. Tonight, the group kick-starts Paris with the 'Tour of Illuminations', which shows off the French capital's transformation into the "City of Lights". Lamp-lit bridges and cool little cafés give us a real taste of Paris' romance. Your Tour Manager will fill you in on the world's most-recognised monuments, like the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. Then get a stunning view of the entire city with included entry to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Oui, oui, Paris!
Vacation Day 3 - Paris
This town is loaded with possibilities. Discover its many bistros, museums, tree-lined avenues and diverse quartiers (neighbourhoods). Get a feel for French flair by window shopping on the Left Bank. Step into the Notre Dame or explore the endless galleries of the Louvre, where you can get up close to the famous Mona Lisa. In your free time, try indulging in some delicious pastries and relax in one of Paris' many cafés. Treat yourself to the full Parisian experience with a cabaret show, complete with can-can girls, dinner and Champagne. But don't stop there – afterwards hit the clubs and finish up your time here with a big Parisian night out. Hotel (B)
Vacation Day 4 - Paris to Lucerne
With down-time on the coach, plug in your MP3, chill out to some music and chat with friends while travelling through the scenic wine producing regions of Burgundy and Chablis. Next stop: the jaw-droppingly beautiful Alpine town of Lucerne. Hotel (B)(D)
Vacation Day 5 - Lucerne
With covered wooden bridges, cobbled lanes and quaint buildings, Lucerne's centre is perfect to explore on foot. Also to stock up on lots of genuine Swiss chocolate! Your Tour Manager can give you pointers on where to pick up the best-priced watches that Switzerland is so famous for. For lunch, there's a chance to eat traditional Swiss fondue at an authentic, cosy inn. Spend time with the group in this optional and make the most of a cultural experience. Hotel (B)(D)
Vacation Day 6 - Lucerne to Château de Fontager
Sit back & take in the Alpine vistas as we make our way through Switzerland, past Lake Geneva & back into France. Ever wished you could spend the night in an authentic French Chateau? Tonight's your chance as we head to our overnight Feature Hotel – the magnificent Château de Fontager. We'll wind our way along the Rhone River, rolling countryside & vineyards before reaching this medieval French castle. When we arrive, get settled into your room & indulge in the surroundings, play some pool in the games room or enjoy a glass of red in the cellar bar. Tonight, you'll indulge in a traditional French meal before a night to play some pool, relax with your mates & take in the vibes. Feature Hotel (B)(D)
Vacation Day 7 - Château de Fontager to Barcelona
Today we head south through the rugged and dramatic scenery of the Pyrénées mountains, over the border into Barcelona. A sizzling, festive capital any night of the week, Barcelona is all about action. In Spain fiesta time starts late, so settle in at one of Barcelona's many outdoor squares to enjoy a glass of sangria and nibble on tapas (plate-sized snacks), before a fun night out exploring the city's nightlife with your new friends. Hotel (B)(D)
Vacation Day 8 - Barcelona
First stop: Montjuic. The hilltop has full-blown vistas of the city and it's where we stop to check out the 1992 Olympic Games complex. Afterwards, get a look into Spanish architect Gaudi's wild imagination with his Art Nouveau masterpiece, the Sagrada Família church. Your Tour Manager walks you through the cobbled lanes of Barcelona's oldest district, the Gothic Quarter. There's free time to discover more of Barcelona's creative core. Pick up some quirky buys in the side streets or hit the big label shops on Plaça de Catalunya. Take in all of Barcelona's buzzing street life on the tree-lined La Rambla – a boulevard packed with street performers, artists, shops and stalls. Other ideas for your afternoon off include hanging out in the colourful gardens of Parc Güell. For lunch, there's plenty of delicious local seafood to try as well as Spain's signature dish, paella. Finish off an unforgettable time in this hot city and get into the local flavours with tonight's optional flamenco dance show and dinner, including sangria. Afterwards, get the low down on Barcelona's hottest spots and maybe hit the pumping clubs of Port Olympico by the water. Hotel (B)
Vacation Day 9 - Barcelona to French Riviera
Unwind on the coach, listen to your MP3 and take in the rustic beauty of Provence, known for its pretty landscapes of lavender, sunflowers and wild herbs. Then we hit the rugged coast line of the stunning Côte d'Azur. Follow the beautiful sapphire waters past the movie-star glamour of Cannes (famous for its annual film festival), to the palm trees and sun-soaked shores of Nice. Hotel (B)(D)
Vacation Day 10 - French Riviera
