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Dramatic advances in military technology, the increased presence of civilians in combat, the loss of a distinct location of war, novel threats to national security posed by the extension of war into Cyberspace, and the significant expansion in the use of the classification privilege—these developments challenge the legal and ethical framework that has traditionally constrained military intervention. CERL examines the implications of these and other facets of modern warfare for the rule of law. In working on this mission, the Center's past and future activities set a foundation that coincides with Attorney General Holder's call on March 5, 2012 at Northwestern School of Law that, "Even when under attack, our actions must always be grounded on the bedrock of the Constitution – and must always be consistent with statutes, court precedent, the rule of law and our founding ideals."[1] To advance this end, CERL holds conferences and panel discussions and works with law and philosophy students to produce the next generation of ethical and legal scholars.
In today's world, the most significant challenge to the rule of law stems from the emergent need to address the threat of terrorism in the wake of 9/11. The overwhelming demands of National Security in this new climate have caused significant loss of public faith, both nationally and internationally, in the depth of our commitment to rule of law values. That has in turn led to a reexamination of ethical constraints and duties in many aspects of professional life—one that serves both as an opportunity for legal and ethical development, and risks a redefinition in the fundamental concepts on which we as a society have traditionally based our strong self-conception as a nation that adheres to the rule of law. CERL's future work will focus on threats to rule of law values that stem from this intense focus on our security needs, and the history of the center already reflects its engagements with a number of contemporary issues.
The most compelling and visible debates on national security and the rule of law have occurred in relation to the growth of the targeted killing program. Although the targeted killing of Osama Bin Laden did not particularly cast the country into ethical debates about our approach to Al-Qaeda, there have been other killings that have raised ethical debates more squarely. The killing of Anwar al-Aulaqi, an American citizen, and other high profile targeted strikes have recently called into question the moral and legal justifications typically offered for the use of targeted strikes. These high profile strikes have included the killing of al-Aulaqi's sixteen year old son, Abdulrahman al-Aulaqi, the killing of Sherabat Khan Wazir which alleged resulted in the death of dozens of civilians including tribal elders and local police officers, and a strike at an al-Qaeda training camp in Yemen at al-Ma'jalah, which a Yemeni parliamentary inquiry found resulted in the death of 41 local residents including 14 women and 21 children.
Under the auspices of the Institute for Law and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Law School held a conference in April of 2011 on targeted killing that brought together legal scholars, military experts, philosophers and public policy experts. This conference and others run by the Institute have supplied an interdisciplinary forum in which scholars and professionals could address crucial issues related to National Security. To name just a small number of topics addressed, consider the following questions about both the legal and the ethical status of targeted killings: First, if targeted killing is ever permissible, what is the range of permissible targets? Should targets be restricted to belligerents only? Or are there individuals who, as civilians, make themselves into legitimate targets by threatening central interests of the United States? A second set of issues has to do with authority and responsibility: Who is permitted to carry out targeted killings? Do private contractors take on the mantle of military justification when they act on behalf of military officials? Can the justification for engaging in a targeted killing as an official defender of the country be transferred to a justification of civilian to assist in such an operation? Most importantly, what is the responsibility of actors who carry out targeted killings that miss their mark? If moral and legal mistakes are made, do the resulting acts of assassination count as war crimes? A third set of issues has to do with the manner in which targeted killings are carried out: Is it morally relevant that remote-controlled machines are used to attack targets? If so, is preemptive killing nevertheless legitimate if performed by a predator drone? And if so, what is the permissible scope of preemptive killing conducted in this way?
A second area of importance for the rule of law concerns the transparency of law and governmental authority. With the pressures of the ongoing response to 9/11, major policies and legal questions of national importance have become less and less open to public view. For example, during the Bush Administration, a series of secret legal memoranda authorized the use of enhanced interrogation techniques against terror suspects. This series of memoranda formed a key component of the Bush Administration's counterterrorism strategy and yet was hidden from public scrutiny. Four legal memoranda, including the August 2002 memorandum signed by Jay S. Bybee that gave the C.I.A. legal approval for waterboarding, were not released until April 16, 2009, as a court deadline in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union closed.[2] With the Obama Administration, clandestine legal memoranda have sought to justify the use of targeted killings, but these operations were only officially disclosed to the public on April 30th, 2012 in a speech by the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, John Brennan. Even this delayed recognition lacked specificity, neither offering the criteria by which a target is placed on the targeted killing list (the "Joint Prioritized Effects List" (JPEL)) nor the specific evidence the Administration relied on to authorize killings.[3].
The increase in secrecy comes at a cost due to the tradeoff between the need for effective security and the value of transparency. Typically, we understand the publicity of our core public policies as a fundamental aspect of democracy and the rule of law. Immanuel Kant wrote, "every claim to right must have this capacity for publicity,"[4] and John Rawls has echoed by requiring publicity as a condition of the social contract.[5] In contrast, effective national security crucially depends on the State's ability to control the flow of information. John Brennan, recognizing the importance of transparency amid the difficult decisions of national security the Obama Administration must make, stated at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on Monday, April 30, 2012:
"In this fight, we are harnessing every element of American power: intelligence, military, diplomatic, development, economic, financial, law enforcement, homeland security, and the power of our values, including our commitment to the rule of law… Staying true to our values as a nation also includes upholding the transparency upon which our democracy depends."[6]
CERL will provide a hub for discussion regarding the ethical and legal implications of the expanding use of secrecy in governmental practices. As lawyers and governmental officials are confronted with new and more complex cases of balancing the demands of national security with the restraints required by the rule of law, the Center's mission grows all the more important.
