text: "Watershed Waltz," a puppet show for children of all ages and their families, will take place at 11 a.m. at the historic, wheelchair-accessible North Hall building at 40 Searle Road, off Route 66 in Huntington. In this imaginative and educational puppet show, Marmalade Productions imparts to youngsters the vital importance of the river watershed. An 11-year-old boy teaches his mother about the watershed with help from a woodpecker, macro invertebrates and Alvin the Brook Trout. The North Hall Arts Festival kicks off its 2010 series of events with the "Watershed Waltz" on May 8, presented by Marmalade Productions. "With song, storytelling and puppetry, children learn about the waters' many forms, how it travels and how it is cleansed by the soil," said Meredyth Babcock of Marmalade Productions. Original music for the show was composed by JoAnne Spies and the Beeline Ramblers. "Kids go away with a clear understanding of why it is important that we understand, enjoy and protect our watershed," Babcock said. The Watershed Waltz program is produced in conjunction with the Westfield River Watershed Association; the Westfield River Wild & Scenic Committee; and the Highland Communities Initiative, a program of the Trustees of Reservations The puppet show is free for children and by donation for adults at the door. Advance registration is not required. In the afternoon, a program titled "Stream Explorers" will bring kids age 10 and up outdoors from 1 to 2:30 p.m. to explore a "live" stream on the North Hall property. Space in the afternoon workshop is limited to 15 participants; although free, pre-registration is required by calling North Hall Association at 667-5543. In case of inclement weather, the afternoon program will take place indoors. Those attending the full day should bring a brown bag lunch; drinks and snacks will be provided. More information about events in the 2010 North Hall Arts Festival may be found online at www.northhallhuntington.org. |


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Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, said:
It is a great pleasure to be giving this speech with the Institute for Public Policy Research today.
IPPR has led the way in new, radical, progressive thinking for many years.
Including on the really difficult issues.
When I was running for the Labour Party leadership, I said that one of the areas where we had got things wrong and needed to change was immigration.
As on everything else, our approach must be consistent with the kind of country we want to build.
A country with an economy that works for working people, not just a few at the top.
A society in which everybody has a shared sense of responsibility, both for ourselves and each other.
And a politics where everyone's voice is heard and in which we only make promises we can keep.
To have the right debate about immigration, we must avoid two dangers.
The first is the trap of wishing away public concern about immigration, failing to address it, and hoping it goes away.
The second is either in rhetoric or in promises made, suggesting that we can close Britain off from the world, when all of us know we cannot.
The debate we must get to is a grown-up debate, informed by the facts, serious in intent, and conducted in a candid way.
This is an incredibly hard thing to achieve.
And none of us will get it completely right.
But it is what I am seeking to do today.
So let me start with a basic truth.
Britain must control its borders but it must always face outwards to the world.
The Britain I believe in is a confident and optimistic country, not one which is insecure and inward looking.
If people are looking for a politician who says immigration is just bad for Britain, that's not me.
I believe immigration has benefits, economically, culturally and socially.
Our economy has gained from being open to talent from across the world.
Some who have come here have gone on to win Nobel prizes, run successful businesses and lecture in our universities.
Britain's industry, music, sport and art have been enriched by the arrival of different cultures.
On Sunday when England take on Italy in the European Championships, many of our team will be the children or grandchildren of immigrants.
I love this city.
A global city.
That won the Olympics because we're a multi-ethnic city. And part of the reason I ove my country is because we have a proud history of welcoming those fleeing ersecution.
I have good reason to know this.
My father came to Britain in 1940, escaping from the Nazis.
The country took him in.
Britain gave him a chance.
He served in the Royal Navy.
And he made a contribution to Britain, becoming a professor whose writings became known around the world.
My mum also came to this country, just after the war.
For my parents, Britain was both a refuge and a home.
I am the son of immigrants and I am hugely proud of it.
I will always talk about immigration in a way that is true to who I am, to my heritage, to my mum and dad.
But when I talk about immigration I know I must be true not just to my mum and dad but to other parents across the country, like those in my constituency, Doncaster North.
They are worried about the future.
They want there to be good jobs.
They want their communities to grow strong.
They worry about immigration.
They worry it might make things harder rather than easier for them and their kids.
Worrying about immigration, talking about immigration, thinking about immigration, does not make them bigots.
Not in any way.
They're anxious about the future.
And since this conversation is going on in the houses, streets and neighbourhoods of Britain, it must be a conversation that the Labour Party joins too.
Our party seeks to be more rooted in peoples' lives than any other party.
And therefore we must listen to those anxieties and speak directly and candidly to them in return.
That's not bowing to the Right.
It is doing what Labour does at its best.
And if we are to address people's concerns, I believe Labour must change its approach to immigration.
Recognising the costs as well as the benefits.
And above all recognising that we can answer people's concerns about immigration if we change the way our economy works.
Setting out a new direction on immigration policy requires knowing how and why the last Labour government went wrong.
Quite simply, we became too disconnected from the concerns of working people.
We too easily assumed those who worried about immigration were stuck in the past.
Unrealistic about how things could be different.
Even prejudiced.
But Britain was experiencing the largest peacetime migration in recent history.
And people's concerns were genuine.
Why didn't we listen more?
At least by the end of our time in office, we were too dazzled by globalisation and too sanguine about its price.
By focusing too much on globalization and migration's impact on growth, we lost sight of who was benefiting from that growth – and the people who were being squeezed.
And, to those who lost out, Labour was too quick to say 'like it or lump it'.
But the truth is that the public were ahead of us in seeing some of the problems caused by the rapid pace of migration, especially from the expanded EU.
And they were ahead of us in seeing some of the costs of migration as a whole.
I believe those issues fall into three broad categories:
First, rapid changes in population led to pressures on scarce resources such as housing and schools.
Some areas were not equipped to cope in the short-term and it brought to the fore questions about entitlements.
Second, there were problems with the pace of change in some of our communities.
Ties of solidarity and community are not built overnight.
And sometimes migration ran faster than the time it took to build that sense of community, to build those ties.
These are vital questions because they are about how we choose to live together.
And I will return to them in future speeches.
But today I want to focus on a third problem which is far too often ignored in this debate, because it's difficult: the pressure on our economy.
My vision is of an economy where work pays for all; and where all firms succeed because owners, managers and employees see themselves as being part of one shared project.
Britain does not have an economy like that today.
In some industries we are a long way away from that vision.
In those sectors, immigration in the last few years collided with a labour market that is too often nasty, brutish and short term.
Proper control of who comes into the country is essential.
But it is not enough.
To have an effective immigration policy, we must also reform how our economy works so that it works for all working people in Britain, whoever they are and wherever they come from.
That means tougher labour standards to do more to protect working people from their wages and conditions being undermined.
And action to create a different kind of economy: one which offers working people rewarding and high-skill jobs.
So what happened?
First of all, as a result of immigration combined with weak labour standards in some sectors, there was a direct effect on wages, especially in lower skilled jobs.
The story a local Labour party member told me some years ago about a chicken factory in my constituency in Doncaster illustrates the point.
He told me that overnight, the factory had started getting Eastern European workers from a recruitment agency.
He told me they were sleeping nineteen or twenty to a house. And they were paid far less than the factory was paying before.
Less than the minimum wage.
It worked out at about £4 an hour.
He got the union involved to sort it out.
But there are lots of stories like this, of wages having been pushed
They are the hidden stories of Britain.
They are the stories that make people angry.
They are stories that politicians have ignored for too long.
They are not good for the people of Britain.
They are not good for the people who come here. They reveal standards of employment that are simply not good enough for one of the richest economies in the world.
Of course, many migrant workers are hired because they have high skill levels or because of perceptions of their dedication.
They are simply seeking a better life in this country.
And they should never be blamed for that.
But neither should we deny some of the consequences.
Even where there has not been illegality, there has sometimes been an immediate and direct effect on wages.
Particularly in certain sectors.
If you wanted some building work done in your home, you were probably better off.