In your free time live a bit of the lifestyle with a visit to the local markets. Try out the region's produce like lavender honey, aioli (garlic mayonnaise) and mouth-watering rosé wine. Window shop the chic boutiques or spend the afternoon relaxing in one of the many cafés. Tonight get a taste of the high life in Monaco, the glamorous principality packed into just 1.92km2 and home of the Formula 1. Indulge in a bit of glitz with the group by opting for a typically French 4-course meal just a few doors down from the Royal Palace. Get the inside story on the Royal Family and their place of residence from your Tour Manager, then try your luck at a casino later on. Hotel (B)
Vacation Day 11 - French Riviera to Florence
Onwards to Italy, land of passion! Heading to Renaissance Florence, we stop by Pisa and get up close to the famous Leaning Tower. The scene-stealing Duomo Cathedral rises above Florence, which serves up frescoes, markets and priceless art. Tonight, there's a choice of a group dinner - an authentic Tuscan feast. Try regional dishes in the pretty Tuscan country setting. Then keep it moving with a night out and get your groove on at Florence's biggest club. Hotel (B)
Vacation Day 12 - Florence to Rome
Jump start the day uncovering this open-air museum and its city centre. Our local guide gives you the inside track as the group learns about Florence's cultural beginnings and explores streets crammed with artworks from masters like Michelangelo. Then take a look into a skillful demonstration of Florentine leather making and understand this region's traditional art. With bargains and bustle, the city's markets are a great place to hang out. Grab a gelato and enjoy this gorgeous city. Travel through Tuscany's rustic hills, past the recognisable cypress tree landscapes of this olive oil producing region, to vibrant Rome. Stylish Rome oozes energy and overflows with relics from another age. Our special access coach tour gets you right into the thriving atmosphere of this living timeline as your Tour Manager shows you the Colosseum and Piazza Venezia. Continue on foot to check out the Pantheon and Piazza Navona. Honour tradition at the Trevi Fountain and throw a coin in the fountain's waters (it's meant to improve your chances of returning to Rome!) or maybe hang out with your new friends at the Spanish Steps, sit back with a few slices of pizza and people watch. Hotel (B)(D)
Vacation Day 13 - Rome
This morning, make the most of our Local Guide's inside knowledge with an optional guided tour of the Vatican Museums, including the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica. Then check out Rome's imperial glory by visiting the Colosseum and Roman Forum. Take off into the city and absorb the atmosphere, as Vespas flash past timeworn monuments that are surrounded by fountains, pizzerias, cafés and bars. Before you hit the shops, let your Tour Manager point you in the right direction with some tips on the best buys. In your free time, live the local lifestyle by indulging in a long lunch on a paved piazza or knock back a shot of espresso at the bar, like the Romans do. Hotel (B)
Vacation Day 14 - Rome to Venice
This morning, it's your chance to splash some cash, with our stop at Barberino Designer Outlet mall for our exclusive Italian food & fashion experience. You can use this opportunity to get some gear to show off to your friends at home… This outlet mall is amazing, with your chance to pick up some designer fashion at incredible prices. With between 30%-70% off regular retail, the savings are epic, and because you're with 18-35 you'll get up to an additional 10% off! From labels like Missoni, Bose, Dolce & Gabbana to name a few – there's going to be plenty to tempt you today. With no doubt lots of bags in hand, we'll hit the road en route to the floating city of Venice. Hotel (B)(D)
Vacation Day 15 - Venice
Known as the "floating city", Venice is packed with character, crammed with hidden lanes and linked by a network of canals. The group travels on our private boat through the waters of the lagoon to visit the city's historical heart. The limestone Bridge of Sighs, the Gothic arches of the Doge's Palace and the expanse of St. Mark's Square (pigeons and all!) show off Venice's unique beauty and way of life. Take some time to explore the floating city and lose yourself in the backstreets. There's an optional walking tour where you can discover the labyrinth of interweaving lanes, waterways, palaces, piazzi and markets with our Local Guide. You'll see historic monuments, hidden treasures and the Rialto market – a local favourite for food shopping. Maybe grab a table on St. Mark's Square and eat some delicious Italian food al fresco. Cap off the day with an optional gondola ride & share this amazing experience with your friends - seeing Venice from on the water is unforgettable! Hotel (B)
Vacation Day 16 - Venice to Vienna
Chill out on the coach as we make our way through the mighty Dolomites and cruise pass typically Austrian scenes, complete with wooden chalets and green mountain fields.
