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Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Cobalt and Coral
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legs for days!!! i need that blazer. adding to my shopping list.ReplyDelete
Love this look, the cobalt and coral look fantastic together. I've already been thinking about how quickly school is approaching too!ReplyDelete
I can't believe how fast this summer has flown by! I have not even started on my summer to do list yet! Love this chic look and color combo!ReplyDelete
It crazy how fast summer is flying by. I say enjoy it with your daughter.ReplyDelete
you've had the best color combo lately! Those heels make your legs look KILLER!!!ReplyDelete
What a fabulous outfit. I love the color combos, and those shoes are so cute!ReplyDelete
Such a cute look and love this color combo.ReplyDelete
Yes, I feel exactly the same way - where is the summer going and why is it in such a rush?!ReplyDelete
Love the shorts suit - cutest look ever.
Chic on the Cheap
You look great first of all. And I know crazy to believe that July is almost over. Summer usually lasts till the end of September/early October for us though. Ohhh and we set up an inflatable kiddie pool for Vivian too and we are having a hard time getting her out of there lol. How does Claire love hers?ReplyDelete
This is such a fab color combo!!ReplyDelete
I love the white with those bright colors - so nice and summery! I felt a little like you during my maternity leave. I had all these plans, a few things got done, and most are still on my "to do wish list" (which in and of itself sounds like an oxymoron) but in any case. Time flies. So playing in the kiddie pool sounds like the best way to enjoy a gorgeous day (and I think today is supposed to be beautiful)!ReplyDelete
I totally agree Laura! I have been trying not to stress about the work I have not completed on time this summer!! I love that blazer with shorts. I have not tried that trend yet! It is really cute! SusanReplyDelete
I love the combination of that cobalt blouse, coral blazer, and sandal wedges! It's so beautiful. Also, my summer is flying past too. (Haha, well, technically they all go at the same speed--but you know what I mean.) Sigh. . . . :)ReplyDelete
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I love this look! Pinning for future copying inspiration!! And I say just have fun with Claire! The list of things will still be there whenever you get around to them.ReplyDelete
We were at an unfair disadvantage this year because of the polar vortex lolReplyDelete
loving the color combo going on hereReplyDelete
also love the heeled wedges, wearing the same in real life today
I love this color combo! It looks great on you! I can't believe summer is almost over either. Have fun at the pool! You are right, summer is about having fun, not checking off the to do list. :)ReplyDelete
Nicole to the Nines
I only have a week and a half of vacation left. Urg. Enjoy the time with Claire.ReplyDelete
She loves it! She thinks it's her bath and makes the sign for 'bath' whenever she sees it!ReplyDelete
I have to agree with the others who are digging the bright blue/pink color combo. It's unexpected but goes so well. Let's not talk about summer ending...summer is my favorite and it's TOO SHORT!ReplyDelete
Gina -- On the Daily Express
Totally loving how you paired the heels and blazer with the shorts to dress up this whole outfit! And can we please not talk about summer ending--I am in denial ha!ReplyDelete
This is GORGEOUS!!!!!!!! I freaking love all of these colors together. And damn girl! Those legs go on for dayyyyssss!ReplyDelete
Love this gorgeous coral color. Pairing it with the cobalt blue also makes it look more vibrant. Beautiful.ReplyDelete
Thrifting Diva
loving that blazer! this look is fantastic and summer perfect!ReplyDelete
Love, love, love this color combination! It looks really beautiful on your skin.ReplyDelete
I'm starting to freak out about summer ending too--didn't it just begin?!
Love all these color on you - gorgeous! The shoes are adorable too. You're right - don't worry about your to do list, just have fun with your daughter!ReplyDelete
This is a great color combo!ReplyDelete
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The DNA of a battle that helped turn the tide of a war going horribly wrong for America lay buried just six inches below the surface in a Kent County cornfield.
For nearly two centuries, the musket balls, canister shot and other artifacts from intense fighting at Caulk's Field waited to tell the story of a sweltering August night in 1814, when militiamen sprang a trap on a British raiding party bent on destruction.
How did the citizen-soldiers best their battle-tested foes at Caulk's Field?
State archaeologist Julie Schablitsky hopes to figure that out. With the help of history buffs armed with metal detectors and some cadaver-sniffing dogs, she is retracing the footsteps of Sir Peter Parker, a British marine captain leading 170 troops, and a like number of militiamen commanded by Col. Philip Reed.
"This battlefield is frozen in time," Schablitsky said. "It was a pasture 200 years ago and it's a pasture now. If Captain Parker or Colonel Reed came by today, they'd know exactly where they were."
They might even recognize some of the artifacts being cleaned and cataloged in a Baltimore laboratory.
"It's not just the artifact. It's the story attached to each one," Schablitsky said. "From mid-August to mid-September in 1814, Maryland was a war zone. People were watching in terror. Houses were set on fire and people were captured. Washington burned."
The dig was set in motion by the Maryland War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission, which secured a $40,000 federal grant two years ago. Schablitsky, who works for the State Highway Administration, was tapped for the job.
Shablitsky, 43, an Annapolis resident, had been involved in other 1812 digs, but she was best known for her research on the Donner Party campsite in the Sierra Nevada range and John Paul Jones' birthplace in Scotland.
The opportunity to try to fill in the blanks at Caulk's Field intrigued state officials.
"This is easily the best-preserved 1812 battlefield in the Mid-Atlantic, thanks to the excellent stewardship of the owners, the Tulip Forest Farming Corp., who understood its importance and protected it," said Bill Pencek, the commission's executive director.
This much was known: On Aug. 30, 1814, Parker's troops came ashore from HMS Menelaus, hoping to surprise and capture Maryland militiamen to get information about Baltimore's defenses. The British already had burned Washington. They were preparing a siege of Baltimore and hoping to wipe out pockets of resistance across the Chesapeake Bay.
But the Americans knew they were coming and ambushed them just east of Georgetown Road on an 80-acre farm. During the hour-long battle, 14 British soldiers and marines died, including Parker, 28, who was shot and bled to death. The Americans suffered just three wounded.
With their commander dead and the Americans holding the high ground, the invaders retreated to their ship. Two weeks later, the British withdrew from the upper Chesapeake Bay when their siege of Baltimore and bombardment of Fort McHenry failed.
"The questions were, 'Could we find where men stood and fought? Could we find where they made camp?'" Schablitsky said. "It's really like a crime scene. You have to let the artifacts — the evidence — tell you what was going on."
Just two sets of post-battle notes — one British and one American — exist. So last April, Schablitsky enlisted the New Jersey-based Battlefield Restoration and Archaeological Volunteer Organization to scour half the field and mark each artifact with a flag.
During the height of the battle, soldiers were "shedding metal," said Schablitsky, and the pattern of brass buttons, spent munitions and coins showed the general disposition of troops. Knowing the characteristics of each side's musket shot (the American shot was smaller) and the range of the guns helped draw battle lines.
Unfired ammunition dropped in the heat of battle as soldiers on both sides hurried to reload indicates how far the British soldiers chased the Americans as they fell back to the high ground and the protection of their artillery.
"When I got out there, I wasn't that impressed," she said of the pasture. "But when I started seeing patterns, that's when my jaw dropped."
A sweep of a second 40 acres this fall indicated that the battle spread wider than originally believed.
Three cadaver-sniffing dogs independently zeroed in on three sites that most likely were used to bury British dead, except for Parker, whose body was returned to England for interment, with the eulogy delivered by his first cousin, Lord Byron. Those sites will not be touched, Schablitsky said.
Her next step is to put all the pieces together and develop a story line for the battle. Her findings will be peer-reviewed before release.
The owners of Tulip Forest Farm donated the artifacts to the state. Once cataloged, the items will be sent to the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory in St. Mary's County for evaluation, further cleaning and storage. They will be displayed, made available for researchers and could tour Maryland museums during 2014, the climax of the bicentennial celebration.
Pencek said the commission and Schablitsky will evaluate the dig and work with the property owners to ensure the battlefield remains an untouched resource.
"Everything costs money," Pencek said. "We have expended the federal funding and will need to look for other sources."
One of those sources is the 2012 Star-Spangled Banner commemorative coins. Of the 600,000 pieces authorized by the U.S. Mint, 230,000 have been sold. Sales will end on Dec. 17, at which time the commission hopes to have netted $3 million.
"The funds generated go to help preserve sites like Caulk's Field, so we hope there's a final holiday sales push," Pencek said. "If every coin is sold, the commission could net a maximum of $8.5 million."
Richard van Stolk, one of the farm's owners who manages the property, said the family "had a suspicion" that the pasture held secrets.
"We never developed it, so the potential was always there," he said. "We never let anyone out there with metal detectors because we wanted to do it properly. Now it has and we couldn't be happier."


