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Central Tucson Home in Magical Garden with pool & GH in Tucson
- bedrooms 4
- baths 4
- sleeps 8
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed yes
- type House
- community Central/Cabrini
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$ 1,540 - $ 2,800 / week
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Unique central Tucson oasis located ten minutes from the University of Arizona. Great to relax and enjoy Tucson. See our reviews!
The property is entirely walled and has a large pool surrounded by a beautiful garden with lots of birds. You will enjoy the extensive garden including four 100 year old plus majestic saguaros, as well as orange, lemon, lime, and grapefruit trees and the large porch with a great view on the Catalinas.
The house has a personalized decoration and extensive library. There are two deluxe memory foam king beds, and one memory foam queen bed and a guest house with its own full kitchen, king bed, bathroom with shower, and outdoor private sitting area.
Fully stocked kitchen with microwave, oven, dishwasher, Cuisinard, blender.
Elsewhere in the garden there are private sitting areas, and an outdoor Mexican wood burning cheminee for nights around the fire. Stone lined paths wind through the large garden.
Wifi throughout, and an ethernet cable. Cox cable television with two televisions, one in the main house and a large screen in the guest house. CD player and stereo. DVD player. Games and toys for children.
The property is entered by remote controlled entry gates, interior parking for 2 cars
The long porch which runs the length of the house faces east and north with an unobstructed view of the Catalina mountains, and precious shade during the hot days. Outdoor dining table on the porch, as well as casual seating area.
Modern and powerful central air conditioning and heat.
A birders paradise. Dove, quail, desert wrens, woodpeckers, nesting in the Saguaros.
Gas fired Weber deluxe grill for outdoor BBQ
A swimmer's pool, large and 9 feet deep in the deep end. Pool heat available upon request.
property availability
Last modified on 03-7-2014 at 12:01 PM.
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Robert 480-304-5587
house rental amenities
- 3 king beds and 1 queen bed with luxury mattresses
- Air conditioning or heat
- Private Pool (pool heat available)
- Cable tv
- Wifi/ethernet
- Weber grill
- outdoor wood burning Mexican cheminee, wood provided
- Linens, towels provided
- main house full kitchen, utensils, plates, coffee machine, Cuisinard
- guest house full kitchen, utensils, plates, coffee machine
- phone
- dishwasher
- refrigerator, ice machine
- washer/dryer
activities and attractions in Tucson Arizona
Centrally located
5 minutes to University of arizona
Close to all Tucson shopping and restaurants, farmers markets
Ten minutes from La Paloma and Ventana golf courses, twenty minutes to Starr Pass golf resort.
Great tennis courts near by
Great day care near by
vacation rental rates
The house sleeps up to 8 people, 3 days minimum stay
$220 /day for a group of 2 + $30 per extra person
$1540/week to $2800 depending on group size
125$ non refundable cleaning fee
Taxes (12,05% + 2 $ /night)
Pool heat 40$/day
Credit cards/paypal payments accepted
Discounts applicable for more than 7 days stay.
50 % of rental charge upon reservation
Damage deposit $500 or insurrance 49 USD
Reservation to be paid in full prior to arrival
Robert 480-304-5587
accepted payment methods
Prior to paying a reservation deposit, always verify payment instructions by calling the phone number displayed on this listing page. By contacting the owner directly and paying by an approved method - credit card, paypal, check or bank transfer - your reservation payment will be protected up to $1,000.
Learn more in our Security CenterTop things to do in Tucson
- Biking
- Hiking, climbing
- Tennis
- Shopping
- Farmers market
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The show's creator, Greg Daniels, made the announcement Tuesday. I don't watch "The Office," but the news is hardly surprising.
The show already took a hit last season -- both in the ratings and fan opinion -- after Steve Carell's Michael Scott departed. Then at the end of it, Mindy Kaling, who played Kelly Kapoor and was one of the show's writers, left for her own sitcom (this fall's "The Mindy Project" on Fox). And even before Tuesday's announcement, there was a spin-off in the works for Dwight, so Rainn Wilson likely would have been leaving after this year.
Daniels said that his main focus for the year is to give longtime fans satisfying wrap-ups to the stories of the show's main characters. The decision to end came from him and his staff, not from the suits at NBC, so presumably they have ideas mapped out on where to take beloved characters like Jim and Pam as well as the rest of the gang.
