Laura W. Murphy: 'Fixing' Citizens United Will Break the Constitution

In ?Fixing Citizens United,? Professor Geoffrey Stone -- usually a friend to the First Amendment -- argues for a constitutional amendment to ?fix? the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.?Professor Stone mentions the proposal rather offhandedly, but the idea is a nuclear option.?A constitutional amendment -- specifically an amendment limiting the right to political speech -- would fundamentally ?break? the Constitution and endanger civil rights and civil liberties for generations.

First, it?s important to be clear on what Citizens United did.?The case allowed corporations and unions (including non-profit corporations like the ACLU or National Rifle Association) to spend ?general treasury? (non-political action committee) funds on political communications that are not coordinated with a campaign.?Citizens United itself has very little to do with the dreaded ?Super PACs,? which are primarily funded by individual donations.?Individuals have been allowed to spend their own money on political speech since time immemorial (or at least since adoption of the First Amendment).?Further, Citizens United has nothing to do with direct contributions to candidates, which are still totally verboten for corporations and unions and strictly limited for individuals.

With that background, here?s the proposed amendment.

In order to ensure a fair and well-functioning electoral process, Congress and the States shall have the authority reasonably to regulate political expenditures and contributions.

When Professor Stone says federal and state governments ?shall have the power to regulate political expenditures,? he means to give them the ability to place limits on, and control the content of, political speech, even when it is non-partisan and independent of a campaign.?This speech would include typical ?vote for X? ads, but would also extend to political ?issue? advertisements (?call Senator Reid and tell him to support bill Y?), documentaries by Michael Moore and other political filmmakers and probably even social media platforms like Twitter or Facebook.?The problems with such an approach are many.

The Constitution?s radical stability is its greatest strength.?The high bar for amending the Constitution -- agreement by two-thirds of both the Senate and the House (or the states), and then three-fourths of state legislatures or constitutional conventions -- exists precisely to deter ill-considered but temporarily popular amendments, which I would argue this is.?People are wary to invest resources and time in promoting or championing constitutional amendments because the chances of failure are high.?That?s why our Constitution works so well.?It?s easy to interpret broadly, but textual change requires effort and sustained support.?

Clearly cognizant of this particular concern, Professor Stone suggests that his amendment would not be unprecedented.?On the contrary, while not the first amendment responsive to a Supreme Court case, this would be the first amendment in history to limit individual, constitutionally guaranteed rights.?The four amendments he mentions as precedent all either clarified the scope of existing constitutional provisions or expanded individual rights.?For the curious, I believe the amendments he is referring to are the 11th (states can?t be sued by people in federal court), 14th (expanding equal protection and due process rights in the wake of the Civil War), 16th (federal income tax not unconstitutional) and 26th (voting age no higher than 18).

Further, although success of an amendment limiting individual rights is thankfully unprecedented, proposed amendments certainly are not.?

The ACLU has been on the (often lonely) frontline against ill-considered but temporarily popular constitutional amendments to limit civil liberties since its inception.?For 20-plus years, we?ve been fighting amendments prompted by Supreme Court decisions in United States v. Eichman and Texas v. Johnson, which held unconstitutional state and federal laws banning flag desecration.?We?ve repeatedly opposed the ?Victims? Rights Amendment,? which would unfairly limit certain due process rights, including the right to a fair trial.?And (this is the best), Republicans today are calling for an amendment repealing the 14th Amendment?s guarantee of citizenship if you are born in the United States.?Some grotesquely call it the ?anchor baby? amendment.

Now imagine a world where Stone?s proposed Citizens United amendment serves as real precedent for using the amendment process to limit rights, and both houses of Congress are two-thirds Republican (the latter is not inconceivable even in the next Congress).?Flag desecration, victims? rights and birthright citizenship amendments would just be the beginning.?Undoubtedly, you would see additional attempts to limit individual rights through the amendment process simply on the strength of the argument:?well, we did it with political speech, why not with pornography, affirmative action, voting requirements, warrantless national security surveillance or any other similarly hot-button issue??You can bet a successful Citizens United amendment would be talking point number one for groups pushing an amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Reasonable minds can and should differ on the influence of ?big money? in politics.?The legal and policy questions raised by the link between concentrated wealth and political speech are numerous and complicated.?We should be discussing the health of our politics, and we should be doing more to, for instance, provide for public financing and promote transparency without quelling anonymous speech.?But if there is one thing we absolutely should not be doing, it?s tinkering with our founding document to prevent groups like the ACLU (or even billionaires like Sheldon Adelson) from speaking freely about the central issues in our democracy.?Doing so will fatally undermine the First Amendment, diminish the deterrent factor of a durable Constitution and give comfort to those who would use the amendment process to limit basic civil liberties and rights.?It will literally ?break? the Constitution.

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Sony announces DWZ wireless microphone series

UK - Sony has announced the launch of its newest wireless microphone series, the new 2.4GHz DWZ. This, the company says, "combines ease of use, superb RF transmission reliability and high sound quality into four affordable and highly flexible packages".

The new 2.4GHz DWZ series includes combinations of hand-held mics, bodypack transmitters and rack-mount or compact size receivers, with various components for use by musicians, or in classroom, corporate, house of-worship or government applications, the company says.

