Nanotech Security Corp. to Host 2020 Third Quarter Investor Conference Call – GlobeNewswire

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nanotech Security Corp. (TSXV: NTS) (OTCQX: NTSFF) (Nanotech or the Company), a leader in the development of secure and memorable nano-optic security features used in the government and banknote and brand protection markets, announces the Company will release financial results for its 2020 third quarter after the market closes on Thursday August 6, 2020. President and CEO Troy Bullock and CFO Monika Russell will host a conference call at 5:00 P.M. Eastern the same day. All interested parties are invited to join this call:

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About Nanotech

With billions of security features in circulation, Nanotechs products include secure and memorable security labels, stripes, patches, and colour-shifting films for currency authentication and brand protection.

KolourOptikis a patented technology that is exclusive to the government and banknote market and combines sub-wavelength nanostructures and microstructures to create modern overt security features with a unique and customizable visual effect. KolourOptik pure plasmonic colour pixels produce full colour, 3D depth, and movement used in security stripes and threads that are nearly impossible to replicate. At less than 5 microns thick, KolourOptik products seamlessly integrate into banknotes and other secure government documents.

LiveOptik is a patented technology that utilizes innovative nano-optics one tenth the size of traditional holographic structures to create next generation overt security features customized to our customers unique requirements. LiveOptik delivers multi-colour, 3D depth, movement, and image switches for secure brand protection stripes, threads, and labels that are nearly impossible to replicate.

Additional information about Nanotech can be found at the Companys website http://www.nanosecurity.ca, the Canadian disclosure filings website http://www.sedar.com or the OTCMarkets disclosure filings website http://www.otcmarkets.com.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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Biomedical Nanotechnology Market Applications Overview 2020-2026: by Upstream and Downstream Analysis Forecast to 2026 – Owned

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Global Biomedical Nanotechnology Market: Trends Estimates High Demand by 2026

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Entheogens (from the Ancient Greek entheos ["god", "divine"] and genesthai ["generate" - "generating the divine within"]) are a family of psychoactive substances, typically of plant origin, that are used in religious, ritual, or spiritual contexts. Jonathan Ott is credited with coining the term in 1979.[2]

Entheogens have been used in a ritualized context for thousands of years and their religious significance is well established with anthropological and academic literature. Examples of traditional entheogens include psychedelics like peyote, psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, and iboga; atypical hallucinogens like salvia and Amanita muscaria; quasi-psychedelics like cannabis; and deliriants like datura.

With the advent of organic chemistry, there now exist many synthetic drugs with similar psychoactive properties, many of which are derived from these plants. Many pure active compounds with psychoactive properties have been isolated from these respective organisms and synthesized chemically. These include the naturally occurring mescaline, psilocybin, DMT, salvinorin A, ibogaine, ergine, and muscimol, the semi-synthetic LSD, and synthetic substances (e.g., DPT used by the Temple of the True Inner Light and 2C-B used by the Sangoma).[3]

More broadly, the term entheogen is used to refer to any psychoactive substance used for its religious or spiritual effects, whether or not in a formal religious or traditional structure. This terminology is often chosen to contrast with the recreational use of the same substances. Studies such as the Marsh Chapel Experiment have documented reports of spiritual experiences from participants who were administered psychoactive substances in controlled trials.[4] Ongoing research is limited due to widespread drug prohibition; however, some countries have legislation that allows for traditional entheogen use.

The term "entheogen" comes from the Greek en, meaning in or within; theo, meaning god or divine; and gen, meaning creates or generates. It translates as generating or creating the divine within".[citation needed]

Many modern chemicals with little human history have been recognized to be able to catalyze intense spiritual experiences, and many synthetic entheogens are simply slight modifications of their naturally occurring counterparts. Some synthetic substances like 4-AcO-DMT are prodrugs that metabolize into psychoactive substances that have been used as entheogens.

While synthetic DMT and mescaline are reported to have identical entheogenic qualities as extracted or plant-based sources, the experience may wildly vary due to the lack of numerous psychoactive alkaloids that constitute the material. This is similar to how isolated THC produces very different effects than an extract that retains the many cannabinoids of the plant such as cannabidiol and cannabinol.

Consumption of the imaginary mushroom anochi as the entheogen underlying the creation of Christianity is the premise of Philip K. Dick's last novel, "The Transmigration of Timothy Archer".

Aldous Huxley's final novel, Island (1962), depicted a fictional entheogenic mushroom termed "moksha medicine" used by the people of Pala in rites of passage, such as the transition to adulthood and at the end of life.

In his book "The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East", John M. Allegro argues etymologically that Christianity developed out of the use of a psychedelic mushroom, the true body of Christ, which was later forgotten by its adherents.

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Qumulo cloud approach gang-tackles file-to-object conversion – TechTarget

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NAS vendor Qumulo is moving beyond its startup status. The eight-year-old company recently closed a $125 million funding round that brings its total haul from private investors to $350 million. Qumulo CEO Bill Richter said his company took the additional financing to accelerate product development, particularly to support a surge in unstructured data. Qumulo cloud customers span government, healthcare, high-performance computing and media and entertainment, along with other industries that rely heavily on streaming data.

"We last raised capital [in 2018] and still have about 50% of it still in the bank. We chose to raise this additional round because our market opportunity is so big," Richter said.

Qumulo's founders helped create the Isilon scale-out technology that is now part of Dell EMC. Richter, also an Isilon alum, became Qumulo CEO four years ago. While the Seattle-based company initially broke into storage selling branded appliances, Richter said Qumulo's future growth depends on furthering its software-defined storage approach to data management in the cloud. The Qumulo distributed file system is packaged on branded Qumulo appliances, on Hewlett Packard Enterprise Apollo-branded servers, or licensed in AWS and Google Compute Platform.

The software platform recently expanded to include Qumulo Shift, which allows customers to run native file services in AWS and convert files to data objects that access Amazon Simple Storage Service-based services.

We recently spoke with Richter to discuss how growth in unstructured data shaped the Qumulo cloud roadmap.

You have indicated that Qumulo may pursue an initial public offering (IPO). How will the latest funding haul influence your decision to go public?

Bill Richter: Our goal to build a long-term independent, sustainable company. I think that journey implies an IPO one day, but we'll go public whenever we're ready. We have been relatively cash-efficient. Based on the way we've built and managed Qumulo, and given the amount of capital we raised, we get to decide when or if we do an IPO. It will not be decided for us.

The storage sector seems more dynamic than ever. What challenges does that pose for Qumulo? What opportunities does it present?

Richter: To understand Qumulo's success, you have to zoom out and look at a couple of mega trends affecting our business. The first is massive and unrelenting digitization of data. The scale of the data sets that we help customers with is many orders of magnitude larger than what is commonly referred to as big data. The massive proliferation of unstructured data is one trend.

A second trend is the advent of cloud computing and software to solve these massive data problems. People used to try to solve this by buying new storage boxes in their data centers. We saw a different opportunity: to tackle the unstructured data challenge by using our file software in the public cloud. That was the early thesis of Qumulo when it was founded eight years ago. Those mega trends have only accelerated and we believe it positions us to build a strong and successful company.

You started out with file storage, then added object support for the cloud. Do you envision expanding to block for unified storage?

Richter: We are highly specialized around file data. We don't provide a block data system. We don't provide a transactional data system. Qumulo is not a backup company. In fact, there's a vibrant conversation about this inside Qumulo. We use this phrase 'focus is your friend.' We focus on file data, which is an overlooked market segment [for cloud workloads]. The incumbents are not innovating in that area, because it happens to be a very difficult problem to solve.

We see customers whose applications are better suited for the public cloud, and those applications all use file data. Another aspect is that many customers aren't sure whether those applications should live on premises or in the cloud. When they buy Qumulo, they buy the optionality to transport an application from Point A to Point B and back again, without having to change the application.

