Hybrid IT Monitoring and Analytics Software - SaaS, Virtual, Physical
Zenoss is the global leader in hybrid IT monitoring and analytics software, providing complete visibility for cloud, virtual and physical IT environments for more than 40,000 global organizations. Zenoss customers gain IT performance and risk insights into their unique IT ecosystems through real-time analytics that adapt to the ever-evolving data center and cloud, enabling them to eliminate disruptions and accelerate business. The power of Zenoss Core begins with its in-depth IT inventory and configuration database. Zenoss creates this database by discovering managed resources -- networks, servers, storage, and other devices -- in your IT environment. Once Zenoss Core discovers the IT infrastructure, it automatically begins monitoring the performance of each device and provides event and fault management capabilities. Zenoss offers Open Source Core, Enterprise and SaaS solutions as well as an open API and SDK to easily extend your IT monitoring via Zenoss ZenPacks.
Matplotlib is a python library for making publication quality plots using a syntax familiar to MATLAB users. Matplotlib uses numpy for numerics. Output formats include PDF, Postscript, SVG, and PNG, as well as screen display. As of matplotlib version 1.5, we are no longer making file releases available on SourceForge. Please visit http://matplotlib.org/users/installing.html for help obtaining matplotlib.
The world's leading open source portal
Liferay Portal is the world's leading enterprise open source portal framework, offering integrated Web publishing and content management, an enterprise service bus and service-oriented architecture, and compatibility with all major IT infrastructure.
osfinancials accounting and business processing software
osFinancials is a free accounting package, easy to install Stock control and point of sales integrated with good support and plugins. Import from osCommerce, virtue-mart magento zenchart etc. Full reportdesigner reportman and all reports are made in reportman so can be adjusted to your needs. Full professional accounting package with support. Now with support for 3 databases Firebird Mysql Postgress See our instruction video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQKd1y6rNPc&feature=youtu.be
A cross-platform statistical package for econometric analysis
gretl is a cross-platform software package for econometric analysis, written in the C programming language.
A multi-protocol instant messaging app for Mac OS X
Adium is an Open Source, multi-protocol instant messaging application for Mac OS X. Adium supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, SIP/SIMPLE (Text), and Lotus Sametime. Additionally, it supports all of these applications at once so, even if you have multiple IM accounts, you don't have to log into each account separately.
An enterprise-class CRM and more!
Vtiger CRM enables sales, support, and marketing teams to organize and collaborate to measurably improve customer experiences and business outcomes. Vtiger CRM also includes email, inventory, project management, and other tools, providing a complete the business management suite. Download Vtiger CRM here or sign up for a free 15-day free trial of the cloud-based application with free updates and support at https://www.vtiger.com/
World's #1 Open Source ERP+CRM+Web Portal
Open Source ERP+CRM+Web Portal for small- and mid-sized business (SMBs). Designed specifically for Manufacturing and Distribution companies who need control over operations and profitability. All critical supply chain functions included in one modular system: accounting, sales, customer and supplier management, inventory control. Mac, Windows, Linux and Mobile. Rich API to connect third-party apps. Simple enough for startup small business accounting, scalable enough for Global 1000 companies. See complete application https://xTuple.com/free-demo.
Fault tolerant, POSIX-compliant, network distributed filesystem
MooseFS (MFS) is a fault tolerant, highly performing, scaling-out, network distributed file system. It spreads data over several physical servers which are visible to the user as one resource. For standard file operations MooseFS mounted with FUSE acts as other Unix-alike file systems: * A hierarchical structure (directory tree) * Stores POSIX file attributes (permissions, last access and modification times) Supports special files (block and character devices, pipes and sockets) * Symbolic links (file names pointing to target files, not necessarily on MooseFS) and hard links (different names of files which refer to the same data on MooseFS) * Access to the file system can be limited based on IP address and/or password MooseFS on GitHub: https://github.com/moosefs/moosefs Source code, packages repo: https://moosefs.com/download.html Documentation: https://moosefs.com/documentation.html Recent changes: https://moosefs.com/documentation/changes-in-moosefs-3-0.html
Portable, complete and BSD-licenced IEEE 1588 (PTP) implementation
The PTP daemon (PTPd) implements the Precision Time protocol (PTP) as defined by the IEEE 1588 standard. PTP was developed to provide very precise time coordination of LAN connected computers. PTPd boasts an advanced set of features and is highly configurable.
QuickFIX is the worlds first Open Source C++ FIX (Financial Information eXchange) engine, helping financial institutions easily integrate with each other. The SVN repository is now locked. Latest code is hosted at github. https://github.com/quickfix/quickfix
Technical Analysis Library
Technical analysis library with indicators like ADX, MACD, RSI, Stochastic, TRIX... This is not an end-user GUI trading or charting application. It is instead targeted to application developers using either Excel, .NET, Mono, Java, Perl, Python or C/C++.
professional CRM and groupware service, ready for the cloud
NEW VERSION 4.1.0: openCRX is a professional CRM service (customer relationship management) deployable to all major platforms. openCRX is multi-entity enabled, scalable, a real enterprise-class CRM-solution that runs on Apache TomEE.
Buddi is a simple budgeting program targeted for users with little or no financial background. It allows users to set up accounts and categories, record transactions, check spending habits, etc.
ANSI Standard MUMPS
Implementation of ANSI Standard MUMPS 1995 and ISO/IEC 11756 for FreeBSD, OSX and linux. Also on the Raspberry Pi (ARM) under debian and Windows under cygwin. This is the post-relational database.
System dynamics program with additional features for economics
Minsky enables the simulation of models (particularly from economics) defined in terms of coupled ordinary differential equations. The models are defined using a drawing canvas (rather like VisSim), and a double entry bookkeeping system known as a Godley table.
FIX protocol administration tool
FIX Pusher is a tool for developers and administrators working with the Financial Information eXchange ("FIX") protocol. The FIX protocol is an industry driven standard for the electronic communication of trade related messages, released and maintained by FIX Protocol, Ltd. FIX Pusher can send and receive FIX messages. It supports you simulating workflows with third party systems speaking the FIX protocol. The application acts as acceptor or initiator. FIX Pusher can interpret and modify QuickFIX conform, customized data dictionaries containing user defined fields. The tool supports FIX versions 4.0 - 5.0 SP2. The application ships with the option for exporting message details into Excel© sheets and graphical analysis of message logs. FIX Pusher is a 100% Java open source implementation running on Windows, Linux/Unix and Mac OS. It requires JRE version of 1.6 or higher for proper functioning. Related project: FIX Agora http://fixagora.sourceforge.net
OTC Trading Network
FIX Agora is a peer-to-peer OTC trading network for financial institutions with an integrated order management system. The application can act as buy side and sell side. FIX Agora supports indicative quoting, multi inquiries and processing of order requests. It is equipped with multiuser spreadsheets for price calculations as market maker. FIX Agora ships with the option for exporting trade reports into Excel® sheets and SAP® Financial Supply Chain Management (requires SAP® JCO). The application is client/server based, modular and extensible. FIX Agora is working with the Financial Information eXchange ("FIX") protocol. The FIX protocol is an industry driven standard for the electronic communication of trade related messages, released and maintained by FIX Protocol, Ltd. FIX Agora is a 100% Java open source implementation running on Windows, Linux/UNIX and Mac OS (client only). It requires Oracle® JRE version of 1.6 or higher.
