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2014-2015 Council
(Year denotes end of Council member's current term.)
Chair: Joan Howland (2015)
Associate Dean and Professor
University of Minnesota Law School
Joan Howland is the Roger Noreen Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Information and Technology at the University of Minnesota Law School. Professor Howland teaches American Indian legal history at the law school and law and business in the Executive MBA program at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Her scholarship focuses on American Indian law and culture, information technologies, business management, thoroughbred horseracing and equine law generally, legal research methodologies, and law librarianship. She served on the Accreditation Committee from 2001 to 2006 and has served on the Council since 2006. Professor Howland was a member of the Section's Law Libraries Committee from 1992 through 1994 and co-chaired that committee from 1994 through 1996.
Professor Howland is active in the Association of American Law Schools and is the current chair of the Committee on Law Libraries and Technology. She is also active in the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Indian Library Association, and the American Library Association. She is a member of the American Law Institute. In 2003, she received the AALL Spirit of Law Librarianship award for her volunteer work with American Indian populations and with indigenous communities in South America. In addition to a J. D., Professor Howland earned master's degrees in history, library science, and business administration. Prior to joining the faculty at Minnesota, she held administrative positions in the law libraries at U.C. Berkeley, Harvard, and Stanford.
Chair-Elect: The Honorable Rebecca White Berch (2015)
Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
Rebecca White Berch was appointed to the Arizona Supreme Court in March 2002 and served as its 23rd chief justice from 2009 to 2014. Before her appointment to the state Supreme Court, she served the state of Arizona as solicitor general, chief deputy attorney general, and as a court of appeals judge. Following graduation from the Arizona State University (ASU) College of Law in 1979, Justice Berch practiced law in Phoenix. In 1986, she joined the faculty at the ASU law school as director of the legal writing program and academic support programs.
For the Section, she has served on the Bar Admissions Committee, including two years at its chair. Before joining the Arizona Supreme Court, Justice Berch served on the Arizona Bar Examinations Committee. She currently serves on the board of trustees of the National Conference of Bar Examiners and on the board of directors of the Conference of Chief Justices. In addition to her J.D. degree, Justice Berch holds a master's degree in English. She has published numerous law review articles, and the law school textbook she co-authored, Introduction to Legal Method and Process, is in its fifth edition and is used in law schools throughout the nation. Justice Berch is a strong proponent of pro bono work; the Pro Bono Suite at ASU's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law is named in her honor.
Vice Chair: Gregory G. Murphy (2015)
Billings, Montana
Gregory Murphy has been practicing law in Montana for 31 years. After earning a B.A. with highest honors at the University of Montana, Mr. Murphy earned a J.D. at Notre Dame Law School where he was a Thomas and Alberta White Scholar and served as associate editor of the Notre Dame Law Review. After graduation, he served a law clerkship with a U.S. Court of Appeals Judge before returning to Montana.
Mr. Murphy is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the Montana Supreme Court and all Montana state courts, the Oregon Supreme Court and all Oregon state courts, the Crow Indian Tribal Court, the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Court, the Fort Peck Tribal Court (Sioux and Assiniboine), and the Fort Belknap Tribal Court (Gros Ventre and Assiniboine).
Mr. Murphy's Section activities include serving as chair of the Accreditation Committee from 2006 to 2007, vice chair from 2005 to 2006, and as a committee member from 2002 to 2005. He has also chaired the Montana Board of Bar Examiners, the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE), the Multistate Bar Examination Committee of the NCBE, as well as other committees. Mr. Murphy is currently co-chair of the Special Committee on a Uniform Bar Examination. In 1994, he was elected for life to the American Law Institute. The State Bar of Montana awarded Mr. Murphy its Distinguished Service Award in 2002 in recognition of his leadership in bar admissions.
Secretary: Edward N. Tucker, CPA/ABV (2015)
Ellin & Tucker, Chartered
After 49 years as a Senior Director, Edward N. Tucker has become a consultant to the accounting firm of Ellin & Tucker, Chartered. He has more than 40 years of experience with the firm as a certified public accountant (CPA), specializing in management advisory services, particularly mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, strategic planning, human resources, real estate development, dispute resolution, investment, syndication, business valuation, and litigation support. Mr. Tucker earned a B.S. degree in business administration from the University of Maryland and received the designation of CPA in 1963. In addition, Mr. Tucker holds the Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) credential awarded by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is active in numerous professional and civic organizations including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Tucker currently serves as a member of the board of directors of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc. Mr. Tucker is a current member of the Council and served on the Section's Accreditation Committee from 2001 to 2007.