A third topic of crucial importance in recent years has to do with the exercise of professional judgment in a variety of domains and the internal ethical standards to which such judgments are held. In the domain of professional judgment, the role that professionals are expected to play often conflicts with the measures that would maximize the protection of the rule of law. Traditionally, government lawyers for example, were conceived of as keepers of the conscience of the Executive Branch with regard to its ethical and legal duties at the same time that they were expected to "advocate" for their client and facilitate its aims. However, in many cases, the ethical demands imposed by the rule of law and the professional demands imposed by the role lawyers occupy as advocates conflict. This was on display in the way that the lawyers for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Bush Administration shaped enhanced interrogation policy. Other professionals have recently come under similar scrutiny for displaying a similar conflict of roles. Psychologists and physicians, for example, were recently revealed to have played a crucial role in the controversial task of reverse-engineering the Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape techniques (SERE), strategies designed to aid United States soldiers endure captivity and torture during the Cold War. Consequently, the very methods the United States condemned in the Cold War could be used by the United States in its new efforts to ensure national security. These psychologists' efforts were first implemented on Abu Zubaydah and included blasting rock music at top volume, stripping Zubaydah naked, and making his room so cold that his body turned blue.[7][8]
Finally, an overarching issue running through all of the foregoing topics is the legitimate scope of the authority of the Executive Branch in times of emergency. It is perhaps the most significant aspect of the challenges of the national security response to 9/11 that more immediate policy and legal shifts have brought with them a change in the scope of executive authority. The historically fundamental commitment to the separation of powers and the reviewability of executive decision-making has been challenged by an ever-expanding conception of the scope of executive authority, based on a greatly altered sense of when the Chief Executive has the authority to invoke the law of emergency powers. This has slowly started to bring fundamental changes to our conceptions of sovereign authority, changes whose reach may be felt significantly farther than the local issues that produced them. The debates among current political theorists, philosophers and constitutional scholars about the permissible scope of executive authority reflect deeply conflicting intuitions in our society about the legitimate scope of that authority. What is urgently required is a theory of legitimate sovereignty that would help to frame debates relating to executive authority in the significantly changed times in which we live.
CERL was conceived when Professor Claire Finkelstein, the University of Pennsylvania's Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, noted the need in the wake of 9/11 for an institute dedicated to research on legal, ethical and political issues that relate to promotion of the rule of law. In the past year, Professor Finkelstein, as co-director of the Institute for Law and Philosophy, has moderated as well as organized several conferences and lectures that have demonstrated the difficulty and importance of maintaining the rule of law in a post 9/11 world. The panel discussion "Ethical And Legal Dimensions Of Targeted Killing", and the conference "Using Targeted Killing To Fight The War On Terror: Philosophical, Moral And Legal Challenges" offered the opportunity to step out of the politically charged environment and engage in consideration of salient and contested aspects of targeted killing. In the roundtable discussion "The Ethics Of Secrecy And The Rule Of Law", panelists debated the desirability, but more importantly the consistency with the rule of law, of increased secrecy for major policies and legal questions of national importance as a result of pressures to ensure the security of United States citizens.
Professor Finkelstein also co-edited, with Jens Ohlin and Andrew Altman, Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World (Oxford University Press, 2012), a collection which in one binding brings together essays of military lawyers and academics from multiple disciplines who examine the ethical and legal implications of the rise of targeted killing on governmental policy, focusing on drone strikes. In light of the estimate that more than 40 countries now possess drone technology, the issue of targeted killing is not likely to fade in importance. In fact, Scott Horton, contributing editor to Harper's Magazine, writes with regards to the book:
[T]his valuable collection of essays furnishes powerful insight into the topic from an array of well-regarded experts…[It] is destined to be an indispensable resource for those studying the legal and moral dimensions of drone warfare, which is likely to figure increasingly in global military and intelligence missions in the coming decade.
Some of the questions the essays in this volume address are as follows: What is targeted killing in a military context and what is the theory under which such killings may be permissible? If targeted killing is justified as a military necessity, are there any deontological constraints on the range of permissive topics? Should targets be restricted to traditional belligerents only? Or do civilians transform themselves into legitimate targets by threatening the interests or security of the United States? How does this transformation occur? Does the law of war confine lawful attacks to conventional battlefields or has the specter of terrorism transformed the entire world into a global battlefield?
A second section examines the tradeoffs implicit in consequentialist arguments supporting targeted killings. Is necessity a proper framework for justifying targeted killings and, if so, are there any limits to the use of tradeoffs to justify the utilitarian foundation implicit in necessity claims? Do law and morality break down at the margins when military and civilian leaders are forced to take drastic action to stop deadly terrorist attacks? Or, in contrast, are targeted killings against marked individuals the logical extension of a legal regime that promotes surgical strikes and prohibits the kind of carpet-bombing most likely to cause collateral damage?
A third set of issues deals more specifically with the proper scope of self-defense in the targeted killings debate. Does national self-defense under the U.N. Charter follow parallel principles to personal self-defense in domestic criminal law systems? Is self-defense available as a justification under international law when the threat of terrorism comes from a non-state actor? Finally, what is the status of targeted killing according to traditional just war theory? More specifically, does the doctrine of self-defense allow for preemptive action? Are targeted killings only justified as defensive force when detention is impossible? Must the threat from the target be imminent before self-defense is allowed, and how does this requirement relate to the traditional imminence requirements in jus ad bellum and domestic criminal law?
