Not many have noticed over the years, but a decades-old quirk in state law lifts the usual campaign contribution limits for public officials targeted for removal from office in recall elections. The law will allow Governor Scott Walker and any state senators who are expected to face efforts to recall them to engage in unlimited campaign fundraising during the two-month-long petition drives and the legal wrangling that follows to determine whether enough valid signatures have been gathered to trigger such an election. We pointed this out last week in our latest Big Money Blog, which has become the subject of extensive media coverage.
The loophole was the top story on the front page in the Wisconsin State Journal last Friday and topped the local section in Sunday's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It also made the local evening news on Green Bay's WBAY-TV as well as Madison's WKOW and WISC. The money in recall elections also was the subject of coverage provided to commercial radio stations statewide by Public News Service.
Unrestrained fundraising is not the only advantage Governor Walker will have in a likely recall election. Thanks to legislative maneuvering by his allies in the assembly and senate, the governor also is being given the ability to shape rules governing how recall elections are conducted to his liking.
Steps taken earlier this year by lawmakers to transform the state Government Accountability Board from an independent watchdog agency into a politically compliant lapdog led the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to editorialize last week in favor of legislation restoring the GAB's autonomy.
A public forum this Saturday in the Madison area aims to focus attention on the Washington, D.C.-based American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC for short, which authors so many of the most controversial policies being pushed by right-wing governors and legislators in Wisconsin and other states across the country. The Democracy Campaign's director will be among the speakers.
If you shop online, there is a way to do it and support the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign at the same time. GoodShop works with more than 2,500 stores and every time you buy something a percentage of the purchase is donated to the charity of your choice. If you designate the Democracy Campaign, you can shop and GoodShop will donate and we will benefit.
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Finally, please consider hosting a Defend Democracy "Friendraiser" to introduce people you know to our work. We're looking for hosts of neighborhood gatherings on the weekend of January 21 marking the two-year anniversary of the disastrous Citizens United decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.


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לסדר בא
בֹּא אֶל פַּרְעֹה
Go into Pharaoh (Exodus 10:1)
Rashi comments: "and warn him." Now it seems that he warned him about the plague of locusts. But if so, why did the Eternal say "for I have hardened his heart" (כִּי אֲנִי הִכְבַּדְתִּי אֶת לִבּוֹ)? Why would G-d have told Moses to warn Pharaoh about the plague of the locusts just because He had hardened Pharaoh's heart? There are some commentaries that interpret the words "for I have hardened his heart" as being part of the warning to Pharaoh. In other words, Moses was supposed to tell Pharaoh that G-d was causing him not to send the people out of Egypt. So the meaning of the verse would be "Go to Pharaoh" to warn him that "it is I Who have hardened his heart." In that case, Pharaoh would send the people out to prove to Moses that he had spoken falsely and that Pharoah was not controlled by G-d. This would also be the explanation of "I have mocked Egypt" (אֲשֶׁר הִתְעַלַּלְתִּי בְּמִצְרַיִם). Although this interpretation is correct, it implies that the warning to Pharaoh was not for the plague of the locusts, because Pharaoh received a separate warning for that plague. If so, one may ask why this warning to tell Pharaoh that G-d had hardened his heart was different from the other warnings which were all associated with a specific plague, while this warning was independent of any plague.
It therefore appears to our master that this warning was actually connected to the plague of hail, since Moses, in connection with that plague, had told Pharaoh, after being asked to pray to G-d for an end to the thunder and the hail (Exodus 9:29-30): "As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread my hands unto the Lord . . . But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet be afraid of the Lord G-d." These words hardened the heart of Pharaoh who therefore concluded that the time had come when the hail would cease on its own in the normal course of events and that the Moses's prayer had accomplished nothing. For if the hail would not have ceased on its own without Moses's intervention, Pharaoh reasoned, what was the point of Moses's praying for us? If Moses knew that we would not believe in or fear the Lord even after the hail ceased, why would he pray for us? Because this was what Pharaoh was thinking, G-d commanded Moses to set Pharaoh's teeth on edge and to tell him, "I have allowed his heart to be hardened" (אֲנִי הִכְבַּדְתִּי אֶת לִבּוֹ) and have given him the opportunity to go astray "in order that I might set these signs in his midst" (לְמַעַן שִׁתִי אֹתֹתַי אֵלֶּה, בְּקִרְבּוֹ)
בִּנְעָרֵינוּ וּבִזְקֵנֵינוּ נֵלֵךְ בְּבָנֵינוּ וּבִבְנוֹתֵנוּ בְּצֹאנֵנוּ וּבִבְקָרֵנוּ נֵלֵךְ
We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds we will go (Exodus 10:9)
One may ask why the Scripture writes the word "נֵלֵךְ" (we will go) twice and why Pharaoh in responding also says (Exodus 10:11) "go now you who are men" (לְכוּ נָא הַגְּבָרִים) . . . for that is what ye desire" (כִּי אֹתָהּ אַתֶּם מְבַקְשִׁים). Rashi explains Pharaoh's response to mean: "for that is what you have sought until now, 'let us sacrifice to our G-d' (נִזְבְּחָה לֵאלֹקֵינוּ), and it is not the custom of little children to sacrifice." But if Pharaoh was willing to send the adults to perform sacrifices but wished only to hold back the small children, why then did he insist on keeping the cattle also? How were the Israelites to bring sacrifices if they could take no cattle with them? Nor could it be that when Pharaoh said "go now you who are men" he meant to hold back only their children, but not their cattle and sheep, because after the plague of darkness, when Pharaoh changed the heart of stone within him to a heart of flesh, and agreed to let the sons and daughters go as well, he still insisted that their cattle be held back as it is written (Exodus 10:24): "only let your flocks and your herds remain behind: let your little ones also go with you" (רַק צֹאנְכֶם וּבְקַרְכֶם יֻצָּג גַּם-טַפְּכֶם יֵלֵךְ עִמָּכֶם).
And it appears to our master that in the earlier generations when Israel dwelt in Egypt, the Gentiles were worshiping their G-ds not only by bringing sacrifices from cattle and sheep, but also by offering their own sons and daughters as sacrifices to their G-ds. Now the Eternal also commanded our fathers in Egypt to worship him in two ways that were similar: the Pascal offering, which was a sheep, and circumcision, which is like a human sacrifice. The Kabbalah, in fact, interprets the verse (Psalms 44:23) "But for Your sake we are killed all day long" (כִּיעָלֶיךָ הֹרַגְנוּ כָל הַיּוֹם) as a reference to circumcision. And in the merit of these two commandments, they were redeemed as it is written (Ezekiel 16:6) "And when I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your own blood, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live! Yes, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live!" (וָאֶעֱבֹר עָלַיִךְ וָאֶרְאֵךְ מִתְבּוֹסֶסֶת בְּדָמָיִךְ וָאֹמַר לָךְ בְּדָמַיִךְ חֲיִי וָאֹמַר לָךְ בְּדָמַיִךְ חֲיִי). The repetition of the word "your blood" (בְּדָמַיִךְ) refers to the blood of the Pascal offering and to the blood of the circumcision.
Now we know that the Eternal initially did not want to command our fathers to offer sacrifices, for does the Eternal want sacrifices? "Behold to obey is better than sacrifice" (הִנֵּה שְׁמֹעַ מִזֶּבַח טוֹב) (1 Samuel 15:22). And that is true for everyone, as Jeremiah, G-d's prophet, cried (Jeremiah 7:22-23): "For in the day that I brought them out of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices. But this thing I commanded them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your G-d, and you shall be my people." It was only after they sinned at Horeb and made the golden calf that the Eternal commanded them to build the Tabernacle and an altar on which to sacrifice fat and blood. How great was the effort of Moses, the faithful shepherd, to lift up Israel upon the platform of faith and knowledge so that they could all become a treasured people, a commonwealth of priests and a holy nation, to worship the Eternal with their heart and their soul, and to hear His voice. If they had done so they would not have needed to serve Him with the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of calves. But the children of Israel were still ignorant and their heart was too dense to be penetrated.
When Moses said: "We will go with our young and with our old" to worship G-d, he did not make clear how they were going to worship Him. So when he said: "With our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds we will go" meaning that we will take sacrifices from the flocks and herds to worship Him, Pharaoh misunderstood Moses. Thinking that Moses wanted to accustom the people to perform the abominations of Egypt and to offer human sacrifices, Pharaoh responded: "go now you who are men, and serve the Lord" without sacrificing sheep or your sons and daughters. Pharaoh then added: "for that is what you desire" (כִּי אֹתָהּ אַתֶּם מְבַקְשִׁים), by which he meant: what you really want is to instruct the people in a form of service to G-d that does not involve sacrifice of any kind, because the true sacrifice to G-d consists in a broken spirit. Moses could not reply at all to this, because he was immediately driven from Pharaoh's presence. Not until after the plague of darkness when Pharaoh said "let also your little ones go with you, only let your flocks and your herds remain behind," could Moses reply that they certainly knew that the G-d of the Hebrews did not want any human sacrifice, which is an abomination unto G-d, so they would bring sacrifices only from their cattle to worship Him. And concerning the earlier remark of Pharaoh that what they really desired was to worship the Eternal without sacrifice of any kind, Moses now replied, "and we do not know with what we must serve the Lord until we arrive" (וַאֲנַחְנוּ לֹא נֵדַע מַה נַּעֲבֹד אֶת יְהוָה עַד בֹּאֵנוּ שָׁמָּה). Moses meant to say that until we reach the spiritual level that we are seeking, we will not know how to serve G-d in any way other than by sacrifices. And see what a forced interpretation Rashi offered in his commentary on "וַאֲנַחְנוּ לֹא נֵדַע".