Immediate Past Chair:
The Honorable Solomon Oliver, Jr. (2015)
Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio
Judge Oliver was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio by President Bill Clinton in 1994 and became Chief Judge in 2010. Judge Oliver holds a B.A. from the College of Wooster, an M.A. in political science from Case Western Reserve University, and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. From 1975 to 1976, Judge Oliver was a law clerk for the late Judge William H. Hastie of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
Judge Oliver was an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio, where he served as chief of the Civil Division and chief of Appellate Litigation. From 1982 to 1994, he was a professor at Cleveland State University's Cleveland Marshall College of Law and served as associate dean from 1991 to 1994.
He is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Wooster, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the New York University Black, Latino, Asian Pacific American Law Alumni Association, and an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Akron. He is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Bar Foundation, and the board of trustees of the College of Wooster. Judge Oliver has served on the Judicial Conference of the United States, and is currently a member of its Civil Rules Advisory Committee. He was a member of the Section's Council from 1996 to 2005 and has also served on the Accreditation Committee, the Standards Review Committee and numerous site visit teams. Judge Oliver previously served as co-chair of the ABA Litigation Section's Minority Trial Lawyer Committee.
Jane H. Aiken (2017)
Associate Dean for Clinical Programs, Public Interest & Community Service and Professor
Georgetown University Law Center
Jane Aiken is professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and director of the Community Justice Project. Each student in the clinic represents claimants in unemployment hearings and works collaboratively on projects that address justice issues that are policy based, require extraordinary remedies or international and comparative law. Over the last three years, she has also taught evidence, torts, and motherhood and criminality. In 2010, she received Georgetown's Frank F. Flegal Award for outstanding teaching. In her 26 years of teaching, she has directed clinics in which students act as lawyers under supervision in cases involving a wide array of legal issues including domestic violence against women and children, HIV, homelessness and international human rights.
Professor Aiken held the William M. Van Cleve Chair at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis where she was a professor from 1997 to 2007. She was a Carnegie Scholar for Teaching and Learning and a Fulbright Scholar in Nepal. She writes in the area of evidence, women's rights and clinical pedagogy. She is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow with the American Bar Foundation. She was a member of the AALS Membership Review Committee from 2009 to 2011. She is the past co-chair of the ABA Women in Criminal Justice subcommittee of the Criminal Justice Section and previously served on the Section of Legal Education's Special Committee on the Professional Education Continuum.
Professor Aiken holds a B.A. from Hollins College and a J.D. from New York University School of Law where she was a Root-Tilden Scholar. Professor Aiken also received an LL.M. from Georgetown Law Center as a fellow in the Center for Applied Legal Studies.
Diane F. Bosse (2017)
Of Counsel, Hurwitz & Fine, P.C.
Buffalo, New York
Diane F. Bosse practices law in Buffalo, New York. She was appointed to the New York State Board of Law Examiners in 1998, and has been its chair since 2001. She served on the Board of Trustees of the National Conference of Bar Examiners from 1999 to 2008, serving as its chair in 2006-2007. Ms. Bosse is a past president of the Defense Trial Lawyers of Western New York and a past member of the boards of directors of the Bar Association of Erie County and of the Western New York Trial Lawyers Association.
For the Section, Ms. Bosse served on the Accreditation Committee for six years (2007-2013), including two as committee chair, on the Standards Review Committee for three years (2004-2007), and on the Bar Admissions Committee for two years (2002-2004).
