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In mid-December, as one of the outgoing Bush Administration's last minute regulations, the Department of Justice radically expanded the category of persons from whom federal officials are now required to collect DNA. The rule requires federal officials to collect and retain DNA not only from persons convicted of a federal offense, but also from those merely arrested on suspicion of being involved in a federal offense. Among its other flaws, this rule exacerbates the tension between the shared nature of genetic information and the standards justifying DNA collection and retention. By linking DNA collection to probable cause, the new regulation threatens to destabilize our understandings about what constitutes probable cause and to put millions of never-arrested individuals under perpetual genetic suspicion.
Professor Matthew Stephenson's recent article highlights a crucial but overlooked function of the judiciary in crafting doctrines that discourage constitutionally problematic statutes. Rather than drawing explicit boundaries of permissible and impermissible statutory schemes, courts can and do produce constitutional doctrine that leaves these boundaries blurry, thus raising the risk of reversal for time- and resource-strapped legislators.
I seek to apply Stephenson's theory to interpret the nature and scope of the Roberts Court's jurisprudence—in particular, the likely impact of judicial minimalism—on statutory enactments and lower court decisions. Critics have charged that the Roberts Court's emphasis on narrow holdings limited to specific factual circumstances undermines the Court's guidance function for lower courts and legislators alike. Such objections are misplaced. Minimalism, or the preference for narrow decisionmaking in the exercise of judicial review, offers underappreciated benefits in deterring constitutional violations in legislative enactments. The indirect result of such jurisprudence is to raise the risk that subsequent, constitutionally problematic legislative enactments might be overturned. Legislators only can consider a finite number of bills during each session. They might be more wary to pass or even to consider constitutionally questionable legislation when factoring in the risk of judicial invalidation. Thus, the second-order benefit of judicial minimalism becomes apparent. Without making sweeping pronouncements of the constitutionality of various legislative acts, the Court can nevertheless reduce the frequency of constitutional violations while avoiding the countermajoritarian difficulty raised by judicial review.
Mirjan walked into my life in the Fall of 1972. I was 29, he was 41, but both of us were at the beginning of our academic careers in America. I was a lucky guy. My DNA was programmed for standardized tests. This curious aptitude propelled me out of the Bronx to Harvard College and Yale Law School. I served as a law clerk for Henry Friendly and John Harlan, followed up by writing a couple of long articles, and, voila, this proved to be a recipe for a full professorship at the University of Pennsylvania. I was, to put it mildly, confident in my bright, shiny intellectual tools and expansive about the rich possibilities of life in America—in short, I was naïve, breathtakingly naïve.
Mirjan had come to Penn via a different route. He was a leading participant in the liberalization of communist life during the "Croatian Spring" of the 1960s—and had been bitterly disappointed by the repression that followed. With reluctance, he and his wife Maria had decided to uproot themselves from their beloved Zagreb. They were rebuilding their lives from the ground up. Mirjan looked on in disbelief as I happily babbled about the mind-blowing implications of John Rawls and Guido Calabresi for the study of law. Mirjan did not come to America to herald a decisive advance in jurisprudence. He went into exile to gain the scholarly freedom to reflect upon the great crises of legality of the twentieth century. His brooding Slav soul was a standing rebuke to my heady American optimism about the future.
Many attorneys are unaware of or misunderstand an important tool they can use to protect their business organization clients: the ability to disclose the client's confidences. In jurisdictions with "loyal disclosure" rules—rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the American Bar Association in response to Enron and other corporate scandals—counsel may disclose confidential information to protect an entity client from the harmful, illegal conduct of company constituents. In this essay, I explain that an entity client has an interest in its attorneys understanding these complicated rules and, when appropriate, disclosing confidences to protect the organization from the financial consequences of constituent misconduct.
The Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), housed within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), investigates alleged misconduct by federal prosecutors and other DOJ personnel. Under the Bush administration, even when OPR found serious prosecutorial misconduct, DOJ kept the disciplinary investigation and outcome private to avoid embarrassing the prosecutor. This practice superseded a public disclosure policy adopted by the previous administration. This essay submits that DOJ's recent practice is contrary to the public interest and that the new administration should regulate its prosecutors more transparently, consistent with President Obama's call for open government.
Failure to meet discovery obligations is a serious impediment to the fair, prompt and cost effective resolution of disputes and, in extreme forms, can undermine public confidence in the integrity of the process. Harsh sanctions are appropriately imposed on parties and their counsel when egregious discovery misconduct affects the progress of a case. In cases involving allegations of improper monitoring by counsel of client conduct, however, courts properly exercise restraint in determining counsel culpability in light of the burdens it places on the attorney-client relationship, including threats to the confidentiality of client communications.
The Pocket Part is proud to present our final symposium issue of the academic year, examining reoccuring and novel issues surrounding the ethical responsibilities faced by lawyers.
If a rule is only as good as its exceptions, and a reporter is only as good as her sources, then according to a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court opinion, Pennsylvania's reporter's privilege is the best of privileges and the worst of privileges. In that opinion, the court failed to carve a crime-fraud exception out of Pennsylvania's reporter's privilege—or its "Shield Law"—despite having previously read a similar exception into every other evidentiary privilege. Ironically, this alleged act of judicial "passivism" transformed the Shield Law into both a shield and a sword and mischaracterized the purposes served by all evidentiary privileges.
In a recent note in The Yale Law Journal, Jon Donenberg argued that (1) program changes in Medicaid ushered in by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) sub silentio rendered Medicaid's basic availability provision unenforceable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and (2) state fair hearing procedures constitute the best alternative for enforcement of beneficiary rights. Donenberg misreads both the DRA and § 1983 jurisprudence, overstates the usefulness of fair hearings, and overlooks the better alternative of preemption claims to enforce the Medicaid Act.
Virtual world transactions (VWT) involve the sale or exchange of goods and services that are used exclusively within a virtual world. As participation in virtual worlds increases, both in volume and in character, the boundary between VWT and real world transactions becomes unclear. Consequently, many wonder whether the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will tax participants in virtual worlds, even before they have converted their virtual items into real goods or services. Although IRS agents are not counting virtual earnings quite yet, they may begin to take notice of VWT on a broader scale if and when one of three events occur: (1) courts grant property rights to virtual world participants in the virtual items they amass; (2) vendors begin accepting virtual items (such as virtual currency) on a regular basis in exchange for real goods and services; or (3) Congress adopts legislation requiring owners of virtual worlds to report certain transactions to the IRS.
Millions of people participate in virtual worlds—immersive online forums such as Second Life and World of Warcraft (WoW). While some online activities lack significant economic implications, one of the attractions of Second Life, which is designed to be a commercial platform, is the prospect of making "real money." This essay argues that profits received in the form of Lindens (Second Life's currency) should be taxed in much the same way profits received via PayPal, a widely used electronic-payment system, are. Although Second Life profits could instead be taxed once the taxpayer sells for real money ("cashes out"), that would create a special exception for Second Life that does not exist for platforms such as eBay. It would facilitate abuse and distort economic activity.