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Favorite Texas brewed beer: I am a huge Texas Beer Refinery fan!!
Favorite non-Texas brewed beer: Clown Shoes makes some tasty beers.
Overlooked beer classification: A good Gose or a good Rye Beer.
Favorite setting or event which you have enjoyed a beer: Is there a bad place to have a beer?
Bucket list setting in which you would like to enjoy a beer one day: I would love to do a US tour in a RV! Maybe stop at 5 breweries for every state..... after my kids are gone, of course!
One person not living with whom you would like to enjoy a beer with: My grandfather. I would love a few more moments with him.
The State of the Texas Craft Beer scene is Booming!!!! It is very exciting to watch so many new breweries pop up. I love local beer!
When I'm not working or drinking beer, I'm doing Crossfit. Just ask me.... I will tell you all about it.
Who inspires you: My amazing 5 year old, T! He was born with a childhood liver disease and is a huge light in everyones life that he meets. I am super lucky to watch him grow and become an amazing person. He reminds me not to sweat the small stuff....and its all small stuff.
How long have you been working at Stuttgarden: Stuttgarden Kemah has been open 2 months! John and Derek have built an awesome place for folks to have a couple of beers....and lots of fun! Prior to that, I have worked at the Galveston location with Eric & Danny for a little more than a year.


Cambyses, a dry xerogaian world discovered in 5699 in the Perseus Rift and located thirty light-years from the nearest wormhole, was terraformed with cometary water and settled by a mixture of augmented human agriculturalists affiliated to the Solar Dominion, and an independent coalition of mammal provolves and rianths, who together created a temperate rainforest biome on the maritime edge of all three new continents. By 7300 the forest covered two million square kilometres.
In small, high tech settlements, a clade of capybara provolves combined a scavenging life style with a close connection to the Known Net. These so-called 'cyberbaras' successfully used handtech and obedient robot workers to maintain their lifestyle.
Meanwhile a small clade of lazurogened and provolved marsupial lions (Thylacoleo Sapiens) were living as predators in nearby wilderness areas, and developing an idiosyncratic culture based around hunting and dominance within small family groups. Over time they became increasingly reticent and eccentric. Although they were expected by the other citizens of this world to avoid predation of sophont beings, the thylacoleos would repeatedly kill, and eat provolved capybaras and other citizens, even killing human tourists on occasion. It seemed to be evident that the thylacoeo provolves had somehow reverted to presapience, as they no longer responded to attempts at dialog, and did not appear to use tools or language any more.
At length the alpha male cyberbaras instigated a bounty system to restrict the thylacoleo population; any marsupial lion lazurogen that entered capybara territory could be shot. After only thirty years of this policy the thylacoleo was apparently extinct. Since the lions had reverted to presapience this loss was regrettable but not generally considered to be sophonticide, although most animal rights proponents and pansophontists were outraged.
Neither the cyberbaras nor the Dominion agriculturalists on this world were willing to let Genen specialists revive the missing clade, and most of the forest provolves were glad to see the predators removed from the food chain. However persistent reports over the next six hundred years appeared to show the survival of a small relic population.
Many unsubstantiated sightings, poor video recordings, stock maulings and mutilations, and intermittent deaths of Cambyses citizens of various nations were attributed to the elusive lions. Finally a sweep of the millions of hectares of inaccessible deep forest using a nano defence goo, supplied by the Dominion hierarchy, found no living lions (and no remains of dead lions less than six hundred years old).
After only fifteen years, the reports started again, and tourists have once again been drawn to the remote world by engeneration and beamrider link, and soon the volume may justify a full wormhole link to replace the nano connection. Whenever cynics venture to suggest that the tourist trade mainly drives the thylacoleo phenomenon yet another spectacular sighting or disappearance rumour appears on the Known Net.
As the marsupial lions were originally sentient, it is believed they may have developed sophisticated defenses against scanning at some point in their history, and that these defences were still active; however no electronic or nanochemical trace of this have ever been found.


Pupils from Years 2-6 took part in a Plymouth Raiders Basketball Clinic, at Plymouth Pavilions this term. They spent the day learning new basketball skills, meeting the Plymouth Raiders Team, watching a games against the Manchester Giants and of course meeting Foxy! Watch out for our next Raiders Clinic opportunity in December!


(a) No person may take, transport, possess, process or sell within this state any wild animal specified by the department's endangered and threatened species list.
(b) No person may process or sell to another person a wild plant of an endangered or threatened species.
1. Remove, transport or carry away the wild plant from the place where it is growing.
(a) The department shall conduct research on the endangered and threatened species of this state and shall implement programs directed at conserving, protecting, restoring and propagating selected state-endangered and threatened species to the maximum extent practicable.
(b) The department may enter into agreements with federal agencies, other states, political subdivisions of this state or private persons with respect to programs designed to conserve endangered or threatened species of wild animals or wild plants. Agreements with private persons under this paragraph may include providing for the movement of an endangered or threatened species to another appropriate habitat, preferably to a habitat located on state-owned or state-leased land.
(1) Purposes. The purpose of this section is to provide an adequate and flexible system for the protection, development and use of forests, fish and game, lakes, streams, plant life, flowers and other outdoor resources in this state.
6. For preservation of any endangered species or threatened species under s. 29.604.
...(2) Importance. The department, with the advice of the council, shall maintain a system to evaluate the importance of natural areas. The system shall include standards for determining low, high and critical levels of importance for natural areas. This system shall consider the following natural values:..
(3) Natural heritage inventory program.
(a) Duties. The department shall conduct a natural heritage inventory program. The department shall cooperate with the department of administration under s. 16.967 in conducting this program. This program shall establish a system for determining the existence and location of natural areas, the degree of endangerment of natural areas, an evaluation of the importance of natural areas, information related to the associated natural values of natural areas, and other information and data related to natural areas. This program shall establish a system for determining the existence and location of native plant and animal communities and endangered, threatened, and critical species, the degree of endangerment of these communities and species, the existence and location of habitat areas associated with these communities and species, and other information and data related to these communities and species. This program shall establish and coordinate standards for the collection, storage, and management of information and data related to the natural heritage inventory.
(b) Access to information; fees. The department shall make information and data from the natural heritage inventory program available to any individual or public or private agency for research, educational, environmental, land management or similar authorized purposes. The department may establish a fee to be collected to recover the actual cost of collecting, storing, managing, compiling and providing this information and data. The department may reduce or waive the fee established under this paragraph if the department determines that a waiver or reduction of the fee is in the public interest. The natural heritage inventory and related information and data are not subject to s. 19.35 and the department may refuse to release information or data for any purpose which is not authorized.
(3) License or permit required.
1. The person is a natural person and has been issued a commercial clam sheller license by the department.
2. The person is a licensed clam helper engaged in commercial clam shelling while aboard a boat with the licensed commercial clam sheller whom the clam helper is assisting.
3. The person has not attained the age of 16 years, and the value of the clams taken, killed, collected or removed by that person does not exceed $1,000 per year. The department may, by rule, require persons under this subdivision to obtain a commercial clam shelling permit, at no charge, with the requirements for the permit to be determined by the department by rule.
(b) No person may engage in clam helping unless the person is a resident and a natural person and has been issued a clam helper license by the department.
1. No natural person may engage in clam buying unless he or she is a resident and has been issued by the department a clam buyer license or an assistant clam buyer license.
2. No corporation, partnership or other business association may engage in clam buying unless it has been organized under the laws of this state and has been issued by the department a clam buyer license.
(a) The person has been issued a commercial clam sheller, clam helper, clam buyer or assistant clam buyer license by the department or the person is exempt under sub. (3)(a) 3, and the clams are of a species open to commercial clam shelling and are of the minimum size or larger for commercial clam shelling.
(b) The person demonstrates that the clams are being transported through the state in interstate commerce by a reasonably direct route.
(a) Open and closed seasons and size and possession limits for different clam species.
(b) The methods of clamming and commercial clam shelling.
(c) Equipment specifications and requirements.
(d) Record-keeping and reporting requirements.
(e) Waters and portions of waters open and closed to clamming or commercial clam shelling.
(f) Transportation, possession, purchase, sale and barter of clams.
(g) Issuance and duration of permits for commercial clam shellers who are exempt under sub. (3)(a)3 from the license requirement.
(h) Harvest limits, allocating the harvest limits among the commercial clam shellers and criteria for allocation.
(9) Confidentiality. Upon request in writing by a person who is required by department rule to keep a record or submit a report, the department shall keep confidential any information on the record or report relating to the value or weight of clams bought, sold or bartered by the person or relating to the specific location where the clams were taken, killed, collected or removed, except that the information may be disclosed in statistical summaries or reports which do not identify the person by name or license number and in any enforcement action under s. 29.971 (1m).


