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Saturday, June 7, 2008
Obama Supporters Thank Hillary
Sedaris on How to Quit Smoking
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Hillary Post Mortem II
Hillary Rodham Clinton's 16-month bid for the presidency transformed her public image from that of a remote, ever-calculating and hyper-ambitious candidate into a sort of female version of Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell — warm, earthy, tough and flying by the seat of her pantsuit into the occasional gaffe.
But at the heart of the campaign was a candidate who changed little, and whose managerial weaknesses — loyalty, distance and a damaging indecisiveness — became central features of her campaign, from the January day that she was forced into a premature announcement of her run to the hour that she was forced to withdraw. To a striking degree, the campaign was propelled by outside forces and its own mistakes, rather than by anything resembling a plan.
Hillary's Endorsement
I think history will show that she didn't quite have the talent to do it on her own steam, but that she made it much easier for another woman to become president one day. Her two biggest problems: She first married a man who was her political superior and was then defeated by one. She is a very talented politician but it was her fate to find her career hemmed in by two even more talented ones: Bill and Barack. She made up for it all with enormous hard work, diligence and ruthlessness. At any other moment, she would have won. But this is history and politics at the highest level. You cannot defeat such a moment if you are a Salieri. And she had to deal with two Mozarts.
Here's a bit of it.
Friday, June 6, 2008
More Hillary Postmortem
Good question.
One of the Democratic campaign's great misperceptions has been that Clinton held an overwhelming advantage among women voters. But that isn't the case. As expected, Clinton captured the over-65 vote, and Obama won over younger women. But women in the middle split almost evenly between the two. And while both Senators boasted historic candidacies, Obama's seemed to resonate more deeply, translating into 70%, 80% and even 90% of the black vote in primary contests. No one expected Clinton to sweep 90% of Democratic women voters, but 60% wouldn't have been an unreasonable accomplishment for the first woman to have a serious chance of winning the presidency. Instead, Clinton won just over a majority of women's votes.
McCain's YouTube Problem
Hillary Crisis in Women's Movement?
What might have been:
One of the central premises of the movement was that women had been artificially set against each other, and that, if they could unite behind their common interests, they could revolutionize their roles in the world. In the mid-'70s, elite young women were already pondering who could break the ultimate glass ceiling, and among their candidates was an impassioned young lawyer, Hillary Rodham, deemed an icon of her generation by Life magazine after her 1969 Wellesley commencement speech. In his biography of Hillary Clinton, Carl Bernstein describes Betsey Wright, later Bill Clinton's gubernatorial chief of staff, imploring Bill not to marry Hillary, take her off to Arkansas, and thus spoil her chance at becoming the first female president. "I really started in on how he couldn't do that. He shouldn't do that," Wright said. "That he could find anybody he wanted to be a political wife, but we'd . . . never find anyone like her" to run for office.
Good Lord, she might have run against Bill. And beaten him. Heh.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Jon Stewart on Hillary
The Pound
Gone On Saturday. Toldja.
Dear XXX,
I wanted you to be one of the first to know: on Saturday, I will hold an event in Washington D.C. to thank everyone who has supported my campaign. Over the course of the last 16 months, I have been privileged and touched to witness the incredible dedication and sacrifice of so many people working for our campaign. Every minute you put into helping us win, every dollar you gave to keep up the fight meant more to me than I can ever possibly tell you.
On Saturday, I will extend my congratulations to Senator Obama and my support for his candidacy. This has been a long and hard-fought campaign, but as I have always said, my differences with Senator Obama are small compared to the differences we have with Senator McCain and the Republicans.
I have said throughout the campaign that I would strongly support Senator Obama if he were the Democratic Party's nominee, and I intend to deliver on that promise.
When I decided to run for president, I knew exactly why I was getting into this race: to work hard every day for the millions of Americans who need a voice in the White House.
I made you -- and everyone who supported me -- a promise: to stand up for our shared values and to never back down. I'm going to keep that promise today, tomorrow, and for the rest of my life.
I will be speaking on Saturday about how together we can rally the party behind Senator Obama. The stakes are too high and the task before us too important to do otherwise.
I know as I continue my lifelong work for a stronger America and a better world, I will turn to you for the support, the strength, and the commitment that you have shown me in the past 16 months. And I will always keep faith with the issues and causes that are important to you.
In the past few days, you have shown that support once again with hundreds of thousands of messages to the campaign, and again, I am touched by your thoughtfulness and kindness.
I can never possibly express my gratitude, so let me say simply, thank you.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
The End Is Near
Does She Really Want to Be V.P.?
I read reviews of McCain's speech. Apparently even FOX News panned it.