Economists and legal theorists have long argued that real-world economies cannot function effectively without well-defined property rights. More recently, scholars have also begun to analyze at least three kinds of "virtual" economies: the online economies exemplified by eBay and other trade-facilitating mechanisms; the economies in virtual worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft; and the virtual reputational economies associated with MySpace and Facebook. The first two economies generally involve the exchange of familiar forms of property. But scholars have thus far failed to fully identify or analyze the property underlying the reputational economy. What that economy demonstrates, especially in its virtual form, is that reputation itself—social status and the respect of others—can usefully be understood as a form of property. Strands of this theory appear in law and scholarship, but they have not been tied together in a way that shows that reputation can be property-like even without demonstrating economic value. Virtual reputational economies show that reputation can be gained, lost, traded, protected, and shared, all in property-like fashion, without regard to whether it has independent economic value. In other words, reputation is not merely valuable; it is the new New Property.
Second Life is a feudal society. No, not metaphorically. Literally.
Two problems have preoccupied scholars of virtual world law: What is the political relationship between developers and users? And: Should we treat in-world objects as property? We can make progress on both questions by recognizing that virtual politics and property are inex-tricably linked, in the same way that feudal politics and property were. It is the tenant/user's relationship with his lord/developer that both creates the property interest and enforces it. The similarity between ownership of land in feudal England and in Second Life suggests that offline courts should protect user interests in virtual items, gradually, without treating them as full-blown modern "property."
Suppose that you move to a new town. To buy your home, you must allow the developer to install cameras in each room and record all interactions between you and your husband. To use the telephone, you must permit the telephone company to record and retain your conversations. To receive mail, you must allow the mail carrier to copy and index the contents. To access funds, you must permit the bank to record all purchases. Suppose, too, that much of this information can become available to government actors with a simple subpoena rather than the more stringent search warrant. It may sound incredible, but this is the reality for millions of people who live, work, and play in virtual worlds.
Several female law students were the subject of derogatory comments on AutoAdmit.com, a message board about law school admissions. When one of the women asked the website administrator to remove certain comments, the administrator discussed her request in an online post, prompting further attacks. An undergraduate student's rape was revealed on a gossip site, JuicyCampus.com, where posters engaged in a cruel session of "blame the victim." Another student on that site was falsely identified, by name, as being a stalker, bi-polar, and suicidal. When officials at her university asked JuicyCampus.com to remove the most egregious posts, the company refused.
These recent examples have brought the vexing problem of cyber-harassment to the public's attention. Under § 230 of Title 47 of the U.S. Code, websites are not liable as publishers for the content on their sites so long as they are not involved in the creation of the objectionable content. Accordingly, much of the relevant scholarship has focused on repealing § 230 or imposing liability upon posters.
The rise of significant inbound capital flows originating from sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) has occasioned a debate over the appropriate regulatory and tax treatment of these funds. In particular, it has been argued that the tax exemption currently enjoyed by SWFs confers an advantage on these entities as providers of capital to U.S. firms relative to private foreign investors, and that a tax should be imposed on SWFs to restore fairness. This essay argues that the distinctive nature of the portfolio choices facing SWFs negates this fairness argument. Indeed, changing the tax treatment of SWFs as has been proposed would distort choices that are otherwise efficient and would handicap U.S. firms and workers.
Important characteristics distinguish sovereign wealth fund investment, which is often troubling, from private foreign investment, which is generally beneficial. Allowing sovereign wealth funds to own equity stakes in American companies encroaches on the autonomy of U.S. industrial and foreign policy in a way that private investment does not. Moreover, because some sovereign wealth fund investment is politically motivated, this new form of investment impairs the efficient allocation of economic resources. Given these effects, one might expect U.S. tax policy to discourage state-controlled investment and encourage private investment. Instead, tax policy does just the opposite, subsidizing sovereign wealth funds that invest in the equity of U.S. companies.
In this Essay, I sketch out a few tax reform alternatives that could complement other regulatory proposals regarding sovereign wealth. First, and most modestly, the U.S. could strive for sovereign tax neutrality, eliminating the unwarranted tax subsidy that sovereign wealth funds enjoy under current law. A second, more aggressive, alternative would impose an excise tax on sovereign wealth. Additional reform alternatives are more fine tuned, linking the tax rate to a fund's compliance with best practices or other measures of transparency, accountability, and professionalization. I fully develop the case for taxing sovereign wealth elsewhere in a longer paper. For present purposes, I merely wish to convince the reader that regardless of how one feels about regulating sovereign wealth funds, the tax exemption under current law deserves reconsideration.
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) recently have captured America's attention. Much of that attention has been critical, with a particular focus on whether the U.S. economy is becoming vulnerable to the policy whims of foreign states. Yet SWFs face significant domestic commercial and political pressures to emphasize financial performance over policy goals. These pressures from home can protect against politically motivated U.S. investments. To the extent these motivations are insufficient, additional protections—such as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), as well as our antitrust, banking, securities and other regulations—help assure that SWFs are likely to act pursuant to commercial interests.
In a 2003 essay in The Yale Law Journal entitled Minorities, Shareholder and Otherwise, Anupam Chander compared corporate law's special protections for minority shareholders with the increasingly colorblind position of constitutional law, arguing that the former has much to teach the latter. In this edition of The Yale Law Journal Pocket Part we revisit this controversial essay with reactions from three constitutional and corporate law scholars and, finally, a response from Anupam Chander addressing these perspectives on his work.
Anupam Chander's article Minorities, Shareholder and Otherwise brilliantly offers a "conservative" justification for a U.S. constitutional law truly dedicated to fairness and justice for all. It does so by counterintuitively looking to the bottom-line-oriented world of corporate law. This commentary offers a most powerful example of the gulf between constitutional law and corporate law identified by Professor Chander. Modern constitutional law affords no meaningful substantive protection to immigrants to the United States. The Supreme Court has consistently held that the political branches of the U.S. government possess "plenary power" over immigration and the courts lack the power to review the substantive constitutionality of the immigration laws. The "plenary power" doctrine in operation serves as a bulwark of inequality for immigrants to the United States.
In Minorities, Shareholder and Otherwise, Anupam Chander argues that, unlike constitutional law, "corporate law places minorities at the heart of its endeavor." Central to his project is an empirical claim that corporate law has an "elaborate framework" for "protecting minority interests in the corporation." In Chander's view, it thus is corporate law, not constitutional law, that is truly equipped to deal with issues such as fairness, oppression, and power.
It is a very clever thesis, which is quite well executed. Most important, it is quite novel, which is what really counts. Academics do not get rewarded with tenure, promotions, or The Yale Law Journal slots for being right; they get rewarded for having smart and novel ideas. When Edmund Burke warned us to be wary of "sophisters, economists, and calculators," however, it doubtless was because there is a positive correlation between an idea's novelty and the likelihood it will prove wrong.
In Minorities, Shareholder and Otherwise, Anupam Chander points out that the law treats discrimination by corporate insiders against minority shareholders with suspicion. Yet discrimination against ordinary minorities, in buying or selling a house or applying for a job, for example, receives increasingly lax treatment from color-blind courts uninterested in delving into the thickets of intent, history, and complex causation.
For corporate law, "equal treatment can only be assured by taking minority status into account." Indeed, solicitude toward minority interests "is an ordinary part of corporate life, mandated by law." Outside of this sphere, however, discrimination against racial minorities has become increasingly difficult to redress.
