The Brains Behind Blackmun By David J. Garrow
Readers Respond: Justice Blackmun
Unbecoming Justice Blackmun By William Saletan
A Measure Of Truth By Kermit Roosevelt
The Federalist Capers By Roderick M. Hills, Jr.
A Dirty Little Secret By Eric Redman
Justice on the Half Shell By Aaron Kuriloff
The Prince of Darknet By Joseph D. Lasica
Justice on the Half Shell
Louisiana's oyster farmers get a raw deal in court.
ON AN AUTUMN MORNING 13 YEARS AGO, KEN FOX, THEN 53, eased his 25-foot flatboat from the dock and headed down a winding bayou to inspect his oyster beds in Plaquemines Parish, La., near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Spread across wetlands the size of Manhattan, the beds lay beneath a brackish tide normally perfect for cultivating juvenile spat oysters that had always taken three years to grow into fat adults for delivery around the world. Yet after decades of healthy production for Fox and his predecessors in tending the beds, something had gone wrong.
Unfamiliar grasses were sprouting from the black silt and crushed-shell reefs, fouling the propeller of Fox's boat and the steel tongs of his harvesting dredges. Tiny mussels balled around the oysters, keeping them small and making them unfit for market. Still, nothing had prepared Fox for the oysters he pulled from the beds that morning.
"They were all dead," he said recently. "They were hanging out of their shells."
Natural freshets, prolonged infusions of freshwater from the rain or rivers, can kill oysters in a matter of weeks, and Fox suspected that something similar had destroyed his crop. But he believed that the water had not come naturally, that it had not fallen from the sky or drained from upstate, and that it would not wash out with the tide.
The year before, the United States Army Corps of Engineers constructed a $26.1 million gate in the Mississippi River levee near the tiny hamlet of Caernarvon, about 15 miles downriver from New Orleans and five miles above Fox's oyster beds. Freshwater was allowed to pass through the gate, to push back the excess saltwater that for decades had been intruding from the Gulf of Mexico and destroying oysters and marshland throughout the Breton Sound estuary to the south. The gate project worked well at first, but then property owners in the area persuaded the project's managers to turn up the flow so the water would deposit more silt on the dying marshes. Fox believed the wetlands had been flooded to such an extent that, rather than being protected from too much saltwater, oysters were being killed for miles around by too much freshwater.
Fox considered his options. State officials had all but ignored his request for help, and he wasn't eager to sue. To his mind, lawsuits wasted time and money and produced results that bore little relation to fairness. But the elected judges around Plaquemines Parish had, in previous cases, shown a soft spot for the oyster farmers, finding ways to rule in their favor whenever the chance arose. Surely, Fox thought, the courts would come through for them again. So he turned his flatboat around and headed home to call his lawyer.
LOUISIANA SITS ON A COASTAL PLAIN OF SEDIMENT deposited by the Mississippi River as it roamed from channel to channel over five millennia. Almost a quarter of the state lies along the river's terminus, where the waters spill into the Gulf of Mexico through a series of outlets that create what geologists call a bird's foot delta. The delta's waters nourish crab, shrimp, and fish in numbers greater than are found anywhere else in the lower 48 states. Louisiana's culinary reputation owes as much to this trove of seafood as it does to the creative seasonings of Cajun cuisine. Still, the delta's greatest edible prize are the wild oysters that lie on reefs along its muddy bottom.
Up through the 19th century, the reefs produced a huge commercial bounty. Harvesters equipped with little more than long rakes shipped millions of pounds of oysters upriver to the rest of the nation every year. But by the early 20th century, the once seemingly inexhaustible reefs were nearly depleted. Biologists blamed the turn on what ecologist Garrett Hardin called "The Tragedy of the Commons," a theory in which he contended that a resource readily available to everyone sometimes received the care of none. Faced with a dwindling supply of oysters, harvesters formed gangs and battled over the last unspoiled reefs.
To restore order, state officials adopted a radical solution: privatization. Though tidal lands had traditionally belonged to the public, allowing oystermen to lease the beds of state waters and to build private reefs might prompt them to become farmers instead of plunderers. In 1902, the Oyster Commission of Louisiana began to issue leases for all but the reefs offshore, which remained public. Demand for the leases grew quickly, and the program was a resounding success over much of the next century. "In the 30 years I've been working as a manager and biologist, I've never had to worry about an oyster reef," said Ron Dugas, former oyster manager for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. Biologists in other states also credited the leasing system with turning Louisiana's coast into one of the world's leading producers of oysters. But the leases brought the farmers into direct conflict with the delta's other major industry: oil. Wildcatters had drilled Louisiana's first well in 1901, in Evangeline, the heart of Cajun country, the year before the leasing program started. With thousands of potential drilling sites in the vast wetlands, state officials allowed oyster farmers and oil companies to hold rights to the same properties. Oyster farmers caused oil spills by damaging pipelines with their dredges. Oil workers detonated seismic charges over reefs, dredged pipeline canals through productive grounds, and polluted oysters with waste.
The disputes between the oil and oyster industries eventually landed in court, where oyster farmers won their biggest legal victory. In 1944, the Louisiana Supreme Court ordered the Texas Oil Company to pay damages to oysterman Ludwig Doucet for dumping chemical waste on his leased property. The ruling established that an oyster leaseholder had a "valuable property right" in his reef, and the court gave him the right to sue for damages. The Doucet ruling led to years of courtroom defeats for oil companies that had to defend themselves before judges and jurors who blamed them for damaging the coastal environment. Most farmers didn't even have to sue to collect damages. Rather than spend money in court, oil companies bought out the leases in the path of their operations.