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Eric R. Fossum
John H. Krehbiel Sr. Professor for Emerging Technologies
Director, PhD Innovation Program
Associate Provost, Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer (OETT)
John H. Krehbiel Sr. Professor for Emerging Technologies
Professor Fossum, a Queen Elizabeth Prize Laureate, is one of the world's experts in solid-state image sensors. He invented the CMOS active pixel image sensor used in almost all cell-phone cameras, webcams, many digital-still cameras and in medical imaging, among other applications. He worked at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was CEO of two successful high tech companies and is a serial entrepreneur, recently co-founding a new startup with two former PhD students, Gigajot. See his personal webpage for more information. His interests at Dartmouth are teaching and researching the next generation of solid-state image sensors for photon-counting and gigapixel cameras. He also directs Dartmouth's PhD Innovation Programs and serves as Dartmouth's Associate Provost for Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer.
- BS, Physics and Engineering, Trinity College 1979
- MS, Engineering and Applied Science (AP), Yale University 1980
- PhD, Engineering and Applied Science (EE), Yale University 1984
Research Interests
Solid-state image sensors (CCDs, CMOS active pixel sensors, Quanta Image Sensors); advanced imaging systems; on-chip image processing; new applications for image sensors
Active Research
- ENGS 60: Introduction to Solid-State Electronic Devices
- ENGM 187: Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- ENGG 300: Enterprise Experience Project
- ENGG 321: Advanced Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Selected Publications
- Photon-number-resolving megapixel image sensor at room temperature without avalanche gain (PDF), OSA Optica, vol. 4(12), pp.1474–1481 (2017).
- The Quanta Image Sensor: Every Photon Counts (PDF), MDPI Sensors, vol. 16(8), p. 1260 (2016).
- Photon Counting Error Rates in Single-Bit and Multi-Bit Quanta Image Sensors (PDF), IEEE J. Electron Devices Society, vol. 4(3), pp. 136–143 (2016).
- Determining Conversion Gain and Read Noise Using a Photon-Counting Histogram Method for Deep Sub-Electron Read Noise Image Sensors (PDF), IEEE J. Electron Devices Society, vol. 4(3), pp. 129–135 (2016).
- Characterization of Quanta Image Sensor Pump-Gate Jots With Deep Sub-Electron Read Noise (PDF), IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society, vol. 3(6), pp. 472–480 (2015).
- Modeling the Performance of Single-Bit and Multi-Bit Quanta Image Sensors (PDF), IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society, vol. 1(9), pp. 166–174 (2013).
- Camera-on-a-Chip: Technology Transfer from Saturn To Your Cell Phone (PDF), Technology and Innovation, vol. 15, pp. 197–209 (2013).
- Digital Camera System-On-A-Chip (PDF), IEEE Micro, vol. 18(3), pp. 8–15 (1998).
- Optical Society of America (OSA) and Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) Edwin H. Land Medal, 2020
- Yale Science & Engineering Association Award for Advancement of Basic and Applied Science, 2018
- Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, 2017
- Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Boy Scouts of America, 2017
- AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador, 2016
- Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow, 2015
- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Camera Origination and Imaging Medal, 2014
- Yale University Wilbur Cross Medal, 2014
- Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, Trinity College, Hartford CT, 2014
- National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Member, 2013
- National Academy of Inventors® (NAI) Charter Fellow, 2012
- National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2011
- Inventor of the Year, New York Intellectual Property Law Association, 2010
- IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award, 2009
- Royal Photographic Society Progress Medal, 2004
- Trinity College Alumni Achievement Award, 2004
- Photographic Society of America Progress Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Photography, 2003
- NASA/DoD Space Technology Hall of Fame, 1999
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1998
- NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, 1996
- JPL Lew Allen Award for Excellence, 1992
- Analog Devices Career Development Award, 1988-1990
- National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1986-1990
- IBM Faculty Development Award, 1984-1985
- Yale University Henry Prentiss Becton Prize for Excellence in Engineering and Applied Science, 1984
Selected Patents
- 172 Issued U.S. Patents (See full list)
- Gigajot Technology Inc., Co-founder
- Photobit Corporation, Co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer
- Winnibit LP, Founder and General Partner
- Active Pixel Associates, Founding Member
- Siimpel Corporation, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
- Fovius Corporation, Co-founder
Professional Activities
- Selection Board, National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Board of Directors, National Academy of Inventors (2014–2018)
- Founder and Past President, International Image Sensor Society (IISS)
- Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE, Fellow)
- Member, Optical Society of America (OSA, Fellow)
- Member, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
- Trustee, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
Dartmouth Is on the NAI's Top 100 List for U.S. Patents
Dartmouth News
June 5, 2020
Dartmouth's Entrepreneurial Community Pivots to Face Pandemic
Dartmouth News
May 1, 2020
Tech Tidbits From Around New Hampshire
NH Business Review
March 12, 2020
Eric Fossum Named Edwin H. Land Medal Recipient
March 9, 2020
Dartmouth Engineering Research Funded by DoD to Improve Night-Vision Systems
October 22, 2019
Dartmouth professor's technology drives the world's smartphones and web cameras
NH Union Leader
June 22, 2019
Dartmouth Aims to 'Supercharge the Engines of Discovery'
Dartmouth News
June 3, 2019
Alexis Abramson Named Dean of Thayer School of Engineering
Dartmouth News
April 1, 2019
Geisel, Thayer, and Tuck Name Professors to Endowed Chairs
Dartmouth News
December 4, 2018
Chip Hall of Fame: Photobit PB-100
IEEE Spectrum
July 2, 2018
Professor Fossum Receives 2018 Yale Science & Engineering Association Award for Advancement of Basic and Applied Science
Yale Science & Engineering Association
April 22, 2018
Revolutionary New Sensor Will Allow Photographers to Shoot in the Dark
February 21, 2018
Super Sensitive Sensor Sees What You Can't
February 13, 2018
How a NH professor invented the technology inside your digital camera
January 31, 2018
Dartmouth engineers produce breakthrough sensor for photography, life sciences, security
December 18, 2017
Prince Charles Presents Royal Prize to Thayer Professor
Dartmouth News
December 11, 2017
Global report highlights increasing influence of engineering on the economy
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
December 5, 2017
How NASA helped the digital camera soar to success
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
November 24, 2017
Celebrating the creation of digital imaging sensors
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
November 3, 2017
Dartmouth Is on the NAI's Top 100 List for U.S. Patents
Dartmouth News
July 13, 2017
My Turn: Support federal investment in science
Concord Monitor
June 1, 2017
Professors Who Invent Attract Engineering Students – Here's Why
March 10, 2017
Helping to shrink digital cameras wins a big prize for Dartmouth professor
Concord Monitor
February 14, 2017
Meet The Inventors Who Turned Billions Of Phones Into Cameras
February 2, 2017
The inventor responsible for smartphone cameras says selfies and cat videos were biggest surprise
Business Insider UK
February 1, 2017
Meet the Inventors Who Helped Put a Camera Phone in Everyone's Pocket
February 1, 2017
£1m Queen Elizabeth Prize: Digital camera tech lauded
BBC News
February 1, 2017
Dartmouth Prof. Fossum Wins Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
February 1, 2017
5 Questions for a Scientist: Inventor and Engineer Eric Fossum
December 15, 2016
Madden and Fossum to Head Research, Tech Transfer Efforts
Dartmouth News
December 7, 2016
7 things in your daily life that you didn't know were based on NASA innovations
Business Insider
December 6, 2016
Professor Eric Fossum Selected for the 2016-17 Class of AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassadors
June 2, 2016
These are the invisible cameras of the future
March 27, 2016
Image sensor research now underway promises to overhaul low-light photography — eventually
The Next Web
October 15, 2015
Low-light photography to become far better through a new image sensor
International Business Times
October 14, 2015
The inventor of the CMOS is working on a revolutionary 1-billion pixel sensor
October 12, 2015
Seeing the Light ... and Measuring It
Dartmouth Now
September 30, 2015
Engineering researchers produce breakthrough for photography
September 29, 2015
The Light-Based Technologies Inside Your Favorite Digital Camera
IEEE – The Institute
August 10, 2015
A story of sensors
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
November 18, 2014
Ideas at Collegiate Inventors Competition 'represent a significant innovative leap'
USA Today College
November 4, 2014
Dartmouth Engineering Professor Receives SMPTE's Camera Origination and Imaging Medal
August 26, 2014
Camp Invention encourages youths to take risks, be creative
August 1, 2014
Dartmouth Professor Eric Fossum Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Dartmouth Now
February 7, 2013
Dartmouth Engineering Professor Named National Academy of Inventors Charter Fellow
December 18, 2012
Investigator Spotlights
Dartmouth Now
June 5, 2012
2012 Image Sensors Conference to Showcase Latest Developments in 3D Imaging Technology
March 12, 2012
MicroStrain partners with Dartmouth
Burlington Free Press
September 29, 2011
NSF's Partnerships for Innovations connects engineering PhDs with small business
September 21, 2011
You've Never Heard of Them, but They've Changed Your Life
May 5, 2011
National Inventors Hall Of Fame Honors 2011 Inductees
May 4, 2011
Dartmouth professor joins Inventor Hall of Fame
Nashua Telegraph
March 4, 2011
Dartmouth inventor of phone camera to be honored
New Hampshire Business Review (NHBR)
March 4, 2011
Meet the 2011 National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees
March 3, 2011
Baby boomer inventions that changed the world
December 30, 2010
In Dartmouth Engineer Magazine
Kudos: Summer 2020
Web Extra, July 2020
Kudos: Spring 2019
Web Extra, March 2019
Eric R. Fossum and Brian W. Pogued Named to Endowed Professorships
Web Extra, March 2019
New Thayer Spin-Off Aims to Revolutionize Digital Imaging
Web Extra, August 2018
Kudos: Spring 2018
Web Extra, May 2018
A Superhero Among Us
Web Extra, May 2018
150 Thayer Gifts to the World: Part 1
Web Extra, December 2017
150 Thayer Gifts to the World: Part 2
Web Extra, December 2017
Back Cover: Royal Praise
Web Extra, December 2017
Fossum Wins Highest Engineering Prize
Web Extra, March 2017
Web Extra, August 2016
Perspective: Commitment and Creativity
Winter 2016
Winter 2016
Lab Reports
Winter 2016
Spring 2015
The Inventor's Eye
Spring 2015
Fall 2014
Engineering Entrepreneurs
Fall 2013
Q&A with Cell Phone Camera Inventor Eric Fossum
Web Extra, June 2013
Winter 2013
Summer 2012
Inventions: CMOS Image Sensor
Summer 2011
Cummings and Goings: New and Departing Profs
Summer 2010
The Krehbiel Professorship Lecture
National Inventors Hall of Fame pays tribute to Fossum's "Innovation Legacy"
Fossum speaks with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) for Enrichment in Spring 2017
Engineering PhD Innovation Program at Dartmouth
Professor Fossum describes his research and teaching at Dartmouth
Seminar: The Science and Technology of Digital Image Sensors


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The Criminal Clinic is divided into two programs: the Trial Clinic and the Appellate Clinic. Both are year-long, ten credit offerings in which law students represent indigent criminal defendants in the Connecticut state courts under the supervision of the Clinic's two full-time professors. Typically third year students take the Trial Clinic. Second year students more typically enroll in the Appellate Clinic. Criminal Procedure and Evidence are pre- or co-requisites for the Criminal Clinics (see the appropriate clinic description below for specific details).
