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American Graduate is a multi-faceted effort that harnesses the unique role of public media stations as trusted providers of both nationally-distributed and locally-produced content that increases understanding of all facets of the dropout issue through broadcast, web and mobile platforms.
Since 2011, more than 40 hours of national content have aired on PBS stations across the country as specials and on series such as POV, ITVS's Independent Lens, Frontline, and the PBS NewsHour. More than 121.9 million Americans tune into public television stations on a monthly basis, and 64.7 million listen to public radio each week.
Seventy-five public radio and television stations in over 30 states have produced 1700 hours of local content, including public affairs reporting and Teacher Town Halls. This content highlights the stories of students, teachers, parents and community members most affected by the dropout crisis in order to empower viewers and listeners to take notice and take action in their local communities.
KEN BURNS' THE ADDRESS (ED-TVP): A feature-length documentary that will explore The Greenwood School's work to create a learning environment for diverse boys in grades 6th to 11th who have severe learning disabilities. Central to Greenwood's remedial language-based curriculum is the training for and annual student presentation of the Gettysburg Address, a tradition that dates to the school's founding in 1978 in Putney, Vermont. On-Air Premiere: April 15, 2014
COMMUNITY TOWN HALLS: Twelve new town hall events led across the nation by local public media stations in partnership with community organizations. The town hall events will build upon the success of last year's Teacher Town Halls, while bringing together a broader group of community stakeholders, including businesses, parents, students, intervention and faith-based organizations in a town hall setting. The events have the goal of identifying the challenges students face beyond the classroom, improving outcomes of student learning, and moving toward an action plan in developing community-based solutions that support students' success in school.
MEDORA (ITVS): An Independent Lens documentary, Medora follows a year in the life of the young men on the high school varsity basketball team in Medora, Indiana, a once booming rural community hit hard by failing farms and closed factories. Like the town, the team's youth struggle to maintain their pride in the face of their own losing streak, even as they contend with drug use, unemployment, and a dwindling population. The film explores educational issues affecting rural youth and communities that experience poverty.
ITVS – The Graduates/Los Graduados: As part of the award-winning PBS series Independent Lens, The Graduates is a two-hour documentary special executive produced by award-winning director Bernardo Ruiz ("American Experience: Roberto Clemente") in conjunction with ITVS. Hour one of the Graduates examines the fault lines in the education of girls and young women through the lives of three Latinas, looking into higher pregnancy rates, lower graduation rates, and identity issues. Hour two focuses on young Latino men and examines successful alternatives to the school-to-prison pipeline, incarceration disparities and increasing rates of incarceration. Hour two also examines the story of an undocumented student who hopes to attend college. Created by a fully bilingual team, the film will be produced and distributed both in English and Spanish. On-Air, Two-Part Premiere: Oct 28, 2013 and Nov 4, 2013 (in English); Nov 1, 2013 and Nov 8, 2013 on Vme (in Spanish); Online Premiere: Oct 29, 2013 and Nov 5, 2013 in English and Spanish on PBS' COVE.
AMERICAN GRADUATE LATINO SHORTS: Five short-form documentary films executive produced by ITVS targeted to Latino audiences in both English and Spanish. The shorts, made by a select group of veteran and emerging filmmakers – including Betty Bastidas, Madeleine Bair, Xochitl Dorsey, Heather Ross, Jim Mendiola, Raymond Telles, and Angela Reginato –highlight the dropout crisis, focusing on risk factors and innovative solutions through the lens of Latino youth. On-Air Premiere: 5 consecutive Sundays, Sept 22, 2013 - Oct 20, 2013 on Vme; Online Premiere: Both English and Spanish versions available Sept 24, 2013 on PBS' COVE, as well as on Univison and Vme's site.
AMERICAN GRADUATE LATINO PSAs: Produced by ITVS, these 5 national PSAs feature Latino celebrities Jimmy Smits, Tony Plana, Rosie Perez, America Ferrera and Aimee Garcia discussing the importance of staying in school and getting a high school diploma. On-Air Premiere: Fall 2013
Is School Enough? Filmmaker Stephen Brown examines self-directed education, and how schools can empower students to reach beyond the classroom to learn from what they care about most. Brown documents vivid examples of this 21st century educational philosophy at work. Students in Maine work with veterinary experts and digital apps to prepare a new home for a retired circus elephant. Young people worldwide use the online Harry Potter Alliance to launch meaningful social justice initiatives. A brilliant but bored teen crafts her own educational experience based on her passion for natural healing and yoga. A young man in Oakland produces state-of-the-art music videos to engage his community—and himself. Featuring some of the nation's most forward-thinking educators, Brown demonstrates the power, passion and positive outcomes of self-directed learning. On-Air Premiere: Sept 3, 2013
CPB/WGBH Producers Workshop Short Documentaries: These six new short-subject documentaries tell the stories of students from different parts of the country who are working to overcome significant obstacles to graduating from high school. The films were created as part of the CPB/WGBH Producers Workshop, which engages emerging independent filmmakers with public broadcasting. Premiere: August 2013
Roadtrip Nation is a series and grassroots movement that encourages young people to hit the road in search of interviews with leaders who have defined their own distinct routes through life. This year marks the series' 10th season and 100th episode on public television and will feature interviews with influential leaders in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers. CPB's investment includes the expansion of a web-based interview archive and the development of a social networking tool that will connect professionals who have built fulfilling careers with young students who are still working to discover their paths. Roadtrip Nation premieres September 10 on PBS. Road Trip Nation Website
American Graduate Day 2013: A national, multi-platform event, including a 7-hour broadcast dedicated to engaging the country around the dropout crisis. AG Day 2013 will feature live, in-studio and in-the-field discussions with celebrity guests and representatives from partner organizations about the issues and solutions, as well as compelling stories from students themselves. The event will be broadcasted and streamed live from the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center in New York City. On-Air Premiere: Sept 28, 2013
Brooklyn Castle The POV documentary Brooklyn Castle takes viewers inside Intermediate School 318, a Brooklyn school that serves mostly minority students from families living below the poverty line. This public-school powerhouse in junior high chess competitions has won more than 30 national championships, the most of any school in the country. Brooklyn Castle is the exhilarating story of five of the school's aspiring young players and how chess became the school's unlikely inspiration for academic success. On-Air Premiere: Oct 7, 2013; Online Premiere: Oct 8, 2013
