where the local GOP is training volunteers to work at the polls on Election Day because “we are going to be proactive instead reactive,” said Cathy Latham, a top official with the county GOP.

grown popular among Republican-controlled state legislatures that consider them a prudent measure to reduce voter fraud

cracking down on voter fraud “is just common sense. It’s the law.”

That has Pearson and her supporters suggesting something more insidious may be fueling her criminal charges. They note prosecutors waited more than three years to file the charges, doing so eight months before the expiration of the statute of limitations, in the midst of a pivotal election year.

But the secretary of state had investigated dozens of instances in which Pearson had driven people to the polls or otherwise urged them to vote — instances in which the county elections board chairman alleged her aid crossed the line into illegal voter assistance

charged with improperly helping him to vote.

where activists have challenged thousands of voters. The challengers include volunteers with the Voter Integrity Project, which says it wants to guard against voter fraud.

he court denied it, saying that changing the early voting plans “would create logistical difficulties.

Just 7,916 people voted in the first week of early voting in Guilford this year, compared to 60,732 in 2012, according to state elections board records

telling Reuters that Republican opposition to Sunday voting was not discriminatory but was rather based on the belief that people should not be required to work on Sundays.

"Many of our folks are angry and opposed to Sunday voting," he wrote. “Six days of voting in one week is enough. Period.”

keeping polls open during evenings and weekends, or "off-hour" times, drains county resources.

Counties that Obama, a Democrat, won in 2012 increased their Sunday hours this year by 16 percent, while counties that voted for his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, decreased them by nearly a quarter, the records show.

said North Carolina Republican Party executive director Dallas Woodhouse, denying his party was trying to suppress the Democratic vote

Prussing said, referring to the St. Louis suburb where riots broke out after a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teen in August 2014. "It is a mistake to lump all cities together and think we are identical."

EDUID

enough vials to allow the drug to be tested every month until its expiration date.

the lack of public oversight opens the door to price gouging by allowing an unknown vendor to negotiate with a government in desperate need of a controversial product.

a Democrat, proposed the secrecy bill this year as an alternative to a Republican proposal to use the electric chair as a fallback option if the state should ever be unable to carry out an execution due to a lack of drugs

States that have no mandated qualifications for parole board members. Only 10 require a college degree, and 14 require experience in criminal justice or a related field.

U.S. households that lack basic plumbing like hot and cold running water, a bathtub or shower, or a working flush toilet

but only until January, when a new law that eliminates the statute takes effect. The change was inspired in part by the dozens of women who tried to file charges against actor Bill Cosby but couldn't because of how much time had passed since the alleged crime.

A new state law lets the execution-drug companies conceal their identity.

In four of those six states, the insurance industry isn't actually legally allowed to donate to campaigns

a former Navy SEAL who has never held political office.

Portion of U.S. students who graduated high school last year, which is a record high. Rates have improved among all demographic groups in recent years, but English-language learners and black students have seen the largest increases.

Congress then passed legislation that limited judicial discretion and authorized the collection of sentencing data on individual judges

But after a challenge to the constitutionality of requiring sentencing judges to consider facts that were not weighed by a jury, the Supreme Court untethered judges from the guidelines with its decision in the case of United States v. Booker in 2005. The sentencing guidelines are now advisory, not mandatory

because of the judiciary’s concern that such data could be used to single out judges, who were freed from restrictive sentencing guidelines in 2005

Oklahoma Correctional Industries; workers scan the original photos and prepare metadata

I likewise know of no research university that does NOT require a PhD for faculty positions within academic departments.

pugnacious creature

The CPL collects all professors who have taught at Leipzig University from its foundation in 1409 to the presence.

Others warn that proposed development and higher property values may force poor people out, and they say that when the city was the neighborhood’s leading landlord it should have increased ownership opportunities for Harlem residents .

“There’s a lot of new housing to allow people to come into the area without displacing people there,”

“This place was vacated,” said Howard Dodson, director of Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. “Gentrification is about displacement.”

Because so much of the community was devastated by demolition for urban renewal, arson and abandonment beginning in the 1960s, many newcomers have not so much dislodged existing residents as succeeded them

Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. founded the institute in 1990 as a 501(c)3 non-profit research organization, and is the president of the institute

Many are concerned that a highly disproportionate number of public school special-education students are boys and that boys are 2.5 times as likely as girls in public schools to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Adults who were home educated are more politically tolerant than the public schooled in the limited research done so far

The home-educated are doing well, typically above average, on measures of social, emotional, and psychological developmen

Whether homeschool parents were ever certified teachers is not related to their children’s academic achievement.