A fourth category tackles the independence of jus in bello from jus ad bellum. Is it relevant to the legal analysis that the United States is involved in a justified campaign against a non-state group devoted to terrorism? Can a "neutral" law regarding targeted killings apply both to the United States and to our enemies? In particular, the moral equality of combatants represents a unique, bedrock principle of the law of war that does not exist in domestic criminal war, where the right to kill is conferred only on victims of aggression, not the aggressors themselves. When exactly does a situation transform from one governed by criminal law to one governed by the radically different laws of war?
Finally, the volume concludes with a consideration of the asymmetry inherent in targeted killings. Drone operators working remotely in Virginia (or elsewhere) launch lethal attacks against the enemy, but do not subject themselves to the reciprocal risk of being killed. This asymmetry reduces the disincentives usually associated with launching a military attack, which traditionally involved great risks to one's military personnel. The use of private military contractors in this context also reduces this risk and further exacerbates the asymmetry of modern warfare.
These questions arise at the intersection of moral, political, and legal theory, just war theory, national security law, public international law, international humanitarian law, as well as criminal law theory. Thus, the volume is truly an interdisciplinary effort to meld the perspectives of practitioners and applied legal scholars on the practice of targeted killing with that of philosophers seeking moral and political justifications for this particular aspect of war.
CERL is a unique forum for the interdisciplinary investigation of foundational issues in national security. The only Center of its kind housed within a law school, CERL is dedicated to addressing foundational issues in national security that affect the rule of law, and to do so from the vantage points of multiple disciplines and both theoretical and practical perspectives, while preserving and enhancing the esteem in which the Law School and the University are held worldwide. While some institutes have significantly contributed to research on rule of law issues, they focus on the criminal justice system. Other institutes specialize on issues of national security, but do not take up the pressing legal or ethical issues relating to national security. Only CERL brings together research regarding rule of law/ national security issues in one world renowned University.
Embracing the need for legal scholarship that addresses issues of national security while providing moral justification for legal positions, CERL stands out as a leader in a small community, dedicating many of its recent lectures and panel discussions to national security issues and their relationship to the rule of law. Yet even in this small community of institutes specializing in law and national security, CERL has distinguished itself as an exemplar of excellence. The Center has published one of only two books solely focusing on the pressing legal and ethical issues relating to targeted killing and drone strikes in the wake of the public's new attention to the issue. Furthermore, unlike The Center on Law and Security and The Georgetown Center on National Security, CERL stresses the need for the interplay between the ethical and the legal. The Center supports scholars, public officials and military personnel who have expertise in both the legal and ethical realms through its conferences that bring together scholars from multiple disciplines, and its work with law students as well as graduate students. By serving as a hub for scholars, the Center will ultimately foster more scholarly work on the rule of law and ethics, with an impact on real policy decisions.
While encouraging more interdisciplinary scholarship, the Center's approach to ethics and legal theory is unique in that it does not appeal to any particular theory or locate itself within any single field of study. The Center's commitment to practical moral questions demands that no matter what school of ethics or legal theory fellows, panelists or guest lecturers use to ground their positions, they must be able to bridge theory and practice. By bringing together a broad range of perspectives and professions, the Center seeks both to develop academic work that is widely accessible and useful to diverse perspectives, and to be a hub for extraordinary talent visiting and supporting the Law School and University. More than a forum for only legal scholars or philosophers, the events at the Center create a more open and pluralistic environment for intellectual exchange and career development in a world where informed understanding and societal improvement is more critical than ever before.
1. Holder, Eric. Northwestern School of Law. 5 Mar. 2012. Speech. Department of Justice News. Web. 2 Jun. 2012.
2. Mazzetti, M. and Shane, S., "Interrogation Memos Detail Harsh Tactics by the C.I.A."The New York Times 16 Apr. 2009. Web. 3 June 2012.
3. Brennan, John. "The Ethics and Efficacy of the President's Counterterrorism Strategy". Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. 30 Apr. 2012. Speech. Wilson Center Archives. Web. 2 Jun. 2012
4. Kant, Immanuel "Towards Perpetual Peace" in Practical Philosophy, ed. Paul Guyer and Allan Wood (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1999), 347, 8:381.
5. Rawls, John. Political Liberalism (Columbia University Press; New York, NY, 1994), 66-71.
6. Brennan, John. "The Ethics and Efficacy of the President's Counterterrorism Strategy". Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. 30 Apr. 2012. Speech. Wilson Center Archives. Web. 2 Jun. 2012.
7. Eban, K. "Research and Awe." Vanity Fair 17 Jul. 2007. Web 2 May 2012.
8. Shane, S., and Mazzetti, M. "In Adopting Harsh Tactics, No Look at Past Use." The New York Times 21 Apr. 2009. Web. 4 June 2012.
9. "Hillary Clinton boasts of US cyberwar against al-Qaeda"The Telegraph, 24 May 2012


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The Pharmacy is located on the second floor (entry level) of the Student Health Center (adjacent to the Eisenhower Parking Deck and the Bank of America Career Services Building off Bigler Road).
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A written, original prescription from your healthcare provider is required for all new prescriptions. To fill your prescription, you may:
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- Bring your original prescription to the UHS Pharmacy service window or use our convenient drop off box.