Everyone's speculating on why Hillary was so ungracious and what she's holding out for. Does she want to be asked, intending to decline? Does she want to be asked, intending to accept?
What kind of deal is she looking for?
Maureen Dowd posits something I haven't seen elsewhere. There's a rumor that Hillary wants to be a option on the first floor vote at the convention.
She just urged her supporters to keep the dream alive, and talked privately about what she would settle for. She has told some Democrats recently that she wanted Obama to agree to allow a roll call vote, like days of yore, so that the delegates of states she won would cast the first ballot for her at the convention. She said she wanted that for her daughter.Obama supporters are worried that it's a trick and she'll somehow snatch away the nomination.
I say we'll know by the end of the week.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Farewell, Primaries. Farewell, Hillary.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton invited fund-raisers and other supporters to an election-night rally in New York City where, aides said, she was prepared to deliver what they described as a farewell speech that summed up the case for her candidacy. They said Mrs. Clinton was not likely to withdraw from the race on Tuesday night, probably waiting until later in the week, once Mr. Obama's victory appeared clear.
Sensing an opportunity to shut down the nominating contest, Obama campaign advisers said that they were orchestrating an endorsement of Mr. Obama by at least eight Senate and House members who had pledged to remain uncommitted until the primaries ended, and that the endorsements would come the moment the South Dakota polls closed on Tuesday night.
UPDATE: From AP
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton will concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, campaign officials said, effectively ending her bid to be the nation's first female president.
Obama is 40 delegates shy of clinching the nomination, but he is widely expected to make up the difference Tuesday with superdelegate support and votes in South Dakota and Montana. Once he reaches the magic number of 2,118, Clinton will acknowledge that he has secured the necessary delegates to be the nominee.
The former first lady will stop short of formally suspending or ending her race in her speech in New York City.
She will pledge to continue to speak out on issues like health care. But for all intents and purposes, the two senior officials said, the campaign is over.
UPDATE II: Hillary camp doesn't like the word "concede."
Sunday, June 1, 2008
A Poet on Creationism
It's copyrighted so here's the link.
Us Aging Hippies
I'm always suspicious of data based on self-reporting, but I kinda like this part:
Intriguingly, the so-called cannabinoid system, which mediates the effects of marijuana in the brain, reduces addictive behavior in aging mice that have been genetically altered to crave alcohol. As the mice age, the cannabinoid receptor binds less frequently to a specific protein, which seems to diminish the animals' taste for alcohol. No one knows how aging may alter the cannabinoid system in people, but the system has wide-ranging effects on appetite, memory, addiction, and the perception of pain and pleasure.
What wide-ranging effects, exactly? Like less pain, more pleasure, better appetite, worse short-term memory (temporary). Addiction? Good or bad? If it reduces alcohol craving, does it reduce other drug cravings? The author doesn't say, expecting readers to find the original study or something.
Season's Best
Ten thousand flowers in spring,
the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer,
snow in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded
by unnecessary things,
this is the best season
of your life.
-Wu Men
Our Bill w/Update
Like his unsavory personal and business associations.
Like how the once great campaigner may also be unskilled with and unappreciative of the immediacy of news in the internet age. (I suspect this is also true of many in Hillary's campaign, including her. And Mark Penn.)
"Look, the game has changed," said Mike McCurry. "He ran his last national campaign in 1996, and remember, we kind of ran unopposed. It's been a while since he did that, and the way you summon people up and get them to do things has changed. All of this stuff, the blogging and the YouTubing and the way in which everything is instantaneously available: I tell you, until you get out there and are actually dealing with the consequences—having what you just said as you were walking out the door [all over the Internet], that's brand-new to him..."
...It is Clinton's invariable insistence that his problems are someone else's fault, and that questions or criticisms of him, his methods, motives, or means are invariably unfair, that is his unforgivable flaw.
He has told friends that he is not worried that his aggressive performance this year has done lasting damage to his reputation (some of them are not so sure). Whatever the future holds for Hillary Clinton, her husband is not fading away. He will remain a presence, a force to be reckoned with, as long as he draws breath.
But for a politician with so many admirers, allies, acquaintances, faithful retainers, and hangers-on, Clinton remains a profoundly solitary man, associates say, without any real peers, intellectual equals, or genuine friends with whom he can share the sweetest things in life. (The one who has always come closest, for better and worse, for richer and poorer, is simply too busy these days.)The Bill Camp, of course, hates it.
The Clinton camp responded today to Vanity Fair's long article on Bill with its own 2,244-word memo, which includes attacks on the magazine's "penchant for libel," on editor Graydon Carter, and on writer Todd Purdum and his wife, former Clinton aide Dee Dee Myers.