Reporting, Dashboarding, Analytic, Self-service BI, Ad-hoc reporting
Active Intelligence Server 2 (AIS) is a data visualization tool and fully featured reporting server which enable users from open source community to host any reports created using BIRT, Jasper and Pentaho community edition allowing organization to leverage open source technologies and enable them to use AIS as a reporting server to deploy their existing and new reports seamlessly onto AIS for secure sharing the information in different file formats and schedule to make system automation and much more. AIS comes with self-service BI capabilities enabling end users to make the data-driven decision at the right time, all with minimal IT dependency. Tightly integrated user and role management ensure correct information distribution that prevents unauthorized access to information, collaboration is ever so easy with AIS that people with no BI knowledge can start real-time collaboration in minutes. AIS 2 is also available from the website http://activeintelligence.co.uk/download
The most advanced open source customer relationship management (CRM), Sales Force Automation (SFA) suite: also features business intelligence (BI) tools, Computer Telephony Integration (CTI), and advanced plugin architecture. PHP/ADOdb/LAMP
Man's best friend may fetch your paper every morning, but Buddy will fetch a dozen newspapers, clip out summaries of the top stories, stock quotes, sports scores, weather data and comics you want and paste them together into an uber-newspaper.
KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE 4.
KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE 4. It can be used to print every thing from simple business cards up to complex labels with several barcodes (e.g. article descriptions). KBarcode comes with an easy to use WYSIWYG label ...
A three-tiers high-level general purpose application framework under the license GPL-2 written in Python and use Postgresql as database engine. It is the core base of an Open Source ERP. It provides modularity, scalability and security.
Team Elements is an Enterprise 2.0 team collaboration suite. It ties discussions, wikis, RSS, project and document management, and federated search into a unified application. It is database-driven with rigorous role-based access and permissions.
Online project management and issue tracking with team collaboration, custom fields and forms, JasperReport reporting, user management, multiple access levels, tasks, projects, time tracking, task change history, multiple attachments, Gantt graphs.


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Cold weather might say comfort food, but who says that a healthy dish can’t be comforting too? Winter is an ideal time to try something new and to add a few more delicious vegetables to the family table. But what would be a good addition to your family’s dinner plate?
Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook offer this simple Turkish salad recipe—and many more fun and exotic eats—in their new cookbook, Israeli Soul: Easy, Essential, Delicious. It’s so easy, your teenager can make it for the whole family. Next time you’re looking for a new vegetable dish, why not try this recipe out?
3 red bell peppers
4 garlic cloves
¼ cup canola oil
1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved
2 teaspoons smoked paprika
2 teaspoons ground coriander
- Core, seed, and chop 3 red bell peppers. Chop 2 onions. Thinly slice 4 garlic cloves. Slice a bunch of scallions on the bias.
- Sauté the peppers with 1 tablespoon kosher salt and ¼ cup canola oil in a large skillet until soft, about 4 minutes.
- Add the onions and garlic. Cook until the onions are translucent, about 10 minutes.
- Fold in 1 pint of halved cherry tomatoes. Add 2 teaspoons smoked paprika and 2 teaspoons ground coriander. Toast the spices for about 2 minutes.
- Transfer to a bowl, add the sliced scallions, taste. Add a pinch of salt, a squeeze of lemon juice, and a drizzle of olive oil.
Turkish Salad is excerpted from Israeli Soul, copyright 2018 by Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook. Photography copyright 2018 by Michael Persico. Reproduced by permission of Rux Martin Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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An extraordinarily bright isolated star has been found in a nearby galaxy — the star is three million times brighter than the Sun. All previous
Astronomers report that they have observed fast radio bursts in the Milky Way, our own galaxy, for the first time.
Astronomers directly detected by X-ray space observatory, strongest magnetic field in Universe.
The hydrogen in your body, present in every molecule of water, came from the Big Bang. There are no other appreciable sources of hydrogen in
Astronomers may have seen for the first time, light from the merger of two black holes, providing opportunities to learn about these mysterious dark objects.
Astronomers have discovered evidence for thousands of black holes located near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
Born from an exploded star, the infant magnetar belongs to a family of extreme objects called neutron stars. Its discovery may lend insight into these
An international team led by Jodrell Bank astronomers reveals 157 day cycle in unusual cosmic radio bursts.

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Colombia reported 6,727 new coronavirus cases on Monday, bringing the country’s total to 204,005, its health ministry said.
The ministry also reported 193 new deaths from the virus, raising the nationwide tally to 6,929.
Despite the growing number of coronavirus cases, Colombian President Ivan Duque has so far resisted calls to reimpose strict lockdown measures that were first lifted at the beginning of June.
Colombia's capital Bogota and other main cities are instead following a localized approach by closing only the most affected neighborhoods.
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Greta Thunberg to donate 100,000 euros to fight Covid-19 in the Amazon
From journalist Rodrigo Pedroso in Sao Paulo and CNN’s Iain Smith in Atlanta
Climate activist Greta Thunberg announced on Twitter on Monday that she would donate 100,000 euros ($114,000) to combat the spread of Covid-19 in the Brazilian Amazon.
The announcement came after the teenager was awarded the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, which has a prize amount of 1 million euros ($1.14 million.)
The donation -- which will come from the prize money -- will be made through the activist's Thunberg Foundation to SOS Amazonia, which is led by Fridays for Future Brazil, an organization that is helping to fight the coronavirus pandemic in indigenous territories.
Another 100,000 euros will be given to the Stop Ecocide Foundation to “support their work to make ecocide an international crime,” she said in the announcement.
In a video posted on her Twitter account, the Swedish activist said she would donate the full prize money but has not yet provided information on the other recipients.
“The Prize money, which is one million euros, that is more money than I can even begin to imagine, but all the prize money will be donated through my Foundation to different organizations and projects who are working to help people on the front lines, affected by the climate crisis and ecological crisis, especially in the Global South," Thunberg said. "Also to help organizations and projects who are fighting for a sustainable world and who are fighting to defend nature and the natural world."


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Does he/she love me or is deceiving me?
Sometimes it seems like everything is going well in your online relationship, but in fact the person may be only deceiving you.
Negging: what it is and how not to fall into this
Negging has been a bad online trend. It's good to keep an eye on this to be able to avoid it.
You need to learn to be happy alone
In children's stories, everything ends up in the famous "happily ever after”. We create the false idea that we are incomplete and need to find our other half.
Ending a relationship is never easy
Do you want to know how to forget a love? Many people want to know this, because suffering for someone who doesn't want anything with you is a terrible pain.
We need to talk about violence against women
It doesn't need be anything physical or obvious. Violence against women can be subtle and terrible. And it's present everywhere.
Is success something that scares you?
Are men in our society so afraid of women's success that they make fun of everything? We are in the 21st century! It's time to change!
Intimacy is something to be cherished
Being single is great, but being with someone and conquering the much-sought intimacy is even better!
The first fights and disagreements
The beginning of a relationship is usually very enjoyable. But everything seems to collapse with the first fights. How to deal with this?
One is little, two is good, three is too much?
Wanting to spice up the relationship is normal for couples. But what happens when you are called to spice up another person's relationship? What to do?
You need to reinvent yourself
Are tiredness, discouragement, boredom and isolation frequent in your daily life? This is a sign that it is necessary to change some attitudes and rethink your positions before life.
Prisons or relationships?
Most relationships are not driven by trust. People make rules as if they were in a game. Why most people do this?
End of trust and betrayal
We all go through betrayals in our lives. But why betrayals involving boyfriends or husbands hurt more than others? How do we recover from something like this?
Pros and cons of living with your partner
Moving in together may feel like a big step. Is it time for you two to move in together?
Are you being assertive with your partner?
Read this post to learn more about assertiveness, a key in any relationship
Creative games to keep your relationship alive
Kill boredom with these simple games you can play with your partner
What type of jealous are you?
Jealous? You are not alone. Jealousy can come is different ways and there are some valuable tips to overcome it before it destroys your relationship.
Men and women -two different ways of understanding
Stop saying that women are hard to understand. Men and women have different understanding of a relationship.
The unofficial guide to long distance relationship
The cupid finally hit you but your beloved one lives on the side of the globe? Don’t worry my friend. It happened to me several times and here is what I learned.
