GRAND RAPIDS -- If businessman Rick Snyder is a nerd, it probably won't help him -- or hurt him -- in the Republican primary for governor.
But the TV ads in which he lays claim to the moniker have snagged him attention. And in an election year, attention can be an uplifting thing.
A new statewide public opinion survey released exclusively to Booth Newspapers on Wednesday showed Ann Arbor-based Snyder, with the support of 18 percent of Republican voters, is second to U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Holland, with 28 percent. State Attorney General Mike Cox dropped to third with 12 percent.
Voters were split on whether Snyder's status as a nerd would help his campaign.
On the Democratic side, state House Speaker Andy Dillon's 13 percent led Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero's 11 percent. It was a statistical draw, but both were dwarfed by the 56 percent who were undecided.
Hoekstra and Snyder showed gains in popularity among Republican voters since November, according to the quarterly poll by Denno-Noor Research, commissioned by The Rossman Group and The Perricone Group.
Both have certainly benefited from air time: Hoekstra addressing national issues on cable news networks, and Snyder with an ad campaign touting the self-proclaimed "nerd" that started on Super Bowl Sunday.
The races, however, are far from over.
"It's very, very early. The only guy that has advertised thus far is Snyder," said Bill Rustem, president of Public Sector Consultants in Lansing.
"Consequently, his numbers are going to go up. The first goal is name recognition ... . It's moved his name recognition up from almost zero. Advertising does that for you."
Hoekstra, who has been on news programs as the ranking Republican of the House Intelligence Committee and as a critic of President Barack Obama, is "still riding that wave," Rustem said.
He didn't know why Cox's numbers dropped from 15 percent in November to 12 percent now.
"It's a little surprising that Cox is as low as he is, to be honest with you."
Cox's campaign gave the poll little credence. Spokesman Nick De Leeuw said polling was flawed because the candidates' titles were included when 600 people, who said they would vote, were polled. He also alleged that The Rossman Group is a consultant for Dillon's campaign.
The Rossman Group denied working for Dillon, and said Cox's camp was upset by negative questions posed in the November poll.
"Frankly, it's a nonsense poll," De Leeuw said. "Polls go up and down, and they continue to go up and down. People are recognizing that Mike Cox plans to cut government spending, and get jobs back. Mike Cox is one of the hardest-working guys I've ever met."
• 55 percent believed that a new governor would be able to turn around the state's economy, while 23 percent are doubtful.
• 61 percent oppose holding a constitutional convention to rewrite the state's Constitution. Lansing political observer Bill Ballenger, in his Inside Michigan Politics newsletter, noted the two most recent votes on the issue failed significantly. In 1978, 77 percent of voters turned it down. In 1994, 72 percent said no.
• Former Gov. John Engler ought to think about a comeback. If he returns to Michigan, and runs against U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow in 2012, he has a decent shot at unseating her. He had 42 percent to her 41 percent.
This governor's race, particularly on the Republican side, was the story for many.
"No one is catching fire with the Democratic primary voters right now," said Mark Pischea, president of The Rossman Group.
Lt. Gov. John Cherry, who dropped out of the Democratic race, won 20 percent in the November poll.
Hoekstra spokesman John Truscott said Snyder, an Ann Arbor venture capitalist and former Gateway Inc. computer company executive, has gotten a boost with advertising spending. But Hoekstra is raising funds, and has added staff.
"We're not going to spend what Rick Snyder is spending," he said. "We have enough to do what we need to do."
Truscott figured Hoekstra, with the most significant voting record, would have to respond in coming months to "a lot of misinformation." But he said voters just want to know which candidate has the best shot at turning Michigan's economy around.
He said recent polling showed that "Pete is running the kind of campaign that connects with people."
By Truscott's thinking, Snyder's nerd assertion can cut both ways. He thinks it would be better associated with a financial officer, rather than a CEO.
Of those polled, 32 percent were in favor of a candidate describing himself as a nerd, with 30 percent less likely to vote for such a candidate.
Dennis Denno, president of the research group, found it "interesting that voters aged 18-34 were ... most likely to vote for a nerd, at 44 percent, while voters ages 65 and older were the age group most likely to kick the nerd down the stairs, at only 30 percent likely to vote."
Of those who identified themselves as "strong Republicans," 30 percent sided with Hoekstra, 15 percent with Cox and 13 percent with Snyder, Denno said.
Pischea, Rossman Group's president, said Snyder's ads on Super Bowl Sunday got his campaign on a roll. He said Cox and Hoekstra are familiar to voters. Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard is known, too, but mostly on the east side of the state.
Snyder's spokesman, Jake Suski, said: "One thing is clear from this poll and other polls: the more voters learn about Rick, the more likely they are to support him."