A 2015 study found Black homeschool students to be scoring 23 to 42 percentile points above Black public school students (Ray, 2015).

· provide a safer environment for children and youth, because of physical violence, drugs and alcohol, psychological abuse, racism, and improper and unhealthy sexuality associated with institutional schools

$11,732 per pupil in public schools, plus capital expenditures

homeschool families spend an average of $600 per student for their education.

The finances associated with their homeschooling likely represent over $27 billion that American taxpayers do not have to spend, annually, since these children are not in public schools

fter the community backlash from the 2013 closings of nearly 50 schools.

free markets, personal responsibility and a limited role for government in the lives of the governed

principled third-party candidates can make big contributions even when they lose. In 1992 businessman H. Ross Perot won 19 percent of the popular vote on a thin but sensible platform, much of it constructed around reducing federal deficits. That strong showing by Perot the relative centrist influenced how President Bill Clinton would govern.

tames a national debt that's rapidly approaching $20 trillion-with-a-T

rather than ever-higher taxation

Johnson and Weld are even-keeled — provided they aren't discussing the injustice of trapping young black children in this nation's worst-performing schools.

"Most people are Libertarian," Johnson told the Tribune Editorial Board when he and Weld met with us in July. "It's just that they don't know it."

Clinton's behavior affirms the perception that she's a corner-cutter whose ambitions drive her decisions.

Even her command and control of a routine medical issue devolved into a secretive, misleading mission to hide information from Americans.

during an era of institutionalized

a contribution form allowing new content providers to catalog their materials for iLumina (although materials are reviewed before being finally admitted to the library).

Many have argued that minimalist metadata (such as DC Core), is not only easier to create than IMS/IEEE descriptions, but also more cost-effective. One question the iLumina project is addressing is whether this is true.

science, mathematics, technology and engineering (SMETE)

He said Holt was wrong to attempt to fact-check Trump on the constitutionality of stop-and-frisk and his claimed opposition to the Iraq War.

the playground is the latest in a wave of inclusive playgrounds being constructed across the Chicago area in recent years.

the Journal of Forensic Anthropology to $2,719 for Gynecology & Obstetrics.  

Jeffrey Beall, an academic librarian at the University of Colorado-Denver, has identified more than a thousand publishers he considers predatory, on his blog Scholarly Open Access.

Friedman's great-grandfather was the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, and it was he who banned maths, science and English from Haredi schools.

Haredi men are expected to spend most of their time studying the Torah and Talmud, Judaism's sacred texts, leaving their wives to go out and work. About half of Israel's Haredi men live this way.

DHS has offered to help states increase security of their systems, but states have rebuffed federal help and largely believe their systems are secure. DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson held a conference call recently to discuss whether DHS should declare electoral systems as critical infrastructure, which triggers more involvement from the federal government. States have resisted those moves.

has a $230 million hold on his checking account

They on average account for much less than 1 percent of the U.S. homicide rate and are unusually hard to stop through gun control laws (since the killer is bent on committing a publicly visible murder and is thus unlikely to be much deterred by gun control law, or by the prospect of encountering an armed bystander).

[UPDATE: For whatever it’s worth, Heidi Kinchen of The Advocate (Baton Rouge) notes that Myrick was in the Army reserves and in the National Guard, though he was obviously not on duty at the time of the shooting.]

He had just left the dance hall, carrying his gun — possibly to attack more people, though the stories that I’ve seen are unclear — when he was confronted by the dance hall owner James Strand, who lived next door and kept a shotgun at home.

he would generally not have been allowed to carry a gun except when on security duty

But Barner was acting as a civilian, and carrying a gun as a civilian (he had a concealed carry license);

At that point, Sean Barner, a Marine who was attending Georgia State as part of the Marine Enlisted Commissioning Education Program

the new report reads that in states without required permits to carry, crime has declined.

“They are reluctant to use the the guns in a wrong way because they have a lot to lose if they do something wrong.