He has said old characters will return, though it's not yet determined if Michael Scott is one of them. (Daniels hopes he will be.) Viewers will also finally learn about the documentary crew that has been filming the Dunder Mifflin folks for so many years.
The good news for fans is that unlike "30 Rock," which is only returning for 13 episodes, the ninth and final season of "The Office" will be a full one, ending sometime in May.
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Nokia announced it will introduce a new version of Ovi Maps including free walk and drive navigation tools, a move the handset giant claims could nearly double the size of the current mobile navigation market.
According to Nokia, the revamped Ovi Maps will include both vehicular and pedestrian navigation features including turn-by-turn voice guidance spanning 74 countries and 46 languages as well as traffic information for more than 10 countries and detailed maps for more than 180 countries.Clearly Nokia is hoping this move will position it to better compete against Google. In late 2009, Google launched the free Google Maps Navigation service for its Android operating system. On a conference call with reporters, Tero Ojanpera, Nokia's executive vice president of services, said that the company believes its solution is better because it is less bandwidth intensive than Google's solution. "Our maps are preloaded making it easier for consumers to use," he said. "Other solutions are bandwidth intensive."
Nokia's move also will likely have a big impact on third-party navigation software providers which charge $5 or $10 per month to subscribe to their service and specialized device makers such as TomTom and Garmin.
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I'm having a remarkable time here in Michigan at the MUSIC NOW '07 Festival. Anthony Iannacone is a wonderful musician and a real gentleman, and we've discovered that we have a lot of mutual acquaintances. First day here (Wednesday), I was treated to two fine pieces by his students, Joshua Bornfield and Whitney Prince, on a program of diverse music, stylistically speaking, including composers Nikola Resanovic, Alberto Ginastera, Steve Reich and Iannacone himself.
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visit of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection
of National Minorities
The visit will take place
between 3-7 December 2012 to evaluate the progress made in protecting the rights
of non-majority communities in Kosovo*.
The Advisory Committee
will hold meetings with community representatives, international organisations
and central and local authorities in different regions of Kosovo* to discuss the
situation and current concerns. This third visit is carried out under the
specific agreement concluded between the Council of Europe and UNMIK (United
Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo) in 2004. It follows the
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"Moist chocolate chip cookies!! "
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2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 (3.3 ounce) package instant white chocolate pudding mix
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
I tried the other recipe with the award winning chocolate chip cookies. It also used pudding, but this recipe was so much better.The others were too cakey. These are the perfect consistency. Chewey and moist. No one can believe I made them myself. I used instant vanilla pudding instead of the white chocolate, for a ligher cookie. They are so awesome. The guys at work all proposed to me!!
Won't make again. Runny.
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These cookies are great. I made way too many of them, so i sent some of them to work with my husband, and everybody loved them. They stay soft long after they are baked, and they're just great. This is easily one of my favorite cookie recipes.
This recipe yields flat cookies with a crispy outside and soft/chewy middle. I used vanilla pudding mix and I really liked the strong vanilla taste.
Excellent cookie. however, because of a previous review, I decreased the salt by 1/4 teaspoon. I also substituted 1/4 cup of the flour for 1/4 cup fo quaker oats. Overall these cookies are not only delicous but they look great too. They look store bought but taste homemade.
great recipe. I've made this several times. Big hit with my husband's co-workers. But I have been asked how to make them thicker.
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"Retro Retreat" Indian Wells Country Club in Palm Springs
- bedrooms 3
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- sleeps 6
- pool yes
- hot tub yes
- pets allowed yes
- type House
- community Indian Wells C. Club
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Mid-century secluded three bedroom three bathroom home in the best spot in the desert, inside Indian Wells Country Club. Impecably remodeled with limestone
floors, glass tile showers, Italian fixtures and mid-century original furnishings. Private pool with jacuzzi. Fire-pit and Amazing views from all rooms, especially the master! Walk to nearby resorts, spas and restaurants.