BUT A THIRD FORCE, MOTHER NATURE, SOON THREATENED the farmers' fortunes. Since the 1930s, levees built along the Mississippi had protected thousands of square miles from flooding but also deprived the delta of freshwater. In its absence, saltwater from the Gulf was able to penetrate through bays and bayous and 30,000 miles of man-made canals. The salt killed grasses, trees, and other vegetation that held the marsh's soil in place. Over the past half-century, as if the coast has been sliding into the water, land has been engulfed at a rate that now exceeds one acre every 38 minutes. Over 75 years, Louisiana has lost to the sea more than 1,900 square miles, an area the size of Delaware.
The disappearing landscape created a serious economic problem for Fox, whose oyster farm had, over close to 40 years, developed into a seafood business that included a fleet of a dozen vessels, a processing plant, and annual revenues of more than $2 million. So he and other oyster harvesters proposed a solution: push back the saltwater by diverting freshwater from the river into the marsh. After more than 13 years of lobbying by the oyster industry, Congress appropriated money for the diversion at Caernarvon. But as the Army Corps of Engineers neared completion of the structure, Fox realized that the solution might be worse than the problem.
A group of powerful landowners wanted to let more water through the diversion so that more sediment could be deposited on their vanishing property. They had already won important political support from local councilman Henry "Junior" Rodriguez Jr., who announced at the structure's dedication ceremony, "This is not some tool for the benefit of the oyster fishermen. This is a tool for the benefit of everyone."
Fox and his allies protested that increasing the flow would destroy the oyster business. But they later backed off, Fox said, because State Senator Sammy Nunez promised to help if they suffered any losses. A measure passed authorizing the increased flow. Less than seven months later, Nunez said he did not remember making the promise. Not long after, Fox encountered his dead oysters and sued the Corps of Engineers and assorted federal officials for damages.
In August 1995, Judge Christine Miller of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims dismissed the suit, ruling that a clause in the leases prohibited the oyster farmers from recovering damages caused by operation of the project. Fox appealed, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied him a rehearing.
Fox, though, had also filed suit in state court against the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, the operator of the project. The case was assigned to Judge William Roe, who had spent his career as a lawyer representing fishermen and oyster poachers. He owed his position on the bench to a Plaquemines Parish electorate dominated by commercial fishermen, and, while campaigning, Roe had rarely passed up a chance to criticize state authorities for how they smothered the fishing industry with regulations. Fox's lawyer, a renowned New Orleans native named Wendell Gauthier, had calculated that Fox's claims would receive a more sympathetic hearing in state rather than federal court, and Roe did not disappoint him.
The judge refused the state's request to move the case to Baton Rouge, despite a law requiring that all suits against state agencies be heard in the state capital. When Andrew Wilson, the state's lead attorney, subpoenaed receipts that could prove seafood dealers had been buying oysters from reefs that had supposedly been destroyed, Roe quashed the subpoenas, ruling that they were an unfair imposition on local businesses. When Wilson tried to introduce a survey indicating that many of the leased properties had never produced oysters, Roe disallowed the evidence because, he said, the method used to produce the survey was unreliable. When Wilson asked Roe to dismiss jurors with ties to the seafood industry, the judge chose not to. The panel ultimately included fishermen, their relatives, employees of seafood companies, and two people who had done business with the oyster farmers and their lawyers. Finally, Roe prohibited jurors from considering the lease clauses that shielded the state from liability for the diversion's operationsthe clauses that had sunk Fox's case in federal court.
At the two-week trial, Fox's testimony struck a sympathetic chord with the jurors. He talked about how he'd built his grandfather's business into a thriving enterprise and how State Senator Nunez had betrayed him and the other oyster farmers. He brought dead oysters to show the jury and demonstrated how the silt and the mussels had killed them. He talked about being forced to lay off his own daughter in 1993. In December 2000, the jurors reached a unanimous verdict. To no one's surprise, they decided that the state had taken the oyster farmers' property without just compensation. But they also issued an award that, by any measure, far exceeded the value of the farmers' property and lost profits. For every acre listed in the suit, the oyster farmers received $21,345, a figure 20 times greater than the highest price any of them had paid for a lease. The total award came to $1.3 billion, more than Louisiana spends annually on public safety or social services or transportation, more than the value of every oyster ever sold in the state.
Fox's share was more than $20 million, an amount that provoked him to feel regret rather than joy. "I was shocked when they came out with that figure," he said. "It's not justifiable." He thought that $2,000 an acre, which would have given him $3.4 million, would have been more than enough, and he worried that the jury's award would only lead to trouble. Even Judge Roe said the plaintiffs deserved a "much, much lower figure," though he added that he could find no legal basis to change the jury's award. Instead, he offered a warning: "It brings to mind the adage, that you better be careful what you wish for."
The state appealed the verdict while taking steps to protect itself against further liability. It shut down the Caernarvon diversion and delayed opening a second diversion west of New Orleans. It issued a moratorium on all oyster leasing. Most significantly, it stopped construction on 15 other projects that represented the initial stage of a $14 billion, comprehensive effort to save the coast from erosion. Without the projects, hurricanes and floods would pose an even greater danger for New Orleans, which lies below sea level, for the nation's oil and gas industry (a third of whose infrastructure is concentrated along the Louisiana coast), and for several other major ports along the Gulf.