Students are given as much responsibility in a Criminal Clinic client's case as the supervising professor believes the student can handle, consistent with the clinic's commitment to the highest standards of criminal defense. Our goal is to train student attorneys so thoroughly in the animating principles of defense lawyering that the student attorney will ultimately be able to spearhead his or her casework, not merely follow a supervisor's lead. To attain that goal, the programs begin with a thorough steeping in the "first principles" of constitutional criminal law and procedure, the Connecticut Penal Code and Connecticut rules of criminal procedure, and the demanding ethics of defense lawyering. While training continues throughout the school year (class seminars, simulations, video exercises, mock trials, etc.), the field work component of the clinic experience is the "hub" of the clinical experience. Some students are likely to be assigned case responsibilities early in the fall semester, others later in the semester, in the discretion of the supervising professors.
We strongly recommend that those considering enrollment in one of the Criminal Clinic programs speak with a student currently enrolled or to one of our nearly 400 alumni. The Clinic's Office Administrator has a contact list of current clinic students and clinic alumni.
The Criminal Clinics develop a student's technical professional competence in the criminal law so that our student attorneys can practice in the clinic consistent with the highest standards of criminal defense and so that our students attorneys can reflect on and maximize their learning from their professional experiences in the clinic. Our clients' cases "bring alive," and thereby confront student attorneys, with the myriad legal, social, economic and political issues that are omnipresent in the practice of criminal law: the potentiality for defining and doing justice in the criminal justice system; the obstacles to doing justice in the criminal justice process; the system's treatment of individual persons (defendants, complainants, witnesses, etc.); the cultural and communicative links and gulfs between lawyers and clients–particularly indigent clients; a lawyer's sometimes conflictive duties to his client and to others (the Bar, the Courts, society, to the lawyer's own values); and the need for decision-making that is timely, competent, ethical, legal and true to a client's interests/goals.
In 2003, the Criminal Clinic was recognized with the Champion of Liberty Award from the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association in recognition of training criminal defense lawyers for more than 30 years. In 1999, the Clinic was recognized with the Pro Bono Award from the Hartford County Bar Association for "outstanding community service in the provision of free legal service to needy citizens of Hartford County."
If you have questions or comments about the Criminal Trial Clinic, please do not hesitate to call, write or e-mail us.
Todd D. Fernow, Director of Criminal Clinics and Professor of Law
Timothy H. Everett, Clinical Professor of Law
Carmen Arroyo, Office Administrator
65 Elizabeth Street
Hartford, CT 06105-2290
Tel. 860-570-5165 Fax 860-570-5195
A detailed classroom study of Connecticut and federal appellate law and practice, with special emphasis on the processing of criminal appeals and writs of habeas corpus, the practice and perfection of appellate research, brief writing and advocacy skills. The Clinic represents indigent clients on direct appeal from conviction and in habeas corpus actions. Most appeals are to the Connecticut Supreme and Appellate Courts, while our habeas work brings us to the United States District Court of Connecticut and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Student representation includes presenting oral argument in state or federal court. Pre- or Co-requisites: Criminal Procedure and Evidence.
The Criminal Clinic has handled more than seventy appeals to the Connecticut Supreme and Appellate Courts over the last two decades. The Clinic has also handled assorted other post-conviction matters, such as pardon and parole applications, sentence modification and sentence review case, etc. A small sample of post-conviction cases handled by the Criminal Clinic:
State v. Sam, 98 Conn. App. 13 (2006)
On October 10, 2006 the Connecticut Appellate Court upheld a right to counsel claim made by the criminal clinic in a case on which students co-wrote the defendant's briefs and which a student, Emily Dean '06, argued in late May. The Appellate Court reversed the defendant's six felony convictions and ordered a new trial.
Johnson v. Commissioner, 258 Conn. 804 (2002)
Appellate Clinic student co-wrote Connecticut Supreme Court brief and then presented oral argument in support of lower court's judgment in our client's favor (won by two other Clinic students the previous year). Client was a prisoner who challenged a new parole eligibility law. Under new parole law, petitioner (and over 800 other Connecticut inmates) were required to serve an extra 35% of their sentences before being parole eligible. At the habeas corpus trial the Trial Clinic prevailed on constitutional grounds (violation of ex post facto prohibition). On appeal the Supreme Court affirmed on statutory grounds.
Beasley (& Narducci) v. Commissioner, 50 Conn. App. 421 (1998), aff'd, 249 Conn. 499 (1999)
Appeal from denial of habeas corpus actions brought by two inmates deprived of opportunity to earn statutory good time reductions in their sentences because they were transferred to Connecticut's super-maximum security prison, Northern Correctional, and placed in administrative segregation for a minimum of one year. Case was tried by clinic students at trial level. Appellate Court and Supreme Court both rejected constitutional and statutory challenges to administrative policy excluding inmates at Northern from earning good time.
State v. Wilkins, 240 Conn. 489 (1997)
Search and Seizure case argued before Connecticut Supreme Court by student attorney. Raised state constitutional issue: whether police may search a car for weapons when its driver and passenger have been removed, personally frisked, and the police intend to give them a traffic summons and release them if no weapons are found.
State v. Linares, 232 Conn. 345 (1995)
Client prosecuted under never-before-used statute, interfering with the legislative process, for chanting "Gay rights, lesbian rights," during Governor O'Neill's last state of the state address. Client challenged statute's constitutionality facially and as it applied to her. Client pled nolo contendere conditional on right to pursue appeal of free speech issues. Supreme Court held that Connecticut Constitution is more speech protective than first amendment but upheld constitutionality of statute.
State v. Hammond, 221 Conn. 264 (1992)
Won remand to the trial court for reconsideration of defendant's motion for new trial/post-trial discovery based on DNA profiling and blood testing in sexual assault/kidnapping case. Argued by student attorney. (On remand the trial court vacated the convictions and ordered new trial.)
Phillips v. Warden, 220 Conn. 112 (1991)
Writ of habeas corpus claiming ineffective assistance of counsel: trial counsel had conflict of interest where counsel, himself convicted of murder in a notorious court case, continued to practice law while taking appeal and represented petitioner at trial without taking any precautions to ensure that jurors did not hold lawyer's conviction against his client. Habeas case originally tried in Superior Court by student attorneys; students co-wrote appellate briefs and participated in oral argument before Connecticut Appellate and Supreme Courts. Connecticut Supreme Court ultimately ruled for petitioner and ordered new trial.
Students and Clinic staff handle criminal and related cases for indigent criminal defendants at the trial level in state courts and, on occasion, in federal courts. Students have primary responsibility for conducting an appropriate investigation, doing legal research, preparing pleadings, and setting an agenda for each court appearance at every stage of the case, including bond argument, arraignment, pretrial discussions, coordinating diversionary programs, arguing pretrial motions, trial, and sentencing. Students represent clients in felony and misdemeanor cases. We have also represented victims and witnesses involved in the criminal justice process. Prerequisites: Criminal Procedure and Evidence.