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Private pool and spa in front yard, pool baby gates & baby safe options available...Fire-pit, fireplace in living room, 4 plasma TV's throughout, digital cable TV(with movie channels/stereo in living room and bedrooms, VCR's, DVD in living room and master, 5 disc CD changer, DSL Wireless internet, Fax machine, Surround sound and
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Hey, trust me - Couch Slouch hates being Couch Grouch on this one; I enjoy watching the games, too, and I understand the value of a winning team to a community's spirit and mood. In the old days, it even used to sell more newspapers; nowadays, you can only sell a newspaper on the street if it's hanging around the neck of a free turkey.
But the 1 percenters should pay for their own state-of-the-art playpens - I guess we'll consider that a tax on their riches - and then overcharge us for tickets, parking and concessions, if they wish. That's the old-fashioned free market. And we, the people - the 99 percenters - should NOT subsidize these businesses by paying the freight for their stadiums.
There were a couple of encouraging signs recently - Florida lawmakers declined to give the Dolphins tax breaks to help renovate their stadium, and a deal to renovate the Rams' Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis also was denied.
But as I found out with my failed "No More Stadiums, With or Without Tax Subsidies" Tour a couple of years ago, America is generally under the spell of a manifest-stadium-destiny mentality.
We love our shining sports palaces, at virtually any cost.
Then again, if we're stupid enough to buy a new smartphone every 22 months, why wouldn't we want a new football stadium every seven years?
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Monkey See David Cameron Calls, And The Internet Answers March 6, 2014 When something scary happens, sometimes the only thing people know what to do is make jokes. Yesterday, they got a little help from Patrick Stewart.
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Monkey See Pop Culture Happy Hour: The Oscars Omnibus Of 2014 February 28, 2014 On this week's show, we invite Bob Mondello to join the table for a discussion of all nine Best Picture nominees and some other stuff, too. And we talk about what's making us happy this week. Listen Loading… 50:15 Download Playlist
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Space Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small February 27, 2014 The astrophysicist says that participating in a "great unfolding of a cosmic story" should make us feel large, not small. This spring, Tyson hosts a TV series called Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey. Listen Loading… 38:28 Download Playlist
Wisdom Watch Dangerous Dad Of 'Scandal' Turns The Tables February 27, 2014 Actor Joe Morton is probably best-known these days as one of TV's toughest dads, playing Rowan Pope on Scandal. Morton talks about the show's return, plus his 40-year career in film, TV and theater. Listen Loading… 11:58 Download Playlist
The Two-Way 'Calvin & Hobbes' Creator Pens His First Public Comic In 18 Years February 27, 2014 Bill Watterson drew the poster for the upcoming documentary Stripped, a self-described "love letter" to comics. The project marks a break in Watterson's relatively anonymous post-Calvin life.
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Monkey See Desk, Set: Seth Meyers Lands In Late Night Very Safely February 25, 2014 Seth Meyers began his run as the new host of NBC's Late Night with such a polished, neat, safe premiere that it's hard to know where he goes from here, says critic Eric Deggans.


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Insect eyes may be tiny but they belong to a "remarkably sophisticated class of imaging systems". They have compound eyes, made up of hundreds or thousands of optical units or facets. Considered as optical systems, these facets are simpler than the vertebrate eye design because there are no moving parts to focus the light.
"In the case of the 'apposition' eye of daylight insects, each facet is optically isolated from its neighbour and equipped with its own lens and set of photoreceptors. Because each facet accepts photons from only a small angle in space, the light sensitivity of apposition eyes is rather low and the spatial resolution is limited by the number of facets that can be packed on to the small head of the insect. However, apposition eyes provide their bearer with a panoramic view of the world as well as with an infinite depth of field, without the need to adjust the focal length of the individual lenses." (Borst & Plett, 2013, 47)
The hemispherical digital camera with nearly 200 tiny lenses (Credit: John A. Rogers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Source here)
In addition to the wide field of view and the infinite depth of field, compound eyes have low aberrations and high acuity to motion. This latter characteristic is very desirable for flying insects and for micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). Thus far, most MAVs have been fitted with fisheye lenses that provide a wide-angle field of view. However, the information gathered has limitations for calculating the special movement that is required to facilitate motion stabilisation alongside navigation.