American Promise: This POV documentary spans 13 years as middle-class African-American parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., turn their cameras on their son and his best friend who make their way through one of the most prestigious private schools in the country. Chronicling the boys' divergent paths from kindergarten through high school graduation at Manhattan's Dalton School, this provocative, intimate documentary presents complicated truths about America's struggle to come of age on issues of race, class and opportunity. On-Air Premiere: Jan/Feb 2014 . American Promise website
Street Knowledge 2 College: This web-based series features fifteen, two-minute documentary shorts designed to inspire and inform students at-risk of dropping out. Set in South Central Los Angeles, the web shorts explore how FREE L.A. High School, a small community-run charter school, helps kids stay on track to graduate by teaching them how to set goals for themselves and become engaged in their communities. Online Premiere: Fall 2013
American Graduate Day 2012 : This nationwide multi-platform event featured a live television broadcast from WNET New York Public Media with 20 national partner organizations and a radio play list with premiere documentaries from PRX. Viewers and listeners were encouraged to get involved by offering their time, donating resources, connecting with the organizations on social media and learning more about the crisis. Air Date: September 22, 2012
American Graduate Week 2012: World Channel, a 24/7 national multicast channel that features documentary and news programming from across the country and around the world, presented "American Graduate Week," a week of education-themed films to draw attention to the challenges facing students and teachers at a time when high-school national dropout numbers have increased alarmingly. American Graduate Week was anchored by three WORLD broadcast exclusives – the premiere of film TEN9EIGHT and original programs from WORLD's new series, America ReFramed and The Aspen Institute Presents. On-Air Premiere: Sept 24-30, 2012
PBS NewsHour As part of their 18-month series on the nation's high school dropout rate, PBS NewsHour has broadcast 38 reports on the nation's high school dropout rate. They supplement this on-air reporting with blog entries, online slideshows, analysis and live chats. On-Air Premiere: Sept 2011-June 2013
TED Talks Education: Produced by WNET and TED, TED Talks Education, is a one-hour special that brings together a diverse group of teachers and education advocates to deliver short, high-impact talks on the theme of teaching and learning. Speakers include Geoffrey Canada, Bill Gates, Rita F. Pierson, Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth and Sir Ken Robinson. Hosted by Grammy award winning artist John Legend, TED Talks Education is the first time that any TED Talks have been broadcast nationally. The project also includes behind-the-scenes interviews focusing on the future of high school education and the value of public media. On-Air Premiere: May, 7, 2013
TED Talks Local Outreach Events: following stations received funds to host local TED-inspired community events and outreach in conjunction with the national TED Talks Education broadcast:
• KAMU - Texas A&M University (College Station, TX) on September 9, 2013
• KQED (San Francisco, CA) on Sepbember 12, 2013
• Twin Cities Public Television (St. Paul, MN) on September 24, 2013
• WMHT (Troy, NY) on October 1, 2013
• Colorado Public Television (Denver, CO) on October 24, 2013
FRONTLINE has served as public television's flagship public affairs series since 1983 and has built a reputation for powerful reporting that tackles the tough, controversial, and complex stories that shape our times.
Poor Kids (Program not officially part of American Graduate) This episode follows six children who are growing up against the backdrop of their families' struggles against financial ruin and asks the children what being poor in America really looks like through their eyes. Filmmaker Jezza Neuman spends time in the Quad Cities, a great American crossroads along the border of Iowa and Illinois, to explore the lives of children living in the suburbs of the nation's heartland. On-Air Premiere: Nov 20, 2012
The Middle School Moment, FRONTLINE's report, "Middle School Moment," explores the work of Johns Hopkins University researcher Dr. Robert Balfanz who has uncovered a series of indicators that he says can predict how likely a student is to drop out of high school. Balfanz's research says that in high-poverty schools, if a sixth grade child attends school less than 80 percent of the time, receives an unsatisfactory behavior grade in a core course, or fails math or English, there is a 75 percent chance that they will later drop out of high school — absent effective intervention. On-Air Premiere: July 17, 2012
Dropout Nation - FRONTLINE provides a historical context to the debate over zero-tolerance policies, tracing their evolution from the 1990s, when harsh suspension and expulsion policies became the norm. At the same time, the documentary follows a group of high school students at risk of dropping out, chronicling their school experiences and culminating with the question of whether they will graduate. On-Air Premiere: Sept 25, 2012.FRONTLINE website
Tavis Smiley Reports is a series of hour-long primetime specials that air throughout the year. Tavis leaves his studio chair in Los Angeles and goes on the road to examine some of the country's defining moments.
Tavis Smiley Reports -Education Under Arrest: The second in a series of education specials from Tavis Smiley Reports, "Education Under Arrest" looks at the connection between the juvenile justice system and the dropout rate among American teens and the efforts by educators, law enforcement professionals, judges, youth advocates and the at-risk teens themselves to end this link. On-Air Premiere: March 26, 2013
Tavis Smiley Reports -Too Important To Fail: "Too Important to Fail" examines one of the most disturbing aspects of the education crisis facing America today — the increased dropout rate among teenagers, specifically among Black teenage males. Tavis investigates the root causes of this calamity, as well as what can be done and is being done to reverse this. On-Air Premiere: Sept 13, 2011
180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School (NBPC): Produced by NBPC, this four-part series chronicles the changing face of public education in the District of Columbia by exploring the challenges facing at-risk youth and the relationships between teachers, students and educational leaders at DC Metropolitan High School as they work towards the common goal of graduation. On-Air Premiere: March 25 and 26, 2013
Need to Know: Dropping In As part of Need To Know's "Help Wanted" edition, this report examines Philadelphia's ambition plan to reach and re-engage high school dropouts. On-Air Premiere: April 6, 2012 Need to Know website
IDEAS IN ACTION: As part of CPB's American Graduate initiative, Ideas in Action with Jim Glassman takes an in-depth look at nationwide efforts toward ending America's dropout crisis in a one-hour HD documentary, A Matter of Leadership. Glassman highlights success stories from schools across the country and focuses on the core components that have proven highly effective in addressing the crisis, middle school intervention and innovative leadership training. On-Air Premiere: April 1, 2012. Ideas in Action website
MARIACHI HIGH: Mariachi High presents a year in the life of top-ranked members of Zapata High School's championship mariachi ensemble on the Rio Grande in South Texas. At a time when the Latino dropout rate is the highest of any group nationwide, intolerance toward immigrants (and perceived immigrants) is growing, and public school funding is being cut, these teens continue to pursue excellence through a connection to their cultural heritage. Beginning with high-stakes band auditions, through competitions like the San Antonio Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza, and ultimately graduation, the students discover their own unique voices and an appreciation for the richness of a heritage they are learning to embrace. On-Air Premiere: June 29, 2012.