Attention conservation notice: People emphasize different aspects to Measure S in their discussions, and those differences reveal important things about what people think about development and politics in Los Angeles–and those differences should be really interesting to the YIMBY folks.
Yesterday I stirred folks up by telling them to stop lecturing me on the supply effects of Measure S, for God's sakes, because a) I already understand their argument and b) I think they are probably right but c) I think the supply-side framing misses much of the critique that at least some members of the Measure S coalition are making about development in LA.
Of course, since I mentioned Measure S, it immediately meant I had to sit through 1,001 grumpy Twitter comments about MOAR SUPPLY and HOW DARE I act like that doesn't explain everything and I MUST BE A ROTTEN, ROTTEN person and support Measure S, and I'm a sexist because I made a snotty crack about the legion of smartest boy urbanists who inevitably come out to yell and scream. After, don't men get to have OPINIONS, you mean, mean lady? WHAT ABOUT THE MENZ?
First of all, if I invent the Mean Nasty Lady Feminist Gun today that, when aimed and fired at various and sundry Male Urbanists With Opinions, silences them and immediately transports them into exile forever to the Inland Empire, there will still be one thing that urbanism and urban politics will not run short of, and that one thing will be male opinions about cities. Or anything else. Fret not.
Second of all….I do enjoy it when people debate the issues with me. The ad hominem is childish and pointless; my mother is already here to point out my many personal flaws, and the ones she misses get covered variously by undergrad evaluations and senior faculty. When I post what I am thinking, I inevitably have smart people respond along with the ACTUALLEH, THE FACTZ ARE…. and I get to learn from both the smart people and sometimes the arrogant loudmouths because even they can be right at times.
So what do I really think about Measure S?
Both sides claim that they care about affordability, and both sides claim the other side is corrupt and disingenuous. On the pro side, it's the development process that is corrupt. On the anti side, it's people yelling and screaming about Michael Weinstein and how he's a bad guy and misusing AIDS Foundation funds. Whether Weinstein is a good guy or a bad guy means diddly about whether Measure S is good or bad policy. Honestly, if Pharma Bro came out against Measure S, would it suddenly magically become good policy just because a lousy person advocates a position? No. It wouldn't.
To be clear, I do think Measure S is bad policy. All my friends on the pro side will be sad to read this, but from my standpoint, for all the posturing and claims about What Measure S Will Do Both Good and Bad…I don't think we know what it would do, and what we can pin down with some confidence is not good. Specific components, like the moratorium and the parking provisions, obviously there as a sot to specific project opponents, are both bad ideas. The unintended consequences for small businesses of the parking provisions loom large. I am one of Don Shoup's students, after all.
Measure S may be bad policy, but I am not sure that it is bad politics. Yes, we have a ballot box initiative that we have to vote on in a couple weeks, that's one thing. Another simply is that the various interests on display with Measure S are worth paying attention to because they might be incorporated into a pro-development coalition if they see enough of what they want alongside what the YIMBY folks want in future initiatives.
Of all the writing about Measure S, Christopher Hawthorne has penned some important pieces in the Times. I found this one, on the decades of anti-growth politics, to be particularly intriguing. If Hawthorne is right, and I think he is (with a few quibbles that don't really matter), then Measure S is simply a new incarnation of anti-development interests that have dominated LA for a long time. If he is right, then Measure S could stand a good shot at passing, and even if it doesn't, Measure S is simply a contemporary skirmish in a much longer conflict about what LA is, how it should invest in itself, and how people here should live.
In examining the pro side of Measure S, there seem to me to be threads of the "pro" narrative that reflect interests which are not necessarily entrenched with strict anti-growth interests. That is, they could be split from the existing pro-Measure S coalition if they see their interests reflected in future proposals. That strikes me as worth knowing for governing land in LA.
Enough blather. Let's look at some word clouds. These aren't the best, but I have some more work to do before I can get you really good, analytical visualizations, and I do have a day job, ya know.
Nonetheless, they do show some variations in emphasis around the issues that I think are useful to discuss.
These are the top 50 words from the various print media I've been able to collect. I do not have the videos transcribed yet, and there is a lot of material there.
This is the corpus of writing from the LA Times. Now, the Times has taken a no position on S, and it has run multiple op-eds from opponents like Shane Phillips. However, since I analyze what Shane has written separately, his op-eds for the Times are in his text corpus, not here. Some words to note here: development, plans, housing, community.
I've sorted the "pro" and "con" comments from ALL the media sources I've scraped for the study. This also includes CityWatch articles and blog posts from around the web, as well as what I could scrape from the Times and the Sentinel.
Quite a bit of overlap, right? But different emphasis on things like community, plan, planning, and some phrases that don't really appear in journalistic accounts or blog posts: Garcetti, traffic, fake, Caruso, developers (not development). Lots of the commenters direct their anger about development at the mayor and specific developers–not necessarily growth. Nonetheless, traffic is a hot-button word, and it's a cover word for anti-growth (defines growth via its potential negative externalities and nothing else, thereby trading on stigma). Interestingly, however, this corpus is the only one where the idea about "labor" pops up. I don't know what that means, if anything. Going to have to go dig through.
This word cloud is the smallest corpus–just the materials from the LA Tenants Union Statement in favor of S, and the comments I have been able to scrape in response to the Statement. Please note: unlike the "pro" commenters above, these folks do not mention the mayor, specific developers, traffic…etc. These are groups with ostensibly "pro" positions on Measure S, but they emphasize different aspects of Measure S. And, btw, like Shane Phillips, an opponent of the measure, the statement emphasized affordability.
Now, in looking at the "pro" comments above, and the "pro" comments here from Tenants Union Statement and various comments…are these folks saying the same things?
We need to do more analysis, but I think this preliminary evidence is that they are not, in general, supporting the measure because they have the same interests against development. And that strikes me as important not necessarily for Measure S, but for the long-term governance of land development in LA.
There is a lot here that overlaps with the Times and with…of all things…the Tenants Union. See where I am going with this?
Cool things about Shane's writing: he emphasizes households and homes in ways that none of the writers do.
Lots of overlap with Shane, despite their occasional snarks at each other, and two words emphasized here and nowhere else: zoning and land.
What does any of this prove? I honestly don't know yet. I need to go through and *really* analyze the material–it's possible that the discussions highlight similar terms but do so with entirely different value-framings.
But I do think it's suggestive of something important: that is, Measure S, with all its moving parts, is both ambiguous enough and ambitious enough that people look into it and see what they want they want to see, pulling out and emphasizing various things while downplaying others.
In that, however, I do think these little explorations show that the "pro" side is hardly one-note and hardly just self-interested, no-growthers. They are certainly in the coalition–the comments scraped from the web seem to show that. It looks to me, however, that their concerns do not really align all that well with Platkin's or the Tenant's Union, even if they have formed an campaign coalition here.
Which is my point. The most likely way to sustain victories from things like JJJ and counter straight-up NIMBY-related anti-growth is to build bridges with folks like the Tenants Union who are, for the moment, advocating for Measure S because they want things to change and are worried about the *effects* of development, but whose language and interests do not necessarily center *specifcally* on stopping development entirely.
And as important as MOAR SUPPLY is…it is only one argument, and I'm not sure how well it has really worked to build bridges between the YIMBY folks and the I'm-Worried-I'm-Going-To-Get-Displaced folks.
What is the Post-Measure S Agenda for Inclusion Among LA Urbanists?


