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Previous posts have surveyed the many reform bills in play across the states. This week, we'll take a more detailed look at a recently passed reform bill, West Virginia's SB 371. The bill, which was passed by both legislative chambers, grew out of the recommendations made by a task force of public officials that worked with the Council of State Governments last fall to address the state's prison and jail overcrowding problem.
The state's jails and prisons have been overcrowded for well over a decade, made worse by the state's growing prison population. Basically, state prisoners are being held in county and regional jails because the prisons are full. But jails, which are designed to hold people awaiting trial or serving short sentences, offer a much more limited range of rehabilitative programs than prisons do. In the late 1990s, a state prisoner serving time in a regional jail sued to be transferred to state prison, where he would have access to more programming and services. The State Supreme Court ruled in his favor, and has placed pressure on the executive and legislative branches to rectify the situation.
Despite a number of studies and recommendations in recent years, no action was taken to address the problem. Last year, a promising bill was killed in anticipation of this most recent study. The bill, SB 371, would allow judges to decide if some prisoners could be released early, increases post-release supervision, could reduce revocations for parole and probation violations, and may divert some defendants to substance abuse treatment rather than prison.
The bill is a step in the right direction, but proponents expect the bill to merely stop the overcrowding problem from worsening, rather than solving the overcrowding problem that already exists. The Associate Press reports that "the bill is expected to halt prison growth rates but not reduce current populations in the state's critically overcrowded prisons and jails."
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My only regret with this book is that I never read it sooner! I watched the movie years ago, and loved it, and also loved comparing and contrasting between the book. I felt very emotionally connected with the characters while reading, especially Stanley and Zero. They both seem to have been either falsely accused of crimes, and also being misunderstood. I felt anger when reading how horrible the warden treated all of the boys, but was then happy once the boys rebelled by doing things like stealing their truck and running away. This book had a lot of adventure, which kept me motivated to keep reading. Although there were some sad parts to the story, I knew there would be a happy ending since the characters were all good people and did the right things to keep themselves out of trouble. The message of this book is to stick up for yourself and others when you feel is right because the results are always appropriate for the situation. All the boys who were mistreated, were given an opportunity to make things right. For Stanley, he was proven innocent, and was compensated for the time he spent at the harsh camp. This book taught me about the importance of friendships and holding your ground when necessary, which is why I would recommend this book to any one looking to read an inspirational and uplifting, yet exciting, story!
This realistic tale expresses how digging holes in a correctional facility to benefit the warden pays off for the boys. This is a great tale about hardwork, wit, and friendship.
This book is full of suspense and events, which gives for an easy read and keeps readers wanting to read more. The descriptions of the places and events allows the readers to actually picture it in their head. I also like that this book is relate-able to many readers who have been punished for something they didn't do.
I loved this book about Stanley's journey at Camp Green Lake. It is a classic book about a new friendship built while struggling to get through a hard time. This book would be great for 5th or 6th grade. It is very entertaining and would really grasp the students' attention.
Stanley Yelnats and his family has very bad luck because of his no-good-dirty-filthy-pig-stealing-great-stealing-great-great-grandfather. Stanley Yelnats is misunderstood and blamed for a crime he did not commit, stealing shoes that fell on him while he was walking one day. Once he was sent away to dig holes, he learned a lot about different people, learned from those people, and realized that even though those kids were doing time for different things, they were still good people and became his close friends. The book challenges readers to imagine what the text is saying.
Stanley Yelnats is a young man with some teenage problems like being overweight, poor, and social outcast. His father is an inventor and his mother is a loving and supporting woman. He believes that he and his family are cursed and that life offers nothing but a bad luck to them. Interesting fact about his name is that his last name is his first name spelled backward. His family blames his "no good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather" for a family misfortune. Because of the broken promise of the great-great-grandfather, a gypsy lady doomed his family with a bad luck.
Numerous happenings led him to conclusion that something needs to be done to get rid of the bad luck. He often finds himself being at the wrong place at the wrong time. After being falsely accused of stealing a pair of snickers from a famous basketball player at an auction for homeless, Stanley picks a Green Lake Detention Camp for Boys to serve a sentence. There is nothing green nor lake like about that juvenile correction facility. The camp is run by The Warden and Mr. Sir. Those two are very brutal people who direct each kid to dig a hole each day under the blazing hot sun. The official purpose of hole digging is to build a character. A hidden purpose is to look for buried and lost treasure of outlaw, Kissing Katy Barlow.