For your convenience, if you have a prescription already on file at the UHS Pharmacy, you may order refills either by phone or electronically .
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Trainers Katrina Hodgson and Karena Dawn, who have helped 17 million women lose weight with online videos at ToneItUp.com, created two quick and easy toning workouts and high-intensity interval training (aka HIIT) cardio routines that will help you firm up and shed pounds fast.
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Spoon and SeaBlade Anchors
Another Line of Spade Anchors
SeaBlade: worthy little sister of the Spade
Newest product developed by the R&D department of Sea Tech and Fun Europe, manufacturer of the famous Spade anchor, SeaBlade offers considerable advantages to the most demanding sailors. Extremely efficient, it benefit it's from the best design components of its elder sister. However, it is more affordable due to manufacturing costs reduction. Thanks to the combination of these assets, SeaBlade likely is the anchor with the best performance/price ratio on the Market.
Designed for all kinds of moorings, SeaBlade digs in quickly and deeply. Its sharp tip is unique: it concentrates 35% of the weight, unlike competitors' anchors which do not exceed 32%! Moreover, its center of gravity has been positioned at a very low level in order to prevent it to trip under load. Finally, its large spade surface allows it to resist under the worse conditions. Thus, thanks to its carefully designed shank shape, SeaBlade only releases when its owner wants it to.
Technically, this anchor has very unique features. First of all, it takes the shape of the Spade anchor: concave profile, curved shank and spade, flukes. But it also has a reversal bar, a sharp tip and a reinforced tailstock. These distinctive features provide it with an optimal position of attack and prevent it from scraping seabeds - unlike plough anchors. The playground of SeaBlade has no limits. It is especially at its best in areas of high mooring concentration. This is due to the unique shape of the shank, thoroughly tested on Spade, which narrows its turning radius.


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Milagro had three children and two of them will continue her work and legacy. Her son Eduardo wanted to share the following: "Carmen Lourdes del Milagro Diaz Rubatto de Rubio, known as Milo, was born into the bosom of a traditional middle-class family in Arequipa. To her parents' amazement, Milagro was born at only five and a half months gestation. She spent her childhood playing in her beloved Vallecito district as well as enjoying endless summers on the coast at Mollendo. When she was 21 she married Oscar Rubio, the great love and inspiration of her life and, in search of a new horizons, they went to live to Lima where they had three children who they referred to as 'loves with feet.'
"After 32 years away from her dear Arequipa and having completed the beautiful duty of raising her children to adulthood, she returned to the 'white city' in August 2008 and to her beloved Vallecito district with her dream. However she did not return to create a business for her own benefit, but to develop and promote entrepreneurship in her home city by exporting prime quality alpaca garments synonymous with the names of Arequipa and Peru. Additionally, she participated in the Technical Committee for Alpaca Fiber, promoting the policy of fair trade.
"On the 4th of September 2011 God called her to his side but Milagro has not left us, rather the opposite, she remains with us through her example of perseverance, initiative, leadership and her very unique quality of being able to make things go well from the start, and to finish them even better. As a wife, a mother and a Peruvian she is an example whom we are proud and happy to have had with us.
"Rest in peace, Milo."
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"I was born in Arequipa in 1954, and lived at home with my parents until I was 21. My mother was an artist. She loved to paint and create handicrafts, and she was an accomplished musician who played the violin and piano. In fact, she crocheted my wedding dress entirely by hand, and I still have it. I remember that she taught me to knit and crochet when I was very young. Even then, I loved to see and touch the textures of her work, but I didn't crochet much until that special moment of my life.
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"I've faced many challenges in my life. One of them has been to capture my inspiration in apparel, as well as to create and manage my own workshop with the conviction of triumph.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the "Act") — known as health-care reform or ObamaCare by many proponents and opponents, respectively — is being challenged in the courts. A major issue concerns the constitutionality of the federal mandate that all individuals maintain adequate health-insurance coverage or pay a penalty to the Internal Revenue Service.
The challengers claim that the mandate, which requires individuals to purchase a product, falls outside the federal government's purview to regulate interstate commerce. The Obama Administration insists, conversely, that the Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution affords Congress the authority to mandate individual behavior in this instance. Since all or at least most citizens will at some point engage in the commerce of health care, they are subject to the clause, the argument goes.
The opponents of the mandate counter that the law regulates inactivity. Specifically, the law does not require that one engage in health-care commerce at all in order to be subject to the law; rather, all citizens must purchase health insurance or pay a penalty. Essentially, citizens must buy health insurance just for existing, without any nexus to their health-care activity. As such, the mandate exemplifies a law that falls outside of Congress's legislative power.
The Scoreboard
So far, two conservative judges have ruled the individual mandate to be unconstitutional, while two liberal judges have upheld the law.
In January of this year, Judge Roger Vinson, a senior federal judge in Florida, ruled that the Act is unconstitutional. He also rejected the option of severing the individual mandate from the overall Act and therefore declared that the entire law is invalid. However, he allowed the law to stand while the Obama Administration appeals it.
However, on June 29, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the reform law, declaring the individual mandate to be constitutional under Congress's right to regulate interstate commerce. The court held that the mandate regulates health care (something most or all citizens purchase and are active in economically). In addressing the issue of legislating inactivity, the court maintained that since most people will use health care regardless of whether they have health insurance, the decision to self-insure (i.e., to decline purchasing health insurance) is in itself an economic activity and therefore falls within Congress's legislative power.