A small sample of the kinds of cases handled by the Trial Division:
State v. S.L.
Our client was a 21 year old mother with a two year old baby. The father of the baby was an underage school mate of the client at the time of conception. Three years after alleged criminal act, State charged client with sexual assault in the second degree (statutory rape), which carries mandatory 9 month prison sentence and which would also have required that client register and appear on an Internet web-site for ten years as a Sex Offender under Connecticut's "Megan's Law". Clinic negotiated with prosecutor for reduction of charge to misdemeanor to avoid mandatory jail time, then filed numerous pleadings, including a motion challenging Megan's law's constitutionality as applied to client and a motion for the court to recognize the child as a "victim" under state law and to appoint a lawyer to represent child's interests (in having mother not subject to Sex Offender registration). Court recognized child as "victim" and permitted a guardian ad litem to appear to represent child's interests. The Court later issued an order that the state may not require the client to comply with either the community notification or the registration requirements of Megan's Law. On the misdemeanor charge, client received suspended sentence and a short period of "conditional discharge" (similar to unsupervised probation).
State v. C.L.
Our client was an 18 year old high school student charged with a felony for stabbing another teenager in the back during a street brawl. Although the victim's injuries were not life-threatening, both the prosecutor and judge expressed views at the outset that the crime was too serious for resolution through a form of pretrial probation, called accelerated rehabilitation, that, once completed, results in the defendant having a clean record. After extensive investigation of the numerous eyewitnesses in the case and protracted and intense negotiations with the prosecutor, the charges were reduced and client was ultimately given accelerated rehabilitation.
State v. John Doe
In the middle of a first degree sexual assault trial, the defendant's attorney contacted the Criminal Clinic and we agreed to file a "motion in limine" and supporting memorandum of law on the defendant's behalf asking that the trial judge bar the state from using the defendant's arson conviction last year for impeachment purposes when the defendant testified in his defense. Connecticut evidence law makes such a felony conviction presumptively admissible for impeachment purposes. Working on extremely short notice, three student attorneys researched and drafted a lengthy memorandum setting forth multiple grounds for barring impeachment and one of the students presented oral argument to the court–which granted the motion in limine for the defense. The defendant testified and was later acquitted by the jury.
Johnson v. Commissioner of Correction, New London Superior Court
Criminal Clinic prevailed in habeas corpus action on behalf of prisoner by showing that a 1996 parole eligibility law violates the ex post facto prohibition in the federal constitution. Testimony established that the petitioner and over 800 other Connecticut inmates in like circumstances (in prison for offense committed before effective date of new parole law) must under the law serve an extra 35% of their sentences before becoming parole eligible. The Attorney General appealed. Two Trial Division students represented petitioner at his habeas trial. After an appellate clinic student argued the case on appeal, the Supreme Court affirmed the judgment in our client's favor. Johnson v. Commissioner, 258 Conn. 804 (2002).
Beasley and Narducci v. Commissioner of Correction
Seven day trial in 1997. Two inmates at Connecticut's "supermax" facility, Northern Correctional Institution, made multiple statutory and constitutional challenges to an administrative directive that denies inmates confined in that institution the opportunity to earn statutory "good time" reductions in their actual term of incarceration. Student co-tried case and two students appeared in the cases on appeal. Beasley v. Commissioner, 50 Conn. App. 421 (1998), aff'd, 249 Conn. 499 (1999).
State v. Copas
Four month murder trial in Rockville Superior Court. Four legal interns acted as co-counsel with a Clinic attorney and the Public Defender. Students had active involvement in pretrial motions practice and hearings, jury selection, developing trial strategies, performing investigations, client counseling, etc.
State v. S & C
Clients ran underground needle exchange program in Willimantic to combat spread of AIDS through sharing of needles by IV drug users. Common law necessity defense raised; efforts included joining in successful lobbying effort to have legislature de-criminalize possession of hypodermic needles.
State v. R.G., Hartford Superior Court
Client charged with first degree larceny for AFDC, TFA, and Food Stamp Fraud of over $10,000 in benefits. After investigation, the Clinic prevailed on prosecutor to reduce charge to third degree larceny, making client eligible for Accelerated Rehabilitation ("AR"). Negotiated terms of AR to reduce restitution sum to $4,000, with further reduction of that figure by set-off for sums that the Department of Social Services was already administratively recouping by reducing client's current benefits. Client in the end paid less than $2,000 in out-of-pocket restitution. The prosecution was dismissed in September, 2000.
In re T.G.
The Clinic successfully procured a pardon for a woman originally from Eritrea who had three convictions for shoplifting stemming from the period ten years ago when she was still making the radical shift from life in that impoverished, war-ravaged country to life in the U.S.A. An unexpected opportunity to meet an individual who could educate her attorneys on the Ethiopia/Eritrean struggles of the last two decades. As a rule, we take pardons cases very infrequently. In this instance the client found us and hearing her story was enough to overcome our policy.


text: Show Hide image Politics 13 December 2012 Race, bling and les Bleus A story of modern France and modern football. Sign-up Tout seul: Souvenirs Raymond Domenech Flammarion, 400pp, €19.90 As almost every French person knows, at halftime during France's hopeless defeat to Mexico in the 2010 football World Cup, the forward Nicolas Anelka shouted at his coach, Raymond Domenech: "Enculé! [Usually translated as "bugger" or worse.] Do it yourself then, with your shit team! Me, I'm quitting." All those involved being French, what shocked Domenech most was that Anelka had addressed him with the familiar "tu" instead of the formal "vous". This encounter led to another quintessentially French moment: after Dome - nech and France's football federation expelled Anelka from the squad, the players went on strike mid-World Cup. The phrase "the bus of shame" – the bus that the players sat in one day, refusing to train – has entered the French language. Domenech shared the blame for the national disgrace. Today, he is a pariah in France. His bizarre new memoir, Tout seul ("all alone"), is his attempt to explain how things got so bad. It's unlike any other football memoir, often unintentionally hilarious and filled with character assassinations of almost every major French player of his era, from Anelka to Zinedine Zidane. Domenech claims he could only have written it with two years' distance; one hardly dares imagine what he would have written in the heat of the moment. It's a story of modern France and modern football. Above all, it works as a business book in reverse: a study in how not to manage people. A working-class boy from Lyon, Domenech grew up to be an aggressive, moustachioed foot - baller. He played eight times for France in the 1970s and later became coach of France's youth teams. In 2004, he used his political skills to procure the top job. ("The network, Gérard Houllier used to tell us at the coaching courses, the network . . .") During his six years managing France, he kept a diary, which is the basis for Tout seul. From the start, Domenech was a solitary figure inside the French football establishment. First, he writes, others didn't consider him "legitimate" because he hadn't been a great footballer. Second, as an intellectual by footballing standards (he is a keen amateur actor), he was inclined to look down on his players. And, as the book reveals, he didn't possess people skills. The team he inherited had long been run by the players. In 1998 and 2000, when France won the World Cup and then the European Football Championship, it is said that Laurent "Le Président" Blanc, the team's leader (Didier Deschamps was officially captain), would ceremonially punch any player who disrupted the collective. (In 2010, Blanc succeeded Dome - nech as France's manager.) Domenech set out to deprive his players of power. Nobody's advice was required. Doctors and physiotherapists who were too close to the players were ousted. No wonder that Zidane, his captain at the World Cup of 2006, told him: "I feel I'm not of any use as captain. The players ask me what's happening and I can never answer them." Still, after a poor start, a brilliant Zidane led the French to the World Cup final against Italy. In Berlin, however, Zidane headbutted the Italian Marco Materazzi – a moment now immortalised by a statue in front of the Pompidou Centre in Paris – and was sent off. France lost, agonisingly, in the penalty shoot-out when David Trezeguet's kick hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced out. That's how close Domenech got to winning a World Cup. Domenech – who constantly breaks footballing taboos by revealing intimate moments behind closed doors – describes the changingroom scene after the defeat. He made a speech praising Zidane, who was retiring from football immediately, and asked the players to applaud their captain. "There was only the grinding of teeth," he recalls, "and my applause was not spontaneously followed . . . Certain players really hated their captain." They could not forgive Zidane for sabotaging victory, he says. Nor, it seems, could Domenech. He notes that Zidane was a serial offender, sent off 13 times previously. And he has an interesting theory about Zidane's self-destructive headbutt: it looked, he writes, as if Zidane was "taking revenge on his own glory, as if he felt his success was as miraculous as it was unbearable". Perhaps there is something in this. That headbutt ended a glorious French era. I live in Paris and, over the next four years, I spent many freezing evenings at the Stade de France watching Domenech's France play souldestroyingly ugly football. For the most part, Domenech blames the players. After 2006, Zidane et al exited, to be replaced by the first generation of footballers to have become millionaires on signing their first contract. Football