AI data inferencing and cloud data management are fueling demand for faster storage in the cloud. How do these dynamics change the way customers evaluate their storage?

Richter: As a matter of fact, storage is important, right? If you can't store the data somewhere, you can't get started. But storage really is just the starting place. There is an intersection of three things: data, applications and users. Storage is the foundational element.

We are to data storage like a fire truck is to water storage. Bill RichterCEO, Qumulo

We are to data storage like a fire truck is to water storage. Qumulo is all about enabling data-intensive applications to grow at scale. What inferences can you draw from that data? What kind of data services can you offer? How can you move that data around? And how can you get insights from that data? You can do some interesting things by selling a new storage box, but if it were a baseball game, that storage box only gets you to the second inning.

Where is the Qumulo cloud software most taking root? Who are your typical customers?

Richter: The vast majority of our business comes from the lines of business inside an enterprise. When we sell to Fortune or Dow 30 media companies, we are not dealing with the CIO. We have conversations with the creative department. We have conversations with the production department. We have conversations with broadcasters. These are deep discussions about workflows and what customers need Qumulo to do to enable the data-intensive applications those environments need.

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Quick Investors Will Buy Fastly Stock Before Q2 Earnings Beat The Street – InvestorPlace

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The sheer momentum of the cloud-computing sector has taken some traders by surprise in the first half of 2020. Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) has certainly been a fast mover and FSLY stock has shown no signs of slowing down anytime soon.

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Yet theres a wild-card event up ahead, as Fastly will report second-quarter earnings on August 5.

Admittedly, expectations on Wall Street are ambitious for Fastly. With the onset of the novel coronavirus, many businesses moved their computing operations onto the cloud. Fastly was there all along, facilitating the move to more powerful sites and applications on the companys secure, programmable edge cloud platform.

With expectations running high, will Fastly deliver what the experts and market participants are demanding?

The quarterly results will be closely watched. An earnings beat could send the FSLY stock bears into hibernation.

In actuality, there probably arent a whole lot of bears left, as FSLY stock has shown incredible and relentless momentum. Just take a moment to consider that FSLYs 52-week low is just $10.63 while its 52-week high is $105.47.

Thus, momentum-focused traders should be delighted by the price action in FSLY stock. However, not everyone is entirely pleased with the stocks current valuation.

AsInvestorPlace contributor Chris Lau points out, Seven analysts who cover Fastly have a $67.33 price target. Thats far below the current share price, which is near $100. Lau concludes, At current valuations, caution is warranted.

Thats a fair assessment, so Ill leave value and momentum traders alone to debate whether FSLY stock is due for a pullback. The upcoming earnings report could induce such a pullback, but that would require Fastly to disappoint the market somehow. And thats not an outcome that I would advise investors to bet on.

What sets Fastly apart from other cloud-centered companies is that this company offers content-delivery solutions from the edge. In other words, while data can still be stored in the cloud, it can be processed at a location closer to the clients and their devices (who are, we might say, on the edge of the overall data ecosystem).

As CB Insights explains better than I ever could, edge computing promises faster processing at lower costs right at the source of the data. Moreover, Some of the biggest players in tech are exploring edge computing, potentially giving rise to the next big computing race.

Fastly is facilitating this race while empowering its clients to take the pole position. In the domain on content delivery, having an edge (pun fully intended) is crucial: By moving data and applications as close to your end users as possible, you can deliver fast, highly personalized experiences to customers around the world.

To be frank, if youre planning on standing in the way of Fastlys relentless growth, you might get steamrolled. Attempting to short FSLY stock prior to the quarterly earnings report could prove utterly self-destructive.

Bear in mind that during the three month period ended March 31, Fastly generated $62.9 million in revenues. Thats a 38% year-over-year improvement.

Looking towards the second-quarter results, Fastlys management forecasts $70 million to $72 million in revenues. This expectation is in line with the analyst consensus estimate of $71.65 million.

At the same time, Wall Street is modeling a second-quarter earnings loss of a penny per share. This seems like a modest projection for a company firmly in hyper-growth mode. This could end up being a launching pad for a major earnings beat, which might take FSLY to fresh highs.

Value investors concerns are duly noted in regard to FSLY stock. With edge-centered cloud computing being a fast-expanding market, however, theres the potential for an earnings-event blowout to continue the stocks powerful momentum.

As of this writing, David Moadel did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.

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Black Athletes Are Abandoning Liberty University Because of the School’s Racism – Friendly Atheist – Patheos

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Over the past few months, whenever Jerry Falwell, Jr. and Liberty University havent been busy suing reporters for doing their jobs, theyve been tearing apart their athletic department. But not on purpose.

One of the best ways to advertise a school and create an exciting atmosphere for potential students is through athletics. A successful football program alas, not so much quality teaching or research opportunities will do wonders for donations and recruiting.

Its no wonder, then, that Liberty has spent more than $150 million on sports facilities since 2016. Their Division I football team won a bowl game last year, and their basketball team won a March Madness game as well. Theyve been recruiting athletes who may, in the past, have been considered too good for a school like theirs.

But all of that collapsed in recent months as players (and professors) began leaving the school in response to Falwells overt racism as well as the racist culture on campus.

In a piece for Slate, Joel Anderson writes about how some of the schools most prized recruits have left the school due in large part to the bigotry they experienced there.

Heres just the opening story:

One Thursday morning, class was partway through when the instructor told one of [football player Tayvion Tank] Lands teammates that he needed a tutor. Sensing some reticence, Land said, the instructor followed up with an attempt at a joke. Dont be scared, he allegedly told the player. Im not going to pull out my whip and hit you with it.

One question often comes up whenever we hear stories like these: Why did these athletes go to Liberty in the first place?

Its because Liberty was recruiting them (and giving them a scholarship) when other schools were not.

Its because their top choices eventually passed on them and they had to settle.

Its because they wanted to go to a Christian school, but they didnt realize Liberty was a batshit crazy Christian school.

Several of the students in the piece mention how they just didnt know much about the schools culture and place in right-wing politics but when they visited campus and saw the facilities, they were sold. Many of them even said they had no problem with the teams or coaches; it was the rest of the school that became a problem.

For basketball star Asia Todd, one key moment was having to listen to conservative commentator Candace Owens repeat right-wing theories about Black people.

Todd and her friends most of them Blacklooked around the arena that morning, taking in the scene of the overwhelmingly white audience applauding and nodding along with Owens.

I can say that my parents did warn me about some of their ideology and that it didnt align with things that they raised me and stuff they stood for, Todd said. I definitely shouldve listened. I feel like if I did know more about [Falwell] and what he stands for, I dont know if I wouldve gone there.

Good for them for making the transfer. Its hard to leave a program and join a new one even when youre not thinking about eligibility rules. But given the pandemic, with everything sports-related in chaos anyway. this may be the year to do it.

If the top athletes at Liberty are warning students to stay the hell away, and leading by example, it would arguably do more damage to Libertys reputation than Falwell ever could.

Thats a sad reflection of our culture, but if it works, more power to them.

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Liberty Utility nixes Granite Bridge pipeline, gets increased capacity from another pipeline – The Union Leader

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Liberty Utilities has abandoned its proposed Granite Bridge project and plans to seek an alternative to the pipeline, which would have followed Route 101 to bring natural gas from Exeter to Manchester.

The utility now hopes the Public Utilities Commission approves a filing for a 20-year contract for capacity on an existing pipeline known as Concord Lateral. That proposal would eliminate more than one million tons of greenhouse gas emissions while enabling more customers to receive gas service, according to the company.

Liberty Utility proposed the Granite Bridge project in 2017 during a natural gas capacity shortfall in New Hampshire. It would have linked to existing gas pipelines and included a storage tank in Epping. The project was opposed by several environmental groups and politicians.

