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Supreme Court blocks 2020 census citizenship question in setback for Trump administration
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has blocked a citizenship question from being added to the 2020 census for the time being in a major setback for the Trump administration.
The bitter controversy centers around whether the administration can ask all recipients a citizenship question on the 2020 census for the first time since 1950 — a move that could impact the balance of power in states and the House of Representatives, which are based on total population. Adding the question, critics say, could result in minorities being undercounted.
Writing for a 5-4 majority, Chief Justice John Roberts concluded there was sufficient reason for concern about why the Commerce Department wanted to add the question. Roberts had the support of the four liberal justices.
Supreme Court justices issued rulings on two major cases during their final day of the term, both dealing with partisan politics. Roberts split his votes, siding with conservatives on a major decision allowing severe partisan gerrymandering, and then crossing ideological lines to side with liberals on the census case.
"If judicial review is to be more than an empty ritual, it must demand something better than the explanation offered for the action taken in this case," Roberts wrote.
The decision raises the question of whether the administration will have enough time or the ability to add the citizenship question before the census begins. The administration previously told the court the questionnaire needed to be printed by the end of June.
The data obtained from the 2020 census is used for the allocation of congressional seats and the distribution of billions of federal dollars to states and localities over the next decade.
The Trump administration claimed the citizenship question on the census questionnaire is necessary to better comply with federal voting rights law. Critics argued it is an attempt to intimidate noncitizens and Hispanic households and will lead to a decline in response rates and underrepresentation of minorities.
Following the 2010 census, Republicans drew favorable maps in enough states that the party's hold on a House majority was all but guaranteed until 2018 — and to cement their legislative majorities in a host of swing states. Because the GOP's voters are whiter and more spread geographically, while non-white voters tend to back Democrats and are more concentrated in urban areas, a census that counts fewer non-white people could help Republicans draw favorable maps that would last another decade.
President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday he has asked lawyers whether it's possible to delay the census.
"Seems totally ridiculous that our government, and indeed Country, cannot ask a basic question of Citizenship in a very expensive, detailed and important Census, in this case for 2020. I have asked the lawyers if they can delay the Census, no matter how long, until the … United States Supreme Court is given additional information from which it can make a final and decisive decision on this very critical matter," he wrote in a pair of tweets.
"Can anyone really believe that as a great Country, we are not able the ask whether or not someone is a Citizen," Trump wrote. "Only in America!"
Justice Department spokesperson Kelly Laco told CNN, "We are disappointed by the Supreme Court's decision today. The Department of Justice will continue to defend this Administration's lawful exercises of executive power."
Trump has said the census would be "meaningless" without the citizenship question.
The President tweeted in April, "Can you believe that the Radical Left Democrats want to do our new and very important Census Report without the all important Citizenship Question. Report would be meaningless and a waste of the $Billions (ridiculous) that it costs to put together!"
The administration has also asserted executive privilege over materials related to the citizenship question, spurring a fight with House Democrats.