Up HeartBreak Hill (NAPT): This one-hour POV documentary chronicles the lives of three Native American teenagers in Navajo, New Mexico as they navigate their senior year at a Reservation high school. Stations have been provided with materials to brand locally as part of AG. On-Air Premiere: July 26, 2012
Through research, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation found that the single most important factor for a student's success is an effective teacher. Therefore, the Foundation has supported a variety of projects that focus on the role of effective teachers, including a partnership with CPB to fund 12 American Graduate Teacher Town Halls. These events, hosted by public media stations across the country, brought together 2000 teachers to discuss the challenges and realities they face in their classrooms, amplify their voices, and promote a dialogue around the issues important to local educators, especially related to resolving the dropout crisis. As a partner in these town halls, PBS NewsHour provided production support to each station and filed several reports from the field for national broadcast. In addition, PBS NewsHour reporters, including Ray Suarez, Gwen Ifill and Hari Sreenivasan, moderated several of the discussions and met with students from local schools. As a result of these American Graduate Teacher Town Halls, teachers confirmed they were equipped with a greater range of strategies for improving graduation outcomes in their schools and changed their beliefs about education reporting with a new perspective about public media's role in building forums and including the teacher's perspective in this important discussion. Read the findings here.
Teacher Wall / Teacher Voices - Through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 50 public media stations built on their partnerships with schools, districts, and community-based organizations to identify and record at least five teacher video interviews in their community. At the end of the project, stations had produced over 1,000 short videos featuring more than 285 teachers. Stations distributed these videos on air, online, at events, and via social media, and are available here.
Launched: Winter-Fall 2012
AMERICAN GRADUATE - CROSSING THE STAGE (UNC/PRX): Produced by North Carolina Public Radio, this program talks about what's happening with the drop-out rate in the country. More kids are staying in school but those numbers might be misleading. We'll hear about some of the new thinking – ways to make school more appealing or more meaningful so students want to stay in high school, and we'll get a sobering take on the GED, long thought to be a reasonable alternative to a high school diploma. On-Air Premiere: Sept 2013
Native America Calling: This five-part series dedicates an entire episode of the one-hour call-in program "Native American Calling" to topics related to the dropout crisis in Native communities. Click for full series.
State of the Re:Union, hosted by Al Letson, explores what makes schools across the country work. They tell stories of the game-changing role a good teacher, principal or coach can play in keeping a student in school, and examine education innovators tackling 21st century challenges. Through a storytelling lens, State of the Re:Union paints a portrait of the education system we have now— and the people fighting to change it for the better. State of the RE:Union website
Public Radio Exchange (PRX) is an award-winning public media company with the mission of harnessing technology to bring significant stories to millions of people. The American Graduate playlist from PRX and NCME offers free radio stories, pieces, series and documentaries about the drop out crisis from stations and networks to help spark discussion, debate and and enhance local coverage. The pieces are offered for broadcast and streaming on station sites. Click here to listen to the full American Graduate playlist.
Left Behind, Dropping Out This one-hour American Graduate special, hosted by former NPR correspondent Andrea Seabrook, features a one-on-one interview with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, as well as a look at the dropout crisis through the eyes of the kids themselves in cities such as Chicago, San Diego, Washington, DC, Boston and New Haven, CT. On-Air Premiere: Sept 22, 2012
StoryCorps National Teachers Initiative: StoryCorps NTI celebrates the work of public school teachers across the country. By recording, sharing, and preserving teachers' stories, StoryCorps calls attention to the invaluable contributions teachers have made to this nation, honors those who have embraced the profession as their calling, encourages teaching as a career choice, and helps to unify the country behind its teachers. NTI places special attention on the work of teachers striving to increase the number of students who graduate prepared for college and careers. As part of the effort, StoryCorps has collected more than 500 interviews nationwide. Premiered: Fall 2011-June 2012
NewsHour Student Reporting Labs (SRL): NewsHour employs its unique Student Reporting Labs mentoring model, news curriculum and online collaborative workspace, in partnership with other youth media programs, to forge connections between public broadcasting stations and at-risk student populations. Youth participating in SRL learn how to report, problem-solve, synthesize information and investigate important topics while completing a media literacy/digital media curriculum and using online spaces to share their work and generate an interest in important civic issues. Students focus on creating compelling youth journalism on education topics with an emphasis on the dropout crisis and on student retention strategies and solutions. Launched: Fall 2010 through Summer 2013
PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs: Rapid Response and Digital Badges: Building on the success of their current SRL project, NewsHour is integrating and expanding a "Rapid Response" model to enhance their ability to get timely responses from young people on important national topics, produce monthly Google Hangouts, implement and evaluate a new digital badges system for motivation and assessment, and align digital badges and the SRL story-telling curriculum with Common Core State Standards in Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects. PBS NewsHour reviews all student-produced content for potential inclusion in the national broadcast. Launched Fall 2013-Fall 2015
StoryCorps U: A college-readiness curriculum program, aligned to Common Core English Language Arts standards, which uses StoryCorps content and interviewing techniques to enhance students' speaking and listening skills. StoryCorps U fosters self-awareness, social awareness, and connectedness to school—critical factors for high school graduation and success in college and career. Launched: Fall 2011 - Summer 2014
ROADTRIP NATION (RTN) WHAT'S YOUR ROAD?: RTN is developing three learning resources that will help stations scale RTN content beyond a school setting and will motivate young people to stay on the path to college and career. Using elements of game play design, RTN will produce an interactive tool called "What's Your Road?" that will guide students through RTN's vast interview archive, and will produce 20 new interviews for inclusion in the interview archive and in RTN Season 10. Students will be able to explore their interests, identify possible careers and connect to leaders in fields that align to their passions. RTN will also develop a Pathways Tool that will link students to practical resources to help them prepare for and take the next step on their post-secondary path. The Gates Foundation College Knowledge Challenge is funding a Facebook app for this game. The program will be piloted with WFSU and Florida's Career Academies to help guide students in their career and education search. RTN will also produce new interviews which will become part of Season 10. Launch: Fall 2013
ROADTRIP NATION EXPERIENCE CURRICULUM: Through a combination of an annual PBS series, online content, youth-created media, digital interview archive, an innovative curriculum and live local events, RTN engages youth, especially at-risk students, to gain access and exposure to life pathways and prepare them for college. Launched: 2011
CPBN's Learning Lab's Digital Media Training Program: CPBN's new Digital Media Training Program through its Learning Lab aims to improve the educational, employment and social outcomes for high school youth. CPBN's Digital Media Training Program enables high school students to build professional level skills to prepare them for college and the workforce beyond graduation. Through relevant and engaging experiences, the program helps keep students on track to graduate and provide a pathway for attaining industry certifications. Students learn the basics of journalism and receive training on industry standard software while applying their skills to produce high quality media projects developed under the guidance of career professionals in a real-world setting. This project serves 20-25 students currently enrolled as juniors at Hartford Public Schools' Journalism & Media Academy. US Veterans are participating in a concurrent Learning Lab media training program and helping the students by leading character-building and leadership activities, as well as tutoring students who need support. Launched: Summer 2013-Summer 2014
MISSION U.S.: WNET (New York) has created Mission US, a multimedia initiative to improve the learning of American history by middle and high school students. The project includes 4 free online video games set in different eras of American history. Through game play, students navigate historic settings, develop relationships with key figures, investigate primary documents, witness pivotal events and ultimately decide their fate in the face of history. In addition, the project includes: a website with classroom resources, activities and social networking opportunities for teachers and students; animated shorts on U.S. history to be distributed via broadcast and broadband and video profiles to be used in classrooms; and a partnership with at least one textbook publisher. Launched: Fall 2010
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By Karen Florin
Publication: theday.com
The oldest case on the docket in the New London major crimes court may finally be headed for trial.