When we originally filed Granite Bridge, the capacity was not available, said Emily Burnett, a spokeswoman for Liberty Utilities. At the end of 2019, another company did not renew a contract to use a portion of the Concord Lateral pipeline.

Were always looking for the cheapest option available for our customers. This was flagged for us, Burnett said.

Liberty Utilities provides natural gas service to a growing customer base of more than 96,000 homes and businesses in 35 New Hampshire communities, including the cities of Manchester, Nashua, Concord, Laconia, Franklin and surrounding towns. The company struggled to meet the demand with more than about 1,000 customers a year signing up for gas service.

Making sure natural gas is available for customers who want it is critical not only for New Hampshires economy and for families pocketbooks, but also to enable the deepest, fastest, and most achievable pathway for decarbonizing our economy and taking action on climate change, said Sue Fleck, president of Liberty-New Hampshire, in a statement.

One group, 350NH, has fought the project for the past three years.

I personally am really happy that Liberty Utilities pulled the plug on the project because now I am not going to have a fracked methane gas pipeline running through my town of Raymond, said Jennifer Dube, pipeline resistance organizer for 350NH. There is not going to be a giant LNG storage tank in Epping.

She got word via text and phone calls Friday afternoon while at work. The key to the new proposal is that it doesnt expand fossil fuel infrastructure, she said.

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It’s all relative with the Statue of Liberty – The Spectator USA

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She stands in the smoky morning air, her copper lamp held elegantly aloft across the waters from Manhattan. Oh, say can you see Americas most instantly recognizable monument and, perhaps more to the immediate point, for how much longer?

The Statue of Liberty has been in front of the world now for nearly 134 years, the rousingly famous sonnet engraved on the bronze plaque on her pedestal for almost the same length of time. Long may both continue. We have in recent weeks lost God knows how many statues, and I really wouldnt want to see this one go the way of the recently toppled.

The future prospects for Americas grand symbol arent simply an academic question for me although when I say symbol here Im thinking as much of the words as the statue. I would naturally be sorry to see the Mother of Exiles ever depart the scene. But if the poetry that gave her that name also gets dumped into the harbor, it would be like I had lost a member of my own family.

Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

So stirring are the 14 lines of the ever-so-slightly mysterious Emma Lazaruss poem that its sometimes forgotten the statue with which they are associated originally celebrated the end of slavery, rather than being a global lamp flickering for all comers by the golden American door.

According to Yasmin Sabina Khan, author of Enlightening the World: The Creation of the Statue of Liberty, the neoclassical works French creator, douard de Laboulaye, was searching for an idealistic representation of what the new republic could yet promise for its freshly emancipated citizens.

Almost 120 years ago, in 1903, Lazaruss The New Colossus pasted a much broader meaning over the original one: newly bestowed liberty for all, to be sure, but also the idea-implicit that were all somehow bound up in this thing together, at least if we know where to look.

Lazaruss verse was a shoo-in for the pedestal having already scooped an earlier fundraising poetry competition for the planned statue. The author herself had died 16 years earlier, probably from cancer, at the still-tender age of 38, so she never actually saw her works final resting place; today, on any normal year, 4.5 million tourists each year make that pilgrimage in her stead.

What would she have made of all this subsequent love and attention? For a long time it was hard to say, because it was hard to say much about Lazarus, period. Aside from a flurry of rather lightly detailed writings in 1949 marking the centenary of her birth, not a great deal has been published over the subsequent 70 or so years, either.

Quite a bit of what we have known (the stuff about the chronically withdrawn spinster who lived as a true woman, too distinctly feminine to wish to be exceptional or to stand alone and apart, even by virtue of superiority) has never felt terribly specific.

As the Princeton scholar Ester Schor suggests in one of a relatively few of the in-depth studies, which was published in 2006, Lazarus comes more into sync when thought about in terms of what she emphatically wasnt. She wasnt a woman who was into scandalous affairs. She never got arrested at protest marches. She never punched anyone out. As one of Manhattans decidedly un-huddled masses, she never had any experience of going without.

We do know she was Jewish, of Sephardic stock, and belatedly Orthodox in her beliefs as the fate of Russian Jewry came to fire her up during the final years of her life. A collection of her works, Songs of a Semite(1882), has been described as the first serious volume of distinctly Jewish-American poetry.

People often assume as a non-American outsider, I know I did back in the 1990s when I first went to New York City looking for her ghost that somewhere in her immediate family background Lazarus must have been French because the statue itself came from France. But Lazarus wasnt French at all. She was a fifth-generation American. Her parents, Moses and Esther Lazarus, who did rather well in the sugar-refining business, traced their family roots from Portugal. Most of their original forebears were indeed from that part of the world. But not all of them.

Among the lesser-known branches in the family tree was one stretching back to Germany, Moses Levy, who was born there in 1665, went on to England before heading over to the New World. Thanks to the troves of new material now available on websites such as Ancestry.com, its now possible to learn more specifics about people like him: the fact that he wore a slightly ridiculous wig, for instance, or that a brother back in London, Joseph, got done for fraud and was sentenced to an hour in pillory as well as two years in the slammer.

Moses arrived in New York by boat in 1695. Rather a bit too early in the piece to encounter any statue in the harbor, but in sufficient time to meet and marry a poet, Grace Mears. They had seven children. A daughter, Rachel, became the great-great grandmother of Emma Lazarus.

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Meanwhile on the other side of the Atlantic, Joseph went forth and multiplied, too. This is where the story gets interesting for me, because that side of the family mainly stayed on in the British capital. Most of them were successful, or at any rate avoided the pillory, with one descendent marrying into another establishment family with German roots, the Karamellis. These Karamellis seem to have been a lively bunch. One of them, Leo, translated Yiddish (in his words, the lowest of the low German dialects) into English at the inquest for the victims of the Jack the Ripper.

Leos sister, Rachel, named her daughter Rachel, who in turn named her own daughter (presumably for variety of spelling) Rachael. The last of these Rachels, who was born in 1901, married an East End restaurateur called Samuel Levy. Thirty years on, she had her own child whom she did not name Rachel because it was a boy. So she called him Lionel instead. He was my late father.

Thus the idealistic words about the family of man, as issued from my blood relative Emma Lazarus a fifth cousin four times removed remain vouchsafed even today. And tomorrow, or next year, when the crazy cultural smoke over the American harbor hopefully disappears, I look forward to getting back to New York and beholding them once again.

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100 years ago in Spokane: Wildfires threaten summer cottages at Liberty Lake – The Spokesman-Review

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Wildfires broke out all over the region, including one that threatened the long row of summer cottages at Dreamwood Bay at Liberty Lake.

At about midnight, the cottagers sounded the alarm and secured the cooperation of all able-bodied men in the bay to fight the fire including the men dancing at the lake pavilion.

They were successful in keeping the flames away from the cottages, although the fire continued to burn in the hills above.

Meanwhile, fires continued to burn in the forests in the St. Joe, Priest River and Coeur dAlene forests.

One forest manager warned that three or four more hot days like this will mean the largest forest fires the Northwest has seen for years.

From the dam beat: The Washington Water Power Co. announced plans to raise the Long Lake Dam by four feet, in order to generate more electricity.

Of course, this would also mean raising the lake level, which would flood the railroad tracks running along the shore. This railroad also belonged to Washington Water Power, so they already had plans to rebuild it.

(From the Associated Press)

1807: Former Vice President Aaron Burr went on trial before a federal court in Richmond, Virginia, charged with treason. (He was acquitted less than a month later.)

1921: Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis refused to reinstate the former Chicago White Sox players implicated in the Black Sox scandal, despite their acquittals in a jury trial.

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Liberty University receives preliminary guidance from Bedford County to pursue New London Airport expansion – Lynchburg News and Advance

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Dan Deter, vice president of major construction for Liberty University, asked Mitchell if Liberty could break down the project into smaller jobs to comply with the 50% expansion parameters, postponing any immediate rezoning and special use permit needs.