If you were working in construction, you often weren't.
Immigration made things easier for some, but it also made it harder for others.
Overall, it has benefits, but there are also costs.
And where those benefits and costs fall is related to economic position:
We were too slow to realise that.
And the combination of immigration and an under-regulated labour market held wages down in hospitality, food processing and social care.
But it is not just about the direct effect on wages.
There is a second issue.
It has to do with the sorts of jobs that are available in Britain.
The sorts of jobs that firms have the incentives to create.
There are some wonderful examples in our country of firms who make the patient investment in training their local workforce.
Morrisons, the supermarket chain, has been working in partnership with local communities in Salford.
Identifying local talent.
Giving them skills.
Helping them build a career and make a life for themselves.
And there are many other companies that do so too, from Pinewood Studios to Rolls Royce to Dixons.
Those are the kind of companies we need more of.
Those are the kind of companies we should be doing everything to help.
But there are still too few of them around.
The ready supply of temporary, low wage, low skill migrant labour has further pushed some businesses to take a short-term, low skill approach.
And it has discouraged too many firms from training and developing their own workers.
There is nothing wrong with anyone employing Polish builders, a French chef, or a Swedish childminder.
I am not going to promise "British jobs for British workers."
But we need an economy which offers working people a fair crack of the whip.
The problem we need to address is in those areas and sectors where local talent is locked out of opportunity.
Take the construction industry.
Far too many British firms in construction today find it is in their interests to hire foreign-trained workers, rather than to train up workers from Britain themselves.
The rules encourage them to hire workers from other countries already trained there.
Then take the social care sector.
One of the most important jobs in our society, but one that we choose not to fund properly.
What incentive does that give to firms?
Too often, not to hire high skilled labour from overseas. Nor to develop and train local people.
But sometimes to pay low wages and hire on short-term contracts.
And then right across our economy, our system of training, our system of finance, the short-term culture, gives firms the wrong incentives.
Let me give you another very vivid example which I think demonstrates where things can go wrong.
Recruitment agencies.
At a time when jobs are scarce and skills are under-developed, they act as the oil in the system, keeping the different parts of our economy working together.
When they work well, these agencies can play a crucial role in our economy.
And the majority of them do.
But some recruitment agencies operating in Britain are now effectively open solely to foreign workers.
They exclude local workers from their books.
Foreign workers, both high skilled and low skilled, make an important contribution to the British economy.
The idea that in industries like construction or agriculture you can get recruitment agencies who boast all their workers are Polish or denigrate the talents of those who are living locally isn't right.
It's happening because it is a part of our economy that has not been subject to sufficient rules and regulations.
We need to change it.
So that we can build our economy so that it works for working people.
For too long, we've had a phoney debate about immigration which has often ignored the big issues of how our economy works.
And too often governments have promised what they cannot deliver.
The Conservative-led Government wants us to believe that their cap on non-EU migration will solve all the problems.
It won't.
It can't.
It covers less than three percent of the total number of people who come into the country.
In 2011, 589,000 people arrived in Britain and the cap covers just 20,000.

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Study: Juries often get it wrong
Posted: June 20, 2007 3:24 pm
A new Northwestern University study shows that juries in criminal cases are reaching incorrect verdicts. The study, which looked at 271 cases in four areas of Illinois, found that as many as one in eight juries is making the wrong decision – by convicting an innocent person or acquitting a guilty one.
In each case, while the jury deliberated, the judge filled out a questionnaire detailing what his or her verdict would have been had it been a bench trial. The verdicts only matched in 77 percent of cases. The study assumed that judges are at least as likely as a jury to make a correct verdict, leading to the conclusion that juries are only correct 87 percent of the time or less.
The study was conducted by Bruce Spencer, a Northwestern statistics professor, and will be published in the July issue of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Spencer said in a statement that it would take a much larger study to truly predict the accuracy of jury verdicts nationwide in all cases.
Read the full report here.
Tags: Illinois
Chicago Tribune: Unscientific report on eyewitness reforms in Illinois was so flawed it is unreliable
Posted: July 30, 2007 1:13 pm
Social scientists were surprised last year when a non-scientific report from several Illinois police departments challenged the effectiveness of major eyewitness identification reforms taking root nationwide. The Illinois report was used to defeat reform legislation in several states – but a new analysis by some of the nation's leading social scientists says the Illinois report's methodology was so flawed that it is unreliable. The Chicago Tribune reports today that a new peer-reviewed psychology article "panned" the Illinois report and called for more research in this field to produce data that is scientifically valid and reliable.
While the debate raged on, a panel of social scientists and experts, including Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University, who had no previous stake in the issue, started a peer review of the study. They analyzed the Illinois pilot program's report, as well as critiques and support of the report, before writing the review, which is being published in the APA's Law and Human Behavior journal.Read more about eyewitness identification reforms in our Fix the System section.
If the Illinois pilot program had been designed correctly, it would have compared "sequential" lineups, in which a witness is shown a person or photo one at a time, to "simultaneous" lineups, in which potential suspects are shown in a group, but it would have used an administrator who doesn't know who the suspect is in both. That method is called the "double-blind" method.
Comparing group and individual lineups, while at the same time using some administrators who knew suspects and some who didn't, was like comparing "apples to dolphins," said James Doyle, director of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice's Center for Modern Forensic Practice, which coordinated the panel review.
"Just putting the two of them together doesn't make it a scientific review," Doyle said. "You've changed two variables at once. You can't do that."
Read the full article here. (Chicago Tribune, 07/30/07)
Get involved: Watch a video of exoneree Marvin Anderson describing the questionable lineup procedure in his case, and send us your own video clip explaining why eyewitness identification reform matters to you.
Tags: Illinois, Eyewitness Identification, Eyewitness Misidentification
NY Times calls for recording of interrogations
Posted: January 14, 2008 11:12 am
"What did Martin Tankleff look and sound like when he confessed in 1988 to bludgeoning and slashing his parents to death?" the New York Times asks in a Saturday editorial. "We'll never know. There is no video or audio recording, just an incomplete narrative, handwritten by detectives, which Mr. Tankleff signed, quickly repudiated, and spent nearly two decades trying to undo."
DNA exonerations have proven that false confessions happen. In more than 25% of wrongful convictions overturned by DNA testing, a defendant confessed to a crime they didn't commit. And electronic recording of interrogations prevents false confessions. Recording also aids prosecutors and law enforcement investigations – preserving a true account of an interrogation, allowing officers to focus on questions and not note-taking, and providing a training tool for future interrogations.
Illinois, Alaska and Minnesota – along with more than 500 local jurisdictions – record interrogations in some or most investigations. A bill stalled in the New York legislature last year, and the Times calls for passage of recording legislation this year.
The Tankleff case and the recent high-profile exoneration of Jeffrey Deskovic, who spent 16 years in prison for a rape and murder he confessed to but did not commit, both argue strongly for fixing this glaring flaw in New York's justice system.Download the Innocence Project's 2007 report on critical reforms to the New York criminal justice system.
Read the full editorial here. (New York Times, 01/13/08)
Read more about Marty Tankleff's case.
Read more about Jeffrey Deskovic's case.
Does your state have a law requiring recording of interrogations? Find out in our interactive map.
Tags: Alaska, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Jeff Deskovic, False Confessions, Marty Tankleff
For some exonerees, the "sentence goes on"
Posted: April 28, 2008 1:11 pm
An article on the front page of today's Washington Post explores the struggles endured by people cleared of convictions and released from prison but not officially exonerated for years, if ever. At least a dozen people in Illinois have been exonerated by evidence proving their innocence but have not received an official pardon from the governor's office. Illinois is one of 23 states with a compensation statute, but a pardon is required before compensation can be paid. One woman – Tabitha Pollock – served six years in prison before her conviction was overturned. She applied for a pardon in 2002 and hasn't heard anything.