The decision was not unanimous, and the dissenting judge, James Graham, said he believed "the mandate is a novel exercise of Commerce Clause power" and that Congress has never before "required individuals to purchase a good or service."
Now What?
Although the future of "ObamaCare" remains a mystery, the Act is still on the books and is binding. Following is a quick summary of some of its relevant provisions that are or will become effective.
Already Effective:
Dependents (children) will be permitted to remain on their parents' insurance plan until their 26th birthday, even if they no longer live with their parents, are not dependents on a parent's tax return, or are no longer students, as was the case under the prior law.


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Is there any way to install custom font in iPhone? Like in our country there are some website with custom local font and if on the PC the font is not present then we can't see the web page on our local font but when we install that custom font to our PC then we can see the web page without problem.
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Staff conducted cognitive testing of materials mailed to American Community Survey respondents under voluntary and mandatory response conditions. Three different versions of the materials were developed and tested: 1) explicit, highly visible statements that response to the survey is voluntary; 2) implicit, lower profile statements that response to the survey is voluntary; and 3) statements that response to the survey is mandatory.
The prenotice letter, the letter that accompanies the initial questionnaire mailout, and the brochure containing Frequently Asked Questions about the survey were tested. This report contains the results of this testing. Results showed that the most salient piece of information contained in the letters was the data use statements. While these were viewed positively for the most part, they conveyed to respondents that the survey was about local communities. Without a questionnaire as a reference, respondents thought the survey would not contain personal questions, and would ask questions to determine the quality, frequency, etc., of their local community services. Some respondents to the mandatory letter did not understand that the survey was mandatory. Regardless of whether respondents received the voluntary or mandatory letter, they tended to think their own perceptions about the survey would be a larger determinant in their decision to participate than the legal requirements. This report also includes recommendations for revising the letters based on these results.


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Park River Man Charged with Attempted MurderA Park River, North Dakota man is in jail on charges that he tried to murder his wife.
A Park River, ND,! man is in jail on charges that he tried to murder his wife.
David Moe is accused of pointing a gun at the head of his wife in the Good Samaritan nursing home in Park River on Wednesday night.
Investigators say Moe had a loaded handgun and had the gun cocked when his wife woke up.
Moe is also charged with pointing the gun at Walsh County deputies who responded to the nursing home.
Bail is set at $75,000.
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How Fair is Britain? our first Triennial Review
International Womens Day at the Commission
Creating a fairer Britain
Every three years the Commission is required to report to Parliament on the progress that society is making towards a more equal society that respects and promotes human rights and good relations. How Fair is Britain? the first such review was published on 11 October 2010. This first Review focuses primarily on equalities. Many issues of relevance to human rights and good relations are covered but follow-on reviews on human rights and good relations will be published in 2011 and 2012 respectively.
The Review presents evidence for people who share common characteristics, which are: age, gender, disability, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation and transgender status, against a set of equality indicators across 8 different areas: life, physical and legal security, health, education, employment, standard of living, care and support and power and voice.1 The Review gives the best available data to show how these different groups fare in relation to the indicators.
Across Great Britain, in all three nations, women constitute just over half the population because there are more women in older age groups than men. Men outnumber women to the 25-34- year-old band but thereafter women outnumber men.2
> for more on this, see Appendix 3: Equality groups, Box A3.4.1
Having amassed the evidence against the equality indicators in 'How Fair is Britain?' to conclude, the Commission carried out a simple analysis to identify which out of all the different challenges and inequalities in modern society, are the most significant and the most urgently in need of resolution.3
In this section we have set out the evidence for gender that relates to these significant challenges.
1 Alkire, S., Bastagli, F., Burchardt, T., Clark, D., Holder, H., Ibrahim, S., Munoz, M., Terrazas, P., Tsang, T. and Vizard, P. 2009. Developing the Equality Measurement Framework: selecting the indicators. Research Report 31. Manchester: Equality and Human Rights Commission.
2 Equality and Human Rights Commission calculations from ONS, 2010, Mid-2009 population estimates for UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Published 24 June 2010
3 For more information about the analysis please see Equality and Human Rights Commission. 2010. How Fair is Britain? Chapter 17: An agenda for fairness. Page 657


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SABMiller PLC announces offer for Harbin Brewery Group Limited
5 May 2004
SABMiller plc, one of the world's largest brewers, has announced an offer for the entire issued share capital of Harbin Brewery Group Limited ("Harbin") of HK$ 4.30 in cash per share. SABMiller currently owns approximately 29.4% of Harbin and this offer is conditional upon acceptances of the offer resulting in SABMiller holding more than 50% of the issued share capital.
The offer price of HK$4.30 per share represents a premium of approximately 33.3% to the price of HK$3.225 per share as quoted on Friday, 30th April, the last day before trading in Harbin's shares was suspended. The offer price also represents a premium of approximately 23.5% and 26.0% over the weighted average price of the Company's shares during the last thirty days and the last six months prior to the suspension of trading, of HK$3.483 and HK$3.412 respectively. Based on the audited consolidated financial statements of the Group as at and for the year ended 31st December 2003, the offer price represents a price to earnings multiple of approximately 37.7 times the fully diluted consolidated earnings per share of the Company of approximately HK$0.11 and a premium of 303.2% over the Company's net asset value per share of approximately HK$1.07.