Mitchell said that might be a possibility, should Liberty create a new proposal.

If you want to pare back one, and do a combination of both, I think thats probably doable, Mitchell said.

Liberty may work with Mitchell and the county to calculate how much could be done at New London Airport while remaining in the 50% expansion limit.

Deter said Liberty is still actively pursuing expansion of the airport, and through Tuesdays meeting he received some guidelines to get the ball rolling. Runway expansion, he said, is a priority, primarily for safety reasons.

Several residents who live near the New London Airport voiced concerns over lack of transparency and communication between Liberty University, county officials, and residents who may be affected by the airport expansion throughout the process.

People dont know [whats going on]. People need to be informed, said Ellissa Bowen, of Forest, during a public comment period at the Bedford County Board of Supervisors meeting Monday night. Bowen said she wants her community to have representation through this process.

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Lions Club’s and Liberty United Methodist Church holds food giveaway in Macon – 13WMAZ.com

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The food giveaway was from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

MACON, Ga. The Lions Club's and Liberty United Methodist Church gave out free boxes of fresh produce to the public on Saturday.

It's all part of the USDA's Farmers to Families Food Box program.

The giveaway was held in the Liberty United Methodist Church parking lot at 6511 Houston Road next to Heard Elementary School.

The food giveaway was from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Macon-Rutland, Byron, Centerville, Perry Lions Clubs and Liberty United Methodist Church members, with friends and family volunteers, all worked to distribute a truck load filled with 1,680 boxes of fresh produce.

Boxes were packed with assorted carrots, Idaho potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, green cabbage, lettuce, lemons, yellow squash, apples and oranges. There were no dairy or meat products at this time.

Volunteers will used masks, gloves, hand sanitizer and practiced social distancing.

This hunger relief effort was in partnership with Collins Brothers Produce and the USDA.

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The Exact Trigger that Indicates Volatility in Liberty Broadband Corp – CMLViz.com – CML News

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Simply owning puts and calls together, like a straddle or a strangle, can be a huge winner, as it was at the end of 2018. But, equally, it has been a huge losing strategy outside of that time frame. So, the need has arisen -- an empirical and structured trigger that indicates when a large stock move is coming so owning a strangle has a higher probability of succeeding.

There is such a technical condition, and we will review it, right now.

Here is a quick 3 minute video that demonstrates the back-test:

We will examine the outcome of going long a short-term out-of-the-money (40 delta) strangle (buying an out of the money call and buying an out of the money put), in options that are the closest to 14-days from expiration. But we follow three rules:

* Never Trade Earnings

Let's not worry about stock direction or earnings, let's try to find a back-test that benefits from volatility. Here it is, first, we enter the long strangle.

* Use a technical trigger to start the trade, specifically:Wait until the day that the stock price crosses below the 200-day moving average and the stock price is below the 10-day moving average. Here is a nice simple image of the technical requirement:

* Finally, we set a very specific type of limit:

* Use a 20% limit

* Close the trade after 10 days, if the limit has not been hit.

At the end of each day, the back-tester checks to see if the long strangle is up 20%. If it is, it closes the position. If after 10-days the limit has not been hit, the strangle is closed so not to suffer total time decay.

We can also see that this strategy hasn't been a winner all the time, rather it has won 9 times and lost 2 times, for a 82% win-rate and again, that 658.3% return in less than six-full months of trading.

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How Sixers need to utilize Ben Simmons at the elbows – Liberty Ballers

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One of the main ways Ben Simmons role has adjusted in the Philadelphia 76ers new starting lineup is that hes spending more time attacking from the elbows. Even though he didnt have a good offensive game in the Sixers third scrimmage, tallying just 2 assists and 4 points on 2-of-10 shooting in 19 minutes, the first two scrimmages in particular helped demonstrate how he can be used and find success in his new role.

Brett Brown wants Simmons receiving the ball off every defensive rebound, giving him opportunities to push the pace in transition. When that isnt the case, Shake Milton will typically be bringing the ball up the floor. And while Milton will still be initiating some offense, there will be plenty of times hell hit Simmons at the elbow and let the latter go to work.

Before even considering anything else, this immediately makes it much harder for defenders to sag off Simmons. If hes above the arc, you can sit back to cut down driving lanes. If hes at the elbow with a live dribble, sagging off gives him a runway to accelerate and get to the rim in just a couple of strides.

The Sixers have another playmaker to work with him now in Milton, which creates more chances to utilize Simmons verticality, from pick-and-rolls to lobs like those below (obviously this didnt go so well in the Sixers first real game against the Indiana Pacers simply put, Milton had a terrible night). On the following play Simmons takes advantage of Danilo Gallinari guarding him closely at the elbow by using a back cut and soaring to the rim. Milton delivers a spot-on lob over the defense to create the dunk:

Another way to create scoring opportunities is by Simmons serving as a screener from the elbow, with the option for him to either flow into a quick pick-and-roll or a hand-off.

Here, Simmons uses his body to shield the ball as Milton appears to be cutting inside. This prompts Jaren Jackson Jr. to go under Simmons, which gives Milton plenty of space to pop out to the arc for three:

This play against the Pacers is another good example of Simmons working as a screener. He wisely turns and uses his body to take Aaron Holiday out of the play as Raul Neto cuts, then finds Neto for the easy layup:

The following play stresses the importance of the Sixers shooters being more willing to fire right away. Simmons takes the ball after OKCs miss, and heads straight into a post-up at the elbow after Josh Richardson slips out of a screen to the top of the arc. As Simmons eyes up the lane and the Thunder have to worry about helping on a possible drive, Dennis Schroder sags off Richardson to the free throw line. At this point, its easy for Simmons to set up Richardson for a wide-open three. If Richardson hesitates, though, Schroder can recover and the Sixers have to start searching for a good shot again.

(On the subject of shooters being aggressive, Brett Brown was asked about Tobias Harris play at last Thursdays practice, and how Harris has said he thinks he needs to slow his game down a little. One thing Brown mentioned is that hed like Harris to keep firing from deep and hunt for threes. To beat defenses that send too much pressure at Simmons on drives or at the elbows, shooters firing as soon as they get space is essential to the Sixers maximizing their offense.)

Having plenty of activity on the wings is also key to maximizing the passing reads Simmons can make. Hammer screens to send shooters into space in the corners or pin-down screens to free up guys on the wings can both work well. The Sixers running multiple screening actions at the same times helps spread the defense out around Simmons, and creates more passing windows. Similarly to a Joel Embiid post-up, you dont just want guys standing around while hes set up inside.

Simmons sees lots of off-ball activity as one of the ways he and the offense as a whole can benefit with him at the elbow, and one of the differences between operating as a point guard bringing the ball up the floor.

As a point guard you have to kind of find guys and get guys situated into whatever sets you want to call or whatever coach is calling, Simmons said at Fridays practice when discussing his role. So, for me to be able to run down the floor and get to where I want to be on the elbow and have somebody guarding me one-on-one, and then know my guys are there doing a lot of stuff on the backside, it helps a lot. There are so many different possibilities offensively for us to go towards.

Tobias Harris has described Simmons as more of an isolation player now that hes spending more time at the elbows, and Simmons agrees this is a fair assessment of how his game has changed. Simmons performance against the Pacers wasnt great (primarily due to surprisingly bad defense, some messy turnovers and a lack of aggression at times), but he still racked up 19 points on 8-of-14 shooting and 13 rebounds, including 4 offensive boards. Simmons displayed good physicality on some of his face-up drives, using his speed and strength to power towards the rim.

Again, its easier for Simmons to put his speed and first step to use from the elbow than in the post. As long as his teammates arent having a ton of trouble completing entry passes just to get him the ball, as they did against Indiana.

I think in general Ben has been incredible being excited about accepting the role, Brown said at Thursdays practice when I asked about Simmons play at the elbows and how it can help the offense.