That’s because the NRA describes law enforcement as an ally in an ongoing culture war against forces like Black Lives Matter, which the gun group believes would irrevocably damage the country’s essential character.

Uber and Lyft both use independent contractors, instead of employees who would likely get more benefits, to staff their services

Officials with the public defender’s office had asked for a $23.1 million boost, while Nixon recommended a $1 million increase

they already pay the highest property taxes in the nation.

the Supreme Court ruled that Native Nations could no longer exercise their inherent criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians.

Thus far, these efforts have been in vain. Google has not responded beyond saying there was a violation of the Terms of Service agreement.

Gartner's Hype Cycle

WikiLeaks dumped a massive amount of what it claims are Democratic National Committee documents online Friday morning, in what it’s calling the first part of its “Hillary Leaks series.”

The Wikipedia page of Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, on the other hand, has seen 62 edits on Friday alone. There have been almost 90 edits over the past week.

preferred the thermostats at around 75 degrees Fahrenheit

“Domestic partner” shares that disadvantage while also assuming cohabitation.

UPIARR

“There is no definition of a mental disorder. It’s bullshit.”

ollege education is designed to get you a job, that’s not the case in Spain.”

digital repository

Though the thread where the meme was featured no longer exists, you can find it by searching the URL in Archive.is, a "time capsule of the internet" that saves unalterable text and graphic of webpages. Doing so allows you to see the thread on /pol/ as it originally existed.

We were hoping to develop this into a new grant proposal, which was not possible when the mistakes were realized.  But fortunately a graduate student was not involved, but the postdoc involved probably lost 6 months of effort.

This has been tried in the past, unsuccessfully. But earlier campaigns lacked Rauner's $20 million and counting in personal campaign cash.

two additional percentage points in the rate of the individual income tax, to 5.75 percent, will be needed. The rate might be cut back a bit after the huge backlog of bills is paid off.

The sample was D+15

By that measure

hey did any work as a paid employee, work for their own business or farm

worked 15 or more hours unpaid for an enterprise operated by a family member.

I’m going to tell you there’s new information.”

in classic Kennedy fashion

“There’s a lot of safe and peaceful immigrants,” she said. “For example Russia. Peaceful. … Italians. Germans.”

he also said that Clinton and Obama had “a lot to gain by having these attacks happen” and cited their pro-gun control stances.

Kobach's instructions this week to allow thousands of people who register at motor vehicle offices without citizenship documents to vote only in federal races.

Kris Kobach has no legal right to bar people who register to vote using a federal form from voting in local and state elections.

Justice Stephen Breyer joined the court’s four conservatives to add a huge loophole to that long-established doctrine.

A physical copy of your fingerprint could be used to unlock your phone. You leave fingerprints on many things you touch, including your phone.

Using your fingerprint to unlock your device may be less secure than a strong password, PIN, or pattern.

the cable industry’s biggest lobbying group highlighted the comments of the dissenting judge, Stephen Williams, and said its members were reviewing the opinion. The group also said broadband legislation by Congress was a better alternative to the F.C.C.’s classification of internet business as a utility.

The cable and telecom industries have signaled their intent to challenge any unfavorable decision, possibly taking the case to the Supreme Court.

using political leverage to damage other communities, and we cannot let that happen.”

Salem was released in April 2015, five months after being arrested, but was arrested again for failing to appear at an arraignment for the original assault charge a few weeks later, on May 13, according to the Daily News. His lawyers claim the letter informing Salem of his court date was lost in the mail and had been stamped “return to sender” by the post office.

where online piracy of copyrighted materials

The minimum salary for a full-time, non-visiting specialized faculty member with a nine-month appointment will rise from the current $40,000 to $43,000 in August 2017, and to $45,000 in August 2018.

though not in the College of Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine or College of Law.

50–70 years for a journal article

had privately acknowledged its error.

The special exemption comes after intense lobbying by the American Network of Community Options and Resources, or ANCOR, a trade group that represents over 1,000 private agencies providing disability services across the country

that doesn't mean the drugs can't be immensely profitable. Treanda is an orphan drug but also Teva's second-best seller, racking up $740 million in sales last year, according to Teva's annual report.

the FDA disclosed that it would not apply the court’s reasoning to other products

We continue to believe that the Depomed court erred in not deferring to FDA’s statutory interpretation, and we therefore deny your request for exclusivity on that ground,

the FDA is denying seven-year exclusivity that orphan drugs typically get on the grounds that Bendeka shares the same active ingredient as Treanda but is not clinically superior to it.

