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Federal Judge Orders Stacey Abrams Group To Reimburse Georgia $230K for Spurious Election Lawsuit
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Tough on Crime: Ron Johnson Defeats Far-Left Candidate Who Wanted To Defund the Police
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Vukmir Hits Baldwin Over Vote for Lighter Sentencing for Child Sex Offenders
Wisconsin Dem opposed harsher sentences for child sex offenders while in state legislature
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Leah Vukmir, the Republican nominee challenging Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D., Wisc.) this fall, will hit Baldwin over a past vote for lighter sentencing for repeat convicted child sex offenders, according to a campaign memo shared with the Washington Free Beacon.
The memo details Baldwin's vote against the passage of Assembly Bill 505, which stipulates life without parole to repeat child sex offenders, during her time in the Wisconsin state legislature. Baldwin was one of only 22 state representatives in 1997 to oppose the bill, which passed 79-22.
"This bill creates a new category of persistent repeater. Specifically, the bill provides that a person is a persistent repeater if he or she has one or more prior convictions for a serious child sex offense and is subsequently convicted of committing another serious child sex offense," text of the bill reads. "Like a person with 3 serious felony convictions under current law, a person who is a persistent repeater based on convictions for serious child sex offenses must be sentenced to life without parole."
The bill went on to state that "child sex offenses covered by the bill are sexual assault of a child, sexual exploitation of a child, incest with a child, child enticement, soliciting a child for prostitution, sexual assault of a student by a school instructional staff person, causing a child to view or listen to sexual activity, exposing a child to harmful material and, if the victim was a minor and the convicted person was not the victim's parent, false imprisonment and kidnapping."
Vukmir will also draw attention to Baldwin's 1994 opposition to a supermax prison. Baldwin had said a new prison could help with overcrowding but that is was "premature to site and fund a new prison."
Vukmir additionally hits Baldwin for praising Tony Evers, Democratic candidate for governor in Wisconsin, as a "rock solid progressive" and "champion for children" in a fundraising email. Evers said Wisconsin spends too much on corrections and wants to release prisoners, according to Vukmir.
Evers did not revoke the license of a teacher who watched porn on the job and made explicit comments about students as he was serving as state superintendent of public instruction, the Washington Free Beacon noted last year after obtaining a copy of a report that was put together following an investigation into Andrew Harris, a seventh grade teacher at Glacier Creek Middle School in Dane County, Wisc.
The report detailed how another teacher had filed a report against Harris for viewing and sharing pornographic materials on his school computer and email account during work hours. Harris had received 23 emails from his sister between the summer of 2008 and late 2009 that contained pornographic images, movies, and jokes while at the school.
One such email mentioned in the report included "a joke about a married couple on vacation who consider buying sandals that are said to make the owner a sex freak. After trying them on the wrong feet, the husband attempts to have anal sex with the male salesman while the salesman screams that he has them on the wrong feet."
Harris also made comments during meetings that upset coworkers, according to interviews during the investigation.
Harris had said that a seventh grade female who was struggling in school should "brush up on her blow job skills because that's all she'd be good at later in life." Harris would also make comments on the "chest sizes or the overall physical appearance" of female students in grade school.
The report also said that Harris retaliated and harassed the teacher who had reported him.
In May 2010, the board voted to end his employment and his actions were reported to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Donald Johnson, the district superintendent, asked for Harris's license to be revoked.
Evers, who was acting as Wisconsin state superintendent of public instruction during that time, refused the request, saying he did not have the power to revoke the license.
The Middleton Education Association, Harris's union, interjected following Harris's job termination and demanded he be given the job back. An arbitrator argued that Harris's discipline was unfair and asked for the termination to be reduced to a suspension. Harris was allowed back at the school but had a teacher's aide had to be placed in the classroom alongside Harris.
"The report you likely have was issued by the school district in justification of their employment action (firing him). It is not unbiased and is designed to highlight the points they felt were favorable," Thomas McCarthy, the communications director for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, told the Free Beacon last year. "Attached you will find the arbitrator's decision, which evaluated the facts of the case and called witnesses to validate the information. This will hopefully be helpful in setting some of the record straight in terms of the incident in question."
"In regards to your licensing question, it's important to note that licensing decisions are separate from employment actions in Wisconsin," continued McCarthy. "The state agency handles licensing, but is not involved in employment actions. To meet the terms for a license revocation during this period of time, the action in question had to meet the immoral conduct standard AND have a direct nexus with a child/student. The second prong of that test could not be met in the Andrew Harris case, despite the agency's best efforts to do so." [Emphasis in the original.]
The Republican Party of Wisconsin said that Evers did have the authority, under 2010 Wisconsin State Statutes, to revoke Harris's license.
"Long before Tony Evers, Tammy Baldwin wanted criminals back on our streets, as she voted against life without parole for repeat sex offenders," Vukmir says. While Baldwin and Evers' aim to release violent criminals, Leah Vukmir is the pediatric nurse and mother who will enforce the law and push for policies that keep our children safe."
Baldwin's campaign did not immediately return a request for comment.
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Thousands of flying ants filmed in Grimsby garden as swarms gather across the country
Flying Ant Day 2020 saw swarms of insects so large they were detected on weather radars
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Anna Riley
Swarms of flying ants have been spotted around northern Lincolnshire.
The past day or so has seen thousands of the airborne insects seen across the UK in an annual event known as Flying Ant Day.
This happens when male and female ants sprout wings and venture out of their nests on a 'nuptial flight', seeking insects from other colonies to mate with.
The video above was filmed in a Grimsby garden on Friday evening – the same day swarms in parts of the south east were so huge that they were detected as rain on Met Office weather radars.
In a sight no doubt replicated in many parts of the area, it shows thousands of ants massing on a patio and in grass.
According to the Society of Biology, nuptial flight is an important phase in the reproduction of the ant species. During the flight, virgin queens mate with males and then land to start a new colony.
Masses of flying ants were filmed in a Grimsby garden on Friday evening
The flying ants most commonly seen are almost certainly the black garden variety, the Lasius niger. Their nests have a single queen and typically around 5,000 workers, although there can be as many as 15,000.
Though there is no exact date each year for Flying Ant Day, it usually happens in July and typically occurs when a spell of wet weather is followed closely by warm, humid conditions as have been seen recently.
Last month, our sister site Hull Live spoke to insect expert Dr Africa Gomez, a biologist at the University of Hull. who has a passion for insects and other invertebrates.
"The ants have wings so they can mate with different nearby colonies to avoid inbreeding and make the colonies stronger," said Dr Gomez.
"This means they all have to synchronise which is why we get swarms on certain days of the year."
Dr Gomez explains what needs to be in place for the swarms of flying ants to appear.
Swarms of flying ants have been spotted around the country (Image: Getty)
"For breeding to take place the conditions have to be right," she said.
"To fly the ants need thermals which can only happen on hot days with research suggesting it needs to be 25C or higher. That means it usually happens in July or August.
"But is also usually happens after storms. We believe the reason for this is that the queen will need to dig her own nest to lay the eggs.
"But this cannot be done in the dry hot weather when the soil is rock hard. She needs to wait until it rains so the soil is soft enough."
While large swarms of flying ants can be annoying they are generally harmless.
"Potentially, ants have a sting but it rarely affects us," Dr Gomez said.
"They do have formic acid which they spray to defend themselves which can act as an irritant."
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While Flying Ant Day doesn't seem like something to celebrate, Dr Gomez believes we should take some time out to appreciate another of nature's sights.
"I am biased but I think we should be awed by such a spectacle," she said.
"They can be an annoyance if you are having a picnic but you should marvel at and enjoy the flying ants."

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Hydronephrosis is a topic covered in the Diseases and Disorders.
Sommers, Marilyn Sawyer.. "Hydronephrosis." Diseases and Disorders, 6th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2019. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Diseases-and-Disorders/73610/all/Hydronephrosis.
Sommers MS. Hydronephrosis. Diseases and Disorders. 6th ed. F.A. Davis Company; 2019. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Diseases-and-Disorders/73610/all/Hydronephrosis. Accessed April 22, 2019.
Sommers MS. Hydronephrosis [Internet]. In: Diseases and Disorders. F.A. Davis Company; 2019. [cited 2019 April 22]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Diseases-and-Disorders/73610/all/Hydronephrosis.