Roberts said the explanation for adding the question didn't pass muster.
"The sole stated reason — seems to have been contrived. We are presented, in other words, with an explanation for agency action that is incongruent with what the record reveals about the agency's priorities and decision-making process."
Justice Stephen Breyer, joined in part by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan, agreed with Roberts that the Commerce Department provided a "pretextual reason" for adding the question. But they would have gone further. They wrote separately to say the decision violated a federal law, the Administrative Procedure Act that regulates how agencies establish their rules.
Breyer wrote that asking the question "risked undermining public confidence in the integrity of our democratic system itself."
New York Attorney General Letitia James, who challenged the administration, said in a statement Thursday "This one question could have caused a substantial undercount, particularly of noncitizens and Latinos."
"Thanks to the Court, the census will remain a tool for delivering on our government's promise of fairness and equity," James said.
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Thomas dissents
Justice Clarence Thomas, joined in part by Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, said he would have allowed the question on the census.
"For the first time ever, the Court invalidates an agency action solely because it questions the sincerity of the agency's otherwise adequate rationale," Thomas wrote.
"Echoing the din of suspicion and distrust that seems to typify modern discourse, the Court declares the Secretary's memorandum 'pretextual' because, 'viewing the evidence as a whole,' his explanation that including a citizenship question on the census would help enforce the Voting Rights Act … 'seems to have been contrived.'"
Every lower court asked to consider the issue has blocked the administration from adding the question, ruling that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross exceeded his authority under federal law or the Constitution by doing so.
Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law, said there may be a big difference between the formal ruling and its practical impact given the timing.
"Formally, it's a very narrow decision that likely won't have that big of a direct impact on these kinds of cases going forward, and it doesn't even preclude the Trump administration from asking about citizenship on the census if they do it in a way that is less transparently pretextual," he said. "But practically, it's going to be very difficult for the government to run the traps in time — and the most likely outcome is that the 2020 census will go out with no citizenship question."
New evidence presented
After arguments before the high court, opponents of the question informed the court they had obtained "new evidence" the decision was politically motivated. They say the intention was to intimidate minority households from responding in order to reduce Democratic Party representation.
A federal trial judge earlier this month said he believes new evidence presented "raises a substantial issue."
Late last month, the ACLU obtained a hard drive with about 75,000 documents, including a 2015 study from a Republican redistricting expert, Dr. Thomas Hofeller, who they say played a significant role in the decision to add the question.
Hofeller, who has since died, wrote that using "citizen voting age" population as the redistricting population base would be "advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites."
Opponents of the citizen question allege Hofeller ghostwrote part of a Justice Department draft letter requesting the Commerce Department, which oversees the census, add the question. They say the evidence reveals that Ross adviser A. Mark Neuman and senior Justice official John Gore "falsely testified" about the genesis of the request to add the question.
DOJ claimed in a letter to Furman that Hofeller's work did not play "any role whatsoever" in the department's request to add the question.