The DWZ Series includes: DWZ-B30GB Digital Wireless Package-Guitar Set, DWZ-B70HL Digital Wireless Package-Headset and Lavalier Set, DWZ-M50 Digital Wireless Package-Vocal Set and DWZ-M70 Digital Wireless Package-Vocal/Speech Set.

"The DWZ series builds on Sony's extensive wireless expertise to deliver the most flexibility and the highest levels of performance," said Karl Kussmaul, senior product manager for professional audio, Sony Electronics. "These new packages are ideal for small to mid-size wireless audio applications, combining outstanding sound quality, stable transmission, performance and durability."

Features include 24-bit linear PCM digital audio transmission; Two modes of 2.4GHz frequency selection (wide band frequency hopping for simple operation or narrow band frequency hopping for coordinated spectrum use); Rack-mount receivers with integrated color LCD and built-in digital EQ; Interchangeable handheld capsule design supports Sony or third-party mic capsules; Balanced and unbalanced audio outputs.

The DWZ-M50 Vocal Set includes a uni-directional dynamic interchangeable microphone capsule with a stylish handheld transmitter and half-rack size receiver, ideal for vocal applications. The DWZ-GB30 Guitar Set includes a bodypack transmitter with guitar cable and compact size receiver supporting 3-way powering (AC adapter, 9V battery, external DC) and cable tone control.

The DWZ-M70 Vocal/Speech Set includes a uni-directional dynamic interchangeable microphone capsule, handheld transmitter and half-rack size receiver with advanced DSP functions.

The DWZ-B70HL Headset and Lavalier Set includes a uni-directional condenser headset microphone and a uni-directional condenser lavalier microphone with one bodypack transmitter and a half-rack size receiver with advanced DSP functions.

The DWZ-M70 and DWZ-B70HL packages both offer Sony's advanced DSP to automatically minimize audio feedback from occurring in real time; 128-bit AES encryption for secure transmission and a transmitter recharging function supporting NiMH AA battery use along with an optional contactless battery charger.

The DWZ Series is planned to be available starting this autumn, say Sony.

Source: http://www.lsionline.co.uk/news/story/Sony-announces-DWZ-wireless-microphone-series/90DJ8V

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Audience-loving animals express multiple traits through their songs, say Tel Aviv University researchers

If popular karaoke bars and the long audition lines for American Idol demonstrate anything, it's that people like to express themselves through song and the bigger the audience, the better. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University have found the same trait in small, rodent-like mammals called hyraxes, indigenous to Africa and the Middle East.

According to Prof. Eli Geffen and PhD candidate Amiyaal Ilany of TAU's Department of Zoology, hyrax vocalizations or "songs" go a long way towards communicating the singer's unique identity. Each one has unique songs that communicate a variety of information such as the singer's age, social rank, hormone levels, and size. And preliminary data suggests that the hyraxes prefer to sing when they have a more alert audience, taking the opportunity to promote themselves.

Understanding the function of the hyrax song will shed new light on animal communications, says Prof. Geffen, who notes that while birds are well known in the animal kingdom for singing, more complex vocalizations are rare in mammals. It's a model for learning how animals emit and receive signals, and what they understand from these communication channels, adds Ilany.

Their research, done in collaboration with Dr. Lee Koren of the University of Calgary and Adi Barocas of the University of Wyoming, and has been published in a number of journals including PLoS ONE and Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

Playing to the audience

A wealth of information is encoded in a hyrax song, which can continue for five to 10 minutes at a time.Identity, age, hormone levels, or social rank have the capacity to alter the songs, explain the researchers, who have been studying the same hyrax population for the last 13 years at the Ein Gedi nature reserve near the Dead Sea. "The long duration is a major strength of this project because we now know a lot about each individual animal," explains Ilany, including the details of their birth, life history, and social standing. "We can recognize this information encoded in song because we know them that well."

Using vocalization to signify identity is not without precedent. Many animals have the ability to identify another individual member of the same species by sound, say the researchers, because vocal sounds are unique to the individual that makes them. Flamingo mothers returning to the colony recognize their chicks by sound, for example. And of course humans can, too recognizing the voice on the other end of the telephone before the caller introduces himself.

Beyond the information that is being communicated in the song itself, the function, context, and reception of the song are also significant. Singing hyraxes, who are almost exclusively male, are more likely to sing when they have an alert audience to listen to them. Prof. Geffen believes that perhaps the hyraxes use singing as a tool to promote themselves and facilitate communication with the other hyraxes.

Call and response?

In some cases, another male hyrax will respond with a song of its own, says Ilany. The researchers are now working to discover exactly what prompts this two-way communication. They are in the process of conducting "playback" experiments in which recorded hyrax songs are played to groups of hyraxes to see if different messages elicit different listener responses. For example, is a song that communicates a high social ranking more likely to get a response? The researchers are also testing the success of these self-advertisements by measuring whether hyraxes that sing in specific ways have higher success rates in finding mates and siring offspring.

There are still many questions left to answer, say the researchers, noting that many research groups around the world are attempting to decode animal communication systems. Eventually the aim is to create a "big picture" of how vocal communication works in this system, says Prof. Geffen, whose research has already gone a long way towards understanding communication in the animal world.