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The Lazy Song by Bruno Mars - Easy Piano with Clean Lyrics
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By Bruno Mars. Arranged by Dennis Ruello. Sheet Music Single. 6 pages. Published by Chicory Music (H0.323787-214054).
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"The Lazy Song" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars for his debut studio album Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010). It was serviced to contemporary hit radios in the United States on February 15, 2011 as the album's third single by Atlantic and Elektra. Development of "The Lazy Song" began while Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine were hanging around the studio and didn't feel like working. Mars wrote the song in collaboration with singer-songwriter K'naan and his production team The Smeezingtons, who also produced the track. Musically, "The Lazy Song" has been described as borrowing "heavily from roots reggae", while lyrically it is an anthem to laziness. This arrangement, in the Key of F, has "clean lyrics" and is for musicians who perform at the Advanced Intermediate Level.
Performance time is approx. 3 minutes 16 seconds.
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Dino Sokolović, hrvaški paraolimpijski prvak v slalomu
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package cc.mallet.fst;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

import cc.mallet.types.Instance;
import cc.mallet.types.InstanceList;
import cc.mallet.types.Sequence;

import cc.mallet.util.MalletLogger;

/**
 * Reports the percentage of instances for which the entire predicted sequence was
 *  correct.
 *
 * Created: May 12, 2004
 *
 * @author casutton@cs.umass.edu
 * @version $Id: InstanceAccuracyEvaluator.java,v 1.1 2007/10/22 21:37:48 mccallum Exp $
 */
public class InstanceAccuracyEvaluator extends TransducerEvaluator {

  private static final Logger logger = MalletLogger.getLogger (InstanceAccuracyEvaluator.class.getName());

	private HashMap<String,Double> accuracy = new HashMap<String,Double>();

  public void evaluateInstanceList (TransducerTrainer tt, InstanceList data, String description)
  {
    int correct = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < data.size(); i++) {
      Instance instance = data.get(i);
      Sequence input = (Sequence) instance.getData();
      Sequence trueOutput = (Sequence) instance.getTarget();
      assert (input.size() == trueOutput.size());
      Sequence predOutput = tt.getTransducer().transduce (input);
      assert (predOutput.size() == trueOutput.size());
      if (sequencesMatch (trueOutput, predOutput))
        correct++;
      }
    double acc = ((double)correct) / data.size();
		accuracy.put(description, acc);

    logger.info (description+" Num instances = "+data.size()+"  Num correct = "+correct+" Per-instance accuracy = "+acc);
  }

  public double getAccuracy(String description) {
	  return accuracy.get(description).doubleValue();
  }

  private boolean sequencesMatch (Sequence trueOutput, Sequence predOutput)
  {
    for (int j = 0; j < trueOutput.size(); j++) {
      Object tru = trueOutput.get(j);
      Object pred = predOutput.get(j);
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Ribbon-cutting ceremony held for Community Heritage Center in Clovis
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By Jason Oliveira
CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- On a day when we remember the brave men and women who served our country, the Clovis Veterans Memorial District held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new Community Heritage Center Thursday.
Organizers say the idea to open a museum like this started about 10 years ago.
"It tells the story of Clovis," says Tom Wright. "It ties the Clovis community, Clovis veterans and all the contributions they made on behalf of the community that keeps the community values going. It's just a really special place."
The 5,000 sq. ft. multi-million dollar facility includes talking holograms and other interactive features that will tantalize the senses.
Visitors will smell gun smoke in the World War I bunker or they can send a piece of wood down the flume, much the same way the area's pioneers did it back in the day.
The goal is to keep the exhibits fresh and new while providing an intimate learning experience.
"This is going to be an ever-changing thing," Wright said. "You'll come here now, see it and come back in six months, it'll be a completely different thing because everything is interchangeable."
Thursday's grand opening was part of the city's Veteran's Day events that included a nearby car show.
Many of those who showed up for the classic automobiles made their way into the new museum.
John Stead and his Cub Scout troop were impressed with the center's war exhibit.
"I think that it's very amazing that a lot of the military's history is stored here," he said.
There is something here geared for just about every grade level -- organizers anticipate welcoming students to the museum soon.
"We'll have school tours coming through here, looking and observing, learning about things that are relevant to their curriculum," Wright said.
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Q: Sending an SMS using Google Voice I have an app where I need to be able to send SMS messages.  I have the code to send them directly, but I would like to give the option to use Google Voice to users who don't have messaging plans.  Does anyone know how to do this?  I can't seem to find the way.  Here is the way I am doing it now:
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
buffer.append("GEOC ");
buffer.append(mLogType.getSelectedItemPosition() == 0 ? "@" : "x");
buffer.append(mGeocache.getWaypoint()).append(" ");
if(mLogEdit.getText().length() > 0)
{
    buffer.append(mLogEdit.getText().toString());
}

SmsManager sms = SmsManager.getDefault();
sms.sendTextMessage("41411", null, buffer.toString(), null, null);

A: You want to use an SMS Intent.
That will give the user the option to select (or skip this step if he already have a default option) which SMS sending utility he want's to use.
several applications register themselves as such, such as skype, yahoo hub, google voice, etc.
So using a Intent, you tell android to use whatever the user wants to send the text message to a sms recipient.

A: It's my belief that the user must have a google voice account setup and have the voice app installed. Then when you fire an intent to send an sms it will be their preference to use google voice or not.

A: I've found a site where they've written their own google voice java library that you can import into your app and use.  I just downloaded it yesterday so can't help with specific yet, but go ahead and take a look.  It looks really promising.
http://code.google.com/p/google-voice-java/