What my mother taught me about Brazilian women
Think you know Brazilian women? Well, you have been wrong all this time. Listen to what my mother taught me.
How My Heartbreak Made Me a Better Person
Most may not realize this now, but heartbreak may just do more good than damage. Sure I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but if you are suffering from it, don’t let go of the reins of hope yet.

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Ashgabat, January 16, 2024, The Europe Today: European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas is set to embark on a working visit to Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on January 17, marking a pivotal stop in his tour of five Central Asian countries. The visit is part of the European Union’s (EU) ongoing efforts to fortify its collaboration with Central Asia, with engagements scheduled in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, as reported by the European Commission on Friday.
Vice President Schinas is anticipated to hold key meetings with Turkmenistan’s President Serdar Berdimuhamedov and Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov during his stay in Ashgabat. These discussions aim to further enhance diplomatic ties and explore avenues for mutually beneficial development.
The visit underscores the increasing significance of EU-Central Asia cooperation, emphasizing shared interests in regional stability, economic development, and global connectivity. It aligns with the broader EU strategy to strengthen partnerships with countries along the “Global Gateway: Sustainable Transport Connectivity between Europe and Central Asia.”
Vice President Schinas’ working visit anticipates the upcoming “Global Gateway” Forum, scheduled to take place in Brussels on January 29-30. The forum will spotlight sustainable transport connectivity between Europe and Central Asia, emphasizing the strategic importance of fostering robust links and collaborations across these regions.


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Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning American actress and producer Jennifer Aniston was born on February 11, 1969 in Los Angeles. Jennifer showed an interest in cinema from an early age, although her family never supported her decision and tried to convince her to choose another profession. However, fortunately, Jennifer chose the difficult path and was able to succeed despite many obstacles.
In 1990, Jennifer moved from New York to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams and took part in a number of television projects. However, Jennifer’s life changed radically after the release of the 90s cult series “Friends” in 1994. The series became so popular that Jennifer’s income at the end of the series was 1 million dollars per episode.
Despite life’s difficulties, Jennifer constantly maintains a positive mood and believes that friends help her deal with all problems and encourage her in difficult moments, and this helps a person to grow personally.
Jennifer lives a healthy lifestyle and looks great. He exercises and tries to eat healthy food. Despite everything, according to him, the secret of a beautiful body does not lie in natural food and exercise, because a person should love themselves as they really are.

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Now, revised with state-of-the-art information on all the modern advances in electronics, this classic sourcebook is more complete than ever! This is a thorough examination of dozens of components, including the latest photoelectronic and digital IC components. You’ll learn exactly what each one is, what it looks like, what it does, and in what types of circuits it is used. With this type of basic groundwork in the practical side of electronics, the subject can be quite simple. To make the discussion more practical, there are 51 suggested working circuits you can build. Some of the many specific topics you’ll find covered include:
Digital systems ICs
Variable resistive devices
Radio and Television
Novices and experienced experimenters alike will find this to be the most useful electronics book available. It has all the fundamentals of electronics practice combined with the latest electronics technology - all in one comprehensive sourcebook!

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The Flame in the Flood was one of the games I found through GOG.com. The graphics looked interesting, and so did the game play featured in the trailer: sail your raft, craft all the necessary items, and survive the wilderness. How could I resist this game for long? Continue reading “Gaming Writer’s Saturday: The Flame in the Flood”
Where did a whole month go? I could swear it was the beginning of April yesterday, and today it’s May already. April can be quite a busy month, with Camp NaNoWriMo, A to Z Challenge, and other online challenges (like the Twitter game #WIPJoy), and of course, I felt tempted to take part in all of them. But my voice of reason have been already whispering that I had added too many things to my daily schedule already, so with a heavy heart, I decided to cut on anything I could. Continue reading “A Month in a Writer’s Life – April 2017”
Back in December I took part in a fun Twitter game which required posting a graphic saying “1 Like = 1 WIP Fact”, and as you can guess, as the likes for the tweet appeared, its author was supposed to post facts about their work-in-progress. I had fun, and got 13 likes, a result I was quite happy with: it gave me enough space to shares some interesting bits of my fantasy novel “By the Pact”, but at the same time it didn’t require me to reveal any plot twists or character secrets.
And today, looking back at it, I thought it would be nice to consolidate all those facts into one post. Since I’m not limited by one tweet anymore, I also elaborated a bit on them. I hope you’ll enjoy. Continue reading “13 Facts About My WIP”
I never had the need of learning to drive. Poznań, my hometown in Poland, has an excellent public transport network, and when I moved over to Ireland, I couldn’t afford a car. Also, with the narrow and always jammed streets of Dublin, it seemed better to just search for an apartment near my workplace and walk to work. But moving over to the USA and living at the very edge of the town meant I would finally have start driving.
After waiting for my residency to be sorted out, I got my driver’s permit, and started getting familiar with the “controls” of the new game called “driving,” but it wasn’t until later I found similarities between learning to drive and writing. Continue reading “Writing Is Much Like Learning To Drive”
Before I even realized, another month passed by. After not so positive February, I was hoping to catch up with my projects, finish things from my to-do list, and be generally more productive than I was. How did it go? In short: not bad, though definitely not as well as I hoped for. Continue reading “A Month in a Writer’s Life – March 2017”
Some days ago I came across a meme I’ve seen around several times already. It said “Reading is my superpower. What’s yours?” and it got me thinking about a Superhero Writers group. Classy outfits like old jeans and t-shirt, hipster vintage clothing, or good ol’ pajamas aside, superheroes had to have some sort of superpowers. We all read, so unless we’re going to compete in the amount of books read or reading speed, we need a different kind of superpowers: the writerly one. Continue reading “What’s Your Writing Superpower?”
Even though my favorite video games are the ones offering rich stories and immersive worlds, I also like to play managerial games from time to time as they provide unique challenges, encourage planning and problem-solving. So every once a while a managerial game sucks me in for long hours, and this time it was Stardew Valley’s turn. Continue reading “Gaming Writer’s Saturday: Stardew Valley”
After a very bumpy January, I was hoping for a much better February. I planned on catching up with everything that fell behind, and was quite optimistic about it. I don’t know whether it was the winter aura lowering my mood or the stress of the previous month still lingering, but the start of the month was quite slow. I didn’t get sick, but my health definitely seemed a little bit worse (with some random pains disturbing me), and on many days I’ve found myself tired or sleepy which wasn’t helping my motivation. Continue reading “A Month in a Writer’s Life – February 2017”
I hope you enjoyed reading posts in my Birthday Week series. I promised that at the end of it I’d share the story of my trip to Grand Canyon. I took over 200 pictures, and then managed to cut down the number to 70, and then, I trimmed it to little under 57. It’s going to be hard to put them all in a blog post, so with a heavy heart, I picked 24. I hope you’ll enjoy them. Continue reading “Grand Canyon Trip”
Welcome to my Birthday Week during which I post random, interesting or embarrassing facts about myself. If you missed the yesterday’s introductory post, you can find it here. Today, though running a bit late, I’m going to tell you about the less glorious side of being Melfka: being a Klutz. Continue reading “Melfka’s Birthday Week: The Dancing Klutz”

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Latest EU fisheries management plan threatens sustainability targets and long-term ocean health
Brussels, Belgium - 12 February 2019
Today’s European Parliament vote on the Multiannual Management Plan for the EU’s Western Waters - covering the Atlantic Ocean between Ireland and Portugal - brings the highly rushed drafting and decision process to a disappointing close, and foreshadows disastrous outcomes for the two other fisheries management plans currently under negotiation.
Anne-Cécile Dragon, Fisheries Policy Officer at WWF European Policy Office said: “The European institutions have been playing a dangerous game, essentially copy-pasting the Baltic Sea’s inadequate multiannual plan, first to the North Sea and now to the Western Waters. These plans blatantly disregard ecosystem-based approaches to manage the health of our seas and fail to embrace regionalisation, the concept of addressing issues unique to a given sea basin.”