Should minority status be a relevant datum for judicial decision?
That is the question motivating my essay, Minorities, Shareholder and Otherwise, published five years ago in this journal. I am grateful to The Yale Law Journal for recalling the paper and inviting three of the nation's leading legal scholars to comment on it. Because my essay was published at the dawn of the Web 2.0 era when, alas, The Pocket Part was not yet available, the Journal has asked me to pen an introduction to this symposium to review that paper.
In Minorities, Shareholder and Otherwise, I demonstrate that corporate law recognizes the relevance of minority status, even while constitutional law more and more insists on minority-blindness. I argue that this is precisely backwards — that the constitutional domain should require greater judicial vigilance with respect to minority status than the corporate domain. The difficulty of exit from a polity and the inability to negotiate (or at least select among) terms of entry into a polity, not to mention a history of grave injustice, call for special attention to minorities in the constitutional context.
We previously suggested in this Journal that post-death publicity rights could be excluded from the decedent's estate for tax purposes if state legislation precluded the decedent from exercising post-death control. In other words, if state legislation designated who would hold these rights after the decedent's death, the value of these rights should not be subject to estate tax. Professor Joshua Tate, in his response to our essay, argues that under current law, estate tax inclusion would be required regardless of the decedent's ability to exercise control. So, for example, in Professor Tate's analysis, the estate tax would apply even if the legislation vested those rights in the decedent's oldest daughter and even if the decedent had no right to alter this outcome. Professor Tate's analysis misconstrues fundamental estate tax principles and misunderstands the precedents on which he relies.
Attorney Alan R. Levy recently published an article in The Yale Law Journal Pocket Part entitled "How 'Swingers' Might Save Hollywood from a Federal Pornography Statute." So eager was Levy to "save Hollywood" from having to keep records to verify that performers engaging in actual sexually explicit conduct are legally adults, that he grossly distorted the meaning and effect of 18 U.S.C. § 2257. Ironically, while exaggerating the negative impact of § 2257, he simultaneously underestimated the problematic nature of a different statutory provision potentially requiring record keeping for performers who engage in simulated sexual conduct.
In an April 2008 essay in The Yale Law Journal Pocket Part, Mitchell Gans, Bridget Crawford, and Jonathan Blattmachr argue that recent state legislation recognizing postmortem publicity rights fails to take into account the likely estate tax consequences. Although Gans, Crawford, and Blattmachr are correct to argue that allowing publicity rights to pass by will or inheritance could have adverse tax consequences for some estates, those ramifications are not as far-reaching as might be imagined. Moreover, their "legislative solution" will not solve the problem.
The behavior of the Justices during oral argument has always fascinated Supreme Court watchers. Recent studies have confirmed what experienced observers have long known: Justice Breyer talks the most, Justice Thomas says the least, and Justice Scalia gets the most laughs. What has remained somewhat of a mystery, however, is how much the Justices continue to think about oral argument after they leave the courtroom and return to their chambers. Which Justices give oral argument the most consideration? Which statements by advocates make the most lasting impressions?
Note: On August 8, 2008 the California Court of Appeals issued its decision in Jonathan L., et al. v. The Superior Court of Los Angeles County.
The recent decision of the California Court of Appeal in the Rachel L. case set off a storm of protest from the California "home school" community and drew nationwide media attention. It was understood by many as holding that it is illegal for parents without teaching credentials to teach their own children at home, thus exposing the children and parents to truancy and child dependency proceedings. In the wake of the public response, the Court of Appeal granted rehearing and solicited an amicus brief from the California Department of Education (CDE) and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell, which we recently filed with the court. In the brief, we argued that home-schooled children should not be declared truant if, in the opinion of local public school officials, the parents are providing an adequate education in compliance with the laws governing private schools.
It is a distinct pleasure to have the chance to respond to the insightful commentaries of Peter Drahos, Ruth Okediji, and Tomiko Brown-Nagin. I find much to agree with in each, but I will focus on a few areas of divergence in the hope of clarifying our differences.
Drahos's work on the role of ideas in the field of international intellectual property (IP) has been essential to my own thinking, and we agree on two critical points: that frame mobilization matters to political outcomes, and that frame mobilization is not all that matters. But Drahos and I disagree on how framing matters, because we employ slightly different conceptions of the term. As Drahos's reference to Cicero suggests, he treats framing as primarily a form of rhetorical intervention, one that can usually yield only symbolic or interim victories. I intend the concept in a more constitutive way, as it has been developed in the social movements literature. Framing here marks acts of dialogic, emergent interpretation that instigate, legitimate, and sustain collective action. Conceived of in this way, frames are not only rhetorical devices. They are also fundamental to the dynamics of collective action–to the very possibility and nature of "the environmental movement" or the "access to knowledge movement," or even, I contend, the "IP industries."
Federal administrative agencies have always had the authority to issue substantive regulations that conflict with, and therefore ultimately preempt, state law. In recent years, agencies have begun to assert a new and questionable kind of interpretative authority: taking a specific position on whether or not state law is preempted by an agency action. Later this year the Supreme Court will hear Wyeth v. Levine, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) case that is widely expected to tackle head-on the question of agency authority to determine when its regulations preempt state law. However, little-noticed language appearing in the Court's February 2008 decision in Riegel v. Medronic may have significant implications for the upcoming Wyeth decision.


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Budweiser & Clamato Chelada - Anheuser-Busch
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1.2/5 rDev -40.3%
look: 1 | smell: 2 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
Oh, dear. I never thought I'd have the "privilege" to review this, but after my friend and I had put off tasting this (or pranking some friends with it) as a joke purchase, we decided to crack it open once and for all, after "aging" it for 8 months. I made sure to spin the can around to get the gleeful addition of Clamato residue throughout the whole pour. Poured out of a 500ml can into a tulip glass.
Looks really watery, and easily resembles the coloration of tomatoes after you've squeezed out all the juice possible from them. In other words, pinkish, slightly pale (straw), cloudy, and very unappetizing in nature. There was a surprisingly high amount of head that went with this, but it faded extremely rapidly in a seltzer-like watery manner. It doesn't really look very good. I'd give it a higher score but its look almost prevented me from going on.
While the smell has been heavily criticized by others, it actually isn't too bad in my view. It smells a lot like a gazpacho, which I enjoy. Notes of tomatoes, cilantro, celery, basil, lemon, and a slight saltiness. No fishy smell, no artificial feel, or any off-notes overall for that matter. Maybe the near year of aging has settled things overall? It's not great, but it perhaps won't cause any natural decay of any living beings that approach it just yet.
The flavor just might, however. This is awful. Notes of slimy tomatoes, old celery and cilantro, as well as a pervasive onion and garlic aroma that melds with a slightly salty, briny texture that must be from the clams. At first it wasn't so horrible, but then the aftertaste contained a mildly skunky, sulfurous note from the adjuncts, as well as a gritty, grainy flavor that melds with the briny qualities to horrific results. I took perhaps three sips before I started to gag. Thin, spritzy, with a texture that is pretty much the *opposite* reason why anyone would drink beer. This made me very sad.