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Interesting Thoughts
The Most Important Constitutional Amendment You've Never Heard Of
Occurred to me on December 27, 2020
This amendment lies at the heart of issues on the left and right: granting abortion rights, gay marriage, contraceptive rights, limiting gerrymandering, gun rights, limiting affirmative action, resolving the famous Presidential Election of 2000, and the status of women in the draft. If you care about any of these subjects, no matter you opinion, you have to understand the constitutional amendment at the center all of those debates in order to have an informed opinion. It is the most influential part of the constitution on daily life. It's not any of the Bill of Rights; They actually had a legal loophole that this amendment would close.
I am of course, referring to the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth is unique even among other "freedom granting" amendments because it does not protect any specific liberty (for example, freedom of speech); Instead it protects liberty in general. As a consequence, it has been used to give us liberties that its framers could never have imagined, such as access to contraception. This opens the door for a non-legislative policy response to unequal institutions like bail and police, when state and federal congresses are too gridlocked to act. But to get there, we have to start with the historical context.
Historical Context (briefly)
The North won the Civil War and outlawed slavery in the Thirteenth Amendment (finally). Being nominally free wasn't enough; abolitionists realized that the federal government needed to protect the newly freed slaves from persecution. They legislated the Fourteenth Amendment to protect their freedom. It was written to apply to all Americans, so it has huge implications for society today. There are three important clauses for us today: the Priveleges and Immunities Clause, the Due Process Clause, and the Equal Protection Clause.
Privileges and Immunities Clause
I am not a legal scholar or historian, so I may have mistakes; feel free to mention them in the comments.
The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the constitution, which guarantees a litany of rights including:
However, all of these limitations on governmental action only apply to the federal government not state governments. The framers largely trusted the state governments and were only skeptical of a tyrannical federal government for three reasons:
The idea of the thirteen former colonies operating as a single nation was still new. They volunteered to work together in the Revolutionary War and then in the Articles of Confederation, but still mostly operated as a loose confederation of states while the Constitution was being drafted.
State governments were directly elected, while many parts of the federal government were indirectly elected or appointed (the Senate, the President, the Supreme Court, other federal courts, the cabinet, etc.).
The seat of federal power was distant given the modes of transportation available at the time, but the state capitol was usually only a few days away by horseback.
In general, the state governments were responsive to their people… as long as the "people" were white and male. Abolitionists in the North saw that the South couldn't be trusted to be anything but tyrannical to the newly-freed slaves. The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868 set out to rectify what the framers of the Bill of Rights in 1789 overlooked: the Constitution would need to limit state governments in order to preserve civil liberties for all Americans.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;
However, the effect of this clause all hinges on how one defines "privileges and immunities." The framers intended to include the Bill of Rights and other rights, but they did not want to enumerate them lest the amendment be limited to only the Bill of Rights. However, this plan backfired: in a 5-4 decision known as The Slaughter-House Cases (1873), the Supreme Court interpreted "privilges and immunities" narrowly, not even including the Bill of Rights! This single decision renders the whole clause nearly irrelevant, and it is rarely used today.
Yale Law Professor Akhil Amar wrote "virtually no serious modern scholar–left, right, and center–thinks that Slaughter-House is a plausible reading of the [Fourteenth] Amendment." The Court usually gives deference to the intention of the framers, and in this case, the Congressional record itself holds their discussion that they intended the Amendment protect the Bill of Rights! Unfortunately, once the Court settles on something, it is extremely difficult to reverse, due to a doctrine known as stare decisis. Instead, legal advocates would turn to the Due Process Clause to provide the basic freedoms of the Bill of Rights for the newly-freed slaves.
However, there are some signs that almost a hundred-and-fifty years later, the court is willing to revisit this decision. Justice Clarence Thomas in McDonald v. City of Chicago (which I will describe later), used the Privileges and Immunities Clause to arrive at his decision, indicating he may be willing to overrule Slaughter-House in the future.
Due Process Clause
nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
The most obvious application is to criminal proceedings, where alleged criminals are guaranteed a legal procedure to defend themselves. But it also extends to things like eminent domain: if the Vogons want to knock down Arthur Dent's property to build an intergalactic hyperspace bypass, the Amendment would require that they notify Arthur Dent (and the other residents of earth) and provide a legal procedure to fight the demolition. Leaving a note at Alpha Centauri doesn't count.
Hence, this category of rights is called procedural due process. What exact legal procedure depends on the circumstance. The Supreme Court has interpreted this to mean the person whose liberty the government wants to deprive needs to have a chance to defend themselves. For example, those accused of violating criminal laws can try to prove that they are innocent.
But what if a state made a law saying everyone whose first and last name starts with an 'A' needs to pay a fine to the government? Procedural due process wouldn't help Aziz Ansari, because he is clealy guilty of having an A-name. In order to really have due process, the Court decided, the government needs to prove that the law is not an arbitrary limitation of freedom. This is caled "substantive due process," because it protects people from the substance law. In order to get the highest level of protection, "strict scrutiny," from the Due Process Clause, plaintiffs have to show two things:
The government encroaches a right that is "deeply rooted in our nation's history and traditions."
That encroachment is not "narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest."
Judicial review, the practice of the judiciary striking down some law as unconstitutional, is not without controversy. It is inherently "anti-majoritarian:" a small group of appointed political elites can overturn the will of the people and their elected legislature. The point of judicial review is to check the power of popular will against narrowly and explicitly defined legal precepts; if 50.01% of people decide to oppress the other 49.99% for no reason, the courts should be able to prevent that. However, the courts are rightly reluctant to be in the position of overturning the popular will.
The considered views and opinions of even the most highly qualified scholars and experts seldom outweigh the determinations of the voters. When challenged, however, the voters' determinations must find at least some support in evidence. –Judge Vaughn Walker in Hollingsworth v. Perry (2010)
Incorporating the Bill of Rights against the states
Instead of the Privileges and Immunities Clause incorporating all of the Bill of Rights against the states, as the framers intended, the Supreme Court chose to incorporate individual pieces of the Bill of Rights against the states on a case-by-case basis. Overtime most–but not all–of the Bill of Rights has been incoprorated (for a list of each amendment and its incorporation status, see here). The most important for contemporary political descussion is McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010) because it deals with gun rights.
Chicago had enacted expansive gun control: it completely banned handguns (remember the Second Amendment does not apply to the states by itself). The plaintiff stated that his home had been broken into multiple times, so he needed a handgun to ensure his own liberty. Even the most pro-gun control must admit, owning a gun is "deeply rooted in our nation's history," and a blanket ban is the antithesis of a "narrowly tailored" restriction, the Court reasoned as they struck down Chicago's ordinance. The Court does permit some regulation of guns, however.
Chicago can amend its gun laws to comply with this ruling while continuing to have strong, comprehensive and Constitutional gun laws, just as Washington D.C. has done [following District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)]. – Justice Samuel Alito in McDonald v. City of Chicago
Even the Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence claimed victory following McDonald, because the Court clarified what gun legislation was constitutional, and the things the Campaign advocates are explicitly permitted. To think this all started from an amendment made on behalf of the newly freed slaves…
Equal Protection Clause
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws;
The abolitionists expected that state governments would not start treating the newly-freed slaves equally overnight. Hence, they wrote the Equal Protection Clause. Given this, how could segregation have existed for so long in the South?
The Supreme Court again minimized the impact of the Fourteenth Amendment, to the point where the most egregious segregation was legal, in four major decisions:
The Supreme Court noted in U.S. v. Cruikshank (1876), upheld in Civil Rights Cases (1883), that the Fourteenth Amendment only limits state governments not individuals; the relevant sentence of the Amendment begins "No state shall…"
The Court ruled in Breedlove v. Suttles (1937) that since the rules for the poll tax were applied uniformly, it is consistent with the Equal Protection Clause.
The Court ruled in Lassiter v. Northampton County Board of Elections (1959) that a literacy test was consistent with Equal Protection Clause as long as it was not intended to descriminate on the basis of race.
The Court, infamously, asserted in Plessy v. Furguson (1896) that "separate but equal" segregation is consistent with the Equal Protection Clause.
For these reasons, the Amendment failed to live up to its goals. There were violations of even the watered-down Amendment: certainly some of the literacy tests were intended to descriminate on the basis of race, and certainly there were government-provided services which were separate but unequal. But extra-legal factors prevented challenges to the system of segregation. I consider it the greatest moral failing of the American justice system that even the limited guarantees of the Amendment were not provided to blacks in practice.
However, this was to be redeemed during the civil rights movement in the mid-twentieth century. Each of the legal defects would be completely reversed.
Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the The Civil Rights Act of 1964, justifying its authority to desegregate private industries because on the Commerce Clause (segregation affected interestate commerce) rather than the Fourteenth Amendment. This was upheld in the landmark Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964) and would lead to the reluctant disappearance of de jure segregation even from the most Solid of the South.
The Twenty-fourth Amendment (1964) made poll taxes unconstitutional for federal elections and Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections (1966) did so for state and local ones. As far as I can tell, the court in Harper arrived at a different conclusion because it consisted of different justices than in Breedlove.
In Katzenbach v. Morgan (1966), the Court expanded a part of the Fourteenth Amendment I have not delineated here (the Enforcement Clause) which would permit the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit literacy tests.
The infamous "separate but equal" doctrine was struck down in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). I could write a whole essay just on the difference between in the Court's reasoning in Plessy and Brown, but the briefest summary is: the plaintiffs successfully argued that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
It makes me imagine what would the country look like if the Fourteenth Amendment was interpreted and drafted as it intended. What if the Jim Crow Era never happened? In a few ways, American society still hasn't made up the progress gained in the height of Reconstruction, although we have surpassed it in many ways, like private and public integration, voting rights, and prohibition of poll taxes. The occupying Northern Army took a stand against racial violence and had even eradicated the First KKK in 1871. Many states and districts have yet to send a black person to congress since Reconstruction. When they have, there is usually only one.
And despite these recent legal victories, of course the fight against racism is not over. It has pivoted to social, cultural, and economic issues, rather than de jure segregation.
Sexual Equality and the Fourteenth Amendment
The Amendment never explicitly mentions sex discrimination, but it seems an obvious consideration for the Equal Protection Clause. Again, the courts would interpret the Amendment narrowly; It would take almost a century to ensure that sex discrimination is protected, and in some ways, the fight is still continuing today.
Susan B. Anthony wanted to argue that she was a citizen by birth and that the right to vote was a privilege of citizenship. Therefore, it should be extended to her by the Privileges and Immunities Clause (this was concurrent with Slaughter-House). However, Anthony could not get even this far. The authorities considered it a criminal violation rather than a civil one, so United States v. Susan B. Anthony (1873) could not even come before the Supreme Court. Her jury of peers was all male; this paradoxically implies that men were both peers of Anthony and they could vote when she couldn't. To top it all off, the presiding judge, Justice Ward Hunt, actually instructed the jury to find Anthony guilty. A contemporary observer would remark, "Miss Anthony had no trial by jury. She had only a trial by Judge Hunt."
Even contemporary observers realized the Anthony trial was political theatre. Suffragists tried again in Minor v. Happersett (1875). The judge ruled that voting was not a privilege of citizenship. After all, some children and felons are certainly citizens but cannot vote. This case had a ripple effect in limit suffrage. It was cited in Breedlove and Lassiter. Women would need a constitutional amendment to claim the right to vote instead, which they got in the Nineteenth Amendment (1920). Donald Trump symbollically vindicated Anthony with a pardon on the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment's ratification.
In 1971, almost a hundred years after the first failed attempt to apply the Fourteenth Amendment to sexual equality by Anthony and Minor, the Supreme Court heard Reed v. Reed (1971). This time, however, the plaintiffs argued on the basis of the Equal Protection Clause, and the Court agreed. Coincidentally, future Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg filed an amicus brief in Reed on behalf of the ACLU's Women's Rights Project.
Sex is currently protected by the Equal Protection Clause with "intermediate scrutiny," which is some progress, but many want to pass the Equal Rights Amendment which would would protect sex at the highest level, "strict scrutiny," essentially making it easier to win cases based on sexual discrimination (see ERA Education Project). However, requiring only males to register for the draft would not pass strict scrutiny, according to even legal scholars who favor the ERA (Hastings Law Journal). This was the source of much opposition at the time the ERA was debated, since the feminist movement was linked with the anti-Vietnam War movement. Today, 76% of women support the ERA according to a 2020 AP poll, but only 38% of women agree with extending draft registration to women according to a 2020 Rasmussen Report.
To add yet another "however," a male-only draft-registration might not even pass the currently-enforced intermediate scrutiny. We won't know for sure until the courts decide appeals on National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System (2019). Feminist advocates such as the National Organization for Women Foundation are actually aligned with the National Coalition for Men, because such a ruling would strengthen the definition of intermediate scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause.
In Blostock v. Clayton County (2020), the court would expand discrimination the definition of "sexual discrimination" to include discrimination based on sexual preference and sexual identity. Neil Gorsuch justifies the expansion as such:
An employer who fired an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids. Those who adopted the Civil Rights Act might not have anticipated their work would lead to this particular result. But the limits of the drafters' imagination supply no reason to ignore the law's demands. –Neil Gorsuch in the majority opinion of Bostock
The Fourteenth Amendment Today
The Amendment has implications for a host of policy issues today.
Marriage rights: Extended to interracial couples and same-sex couples in Loving v. Virginia (1967) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) respectively on the basis of the Equal Protection Clause.
Contraceptive and abortion rights: Extended by Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) and Roe v. Wade (1973). The Court found an implied right to privacy, protected by the Due Process Clause, that makes blanket bans on contraception and abortion unconstitutional (exact stipulations were modified in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)).
Challenges to affirmative action: The Court found that affirmative action, in general was ok, but racial quotas were a violation of the Equal Protection Clause inRegents of the Univ. of Cal. v. Bakke (1978).
Trump's Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity: The commission wanted to compare voter rolls to a database of non-citizens. The NAACP claimed that this would have a large amount of false-positives, and that would disproportionately affect minorities in NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund v. Trump, Pence, and Kobach (2017). The Commission was dismissed before the case went to court.
The Presidential Election of 2000: The Court held that Florida's statewide recount did not enforce equal standards on each county, so it was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause in Bush v. Gore (2000).
Gerrymandering: The Court almost outlawed gerrymandering in Davis v. Bandemer (1986) under the Equal Protection Clause but later found that no metric for deciding if a district map was gerrymandered was suitable in Vieth v. Jubelirer (2004). Even so, gerrymandering along racial lines was prohibited League of United Latin-American Citizens v. Perry, if a map did not include enough majority-minority districts.
Money bail: There is an as-yet undecided case called O'Donnel v. Harris County which alleges that the bail system used in most of Houston, TX unfairly discriminates on the basis of wealth when more reasonable alternatives are available.
In school, I had to memorize the preamble and was quizzed on the Bill of Rights. The preamble has little bearing on understanding how the government functions today, and the Fourteenth Amendment has had an arguably greater impact on my life than the Bill of Rights by itself. Investigation of it leads to several important lessons about liberty and our constitution:
The fight for the civil liberties for a specific group is fundamentally intertwined with the fight for freedom for everyone. The Fourteenth Amendment, designed to protect newly-freed slaves is what protects the right to bear arms, freedom from sexual discrimination, and countless others.
The fight for racial equality isn't just the Civil War or Brown v. Board. The fight for gender equality isn't just The Nineteenth Amendment or The Civil Rights Act. These would adapt and persist across multiple centuries in a patchwork-quilt of legislative, judicial, executive, social, and cultural battles. The struggle is by no means linear and by no means won. We are still fighting the descendants of the same fight today.
The American Constitution is a living document. Most obviously, it has been changed the constitutional amendments like the Fourteenth, but, more subtly, the courts change it through case law. Plessy and later Brown fundamentally changed how we interpret the Equal Protection Clause. I was surprised to learn how many landmark cases were only decided recently (McDonald (2010), Obergefell (2015), Blostock (2020)). I think the strength of the constitution is that it can be adapted to suit the novel challenges of modern society.
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LSU Basketball Suffocates Arkansas on Both Ends of the Floor to Pick Up Dominant 92-76 Win
Tigers hold top scoring Razorback offense to 34% shooting, force 15 turnovers
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LSU jumped out early on Arkansas and was able to coast to its third straight conference win with an 92-76 effort fueled by aggressive on ball defense and a dominant presence in the paint.
LSU (9-2, 4-1) came out clicking on both ends of the floor, making it tough on the Razorbacks to hit a shot while simultaneously getting to the basket and dominating the paint. The first half was fueled by a 26-2 run by the Tigers that created a 31-9 advantage right out of the gate.
At one point in the first half, the Tigers had stretched the lead to 44-13 behind efficient offense but more importantly, stellar on ball defense. The Tigers forced 15 Razorback turnovers on the evening and were able to turn it into 18 points on the offensive end.
"Defense and energy, everyone was having fun. The bench was crazy," forward Darius Days said. "Guys were yelling and screaming. Other guys made great plays and everyone had great energy for everybody and that's what it takes for us to win and have great energy."
Defense led to offense on more than one occasion, but it was the efficiency in which LSU scored in the paint that separated the Tigers in this one. LSU put up 48 points in the paint and was able to get to the free throw line an additional 24 times, knocking down 17 of them.
Coming into the game, Arkansas and LSU came in with the two highest scoring offenses in the country, in large part because of both team's ability to get to the free throw line. Arkansas came in averaging 88.6 points per game so for the Tigers to hold the Razorbacks to 76 points on 34% shooting points to the much improved defensive play over the last two games.
LSU was also able to control the boards, an area that has looked better in recent games after a struggle to start the season for the purple and gold. Arkansas came in leading the conference in rebounds but LSU out-rebounded the Razorbacks 48-39 in the win.
After being listed as a gametime decision following a turned ankle suffered against Ole Miss, freshman guard Cam Thomas was able to play and while he wasn't his normal efficient self, the freshman phenom did drop 17 points while Trendon Watford added 23 points and Darius Days secured an 18-point game with 13 rebounds.
"I felt I was going to go, when I was warming up. My ankle still far from 100% but I felt I needed to be out there for my team, making a difference," Thomas said. "Just fight through the pain and keep moving on."
It was a complete team effort from start to finish as all five LSU starters scored in double figures with Mwani Wilkinson pouring in 11 points on a perfect 4-of-4 shooting and Javonte Smart adding 13 of his own.
From Wilkinson to Eric Gaines to Aundre Hyatt and Josh Leblanc, LSU continues to get great minutes from its role players, particularly on the defensive end.
"There's a reason he's in the starting lineup, he's a winner," Wade said of Wilkinson. "You have to account for him at all times. For this team, right now, he's got the perfect skill set for what we're looking for. We couldn't have made a better player for what we're trying to do."