To take advantage of public outrage over the verdict, the state also proposed an amendment to the Louisiana Constitution. The amendment would retroactively prohibit a property owner from recovering more than the "fair market value" of any of his holdings damaged by a public project designed to restore the state's coast.
The proposal was, in effect, a referendum on Fox's case, because it would reduce his award, though that aspect of the amendment was unlikely to survive a legal challenge. In October 2003, however, voters approved the amendment by a 20-percent margin. Even though many voters in coastal regions worked in the seafood industry, their concerns about the loss of land overshadowed their sympathy for Fox's cause and resulted in their passing the amendment by a 30-percent margin.
Then state officials set out to make sure Fox and his fellow oystermen didn't get a dime. Although a divided state court of appeals upheld the verdict in October 2003 by a 3-to-2 margin, two governors (there was a change of leadership, but not of outlook) swore they wouldn't settle the cases, no matter how much the uncertainty might harm the state's finances and bond rating. An appeal was filed with the Louisiana Supreme Court, and when Kathleen Blancothe third governor to serve during the Fox case sagatook office in 2004, she rejected a settlement offer from the oystermen of $160 million, or 12 cents on each dollar of the jury's award. "I want to make clear that I have not and will not consider using hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to settle these lawsuits," she said.
Oyster farmers were fast becoming public enemy number one, a development that Fox believed was profoundly unfair. "We offered to settle for $15 million before we ever went to trial," he said. "The governor laughed at us, said 'We ain't giving y'all a nickel.' A jury, an appeals court found the state wrong. All of these people couldn't have been wrong through all the court system."
IN OCTOBER 2004, AS WORD LEAKED OUT that a decision by the state supreme court was imminent, Fox joined his lawyers, state's attorney Wilson, and a small group of reporters outside the century-old state courthouse on Royal Street in New Orleans. Fox was prepared for a setback. The award had never been real to him, because he knew better than anyone that no acre of oyster beds was worth $21,345. Still, he had lost 60 percent of his business to the ravages of freshwater, and he figured the court would reduce the award to an amount that would compensate him for his losses.
Fox was not prepared for the opinion that the clerk handed to him. In a unanimous decision, the seven justices ruled the oyster-bed lease clause that shielded the state from liabilitythe clause that was Fox's downfall in federal courtwas valid in 192 of the 204 leases at issue. The holders of the 12 leases in which the clause was not valid could sue for damages to their business, the court said, but not on the basis that there had been a taking of their property. "The state owns the waters," wrote the justices. "The state owns the oysters. Thus, the state could not take its own property." More centrally, Fox and hundreds of other oyster farmers would recover nothing.
Fox was crushed. For a decade, he and his family had poured time and money into maintaining properties whose value had suddenly dropped. Under the state supreme court's reasoning, Louisiana could build levees, redirect rivers, and flood oyster beds with little consideration for the economic interests of Fox and his fellow farmers.
For his failed attempt at legal recourse, Fox was branded a troublemaker by many Louisianians, including some who worked in the oyster industry. Fox felt even worse for his son, who had taken over the family operation and would have to suffer the consequences of the court's ruling. It was a safe bet that the industry would never be the same. Because the state could take away oyster beds almost at will, a business once based on the rhythm of the tides and seasons would now answer to the whims of politicians in Baton Rouge.


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Developing Effective Training System By Using Learning In Action For Small And Medium Sized Accounting Firms In Sichuan Province, China
China's small and medium-sized accounting firms account for more than 90% of the total. This study found that junior accountant training is one of the most challenging tasks facing small and medium-sized accounting firms. Most of them do not have complete training systems due to a lack of effective training methods and the prohibitive cost of hiring professional trainers. Thus, the aim of this study was to discover the gap between the real competency of junior accountants and the expectation of their managers, then to narrow the gap and improve the competency of junior accountants. In this study, the researcher used questionnaires to collect data from 98 small and medium-sized accounting firms in Sichuan province, China, and one of them was chosen as it implements a training course. This study identified the knowledge and skills of junior accountants in order to develop a training system, including planning, content, methods, implementation and evaluation.
Index Terms - Accounting Training, Junior Accountant, Learning in Action, Small and Medium Sized Accounting Firm

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It's almost been ten months since our last book club posting (MARTA Book Club #30) and a few of you have asked:
A.) Is anyone reading on Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) buses and trains any more, or B:) has the secretary of the MARTA Book Club become too lazy to record what people are reading while they are riding public transit?
Quite frankly, it has been a combination of the two. For a while, I just didn't see people reading much in the way of books. E-readers like Kindle seemed to have disappeared from the platforms as well. Time spent watching videos on phones seems to have increased though I don't quite see the pleasure of watching a dazzling dance number complete with stage lighting and gyrating music on a two by three inch screen.
Combine this media consumption trend to my lack of investigative fortitude and you can understand why there has been dearth of titles and subsequent postings.
But enough of the excuses. I have made a concerted effort lately. So here's a list -- a small resurrection, if you will, of what people have been reading in Atlanta the past few weeks:
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis and Michael Meyer.
Selected Commercial Statutes for Secured Transactions by Carol Chomsky and Christina Kunz (This month's winner of the Hefty Book Award).
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (second place winner of the Hefty Book Award).
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson.
Personal: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett.
Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening Mysterious World of Transportation by Edward Hume. This was my offering. In this book, Hume reveals the intricate and tenuous nature of our transportation network from shipping containers at the Port of Los Angeles to home delivery. He writes about the economic costs, the human costs (16 pedestrians are killed each day in the U.S.) and the environmental costs. Saying our infrastructure needs to be rebuilt is one thing, but doing it is something entirely different. One can start by reading this book.
Flash Point: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis.
Outcast, Vol. 3: A Little Light by Robert Kirkman and Elizabeth Brietweiser.
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. (of course, considering it's just been released as a movie)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Game of Thrones by George W. Martin
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeanette Walls
Perhaps this is not much of a effort compared past lists but you can can contribute by adding a book in this posting's comments section.

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The Kansas City Chiefs are reportedly placing the franchise tag on edge defender Dee Ford, keeping their sixth-year edge player from reaching unrestricted free agency for the first time in his career. While Kansas City’s defense was one of the league’s worst units in 2018 (finishing the regular season 28th in EPA allowed per play), Ford had the best season of his career; he led all edge players in total pressures with 84, and he finished eighth in pass-rush productivity (8.5). Unlike previous seasons, Ford showed the ability to rush from both his preferred left side (9.4 PRP) and the right side (7.1), which allowed the Chiefs’ other edge player, Justin Houston, to move around the defense as well.
The move to use the franchise tag on Ford is a sound one for a Chiefs franchise that has been digging their way out of some salary cap issues since the beginning of former GM John Dorsey’s tenure with the team. Tagging Ford would result in a one-year commitment to the tune of about $17 million next year, lower than the $20 million per year a top edge player would likely command in a multi-year deal. It also represents approximately what the Chiefs would get back should they release Houston, who has had an amazing career that has produced over 400 career pressures on just 2,800 pass-rush snaps, but his age (30), his injury history (21 missed games the last four seasons), and the team's recent draft picks of Breeland Speaks and Tanoh Kpassagnon make him expendable.
Tagging Ford also makes sense because it allows them to pull back more of the curtain on a player whose career has likely created more uncertainty than it has alleviated. Drafted in the first round out of Auburn, Ford sat behind stalwarts in Houston and the perennially underrated Tamba Hali (over 650 career pressures), before getting a chance in 2016. He emerged in 2016 with 12 sacks, but his more-predictive pressure numbers (35 hurries and 54 total pressures) and poor play in run defense led to an overall PFF grade (63.5) that still left folks wanting more. An injury in 2017 kept him to just 316 snaps, before a 2018 season that was both productive and deserving of a great PFF grade (87.7).
Additionally, the Chiefs are transitioning from Bob Sutton’s 3-4 defense to Steve Spagnuolo’s 4-3 defense. While these differences are mostly overblown in a nickel- and dime-heavy NFL, the added layer of uncertainty is something that is likely going to keep the Chiefs from using the majority of their $25 million (before the Houston move) on a long-term commitment for a player who (a.) is not as good as interior defender Chris Jones (91.0 overall grade) and (b.) plays for a defense that is several good players away from returning the team to the defensive heights that they achieved in 2013 and 2014.
There are rumors that the Chiefs are shopping Houston, and are open to the idea of trading Ford as well. The tag allows Kansas City to dangle a high-reward asset to other teams without a huge contract attached, and for a team that's looking at starting cornerback Steven Nelson facing free agency, star safety Eric Berry playing just four games the last two seasons and a linebacking corps that saw free-agent signee Anthony Hitchens earn one of the worst grades of any defensive player in the league last season, the prospect of being able to rebuild their defense more from scratch could be appealing to a team for which an average defense would lead to being a favorite to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl, given the strength of their offense led by Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes.
The Chiefs don’t face an ideal situation, either defensively or from the perspective of the salary cap. However, tagging Dee Ford is likely the right choice given their current circumstances with all three outcomes (Ford is traded, Ford is brilliant, Ford is less than brilliant) palatable for what should be one of the league’s best teams for years to come.

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The previously announced How to Become Ordinary (Shoshimin) anime has revealed a new trailer featuring the announced cast. Studio Lapin Track (Undead Girl Murder Farce) is animating the series, which is set to premiere in July 2024.
Mamoru Kanbe (The Promised Neverland) is directing the anime while Toshiya Ono (Shadows House) is writing the series composition. Atsushi Saito (Love Live! Superstar!!) is designing the characters and Takahiro Obata (The Promised Neverland) is composing the music.
Hina Yomiya (Anna Yamada in The Dangers In My Heart) stars as Yuki Osanai and Shuichiro Umeda (Akira Tendo in Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead) voices Jogoro Kobato. Makoto Furukawa (Miyuki Shirogane in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War) plays the role of Kengo Dojima.
Shoshimin Series is a novel series by Honobu Yonezawa (best known for Hyouka). It was initially launched by Tokyo Sogensha in December 2004, with four volumes in circulation and the fifth volume slated in April 2024. The TV anime will adapt the first two volumes: The Spring Special Strawberry Tart Case and The Summer Special Tropical Parfait Case. The series’ official website describes the plot as follows:
“Let’s help each other and aim to become perfect ordinary citizens.”
Kobato, who once had a bitter experience through deduction activities known as “wisdom work,” was determined to become an honest and humble citizen. He secretly formed a reciprocal relationship with his classmate, Osanai, who shared the same aspiration, planning to make their high school debut as ordinary citizens and lead peaceful days. However, for some reason, mysterious incidents and misfortunes keep coming one after another into their school lives. Will Kobato and Osanai be able to achieve peaceful days as ordinary citizens?