The memo (after the jump) calls the piece "journalism of personal destruction at its worst" and singles out, among other things, Purdum's suggestion that Clinton's heart surgery changed his personality.
Why They Call Him McBush
Frank Rich is my favorite New York Times columnist. Here's why:
In the woe-is-us analyses by leading Republicans about their party's travails — whether by the House G.O.P. leader John Boehner (in The Wall Street Journal) or the media strategist Alex Castellanos (in National Review) — Iraq is conspicuous by its utter absence. The Republican brand's crisis is instead blamed exclusively on excessive spending, scandal and earmarks — it's all the fault of Tom DeLay's K Street Project, Jack Abramoff and that Alaskan "bridge to nowhere."
This transcends denial; it's group psychosis. Nowhere is this syndrome more apparent than in the profuse punditry of Karl Rove, who never cites Iraq as a problem for Mr. McCain (if he refers to it at all) and flatly assured George Stephanopoulos last Sunday that Mr. McCain has no need to make a "clean break" from Mr. Bush.


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New Delhi: Chomesh Prajapati who is a student of BA Pass course at Delhi University has angered his parents beyond limits by stealing all the tubelights in the house and using them as light sabers to pose as a Star wars' character.
He wrapped blue and red cellophane paper on tubelights to depict them as light side and dark side sabers. He along with his friends has in fact created a complete album on Facebook with enactments from previous Star Wars movies.
Chomesh always talks in rap, wears a cap in reverse and wears big gold plated chains. He said in his defense –
"I love cool girls I love cool cars,
But above all brother I love Star wars
I am the warrior, on whose hands villains die
I am a light saber wielding powerful Jedi"
When he was asked on why he stole all tube lights from his house, Chomesh rubbed his hands and said –
"I love my pakoras and I love my rajai,
But without a light saber how can I be Jedi
What you call tubelight, I call light saber
Please call it proper names and do me a favor."
After taking an artistic pause he further sung –
"I pose on FB as a smart Jedi Knight,
Even Master Yoda can't fight brother, like I fight,
There is no try brother, either you do or not do,
I pray to God, may the force be with you."
After that Chomesh bent his knees and back and moved his hands in the air for around 45 seconds in rapper style which indicated that he has gone dark side and hence our reporter moved to talk to his parents.
Chomesh's mother who looked quite like Kiran Kher spoke with anger. She said, "Oye this idiot Chomu has not seen any Star Wars movie. Only star wars dialogue he has ever heard is when Modi ji spoke "May the force be with you" in US. Internet pe padhke ye sab seekha hai is kanjar ne."
While it's not yet clear if Chomesh's parents will ever get the tubelights back, but his father has replaced all the tubelights in the house with syska LED bulbs after watching Irfan Khan advertisements. He said, "After what Chomesh has done, I have decided ke poore ghar ke badal daalunga."


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What should couples keep in mind when choosing their wedding photographer?
Find a photographer you connect with. Someone who holds the same values, who you find easy to talk to and of course, whose photos you love. After all, you'll be spending your whole wedding day with them!
What would you love every couple to know?
How much we're moving and mingling through your wedding day. It's not as simple as standing in the corner and snapping away, we need to be in the thick of it! On the dance floor with the guests, outside having a quiet moment with your grandparents and enjoying some bubbles and cake with you.
What are couples surprised to learn about what you do?
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What's the biggest mistake couples can make when planning this part of their wedding?
Rushing into a decision and not asking lots of questions.
What's one popular question you get?
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Microwave Caramel Corn
Post by Linda on Sep 22nd, 2002, 6:45pm
3 quarts popped corn (12 c.)
In small bowl (microwave):
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white corn syrup
1 stick margarine
1/2 teaspoon salt
Boil for 2 minutes, take out and add 1/2 teaspoon soda. Put popped corn in brown
grocery bag and pour syrup over it. Shake bag real hard. Microwave for 1 1/2
minutes on high - take out and shake well. Turn bag in opposite direction and
microwave 1 1/2 minutes on high. Open carefully (full of steam). Put on waxed
paper or cookie sheet to cool. Yields 1 ice cream pail.


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Microsoft has team up with Brilliant.org, an online education company specializing in math and science topics, to create a new interactive course on quantum computing. The 33 chapter course starts with some of the basic concepts of quantum computing and ends discussion a few example problems including the knapsack problem and creating a quantum simulation of a hydrogen molecule. The course uses Microsoft's Q# quantum language throughout.
Although Brilliant.org is offering the first two chapters for free, there is a fee to access the remaining chapters. Their current rates are $24.99 per month for individual months of access and $119.88 for a year's worth of access ($9.99 for each month).