Vacation Day 17 - Vienna
Your Tour Manager starts the day by introducing the group to the city's historical heritage. There's the imperial grandeur of Schönbrunn Palace, the elegantly ornate State Opera House and St. Stephen's Cathedral – a Gothic masterpiece. Cruise down Kärntner Strasse, Vienna's main shopping spot and buy some traditional ceramics and materials for gifts back home. There's free time to check out the magnificent squares and majestic palaces or the city's art galleries. Take a break in a coffee house like the locals do or wander along the Danube River. Get schnaps savvy with a behind-the-scenes look into this local liqueuer's production in an optional excursion to the Old Vienna Schnaps Museum. Hotel (B)(D)
Vacation Day 18 - Vienna to Munich
Remember one of history's darkest moments with a sobering stop at the Mauthausen concentration camp memorial. Learn more at the museum and walk through the remaining living quarters. Afterward, it's west to the home of the world-famous Oktoberfest, Munich - a city that blends traditional Bavarian culture and modern lifestyle. Explore the heart of Munich's old town with the crew, and head to Marienplatz. It's a central gathering spot famous for the Glockenspiel - a Gothic clock, complete with 32 dancing figures and 43 chiming bells. Then get a taste of tradition at a typical beer hall and park yourself at a long wooden table. Order yourself some hearty local food, like roasted pork knuckle, and quench your thirst with a stein of one of Germany's 5000 brews. Hotel (B)
Vacation Day 19 - Munich to Prague
Say farewell to the good times in Germany. Relax on the coach as we head to the capital of the Czech Republic, Prague. Prague is a beautiful and atmospheric city. It's also pretty compact, so it's best explored on foot. Get straight into Prague's historic heart with your Tour Manager. You'll walk together over the landmark Charles Bridge, through Hradčany Castle, the home of the original Bohemian Kings and to the Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral along the way. Hotel (B)(D)
Vacation Day 20 - Prague
More free time means you can get deeper into Prague's Old Town in your own time. The city itself is a UNESCO World Heritage site, with a jumble of little lanes, alleys and courtyards. Slow the pace down and give yourself a chance to uncover its hidden treasures. This is also the spot to pick up some famous Bohemian glass, beads or garnet and amber jewellery. Choose a lunch cruise on the Vltava River, which runs through the heart of Prague, and take in stunning views of the city from the water. The Czech capital has a really mixed past so look out for signs of the Holy Roman Empire, the Bohemian Empire, the Nazis and the Communists. By night, Prague is loaded with all types of music, from jazz bars and hip DJs to opera. There is something for everyone, so make the most of it with the group. Hotel (B)
Vacation Day 21 - Prague to Berlin
Heading north, we roll back into Germany and on to the region of Dresden, often dubbed 'Florence of the North' because of its beauty. This town completely rebuilt itself after being flattened in World War II. Your Tour Manager will show you Dresden's signature buildings, like the Opera house, the domed Frauenkirche, the Royal Residence – once home to the Saxon Kings – and the Zwinger Palace, where the royals went to party! Lunchtime! Go local and hang out in a café, order some hearty German dishes with regional specialties like sour roast and potato soup. Next up: Berlin. With two nights in this historical hot spot, you've got time to find out what makes Germany's capital one of the most cutting-edge cities in the world. It's hard to believe that this funky town has had such a troubled past. Hotel (B)(D)
Vacation Day 22 - Berlin
Today why not join a local guide for a tour? Learn about the East/West split at the Berlin Wall and check out the controversial Reichstag (German Parliament) as well as Tiergarten (one the world's biggest parks). You'll also visit Checkpoint Charlie, where many East Berliners tried to escape to the West, and be reminded of Germany's darker past at the Brandenburg Gate. With free time, get inspired by Berlin's creative scene and check out its galleries and street art. As a world forerunner in contemporary art, Berlin's walls are covered in cutouts and graffiti. Shopping-wise, this town has it all and is right up there defining style. Berlin is great for small boutiques, funky fashions and one-of-a-kind buys. Your Tour Manager knows Berlin's ins and outs, so get some pointers before you splurge. Do as the Berliners do and grab a currywurst (a local favourite) and kick back at a Bierkeller (German beer house). Experience the world of espionage in an optional evening Eye Spy Berlin tour with our Local Guide, and enjoy a fascinating look into the Stasi (what was once the East German Secret Police). Then top off your time in Berlin with some of your new friends and explore the city's legendary nightlife. With cool cocktail bars and some of the best techno clubs in the world, there are heaps of fun choices. Hotel (B)
Vacation Day 23 - Berlin to Amsterdam
Motor down the autobahn, past Hanover, to the free-wheeling, buzzing city of Amsterdam. Check out the city's eye-opening Red Light District, where the creative and the wacky come together on narrow cobbled streets, 24/7. Hotel (B)(D)
Vacation Day 24 - Amsterdam
In an intro into Dutch culture, see how clogs are made and try some of the famous Dutch Edam at a cheese farm this morning. Then there's free time to experience Amsterdam's coffee shops, museums and quirky boutiques. Wander along the canals and past gabled houses or try out Amsterdam's multi-ethnic cuisine. This cultural melting pot dishes up loads of affordable food. Tonight, try some of the traditional local cuisine at a restaurant in a nearby fishing village. With an optional evening canal cruise, there's a chance to toast your travels with the group, unwind with a few drinks and uncover another angle on Amsterdam at water level. For your last night on tour, get some pointers from your Tour Manager, dive into Amsterdam's night action with your buddies and finish up your travels with a night to remember. Hotel (B)
Vacation Day 25 - Amsterdam to London
After breakfast, there will be a transfer for you to Schipol Airport (estimated arrival at 10:00 am) OR choose to take a complimentary transfer to central London with your Tour Manager and Driver and extend your stay. (B)


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Work starts on Seaside Heights, N.J., boardwalk
Construction begins to rebuild the iconic Seaside Heights boardwalk in New Jersey. It is the most famous of the numerous boardwalks destroyed by Superstorm Sandy.