I see Stanley growing and changing into a leader throughout the book. He lifts himself and other around him. Teaming up with "Zero" brought many new and surprising events in his life. Together they succeeded in fighting against cruelty of Warden and her team.
Many teenagers can relate to Stanley. There is a lot to learn in this book about hard work, loyalty, friendship, persistence, love, hard work and fate.
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The winter session was adjourned sine die on December 23, 2003. However, a notice was issued on January 20, 2004 stating the Lok Sabha would resume on January 29. The petitioner contended that there was no presidential address in the first session of 2004 as envisaged under Article 87, and therefore the Lok Sabha proceedings that session were unconstitutional, illegal, and void.
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A customer attempted to fix his own screen and now the phone has a white screen. Phone has been reset, restored and the white screen is still there. A new screen has been put on by me but the white screen is still there. Volume and the touch screen work. you can double tap the home button and then touch where the play button is and music will play.
Hi. I just replaced my Wife's screen and I too have a white screen and a small metal ring appeared to fall out around the vibrator area. Can you tell me where it is supposed to fit back in to? Much appreciated.
The nut that i found was located near the cables for the screen and digitizer. It goes underneath the yellow screw on step 13 of the ifixit guide for iphone 4 screen replacement.
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It seems like you know what you're doing, since you replaced the screen already. All I can think of is that you could check the connectors on the logic board side, on the cable side, and the cable itself.
Since the touch is working I'm hesitant to blame the logic board. Best of luck! If you solve it I'd love to hear the answer.
I figured it out. There is a little metal ring that looks like a nut that is under a two prong metal holder near the top of the logic board. When the Client took apart the screen the first time he removed the screen this piece came out. He handed me a few parts that he couldn't find out where they went two. I took apart two iPhone 4's side by side and carefully looked for differences. This was one of the only ones that I saw. I put the metal ring back in and put the phone back together and the screen worked. I don't know what the purpose of the metal piece is but it seems to be the cause of the white screen.
I am confident this is not the cause of the White Screen or the fix. That small serrated round nut, falls out of many iPhone 4 and often is never replaced and is without compromise to the iPhone 4 function. The only function it appears to have is to help stabilize the so called WiFi Antenna plate. Glad you got the screen issue solved. But more likely it was that the LCD Display Connector was never quite perfectly pressed down into place on the Logic Board Connector.
Yea i don't know for sure if it was the nut that was the fix. All i do know is that i have never had an issue seating a connector and for this particular phone i tried four different screens. Its hard to believe that all four didn't set correctly onto the logic board. i would love to hear from anyone what the part is really for. It is the only difference that i made in trying all four screens and now the white screen is gone. the IT person at my work thinks that it may have been a grounding issue.
I am having the excactly the same problem with a customers phone.
Is there any way you could take a picture of this piece or link me to a place where I can see it? I don't quite understand where you mean.
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Receiving a diagnosis of ependymoma, the third most common type of childhood brain cancer, can be devastating. While babies and toddlers are treated with surgery and radiation therapy, current chemotherapy is ineffective and the cancer often recurs.
Remarkably, researchers from the University of Toronto's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (LMP) have discovered a new way of treating this deadly form of cancer – with FDA approved drugs.
Dr. Michael Taylor a professor at LMP, along with lead author Stephen Mack and co-authors including Dr. Peter Dirks, also a professor at LMP, published the groundbreaking findings in Nature February 19, 2014.
Their research showed that epigenetics, the packaging of DNA, is the main cause of this cancer rather than mutations in the DNA.
DNA code is comparable to a three-billion letter long set of instructions on how a cell should operate. In this analogy, the majority of cancers are caused by words that are misspelled, added or deleted or entire book chapters that are added or deleted.
However, according to Professor Taylor, "When we look at ependymoma, we don't find any misspelled words, deleted or duplicated words or book chapters that are missing. Instead, what we find is that the entire novel is written in the wrong font and the DNA is packaged improperly. While epigenetics has been known to play a role in cancer, this is the first time that epigenetics is the prime driver of cancer."
There are already FDA-approved drugs that can alter the cancer's epigenetics.
"Usually when you make a discovery you have to make a new drug, but there are already drugs that change the font," said Taylor. "In this case, there are drugs that are the Microsoft Word equivalent of select all and switch to Times New Roman."