And Im just seeing this tremendous partnership with Joel grow when those two are next to each other. Im learning some stuff as it relates to, you know, Ben as a primary ball carrier vs. Ben as sort of, like, a buddy ball brother to another interior player, and those two playing off each other. And theres growth there, and theres a spirit. Theres a feeling I have that I would have underestimated.

And I think to your point, about him playing out of elbows and screening and rolling, I think hes been great. I think hes been great. I think he, too, has found maybe a new toy, another way to just put his thumbprint all over the game. I still will put him in some pick-and-rolls for sure, but in general I think Ben Simmons has been really, just mature and excited how he has embraced trying to look at this new type of role.

Even though Simmons wasnt used in many pick-and-rolls in the Sixers scrimmages, we still saw flashes of how easily he can make an impact and fly down the lane as a roll man with plays like those below.

In the next play against the Pacers, Simmons uses his short-roll passing to beat their zone. He makes a quick read to find Alec Burks on the wing after the zone shifts, and from here its easy for Burks to hit Matisse Thybulle for an open corner three. As Ive written about many times before, the Sixers need to go to Simmons as a roll man more often.

Simmons agrees with Brown that his adjusted role and play from the elbows is like a new toy for him in the Sixers offense.

Im just continuing to add different things to my game, Simmons added at Fridays practice. So, you know, over time its all gonna come. Ive just got to stay in the gym, stay working and things will happen. But Ive enjoyed playing this new role.

While the starting lineup change and Simmons new role can help the offense, these adjustments cant totally make up for some of their biggest weaknesses: a lack of quick-trigger shooting, playmaking, and perimeter creation.

The Sixers issues against the Pacers, such as their 21 turnovers, poor entry passes to Simmons at the elbow, a mere 25 three-point attempts, spells of stagnant off-ball movement, and rough offensive play from Milton and Richardson as ball handlers were reminders of these limitations.

Phillys guards and wings need to get Simmons the ball with care, move around him, and provide more confident shooting to keep the offense moving as smoothly as possible. The latter is easier said than done for the Sixers, but its the result of the flawed roster theyve built.

Even still, there are plenty of positives that can come from Simmons operating at the elbows. Using him in the ways discussed above mixes up the offense and taps into other areas of his skillset, and thats what this team needs to do.

Well soon see if the new-look Sixers can bounce back and establish more fluidity as their seeding games continue.

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Libertarian Assembly candidate calls for line item veto to rein in spending, elimination of property taxes and more to get rid of ‘tyranny’ and bloat…

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From Mark Glogowski, Ph.D., Libertarian candidate for NY State 139thAssembly District:

One of the most important issues I believe we face is the unconstitutional tyranny of our current taxation situation. Having an ally in your Assembly is crucial to correcting this. Being realistic, it will take time to unweave the tangled interrelations between government agencies and departments that have been created since the 16th Amendment was ratified, but it is doable. It will take time to get our obese government trimmed down to be lean and efficient, and with a lower appetite for taxes, but it is achievable.

There are several ways we can begin this process. The first is to get the state to operate within a balanced budget by cutting spending, not increasing taxes. We need a legislature that is aware of and pursues nongovernmental options when issues are being considered. A legislature that is willing to hear and apply Libertarian solutions, thus eliminating the need for the wealth of the people to support the governments involvement.

Here are just a few places and activities we could proactively begin:

Lets put a stop to government wasting your hard-earned money. If we are successful we will see more activity by private enterprise to help spur the economy and build a better community, such as the grant program set up by Heritage Wind.

All these barriers were placed by generations of Democrat and Republican politicians. You cannot employ the same thinking to change as was used to create this mess.

Support my efforts to become your NYS Assemblyman and I assure you, restructuring our financial (tax) structure, rescinding the 16thAmendment, and restoring financial barriers to taxing will be among my top objectives. As your Assemblyman, I will work to initiate a call to rescind the 16thAmendment and will seek the support of the Assemblies in 35 other States. I will work to give you back control over your wealth and possessions.

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Where the Constitution and COVID-19 intersect – AZPM – Arizona Public Media

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Restrictions to fight the spread of COVID-19 have some people saying government has overstepped its bounds. A group of law professors has written an essay that says the highest law in the land defines the issue differently.

The U.S. Constitution was written in 1787 and does not discuss global pandemics, but University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law professor Toni Massaro and her colleagues write that the document can drive public health decisions made by government at all levels in the country.

The Constitution actually only constrains government actors. It doesnt constrain a private business, per se. But we think the norms that you can pull out of the due process clause and equality and basic liberties really should inform all health care or pandemic policy planners, said Massaro

The essay explains that the Constitution offers a blueprint when it comes to how people should think about the limits on their liberty. For example, being required to wear a mask, something opponents say is unconstitutional.

So, the mask plays a role here that is based on science. Its a rational limit on our liberty. Justice [Robert] Jackson once said the Constitution is not a suicide pact. There isnt one fundamental liberty that is absolute. Its a balancing test, it has to be.

"Way back in 1905, the court decided a case. It was a mandatory vaccination case during a smallpox outbreak. A vaccination is a bodily intrusion I would say is a bigger burden on liberty than a mask would be. But the court recognized the authority of a state to enact quarantine laws and health laws of every description. So, the constitutional law is that these laws can be imposed on us to protect the whole, said Massaro.

Massaro said the guiding principal when it comes to liberty is we are not alone in our liberty and there are times when your liberty may collide with someone elses liberty.

The Constitution says 'life, liberty and property.' Life matters. And a life well lived in a social world of collaboration means respect for your fellow citizen and your fellow people, and that means giving some things up so that you can go jogging and I can go walking; you can swing your arm, but not where it hits my nose; you cant cry 'fire' falsely in a crowded theater on and on.

"Justice Jackson once said the Constitution is not a suicide pact. There isnt one fundamental liberty that is absolute. Its a balancing test, it has to be."

To understand the intersection of the Constitution and the global pandemic, Massaro said you have to look to the earliest history of the U.S.

The United States was not formed under strict libertarian principals. Civic republicanism was the order of the day. In other words, we come together, we share responsibilities not just autonomy, she said.

Rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court dealing with public health issues are not all from the early 1900s, according to Massaro. She said the current court recently upheld a California rule keeping churches to 25% building capacity to limit the spread of COVID-19.

A majority of the United States Supreme Court upheld the California rule because looking at it more closely they saw, yes, its crunching liberties, but it did so in a way that was rational, and the religious institutions were treated the same as similarly situated places of congregation, she explained.

Massaro said people should think of government attempts to get control of the spread of the novel coronavirus as the government waging a war.

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Washington Football News: Alex Smith part of Washingtons equation at QB when healthy; Love, Guice and Pete – Hogs Haven

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Love, Guice and Peterson all clear physicals, setting up fascinating battle for Washington RB job | Professional Sports | richmond.comWashington hit the practice field on Wednesday for a distanced workout that included the teams quarterbacks, rookies and players currently rehabbing injuries. Its the last group that will draw the

Louis Riddick on Dwayne Haskins: "I Expect Him to Have An Absolute Monstrous Year" | My ThoughtsFormer player and personnel exec Louis Riddick spoke on what he's expecting from Dwayne Haskins in 2020.

RB Bryce Love Passes Physical, Will Return To The Field After Missing 2019Love, a fourth-round pick last season, will be out on the field once the Washington Football Team starts practicing.

'It's Good To Get Back': Washington Players Are Excited And Anxious To Reunite On The FieldTraining camp has begun, and players are excited to see their teammates after a virtual offseason.

Alex Smith part of Washington's 'equation' at quarterback when healthy - Washington TimesSpeaking to reporters during an online video press conference, Washington coach Ron Rivera said he will monitor the progress of signal-callers Dwayne Haskins, Kyle Allen and even veteran Alex Smith. Coming off a horrific leg injury from 2018, Smith was placed on the Physically Unable to Perform list to begin camp, but if he is cleared to practice, Rivera said the 36-year-old will become "part of our equation" in determining a starter.