Source: Official Website
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government is collecting more taxes than any other federal government in the history of Canada. It has the record.
Not surprisingly, Canadians have suffered a $3,000 pay cut in the last three years. What do they get in return? They get 1.5 million Canadians unemployed, 800,000 people having to moonlight just to make ends meet and the highest number of young Canadians dropping out of the workforce since the 1960s.
My question is for the finance minister. When is the government going to realize that high unemployment is a direct result of high taxes? When will it get the connection?

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US President Donald Trump is vowing to deliver an early Christmas present to the anti-immigration right: voiding the natural-born citizenship clause in the constitution.
For those who are unfamiliar, the constitution establishes that anyone born on US soil is an American citizen even if that person’s parents are not, a provision enacted after the Union defeated the Confederacy and slavery was abolished.
Glaringly obvious from this news is the autocratic impulse, as neither a president or the Congress can just say, “No” to a constitutional mandate.
The chain of events is likely this: Immediately upon signing an executive order, immigration lawyers will file lawsuits, and likely with the swiftness it took courts to temporarily halt Trump’s first “travel ban” this order will meet the same fate. The right-wing base will once again see themselves as a victim of liberal institutions who stand in the way of tightening immigration. The appeals process will go forward, and the case will wind up before the Supreme Court, which has a 5-4 conservative majority.
What happens there is where things get dicey. And the road that takes us here is frightening for historical reasons.
For the president to argue that those born of non-citizens in the nation are not citizens, he would have to argue that the 1857 Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sandford, which held that a slave born to African-slave parents was not deemed to be a US citizen even in the slavery-free states of the North, was correctly decided.
It is not just troubling that the administration would lean on what most constitutional scholars believe to be one of the worst decisions the high court ever issued or that this is a case more or less invalidated by a constitutional amendment, but that this decision outraged abolitionists and emboldened the slave-owning states so much that the decision is widely seen as a key event leading to the Civil War.
It’s not clear that all five conservative justices would get on board with such logic, misinterpret the constitution or take the extreme step of deciding not that a law or order is unconstitutional but that a part of the constitution itself is somehow wrong or invalid. Birthright citizenship would remain, but the damage of this order would be immense. For starters, merely debating the notion that one must have a deep blood relationship to the physical soil of the United States normalises what should be an irrelevant white nationalist concept. It also lays bare the vicious anti-human impulses of those who stand against birthright citizenship. Their grievances are manifold.
They worry that if an immigrant is up before an immigration judge that the judge will be less likely to issue a deportation order if that immigrant has a citizen child. They worry also that immigrants come to the country and have a child with the idea that if they are forced to leave their children can remain, burdening the nation with a citizen of other-worldly ethnic background. Their appeals to merely secure the borders are predicated specifically on a contempt for multiculturalism.
But worse is that this crowd, which again, in a saner world should be relegated to the fringe, would be fine with federal troops rounding up people, much like DACA recipients, people who speak only English and who only know this country, and deporting them en masse. This is ethnic cleansing, defined.
Lawyers will debate the fine points of this discussion because that is their job, but for the rest of liberal society, there should be resolute resistance to even entertaining a political movement that pines for a time that led the nation to a civil war of whether blacks could be deemed inferior and kept as property.
In this sense, standing up for immigrants in 2018 in the United States is becoming a modern-day form of abolitionism, because it is premised on a defence of universal humanism in the face of a government that believes otherwise. For the resistance to carry this forward it must defend immigration not on legal or pragmatic grounds but on ethical and ideological grounds.
It’s fun to post a chart about how immigrants actually help the economy rather than cause unemployment in a conservative chat forum, but this is not why we defend immigrants and their children. We defend them because we believe that people shouldn’t be judged on the citizenship status and that, yes, we believe in immigration and, yes, we believe in religious, racial, linguistic and ethnic plurality, too.
An administration bowing to the wants of a political movement centred on ethnic cleansing cannot be out-reasoned or out-argued. An administration that believes it can simply ignore limits to its authority isn’t interested in dialectics. And so we must say this clearly – that universal humanism is not debatable – whether this threat by the president ever gets enforced or not.
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Excerpts from the late Alan Rickman’s journal offer an intimate look into the actor’s life and career, including his role as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter franchise.
Alan Rickman’s journal, which spans 25 years of his life, will be published as a book, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman on October 4. In excerpts published in The Guardian, Rickman shared entries about his desire to exit the Harry Potter series as the complicated double agent Severus Snape in 2002, one month after the release of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
As early as 2002, Rickman was contemplating leaving the franchise and the question came up again for him in 2006, after surgery for his prostate cancer. In 2006, he finally decided to continue with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, thanks to his opinion of: “See it through. It’s your story.”
Recounting one of the biggest plot twists of the Harry Potter franchise, Rickman gave his opinion about Snape’s death, noting that he had always known about Snape’s unrequited love for Harry’s mother, Lily Potter (née Evans). Snape and Lily had been childhood friends, but their friendship had come to an end in their fifth year at Hogwarts when Snape had called Lily a Mudblood after being humiliated by James Potter and his friends.
Rickman wrote in a July 2007 entry: “I have finished reading the last Harry Potter book. Snape dies heroically, Potter describes him to his children as one of the bravest men he ever knew and calls his son Albus Severus.”
