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Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History (The Free Press, 2012)
Bancroft Prize for distinguished work in American History
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History
New York Times Notable Book for 2012
American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award
New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
J. Willard Hurst Award for the Best Work in Sociolegal Legal History
Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction for 2012 - "The Top 25"
Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law (Harvard University Press, 2007)
The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law (Harvard University Press, 2004)
—William Nelson Cromwell Prize from the American Society for Legal
—J. Willard Hurst Book Prize from the Law and Society Association
—Thomas J. Wilson Prize at Harvard University Press for best book by a
first-time author
—Firestone Library Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor
—(Chinese edition of The Accidental Republic, Lei Tian, trans., Shanghai
Joint Publishing Co., 2008)
"The Dismal History of the Laws of War," 1 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 895 (2012)
"War and Law in America," 115 American Historial Review 768 (2010)
"Form and Substance in the Law of Counterinsurgency Damages," 41 Loyola Law Review 1455 (2008)
"The Metaphysics of Mind and the Practical Science of the Law," 26 Law & History Review 161 (2008) (with Sarah A. Seo)
"Contingency, Immanence, and Inevitability in the History of Accident Law," 1 Journal of Tort Law (no. 2, 2007)
"Empire and the Crisis of the Legal Frame (Will the Real British Empire Please Stand Up?)," 120 Harvard Law Review 754 (2007)
*Winner of The Green Bag's "Exemplary legal writing" prize, 2007*
"Bureaucratic Legalism, American Style," 56 DePaul Law Review 261 (2007)
"The Long History of State Constitutions and American Tort Law," 36 Rutgers Law Journal 1159 (2005)
"The Internationalist Beginnings of American Civil Liberties," 54 Duke Law Journal 697 (2004)
"The Inevitability of Aggregated Settlement: An Institutional Account of American Tort Law," 57 Vanderbilt Law Review 1571 (2004) (with Samuel Issacharoff)
"Narrating Bankruptcy / Narrating Risk," 98 Northwestern University Law Review 303 (2003)
"Speedy Fred Taylor and the Ironies of Enterprise Liability," 103 Columbia Law Review 1 (2003)
"Toward a New History of American Accident Law: Classical Tort Law and the Cooperative First-Party Insurance Movement," 114 Harvard Law Review 690 (2001)
"From Loss of Services to Loss of Support: The Wrongful Death Statutes, the Origins of Modern Tort Law, and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Family," 25 Law & Social Inquiry 717 (2000)
"Rethinking the Nineteenth-Century Employment Contract, Again," 18 Law & History Review 627 (2000)
"Making the Fifth: The Constitutionalization of American Self-Incrimination Doctrine, 1791- 1903," 77 Texas Law Review 825 (1999)
"The Transformation of Work and the Law of Workplace Accidents, 1842-1910," 107 Yale Law Journal 1467 (1998)
"The Political Economy of Pain: An Essay from the Archives in Honor of William E. Nelson," in volume in honor of William E. Nelson (Bernstein & Hulsebosch eds., forthcoming)
"The Social Histories of International Law," in William Dodge, Michael Ramsay & David Sloss, eds., The U.S. Supreme Court and International Law: Continuity or Change? (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
"Debunking A Progressive Constitutional Myth; or, How Corporations Became People, Too," Balkinization Blog, November 15, 2012
"Freedom and Restraint," New York Times, September 21, 2012
"The Secret History of the Chief Justice's Obamacare Decision," Balkinization Blog, June 29, 2012
"The Legal Fog Between War and Peace," New York Times, June 10, 2012
"All Things Considered on Corporate Personhood," National Public Radio, October 24, 2011 http://www.npr.org/2011/10/24/141663195/what-is-the-basis-for-corporate-personhood
"Lincoln's Laws of War," Slate, February 11, 2009
"History Lesson Ye Olde Gitmo," Slate, December 9, 2008
"A Declaration the President Ignores," Washington Post, July 4, 2007
"First, Rename All the Lawyers," New York Times, October 24, 2006
"Tactical Withdrawal: The Easy Way Out for the Supreme Court on 'Don't Ask Don't Tell,'" Slate, December 5, 2005 (with Ariela R. Dubler)
"Can Chinese Industry Be Made Safe?," The Korea Herald, May 8, 2004; The Pakistan Daily Times, May 8, 2004; The Jakarta Post, May 8, 2004; Taipei Times, May 10, 2004; The Singapore Straits Times, May 7, 2004; The Bangkok Post (May 8, 2004)
Review of Jamie Bronstein, Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Stanford 2008), in British Journal of Sociology (June 2011)
Review of Kal Raustiala, Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? (Princeton, 2009), 28 Law & History Review 569 (2010)
Review of Kenneth S. Abraham, The Liability Century: Torts and Insurance from the Progressive Era to 9/11, in Law & History Review (Fall 2009)
Review of Sally H. Clarke, Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market, in Law & History Review (Fall 2009)
"Tort Law," in The Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press, 2009)
"Elias Hill," in African American National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Review of Laura Kalman, Yale Law School and the Sixties: Revolt and Reverberations (University of North Carolina Press, 2005), in New England Quarterly, September, 2006, pp. 347-49
"Bureaucratic Legalism, American Style: Private Bureaucratic Legalism and The Governance of Tort System," 56 DePaul Law Review 261 (2006)
"Internationalism and the Dilemmas of Strategic Patriotism," 41 Tulsa Law Review 787 (2006)