Richard K. Wallace, 59, was charged in August 2007 with stealing more than $125,000 from Dorothy DiNallo of Sprague. Wallace, represented by attorney Donald R. Beebe, is free on bond and has appeared in court dozens of times while his attorney has met with a prosecutor and judge in an attempt to resolve the case.
His early court appearances were before Judge Susan B. Handy, who was transferred to another judicial district. The case then went before Judge Patrick J. Clifford, who presided here for two years before he was transferred to New Haven. Clifford conducted a final pretrial hearing in the case when he returned Friday for several sentencings. From the bench, he said a resolution would not be possible, in part because Wallace has not repaid the victim. He said the case is on the firm trial list.
DiNallo's daughter Candace DiNallo, is unhappy with the way the case has been handled and has been in contact with victim advocates from the courts and the state Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities.
Beebe, Wallace's attorney, said Wallace has agreed to repay the money even though he is not guilty. He said a local business owner was going to loan the restitution money to Wallace, but DiNallo went into the store and complained.
"We're trying in a very bad economy to do something," Beebe said.
Judge Handy, who has since returned to New London, will schedule the case for trial. Beebe said Wallace is considering a "court trial," which means a panel of judges would decide the case rather than a jury.
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The man — identified as a white male possibly in his 50s — followed the victim, 65, in the Walmart parking lot, parking directly in front of the victim about 2 p.m., according to the Bartow County Sheriff's Office. Video surveillance showed the man exit his car, tamper with the tire on the victim's vehicle before entering the store.
Authorities say the man followed the female into the store and then returned to his car to await her return.
The woman told deputies the man stopped her as she backed out of her parking spot, saying she had a flat tire. Although the suspect was "very intimidating," the victim exited her vehicle and confirmed the tire was flat.
According to the report, the suspect offered to change the tire using the victim's spare. When the woman attempted to remove the tire, the suspect made lewd comments, embarrassing the woman to the point she had the man remove the spare.
Once the tire was changed, the man again began making inappropriate comments about the female. According to the report, the woman attempted to leave, with the man approaching her window to either try to offer his number or get hers.
The victim said she became concerned after a local tire shop told her the tire went flat because the valve stem was removed.
BCSO Sgt. Jonathan Rogers said it appeared — based on video — the suspect did not follow the victim to the store but began following her once there.
This may not be the first such incident involving the suspect.
"It's possible [the suspect has done this before]. It seemed like he had a plan," Rogers said.
Anyone who can identify the suspect is asked to call the Criminal Investigations Division at 770-382-5050, extension 6030.


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Growth in China's auto sales decelerated in July, data showed Thursday, adding to signs of weakness in the world's second-largest economy.
Passenger car sales rose 11 percent to 1.12 million, down from June's 15.8 percent rate, the government-sanctioned China Association of Automobile Manufacturers reported. Total vehicle sales rose 8 percent to 1.38 million, down from the previous month's 10 percent gain.
Auto sales spiked in 2009 and 2010 after Beijing responded to the global crisis by cutting taxes and offering subsidies. But growth has dropped off since those incentives ended and the economy's rapid expansion slowed.
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VIDEO: Royksopp & Robyn Perform 'Do It Again' on TONIGHT SHOW
On last night's TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON, music guest Röyksopp & Robyn perform "Do It Again" for studio audience. Check out the appearance below!
About The Tonight Show
Beginning Feb. 17, 2014, "The Tonight Show" returns to its New York origins when "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" makes its broadcast debut from Studio 6B in Rockefeller Center. Emmy Award- and Grammy Award-winning comedian Jimmy Fallon will bring a high-tempo energy to the storied NBC franchise with his welcoming interview style, love of audience participation, spot-on impersonations and innovative sketches.
An American television institution for almost 60 years, "The Tonight Show" will continue to be a home to big-name celebrity guests and a stage for top musical and comedic talent. Taking a cue from his unforgettable predecessors, including hosts Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, Fallon will carry on the tradition that audiences know and love - kicking off every show with the iconic "Tonight Show" monologue. Known for his huge online presence, Fallon will also bring along with him many of the popular segments, celebrity sketches and musical parodies that fans have grown to love on "Late Night," including #Hashtags, Thank You Notes and Slow Jam the News.
Critically praised Grammy winners The Roots will serve as "The Tonight Show" house band.
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It's Halloween, and you're plum out of ideas. Quick, time to get creative. Do as many celebrities do: Dress up in a crazy outfit to get attention — and ink.
If you're a star follower, Lorne Lucree, Rickys NYC marketing manager, has some ideas. The Lincoln Road store has a so-called costume-concierge service, starting at $25 that pulls together outfits and accessories as well as styles makeup and hair. Here are a few of the hottest requests the store's been getting of late:
Kim Kardashian is not going to go away, at least in the short term. Last year, the big thing was re-creating the so-called upholstery dress she donned while pregnant at the Met Ball. "That was terrible," complains Lucree. "She looked like she was blending into a couch." Now that Kardashian's famous figure is back, women can don a tight wrap dress, light wig and tremendous engagement ring. "She's a curvy lady so feel free to add padding anywhere you want," adds Lucree.
Lady Gaga is all about the shock and awe: "Her thing is that she's always half-naked, right?" Lucree asks of the singer who heard complaints about her barely there seashell bra and panty ensemble on UK's X Factor Live Monday. Customers have already asked for replicas. One even asked for the white box in which Gaga encased her head when entering the VMAs. "It seems [revelers] want to be really tongue in cheek, ironic or ultra relevant," says Lucree. "We call it thinking outside the bag."
More sad than funny, another big Halloween-party ticket, according to Lucree, is Amanda Bynes, who remains in rehab for mental health issues. Bynes' look is pretty uncomplicated: "teased out blonde wig and a small dog on your arm."