The legislative process for adopting a MAP usually spans 18 to 24 months from publication of the European Commission’s legislative proposal to final adoption; the Western Waters MAP was subject to just a ten month timeline. Rushing the process short-changes discussion and consultation between key stakeholders and results in a deliberate lack of transparency on the legislative process.
“Fast tracking the legislative process in this way is simply undemocratic, as the voice of Parliament, the chamber which represents all EU citizens, is left muted. We urge the PECH Committee to show far greater ambition in the final multiannual plan of its mandate, the Adriatic multiannual plan,” concluded Anne Cécile Dragon.
Today’s result signals that international industry interests trump efforts to adequately consider local issues and evidence, and disregards broader wishes to safeguard a healthy marine environment for future generations. The importance of scientific advice provided by international and independent bodies when determining fisheries management measures must urgently be more recognised and systematically taken into account by the EU. It is essential for developing more sustainable fishing practices and increasing transparency of fisheries, and critical to ensure that sustainability objectives are on track.
WWF will be looking to the new European Parliament in 2019 to be far more ambitious and to recognise the importance of sustainable practices for healthy seas and prosperous fishing communities in Europe. It calls on the PECH Committee to adopt texts in line with the goals of the EU Common Fisheries Policy, that are consistent with EU environmental legislation, and that secure environmentally and economically sustainable fisheries via healthy marine ecosystems.
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The Kansas Jayhawks made their 48-17 win over the Missouri State Bears look easy with a stellar second half Friday night and started their season 1-0.
Junior running back Devin Neal, a Lawrence High alum, scored KU’s first touchdown of the 2023 season on a 48-yard run.
The Jayhawks went into halftime up 17-10, and the Bears were never able to recover.
Junior cornerback Cobee Bryant intercepted the ball in the fourth quarter and Neal scored again to bring the Jayhawks’ lead to a comfortable 41-17. Senior cornerback Kwinton Lassiter, a Free State alum, got another pick, and junior running back Sevion Morrison fought his way into the end zone to increase the lead to 48-17.
A few familiar Jayhawks from the basketball team also showed up to David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium in support.
The game was the first of head coach Lance Leipold’s third season leading the Jayhawks.
The Jayhawks next face Illinois at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8 in Lawrence. They’ll head to Reno to face Nevada at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16. See the football team’s full season schedule at this link.
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Rooms, services Campanile Creil - Villiers St Paul Villers-Saint-Paul is offering 75 tastefully furnished rooms to those seeking accommodation in Villers-Saint-Paul. In case you ever feel like eating in, you may taste delicious local dishes in the restaurant of the hotel. Parking is availably nearby for those arriving by car. The café or the bar can be an ideal place for a pleasant evening talk or a meeting. You can also bring your laptop for the holiday, for there is wireless Internet connection (WiFi) available at the hotel. You can find the exact list of services provided by Campanile Creil - Villiers St Paul Villers-Saint-Paul (including those for extra fees) and the exact equipment of the rooms on the information sheet below.
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Positive Energy is an integrated design and engineering firm in Austin, TX. We work locally and nationally, designing high performance mechanical systems for homes. Our engineers work with architects from the first moments of planning to maximize building performance & efficiencies. We work to integrate all components of the building through human factored design decisions. We are not your standard MEP firm. If you want to truly deliver comfort, we're the team you need.


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As women grow older and face the challenges of pregnancy and childbirth, their bodies begin to alter, including the loosening of their genitalia and pelvic floor muscles. The ligaments, tissues, and fascia within your birth canal become weak during labor. These variables can also result in a “loose” vaginal muscle tone and diminished vaginal muscle tone. At Only Aesthetics is easily among the top choices for locals seeking urinary incontinence treatment in Singapore.
Vaginal rejuvenation, also known as vaginoplasty, is a medical operation in which the female genitalia is reconstructed. Laser vaginal rejuvenation has a number of advantages, including the following:
- Enhances Self-Esteem
Many women who are self-conscious about their bodies’ changes have found that laser vaginal rejuvenation has improved their self-esteem and confidence by making them feel more youthful and feminine.
- Improves the Aesthetic Appeal
Vaginoplasty improves muscle tone and restores contour to the female genitalia while tightening and strengthening the vaginal walls. The process gives you a more youthful appearance and feel.
- Customized to Your Specific Requirements
When you get laser vaginal rejuvenation, the doctor will examine your condition and discuss the treatment options with you.
- Can Help With Sex Life
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July 21, 2009
US Sentencing Commission's "Overview of Statutory Mandatory Minimum Sentencing"
As previously noted here, the House Judiciary's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security last week held a hearing on "Mandatory Minimums and Unintended Consequences." Now I just discovered that the US Sentencing Commission's website has posted this new lengthy document which is titled "Overview of Statutory Mandatory Minimum Sentencing." Here is how the USSC describes the document on its website's front-page:
On July 10, 2009, the Commission provided a statistical overview of statutory mandatory minimum sentencing using fiscal year 2008 data to the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security in light of its July 14, 2009 hearing entitled "Mandatory Minimums and Unintended Consequences."
Here is how the document itself starts:
The Commission has identified at least 171 individual mandatory minimum provisions currently in the federal criminal statutes. In the Commission’s fiscal year 2008 datafile, there were 31,239 counts of conviction that carried a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment. Because an offender may be sentenced for multiple counts of conviction that carry mandatory minimum penalties, these 31,239 counts of conviction exceed the total number of offenders (21,023 offenders, as reported below) who were convicted of statutes carrying such penalties.
Of these 31,239 counts of conviction, the overwhelming majority (90.7%) were for drug offenses (24,789 counts of conviction, or 79.4%) and firearms offenses (3,527 counts of conviction, or 11.3%). Most of the 171 mandatory minimum provisions rarely, if ever, were used in fiscal year 2008, with 68 such provisions not used at all.
Some related recent posts:
- House hearing on "Mandatory Minimums and Unintended Consequences"
- Important and heartening new speech from AG Eric Holder
- Can concerns for dollars and cents finally bring sense to federal mandatory minimum sentencing statutes?
"'Gambling Granny' sentenced to 14 months of house arrest"
The title of this post is the headline of this local article out of Florida. Here are the details:
A Broward County judge this morning sentenced a grandmother to 14 months of house arrest for leaving her two grandchildren unattended in a car while she gambled at a Hallandale Beach casino, a prosecutor said.
Jeanne Shahan, 54, of North Miami, pleaded guilty to felony child abuse, misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and misdemeanor leaving a child unattended in a vehicle, said Assistant State Attorney Mary Ann Braun.
On Aug. 19, 2008, Shahan left her grandchildren -- a 2-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy -- unattended in a vehicle for more than an hour while she played the slots at Mardi Gras Gaming, 831 N. Federal Highway, police said. The car's air-conditioning was off, but the windows were down. "She's a very good lady who just used poor judgment, and she's very sorry about it," Shahan's defense attorney, Chris Narducci, said today.
Circuit Judge Jeffrey Levenson also ordered three years probation upon completion of house arrest, Braun said. Levenson also prohibited Shahan from entering any gaming institutions.
Though I do not have too much sympathy for the "gambling granny," a full 14-months of house arrest seems like a fairly stiff sentence in the absence of any evidence that the kids were hurt. (Though I suspect my judgment here is skewed by the fact that, in the same region, Donte Stallworth only got a slightly tougher sentence for a DUI killing).
Ohio — aka the northern Texas — executes again
As detailed in this AP article, Ohio executed another multiple murderer this morning. This was Ohio's third execution in 2009 and its twenty-third execution since 2004. With respect to the death penalty, I think it is fair and appropriate to now call Ohio the Texas of the north: except for a few states in the south, Ohio has had executed many, many more killers than any other state in recent years.