There are two interesting points to note with this announcement. First, the course is also receiving support from Alphabet X, an R&D organization within Google that they call their Moonshot Factory. As most people know, Google also has their own quantum computing research group provides their own software framework called Cirq that is different from Q#. As far as we can tell, Cirq is not discussed at all in this course.
The second point is that Microsoft released last year a series of Jupyter notebooks called Microsoft Quantum Katas which are available on GitHub at no charge. Although there are differences in the curriculum, there does appear to be a lot of overlap between the two courses. It will be interesting to see how Microsoft differentiates the two offerings or possibly decides to de-emphasize the Microsoft Quantum Katas course in favor of the Brilliant.org version.
For more details, you can click here to view Microsoft's blog article announcing the new course and you can click here to go directly to the course on the Brilliant.org site.


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This 15 page Rivers TVP will help bring to life your Rivers topic! The ninja has carefully selected 4 key areas to study and explore! Created exciting lists of topic focused nouns, verbs and adjectives to enhance pupil writing. Researched etymologies of the river related words for you to teach. The ninja has even provided a unique Vocabulary Ninja reward system (including certificates), branded display resources, and blank templates of Synonym Alley and Vocabulary Laboratory activities. The ninja has even supplied two pages of teaching techniques, helping you bring to life each resource.


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131. Tolerated Crime and Tolerated Murder [Lobster #12 (Sep 1986)]
... against New York Mafioso, Carmine Galante of the Bonanno family, might have seemed air-tight; he was under surveillance at that time, for parole violation, and thus was placed in the murder vehicle at the time and place of the killing. But he was not arrested or brought to trial and shortly after a leading anti-Communist informant for the FBI claimed to have learnt that the Communist Party was responsible for the killing. (2 ) Today - i.e . in 1977 - Galante is commonly referred to as the head of the United States' Mafia. In 1956, a distinguished emigre scholar from the Dominican Republic, Jesus de Galindez, was kidnapped ...
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132. Wallace etc [Lobster #19 (May 1990)]
... Cyprus from rebellion to civil war (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1964) recently I noticed this section on p104: 'No effort was spared by the Secretariat to win over the foreign press with titillating stories. Sometimes, for the benefit of American correspondents, "captured documents" which they were not allowed to see confirmed that EOKA was modelled on communist lines and that an increasing number of young Communists were joining it. The official introduction of sex into the Cyprus problem was another product of this period. Reporters were invited to 'Operation Tea-Party' in the Central News room and offered libations of everything but tea together with a handout declaring that schoolgirls had been "required to prostitute ...
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133. Books forthcoming [Lobster #8 (Jun 1985)]
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 8) June 1985 Last | Contents | Next Issue 8 Books forthcoming Dr. Anthony Glees, who wrote an interesting study of German Exile Politics in WW2 (Clarendon Press 1982) is shortly bringing out a book on Communist Subversion and British counter-intelligence 1939-45 (Jonathan Cape). Our view of that might be influenced by the fact that he has written for the new Encounter magazine. Michael Scammel, who has just published a massive biography of Solzhenitsyn, is turning to a study of the CIA-funded anti-communist propaganda operations of the 1950s. No doubt this will include ...
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134. Historical Notes [Lobster #44 (Winter 2002)]
... to prewar days). There remains one question. During and after the war de Courcy became convinced that there were a large number of Soviet 'moles' in the British establishment (including Roger Hollis) and that the chief recruiter for them had been Victor Rothschild. Where did he get this idea? Was it a result of anti-Communist paranoia, as most thought at the time, or did the Swedes have something? A Good Companion? The recently published Oxford Companion to World War Two (Oxford, 2001) has been well received and in general it is a scholarly and full piece of work. But it contains at least two misleading entries. These relate to ...
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135. The central role of MI5 [Lobster #11 (Apr 1986)]
... infer, from the leaked Economic League document, that they received their information from MI5 - and the League is by far the largest of these organisations, with the largest budget. And where would David Williams, editor of the Common Cause quarterly bulletin, get information like this, except from 'official sources': "a breakdown of the Communist Party's 42 member executive, its 16 member political committee, its full-time staff, the district committees, the executive committee's seven sub-committees, the members of the various 'front' organisations"; not to mention the information that "Mr Dezo Kiss, the Counsellor of the Hungarian Embassy, plays a major role in assisting ...
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136. The Coors Connection; How Coors Family Philanthropy Undermines Democratic Pluralism (Book review) [Lobster #23 (Jun 1992)]
... Family Philanthropy Undermines Democratic Pluralism by Russ Bellant. This is a short book, 100 pages of text and 40 of notes and appendices. Following the trail of Coors family funding, Bellant takes the reader on a tour of practically the entire spectrum of the American right, from the prosetylising end of the Born Agains to the World Anti-Communist League (as was). If the territory is familiar from other works, much of the detail and some of the perspectives are new. Doing this kind of detailed, compressed work, Bellant faces in acute form the the basic problem we all have. X knows Y, who knows Z. Is this significant? Is there ...