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — When Superstorm Sandy washed over this popular Jersey shore resort, water poured in through the heating vents and electrical outlets of Linda Polites' and Michael Riley's home. A 10-foot section of boardwalk slammed into the house as they fled to the attic. Hours later, they waded through armpit-deep water to a military truck, then headed to the first of five emergency shelters that have been their home since.
On Friday, they traveled from their current shelter to see the start of the reconstruction of the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, a town known worldwide from the MTV reality show "Jersey Shore."
"It's time to build new character," Riley said. "You don't lose your memories. It's time to make new ones."
Heavy equipment including a gigantic drill and a pile-driving machine were brought onto the sand in the south end of town Friday morning. They quickly began drilling holes in the sand and pounding wooden pilings into them, shaking the ground for blocks around.
It marked the beginning of a $3.6 million contract the borough awarded to rebuild the boardwalk. Mayor William Akers said the initial work — restoring the boardwalk so that it can be walked on safely — should be done by May 10. Railings, lighting and ramps will be part of a second contract that has yet to be awarded. The project is also likely to include a protective seawall, and cost between $6 million and $7 million, the mayor said.
"It's a huge day for us, a new beginning for the town," he said. "It's the culmination of a lot of hard work, starting with the rescues, the cleanup, the planning, culminating in the actual rebuilding of Seaside Heights."
The town's Jet Star roller coaster plunged off an amusement pier during the storm, coming to rest in the ocean as perhaps the most enduring image of Sandy. Plans still have not been finalized on how or when to remove it.
The entire length of the mile-long boardwalk is being rebuilt. It is the most famous of the numerous boardwalks destroyed by Sandy, known for its pizza and ice cream stands, its games of chance, arcades and bars with cheap beer specials.
Seaside Heights was famous long before MTV came to town, but Snooki, The Situation and Pauly D presented it to the world in a fist-pumping, hard-drinking blur. It angered some and delighted others until the show ended last year.
Michael Loundy, a real estate agent who rents out the house where the "Jersey Shore" cast lived while filming, could not overestimate the importance of getting the boardwalk back. (The cast's house was not seriously damaged in the storm.)
"This is a proud moment for all of us, after everything we went through with Sandy," he said. "We're excited about rebuilding. We loved Seaside the way it was and we'll love it again."
He said potential tourist want to know if Seaside Heights will be ready in time for vacation season.
"Our phones are ringing," he said. "People want to know: 'Is the town open? Will you be ready? Will the beach be ready?' We absolutely will be ready."
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Are the numbers in the Bible accurate?Question: "Are the numbers in the Bible accurate? In Numbers 1:45–46, how could Israel have an army this size?"
Answer: Critics often argue that the numbers in the Bible are not literal or are impossible to accept. In the book of Numbers, for example, a census indicated that men twenty years old or older formed an army of more than 603,000 (Numbers 1:46). Would it have been possible for Israel to have an army of this size during their sojourn in the wilderness?
The Bible claims to be God's Word and therefore perfect (2 Timothy 3:16–17). That would indicate that the original communication of the biblical text is accurate. Further, studies from textual criticism related to the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament reveal an extremely high level of textual integrity, indicating that what was originally written is what we have in our Bible today.
However, there remain some legitimate reasons to discuss some of the Bible's numbers. The main issue is the differences in the numbers recorded in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Septuagint (a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible made between the third and first centuries BC). Some of these differences create uncertainty about the number in the original text, but the census in Numbers 1 is not really in dispute. Rather, the question at hand relates to whether or not Israel could muster an army of that size.
In answering this question, several factors can be considered. During the time of Joseph, the family of Jacob (numbering more than seventy people) moved to Egypt. For four hundred years, their descendants lived in Goshen, an area of northern Egypt. The Bible teaches that the people "multiplied greatly" during those centuries and "became so numerous that the land was filled with them" (Exodus 1:7). The Egyptian pharaoh was so concerned that he attempted to reduce the slave numbers by pressuring the midwives to kill the Hebrews' newborn sons (Exodus 1:8, 15). No exact numbers are given, but if the king was worried the Hebrew population could soon outnumber the Egyptians', then there is strong reason to believe a vast number of Jewish people lived in the region at the time of the Exodus.