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Analysis Shows Suits to Blame for 2009's 43 World-Record Swims
Becca Borawski Jenkins
Coaching, Strength and Conditioning, Martial Arts, Cooking and Baking
In the world of international sports, any and every advantage that can be gained is capitalized on by the athlete - whether it be training methods, the mobility exercises of Dara Torres, or the world of performance-enhancing drugs. According to the rules of competition, some of these advantages are deemed fair and others outlawed. One element in this pursuit of performance is sports technology and sometimes technology crosses the line from being a fair to an unfair advantage before the rules can catch up.
In 2009 at the World Championship in Rome, 43 world records were set in long-course (50m pool) swimming. On January 1, 2010 the Federation International de Natation (FINA) created new rules for the swimsuits allowed in international competition. Since that time, not a single long-course world record has been set.
A new report published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research looked at this phenomenon to determine whether the Speedo full-body swimsuits introduced in 2008 were to blame or if there were other factors that contributed to the sudden rise in record swims in 2009.
Analysts examined the sport of swimming from 1990 to 2010. They looked at the following aspects to determine the cause of the amazing swim times in 2009:
If there were similar record setting trends in comparable sports, like track and field.
If there were rule changes that could account for the new records.
If the sudden rise in record setting was gender specific.
If the rise in record setting was specific to certain swim events.
If the competitive population of swimmers had drastically changed.
If one athlete had skewed the number of records on his/her own.
If there was equipment that could account for the phenomenon.
What analysts uncovered, from 1990 to 2010:
Men ran 2.85% faster in the 400m dash and swan 5.86% faster in the 100m freestyle.
Women ran 3.29% faster in the 400m dash and swam 5.57% faster in the 100m freestyle.
Men ran 3.59% faster in the 3,000m run and swam 5.76% faster in the 800m freestyle.
From this, analysts concluded swimming was improving performances at a rate anomalous with other comparable sports and therefore the commonly shared strength and conditioning methodologies relied on for training could not be the reason. In addition, swim performances were increasing equally across gender and across length of swim event, so it was not one gender or event responsible for the high rate of records set in 2009.
Analysts also felt the pool of swimmers from which competitive athletes were coming was not to blame for the sudden rise in world records. The number of people entering the sport increased on average by 3% each year between 1990 and 2010, while the swim performances increased at far greater rates.
Looking at the 2009 FINA World Championship there was also no individual athlete responsible for skewing the number of world records set. Other than Michael Phelps, who earned three world records, no other athletes broke more than two.
Based on the criteria laid out by the analysts the only contributing factor left to consider was the technology used by the record setting swimmers. In 2008, the Speedo LZR Racer was launched. In 2009, 43 world records were set at the FINA Championships. In 2010 the swimsuits were banned and the best times in the world fell drastically.
As stated in the report:
Full-body, technical suits were worn by all of the athletes who broke world records at the FINA championship meet. These technical suits were able to reduce drag, improve buoyancy, and enhance body compression – all of which could separately or jointly account for improved performance.1
While there is certainly no arguing the dedication and hard work of all the athletes who set records in 2009, it cannot be disputed the swimsuits aided in their performances. As so often happens, the debate of how much technology can or should be allowed to contribute to the pursuit of performance has arisen. While sometimes it is clear to the majority that a tool is not "fair," as is the case with performance-enhancing drugs, controversies like the swimsuits of 2009 blur the line and cause us to examine what is fair in sports.
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"I am the project coordinator. Prior to that, I would come as a clinician, so I would be at the chairs working, extraction, filling, whatsoever was required of me. Now, I've been offered a managerial position. So I oversee and make sure proceedings run OK," Williams told Rural Xpress on Monday.
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Ann. Geophys., 29, 1113-1120, 2011
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-29-1113-2011
© Author(s) 2011. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Special issue: Dynamical processes in space plasmas
Could periodic patterns in human mortality be sensitive to solar activity?
R. Díaz-Sandoval1, R. Erdélyi1, and R. Maheswaran2 R. Díaz-Sandoval et al. R. Díaz-Sandoval1, R. Erdélyi1, and R. Maheswaran2
1Solar Physics and Space Plasma Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield, Hicks Building, Hounsfield Rd, Sheffield S3 7RH, UK
2Public Health GIS Unit, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 30 Regent St, Sheffield S1 4DA, UK
Received: 31 Dec 2010 – Revised: 11 Mar 2011 – Accepted: 18 Mar 2011 – Published: 25 Jun 2011
Abstract. Seasonal behaviour of human diseases have been observed and reported in the literature for years. Although the Sun plays an essential role in the origin and evolution of life on Earth, it is barely taken into account in biological processes for the development of a specific disease. Higher mortality rates occur during the winter season in the Northern Hemisphere for several diseases, particularly diseases of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems. This increment has been associated with seasonal and social causes. However, is there more behind these correlations, in particular in terms of solar variability? In this paper we attempt to make a first step towards answering this question. A detailed wavelet analysis of periodicities for diseases from England and Wales seem to reveal that mortality periodicities (3 days to half a year) could be due to the Earth's position around the Sun. Moreover, crosswavelet and wavelet coherence analysis show common features between medical diseases and solar proxies around solar maximum activity suggesting that this relation, if any, has to be searched in times of high solar activity.
Article (PDF, 2226 KB)
How to cite: Díaz-Sandoval, R., Erdélyi, R., and Maheswaran, R.: Could periodic patterns in human mortality be sensitive to solar activity?, Ann. Geophys., 29, 1113-1120, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-29-1113-2011, 2011.
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The Sun-Ripened Warm Tomato Party was an Australian joke party.