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137. The anti-union/strike-breaking organisations [Lobster #12 (Sep 1986)]
... , and Brown notes that the Empire Union "apparently had much greater resources", quoting the Soviet Union's Izvestia's 1936 description of the British Empire Union as the main enemy of socialism in Britain. (77) The Anti-Socialist Union, founded in 1908 (and, after 1925, known as the Anti-Socialist and Anti-Communist Union), although not directly involved in the strike-breaking of the 1920s, had on its executive committee several members of Baldwin's Cabinet at the time of the 1926 General Strike: Wilfred Ashley, Oliver Locker-Lampson, Samuel Hoare and the Chief Civil Commissioner during the strike, Sir W. Mitchell-Thompson.(78 ...
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... crush its movement of heroin into the continental United States. Such a two-faced policy was probably impractical, in as much as in 1959 the world's only sizeable population of heroin addicts was in the U.S . It was, however, understandable in terms of national policy, if one recollects in 1959 all the leading anti-Communist U.S . proteges of the region - Ngo dihn Nhu of South Vietnam, Sarit Thanarat and Prapas Charusathien of Thailand and Phoumi Nosavan of Laos - were profiting in one way or another from the KMT narcotics traffic. (20) The fact remains that in 1959 the official U.S . position on the KMT troops was ...
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... Ba'athist party Saddam Hussein occupied a momentous position in the modern history of the Middle East. Arab scholar Zaki Al-Alsouzi (1899-1968) first wrote about 'Ba'ath Arabi', the resurrection of the Arab nation, and the fight to overturn colonialism. By the mid-1950s Ba'athists formed a pan-Arabic nationalist alternative to Arab communists and poorly educated Islamist clerics. In a sense, Ba'athist politics embodied the universal spirit of Baghdad revered by Sunni and Shi'a alike, who located their greatest religious shrines in the city. 'Assume for a moment that across the road from the Vatican is the shrine of Martin Luther, and then you can imagine what Baghdad means for both ...
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... wrote this straight from his memory. Which is a pity. The only section that struck me comes towards the end when the author rails against the importing of women's, gay, peace and race issues into the CPGB and wider Labour Movement. 'There was nothing Marxist about any of this. These issues were used quite deliberately to undermine the Communist Party and the Labour Movement in general. ' (emphasis added) This is an interesting claim which I have heard before; but, like the rest of the book, it is wholly unsubstantiated. And do we really believe that, say, MI5 are that sophisticated? Open Secrets is the newsletter of the Coalition on Political Assassinations ...
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In the February 2008 issue of the INQUIRER, we reported on the Creationism course being offered in the Northport-East Northport Union Free School District's adult education program. (Go to http://www.centerforinquiry.net/uploads/attachments/feb2008newsletter.pdf).
This course was a blatantly un-scientific course in religious instruction being offered at a public school, partly funded, according to information provided by the district, by tax dollars.
CFI Community of Long Island, as per a request by a parent in the district, beginning in October 2007, wrote a number of letters to the district (copying the media) regarding the course offering. We requested information on the process of offering courses at the school.
The letters and complaints went unanswered for a long time until a letter from the school district's attorneys was received by CFI Community of LI in early March 2008. The response consisted of a cover letter from the law firm of Ingerman Smith L.L.P. by Warren H. Richmond, dated February 27, 2008, and an opinion letter that was issued by the law firm on March 14, 2007, a year earlier! The opinion was issued after the initial offering of the course to the public in fall of 2006.
Here are some excerpts from the legal opinion issued on 3/14/07 from the law firm to Ms. Arlene Munson, President of the Board of Education of this school district:
I am writing in response to the Board's request for a written opinion regarding various issues related to courses offered in the District's Continuing Education Program. These issues have come to the fore as a result of the objection of a member of the community, Dr. Frederic Lipfert, to a course entitled "What is Creation Science" which was offered in the fall of 2006.