I knew this would be horrible, but it's honestly an offensive tribute to Mexican micheladas, which are rather good, depending on how you make them. I've no clue who InBev was trying to cater to with this other than those that don't like beer, those who are okay with a dumbed down version of a michelada, and woeful sado-masochists such as myself. NOT FOR FANS OF BEER!
Serving type: can
02-12-2014 23:25:11 | More by magictacosinus
1/5 rDev -50.2%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
Ok, let me start off by saying I'm not a religious man. But this beer has made me believe that Satan is very real. I don't even know where to begin. Should I start with the atrocious excuse of a can design or the vomit inducing pungent smell? Whenever you open this literal sin to mankind I am convinced that the terrorist won if this this is even allowed to exist. Me and my friends were dumbfounded after tasting this. Is this a joke? Does this excuse of a beverage actually sell? Is this the one thing that slipped through the matrix? After taking a sip I felt like releasing the contents of my stomach and dying. I just don't know anymore.
Serving type: can
02-02-2014 01:32:30 | More by greggoulet
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2.63/5 rDev +30.8%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
A: The beer is rather hazy orange yellow in color and has a moderate to high amount visible carbonation. It poured with a quarter finger high off white head that rapidly dissipated and left a collar around the edge of the glass.
S: Light to moderate aromas of tomato and clam juice are present in the nose.
T: The taste very much follows the smell and seems like a Clamato drink that's been watered down a bit with added carbonation and a slight amount of bitterness. Notes of salty clams linger through the finish.
M: It feels nearly medium-bodied on the palate and has a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: I didn't have much in the way of expectations for this "beer" but it's definitely a lot better than the Bud Light version of the Clamato Chelada and surprisingly seems to work well with the Budweiser. The carbonation and light amount of bitterness seemed to make the Clamato a little easier to drink whereas the Clamato flavors kept the Budweiser from being bland. I doubt that I would purchase this again, but I wouldn't have a problem drinking all 24 ounces of this beer if I had to (the Bud Light version was a different story and mostly got poured down the drain).
Serving type: can
11-08-2013 00:55:57 | More by metter98
Budweiser & Clamato Chelada from Anheuser-Busch
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You Probably Haven't Even Seen Teen Wolf: Confused Teenagers Dressing Up As Wolves
Note: Worthwhile 4-minute news report after the jump.
Proving that even confused teenagers that have convinced themselves they're part wolf can apply thick black eyeliner, "Deikitsen Wolfram Lupus" (Sad Confused Wolf) dresses as a wolf to get attention and hangs out with a group calling themselves The Wolfpack. Jesus Christ.
"We're not a gang at all. Gangs are like posers. They just want attention, that's why they go along tagging stuff. The pack? We're a family. We go to each other for our problems."
"You get friends. You get a place where you belong. You're pretty much accepted to where you are, who you are, what you are," said Deikitsen Wolfram Lupus, the unofficial leader of the pack at Brandeis High. He says he's got some wolf in him, howling sometimes to get out.
*facepalm* Listen: as a guy with over six years of high school experience (f***ing calculus), I know it's hard to fit in sometimes. But pinning a faux-fur tail to the back of your jeans isn't the answer. Go hipster. Kidding! That's way worse.
Hit the jump for a video of the please don't feed me any of that "kids are the future" bullshit.
Teen wolves descend upon San Antonio high schools [kens5]
Thanks to MoD, Russ, Ickorus, Gabbi and Chris, who all wore gorilla costumes to high school because that's what was cool back then. Just watch, these things are cyclical.
This guy got six Pokéball tattoos down his arm and the area beneath each stuffed with a subdermal implant to make them all appear 3-D. Not really sure what else to say, except rubbing elbows with him would almost certainly make me queasy. Not unlike eating a can of cat food ... / Continue →
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Sunday, March 18
A comic ballet for the whole family, performed by the Minnesota Ballet. 3 p.m., Symphony Hall, DECC. Spunky heroine poses as
the Coppélia doll and pretends to come to life to outwit its inventor. Tickets: Minnesota Ballet, (218)529-3742, www.mnballet.org; DECC Ticket Office, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com.
Swedish Cultural Society
Meets 3:30 p.m., Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 219 N. Sixth Ave. East. Musical program "Swedish Customs and Music" presented by Ruby Thomas. All welcome. (218)525-4438.
Avalon Educational Institute, 404 W. Superior Street, 5 to 7 p.m., followed by refreshments. All welcome, freewill donation. (218)626-2380, 590-6608, firstname.lastname@example.com
Monday, March 19
Visits Twig (Park, 9:30 to 10 a.m.), Pike Lake (Dairy Queen, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.), Hermantown (BP Station, HWY 53 & LaVaque Road, 12:15 to 12:45 p.m.), Fredenberg (Community Center, 1:15 to 1:45 p.m.), Pequaywan Inn Resort from 2:30 to 3 p.m. and McQuade Road at Cape Superior Inn from 5:15 to 6 p.m. The Bookmobile visits these sites again on March 19.
Crohn's support group
Q&A on updates on Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Guest speaker Dr. Robert Erickson. 6:30 to 8 p.m., Minnesota Room, Essentia Health/St. Mary's Hospital. (218)729-7867
Russia connection
6:30 p.m., Our Savior's Lutheran Church, 4831 Grand Ave. Presentation on the Northeast Minnesota Synod of the ELCA's relationship with the Ingrian Lutheran Church in Russia.
Tuesday, March 20
Singles Activities
Group meets for coffee and conversation at 10:30 a.m., New London Café, 4721 E. Superior Street, followed by a walk. New members 50+ welcome. (218)722-6828
Riverfront meeting
Riverfront Communities meeting for all residents and those interested in the Riverside-to-Fond du Lac area, at Good Fellowship Center, Morgan Park. 6 p.m. meeting on the Westwood Heights Development Project with Mark Cross of Kuepers, Inc., followed by 6:30 meeting, with updates on future projects.
Mended Hearts
Chapter #104 support group meets 7 p.m., Wisconsin Room, St. Mary's/Essentia Health Center, 307 E. Third Street. The workshop series "Living Well with Chronic Conditions" begins. All welcome.
Presented by UMD Theatre, Marshall Performing Arts Center, UMD campus. 7:30 p.m. tonight and March 21-24 and 2 p.m. March 25. Tickets: 218-726-8561, www.tickets.umn.edu
Wednesday, March 21
Antique appraisal
Dan Sershon of Northland Estate Services and Denny Mager of Northern Specialty provide informal verbal identification and evaluation of up to two antiques, collectibles or photos of items. Noon to 3 p.m., Depot rotunda. Sponsored by the St. Louis County Historical Society. (218)733-7568, email@example.com
Acoustic fundraiser
Twin Ports Female Acoustic Showcase, 7 p.m., Teatro Zuccone, 222 E. Superior Street. $10 at the door. Proceeds benefit Life House.
Thursday, March 22
"Superior Donuts"
Comedy-drama about a downtrodden, reluctant-to-change donut shop owner (played by UMD visiting professor Lee Gundersheimer) who hires a street-savvy young writer (Duluth's Gabriel Mayfield) with hustle and bright ideas. 7:30 p.m. tonight and March 23, 24, and 29-31, the Play Ground, 11 E. Superior Street. Tickets: duluthplayground.org or at the door.