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Audience-loving animals express multiple traits through their songs, say Tel Aviv University researchers

If popular karaoke bars and the long audition lines for American Idol demonstrate anything, it's that people like to express themselves through song and the bigger the audience, the better. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University have found the same trait in small, rodent-like mammals called hyraxes, indigenous to Africa and the Middle East.

According to Prof. Eli Geffen and PhD candidate Amiyaal Ilany of TAU's Department of Zoology, hyrax vocalizations or "songs" go a long way towards communicating the singer's unique identity. Each one has unique songs that communicate a variety of information such as the singer's age, social rank, hormone levels, and size. And preliminary data suggests that the hyraxes prefer to sing when they have a more alert audience, taking the opportunity to promote themselves.

Understanding the function of the hyrax song will shed new light on animal communications, says Prof. Geffen, who notes that while birds are well known in the animal kingdom for singing, more complex vocalizations are rare in mammals. It's a model for learning how animals emit and receive signals, and what they understand from these communication channels, adds Ilany.

Their research, done in collaboration with Dr. Lee Koren of the University of Calgary and Adi Barocas of the University of Wyoming, and has been published in a number of journals including PLoS ONE and Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

Playing to the audience

A wealth of information is encoded in a hyrax song, which can continue for five to 10 minutes at a time.Identity, age, hormone levels, or social rank have the capacity to alter the songs, explain the researchers, who have been studying the same hyrax population for the last 13 years at the Ein Gedi nature reserve near the Dead Sea. "The long duration is a major strength of this project because we now know a lot about each individual animal," explains Ilany, including the details of their birth, life history, and social standing. "We can recognize this information encoded in song because we know them that well."

Using vocalization to signify identity is not without precedent. Many animals have the ability to identify another individual member of the same species by sound, say the researchers, because vocal sounds are unique to the individual that makes them. Flamingo mothers returning to the colony recognize their chicks by sound, for example. And of course humans can, too recognizing the voice on the other end of the telephone before the caller introduces himself.

Beyond the information that is being communicated in the song itself, the function, context, and reception of the song are also significant. Singing hyraxes, who are almost exclusively male, are more likely to sing when they have an alert audience to listen to them. Prof. Geffen believes that perhaps the hyraxes use singing as a tool to promote themselves and facilitate communication with the other hyraxes.

Call and response?

In some cases, another male hyrax will respond with a song of its own, says Ilany. The researchers are now working to discover exactly what prompts this two-way communication. They are in the process of conducting "playback" experiments in which recorded hyrax songs are played to groups of hyraxes to see if different messages elicit different listener responses. For example, is a song that communicates a high social ranking more likely to get a response? The researchers are also testing the success of these self-advertisements by measuring whether hyraxes that sing in specific ways have higher success rates in finding mates and siring offspring.

There are still many questions left to answer, say the researchers, noting that many research groups around the world are attempting to decode animal communication systems. Eventually the aim is to create a "big picture" of how vocal communication works in this system, says Prof. Geffen, whose research has already gone a long way towards understanding communication in the animal world.

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Actually, Justice Roberts Demolished Obama In ... - Business Insider

Chief Justice John Roberts' surprising vote in favor of upholding President Barack Obama's healthcare law has made him the new hero of the political left, while some conservatives have already turned on him in record time.?

But while Roberts may have saved Obama's signature domestic legislation ? and perhaps his reelection campaign ? by siding with the court's liberal wing, he actually did it in spite of Obama, not because of him.?

Roberts' opened his opinion today by declaring, unequivocally, that the individual mandate ? which requires people to buy insurance or pay a penalty ? is not constitutional under the Commerce Clause or the Necessary and Proper Clause. It's a direct shot at the Obama administration's defense of the law's constitutionality, which largely relied on those two clauses, which give Congress the power to regulate commerce and to enact provisions that are necessary to carry out its laws, respectively.?

Here are the key excerpts:?

Construing the Commerce Clause to permit Congress to regulate?individuals precisely?because they are doing nothing would open anew and potentially vast domain to congressional authority.?Congress already possesses expansive power to regulate what people do.Upholding the Affordable Care Act under the Commerce Clause?would give Congress the same license to regulate what people do not?do.?The Framers?knew the?difference between doing something?and?doing nothing.?They gave Congress the?power to?regulate?commerce,not to?compel?it.?Ignoring that distinction would undermine the principle that the Federal Government is a government of limited andenumerated powers.?The?individual mandate thus?cannot be?sustained under?Congress?s power to??regulate Commerce."

...Nor can the individual mandate be sustained under the Necessary and Proper Clause as an integral part of the Affordable Care?Act?s other reforms.?Each of?this Court?s?prior cases?upholding lawsunder that Clause involved exercises of authority derivative of, and?in service to, a granted power.?The individual mandate, by?contrast, vests Congress withthe extraordinary ability to create the necessary predicate to the exercise of an enumerated power and draw within its regulatory scopethose who would otherwise be outside?of it.?Even if the individualmandate is ?necessary? to the Affordable Care Act?s other reforms,such an expansion of federal power is not a ?proper? means for making those reforms effective.?

Instead, Roberts argued that the individual mandate is constitutional because it enacts a tax, not a fee. Obama's Solicitor General Donald Verrilli made the exact opposite claim in his oral arguments?to the Supreme Court last March.?