Mimicking Miley Cyrus' VMAs get-up is a gimme, but not that original, given that Paris Hilton, Crystal Harris and Joan Rivers have gone that route already. Tongues out! That said, the store carries the "twerk finger," as well as a teddy bear iron-on and wig with two tiny buns.
As pop culture watchers would expect, dearly departed Breaking Bad lives on. "We're getting a lot of last-minute calls asking for Walter White paraphernalia: "Rock candy, orange jumpsuits, the smart glasses," reports Lucree.
Reality stars are another theme, especially those wild and crazy Duck Dynasty dudes. Going as the bayou dwellers is a cinch. Grab up beards, camouflage attire and a few beer cans.
If you didn't hear about the Fifty Shades of Grey casting shakeup, then we'd like the address for the rock you're living under. Ab-tastic males can take on the role of bondage-happy businessman Christian Grey by doing a heck of a lot of sit-ups as well as throwing on your nicest suit and tie (undone). Have a riding crop handy?
Tim Tebow may be a man without a team, but his flock never forgets. Rickys football-loving customers are channeling the God-fearing NFL-er by painting religious verses on their faces, as well as black under-eye face paint. Easy and cost-effective.
"Regardless of what you choose, you kind of have to make your costume your own," advises Lucree. "What matters is that you made it look like you gave it some thought and that it's fun."
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Summary: In the concluding volume of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of Mikael Blomkvist, she'll need to identify those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she'll seek revenge--against the man who tried to kill her and against the corrupt government institutions that nearly destroyed her life.
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Electrical System of the Heart
Electrical System of the Heart
The heart has an electrical system that controls how it beats and pumps blood throughout the body. The electrical system controls the four chambers of the heart. These chambers contract and relax in a specific sequence so that blood is pumped in and out of the heart.
The heart has two upper chambers, called atria. The heart's two lower chambers are called ventricles. These chambers are controlled by an electrical system that generates rhythmic impulses. These impulses cause the heart muscle around the atria and ventricles to contract or pump in a specific sequence. The rhythm of the contractions pumps blood through the heart to the lungs and body.
The electrical impulses begin in or pass through small areas of muscle cells called nodes. The impulses travel from the nodes through the heart muscle fibers along electrical pathways. See a picture of the conduction system of the heart.
Two nodes create these electrical impulses in the heart. They are called the sinoatrial (sinus or SA) node and the atrioventricular (AV) node. They control the heart's electrical system by acting together in a rhythm. You recognize this rhythm as your heartbeat. The rhythmic cycle happens as follows:
This cycle of an electrical signal followed by a contraction is one heartbeat. A normal heart rate for an adult is between 60 and 100 beats each minute.
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Antitrust Law Section
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MSBA Antitrust Section
Annual Report
Section Membership
As of May 26, 2011, the Antitrust Section has 164 members.
Financial Status
The Antitrust Section had an account balance of $8,201.42 as of April 30, 2011.
Continuing Legal Education Programs and Social Events
The Section hosted six CLE programs in fiscal year 2010-11. In addition to the following programs, the Antitrust Section co-sponsored a number of programs including the Professor's Program with Minnesota CLE.
Program Title
Event Code
CLE Credits
Number of Attendees
Professors Program
2.75 Standard
Antitrust Law Issues in IP Litigation and Licensing
1.5 Standard
Current Issues in Antitrust Enforcement in Agriculture
1.0 Standard
Technology Licensing – Potential Hazards at the Intersection of Antitrust and IP Law
1.0 Standard
Perspectives on Antitrust Litigation from the Federal Bench
1.5 Standard
A Jury Consultant's Perspective on Antitrust Trials
1.0 Standard
Class Actions: Same Rules but New Challenges
1.0 Standard
Section 5 of the FTC Act and other antitrust-enforcement priorities of the Federal Trade Commission
1.0 Standard
Annual Meeting and Election Results
The Section held its annual meeting and elections on Wednesday, May 25, 2011, at the Minnesota CLE Conference Center in conjunction with the Professor's Program. The following officers and council members were elected to serve on the Antitrust Section Council in 2011-12.
Ryan Marth, Chair; Matt Ralph, Vice Chair; Michael Jacobs, Secretary/Treasurer
Council Members:
Other Section Accomplishments
The Antitrust Section conducted a half-day CLE focused on antitrust issues that arise in intellectual property law. Section members prepared and delivered the CLE at Minnesota CLE on May 25, 2011. The CLE was well attended by approximately 40 attorneys.
Submitted By:
Craig Coleman, Section Chair
Date June 14, 2011
MSBA Antitrust Law Section
Annual Report
submitted May 20, 2010
"Antitrust, Embroidery and the NFL: The Ramifications of Supreme Court Review of American Needle"
Submitted by W. Joseph Bruckner, Chair
2007-2008 Annual Report
May 12, 2008
The Antitrust Law Section once again had an active and successful year, with a full slate of CLE programs.
Council Meetings. The Antitrust Law Section Council met regularly on the second Wednesday of the month at the MSBA offices in Minneapolis to plan CLEs and other section business.
Section Delegate. The Antitrust Section's delegate to the Assembly (Mark Jacobson) participated actively in the Assembly and in committee work and kept the Section's leadership apprised. He was reappointed to serve a fourth term.
CLE Programs. The Antitrust Section continued its outstanding series of CLE presentations. (The Section has carved out a "niche" of noontime programs.) The 2007-08 season presented the following:
· In our lead-off program, Deborah A. Garza, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, addressed over 45 attorneys and students on September 20, 2007 at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. Ms. Garza serves in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, and is the former Chair of the Antitrust Modernization Commission (AMC). Ms. Garza shared her thoughts on whether Congress will enact antitrust reforms recommended by the AMC in its final report issued in April 2007.
· On October 16, 2007, the ABA Antitrust Section's Trial Practice Committee, the Iowa State Bar Association, and the Minnesota State Bar Association Antitrust Law Section jointly presented "Inside an Antitrust Trial: the View from Behind the Bench and Inside the Jury Room in the Iowa Microsoft Trial." Antitrust cases rarely go to trial, but for the second time in three years, a jury was impaneled in an indirect-purchaser antitrust case involving Microsoft. This time it was Comes v. Microsoft, which was tried in Iowa's Polk County District Court for several weeks before the parties settled the case. In this program, the presiding judge (Hon. Scott Rosenberg) provided background on the case and some of the rules and practices he followed for the trial. Selected jurors responded to questions about the trial ‑‑ what they liked, and what trial themes came through.
· Minnesota antitrust lawyers and law students gathered on November 14, 2007, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Minneapolis to hear Professor Robert Kudrle speak about his recently completed research on antitrust law, a comparison of theory and practice in North America, Europe, and Asia. Kudrle is Freeman Professor of International Trade and Investment Policy at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Law School, University of Minnesota.