"With regard to potential applications, the camera proposed by Song et al. might constitute an optimal front-end visual sensor for tiny aircraft called micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). [. . .] Song and colleagues' camera would provide all the advantages of an apposition eye. Using it to compute a MAV's self-motion could on the one hand facilitate motion stabilization in space while on the other enabling spatial navigation." (Borst & Plett, 2013, 48)
Several research groups have taken up the challenge of developing "compound" cameras that mimic a hemispherical arthropod eye. Precision engineering with dimensions measured in micrometres must be combined with recently devised electronic technologies to achieve the goal. The research paper describes the use of elastomeric compound optical elements, deformable arrays of thin-film silicon photodetectors, and the means by which the necessary alignments can be achieved.
"Here we present a complete set of materials, design layouts and integration schemes for digital cameras that mimic hemispherical apposition compound eyes found in biology. Certain of the concepts extend recent advances in stretchable electronics and hemispherical photodetector arrays, in overall strategies that provide previously unachievable options in design. Systematic experimental and theoretical studies of the mechanical and optical properties of working devices reveal the essential aspects of fabrication and operation." (Song et al., 2013, 95).
By adopting the strategy of biomimicry, the distinctive characteristics of compound eyes are clarified.
"The arthropod eye offers resolution determined by the numbers of ommatidia, and is typically modest compared, for example, to mammalian eyes. Two other attributes, however, provide powerful modes of perception. First, the hemispherical apposition design enables exceptionally wide-angle fields of view, without off-axis aberrations. [. . .] The second attribute is the nearly infinite depth of field that results from the short focal length of each microlens and the nature of image formation. In particular, as an object moves away from the camera, the size of the image decreases but remains in focus. A consequence is that the camera can accurately and simultaneously render pictures of multiple objects in a field of view, even at widely different angular positions and distances. [. . .] Even though movement of the object away from the camera changes its size in the corresponding image, the focus is maintained. Objects with the same angular size that are located at different distances produce images with the same size, all of which is consistent with modelling." (Song et al., 2013, 97-98).
We should note that arthropod eye designs do not conform to the cobbled-together architecture that is associated with evolutionary tinkering. The driver for biomimetics research is the recognition of exquisite design that extends and inspires human creativity. Exquisite design is the hallmark of an intelligent agent. For more on this point, go here.
Recent discoveries of fossilised compound eyes of the Middle Cambrian predator Anomalocaris, and of an Early Cambrian arthropod, have documented clear examples of modernity in some of the earliest known arthropods. These exquisite fossil eyes provide evidence of abrupt appearance in the fossil record. There is no 'audit trail' here to support blind, tinkering, evolutionary transformation. Thus, biomimetic research and the fossil record provide complementary sources of evidence for intelligent design.
Digital cameras with designs inspired by the arthropod eye
Young Min Song, Yizhu Xie, Viktor Malyarchuk, Jianliang Xiao, Inhwa Jung, Ki-Joong Choi, Zhuangjian Liu, Hyunsung Park, Chaofeng Lu, Rak-Hwan Kim, Rui Li, Kenneth B. Crozier, Yonggang Huang & John A. Rogers
Nature, 497, 95-99 (02 May 2013) | doi:10.1038/nature12083
In arthropods, evolution has created a remarkably sophisticated class of imaging systems, with a wide-angle field of view, low aberrations, high acuity to motion and an infinite depth of field. A challenge in building digital cameras with the hemispherical, compound apposition layouts of arthropod eyes is that essential design requirements cannot be met with existing planar sensor technologies or conventional optics. Here we present materials, mechanics and integration schemes that afford scalable pathways to working, arthropod-inspired cameras with nearly full hemispherical shapes (about 160 degrees). Their surfaces are densely populated by imaging elements (artificial ommatidia), which are comparable in number (180) to those of the eyes of fire ants (Solenopsis fugax) and bark beetles (Hylastes nigrinus). The devices combine elastomeric compound optical elements with deformable arrays of thin silicon photodetectors into integrated sheets that can be elastically transformed from the planar geometries in which they are fabricated to hemispherical shapes for integration into apposition cameras. Our imaging results and quantitative ray-tracing-based simulations illustrate key features of operation. These general strategies seem to be applicable to other compound eye devices, such as those inspired by moths and lacewings (refracting superposition eyes), lobster and shrimp (reflecting superposition eyes), and houseflies (neural superposition eyes).