"Workers' Compensation," in Eric Arnesen et al. eds., Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working- Class History (Routledge, 2007) (with Jean-Denis Grèze)
Review of George I. Lovell, Legislative Deferrals: Statutory Ambiguity, Judicial Power, and American Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2003), in 45 Labor History 390-92 (2004)
"Lessons from History: State Constitutions, American Tort Law, and the Medical Malpractice Crisis," Pew Charitable Trusts Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania (March 2004)
"The Federal Employers' Liability Act," in Major Acts in Congress (Macmillan Publishers 2003)
"Thinking Historically about American Accident Law," Columbia Law Report, Fall 2002
"The Klan on Trial," 106 Yale Law Journal 1611 (1997)
"Two Humanitarianisms," University of Alabama Law School, March 30, 2012
"Legacies of the Civil War," David Brion Davis Lecture, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Yale University, March 29, 2012
"Symposium on G. Edward White," Law in American History, University of Virginia Law School, Feb. 27, 2012
"Schools of Misrule," debate with Walter Olson, Yale Law School Federalist Society, Feb. 22, 2012
"Lincoln's Code," Columbia Human Rights Law Seminar, Feb. 21, 2012
"Lincoln's Code," Stanford Law School Legal History Colloquium, Feb. 6, 2012
"Francis Lieber and the Laws of War," University of Connecticut School of Law Faculty Workshop, Jan. 25, 2012
"Emancipation and the Laws of War," American Association of Law Schools, Jan. 7, 2012
"The Origins of the Modern Laws of War," Yale Law School Annual Meeting at the American Association of Law Schools, Jan. 5, 2012
"Francis Lieber, Abraham Lincoln, and the Laws of War," Yale International History Conference, Nov. 29, 2011
"Drones and Targeted Killings," Yale Law School Federalist Society, Nov. 16, 2011
"Prosecuting Terrorists: Military Commissions," Yale Law School American Constitution Society, New Haven, Connecticut, September 28, 2011 (with Gene Fidell)
"The Civil War and the Law of War," American Society for International Law, Washington, DC, May 18, 2011
"Rules of Wrong: The Crime-War Boundary and the American Invention of the War Crime, 1815-1848," Stanford Law School Legal Studies Seminar, "April 7, 2011
"Inventing the War Crime," Zocalo Public Square, Los Angeles, California, March 14, 2011
"Lincoln's Code: The Puzzling History of the Laws of War," Harvard Law School Legal History Workshop, March 3, 2011
"Lincoln's Code: The Puzzling History of the Laws of War," Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Inaugural Lecture, February 28, 2011
"Emancipation and the Laws of War," Princeton University Politics Department, February 10, 2011
"Balancing Acts: 20th Century Democracies and Respect for the Law," American Society for Legal History annual meeting in Philadelphia, November 19, 2010
"A False Feeling of Mercy: The Laws of War in the Age of Jackson," University of Michigan Law School, November 8, 2010
"The Future of Gun Control," Yale Law School Federalist Society, October 2010
"Reflections on the Laws of War in American History," University of California at Irvine, April 2010
"The Political Economy of Pain," Conference in Honor of William E. Nelson, NYU School of Law, May 2010
"The Constitution and the Economy," Seminar at the New York Historical Society, co-leader with James Surowiecki, February to March 2010
"Powers of War and Peace: The Laws of War in Early America," NYU Golieb History Colloquium, February 16, 2010
Moderator, The Medical Malpractice Debate, Yale Law School / American Constitution Society, December 7, 2009
"The Problem of International Law in America," Yale Law School / American Constitution Society, December 1, 2009
"The Social Histories of International Law," Santa Clara University, November 6, 2009
"Learned Puffendorffs and Jacksonian Soldiers: The Laws of War in American History," Yale Human Rights Workshop, September 24, 2009
"Humanity in America,"
Harvard International Law Workshop, October 18, 2008
Yale Law School Faculty Workshop, October 2008
Cornell Public Law Workshop, April 2009
University of Chicago Legal History Workshop, April 2009
NYU Public Law Workshop, October 19, 2009
"Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law," University of Buffalo, September, 2008
"The Political Economy of Pain," The Common Good / Brookings conference on The Boundaries of Litigation, April 12, 2008
"The Law of Counterinsurgency Damages," University of Chicago Public Law Workshop, April 8, 2008
Commentator, Alberico Gentili Conference, NYU School of Law, March 14, 2008
"The Law of Counterinsurgency Damages," Loyola Law School conference on the Frontiers of Tort Law, January 2008
Patriots and Cosmopolitans, George Washington University, April 9, 2007
Patriots and Cosmopolitans, Fordham Law School Faculty Workshop, March 2007
Commentor, "Governing Globalism: The U.S. and the World," American Society for Legal History, Baltimore, November 17, 2006
"The King and the Dean," Boalt Hall Faculty Workshop, November, 2006
"The Law of the Erie Canal," Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York, Buffalo, New York, October 4, 2006
"The Little Dictatorship of the Plaintiffs' Lawyer: Rules of Law and the Rule of the Market in American Tort Law," Clifford Symposium, Depaul University, April 2006
"The Organization of the American Plaintiffs' Bar," New York Law School Symposium on the Plaintiffs' Bar, March 2006
"The King and the Dean: Melvin Belli, Roscoe Pound, and the Common Law Nation," Yale Legal History Workshop, January 31, 2006
Commentor, "The Early History of the International Law of Occupation," Columbia Center for International History, November 18, 2005