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9 Easter Eggs You Probably Didn't Notice in 'The Baby-Sitters Club'
Did you catch that Clueless reference?
By Elizabeth Ann Entenman
By now, it's not a question of if you've watched The Baby-Sitters Club on Netflix but rather how many times. People of all ages are loving the series, which follows the lives and babysitting adventures of Kristy Thomas (Sophie Grace), Mary Anne Spier (Malia Baker), Claudia Kishi (Momona Tamada), Stacey McGill (Shay Rudolph), and Dawn Schafer (Xochitl Gomez).
When I say the show is exactly like the books by Ann M. Martin, I mean the show is exactly like the books by Ann M. Martin. Somehow, the creative team behind the Netflix series—which is basically all women—managed to keep almost everything the same. Considering the first book was published nearly 35 years ago, that's a pretty impressive feat. The joyful nostalgia is all in the little details that they didn't have to match but absolutely did. There are also some sly references to other pop culture titans in there. While we wait for Netflix to green-light The Baby-Sitters Club season 2, here are the biggest Easter eggs you might have missed in the show.
The credits in the show feature the sitters' handwriting from the books.
If you read the books, you might remember that the chapters start with a handwritten letter or diary entry from one of the characters. Their handwriting matched their personalities: Mary Anne wrote in nervous slanted cursive, while Dawn had cool, carefree penmanship. Readers grew to recognize each individual's handwriting, so LET ME TELL YOU that I screamed when I saw it used in the show. During the opening credits, you'll recognize both Kristy's perfectly proper cursive and Stacey's cute handwriting, i's dotted with hearts and all. (True story: I wrote my S's like hers, chicly flat on top, for a full year. It ultimately didn't take.)
Pretty much every character and location is the same.
Siblings, parents, peers, babysitting charges—you name it, the series kept it. From Kristy's collie Louie to Burger Garden in Sea City, it's all the same. (If only they'd included a shot of Claire Pike calling it "Gurber Garden.") But nothing matched the book more than the boy drama. As is canon, Mary Anne has a crush on Logan, Claudia has a crush on Trevor, and Stacey has a crush on pretty much everyone else, including Kristy's brother Sam, Scott the lifeguard, and Toby from Sea City. We didn't get to see her have her first kiss in the Tunnel of Love—it happened just before they piled into the car and left town—but we'll forgive that.
The BSC uses the same phone from the books.
Even though the show takes place in the present day, the girls still use a landline—it came with Claudia's sister's high-speed internet package. And it's the same iconic see-through phone they had in the books. Nothing has ever been more '90s than that.
Kristy writes the same essay on decorum.
In the first episode, after her teacher calls her out for being disruptive in class, Kristy has to write an essay on the importance of decorum. I have a vivid memory of her doing this in the book: It had to be 100 words long, and when she reached 98, she added "The end" to the bottom. An icon. In the show, Kristy takes it a step further with a feminist angle, lamenting that her teacher would never make a boy write an essay on the importance of decorum.
Kristy makes a Clueless reference.
The show could not go on without a lil nod to Alicia Silverstone's most iconic role ever: Cher Horowitz in the 1995 movie Clueless. Alicia plays Kristy's mom, Liz. And after a heart-to-heart about Liz getting married and Watson becoming Kristy's stepdad in episode 1, Kristy's internal monologue cheekily tells the audience: "My mom might have weird taste in men. But when it came to life, I guess she wasn't totally clueless." It was short, sweet, and incredibly satisfying.
Kristy and Mary Anne communicate using flashlights.
Now that everyone is glued to their phones 24/7, there's no need for Kristy and Mary Anne to communicate any other way but via text. So it was an unexpected delight to see the two neighbors (whose bedroom windows face each other) reprise their old form of communication from the books: the flashlight code. Sure, it only happened when Mary Anne's dad took her smartphone away. But still, we like to think they do it all the time. You know, for nostalgia's sake.
Kristy invents Kid Kits.
Remember Kid Kits? In the books, every sitter arrives to their babysitting jobs toting a box filled with fun, games, and arts and crafts supplies to keep kids engaged and entertained. Because the BSC prides itself on actually playing with their babysitting charges—not ignoring them, like its short-lived rival the Baby-Sitting Agency. The Kid Kits are mentioned only a few times in the series, but it was a fun callback to the books to see Kristy come up with the idea.
Paris Magic is a callback to the books.
Mary Anne steps out of her shell at Camp Moosehead (Camp Mohawk in the books) and decides to put on a play called Paris Magic. Only TRUE fans know that this is the ultimate Easter egg. "In the final two episodes, Paris Magic, which is the play they do at camp, is mentioned by Stacey as a show that's playing on Broadway that she wants to go see," showrunner and executive producer Rachel Shukert told ET. "It's not a real play, but it's in the world."
The BSC has a Queer Eye moment (as JVN would say).
Unless you're living under a rock, you probably noticed that Claudia and Stacey go full Fab Five (er, Terrific Two) on the Spier household. Claudia acts as Bobby Berk redesigning Mary Anne's room while Stacey attempts to give Richard some grooming tips à la Jonathan Van Ness. The Queer Eye theme song plays and everything, and honestly, we need a crossover episode ASAP.
Elizabeth Ann Entenman Elizabeth Ann Entenman is a freelance writer living in New York.
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Growth Forms
The genus Streptocarpus has traditionally been divided into the subgenera Streptocarpus and Streptocarpella. Subgenus Streptocarpus is comprised of plants with typically strap-like leaves, which grow either in an irregular rosette (rosulate) or as a single leaf (unifoliate). Subgenus Streptocarpella is comprised of conventional-looking herbs (called herbaceous or caulescent), with stems and leaves, and with flowers produced from the leaf axils. The Streptocarpellas can vary in growth habit from very short to quite tall herbs of up to one metre.
In common with all members of the Coronantheroid and Gesnerioid gesneriads, all members of the genus Streptocarpus begin life as seedlings possessed of two tiny cotyledons or seed leaves, only one of which grows beyond its initial tiny size. This pattern is referred to as "anisocotely", and is discussed in the "Seedlings" chapter of Weber's Gesneriaceae, a Scientific Perspective on this website. In the case of the Streptocarpella group, normal development of stems and leaves proceeds after initial enlargement of the single cotyledon.
In subgenus Streptocarpus, on the other hand, the active cotyledon continues to grow without production of stems. This leaf is referred to as a phyllomorph. In the unifoliate Streptocarpus the phyllomorph produced from the cotyledon becomes the only leaf the plant ever has. Unifoliate species develop flowers and produce seed from this single leaf, which can reach a considerable size, in some species 75 cm long and 30 cm wide. Many of the unifoliate Streptocarpus are also monocarpic (= single-fruiting), as the single phylomorph dies after flowering and setting seed. In some of the unifoliates the original phylomorph dies, but one or two new leaf phylomorphs sprout from it and the plant survives for another season in this way.
In contrast, the rosulate species also start out with the development of one cotyledon into a phyllomorph, but then another leaf phyllomorph develops from the first leaf and eventually a rosette shaped plant with numerous leaves arises. Rosulate species are also referred to as plurifoliate and can as a result continue growing for many years and are therefore perennial. Their leaf sizes also vary from tiny leaves a few millimetres long to 40 cm long, and up to 6 cm wide. The unifoliate and rosulate species are quite similar, however, and some species have forms which are unifoliate and monocarpic, with other forms of the same species being plurifoliate and perennial.
A characteristic of the unifoliate and rosulate species distinguishing them from the herbaceous species is the formation of leaf abscission zones during winter. These abscission zones will develop on a leaf after the first winter chill, often resulting in the die back of the distal two thirds of the leaf . The remaining leaf stub will then grow out in the next spring and extend again to become a large leaf.
This mechanism most probably evolved as a measure to counter moisture loss during winter. The living surface of the leaf always transpires a certain amount of moisture, and substantially reducing the living leaf surface reduces transpiration, enabling the roots and remaining leaf to survive. Many Streptocarpus occur in areas which have a summer rainfall and dry winters and as a result are exposed to drought conditions during winter.
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I have been doing my best since I got back to enjoy the little things. Pandaria seems to be the continent if you want to fill your bags with completely novelty items. I am nearly at 50 items which do/summon/alter things and I am not entirely sure I have time to play with the all. My favourite is still my rainbow generator though!! They should make it upgradeable for current content!
Slowest moving bird I have ever seen in my life!!!
I can't stay on the damn ramp….
I am the little pink dot in the centre….not that you can tell at high speed down a hill…but I have to do it about 3 times before I can manage to stay on track, I must be over thinking it?
And the most awesome – I FINALLY got that stupid chest under the stupid ropes!!! Would you believe as I got onto the platform the game DC'd me, so lucky that I was behind the pillar and jumping to it with my mount or I would have had to go around again. So damn happy I finally got this one!
I think that is more than enough at the moment, but just so you know…I have many many many more pictures…I am being crazy about making sure I remember all the things we forget to enjoy in the game. What bits have you been enjoying or trying to appreicate?
Hey and you to !! Are you enjoying being back and playing catch up like me? The bikes are going really well, I don't get to ride as much as I would like. but you know that is life really. Correct me if I am wrong, you moved recently as well right? How did it go? Settled in ok?
Sort of moved – some of my stuff is there, but I won't be there full time until next month. Family is staying here – see how that goes. As for settling in, I've lost count of the number of times I've moved house/city/country, so settling in is easy.
Someone else like me who finds moving easy to do 🙂 Although I haven't managed to move countries yet, it is on the cards! I think coping without the family is probably the harder thing to deal with.