Specifically, two concerns were raised by Dr. Lipfert. First, that the offering of this course as a part of the District's Continuing Education Program constitutes religious advocacy in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Second, that the description contained in the Continuing Education brochure had the effect of suggesting that the District supported the proposition that there is no scientific basis for the theory of evolution…
Freedom of Expression
Identifying the forum
As noted by the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd District in Bronx, Household of Faith vs. Board of Education of the City of NY, 331 F.3d 342 (2nd Cir. 2003), the right to exercise free speech on government property depends on the type of forum where the speechoccurs. The US Supreme Court has identified the categories of fora: (1) the traditional public forum; (2) the non-public forum (3) the designated public forum, which includes a subcategory known as the "limited public forum…"
Restrictions governing access to a limited public forum, including content-based restraints, are permitted as long as two criteria are met: (1) they are reasonable in light of the purpose served by the forum; and (2) they are viewpoint neutral…
Restrictions must be reasonable
In considering what is reasonable, courts will focus on whether a limitation is consistent with preserving the property for the purpose to which it is dedicated…
The court noted that in its previous decision of Planned Parenthood v. Clark County School District, 941 F.2d 817 (9th Cir. 1991) (en banc):
We recognized that a public secondary school has legitimate concerns "such as respecting audience maturity, disassociating itself from speech inconsistent with its educational mission, and avoiding the appearance of endorsing views" that render a school's restriction on advertising reasonable.
Restrictions must be viewpoint neutral
Even if a governmental entity's restriction of access to a limited public forum is reasonable, it will not pass constitution muster unless it meets a second requirement – that of being viewpoint neutral. Viewpoint discrimination occurs when a government discriminates against particular views taken by speakers on a subject that is generally allowed, rather than excluding the subject altogether as a topic for discussion. Thus, in viewpoint discrimination, a governmental entity impermissibly regulates speech on the basis of the speaker's ideology or opinion or perspective. Permissible content discrimination, on the other hand, excludes an entire category of speech.
The Establishment Clause
In applying these principles to the Creation Science offering, it becomes apparent that rejection of the course would run afoul of the First Amendment. This is so for several reasons. First, the District has never, by policy or practice, placed any limitation on the subject matter to be offered in adult education courses. Indeed, the administration is not aware of any other instance in which a course has been rejected, nor has there ever been any attempt to review or monitor the adult education curriculum. In this light, rejection of the Creation Science course because of the religious or scientific view presented would clearly be deemed unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination. Second, unlike the course offered as part of the school curriculum, this course is presented to adults, outside the regular school day and only to those who elect to take it. As such, the coercive effect of presenting religious materials to a captive audience of students, which various courts have found objectionable, is plainly absent. Finally, any claim of unconstitutional endorsement of religion by the district is removed by the disclaimer which appears in the Adult Education brochure to the effect that the views presented in the classes are those of the individual instructor and should not be interpreted as endorsed by the School District.
Dr. Lipfert's second point, i.e. that the brochure's description of the Creation Science course might be interpreted by some as indicating the District's support for the proposition that there is no scientific basis for the theory of evolution is not without merit. The course description could have more clearly indicated that this was the view of the instructor. There is no legal impediment to the District reviewing and where appropriate editing course description, to this end, and it is recommended that it do so…
As an intermediate step, the Board could limit the content areas to be offered in the Adult Education Program, precluding course in certain areas such as religion, politics or other areas as it may deem appropriate, provided that it does not preclude courses based on viewpoint… The Creation Science course provides an excellent example in that a question exists as to whether this course can suitably be categorized as a course in religion…
In view of the above, the Board must address the threshold question of whether it wishes to continue the Adult Education Program in the same manner as in the past or whether it wishes to modify it so as to restrict the content or subject matter of the courses offered…
Very truly yours, Warren H. Richmond.
Some more background:
The Continuing Education brochure offered by the district does have disclaimers in it, such as "none of the views presented in the classes should be interpreted as endorsed by the district."
But the information sent along with the legal opinion also notes that "The Community Services Program's activities shall be supported by a combination of registration and material's fees, local taxation, and/or Federal Aid as is currently available for that purpose…"
There's more!
In researching the story, a letter dated April 6, 2008, to the editor of the Times of Northport was discovered who was responding to Dr. Stephen Uzzo, the Northport resident who first alerted CFI Community of Long Island. Here is an excerpt:
"In response to Mr. Uzzo's September 27 letter condemning Creationism as an adult continuing education elective course offering, I find it fascinating that a certified teacher would espouse censorship instead of debate.
I do not know if Creationism is a pseudoscience or not but, far from being the scientific certainty that Mr. Uzzo represents, there are serious and unexplained gaps in evolutionary theory (which is why it is called "theory"), including an almost total lack of fossil records on "transitional" evolutionary life forms.
There is a dynamic and rigorous debate regarding on the one hand a theory that remains, to a large extent, unproven, and on the other a theory that is essentially unprovable. Mr. Uzzo's intent appears to be to stifle this debate, rather than, as a good and experienced educator, offer rebuttal.
In the larger context, Mr. Uzzo's letter provides an important example of a phenomenon that appears to be spreading in the world of higher education — intolerance for free speech...