Estimates based on the size of the census in Numbers 1, which only included men twenty and older, are that the total number of Hebrews could have exceeded two million people. While this is indeed a large number, two factors should be kept in mind: 1) the Hebrews' population was growing quickly, and 2) Hebrew families (as with other people of the time) generally had many children per household. If each generation averaged six children, for example, a growth from seventy people to two million people in four hundred years is not impossible or unreasonable.
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About KelvinZevallos
Should ANY of us be taking sides on this war... or see the best and the worst of both proposals and work out improvements and eficiences for it?
So ignoring the whole customer base for just a few who haven't taken the legal chance yet is enough to justify enforcement for the whole population?
The Betamax case wants a word with you.
What happen to "advertizing is a content" idea? What happen to "access to musician is a scarcity"?
I think there should be paradigm shift for both things.
"Advertizing" to make you more and better known, not part of the final product that should be sold. If people like your music, they will buy it. If not, you should keep on with your life. Besides, there's always been Crowd-Advertizing that spread the product around your own contacts and made it more known. I don't understand why eventually the Publishers want to kill a practice that has been around for like since the first days of humanity.
"Access to musician is a scarcity". With Technology, you can copy the tracks without any cost or loss involved, at the same quality as the original. I know that there is still the "dilluted-value" fear, but here is where you ask yourself if that's really happening or it's all the opposite. Time after time it's been proven that a content that gets spread a lot improves it's value.
I don't think that idea "founder goes to jail" is what "legal" means.
It depends on what does the government defines what's legal and not. Such is a flaw of the current democracy system. If you can influence the government, you can write the rules, even if the do not make any sense or are unconstitutional.
Mike, do you sleep with her or something? Please find another example, this one is overused.
*avoiding the ad-hom, there is no point to refute something like this*
Still, there has been more than one successful cases of Crowdfunding and CwF+RtB being told here. Amanda is probably the most prominent of them all.
Like I say before, option c) is begging. I'm glad it's working for Amanda.
Saying that "Crowfunding = Begging" is like saying "Copyright-Infrignment = Steal".
"Copyright isn't just some magic thing to lock things up content - it's also the basis for an entire marketplace."
If a law is required to create a marketplace... Wouldn't this marketplace be like a new-born that needs to be plugged to a machine his/her entire life to survive? Wouldn't the less cruel solution be to let it die naturally instead of prolonging his/her life and suffering?
Leaving the analogy aside, I believe society as a whole has already answered this, as we see the "Art and culture" shifting from the marketplace Copyright created to another one.
The only result out of it is forcing everything into sneakernets and searching/consuming stuff without a restrictive copyright. In the end, the current copyright will become so poisoning for any kind of content it applies, that anyone will look to get rid of that before anything else.
As pointless as the other "wars" were/are.
About the note, I agree. This can be a great advertising opportunity for Samsung.
Also, why Apple chose suing? Given their size and position in the market, possibly it has grown so big that it's now afraid to lose that position, hence using the legal system as a threat (almost like bullying).
What actually leaves me thinking is... why does the USA's legal system enters into this game, to the point that it even seems to encourage it?
Actually, there is a lot of support for the "Right's Holders", but it's not in a way you want to hear it. Here we say: "Change your busisness model, you have the tools, technology, money and power to do it. It's easy and really cost/effective for everyone. Do it before it's too late for you."
Or you might be expecting something like: "Hooray for this busisness model!!! DVDs/VCRs/Blu-Ray with DRM and lots of FBI warnings and never-ending trailers are the lastest innovation of this world. You are our heroes!!!"
There are ways where religion can live with critical thinking (or at least that's the way I've been taught during my pre-bachelor course of Teology). In fact, when a person thinks critically, they have another weapon to reinforce their faith and believes, if they choose so.
Unless you want to have "fanatics". They do not need that.
There is a section in the RMAH ToU that disallows anyone to use the RMAH as a "Investment avenue" (11.B.iii of the ToU).
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Then we can say certain politicians haven't been doing their "job" with certain bills (SOPA/PIPA).
If rights are property, as you say, that means that the government is in position to sieze, capture or take away my rights, if they see fit.
In fact, this happens on the common criminal situations (Tangible-Stuff Theft, Murder, Treachery, Blackmail, and so many others). Possibly will also happen with "Copyright Infrigment" if it's criminalistically penalized as it was propoused many times in the past (but thankfully it has not happened yet).
Considering the fact that there are major corporative representatives buying different types of enforcement or laws, it's not farfetched to say that this can even reach the Orwell's 1984 scenario eventually, under the presumption of certain well-placed crisis (War on [insert theme here]).