When the authorities do not certify innocence, "in effect, the sentence just goes on," said Stephen Saloom, policy director of the Innocence Project. Noting that legislators are recognizing "the lingering problems" of the exonerated after their release.
"A recent trend is not only to compensate at a monetary value per year incarcerated, but also to provide immediate services upon release," said Saloom, who said the project's clients spent an average of 11 years in prison. Advocates say the exonerated need help making the transition back into society, especially finding a job.What's your state's stance on exoneree compensation? View our interactive map here.
It's not enough to let the person out of prison," Saloom said.
Read the full article here. (Washington Post, 04/28/2008)
Tags: Illinois, Marcus Lyons, Exoneree Compensation
Illinois exonerated waiting for pardons
Posted: June 23, 2008 3:10 pm
DNA exoneree Marlon Pendleton of Chicago is among 1,600 people waiting for a decision from Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on his application for a pardon. Pendleton, who served 10 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit, is seeking to clear his name and collect about $140,000 under the state's exoneree compensation law.
"They say once you pay your debt to society, it's over," said Pendleton, his voice bristling with anger. "But I didn't even owe a debt to society, and I paid it, and it's not over."A former federal pardon official said the pardon backlog in Illinois may be the nation's largest, and a federal district judge ruled recently that Blagojevich must decide on pardon applications "within a reasonable period of time."
Read the full story here. (Chicago Tribune, 06/23/08)
Tags: Illinois, Marlon Pendleton, Exoneree Compensation
Twelve Years on Death Row
Posted: November 3, 2008 4:00 pm
Today marks the 13th anniversary of Rolando Cruz's exoneration in Illinois. In 1985, he another man, Alejandro Hernandez, were wrongfully convicted of the brutal rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl. The men spent 12 years on death row before DNA testing proved their innocence and led to their release. On February 23, 1983, Jeanine Nicarico disappeared from her Chicago home. The police discovered her body several days after she had gone missing. After months of investigation, Alejandro Hernandez became a suspect, and he directed police to Rolando Cruz in exchange for a reward. The two men incriminated each other in exchange for cash rewards.
Since the police had no physical evidence linking the men to the crime, the case against them was based on the men's alleged statements. Witnesses testified that Cruz and Hernandez seemed to have intimate knowledge of the crime. The most incriminating evidence came from the sheriff's detectives who testified that Cruz had confessed to having "visions" of the murder that closely resembled the details of the crime. Despite no record confirming these visions, it was used as evidence and a jury convicted them.
Cruz's conviction was overturned on appeal, but he was retried and convicted again. Then, with the help of professors and students at Northwestern University, Cruz was finally able to overturn his conviction and secure DNA testing on sperm cells found near the crime scene. The results proved the men could not have committed the crime, but prosecutors retried Cruz again. On November 3, 1995, Cruz was finally acquitted after his the third trial. Charges against Hernandez were dropped a month later.
If DNA evidence from the crime scene had not been preserved in this case, Cruz and Hernandez may have been executed for a crime neither of them committed.
What's the evidence preservation law in your state?
Other exoneration anniversaries this week:
David A. Gray, IL, (Served 20 years, Exonerated 1999)
Bruce Dallas Goodman, UT, (Served 19 years, Exonerated 11/3/2004)
Walter Smith, OH, (Served 10 years, Exonerated 11/8/1996)
Bernard Webster, MD, (Served 20 years, Exonerated 2002)
Tags: Illinois, Rolando Cruz
A Mohammad Ali Fight and a Wrongful Conviction
Posted: November 20, 2008 3:40 pm
Students and attorneys at the Medill Innocence Project and the Center on Wrongful Convictions, both affiliated with Northwestern University, have uncovered evidence that could uncover a 1981 wrongful murder conviction.
Anthony McKinney was convicted of shooting a security guard on Sept. 15, 1978, the night Mohammad Ali defeated Leon Spinks for the heavyweight championship. McKinney was 18 at the time, and says he signed a false confession after police beat him with pipes.
Two witnesses, ages 15 and 18, allegedly told police they had seen McKinney kill the victim, shortly after the 10th round of the Ali fight. But the victim was dead, and the police had been called, before the fight reached the 9th round. Both witnesses have also said that police coerced them to testify against McKinney. Attorneys at McKinney's trial knew about evidence pointing to other perpetrators, but the jury never heard it.
The journalism students were working on McKinney's case under the direction of David Protess, director of the Medill School of Journalism Innocence Project.
"Anthony's plight is about the most tragic I've ever seen," Protess said. "He not only has been locked up for almost two-thirds of his life for a crime he did not commit, but the actual perpetrators were known right from the start."Read more about the case at the Medill Innocence Project website.
Read the full story here. (Chicago Sun-Times, 11/20/08)
Tags: Illinois, False Confessions, False Confessions
Sun Times: DNA and the High Cost of Wrongful Convictions
Posted: June 21, 2011 5:50 pm
Tags: Illinois
Four Chicago Men Cleared After 17 Years
Posted: January 17, 2012 5:00 pm
Tags: Illinois, Harold Richardson, Michael Saunders, Terrill Swift, Vincent Thames
Four Chicago Men Celebrate Exoneration
Posted: January 18, 2012 12:00 pm
Tags: Illinois, Harold Richardson, Michael Saunders, Terrill Swift, Vincent Thames
Cook County State's Attorney's Office Opens Conviction Integrity Unit
Posted: February 3, 2012 12:45 pm
Tags: Illinois
Last of the "Dixmoor Five" to be Released from Prison
Posted: February 9, 2012 1:00 pm
Tags: Illinois
Illinois Appeals Court Ruling Will Hopefully Hasten Exoneration
Posted: February 16, 2012 5:45 pm
Tags: Illinois
Illinois Man Freed After Ten Years in Wrongful Conviction Case
Posted: March 7, 2012 12:00 pm
Tags: Illinois
Kane County Sets Example for Other Illinois Jurisdictions in Handling Wrongful Convictions
Posted: March 21, 2012 2:30 pm
Tags: Illinois
Science Thursday
Posted: April 5, 2012 5:20 pm
Tags: California, Florida, Illinois, New York
Chicago Police Officers Contribute Financially to Wrongful Conviction Settlement
Posted: April 18, 2012 4:00 pm
Tags: Illinois
Rape Conviction Dismissed for Bennie Starks After 20 Years in Prison
Posted: May 15, 2012 12:45 pm
Tags: Illinois, Bennie Starks
Science Thursday - May 17, 2012
Posted: May 17, 2012 3:40 pm
Tags: North Carolina, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania
Illinois Man Convicted on Bad Arson Analysis Is Freed
Posted: June 4, 2012 5:50 pm
After almost 25 years in prison and years of legal advocacy by the Exoneration Project at the University of Chicago School of Law, James Kluppelberg was released on May 31. Kluppelberg was convicted and sentenced to life without parole for a 1984 Chicago fire that killed six tenants and destroyed the building. His alleged confession was eventually ordered suppressed after evidence was presented indicating police brutality.
Forensic Science Examiner Christine Funk discussed the problems with the forensic testimony on Examiner.com:
Mr. Kluppelberg's conviction appears to be the result of a perfect (and perfectly predictable) storm, a combination of a coerced "confession," snitch testimony from a man who later admitted he "lied because he was facing his own criminal charges," and "science" that can most gently be described as inaccurate. Francis Burns, a former Chicago Fire Department official, had visited the fire scene as a training exercise. He took no notes, no photos, and filed no report, yet testified at trial in 1990 that the burn patterns indicated it was, indeed, arson.
With higher standards for arson science, come questions about the scientific validity of old arson convictions. Several states have passed resolutions urging the review of questionable arson convictions, including Arizona, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
Read the full article.
Read more about his case.
Read more about how flawed forensics lead to wrongful convictions.
Tags: Illinois
When Prosecutors Oppose DNA Testing
Posted: June 13, 2012 10:30 am
Tags: Illinois
Judges Order Lake County to Address Starks' Conviction
Posted: June 21, 2012 6:15 pm
One month after prosecutors in Lake County, Illinois, dismissed rape charges against Bennie Starks, appeals judges ordered prosecutors to address his request to dismiss a battery charge related to the same incident.