had changed in the 1990s, with fortunes flowing in from television, and the "Bosman ruling", which gave footballers greater freedom of contract. When Domenech broke into Olym - pique Lyonnais's first team as a teenager in 1969, he earned 900 francs a month, or about what his dad made in the factory. When Karim Benzema was a teenager at Lyon 35 years later, he earned €250,000 a month. These young men had different habits. They would sleep all afternoon and then sit up into the early morning, having endless conversations. They "erected friendship into a supreme value, yet would break it because of an insult or a reported comment". They disrespected authority. From the start, Domenech seems to have regarded many of his players with contempt. "It is always difficult to know what these immature boys have in their heads," he writes. Rereading his diary from the last World Cup, he feels "rising inside me a fund of hatred that I cannot contain". His sketches of his players – highly respected figures internationally, many of them stalwarts of English clubs – are startlingly candid. There's almost an entire psycho- biography here of Anelka alone. A few samples will have to suffice. On Samir Nasri: "In a group, he always pushes where it hurts and reveals the sore spot instead of soothing it. And as a playmaker, he is just illusory . . . As the quality of his game isn't excellent, the balance is worse than meagre." On William Gallas: "He will never be a leader . . . Nobody could bear his attitude." When Domenech refused to give the players a Sunday off, Gallas allegedly threatened to play badly in a qualifying match. On Florent Malouda: "Glory has made him pretentious." On Hatem Ben Arfa, Domenech cites the verdict of a senior player: "Punches, without hesitation." On Anelka, seen playing for Chelsea: "It's a bizarre impression: he serves no point yet has an exceptional aura. You are reminded of Cantona." Benzema's lack of responsiveness in conversation reminds Domenech of a "young Anelka". Franck Ribéry, France's best player, is repeatedly depicted as a narcissist with learning difficulties who refuses to play anywhere but left wing. Even Thierry Henry is shown playing the disc jockey and not bothering to warm up when he was substitute before that fatal France-Mexico match. Then there are all the conflicts between players. Domenech doesn't take Nasri to the World Cup in 2010 because the midfielder and Ribéry loathe each other, "angry over a story of money and family". Gallas also dislikes Nasri. Malouda, Yoann Gourcuff, Henry and Patrick Vieira all clash with Ribéry. Players won't pass to Gourcuff. The list goes on. No doubt this generation of French players is a bit of a menagerie. It's often said that the hardest job in international football is managing England but at least English players are mostly obedient. The media and public demand it of them, because the historical role model for an English footballer is the soldier. They order these matters differently in France. Nonetheless, Domenech's complaints aren't good enough. If you are a football manager, you can't just whine about young people today. You have to work with them. Great managers, such as Alex Ferguson or Guus Hiddink, can work with almost anyone (in Ferguson's case, even with Cantona). The players whom Dome - nech savages have all succeeded at their clubs. Admittedly, club managers have more control than national managers over the weapons of pay and career. However, national managers can offer glory: a World Cup trumps any Champions League and the players know it. High pay hasn't spoiled all footballers: of the 32 teams at the 2010 World Cup, only one went on strike. In short, the problem is mostly Domenech. Partly it's because he stuck with one unhelpful bit of the old corporate culture of the French team: an old-fashioned rhetoric about the values of football and of France. In the "bus of shame", Domenech spoke to the striking players "of the dignity of their country, the judgement of their families, the honour of football". They weren't persuaded. Probably nobody under 35 who works in football believes this sort of thing. Tout seul never mentions the issue of ethnicity but these players overwhelmingly grew up in black and brown ghettos far from the French mainstream. What, they might have reflected, had France ever done for them? In the end, he cannot reach them, mostly because he's bad with people. About the only hint of empathy he shows for any player is when he writes that Ribéry, "for various reasons, was in a psychologically difficult phase". However, he immediately adds: "In my eyes it was unimaginable to give in to his caprice." Domenech worships the collective but not the people in it. The title Tout seul, presumably intended to evoke pity, contains another truth: he had no friends. From autumn 2006 onwards, Domenech appears increasingly tired, angry and apparently depressed. The media tear him apart. Unlike, say, England's last manager, Fabio Capello, he seems a sensitive man and sensitivity is a handicap in this job. He now realises that he should have resigned earlier. "Happy are those who can stop at the summit," he reflects in 2009. He continued partly because he saw himself as a battler, partly because he couldn't face a shameful exit and partly, surely, because he wanted the pay. In any case, staying was a selfish decision. The team was already splintering at Euro 2008 (even worse than at the World Cup, he darkly hints) and Domenech's reputation suffered when, after France's elimination, with the nation already angry, he ignored an interviewer's questions about the shambles and instead proposed to his girlfriend live on television. (His girlfriend was furious, too.) Two years later in South Africa, his team disintegrated. Writing about that last World Cup, he finally drops his cocksureness and admits mistakes. For instance, he had decided not to take Henry to South Africa but ended up picking him – for "emotional reasons", he claims, but in truth probably because his nerves were shot and he couldn't face the public uproar that Henry's ejection would have provoked. He blundered again in South Africa by reading out his players' declaration of their strike to the TV cameras – thereby associating himself with a reviled act of which even he disapproved. (His first thought, on seeing the declaration, was to wonder who had written the long words for them.) Domenech returned from South Africa so despised in France that his three-year-old son asked him: "Papa, are you going to go to prison?" Two years later, things have scarcely improved. "At the head of my next team," he fantasises at one point, "I'll probably change my manner of functioning." If that team comes, it might be in a desert or on a Pacific island. Domenech currently works for France's coaches' trade union and as a pundit for a small cable TV channel. He dedicates Tout seul to "members of my family, who had the heavy burden of carrying this name for six years". He wrote the book, he explains at the end, for fear "that all that will be left of me is the memory of a bus. I wanted to leave another trace." Yet all that will most likely be left of him is the memory of a bus. Simon Kuper is the author of "The Football Men" (Simon & Schuster, £8.99) Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! This article first appeared in the 17 December 2012 issue of the New Statesman, Will Europe ever go to war again? SUBSCRIBE More


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Travelling to the US? Make sure you've packed your gadgets' rechargeable batteries properly, as new rules governing what power cells you can take with you are now in force.
The bottom line is don't keep batteries in luggage you plan to check in, unless they're installed within a device. Spare batteries must be packed in your hand luggage not in checked baggage.
In fact, the US Department of Transportation recommends that all batteries, in and out of their host gadgets, be taken on board aircraft in hand luggage.
Lithium Metal batteries can't be brought on board at all if they contain more than 2g of lithium, while the Lithium Ion batteries of the kind usually found powering laptops are limited to no more than 25g of lithium overall, to allow you can take one 25g lithium battery or two 12g batteries on board, for example.
The DoT reckons all mobile phone batteries contain less than 8g of lithium, as do most laptop batteries. According to the DoT, 25g is approximately 300 Watt-hours (Wh), while 8g is roughly 100Wh.
An 5200mAh Eee PC battery - as we have one handy - delivers 7.4V and so yields 38.48Wh - just multiply the voltage and current values - and that's well within the 300Wh limit imposed by the DoT.
You can see the full rules here.
Spare batteries should be packed to prevent any of their contacts touching metal within your bag, which could lead to a short-circuit and the risk of fire. Basically, keep spare batteries tighty wrapped in a plastic bag secured with a non-metallic take. Only one battery per bag, please.


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MB-08 has been named Double Evil but represents a Masterpiece Scaled character we know as OverLord and no matter what they call him we call him some serious firepower. Just as before Double Evil will transform into two vehicles (Tank & Jet) and will also have two PowerMasters to be their Pilots. Unlike MB-06 PowerBaser not only will they be able to combine with (and possibly interact with weaponry) but they will also get to pilot just like the G1 toys. Unlike their G1 counterparts though there will many improvements as you would expect on an MP scale such as working tank treads. This is shaping up to be the massive bot we expected from Fans Hobby… We may have another home run on our hands. Well done Fans Hobby as usual between design, materials, craftsmanship, and just overall value you guys have our full attention.
Base Mode: This is not an "afterthought" base mode, much attention was paid to the overall design and end result of the base mode this time. Much like the MB-09 Trailers I believe this will also be consider somewhat of a "play-set" in this mode. You can see the size of it alone next to MB-06 PowerBaser (MP Scaled PowerMaster Optimus Prime) and this guy is huge.
Vehicle Mode(s): I am just going to throw the couple phrases "Pilots" and "Working Tanks Treads" out here again and let the pictures do the talking.
Bot Mode: This guy is huge… This looks to be an amazing MP scaled OverLord based on the G1 toys and cartoons. Look at the detail and articulation on this bot compared to his sized and you know he is just a true monster.
Conclusion: Prime may need a hand from the looks of it (MB-11). Double Evil looks towering and sinister as he should. I believe this will make it's way into many MP collections when released and personally I cannot wait to get this guy next to PowerBaser And MP Star Saber.