· Attorney General Lori Swanson addressed the Section at the Town & Country Club in St. Paul on January 16, 2008. Attorney General Swanson presented an overview of her office's enforcement priorities which included a number of consumer protection efforts as well as recent antitrust enforcement activity. Approximately 60 persons attended the program, an unusually large number. Many in attendance were from outside our section, reflecting broad general interest in the legal community.
· Dan Shulman, the noted Twin Cities antitrust practitioner and shareholder in the Gray Plant Mooty firm, addressed the Section membership on April 9, 2008, at the Minneapolis Club on the impact of antitrust law on sports, principally through the example of baseball, interspersing his talk with asides on famous baseball players and events. The slide presentation accompanying Dan's remarks is available on the Section website at www.mnbar.org.
· Finally, on May 7, 2008, Law Professors Tom Cotter (University of Minnesota), Richard Murphy (William Mitchell), Susan Hayes Stephan (Hamline) and moderator Michael Lindsay (who teaches antitrust law at St. Thomas), presented an update on the past year's antitrust decisions. They shared insights about significant recent appellate decisions involving product bundling, exclusive dealing, and patent settlements. Panelists also discussed the impact of the European Union's recent Microsoft decisions.
Annual Meeting, Election of New Officers and Section Council. The Section held its annual meeting on May 7, 2008, in conjunction with its noontime CLE program. Beth Krueger (Greene Espel) was elected Chair for the 2008-2009 year. Joe Bruckner (Lockridge Grindal Nauen) was elected Vice-Chair. Craig Coleman (Faegre & Benson) is the new Secretary and Treasurer. As noted above, Mark Jacobson (Lindquist & Vennum) was reappointed as the Section's representative to the MSBA Assembly.
Finances. The Section began FY 2007-2008 with a positive balance (not including investments) of $1,599.57. Total revenues for the year to date are $7,750.00, comprising membership dues and meeting fees. Total expenses for the year to date are $3,831.03, primarily comprising MSBA internal section invoices, catering charges, in-house charges and administrative fees. This leaves the Section with an ending balance for the year to date of $5,518.54. Together with the Section's investment balance (maintained in a CD by US Bank) of $2,883.70, the Section's ending balance including investments for the year to date is a very healthy $8,402.24.
Website. Section Council member Brian Fischer, working with Kim Basting, the Section's MSBA staff liaison, did tremendous work to update and make the Antitrust Section website more content rich. Among other improvements, detailed reports on each of our program events are posted, often along with a copy of the speaker's remarks or slide presentation. Additionally, Section members are invited to post articles of interest to the membership to the website.
The Antitrust Law Section welcomes participation by all attorneys and law students and faculty who have an interest in antitrust law, regardless of the level of their experience or activity. Those interested in becoming members should feel free to contact the MSBA officers listed above.
Richard A. Duncan
2007-2008 Section Chair
MSBA Antitrust Law Section
2005 - 2006 Annual Report
Council Meetings: The Antitrust Law Section Council met
regularly on the second Wednesday of the month at the MSBA offices in
Minneapolis to plan CLEs and other section business.
The Antitrust Law Section once again had an active and successful year, with a full slate of CLE programs.
Section Delegate: The Antitrust Section's delegate to the Assembly (Mark Jacobson) participated actively in the Assembly and in committee work and kept the Section's leadership apprised. He was reappointed to serve a second term.
CLE Programs: The Antitrust Section continued its outstanding series of CLE presentations. (The Section has carved out a "niche" of noontime programs.) In the 2004-05 year, the council had adopted a more aggressive approach to planning a larger number of potential programs, with the recognition that even if some did not materialize, the resulting series would still deliver quality programming to our Section members and other guests. The 2005-06 season presented the following:
" The lead-off program in September 2005 featured
Maureen Ohlhausen (Director, Office of Policy Planning, Federal Trade
Commission. The Federal Trade Commission has a dual mission - protecting
consumers from deceptive practices and from anticompetitive practices.
Sometimes these twin prongs seem to intersect (or even collide). Ms.
Ohlhausen addressed this issue, with specific reference to recent FTC
investigations, workshops, and enforcement actions.
" Our October speaker Lawrence Wu (Senior Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting) discussed the phenomenon of standards-development, and the economics of and antitrust issues associated with this joint activity.
" In December, we continued our annual series of hearing from a member of the local federal bench on practical features of antitrust litigation. In 2004-05 we had heard from Senior District Judge David Doty had discussing some of the many important cases he has handled. This year Senior U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson discussed some key developments in antitrust pleadings practice and the potential implications of the Class Action Fairness Act.
" In January, Professor E. Thomas Sullivan (former Dean of the University of Minnesota Law School and now Provost of the University) addressed the Section on the development of antitrust law during the Rehnquist years - and the implications that the Rehnquist court's antitrust jurisprudence may have for the future.
" In April, our final program of the year featured Dan Shulman, a long-time antitrust practitioner in the Twin Cities, who had helped brief and argue Texaco Inc. v. Dagher, one of three antitrust cases that the U.S. Supreme Court heard and decided in its 2005-06 term.
Consistent with its new program strategy, in early Spring 2006 the council began planning its programs for the 2006-2007 program year.
Annual Meeting, Election of New Officers, Bylaw Amendments, and Section Council: The Section held its annual meeting in April 2006 in conjunction with its April noontime CLE program. Thomas Sheran (Moss & Barnett) was elected Chair for the 2005-2006 year. Richard Duncan (Faegre) was elected Vice-Chair. Beth Krueger (Robins Kaplan) is the new Secretary and Treasurer. As noted above, Mark Jacobson was reappointed as the Section's representative to the MSBA Assembly. The Section also approved a number of Bylaw amendments (which were subsequently approved by the Assembly). Finally, the Executive Committee made and effort to reinvigorate and diversify the Section Council. The Executive Committee reviewed council-member attendance from the past years and asked less-active members to consider their willingness to commit to more active participation. A number of council members decided not to re-commit, and the Executive Committee then made an active effort to involve in-house and government counsel as well as private-firm counsel, and specifically to attract qualified women and persons of color. The Executive Committee considered its efforts quite successful.
Finances and Membership: We began the year with an enviable 110% market share (that is, our membership exceeded the number of lawyers who had indicated antitrust as a primary area of activity). While we were not able to maintain this extraordinary level, our membership remained quite robust. The Section currently has 174 members. The Section remains financially solid. The section has built up a reserve over the last few years, recognizing that programming expenses will be higher in some years than in others (because of variations in speaker expenses). Expenses (including MSBA staff expenses) slightly exceeded dues and other receipts in 2005-06 but were well within the Section's reserves. (We began the year with a balance of $3,739.09 and ended the year with a balance of $2,507.98.) Had the Section not been charged for staff expenses, revenues would have exceeded expenses.