It seems like a very real possibility, then, that when the glow of today's victory wears off, Obama may find that Roberts' ruling was actually a Trojan Horse. Democrats have adamantly argued that the individual mandate is not a tax, but that claim will hold a lot less water after today's decision. Meanwhile, Republicans, despite their newfound dislike of Robert immediately seized on the "Obamacare raises taxes" attack line, and are already raising the specter of the IRS to fire up the conservative base.?

Watch the video below to see what the decision means for both political parties moving forward.

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Grand View Wellness | Grand View Lodge's Blog

Paddleboard Yoga is one of the newest additions to the Grand View Wellness Program.

If you currently have a workout regiment you?re using at home, no need to sacrifice that fitness routine while you?re on vacation now in part of the Grand View Wellness program.

The Grand View Wellness program began in 2011 and in the last year has grown into a full-blown, four-season program. These wellness programs consist of several workout courses, which offer a variety of activities that are designed to fit and tailor to any age, level of experience and actual physical fitness ability.

This summer the Grand View Wellness program offers a variety of yoga classes from the traditional style, to Lakeside Yoga and now new for 2012, Paddleboard Yoga; a unique class where you?re shown the basics of paddleboarding and have your yoga instructor perform the entire class while your on your very own paddleboard! Other classes like the Lake Swim or Boot Camp are exercises that provide natural resistance and body movement while giving your body a great workout, and Zumba, the new Latin dance-inspired fitness craze, is sure to get your body moving.

?We wanted to offer unique wellness activities that guests may not be exposed to at their home health or fitness clubs,? said Andrew Huebner, Director of Resort Amenities. ?If you love swimming, dancing, spending time on the water or just simply want a challenging and fun workout, we have just the class for you!?

The Grand View Wellness program hopes to continue expanding their program with new fitness classes, providing guests with more wellness options. Whether you?re staying for an overnight or a full week, there?s always a fitness class unique to the northwoods at Grand View.

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Top 4 Yangtze Cruise Destinations

Heading out on a Yangtze River cruise has to be one of the best ways to experience China and with so many great sights along its length it?s easy to see why. This article takes a look at four of the best, to give you a feel for what?s on offer.

Terracotta Warriors ? Xian

Discovered in 1974 by local farmers, the 8,000 man underground army was built to defend the first Emperor of China, Qinshihuang, in the afterlife. This magnificent funerary art was buried with the Emperor in 210-209 BC. As well as warriors, the figures consist of chariots and horses, so the immense crowd of sculptures consists of 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses, and 150 cavalry horses, many of which are still buried.

The figures are life-sized and vary in height uniform and hair style, depending on their rank. They were originally painted with bright colors such as pink, red, green, white and lilac. Detailed features were painted on to create a realistic appearance, so you can imagine just how much hard work went in to these elaborate funerary works of art.

Beijing

One of the most visited cities in the world, Beijing boasts many fascinating attractions for visitors. Forbidden City for instance is a great place to start your sight-seeing journey in Beijing. The Emperor at the time and those who served him were the only people who were allowed into the city. There you will find the Palace Museum, where many costumes, silver and golden articles and ritual objects can be gazed at.

The Temple of Heaven is a recommended highlight of Beijing. If you visit it in the early morning, you can watch groups practicing Kung-Fu and Taiji. You may even feel inclined to join in! The tranquil atmosphere will not fail to intoxicate you, as people around you entertain each other with music, songs and card games.

Yangtze River

Take a trip of a lifetime down the largest and longest river in China, where lush surroundings along the steep, rocky sides of the river will transport your senses to another world. Along the way you will come across 3 gorges: Qutang, Wuxia and Xiling Gorge, collectively named Sanxia, or the Three Gorges. There are many historical sites in Qutang Gorge for example. On the south bank there is a whitewashed wall with inscriptions including the legendary Meng Liang?s Ladder and the Upside-down Monk.

Shanghai

If you fancy a taste of modern entertainment, indulge yourself in a performance at Shanghai Circus World. Performances combine traditional Chinese acrobatics with modern technology to create a stunning and elaborate spectacle.

If theme parks are a favorite amongst the family, pay a visit to Happy Valley, where you will find an abundance of amusements, scientific and technological content as well as stunning natural scenery. Some of the themed zones include Sunshine Beach, Typhoon Bay, Gold Mine Town and Ant Kingdom. There will never be a dull moment as it is a huge place to explore.

This article was written by Thom Sanders on behalf of Wendy Wu Tours. They offer fantastic Yangtze River cruise experiences, as well as other great China holidays.

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Family caregiver leave: Options and new legislation | Mosey and ...

Eldercare and caregiving are increasingly important issues for employees and employers.

According to the January 2009 studyBalancing Paid Work and Caregiving Responsibilities: A Closer Look at Family Caregivers in Canada, more than 27% of employed Canadians had responsibilities for eldercare in 2009.

And this trend is expected to grow, with the boomer and senior populations outpacing younger generations, and increased fiscal challenges within the Canadian health and home care sectors.

As a result, caregiving is expected to impact organizations through increased absenteeism and decreased productivity as employees struggle to deal with the challenges facing them. Fortunately, provincial governments are starting to take notice and are introducing legislation to help employees facing a caregiving challenge. Employers are also working to provide additional access to benefits and services to help employees.

