Politico: The Supreme Court’s deliberations over President Barack Obama’s immigration order are putting that potential deportation relief on a collision course with Donald Trump’s deportation force.
It’s still an open question whether the shorthanded court will ultimately determine that Obama has the authority to defer deportation for millions of undocumented immigrants. And until it gives its answer next month, his administration isn’t allowed to prepare for the possibility by hiring staff or creating forms.
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White House officials have told immigrant advocacy groups it’ll take about two months to get everything up and running — which would put the first applications for the estimated 4.4 million eligible individuals at about September, at the earliest.
The means that people living in the shadows will possibly be exposing themselves just as Trump inches closer to the White House and decides whether to fulfill his pledge to use a deportation force to kick out the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
Advocates acknowledge that people who sign up right away could pay a price.
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Published on May 26, 2016: The universe of Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire is an incredibly unique and interesting one, but it is also heavily based upon real life events. This video is the first part of many detailing some of those real life inspirations. This video focuses primarily on the comparison between the British Isles and Westeros.
Washington Post: Viewers of HBO’s hit series “Game of Thrones” (and readers of the novels on which it is based) are doubtless aware of at least some of the ways the medieval fantasy drama is modeled on real history. The feudal conflicts between the various noble houses of Westeros, the western continent where the bulk of the TV show’s action takes place, mirror the battles and regicidal struggles of the 15th century War of the Roses between two rival English claimants to the throne, as WorldViews noted here.
The video above, uploaded on the YouTube channel Real Life Lore, expands the historical frame. The landmass of Westeros, you see, is sort of an amalgamation of Britain and Ireland, inverted and stacked up on one another. A narrow sea, or channel, separates the continent from a far larger landmass to the east. In the north, an ancient wall separated putative civilization from the barbarous wild beyond.
The history of Westeros, invented by the books’ author George R.R. Martin, mimics the narratives of invasion and settlement that shaped the British Isles over the centuries — from the Celtic migrations to the arrival of the Saxons, to the raids of Vikings and the hegemony of the Normans.
All these find echoes in the universe of Game of Thrones. The seven kingdoms of Westeros, upon which so much of Martin’s lore and intrigue is built, in a limited sense reflect the period known as the Heptarchy, a moment in the Dark Ages when England was divided into seven tribal Anglo-Saxon realms.
Granted, there are no dragons or ice zombies, but the parallels are clear.
The average male homosexual has hundreds of sex partners over the course of his life. They are much more likely to have sex in public bathrooms than straights.
Los Angeles Times: In Los Angeles, Long Beach and other areas where undercover lewd conduct stings endure, police defend them as an important tool for catching people who are violating the law and for deterring others from trying to have sex in parks and other public areas used by families and children.
Gay-rights activists do not condone public sex but have long condemned the busts as a form of entrapment, saying they unfairly single out gay men, with sometimes devastating consequences. The issue has been debated for decades. But in recent years, critics of the stings have gained traction as public attitudes about homosexuality and gay rights have shifted.
Undercover officers, critics contend, often exchange flirtatious signals and make arrests of men who think their advances are welcome, when no one else is nearby to be offended. They say that the stings can ensnare men who hadn’t otherwise been seeking sex and that they rarely, if ever, target straight people.
Under state law, people who are convicted of indecent exposure must register as sex offenders and face possible jail time. Some have lost their jobs or committed suicide.
“Nobody is going to defend lewd conduct, but there is a qualitative difference between sexual predators and people who engage in boorish behavior,” said Los Angeles County Assessor Jeffrey Prang, who is gay and a former special assistant in the Sheriff’s Department who worked with its LGBT advisory council. “Criminalizing them isn’t really justice. You just want them to stop.”
Some cities have found alternative ways to tackle the problem of cruising — the act of searching for anonymous public sex. Departments will now post uniformed officers near cruising hotspots or improve lighting and trim trees and bushes in areas known for public sex.
“Bottom line is, there were much better things that the vice … bureau should have been engaged in, namely sex trafficking and sexual exploitation,” said Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Cmdr. Merrill Ladenheim, who heads the agency’s human trafficking task force. “We really refocused our efforts on those other crimes where we have a victim.”
Complaints often come from people concerned about sex acts in public places, namely libraries and residential streets, where children could stumble upon people engaged in a lewd act, Neiman said.
“You still have to enforce the law when you get complaints,” he said.
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I suspect that if he had been married to the mother of this child, he would not have been shot.
Los Angeles Times: New Orleans Pelicans guard Bryce Dejean-Jones was fatally shot after breaking down the door to a Dallas apartment, authorities said Saturday.
A man living at the apartment was sleeping when he heard his front door kicked open, Dallas Police Senior Cpl. DeMarquis Black said in a statement. When Dejean-Jones began kicking at the bedroom door, the man retrieved a handgun and fired.
Officers who responded found Dejean-Jones collapsed in an outdoor passageway, and he later died at a hospital. He was 23…
Julie Keel, a spokeswoman for Camden Property Trust, the real estate company that owns the apartment complex in Dallas, confirmed that the complex’s apartment manager had sent out an email to residents saying that the person who had been shot had been trying to break into “the apartment of an estranged acquaintance” and that this person had “inadvertently” broken into the wrong apartment.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver called it a “tragic loss.”
“Bryce inspired countless people with his hard work and perseverance on his journey to the NBA, and he had a bright future in our league,” Silver said in a statement issued Saturday.
Dejean-Jones was suspended late in the 2013-14 season from UNLV for conduct detrimental to the team, and announced that he was leaving USC midway through the 2010-11 season.
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Dr. James Thompson blogs: So, if population measures are the best, then the established ratio of very brightest boys to very brightest girls is 8 to 1 in actuality. This is not a glass ceiling effect, nor any ceiling effect (unless possibly against boys). It is simply an observation of the state of affairs in an entire population. (And what a population: long list of high achievers available on request). Of course, if boys are late to mature, then the male advantage in adulthood could be even higher.
I will post more details about men having a 4 IQ advantage over women, and the concomitant brain volume differences, if and when such a paper gets published.
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