With a 20-24 point lead for most of the second half, LSU certainly didn't finish the game off the right way as the Razorbacks were able to cut the Tigers' down to 13 at one point late in the half. After the game, Will Wade said just how much fun it's been coaching this group.
"We've got a really, really good group. I haven't had this much fun coaching a team since I've been here," Wade said. "This is a fun group. Now I don't know where it's gonna lead but we've got great, great people and I'm very excited."
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A negative wind in Aiona vs. Abercrombie
The contest for governor between Duke Aiona and Neil Abercrombie has turned negative, but in an ever-so-gentle manner.
The Republican Governors Association has been running a series of "Rise & Shine Hawaii" TV spots presenting positive views of Aiona's positions on education and other issues.
The RGA's latest ad goes negative for the first time, but I have to say it's the nicest negative ad I've ever seen.
It starts out expressing appreciation for the Democrat Abercrombie's 35 years in politics, showing a picture of him in his Sunday best with his blue blazer and neatly trimmed hair and beard.
The announcer goes on, "We appreciate his service, but not how he's voted. Abercrombie voted for higher taxes on Hawai'i families, the bailout, failed stimulus — bonuses for Wall Street executives."
Cut to somewhat grungier picture of the former congressman and the question: "In this economy, Mr. Abercrombie?"
Then comes a picture of a beatific looking Aiona and the announcer's soothing assurance: "Fortunately, Hawaii has a choice we can afford. Duke Aiona will oppose tax increases and create jobs. A smart, independent leader. Duke Aiona for governor."
Very mild as far as negative ads go, and a clear sign of the sensitivity to negative advertising in the race after the huge backfire of Mufi Hannemann's "Compare and Decide" in the primary.
It reminds me of advice in the book "Etiquette for Outlaws" on what to do if you feel a bout of flatulence coming on while at a party. The advice is to find somewhere semi-private to cut a test fart, see how bad it smells and gauge from that if it's safe to let loose back in mixed company.
This ad was the political equivalent of a test fart to see how much negativity the electorate will tolerate, and it'll be ramped up until blowback is encountered.
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Tags: Election 2010, James "Duke" Aiona, Neil Abercrombie
Neighborhood board bully boys need reining in
The boorish behavior by some O'ahu residents at neighborhood board meetings is getting tiresome and making us look like a community of bullying loudmouths who think high volume substitutes for reason.
Last night, a meeting of the North Shore Neighborhood Board on D.G. "Andy" Anderson's proposal to replicate the 80-unit Haleiwa Hotel was cut short after opponents disrupted the meeting and wouldn't allow the other side to speak.
Anderson was verbally assaulted before the meeting even started and the chairman gaveled the meeting to a close after a leading opponent grabbed the microphone out of turn and refused to give it up.
This follows the Neighborhood Commission's July suspension of a member of the Makakilo/ Kapolei/Honokai Hale Neighborhood Board for 30 days for disruptive behavior. The commission ordered a review of the entire board regarding problems with decorum.
The Ewa Neighborhood Board was also hit with a 60-day suspension while members received training for order and decorum.
In my own back yard, some Kailua residents seem to be getting cranked up to a high emotional pitch over plans it to build a Target at the Don Quijote site.
The neighborhood board system was intended as an orderly and respectful forum for residents to have a say on issues that shape their communities.
If board meetings are going to become places where bullies get away with acting like asses, the system is no longer of much value and needs to be either restored to civility or dismantled.
Tags: neighborhood boards
The feds have a place in our schools
A lot of critics resent federal education initiatives like "No Child Left Behind" and "Race to the Top," feeling public schools are a local responsibility and the feds should butt out.
An educated population is as much a matter of compelling national interest as a strong economy, and when schools in Hawai'i and other states fail to meet reasonable standards, the U.S. government has every right to take an interest.
President Barack Obama said yesterday in defense of his education policy, "Whether jobs are created here, high-end jobs that support families and support the future of the American people, is going to depend on whether or not we can do something about these schools."
Hawai'i's statewide school system has always resisted local reform initiatives, and as a practical matter, the Bush administration's "No Child Left Behind" — for all its faults — has been primarily responsible for what little gains we've made in the last five years in improving student achievement in reading and math.
The $75 million we're set to receive under the Obama administration's "Race to the Top" is a drop in the bucket in terms of our overall education budget, but it's inspired one of Hawai'i's most ambitious school reform initiatives under new Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi.
And if local administrators succeed in achieving the key goal — getting unions representing teachers and principals to finally accept tougher performance standards — it'll likely be because of the pressure of federal oversight.
Education was on my mind because yesterday was Grandparents Day at Voyager School, and I always come away from that event with fresh ideas:
Last year, Sloane presented her plan for reorganizing the Department of Education.
It was Kaylee's turn this year, and she offered her ideas for putting teeth in the school curriculum.
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Another debate about debates II
I tried last week to give Duke Aiona my best advice not to start a debate about debates against Neil Abercrombie, but he wouldn't be denied and it put a bit of tarnish on what was otherwise a good week for the Republican candidate for governor.
The Democrat Abercrombie took the week off to recharge his batteries from his grueling primary race against Mufi Hannemann, and Aiona took advantage of it with a series of news conferences to spotlight his proposals for jobs and the economy, energy, agriculture, the environment, transportation and health care.
Abercrombie had earlier released all of his policy initiatives at once in a 45-page booklet called "A New Day in Hawaii" and was disappointed in the news coverage it got; Aiona got better media attention by spreading it over several events.
But he distracted attention from his substantive proposals by using each occasion to carp at Abercrombie for not accepting his proposal for six televised debates, making that the story — and not necessarily a favorable one for the lieutenant governor.
KITV reported that Aiona seemed clueless about his campaign's negotiations for a debate on that station that he ultimately agreed to.
And the Maui News chided him in an editorial for accusing Abercrombie of ducking debates after himself refusing to debate his primary opponent John Carroll and ducking joint appearances with Abercrombie and Hannemann.
"It is a little disingenuous to demand that Abercrombie debate him now when Aiona ducked opportunities to do so earlier. His caginess in the primaries is coming back to bite him now," the editorial said.
But Aiona persisted, and looked a little silly by insisting "he's ducking, he's definitely ducking" the same day it was revealed that both candidates had accepted through the normal channels three televised debates and three other joint appearances, with more still on the table.
In a side angle to the debate fracas, Hawaii News Now appears shut out of the gubernatorial debates for the general after all sides complained that its primary debates lacked dignity, with raucus audience participation, "lightning rounds" and an overly busy format that seemed intended to spotlight news personalities as much as the candidates.
Aiona conditionally accepted the HNN debate, but not before complaining to Star-Advertiser reporter Derrick DePledge about the format, saying, "This is not a circus. It's not entertainment."
Spokesman Jim McCoy said Abercrombie turned down HNN and KHON mainly because he appeared in their debates in the primary and wanted to be fair and give KITV and PBS Hawaii a chance in the general.
But McCoy said the HNN format was a factor after both the Abercrombie and Hannemann camps were unhappy with the primary debate in which both candidates were heckled by supporters of the other and felt they were given too little time to answer questions.
"During pre primary debate discussions, both the Abercrombie and Hannemann campaigns opposed the 'lightning round' aspect, but the station wouldn't give it up," McCoy said. "The station stuck to its guns, saying lightning rounds and studio audiences liven a debate, but I recall both our side and Mufi's side saying it will be lively given who the participants were.
"There were also tug of wars over time allotted for answers, and you saw the results; candidates were cut off in mid sentence due to the red light going off."
flASHback alert
Today's "flASHback" column in the Star-Advertiser: "Carlisle in the courtyard, lots of legislators laid off."
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Candidates to voters: Take my wife … please
U.S. Rep. Charles Djou is the latest local pol to trot out his spouse to smite his foes, with his new TV spot featuring his attorney wife Stacey taking opponent Colleen Hanabusa and her supporters to task for besmirching her husband and the family name.
The Republican Djou is following several Democrats who preceded him down this path in the current election cycle — and he should take note that they all lost.
Ed Case, who finished third behind Djou and Hanabusa in the special election for the seat that Djou holds, was seldom pictured in campaign ads without his wife Audrey, and she got a TV spot of her own sticking up for her husband at the end of the campaign.
When Mufi Hannemann came under fire for a mailer that seemed to attack opponent Neil Abercrombie's wife, Hannemann's wife Gail shot a TV spot defending her man.
Kirk Caldwell mentioned his wife Donna Tanoue so often and featured her so prominently in his campaign literature that you would have thought she was the co-candidate.
The usual reason given for the tactic beyond ethnic appeal is to show the candidate's softer side. But some of these guys need toughening more than softening, in my opinion, and having their wives fight their battles for them can backfire and make them look like wimps.
I've never seen the wife card played to this extent in any other market. Does anybody see an advantage that I'm missing to this Henny Youngman school of politics?
Tags: Election 2010
Don't make city hall a Ronald McMayor House
Peter Carlisle's tenure as Mayor-elect is certainly off to an interesting start.
He raised a few eyebrows yesterday by naming Douglas Chin, his former first deputy city prosecutor, to be managing director, responsible for running the day-to-day operations of the city.
There are concerns about having two people at the top of city government with no experience in nuts-and-bolts operations, but I believe a chief executive should have latitude in choosing his No. 2 and withhold judgment until there's more information about Chin and the qualities he brings to the job.
I'm not withholding judgment on the bizarre joint press conference Carlisle and acting Mayor Kirk Caldwell held at Honolulu Hale; I'm totally baffled as to why they called it.
It was supposed to show that there'll be a smooth transition until Carlisle is sworn in Oct. 8, but before the press conference ended, they argued about where Carlisle's transition office will be, whether he can start moving his stuff into the mayor's office before his swearing-in and the disciplining of a secretary who showed him around.
Carlisle could be seen rolling his eyes in the background as Caldwell spoke. Didn't they talk things over before assembling the media?
In the end, Carlisle turned down Caldwell's offer of transition office space, saying it "reeked of asbestos." Instead, he set up camp on folding tables in the city hall courtyard and mugged for the cameras.
Carlisle's informality and sense of humor are among his most engaging qualities, but this isn't the time to clown around.
He was rapidly losing voter support in the weeks before the election, barely squeaking by Caldwell in the end. Now he needs to show constituents that he takes the job seriously and is capable of putting together his administration in an organized and professional manner.
Tags: Election 2010, Kirk Caldwell, Peter Carlisle
Lt. Gov. James "Duke" Aiona isn't the only former judge looking to apply his legal experience in another arena.
I hear that Family Court Judge Michael Broderick will step down from the bench to become CEO of the YMCA of Honolulu. YMCA president and CEO Larry Bush announced his retirement in July after 40 years of serving the YMCA.
It looks like a harmonic convergence for Broderick's abilities. He has extensive administrative experience as a former courts administrator under Chief Justice Ronald Moon and as a judge, he's had extensive experience working for the betterment of kids and families, which is the YMCA's core mission.
I'd look for big things from the Y as it seeks to expand its already considerable footprint on O'ahu.
Tags: Judiciary
Another debate about debates. Yawn …
Two days after Republican James "Duke" Aiona challenged his Democratic opponent for governor Neil Abercrombie to six debates, Aiona's campaign manager Dutch Hanohano issued a press release ripping Abercrombie for not immediately accepting.
"The people of Hawai'i need real solutions, not just talk," Hanohano said in what hardly seemed a compelling argument for six hours of talk.
There is nothing more boring in a political campaign than a debate about debates, which is on the same intellectual level as the argument over the shape of the table at the Paris peace talks.
In the 2006 Senate race between Daniel Akaka and Ed Case, you would have thought for a time that Case's only issue was Akaka's refusal to debate him as often as he wanted. You saw how far that got him.
Early in this year's Democratic primary, it was Abercrombie whining that Mufi Hannemann wouldn't agree to his debate demands. They ended up debating so many times in forums around the state that they were feeding each other cues.
Aiona is right that there need to be substantive debates before we go to the polls, but no candidate is going to accept an opponent's debate proposal as presented — effectively allowing his own campaign timetable to be set by the opposition.
It happens by the campaigns meeting with the private groups that sponsor debates and hashing out a schedule. Until that process happens, trying to paint an opponent as being afraid to debate is one of the oldest — and cheapest — tricks in the book.
This election isn't going to be decided by who's the better debate organizer.
Has the train to nowhere reached its destination?
Nothing has been thrown more up in the air in the wake of Mufi Hannemann's resignation as mayor and failed run for governor than his $5.5 billion O'ahu rail project.
Hannemann got the 20-mile commuter line from Kapolei to Ala Moana approved on the force of his will and showed immense political skill in advancing it further in his first term than his predecessors managed in 30 years.
Now it's a big question mark.
Mayor-elect Peter Carlisle says he supports rail, but there's no clear sign if he'll stay with the same plan and the same team or make changes that could result in big delays. He'll be working with five new City Council members out of nine, and who knows what they'll think.
Gov. Linda Lingle has held the up the environmental impact statement for a new financial review that won't be finished until after she leaves office Dec. 6.
The two candidates to succeed her both say they support rail, but to different degrees. Republican James "Duke" Aiona says he'd finish Lingle's financial review, while Democrat Neil Abercrombie has said he's prepared to sign the EIS on his first day.
Former Gov. Ben Cayetano, Abercrombie's friend and longtime political ally, has said he'll sue if the EIS if it is approved in its current form. Carlisle says he'll tap Cayetano's expertise on transportation.
Some legislators are eager to raid the $500 million already collected from the half-cent O'ahu excise tax for rail if there is any sign the project is stalled. Throwing the money into the state general fund would be a gross injustice to O'ahu residents, who would effectively be paying a tax of 4.5 percent for the same state services neighbor islanders get for 4 percent.
When U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye recently made a big show of "begging" Lingle to sign the EIS, it was seen by some as a sign that he saw rail collapsing under its own weight and was setting up the Republican governor for the blame.
But it's not that easy. If Hannemann had finished his term instead of throwing rail to the wind by quitting to run for governor with Inouye's encouragement, the EIS delay would be a temporary bump in the road and Hannemann very likely could have had had construction well under way by time his term ended in 2012.
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© Susan Walsh/AP President Trump listens to a reporters question as FEMA Administrator Brock Long, center, and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, right, listen during a briefing on Hurricane Florence in the Oval Office on Tuesday. As Hurricane Florence churned toward the Carolinas, President Trump on Thursday diverted attention from the government's preparations for the monster storm to his personal grievances over last year's Hurricane Maria by falsely claiming a conspiracy to inflate the death toll in Puerto Rico.
With his Thursday statements, Trump sought to minimize the deaths of thousands of American citizens while appearing to shirk responsibility for the government's performance in responding to natural disasters. He also sought refuge as he habitually does in conspiracy theories, claiming that a hidden hand was at work to sabotage him.
In so doing, Trump exposed political vulnerabilities for his party eight weeks before the midterm elections — particularly in Florida, where Puerto Rican immigrants make up a prized voting bloc. Republican candidates in the state's hotly contested gubernatorial and Senate races distanced themselves from his comments.
Trump's charge about the Puerto Rico storm — a humanitarian crisis that continues to affect life on the island a year later — baffled his advisers as well as officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, who have been working to prepare the Carolinas for Hurricane Florence, the potentially deadly storm that made landfall Friday.
Trump's aides said they have tried to focus the president's attention on Florence, noting that he has been engaged in daily disaster briefings and called governors, senators and other officials representing North Carolina and South Carolina. Officials have brought large, colored charts and graphs into the Oval Office to illustrate Florence's dangerous path for Trump, who is a visual learner. And the president made a rare trip outside, to visit the staff of the National Security Council's resilience office housed across the street in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
Still, administration officials said, Trump has been easily distracted this week by cable news commentary about his mismanagement of Maria, as well as about revelations in Bob Woodward's new book, "Fear." The president also is fixated on polls, an adviser said, telling aides this week that a CNN poll that showed his approval rating falling below 40 percent must have been of only Massachusetts residents.
Trump has been especially piqued by the replaying of footage of him throwing paper towels into a crowd of relief workers in Puerto Rico two weeks after Maria, an episode that has come to symbolize the president's lack of empathy in the eyes of his critics.
"I'm not to blame for this," one adviser recalled Trump saying in a private conversation about Maria. In such discussions, the president also has trashed the power company in Puerto Rico and San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, who in the storm's immediate aftermath publicly pleaded with Trump for a stronger response and has harshly criticized the president.
Trump thoroughly mischaracterized how the death toll of 2,975 was tallied in the study, conducted by George Washington University.
GWU researchers did not, contrary to his claim, attribute any specific individual's death to Maria. Given the methodology, there was not an opportunity to misclassify someone who died of old age, as Trump suggested.
Rather, the study looked at the number of deaths from September 2017 to February 2018 and compared that total with what would have been expected based on historical patterns. The researchers factored in many variables, including the departure of hundreds of thousands of island residents in the aftermath of Maria.
Carlos Santos-Burgoa, principal investigator of the GWU study and a professor in the Department of Global Health, said he and his colleagues were unbiased in their work.
Late Thursday, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley issued a statement in an attempt to quell outrage over the president's tweet.
Trump's brash comments on the deaths in Puerto Rico drew only scattered criticism among Republican lawmakers, underscoring the trepidation of most GOP politicians to cross a president who enjoys deep and solid support among the party's base voters.
"I, frankly, haven't gotten in the middle of that," Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the Senate's No. 2 Republican, said when asked about Trump's tweets.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) told reporters that he had "no reason to dispute" the death toll of nearly 3,000. "Those are just the facts of what happens when a horrible hurricane hits an isolated place like an island," he said.
© Getty Gloria Lynn cries next to a salon that was flooded after the rains related to the passage of Hurricane Maria, in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, on September 22, 2017. Puerto Rico battled dangerous floods Friday after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island, as rescuers raced against time to reach residents trapped in their homes and the death toll climbed to 33. Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello called Maria the most devastating storm in a century after it destroyed the US territory's electricity and telecommunications infrastructure. / AFP PHOTO / HECTOR RETAMAL (Photo credit should read HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) Retiring Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) was a rare vocal GOP critic. She called the president's tweets on Puerto Rico "heartless" and said she would support a probe into the federal response to Hurricane Maria.
But the quick defense of Trump from Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) was more reflective of the consensus among House Republicans. "I understand the president's frustration about what was essentially a well-done job is now drawing new complaints," he said.
Another House Republican argued that the media historically has been biased in assessing blame for natural disasters and defended Bush's handling of Katrina.
Democrats were united in decrying Trump's claims. They voiced bewilderment and outrage at the president's behavior and vowed to use their subpoena power to investigate his administration's response to Maria should they win the House majority.
"There aren't enough adjectives and adverbs in the English language to describe my reaction," said Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.).
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said Democrats plan to make a case against Trump's "competence" and continue to question this week's finding that the Trump administration diverted nearly $10 million in funding for FEMA to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency implementing the president's zero-tolerance immigration policy that led to children being separated from their parents.
Eighty percent of Puerto Ricans said Trump did a fair or poor job managing last year's hurricane, according to a Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll published this week.
Michael D'Antonio, a Trump biographer, said this is a pattern throughout the president's life — even in grade school, when if teachers complained about his behavior he would act out rather than take responsibility.
Joel Achenbach, Ashley Parker and John Wagner contributed to this report.