New legislation in Ontario
Recently, Ontario introduced Bill 30 regarding family caregiver leave. If passed, the bill would amend current leave entitlements to allow employees to take a leave of absence without pay in order to provide care or support to an individual.

Under the change, employees can take up to eight weeks each year. This unpaid leave builds on the existing Family Medical Leave, which provides unpaid leave for an employee to provide care or support to an individual who has a significant risk of death occurring as a result of a medical problem.

The Ontario Family Medical Leave program builds upon the 2004 Federal Compassionate Care Benefits program, through which employees can receive eight weeks of employment insurance (EI)?really, six weeks paid plus a two-week wait period?for an approved leave to provide care or support to an individual with a serious medical condition and who has a significant risk of death occurring. In all instances, a medical note is required to qualify.

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Saskatchewan leads the country in caregiving provisions. Saskatchewan provides up to 12 weeks per year for any serious illnesses that require caregiving, with an additional four-week top-up when the employee is in receipt of EI compassionate care benefits.

Similar to the proposed Ontario legislation, employees in Saskatchewan are not limited to taking a leave only during a palliative caregiving situation; rather, they can be protected during a broader caregiving need.

Quebec also provides up to 12 weeks; however, the caregiving must be for someone with a palliative care situation.

All other provinces, with the exception of Alberta, provide up to eight weeks? unpaid leave as part of provincial-based compassionate care leave legislated programs.

The good and the bad

Ontario?s proposed legislation certainly presents a better opportunity for employees in the province, as it provides coverage beyond a palliative or imminent death situation. While care needs often increase during the last few months of a loved one?s life, there is strong evidence to suggest that the length of time providing care can often exceed three years.

The 2001?National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care?study found that 9.5% of the population surveyed received care for the full 10 years of the study. More than 40% surveyed received a combination of home- and facility-based care for an average of three to five years before death.

Other options
Over the past few years, employers have begun to introduce programs that offer additional supports to employees facing a caregiving challenge. Some examples include the following:

• Care management and advocacy?? These programs provide the employee with access to an expert case manager who can provide guidance, navigational support, case management and access to resources and services (such as home care or backup care and emergency monitoring services) to assist with the caregiving challenge.
• Paid leaves?? Some employers have begun to provide short-term paid leaves of absence that can be used for a number of different reasons, including a caregiving situation. Most often, these programs offer three to five days that can be used on short notice throughout the year.
• Backup care providers?? Leading backup care providers provide services to address both childcare and eldercare needs. Care can be arranged on an emergency basis across the country as needed. In some cases, employers provide direct funding that can be used to pay for the care.
• Employee assistance programs?? Most employee assistance programs have expanded their offerings to include access to resources to help employees with caregiving challenges. These programs provide basic information about resources, which employees can then contact to arrange services.

The number of employees facing a caregiving challenge is expected to increase considerably over the next few years. This is largely due to the aging population, combined with challenges faced by Canadian health and home care systems.

But provincial governments are starting to make small changes to employment and labour legislation, and employers are beginning to implement benefits and programs that help to address the inherent absenteeism and decreased productivity associated with the problem.

Jamie Marcellus?|?June 11, 2012

Source:?http://www.benefitscanada.com/benefits/health-benefits/family-caregiver-leave-options-and-new-legislation-29563

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Turkish PM warns Syria of backlash

BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told Syria to beware the wrath of Turkey after Friday's shooting down of a warplane and said he had given orders to the armed forces to react to any threat approaching Turkish borders from Syria.

Erdogan's warning to Syria reflected increased tensions not only on the Mediterranean coast, where the aircraft was shot down, but on a long common land border criss-crossed by rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad. Syria said on Sunday it had killed several "terrorists" infiltrating from Turkey.

In Syria itself, Damascus suburbs were gripped by the worst fighting the capital has seen since the uprising against Assad began 16 months ago. The city had long been seen as a bastion of support for the president.

Prime Minister Erdogan, who fell out bitterly with Assad after he dismissed his advice to allow democratic reform, said Turkey was no warmonger.

"Our rational response should not be perceived as weakness, our mild manners do not mean we are a tame lamb," he told a meeting of his parliamentary party. "Everybody should know that Turkey's wrath is just as strong and devastating as its friendship is valuable."

NATO member states, summoned by Turkey to an urgent meeting in Brussels, condemned Syria over the incident that has resulted in the loss of two airmen. The cautious wording of a statement demonstrated the fear of Western powers as well as Turkey that armed intervention in Syria could stir a sectarian conflict, already simmering in Syria, across the region.

"Those who want war may be disappointed by the prime minister's speech," veteran Turkish journalist Mehmet Ali Birand wrote on Twitter.

"But a big part of society breathed a sigh of relief."

Erdogan said armed forces' rules of engagement had been changed as a result of the attack which Turkey says took place without warning in international air space.

"Every military element approaching Turkey from the Syrian border and representing a security risk and danger will be assessed as a military threat and will be treated as a military target," he said.

DAMASCUS FIGHTING

Turkey hosts the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) on its soil, across the border from Syria, and accommodates over 30,000 refugees - a number Erdogan fears could rise sharply as fighting spreads. Rebel soldiers move regularly across the border and defectors muster on Turkish soil.