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Nintendo to 'actively support' Japanese 3DS devs in North America
Nintendo's portable business has picked up since the 3DS' dramatic price drop, but the company was still forced to lower its earnings forecast last year because of lower-than-expected sales. The company wants to secure games to boost its popularity, and has now committed to assisting Japanese third-parties in bringing games to North America.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said in a results briefing that the move is being prompted by lower third-party support for portable devices in western markets like North America, while Japanese portable development continues to stay strong.
"Recently, third-party software developers overseas have been inclined to focus on mega-hit titles for home consoles and have had less of their development studios develop software for handheld devices," he said. "Some developers, which make game content suitable for children, work on titles for Nintendo 3DS, but they are not as active as the time of Nintendo DS.
"On the other hand, as the handheld devices occupy a large share of the video game market and software for handheld devices is important in the video game business in Japan, Japanese software developers are eagerly assigning their top teams to develop key titles for Nintendo 3DS. We therefore plan to more actively support the Japanese software developers in distributing their key titles overseas this year."
Iwata didn't address what form that support might take, but the mention of distribution implies the company could be interested in publishing arrangements.


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There's an old sketch from MTV's brilliant The State, where a kid reprimands his obnoxious classmates, saying, "You can't even joke about it! You just can't say 'Gee, wouldn't it be great if we shot the President,'" which results in a swarm of Secret Service agents flooding the classroom and carrying him away. Well, that isn't much of an exaggeration.
That same, basic scenario befell Vito LaPinta, a 13-year-old from Tacoma, who was interrogated by a Secret Service agent after he posted an observation on Facebook that (and I'm quoting Vito, let's just be clear here) President Obama should be "careful because there could be suicide bombers" seeking vengeance for Osama bin Laden.
A week after writing that, Vito recalled for the local Fox affiliate, he was pulled out of class and brought to the principal's office:
"A man walked in with a suit and glasses and he said he was part of the Secret Service. He told me it was because of a post I made that indicated I was a threat toward the President. I was very scared."
After a half-hour of questioning, Vito was deemed not a threat, and was released. His mom is pissed, because all of this went down without her present. But I'm actually kind of impressed? I guess all those Obama/Zuckerberg summits are really paying information-exchange dividends! [KCPQ via Daily Mail, screengrab via KCPQ]


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Sony announced this morning in an official release that they've sold more than 5.3 million PS4 units worldwide as of February 8, 2014. That's quite impressive if you consider it's still not out yet in Japan for four days and only three months have passed since it's November launch.
Hopefully these numbers mean more games (and localizations, yeah I'm looking at you Yakuza Restoration) in the future.
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Bedrooms are places of repose and rejuvenation. The Beach Boys sang of such special sanctuaries long ago, as the Vietnam War began: "There's a world where I can go, and tell my secrets to, in my room, in my room," they crooned. "In this world I lock out all my worries and my fears…"
Why can't they also be places of remembrance? That's the idea behind a starkly beautiful new book, Bedrooms of the Fallen, by photographer Ashley Gilbertson. The volume consists of still-life photographs of 40 bedrooms, where troops from the U.S. and around the world slept before dying in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, or their aftermath. It's to be published by the University of Chicago Press this June.
"When we lived with our parents, most of us had one room to ourselves. Our bedroom was the space we took ownership of, and in it we placed the things we loved most, reminders of what we longed for and aspired to," Gilberston writes. "It was a place to which we could retreat from the world and feel protected. There we could express ourselves without judgment, and only our mothers could make us clean it."
Gilbertson spent seven years on the book, including six in Iraq. He dedicates it to Marine Lance Corporal Billy Miller, who accompanied him up a minaret in Fallujah in 2004, to photograph a slain militant who had been using the mosque's highest point as a sniper's nest. "Moments before we reached the top, Miller was shot pointblank by an enemy fighter. I ran out as fast as I could, covered in Miller's blood, forever changed," Gilberston says. "I came home…Billy Miller didn't. I needed to photograph his absence."
He decided to honor some of those who never made it back by visiting their empty rooms, preserved, usually, by parents. You get a sense, gazing at the photos and reading of their losses, that some Moms and Dads secretly hope that so long as the bedrooms remain as they were, the sleepyheads that rested there might return.
The black and white photographs ("I wanted to present them neutrally, without the distraction of color, so that the viewer could digest as much of the detail as possible") capture the personality of their occupants.
There are sports trophies and hockey sticks. Cheap stereos. A Lord of the Rings poster on one wall; the Soldier's Creed on another. The deaths date back more than a decade, which may account for a set of World Book encyclopedia on one shelf, and the not-so-flat TV screens on several others. Two belonged to women; another pair belonged to soldiers who killed themselves.
Gilbertson says his wife, Joanna, came up with the idea of capturing war by photographing barren bedrooms. Their emptiness, he adds, says as much about war as any of the photographs he made in Iraq while under contract with the New York Times. "The tragedy and the finality of this space was, to my heart, a more telling and honest explanation of what I had witnessed in Iraq than the countless photographs I had made there," he writes. "The exploding bombs, morgues overflowing with corpses, and wounded soldiers being loaded onto helicopters were thousands of miles away. But in bedrooms like this, it felt like the conflicts were just outside, pressing against the walls."
A website dedicated to the effort sums it up like this: "The purpose of this project is to honor these fallen—not simply as soldiers, marines, airmen and seamen, but as sons, daughters, sisters and brothers—and to remind us that before they fought, they lived, and they slept, just like us, at home."
Hanging heavily over every photograph is the unspoken truth that while war is ignited by the old, they don't fight it. "One thing that all the rooms here have in common is that they belonged to young people, people just out of high school, mostly, people well on their way to adulthood but still living in their parents' homes, sleeping in single beds, often with a teddy bear or two looking over them—like children," author Philip Gourevitch notes in the foreword. "That is who we send to fight our wars for us, our children."
These are simply temporal temples to those who once dreamed there, frozen in pillowed amber. "Now it's dark and I'm alone," Brian Wilson and his brothers sang, when they were about the same age as those troops who didn't come back. "But I won't be afraid…in my room."
Ashley Gilbertson is a photographer at VII Photo and is principal at Shell Shock Pictures
Mark Thompson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has covered national security in Washington since 1979, and for TIME since 1994.


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Winter temps draw in thieves
Car thefts on the rise
Thieves are using the bitter temperatures to their advantage, taking an open invitation to cars that are heating up for drivers.
Omaha police said more than 50 percent of cars stolen are running without the driver inside. Lt. Matthew Lippold said car theft goes up when the temperature goes down.
"I truly believe they are looking around in the morning time for cars that are running," Lippold said.
Anne Dyke found that out the hard way after she left her car running while dropping her child off at day care near 80th and Webster streets. She said she was gone for nearly three minutes.
"I had my brand-new Macbook laptop in the there, my baby's pack and play, stroller, car seat, breast pump," Dyke said.
Dyke said she is out nearly $3,000 along with her 2012 Nissan Altima.
"It's easy to become a victim, and it happens in just minutes," Lippold said.


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iHeartCountry ICONS with Vince Gill: How to Watch Live
By Taylor Fields
August 12, 2019
Vince Gill has been writing and releasing country music for nearly four decades. After 14 (soon to be 15) full-length studio albums under his belt, several hall of fame inductions and 21 Grammy awards, among other accolades, he has certainly earned the title of "music icon." To celebrate his incredible career and the release of his new album Okie, Gill is performing live during an intimate show — iHeartCountry ICONS with Vince Gill — in New York City on August 27th, and fans from all across the country will be able to tune in and watch live.
Okie is Gill's 15th album and follows 2016's Down to My Last Bad Habit. According to a press release, the new LP gets its name "from the once-derogatory term used to disparage migrants from Oklahoma to the nation's west coast during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression eras." In a statement, the Oklahoma native says of the new project, "I thought this was going to be a songwriter record, not a concept album. It wound up being more information than I'd envisioned. A friend sent me an email saying, 'You could have only written this record after living a 60-year-plus life.' He said, 'There's no struggle in these songs, just truth and your experience."
During iHeartCountry ICONS with Vince Gill, the country star will open up about his career, his new album Okie, and more during an exclusive Q&A hosted by Cody Alan, as well as perform some of his new music live among fan favorites.
How To Stream The Show
Fans can listen and tune in free for a video stream of the exclusive iHeartCountry ICONS with Vince Gill on Tuesday, August 27th at 7pm local time via LiveXLive.
Get pumped for the show and listen to some of Vince Gill's new music from Okie below.


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Entrepreneurs are hard-wired to spot opportunities and build solutions. So with everyone feeling a bit schizophrenic after the past week — from the blasts to the aftermath to the president's visit to the shootings to the manhunt — we saw a bit of a schizophrenic reaction in the local tech scene.
Almost instantly, days before the city announced its One Fund charitable initiative, a group of entrepreneurs began raising money for victims using the site Fundraise.com. By Friday, they'd blown past an initial goal of $50,000 and were closing in on $200,000. Others scrambled to build a new website, EvidenceUpload.org, that simplified the task of uploading photographic evidence from a mobile phone and having it forwarded along to the FBI.