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Sadeq Larijani
Title: Sadeq Larijani
Subject: Chief Justice of Iran, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i, Politics of Iran, Supreme National Security Council, Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution
Chief Justice of Iran
Appointed by
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Member of Assembly of Experts
(1960-03-12) 12 March 1960
Najaf, Iraq
Combatant Clergy Association (until 2009)
Sadeq Ardeshir Amoli Larijani (Persian: صادق اردشیر آملی لاریجانی; born 12 March 1960, Najaf, Iraq) is an Iranian cleric, politician and the current and fifth head of the judicial system of Iran after the 1979 revolution.
1 Early life and education
2.1 Activities
2.2 Views
3 Sanctions
Larijani is the son of Ayatollah Hashem Amoli. His father was an ayatollah that worked in Najaf after being exiled by Mohammad Reza Shah. They moved to Iran after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Larijani is also a brother of Ali Larijani (Speaker of the Majlis), Mohammad Javad Larijani, Bagher Larijani (Chancellor of Tehran University of Medical Sciences), and Fazel Larijani (Iran's former cultural attachée in Ottawa).[1][2][3]
He is fluent in Persian, Arabic, and English.
Larijani served as one of the 12 members of the Guardian Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran for eight years.[4] Described as "relatively junior"[4] or "inexperienced cleric" with "close ties to Iran's military and intelligence agencies",[5] he was appointed head of the judicial system of Iran by supreme leader Ali Khamenei on 15 August 2009.[6]
According to leading Iranian human rights defense lawyer[7] Mohammad Seifzadeh, the head of the Judicial System of Iran is required to be a Mojtahed with significant experience in the field. Larijani, however, was neither an experienced jurist nor a highly ranked cleric and carried the title of "Hojjat-ol Eslam" up to a few months before his appointment to the post.[8]
Shortly after his appointment, Larijani appointed [9] On 8 September 2009, Iranian Judiciary, unexpectedly closed and sealed the office of National Confidence Party and arrested Morteza Alviri and Alireza Beheshti and several of the closest allies of opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi.[10][11] That same month, the authorities from the Judiciary System began targeting the children of leaders of the opposition groups. For instance, Atefeh Emam, the daughter of jailed activist Javad Emam, the Chief of Staff of Mousavi's campaign, was arrested on 9 September 2009, held in a secret facility and tortured to pressure her to make a "confession" implicating her father. The Judiciary released her after twenty-four hours in the South of Tehran in an inappropriate condition.[12]
Sadegh Larijani stated that the government does not derive its legitimacy from the votes of the nation.[13] He is a well-known critic of ex-president Mohammad Khatami and his reforms. In March 1998 an article by him attacking Khatami's call for a civil Islamic society and Abdolkarim Soroush's philosophy was published in Sobh newspaper.[14]
Larijani proclaimed:
"We support a society which is based on the spirit of Islam and religious faith, in which Islamic and religious values are propagated, in which every Koranic injunction and the teachings of the Prophet of Islam and the Imams are implemented. It will be a society in which the feeling of servitude to God Almighty will be manifest everywhere, and in which people will not demand their rights from God but are conscious of their obligations to God." [15]
He also criticizes the views of people — such as Abdolkarim Soroush — who says that while there is a society, or civilization, of Muslims, there is no such thing as an Islamic society or civilization, and that Islam is a spiritual and individual way of life, not an ideology.[16]
Larijani condemned protesters and those who expressed doubts in the 2009 presidential election results, calling the protests "illegal" and any doubts "baseless".[17]
On 23 May 2012, Larijani was put into the sanction list of the European Union, which was published in the Official Journal of the Union.[18] In the journal, it was stated that as head of the judiciary in Iran, he endorsed and allowed harsh punishments for retribution crimes, crimes against God, and crimes against the state.[18][19]
Larijani is son-in-law of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Vahid Khorasani, who was one of his teachers in Qom.[2]
^ Erdbrink, Thomas (5 February 2013). "High-Level Feud Bares Tensions in Iran". The New York Times.
^ a b Sahimi, Mohammad (20 August 2009). "Nepotism & the Larijani Dynasty". PBS (Los Angeles). Retrieved 11 February 2013.
^ "Iran's president defies supreme leader to safeguard his future". Al Arabiya. 10 February 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
^ a b Will Iran's 'Kennedys' Challenge Ahmadinejad? By Robin Wright. 17 August 2009
^ Militarization of the Iranian Judiciary By Mehdi Khalaji, 13 August 2009
^ Sadeq Larijani to replace Shahroudi as judiciary chief: sources
^ 28 July 2009, Alert. Authorities continue to arrest human rights lawyers
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^ علیرضا بهشتى، مشاور مير حسين موسوى بازداشت شد
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^ Iran Briefing, September 2006
^ Sobh newspaper, No 80, Farvardin 1377 (March 1998), p 44.
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Q: Making 1 milion requests with aiohttp/asyncio - literally I followed up this tutorial: https://pawelmhm.github.io/asyncio/python/aiohttp/2016/04/22/asyncio-aiohttp.html and everything works fine when I am doing like 50 000 requests. But I need to do 1 milion API calls and then I have problem with this code:
    url = "http://some_url.com/?id={}"
    tasks = set()

    sem = asyncio.Semaphore(MAX_SIM_CONNS)
    for i in range(1, LAST_ID + 1):
        task = asyncio.ensure_future(bound_fetch(sem, url.format(i)))
        tasks.add(task)

    responses = asyncio.gather(*tasks)
    return await responses

Because Python needs to create 1 milion tasks, it basically just lags and then prints Killed message in terminal. Is there any way to use a generator insted of pre-made set (or list) of urls? Thanks.

A: Schedule all 1 million tasks at once
This is the code you are talking about. It takes up to 3 GB RAM so it is easily possible that it will be terminated by the operating system if you have low free memory.
import asyncio
from aiohttp import ClientSession

MAX_SIM_CONNS = 50
LAST_ID = 10**6

async def fetch(url, session):
    async with session.get(url) as response:
        return await response.read()

async def bound_fetch(sem, url, session):
    async with sem:
        await fetch(url, session)

async def fetch_all():
    url = "http://localhost:8080/?id={}"
    tasks = set()
    async with ClientSession() as session:
        sem = asyncio.Semaphore(MAX_SIM_CONNS)
        for i in range(1, LAST_ID + 1):
            task = asyncio.create_task(bound_fetch(sem, url.format(i), session))
            tasks.add(task)
        return await asyncio.gather(*tasks)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    asyncio.run(fetch_all())

Use queue to streamline the work
This is my suggestion how to use asyncio.Queue to pass URLs to worker tasks. The queue is filled as-needed, there is no pre-made list of URLs.
It takes only 30 MB RAM :)
import asyncio
from aiohttp import ClientSession

MAX_SIM_CONNS = 50
LAST_ID = 10**6

async def fetch(url, session):
    async with session.get(url) as response:
        return await response.read()

async def fetch_worker(url_queue):
    async with ClientSession() as session:
        while True:
            url = await url_queue.get()
            try:
                if url is None:
                    # all work is done
                    return
                response = await fetch(url, session)
                # ...do something with the response
            finally:
                url_queue.task_done()
                # calling task_done() is necessary for the url_queue.join() to work correctly

async def fetch_all():
    url = "http://localhost:8080/?id={}"
    url_queue = asyncio.Queue(maxsize=100)
    worker_tasks = []
    for i in range(MAX_SIM_CONNS):
        wt = asyncio.create_task(fetch_worker(url_queue))
        worker_tasks.append(wt)
    for i in range(1, LAST_ID + 1):
        await url_queue.put(url.format(i))
    for i in range(MAX_SIM_CONNS):
        # tell the workers that the work is done
        await url_queue.put(None)
    await url_queue.join()
    await asyncio.gather(*worker_tasks)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    asyncio.run(fetch_all())

A: asyncio is memory bound (like any other program). You can not spawn more task that memory can hold. My guess is that you hit a memory limit. Check dmesg for more information.
1 millions RPS doesn't mean there is 1M tasks. A task can do several request in the same second.