Friday, March 23
"Double Grande"
Legendary duets by piano and vocal duo Deborah Johnson and Wayland Pickard, 7:30 p.m., Mitchell Hall, St. Scholastica campus. (877)263-9596, (218)723-7000, www.css.edu/About/ Spotlight-Arts-and-
Cure for cabin fever
Cabin Fever Festival today and tomorrow at the Radisson. Traditional bluegrass, gospel, old-time and progressive roots music: performances, workshops, craft and instrument vendors, draw bands, jam sessions. More at minnesota bluegrass.org/as_cabin-fever. Special rate at the Radisson, (218)727-8981, (800)635-3037. www.minnesotabluegrass.org
Saturday, March 24
Poetry workshop
Duluth Poet Laureate Sheila Pack and St. Paul poet Todd Boss on publishing poetry and prose, including mainstream press, alternative methods, electronic publishing, tree-books, poetry videos and animation. 1 to 3 p.m., Green Room, Duluth Public Library. Free, all welcome. To register: email@example.com
Dar Williams
The singer songwriter performs at 7:30 p.m., Sacred Heart Music Center. Selections include original compositions from her most recent album "In The Time Of Gods", with challenging current social issues told against the parables of Greek mythology. Tickets: www.sacredheartmusic.org and The Electric Fetus.
Chicken Hat Plays
Rubber Chicken Theater present 8 world-premiere plays, all created in just the preceding 24 hours. At 7 p.m., Harbor City International School Theater, 332 W. Michigan Street. Tickets: (218)213-2780 or Brian@ RubberChickenTheater.com
The Whistling Peckies
An evening of music with Paul Seeba and Greg Tiburzi, 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Sir Benedict's, 805 E. Superior Street. No cover. (218)728-1192.
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Bruce Jay Breitbach
A celebration of life memorial service for Port Angeles resident Bruce Jay Breitbach will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, at Independent Bible Church, 116 E. Ahlvers Road, Port Angeles.
Mr. Breitbach died Sept. 5, 2008, at the age of 54 from cancer.
Linde Family Funeral Services in Sequim was in charge of arrangements.
John Eugene Davis
A service has been held for Port Angeles resident John Eugene Davis, who died Aug. 28, 2008, at the age of 48 of cancer.
He was born June 14, 1960, in Pasco, to Ralph James and Shirley Lou Jennings Davis.
He served in the United States Army.
Mr. Davis was a cashier for 20 years. He also worked in roofing and was a professional clown. He loved to go camping at Salt Creek, fishing and spending time with his children and grandchildren. He also enjoyed hunting and barbecues with his family and friends.
He is survived by his companion of 20 years Melody Megonigle of Port Angeles; son John Eugene Merrill Davis Jr. of Port Angeles; daughters Crystal Lynn Davis of Port Angeles and Shannon Marie Campbell of Port Angeles; brothers Jim Davis and Jack Davis both of Tri Cities; and two grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a granddaughter.
Memorial gifts to help defray Davis family medical expenses may be made at any branch of Kitsap Bank.
Drennan & Ford Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
George Andrew Nilson
A celebration of life has been held for Port Angeles/Dunedin, Fla., resident George Andrew Nilson, who died Sept. 1, 2008, at the age of 81.
He was born Nov. 25, 1926, in Warren, Ohio, to Andrew Lidel and Charlotte Hyde Nilson.
He married Cynthia Reynolds on Nov. 3, 1954, in Carlsbad, N.M.
He graduated from Texas Christian University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and attended Southern Methodist University Law School for a year.
He served in the United States Navy from 1944-1948.
Mr. Nilson worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New Jersey and for Abbott Laboratories in Chicago, Ill.
He later worked for Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla.
A lifetime member of YMCA and a hospice volunteer, he worked more than 1,200 hours as a volunteer for the Olympic National Park.
He was a member of First Presbyterian Church and Klahhane Hiking Club.
He is survived by his wife, Cynthia Reynolds Nilson of Port Angeles; daughters and sons-in-law Jan and Frank Ficarotta of Marietta, Ga., Ellen and Tom Beal of Neuman, Ga., and Roxie Nilson and her husband, Doug, of Heath, Texas; mother-in-law Jean MacDonald Reynolds; and six grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his sisters Roxie Nilson Hudson and Jan Nilson Sanford.
Memorial contributions may be sent to Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County, P.O. Box 2014, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
Drennan & Ford Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Jane Ellen Irwin
A memorial service has been held for Port Angeles resident Jane Ellen Irwin, who died Sept. 9, 2008, at the age of 64 of heart failure.
She was born Oct. 3, 1943, in San Francisco, Calif., to James Leonard Holt and Mary May and raised by Mary May and Benjamin Davis.
She married Steven Randall in 1961. He preceded her in death in 1968.
She married Donald Irwin in 1973 in Port Angeles. He preceded her in death in 1993.
A caregiver for more than 20 years in Port Angeles and Sequim, she also worked as a waitress at Berny's Restaurant in Port Angeles from 1967-1972. She was the weather advisor for all of Southeast Alaska from 1974-1978. For 15 years, she sewed all the clothes for her four children.
She was a member of Bethany Pentecostal Church.
She is survived by her son Anthony Martin Randall of Port Angeles; daughters and sons-in-law Theresa and Bruce Robinson of Port Angeles, Erin and Randall Borgeman of Kodiak, Alaska, and Heidi and Jim Loran of Port Angeles; mother Mary May Davis of Port Angeles; brothers and sisters-in-law Leonard and Barbara Davis, Jeff and Charlene Davis, and Bruce and Sherry Davis; sisters Jacquelyn Gail Burger, Benita Davis, Deloris Davis, and Leanna Colleen Janssen; 23 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.
Drennan & Ford Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Michelle Callahan Liskh
A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated for Sequim resident Michelle Callahan Liskh, who died Sept. 8, 2008, at the age of 70 of pancreatic cancer.
She was born Jan. 18, 1938, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to William T. Callahan and Elisabeth J. Sachse.
Raised in Brooklyn and Long Island, N.Y., she moved to Chicago, Ill., and lived in Sequim for the past three years.
She married Joseph Liskh on July 7, 1982, in Chicago.
She was a member of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church and Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary in Sequim.
She is survived by her husband, Joseph Liskh of Chicago; sisters and brother-in-law Judith Meaney of Glen Head, N.Y.; Marilyn Callahan of Sequim; and Geri and Mike Davis of Bayville, N.J.; adopted father Alfred Sachse of Tom's River, N.J.; and numerous nephews, nieces, grandnephews and grandnieces.
Memorial contributions may be sent to Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County, P.O. Box 2014, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
Mamie 'Marlene' Forderer
A service has been held for Carlsborg/Sequim resident Mamie "Marlene" Forderer, who died Sept. 10, 2008, at the age of 61 of cancer.
She was born June 24, 1947, to Charles and Bernice Culdice Holman, the youngest of 13 children.
She married Al Forderer in 1978 in Auburn.
Mr. and Mrs. Forderer lived in Sequim for 19 years where they owned and operated their own business before retiring in 2006.
She loved fishing, camping, cooking and traveling.