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Mylik Wilson transfers to Texas Tech
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Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports Mark Adams has gotten yet another versatile guard to commit to Texas Tech . Adams has been playing the transfer game really aggressively. This is now his 4th guard he's gotten from the portal. Wilson along with Adonis Arms, Chandler Jacobs and Davion Warren […]
Mark Adams has gotten yet another versatile guard to commit to Texas Tech.
Adams has been playing the transfer game really aggressively. This is now his 4th guard he's gotten from the portal. Wilson along with Adonis Arms, Chandler Jacobs and Davion Warren is going to make for a really tough and gritty guard rotation.
Wilson is as versatile of a guard as they come. He's a true 2-way player, averaging 12.9 points a game while also averaging 2 steals and 1 block a game. To go along with 12.9 points, he also averaged 5.5 rebound and 3.2 assists. Wilson is adding to a room that already has some great versatile players.
Last year, Wilson had a game high of 25 points, showing he can really put the ball in the basket if he needs too. That paired with his elite on ball defense is going to bring a huge boost to the defense.
Wilson committing does raise some questions. Tech hasn't grabbed any big men off of the portal despite losing Tyreek Smith and 7 footer Vlad Goldin. They have been pushing for some and are on the lists of a couple top named big men, but with the possibility of Mac McClung and Terrence Shannon coming back, there isn't a lot of roster room remaining.
There shouldn't be too much panic right now, as there is a lot of time before the season starts, but it is something to note.
Let's look at the good of this commitment though. Tech is adding an elite defensive talent that will create trouble for anyone on ball. They have so much versatility in their back court with Arms, Jacobs, Warren and Wilson. That doesn't even mention having Nadolny, Agbo and Benson also there. In the front court, there is quite a bit of work to do, but right now Tech has Marcus Santos-Silva, Kevin McCullar, and KJ Allen. Adonis Arms and Davion Warren could possibly slide into the front court, with both of them being 6'6.
The roster is starting to be close to full and we have a lot to look forward to. Terrence Shannon Jr. is a projected 2nd rounder, so there isn't a great chance he comes back. Mac McClung on the other hand has a much greater chance of coming back. If Mac comes back and joins this already loaded guard room, we could be looking at a huge year with high expectations. This is looking like a great offseason for Tech basketball, and there's still a lot of time left in it.


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The EuroBasket Women competition as it is known today is the European championships. The term EuroBasket was introduced in 2005. Prior to 2005 the competition was known as the European Championship for Women and Eurowomen.
The first competition was held in Rome, Italy in 1938. The second one took place in 1950 and since then the event has been played every two years until 1980.
A Championship was played in 1981 so that the women's event would be aligned with the men's event.
The current two-year cycle has been in place since 1983. Today EuroBasket alternates between serving as a qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games and the FIBA World Championship.
EuroBasket has used a number of different formats, ranging from the simple round robin used in 1983 to the three-stage tournament currently in use.
The current format begins with a preliminary round. The 16 qualified teams are placed into four groups of four, and each group plays a round-robin tournament.
The top three teams in each group (12 overall) advance to the qualifying round.
The two groups of six in the qualifying round are each a combination of two preliminary round groups: Preliminary Groups A and B form Qualifying Group E while Preliminary Groups C and D form Qualifying Group F.
Results from the preliminary round are maintained, and each team plays once against teams from the other Preliminary Group in its Qualifying Group.
The top four teams in each Qualifying Group advance to the quarter-final. The knock-out stage consists of:
1. a bronze medal game for the semi-final losers,
2. classification games for the quarter-final losers to determine fifth to eighth places.
For the tournament in 2015 it has been announced that the final round will be increased to 20 teams.
France have been crowned European Champions on two occasions: 2001 and 2009 while the former USSR holds the record of 21 championship titles.
You can find the links on the right side of this page of our own coverage from previous EuroBasket Women tournaments and qualification news.
EuroBasket Women Medal Table
1 Soviet Union 21 1 0 22
2 Russia 3 3 2 8
3 France 2 4 1 7
4 Spain 2 1 4 7
5 Bulgaria 1 5 4 10
6 Poland 1 2 2 5
7 Italy 1 1 1 3
8 Lithuania 1 1 0 2
10 Ukraine 1 0 0 1
11 Czechoslovakia 0 7 8 15
12 Yugoslavia 0 4 2 6
13 Hungary 0 2 5 7
14 Slovak Republic 0 1 1 2
Turkey 0 1 1 2
16 East Germany 0 0 1 1
Germany 0 0 1 1
Belarus 0 0 1 1
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1Q domestic price trend was continuously strong from the 4Q 2017. Domestic steel prices are highly linked with Chinese prices, which peaked in December and then weakened ever since until it rebounded recently along with lowered inventories. Demand in Japan and the U.S. shows a sound trend which is helpful for POSCO for its price negotiation. Therefore, it seems that the market resistance on price increase in 2Q will be less likely especially considering that 2Q is the peak season.
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The 2004 presidential campaign of Joe Lieberman, the long-time United States Senator from Connecticut and the  vice-presidential nominee under Al Gore in the previous election, began on January 13, 2003, when he announced his intention to seek the Democratic nomination as a candidate in the 2004 presidential election. Describing his Presidential hopes, Lieberman opined that his historically hawkish stance would appeal to voters. Prior to his defeat in New Hampshire, Lieberman famously declared his campaign was picking up "Joementum". On February 3, 2004, Lieberman withdrew his candidacy after failing to win any of the five primaries or two caucuses held that day. He acknowledged to the Hartford Courant that his support for the war in Iraq was a large part of his undoing with voters.
Lieberman's former running candidate Al Gore did not support Lieberman's Presidential run, and in December 2003 endorsed Howard Dean's candidacy, saying "This is about all of us and all of us need to get behind the strongest candidate [Dean]."

Political positions

Domestic policy

Affirmative action
In a 1995 speech before the National Press Club, Lieberman said, "this business of deciding by group, the argument that some make that some groups are genetically less able than others. That's an un-American argument." Affirmative action programs "must change because they are inconsistent with the law and basic American values of equal treatment and opportunity." He also stated that he was "against group preferences".

In 1996, he expressed support for California's Proposition 209, which eliminated state and local government affirmative action programs in the areas of public employment, public education, and public contracting to the extent these programs involve "preferential treatment based on race, sex, gender, color, ethnicity, or national origin."  "Affirmative action is dividing us in ways its creators could never have intended.", he said.

Since 2000, Lieberman rescinded his support for the proposition, saying that he expressed support "without understand[ing] the intent of Proposition 209", and renounced any support for Proposition 209.  In the 2000 campaign, Lieberman assured the black voters, "I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action, and I will support affirmative action because history and current reality make it necessary."

In 2003, Lieberman criticized Bush's affirmative action policy. In 2004, he reiterated his support, saying, "I support affirmative action programs, including in appropriate instances consideration of race and gender in government contracting decisions, when the affirmative action program is designed to remedy the effects of past discrimination."