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Feedback is information. In organisational settings, the giving and receiving of feedback is generally regarded as an essential management tool – implicitly underpinned by some form of quality judgement, with a view to improving the process, plan or person. Indeed, I have facilitated many workshops on "Giving and Receiving Feedback" as a leadership skill. There is no doubt this is an essential and valuable tool that can enable progress and learning – and enhance adaptation to current rapidly changing organisational environments.
When I work with coaches, as supervisor or mentor, they usually ask for feedback, and what they seem to want is for me to indicate where they are going wrong and where they are getting it right. I imagine they expect something like…"Sounds like that is really working" or "Hmm, how could that be better?" The sort of thing we could expect from our teachers at school. I confess I'm not entirely comfortable with that expectation. Am I the best judge of their effectiveness? Maybe not. Perhaps best to go to your clients for that kind of feedback dear coaches, by asking them….what's working for you?…what could I be doing more of?…less of to support your learning?
So today I'm thinking about a different use of FEEDBACK.
What if feedback had another function, that of acknowledging what's happening right here, right now - what I'm calling "witnessing feedback". What if feedback was used as a way of simply confirming that something big is happening right here, right now – validating contributions, legitimising the feelings that are arising in the face of challenges? That certainly fits within my remit as supervisor or coach-mentor. And I would suggest also for the coach working with clients who are navigating disruptive organisational events.
I'm recalling times when I've been "Holding Space" * for folk going through tough times, personally or in their work setting. I've noticed that at very stressful times, often what's needed for people to get through is simply for someone to say "I see that you are going through this tough time. I see how tough it is for you right now. You are not alone here." For the leaders of teams, it could be as simple as stating the reality and adding "I see and appreciate your contribution". This form of feedback is not about judging how well they are doing, it's not about helping or fixing or advising or "modifying the next action". (And I would suggest witnessing feedback is just as valuable when something great is happening – "wow, I see that you won that one!") It's just about witnessing - someone has noticed what is happening and is acknowledging the reality of now. Someone cares.
The time for critiquing and process improvement will arrive in due course – what worked, what didn't, how could we do it differently next time. It's when people are deeply in the process (the struggle?) that "witnessing feedback" may just provide the lift that's needed to keep going, to gird up for the next big effort.
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We can pull in this schema into the build so it's included.
Will try look at this today.
Can you raise a JIRA?
schema files are inside the artemis-server.jar. The stack trace for the error is as follows.
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Polaroids occupy a special place in the hearts of many photo enthusiasts who remember a time when "instant photography" meant one-of-a-kind prints that developed within minutes of clicking the shutter. What was once a crucial tool for photographers to test their shots before shooting on film has now become obsolete in the face of digital photography. Luckily for us, legendary photographer Helmut Newton saved his test Polaroids, allowing a privileged and rare chance to see the tests from a selection of his greatest shoots over a period of decades, including many from the TASCHEN titles SUMO, A Gun for Hire, and Work. Selected by his widow, June Newton, from over 300 photos featured at the 2011 exhibition "Helmut Newton Polaroids" at the Museum für Fotografie in Berlin, this collection captures the magic of Helmut Newton photo shoots as only Polaroids can.
Helmut Newton (1920–2004) was one of the most influential photographers of all time. He first achieved international fame in the 1970s while working principally for French Vogue, where he became celebrated for his controversial scenarios. Most striking was his ability to make a throughly planned photograph seem fresh and dynamic. His many titles and awards included Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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Q: OpenGL Transforming an object on it's local coordinate system based on rotation So at the moment am working on a game for my coursework which is based around the idea of flying a rocket, I spent too much time thinking about the physics behind it that I completely ignored getting it to move properly.
For example when I were to draw a cone with the top pointing to the sky, and I rotate it on the X axis it rotates properly however if I translate it on the Y axis it moves on the global Y axis instead on it's local coordinate system which would have the Y axis pointing out of the cone's top.
My question is does openGL have a local coordinate system or would I have to somehow make my own transformation matrices, and if so how would I go about doing that.
The way I am doing the transformation and rotation is as follows:
glPushMatrix();
    glTranslatef(llmX, llmY + acceleration, llmZ);
    glRotatef(rotX, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
    glRotatef(rotY, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
    drawRocket();
glPopMatrix();

Here is a picture better explaining what I mean hopefully offers a better explanation.

EDIT: I find it really weird that the rotations seem to work one after the other as in if I rotate it on the X axis once and then proceed to rotate it on the Z axis it rotates from the already rotated X axis instead of the world X axis.
Hoping somebody could help me with understanding this, really need to get it working for my project.
Thank you.

A: If you are using a translation matrix for moving up (i.e. moving in positive Y direction), no matter where you are in on the matrix stack or in the transformation process, you are going to move the vertices in the positive Y direction.
If you instead want it move in the rotated direction, I suggest translating along the Y axis first, and then rotate to your desired angle. Essentially, push the matrices in the opposite fashion.


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Q: Is there any way to configure VPN for a chrome driver in selenium automation? I'm running automation in which I need to hit an URL that is blocked in a certain region, so I need to configure VPN for the chrome driver while launching it so that I can access the URL. is there any possibility?
I am using Selenium for running my automation.

A: I am working on a project where I will have to solve this in the future.
I will want to run multiple instances of the automation from different VPNs.
Planning to run my selenium automation in docker containers, each with their own instance of openVPN.
https://hub.docker.com/r/dperson/openvpn-client/
I haven't thought much further yet.
Hope it helps.