Starks served 20 years for the 1986 crime and was freed on bond in 2006 when DNA evidence pointed toward his innocence. His attorneys had to file a separate claim for aggravated battery against the woman during the same incident, reported the Chicago Tribune.
Starks and his attorneys argued it made little sense to hold him responsible for battering the woman once he was cleared of raping her.
One of Starks' lawyers, Innocence Project senior staff attorney Vanessa Potkin, said, "The days of discounting DNA to uphold a conviction are over, and innocence and truth matter."
Based on a finding by the appellate court that the DNA results and evidence debunking the state's bite mark evidence would impact the result at retrial, Starks' legal team expects that his conviction will be vacated and the charges dismissed when the case returns to the trial court.
Read the full article.
Tags: Illinois, Bennie Starks
Illinois Woman Asks for Clemency in Shaken Baby Syndrome Case
Posted: June 25, 2012 1:45 pm
On Saturday, supporters of Pamela Jacobazzi, convicted of shaking a 10-month-old baby, gathered at the Illinois Capitol to urge the governor to review the case and grant clemency. Three other caregivers who had been falsely accused of child abuse in the area joined Jacobazzi's attorney in calling for clemency.
Jacobazzi, a former daycare worker, was convicted in 1999 of the death of Matthew Czapski, who remained in a coma for over a year before he died. Jacobazzi's lawyers at the Illinois Innocence Project believe new science around shaken baby syndrome and evidence not presented at her trial point to her innocence. Among the new evidence are details about Czapski's medical condition that could have caused bleeding in the brain that led to his death. The State Journal-Register reports:
Illinois Innocence Project investigator Bill Clutter said Jacobazzi's defense attorneys failed to introduce pediatric records from Dr. David Nadelman that would have contradicted testimony of prosecutors who claimed Czapski was a healthy baby.
"In fact, the records indicate that the child had persistent fevers, was anemic, and during a deposition after Pam was convicted, Dr. Nadelman acknowledged that he suspected the child had internal bleeding because iron supplements he proscribed had no effect on the anemic blood," Clutter said.
In addition to clemency, Jacobazzi's attorneys hope to win a new trial at a hearing in November. Jacobazzi remains behind bars and will be up for parole in 2015.
Read the full article.
Read more about Jacobazzi's case and sign a petition requesting clemency.
Tags: Illinois
Weak DNA Evidence Poses Problems in Court
Posted: July 6, 2012 3:20 pm
Prosecutors implicated Cleveland Barrett, of Chicago, in the sexual assault of a nine-year-old girl by telling the jury that Barrett's DNA was found on the victim, but what investigators had found was actually much less powerful than what the public has come to expect from DNA evidence. The DNA was not from semen—common in rape cases—rather from cells taken from the girl's lips. The DNA profile that the analyst was able to extract from the evidence was of little probative value, matching 1 in 4 African Americans, 1 in 8 Hispanics, and 1 in 9 Caucasians—hundreds of thousands of men in the Chicago area alone.
Barrett was acquitted (after spending a year in prison), but experts say that there are numerous other cases across the country in which similarly weak DNA evidence is being presented in court, posing grave risks to the defendants in these cases and to the future of DNA evidence.
As Gregory O'Reilly, chief of the forensic science division for the Cook County public defender's office, said to the Chicago Tribune:
"There's a terrific power in the phrase 'DNA match.' And there's a great risk that the jury will put great significance on this when it's not significant at all.
It doesn't only run the risk of convicting an innocent person or letting bad science into the courtroom, but you're going to undermine the very power that's behind DNA in the public consciousness. The meaning of 'match' will become so trivialized that you'll mix powerful science with junk science, powerful evidence with junk evidence. It's going to lead to a lot of confusion. Because this is DNA."
Read the full article.
Read more about unreliable or improper forensic science.
Tags: Illinois
Illinois Man Freed After 32 Years
Posted: July 9, 2012 3:30 pm
Tags: Illinois
Help Bennie Starks Get a Full Exoneration
Posted: August 8, 2012 5:20 pm
By Innocence Project Senior Staff Attorney Vanessa Potkin
In May, Bennie Starks was exonerated of a 1986 rape conviction after DNA evidence showed that he could not have been the perpetrator. Yet the Lake County State's Attorney's Office is fighting efforts to exonerate him of a battery conviction from the same crime. Write the Lake County State's Attorney's Office and ask them to vacate the battery charge against Bennie Starks.
Bennie Starks' case was one of the first that I took on as an Innocence Project Staff Attorney in 2000. I could never have imagined that we would face such extreme adversity. Just when we thought his quarter-century struggle might be over, prosecutors stunned us again.
At a hearing in March, prosecutors agreed to drop the charges on the rape conviction. This summer, however, we were dismayed to learn that the prosecution intends to continue to defend a battery charge from the same incident, even after an appeals court issued a ruling saying that the DNA evidence undermines this conviction as well. The victim, now deceased, testified that she was attacked and raped by the same man. The DNA that proves Bennie's innocence of the rape, proves that he is innocent of the battery too.
The Chicago Tribune quotes Bennie saying that this is "just another stall tactic." He's right. Bennie's case shows the extraordinary power of the prosecution to delay, or deny, justice in a case. I've been fighting for justice for Bennie for 12 years, but Bennie's been fighting even longer. Half of his life has been caught up in this wrongful conviction case. Until he's vindicated, he remains convicted of a felony that he didn't commit, meaning that he cannot file for state compensation, get his record expunged or clear his name.
Please join me in urging Lake County Prosecutors Office to vacate the battery conviction and allow Bennie to finally be exonerated.
Bennie Starks is also represented by Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck and by local attorneys Jed Stone, John Curnyn and Lauren Kaeseberg, a former Cardozo clinic student, and Ron Safer, partner at Schiff Harden LLP, along with Associate Brooke Schaefer.
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State Attorney Ignores Science, Impedes Starks' Full Exoneration
Posted: August 17, 2012 2:30 pm
Four months after former Illinois inmate Bennie Starks was exonerated of a rape conviction that DNA evidence proves he did not commit, the Lake County State's Attorney's Office continues to fight efforts to exonerate him of a battery conviction from the same crime. A column by Eric Zorn in today's Chicago Tribune says 22-year veteran State's Attorney Michael Waller has a penchant for ignoring scientific evidence and is inclined to develop peculiar theories.
The victim, now deceased, testified that she was attacked and raped by the same man. Earlier this summer, an appeals court ruled that the DNA evidence undermines Starks' battery conviction and sent it back to the trial court. Waller didn't see it that way and petitioned the court for a rehearing.
Prosecutors argued in court that the traces of semen must have come from an earlier sexual partner of the victim and been present due to her "bad hygiene."
The problem with this new theory was that the sample was fresh — no more than 30 hours old according to expert trial testimony — and the victim was on record that she hadn't had sex with anyone for at least three days prior to the attack.
Zorn cites other cases in which Waller's office has exhibited a preference for outlandish theories over solid scientific evidence.
Juan Rivera convicted in the 1992 rape and murder of 11-year-old Holly Stoker in Waukegan. When testing excluded Rivera as the source of DNA found in the victim, prosecutors under Waller argued that the little girl had consensual sex with a never-identified boyfriend prior to the attack.
Jerry Hobbs arrested and held without bond in the 2005 slaying of his daughter Laura, 8, and her friend Krystal Tobias, 9, in a Zion park. In 2007, when DNA testing of semen found in his daughter excluded Hobbs, the Walleristas insisted that Laura must have been playing near where a couple had had sex, gotten semen on her fingers and wiped it on herself.
Read the full column.
Write the Lake County State's Attorney's Office and ask them to vacate the battery charge against Bennie Starks.