Lieberman has stated that he wants to increase subsidies for women-owned non-profit business, and he voted "yes" on setting aside 10% of highway funds for minorities and women.

Consumer protection
Lieberman was one of four Senate Democrats to side with Republicans in 1995 in voting to limit punitive damage awards in product liability cases.

In February 2005, breaking ranks with fellow Senate Democrats, Lieberman voted for the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, S. 5, a bill designed to curtail the ability of plaintiffs to file class action lawsuits against corporations in federal courts. The bill was backed by the White House and business groups as an essential tort reform measure that would reduce what they said was a debilitating number of frivolous lawsuits. The bill was opposed by consumer advocacy groups and trial lawyers who argued that many valid claims against corporations would be dismissed, leaving consumers without legal recourse.

Education
Lieberman championed experimental voucher programs, which would redirect some education funding directly to parents, who could apply it towards paying for the public or private school of their choice.

Lieberman has described Bush's "No Child Left Behind" plan as a "progressive piece of legislation" which has been insufficiently funded. He said, "A month after he signed the law, President Bush under funded it by $6 billion less than was promised in the legislation.  This is creating greater pressures on our schools to perform and educate our kids - which is appropriate - but without giving them sufficient resources to make it happen." He has repeatedly criticized the administration to this effect.

With Lynne Cheney, Richard Lamm, Saul Bellow, and others, Lieberman co-founded the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), a controversial educational organization which released the post-9/11 report titled "Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America and What Can Be Done About It" that criticized universities for evidence of anti-Americanism.

Entertainment industry
Lieberman has been critical of the entertainment media. On November 29, 2005, he co-sponsored the Family Entertainment Protection Act, which was introduced by Hillary Clinton, S.2126. The act is intended to protect children from what he says is inappropriate content found in video games. He has denounced the violence contained in video games and has tried regulating sales of violent video games to minors, arguing that games should have to be labeled based upon age-appropriateness. Regarding Grand Theft Auto, he said, "The player is rewarded for attacking a
woman, pushing her to the ground, kicking her repeatedly and then ultimately killing her, shooting her over and over again. I call on the entertainment companies—they've got a right to do that, but they have a responsibility not to do it if we want to raise the next generation of our sons to treat women with respect."  He voted for the Communications Decency Act.

Environment
Lieberman co-sponsored the 1990 Clean Air Act, a 1991 legislation intended to give consumers more information about the dangers of pesticides. He has addressed the need to limit global warming.

Lieberman has stated that the US population has to accept responsibility for global warming, and voted "yes" on banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He also voted "yes" on reducing oil usage by 40% by 2025 (instead of 5%). He voted against Gale Norton as Secretary of Interior. He even voted for funding for greater risk assessment by the EPA. Lieberman has even gone as far as saying that he wants to raise mileage standard to 40 mpg. Lieberman voted for the administration-backed Energy Policy Act of 2005; facing criticism, Lieberman called the bill imperfect but good for Connecticut, citing a saving of $800 million for Connecticut electricity customers. Lieberman has been a vocal critic of Bush's environmental policy.

"Gang of 14"
On May 23, 2005, Lieberman was one of fourteen senators, dubbed the "Gang of 14," who forged a compromise on the Democrats' use of the judicial filibuster, thus avoiding the Republican leadership's implementation of the so-called "nuclear option".  Under the agreement, the Democrats would exercise the power to filibuster a Bush judicial nominee only in an "extraordinary circumstance," and three of the filibustered Bush appellate court nominees – (Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Richman and William Pryor) – would receive a vote by the full Senate, which resulted in their confirmation. Lieberman refused to support a filibuster against Supreme Court Justice nominee Samuel Alito. Alito was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on January 31, 2006 by a vote of 58-42, becoming the Court's 110th Justice. Lieberman voted against the Alito confirmation in the final Senate vote. On John Roberts's nomination as Chief Justice, Lieberman believed that Roberts did not seem to be the kind of right-wing candidate the "Gang of 14" feared the president would select. Lieberman said he thought Roberts was a "decent guy," but also said that it was too early to draw further conclusions. Roberts was confirmed by the Senate on September 29, 2005 by a 78–22 vote, becoming the Court's 17th Chief Justice. Lieberman voted for confirming Roberts.

LGBT rights
In 2004, Lieberman scored a rating of 88/100 by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), one of the largest civil rights organization working to achieve gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality."

Lieberman voted "no" on constitutionally banning same-sex marriage.  In 2003, in response to the Massachusetts ruling that sanctions gay marriage, Lieberman stated, "although I am opposed to gay marriage, I have also long believed that states have the right to adopt for themselves laws that allow same-sex unions. I will oppose any attempts by the right wing to change the Constitution in response to today's Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling, which would be unnecessary and divisive."

Lieberman cosponsored the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act of 2003, which provided the same benefits to domestic partners of federal employees as spouses currently have.
In 1996, he cosponsored the Employee Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation. Lieberman voted in favor of the Early Treatment for HIV Act of 2003, which provided Medicaid treatment for people diagnosed with HIV.  He has adopted a non-discriminatory policy in employment decisions, which include sexual orientation and gender. Although Lieberman had no military personnel policy experience, he was among the minority in the Senate in 1993 to vote in support of President Clinton's proposal to let gays and lesbians serve openly in the military. However, he supported the Defense of Marriage Act and "Don't ask, don't tell."

In August 1994, Jesse Helms (R-NC) and Bob Smith (R-NH) proposed an amendment, S.AMDT.2434, to Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization (ESEA) - S.1513 - that would prevent federal funding for schools that "implement or carry out a program or activity that has either the purpose or effect of encouraging or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle." Lieberman voted for the amendment.  He voted for prohibiting HIV-positive immigrants from entering the US and against a measure to grant domestic-partner benefits to District of Columbia employees.

Gun control
Lieberman received a failing grade from the National Rifle Association but a 90% from the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. He has sought to ban guns in schools and places of worship. He has voted against prohibiting most lawsuits against gun manufacturers, but cast another vote immunizing gun manufacturers from lawsuits over gun violence. He has voted to require background checks at gun shows and against allowing guns to be sold without trigger locks.

In 2000, he opposed Al Gore's position to require a license to purchase a new handgun. Although they disagreed on this issue, Gore asked Lieberman not to change his position.

Lieberman's general pro-gun control stance has not prevented him from earning the nicknames "Joe Gun" and "Cowboy Joe" in reference to his straightforward, aggressive approach to lawmaking.

Health care and reproductive rights
In March 2006, according to The New Haven Register, when asked about the approach of the Catholic hospitals on contraceptives for rape victims, Lieberman said he believes Catholic hospitals that refuse to give contraceptives to rape victims for "principled reasons" shouldn't be forced to do so. "In Connecticut, it shouldn't take more than a short ride to get to another hospital," he said.

During his 2004 campaign, Lieberman said, "The day I walk into the Oval Office, the first thing I'm going to do is rescind the Bush administration restrictions on embryonic stem cell research." He has criticized Bush's recent veto of  the embryonic stem cell research.

Lieberman has been critical of Bush's Medicare plan, arguing that in its current state, it does not provide sufficiently for our nation's elderly.

In 2005, Lieberman introduced S. 975, the Project BioShield II Act of 2005, to provide incentives to increase research by private sector entities to develop medical countermeasures to
counter bioterrorism threats. The bill seeks to grant liability protection for these drugs and an extension of patents to companies producing drugs needed in case of a bioterrorism attack.

Lieberman joined a few other Democrats, Republican Florida Governor Jeb Bush and the Republican Congress as a vocal supporter of intervention in the Terri Schiavo case.

When control of the Senate switched from Republicans to Democrats in June 2001, Lieberman became Chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee, with oversight responsibilities for a broad range of government activities. When Republicans regained control of the Senate in January 2003, Lieberman resumed his role as ranking minority member of the committees he had once chaired.

Social Security
Lieberman cosponsored a resolution urging the Congress to reject the Bush Administration Social Security Commission's report.

Lieberman described the debate as "an ongoing problem, and we'd be wise to deal with it." He told The Hartford Courant in January 2005 when asked about Social Security, "if we can figure out a way to help people through private accounts or something else, great."  Although Lieberman praised Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for trying to fashion a bipartisan social security plan, he ultimately voted against the Bush Social Security plan.

Lieberman has toyed with the idea of switching his affiliation to Republican, especially if Senate Democrats go what he sees as too far in ending the War in Iraq. but this would not cause the Republicans to become the majority party during the 110th session of Congress.