To date, I have seen relatively few academics or leading public policy groups or even hard-core abolitionists making a big deal about the fact that Ohio has become of leading modern death penalty state. My cynical explanation would be that Ohio's experience with the death penalty does not easily or effectively fit into certain anti-death-penalty narratives often stressed by academics and public policy groups and abolitionists, Ohio's recent experiences with capital punishment is often ignored rather than engaged.
Relatedly, though the economic costs of the death penalty were getting a lo of attention earlier this year, I am not aware of any discussion within Ohio to lay off the death penalty during the state's recent pitched battle over a huge budget deficit. Though states still seem to be tightening their belts, this summer I am noticing less and less serious talk lately about the economics of capital punishment.
Some recent related posts:
- "A new Texas? Ohio's death penalty examined"
- Ohio — aka the Texas of the north — setting busy execution schedule
- Great new (though still dated) examination of the death penalty and plea bargaining
- CNN now talking about the costs of the death penalty and state reforms
- States considering laying off the death penalty during tough economic times
- The economic case against the death penalty getting more and more attention
- More discussion of cost concerns in debates over the death penalty
- Capital case cost concerns continue to inform reform debate
- Still more discussion of the costs of the death penalty
- "Opponents Focus On Cost In Death Penalty Debate"
- What might 2009 have in store for . . . the death penalty in the US?
UPDATE: This AP story on this execution notes it has the honor of being "the 1,000th lethal injection in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976." This round number, in turn, has apparently prompted an internation response:
According to the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C., Keene's was the 1,171st execution — and the 1,000th by lethal injection — since the U.S. reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
The European Union presidency, currently held by Sweden, released a statement noting the number and calling on the U.S. to halt executions, pending the abolition of the death penalty. "The European Union is opposed to the use of capital punishment in all cases and under all circumstances," the statement said. "We believe that the abolition of the death penalty is essential to protect human dignity, and to the progressive development of human rights."
Sixth Circuit amends its federal guidelines masturbation jurisprudence
In this prior post from a few months ago, I noted that the Sixth Circuit had to resolve a guideline question that forced it to break new ground in federal guidelines masturbation jurisprudence. But today brings a new amended Sixth Circuit ruling in US v. Shafer, No. 07-2574 (6th Cir. July 21, 2009) (available here), which starts this way:
Defendant-Appellant Robert Shafer (“Shafer”) appeals his sentence of 360 months of imprisonment resulting from his guilty plea to one count of enticing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purposes of producing visual depictions of such conduct and which were produced using material which had been shipped and transported in interstate and foreign commerce in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a). Specifically, Shafer admitted to “caus[ing] an eleven year-old boy to undress and engage in sexually explicit conduct, including, but not limited to, masturbation and the lascivious exhibition of his genitals and pubic area. [Shafer] produced seven (7) digital images of the sexually explicit conduct using materials which had been shipped and transported in interstate and foreign commerce, including, but not limited to, a Sony Mavica brand digital camera that was manufactured outside of the State of Michigan.” Joint Appendix (“J.A.”) at 14-15 (Indictment at 1-2). Shafer’s sole argument on appeal is that the district court clearly erred at sentencing when it imposed a two-level enhancement pursuant to the U. S. SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL (“U.S.S.G.”) § 2G2.1(b)(2)(A) (2006). After we issued an opinion in this case, the Government presented in a petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc a new argument that we did not have occasion to consider in our initial review. In light of this new argument, we provided Shafer an opportunity to respond to the Government’s position, and we conducted further research regarding the legislative purpose behind the statute at issue in this case as expressed in the statute’s legislative history. Having thoroughly reviewed these additional materials, we now AFFIRM Shafer’s sentence. We withdraw our prior opinion and issue this amended opinion.
"A Parable of Politicized Prosecution"
The title of this post is the headline of this Washington Post column by Jon Entine, who is the author of the new book, "No Crime But Prejudice: Fischer Homes, the Immigration Fiasco, and Extra-Judicial Prosecution" (which was noted in this prior post). Here are snippets that focus on the power of prosecutors:
[T]he justice system wields enormous power, which often depends on extracting plea deals, sometimes from the innocent and often from supposedly deep-pocketed businesses....
We rarely think about the sheer magnitude of power in the hands of government attorneys. They have a fundamental responsibility not to win cases but to ensure justice. It is as much their duty to refrain from improper methods to produce a wrongful conviction as it is to use every legitimate means possible to bring about a just one. But that's not always what happens. Often, government prosecutors have no intention of going to trial. They have perfected a more powerful tactic: exploiting the threat of business losses and manipulating the media to force capitulation.
As in the Fischer case, they use threats of guaranteed jail time under the sentencing guidelines to try to squeeze out guilty pleas. The stakes of a formal indictment (much less a conviction) are too high for most people or corporations to risk. Defendants plead guilty or are found guilty in more than 85 percent of the criminal cases handled by the U.S. attorney's office. The U.S. Court of Appeals rules in the government's favor, at least in part, in more than 92 percent of cases. The deterrents for the accused to not argue its side -- lose your reputation and a little money by pleading out or risk losing everything, including your freedom -- are powerful.
What happens to the innocent when prosecutors abuse their power to further their careers or cater to political expediency? Think of the 2006 Duke lacrosse fiasco, which shattered the lives of many young men. Or the corruption case against Ted Stevens, the former GOP senator from Alaska; the case was overturned by a judge who concluded that he had never seen such mishandling and misconduct by prosecutors. Or the prosecution of the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, found guilty of obstruction of justice in its audit of Enron. The criminal charges were reversed long after the company had dissolved, its 85,000 employees dispersed. All are a testament to the institutional pressures and the personal ambition of prosecutors, with the civil liberties of individuals and the rights of corporations compromised.
At what point do the potential public benefits of vigorous prosecution outweigh the harm when legal protections are suspended?
Most people find it difficult to hold much sympathy for corporations, often forgetting that we depend on a dynamic, competitive economy for our welfare. The victims of overzealous prosecutors and ambitious government agencies are often workers and their families, including many small-business owners who have played by the rules yet now find themselves targets -- businessmen such as Henry Fischer. As Fischer says, "I hope nothing like this happens to you."
July 20, 2009
Should very young sex offenders be placed on a registry?
These two notable pieces from yesterday's Dallas Morning News prompts the question in the title of this post:
- Justice experts say sex offender registry ruins a juvenile's 2nd chance
- Sex-offender label on boys unravels family's lives
Here is how the first of these pieces gets started:
The faces of child sex offenders are startling — chubby cheeks, big eyes, a mop of hair, or wispy strands held back with barrettes. The descriptions on Texas' public registry are equally jolting: 4 feet tall, 65 pounds; 4 feet, 2 inches, 70 pounds. "Those are not the people that we're walking around terrified of," says Michele Deitch, a University of Texas law professor.
The inclusion of children as young as 10 on the state's public sex offender registry is a little-known policy — even to juvenile justice experts such as Deitch. "I'm absolutely a little bit shocked that kids that young can be on the list," says Deitch, who teaches juvenile justice policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
She's stunned because public registration contradicts the purpose of juvenile justice: to give kids a second chance. In the case of some juvenile sex offenders, their criminal records are off limits, but information about their crime is easily accessible on the Internet. "It is a terrible situation," Deitch says. "The juvenile justice system is designed to rehabilitate kids and to make sure that they can change."
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, there is no minimum age for inclusion on the state list. But a child must be at least 10 to be handled by the state juvenile justice system, so a judge may order an offender that young to register. No child can be certified as an adult in Texas until age 14.
Shocked though Deitch and others may be, Texas is actually more liberal on juvenile sex offender registration than some states. After experimenting with mandatory registration from 1999 until 2001, registration was left to judicial discretion. Juvenile registration lasts for only 10 years, and those on the list may petition for removal.