Annenberg Distinguished Speakers' Series, University of Pennsylvania History Department, October 27, 2005
"The King and the Dean: Melvin Belli, Roscoe Pound, and the Common Law Nation,"
Columbia History Department Faculty-Graduate Seminar, December
1, 2006
University of California at Berkeley, November 8, 2006
Columbia Law School Faculty Paper Series, September 29, 2005
Stanford Law School Legal Theory Workshop, September 22, 2005
"Internationalism and the Dilemmas of Strategic Patriotism," University of Tulsa Legal Scholarship Symposium honoring the work of Nadine Strossen, September 19, 2005
"The Pyramid and the Machine: James Wilson's American Founding," New York University School of Law Legal History Colloquium, August 31, 2005
"An Institutional Account of American Tort Law," Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, SUNY Buffalo, Mar. 25, 2005
"The Internationalist Beginnings of American Civil Liberties," Yale Legal Theory Workshop, Jan. 27, 2005
"The Inevitability of Aggregated Settlement: An Account of American Tort Law"
New York Law School Workshop on "Master Trends in the Law,"
November 16, 2004
Brooklyn Law School Mass Torts Series, November 22, 2004
Institute for Law and Economic Policy, Miami, April 24, 2004
New York City Torts Group Brown Bag Series, April 7, 2004
Columbia Law School Faculty Lunch Series, April 1, 2004
"State Constitutions and American Tort Law: A History," Columbia Law School Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper 04-67 (March 7, 2004)
"Add Women and Stir? The Internationalist Beginnings of American Civil Liberties," National Women's History Month Presentation to the Columbia Law Women's Association, March 2004
"Crystal Eastman and the Internationalist Beginnings of American Civil Liberties"
Law & Society Association Meeting, Las Vegas, June 2005
American Society for Legal History Annual Conference,
October 30, 2004
USC Legal Theory Workshop, October 2004
University of Texas Faculty Colloquium, September 2004
UCLA Law School Legal History Workshop, November 20, 2003
Columbia Law School Faculty Workshop, November 6, 2003
Brooklyn Law School Legal Theory Workshop, November 13, 2003
University of Kyoto, May 18, 2004
University of Tokyo, May 19, 2004
"The Passion of William Werner," Harvard Law School Faculty Workshop, November 17, 2003
"The Accidental Republic: Contingency and Risk in the Making of American Accident Law," American Society for Legal History, Washington, D.C., November 15, 2003
Participant in the Robert Levi Leadership Symposium on Compensation for Victims of Terrorism, Johns Hopkins University, November 13-14, 2003
"Some Thoughts on Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship," Law & Humanities Conference, Columbia Law School, June 1, 2003
"The Passion of William Werner," University of Michigan Law School Legal History Workshop, March 28, 2003
"The Passion of William Werner," Boston University Legal History Workshop, February 28, 2003
"An Evolutionary History of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund," paper presented at the Insurance Section of the American Association of Law Schools annual meetings, January 2003
"From Free Labor to Actuarial Risk: Workmen's Compensation and the Statistical Revolution in American Law," paper presented at the American Society for Legal History, San Diego, November 2002
"Some Historical Thoughts on the Appearance of Distributive Justice in American Tort Law," paper presented at "Law and the Disappearance of Class in Twentieth-Century America," University of Pennsylvania Law School, November 2002
"Accidents and the Statistical Revolution in American Law," paper presented to the Columbia Law School Society for Law and Ideas, November 2002
"The Passion of William Werner," Columbia Law School Faculty Retreat, October 2002
"Workmen's Compensation and the Logics of Social Insurance," Columbia Law School, Pub. Law Research Paper No. 02-41, April 2002, available at
"Workmen's Compensation and the Logics of Social Insurance," presented at the N.Y.U. Legal History Colloquium, April 2002
"Commentary on Douglas Hay, 'Master and Servant in the British Empire,'" presented at the Columbia Law School Legal History Series, April 2002
"Accident Law, the Family Wage, and the Gendered Structure of the American Welfare State," presented at the American Society for Legal History, Chicago, October 2001
Boumediene v. Bush, 128 S. Ct. 2229 (2008), Brief of Legal Historians as Amici Curiae
Ramroop v. Flex-Craft Printing, Inc., __ N.E.2d __ (N.Y. 2008), Brief of New York Labor and Employment Law Professors as Amici Curiae
FAIR v. Rumsfeld, 547 U.S. 47 (2006), Brief Amici Curiae of 56 Columbia Law School Faculty Members


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By Craig Shurick, Principal at Vaughn Elementary in Gig Harbor, WA
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I get attached easily: to places, people, and animals. When I feel a connection, I work hard at maintaining it and I hold on tight to what feels precious to me. That's not to say that I'm not able to adapt to new situations—just that it takes me a little while to accept and grieve what I have lost. These past 18 months have been...
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- 3 c. flour
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- 1 c. sugar
- 4 tsp. baking powder
- 1 1/2 c. milk
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 1/2 c. butter, melted
- Topping:
- 1 c. butter, softened
- 1 c. brown sugar
- 2 Tbsp. flour
- 1 Tbsp. cinnamon
- Directions:
- Mix everything together except for the butter. Slowly stir in the melted butter and pour into a greased 9x13 pan. For the topping, mix all the ingredients together until well combined. Drop evenly over the batter and swirl with a knife. Bake at 350 for 28-32 minutes.