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Illinois Appellate Court Ruling Favors Starks
Posted: August 29, 2012 3:50 pm
An Illinois appeals court has brought Bennie Starks one step closer to being fully exonerated for a 1986 battery charge by rejecting the Lake County prosecutor's request for rehearing in his appeal. Earlier this summer, the court remanded Stark's case back to the trial court to determine whether to grant a new trial on a remaining battery charge after the prosecution dismissed a rape charge stemming from the same incident because of DNA evidence proving his innocence. The prosecution could continue to delay justice for Starks by appealing the decision to the state's high court.
One of Starks' lawyers, Ronald Safer, said he could not imagine the Supreme Court taking up the matter and allowing prosecutors to try to preserve a conviction for a crime tied to a case that already had collapsed under the weight of DNA evidence.
Prosecutors "have persisted in avoiding the unavoidable, which is acknowledging that Bennie is innocent of any crime, as the DNA proves," Safer said. "But they are going to be dragged kicking and screaming to the finish line."
According to the Tribune, Starks' is one of four cases in which Lake County State's Attorney Michael Waller insisted on a man's guilt even after DNA pointed to innocence. Bennie Starks is also represented by the Innocence Project, local attorneys Jed Stone, John Curnyn and Lauren Kaeseberg, a former Cardozo clinic student, and by Associate Brooke Schaefer at Schiff Harden LLP.
Read the full article.
Join us in calling on Michael Waller for Bennie Starks' full exoneration.
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Chicago Man Freed Today
Posted: August 31, 2012 5:00 pm
Alprentiss Nash, who filed his own pro se motions requesting DNA testing in his 1997 murder conviction will be freed today after testing results excluded him and pointed to another man. The Cook County Conviction Integrity Unit, established by DA Anita Alvarez earlier year, also reviewed the evidence and concluded that they could no longer stand by the conviction. Nash is the first to be cleared and freed through the Unit, though it has over a hundred other cases to consider.
The Chicago Tribune covered the case, focusing on Nash's diligence in advocating for himself without a lawyer:
The legal brief Alprentiss Nash wrote in his prison cell was filled with misspellings, grammatical errors, even an ethnic slur.
But the convicted murderer still made a cogent point in the court filing: that he deserved DNA testing on a black ski mask worn by the killer and left behind at the murder scene. A Cook County judge rejected the request, but the Illinois Appellate Court, in a unanimous opinion, ordered the testing, marking a rare victory for an inmate essentially acting as his own lawyer. Now that rough-hewn petition, plus the timely assistance of a veteran attorney, will set Nash free.
Read the full article. For more coverage. For more about the Cook County Conviction Integrity Unit.
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Wrongfully Convicted Nebraska Man Is Compensated after 57 Years
Posted: September 5, 2012 3:20 pm
Eighty-year-old Darrel Parker, who was wrongfully convicted of the 1955 murder of his wife and sentenced to life in prison, was formally declared innocent on Friday and will finally be compensated. Parker was paroled in 1970— after his confession was deemed coerced — and pardoned in 1991, reported the Freemont Tribune.
"You never give up hope, you never give up hope," an emotional, 80-year-old Parker said at a news conference, flanked by his lawyers and the attorney general. "I tell people, 'Now, I can die in peace.'"
The state had just agreed to stop fighting Parker's wrongful conviction lawsuit. Instead, Attorney General Jon Bruning apologized, admitted Parker was wrongly convicted and announced the state would pay him $500,000 — the maximum allowed by law.
"It became crystal clear that Mr. Parker is innocent," Bruning said. "This was the most important thing I could do as attorney general, to right this wrong."
Parker continued to seek a full exoneration upon his release and hoped DNA testing would prove his innocence, but he eventually learned that most of the evidence in his case had disappeared. He remarried, worked for the Illinois Parks Department, and later took a job at a law firm. Although he managed to rebuild his life, Parker waited decades to receive an apology for the injustice. It is only now that the state has admitted Parker's innocence that he can receive compensation.
About one-third of the nearly 300 people exonerated by DNA testing have not been compensated. Without immediate assistance in many states, even exonerees who receive compensation wait an average of three years before funds are awarded.
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Illinois Men Receive Certificates of Innocence
Posted: September 14, 2012 6:00 pm
This afternoon a Cook County Judge issued Harold Richardson, Michael Saunders and Terrill Swift Certificates of Innocence. Judge Paul Biebel overturned their convictions back in January after DNA evidence recovered from the defendant matched to another man with a history of committing murder and sexual assault. State's Attorney Anita Alvarez earlier conceded that her office would not be able to retry the Englewood Four but objected to the court issuing certificates of Innocence even though there was overwhelming proof of their innocence.
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Chicago Man to be Set Free After 14 Years in Alford Plea
Posted: October 31, 2012 11:30 am
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Center on Wrongful Convictions Launches First Women's Project
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Imprisoned Chicago Detective Will Testify in Wrongful Convictions Case
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Lake County to Examine Claims of Innocence
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Lake County, Illinois Prosecutor Agrees to Drop Charges Against Bennie Starks
Posted: December 7, 2012 2:25 pm
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Young People and False Confessions
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Bennie Starks Exonerated After 25 Year Struggle to Clear His Name
Posted: January 7, 2013 4:20 pm
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Chicago to Pay Multimillion Dollar Settlement in Another Burge Case
Posted: January 15, 2013 4:05 pm
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Cook County Integrity Unit Slow to Justice in False Confession Cases
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Innocence Network Week in Review: February 8, 2013
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Innocence Network Week in Review: March 29, 2013
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The Long Road Exonerees Face to Clear Their Records
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Illinois Woman Exonerated of Son's Death
Posted: June 18, 2013 3:00 pm
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Murder Charges Dropped for Illinois Man After Two Decades Behind Bars
Posted: June 28, 2013 3:05 pm
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Illinois Judge Orders DNA Testing in Murder Case
Posted: August 7, 2013 4:25 pm
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Illinois Expands Recording of Interrogations
Posted: August 28, 2013 2:30 pm
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Rape Conviction Vacated in Illinois
Posted: September 10, 2013 4:50 pm
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Illinois Woman Denied New Trial in Shaken Baby Syndrome Case
Posted: September 24, 2013 12:30 pm
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A Place of Their Own
Posted: September 24, 2013 3:00 pm
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Recent Illinois Exoneree Arrested In Error
Posted: October 29, 2013 12:55 pm
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Chicago Man's Rape Conviction Overturned After 30 Years
Posted: December 11, 2013 3:25 pm
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False Confessions in 2013
Posted: January 3, 2014 3:45 pm
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Three Certificates of Actual Innocence Issued in Illinois
Posted: January 27, 2014 4:30 pm
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U.S. Court of Appeals Says Prosecutor is not Protected by Immunity
Posted: January 31, 2014 11:50 pm
Tags: Illinois, Government Misconduct
Wrongful Convictions are a Family Tragedy
Posted: March 18, 2014 2:40 pm
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Illinois Woman Released in Shaken Baby Case
Posted: April 25, 2014 5:50 pm
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Perjured Testimony Influences Wrongful Convictions
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Twenty-Five Years of Freeing the Innocent
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Illinois' DNA Access Law Expanded
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Illinois Passes Identification Law
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Lake County State's Attorney Reviewing Illinois Man's Guilty Plea
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Creating a share per installation is erroneous and ridiculous. The issue isn't the customer producing pathes too long, it's the fact Autodesk is producing pathes too long.
In our case, putting the installation folder to a share would only save 19 characters of 255 (bypassing two folders), or less than 7% of the characters.
I completey agree, cause even myself i think i save 12 characters by shoretning it
I tried these 2 paths for the 3DS Max Design 2013 AdminImage folder location of which the first failed and the second succeeded:
The first is 58 characters and the second 49.
So for those of you installing 3DS Max Design, you can use at least 49 characters to designate where your AdminImage folder is but 58 is right out.
So Travis, you are saying I should do this:
But really the paths are longer because I have to include the product's year as a subdirectory (+5 characters) or multiply the number of shares with the year as part of the name (+4 characters).