The team's success relied heavily on their ability to grow and study cells from these rare tumours. Once a patient's tumour is removed from the operating room, its cells are taken to Professor Dirks's lab to be grown in specialized conditions. The process is so efficient that by the time a child has recovered from surgery, the team has tested the cells and will know whether a specific drug will work.
"I think that's where this project has been so exciting. Dr. Taylor and Steve Mack made a foundational discovery in this tumour, and we were able to bring our expertise together in growing these live cells to see whether targeting this packaging really had any promise," said Dirks.
The team is optimistic that this will provide hope for children suffering from ependymoma. Taylor explains, "We hope it will be an effective treatment. One drug doesn't usually result in a cure, but there are multiple drugs that attack the same mechanism. Even if we can't cure it, we could use the drug to keep it to a treatable disease like diabetes."
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Getting run down and showing signs of its age. The rooms could use a little bit of updating and maintenance. Nearly half of the blinds in the room were broken or missing, a simple fix which really made the place feel "cheap". If it were peak season I would have been very disappointed due to the price, but for a cheap off-season stay it wasn't bad.
The staff were all very friendly. Breakfast was included and was very good ! The place was very clean. We were there celebrating our anniversary and they gave us a card with complimentary drinks.
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The Washington Wizards have had a disappointing second half of the season, but the continued strong play of John Wall has been a saving grace. Although not without his share of stinkers, the All-Star point guard has played up to his reputation and kept the Wizards within shouting distance of homecourt advantage in the first round. Even when the Wizards eventually lose, Wall usually does his part.
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Wall kept Washington in another game Friday night, although this time it ended with a victory. Down 96-94 to the Charlotte Hornets with seconds on the clock, the Wizards got the ball to Wall off the inbounds pass and saw him send the game to overtime for the second consecutive game with a pull-up jumper:
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The secrets society: Hundreds of historic files remain closed for no obvious reason. Brian Cathcart reports
Sunday 06 December 1992
Some of the documents on Britain's role in this are missing from the volumes. In their place for many years was a single sheet saying 'Closed until 1989'. When 1989 came around, however, the papers were not released. Instead, the words 'Retained under section (3)4' were added, which means that the papers were inspected by government officials, and the decision was taken to withhold them from public inspection indefinitely.
What can these papers possibly contain to justify keeping them secret after 54 years which have seen the upheavals of a World War and a Cold War? What could British diplomats or spies have been up to that might still be sensitive today? Until Whitehall changes its mind, there is no way of knowing.
The case of the Sudeten German papers is one of hundreds which have turned up in the first attempt by British historians to catalogue the public records that they would like to read but are not allowed to, even though the usual 30-year period has passed.
The initiative, organised by the Institute of Contemporary British History (ICBH) in London, comes in response to an offer made last June by William Waldegrave, the minister responsible for open government.
Asked in a radio interview about the prospects for glasnost in public records, he said: 'I would like to invite serious historians to write to me . . . Those who want to write serious historical works will know, probably better than we do, of blocks of papers that could be of help to them that we could consider releasing.'
He has been taken at his word. With the support of dozens of Public Record Office regulars, the ICBH has identified a huge variety of closed files, and it will be reporting its findings to Mr Waldegrave at the end of the month. The meatier subjects covered include:
Nazi subversive operations in Britain during the war.
Pre-war Nazi sympathisers in high places in Britain.
Interrogation reports on German prisoners of war.
The abdication crisis of 1936.
The post-war Cabinet committee on subversive activities.
Sir Roger Casement, the Irishman executed for treason in 1916.
British Army action during the 1916 Easter Rising.
British irregular forces in Ireland 1919-21.
Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia in 1938.
Anglo-Iranian relations in 1953, the year of a coup in Tehran.
The attempt on Hitler's life in July 1944.
Full transcripts of intercepted German 'Enigma' signals.
Why is the Government keeping secrets about these things? The rules are clear: documents are released after 30 years unless they contain information which (a) might endanger national security, (b) might cause distress to individuals or their immediate descendants, or (c) was given on condition of confidentiality.
In some cases, it is possible to identify one of the three factors. The abdication papers, for example, are thought to be withheld because of possible distress to the Queen Mother. And immediate descendants of Irishmen who helped the British forces during the war of independence might well suffer distress if identified. But Sir Roger Casement? Nazi sympathisers? The Iranian coup?