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NHL Rumors: Roberto Luongo for next Canucks GM, are the Islanders eyeing Ben Chariot and Evander Kane?
Mar 30, 2019; Boston, MA, USA; Florida Panthers goaltender Roberto Luongo (1) skates during a time out in the third period against the Boston Bruins at the TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: Brian Fluharty-USA TODAY Sports
The Vancouver Canucks have begun cleaning house. In the wake of Travis Green's firing with Bruce Boudreau replacing him, GM Jim Benning has also been relieved of his duties.
"First, I want to sincerely thank Jim, John, Travis and Nolan for their passion and dedication to the organization and our community," said owner Francesco Aquilini. "We are grateful for everything they have done for the Canucks during their tenure, and we wish them nothing but success in the future."
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Stan Smyl is now the Interim General Manager with Ryan Johnson being named Interim Assistant GM. The organization announced a search for new leadership has already begun.
Several names have already been bandied about, including veteran executive Jeremy Rutherford.
However, as soon as Benning was let go one named leaped to the top of my list – Roberto Luongo.
The legendary Canucks goalie spent 8 seasons with the team and took them to the 2010-2011 Stanley Cup Final, losing to the Boston Bruins in 7 games.
Luongo, 42, was the GM of Team Canada for the Wold Championships this past summer when they take home Gold in Latvia.
Reports: Canucks relieve Travis Green as coach; hire Bruce Boudreau
Islanders woes continue
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The New York Islanders lost their 11th straight game and have yet to win in their new home UBS Arena (0-4-2). They are dead last in the Metropolitan division with just 20 points (5-10-5).
This season, the Islanders rank 31st in the NHL with just 1.90 goals per game. That's only made worse as the defense, which is the foundation of their past success, ranks 18th allowing 2.95 goals per game.
Bottom line, the Islanders need to do something and need to do it soon.
Lou Lamoriello is unlikely to rush into anything being the back-to-back winner of the GM of the Year Award. Still, he's been in the game long enough to know that he can't wait too long.
Two names that the team has been attached to are Sharks forward Evander Kane and Canadiens defenseman Ben Chariot. Lamoriello will need to move some salary out in the process and also get some help from a third party to fit these two in under the cap.
Nothing is imminent but it's a situation to keep an eye on.
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Q: Remarkable limit involving $m_p=\log_p(p^{x_1} + \cdots + p^{x_n})-\log_p(n)$ It is easy to prove that
$\lim_{p\rightarrow 1} m_p = (x_1 + \cdots + x_n)/n$. The following fact about the derivative of $m_p$ with respect to $p$ is also elementary:
$$m'_p =\frac{dm_p}{dp}
=\frac{1}{p \log p}\cdot\Big[\frac{x_1p^{x_1}+\cdots+x_np^{x_n}}{p_1^{x_1}+\cdots+p_n^{x_n}}-m_p\Big].$$
My interest in this is to create an alternative to the power mean, called the exponential mean: see here and here. The limit I am interested in is $\lim_{p\rightarrow 1} m'_p$. Using WolframAlpha, I computed the limit for $n=2,3,4,5$ (see here) and the following remarkable pattern emerges:
$$\lim_{p\rightarrow 1} m'_p=\frac{1}{2n^2}\sum_{1\leq i<j\leq n}(x_i-x_j)^2.$$
How do you go about formally proving this fact? It does not sound elementary to me. Also, it sounds like $m_p$ is a strictly increasing function of $p$ (its derivative beeing positive everywhere, with $m'_0 =+\infty$ and $m'_\infty =0$) unless all the $x_i$'s are identical.
Update
In short, $m_1$ is the arithmetic mean and $m'_1$ is half the empirical variance of $x_1,\cdots,x_n$. I tried to see if such simple formulas existed for the power mean $M_p$, but I could not find anything interesting other than the well known fact that $M_1=m_1$ is the arithmetic mean. It would be interesting to see how the second and third derivatives of $m_p$ at $p=1$ are linked to the higher empirical moments of $x_1,\cdots,x_n$.

A: $\newcommand\bar\overline$
Letting $t:=\ln p$, we see that the limit in question is the limit of
$$d(t):=\frac1t\Big(\sum_1^n x_j e^{tx_j}\Big/\sum_1^n e^{tx_j}-m_{e^t}\Big)$$
as $t\to0$.
Next, letting
$\bar x:=\frac1n\,\sum_1^n x_j$, $\bar{x^2}:=\frac1n\,\sum_1^n x_j^2$, and $s^2=\bar{x^2}-\bar x^2$, we have
$$\sum_1^n x_j e^{tx_j}=\sum_1^n x_j (1+tx_j+o(t))
=n(\bar x+t\bar{x^2})+o(t),$$
$$\sum_1^n e^{tx_j}=\sum_1^n (1+tx_j+o(t))
=n(1+t\bar x)+o(t),$$
$$m_{e^t}=\log_{e^t}\Big(\frac1n\,\sum_1^n e^{tx_j}\Big) \\
=\log_{e^t}(1+t\bar x+t^2\bar{x^2}/2+o(t^2)) \\
=\tfrac1t\,\ln(1+t\bar x+t^2\bar{x^2}/2+o(t^2)) \\
=\bar x+ts^2/2+o(t).$$
So,
$$d(t)=\frac1t\Big(\frac{\bar x+t\bar{x^2}}{1+t\bar x}+o(t)-\bar x-ts^2/2\Big) \\
=\frac1t\Big((\bar x+t\bar{x^2})(1-t\bar x)+o(t)-\bar x-ts^2/2\Big) \\
=s^2/2+o(1). $$
So, the limit in question is
$$s^2/2
=\frac1{4n^2}\sum_{1\le i,j\le n}(x_i-x_j)^2 \\
=\frac1{4n^2}\sum_{1\le i,j\le n,\ i\ne j}(x_i-x_j)^2 \\
=\frac1{2n^2}\sum_{1\le i<j\le n}(x_i-x_j)^2,$$
as conjectured.

Details on the first equality in the last three-line display: The left-hand side of that equality is $\frac12\,Var\,X$, where $X$ is any random variable whose distribution is $\frac1n\,\sum_1^n\delta_{x_j}$, where $\delta_a$ is the Dirac probability measure at point $a$. The right-hand side of that equality is $$\frac14\,E(X-X')^2=\frac14\,Var(X-X')=\frac12\,Var\,X,$$
where $X'$ is an independent copy of $X$.
Of course, that equality can also be checked by straightforward algebraic calculations.