She is survived by her husband of 30 years, Al Forderer of Sequim; son and daughter-in-law Lee and Alicia Forderer of Sequim; stepson and daughter-in-law Darrin and Dee Forderer of Bonney Lake; stepdaughter Julie Kremor of Tucson, Ariz.; five grandchildren; and numerous nephews and nieces.
She was preceded in death by sisters Mary and Dorothy and brother Al Holman.
Memorial contributions may be sent to Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County.
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
Nine men have been arrested in connection with the brutal attack on a veteran Hong Kong journalist that sparked concerns for press freedom in the Chinese city, police said Wednesday.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
A 24-year-old Hong Kong-based woman has been named the world's youngest billionaire, replacing a former Facebook co-founder and spurring gossip in the city.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
A Hong Kong court on Monday found Birmingham City owner Carson Yeung guilty of five counts of money-laundering, completing the former hairdresser's fall from grace since taking over the club in 2009.
Monday, March 3, 2014
Thousands took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday to protest against threats to press freedom in the city, days after a former newspaper editor was attacked with a cleaver in broad daylight.
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Hong Kong on Friday vowed to strengthen legal oversight over maid employment agencies following a spate of abuse cases that have caused widespread shock and anger.
Friday, February 28, 2014
Hong Kong journalists Thursday vowed they would not be intimidated by a brutal attack on a veteran colleague that has stoked fresh concerns for media freedom, declaring "they can't kill us all."
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Hong Kong's economic growth will pick up this year but remain under its long-term average, the Asian business center's finance chief predicted on Wednesday, warning that the global outlook is uncertain as the U.S. scales back monetary stimulus. |
A Hong Kong man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in jail and his brother got six months on Wednesday over an attempt to extort nearly US$13,000 from American director Michael Bay and his crew during filming of "Transformers 4."
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
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Friday, January 24, 2014
Sales of Microsoft Surface Double Quarter-over-Quarter.
Microsoft Increases Shipments of Surface Tablets
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Microsoft to Become One of World's Leading Chip Buyers on Nokia Acquisition.
Microsoft Will Gain Importance on Chip Market After Nokia Takeover
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Nokia Unleashes Its First and Last Windows RT Media Tablet, Set to Compete Against Microsoft Surface.
Nokia Finally Unveils Its Media Tablet: Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, 10.1" Display, Windows RT 8.1
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Hewlett-Packard: Intel and Microsoft Are Direct Competitors.
HP Recognizes Long-Term Partners As Emerging Competitors
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Microsoft In Talks with Huawei, Samsung Over Dual-Boot Smartphones and Tablets.
Microsoft to Provide Windows Phone for Free, Compensate Adaptation Costs
Monday, October 7, 2013
Nvidia May Adopt "Think Globally, Act Locally" Approach to Tegra Business.
Head of Nvidia Delighted About Microsoft Surface, But Will Give More Attention to Local Brands
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Dell Drops Windows RT Operating System: No New Products Planned.
Microsoft May Remain the Only Adopter of Windows RT OS
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Microsoft Unveils New Media and Business Tablets.
Microsoft Introduces Second-Generation Surface Slates
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Microsoft Surface 2 with Windows 8.1 Set to Debut This Month – Reports.
Microsoft Begins to Send Invitations to Surface 2.0 Event
Monday, August 26, 2013
Microsoft Needs a Businessman and An Outsider At the Helms - Jon Peddie.
Next Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Described
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Microsoft Slashes Price of Surface Pro by $100.
Microsoft Cuts Price of Windows 8-Based Tablet
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Life-to-Date Shipments of Microsoft Surface Less Than Two Million Units - Company.
Sales of Microsoft Surface Tablets Totaled $853 Million
Monday, July 15, 2013
Microsoft Officially Cuts Price of Surface RT Media Tablets.
Microsoft Reduces Price of Surface RT Media Tablets
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Microsoft to Update Surface Tablets in the Next Twelve Months.
Microsoft to Introduce New Business and Media Tablets in Fiscal Year 2014
Staples Reportedly Lowers Price of Microsoft Surface RT Media Tablet
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Microsoft's Upcoming Massive Restructure Takes Shape.
Some Details About Microsoft Major Reorganization Revealed
Monday, July 1, 2013
Microsoft Surface Set to Become Available in Business Channel.
Microsoft to Provide Incentives to Surface Commercial App Developers
Monday, June 3, 2013
Microsoft Now Provides Free Covers with Surface Tablets.
Microsoft Offers Free Touch or Type Cover With the Purchase of Surface RT
Monday, May 13, 2013
Microsoft: Do Not Expect Apple iTunes for Windows 8 Shortly.
Windows 8 Platform Still Lacks Apple iTunes and That Is to Remain
Monday, April 22, 2013
Microsoft: Windows 8 Coming to Smaller Devices.
Microsoft Wants New Windows to Enable Smaller Mobile Devices
Monday, April 15, 2013
Dell Remains Committed to Windows RT Despite Poor Sales.
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Dr Ashley works closely with Dr Anne Young supporting her work on the development of novel materials for dental restoration. He is also working with Dr D Spratt on the oral acquisition of microflora. He has an interest in evidence based dentistry and the management of pain and anxiety in children.
Teaching Summary
Dr Ashley is Programme Director for the DDent in Paediatric Dentistry and the PG Certificate in Paediatric Dentistry. He held the position of Director of Education (Operations) for the UCL Eastman Dental Institute from 2007 to 2008. He also teaches on aspects of caries and prevention for the majority of the other programmes at the Eastman and also lectures on this and other paediatric topics for the Eastman's Continuing Professional Development Programme. Other teaching duties have included local and national FDS and MFDS courses, development of education material for dental therapist training, teaching and examining dental nurses and invited lectures within the UK and overseas.
01-JUN-2006 | Programme Director Paediatric Dentistry | UCL Eastman Dental Institute, United Kingdom | |
01-FEB-1998 – 31-MAY-2006 | Lecturer | Paediatric Dentistry | UCL Eastman Dental Institute, United Kingdom |
Academic Background
1997 | PhD | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Manchester |
1993 | FDS | Fellow of Dental Surgery | Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh |
1991 | BDS | Bachelor of Dental Surgery | University of Manchester |


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Germany? Before the beginning there was Ginnungagap, an empty space of nothingness, filled with pure creative power. (Sort of like the inside of my head.)
And it ends with Ragnarok, the twilight of the Gods. In between is much fighting, betrayal and romance. Just as a good Godly story should be.
Heroes have their own graveyard called Valhalla. Unfortunately we cannot show you a panorama of it at this time, nor of the lovely Valkyries who are its escort service.
Hail Odin, wandering God wielding wisdom and wand! Hail Freya, hail Tyr, hail Thor!
Odin made the many lakes and the fish in them. In his traverses across the lands he caused there to be the Mulheim Bridge in Cologne, as did he make the Mercury fountain, Mercury being of his nature.
But it is to the mighty Thor that the Hammering Man gives service.
Between the time of the Nordic old ones and that of modern Frankfort there may have been a T.Rex or two on the scene. At least some mastodons for sure came through for lunch, then fell into tar pits to become fossils for us to find.
And there we must leave you, O my most pure and holy children.
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The World's Shortest Marketing Plan Goes A Long Way
Originally published: 01.01.07 by Terry Tanker
Make this your first step toward improving internal communications.