Perhaps Mr. Uzzo's intentions are benign but I don't think we as a community or society need protection from ideas. The antidote for ignorance is exactly what Mr. Uzzo opposes — freedom of speech. Greg Munson, October 03, 2007. (The writer is married to local Board of Education President Arlene Munson.)" (Go to http://www.timesofnorthport.com/Letters-3551.112114_Antidote_for_ignorance.html.)
One could probably assume that Mr. Munson wrote the above letter with the approval of the B. of E. President who happens to be his wife!
So, in a nutshell, the Northport-East Northport School District has decided that they will have no standards regarding what will be offered to the public in their Adult Educational program! ANYTHING GOES!
In addition, it seems clear that at least the husband of the President of the Board of Education seems to think that issues such as "Creationism vs. Evolution," or "Global Warming," or "gender-based" biological distinctions are simply "free speech" matters not subject to scientific inquiry; and other (I'm sure coincidentally) right wing hot button issues such as "affirmative action" and "illegal immigration" are similarly only tangentially amenable to scientific inquiry. In fact, it would seem that scientific inquiry is just another form of mere opinion, on an equal footing with religious or political dogma; is this reading a bit too much into the above letter? It would seem that Public Schools do not stand for anything, and especially not science and reason and, as a consequence, quality education.
What will happen when the School District is confronted with a course on "Does Science Give Evidence Against the Existence of God?" which actually is a totally legitimate area of inquiry?
How about a course on "Does Southern Baptism Have Racist Origins?" again, a totally legitimate area of inquiry?
What would happen if the school district is confronted with an obviously odious course such as "Why the Holocaust Never Happened."
What would happen if the Creationism Course is expanded into an explanation of the nature of the human races as explained by Dr. Henry Morris who wrote the textbook actually used in the Creationism course? Would a course entitled "Why Africans are Destined to be the Servants of Humanity" be an acceptable course offering?
How about a course in "2 + 2 = 5"?
The School Board is probably simply praying that no one offers such courses. (And of course, nothing fails like prayer.)
The Northport-East Northport School District should make a principled stand for quality education and prevent their schools and taxes from being used to promote harmful superstition and other non-scientific dogma. They should decide that unscientific dogma is "inconsistent with its educational mission" and that the school will not allow religious or secular political dogma or superstition of any kind in the classrooms. The key words are "dogma" and "superstition" which imply beliefs that are by definition un-testable and beyond debate. What Free Speech issue is at stake when the course is state-funded religious instruction? Isn't this actually an establishment of a particular religion?
If taxpayer dollars are behind a course in any amount, religious or political dogma does not belong in its offerings; keep in mind that Federal Courts have found ID to be a religious belief. Let those persons who want to preach dogma rent the space outright if they want to offer a course, and remove them from the district produced brochures.
This is all unlikely to occur. And indeed, there is a measure of sympathy with the plight of, we're sure, many of the members of the Board of Education who are probably extremely uncomfortable with offering courses based on superstition in their school building and funded in part with tax dollars; at the same time they have concern about lawsuits from the religious fundamentalists that would be sure to follow a banning of religious courses disguised as science.
There is no time like the present to take a stand for quality education; the School Board is urged to create guidelines that separate course offerings that are evidence-based versus those based on the supernatural or the unquestioned assumptions of their promoters. What a concept: Schools that proudly offer knowledge, reason, evidence, understanding and real free inquiry!


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The last date of filing the nominations or recommendations is September 15.
"Already 25,317 registrations have been made on the portal, against which 23,865 nominations/recommendations have been completed," they said.
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Analysis of GPS data format
Analysis of GPS data format
0 overview
The GPS receiver can provide ASCII and binary two format.
The ASCII code is NMEA-0183, NMEA-0183 is the standard format America National Marine Electronics Association for marine electronic equipment development.
It was in the past the sea based standard format for electronic equipment, 0180 and 0182, an increase of GPS receiver output content and complete.
Now widely used is the Ver version 2. Now, except for a few GPS receiver, the receiver of almost all the adopted this format.
GPS after power on, it will have time to return a certain format data, the data format is: $information types,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x.
The beginning of each line of the characters are '$', then the information type, followed by the data, separated by commas.
$GPGGA which is a data format is most commonly used. A line of complete data are as follows:
Information type:
- GPGSV: visible satellite information;
- GPGLL: geolocation information;
- GPRMC: recommended minimum positioning information;
- GPVTG: ground speed information;
- GPGGA:GPS positioning information;
- The current GPGSA: satellite information.
1 GSAGPS DOP and Active Satellites(GSA)Current satellite information, format:$GPGSA,<1>,<2>,<3>,<3>,,,,,<3>,<3>,<3>,<4>,<5>,<6>,<7>
<1>Model: M = A = manual, automatic.