In some states, children can be registered at age 7, though Nicole Pittman, a Philadelphia attorney who monitors juvenile sex offender registration laws nationwide, says adjudication of children younger than 10 is rare.
Good (and surprising) news about crime rates
This new piece from the Washington Post, which is headlined "Major Cities' Plummeting Crime Rates Mystifying," provides both good news on crime rates and a new reason to wonder if anyone can assess with any confidence what makes crime rates rise and fall. Here are excerpts:
Violent crime has plummeted in the Washington area and in major cities across the country, a trend criminologists describe as baffling and unexpected. The District, New York and Los Angeles are on track for fewer killings this year than in any other year in at least four decades. Boston, San Francisco, Minneapolis and other cities are also seeing notable reductions in homicides.
"Experts did not see this coming at all," said Andrew Karmen, a criminologist and professor of sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.... Criminologists have different theories about why crime is down so much, although many agree that the common belief that crime is connected to the economy is false....
The District is on track to have fewer killings than in any year since 1964, when the population was about 760,000 and Vietnam War protests were just beginning. In the years since, the city has struggled at times with civil unrest, the arrival of crack cocaine and the rise of street gangs. In 1991, the District was known as the murder capital of the United States, recording 479 that year. This year, there have been 79....
Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Washington-based Police Executive Research Forum, said the drop in homicides this year is notable, especially considering the weather. "This does come at an important time," he said. "We're midway through summer, and summer is when you see the most significant increase in street violence. Departments have had to be more strategic in terms of gangs and hot spots." Wexler said that crime isn't down everywhere. Baltimore and Dallas are among some cities experiencing a higher number of killings compared with last year.
Gary LaFree, a criminology professor at the University of Maryland, said it has taken police decades to figure out how to effectively target crime. "In the '60s, crime was like an act of God, like a tornado or earthquake," LaFree said. "Where policing has changed is that we've gotten the idea this is a problem we created and there are human solutions to it. Obviously, crime is not randomly distributed. It is connected to hot spots in cities and other areas."
LaFree and others agree that crime doesn't automatically go up when the economy is poor. Property crime is also trending down in many jurisdictions, including the District, Prince George's and Montgomery. The FBI reported last week that bank robberies across the country fell in the first quarter of the year, with 1,498 reported, compared with 1,604 in the first quarter of 2008. Criminologists point to the Great Depression in the 1930s as a time of relatively low crime compared with the Roaring Twenties, when the country experienced more violence.
Okay team, in an effort to generate some debate, I will throw out two not-quite-absurd hypothesis for the unexpected drop in crime being reported here:
Hypothesis #1 — More guns, less crime: In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling in Heller and (silly?) concerns about possible new gun control efforts under and Obama Administration, gun sales have been up a lot over the last year. Perhaps this new encouraging crime data reveals that more people packing heat really can help reduce crime rates.
Hypothesis #2 — More hope, less crime: The election of Barack Obama, who ran on a campaign of hope, surely embodies the cliche that anyone can grow up in America and become President. In addition to breaking barriers with historic appointments to the positions of Supreme Court Justice, Attorney General and Solicitor General, President Obama has often preached messages of personally responsibility as well as hope. Perhaps giving more folks good reasons to hope leads to fewer folks having bad reasons to commit crimes.
Seventh Circuit blesses considering defendant's cooperation without a 5K motion from the government
Tucked in the back of a long panel opinion dealing with various sentencing issues is a notable statement about a district judge's post-Booker discretion that, I believe, formally breaks some new ground for the Seventh Circuit. Near the end of US v. Knox, No. 06-4101 (7th Cir. July 20, 2009) (available here), the Seventh Circuit panel makes this statement: "We agree with Davis that, as a general matter, a district court may consider a defendant’s cooperation with the government as a basis for a reduced sentence, even if the government has not made a § 5K1.1 motion."
In the immediate wake of Booker, federal prosecutors often contested and/or complained if a district judge sought to reduce a based on a defendant's cooperation absent a government 5K motion. In the wake of Gall and Kimbrough, I do not believe federal prosecutors still resist the notion that a district court's sentencing authority extends this far. Nevertheless, the fact that the Seventh Circuit expressly declares in this new ruling that a "defendant’s cooperation with the government as a basis for a reduced sentence" even absent a government motion seems noteworthy.
"Texas reporter's seen unrivaled number of U.S. executions"
The title of this post is the headline of this story now being featured at CNN.com. I am not quite sure why CNN now thinks it is newsworthy to note who has been a witness to the most executions, but here are snippets of this (human-interest?) piece:
It takes seven minutes to execute a death row inmate, according to the state of Texas. At that rate, Mike Graczyk has spent about 40 hours of his life watching men — and a few women — die.
Graczyk, a correspondent for The Associated Press, is believed to hold a macabre record. He's almost certainly watched more executions than anyone else in the United States....
He's on the witness list for 315 of the state's 439 executions — more than any other reporter, prison employee or chaplain — and no records were kept for another 80. In his early days, he kept count. But he eventually stopped. He didn't want to know....
Graczyk works in the AP's Houston bureau — it's closest to the state's execution chamber in Huntsville. Since the early 1980s, he's made the hourlong drive north almost every time an inmate has faced the needle....
Don Reid, a writer for the AP and, before that, a Texas newspaper, witnessed 189 executions in the 1960s, when Texas still strapped inmates to "Old Sparky," the nickname for the state's electric chair. The experience changed Reid, who died in 1981, from a supporter of the death penalty to an opponent. He wrote a book, "Have a Seat, Please," chronicling that transformation.
Graczyk said he doesn't worry about the mental toll of watching so many deaths. His bosses with the AP have offered counseling. He's declined. "To see someone go to sleep — not to sound insensitive — but the carnage at the murder scene is harder than what you see in the death house in Huntsville," he said.
Michael Vick now a free man (subject to three years on supervised release)
This AP article, headlined "Ex-NFL star Vick released from federal custody," provides this update on the legal status of football's most famous federal felon:
Vick's attorney Lawrence Woodward told The Associated Press outside Vick's suburban Virginia home that the former Atlanta Falcons quarterback had been released from federal custody as scheduled. That means Vick no longer has to wear the electronic monitor he's had on while under home confinement for the last two months of his 23-month sentence.
Shortly before Woodward came out of the house, two men in a government car with a federal Bureau of Prisons folder on the dashboard paid a brief visit to the home. They carried a large case similar to the one that Vick's ankle monitor was delivered in when he started home confinement. The men declined to identify themselves or speak to waiting reporters....
Under the federal truth-in-sentencing law, Vick had to serve at least 85 percent of his sentence. He served the first 18 months in the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan., before being transferred to home confinement in May.
While on home confinement, Vick — once the NFL's highest-paid player — worked a $10-an-hour construction job for a few weeks. He switched jobs last month, assisting in children's health and fitness programs at the Boys and Girls Clubs.
Vick will remain on probation for three years. He also is under a three-year suspended sentence for a state dogfighting conviction.
Technically, Vick is not "on probation" for the next three years, rather he is subject to federal "supervised release." But I am not sure this legal labeling should matter much for football fans trying to figure out if Vick is worth a pick in their upcoming fantasy football drafts.