He helped defeat the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) proposal of requiring the report of the costs of stock options as a business expense during the mid 1990s. During an interview with PBS after the Enron scandal, Lieberman defended his position, saying, "it was a good action." Facing the growing stock option scandals, Lieberman acknowledged that "clearly a disproportionate percent of the options went to a small percentage of executives. That was disappointing."

Other
Lieberman has voted against amending the U.S. Constitution to make it constitutional to criminalize flag desecration.

Foreign policy

Committee on the Present Danger
At the 20 July launching of the 2004 Committee on the Present Danger, Joe Lieberman and Senator Jon Kyl were identified as the honorary co-chairs.  The Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) is a hawkish "advocacy organization" first founded in 1950 and re-formed in 1976 to push for larger defense budgets and arms buildups, to counter the Soviet Union.

Iraq War
Lieberman sponsored S.J. Res.46, the Senate version of H.J. Res. 114, that is, the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, also called the Iraq Resolution.

Lieberman defended his support of the Iraq Resolution;  in a November 29, 2005 op-ed piece for The Wall Street Journal, he praised the efforts of the U.S. military in the occupation of Iraq and criticized both parties:

I am disappointed by Democrats who are more focused on how President Bush took America into the war in Iraq almost three years ago, and by Republicans who are more worried about whether the war will bring them down in next November's elections, than they are concerned about how we continue the progress in Iraq in the months and years ahead.

Later, on December 7, 2005, Lieberman said, "It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be Commander-in-Chief for three more critical years, and that in matters of war we undermine Presidential credibility at our nation's peril. It is time for Republicans in the White House and Congress who distrust Democrats to acknowledge that greater Democratic involvement and support in the war in Iraq is critical to rebuilding the support of the American people that is essential to our success in that war. It is time for Americans and we their leaders to start working together again on the war on terrorism. To encourage that new American partnership, I propose that the President and the leadership of Congress establish a bipartisan Victory in Iraq Working Group, composed of members of both parties in Congress and high ranking national security officials of the Bush Administration."

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid expressed disappointment with Lieberman, saying, "I've talked to Senator Lieberman, and unfortunately he is at a different place on Iraq than the majority of the American people."  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi added, "I completely disagree with Lieberman. I believe that we have a responsibility to speak out if we think that the course of action that our country is not making the American people safer, making our military stronger and making the region more stable." Lieberman responded, "I've had this position for a long time – that we need to finish the job."

Lieberman's defense of the administration resulted in speculation that he was attempting to position himself to replace Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld or another high-ranking government official, but Lieberman has denied having any desire for this. In 2005, media reports suggested that Lieberman might replace Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; Lieberman responded with, "It's a total fantasy, there's just no truth to it."

On June 22, 2006, Lieberman voted against two Democratic amendments to the annual defense appropriations bill, including S. 2766, which called for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. S.2766 did not set a withdrawal deadline, but urged President Bush to start pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq in 2006. Both amendments were defeated in the Senate, 60-39.

Free trade
Lieberman supported the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and continues to do so.
During a 2004 Democratic presidential primary debate in South Carolina, he said, "though it's cost some jobs, has actually netted out 900,000 new jobs that were created by NAFTA". Lieberman also voted for the Central America-United States-Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in 2005.

Lieberman is also the co-author of the US-China Relations Act that would create new incentives in bilateral relations with China. He voted for the U.S./China World Trade Organization (WTO) Accession agreement in 2000.

Israel
In 2002, Lieberman sponsored a pro-Israel U.S. Senate Resolution (S. Res. 247) regarding the Middle East Conflict, "expressing solidarity with Israel in its constant efforts to fight against terror".

Homeland security
As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (formerly the Governmental Affairs Committee) in 2001, Lieberman proposed forming the Department of Homeland Security, a proposal that passed into law in 2002.  As ranking member of the Committee from 2003 to 2007, he played a leading role in the passage of homeland security legislation such as the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, the SAFE Port Act, and the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act, and in the investigation of the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina.  In January 2007 he became Chairman again of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, where he led efforts to pass the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007.

Geneva Conventions
Lieberman supports the Alberto Gonzales policy memo on the application of provisions of the Geneva Conventions. He believes "the decision was, in my opinion, a reasonable one, and ultimately a progressive one." He agrees with Gonzales in describing certain provisions of Geneva Conventions, specifically "that a captured enemy be afforded such things as commissary privileges, script advances of monthly pay, athletic uniforms and scientific instruments" as "quaint". He also agrees with the legal decision that al Qaeda's members "were not entitled to prisoner of war status."  In 2006, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that "at least" Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions is applicable to combatants "in the territory of" a signatory of the Conventions.

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Arf Arf - Clanguage -1996- (CD, Self-Released), Australia
Arf Arf was an important Australia based sound-poetry group that consisted of Marisa Stirpe, Frank Lovece, Michael Buckley and Marcus Bergner. Since the mid-80's they did over a hundred international shows. The members have been active in the Australian experimental music underground since the late 70's. Frank Lovece was an Italian born musician that moved to Australia as a child and played in the cult-group The Primitive Calculators. Michael Buckley and Marcus Bergner played in an obscure band called Too Fat To Fit Through The Door. Marisa Stirpe in groups like Thrush and The Cunts, The Take and The Egg. Most of these bands that were related to the Primitive Calculators were compiled on a CD in 2006. Marcus Bergner also made the cover art for The Boys Next Door's Hee-Haw EP (Nick Cave's first band before The Birthday Party and later The Bad Seeds).
Arf Arf's Clanguage brings together a variety of lo-fi sound-poetry tracks that are quite musical in their nature. We can hear gripping sound poems layering different narratives on top of each other. The artists are reciting poems as well as displaying the suggestiveness of poetic meaning within a sound-flow of cadence, the occasional use of musical instruments and different voice exclamations. It often leans to absurdism because of the peculiar communication between the voices and the non-languages they are using. It's really amazing stuff, absorbing the listener into the intimate world of the poets who were immersed in their practice. This immersion is also reflected in the way in which the notations of the poems were done, being actual little visual pieces of art in themselves. Take a look at them here.
Arf Arf is a nice example of Australian (sound-) poetry that played an important role in its underground music history, whether coming from a beat icon like Daevid Allen or the sound poems by Amanda Stewart.
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'Black Velvet' is a celebration of Charles Bradley, lovingly assembled by his friends and family at Dunham/Daptone Records. Though chronologically the material spans Charles' entire career, this is no anthology, greatest hits or other shallow rehashing of the songs that already made him famous. Rather, this album is a profound exploration through the less-travelled corners of the soulful universe that Charles and his longtime producer, co-writer and friend Tommy "TNT" Brenneck created in the studio together over their decade-long partnership.
Charles was truly a transcendent singer who led a remarkable life, overcoming unimaginable adversity to achieve great success and international acclaim very late in his life. What was really special about him and made him different from everybody else in the world was how he understood his pain as a cry for universal love and humanity. He felt that if he loved enough—if we all loved each other enough—we could take away the world's pain and sadness. That is why he jumped off the stage and literally tried to hug everybody he could. It's why he took such great care of a mother that had abandoned him. It's why he sang and danced like a lunatic.
It's why he screamed like an eagle. And that's why we love him.
Charles Bradley is set to release his hotly anticipated third album, 'Changes,' on Daptone Records!