Fighting has often moved very close to the frontier and could under the new rules of engagement draw Turkish military reaction, especially if Syrian forces pursue rebels.

Clashes between rebels and pro-Assad forces are now occurring daily across Syria. Violence gripped the suburbs of Damascus on Tuesday, activists said.

Video published by activists recorded heavy gunfire and explosions. Blood pooled on a sidewalk in the suburb of Qudsiya and a thick blood trail led into a building where one casualty had been dragged. A naked man writhed, his body pierced by shrapnel.

The Syrian state news agency SANA said "armed terrorist groups" had blocked the old road from Damascus to Beirut.

"The clashes led to the killing of tens of terrorists, wounding a large number of them, arresting others and seizing their weapons which included RPG launchers, sniper rifles, machineguns and a huge amount of ammunition," the agency said.

The private Turkish Dogan news agency said a convoy of tanks loaded on transporters and armored vehicles headed from the southeastern city of Mardin on Tuesday towards the town of Nusaybin on Syria's northeastern border. It did not say how many tanks and armored vehicles were in the convoy, but there are frequent movements of troops and armor in the region where Turkish troops are fighting Kurdish separatist rebels.

The Turkish general staff denied reports its forces had been placed on high alert and all leave cancelled. A customs minister said none of Turkey's borders with Syria would be closed.

Syrian and Turkish accounts of Friday's jet incident differ fundamentally.

Syria says it had no choice but to shoot the jet down as it entered Syrian air space flying low and at high speed. It found the jet was Turkish only after the engagement. Turkey insists its aircraft entered Syrian air space only briefly, by mistake.

Erdogan said Syrian military helicopters had violated Turkish airspace on many occasions without Turkey reacting. He saw Friday's attack as a deliberate blow against Turkey.

"Our plane was targeted on purpose, and in a hostile way, and not as a result of a mistake. The attitude of the Syrian officials following the incident is the most concrete evidence that our jet was attacked on purpose."

"The harassing fire on our Casa type plane during the search and rescue operations is the most palpable evidence of this intent."

According to Turkey, the Phantom jet was testing Turkish air defenses near the countries' common maritime border when it was shot down. Some analysts say it might also have been probing Syria's Russian-supplied radar and air defenses that would be an obstacle to any form of Western military involvement in Syria.

Russia, which has opposed Western calls for the removal of Assad, maintains close relations with Damascus and keeps a naval base close to the spot where the Turkish jet was shot down.

RUSSIAN ARMS

Moscow-based defense think-tank CAST said Russia was expected to deliver nearly half a billion dollars worth of air defense systems, repaired helicopters and fighter jets to Syria this year despite international pressure to halt arms sales to Damascus.

Friday's incident is unlikely to increase Turkey's appetite for an intervention it fears would have unpredictable consequences for Turkey and for a region riven by sectarian division. But it has in the past spoken of the possibility of creating humanitarian corridors inside Syria.

"For Turkey there are two bad scenarios: one, a mass influx of refugees and two, large-scale massacres in Syria," a Turkish official said.

"Ankara has not taken a decision for military intervention or a humanitarian corridor at the moment. But if these are needed, everybody would prefer that they will be done with international legitimacy. However, if things go really badly we have to be ready for any kind of eventuality," he added.

Sahin Alpay, professor of political science at Bahcesehir University, also sees refugee numbers as critical.

"Turkey has said that if 50,000 Syrian refugees come, then it becomes a very dangerous situation here. We could soon see those numbers," Alpay said.

Domestically, Erdogan may face pressure to act demonstratively.

After Erdogan's speech, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu accused the prime minister of bluffing in his declarations.

"Foreign policy cannot be conducted through bluffing or bravado," he said. "Nobody can play poker with Turkey's national interests.

"Whatever the prime minister said at the time of the Mavi Marmara incident, he said the same thing today. If you bluff, you lose your deterrence internationally," he said.

Erdogan demanded an apology from Israel after Israeli commandos stormed a Gaza-bound Turkish ship in 2010 killing nine pro-Palestinian activists. No apology has been forthcoming and Turkey's once close ties to Israel have remained cool.

(Additional reporting by Jonathon Burch and Tulay Karadeniz in Ankara, Oliver Holmes and Mirna Sleiman in Beirut, Khaled Yacoub Oweis in Amman, Justyna Pawlak in Brussels, David Brunnstrom in Washington and Louis Charbonneau at the United Nations; Writing by Ralph Boulton; editing by Janet McBride)

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Missing link for wonky-eyed flatfish found

The face of a flounder, sole, halibut or other flatfish looks like a hodgepodge of mismatched puzzle pieces forced together, with eyes that don't seem to match one another nor the orientation of the animal's mouth.

This is because, as these fish mature, one eye migrates over the top of the fish's head, coming to rest above the other eye, so both are on the same side of the head. A new fossil discovery has shed light on how this strange trait came about.?

Matt Friedman, a paleobiologist at University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, found a sort of flatfish missing link in a drawer of unidentified fish fossils in the Natural History Museum of Vienna, Austria. [ Image Gallery: Freaky Fish ]

The left eye of this single specimen, a 50-million-year-old fish called Heteronectes, has migrated toward the top of the skull, but not all the way over. The eye's position places this fish in between the modern, asymmetrical flatfishes and their distant ancestors, which had symmetrical faces with eyes on opposite sides of the face. ?