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Borst, A. & Plett, J., Seeing the world through an insect's eyes, Nature, 497, 47-48 (02 May 2013) | doi:10.1038/497047a
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The company, backed by private equity investors that include Bain Capital LLC and TPG Capital LP, did not reveal how many shares it planned to sell or their expected price.
Quintiles, which runs drug trials for pharmaceutical companies, has an equity value of $2.77 billion as of March 2012 when Britain's 3i Group Plc (III.L) valued its 4.9 percent stake in the firm at 86 million pounds ($133.5 million).
3i and Singapore's Temasek Life Sciences Private Ltd are minority shareholders in Quintiles.
Morgan Stanley, Barclays and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co would be the lead underwriters for the IPO.
Net proceeds from the IPO will be used to repay term loan, Quintiles said in the filing.
The Durham, North Carolina-based company did not reveal the exchange in which it wishes to list or its symbol.
The offering comes five years after Bain and TPG became lead investors in Quintiles in January 2008.
The company reported net income of $177.5 million on revenue of $4.86 billion in 2012.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Lawmakers in conservative Mississippi find themselves in a tug-of-war over a religious-practices bill that some say is uncomfortably similar to one recently vetoed by Arizona's Republican governor.
A lobbying group for state's Baptist convention is urging lawmakers to pass the Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Others say Mississippi, with its ugly history of racial oppression, should avoid any law that could lead to discrimination against gays and other groups.
A version of the bill passed the Senate and awaits House debate by next week. A House committee made some changes intended to assuage fears about discrimination by removing portions of the bill that were similar to the vetoed Arizona bill.
But critics say the Mississippi bill is vaguely worded and needs to be killed.
Memorial service held for Mayor Chokwe Lumumba
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The city of Jackson is mourning deceased Mayor Chokwe Lumumba (SHOW-kway Lu-MOOM-bah).
About 150 people gathered Friday outside Jackson's antebellum city hall.
Many are saluting Lumumba by remembering his work as a black nationalist who won the respect of wary white voters after his 2013 election. Ben Jealous, former president of the NAACP, is one of many echoing Lumumba's slogan of "free the land," saying Lumumba's work as a lawyer brought freedom to many who deserved it.
The service featured a mix of religious traditions, and combined elected officials with black nationalists.
The 66-year-old mayor died Feb. 25 and will be buried Saturday following a funeral service at the Jackson Convention Complex.
An election has been called for April 8 to choose a new mayor.
Student in fight at Moss Point school dies
MOSS POINT, Miss. (AP) - A 12-year-old junior high school student in Moss Point has died from injuries suffered in a fight.
Moss Point Superintendent Maggie Griffin identifies the victim as Lorel Malone. He was a seventh grader at Magnolia Middle School.
Officials did not release the grade, age or name of the other student involved in Thursday's fight.
Griffin says the investigation is ongoing. She offered no details on the altercation.
Moss Point School District spokeswoman Stephanie Packer says in a news release that the altercation between two students occurred during a class change.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi is one of only four states receiving additional funds from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for dredging and flood control along its major tributaries. That's according to U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran.
Cochran, R-Miss., says in a news release that the Corps of Engineers will give an additional $14.4 million to Mississippi this year to support more dredging, flood control, and other construction and maintenance projects.
Cochran says Congress approved the additional funding in January.
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Jeremy Huguley sentenced to 40 years for murder
BOONEVILLE, Miss. (AP) - A 24-year-old man has been sentenced to 40-year in prison for a 2010 Prentiss County murder.
Jeremy Huguley, of Rienzi, also received 25 years for burglary. The sentences will be served concurrently, and he must do long-term drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
Huguley had previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and to burglary.
Huguley was the last witness to take the stand in his sentencing hearing Thursday and, with the help of his attorney Lori Nail Bashum, recounted the drug-induced week leading up the murder and robbery of Steven Holley before taking time to apologize to Holley's family.
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that Huguley pleaded guilty to murder on Feb. 27 instead of going to trial. He had previously pleaded guilty to a burglary charge as well.
Byrd's sentencing on state charges delayed
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - The sentencing for former Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd on one state charge has been moved to avoid a conflict with his sentencing on one federal charge, according to court documents.