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ACL's Jim Wallace's speech to Senate Inquiry on Marriage
The ACL's Jim Wallace spoke at the Senate Inquiry into marriage in Melbourne today. Please find below a copy of Mr Wallace's address.
Mr Chairman, Senators
Thank you for the opportunity to present our arguments as the ACL in support of the definition of marriage. I want to discuss truth.
Homosexuality and heterosexuality are not the same, they are different. This is a biological truth. It is simply incongruous that homosexuality and heterosexuality be treated as equal, because they are so clearly different.
This must cause us to ask what is then meant by "Marriage Equality" – it begs the question, equal in what? Because AME itself says that a critical condition applies to the principles of equality and non discrimination. They cannot apply to things which are inherently unequal or incompatible.
Is it then that the people be treated equally? Then I would agree and clearly governments do because there is no discrimination against homosexual people in entitlement, even Justice Kirby could identify none in Sydney yesterday.
We may be able to claim as we remember our recent apologies to the Stolen Generation and the Forgotten Generation that our intent, even if wrongly conceived, was nonetheless to serve the best interests of the children. In this case there is no such redeeming moral imperative.
This campaign is selfishly focused on the demands of adults who have already run roughshod over the rights of children by causing such nonsense as legislation allowing even a single man to be able to get a child through surrogacy.
There is of course also no doubt that if you permit this redefinition of marriage you cannot possibly deny calls for polygamy and polyamory, demands already been made. If marriage is only about love, then who is government to determine who or indeed how many people love.
But this campaign has also as its object to limit freedom of religion and conscience, despite claims to promise to preserve it in one of the bills.
The Committee must acknowledge the lack of integrity in promises to protect freedom of religion here, in those two bills, while the same activists are all the time demanding that protections for the church and people of faith be removed in the concurrent review of anti-discrimination legislation.
Also in the interest of truth I request the Committee to make a statement on its degree of confidence in the fact that the submissions received represent individual Australian opinion and have not been falsified.
In August last year, when MP's were required to report back to Parliament on their consultation with their electorates on this issue, the scale of falsification of these submissions was extreme. As just one example, Malcolm Turnbull announced that of 4,000 emails received claiming to be from his electorate 1,700 proved not to be.
This campaign has been full of mischief, from the misrepresentation of fact, to the demonisation of alternate views and falsification of electoral support.
I believe this Committee has a responsibility to:
• Re-establish the truth of the claims of fact and popular support that have so mislead the public perception of this issue.
• To not create vulnerabilities for the church and people of faith and their freedom of religion and conscience, and
• Meet the parliament's responsibility to the children of Australia to protect the concepts of motherhood and fatherhood which marriage enshrines, and are so increasingly essential.
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Installation of the Elasticsearch replication requires special configuration of the master and slave hosts so that each is configured for the correct datasource type.
Once the service is configured and running, the service can be monitored as normal using the trepctl command. See Section 5.2.4, "Management and Monitoring of Elasticsearch Deployments" for more information.