- Glaze:
- 2 c. powdered sugar
- 5 Tbsp. milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- While warm drizzle the glaze over the cake.
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EAU CLAIRE -- The Eau Claire Teen Institute, housed at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, received a $3,000 donation from Wal-Mart Distribution Center Associates to help support an alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse prevention program this summer.
The donation will be used to underwrite speakers fees and food and lodging during the Teen Institute seminar held on the UW-Eau Claire campus June 9-12.
In its 24th year, the seminar is an educational and experiential program designed to bring students together to learn about the problems of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse and take that information back to their homes, schools, and communities, said Douglas Stevens, director of continuing education for the College of Arts and Sciences.
More than 115 students in seventh and eighth grades from seven surrounding counties are expected to attend the seminar, many of whom are able to attend because of Wal-Mart Distribution Center Associate's contributions.
The students will be housed in Horan Hall and will participate in large and small group discussions and programs designed to encourage the exchange of ideas, thoughts and attitudes surrounding alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse, Stevens said.
"The program's major emphasis is on primary prevention," Stevens said. "During the program students practice communication skills and learn decision making skills to make positive choices in their lives."
Parents of the teens will join the seminar the first evening to hear a speech on parenting and prevention that focuses on how to discuss alcohol, tobacco, and other drug issues with their children, as well as introduce them to skills needed to set limits for their youths, he said.
The Eau Claire Teen Institute is planned, implemented and evaluated by a steering committee comprised of prevention specialists from each of the counties involved and UW-Eau Claire. Counties include Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, Pierce, Price and Rusk.
This will be the fifth year of addressing seventh- and eighth-graders as the target audience as well as inclusion of parents. Prior to that, the focus was on senior high school students, Stevens said.
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Apparently, Gen X/Y Hyundai-Driving Parents 'Don't Tell'
Step aside, Saatchi LA and your Toyota "Swagger Waggon," Innocean has created its own sect of hip, kid-toting, SUV-driving couples called, wait for it, "alternadults." The agency's latest spot for Hyundai's 2013 Santa Fe Sport visualizes a set of epic parents indulging in a time-old tradition: as their kids dig into a mini mountain of ice cream or find their feet after paragliding, their parents say, "Don't tell Mom" or "Don't tell Dad."
"The best stories you'll ever tell start with 'don't tell,'" the wise-old-man voiceover says. It's a bold statement, especially in the Internet age. (Facebook pics or it didn't happen.) But apparently–according to the Innocean camp–a subsection of Gen X parents, defined as "Alternadults," have "grown up, but don't necessarily want to grow old." Since growing old means making embarrassing Facebook posts, they're not doing that. Instead, they're making mischief, even when their mild rule breaking includes the kids and a Hyundai Sante Fe.
Ridiculousness of the term "alternadults" aside, I don't think a good story has ever really started with "don't tell." Cool parents don't care about keeping their black diamond runs and toilet papering a secret, and outside the family it's a phrase that prefaces salacious gossip and abusive situations. I'd rather see an ad in which, after a crazy day of father-son mountain biking, dad says, "Tell mom about the log you jumped over today." Alterna-mom would be stoked.
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Category F5 is American rapper Twista's eighth studio album. The album is planned to be released June 16, 2009. The album's first single, "Wetter (Get It Wet Pt. 2)", has already been released.
It is schedule to feature Kanye West, Akon, Busta Rhymes, The Game, Fat Joe, Lil Wayne, T-Pain, The-Dream, Nelly, Bobby Valentino, Justin Timberlake, Tech N9ne and Static Major.
1. Yellow Lights (Featuring R. Kelly)
2. Walking On Ice (Featuring Gucci Mane & OJ Da Juiceman)
3. One Lucky Girl (Featuring Miss Michaela)
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10. She Got It (Featuring Bobby Valentino)
11. Secret L.O.V.E.R. (Featuring Nelly)
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13. Talk 2 Me
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15. Billionaire (Featuring Busta Rhymes, Pharrell & Kanye West)
16. Alright (Featurting Kanye West)
17. Gotta Get Me One (Featuring Static Major)
18. Don't I Look Strapped
19. American Gangster"
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So, if you remember, last week I shared the painting of the piano.
I had some leftover paint, and a coffee table that also sits in the music studio.
This coffee table belonged to my great-grandmother, and my mom was going to get rid of it. . .
and there was no way that I was going to allow that!
So I got the antique coffee table :]
Though, I will be the first to admit that it's pretty beat up:
I mean, imagine what it's been through over the years. . . I know that just my siblings and I put it through enough.
Nothing that a fun paint job can't fix, though!
I decided that I would go for the distressed look
[mostly because there was no way I was sanding the whole thing down
like I did the piano!]
I painted the whole thing in that same robin's egg blue color:
And then strategically sanded down the edges to make it look "distressed."
As a last minute addition, I decided to add some decorative detailing in a slightly darker shade of blue.
First here:
And then painted this bird silhouette:
And finally, the end result:
Though, it will probably always have music on it, like this. . . :]
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The Chief, and the assault by the Tinker Mackerel
Me and Chief Vin Carlone go way back in this town. He was a cop, I was a teacher, our sons hung out and played guitars. Vin Jr. was a student of mine. Moreover, we both play guitars, have dogs, and do some scribbling. So today in the damp drizzle, I was telling him about a new book of mine up at Island Bound, and we got to yakking about technical writing stuff: points of view, objectivity, subjectivity, and the merits of writing literary non-fiction as opposed to fiction.