Byrd will be sentenced on March 11 in U.S. District Court in Mobile, Ala., in his federal case.
The Mississippi Press reports his sentencing hearing on the state charge will be March 13 in the Jackson County Courthouse.
Byrd was originally indicted on 31 state charges but ended up pleading guilty to one charge of intimidating a witness. The other charges were dropped as part of a plea deal.
In the federal case, Byrd pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for ordering evidence destroyed stemming from the arrest of James Mark Stahl.
Man arrested for flashing badge
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Natchez Police Lt. Craig Godbold tells The Natchez Democrat that Joe Fortenberry allegedly pulled out a badge claiming he was a sheriff's deputy after he hit a vehicle while in the drive-thru line on Oct. 9.
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In a recent New York Times article on the upcoming Smith v. Cain oral argument before the Supreme Court, Campbell Robertson and Adam Liptak cite The Myth of Prosecutorial Accountability After Connick v. Thompson: Why Existing Professional Responsibility Measures Cannot Protect Against Prosecutorial Misconduct for the proposition that "prosecutors who withhold evidence are almost never disciplined." Andrew Rosenthal also referenced the YLJO essay in his New York Times editorial: he quotes Lincoln Caplan, a fellow editor at The Times, in noting that "[a] group of Yale Law School students recently published a report on 'The Myth of Prosecutorial Accountability After Connick v. Thompson,' which is unsettling but well worth reading." Jarvis DeBerry of NOLA.com has discussed the piece in his article and Deborah Jane Cooper, one of the authors of the YLJO essay, has written further on the topic in an opinion in The National Law Journal. In The Myth of Prosecutorial Accountability After Connick v. Thompson: Why Existing Professional Responsibility Measures Cannot Be Protected After Prosecutorial Misconduct, David Keenan, Deborah Jane Cooper, David Lebowitz, and Tamar Lerer examine prosecutorial accountability in the wake of Connick v. Thompson, a recent Supreme Court case overturning a $14 million jury verdict awarded to a man who spent fourteen years on death row after prosecutors withheld key exculpatory evidence during his trial. The Court based its decision in part on the availability of other measures to check prosecutorial misconduct, including state professional disciplinary procedures. Keenan, Cooper, Lebowitz, and Lerer challenge this presumption by undertaking a detailed analysis of these procedures in all fifty states. They demonstrate that these measures are ineffective tools for accountability and recommend several strategies for strengthening professional conduct rules and grievance procedures to deter and sanction prosecutorial misconduct. Please click here to read the YLJO Essay in full. |
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As the United States positioned itself to respond to the September 11, 2001, attacks against it, it began by rearranging more than just military assets, but legislative ones, too.
In addition to an Authorisation for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), which granted the US president far-reaching powers to "to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organisations, or persons he determines planned, authorised, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks", the United States went on to pass the infamous USA PATRIOT Act, which greatly reduced the restrictions on law enforcement and intelligence agencies when it came to carrying out surveillance, electronic and otherwise, on persons within and outside the country.
Other countries followed suit, and the last 10 years have seen a raft of new anti-terrorism legislation put in place, from Pakistan to Britain, from India to the Philippines.
The International Federation for Human Rights, an international rights advocacy group, however, in a recent report, argued that many of these laws use the "pretext" of fighting "terrorism" in order to legalise discrimination and the use of practices such as torture and extrajudicial assassinations.
As Patrick Baudouin, the honorary president of the FIDH has put it, there was a widespread use of "propaganda that legitimated violations of the right to freedom, on the pretext of fighting terrorism and conveyed through a reflex of well-stoked and manipulated fear, led to the gradual abandonment of the essential values of humanity".
Al Jazeera spoke to Baudouin about his organisation's report, and the group's expectations for change in worldwide anti-terrorism laws, 10 years on from the 9/11 attacks.
Q. In the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, several countries adopted practices aimed at securing themselves against any further attacks - indeed many would argue that the measures have been largely successful, given the lack of a follow-up attack on the United States, for example. Can you identify, however, the 'red lines' across which a measure goes from being merely 'harsh' to 'liberticidal', a term that the FIDH has used?