But you also had people sharing "We Love Boston" images that happened to include their company's logo (whoops, quick apology), and entrepreneurs showing up on television and in print to tout their software's ability to find clues to a crime amid social media chatter. Buzzient founder Timothy B. Jones endlessly tweeted about his Bloomberg TV and New York Times press hits last week; the start-up, once based in Boston, now seems to operate out of Kennebunkport, Maine. (Jones didn't respond to my requests for comment.)
"The right phrase here is, where can you help out by being a technologist, rather than seeing it as a business opportunity," says Christopher Ahlberg. His Cambridge start-up, Recorded Future, analyzed Web mentions of pressure cooker bombs over the past three years and published a map showing where they had been concentrated. He stresses that he "wasn't calling the media" last week, but that "we did have some in-bound requests for comment."
Just as the events of Sept. 11, 2001, created "market pull" for new kinds of technologies within the military, intelligence agencies, and the newly formed Transportation Security Administration, it's possible that the events of April 15, 2013, could, too. Bedford-based iRobot sold scads of surveillance robots called PackBots to the military to explore caves in Afghanistan and investigate possible roadside bombs in Iraq.
Today, there are already local companies working on smaller and more sensitive devices to detect explosives, ways to gather intelligence from information posted online, and approaches to analyzing video footage from mobile phones and security cameras.
Laura Teodosio says her MIT spin-out, Salient Stills, originally started selling its technology to newspapers that wanted to extract high-quality still images from a videotape. But in the months before 9/11, Salient began working with the Boston Police Department to sift through closed-circuit videos related to a string of drugstore robberies. Since then, Salient has worked with the Metropolitan Police Service in London to investigate the subway bombings in that city in 2005, and she also says that a number of "three-letter agencies" were relying on Salient's software in the wake of last Monday's blasts on Boylston Street.
One thing the software does is take videos from various sources and put them into a single software application so they can be scoured. But Teodosio explains that it is also possible to hunt not just for faces, but "you can also look for someone of a particular size, or a logo on their bag, or how fast or slow they're moving, or whether they have a limp."
Recorded Future, based in Cambridge, built software that can track mentions of a particular topic on the public Web, like "shoulder-fired missile," and tag the mentions based on geographic origin and time. But information from the public Web can also be blended with classified information that has been gathered by intelligence agencies. "Everyone is looking at this flow of Web and social media data, and trying to figure out how you get usable intelligence out of it," says Ahlberg.
In 2010, Waltham's Thermo Scientific paid $145 million for a local start-up, Ahura Scientific, that designed portable sensing devices that could detect the presence of explosives and other chemicals; Thermo now markets Ahura's TruDefender and FirstDefender products to security and law enforcement agencies worldwide.
A newer start-up, 908 Devices of Boston, raised $8 million last September to develop a device it anticipates could be more sensitive than Ahura's, detecting a wide array of dangerous compounds at trace levels on people's hands or surface materials.
Chief executive Kevin Knopp was a cofounder of Ahura, and he says 908's first product could be out as soon as next year, geared to bomb squads and first responders. But prices of these explosives detectors are still steep: north of $40,000, which may limit their use in the near-term.
Last year, iRobot began selling a "throwable" robot about the size of a hard-cover dictionary, the FirstLook, which is light enough to be tossed through an open window or over a fence. It sells for $20,000. Some of the company's bigger and more expensive 'bots were on the job in Watertown Thursday night, checking out one of the suspects' abandoned vehicles.
The company often walks that delicate line between offering assistance by dispatching loaner robots, as it did in 2001 in Lower Manhattan, and highlighting its involvement. Chief executive Colin Angle said high-profile situations like the pursuit of the Marathon bombers "shows the difference that robots can make in these intensely dangerous moments," and may spur other law enforcement agencies to consider acquiring their own 'bots.
Back in 2001, entrepreneurs were searching for any kind of new customer to fill to the post-dot-com void. It took them a while to realize that even with the best product and the noblest of intentions, selling to government agencies can be a slow and painful process.
"They need to get to know you, vet you, have your stuff tested by third-party labs, and come to trust you," says Teodosio. "It's a long road."
Today's tech companies may not be as desperate for government customers as they were in 2001, but I'm guessing at least a few will decide to travel down that road. And they just might help us avoid future attacks, or at least track down the perpetrators with less bloodshed.
Scott Kirsner can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @ScottKirsner.


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Ahmedabad and Vadodara Near Gulf of Khambhat, India – January 26th, 201223.0N 72.5E
This wide-swath ASAR image shows the Gulf of Khambhat, an inlet of the Arabian Sea along the west coast of India, in the state of Gujarat. It is about 80 miles in length, and divides the Kathiawar peninsula to the west from the eastern part of Gujarat state on the east. The Narmada and Tapti rivers empty into the Gulf.
Visible north of the gulf, near the top edge, is the city of Ahmedabad. It is the fifth largest city and seventh largest metropolitan area of India, with a city population of approximately 5.6 million and metropolitan population of 6.4 million. The city is situated at an elevation of 53 metres (174 ft) from Mean Sea Level. The city sits on the banks of the River Sabarmati, in north-central Gujarat. It spans an area of 205 km2 (79 sq mi). The steady expansion of the Rann of Kutch (partially visible as a dark grey area in the upper left corner) threatens to increase desertification around the city area and much of the state.
Visible near the northern shores of the gulf is another city, Vadodara, formerly known as Baroda, the third most populated city in the Indian State of Gujarat. It is situated at an elevation of 39 metres (123 feet). It is the 18th largest city in India with an area of 148.95 km² and a population of 4.1 million according to the 2010-11 census. The city sits on the banks of the River Vishwamitri, in central Gujarat. The Vishwamitri frequently dries up in the summer, leaving only a small stream of water. The city is located on the fertile plain between the Mahi & Narmada Rivers.


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Long Black Veil: Tony Blair's Deadly Game of Muslim-Bashing
by Chris Floyd
This is my latest piece for Truthout.org.
For centuries in Britain, each sentence of death was accompanied by a strange ritual. Before handing down the verdict, the judge would first take a piece of black silk cloth and put it on his head. With this rather bizarre and ancient drapery covering his powdered wig – itself a relic, a cultural fossil carried into modern times – he would then render the prisoner into the hangman's care.
In such a guise, the black cloth once represented the full, dread measure of state power. Today, however, a cloth of similar size, shape and color – worn across the faces of a small number of some of the most vulnerable members of British society – has become a target of that same dread power, after Britain's high and mighty unleashed a sudden, thunderous sneak attack on the nation's Muslim minority, centering the campaign around the tabloid-ready symbol of the veil.
But although the carefully orchestrated furor over this seldom-seen scrap of material has been so ludicrously disproportionate that even the Blair-fawning New York Times cried foul in a recent editorial, the campaign – and its disturbing implications – go far beyond the issue of religious vestments. Indeed, the veil row is just a covering for what appears to be a deliberate, wide-ranging program of diversion and division, aimed at creating a scapegoat – "strangers in our midst," "the enemy within" – to bear the blame for the sins of the Blair government: the fear, repression, guilt, lies and rancor produced by the abomination in Iraq.
The anti-Muslim campaign is not merely rhetorical – although the heated rhetoric from Tony Blair and many of his ministers has certainly been bad enough, giving a patina of respectability to more extremist viewpoints, now seen as a legitimate part of the "national debate. (Much as the button-pushing imbroglio over immigration in the United States has transformed fringe white-power advocates into respectable media figures, lauded by the likes of Lou Dobbs and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and welcomed in the halls of Congress.) No, Blair's Islamophobia-fest has bite with its bark: not only the on-going evisceration of civil liberties, which has fallen almost entirely on British Muslims, but new measures as well – such as the Stasi-like plan to induce university professors and staff to spy on Muslim students and report all "suspicious" behavior to the security organs.
Far from being abashed by this revelation, the Blair government has openly embraced the program. To be sure, Education Minister Ruth Kelly -- a member of the zealous religious order, Opus Dei – says it's not really spying; it's just "monitoring" the activities of certain students in order to "protect" them from extremists. But for some reason, Kelly's maternal concern has failed to allay the fears of those captured in the state's benevolent, all-seeing eye.
The program is "potentially the widest infringement of the rights of Muslim students that there ever has been in this country," Wakkas Khan, president of a national Islamic student group, told the Guardian. "It is clearly targeting Muslim students and treating them to a higher level of suspicion and scrutiny. It sounds like you're guilty until you're proven innocent."
Here, of course, Khan has defined the organizing principle of the Bush-Blair "War on Terror," where thousands have disappeared into prisons and torture rooms without charges, without defense, and very often without any evidence whatsoever, beyond perhaps the word of a paid snitch, a bounty hunter, a personal enemy or an over-zealous security op looking to make his bones. Blair, like Bush with his warrantless surveillance program (to cite just one of many tyrannical examples), is simply bringing the Terror War home.