While Harry and Snape never had a good relationship, particularly since Harry resembled his father so closely, Snape always did whatever he could to protect Harry, for Lily’s sake. In one of Snape’s memories that Harry sees in the Pensieve in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Dumbledore asks Snape, “After all this time?” to which Snape replies the iconic line, “Always.”
“This was a genuine rite of passage,” the entry continued. “One small piece of information from Jo Rowling seven years ago – Snape loved Lily – gave me a cliff edge to hang on to.”
While the rest of the actors never knew more about their characters than what had already been revealed, Rickman knew, years before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows came out, that Snape was a double agent and that he had always loved Lily. JK Rowling had told him that to aid in his portrayal of the antagonistic wizard and I’m sure we can all agree that Rickman did an excellent job at hiding that secret from all the fans who were stunned by the reveal in the last book of the series!
The publishing house Canongate will release the book, set to feature stories from the sets of some of Rickman’s biggest films and stage productions. Rickman died from pancreatic cancer in 2016. He was 69. “I’m delighted that Canongate will be publishing Alan’s diaries, and couldn’t have wished for a finer appointment of editor than Alan Taylor,” Rickman’s widow, Rima Horton, said in a statement at the time.
Horton added, “The diaries reveal not just Alan Rickman the actor, but the real Alan – his sense of humor, his sharp observation, his craftsmanship and his devotion to the arts.”
To this day, the actors involved in the Harry Potter franchise love and miss Alan Rickman; in the Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts reunion on HBO Max, the actors raised their wands for the deceased contributors to the Harry Potter franchise, including Alan Rickman.
To this day, Rickman’s contributions to the acting world and the Wizarding World are tremendous. Let’s raise our wands to the fallen actor who had such an incredible career and is still giving us amazing insight to his life, all these years later.


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He’s been in the game for two decades (and counting…) and his name can easily be positioned among the world’s top dogs in house music. Danny Howells: DJ, producer, label owner but most of all an entertainer who still single-handedly raises the roof of clubs across the globe.
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Serving the community since 1982, West Plains Area Farmers Market is the longest-running and most established farmers market in the area. The market offers local, farm-grown produce and homemade baked goodies, hand-crafted items, and seasonal specialty items.
The market’s local vendors happily present fresh, organic vegetables and fruits, raw and unfiltered honey, non GMO pasture raised eggs, grass fed beef, jellies, fresh pretzels, baked goods, artisan breads, hand crafted knitted and sewn items, specialty homemade soaps and much more!
Open year round. Market held inside East Towne Village in cold weather. In addition to Saturday hours, also open Tuesdays 2-6 p.m., April through October.
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Mushrooms – Growing in Houseplant
Q: I found yellow mushrooms growing in my Christmas cactus. I wonder if you could identify them.
A: Someone is watering too much…and it’s not me!
Mushrooms like these won’t appear unless a moisture-loving fungus is decomposing the potting soil rapidly.
Your best bet is to repot the Christmas cactus plant into fresh, high-quality potting soil….and in the future water only when your finger comes up dry after you press it into the soil.


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Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation." He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Hemingway's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. His protagonists are typically stoical men who exhibit an ideal described as "grace under pressure." Many of his works are now considered classics of American literature.
He appears with Brian Griffin, Vincent van Gogh, and Kurt Cobain in Heaven in the third Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story segment, "Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure", after Stu shows his younger self Brian's grave. In Heaven, the four explain to one another how they died.
Hemingway shoots himself in 1920 Paris in "Stewie, Chris & Brian's Excellent Adventure" after listening to Brian, who steals his pen afterwards.


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Sniper Training Exercise Continues At Folsom Field In Boulder
(CBS4) - A large training exercise is underway in Folsom Field in Boulder, and that means neighbors may be hearing gunfire. The action is being conducted on the University of Colorado campus now to make sure as many people as possible are safe in the event of an attack.
If there was an active shooter at Folsom Field during a football game or at another sporting event, how would officers respond? That's what law enforcement snipers are training for.
The training exercises started on Wednesday and they will continue through Friday. On Friday there will be some training that takes place after dark.
Ten local and national agencies participated, including the University of Colorado Boulder Police Department.
The training started with the snipers running into the stadium to simulate rushing to a shooting. That was followed by the snipers hitting targets 100 yards away from the field.
Later they moved up in different levels of the college football stadium to take practice shots from the top of the press box near the lights.
The goal is to work out the best ways to respond to a large incident to prevent mass casualties.
"If you provide the most realistic training you can -- you put officers and test officers in these situations, then they're going to make better decisions when it comes to use of force. They're going to make better decisions about how to deploy their SOPs. ... Overall it has a tremendous effect on increasing their awareness and readiness in case tragedy comes," said Mark Lang from TACFLOW.
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Single issue policies pose threat to UK agriculture, AIC Chief tells Oxford Farming Conference: 9 January 2015
Single-issue policy-making threatens to hamper, not help, the progress of UK agriculture as it seeks to deliver wholesome healthy food and enhance the environment, said David Caffall, Chief Executive of the Agricultural Industries Confederation, speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference.
Fertiliser Security Plan Promotion Welcomed by AIC: 2 December 2014
The campaign was a national initiative run by Home Office, which is keen to see even greater adoption of the plan across the industry.
Outbreak of avian influenza in East Yorkshire: 17 November 2014
The Chief Veterinary Officer has confirmed that highly pathogenic avian influenza is present in England. Defra has issued a Declaration of a Protection Zone and a Surveillance Zone following the outbreak.