The FIDH called the laws adopted in the aftermath of 11 September 'liberticidal' since they are exceptional laws intended to enhance security by impeding on individual freedoms. It is inadmissible, for instance, to have authorised an unlimited period of detention of a person merely suspected of terrorism without precise charges and without any control by a magistrate. And detention is often accompanied by ill treatment.Not only are such processes completely illegal, but we are not convinced that they are really effective, because at the worldwide level, terrorism has not declined, in comparison with the beginning of the year 2000.
Q. The FIDH also says that several governments have used the increased acceptance of draconian anti-terrorism legislation as a pretext to follow policies that are antithetical to human rights and aimed at groups that are only tangentially related to global 'terrorism'. Can you identify notable uses of this 'pretext', in terms of countries and who they have targeted/what they have done 'with impunity'?
In Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Russia, Bahrain, Tunisia, Chile, and even Uganda, anti-terrorism laws adopted or reinforced after September 11 were used to curb all forms of protest, to prevent opponents and human rights defenders from speaking.
Authoritarian regimes that, before 11 September, had been criticised by democratic countries, were granted a sort of blank cheque and enjoyed complete impunity for their actions on the fallacious pretext of a joint fight against terrorism. Q. What do you think is the link between Western governments' support for authoritarian governments in the Middle East and North Africa and the 'Arab Spring' popular protest movements against rulers in that region? The unconditional support by Western governments for authoritarian governments in the Middle East and North Africa, based on the erroneous idea that these regimes were a rampart against terrorism and Islamism helped these regimes strengthen their policies on suppressing individual freedom. The increased radicalism of the dictatorial regimes indeed was one of the causes of the 'Arab Spring' protest. Q. How would you say the United Nations has acted, in terms of defending human rights in the arena of international anti-terrorism legislation? Has it been an effective body?The United Nations has consistently repeated that human rights must be fully respected while fighting against terrorism. In 2005, the Human Rights Commission appointed a Special Rapporteur for the protection and promotion of human rights in the fight against terrorism, an appointment that has contributed to taking into consideration this important dimension at the international level. Q. Realistically, do you expect these measures to be rolled back by governments in the coming years, or are these controls, legislative and otherwise, here to stay?
We are afraid that it will be difficult to undo what has been done during the last 10 years, because the measures that curb liberties, which originally only targeted the fight against terrorism, have gradually been extended to apply to other fields, such as organised crime, drug trafficking and money laundering. The emotion triggered by terrorist activities, legitimate as it may be, has stoked an irrational reaction in public opinion, which has become generally favourable to more severe repression, and all too often, the governing authorities demagogically decide merely to adhere to these opinions.
Hence it will be very difficult to undo these measures. But FIDH will continue to call for the abrogation of the special laws now in force.
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Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the US. According to the American Lung Association, more than 438,000 people will die from tobacco-caused disease and 8.6 million people have at least one serious illness caused by smoking. There are several products and policies in place to help people quit smoking, but smoking cessation continues to be a difficult change for many.
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Lung age was determined by a mathematical formula. It compares to the average age of a healthy non-smoking person who would have the same lung test. For example, a 50 year old smoker may be told she has the "lung age" of a 75 year old person.
The results are very interesting. Participants who received their results in terms of "lung age" quit smoking more than those who received numerical results in the mail. The rate of smoking cessation was 13.6% in the "lung age" group compared to only 6.4% in the mailed numerical result group. Also by the end of the trial average daily cigarette consumption was less in the lung age group.
Overall about 16% of the participants were diagnosed with obstructive lung disease during the trial.
Quitting smoking is a challenge. There are many methods to help you quit, but it is difficult to know which one is best for you. If you've tried to quit, try again, perhaps with another method. Talk to a health professional about your options. You can also ask your doctor to give you a simple spirometry test to get your lung age. It may be your motivating factor.
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does it have to be a seadoo brand? my friend has a early 90's yamaha waverunner with a hole in the piston. wr500 model. he bought it as a pair with another one that does run. he would probably sell the broken one for a few hundred or so.
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How far are you willing to travel? What year and model are you looking at? I know my brother in law just picked up a 93 or 94 seadoo XP. He was planning of parting it out but can see if he wants to sell whole. He is always buying, selling and parting 2 stoke seadoos. That's how I got my 96xp I just finished up.
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