So is this long list of shares an advantage over browsing through a logical hierarchy of subfolders like \\server\software\company\product\year? (This doesn't get anywhere near 243 characters as you are implying some of us doing. It probably could be done in less than 75 but the 50 Autodesk gives is tight.)
When Autodesk creates file names like "Create Universal Constraint - PxCreateUniversalConstraintMS_PhysX - 32.png" (75 characters where 1/2 are repetative) and uses the exact same name for both a child and parent folder like "...\Essential_Skills_Movies\3dsMax_Design_2013\de
Yes, that is exactly what I am saying to do. And that is what I do - thus I have never had any of these problems. I agree that the Autodesk filenames are long and ridiculous and they need to be changed. But it is what it is. This is how to get your deployments working. Whether you have one share with multiple folders to traverse inside, or multiple shares for all the products, it's all the same. One way works, the other doesn't.
Actually both work, just 1 won't work if you go beyond a certain character limit like 50.
I like the heirachy better than your suggestion though because we have numerous software and in that case a flat system is more confusing than a heirarchy. We will just have to stay under 50 characters, which is doable but with extra attention required.
The heirarchy can exist in the same physical folder fashion, just share the last folder with the name. Whether you go to a server and drill down thru multiple folders, or go to a server and see a list of shares, the result is the same. If I wanted to install AutoCAD 2013, I could go to \\servername and then locate the \ACAD2k13 folder. Or I could go to \\servername and then find \APPS\ and then find \Autodesk\ and then find \AutoCAD\ and then find \2013\. Personally, \\servername\sharename makes more sense and it easier. It could still exist at D:\Apps\Autodesk\AutoCAD\2013, but just share out the last folder and send the link out to your users.
It's 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. I mean, it's all how you look at it. Ultimately, the filepath length needs to be addressed. But as for now, this is all we can do as a work-around.
It is 6 of one, half a dozen the other, yes. But as you say it's a matter of perspective. I don't think anyone wants to add their 2 cents to debate with you but to voice their frustration at Autodesk in a public format. As you conceded, there IS a problem with filename length in Autodesk products that exacerbate this situation... so, here we are... people are letting Autodesk know how frustrating it is. Can't it just be left at that?
True, but at the same time, how is it any better for the end user to create a folder structure that consists of multiple characters and many levels deep? I agree that there are some Autodesk filenames that are simply too long, but I also see that too many end users are creating filepaths that are also too long. Thus, the only recourse for this instance, until Autodesk creates smaller filenames in subsequent releases, is simply to create short share paths. Arguing beyond this point is moot.
But we are the ones paying for the software. If we want to have it on a server with a single share that is catagorized and sorted by a folder tree we should be able to.
When you buy a car no one tells you that you can only drive it when you wear blue pants and a hat.
You have an opinion about how folder structures should be created, thats fine but it has NOTHING to do with this conversation. The point here is that the way they have created the software is limiting us and we would like them to correct that.
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About the ProgramHolyoke Through Our Eyes is a series of hands-on photography workshops taking place over 6 weeks for middle school and high school students at Girls Inc. Holyoke, facilitated by artist Erika Zekos.
Jerome Liebling's photographs of Holyoke from the 1980s, which will be exhibited in the city as a key part of the Holyoke Points of View events, will be the springboard for the project. The students will first spend time considering Liebling's work, learning about the camera and their own neighborhoods. Later they will learn to take their own pictures and together will curate which ones to exhibit. In doing so, they will develop a sense of community awareness and pride. Using the camera as a tool for "seeing" their city in a new way, the students use writing, visual arts, graphic design, peer presentation to share their ideas about the city they call home. |
Artist BiosErika Zekos is a designer, teacher, advocate, and public artist from Amherst, MA. Her projects consider the intersection of design and the built and natural environments. They engage their communities, inviting collaboration and rethinking of the world around us. Since completing her architecture degree, Erika has practiced architecture and taught design in colleges and K-12 schools. She has completed numerous public art installations in Boston and western MA, as well. She currently works with the Mass. Farm to School Project.
Geisha I. Uroza was the principal liaison between the photo project and Girls Incorporated of Holyoke. Ms. Uroza is a Girls Incorporated of Holyoke Site Coordinator and local expert on the Girls Inc. National Teen Pregnancy Prevention curricula. Ms. Uroza has a degree in Early Education and extensive experience working with youth as a former member of AmeriCorps and as a former pre-school teacher. Samantha Domina Age: 17 Grade: 12 Samantha is a Peer Leader at Girls Inc. of Holyoke and a member of the ING investment challenge at Girls Inc. She is a driven young woman who is successful in her online courses. She is currently a student at Chicopee Comprehensive High School and has been accepted to the Lincoln Technical Institute, furthering her aspirations to own a bakery. Yomira Anaya Age: 17 Grade: 12 Yomira is a Peer Leader at Girls Inc. of Holyoke and a member of the ING investment challenge at Girls Inc. Formerly a member of the Upward Bound cohort at Holyoke Community College, Yomira is a smart young lady who plans on pursuing a degree in Biology to become a Biology teacher. In addition to pursuing her academic interests, Yomira is a talented signer and member of her high school's choir. Katie Fitzgerald Age: 17 Grade: 12 Katie is a Peer Leader at Girls Inc. of Holyoke and the President of the ING investment challenge at Girls Inc. This year, she will be co-facilitating the ING investment challenge curriculum. Dedicated and motivated, Katie has not only been accepted into 3 different colleges in Florid but also has been named as a 2013 Girls Inc. National Scholar. An academic and an athlete, Katie is also a member of her school's volleyball team. Rebecca Payne Age: 16 Grade: 11 Rebecca is a Peer Leader at Girls Inc. of Holyoke. Aside from her membership at Girls Inc., Rebecca plays the clarinet in her school band, and shows an interest in the well-being of others through activism and scholarship. She is currently a member of the local GSA (Gay Straight Alliance), and is working on meeting her goals of getting accepted to college to pursue a career in Veterinary Medicine. Ana Acosta Age: 18 Grade: 12 Ana is a member of the ING investment challenge at Girls Inc. of Holyoke. A determined and driven young woman, Ana plans to transfer from Holyoke Community College to a four year school to pursue a degree in Architectural Interior Design. Artistically talented, she is a member of the high school choir, plays the piano, and was a member of the stage crew for the high school musical. Kiana Pauline Correa Age: 17 Grade: 12 Kiana Correa is a Peer Leader at Girls Inc. of Holyoke. Aside from her participation in Girls Inc., Kiana is a member of organizations aligned with her career aspirations and interests. She is a member of the Future Nurses Club, Future Teacher's Club, and the Latin Dance. Dina Cruz: Project Assistance. |
About Girls Inc.The mission of Girls Inc. is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold by providing them the opportunity to develop and achieve their full potential.
Girls Inc. provides girls ages 5-18 with engaging and educational youth development programs that are cutting edge, research driven and designed to meet the specific needs of girls. About Holyoke Public LibraryThe mission of the Holyoke Public Library is to provide the citizens of Holyoke with the tools and opportunities to improve themselves and their quality of life while promoting literacy, the enjoyment of reading and life-long learning through the provision of equal access to library materials, services, facilities, technology, up-to-date resources and programs to meet the educational, informational, social, cultural, and recreational needs for residents of all ages and abilities in the City of Holyoke and surrounding areas.
Holyoke Through Our Eyes
Six young women inspired by Liebling's pictures of Holyoke show us what they see.
April 4-7th at Open Square, 383 Dwight St., Holyoke, and then as part of Holyoke Then and Now.