July 19, 2009
"Appellate Review of Sentencing Policy Decisions after Kimbrough"
The title of this post is the title of this new piece on SSRN by Carissa Byrne Hessick. Here is the abstract:
In Kimbrough v. United States the U.S. Supreme Court addressed a question left open in United States v. Booker: whether to permit district courts to make sentencing decisions based on a policy disagreement with the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. The Booker Court, in order to avoid a Sixth Amendment jury right problem inherent in mandatory sentencing regimes, had held that the Guidelines were purely "advisory" and that district courts had discretion to sentence outside the ranges prescribed by the Guidelines. Ultimately, the Kimbrough Court held that district courts could sentence outside the advisory Guideline range based solely on a policy disagreement with the Guidelines, as opposed to limiting judicial discretion to case-specific criteria. At the same time, however, the Kimbrough opinion contained language suggesting that sentences based on policy disagreements with those Guidelines that are the product of the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s expertise may be subject to "closer" appellate review. This Symposium Article explores the differing approaches regarding sentencing policy decisions taken by U.S. Courts of Appeals since the Kimbrough decision. It notes that the varying degrees of appellate scrutiny are largely attributable to (a) some courts electing not to follow the dicta in Kimbrough for when "closer review" may be warranted and (b) the circuits' disagreement regarding Kimbrough's effect on previous circuit precedent. The Article also suggests how to promote sentencing uniformity among district courts without running afoul of the Sixth Amendment.
"Sex-offender costs to skyrocket"
The title of this post is the headline of this lengthy and effective piece in today's Des Moines Register. The piece spotlights how legislators seem willing, even in tough economic times, to "spare no expense" when it comes to regulating sex offenders. Here are excerpts:
The state law requiring [a sex offender] to be subject to "probation for life" was enacted in 2005. The law is intended to better protect Iowa children from sexual predators, who, previously, could walk out of prison after serving their time with few restrictions.
Few Iowans have been aware of the law change. Only this year, as the first of those offenders have begun to trickle out of prison, has the cost of the monitoring become a significant concern.
At a minimum, Iowa's experiment with lifetime monitoring will cost about $168 million over the next 20 years, a Des Moines Register analysis has found. "This is going to be an extremely expensive piece of legislation," warned Phyllis Blood, a state analyst for the Iowa Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning.
Blood helped the Register determine some of the potential costs of the monitoring law. "There will be people who were 15 years old at the time of their offense who will have to be supervised for life," she said.
The $168 million estimate represents the cost in today's dollars of the only two expenses that can measured — electronic monitors and probation officer salaries. The expenses will be needed for the almost 4,000 people expected to be added because of the special post-prison sentences to the 29,000 people already on state probation rolls. The actual cost — which will also include various types of testing and post-prison counseling — is likely to be far higher, Blood and other state officials said.
Iowa's more intensive monitoring was part of the Legislature's response to public outrage over the highly publicized murder of Jetseta Gage, a Cedar Rapids 10-year-old, in 2005. But state leaders are getting their first whiff of the fiscal impact this year, as they face a $1 billion gap between state revenues and state expenses projected for fiscal year 2011.
Unlike other states' laws, Iowa's "special sentence" legislation provides no way to ever release someone from a lifetime of probation. That is likely to be a problem for the state, officials in other states say. "It's an extremely good tool for the people who need it," said Wes Shipley, an adult probation supervisor for sex offenders in Maricopa County, Ariz. "But there are people who get on lifetime probation who don't need it. You have to have a way to get them off."...
Already, Iowa corrections officials have told state leaders that absent more money, they will be forced to reduce supervision of other criminals to fulfill the requirement to track sex offenders for a lifetime. Costs to treat, supervise and monitor sex offenders have already mushroomed — from $3.3 million to $11.5 million — between fiscal years 2005 and 2010, according to Iowa's Legislative Services Agency.
When questioned about the considerable tab yet to come, several state lawmakers said "no price is too high" to spare even one child from sexual abuse. "You can't put a price on public safety," said Rep. Deborah Berry, D-Waterloo, vice chairwoman of the House Public Safety Committee. Sen. Keith Kreiman, D-Bloomfield, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said cost was discussed when the law was changed in 2005. "But we decided that whatever the cost was, it was worth it," he said.
Treatment experts, state corrections officials and law enforcement officials in other states, where lifetime sentences were begun years ago, say there are reasons lifetime supervision for so many sex offenders may not be a good idea. "The problem is that in passing one-size-fits-all requirements, you dilute the resources for the people who really need to be watched," said Jill Levenson, a specialist on sex offender treatment and a professor at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla.
In Iowa, budget limits and existing requirements for sex offender monitoring have already forced the state to reduce supervision of other convicts on probation.
Continued buzzing about the (soft?) sentence given to Fumo
Especially in Pennsylvania's papers, there continues to be plenty of discussion of the 55-month prison sentence imposed on state lawmaker Vincent Fumo for his convictions on various corruption charges. Here are two stories that caught my eye and provide notable perspectives on both the sentence itself and the debate surrounding it:
From the Philadelphia Inquirer here, "How Fumo's fate stacks up against others' sentences"
- From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review here, "Ex-senator Fumo's punishment draws outrage as too lenient"
The second piece spotlights why there is so frequently political and public pressure for sentences always to go up rather than down: it is very rare that we ever see stories headlined "Criminal's punishment draws outrage as being too harsh." And, of course, Fumo was given more than a slap on the wrist: the 66-year-old white-collar offender will spend nearly five of his "golden years" in prison and has to pay $2.4 million. Nevertheless, because he was convicted of so many charges of so much corruption and still got a below-guideline sentence, perhaps it is not surprising that this particular outcome has generated so much Sturm und Drang.
Recent related posts:
- State senator Fumo gets below-guideline sentence of 55-months imprisonment on corruption charges
- Comparing white-collar apples and drug dealing oranges at sentencing
- "Feds seek to appeal 'unreasonable' Fumo sentence"


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In Federal Courts “property is at the mercy of pillagers”
Should the federal court system defer to state and federal legislatures in the realm of economic legislation and regulations? After all, why not let democratically-elected legislatures propose, debate, and pass or not pass legislation regulating worker, food, building, and product safety standards?
Legislatures can research proposed safety regulations just as debaters research their affirmative cases. Other legislators, like negative teams in debate, can research and present arguments against badly-crafted or unjust legislation. And if laws passed turn out to be misguided, legislatures can later reform or abolish them.
That’s the theory anyway, of having legislatures pass new legislation each session. Unfortunately though, legislators attract campaign donations more often for shepherding the affirmatives lobbyists hand them, and rarely gain much by taking up the negative side against special-interest legislation.
Consider the Milk Regulatory Equity Act of 2005.
A bill to ensure regulatory equity between and among all dairy farmers and handlers for sales of packaged fluid milk in federally regulated milk marketing areas and into certain non-federally regulated milk marketing areas from federally regulated areas, and for other purposes.
Damon Root gives the background story in Overruled: The Long War for Control of the Supreme Court.
Sarah Farms, an Arizona company owned and operated by Hein and Ellen Hettinga, began selling milk in California at prices lower than those fixed regionally by a New Deal law. Root quotes a Washington Post article on what happened next:
a coalition of giant milk companies and dairies, along with their congressional allies, decided to crush Hettinga’s initiative. For three years the milk lobby spent millions of dollars on lobbying and campaign contributions, and made deals with lawmakers… (“Dairy Industry Crushed Innovator who Bested Price-Control System” Washington Post, December 10, 2006)
Root described the result of this lopsided legislative process:
The final result of that lobbying was the Milk Regulation Equity Act of 2005, which among other things, imposed minimum milk pricing on all producer-handlers operating out of Arizona that distribute at least 3,000,000 pounds of fluid milk per month. Not coincidentally, Sarah Farms was the only producer-handler in the entire state that fit that description. (Overruled, p. 134)
So, in summary, a family diary producer and handler delivers milk to California customers at lower prices, and in response the established dairy industry spends millions for new legislation targeting that single price-cutting firm.
Critics of special interest legislation might reasonably wish the federal courts to invalidate such politicized intervention in the economy.
The Hettinga’s sued in federal court, arguing their firm had been targeted and Constitutional protections violated. Root describes the response of Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals, to the Milk Regulatory Equity Act of 2005:
When Judge Brown finally reviewed the government’s justifications, however, she rejected them as pure fantasy, likening the 2005 law to forced collectivization and describing it as a naked wealth transfer that came at the expense of both the Hettingas and the milk-drinking public.