It stood candidates in the first Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly election in 1989. Its manifesto was to 'ban gas colored fake tomatoes from the ACT'. It received 1.17 percent of the vote and its preferences went to elect Residents Rally candidates to the Assembly. Party registration laws that allowed this party and other similar parties (for example the Party! Party! Party! and the Surprise Party) to stand candidates in the Australian Capital Territory were changed to provide that parties must have 100 members and a constitution before being eligible to register.

References

External links
ACT Electoral Commission 1989 results
http://aec.gov.au

Defunct political parties in the Australian Capital Territory
Joke political parties in Australia
Political parties established in 1989
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Q: Does swift support C natively? Objective C can compile C natively. Objective C was built over C. Can swift do the same? If not what are the differences.

A: Unlike Objective-C, which is a proper superset of C, Swift has been built as an entirely new language. Swift cannot compile C code because the syntax is not compatible.
Swift can interoperate wit C code (see Interacting with C APIs article for more information). However, C code behind the APIs needs to be compiled separately, using a C compiler.

A: Swift uses swift compiler to parse and then LLVM to optimise and generate code. Hence swift compiler cannot parse C syntax.
As ObjectiveC uses clang compiler(which compiles C, C++, ObjectiveC languages) which generate syntax tree and LLVM for optimisation and code generation. Hence we can use C along with Objective C. So the Clang can parse the C/C++/objective C code, generate syntax tree, do semantic analysis and LLVM does back end compilation.

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"I convinced someone of something therefore I must be right."
It was marketed as a 'top premiership game' IIRC? I lolled.
what is this thread bro?
And you want a 60,000 sweater stadium?
The thing that pisses me off is that West Ham goons have this assumption that they are a big club when their performances over the past 20 years don't warrant this belief.
If they were a stable Premiership club like Everton or Tottenham who never have a general sale for league games then I'd back that stadium being used for football.
villa park is actually class though you must admit.
Last edited by Makepeace; 21st September '12 at 06:04 PM.
Having a big stadium doesn't make you a big club. The fact that you are hopeful of being in the Premier league in 3 years says it all tbh.
Queens Park, Scottish Third Division. Hampden Park - 52,000.
35-40K capacity is about right for West Ham. 'Stability' comes from financial and footballing performance. If you stay in the Premiership and don't overspend, that will give you far more stability than the Olympic stadium will without other of the aforementioned.
Means that you either won't be moving in in 2015 or you are keeping the Athletics track with no 'stadium improvements' until at least 2017.
The Tottenham tickets are season tickets available through ticket exchange via their membership. It's not a general sale. I can't buy a ticket.
Everton appears to be though so I'll give you that.
I agree tottenham are the type of club that should be being considered for the stadium, however west ham do have a decent enough following and as long as they can manage to stay in the premiership i believe they are the best candidate due to location.
Couldn't really call them tottenham is they are based out of east london tbh.
Chelsea struggle to fill their stadium for Champions League games let alone Premiership games... If West Ham games sold out regularly then they'd have a stronger case definitely. But they don't.
Was 100% against bidding for the Olympic Stadium tbh. Still want something to happen at Northumberland Park, god knows if anything will happen though.


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Carrera
Matsumoto debutó en 2006 interpretando el papel protagonista de Himawari Hinata en la serie de anime Himawari!. Desde su debut ha aparecido en series de drama, películas y adaptaciones en imagen real. Al comenzar a estudiar en la universidad, Matsumoto decidió retirarse de sus actividades escénicas para concentrarse en la búsqueda de empleo. Debido a eso, su perfil fue eliminado en la página de Fujiga Office Inc. fue retirado.

Filmografía

Televisión
 Ganbatte Ikimasshoi (2005) como Mari Doi
 1 Litre of Tears (2005) como Saki Matsumura
 Dance Drill (2006) como Chizu Takashima
 Teru Teru Ashita (2006) como Emili
 Tsubasa no Oreta Tenshitachi (2007)
 1 Litre of Tears (2007) como Saki Matsumura
 Yasuko to Kenji (2008) como Ayame

Anime
 Himawari! (2006) como Himawari Hinata
 Himawari! (2007) como Himawari Hinata

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The new website has been designed using latest portal development technology with a purpose of providing an integrated digital experience to Users. Revamped website has been developed as per GIGW guidelines of DARPG and NIC. The compliance with respect to ensuring of Centralized banner publishing Scheme (CBPS) on MoSPI website for effective communications on important Govt Initiatives has been ensured.
Website design is kept clutter-free and minimalist ensuring clear identity of elements and providing visual appeal with viewer friendliness. Website is mobile device compatible and disable friendly. Elastic search and global search are enabled to provide better search results to the users. Structured site map for easy navigation and better understanding of inter linkages of content is ensured. Overall organogram of MoSPI and its linking to directory details of MoSPI officials are some of the new features added.
Visitors can provide information on User experience, adding the desired element of "public participation" and boost potential of e- Governance Visitor can share the content link on social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc) through share button available across the website.
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The Quintin Lame Armed Movement () was an indigenous guerrilla group active from 1984 to May 1991 as the participant in the Colombian Armed Conflict.