Graham Mackay, Chief Executive of SABMiller said: "We believe this offer represents excellent value to Harbin's shareholders and a powerful strategic fit with our existing joint venture operations in North East China. Harbin provides SABMiller with the opportunity to enhance its local brand portfolios to the benefit of consumers, and further develop our regional leadership. Moving to a majority ownership position is a natural progression in our commitment to China and its strongly growing brewing sector. Majority ownership and commitment by SABMiller will ensure a successful future for Harbin.
"The offer is fully supported by our partner, China Resources Enterprise, Limited and opens potential opportunities to explore and take advantage of further co-operation with our existing joint venture China Resources Breweries."
SABMiller's successful investment strategy in China spans a period of more than 10 years. SABMiller is one of the leading brewers in China, with interests in 30 breweries in North East and Central China.
Anglo Chinese is the financial advisor to SABMiller on this transaction.
Notes to editors
SABMiller plc is one of the world's largest brewers, with major brewing and distribution operations in America, Africa, Europe and Asia. It has a brewing presence in over 40 countries and some 45,000 employees. In the year ending 31 March 2003, SABMiller generated US$770 million pre-tax profit from turnover of US$9.1 billion. The company is listed on both the London and the Johannesburg stock exchanges. SABMiller, through its joint venture, China Resources Breweries, operates [30] breweries in [9] provinces in China with total volumes of over 27 million hectolitres in the year ended 31 March 2003. It entered the China market in 1994 and is one of the few profitable foreign brewers operating in China.
Contact information
SABMiller plc
Sue Clark
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+ 44 20 7659 0184
Gary Leibowitz
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Nigel Fairbrass
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2006 saw prices for mobile services and Internet access drop dramatically
Heise writes…The annual average price of mobile telephone services in 2006 was 10.7% below that of 2005, the Federal Statistical Office reports. With the prices for mobile telephone services already having dropped in 2004 and 2005 (in year-on-year terms by 1.1% and 3.0% respectively) the trend has thus continued in 2006, compounded in particular by the appearance of mobile services discount dealers and so-called no-frills providers. Moreover the price war raging among DSL service providers had a marked impact in 2006 on the prices charged for Internet access: Thus in year-on-year terms the annual average price for using the Internet went down by 5.1%.
In December 2006 consumer prices for mobile telephone services decreased by 6.3% when compared with the same month of the year before. In sequential terms prices dropped by 0.2%. Between December 2005 and December 2006 the cost of using the Internet fell by 5.3%. From November to December 2006 the appropriate prices went down by 0.9%.
From a consumer's angle the general price index for telecommunication services (fixed-line, mobile and Internet) was 3.0% lower in 2006 when compared with 2005. In December 2006 the general price index decreased by 1.8% on December 2005. Declining by a mere 0.1% the general index remained virtually unchanged from November to December 2006.


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Imagine with me. Your dearest family member is seriously ill, vulnerable and admitted to a hospital.
While there, she or he receives a wrong medication, develops a urinary tract infection, acquires MRSA or shows the beginnings of a pressure ulcer.
Difficult to imagine?
A Healthgrades study found three of every 100 people admitted to an American hospital experience preventable health problems during their stay. The New York Times reported that 200,000 people die each year, because medical errors have become a leading cause of death.
Now let's imagine a different reality.
In this reality we — more than half a million nurses who care for high acuity and critically ill patients and their families — lead the way in changing the numbers.
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Hi, guys!
It seems using sccGui with remote access is very slow (to the extent that not feasible to work). Does anybody else have the same problem?
Hi Tom, how are you doing?
You could try to turn on compression for you SSH connection, on a heavily loaded network this can improve remote X application performance.
You can do this by using -C additional to -X when doing SSH to your MCPC:
$ ssh -CX user@hostname
Well, since I work on the Intel network and the Data Center is upstairs, I'm getting pretty good response. I get reasonable response from home also. But when I work from home I VPN into the Intel network. And so when I am actually accessing the MCPC I am not going into the firewall, rather going out through a SOCKS PROXY.
Input from real external users is appreciated here. I think most external users are not using the Gui, however.
I guess I will stick to command line at the moment.
Are you using VNC? Is it latency or BW that are your problem?
I am using SSH. I think the problem is with the latency. The bandwidth at my workplace should be enough.
As an external user i can confirm that latency is a problem when using sccGui, ( i mainly use command line)
Same here!
In case you want to use sccGui and/or sccDisplay I'd definetly recomment to open a VNC Server on the MCPC and a VNC client at your site. The graphical tools are much more responsive in the VNC viewer. Please give it a try and let us know if it improves your use case...
Sorry, I thought you were using VNC. Is your performance with VNC acceptable?
Locally here both X11 forwarding and VNC work fine, but even so we mostly use VNC.
Using VNC does improves performance very well. However it seems that I am unable to openup sccKonsole in VNC mode as it crasheses sccGui or if i try to open up in konsole same thing happens, interestingly enogh this does not happen when using ssh.
Anyone with same problem or any ideas as what is going wrong?
Oh, this was a bug. This used to happen. There's a configuration fix that I've forgotten. Does anyone remember? I can find it in my notes. We discovered this even before we set up Bugzilla ... otherwise it would be in there.
If you can provide that configuration fix, that will be grate help.
Just to get the right info ....
I assume you are coming in from a Linux box, not Windows.