What is surprising, however, is the suddenness of the current campaign, and its blunt, even coarse nature. It exploded out of nowhere with an article in a small regional paper, an October 6 column written by the local MP, Jack Straw – leader of the House of Commons and former foreign secretary. In the latter capacity he was one of the prime enablers of the illegal invasion of Iraq, serving as a key conduit between Blair and Bush as they connived to manipulate their nations into war – a deceitful process well-documented by the Downing Street Memos.
In his column, this paragon of moral rectitude complained about veiled women coming to his office seeking constituent services. The fact that he couldn't see their faces made him feel all wiggly, Straw said (in so many words), and he found it hard to communicate with them. They should all just stop it. In fact, UK Muslims in general should stop being so strange and separate, and try much harder to assimilate further into British society.
As was no doubt intended, Straw's comments instantly ricocheted around the national media, where they conveniently knocked the frenzy of violence and chaos in Iraq off the front pages. The article also dovetailed, again most conveniently, with another minor story, about a young teaching assistant who had been fired for refusing to remove her veil in front of male colleagues, although she didn't wear it in front of students. Another Blair cabinet minister leapt showily into this strictly local matter, backing the school's action – even as yet another Blair minister publicly denounced British Airways for demanding that a Christian flight attendant remove her cross while on duty. BA actually prohibits the wearing of all jewellery on chains by attendants, not just crosses, but this point of fact was lost in the fine media frothing about the airline's "religious discrimination" against Christians – jeremiads that appeared alongside angry calls for "banning the veil.".
As the days went by, more Blair ministers joined the fray, which spread from attacks on the veil to stern lectures on the Muslim community's stubborn refusal to integrate properly and its collective failure to denounce terrorism with sufficient self-abasing rigor. These grievous shortcomings were leading to "dangerous divisions" in British society, the Blairites said, and fuelling the alarming rise of hard-right factions like the British National Party.
Here was an echo of old hate-mongering campaigns. Who was responsible for Germans' hatred of the Jews, according to the Nazis? Why, the Jews themselves, of course, swanning around with their weird get-ups and strange rituals and their terrorist conspiracies. As Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland noted this week; "I try to imagine how I would feel if this rainstorm of headlines substituted the word 'Jew' for 'Muslim' … I wouldn't just feel frightened. I would be looking for my passport."
Tory leaders – sensing that Blair was, once again, outflanking them from the right – leapt into the breach. David Davis, the shadow home secretary, berated Muslims for fostering an "involuntary apartheid," adding that their intransigence was breeding national division that "could corrode our society." The security organs also got in on the act, with a leak to The Times about an unnamed "terrorist suspect" who avoided capture for a few days "by allegedly disguising" himself in a burka.
Meanwhile, Tony Blair – the most ostentatiously Christian prime minister in Britain since William Gladstone prowled the streets in his off-hours looking for prostitutes to save – kept quiet for days as the official furor grew and eventually, inevitably, spilled into the streets. Attacks on Muslims sharply increased, the Independent noted. One mosque was set on fire, another was battered by a brick-throwing mob, who then stabbed a Muslim teenager. Several Muslim women had veils torn from their faces in the street, while verbal assaults and threats escalated.
Finally, Blair broke his silence in order to – calm the storm? call for unity and tolerance? urge the nation to move on to more important matters? No, of course not. Instead, he heaped more coals on the fire, at one point even refusing point-blank to say that a Muslim woman in a veil could make a contribution to society. "That's a very difficult question," he said. Having thus segregated these women from the rest of society, relegating them to the status of useless parasites, he went on to denounce the veil as a "mark of separation."
Blair's hypocrisy here is compounded by the fact that he is probably more responsible that any other individual for fostering religious divisions in British society today. He has lavished state funding on a vast expansion of "faith-based" schools, each under the rule of single religion – Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Greek Orthodox, Seventh Day Adventist – excluding most children of other faiths. Yet it is a 24-year-old teaching assistant in a veil – not Blair – who is fostering religious "separatism."
At every turn, it seemed, the British Establishment – an overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly male, closely-knit network drawn almost entirely from a tiny group of elite schools and universities, and ensconced in unassailable sway and privilege, including the full, dread power of the state – was condemning a tiny, overwhelmingly powerless minority for the social and political ills of the nation.
But what is the true context of this asymmetrical "debate"? The numbers tell the story. There are approximately 1.6 Muslims in Britain – 3 percent out of a total population of more than 60 million. And of this miniscule minority, only 5 percent of British Muslim women wear the veil. In other words, this "mark of separation" that is now, suddenly, "corroding" British society is actually rejected by 95 percent of all Muslim women. It plays almost no part in Muslim life in Britain.
Nor does any kind of tolerance for violent extremism. An extensive survey of British Muslims just released – to almost zero notice – by the 1990 Trust shows that the number of those who believe that terrorist attacks are "justifiable" is between 1 and 2 percent. (You could probably find a higher percentage of Americans who believed that terrorism against, say, the "Zionist Occupation Government" or illegal immigrants or abortion clinics – or Muslims – was justified.) Violence and extremism are thus rejected by 98 percent of all British Muslims; but evidently this is not good enough for Blair and his ministers.
Terrorism by Islamic extremists poses a real threat, of course; although in Britain, case after case of ballyhooed terror scares and high-profile SWAT team raids have turned out to be false alarms, in which one innocent man (a no-doubt "Asian-looking" Brazilian) has been killed and two other innocent men have been wounded. But this threat pales in comparison to the decades-long terror campaign waged in Britain by Irish nationalists, which, when added to the government's "counter-terrorism measures," killed more than 3,600 people – and was supported by a substantially larger margin than 1 to 2 percent of Britain's "Irish community." The assimilation of "Asian" Muslims into British society has in fact been far more successful, more peaceful – and more voluntary – than the centuries-long, still-ongoing struggle to integrate the Irish "minority."
Moreover, the campaign is clearly counter-productive. If you make the veil a primary symbol of Muslim identity – and then lambaste the Muslim community as a whole – you are thus ensuring that more women will take up the veil, as a symbol of defiance and pride in their community when it is under attack. You will strengthen the hand of the very extremists you profess to be rooting out from society, while fanning the flames of racial hatred among the majority ethnic group: a major strategic mistake.
That's assuming, of course, that your actual goal is a well-functioning, tolerant, peaceful society. If however, your real aim is to use fear and suspicion in a desperate bid to stay in power, why then, this deadly game of Muslim-bashing is a masterstroke.
Thus the launching of this campaign of demonization and diversion is no mystery. As the "War on Terror" loses its effectiveness as a fearmongering political tool for the Bushist-Blairite axis -- as it is more and more discounted by the British and American publics who can clearly see that it has been used to justify a horrendously murderous war in Iraq and the destruction of civil liberties at home – the "Coalition" leaders are having to resort to more and more primitive methods to keep accountability at bay.
After all, we are talking about two highly unpopular political factions with the blood of more than half a million Iraqis – and thousands of their own soldiers – on their hands. To sustain themselves in power, they cannot appeal to the truth, which damns them; they cannot appeal to morality, which shames them; they cannot appeal to their national ideals of liberty and openness, which they have trampled and discarded.
They have nothing left to offer but fear – fear of the "other," fear of the strange, fear of minorities, fear of a woman walking down the street with a black veil over her face.


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Black grouper. (Photo: Brian Gratwicke, PEW)
Plans to prevent overfishing in Mexican Gulf get approval
Wednesday, January 04, 2012, 22:30 (GMT + 9)
Holly Binns, a project director for the Pew Environment Group, issued the following statement in response to US Commerce Secretary John Bryson's approval of new catch limits on some species in the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council gave initial approval to the plans in August.
"These plans are a proactive approach and are significant for fish in the Gulf of Mexico. About two dozen species, from black grouper to gray snapper, are now protected under catch limits designed to prevent overfishing.
"However, 13 important species, such as red hind and dolphinfish, were not included in the plans and remain vulnerable to overfishing. Failing to grant protections to these species raises serious concerns for their future.
"If we do not conserve these popular fish today, they likely will suffer population declines. At that point, severe fishing restrictions may be the only recourse to help them recover. Preventing overfishing is more prudent than waiting for a crisis.
"More needs to be done to ensure the plans work well and the limits are enforced. But overall, we are pleased to see the start of a more preventive approach to policies in a region where fish are vital to a healthy ocean ecosystem and our coastal economies."
These two protection plans are formally known as the Generic Annual Catch Limits Amendment and Coastal Migratory Pelagics Amendment 18. They both set annual catch limits but address different sets of species.
The GACL, authored by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, covers mostly snappers and groupers. Amendment 18, which was authored jointly by the Gulf council and South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, covers migratory fish offshore in the open ocean, such as king mackerel.
The two councils jointly manage these species which move between the two jurisdictions. The new rule will be effective from 30 January.
Pew had asked the Secretary of Commerce, which has the final say in regional fishery decisions, to alter the plans to cover 14 more species, including dolphinfish, little tunny, red hind and dog snapper. However, he declined to add in those species.
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