Clearly define the boundaries of our use cases.
Depend on abstractions, not on concrete implementation.
Identify glue code as distinct from domain logic and put it into its own layer.
The IssueLog is a term from our conversation with the domain expert. It's the place that they record the list of all issues. This is part of the jargon used by our customers, and so it clearly belongs in the domain, but it's also the ideal abstraction for a data store. How can we modify the code so that our newly created Issue will be persisted? We don't want our IssueLog to depend on the database, because that's a violation of principle #2. This is the question that leads us to the ports & adapters architecture.
In a ports and adapters architecture, we build a pure domain that exposes ports. A port is a way for data to get into, or out of, the domain model. In this system, the IssueLog is a port. Ports are connected to the external world by Adapters. In the previous code sample, the FakeIssueLog is an adapter: it provides a service to the system by implementing an interface.
Let's use a real-world analogy. Imagine we have a circuit that detects current over some threshold. If the threshold is reached, the circuit outputs a signal. Into our circuit we attach two ports, one for current in, and one for current out. The input and output channels are part of our circuit: without them, the circuit is useless.
Because we had the great foresight to use standardised ports, we can plug any number of different devices into our circuit. For example, we could attach a light-detector to the input and a buzzer to the output, or we could attach a dial to the input, and a light to the output, and so on.
Considered in isolation, this is just an example of good OO practice: we are extending our system through composition. What makes this a ports-and-adapters architecture is the the idea that there is an internal world consisting of the domain model (our ThresholdDetectionCircuit), and an external world that drives the domain model through well-defined ports. How does all of this relate to databases?
By analogy to our circuit example, the IssueLog is a WriteablePort - it's a way for us to get data out of the system. SqlAlchemy and the file system are two types of adapter that we can plug in, just like the Buzzer or Light classes. In fact, the IssueLog is an instance of a common design pattern: it's a Repository. A repository is an object that hides the details of persistent storage by presenting us with an interface that looks like a collection. We should be able to add new things to the repository, and get things out of the repository, and that's essentially it.
Let's look at a simple repository pattern.
We expose a few methods, one to add new items, one to get items by their id, and a third to find items by some criterion. This FooRepository is using a SqlAlchemy session object, so it's part of our Adapter layer. We could define a different adapter for use in unit tests.
This adapter works just the same as the one backed by a real database, but does so without any external state. This allows us to test our code without resorting to Setup/Teardown scripts on our database, or monkey patching our ORM to return hard-coded values. We just plug a different adapter into the existing port. As with the ReadablePort and WriteablePort, the simplicity of this interface makes it simple for us to plug in different implementations.
The repository gives us read/write access to objects in our data store, and is commonly used with another pattern, the Unit of Work. A unit of work represents a bunch of things that all have to happen together. It usually allows us to cache objects in memory for the lifetime of a request so that we don't need to make repeated calls to the database. A unit of work is responsible for doing dirty checks on our objects, and flushing any changes to state at the end of a request.
What does a unit of work look like?
"""The Unit of work manager returns a new unit of work.
one unit of work == one database transaction."""
This code is taken from a current production system - the code to implement these patterns really isn't complex. The only thing missing here is some logging and error handling in the commit method. Our unit-of-work manager creates a new unit-of-work, or gives us an existing one depending on how we've configured SqlAlchemy. The unit of work itself is just a thin layer over the top of SqlAlchemy that gives us explicit rollback and commit points. Let's revisit our first command handler and see how we might use these patterns together.
Our command handler looks more or less the same, except that it's now responsible for starting a unit-of-work, and committing the unit-of-work when it has finished. This is in keeping with our rule #1 - we will clearly define the beginning and end of use cases. We know for a fact that only one object is being loaded and modified here, and our database transaction is kept short. Our handler depends on an abstraction - the UnitOfWorkManager, and doesn't care if that's a test-double or a SqlAlchemy session, so that's rule #2 covered. Lastly, this code is painfully boring because it's just glue. We're moving all the dull glue out to the edges of our system so that we can write our domain model in any way that we like: rule #3 observed.
The code sample for this part adds a couple of new packages - one for slow tests (tests that go over a network, or to a real file system), and one for our adapters. We haven't added any new features yet, but we've added a test that shows we can insert an Issue into a sqlite database through our command handler and unit of work. Notice that all of the ORM code is in one module (issues.adapters.orm) and that it depends on our domain model, not the other way around. Our domain objects don't inherit from SqlAlchemy's declarative base. We're beginning to get some sense of what it means to have the domain on the "inside" of a system, and the infrastructural code on the outside.
Our unit test has been updated to use a unit of work, and we can now test that we insert an issue into our issue log, and commit the unit of work, without having a dependency on any actual implementation details. We could completely delete SqlAlchemy from our code base, and our unit tests would continue to work, because we have a pure domain model and we expose abstract ports from our service layer.
Next time we'll look at how to get data back out of the system.


In the French Legislative power, the legislative function is provided by a "Bicameral Parliament": the French National Assembly and the Senate, the meeting of the two assemblies forming the Congress.
The French National Assembly is made up of 577 deputies elected for five years by direct vote.
The Senate gathers 321 members elected for nine years, and renewed per third every three years. They ensure the representation of the local authorities established abroad.
The Parliament only has attributions which are expressly given to it by the Constitution. Thus, it has a role to decide laws, relating to principal freedoms. The initiative of the laws belongs to the both the Government and Parliament. The voted laws are then officially put into law by the Prime Minister.
The Parliament also holds a strong position on the financial side of things; most importantly it decides the budget of the nation, proposed by the Government.
The Government needs to have the confidence that the Parliament can continue to be reliable. The Parliament has the ability to withdraw their confidence in the Prime Minister and can also reverse the Government by adopting a motion of censure.


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Nature: How do I solve this woodmouse dilemma?
Nature: A woodmouse that won't give up is proving a headache for Pam Taylor.
I've been out and about quite a bit during recent evenings and these nocturnal travels have revealed some interesting sights. The red deer I occasionally encounter during the day are far more evident after dark, though all I usually see is their eye-shine reflected back from my headlights and their shadowy shapes milling around in a field.
Chinese water deer also appear both by day and by night, but they seem far less intelligent after dark. They stroll across roads apparently oblivious to oncoming cars, so it's no wonder so many become roadside casualties. Muntjac are a little more sensible, usually dashing away at the first sound of an engine. In trees above the road I sometimes see barn owls or tawny owls perched.
We used to have a small population of rabbits living on the edge of the marsh here, but after myxomatosis wiped out the colony and the ground became wetter, I believed rabbits to be lost from this area. I was proved wrong just the other evening though, when I saw a couple of rabbits feeding not far from my gateway.
One unwelcome nightly visitor is the woodmouse in the barn. For nearly a week I've found one in my live trap each morning and taken it some distance away to the woods before release.
After the first three days I started to wonder if I might be trapping the same mouse or mice repeatedly, despite my efforts at relocation, so I started to mark those I caught. On my first attempt the mouse leapt from the trap before I could dab any mark on, but the next day my catch left with a small white dot on its rear. The following morning the trapped mouse seemed unmarked, but had it managed to clean off the white dot? I made more of an effort to get a good mark on this one before release and sure enough, the same individual was back in the trap next morning.
Now I have a dilemma. Do I continue the live trapping, but increase the distance I take them before release, or do I resort to a more permanent means of preserving the stored corn sacks and apples in my barn?