This module provides a comprehensive overview of the three main dimensions of the fire environment triangle: fuels, topography, and weather. Five interactive case studies illustrate the interdependent influences these three dimensions have on fire behavior. A wide range of fire behavior is also discussed in terms of the environmental factors that support or suppress fire ignition and spread. As part of the Advanced Fire Weather Forecasters Course, this module is meant to introduce forecasters to science of fire behavior.
As a former meteorologist and now volunteer fire fighter this was interesting and worthwhile doing even for someone outside the US. Nice to see places named etc. I dont think we have some of the forecast elements such as fuel temperature.
Some terminology in the lesson was confusing and could have been more fully developed.
I enjoyed this lab just as much as I enjoyed the one regarding volcanoes!
I liked the layout of this lesson.
The videos in this module are easy to follow if you make the time.
1. Identify key factors contributing to the fuels dimension of the fire environment triangle, including fuel properties, components, complexes, states, moisture levels, and continuity. 2. Identify key factors contributing to the topography dimension of the fire environment triangle, including slope, aspect, elevation, and soil moisture. 3. Identify key factors contributing to the weather dimension of the fire environment triangle, including temperature, humidity, winds, and instability. 4. Given a case situation including descriptions of fuels, topography, and weather, identify the fire behavior most likely to occur.