In all and all, this means that maybe laws do not live up to today's living standards.
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/malemonk... And possibly this Trojan.
"Of all things that could happen... This is
"How The TSA is Actively and Willfully Helping The Terrorists Win"
Because the TSA are the actual terrorists?
To add to the comment from AC Mar 19th, 2012 @ 8:38pm, the technology to do this is already there. For more information, read: Mobile Ad-hoc networking.
Knowing the track of the MPAA, the 25PB data search will be with a half-assed automated system and it will lead to lots of collateral damage and innocents to trial.
It would be interesting they might have to sue federal goverment members too.
"That said, along with Mike, I wonder what the IP extremists and companies will do when these kits become more popular and available and the price of 3D printers decline."
Compare the 3D-printer to a rampant pedophile... or start locking it out from the markets due to possible children hazard (See Kinder Surprise).
My face after reading the article: )-:
"In the movie business (or music for that matter) you have a unique product."
The idea that concieves it is unique, but the information that actually contains and transports it isn't. And even better, this information can be replicated without any cost at all. See how I'm quoting you, it's your idea, turned in information and being now replicated in this comment.
"that piracy has created expectations that cannot be met, on price, delivery, and availability"
Your argument has commited suicide just here...
If a "casual pirate" with a low budget PC can do it, why not a multi-millionare industry who can afford complete Workstations and professional IT staffs with ease?
"Any time the movie companies try to run their business in a profitable manner, they have failed to meet the expectations."
Shouldn't they try to actually reinvent their busisness plan to accomodate to the 21st century? And what kind of expectations they have failed to meet? If you mean "Quality of the Content", I don't think piracy is the issue here.
"It's not hard to understand - the competition for content providers right now is their own product, free to get, simple to obtain, and often delivered before the real product even hits the market. No matter what they do (short of giving it all away all the time) they cannot compete, plain and simple."
Then they have a real problem defining who are their competitors and I think they should start there because that's one of the basics in any type of busisness.
Delivered before their product? I'll assume you don't speak about "leaks" here. Still, they send the product with release windows. I could understand the difficulties of selling the product everywhere IF IT WAS COMPLETELY PHYSICAL, but it isn't and in this digital era there is no excuse for them to do that, specially considering the technology we have and how it's available to anyone at almost no cost.
Seriously he expects that on a legislative system full of werid bumps and loopholes, where each bill only ends adding more shaft to the wheat?
It's really hard to believe he can say that with a straight face.


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Anyone ever ran across someone faking a high injury? We frequently come across a guy that says he has a spinal injury. He even "appears" to be vented but the end of the hose doesn't go anywhere. Looks like he is trying to mimic being a high quad. We were on a walk once and noticed him use the lift to get of his van in his powerchair. No hand controls in the van and he was the only one that came out of the van.
Does anyone know anything about this kind of psychosis? I could give a lot more detail but if he is this big of kook he could even lurk here. He could be harmless but we've decided he is just too creepy.


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How can I identify the functional regions of a nucleus?
I mentioned in lecture that I would provide the legend to the nuclear domain summary figure that I used in class. Here's a smaller version of the figure to refer to:
Starting with the region labeled A, here is the figure legend:
A: Chromosomes occupy distinct territories within the nucleus, and extend regions of euchromatin out into the interchromosomal territorities for transcription because that is where the transcriptional machinery is located. The red regions within the chromatin loop in the inset indicate transcriptionally active genes.
B: Not only does the chromosome occupy its own space, but the arms of the chromosome occupy their own territories and do not overlap each other. The green and red indicate chromosome arms, while the gold indicates the centromeric region of that chromosome.
C: The darker the color, the more compact the chromatin. So the lightest yellow indicates euchromatin, found predominantly at the periphery of the chromosomal territory where transcription and/or replication are occurring, while the deepest orange/red indicates heterochromatin, buried in the interior of the territory.
D: Foci of replication. Green color represents regions replicating early during S-phase, when the chromatin is already more unwound (and represents regions of high gene density). Red regions represent areas of low gene density, tightly bound into heterochromatin, which will not be replicated until late in S-phase.
E: Regions of chromatin with transcriptionally active genes (white dots) will be on the periphery of a chromosomal territory, while transcriptionally inactive (or silent) genes (black circles) will be in the interior of a territory. Gold circles represent "Speckles" or clusters of transcription, replication, or repair machinery.
F: Speckles are recruited to regions of activity from much larger collections of machinery.
N: The nucleolus.
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To continue the theme of how our middle name is collaboration, I now turn to our weekly collaboration nights.
- Kraft Nite is every Tuesday evening and the focus is on things you make with you hands. Usually we get a lot of knitting, sewing and gluing, but I take Kraft Nite to include everything from soldering to crochet to paper-making.