You are using xvncviewer ( do not use xtightvncviewer)
On the desktop that comes up you have removed the mail icon on the toolbar
yes i am using Linux box and vncviewer 4.1.2


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BirthplaceSan Diego, CaliforniaDance TrainingHouston Ballet's Ben Stevenson AcademySan Diego School of BalletJoined the Company2004Promoted to Demi Soloist:2008
Promoted to Soloist:2011
Promoted to First Soloist:2013
Favorite BalletThe list keeps getting longerOne defining moment...Anytime I feel I have reached a personal best in my dancing, whether in the studio or on stage.
Katharine Precourt began her dance training under the direction of Robin Morgan at the San Diego School of Ballet, where her teachers included the legendary Dame Sonia Arova and Jillana. At the age of ten she was selected for the part of Clara in the San Francisco Ballet's The Nutcracker and the following year she performed with American Ballet Theatre in their televised production of Le Corsaire. Ms. Precourt attended Summer Intensive programs on full merit scholarship at some of the most renowned schools in the nation: Houston Ballet's Ben Stevenson Academy, the School of American Ballet, San Francisco Ballet School and she was the recipient of a scholarship award from Regional Dance America to American Ballet Theatre's Summer Intensive program. She continued her training year round in Houston as a member of Houston Ballet II and during this time she was an ARTS Ballet Award winner in the 2004 competition sponsored by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She was then invited to perform at their 2005 Gala honoring Mikhail Baryshnikov.
With the Houston Ballet, Ms. Precourt has developed into a versatile artist, proficient in both the classical as well as the contemporary repertoire. She has danced lead roles in great classical ballets: Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty (Stevenson), Gamzatti in La Bayadère (Welch), Myrtha in Giselle (Gaisina), and she enjoys reprising every year the roles of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Snow Queen in The Nutcracker (Stevenson). Other performance highlights include lead and featured parts in: Les Patineurs (Ashton), Jewels and Serenade (Balanchine), In the middle, somewhat elevated (Forsythe), Falling Angels and Petite Mort (Kylián), Song of the Earth and Manon (MacMillan), Afternoon of a Faun and The Concert (Robbins), Divergence and Tutu (Welch). Stanton Welch choreographed parts for her in Marie, Punctilious and The Ladies.
Ms. Precourt is delighted to have the opportunity to participate and dance in community related events and fund-raising benefits including the 2011 Pink at the Brown. She also represented the company, performing with the Houston Ballet II, at the inauguration of the new award-winning Houston Ballet's Center for Dance.
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Great service and great food. We like to go when it's not too busy and have never had a problem. Hostess extremely friendly and attentive. A favorite!
The clam chowder was the most delicious that I've had in a very long time. We would recommend this restaurant to everyone! Staff was great too!
As usual we stop on the way to and from the north because it is convenient, food is great and we get quick service. Wait staff is very attentive and serves quickly
Great service and great food. We like to go when it's not too busy and have never had a problem. Hostess extremely friendly and attentive. A favorite!
I go for their fish chowder for lunch and have been going there for years, I stop in at several Weathervanes when working.
Reliable, well prepared fried seafood and great service.
We visited the Weathervane while traveling on vacation, never having been in this part of Maine before. Weathervane is a small local chain of mid-price restaurants. We were very impressed by the experience. We enjoyed grilled salmon sandwiches, cooked just right, crusty on the outside and tender flaky on the inside. Side dishes and an order of fried onion rings were equally delicious. Weathervane serves lobster, seafood, burgers, and much more. The decor is plain but comfortable. Our server, Lisa, seemed genuinely friendly and eager to please. Prices were reasonable for the high quality food.
The food was great! I had haddock salad, which sounds weird, but was delicious. My daughter had lobster which she thoroughly enjoyed. We liked the restaurant so much, we went back for lunch the next day.
We put money aside to have East coast lobster, during our trip to DC to Maine and back... we were not disappointed
We have eaten at another Weathervane in Belfast and the food was not quite like Kittery. It was good, but not quite the same.
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In this unique and beautiful book, beloved doll-designer Barbara Willis guides readers through various approaches to doll design and basic and advanced construction techniques. Through the creation of three complete step-by-step projects, readers will develop color boards, learn to use vintage images, create both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional cloth dolls, learn sophisticated costuming techniques, and gain knowledge of elaborate soft sculpting. A gallery shares the inspirational work of several well-known doll artists who have created their own versions of each project. Complete patterns and templates are included.
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Sony's Social Media Manager Jeff Rubenstein has revealed that tonight on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Guerrilla Games' Hermen Hulst will be demoing Killzone 3 in 3D on the PS3 entertainment system!
To quote: Got someplace to be early tomorrow morning? Well blow it off! You'll wanna stay up late tonight to see Killzone 3 in action.
Video Game Week continues on http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/, as Guerrilla Games' Hermen Hulst will be demoing KZ3 in gorgeous 3D.
Jimmy stunk it up a little bit last night in Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit; hopefully he'll have better luck dishing out brutal melee attacks on the Helghast.
If he does well, we can all forgive him for his role in the cinematic catastrophe known as http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316732/. Queen Latifah, you're still on the hook.
David Spade will also be guesting, so stay up or set your DVR for 12:35 am tonight on NBC. You'll be able to play http://www.killzone.com/kz3/hub.html in February 2011.
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The Archdiocese of Chicago's school board wants to bring more students to their schools.