Give Us the Tools to Deliver Sustainability: 13 November 2014
Technology is vital to environmental and economic sustainability for UK agriculture. This was the recurring message from speakers at this year’s AgriBusiness 2015 conference organised by the Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC).
Scrapping of EU Chief Scientist is cause for concern, says AIC: 13 November 2014
The Agricultural Industries Confederation has voiced concerns over the decision to axe the post of Chief Scientific Adviser to the European Commission.
‘Perfect Storm’ Threatens Spring Supplies of Fertiliser, Warns AIC: 31 October 2014
With British fertiliser orders some 30% down on the past year and a prediction from the Road Haulage Association that there will be a driver shortage in the first quarter of next year, the Agricultural Industries Confederation is warning farmers to plan ahead to ensure product is available when they want it.
AIC granted intervener status in neonicotinoid cases: 31 October 2014
The Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) has been granted intervener status in the cases brought by Syngenta and Bayer against the European Commission in relation to its moratorium on certain uses of neonicotinoids.
The challenges of delivering sustainable agriculture while meeting growing global demands for food will feature high on the agenda for this year’s AIC Agribusiness Conference.
The Prince’s Dairy Initiative recruits new farmers for its third year: 11 September 2014
The Prince’s Dairy Initiative is looking for traditional family dairy farmers to join the third year of this innovative programme offering support and business advice to those running small and medium-sized dairy herds. The Initiative aims to improve the diversity and long term sustainability of the British dairy sector by offering free practical workshops and an important local networking opportunity.
While the Committee on Climate Change has noted the slowing of improvements in efficiency of inorganic fertiliser use, AIC and its partners responsible for the Greenhouse Gas Action Plan point out the need for better data on which to base such comments.


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On tonight’s Etheric Currents, we’ll be listening to tracks from the Kahvi Collective’s One Synth and One Synth II compilations, with a little added twist: since the tracks are performed on a single synth, we’ll listen to them and folks in chat and in Second Life can take a guess as to what that single synth is!
I’ll list the synths after each break, and listeners can see how well they did on guessing which one it was. Don’t worry if you aren’t a synth aficionado; the music itself is worth the price of admission. We’ll also hear some tracks from the Tangents compilation to fill out the second hour.
Come on over and have fun guessing in our Discord (at radiospiral.chat) or in second life in our parcel in Orlov!

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Kevin Spacey Fowler, (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television.
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The Advocatus Diaboli (Latin for Devil's Advocate) was formerly an official position within the Catholic Church: one who "argued against the canonization (sainthood) of a candidate in order to uncover any character flaws or misrepresentation of the evidence favoring canonization".
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Thor: Ragnarok is a 2017 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Thor, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2011's Thor and 2013's Thor: The Dark World and the seventeenth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
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Natalia Dyer (born January 13, 1997) is an American actress known primarily for her role as Nancy Wheeler in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things.
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The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team based in Houston, Texas. The Astros compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division, having moved to the division in 2013 after spending their first 51 seasons in the National League (NL). The Astros have played their home games at Minute Maid Park since 2000.
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Charlie Ross Heaton (born February 6, 1994) is an English actor known for playing Jonathan Byers in the Netflix supernatural drama series Stranger Things.
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Darth Vader, also known by his birth name Anakin Skywalker, is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. Vader appears in the original film trilogy as a pivotal antagonist whose actions drive the plot, while his past as Anakin Skywalker and the story of his corruption are central to the narrative of the prequel trilogy.
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Jigsaw is a 2017 American horror film directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, written by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger, and starring Matt Passmore, Callum Keith Rennie, Clé Bennett, and Hannah Emily Anderson.
Finn Wolfhard (born December 23, 2002) is a Canadian actor and voice actor. He is best known for his starring roles as Mike Wheeler in the Netflix series Stranger Things, and Richie Tozier in the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen King's novel It.
Alexander David Bregman (born March 30, 1994) is an American professional baseball infielder for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). As a 16-year-old high school sophomore in 2010, Bregman became the first high school player to win the USA Baseball Player of the Year Award. As a junior the following year he batted . 678, while setting a New Mexico season record with 19 home runs.
Dacre Montgomery (born 22 November 1994) is an Australian actor. He is best known for his role as Jason the Red Ranger in the 2017 reboot of Power Rangers, and Billy in the second season of the Netflix series Stranger Things.
Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya, Occitan: Catalonha, Spanish: Cataluña) is a region in the northeastern extremity of the Iberian Peninsula.
Cody James Bellinger (born July 13, 1995) is an American professional baseball first baseman and outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Mindhunter is an American crime drama web television series created by Joe Penhall, based on the true crime book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit written by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker. The series is produced by David Fincher and Charlize Theron among others, and debuted worldwide on Netflix on October 13, 2017.
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George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Prior to assuming the presidency, he was the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he was previously a congressman, ambassador and Director of Central Intelligence.
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This is a list of Bollywood films that were released and are scheduled to release in 2017.
Assassin's Creed Origins is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the tenth major installment in the Assassin's Creed series and the successor to 2015's Assassin's Creed Syndicate. It was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on October 27, 2017.
Bitcoin is a worldwide cryptocurrency and digital payment system called the first decentralized digital currency, as the system works without a central repository or single administrator. It was invented by an unknown person or group of people under the name Satoshi Nakamoto and released as open-source software in 2009.
Cleidocranial dysostosis (CCD), also called cleidocranial dysplasia, is a birth defect that mostly affects the bones and teeth. The collarbones are typically either poorly developed or absent, which allows the shoulders to be brought close together. The front of the skull often does not close until later, and those affected are often shorter than average.