Professor Kenneth Morgan, who has been studying the Anglo-Iranian papers, says it is 'ridiculous' that he is able to read material up to the year 1951, but not after. This means that the extent of British and American involvement in the coup of 1953 against the Prime Minister, Mossadeq, is at least partly obscured. 'It makes a total mockery of the work of the historian,' Professor Morgan says.
The official body which is supposed to safeguard the public interest in all this, the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Council on Public Records, chaired by the Master of the Rolls, includes reputable historians among its members. When government departments decide to withhold papers, they must justify the decision, file by file, to this panel.
The council, however, is a victim of a classic paradox of official secrecy: its members do not have security clearance, so they are not allowed to see the contents of the files being discussed. 'All we can do is ask awkward questions,' says Valerie Cromwell, a historian who has been a member. 'We are meant to see that things are run properly, but it's difficult in these circumstances to do a good job.'
Historians assume, in fact, that many papers are held back for quite innocent reasons, some because of past qualms, now irrelevant, some because the resources do not exist to process them, and some simply because they have been forgotten. The ICBH has identified a large number of files that may fall into this category. They include:
The International Whaling Agreement of 1939.
Aberystwyth hospitals and civil defence planning.
Black-market activity in the Second World War.
Private housing in Crawley in the 1950s.
The Poor Law in the 1930s.
Anglo-Swedish relations in 1941.
Food production in the Second World War.
Relations between Turkey and South Korea in 1957.
What could possibly be secret about these matters? There is a tendency to assume the worst, and nothing feeds a conspiracy theory so well as the concealment of evidence. Historians argue that it is often in the Government's interest to release a file, if only to defuse speculation.
That was the case with papers on police activities during a strike at Tonypandy in South Wales in 1911. Because the papers were held back for 75 years, it was thought that they must contain damning information about the role of the then Home Secretary, Winston Churchill, in encouraging police excesses. When they finally emerged, however, it was clear they had been kept back merely to conceal details of special police overtime and billeting arrangements. A similar anti-climax followed the recent release of papers on Rudolf Hess.
There is another paradox about public records. Most of the knowledge about files that have been withheld comes from the indexes of the Public Record Office, where tantalising blank spaces appear beside file headings.
But what about the cases where even the file headings are absent? And the papers that have never reached the index? These are the successful cover-ups. Lewis Johnman, another historian involved in the ICBH initiative, sums up the Catch-22: 'We don't know because we can't see, and we can't see because we don't know.'
Dr Johnman has been frustrated by one of the oddest secrecy cases of all. Four times in the first half of this century, the Government conducted a census of production, an all-embracing survey of British industry, for which every manufacturing company submitted details of its operations. Digests were made public, but the raw, company-by-company returns were not, because firms insisted that the information must not find its way to competitors.
Dr Johnman was interested in the raw returns, potentially a peerless record of industrial decline, and he thought that, at least in the case of the 1907 and 1912 censuses, the confidentiality factor would no longer apply. The Government explained that since the original promise of discretion had been made to the British industrial organisations of that time, it was the Confederation of British Industry that should have the last word. The CBI said no. Dr Johnman, and a number of other economic historians, are hoping that Mr Waldegrave will now change its mind.
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My Sunburst finally bloomed. I really like the color of this flower. Too bad it's not bigger.
When my large plant was in full bloom with about 50 flowers you could smell it from about 20ft away. It does stink! Smells like smashed lacewings to me.
I just like it because it is unusually colored and has pretty foilage.
I have a number of flowers blooming on mine but it's surrounded by nice smelling jasmines, brugs and a corkscrew vine. I guess I'd better make sure not to move them anywhere until the passie's done blooming. lol It was pretty gross when I got right up to it, yuck!
Karyn did your sunburst produce any green changing to purple berries/fruit? Last year mine had some that were about marble sized. The only thing that could have pollinated it at that time was Lady Margaret unless they are self fertile (no clue if they are). Some were mostly empty but in a few, there were the tiniest seeds in there. I planted some and they came up albino!! Obviously they died but it was wierd. I have some photos of the seeds I will try to get uploaded to photobucket so I can post them.
Those look sort of like concord grapes that aren't ripe. I haven't seen any fruit and I've tried pollinating it with just about everything that I have blooming. I'm wondering if the morifolia and the ones I grew from seed are self fertile because there's so much fruit. Almost every bloom and I only hand pollinated a few. Another of my seedlings bloomed. It looks similar to the others except is blue instead of purple. I'll post a pic later.