Our conversation, was a good one as far as ferry parking lot conversation goes with the Chief. Ya know, it wasn't about crime; it was a good chat. So we're doing the yada yada thing, and suddenly I hear a swooshing sound from above. Then, I hear a whoooomp. Turns out that some gulls were having a Battle Royale with 4, yes I said 4, Tinker Mackeral. The gulls failed—after tearing apart the out gunned aquatic creatures they were trying to gobble down the gaping maw of their gullets—to keep the fish in their mouths. After dropping said fish, they were coming in hot, and all hit the Chief's car in unison; missing me and Dave Alpers by inches. We were noting the slop on Vin's car, as I got a butler to sweep up the deceased Tinkers. "There is a story here, right Joe," laughed the Chief.
"You bet this will be fodder for a story, Chief."
"What angle will you take," he said.
"I'll figure it out," I replied.
As the Chief was backing his car onto the boat, I noticed that besides the mound of gooey slime from this aerial assault, there was also a very small fish on his hood. I told him to let it stay there if anyone doubts the veracity of this story. It would be evidence.
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Following a recent change in state law, nearly 2,500 University of Florida students risk losing their Bright Futures scholarships because they have failed to complete their FAFSA for the 2011-12 school year:
Students are now required to submit a complete, error-free Free Application for Federal Student Aid in order to receive Bright Futures scholarships. UF has been notifying students of the requirement in order to help ensure they secured the scholarships before they received their fall tuition bills.
If the students don't complete their FAFSA by the deadline, which is as early as this Friday, they risk losing their scholarship money and putting their fall semester in jeopardy. The University of Florida's Financial Aid Office is working hard to guide students through the process, but worries persist that many students will miss out.
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Meru is a prominent active volcano with an elevation of 4566m , making it the
second highest peak in Tanzania, just 700m lower than
Mount Kilimanjaro and the fifth highest peak
in Africa. It is located within
Arusha National Park boundaries but you can
get a great view of the mountain from Arusha Town center.Meru is the
only great isolated stratovolcano in East Africa that is still active. A
massive eruption 7,800 years ago shattered Merus upper slopes and formed
an oblong 8 km/5 mi wide caldera that is open to the east. The main summit is
on the calderas western edge, perched above a dramatic and still active
Ash Cone inside the caldera. Meru is just below the permanent snowline, so
there are no glaciers or snowfields on its slopes.The vegetation
changes dramatically as you ascend, starting out in grasslands which turn into
montane (mountain) forest. As you go higher the landscape changes to shrubland
and and moorland. As you climb Meru you will get stunning views of
Kilimanjaro.Whilst there is no
tehnical climbing involved, it is steep and tough going in places and you will
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altitude.The best time to climb Meru is between October and February.
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trek in 3 or 5 days. There are huts available to climbers on the mountain and
firewood is supplied. You need advance permission from the park warden at
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Nick Cannon Defends Mariah Against Eminem
Nick Cannon is firing back at Eminem after the rapper took shots at his wife, Mariah Carey, on a new track.
Eminem makes several crude remarks about Mr. and Mrs. Cannon on "Bagpipes from Baghdad," one of the songs off his new album Relapse. Slim Shady and Mariah were rumored to have dated in the past. She has denied the relationship.
"I can't imagine what's going through your mind after such a nasty breakup with that Latin hunk Luis Miguel," Em raps in reference to the diva's ex-boyfriend. "Nick Cannon better back the fuck up/ I'm not playin'/ I want her back you punk."
He doesn't stop there. The controversial MC calls Mariah nasty names and expresses that he wants to get back together. "I mean I really want you bad you cunt/ Nick, you had your fun/ I've come to kick it when you sack that chump," he adds. "Nick Cannon, you prick, I wish you luck with the fucking whore." Listen below.
While trash-talking celebrities is nothing new for Eminem, Nick is not letting him get away with it this time. Upon returning from his second honeymoon in the Maldives, the 28-year-old entertainer wrote a scathing blog entry titled "How Cute" going at Em and calling the rapper "Slim Lamey," among other names.
Nick debated whether he should turn the other cheek, but the devil on his shoulder won out. He threatens to kick Eminem's ass.
He even goes as far as to call Eminem racist.
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[UT2K4 Replication] Objects as parameters in replicated functions
Hello everyone,
Once again a question about replication... I've read several replication docs out there but I still find it difficult to get from the theory to a working application. I was hoping someone could enlighten me by pointing out my mistakes and perhaps provide or point me to a working or similair example.
The situation: I've some code in which players can form teams. A player can send an 'invite' to another player. The other player can either accept or decline the invitation. Upon accepting the invitation, the other invitee is added to the team object of the inviter. Everything works up to the point where the sever is to tell the invitee what his new team looks like. The latter is displayed in the HUD. I've tried this using function which more or less looks like this:
"setTeam(Team newTeam)"
This function is called from a pawn which is the baseclass of the pawn used by the playercontroller. When add some logs to the application, I get the following output:
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Because of this I concluded it's not possible to call client methods with objects as parameters. Is this correct and could someone explain why the team object 'disappears' ?
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Canadian Pacific Railway's announcement this week of plans to trim its network and cut a quarter of its work force over the next four years is just the beginning of the changes coming down the tracks for the railroad.