The Antitrust Law Section continues to encourage participation by all attorneys who have an interest in antitrust law, regardless of the level of their experience or activity. Those interested in becoming members should feel free to contact the MSBA offices or any of the officers listed above.
Michael A. Lindsay
2005-2006 Section Chair
MSBA Antitrust Law Section
2004 - 2005 Annual Report
The Antitrust Law Section had an active and successful year, with a full slate of CLE programs.
Council Meetings: The Antitrust Law Section Council met regularly on the second Wednesday of the month at the MSBA offices in Minneapolis to plan CLEs and other section business.
CLE Programs: CLE presentations sponsored and arranged by the Antitrust Law Section during the year included the following:
" A lunch program featuring long-time Minneapolis antitrust practitioner John French discussing significant changes in the antitrust law over the last 30-40 years, practice tips for antitrust practitioners and views concerning potential improvements to the antitrust law.
" A lunch and CLE exploring differences between antitrust law and enforcement in the United States, Europe and the rest of the world. This program featured Howard Bergman, former Chair of the Section, who is currently General Counsel in 3M's Brussels office with responsibility for Europe and Africa.
" A lunch and CLE featuring Senior U.S. District Judge David Doty discussing some of the many important cases he has handled, including the extended litigation between the National Football League and its players. This program was co-sponsored with the Civil Litigation Section.
" An extended lunch and CLE featuring Hennepin County District Court Judge Bruce Peterson and a number of jurors from the Microsoft class action antitrust trial. Judge Peterson and the jurors commented on various aspects of the trial of an antitrust case and fielded questions. Through a cooperative agreement with the Trial Practice Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law, this CLE program was made available by telephone to antitrust practitioners across the country.
" A breakfast CLE concerning antitrust issues in the healthcare field. This program featured Tom Pursell of Lindquist & Vennum, who had extensive government enforcement experience at the Minnesota Attorney General's office. This program was co-sponsored with the Health Law Section.
The Antitrust Law Section has already arranged a number of CLEs for the 2005-2006 year.
Annual Meeting and Election of New Officers: The Section held its annual meeting in June 2005 in conjunction with the CLE featuring John French. Michael Lindsay was elected Chair for the 2005-2006 year. Tom Sheran was elected Vice-Chair. Rick Duncan is the new Secretary and Treasurer. Mark Jacobson was selected as the Section's representative to the MSBA Assembly.
Finances and Membership: Membership increased slightly this year. The Section remains solid financially as dues and other receipts approximately equaled expenses.
The Antitrust Law Section continues to encourage participation by all attorneys who have an interest in antitrust law, regardless of the level of their experience or activity. Those interested in becoming members should feel free to contact the MSBA offices or any of the officers listed above.
Mark A. Jacobson
2004-2005 Section Chair
MSBA Antitrust Law Section
2002-03 Annual Report
I would like to thank each of you for a great year with the MSBA Antitrust Section. I appreciate all of your support and hard work. It made my job as chair a pleasure.
We had a successful year. The highlights were the four luncheon programs, three of which we organized:
I would like to thank Bill Greene, Clark Griffith, Bill Sippel, Kim Basting
and Renee Anderson for their efforts to make these programs possible. (I hope
I have not missed anyone. Let me know if I have, and I will make
At this time, I give my best wishes to next year's officers: Bill Greene, chair; Joe Bruckner, co-chair; Mark Jacobson, secretary-treasurer. With your continued support, I am sure we can look forward to another great year of programming.
Thanks again. See you at the steering committee meetings.
Howard J. Bergman
Assistant General Counsel
3M Company
MSBA Antitrust Law Section
1999-2000 Annual Report
The MSBA Antitrust Section substantially increased the level of its activities during 1999-2000. The Section presented three well-attended programs and facilitated a fourth satellite program sponsored by the ABA Antitrust Law Section.
Officers of the Section this year were:
The three programs presented by the Antitrust Section were:
The First section meeting was held at the Crowne Plaza Northstar Hotel; the latter two meetings were held that the Town & Country Club in St. Paul. Attendance at all three programs was very strong. Members of the Minnesota Chapter of Corporate Counsel Association were invited to attend all meetings.
Additional, on May 23, 2000, the Antitrust Section invited its members to a program sponsored by the Interne Committee of the Antitrust Law Section of the American Bar Association, "Antitrust Issues in B2B Internet Exchanges." The ABA arranged to bridge this program to Dorsey & Whitney's Minneapolis office.
We are excited about activities planned for the Antitrust Section next year and welcome the opportunity to continue to work with members of the bar who practice in this interesting area of the law. Please let me know if you have any questions.
MSBA Antitrust Law Section
1996-97 Annual Report
During the past year, the MSBA Antitrust Section continued its active support of various continuing legal education seminars involving antitrust issues. The year included a well-received presentation by David A. Balto, attorney advisor to the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, regarding new revisions to the DOJ/FTC Antitrust Enforcement Policy Statements in the area of health care.
In addition, this year marked Brad Clary's retirement after 10 years as newsletter editor. Professor Daniel Gifford of the University of Minnesota Law School has agreed to take over, beginning with the next issue. On behalf of the entire section, we wish to thank Brad for a job well done.
Planning for next year is now under way. Section members who are unable to attend section programs can always catch up on Antitrust Section activities through the section newsletter.
Robert J. Schmit and Sue R. Halverson,
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The House Education and Workforce Committee, chaired by Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), has the task of cutting $18.1 billion in spending as a part of Congress push to cut $50 billion for a budget reconciliation bill that is supposed to remedy the federal budget deficit. On Oct. 25, the Committee approved a proposal to cut spending on student aid by $14.5 billion over the next five years.
The Committees argument is as follows: Since 1965, when the HEA was officially signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the federal government has poured billions of dollars into student financial aid programs to ensure that students from all economic backgrounds have a chance at higher education. Now, however, taxpayers are spending more than ever on higher education, while college still remains out of reach for many young Americans because of rising tuition costs.
In its proposal, the Committee argues that blindly increasing federal student aid is doing nothing to solve the challenge of skyrocketing college costs. Because federal student aid increases have coincided with tuition increases, the Committee questions whether the current federal investments in higher education may actually be a contributing factor to the college cost explosion that is squeezing the budgets of hard working low- and middle-income American families.