A few times a year Zintobeing organises workshops during which you can be inspired by the beautiful land of the Cathars in the South of France. The workshops are in the spirit of the Shift in relation to your unique cosmic code and essence and learning how to give your creative expression to that.
Data are mentioned on the events calender.


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From terminal illness to singing sensation Preston singer Gemma Louise Doyle is living her dream
Entertainer Gemma Louise Doyle
Nicola Jaques
Published: 10:37 Monday 13 August 2018
"There was one time my parents rushed two hours on the motorway to get to the hospital – they have since told me doctors had phoned them saying I would not make it through the night."
Preston-born singer song writer Gemma Louise Doyle believes in miracles.
Having survived that night during her teenage years, today the 26-year-old is gracing some of the biggest international stages, performing to thousands alongside some of the industry's biggest stars.
Not to mention five albums under her belt. The versatile entertainer, who has a four-octave voice and also speaks six languages, is quite literally living her dream.
Returning back to her Preston office, off the back of her very rigorous schedule, she says: "I believe that everyone has a significant purpose in life, to make a difference and help each other."
Born in Preston and raised near Leyland, Gemma has quite the interesting back story.
Gemma performs on the international stage for private and corporate parties and events. She has also released five albums, the most recent called Transpire was released in November last year
She first discovered a passion for music at three years old, listening to cassette tapes and then recording her own at home.
Gemma says from that early age she knew she wanted to dedicate her all to music but grew up quite a shy child.
But she was not to know what a life-changing impact her singing would have until she reached her teenage years, and found herself hospitalised for the best part of five years.
Diagnosed with what doctors said was a 'terminal illness', Gemma says it was a truly frightening time for her and the family.
Gemma, 26, also shares messages of inspiration to her following
At one point she was told she had just hours to live. Confined to a hospital bed, in Preston Royal Hospital, Gemma was transferred between hospitals seeing different specialists, covered in tubes and life monitoring systems.
She recalls: "I was too young for the doctors to tell me precisely what was going on, but throughout the months I was moved to different parts of various hospitals, and I remember my parents rushing two hours along the motorway to see me urgently.
"They have since told me that doctors phoned them saying that I would not make it through the night."
With little else, Gemma again started to embrace her music; what she soon discovered was the more she sang, the stronger she began to feel.
Gemma has performed all over the world London to Las vegas
She adds:"I started receiving messages of praise and gratitude from other patients, who said it was having a very positive impact on their own recovery and it hit me, I suddenly found the confidence I hadn't had before.
"With my talent I could draw the strength and courage to fulfil my dream of singing on stage and inspire many other people across the world.
"That became my mission."
Gemma continued to sing and finally well enough to leave hospital, in 2010, aged 18, she set out to devote herself to a career in the music industry, no mean feat; especially having just defied the odds with life-threatening illness.
Building her confidence, Gemma threw herself into performing for various events and talent competitions.
"Success in this industry everyone knows does not come easy, I have had to work hard at it."
With a career now spanning eight years Gemma has exceeded her own ambitions, performing in Las Vegas, on stages in London's most renowned theatres and at more than 2,500 events worldwide with the likes of Jimmy Osmond, Ed Sheeran and McFly.
Gemma Louise Doyle
Her audiences range from prime ministers and royalty, in their private properties to corporate events. She has been invited to sing at the home of Billy Connelly and headlined on some of the most prestigious cruise liners and concert halls.
"My greatest passion in life is to uplift and inspire people with music and live performances" says Gemma.
"The illness made things really difficult things for such a long time but my core belief is minds strength inside can affect recovery.
"Every thought and our focus literally can help determine our own lives – it was a vital part of my recovery.
"We all have our unique talents – for me the best feeling in the world is being on stage and the way music can change how people feel.
"The best feeling in our lives is helping to make people feel happier."
Gemma is currently performing for a whole range of different events, from corporate functions and even international weddings.
She adds: "I strongly believe that we all have a power within us to be who we choose.
"We are all one. We're all as deserving, of the best that life can bring on this planet, and we are always rewarded when do what is right, with good intentions – even if it's just the incredible feeling of being true to another person and our selves.
"I've met a lot of people, from around the world, from different backgrounds, health conditions, ages, gender, nationalities.
"I haven't had success handed to me easily.
"I commit every day and night to studying what I do, building contacts, networking, reaching more followers on social media, creating videos, editing my website, writing songs, planning my shows and events.
"I'm travelling to different cities, towns and villages every week, sometimes driving up to 20 hours per weekend and getting back at 6am, all because it's in my heart to inspire people.
"Michael Jackson lived this way, so did Whitney Houston, Prince, as do Will Smith, Beyonce Knowles, comedian Jim Carrey and many more."
To date Gemma has recorded five albums – her repertoire ranges from pop and the American Song Book to musical theatre and popular classical hits.
She also records her own material and has collaborated with big name producers to develop her talents
Gemma's first ever original song to be officially released on iTunes, in September 2017, Reason, made it into the UK Music Charts
She reveals: "Co-written with former member of Iron Maiden, Tony Moore the song is based upon the true story of how music saved my life. For the first time, I'd got the single on iTunes, Spotify and hundreds of platforms."
Gemma credits the likes of Evanescence, Enya and Hans Zimmer for inspiring her and describes her style of music as a unique fusion of pop and rock and her four-octave voice.
Her latest album, Transpire, was released in November 2017.
Gemma is now busy with engagements for the rest of the year and couldn't be happier.
But in her spare time, Gemma teaches others to find and develop their own singing talent and find ways into the professional music and entertainment industries, or simply express themselves through a love and enjoyment of singing.
She also hosts an inspirational message page through her website to help all those with their own limitations.
"A lot of what I do is dedicated to my fans and followers – who have stuck by me.
"The key to happiness is to live every moment, as you know you should. Follow your intuition," she says.
"In order to do this, you have to give the very best of your talent, study, work hard and develop yourself to share your gift to make other people's lives better, and to make the world a better place."
Find Gemma's music, albums, or downloads via her website at www.gemma-doyle.com