- Wednesday nights are Hack Night; then it's all about fooling around with code and using your computer to talk to phone systems in Palau (yes, someone has done that here-not for any particular reason, just to do it).
- MakerBot Madness is on Saturday evenings and involves us bringing out all our 3D printers out to play with everyone else's 3D printers.
If we're about collaboration and making neat stuff all the time, why have certain nights focus on certain activities? Simply because you can work on just about anything here. It's a roll of the dice who will be here working on what at any given moment. With focused collaboration nights, you're guaranteed a concentration of certain makers and projects, i.e. a little community thinktank focused on one general topic.
If you have no idea why you're MakerBot won't work, come on Saturday, if you want to learn obscure facts about phone systems, you come on Wednesday, etc. At Metrix, we're not just building a pool of shared resources; we're working on a pool of shared knowledge as well.
We don't need to stop at three community/collaboration nights. If you're into mapmaking or steampunk modding or whatever, and think it'll draw a crowd, come talk to us about setting up a night. The more communities we make, the merrier.


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The generation whose lives and creations we record and memorialize is no more. We are the last of the Mohicans. Our generation and the coming generations have to know how Bessarabia's Jews lived and created, and how they were annihilated and destroyed. We have to transmit our history and way of life to our children because it is their history from Yedinitz. As banal and unpopular it may seem today, in our new understanding about events and issues, there exists the same requirement of Thou shalt teach it to thy children the same Torah and path to salvation today as was then.
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Brendon S needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 67 designs submitted by 31 freelance designers.
A new business is starting up, and will sell prescription glasses via the internet. As long as a customer knows his or her prescription, they'll be able to order their glasses in a variety of frames, and get them at a massive discount.
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
As a new business, there is no existing branding to worry about. Choice of colors and imagery is left to your imagination.
The domain name will be: discounteyewear.com.au
The website has not yet been developed.
The logo should be recognisable at small sizes, and we expect it will also later be used on business cards and other stationary.
The website will take the angle of heavily discounted, but not 'cheap' (as that word implies low quality, which these are not).
My imagination at this point is limited to an iconic eye, or stylised glasses. Perhaps you can come up with something better?
I figure that the icon could be either 'just the icon', or could have the domain name text in there as well. I leave this up to you - if you've got other ideas, please try that too.
Obviously, given our target market, we would like the logo to be recognisable to those with eye trouble. So don't make any text too small, or low-contrast, etc.
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Tina and Eric Clark of Kingston, and Winston Chelf and Carrie Burg announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Logan Clark, to Eric Long.
He is the son of Rick and Vicky Long of Harriman.
The ceremony will be at 4 p.m. Oct. 4 at Twin Cedar Farm, Rockford. A reception will follow at Twin Cedar Farm.
Invitations will be sent, but all relatives and friends of the couple are invited to attend.
Mark and Kelly Bentley of Knoxville announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Kimberly Marie Bentley, to U.S. Navy Lt. j.g. Corey Stewart Theiss.
He is the son of Tim and Benét Theiss of Kingston.
The ceremony will be on Aug. 30 at Hardin Valley Church of Christ.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Rex and Shirley Bailey of Farragut, and Kathryn Bentley and the late Thomas Bentley of Knoxville.
Anna Mae Moore was born at 2:52 a.m. Aug. 5 in University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville.
She weighed 6 pounds, 9 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long.
She is the daughter of Andrew and Morgan Moore of Kingston.
Grandparents are Bill and Bernice Koprince of Knoxville, and Curtis and Debbie Moore of Kingston.
Great-grandparents are Nancy Moore and Nathan Hickey.
Anna Mae has an older brother, 2-year-old Billy.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Joe Keel of Tuscaloosa, Ala., announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Hannah Catherine Keel, to Aaron Samuel Leslie.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Leslie of Kingston.
The ceremony will be on Sept. 7 at Sunny Acres Farm in Louisville, Ky.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Keel of Dothan, Ala., and the late William Henry Burge and Mary Evelyn Huckabee Burge of Linden, Ala.
Hazel Ellis Woods, far right, celebrated her 94th birthday with 56 family members and friends on Aug. 2 at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Joyce and Boyd Woody.
Among the guests were her three surviving siblings from a family of 10 children.
The siblings include, from left, Lillie Glavich, 92, of Dade City, Fla.; C.V. Terry, 84, of Clinton; J.B. Terry, 90, of Huntsville; and Woods.
Babies born at Methodist Medical Center, Oak Ridge, to Roane County parents:
July 11 — Amy Lankford, Harriman. A boy, Blake, 6 pounds, 4 ounces. Sibling: Brock. Grandparents: Carol Lankford; Larry Mullenix.