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Heavy Menstrual Bleeding and Clinical Care Standard
Dr Lim was asked to be apart of an information pack to give to GPs around the clinical care standard for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding.
Heavy menstrual bleeding is a common problem affecting 25% of women of reproductive age. It has been defined as 'excessive menstrual blood loss which interferes with the woman's physical, emotional, social and material quality of life, and which can occur alone or in combination with other symptoms'.
The range of management options for heavy menstrual bleeding has expanded and improved since the 1970s and 1980s, when rates of hysterectomy for menstrual disorders were first observed to be relatively high. Although hysterectomy remains an option, it is not generally recommended for first-line management unless less invasive options are unsatisfactory or are inappropriate.
The development of a Clinical Care Standard on heavy menstrual bleeding was a recommendation of the first Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation.
The goal of the Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Clinical Care Standard is to ensure that women with heavy menstrual bleeding are offered the least invasive and most effective treatment appropriate to their clinical needs, and have the opportunity to make an informed choice from the range of treatments suitable to their individual situation.
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Dr Lim obtained a Diploma in Child Health in 2006, and has a special interest in Family Medicine, Child Health, and Women's Health. She is certified in Implanon insertion/removal, IUD insertion/removal, and provides Antenatal Shared Care.
Dr Lim is dedicated to shaping the next generation of GPs and is involved in the selection of junior doctors into the GP training program, teaching and examining GP registrars, and improving the quality of primary healthcare as a practice accreditation surveyor.
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If you woke up this morning thinking about Jussie Smollett, the Texas abortion law, California gun rights, and California vaccine mandates, then this is the podcast for you. David and Sarah dive into a legal issue that might overturn Smollet's conviction, analyze the Supreme Court's decision to permit a very narrow facial challenge to S.B. 8, discuss Gavin Newsom's swing-and-miss, and wrap up the main portion of the pod with a discussion of vaccine mandates in San Diego schools.
Sean 1 year ago
I know this comment is late and will probably fall on deaf ears, but isn't the problem hear that Ex Parte Young is a wrong decision, or at least it is being wrongley applied? As far as I understand the 11th Amendment, it prevents citizens of one state from suing a different state in federal court. Ex Parte Young got around this problem by saying state officials can be sued over unconstitutional laws because if they are enforcing an unconstitutional law then they cannot be acting on behalf of the state. But the 11th Amendment doesn't prevent citizens of Texas from suing Texas in federal court, correct? Or, is Ex Parte Young be applied to broadly such that a suit allowed under the 11th Amendment has to be against a state official and not the state itself? Why does a Texan have to sue the AG for relief and not Texas directly?
Relatedly, I understand why the litigants did not challenge Ex Parte Young (its still the best path for pre-enforcement relief) but if they had would the case have gone better for them? Gorsuch's reasoning for not allowing suits against clerks for doing their job is that would be absolutely insane, and then he provided reasons why Ex Parte Young doesn't apply. But if the litigants had asked to overturn Ex Parte Young and sue Texas directly, maybe Gorsuch would have been more willing to go along with that? Or maybe I am totally confused and everything I wrote is wrong.
Sarah Isgur 1 year ago
Correct. Ex parte young is the problem. Legal fictions often are.
Ben Connelly 1 year ago
I know you two were somewhat joking at the beginning, but I wanted to make clear that while we love emergency pods, the AO listener community does NOT want either of you to think that you have to drop important family commitments just to drop us a podcast. We are happy to wait until Monday or whenever you schedule the next episode. Please, if you have dinner plans, or if you have a graduation to go to, or if you're sick, or if you have any other non-work commitment, just do that. Don't worry about us. We will be fine. Just wanted to make that clear. I'd rather not see the Dispatch team burn itself out.
Dustin Anglin 1 year ago
I really hope the SB 8 ruling is an outlier that just happens to reflect the court's impending ruling on Dobbs, but even if it is, this seems like a real abdication of responsibility by the court to address a very concerning precedent being set around injunctive relief for these kind of "citizen bounty" laws that could deprive citizens of constitutional rights for extended periods of time. The justices are much smarter than I, but this does not seem like their best day.
BestUsedCarSales 1 year ago
Twice a week I listen to this podcast. Twice a week my heart is crushed that the intro is not Sweet Child O' Mine yet.
You might as well change the intro to Losing My Religion at this point, because you're destroying my faith in all things.
Mike Hobolth 1 year ago
The IDEA footnote was very funny, at least for some of us. I'm guessing that law-related professionals understood half of the acronyms and K-12 educators understood the other half. If it is true that we are only allotted a finite number of syllables in this life, special education acronyms probably save lives. I'm glad the judicial branch got the same laugh out of this that school personnel have for decades. Nice inclusion (so to speak); thanks.
This Guy Says 1 year ago
If pre-enforcement/federal review of SB 8 is possible only because Texas overlooked its state licensing officials duty to enforce the statute, what's to stop Texas from amending the law and closing that door?
From the discussion, it doesn't sound like that change would impact SB 8 in any substantive way and it would allow the state to put off pre-enforcement review. I may have missed it, but I'm surprised neither hosts mentioned that possibility.
Mike Miller 1 year ago
I think it may have been mentioned but downplayed ... but I'm not sure why. For example, if Texas amends today, wouldn't the case then be dismissed? OF course, in such case, the DOJ might bring back its claim and request Cert. again. Can you un-DIG it?
barjwr 1 year ago
Hooray to jurors in general, but Sarah's take on the OJ jury is terrible. One of them admitted they made their verdict as "payback" for Rodney King. I distinctly remember this from the fantastic Ezra Edelman documentary "O.J.: Made In America."
https://www.thewrap.com/oj-simpson-juror-not-guilty-verdict-was-payback-for-rodney-king/
Like most reasonable people, I'm troubled by the idea that a State can do an end-run around effective pre-enforcement review of a law that violates a Constitutional right. Having said that, if you start with the proposition that Sovereign Immunity exists and is important, isn't Ex Parte Young just an end-run around Sovereign Immunity? If so, isn't it actually a perfectly appropriate thing to do an end-run around the end-run so as to actually allow the intended feature of Sovereign Immunity to prevail?
PaulH 1 year ago
I don't think Ex Parte Young is an "end run" around Sovereign Immunity. No one doubts that once a state enforces an unconstitutional law that the law can be challenged and overturned in in court (and such a dispute might include a preliminary injunction staying further enforcement). In other words, stopping states from violating the Constitution is not an infringement of Sovereign Immunity.
Ex Parte Young is a bit of an end run around the requirement for an actual case or controversy in order to bring suit, but not entirely so. One can not bring an action under Ex Parte Young merely because one believes a law is unconstitutional, one has to demonstrate that one is concretely adversely affected by the law (which arguable creates a "controversy").
If a women who lives in Texas is unable to get an abortion isn't she adversely affected?
Yes, no one disputes that. Her problem (under the majority holding) is that she doesn't have an adverse party to sue -- a necessary element of an actual case and controversy. On the other hand, abortion providers can sue the medical board and at least get the law ruled unconstitutional.
And she can't sue Texas b/c of ... [say it with me]?
Huh? If you have a point make it. Not interested in playing stupid games.
She can't sue Texas because of sovereign immunity. Ex Parte Young avoids that issue with the fiction that a state official trying to enforce an Unconstitutional law is acting outside the proper bounds of office and can thus be sued.
Oh I see, you are just reiterating your end-around point. You might have done that directly. Sorry not interested in further discussion or time-wasting.
Your understanding is backwards and you don't try to understand POVs that differ from yours. I made the mistake of responding to your specific points, but don't worry I won't make that mistake again.
Actually you didn't respond directly, that is the problem. Instead you chose to respond sarcastically to my straightforward responses. I hope you don't make that mistake again.
Vitaly 1 year ago
Based on my limited understanding (largely drawn from the AO podcast!) I am reasoning that Ex Parte Young is one of the few reasons the 14th Amendment can be enforced. The 11th Amendment prohibits suing the States... which basically means that on paper, we are still largely a Confederation, not a Federation. But... we had been "re-founded" during the period of 1865-1868 right? No? I would rather live in a country with Ex Parte Young than in one without it :)
Bill Dyer (aka Beldar) 1 year ago
From the official syllabus, the precise disposition of the case: "The order of the District Court is affirmed in part and reversed in part, and the case is remanded."
What was affirmed by this language was the U.S. District Court's ruling, as part of its grant of a preliminary injunction, ruling that it had before four proper defendants — Stephen Carlton,
Katherine Thomas, Allison Benz, and Cecile Young — each of whom is an executive licensing official who may or must take enforcement actions against the petitioners if the petitioners violate the terms of Texas's Health and Safety Code, including SB8.
What was reversed was the U.S. District Court's ruling that other named defendants, including State District Judge Jackson and Texas Attorney-General Paxton, were also proper defendants. The SCOTUS has said they're not, and they, like the sole private-plaintiff defendant, are out of the case hereafter.
So what's next? The remand is not directly to the federal district court level, but rather, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which had refused to grant an injunction pending appeal against ANYBODY, including the executive licensing officials. The Fifth Circuit will re-claim jurisdiction as soon as the SCOTUS issues its mandate (which may already have happened, or if not will happen in a matter of days, not weeks).
I'd expect the abortion providers to immediately re-urge before the Fifth Circuit their motion for an injunction pending appeal — but this time, as per the SCOTUS decision, an injunction pending appeal solely against the executive licensing officials. And eight members of the SCOTUS having confirmed that yes, there really IS someone appropriate and sufficient sitting in that chair that we all knows belongs to the real party in interest, the State of Texas (acting through its executive licensing officials, all defended by the same Ken Paxton who's just gotten out of the case), I think the Fifth Circuit will pay due heed to the 8/1 agreement on this holding as to these executive licensing defendants, and will indeed grant the injunction pending appeal as to them only.
For purposes of considering whether other courts — including state civil district courts who might theoretically be asked to enter a judgment for statutory damages in favor of a private-party plaintiff and against an abortion provider — are going to do in the meantime, before the Fifth Circuit rules on the merits (or at least on the probability of success element of a preliminary injunction proceeding) regarding the constitutionality of SB8, it does not matter a whit that MOST of the state-official defendants, including Judge Jackson and Attorney-General Paxton, are not being enjoined and appear to be out of the case altogether.
To have a live case and controversy, a ripe one, a justiciable one, within the subject-matter jurisdiction of the federal courts between real parties in interest, there need not be more than one defendant. And regardless of what these four defendants say about their intentions, they can't re-write the Texas statutes on the fly.
The abortion providers have what they needed — a vehicle to get the constitutional pre-review of SB8. So the bottom, bottom line is that the abortion providers are going to get their pre-enforcement review, and the Texas Legislature's scheme to hack the system has failed.
It's possible that Dobbs moots some or all of this if it overrules Roe/Casey, because that would change the probability-of-success-on-the-merits calculation. And regardless of Dobbs, some future Texas Legislature may try again. But short of outright abolition of the state licensing authority for doctors and nurses, I don't think they can fix what caused them to lose in the present hack attempt.
Why some people are treating this as anything BUT an unalloyed win for the abortion providers, I genuinely cannot fathom.
Gavin Newsom, and his press release, are a giant SQUIRREL, and I encourage anyone even briefly distracted by him or it to ignore that noise.
Pohl 1 year ago
Well said. I agree that Texas can't easily bypass the licensing officials now, and that's that. I suppose a crafty aide is pushing a memo on his boss as we speak though.
The discussion of SB8 was rather disappointing. Neither Sarah nor David seemed interested in digging into the reasoning of either side. Sarah was oddly dismissive of Gorsuch's reliance on precedent but didn't explain what she thought he should have done. In my view Gorsuch's opinion was strong both in terms of following precedent and explaining why that was important. Certainly it was better than Robert's opinion which relied on the conclusory statement that clerks were in fact adverse parties -- a strange notion that is inconsistent the actual function of clerks and how they are viewed by litigants.
Also, I wish there had been more discussion of how this battle is likely to play out. Certainly at some point a court will rule the law unconstitutional -- if that ruling gets appealed up to the Texas Supreme Court (and upheld), then is it all over? And how much mischief can be done between now and then.
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Registrar moves to protect members' privacy
The Registrar of Indigenous Corporations, Selwyn Button, has ended the practice of by-default publishing of all corporation members' addresses on the ORIC website. Members' addresses will no longer appear in corporation extracts; applications to register; lists of members; or general reports. The change also applies retrospectively, to all documents previously published.
The move comes as a result of consultations during 2017 and 2018 about reforms to the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (CATSI Act). Mr Button said 'Members told us in no uncertain terms that they dislike having their address published on our website. And while there is a statutory obligation to include that information on the public record, it need not be instantly accesssible to all and sundry.'
Members' addresses remain part of the official public register. Under the CATSI Act, a member of the public has the right to inspect all information or documents that are part of public registers (except exempt documents). So the current shift maintains that right of access, but requires people to make a formal request for it. Mr Button added, 'Members can also be assured that we will consider privacy concerns before providing any document for inspection.
For more information, please see Policy Statement 12: Registers and use and disclosure of information held by the Registrar.
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The device, which would include thousands of microscopic filters as well as a bioreactor to mimic the metabolic and water-balancing roles of a real kidney, is being developed in a collaborative effort by engineers, biologists and physicians nationwide, led by Doctor Shuvo Roy, in the UCSF Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences.
The treatment has been proven to work for the sickest patients using a room-sized external model. Roy's goal is to apply silicon fabrication technology, along with specially engineered compartments for live kidney cells, to shrink that large-scale technology into a device the size of a coffee cup. The device would then be implanted in the.
End-stage renal disease, or chronic kidney failure, affects more than 500,000 people per year in the United States alone, and currently is only fully treated with a kidney transplant. Yet transplants are difficult to obtain.
The implantable device aims to eradicate that problem. The two-stage system uses a hemofilter to remove toxins from the blood, while applying recent advances in tissue engineering to grow renal tubule cells to provide other biological functions of a healthy kidney. The process relies on the body's blood pressure to perform filtration without needing pumps or an electrical power supply.
The first phase of the project, which has already been completed, focused on developing the technologies required to reduce the device to a size that could fit into the body and testing the individual components in animal models. In the second and current phase, the team is doing the sophisticated work needed to scale up the device for humans.