The Committees solution is as follows: Reduce the amount of money allotted for student financial aid. We fail to understand how decreasing federal financial aid will help students who cannot afford college. While we dont pretend to be economists, basic mathematical principles suffice: When you take away from something, you have less of it. Thus, cutting federal financial aid programs will provide students with less money as well as cause less students to be able to attend college in the first place. These cuts will have the opposite intended effect of the Committees proposal; they will make it even more difficult for students, regardless of their financial means, to get a college education.
If passed, the consequences of this bill will affect college students for the next six years (the amount of time before the next reauthorization). At St. Olaf, 83 percent of first years who applied for need-based aid received it, and the average award was $19,071. 100 percent of applicants whose familys income was below $72,000 received aid. While these aid awards might not necessarily make up for our 2005-2006 total estimated tuition costs (tuition, room and board, books and personal expenses) of $34,450, it still makes a difference. We need all the help we can get, and until we find a way to stabilize tuition costs, cutting student financial aid is not the answer.
While Senate has already passed its version of the HEA reauthorization bill, the House has it on its agenda for this week. If it does not vote on the bill by Saturday the last day of session before a two-week recess it will most likely vote again in early December. It is not too late to contact our legislators and let them know we oppose billion-dollar cuts that prioritize the national budget over our education.


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Arizona Immigration Law Ruling May Mean Boon For Private Prison Business
June 25, 2012 - The Huffington Post
As the Supreme Court upheld a central provision of Arizona's controversial immigration law on Monday -– a requirement for law enforcement to check the legal status of suspected undocumented immigrants -- a powerful corporate lobby may stand to benefit: the private prison industry.
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June 25, 2012 - Fox Business
Attorney Alberto Cardenas, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and National Immigration Forum Executive Director Ali Noorani on the impact of the Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's immigration law.
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June 25, 2012 - New York Times
Immigrant rights groups said they worried that the Supreme Court's decision on Monday allowing a key provision in Arizona's tough immigration law to stand would lead to racial profiling, as Gov. Jan Brewer described the decision as "a victory for the rule of law."
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June 25, 2012 - Southern California Public Radio
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The law's opponents split on whether the decision represented a win for their side and immigrants. The lawyers, insiders said, felt it was the best that could be hoped for and still made future legal challenges possible. Activists feared the impact until that challenge. Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/062512-616042-immigration-ruling-splits-laws-foes-a-win-or-a-loss-.aspx#ixzz27nJ36DXi
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Arizona Sheriff Office December 21, 2011: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office immigration jail officers turn in their credentials after federal officials pulled the Sheriff's office immigration enforcement powers. (AP) Based on today's decision by the Supreme Court, law enforcement officials in Arizona can proceed to enforce a law that codifies racial profiling. The Court's ruling will cause deep and irreparable harm to the civil rights of many of our fellow Americans. Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/06/25/ali-noorani-supreme-courts-immigration-ruling-threatens-civil-rights/#ixzz27nIjDCES
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Arizona's abhorrent immigration law – which Mitt Romney recently praised as a "model" for the nation – has been largely struck down by the Supreme Court, in a 5-3 ruling joined by arch-conservative Chief Justice John Roberts.
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intentional and aggressive efforts" to hide problems and throw off
inspectors, even falsifying safety records. Managers also alerted miners
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dangerous conditions.
Former superintendent Gary May and security chief Hughie Elbert Stover are behind bars for their actions at the mine.
former president of another Massey subsidiary, meanwhile, is awaiting
sentencing for conspiracy. David Craig Hughart, who is cooperating with
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bringing the responsible parties to justice, we can't bring our loved
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preventable tragedy."
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they said. That includes subpoena powers, tougher penalties for safety
violations and more protections for whistleblowers.
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Is housing slide as bad as it looks?
The housing industry's troubles may be an indicator of a problematic recovery.
Based on the numbers released this week, existing-home sales may be even scarier than they look.
Scarier than a 27% drop in July to an annual sales rate of just 3.83 million? Scarier than the lowest annual sales rate in the 15 years this number has been tracked?
Well, yes. Because this figure suggests that all our worst fears about the housing market and the U.S. economy may be absolutely correct. And I think that interpretation of the housing numbers is a major reason that on Friday, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke just about promised the Fed would go back to its policy of buying Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities to support the economy.
The fears start with the possibility that this huge drop shows the government's recently-ended tax credit of $8,000 to home buyers didn't do a thing to actually stimulate the housing industry.
Instead, the huge plunge suggests that any gain in sales while the stimulus was in effect came out of future sales.
While the tax credit was in effect, peak sales of existing homes soared to a 6.49 million annual rate in November 2009. And now that the stimulus program is over, the industry faces an extended period of really low sales as it makes up for those borrowed sales. Economists had projected that sales of existing homes would fall 13% from June's 5.37 million annual pace.
It might take quite a while to pay back that borrowing, too. The number of existing homes on the market climbed by 2.5% to 3.98 million. At the current rate of sales, that's a 12.5-month supply. (And, not surprisingly, that's the highest level of inventory since 1999, when these numbers start.)
But that's not the worst conclusion you can draw from this number. If the housing industry wasn't able to build a real recovery out of a temporary stimulus program, then maybe the economy as a whole won't be able to build a lasting recovery out of the $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress in February 2009.
Certainly that's a fear worth entertaining -- especially now that the effects of that $787 billion package are starting to wear off without any appreciable surge in job creation that would demonstrate that the stimulus created a self-sustaining recovery.
In examining that fear, though, it's important to note the ways in which the much bigger total stimulus package is similar to and different from the home-buying stimulus effort.
Parts of the overall package did indeed resemble the "demand-pull" emphasis of the home-buying subsidy. The "cash-for-clunkers" car buying program, for example, pulled current sales from future sales just as it looks like the home buying-subsidy did.
Some parts of the bigger stimulus -- such as the infrastructure spending in the package -- are clearly not demand-pull programs, but actually add to economic activity in the present without pulling from the future.
Unfortunately, as critics of the stimulus have pointed out for a year and a half, most of the package went to tax cuts and entitlement spending. Only $275 billion, or 35% of the total, went to contracts, grants, and loans that could in even the loosest sense be called infrastructure spending.
The good news in that category is that only 50% of that $275 billion had been paid out as of August 13, 2010, according to the Recovery.gov web site. There is still some stimulus money in the pipeline. (In contrast, 77% of tax cuts and 63% of entitlement spending in the package have been paid out.)
At the least, the housing numbers should revive a real debate about whether the U.S. economy needs a second stimulus -- and one that's structured to make up for the deficiencies in the original package.
Of course, with the electoral silly season just about upon us, a serious debate about stimulus and the economy is exactly what we won't have any time soon.
Which leaves me hoping that existing-home sales numbers aren't as bad as they seem right now.
Jim Jubak doesn't own shares of any company mentioned in this post.
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