July 17 — Reagan Palmer and Chris Turpin, Oliver Springs. A boy, Connor Preston, 7 pounds, 9 ounces. Grandparents: Neda Foster; William Palmer Jr.; Turpin and Edna Turpin.
Richard and Sarah Lawson of Oliver Springs will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary this week.
The couple was married on Aug. 1, 1964.
The Lawsons' family includes Michael, Tina, Chris, John, Jared, Summer, Anna, Josh, Rusty "Lil' Man" and five cats.
"We love you and celebrate these wonderful 50 years with you," family members said. "You are very very important to each and every one of us."
Marriage licenses granted at the Roane County Courthouse Jan. 1-July 9:
• Joel Wesley Hicks to Anna Maria White King, both of Kingston.
• Billie Glen Adcox to Monuela Alan Rodriguez, both of Harriman.
• Robert Lee Stout Jr. to Katherine Renee Evans, both of Kingston.
• William Matthew Langley to Melissa Ann Scandlyn Lemons, both of Harriman.
• Samuel Slater Delozier, Whitesburg, Ga., to Lindsey Elise Henry, Carrollton, Ga.
Kaydan Tyler Garrison celebrated his first birthday on July 26.
He celebrated on July 26 with a camo/blue-themed party.
He is the son of Travis Garrison and Whitney Garrison, both of Kingston.
Kaydan has a 14-year-old brother, Cody Garrison.
Robert Ramsey of Rockwood announces the engagement and forthcoming marriage of his daughter, Denise Ramsey, to Jerry Slaven Jr.
He is the son of Linda Slaven and the late Jerry Slaven of Rockwood.
The ceremony will be on Aug. 2 in If I Be Lifted Up Church, Rockwood. A reception will follow in the fellowship hall.
All relatives and friends of the couple are invited to attend.
The bride-elect is also the daughter of the late Nora Ramsey of Rockwood.
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Salome Cocktail.
1/3 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Dolin Dry Vermouth)
1/3 Dry Gin. (3/4 oz Junipero Gin)
1/3 Dubonnet. (3/4 oz Dubonnet Rouge)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
While I am unclear exactly what this combination of Dry Vermouth, Dubonnet Rouge, and Dry Gin has to do with the beheading of John the Baptist, it is a fine, light libation.
An orange or lemon twist wouldn't kill anyone, nor would a dash of bitters. Still, this is quite pleasant.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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The 10Q Detective is attracted to Marchex because of its increasingly ability to monetize its own traffic with its own advertisers. For the fourth quarter, revenue attributable to proprietary traffic sources was $14.4 million, with $10.3 million arising from the Name Development and Pike Street Industries asset acquisitions.
The Company is focused on search marketing, local search, and direct navigation. Marchex's platform of integrated performance-based advertising and search-marketing services enables merchants to efficiently market and sell their products and services across multiple online distribution channels, including search engines, product shopping engines, directories and selected Web properties.
According to the comScore Media Metrix Search report for December 2004, Yahoo! Search accounted for 32% of the online searches in the United States and Google accounted for 35%. As a result, these larger distribution partners have greater control over determining the market terms of distribution, including placement of merchant advertisements and cost of placement.
Yahoo!, primarily through its subsidiaries, such as Yahoo!Shopping, is the Company's largest distribution partner and delivers traffic to Marchex's merchant listings, accounting for approximately 10% of total revenue for the most recent full-year December 31, 2005.
In looking at Marchex's search marketing technology and expanded partner distribution network, corporate significantly expanded its future monetization platform.
According to management in its fourth quarter conference call, there are now thousands of local merchants utilizing the Company's platform. Additionally corporate said that they were very pleased with its progress in this channel, for the signup and renewal rates of local merchants utilizing Marchex's platform continues to track favorably.
As mentioned previously, revenue attributable to proprietary traffic sources, Name Development and Pike Street, contributed $10.3 million to top-line growth in the most recent quarter. Furthermore, the Company was successful in increasingly monetizing its own traffic with its direct Marchex advertisers. Prior to 2005, Marchex did not have a proprietary traffic source.
Management reminded listeners on the call, too, that the focus during the fourth quarter was not supporting its local super-aggregative partners to drive more local merchants online. This local search engine opportunity is viewed by corporate as a great growth driver that is relatively early in its lifecycle.
In our opinion, there is a strong need for technology providers to assist local merchants in creating, tracking, fulfilling and maintaining locally focused advertising campaigns. Today this channel is vastly underrepresented in online advertising spending.
According to another recent forecast by the Kelsey Group, the global online local search distribution channel—which includes Internet yellow pages, local search, and wireless—will grow to nearly $13 billion by 2010.
Marchex is tracking to be one of the largest, most targeted vertical networks online.


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