<2>Positioning type 1 = not positioning, 2 = two-dimensional positioning, 3 = 3D positioning.
<3>PRN numbers: 01 to 32 meter sky satellite number in use, can receive 12 satellite information.
<4> PDOP position dilution of precision(0.5~99.9).
<5> HDOP level precision factor(0.5~99.9).
<6> VDOP vertical dilution of precision(0.5~99.9).
<7> Checksum (check bit).
For example:$GPGSA,A,3,09,19,07,08,27,11,03,01,28,23,,,2.64,1.59,2.11*0F
GPS Satellites in View(GSV)The visible satellite information, format:$GPGSV, <1>,<2>,<3>,<4>,<5>,<6>,<7>,?<4>,<5>,<6>,<7>,<8>
<1> The total number of GSV statements.
<2> The GSV number.
<3> The total number of visible satellites, 00 to 12
<4> Satellite number, 01 to 32
<5>Satellite elevation, 00 to 90 degrees.
<6>Satellite azimuth angle, 000 to 359 degrees. The actual value.
<7>Signal to noise ratio (C/No), 00 to 99 dB; no table does not receive the signal.
<8>Checksum. (check bit).
The <4> <5>, <6>, <7>,; individual satellite would be repeated, with up to four satellites in each line. The satellite information will be on the next line, if not use, these fields blank.
Global Positioning System Fix Data(GGA)GPS positioning information, which is the main data of one frame of GPS positioning, but also the most widely used data.
<1> The UTC time, the format for the hhmmss.sss;
<2> Latitude, the format of ddmm.mmmm (the first one is zero will also transfer),
<3> Latitude hemisphere, N or S (North or South)
<4> The longitude, the format of dddmm.mmmm (the first zero will also transfer),
<5> Longitude hemisphere, E or W (East or West)
<6> The GPS state, 0 not positioning, 1 non differential positioning, 2 differential positioning, 3 invalid PPS, 6 are estimates
<7> The use of satellite number, from 00 to 12 (the first zero will also transfer)
<8> The level of precision, 0.5 to 99.9
<9> Antenna height above sea level to 9999.9 meters, -9999.9
M means the unit meters
<10> Geoid height to 9999.9 meters, -9999.9
M means the unit meters
<11> Differential GPS data period (RTCM SC-104), the number of seconds finally set up RTCM transmission, such as not differential positioning is empty
<12> Differential reference station label, from 0000 to 1023 (the first 0 will also transfer).
* The end of statement identifier
HH began to * between all the ASCII code XOR and from $
For example:$GPGGA,215026.00,2233.94798,N,11402.42687,E,1,10,2.24,58.8,M,-2.4,M,,*77
Recommended Minimum Specific GPS/TRANSIT Data(RMC)The recommended location information, format:$GPRMC,<1>,<2>,<3>,<4>,<5>,<6>,<7>,<8>,<9>,<10>,<11>,<12>*hh
<1> UTC time, hhmmss (when) format;
<2> Positioning, A= positioning, V= invalid location;
<3> Altitude ddmm.mmmm (degree) format (in front of 0 will also be transmitted);
<4> Latitude hemisphere N (northern hemisphere) or S (Nan Banqiu);
<5> Longitude dddmm.mmmm (degree) format (in front of 0 will also be transmitted);
<6> Longitude hemisphere E (n) or W (West);
<7> Ground speed (section 000.0~999.9, in front of 0 will also be transmitted);
<8> The ground course (000.0~359.9 degrees, with one for reference, in front of 0 will also be transmitted)
<9> UTC date, ddmmyy (DMY) format;
<10> Magnetic declination (000.0~180.0 degrees, in front of 0 will also be transmitted)
<11> Magnetic declination direction, E (East) or W (West)
<12> Mode indication (only NMEA0183 3 version of the output, A= autonomous positioning, D= difference, E= estimation, N= data is invalid)
For example:$GPRMC,204522.00,A,2233.94321,N,11402.42498,E,0.000,,121213,,,A*79
Track Made Good and Ground Speed(VTG)Ground speed information, format:$GPVTG,<1>,T,<2>,M,<3>,N,<4>,K,<5>*hh
<1> Ground heading to North for reference (000~359 degrees, in front of 0 will also be transmitted)
<2> The ground course to magnetic north for reference (000~359 degrees, in front of 0 will also be transmitted)
<3> Ground speed (section 000.0~999.9, in front of 0 will also be transmitted)
<4> Ground speed (0000.0~1851.8 km / h, in front of 0 will also be transmitted)
<5> Mode indication (only NMEA0183 3 version of the output, A= autonomous positioning, D= difference, E= estimation, N= data is invalid)
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