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David Maljkovic
b. 1973, Croatia
David Maljkovic was born in 1973 in Rijeka, Croatia, and lives and works in Zagreb. His one-person exhibition A Retrospective by Appointment was staged across four separate venues–the Nova Gallery; HDD (The Croatian Designers Association); the artist's studio; and Cinema Tuskanac, Croatian Film Association–in Zagreb in 2015. It was later revisited in altered form as Again and Again at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, in 2016. A major survey exhibition, Sources in the Air, was organised by Van Abbemuseum, Eidhoven, Netherlands, in 2012, traveling to BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom, and GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy in 2013. He has had additional one- or two-person exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; CAC Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania; Kunsthalle Basel (with Latifa Echakhch); SculptureCenter, New York (with Lucy Skaer); Secession, Vienna; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; Kunstverein Hamburg; and MoMA PS1, New York. He participated in the 11th Gwangju Biennale, the 56th Venice Biennale, and the 29th São Paolo Biennial.
David MaljkovicAlterity Line, 2017 Oil paint on canvas mounted to dibond with laser etching
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David MaljkovicAlterity Line, 2002–2017 Oil paint on cotton canvas, laser etching on plexiglas, and 2 brennenstuhl sawhorses in blue
89.2 x 157.5 x 17.1 cm Metro Pictures Enquire about this work
David MaljkovicAlterity Line, 2002–2017 Oil paint on cotton canvas and laser etching on Plexiglas, Plexi box
157.5 x 17.1 x 17.5 cm Metro Pictures Enquire about this work
David MaljkovicAlterity Line, 2003–2017 Oil paint on canvas mounted to dibond with laser etching
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David MaljkovicAlterity Line, 2002–2017 Canvas mounted to dibond with laser etching
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24 January–24 February 2018 David Maljkovic Alterity Line Metro Pictures, New York
12 May–31 July 2015 David Maljkovic Solo Exhibition Metro Pictures, New York
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'We continue our resistance to full revenge. I am in Libya, alive and free' – Gaddafi's son →
British companies to rush for £200bn in Libya contracts
By Rob Davies
Last updated at 12:17 PM on 22nd October 2011
British firms are arming themselves for a scramble to win up to £200billion worth of contracts in Libya, as the North African nation looks to its reconstruction.
UK Trade & Investment, the government department that promotes UK plc abroad, said British firms had 'a strong commitment to helping the National Transitional Council and any future government in Libya to rebuild'.
UKTI estimates that Libyan contracts, in sectors from oil and gas to education and construction, could be worth £200billion over the next decade.
Oil firms Shell (up 35p to 2250p) and BP (up 9.6p to 439.375p) have already held talks with the transitional regime, which has promised to honour existing legal contracts to explore the Libyan desert
Companies known to be considering entering Libya include engineering firm Arup and architecture and design company Benoy. But rat-catching firm Rentokil, which previously counted Gaddafi among its best clients, said it had no plans to return to Libya.
UKTI minister Lord Green has already been on a trade mission to Libya last month and the department is thought to be planning more trips in the future.
However, the NTC has said it will not sign any new contracts until after elections, likely to take place next year.
Back in Britain, firms which count the Libyan Investment Authority among key investors are hoping that the UK Treasury will unlock the sovereign wealth fund's assets.
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