Washington Football Team Reports For Training Camp, Which Will Be Much Different Than UsualThe COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in major changes across the league, including frequent testing and no preseason games.

Ron Rivera - If Alex Smith is physically OK, he's in QB mixWashington coach Ron Rivera says that if Alex Smith is physically able he will be part of the quarterback competition.

Amid very difficult climate, Donaldson steps into historic role with Washington Football Team | WTOPJulie Donaldson, believed to be the first woman hired as a regular on-air personality in an NFL radio broadcast booth, talks about her role with a Washington franchise in the midst of a tumultuous offseason.

Former NFL coach has choice words about Dwayne Haskins chaotic rookie season | NBC Sports WashingtonDwayne Haskins went through an extremely volatile 2019 season, but at least one former NFL head coach knows the situation was way too much for any rookie to overcome. And that could change in 2020.

Special teams ace Deshazor Everett on Washingtons new culture, workouts with Landon Collins - The Washington PostThe 28-year-old was impressed by how Coach Ron Rivera instilled accountability despite the virtual offseason.

Ron Rivera sees one advantage of having no preseason games: 'We are a mystery' | NBC Sports WashingtonWhile having no preseason games will make Ron Rivera's job more challenging, he does see one positive in it.

If Alex Smith gets cleared for football, does he become the starting QB? | NBC Sports WashingtonWashington Football head coach Ron Rivera explained that if Alex Smith actually gets cleared for football action then he will get to compete for the starting quarterback job. What does that mean for Dwayne Haskins?

Washington Football Team offers season ticket holders full refund or deferred credit for 2020 season | NBC Sports WashingtonWashington fans now have the option to get a full refund for their season tickets or defer them for 2021.

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BWW Interview: Jon Peterson of P3 Theatre Company on Presenting Streaming Performances of Tour-de-Farce Comedy GREATER TUNA – Broadway World

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The long-running Off-Broadway hit "Greater Tuna" by Joe Sears, Jaston Williams, and Ed Howard is a tour-de-farce comedy of quick-change artistry, with non-stop costume and character changes that run by faster than a jack rabbit from a coyote in the third smallest town in Texas, named Tuna. Now fans (and those who are destined to become one) can experience the town's zany denizens during two streaming performances presented by P3 Theatre Company under the direction of Jon Peterson, who performs all the characters with Philip McBride, with Stage Manager Betsy Paull-Rick, Sound Designer Brandon Millett, and Streaming Engineer Brian Christopher Russell, on Monday, August 3 and Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 7:00pm.

Since first being performed by Sears and Williams and directed by Howard in Austin, Texas in the fall of 1981, "Greater Tuna" and its two sequels. "A Tuna Christmas" and "Red, White and Tuna," have gone on to be performed around the world to riotous hilarity. Sears and Williams did command performances of both "Greater Tuna" and "A Tuna Christmas" at the White House for President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush, residents of the great state of Texas, who led the audiences into roars of laughter!

The fast-paced action in "Greater Tuna" takes place over the course of one day, beginning in the morning at local radio station OKKK as it goes on the air. By the time they sign-off at the end of the day, you will meet twenty-one of Tuna's eccentric citizens, including, but not limited to, Arles Struvie, Thurston Wheelis, Aunt Pearl, Petey Fisk, Phineas Blye, and Rev. Spikes, all played by only two actors, Philip McBride and Jon Peterson who portray men, women, children, and animals with over 47 fast costume changes! No doubt you will find out what it's really like to live in a town where the Lion's Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies!

I spoke with Jon Peterson, Executive Artistic Director/Founder of P3 Theatre Company who directs and appears in "Greater Tuna," about his vision for the production.

(Shari) What inspired you to present "Greater Tuna" right now?

(Jon) "Ever since I first saw this show on stage back in the early 2000s, I have been dying to be a part of it! The best part about doing it as a pre-recorded streaming production right now is that the normally lightning-fast costume changes can be done at a much more reasonable pace, even in between binge-watching Netflix, Hulu and Disney+. And I can tell you that when we finally have the opportunity to bring this show to the live stage, I will definitely be casting someone else to fill the roles I am portraying in this production - or it will be necessary to invest in an oxygen tank!"

(Shari) You are lucky to be performing the show with the incredibly versatile, triple-threat actor Philip McBride whose boundless energy will no doubt be utilized to its fullest.

(Jon) "After having worked with the ridiculously talented Philip McBride onstage, seeing him in numerous productions, and directing him in 'The Laramie Project,' there was Nobody Else (i) even considered playing opposite in this crazy beast of a show. You should see the blooper reels!

(Shari) I hope you will be posting them, or at least sharing a few with me personally! There's nothing like a good belly laugh to make us forget our troubles during this pandemic.

(Jon) "Trust me, "Greater Tuna" is so wrong that it's right! And with all the insanity going on in the world right now, we all need a good laugh. I promise you that "Greater Tuna" will bring you that laugh... and then some!"

So be prepared to laugh, laugh, and laugh during this hilarious send-up of small-town morals and mores among the upstanding citizens of "Greater Tuna" during P3 Theatre Company's two streaming performances on Monday, August 3 and Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 7:00pm (Pacific). Ticket prices are based on the number of animals in your home barn audience: $15 for one farm animal viewer, $30 for 2-4 farm animal viewers, or $45 for a gaggle of 5 or more farm animal viewers. Tickets must be ordered in advance at http://www.P3Theatre.biz/Greater-Tuna

P3 Theatre Company is a volunteer-based, publicly supported, non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to bringing top quality theatrical arts to the community. All donations are 100% tax-deductible as allowed by law. Non-profit tax id: 83-1552979

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The federal police forces that descended on Portland, Oregon, make it all too clear that the tactics at U.S. borders are being imported to the heartland. As the power and purview of the Department of Homeland Security expands, so do the battles over federal jurisdiction and immigration law. In their new book, The President and Immigration Law, law professors Adam Cox and Cristina Rodrguez engage in a fundamental reexamination of executive power over immigration law. They start at the nations founding and end at the current impasse over DACA, asylum policies, and Donald Trumps wall on the Mexico border. The book, published by Oxford University Press, will be available on Kindle this week and in print on Sept. 1. In an interview conducted over email, we discussed how enforcement has become the central priority of the U.S. immigration system, with an empowered president sitting atop the massive immigration apparatus, sidelining a largely inactive Congress. In their view, this apparatus has opened the door to a regime in which law enforcement powers increasingly encroach on community life. Their answers have been edited and condensed for clarity.

Dahlia Lithwick: So the book starts with the provocative point that can be summed up essentially as, Sorry, the executive branch really does have almost unlimited authority over immigration. Can you start from the beginning and tell us how the public, on the left in the Trump era and on the right under Barack Obama, got this issue so wrong in your view?

Rodrguez: The dramatic immigration policies of the Obama and Trump administrations have led people across the ideological spectrum to lament that we have an executive run amok, circumventing a Congress unable to act. But the turn to administrative action is not just the result of our current partisan polarization, nor is it necessarily constitutionally abusive. Today, the presidents power stems from the simple fact that he sits atop a massive deportation machinery, under construction since the early 20th century and increasingly militarized and flush with resources since 9/11. Couple this machinery with the fact that the law makes anyone who lacks immigration status deportableapproximately 11 million peopleand we see that the president is in charge of a massive shadow immigration system, with the authority and responsibility to determine who within it may stay and who shall be removed.

But even though the presidents power is broad, it is not unconstrained. The president and the immigration agencies still operate within the confines of federal statutes, as well as the Constitution. The Department of Homeland Security could not invent new grounds for deportation that Congress has not listed in the immigration code, for example. And even though some recent decisions of the Roberts court significantly weaken constitutional restraints on both Congress and the executive, principles of due process continue to cabin enforcement discretion.