Recently, I sat down to analyze our company's marketing goals and objectives. The original document had been written about this time last year and has been revised each quarter. I've been pleased with the results we've achieved.
The 2006 plan focused on repositioning an existing brand and product, then re-launching it as something entirely different. The plan and goals for 2007 look significantly different, and, because our company has grown appreciably with regard to head count, another consideration has come into play: keeping the whole team on the same page.
One of the larger drawbacks to most marketing plans is their complexity and length. Expecting your entire company to read the 94-page marketing masterpiece you just wrote isn't realistic. In an effort to find a template that would be the "Cliff notes" version, I typed "marketing plan" into Google, and 143,000 results were quickly returned to me. Any of the plans would fill a three-ring binder.
One of our monthly columnists, Guy Kawaski, pointed me toward what I was looking for — "The World's Shortest Marketing Plan." Kelly Odell, senior vice president/head of marketing, TeliaSonera AB, Stockholm, Sweden, created the template. See Kelly's blog at www.kellyodell.blogspot.com. You can download this template from his blog or from our Web site at www.hvacrbusiness.com/downloadcenter.
This template is perfect for any marketer, and once filled in, addresses customer needs, product positioning, price, promotion, timing, cost, product benefits, distribution, and more. An additional benefit of this template is the ability to tweak the questions so they are relevant to your company and your situation.
If you've never developed a marketing plan, this is a great place to start. If you have created one, and it's become too complex, here's a way to simplify things and boil them down to what really matters. Best of all, this easily can be shared with your entire company, large or small.
Last month, our columnist and editorial board member Jackie Rainwater wrote "Great Companies Are Built with Great Internal Communications". Sharing a document such as this marketing plan with your employees would be a great first step toward improving internal communications.
Have a happy, safe, and prosperous New Year, and please email me your thoughts and comments about this and the other articles in HVACR Business. —Terry Tanker
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What is Graduation Matters Montana?
Superintendent Juneau launched a statewide effort in the spring of 2010 to ensure Montana's public schools graduate more students prepared for college and careers.
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Objectives of Graduation Matters Montana:
- Increase the rate of Montana students graduating from high school college- and career-ready.
- Establish a support network between schools, businesses and community organizations for student success.
- Create school-based and community-based opportunities for student success.
Local Graduation Matters Initiatives
Superintendent Juneau supports the implementation of locally-designed Graduation Matters initiatives that engage schools, communities, businesses and families in a focused effort to increase the number of students who graduate prepared for college and careers. Thirty-three communities have joined Graduation Matters, including all AA schools, smaller, more rural schools, and schools on or near our state's Indian Reservations. Seventy percent of high school students attend a Graduation Matters school, and nearly 8,500 students have taken the pledge to graduate.
In March of 2012, the Office of Public Instruction received a three-year grant from the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation for $450,000 to allow more communities to work to lower their dropout rates. Communities that applied for the challenge fund received up to $10,000 to implement successful dropout prevention strategies. This year twenty five communities received the challenge fund to assist them in achieving higher goals, and if these communities are successful in reaching their goals, Graduation Matters will be able to cut the statewide dropout rate in half by 2014.
Student-Centered Policies
Oftentimes, adults plan and discuss educational policy, but rarely talk to the people who will be most directly affected by those plans and discussions: the students. To include student ideas and voices in state-level policies, Superintendent Juneau created the Superintendent's Student Advisory Board.
Twice each year, forty students gather to discuss ways to improve educational opportunities for all students, raise the graduation rate and encourage more students to pursue education and training after graduation. The Student Advisory Board consistently reports that they seek relevant coursework and real-world experiences, clear and consistent rules, a positive school climate and meaningful relationships at their schools. There have now been four Student Advisory Board Summits. To see reports from each Summit, click here.
Policy Changes
Superintendent Juneau proposed covering the cost of the ACT for every high school junior in the Office of Public Instruction's budget at the 2011 Legislature. Funding to cover the cost of the ACT for every junior has been secured through a seven-year grant under the Commissioner of Higher Education's GEAR UP program. This partnership between OPI and OCHE will provide a complete picture of how well our K-12 public education system is preparing all students for life after high school and provide every Montana junior the opportunity to assess their college-readiness. The 2012-13 school year was the first year of every Montana junior taking the ACT.
Superintendent Juneau recommended the Board of Public Education approve more rigorous English and math standards. The new English and math standards adopted by the Board of Public Education are higher and clearer than Montana's previous standards and will prepare our students for college and to compete in today's global economy. She also convened a task force to review Montana's accreditation standards to make them more performance-based and to provide school districts needed flexibility to focus on results.
During the 2013 Legislative Session, Superintendent Juneau championed Graduation Matters Montana bills to raise the legal dropout age to "age 18 or upon graduation," to provide schools with funding to educate 19-year-old students, to increase funding for career and technical education student organizations (CTSOs) and for the Montana Digital Academy. Funding requests for CTSOs and the Montana Digital Academy were successful, and thousands of students will reap the benefits from these expanded services. Superintendent Juneau will continue to support legislation and administrative policies that set high expectations for students, provide career exploration opportunities, and create safe learning environments.
Relevant Coursework and Career Preparation
In Montana, all high school students take at least one career and technical education course, and over half take three or more. Discussions with students make it clear they desire classes that relate to real-world experiences, career preparation and include hands-on learning. Superintendent Juneau supports the expansion of Big Sky Pathways, a partnership with the Montana University System that links students to career coursework paths so they earn college credits and explore careers while they are in high school.
Workforce projections by the U.S. Department of Labor show that by 2018, nine of the 10 fastest-growing occupations that require at least a bachelor's degree will also require significant scientific or mathematical training. Superintendent Juneau is convening education stakeholders and business partners to create a pipeline for students to be prepared for careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math through OPI's statewide STEM initiative.
Business and Community Partnerships
Montana employers want an educated and innovative workforce, and schools understand they need to develop new strategies to achieve the goal of preparing educated, work-ready graduates. Superintendent Juneau and local Graduation Matters initiatives are working with statewide and local business partners to engage business and community leaders who are committed to helping students graduate prepared for college and careers and to ensuring Montana communities thrive in an increasingly competitive global marketplace. To assist in these efforts, the OPI has developed a business and school partnership toolkit.
I Pledge to Graduate Campaign
Research shows that students are more likely to reach a goal if they identify their own motivations when committing to meet it. Superintendent Juneau, in partnership with local school districts and the Student Advisory Board, launched an "I Pledge to Graduate" initiative in the 2011-2012 school year. Since then, nearly 8,500 students have taken the pledge.
Students pledge to a significant adult that they will graduate and identify specific reasons why graduation is important to them. This high-profile campaign focuses statewide attention on Graduation Matters Montana, engages community and business partners, involves social networking and highlights student voices and ideas.
For more information on Graduation Matters Montana email email@example.com or call 406-444-5643.
Graduation Matters Montana Communities
Is there a Graduation Matters initiative in your community?