The governor of Michigan refused Alabama’s request for extradition

Patterson was again found guilty and sentenced to death.

after answering a question about "sex assigned at birth."

"Magically, the words ‘impermissible benefits,’ ‘football’ and ‘men’s basketball’ no longer appear in the documents." But the women’s basketball team is still mentioned — it’s "either North Carolina’s renegade sport or convenient scapegoat," ESPN said — and "will be subject to the full force of the NCAA rule book and the new penalty structure." Final decisions by the infractions committee are, at best, months away.

eight spent all of their institutional aid money on "merit" scholarships, rather than on need-based aid.

a third of their financial aid in 2014-15 went to students who didn’t need it

Krzysztof", "Kryzysztof" and "Krzystof" have different lengths and different regular fingerprints, but share the same 1-gram fingerprint because they use the same letters.

obtain all the string n-grams

So, for example, the 2-gram fingerprint of "Paris" is "arispari" and the 1-gram fingerprint is "aiprs

control characters

remove leading and trailing whitespace

whitespace-separated tokens

The URN solution is embedded: the whole system is based on existing identifier systems, so e.g. serials will be identified by ISSN and books by ISBN, using the URN namespaces assigned for these systems

The ISO Draft International Standard version of the DOI makes it very clear that whenever there is a standard identifier for a resource, then that identifier shall be used as a part of DOI.

PIs may, however, also compete with the traditional identifiers, since almost all of them (the odd one out being URN) are also identifier systems

In practice, the differences may be less pronounced than on paper, since some features of e.g. the URN system have not been implemented.

PI systems do differ with respect to services

Cool URIs cannot track the changes of such web pages and help the user to find the exact version he or she is interested in.

anyone can give a URI to anything he / she wants, and the intellectual content, available in a Web location such as http://www.w3.org/, can and probably will change more or less often and may be available in the same time at numerous other locations

HTTP URIs will capture all functionality, data, or services presented by other identifier schemes.

HTTP URIs are the preferred identifier for all authorities (although they may well be preferred for HTTP-oriented authorities).

With the help of DNS, claim the proponents of this view, a URL can be made as persistent as a PI can ever be. 

which are an extension of URIs

The Digital Object Identifier was not listed above, because it is an implementation (and an important one) of the Handle system (and will be discussed as such below).

While this has not prevented other initiatives from striving towards publishing RFCs, it may well be that URN has the best chance of reaching the status of Internet standard.

PIs must be actionable on the Internet, and IETF is the key organization developing Internet standards.

while most traditional identifiers have been under the wing of ISO, most PIs are linked to IETF in one way or another.

There may not be a manifestation at all, in which case the XRI would identify a work.

The purpose was to provide a standard means for identifying any resource, independent of a physical manifestation of it.

But OCLC has never tried to standardize PURLs in IETF or elsewhere, which means that, unlike most other PIs, PURLs are and will remain purely a technical solution.

The draft 15 expired in November 2008 and, apparently, no new ARK-related Internet drafts have been published since then.

The  major PI systems are, in chronological order

but there is still some lack of clarity concerning for instance the relation of traditional and persistent identifiers and the relation between cool URIs and persistent identifiers.

persistent identifiers should only be assigned to resources that will be preserved for long term, that is, over several hardware and software generations

that persistence simply means that ‘an identifier is valid for long enough

whereas a persistent identifier incorporating this ISBN is a hyperlink when expressed as HTTP URI

Traditional identifiers such as ISBNs are not and will not be actionable in the Internet as such

CRL does not believe that any legislation about these issues is necessary

Unlike some publications, we don't endorse or support candidates. As a nonprofit, we're legally prohibited from doing that, and, just as importantly, it would be counter to what we stand for journalistically.

This is about building a relationship, and we're going to ask for money.

articipants should be aware, however, that the experiment is not being run from a “secure” https server of the kind typically used to handle credit card transactions, so there is a small possibility that responses could be viewed by unauthorized third parties.

nd, once she finally addressed the issue, she made clear a distinction based on economic disparity between herself and Latino migrant workers.

Professor Salaita’s reinstatement and monetary relief, including compensation for the economic hardship and reputational damage he suffered as a result of the university’s actions.