By simplifying the network, CP President and CEO E. Hunter Harrison is laying the groundwork for more precision railroading, said Tom Finkbiner, senior chairman for the Intermodal Transportation Institute. For CP intermodal shippers, that means less flexibility on scheduling but also more competitive services and pricing.
The bold changes come roughly five months after Harrison took the helm of the least profitable major railroad in North America, following activist investor William Ackman's wrestling of control of the company through a fierce proxy fight. Harrison, who is widely credited as making Canadian National Railway the most profitable railroad in North America, said the changes would bring CP's operating ratio to the mid-60s in 2016. CP, which has steadily lost market share to archrival CN, had an operating ratio of 74.1 percent in the third and most recent quarter.
Harrison said the changes would boost revenue 4 to 7 percent in 2016 from this year's base and add cash flow before dividends of up to $1.4 billion. Investors liked what they heard; CP stock rose to an all-time high Wednesday.
"I think that what we've learned over the last 30 years is that to try to make the (railroad) more flexible, you degrade the whole system," Finkbiner said. CP "has some freight commitments that were more difficult to do, and it degraded the whole network."
Harrison is of the school of thought that the railroad offers a product and shippers determine whether that product fits their needs, he said. The other approach is trying to "jiggle the network" for a particular shipper or set of shippers without weakening the entire network. Although former CP head Fred Greene and his team would deny taking the second route, Finkbiner said they made accommodations to customers, eroding general service.
Once his network is where he wants it, Finkbiner expects Harrison to differentiate services available to shippers. Perishables shippers, for instance, could take advantage of expedited service, while consumer product customers could tap standard service.
"Canada does quite a bit of perishables and (those shippers) need faster transit and that provides higher paying freight," he said. "That adds volume but also yield."
CP intermodal shippers have already seen changes to service under Harrison's reign, as trains now move faster on the lanes connecting Vancouver to Chicago and Toronto.
"They have been well received by the marketplace even though we've taken effectively about 19 hours out the schedule," Harrison, a Memphis, Tenn., native, told investors Tuesday night. "Our on-time performance operation with the trains is significantly better before we took the 19 hours out."
Although the railroad will keep annual capital spending between $1 billion and $1.1 billion, there will be more of a focus on extending siding, allowing trains to move faster and use less equipment. The new siding program is expected to cut more than 14,500, or 4 percent, of crew starts.
Harrison has wasted no time trimming the railroad's network. CP has already closed hump-switching yards in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and Chicago; shuttered intermodal terminals in Milwaukee, Obico near Toronto and Schiller Park in the Chicago area; and removed 195 locomotives and 3,200 leased railcars from service.
Earlier this month, CP scrapped plans to extend the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern railroad into the Powder River Basin, citing the sluggish coal market. The railroad said it's also interested in selling 660 miles of the line in Tracy, Minn., and is considering the sale of the Delaware & Hudson railroad in the U.S. Northeast.
CP will also move its headquarters from downtown Calgary to railroad-owned Ogden Yard. Harrison said he didn't buy into the thinking that headquarters "should be downtown in glass towers" and employees will soon be able to "look out the window and see a railroad, which I think is good that we don't forget what this business is about."
Harrison said the success of the initiatives isn't dependent on a "breakthrough" with the union leaders. A nine-day strike in May over the CP's attempt to curb union pensions resulted in the railroad losing business to CN. Harrison said recent talks with union leaders have been encouraging and pointed to how the railroad in the last eight weeks has signed three collective bargaining agreements lasting five years.
Railroad management has struck a deal with one of the bargaining units in which "the pension issues will not be dealt at the collective bargaining table," Harrison said. "They will be dealt with through the pension committee, which is a real breakthrough here."
Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, which represents 4,800 CP engineers, conductors and rail traffic controllers, declined to comment until more details of the layoffs are known, TCRC Vice President Doug Finnon said. CP plans to cut about 4,500 positions over the next four years, and about 1,700 of those cuts will come by the end of the year.
"Now one of my evaluations initially was that we were clearly, in my view, top-heavy," Harrison said. "We had too many non-union officers, managers, supervisors, leaders, up to the range of 28 percent to 30 percent. That's far too much."
He said natural attrition is as high as 9 percent, meaning that over the next four years there is potential for about 5,700 people to leave the company through retirement. Part of the work force reduction will be through using fewer contractors.
"Now one of the things we said is this: We do not want to lose good people. When you got talent, you protect it. So we said to people, 'If you're willing to be cross-trained in another discipline, if you're mobile as far as being able to move, we've got work for you.' And hopefully they will be able to take advantage of it," said Harrison, who began his start in the industry as a carman-oiler.
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Thoughts on Family Photos
Written by: Tiffany Joyce
I don't think we tend to take pictures with the thought in mind that people in future generations will be looking at them. We figure we'll always be around to clarify the photos – who is in them, where they were taken, when they were taken, what the occasion was that prompted the shot. Or, we assume that the photo only has meaning to ourselves, so there is no need to jot a note on the back of the print, or throw in some keywords or a description to our on-line photos.
This subject has been on my mind for the past several weeks. My husband and I had to make a last-minute trip to Wyoming – his father passed away in December, and he did not leave a will or any indication of his wishes. There are a LOT of details to be taken care of, when someone passes away. Especially if they haven't made arrangements first. So, in tandem with the grief that we felt at my father-in-law's passing, there was also the stress of being completely unsure of how to proceed.