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The plan includes goals such as launching a fund-raising campaign for tuition aid and increasing the number of students in Catholic schools.
The archdiocese currently serves 85,000 students in 250 schools.
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WELCOME to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's online bookstore! Use the links above to browse current and backlist titles published by the Museum, including exhibition catalogues, permanent collection publications, and children's books. Our award-winning titles, illustrated with superb reproductions, are available for easy online ordering. Sign up to receive email updates about our publications.
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Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art explores how Latino artists shaped the artistic movements of their day and recalibrated key themes in American art and culture. This beautifully illustrated volume focuses on works created from the 1950s to the present, a turning point in our national culture that witnessed the "birth" and transformation of Latino art.
An introduction by guest scholar Tomás Ybarra-Frausto and lead essay by E. Carmen Ramos, curator for Latino art, establish a framework for incorporating Latino art within American art. Sixty-four essays on the artists and collectives included in the exhibition offer close readings of specific works in relation to their broad artistic, cultural, and sociopolitical context.


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Either way, I'm glad he is gone. I still have Garcia hangover.
On July 29th, fourth-string South Carolina quarterback Tanner McEvoy was arrested in North Carolina for driving after drinking alcohol while still a minor (which is not the same charge as a DUI). He was suspended for less than a week before Steve Spurrier reinstated him and blew off his arrest with a surprising level of nonchalance.
Well, now comes word that the redshirt freshman will transfer from the Gamecock program.
It's believed that his placement on the depth chart as well as the emergence of sophomore quarterback Dylan Thompson had more to do with McEvoy's decision to leave Columbia than his arrest or any behind-the-scenes punishment from Spurrier.
Still, don't be surprised to hear a Gamecock fan or two suggest that Spurrier made his flippant comments in an effort to take the spotlight off of McEvoy as he exits. For years some media members have believed that the Ol' Ball Coach says outrageous things that he knows will get play in the press whenever he wants to distract the public from another issue. Or protect a player.
Whether the coach was providing cover for McEvoy's exit or just honestly stating that he doesn't believe an alcohol- and car-related arrest was a big deal likely depends upon whether or not you like South Carolina… or hate South Carolina.


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Heart Disease Health Center
Ventricular Septal Defect
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A ventricular septal defect is detected on physical examination by a systolic murmur audible with a stethoscope along the lower left sternal or breast bone border. It is related to the oxygenated blood "swishing" through the hole or VSD into the right ventricle.
The presence of a hole in the heart can be confirmed by echocardiogram. This painless test uses ultrasound waves to construct a moving picture of the heart. It can quantitate the size of the left-to-right shunt by enlargement of the left ventricle, pressure in the lungs, and actually estimate the degree of shunting by an empirical formula.
Chest x-ray is useful to see if the overall heart size is enlarged, plus evidence of fluid in the lungs or pulmonary congestion. An electrocardiogram is helpful in checking to see if the left ventricle is the dominant working muscle, ie the more of right ventricular enlargement or hypertrophy seen, the more the physician must worry about pulmonary hypertension, and therefore operate sooner.
Cardiac catheterization may be performed in certain circumstances.
- In this procedure, a very thin plastic tube called a catheter is inserted into the skin in the groin, arm, or neck (under local anesthesia with minimal pain) and advanced to the heart under x-ray observation by the cardiologist.
- Pressures are measured inside the heart, especially if any concern was previously raised over the degree of pulmonary hypertension and therefore operability. If the lung pressures are very high and won't drop with oxygen and additional vasodilating drugs, the patient may not be operable.
- If additional abnormalities are possible, a dye study may be performed to visualize the anatomy of inside the heart. But the echocardiogram accomplished this goal in the majority of patients, ie most patients don't need a cardiac catheterization for a routine VSD.
Ventricular Septal Defect Treatment
In some children with ventricular septal defect, the defect will close on its own as the child grows.
Medical Treatment
If a larger ventricular septal defect is causing symptoms, your child's health care provider may prescribe medication.
- Which medication is prescribed depends on the severity of symptoms.
- The goal of therapy is to reduce the symptoms of congestive heart failure, such as poor growth and development, weight loss and/or poor weight gain, excessive sweating, and fast breathing. An older patient typically develops fluid in the lungs, liver, and legs.
- If serious infections and/or dental work is needed, antibiotics are needed to prevent the infection from spreading to the VSD, ie infectious endocarditis, which is potentially fatal.
- Vasodilators: Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin-receptor blockers are used to decrease the work load on the left ventricle.
Digoxin (Lanoxin) increases the strength of the heart muscle to deal with the greater blood volume.
- Diuretics such as Lasix (furosemide) or spironolactone help remove excess fluid from the body so the heart doesn't have to work as hard and the patient feels much better.
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Victoria Vesna is a media artist, Professor at the Department of Design | Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts. She is also director of the UCLA Art|Sci center and director of Research / Visiting Professor at Parsons Art, Media + Technology program. Her work can be defined as experimental creative research that resides between disciplines and technologies. She explores how communication technologies affect collective behavior and how perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation. Victoria has exhibited her work in 20+ solo exhibitions, 70+ group shows, published 20+ papers and gave a 100+ invited talks in the last decade. She is the North American editor of AI & Society and in 2007 she published an edited volume, "Database Aesthetics: Art in the age of Information Overflow", Minnesota Press. In press is "Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts" co-edited with Margot Lovejoy and Christiane Paul.
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