Sixteen academic departments of the university have voted no confidence in the UIUC administration

The governor stood by his demand that any state spending deal includes pro-business anti-union reforms from his so-called “turnaround agenda.”

Gale’s quote begins with “although,” but the more appropriate word may be “because.”

it seems like an amalgam of news reports and calls from concerned librarians

She volunteered to donate the archive to the Smithsonian museum but the museum was not interested.

Clinton’s

but still positions the male as the default and women as a specialist group

The United States supports some degree of subsidies for local renewables in nearly half of all states. India could likely file a WTO complaint against the U.S. if it wanted.

The internet has replaced the importance of libraries as a repository for knowledge

Without Forte, where would the Bears have been?

Many Bears fans want a staple of their team to stay around, but Pace has other plans, and those should be trusted

“I love my job,” said Governor Bruce Rauner during the his first stop of his visit to the Quad Cities, at Ridgewood Elementary School in East Moline.

Actor John Boyega will play one of the Storm Troopers, Finn. Lupita Nyong’o will also star in the film as Maz Kanata.

The committee did not vote Wednesday on whether to confirm Hayden.

first African-American to lead the institution.

relate to the lead contamination of Flint's drinking water and not to the possible link between Flint River water and an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that is tied to the deaths of 12 people, one of the sources said.

Officials believe the city got artificially low lead readings because they didn't test the homes most at risk — those with lead service lines or other features putting them at high risk for lead. Among those to be charged is a City of Flint official who signed a document saying the homes Flint used to test tap water under the federal Lead and Copper Rule all had lead service lines — a statement investigators allege was false.

documents it does release will be subject to review by the country’s military censorship apparatus.

If this “Bernie treating Hillary like a whore” narrative is something the Clinton campaign is trying to push in the final days before New York primary voters cast their ballots, it is clearly working. And on cable news at least, there are plenty of hosts throwing fuel on the fire.

New Day host Chris Cuomo (brother of Clinton supporter and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo) that Clinton strategists have been “quietly” talking to him about how “sexism” has affected her unnervingly high disapproval ratings. “You know, everybody raises money from all types of sources,” he said. “She’s the one they throw dollar bills at.”

echoing insinuations they have heard from Clinton’s campaign, lump those two incidents together to frame Sanders supporters as sexists who view the former secretary of state as a sex worker.

This narrative likely stems from a comment made by Sanders supporter and prominent healthcare activist Dr. Paul Song at a recent rally. "Medicare-for-all will never happen if we continue to elect corporate Democratic whores who are beholden to big pharma and the private insurance industry instead of us,” Song told the crowd. Following the event, Sanders was forced to apologize, calling the statement "inappropriate and insensitive

He is a politician we can all trust, and just that alone is such a rare thing, it’s like unicorn rare,” Justin Long—a Brooklyn-born actor who played “Mac” in those grating Mac vs. PC commercials—told the crowd, moments after describing grainy footage of Sanders in the ’80s as like watching “an actual unicorn.”

The Sanders campaign strategy has been akin to the Southern Strategy employed by Republicans: Center white people and their anger, and have them work to protect their entitlements despite the fact that no one is trying to take anything away from them.

Hillary has not done much more to secure the votes of black people than the Sanders campaign.

it costs about $60,000 per year to house a person in a Community Integrated Living Arrangement (the technical term for a group home) versus $257,000 per year to put a person with a disability in a state-run institution.

(almost)

The DataCite MDS stores information about DataCite DOIs, but can’t store metadata (again title, authors, publication date, etc.) for other resources such as Crossref DOIs.

the “baggage” is her husband cheating on her and the “charisma” is what allows her philandering husband who perjured himself to be loved, while she’s gets called “untrustworthy.”

But maybe you would be bad at campaigning too if you had been subjected to over two decades of vicious and often contradictory political attacks.

she is naturally bad at running for office and that painfully shows through at almost all points

If elected, she will kill people

I would say that voting for her would be like putting Lady MacBeth in the White House, but if you think Hillary would have a nervous breakdown just because she got her hands dirty while bringing about regime change, then you haven’t been paying attention to this woman the past 25 years.

You better have a plan to replace that tax base.

Bernie’s support comes from educated white males, young white women, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the Screen Actors Guild