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Q: Combining Delphi & remobjects via SSL I'm in the development of a server client solution.
The server is written in delphi and the client written in c#, and we're using RemObjects 5 (xml webservice thingy) to perform the communication.
Now, I've got a working soluting using HTTP, but of course we would like to use HTTPS using.
I've looked at OpenSSL earlier, but it seems to be a pain to actually get a reasonable recent version to work together with Delphi.
I would like suggestions for 3rd party software, libraries, or even hints, tutorials and references. It's more or less anything goes short of abandoning remobjects and delphi.
Necessary requirements:
Delphi 2006, 2007 or 2010.
Visual studio 2005 / 2008 or 2010.
Much appreciated.

A: Also tried Indy SSL demo?
http://www.indyproject.org/Sockets/Demos/index.EN.aspx
http://adg.bmpcoe.org/IndySSL/
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Done some googling:
http://secureblackbox.com/article_remobjects.html
http://devcenter.remobjects.com/articles/?id={EF02D5FA-4536-4D5F-BF3D-50676397D7E0}

A: If you are using RemObjects SDK, you can use OpenSSL by using one of the server channels that are implemented using Indy, like TROIndyHTTPServer; this channel uses Indy internally, and provides access to the internal Indy component via its IndyServer property.
You can assign a TIdSSLIOHandlerSocketOpenSSL to TROIndyHTTPServer.IndyServer.IOHander property to use SSL in your communication.
You need OpenSSL compiled for Indy, which you can download the latest version from this link:
http://blog.digivendo.com/2009/11/openssl-v0-9-8l-for-indy/


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