Every witch or wizard with a wand has held in his or her hands more power than we will ever know. With the right spell or potion, they can fabricate love, travel through time, change physical form and even extinguish life.
In the wrong hands, power and magic can be dark, lethal, and consuming. Lord Voldemort showed us that; he sought power so viciously that he tore apart the fabric of his soul and lost everything that made him human. He is the ultimate villain, motivated by an ice-cold desire for power and destruction.
Obviously few people could match Voldemort in general evil intent (though Bellatrix Lestrange and Dolores Umbridge indeed try), but there are certainly other characters attracted to power. Here, we've collected writing by J.K. Rowling on power and politics… And just for fun, poltergeists, too.
Dolores Umbridge may have looked like an iced cupcake, but she was anything but sweet. She was savage, sadistic and remorseless. When she dared take control of Hogwarts from Albus Dumbledore, she committed all sorts of sinister acts. Under the newly created title of 'High Inquisitor' she single-handedly (well, with a little help from Filch) sucked the beloved school of all its joy, put every student in grave danger, and tortured Harry Potter. As far as we're concerned, she more than deserved her fate at the hands (hooves?) of centaurs.
Here's a much-needed glimpse into her dark past, by J.K. Rowling.
Dolores Jane Umbridge was the eldest child and only daughter of Orford Umbridge, a wizard, and Ellen Cracknell, a Muggle, who also had a Squib son. Dolores's parents were unhappily married, and Dolores secretly despised both of them: Orford for his lack of ambition (he had never been promoted, and worked in the Department of Magical Maintenance at the Ministry of Magic), and her mother, Ellen, for her flightiness, untidiness, and Muggle lineage. Both Orford and his daughter blamed Ellen for Dolores's brother's lack of magical ability, with the result that when Dolores was fifteen, the family split down the middle, Orford and Dolores remaining together, and Ellen vanishing back into the Muggle world with her son. Dolores never saw her mother or brother again, never spoke of either of them, and henceforth pretended to all she met that she was a pure-blood.
An accomplished witch, Dolores joined the Ministry of Magic directly after she left Hogwarts, taking a job as a lowly intern in the Improper Use of Magic Office. Even at seventeen, Dolores was judgemental, prejudiced and sadistic, although her conscientious attitude, her saccharine manner towards her superiors, and the ruthlessness and stealth with which she took credit for other people's work soon gained her advancement. Before she was thirty, Dolores had been promoted to head of the office, and it was but a short step from there to ever more senior positions in the management of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. By this time, she had persuaded her father to take early retirement, and by making him a small financial allowance, she ensured that he dropped quietly out of sight. Whenever she was asked (usually by workmates who did not like her) 'are you related to that Umbridge who used to mop the floors here?' she would smile her sweetest, laugh, and deny any connection whatsoever, claiming that her deceased father had been a distinguished member of the Wizengamot. Nasty things tended to happen to people who asked about Orford, or anything that Dolores did not like talking about, and people who wanted to remain on her good side pretended to believe her version of her ancestry.
In spite of her best efforts to secure the affections of one of her superiors (she never cared particularly which of them it was, but knew that her own status and security would be advanced with a powerful husband), Dolores never succeeded in marrying. While they valued her hard work and ambition, those who got to know her best found it difficult to like her very much. After a glass of sweet sherry, Dolores was always prone to spout very uncharitable views, and even those who were anti-Muggle found themselves shocked by some of Dolores's suggestions, behind closed doors, of the treatment that the non-magical community deserved.
As she grew older and harder, and rose higher within the Ministry, Dolores's taste in little girlish accessories grew more and more pronounced; her office became a place of frills and furbelows, and she liked anything decorated with kittens (though found the real thing inconveniently messy). As the Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge became increasingly anxious and paranoid that Albus Dumbledore had ambitions to supersede him, Dolores managed to claw her way to the very heart of power, by stoking both Fudge's vanity and his fears, and presenting herself as one of the few he could trust.
Dolores's appointment as Inquisitor at Hogwarts gave full scope, for the first time in her life, for her prejudices and her cruelty. She had not enjoyed her time at school, where she had been overlooked for all positions of responsibility, and she relished the chance to return and wield power over those who had not (as she saw it) given her her due.
Dolores has what amounts to a phobia of beings that are not quite, or wholly, human. Her distaste for the half-giant Hagrid, and her terror of centaurs, reveal a terror of the unknown and the wild. She is an immensely controlling person, and all who challenge her authority and world-view must, in her opinion, be punished. She actively enjoys subjugating and humiliating others, and except in their declared allegiances, there is little to choose between her and Bellatrix Lestrange.
Dolores's time at Hogwarts ended disastrously, because she overreached the remit Fudge had given her, stepping outside the bounds of her own authority, carried away with a fanatical sense of self-purpose. Shaken but unrepentant after a catastrophic end to her Hogwarts career, she returned to a Ministry, which had been plunged into turmoil due to the return of Lord Voldemort.
In the change of regimes that followed Fudge's forced resignation, Dolores was able to slip back into her former position at the Ministry. The new Minister, Rufus Scrimgeour, had more immediate problems pressing in on him than Dolores Umbridge. Scrimgeour was later punished for this oversight, because the fact that the Ministry had never punished Dolores for her many abuses of power seemed to Harry Potter to reveal both its complacency and its carelessness. Harry considered Dolores's continuing employment, and the lack of any repercussions for her behaviour at Hogwarts, a sign of the Ministry's essential corruption, and refused to cooperate with the new Minister because of it (Dolores is the only person, other than Lord Voldemort, to leave a permanent physical scar on Harry, having forced him to cut the words 'I must not tell lies' on the back of his own hand during detention).
hat imprisoned all Muggle-borns on the basis that they had 'stolen' their wands and their magic.
It was as she sat in judgement of another innocent woman that Harry Potter finally attacked Dolores in the very heart of the Ministry, and stole from her the Horcrux she had unwittingly been wearing.
Once, long ago, I took instruction in a certain skill or subject (I am being vague as vague can be, for reasons that are about to become obvious), and in doing so, came into contact with a teacher or instructor whom I disliked intensely on sight.
The woman in question returned my antipathy with interest. Why we took against each other so instantly, heartily and (on my side, at least) irrationally, I honestly cannot say. What sticks in my mind is her pronounced taste for twee accessories. I particularly recall a tiny little plastic bow slide, pale lemon in colour that she wore in her short curly hair. I used to stare at that little slide, which would have been appropriate to a girl of three, as though it was some kind of repellent physical growth. She was quite a stocky woman, and not in the first flush of youth, and her tendency to wear frills where (I felt) frills had no business to be, and to carry undersized handbags, again as though they had been borrowed from a child's dressing-up box, jarred, I felt, with a personality that I found the reverse of sweet, innocent and ingenuous.
I am always a little wary when talking about these kinds of sources of inspiration, because it is infuriating to hear yourself misinterpreted in ways that can cause other people a great deal of hurt. This woman was NOT 'the real Dolores Umbridge'. She did not look like a toad, she was never sadistic or vicious to me or anyone else, and I never heard her express a single view in common with Umbridge (indeed, I never knew her well enough to know much about her views or preferences, which makes my dislike of her even less justifiable). However, it is true to say that I borrowed from her, then grossly exaggerated, a taste for the sickly sweet and girlish in dress, and it was that tiny little pale lemon plastic bow that I was remembering when I perched the fly-like ornament on Dolores Umbridge's head.
So Dolores, who is one of the characters for whom I feel purest dislike, became an amalgam of traits taken from these, and a variety of sources. Her desire to control, to punish and to inflict pain, all in the name of law and order, are, I think, every bit as reprehensible as Lord Voldemort's unvarnished espousal of evil.
Umbridge's names were carefully chosen. 'Dolores' means sorrow, something she undoubtedly inflicts on all around her. 'Umbridge' is a play on 'umbrage' from the British expression 'to take umbrage', meaning offence. Dolores is offended by any challenge to her limited world-view; I felt her surname conveyed the pettiness and rigidity of her character. It is harder to explain 'Jane'; it simply felt rather smug and neat between her other two names.
Dolores Umbridge had two offices – one at Hogwarts, the other at the Ministry of Magic – but both were decorated with foul meowing kitten plates. Now, she may never have been appointed Minister for Magic herself, but she did know how to influence anyone who was. Just think how diabolically well she worked with Cornelius Fudge to spread rumours about Harry Potter, deny the return of Voldemort, and depose Dumbledore.
If you want to understand anything about wizarding world politics, you'd better look at exactly who has held the position of Minister. And keep an eye out, as there's a familiar surname or two amongst them.


I am just now picking up Lovins, Hawken,and Lovins Natural Capitalism book.
I am wondering if I could use it in a module on alternative perspectives on capitalism module. I also was wondering what has happened since it was published in 1999.
There is a is a website called natcap.org.
Here I found a more recent edition with a new introduction. http://www.naturaledgeproject.net/NatCap2005.aspx.
What I like best about it is the focus on solutions. I feel like that would mitigate people who dismiss change as naive idealism.


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CAS racial disparities shameful, opposition MPPs say
By Laurie MonsebraatenSocial Justice Reporter
Thu., Dec. 11, 2014timer2 min. read
Ontario's Liberal government "should be ashamed" that black children in the Toronto area are being placed in foster and group home care at greater rates than white children, opposition leaders said Thursday.
"This should be a concern for all of the parties," said Jim Wilson, the Progressive Conservative interim leader. "The government should be ashamed.
"The government has to set priorities, and children, regardless of colour, should always be the priority of society."
Wilson noted that on Tuesday, the Auditor General warned many areas of spending were being crowded out by the province's $267-billion debt. Wilson pointed to the government's failure to meet its anti-poverty targets and the deficits that plague several children's aid societies as examples.
A Star investigation has found that 41 per cent of children in foster and group home care in the care of the Children's Aid Society of Toronto are black. Meanwhile, just 8.2 per cent of the city's population under 18 is black.
Across Ontario, a recent survey of about 7,000 children in care for more than a year shows that about 12 per cent are of African or Caribbean descent. Only about 5 per cent of Ontario's children under 18 are from those communities.
Black community leaders blame cultural misunderstandings, poverty and systemic racism in the child protection system and within schools and police, where most referrals to children's aid originate.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said the numbers are "very alarming" and show the government has to do more to fight poverty in Ontario.
"I think we have to recognize the disproportionality of children in CAS that are black is reflective of the disproportionality of people who are living in poverty who are black," she told reporters.
"Unfortunately we have a government that continues to allow child poverty to climb in Ontario."
Ontario did not meet its 2008 goal to cut child poverty in the province by 25 per cent by 2013. Its recent five-year poverty reduction plan vowed to continue efforts to meet its 2008 goal, but neglected to set a deadline.
Children and Youth Services Minister Tracy MacCharles said she was "concerned" about the numbers.
"I'm going to go back and have a hard look at the numbers at the ministry level and assess it further," she said.
Black community leaders say they have been urging action on the overrepresentation of black children in the child welfare system for at least eight years.
The Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies and the African Canadian Legal Clinic last month submitted a joint funding proposal for a project to address the issue.
MacCharles said she will "have a look at it."