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Aran Islands The edge of Europe, these 3 islands are steeped in Irish culture, heritage and our native language. You can visit the Aran Islands by taking a ferry at Rossaveal or by flying from Connemara Regional airport located near Inverin. The Burren The Burren, in North County Clare and parts of South County Galway covering an area of 160 square km, is unique - it is like no other place in Ireland. Connemara Connemara is described by many as one of the most scenic areas of Ireland. Connemara's history goes back thousands of years. Its coast has an endless amount of nice but remote beaches and its most famous export is the green and white Connemara Marble. The Cliffs of Moher A must see - these magnificent cliffs rise from the Atlantic Ocean to a height of nearly 200m and extend for a distance of 8km from Hag's Head to a point beyond O'Brien's Tower. Kylemore Abbey & Gardens When visiting Connemara, the Kylemore Abbey & Gardens are a must see. Roam around the gardens or examine the architecture of the Abbey founded in 1852. www.kylemoreabbey.com
The House hotel team would be delighted to recommend and organise day trips for you with our partner company, the Galway Tour Company. The Galway Tour Company offers creative, fun and informative day tours to the most popular sites such as the Cliffs of Moher in the Burren or Kylemore Abbey in Connemara. For assistance please contact us at email@example.com
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NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL PINAL COUNTY- A dust storm warning in affect from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday.
The National Weather Service in Phoenix has issued a dust storm warning affecting areas of Northwest Pinal County, Casa Grande and Coolidge as well as the Interstate 8 and 10 corridors.
Wind gust of 35 to 45 MPH are expected.
Visibility less thank 1/4 mile due to strong outflow winds and blowing dust especially in the open desert areas.
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Official Ares 0.8 released
Ares 0.8 brings back more features from Tiberian Sun, like the EM Pulse Cannon super weapon with several enhancements, and Toggle Power as a keyboard command along with support for AI players to shut down power consumers in case of an emergency to keep the base defenses online as long as possible. Two animation tags Scorch and Flamer used for napalm have been restored, and Tiberian Fiend like infantry units hiding on patches of Tiberium are possible again.
But there is also a new feature from the future: Academy buildings similar to those in Red Alert 3 selectively promote units when built, which allows for new tech structures or player buildable upgrade centers that, for instance, boost all aircraft or only all Tesla Tanks and Troopers.
Advanced Rubble can be customized, thanks to a contribution by Gluk-v48: the owner of destroyed and rebuilt structures can be set to neutral, the initial health is customizable and Engineers can be made to remove the rubble from the map instead of rebuilding it.
By coincidence, the repair animation was in focus of a group of changes: It can now be hidden from the enemy with a new tag, but it now also doesn't show if a building is cloaked so it won't give away base location. Temporal weapons prevent a building from being repaired, and thus the animation will not show for the duration of the attack either.
This release contains fewer new features, but still continues to improve on stability. Earlier code has been reworked and restructured, and issues were fixed where detected. Most changes were internal, and in the best case their presence is not noticable.
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Tags pop, house, party, dance, workout
Genres electronic, hip hop, pop, dance, electro (beta) (flag as incorrect)
Published November 24, 2011
Playlist including music by Jason Derulo, LMFAO, RIO
All the 2013 k-pop by turnmymusicon
my favourite songs of this year so far :) (only title track) i will add new songs till the end of the year <3 enojoyy.
k-pop, kpop, snsd, exo, korean
mr. boogie, if i want to, can i have u? by turnmymusicon
shakeee that to the kpop beat.
kpop, k-pop, snsd, korean
Wanna Be The Papa by turnmymusicon
Wooork that body.
workout, party, happy, sex, summer
New Year, New Kpop. by turnmymusicon
Seventeen tracks including music by B.
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text: New notes and coins Starting next year, Sweden will have new banknotes and coins. The General Council of Sveriges Riksbank has decided on the themes, motifs, sizes and colours for the new banknotes and coins. The new banknotes Göran Österlund has won the Riksbank's competition to design Sweden's new banknotes. His proposal "Cultural journey" will therefore form the artistic basis for the new banknotes. Artistic starting point The new coins Ernst Nordin is the sculptor behind the design of Sweden's new 1-krona, 2-krona and 5-krona coins. The General Council of the Riksbank has decided that his proposal "Sun, wind and water" will form the artistic basis for the new coins. Artistic starting point Questions and answers Under the heading "Questions and answers" we have tried to answer the most common questions about our new banknotes and coins. We hope that you will find all the answers you need here. Questions and answers - New banknote and coin series


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Our Little Home: Roses in Bloom
Thursday, June 16, 2011
It's that time of year! Our house is filled with red roses from our budding rose bush, and I love it.
I think I turned everything I owned this morning into a vase, including my trusty duck creamer. Mini vase! Happy Summer.
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Mission History in Lights
Come take a leisurely evening stroll through the grounds of Mission Espiritu Santo!
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Dec 01, 2014 from 06:00 PM to 10:00 PM Every day until Dec 31, 2014 |
Where | Goliad State Park & Historic Site |
Contact Phone | (361) 645-3405 |
Goliad State Park invites you to visit our "History in Lights" exhibit, which will run from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm throughout the month of December. Lights and shadows will tell the story of this remarkable site as visitors walk the same path taken by Native Americans and Spanish Franciscans Priests so long ago.
Come walk the path of history!
Goliad State Park is located approximately ½ mile south of Goliad on Highway 183. Entry fees are $3.00 per adult, Texas State Park Pass holders and children 12 and under free. For after hours entrance please stop at the shade pavilion in front of park headquarters, and place entrance fees into a self pay envelope. Place self pay envelope into the convenient red fee box. For more information, please call (361) 645-3405.


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Sunnyvale, CA,
January 21, 2015
- Fujitsu delivers new Reliable Entry-level Storage System for SMEs and Branch Offices at an Affordable Price
- Fujitsu, a leading information communication technology (ICT) company, today provides end customers and its channel partners with a powerful entry-level disk storage system, that will prove to be a driving force in winning deals for its channel partners in 2015 and beyond. The new FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS® DX60 S3 cost-effectively scales to meet the ever-increasing data management needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Sold via Fujitsu's SELECT partners that provide dedicated customer support, the business-centric system is easy to install, configure, operate and maintain, removing the perennial headache of managing and storing increasing volumes of data at an affordable cost.
Sunnyvale, CA,
January 20, 2015
- Fujitsu Extends "Choose Your Own Device" Line-up With New Generation LIFEBOOK
- Fujitsu today extended its popular LIFEBOOK® notebook and STYLISTIC® tablet range with new devices featuring the latest 5th generation Intel® Core® vPro® processor family. With this line-up, Fujitsu responds to the continuing trend of companies offering their workforce the opportunity to "choose your own device" that is right for their individual needs.
Sunnyvale, CA,
January 20, 2015
- Fujitsu Announces Its Discrete Manufacturing Solution Is A Qualified SAP® Business All-in-One Partner Solution
- Fujitsu, a leading information communication technology (ICT) company, today announced a new Fujitsu business management solution designed specifically to meet the business requirements and improve the operational performance of midsize discrete manufacturing companies. The Fujitsu solution for Discrete Manufacturing is a qualified SAP® Business All-in-One partner solution that delivers the affordability and expertise of the SAP application combined with Fujitsu implementation services, cloud, hosting and application management services, which together help simplify business operations and enable customers to run their businesses more efficiently and effectively while managing costs and risks.
Sunnyvale, CA,
January 21, 2015
- January 13, 2015
- Fujitsu Expands Grounding Spring Product Line for Mobile Designs
- January 11, 2015
- Fujitsu Showcases Enhanced End-to-End Retail Portfolio at NRF 2015
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- BAI Retail Delivery
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Case Studies
- St. Andrew's College
- As an independent school, St. Andrew's College prides itself on the innovative ways in which it teaches students, using collaborative, activity-based, boy-friendly learning along with cutting-edge technology to engage and inspire. The school has been teaching boys for more than a century and excels in academics, the arts, athletics, and co-curricular programing that is amongst the most varied and comprehensive of any private school in Canada.
- Athol Murray College of Notre Dame
- Athol Murray College of Notre Dame is a boarding and co-educational High School dedicated to the primacy of the spiritual in education. Founded in 1920 in the remote prairielands of central Canada, it is committed to helping its 300 students become purposeful leaders with virtuous character and a global mind-set.