There are about 600 species of flatfish, many of which are caught and eaten by humans. Scientists know why these fish have two eyes on one side of their faces. As free-swimming larvae, these fish have eyes on both sides of their heads. But as adults, they lie on the seafloor. By shifting one eye up and over their body's midline, flatfish avoid pointing one eye down toward the sediment.

But how this arrangement emerged has caused debate among scientists, since no living fishes show any intermediate form. At one point, flatfishes were among the examples some critics used to attack gradual evolution and natural selection that occurs over many generations, in favor of dramatic changes that could occur within a single generation, Friedman said.

"What this fossil does is it provides a clear example of precisely that intermediate morphology," Friedman told LiveScience.

This discovery indicates that asymmetric faces were among the first features associated with living flatfishes to evolve, Friedman writes in the July issue of the journal Vertebrate Paleontology.

Researchers have known about another ancestor to modern flatfish, called Amphistium, for some time, however, its fossils have not been studied in detail, as Friedman has done with Heteronectes.

The Heteronectes skeleton was excavated from Bolca in northern Italy at a fossil fish-rich site that contains the remains of an ancient coral reef.

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How to use your Locked-In Retirement ... - Smart Home Choice

Posted by admin on Jun 25, 2012 in Smart Home Choice | 0 comments

How to use your Locked-In Retirement Investment Fund for a Rent to Own Home

Thanks to everyone that came out to today?s viewing for our new home located in Courtice. For anyone that came out and is interested in moving forward with this home, please get in contact with us as soon as possible as this home is going to go quick. For anyone that required additional information, Darlene should be getting that out to you soon if you haven?t received it yet.

So for today?s topic, Melissa and her family who is currently looking for their very own Rent to Own home has found out some very interesting information. Melissa explains the procedure on how to unlock your ?Locked-In Retirement Investment Fund to use for?your down payment.
She was kind enough to write out the entire process.

Please have a read as I think you will find this a very interesting topic. This process will help a number of families that are interested in getting into Rent to Own but are faced with the issue of not having a large enough down payment.

The basic procedure would be to first contact their financial advisor who manages their LRIF (Locked-In Retirement Investment Fund) to confirm that it is in fact Locked-In money. The next steps are indicated as follows:

• On the application, complete Page 21 & 22 to include client?s personal info as well as spousal info.

• Indicate on page 21?what the policy number is of the account you wish to request approval for the withdrawal and on page 22 be sure to include the Financial Company you are investing with. Ie: London Life.

• Also make?sure to include a print out copy of your Locked-In account showing the policy number and the balance in the plan.

• Then proceed to page 26 ~ Part D for the application to Withdrawal for First and Last Months Rent and provide details of amount requesting and property requesting for.

• Lastly, complete page 36 with client and spousal signatures as well as page 37 with spousal consent to withdrawal the funds.

Once this is completed, either the financial advisor or the client can mail the attached application to the address listed on page 2. The client will then receive a confirmation letter in the mail along with a Table 3 to complete listing Assets and Liabilities for both client and spouse. As long as they end up in a negative, meaning liabilities out way their assets?they should be good to go. Just fax back the form to the assigned person and you should know within a few days via mail.

If approved, a formal Consent letter stamped by FSCO will be included with their approval, which is what they provide to their financial advisor to make the request to withdrawal the funds.

Any client should be able to get further assistance from their advisor regarding the above if they need it.

If anyone needs a copy of the forms, please let us know and we will send them over to you. To clarify, we are not experts on this subject so please contact your financial advisor who manages your LRIF.

Thanks again Melissa for this great write up and for sharing this information to us and our readers.

Until next time.. Make The Smart Choice.

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Rebel-held Syrian town struggles to keep the peace

MAARET MISREEN, Syria (AP) ? The electrical supply merchant had barely arrived for work when the day's troubles began: Residents were complaining of fuel shortages, rebels had detained teenagers accused of robbing the high school and ? most alarmingly ? Shiite gunmen from a nearby village had kidnapped five Sunnis.

By mid-morning, a dozen men pensively sipped tea in Yasser Mamaar's shop, hoping the head of their town's revolutionary council would know what to do.

Puffing on a cigarette in a long, brown holder, the short, wrinkled, 55-year-old in a gray robe and matching sport coat made calls on an old green phone to find the missing men.

"There is no police station, there is no state, so who else can they go to?" said Mamaar, who now dispenses advice, mediates disputes and issues orders in addition to selling light bulbs, power cords and circuit breakers. "We have to solve people's problems."

The 15-month-old uprising that has pushed Syria toward civil war and left more than 14,000 people dead has also upended power structures in towns and cities across this country of 23 million. As the Syrian government focuses on holding major cities and battling a growing insurgency, many communities have been left to organize their own security and obtain enough food and fuel.