As of April 2013
Click on the community to find your local Graduation Matters contact. Don't see your community on the list? If you are interested in starting a Graduation Matters initiative in your community, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
North West
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Columbia Falls | Scott Gaiser |
Kalispell | Dan Zorn |
Libby | Lynn Emery |
Polson | Rex Weltz |
City | Contact |
Corvallis | Jason Wirt |
Hamilton | Becky Brough |
Lincoln | Kathy Heisler |
Missoula | Mark Thane |
St. Ignatius | Jason Sargent |
Stevensville | Brian Gum |
Thompson Falls | Jodi Morgan |
South Central
City | Contact |
Billings | Brenda Koch |
Hardin | Laura Sundheim |
Laurel | Lori Hodges |
Pryor | Dan McGee |
Four Rivers
City | Contact |
Anaconda | Angela McLean |
Belgrade | Candy Lubansky |
Bozeman | Ken Gibson |
Butte | John Metz |
Livingston | Lynne Scalia |
Helena | Pam Birkeland |
Townsend | Beez Lucero |
Community Schools & Contacts
City | Contact |
North West |
Eureka | |
Columbia Falls | Scott Gaiser |
Kalispell | Dan Zorn |
Libby | Lynn Emery |
Polson | Rex Weltz |
North Central |
Browning | Matthew Johnson |
Great Falls | Tom Moore |
Heart Butte | Laurie Smith |
Hi-Line |
Box Elder | Kevin Barsotti |
Havre | Andy Carlson |
Rocky Boy | Voyd St. Pierre |
North East |
Frazer | Mary-Corrina Guardipee |
Wolf Point | Meryl Zilkowski |
South East |
Miles City | Traci Duffin |
Lame Deer | Jill Henzie |
Graduation Matters Montana Parters
GMM welcomes corporate, community, and foundation partnerships. Click here for our Local Partnership Agreement.
Current GMM partners include:
GMM Legislation
The Graduation Matters Montana Legislative Agenda
Senate Bill 13, Raise the Legal Dropout Age to "age 18 or upon graduation"
Currently, Montana students can drop out of high school at age 16, making a decision that will impact them for the rest of their lives. SB 13 would have set a statewide expectation that Montana students should graduate from high school while also providing flexibility for students to pursue other educational options. The last time this law was changed was 90 years ago. In today's global economy, a high school diploma, at minimum, is necessary for students to have a chance at being successful adults. (OPI estimates an additional 244 students each year will stay in school, $2.1M)
This bill failed in the Montana Senate Committee on Education and Cultural Resources.
Want to know more? Download OPI's fact sheet on SB 13
Funding for the Montana Digital Academy to Meet Increased Demand
The MTDA is providing classes to 3,500 students enrolled in 5,500 courses annually. In Montana's rural schools, the MTDA is providing students with access to elective courses that have never before been available, including world languages and AP courses. In our urban schools, the credit recovery classes are allowing students who lack the necessary credits to graduate catch up with their peers, increasing graduation rates in our largest school districts. With the increasing demand for these courses from Montana students, it is expected the MTDA will grow to 10,000 course enrollments annually by 2015. ($745,384 and $783,219 or $1.5M increase from base of $1.17M)
This request for funding was successful as a part of HB 2, the state budget bill.
Senate Bill 14, Provide Funding for Educating 19-Year-Olds
Some students need an additional year or semester to finish their high school diploma; however, schools do not receive any funding to educate 19-year-olds. Montana needs to update this law to reflect the cost of keeping students in school and ensure they graduate. (Estimated cost: $861,000 to serve 110 students per year)
This bill passed in the Montana Senate and failed in the House Committee on Education.
Want to know more? Download OPI's fact sheet on SB 14
House Bill 86, Invest in Career and Technical Education Student Programs
Montana's Career and Technical Education Student Organizations (CTSOs) currently serve 6,287 students. Students who participate in organizations such as FFA, HOSA, and FCCLA gain valuable leadership experience and skills they can use in the workforce and higher education. Additionally, students who take three or more CTE courses have a graduation rate of 96.2 percent. The OPI requests $1M to support CTSOs. The goal of HB 86 is to increase student participation by 10 percent each year of the biennium, resulting in a total of 7,500 students participating in CTSOs by the end of the second year.
This bill passed in both the Montana Senate and House of Representatives and was signed by Governor Bullock on April 24, 2013.
Want to know more? Download OPI's fact sheet on HB 86
Press Releases
Juneau Announces Significant Increases in Montana's Graduation Rate
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau released the 2013 Graduation and Dropout Report at a celebration with Graduation Matters communities, corporate partners and supporters. This year marks Juneau's fifth year in office and the beginning of the fourth year of Graduation Matters Montana. From 2009 to 2013, Montana's graduation rate has increased from 80.7 percent to 84.4 percent, and the dropout rate has decreased from 5 percent to 3.6 percent. This means that 772 fewer students dropped out in 2013 than in 2009.
"Through the work of local Graduation Matters communities, hundreds of students' lives have been changed for the better," said Superintendent Juneau. "When you take a statewide view of the efforts to raise graduation rates and improve college and career readiness, you can see that the economic future of Montana will be forever impacted as a result of local communities and schools working to make graduation matter."
According to calculations made by the Alliance for Excellent Education, Montana is likely to see significant economic gains as a result of the increase in its high school graduation rate from 2009 to 2013. The Alliance estimates Montana will see a $4.3 million annual boost to the state's economy going forward and an increase of $5.1 million in spending on homes and a $600,000 increase in automobile sales. Collectively, the additional graduates will likely earn an additional $68.2 million over the course of their lifetimes, compared to if they had not graduated from high school.
Superintendent Juneau recognized five communities and one community partner with "Graduation Matters Impact Awards" for their outstanding efforts to improve graduation rates and college and career readiness: Graduation Matters Missoula, Graduation Matters Rocky Boy, Graduation Matters Great Falls, Graduation Matters Anaconda, Graduation Matters Belgrade and the United Ways of Montana.
Juneau pointed to data that demonstrates dropout rates are highest in grades 11 and 12, accounting for 999 of the students in Montana who dropped out in 2013 or 65 percent of all dropouts. Juneau also noted that 122 students who were 19 years of age or older were enrolled in the Fall Semester and 93 in the Spring Semester during the 2012-2013 school year. She reinforced her commitment to introducing legislation to raise the legal dropout age to "age 18 or upon graduation" and providing state funding for students who are older than 18 years old.
The 2013 Statewide Graduation and Dropout Report can be downloaded here: http://opi.mt.gov/Reports&Data/Measurement/.
Currently, 34 communities are Graduation Matters communities, including all of Montana's largest school districts and 10 communities on or near American Indian reservations. Seventy percent of Montana students attend a school with a Graduation Matters initiative.
Current communities involved in a Graduation Matters Montana initiative: Anaconda, Belgrade, Billings, Box Elder, Bozeman, Browning, Butte, Columbia Falls, Corvallis, Eureka, Frazer, Great Falls, Hamilton, Hardin, Havre, Heart Butte, Helena, Kalispell, Lame Deer, Laurel, Lewistown, Libby, Lincoln, Livingston, Miles City, Missoula, Polson, Pryor, Rocky Boy, St. Ignatius , Stevensville, Thompson Falls, Townsend and Wolf Point
Information about the "Graduation Matters Impact Awards" can be found here:
For more information about Graduation Matters Montana, go to: http://graduationmatters.mt.gov.


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