In surveying the state of presidential immigration law, we point to numerous examples of executive actions that push against statutory limits: the Trump administrations all-out assault on asylum law or its questionable interpretation of statutes authorizing redirection of military construction funds to the border wall comes immediately to mind. But its also important to understand that the legal edifice Congress has created actually authorizes much of Trumps maximalist enforcement. In fact, the Trump administration is shining a light on wide-ranging and easy to exploit statutory delegations in immigration and beyond. It turns out that much of Trumps abusive behavior is actually a joint project between the political branches. This is the case for the administrations early ban on immigrants from several majority-Muslim countries, its expansion of summary deportation procedures, and even its drastic COVID-19 immigration restrictions.

And what role do the states play, say in the debate over sanctuary cities or, now, the presidents efforts to strip representation from areas with large immigrant populations?

Cox: State and local governments have tried to control immigrants and immigrant movement since the early days of the country. And they have never stopped importuning the federal governmentsometimes to pass restrictive immigration laws or to enforce more aggressively, other times to facilitate immigration or to keep federal agents out of their jurisdictions. Before California became a sanctuary jurisdiction, it tried to exclude Chinese immigrants from its territory in the late 19th century and keep undocumented children out of its schools in the late 20th.

In the book, we tell the story of how the federal government has tried to consolidate its control over immigration policy by sidelining state and local governments. The Supreme Court has greatly assisted this ambition by repeatedly declaring that the Constitution assigns immigration enforcement exclusively to the federal government. And yet, state and local officials remain a thorn in the federal governments side for at least two reasons.

The first is clearly political. Immigration has always been center stage in American politics, and local officials seek political advantage by opposing federal immigration policies, often when the opposite party occupies the presidency. Republican governors have challenged the Obama administrations efforts to resettle refugees from Syria and passed their own enforcement laws. Democratic governors have nurtured the sanctuary movement by refusing to assist the federal government in immigration enforcement.

The second reason for local influence is more mundane and bureaucratic but no less consequential. The federal government depends deeply on state and local law enforcement agencies to help enforce federal immigration law. State and local agencies are far more likely than DHS to come into contact with deportable noncitizens, and state and local criminal justice systems are therefore enmeshed with the immigration enforcement bureaucracy. This integration gives local agents considerable power: They can feed the federal enforcement regime, or they can stymie it by refusing to cooperate.

The meat of your critique is of the enforcement model that is now predominating immigration policy. Can you describe what that means and how it works?

Rodrguez: President Obama, who initiated DACA and supported major immigration reform that included legalization of the unauthorized population as a whole, was also labeled deporter in chief because of the hundreds of thousands of immigrants removed during his time in office. This juxtaposition is not a sign of hypocrisy. Instead, it underscores the sheer scale of the enforcement zone in immigration law. As part of the same set of responsibilities, the president can extend major relief as a matter of grace while still presiding over the continual churning of the deportation machine.

An enforcement mindset ultimately colors all presidents approaches to immigration policy; the use and calibration of force are central to the system. The Obama administrations response to the Central American refugee crisis at the Southern border perfectly reflects this. Senior officials ordered the detention of border crossers, including families with small children, in a conscious effort to deter future migrants with the threat of incarceration and to persuade some of those who had already arrived to abandon their asylum claims. The Trump administration took this enforcement approach to cruel and torturous new heights through its family separation policy. Across both administrations, the clash of the militarized border with migrants seeking protection has produced a humanitarian catastrophe with roots not just in the politics of the moment but also in the way enforcement has come to dominate immigration law and its administration.

So what do you say when CBP or ICE gets involved in what looks to be domestic policing, which we have seen at minimum in Portland? Is this a constitutional problem? A DHS problem? Or is it simply inevitable that what is lawful at the border eventually migrates into domestic policing?

Cox: What has happened in Portland appears to be an example of an administration enamored of law enforcement tools exploiting the powers Congress has clearly delegated to it. Under a federal statute, the Department of Homeland Security is expressly authorized to mobilize its officials, including those ordinarily assigned immigration functions, to assist in the protection of federal property. On the face of the law, this might seem like an unobjectionable power. But the statutory provision and the enormous law enforcement capacity it triggers underscore that DHS, by design, is not just about protecting the homeland from the outside but also about policing the interior. In other words, recent events are not about the border creeping into the interior but about how domestic law enforcement statutes can be distended.

We can do much better than our currentsystem. Cristina Rodrguez

The culture of DHS has also played a huge role in what has gone on. In our book, we write at length about the distilled enforcement mindset within the immigration enforcement bureaucracy, which since 9/11 has become increasingly militarized in its tools and ideology. Political officials at times have sought to curb that enforcement culture. But in the hands of current leadership, enforcement officials mission has expanded, and the statutes that authorize immigration police to take on other law enforcement functions have brought enforcement culture to political protests.

To be very clear, the fact that the administration can point to statutory authorization for the deployment of immigration officials to police the interior for nonimmigration reasons does not mean that the law enforcement actions in Portland have all been legal. Federal officials may well have exceeded their statutory authority by reaching beyond the protection of federal property. There is also reason to be concerned that they have violated protesters Fourth Amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure and possibly even First Amendment rights to peacefully assemble, as a recent lawsuit by Protect Democracy powerfully alleges.

One good thing about your framing is that the intractable immigration problems start to look like they could have solutionspolitical and nonlegal solutionsthat could garner bipartisan support. Can you sketch out the fixes you envision?

Rodrguez: Political consensus in this domain has always been elusive, but we can do much better than our current system. The first step should be to shrink the enormous shadow immigration system that makes the logic of enforcement so central to immigration policymaking. We must adopt a legalization program, which would recognize in law what has for generations been understood informallythat many unauthorized noncitizens should not be deported. But real reform will also require new tools to prevent a similar unauthorized population from arising in the future. Advocates and reformers have long called for statutes of limitations on immigration offenses and for giving the executive the power to engage in rolling legalizations for settled immigrants. Congress must take these options seriously.

The second step would be to reimagine the executives expressly delegated powersbut not just to limit them. On the one hand, there are statutory fixes that we would support to make presidential power more accountable: We would cabin authority under INA Section 212(f), the suspension power on which President Trump relied for his travel ban and COVID-19 orders, by requiring that the president provide a strong factual basis for his assertion of the power to exclude in the interest of public safety. But we should also consider expanding the presidents formal role in admitting immigrants: If he is to be entrusted with the authority to exclude large groups of noncitizens pursuant to the suspension power, he should also be given clear authority to admit noncitizens to a legally secure (if temporary) status during times of crisis. Similarly, Congress should consider delegating to the executive branch a role in setting annual immigrant admissions numbersa function until now performed only by Congress, leaving quotas calcified in statute without regard to changing circumstances around the world.

Reforms to these delegated authorities should also include changes to the powers of ICE and CBP, the immigration police. Some ideas include restricting by statute the policing techniques these agencies use in the border region (where the Supreme Court has historically imposed fewer Fourth Amendment constraints), shrinking the definition of the border region, and narrowing or even ending most immigration detention.

These are grand legislative ambitions. But even if Congress remains paralyzed, there is room for important reform. We also explore how best to manage the enforcement regime as it currently stands through creative use of checks internal to the executive branch. It would be a mistake to respond to the Trump administration by using constitutional doctrine to restrain the presidents ability to control enforcement policy. So long as the shadow system continues to exist, doing so would have disastrous consequences. Immigration policy would be rudderless, controlled by low-level agents rather than high-level officials whose actions are more accountable and transparent. With a president like Trump, we may wind up with enforcement priorities we abhor. But leaving these fundamentally political choices in the hands of a semi-militarized law enforcement culture would be worse.