- Business Technology Career Opportunities (BTCO)
- Over the years, BTCO has seen its technology needs change in response to customer demands. With early customers such as the Census Bureau and its Census 2000 Image Archiving project, BTCO took information and converted it to microfi che. Today the process is reversed, as the company works annually with tens of millions of paper pages and aging microfi che fi les, turning them into digitized documents, indexed with data entry so that its customers can store, search through, and access information faster and more effi ciently than with hard-copy documents.
- William Breman Museum in Atlanta
- Jeremy Katz, director of the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History—the formal name for the museum's extensive archive collection—says gathering and preserving historical documents and other items from Jewish families in the South is essential to providing a rich portrayal of Jewish history and activities in the region.
- Paul VI Catholic School Provides Fujitsu LIFEBOOK Laptops
- Paul VI Catholic High School, established in 1983, is one of four secondary schools in the Arlington Diocesan school system of Virginia. From an original enrolment of 350 students, it has grown to a current capacity of 1,000 young men and women who seek the well-rounded educational experience that it offers.


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Yummy beans with bits of smoked ham. Submitted by SHOOLEYMCCUCKOO Carbs: 21.5g | Fat: 9.4g | Fiber: 6.5g | Protein: 11.9g | Calories: 215.8
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Low-calorie and high-fiber, these tasty (not fried) beans make a quick supper when spread upon warm corn tortillas topped with melted cheese. Submitted by PENSKE40 Carbs: 12.3g | Fat: 0.3g | Fiber: 4g | Protein: 3.7g | Calories: 64.1
My kids never complain about eating both beans and greens in one meal when they're served alongside rich, slow-cooked pork. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 11.7g | Fat: 15.6g | Fiber: 3.6g | Protein: 25.9g | Calories: 285.9
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When the craving for chocolate hits, try this Chocolate-Cinnamon Bread Pudding. The warm melted chocolate makes it a definite comfort food, while the whole wheat bread and evaporated skim milk adds to its nutritional punch. Carbs: 92.7g | Fat: 5.3g | Fiber: 3.8g | Protein: 15g | Calories: 426.3
An easy slow cooker recipe that the family will enjoy! Submitted by LOSER1231 Carbs: 40g | Fat: 2.9g | Fiber: 13g | Protein: 30.5g | Calories: 307.3
Quick and nutritious, this zesty take on pasta salad is a family favorite. Garnish with fresh herbs and black olives. Submitted by RDEPASS Carbs: 45.6g | Fat: 3.3g | Fiber: 7g | Protein: 14.2g | Calories: 267.8
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In the morning, throw all the ingredients for this simple recipe in the slow cooker. A hearty and healthy dinner will be waiting for you when you get home! Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 7.9g | Fat: 3.7g | Fiber: 1.8g | Protein: 26.8g | Calories: 176.8
A tasty, spicy meal with only 10 minutes of prep time! Submitted by REGNETS03 Carbs: 27.5g | Fat: 4.2g | Fiber: 7.1g | Protein: 24.7g | Calories: 247.9
What a great dish for one of those nights when your kids have a late soccer game! Brown the meat, layer in the ingredients, set your slow cooker on low, and go! Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 18.1g | Fat: 10.2g | Fiber: 1.6g | Protein: 24.9g | Calories: 271.4
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Did you know that just three buffalo wings have 10 grams of fat? (Who eats just three?) This soup has all the spice, creaminess, and tang you crave--with a fraction of the fat. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 8.1g | Fat: 2.3g | Fiber: 1.9g | Protein: 16.1g | Calories: 119.5
Roasted peppers and almonds pair with fresh parsley in this tangy Spanish-inspired sauce. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 37.1g | Fat: 5.5g | Fiber: 11.3g | Protein: 31.3g | Calories: 322.2


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Glittery letters and numbers embellish this short shift dress that comes with an inset lining. The glittery alpha-numeric design is amplified by the matching silver-tone skinny belt with a rectangular gold-tone ornament. Complete the equation and team this enchanting piece with leggings or tattoo tights. Back zip closure.
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I have recently joined the board of the Center Grove Education Foundation. It is a wonderful organization dedicated to raising funds to assist our school corporation in providing quality education and opportunities for all students and teachers. They are a dedicated and passionate group of individuals that put education as a priority for children. With all of the budget cuts in recent times, our organization becomes more important to maintain quality education through funding of materials, programs and grants. Our events not only serve to raise money for the cause but also to educate the community about our foundation and the needs of the schools. Everyone looking to find a charity that makes a direct impact on children and education should consider donating not only money but time to this organization.
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Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Time: 10:30 am
Location: NIA headquarters, 100 Exploration Way, Room 137
Speaker: Lesley A. Weitz, PhD Candidate, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University
Subject: "Using Structural Analogies to Analyze and Design Cooperative Control Laws for Multivehicle Systems"
ABSTRACT: Advances in communication, navigation, and computational systems have enabled greater autonomy in multivehicle systems. With these technological advances, the opportunity to control multivehicle systems becomes a reality, and there is a shift toward decentralized, cooperative systems for computational efficiency and robustness. Decentralized, cooperative multivehicle applications include: robotic vehicles for search-and-rescue or planetary exploration, formation control of UAVs/MAVs, automated highway systems, and next-generation air traffic systems. This presentation will show how cooperative control laws for multivehicle systems are analogous to structural systems. By exploiting this analogy, traditional analysis tools can be applied to investigate the system stability and the effect of disturbances on multivehicle systems. Two analysis tools will be presented here: modal cost and receptance functions. The modal cost quantifies the disturbability of the system for a given control law, and the receptance functions reveal string instabilities for a given control law. Simulation results will be presented to support the use of these analysis tools in the cooperative control-law design.
Lesley A. Weitz is currently a PhD Candidate (expected graduation May 2009) in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University under the advisement of Dr. Johnny Hurtado. Ms. Weitz's research is in the area of decentralized, cooperative control design and stability analysis. She has worked with NASA Langley Research Center and the National Institute of Aerospace on Next-Generation Air Traffic Systems, and has recently been awarded a NASA Graduate Student Research Fellowship for her research in this area. In addition, Ms. Weitz is also a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, Amelia Earhart Fellow, and an AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Fellow. Ms. Weitz received her Master's degree, also from Texas A&M University, in 2005, and her Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University at Buffalo in 2002.


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D3 Bookcase
Price: $599.00Overview
The D3 Bookcase provides endless shelving possibilities with four adjustable shelves, and four color combinations. Choose a powerful or subdued sentry. If you prefer prominent sentinels, opt for the Walnut case with Gray or White shelves. If ninjas are more your speed, opt for the White painted ash case with White or Gray shelves. The D3 Bookcase comes with four adjustable steel legs, brass details and leveling feet.
Expand the D3 Bookcase as a Starter Unit, using one or more adjacent optional Add-on Units (sold separately). The optional Add-on Unit provides more storage by attaching directly to the D3 Starter Unit. Available in select finishes with four steel shelves with color options.
There is a 5% Blu Dot freight fee on this item.
Standard Delivery is Curbside. White Glove service is available at a premium and must be requested at the time of order placement. Please contact our Sales Department for rates.
Material(s): Walnut or white ash, steel
Dimensions: 66.6"H X 36.3"W X 15.2"D
Manufacturer: Blu Dot
Blu Dot. Bringing good design to as many people as possible.
Blu Dot was formed by three college friends: John Christakos, Charles Lazor, and Maurice Blanks. After they left college and began to furnish their first homes, they didn't like the furniture they could afford and couldn't afford the furniture they liked. Determined to do something about it, Blu Dot was born in 1997.
Blu Dot creates products that are useful, affordable, and desirable with a design process founded on total collaboration between pencil and paper, materials and machines, even packaging and assembly. Blu Dot has embraced the idea that good design is not just about beauty or form — it is about making our lives just a little easier and a little more enjoyable.