General info

Quintin Lame Armed Movement (Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame, MAQL) was founded in 1984 as an indigenous guerrilla movement that operated in the department of Cauca, a province in south central Colombia that is 40 percent indigenous and characterized by large landholdings, unequal land tenure, and conflict between indigenous reservations and landowners. The Quintin Lame was initially organized as a movement to extend indigenous lands through land invasions and to defend indigenous communities from hostile attacks from landowners, the military, government officials, and other guerrilla movements. The group negotiated with the Gaviria administration from August 1990 to May 1991, leading to its demobilisation and simultaneous participation in the Constituent Assembly. Their presence in the Assembly contributed to the fact that indigenous issues were prominently addressed, and major concessions and rights were incorporated into the Constitution of 1991.

History

In 1974 in the south of Colombia, an indigenous peasant group known as Quintín Lame (CQL) emerged. This group, which received military training from the Marxist–Leninist Communist Party (PC-ML), was formed after the killing of regional indigenous leaders in Cauca by repressive forces of the state and large landowners. The CQL was thus constituted as a military selfdefense group. Thanks to an organization created years earlier by the indigenous leader Manuel Quintín Lame (1880–1967), the group had the support of many indigenous communities in the region of the Valle del Cauca, Huila, Tolima, and parts of the departments of Meta and Caquetá Department. The founders of the Quintín Lame armed group distinguished themselves from other armed groups of the time by their multicultural approach. The group included mestizos such as Gustavo Mejía, Pedro León Rodríguez, and Edgar Londoño; foreigners such as the Hungarian Pablo Tattay, Gabriel Soler from Argentina, and Teresa Tomish from Chile; and indigenous people from different ethnic communities in the south of the country. Until the early 1980s the CQL acted in self-defense of traditional territories and only used arms when territorial and political autonomy was threatened. The group's first military offensive took place in 1984 with an assault on Castilla, a small town in the Cauca department, and the takeover of the village of Santander de Quilichao. The Quintin Lame were involved in the Simón Bolívar Guerrilla Coordinating Board

Demobilisation

During May 1991, following negotiation with the government, the Quintin Lame Armed Movement leadership decided to enter into the process of demobilisation, during which some 130 fighters of that guerrilla group surrendered their weapons, in exchange for government's promise of giving group one vote in the Assembly and a grant to pay each of its fighters $128 a month during a six-month period of adjustment to civilian life, as well as a promise of government investment to develop their communities. The treaty between Quintin Lame and government was signed by Jesus Antonio Bejarano, a government negotiator, at an Indian guerrilla camp near the southern town of Caldono.

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Further reading
Cynthia Arnson, Comparative peace processes in Latin America, Stanford University Press, 1999
Kay B. Warren, Jean Elizabeth Jackson, Indigenous movements, self-representation, and the state in Latin America, University of Texas Press, 2002

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Colombian conflict
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The band are launching a website called ABBA Voyage which invites fans to register interest in a mystery project and promises that it will all be revealed soon.
However, the Swedish pop band's former guitarist Janne Schaffer, recently revealed in a music podcast that "ABBA are releasing an album this autumn".
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Details of a comeback tour have also emerged with a succession of shows in London, according to reports.
However, the group - made up of Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad will not be there.
Instead, they are to be represented using holograms of themselves in their heyday. All four members are expected to reunite for the tour's launch.
When is the ABBA Voyage announcement?
The website promises that the announcement will be revealed next week Thursday, September 2.
Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid (Frida) Lyngstad celebrating their Eurovision win in 1974 after Sweden received the most points at the competition in the Brighton Dome (Image: PA Wire)
The quartet are believed to have been working on new songs for several years.
When could we hear new ABBA music?
Schaffer, the former guitarist who still remains close to the band but is now focused on solo projects, also revealed that Lasse Wellander would play on the album.
Wellander is another guitarist who has been heavily involved with the band.
The quartet initially announced in 2018 they were planning to record and release new songs, and last year it was confirmed that we can expect more songs.
In an episode of Geoff Lyod's podcast Reasons To Be Cheerful, the radio presenter mentioned he spent an hour with band member Ulveaus via Zoom and was told five new songs have been recorded.
It's possible that the delays have finally come to an end and we will get an official date on previously announced songs including Still Have Faith In You and Don't Shut Me Down, as well as the hologram tour.
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