The danger with both of them is that they represent not a potential stage on a journey for many, but the endpoint. Their ease of use and similarity to existing practice is seductive in this sense, you don't really have to change what you do much.
This is absolutely the case. I like to quote a remark by a learning technologist colleague after a great demo of a lecture recording technology: "Well, this just makes us more likely to do lectures."
But the problem is that you ignore a much deeper issue which could be described by a paraphrase of Martin Weller's title: Education is to learning what PowerPoint is to Presentation.
I've been reading worries of exactly this same kind in Comenius, Rousseau, Dewey, etc. What is remarkable about all of these is that they all felt that a new age of education is just around the corner. What can we learn from the repeated failures of their predictions? 1. Our or any other predictions of a similar kind are likely to fail. 2. We need to look at different principles of what makes the educational system tick. I would suggest the research of Howard Becker on the collective organisation towards the achievement of institutional goals. Students and teachers will create collective and individual strategies to get to where they need to in order to pass the milestones set by the institution. But these milestones (e.g. submitted lesson plans or passed exams) are only models or approximations of the stated objectives (e.g. good teaching or deep transformative learning).
To elaborate on the analogy. A lot of people have heard and learned from the 'Death by PowerPoint' thesis. So I see (and occasionally create) more and more presentations that use illustrative and amusing pictures instead of bullet points. But often I wish for the bullet points to make it easier for me to take notes or to 'skip ahead' of a dull or overly 'entertaining' presentation. (And posting these on Slideshare is wasting my time.) We are headed for the 'new' PowerPoint age where everybody's PowerPoints look the same (just like if everyone has a tattoo or spiky hair, these becomes badges of group identity rather than expressions of individual identity). The reason this happens, because the 'collective' subconsciously (and with varying degrees of overt organisation) coallesces around strategies that make achieving the goald easier. I always admired people with 'telling' pictures in their presentations until I learned how easy it is to find them if you set this as your main aim and do it often enough. I'm sure if everyone started using Prezi or Mindmaps instead of PowerPoint, the collective approach would coalesce around a similar standard. The same thing happened with early VLEs (no matter how primitive they were). The creative and driven people who wanted to use them used them. Now people who have to use them do so because of institutional demands, and they have become an analogue of the school: drab and largely uninspiring with occasionally exceptional moments of learning and growth.
Thus we have boring courses in VLEs and boring, bullet pointed presentations in Powerpoint. There is nothing intrinsic in the tools that means boring is the only outcome – good presenters will have excellent Powerpoint presentations and good teachers will have excellent VLE courses. But nevertheless there is something about their proximity to standard practice that means boring is all too often the end result.
Learning is always a byproduct of education, the main product of education is passage (in whatever ritual form it happens to take in a given period). Trying to bring the diverse and dynamic ways in which people actually learn and transform back into the educational fold is not a bad idea in itself (and is inevitable given the proximity of the world of education and the real world) but these will always be molded by the participants of the system into a shape that still looks like education (or whatever other institution we try to replace 'education' with). I like to call this shape the "Becker attractor" following the chaos theory analogue. Meaning, we cannot predict when or how but eventually any institutional system of learning will look pretty much like a school (or a prison).


On the cover Galanthus nivalis 'Flore Pleno' resembles to some extent the floral mutant agamous of Arabidopsis thaliana. Its multiplied perianth contains, however, some remnants of generative structures. The male, pollen producing stripes of sporogenic tissue can be seen on the adaxial surface of some inner perianth parts. The trimery of the outer parts, typical for the snowdrop, is often replaced by the teramery or even pentamery, which makes 'Flore Pleno' an attractive example of meristic variation.


A marijuana-related firm called Weedmaps is bringing its own "weedfacts" to Michigan during an ongoing petition drive seeking to put a marijuana legalization question on the 2018 statewide ballot.
The California-based "technology and marijuana discovery service" company is paying for 22 pro-pot billboards in the Lansing region, 12 around Ann Arbor and six in Metro Detroit as part of an international campaign also targeting six other states and Canada.
The billboards feature selective statistics showing unchanged youth use, increased tax revenue, theft reductions and other developments in states that have already legalized weed. Five different versions are running in Michigan, which is creating and implementing new medical marijuana regulations.
– Read the entire article at Detroit News.


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Blog Tour: 'The Confectioner's Tale' By Laura Madeleine – Review - This Chick Reads
30 Sep Blog Tour: 'The Confectioner's Tale' By Laura Madeleine – Review
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What secrets are hiding in the heart of Paris?
At the famous Patisserie Clermont in Paris, 1909, a chance encounter with the owner's daughter has given one young man a glimpse into a life he never knew existed: of sweet cream and melted chocolate, golden caramel and powdered sugar, of pastry light as air.
But it is not just the art of confectionery that holds him captive, and soon a forbidden love affair begins.
Almost eighty years later, an academic discovers a hidden photograph of her grandfather as a young man with two people she has never seen before. Scrawled on the back of the picture are the words 'Forgive me'. Unable to resist the mystery behind it, she begins to unravel the story of two star-crossed lovers and one irrevocable betrayal.
'The Confectioner's Tale' is Laura Madeleine's debut, and what a terrific debut it is! I've read it couple of days ago, yet I'm still thinking about the characters.
'The Confectioner's Tale' follows two stories, the story of Petra in 1988, who's trying to find out more about her grandfathers involvement in a scandal, and of Guillerme du Frere, back in 1909 who's off to Paris to work on the railways. Poor Gui left Bordeaux to earn some money, hoping Paris will treat him kind and he'll earn enough to send to his mother. He's 19 years old, poor yet determined to make it into the big city. What he least expects is to find someone who'll show him that he's hungry for love too.
Fast forward eight decades, we see Petra, the granddaughter of the famous historian SJ Stivenson. She finds out that her granddad has been to Paris and had a big secret that haunted him till the last day. After his death, she finds a letter with 'Forgive me' written on the back. That's when Petra starts suspecting her granddad and starts to research his connection to Clermont family in Paris. What she's about to discover is the big secret her grandfather kept for so many years.
'The Confectioner's Tale' has been such a wonderful surprise. I knew I would like it right after reading the blurb, however I certainly didn't expect it to be this good. It's such an easy read, and those past to present transitions and as well as change in POVs, simply flowed. It's obvious the author knows a good deal about Paris, because she manages to describe it perfectly, the riches as well as the poor. We get to see both sides of Paris and the society back in 1909. I absolutely loved Gui's story. Forbidden love, betrayal, drama and mystery..there's so much happening in this story. However, I was not too impressed with Petra's, as I really didn't warm up to her as a character. Petra's story seemed more slow, at least for me, however I did root for her and hoped she'll prove some people wrong.
Overall, 'The Confectioner's Tale' is definitely a great debut. It's an easy and short read you can devour in one sitting. The writing is beautiful and rich. Both stories, especially Gui's, will keep you turning the pages and you won't put it down till you find out the connection between Gui and Petra. I do wish the ending had a bigger 'bang' and that the scandal was more shocking, but I was still not disappointed.
If you're a fan of historical fiction, I definitely recommend it.
My rating: 8/10


Arsenal are close to spending their £50million summer transfer budget on Lucas Torreira, Bernd Leno and Sokratis Papastathopoulos.
The Gunners are closing in on the £26m signing of Sampdoria midfielder Torreira and they have approached Bayer Leverkusen over a £20m deal for German goalkeeper Leno.
Arsenal are expected to sign Borussia Dortmund defender Papastathopoulos for £16m… Unai Emery will be under pressure to sell players if he wants to bring more new arrivals in.
Do we have any advance on £70m?
Unable to agree on the budget, the Standard might be expected to get other facts right. Wrong. The £26m Arsenal have earmarked for Sampdoria midfielder Torreira is to be paid in instalments. Perhaps half will be paid up front. So that's £16m for Papastathopoulos plus, say, £13m for Torreria and £20m for Leno. That equals £49m – leaving Arsenal with, £21m left over. As for selling players as the Standard says they "must", well, Arsenal fans will not mourn the sales of Calum Chambers, Shkodran Mustafi, Joel Campbell, Lucas Perez, Carl Jenkinson and David Ospina.