However, given Supreme Court precedent for the “rational-basis” test, Judge Brown deferred to the legislature and let the law stand. Root reports Brown’s complaint about the decision:
The practical effect of rational basis review of economic regulation…is the absence of any check on the group interests that all too often control the democratic process. It allows the legislature free rein to subjugate the common good and individual liberty to the electoral calculus of politicians, the whims of majorities, or the self-interest of faction. (Overruled, p. 135)
Supreme Court precedent for interventionist economic legislation, no matter how unjust or absurd, has been set by decisions since the New Deal era, so Judge Brown had to go along, noting: “Rational basis review means property is at the mercy of the pillagers.”
The KeepMilkPricesLow website also presents the story of special interests and “your legislature at work:”
Congress has decided to raise the cost of milk by driving Hein Hettinga out of business. Hettinga, an independent dairyman, has been targeted and punished for trying to keep the price of milk low.
In 2006, Congress punished Hettinga by a special-interest bill passed at the behest of the largest companies in the dairy industry. Without a hearing in either House, Congress eliminated Hettinga’s independent status, forcing him to share his revenues with his direct competitors. The result is that milk prices remain artificially high, consumers suffer, and an independent dairy farmer is at risk of losing his family business.
Will the Supreme Court someday intervene to free Arizona milk producer handlers? Well, they can hope to someday gain the economic freedom now enjoyed by Fresno raisin growers, who thanks to a recent Supreme Court decision, no longer have a portion of their raisins seized by the state. The July 28, 2015 Los Angeles Times story here: “Supreme Court sides with Fresno farmer in raisin dispute.” NPR story here.
Again, ideally, state and federal legislatures would stop passing regulations favoring special interest groups who lobby and donate in exchange for legislation protecting their businesses. But advocates for reform argue legislatures will be legislatures if not held to limited Constitutional powers. The federal court system should provide that protection for individuals, firms, and the general public from arbitrary legislation and regulation.


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How to acknowledge your past, revive your present & realise your future
bad apple press 2019
Andrew Fuller is a Fellow of the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Learning and Educational Development at the University of Melbourne.
Andrew Fuller’s sympathetic invitation to reflect on our lives and the choices available to us is an absorbing read. After all we are all interested in our ‘selves’, and rightly so, because how else can we expect to make the most of the gift of our lives?
The book is divided into age groups – the stages of life we pass through if we are fortunate – and we are advised to perhaps first read our own age bracket and then the ones either side of it – we can see what 500,000 other people have experienced and how we fit into that wealth of life stories. We can also see what we were doing in comparison with others at certain times of life.
This book does not preach or give advice but rather it illuminates the human experience. In documenting his conversations about life with the people in his workshops, Andrew Fuller has lighted upon some universals and these are not only a point of comparison but also perhaps one of inspiration for possibilities.
I particularly enjoyed the summative chapter – If I had my life to live over in which the ‘essentials parts of life’ are listed and briefly examined: appreciation and gratitude, health, honour, friendship and conversation, humour, music, dance and sounds, aromas, presence, spirituality, beauty, creativity, love and LIFE.
As its title indicates, this is a book for all ages. I highly recommend it not only for its content but also its readability, empathy and gentle humour.

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3 arrested after vehicle stops in Oxnard yield weapons
Three people were arrested between Wednesday night and early Thursday in the Oxnard area after two vehicle stops that yielded multiple firearms, officials said
The first incident began just before 9 p.m. Wednesday when an Oxnard police officer attempted to pull over a vehicle in the 2300 block of Maulhardt Avenue.
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The vehicle did not stop and continued into the Nyeland Acres neighborhood.
Police said multiple passengers fled the vehicle on foot in the neighborhood. The driver continued to drive until car’s tires were deflated by a police spike strip, authorities said.
The vehicle eventually stopped near Santa Clara Avenue and Wright Road, where the driver, identified as Victor Lopez, 27, of Gilroy, was arrested. It was unclear what happened to the other occupants of the vehicle.
Officers learned the vehicle was stolen out of Santa Clara County, and in it they found two handguns, one of which was also found to have been stolen, police said.
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Authorities said Lopez was booked into Ventura County jail on suspicion of several felony offenses, including two counts of receiving stolen property, vehicle theft, possession of a firearm by a felon, carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle and evading a police officer.
He was also booked on suspicion of misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Lopez was held on $75,000 bail and is due in court Friday.
The second incident began just before 2 a.m. Thursday when Oxnard police attempted to stop a vehicle in the 1300 block of Birch Street.
The vehicle did not stop immediately. Oxnard police said an officer saw items being tossed from the vehicle.
The vehicle eventually stopped after a short distance and the driver, identified as 25-year-old Oxnard resident Cody Henry, was found to be the subject of a felony arrest warrant, authorities said.
A passenger, Desiree Amador, 20, of Oxnard, was also found to be the subject of a felony warrant, authorities said.
Officers searched the area where the items had been tossed from the vehicle and found two handguns, authorities said.
Henry was arrested in connection with the warrant and on suspicion of felony possession of a firearm by a felon and carrying a loaded firearm along with misdemeanor destroying or concealing evidence, authorities said.
He was booked into Ventura County jail on $70,000 bail and is due in court on Friday.
Amador was also arrested in connection with her felony warrants and booked into Ventura County jail, authorities said.


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The Brass Dimples Knob from the MKN Range of Panel Beaten Brass and Copper Cabinet Knobs
The MKN Range of Panel Beaten Brass and Copper Cabinet Knobs are beautifully hand-crafted. These attractive decorative knobs are bound to catch the eye of all who enter your home.
Using 100% brass or copper, depending on the knob, these cupboard knobs are panel beaten into shape with their decorative pattern stamped out into the material. They are then stained in one of a variety of colours, this stain is then polished off, leaving the stain only in the grooves and gullies of the pattern. The end result is a stunning vintage look that is perfect for up-cycling an otherwise boring and plain old piece of furniture, into a thing of beauty.
The knobs come with a 4.5mm screw fixed into the back of the body of the knob. This is adjustable in length by loosening the locking nut and either screwing the shaft in, or out,of the knob. This is not a difficult procedure.
The knobs, by the nature of being panel beaten, are hollow and light. Please don’t be disappointed by this, it is simply how they have to be when made in this fashion. That said, we have seen flimsier copies on the market where a lower grade material has been used. We have sold thousands of these knobs and, by and large, our customers absolutely love them, however one or two have been disgruntled by the fact that they are hollow, so please take note.
These cabinet knobs are a French Furniture Fittings brand product. It is advisable to select your knobs and handles all from the same brand as finishes may vary slightly across brands. Additionally, our collections offer you handles and knobs that were designed to go together. Often, they will have design characteristics and details that run through the various items within the collection.
French Furniture Fittings is a family run, company based in Wiltshire, UK. We originally only supplied French, hand-made handles and knobs (hence the name). We have since branched out to include representation of British companies such as Crofts & Assinder and Heritage Brass. Our main criteria in choosing our selection are aesthetic beauty, quality manufacturing and good value – or more simply put, beautiful and durable products at a sensible price.
Remember, if this knob does not meet your requirements you can browse our full range of kitchen and general furniture metal cabinet knobs.
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One KIA, one WIA in Donbas in past 24 hours – JFO HQ
Over the past day in Donbas, a Ukrainian serviceman was killed, another one was wounded by a bullet, 11 attacks were recorded. Since Friday midnight, Russia-led forces have carried out four attacks, without losses, the press center of the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) headquarters said.
"As a result of enemy shelling attacks, one soldier from the Joint Forces received injuries incompatible with life ... In addition, one Ukrainian soldier was wounded by a bullet. The soldier's health state is satisfactory," the JFO staff said in its morning update on Facebook on Friday.