Mamaar has coordinated those efforts in Maaret Misreen, this market town of 40,000 people surrounded by a web of poor farming villages in northern Syria. Since becoming the head of the eight-member revolutionary council late last year, he has helped distribute fuel, brokered a truce with the army and won the release of dozens of locals kidnapped by armed groups.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Journalist Ben Hubbard was part of a three-member Associated Press team that spent two weeks with rebels in northern Syria, gathering firsthand information on the increasingly bloody rebellion against President Bashar Assad ? the longest and deadliest uprising of the Arab Spring.

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While massacres have raised fears of strife between Syria's religious sects, Mamaar, a Sunni Muslim, also works to calm tensions with his Shiite Muslim neighbors ? a task that gets harder every day.

Sectarianism is a rising force in the Syrian conflict, with a predominantly Sunni rebel movement fighting to topple President Bashar Assad's regime, which is largely led by members of his Alawite sect. Other minorities, like Shiites and Christians, have mostly stood by Assad, fearing for their place should he fall.

While dreaming of Assad's ouster, Mamaar's daily work serves a simpler goal: keeping chaos out of his town.

"As soon as there is chaos, the army comes, and as soon as the army comes, who will they kill? Our sons," Mamaar said.

So far, those efforts have brought a level of calm rare in Syria to this town where tractors outnumber cars, the produce market covers several blocks and families collect on their stoops at dusk while children run in the streets.

The revolt in Maaret Misreen started with small anti-regime demonstrations in April 2011. Residents mainly stood up against corruption and meddling by security services in many aspects of town life. Locals often say you needed security clearance to open a falafel stand. They are only partly joking.

"It was a dictatorial system, so they had to keep everything under their control," said activist Muhanad Aon.

Many suspected a local Muslim cleric, Abdel-Ghani Kassab, of being a regime mole planted to spy on residents. Kassab disappeared early in the uprising, only to return in December with a group of pro-regime fighters who then attacked local rebels, residents said. Mamaar's 22-year-old son, Tamer, was killed.

But the cleric and his fighters fled, and all other traces of the national government left soon thereafter. The rebels trashed the cleric's home, which now sits in mounds of rubble near a fountain painted with the revolutionary flag. Nearby graffiti reads: "The regime's house is a dump."

In March, the army shelled the city for two days, killing five people. Afterward, Mamaar helped negotiate a deal in which the rebels removed their checkpoints in exchange for calm. The army hasn't come back since.

"We worked hard to make that happen, and the village hasn't been ruined. So I feel we achieved something," said an opposition writer, Khatib Badli, who served as intermediary between the regime and the town. He also guessed that the army is easier on the town because about 15 percent of its residents are Shiite and it doesn't want to harm them.

Mamaar and his council do much of their work in his shop, its shelves cluttered with electrical outlets, switches, light bulbs and faucets. He has a ring of plastic chairs for the stream of visitors who gossip, tell him their woes, smoke cigarettes and drink the sweet tea he makes on a small gas stove.

Most of the problems one recent morning were relatively small: Rebels had detained some teenagers accused of stealing four computers, a TV, a satellite receiver and a water cooler from the high school; Mamaar was searching for witnesses. A widow complained that she couldn't find cooking gas; Mamaar said he'd replace her empty bottle.

The big issue, however, was the five men kidnapped by gunmen from the highway ? the latest in a string of tit-for-tat attacks between rebels and pro-regime gunmen from two Shiite villages east of town.

Such kidnappings have been going on for months, with scores from both sides held from a few hours to a few weeks. Some had disappeared: The Sunnis accused the Shiites of passing them to state security; the Shiites accused the Sunnis of killing them.

After writing down the missing men's names, Mamaar flipped through a book of handwritten numbers to decide whom to call.

But it's been getting harder to keep open those lines of communication. Mamaar used to drive to the Shiite villages to visit his contacts, he said. Now he rarely does.

When a farmer with a broken grain mill stopped to ask if he could take it to a repairman in a Shiite village, Mamaar told him no.

"If you go you now, you go at your own risk," he said.

The uprising has affected Mamaar's own views of Shiites in nearby villages. He regularly calls them "liars" and says the regime is arming them to work as shabiha ? pro-government thugs that violently suppress protests.

He also accuses them of being loyal to Iran, suggesting they would choose to go to that Shiite country if Assad falls.

"I think it's better if they don't stay in the area," he said.

Reached by phone, a prominent Shiite from one of those villages had some words of his own for those who oppose Assad.

"Those people aren't revolutionaries. They are troublemakers and traders in blood," said Zein al-Deen Taalib, 48.

He said many in his village of Fua served in the army and that they set up checkpoints for their own protection. He praised the Syrian army for doing its "sacred duty" and called Assad "the one real leader in the Arab world."

Echoing the regime line, he blamed the uprising on armed gangs backed by foreign powers trying to destroy the country.

"If I were a Sunni, I'd stand in the market in Maaret Misreen and kill them," Taalib said, noting that because he's a Shiite, a minority in Syria, he has to be more careful.

Many worry that violence between the communities will spread.

Badli, the opposition writer, said rebels were stepping up attacks on army and Shiite checkpoints.

"I don't think the army will let them get away with it for much longer," he said.

Another Shiite leader from the village of Kifarya who often speaks with Mamaar said all needed to work to maintain good relations. Before the uprising began last year, the two sects coexisted without violence.

"We'll try to keep it quiet so we can live together," said Abu Abdallah Hassaneh, 63. "As long as we are alive."

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