As we were organizing my father-in-law's belongings, we came across a lot of loose photographs. Some were tucked in books, others were stashed in envelopes. Very few of them had any description whatsoever about the people, places, and things in the photos. We were left wondering who these people were that meant something to this man, that he would take or receive their photos.
Then we came across some photographs that were quite old – my father-in-law was born in the 1930′s, and photos of his childhood were tucked here and there throughout his belongings. There were friends and family members, vacations and homes, that we just couldn't identify. Even with the input of my husband's VAST collection of cousins, we were unable to determine any specifics for many of the images.
It made us sad, that the last person on Earth who knew who the people were in these photos had passed away without leaving their stories behind for us to enjoy. I experienced a very similar concern last spring when I visited my Uncle in Maine. As the eldest surviving relative on my mother's side of the family, I MADE him sit down at the kitchen table with me, for several days in a row. We'd look at one photo after another, and I would scan merrily away type furiously as he told me the stories behind the photos. Even though he knew most of them, he didn't know all of them, and so the mystery endures.
I can't stress enough how important it is to KNOW those stories. And it will be important to your loved ones in the future when they come across the photos that YOU'VE taken. So please, take the time to write a quick note on the back of your prints. Keyword and describe your on-line photos. Add information to metadata. Give future generations the gift of your experiences.
Photo (click to enlarge): A wheel from one of the wagons that my husband's descendants traveled in to their homestead in Wyoming in the 1800′s. Now THAT is a story I wouldn't have wanted to miss!!!!
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The "hospital of choice" for independent physicians will have the following characteristics:
Hospitals depend on their medical staff members to facilitate the patient "referral path," which is also the capital generation path. Without its medical staff, a hospital is merely a purveyor of beds and ancillary services-many of which are increasingly available in ambulatory settings. The essential-although sometimes contentious-relationship between hospital executives and medical staff members is changing dramatically. Medical staff members are increasingly becoming employees of community hospitals. This trend is here to stay, driven by a variety of factors, including young physicians seeking employment rather than independence and entrepreneurship, as well as concerns about healthcare reform.
Although often downplayed by hospital administration, these new employment relationships have significant implications for independent physicians-both primary care and specialists. Referral relationships can change rapidly as employed physicians recognize their affiliated hospital as the source of their capital and as providers align to manage risk.
Successful hospitalist programs have reduced or eliminated the need for primary care physicians to actively participate in the hospital setting-exacerbating the referral management challenge. Primary care physicians no longer frequent the hospital floors or the medical staff lounge where they used to naturally run into specialty physicians and hospital executives. Rather than face-to-face interactions, relationships have become digitized and efficient-and vulnerable.
Some independent medical staff members have become competitors, owning ambulatory surgery centers and other limited services providers to maintain practice viability. Concerns expressed by hospital administration and nonparticipating physicians about "cherry-picking" for payment purposes damages an already fragile medical staff ecosystem.
Last, but certainly not least, is the influence of healthcare reform, driving pay for performance, shared risk, and bundled payments. The cottage industry comprising solo or small group practices is inconsistent with the concepts of accountable care. The costs alone of purchasing and maintaining an electronic health record (EHR) are beyond prohibitive for many solo and small group practices. The risks of aligning or being "left out" loom large for most independent physicians. Large independent medical groups can potentially respond to the challenges created by healthcare reform if they have access to capital, are governed effectively, and possess the managerial expertise required.
Hospital CFOs ("chief performance officers") should be increasingly concerned about the success of individual medical staff members and practices for several reasons.
Conflicts of interest. To survive, independent physicians have taken advantage of new technologies and added ancillary services to their practices. Many of those services used to be available only in hospital settings. Other physicians have participated in the development of ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers, and more. These entrepreneurs are often still essential to hospital service lines and medical staffs, but compete for these ancillary revenues-with the advantage of being able to direct patients to facilities they own. Unfortunately, in their effort to survive and prosper, these entrepreneurs hurt hospital revenues.
Primary care-market share. Many hospitals would be unable to survive on the market share captured only in their hospital-owned practices. Independent primary care physicians are still a significant part of many hospitals' direct admissions, as well as indirect admissions through specialty referrals. Each full-time primary care physician captures and services 2,000 to 5,000 lives, and most patients remain dependent on their primary care physicians to know when they need ancillary services and specialty physicians.a
Specialty services and service lines. Many hospitals would be unable to employ the full cadre of specialists required to attract primary care referrals and to ensure the required spectrum of services to meet community need. In addition, the presence of independent specialists maintains that entrepreneurial spirit to compete for primary care referrals. The referral path to specialists and on to the hospital is also the capital generation path-a concern to all finance officers who realize that the hospital is the capital-generating engine for the community healthcare system.b
Vulnerability. Sustainable independent practice requires capital, new physician partners, new and replacement technology, and administrative expertise not normally available in solo or small group settings. These realities make independent practices vulnerable to acquisition by astute competing hospitals with large checkbooks-threatening the two preceding points.
Healthcare reform. Aligning incentives and rewards among independent physicians to effectively manage risk proved to be a significant challenge during integration efforts in the 1990s. The same challenge will occur under accountable care-even with a common EHR. Agreeing on quality standards (many of which will, unfortunately, be set by payers), transparency in demonstrating or reporting individual performance, process-improvement efforts, and more will present alignment challenges for providers all along the continuum of care.