October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 62 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).
Kenneth Gene Caminiti (April 21, 1963 – October 10, 2004) was an American third baseman who spent fifteen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Houston Astros (1987–1994, 1999–2000), San Diego Padres (1995–1998), Texas Rangers (2001) and Atlanta Braves (2001).
Daylight saving time (abbreviated DST), sometimes referred to as daylight savings time, and known as summer time in some countries, is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months so that evening daylight lasts longer, while sacrificing normal sunrise times.
Sarah Elizabeth Huckabee Sanders (born August 13, 1982) is an American political aide who currently serves as White House press secretary. She is the daughter of former governor of Arkansas and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and former Arkansas first lady Janet Huckabee.
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America (), is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3. 8 million square miles (9.
Corey Ian Haim (December 23, 1971 – March 10, 2010) was a Canadian actor, known for a 1980s Hollywood career as a teen idol. He starred in a number of films, such as Lucas, Silver Bullet, Murphy's Romance, License to Drive, Dream a Little Dream, and Snowboard Academy. His best-known role was alongside Corey Feldman in The Lost Boys, which made Haim a household name.
Gabriel Stefan Kapler (born July 31, 1975) is an American professional baseball Manager of the Philadelphia Phillies. He is a former outfielder who played in Major League Baseball from 1998 through 2010, for the Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers, Colorado Rockies, Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, and the Tampa Bay Rays.
Corey Drew Seager (born April 27, 1994) is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Dodgers selected Seager in the first round of the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft. Seager was the 2016 NL Rookie of the Year and was named an MLB All-Star in his first full season in the majors.
Riverdale is an American television series based on the characters by Archie Comics. The series was adapted for The CW by Archie Comics' chief creative officer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The series is produced by CBS Television Studios and Warner Bros.
Martha Helen Stewart (née Kostyra; born August 3, 1941) is an American businesswoman, writer, and television personality. As founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she has gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing publishing, broadcasting, merchandising, and e-commerce.
Cara Buono (born March 1, 1974) is an American actress, screenwriter and director best known for her roles as Dr. Faye Miller in the fourth season of the AMC drama series Mad Men, Kelli Moltisanti in the sixth season of The Sopranos, Linda Salvo in the 2006 comedy Artie Lange's Beer League, and Karen Wheeler in the 2016 horror sci-fi Netflix original series Stranger Things.
Virat Kohli ( pronunciation ; born 5 November 1988) is an Indian international cricketer who currently captains the India national team. A right-handed batsman, often regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time, Kohli was ranked eighth in ESPN's list of world's most famous athletes in 2016.
Paul Reiser (born March 30, 1957) is an American comedian, actor, television personality and writer, author and musician. He is best known for his role in the 1990s TV sitcom Mad About You. He is ranked 77th on Comedy Central's 2004 list of the "100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time".
XVideos is the world's largest pornographic video sharing and viewing website. It's registered to the Polish company, WGCZ Holding. Alexa ranks it as the 50th most visited website in the world.
David Gallaher (30 October 1873 – 4 October 1917) was an Irish-born New Zealand rugby union footballer best remembered as the captain of the "Original All Blacks"—the 1905–06 New Zealand national team, the first representative New Zealand side to tour the British Isles.
Justin Brooks Verlander (born February 20, 1983) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Detroit Tigers for 13 seasons, with whom he made his major league debut on July 4, 2005.
David Ray Roberts (born May 31, 1972) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder and current manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He played for five Major League teams over a ten-year career, and then coached for the San Diego Padres before being named Dodgers manager for the 2016 season.
Carlos Javier Correa Jr. (born September 22, 1994) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball shortstop for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). Correa made his MLB debut in 2015, and won the American League Rookie of the Year Award.
Guy Fawkes (; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Fawkes was born and educated in York. His father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic.
Justin Matthew Turner (born November 23, 1984) is an American professional baseball third baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has also played for the Baltimore Orioles and New York Mets. Turner also has experience playing second base, shortstop, and first base.
Selena Marie Gomez ( sə-LEE-nə GOH-mez; Spanish: [seˈlena ˈɣomes]; born July 22, 1992) is an American singer and actress. Gomez began her career starring in the children's television series Barney & Friends (2002–04). She rose to fame playing the lead role of Alex Russo in the Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place (2007–2012).
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was also the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, he worked in the oil industry.
Elon Reeve Musk (; born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born Canadian American business magnate, investor, engineer, and inventor. He is the founder, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX; a co-founder, Series A investor, CEO, and product architect of Tesla Inc.; co-chairman of OpenAI; and founder and CEO of Neuralink.
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III.
The Formula One World Drivers' Championship (WDC) is awarded by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) to the most successful Formula One racing car driver over a season, as determined by a points system based on Grand Prix results. The Drivers' Championship was first awarded in 1950, to Giuseppe Farina.
Kenley Geronimo Jansen (born September 30, 1987) is a Curaçaoan professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has played for the Dodgers since his MLB debut in 2010. He appeared in the MLB All-Star Game in 2016 and 2017.
Dallas Keuchel (, KY-kəl; born January 1, 1988), nicknamed Kid Keuchy, is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is a left-handed starting pitcher. He previously attended the University of Arkansas, where he played baseball for the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Millennials (also known as Generation Y) are the demographic cohort following Generation X. There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years.