We can only realize these many goals, of course, if we see the presidency as a constructive institutionone that is salvageable and worth saving. Our book is in a sense a call to rejuvenate the presidency, too. Understanding the history of presidential control over immigration law offers us a sometimes depressing, often hopeful, window into the possibilities for renewal.

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Want To Reform The Police? Get Rid Of Qualified Immunity – WBUR

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Consider these cases: After a woman gave police permission to enter her home, they broke through her windows and injected enough tear gas to make the home unlivable for months. Prison guards forced a man to live in a cell without a bed and covered in human feces and raw sewage. After searching a womans home for drugs and not finding any, police officers dragged her to a local hospital where, without her consent, a doctor searched her vagina and also didnt find any drugs.

Each of these people sued government officials for violating their rights. Each of their cases was dismissed not because the governmentemployeeswere innocent but because a court found them to be immune fromthe lawsuits.

If government officials violate your rights, you can sue them in court. But an obscure legal doctrine called "qualified immunity" often shields those officials from liability, even when egregious violations have occurred.The Massachusetts Legislature is considering urgent and necessary reforms to qualified immunity.

Under the doctrine of qualified immunity, government officials can only be held liable for violating rights that are clearly established. You might expect that constitutional rights like your First Amendment right to free speech or your Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure would be clearly established, but thats not how it works. Instead, rights become clearly established only when a previously decided case involved nearly identical facts.

Heres how that plays out. Lets say a police officer orders you to put your hands up. You do so, surrendering to his authority. But the officer orders his police dog to bite you anyway. You sue. Unless, at some point in the past, a police officer also ordered a police dog to bite someone whose hands were up, and that person sued, and a court found a civil rights violation youre out of luck, case dismissed.

This sounds bad, but it gets worse. After your case is dismissed, if a police officer orders a police dog to bite another person whose hands are up, and that person sues, their lawsuit will also be dismissed. Why? Because the right is still not clearly established. After all, the judge dismissed your case without ever reaching the question of whether the police violated your rights. Because of qualified immunity, constitutional rights do not get clearly established, and the law freezes in place.

Qualified immunity lets the police off the hook for misconduct and denies their victims compensation.

One judge has aptly described the qualified immunity doctrine as, Heads defendants win, tails plaintiffs lose.

Qualified immunity lets the police off the hook for misconduct and denies their victims compensation. Police unionsclaimthat qualified immunity exists to protect police officers who play by the rules. But it does the exact opposite. Qualified immunity only protects officials who have broken the law. Police officers who obey the law dont need qualified immunity they already are immune. If a police officer doesnt violate a persons rights, that person doesnt have a legal claim against the officer. Ending or reforming qualified immunity wont cause police officers who break the law to lose their homes and savings. Like most of the country, Massachusetts indemnifies police officers: The city or state covers the cost of these lawsuits.

In recent weeks, the House and the Senate each passed police reform bills. They must now negotiate a revised bill to put on Gov. Charlie Bakers desk. The House bill would keep qualified immunity mostly intact, shielding officers unless they are decertified by a new licensing commission.The Senate bill is not as bold as, say, Colorados recent law ending qualified immunity outright, but the reforms it includes should give victims of government violence much more of a fighting chance. Under the Senate bill, qualified immunity would shield a government official from liability only when no reasonable official could have thought this conduct was legal.

Currently, qualified immunity is like a bingo card. Your case can proceed only if your rights violation matches up with a previous court cases finding of a rights violation. The Senate bill changes this dynamic by tossing out the bingo card and relying more on judges judgment. Qualified immunity will still exist. But police officers will only be immune from a lawsuit if a judge determines that reasonable people would have thought that the officers actions were legal.

Whether the reform has real teeth will depend on how judges apply the law, if passed. In Marbury v. Madison, the foundational case of American constitutional law familiar to every judge in our Commonwealth, Chief Justice John Marshall wrote that the United States could not be considered a government of laws, and not of men if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right. Lets hope our judges agree.

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Who is Zane James, why were his brother and father detained by police in Cottonwood Heights protest? – MEAWW

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In a protest rally that took place in memory of Zane James, who was shot dead in a tragic incident of police brutality in 2018, the Cottonwood Height Police in Utah detained his father and brother. The rally that began at Mill Hollow Park on Sunday, August 2, was met with clashes with the police when the protesters marched into a residential neighborhood near 6710 South and 2680 East.

Zanes bereaved father said that the group aimed to walk past the same spot where his son was killed but after the protest escalated, the police took him into custody. The police reportedly said that protesters will be allowed to demonstrate if they do not block the streets, adding that they needed to clear the crowd from the park if it was found there past the curfew time, which is 10 pm. The protesters cleared out around 7:30 pm.

Some protesters took to twitter to highlight incidents of police brutality in Cottonwood Heights tweeting, I was pepper sprayed in the mouth and upper body while trying to help people who had already been maced. A lot of people got it a LOT worse. They shot people directly in the eyes and I think gave someone an asthma attack.

I was pepper sprayed in the mouth and upper body while trying to help people who had already been maced. A lot of people got it a LOT worse. They shot people directly in the eyes and I think gave someone an asthma attack

UPDATE!! DONATE! please if you can PLEASE!! they arrested the brother and father of ZANE JAMES, a victim who was murdered by Cottonwood Heights PD. They pepper sprayed a congresswoman. do you believe me when i say ACAB now?? tweeted another user.

UPDATE!! DONATE! please if you can PLEASE!! they arrested the brother and father of ZANE JAMES, a victim who was murdered by Cottonwood Heights PD. They pepper sprayed a congresswoman.

do you believe me when i say ACAB now?? pic.twitter.com/EPw5B40tFg

The Cottonwood Heights Police told Fox 13 that they took nine people into custody and impounded three vehicles. As per the report, specific charges were not given, but police said there were several fights between protesters and officers, in which a number of officers were hit, leading to police use of pepper spray and tasers.

The protest was a 'March for Justice' for Zane, who was shot and killed by a CHPD officer in 2018. In that case, the police claimed that Zane had been fleeing on a bike in Cottonwood Heights after allegedly robbing two stores with an airsoft or toy gun loaded with BBs. Zanes parents Aaron and Tiffany James said in 2019 that they were filing a civil rights complaint, in view of a policy change and aiming for better training procedures and transparency within the Cottonwood Heights Police Department.

The fact of the matter is we trust our law enforcement to do whats right to follow training, to follow procedures and protocols. On CHPDs website, they talked about how Officer Davies is a trainer for all these practices (lethal, non-lethal, SWAT), but were not seeing any of that training, said Tiffany James, reports ABC 4.

Complaint documents stated that Cottonwood Heights Officer Casey Davies pulled up as Zane was fleeing, opened his car door, and shot Zane in the back, seriously injuring him. Davies fired four shots, two of which struck Zane. At the time of the shooting by Defendant Casey Davies, he was running away and was non-threatening (it later said he had no weapon in his hand). One bullet apparently severed Zanes spinal cord at C-6. This injury led to his death three days later. The shooting violated Zanes rights under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, 14 of the Utah Constitution, as stated in the complaint.

Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill had previously stated police officer Daviess refusal to make a statement into the matter saying, Officer Davies refused to make a statement to investigators about his decision to shoot Zane, although constitutional under the 5th amendment, made the investigation more difficult. The shooting was eventually ruled justified.

According to the civil rights complaint, Zane was an accomplished high-level competitive hockey player and academic. He suffered from two very serious concussions which resulted in the end of his hockey career. Thereafter, he became severely and clinically depressed and was addicted to opiates as he struggled to cope with the physical and emotional symptoms of his condition. He was actively seeking treatment for his depression at the time of the shooting.

This caused him to experience fear and terror in the last three days of his young life, the complaint stated. In the legal documents, it is mentioned that Zane declined any life-saving methods to be used to preserve his life after realizing that if he survived he would be paralyzed. He died on May 31, two days after the shooting.

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