C-suite hospital executives need to be aware of the challenges facing independent medical practice, as well as the status of practices affiliated with the hospital's medical staff. We often refer to the hospital CEO as the "market manager," with responsibility to ensure adequate numbers of successful primary care physicians linked to adequate numbers and selection of specialty physicians, as well as top-notch hospital service lines and ancillary offerings. In reality, the CEO cannot bear this burden alone. All senior executives, medical staff leaders, practice liaisons, and others need to become actively engaged in maintaining relationships with community physicians and look for opportunities to support their continued success. Hospitals should develop multiple "plugs" for independent physicians to link with the integrated system, depending on their particular needs, wants, and priorities-which change over time due to both internal and external factors.c
The "hospital of choice" for independent physicians will offer the following advantages.
Source of capital. Medical practices do not generate capital. Even the largest independent practices often use debt to finance their capital needs. The hospital is the capital-generating engine for the healthcare community. Its capital provides facilities, maintains and enhances technology, supports physician recruitment, cares for the poor, and is a major employer. The vitality of the community healthcare system (both providers and recipients of care) is a function of the health of its hospital(s).
By amassing capital and appropriately investing to maintain and enhance the community healthcare delivery system, the hospital helps ensure the success of medical practices (both independent and hospital-owned). The capital ensures that high-quality services are available locally. Primary care physicians can confidently refer to a cadre of high-quality specialists and to the local hospital-keeping revenues and the resulting capital in the community to be reinvested. Without adequate capital and appropriate investment, the healthcare community will experience a downward spiral. Facilities, technology, and practices will age over time, ultimately affecting access and quality-and the sustainability of independent practices.
Growth. The key to success, now and in the future, is growing market share. Yes, enhancing revenues through additional services, higher productivity, increased fees, improved contracting, payer mix management, effective coding, and optimizing the revenue cycle will certainly provide additional revenues and generate capital. Ultimately, however, growth in market share will provide the greatest opportunity for medical practices and hospitals to prosper-despite the challenges of lower payment, more regulation, and the risk associated with healthcare reform.
Working with physicians to grow market share in primary care practices (both independent and employed physicians) and to attract that market share to specialists and service lines of choice is essential to the survival and prosperity of all-including the communities served. Local, effectively integrated delivery systems that provide convenient access to neighborhoods through sustainable employed and independent primary care practices will capture and maintain market share in their primary service areas and make inroads into their secondary service areas. Regional medical centers will look to strengthen relationships with community hospitals and their affiliated physicians. As market share grows, so will the opportunities for specialty physicians (independent and otherwise) to prosper, including participating in hospital "big-box" locations (e.g., ambulatory care centers with expanded ancillary and specialty services strategically located throughout a primary service area), which support the neighborhoods.
Business partnerships. Viewing and engaging physicians as business partners in the development and implementation of integration strategies is essential for the success of individual practices, individual service lines, and the communities served. Hospitals should engage practicing physicians in legitimate leadership roles in service line development to drive enhanced clinical effectiveness, to ensure consistent service quality, and to optimize efficiency. They should look for opportunities to joint venture with independent physicians on projects that grow the market share pie for all parties to the benefit of the communities served.
The hospital's physician recruitment and retention engine should be fine-tuned to support the growth of private practices through innovative recruitment models. (Because it is so difficult for private practices to recruit new physicians, some hospitals successfully place employed physicians and independent physicians in the same practices under appropriate contractual arrangements.) Employed primary care physicians should be encouraged to refer to affiliated independent specialists as well as those who are employed.
Performance measurement. Finance officers have a significant responsibility to ensure that accurate and timely information necessary to measure performance and drive performance improvement is readily available to support initiatives around clinical quality, service quality, productivity, operational process improvement, and financial viability.
The commitment required for a CFO to become a "chief performance officer" is perhaps summed up best in the following pledge:
"I promise to acknowledge the differences in the principles for success in each of the varied business units constituting our system of integrated delivery. I will proactively provide timely and accurate performance management information to our increasingly diverse business units in their own context to promote useful action, the results of which are measured in support of weekly accountability to achieve the desired outcome."
The more performance information is available to all members of the integrated system, including independent physicians who use the hospital, the more effective will be their performance. (Remember, anything we measure improves.) In an era of risk and reform, data availability and transparency are critical to the success of individual practices and departments that make up the integrated delivery system.
Although many physicians and practices still prefer their independence, of necessity, most will become increasingly integrated with their local hospitals and health systems. The fundamentals driving this integration trend are here to stay and will force physician-hospital alignment over the long term. The key to success in this time of transition is to be the hospital of choice, which includes adequate capital for investment in human resources, technology, and facilities; a strong and sustainable market position based on affiliated primary care practices; the ability to engage physicians as business partners with a variety of "plugs" or options; and the availability of performance management information. CFOs/chief performance officers and other senior executives have a critical role in achieving this hospital of choice status.
Marc D. Halley is president and CEO, The Halley Consulting Group, Westerville, Ohio, and a member of HFMA's Northwest Ohio Chapter (firstname.lastname@example.com).
a. Halley, Marc D., The Primary Care-Market Share Connection: How Hospitals Achieve Competitive Advantage, Chicago: Health Administration Press, 2007, p. xi.
b. Halley, Marc D., Owning Medical Practices: Best Practices for Sustainable Results, Chicago: AHA Press, 2011, pp. 9-10.
c. Halley, Marc D., Owning Medical Practices: Best Practices for Sustainable Results, Chicago: AHA Press, 2011, pp. 66-68.
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