Ms. Bosse is an elected member of the American Law Institute. She has received the Award of Merit from the Bar Association of Erie County, the Distinguished Alumnus Award for Public Service from the University at Buffalo Law Alumni Association, the Award for Excellence in Public Service from the New York State Bar Association, the Chair's Award from the National Conference of Bar Examiners and the Lamplighter Award from the Eighth Judicial District Gender & Racial Fairness Committee. She was honored in 2006 as the Defense Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Defense Trial Lawyers of Western New York. Mr. Bosse was named the Bar Association of Erie County Lawyer of the Year for 2014. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
General Leo A. Brooks (retired) (2016)
Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Leo Brooks retired in January 1984 from the United States Army, having reached the grade of major general. He has had an abundance of command and management experience in large organizations. Among them was commander of an electronics construction and rebuild plant in Sacramento, California, which employed over 4,000 civilians. In 1976, he left the Sacramento assignment to command the 9,000 soldiers who peformed the supply, maintenance, engineering, automation, and communications for the Third Armored Corps in Fort Hood, Texas. Upon promotion to brigadier general, he was selected to head the worldwide food service activities of the Army, which included 1,000 dining facilities and the 178 commissary store system, with 10,000 civilian employees throughout the United States and twelve foreign countries. His final military assignment as a major general was another worldwide operation, the Defense Personnel Support Center in Philadelphia. There, he was charged with the buying and managing of all the food, clothing, and medical supplies and equipment for all U.S. military services.
Upon his retirement from the Army, General Brooks became the managing director of the City of Philadelphia, where he headed the activities of the city's 30,000 employees in the ten service departments, including fire and police. General Brooks holds a bachelor of science degree from Virginia State University and a master of science in financial management from George Washington University. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the National War College in Washington, D.C.
Michael J. Davis (2016)
Professor, University of Kansas School of Law
Michael Davis is the Centennial Teaching Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law (KU). Professor Davis joined the KU law faculty in 1971 and teaches property, government regulation of land development, and religion and the state. In 1991, he received the Immel Award for Teaching Excellence. In addition to his faculty duties, Professor Davis served as the university's general counsel for six years, dean of the law school from 1980 to 1989 and as interim dean from 2005 to 2006. He was also of counsel to the law firm of Stinson Morrison Hecker from 1989 to 2009.
Before joining the law school, Professor Davis was an associate at Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow at the Legal Aid Society of Greater Kansas City, and a legislative assistant to U.S. Representative Louis Stokes. Professor Davis graduated with honors from Kansas State University and earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School where he was the editor of the Law Review. He has served as chair of Section's Accreditation Committee and Standards Review Committee, and currently serves on the Finance and Governance committees.
Roger J. Dennis (2016)
Dean & Professor
Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law
Roger Dennis is the founding dean of the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He was formerly the provost at Rutgers University-Camden as well as the dean at the Rutgers-Camden School of Law. He clerked for Judge Richard McLaren of the U.S. District Court in Chicago before working in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and practicing at Skadden Arps in Washington, D.C. Dean Dennis has published widely with a particular focus on the application of modern financial theory to corporate law, strategic corporate behavior, and securities regulation. His teaching currently focuses on the federal regulation of the purchase and sale of securities, the raising of capital, and the operation of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in light of changing economic and political environments.
Dean Dennis is a member of the board of the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and past chair of the board of the United Way of Camden County. He was selected for membership on the national United Way Membership Accountability Committee. He also serves as a trustee of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and on the advisory board of the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia. He earned a B.S. in speech from Northwestern University and is a magna cum laude graduate of Northwestern University School of Law where he was selected for the Order of the Coif.
Dean Dennis has held an elected seat in the American Law Institute since 1991 and has served in leadership positions on numerous committees of the ABA's Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar as well as the Association of American Law Schools.
Antonio García-Padilla (2015)
Dean Emeritus and Professor
University of Puerto Rico School of Law
Before becoming the eighth president of the University of Puerto Rico in November 2001, Antonio García-Padilla had been dean of the school of law for 15 years. During his tenure as president, he launched an ambitious agenda for the institution in all relevant fields. He returned to his chair in the law school in October 2009 as dean emeritus where he teaches courses and seminars in civil procedure, constitutional and commercial law. He is the president of the Puerto Rico Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation. Dean García-Padilla has published extensively about legal and education in Puerto Rico and abroad.
Earlier in his career he served as law clerk to Judge Stephen G. Breyer, now Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, then serving as a circuit judge in the Federal Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and to Justice Angel M. Martín of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. Dean García-Padilla has also been an adviser to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, Dr. José Trías Monge.
For the Section, Dean García-Padilla has served on the Accreditation Committee. He has also served as president of the Luis Muñoz Marín Foundation of Puerto Rico and as a member of the council of the American Law Institute. Dean García-Padilla received his law degree from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law in 1978 and a master's in law from Yale Law School in 1981. He recently published a book about his years as university president.
Tracy Allen Giles, Esq. (2015)
Giles & Lambert, P.C.
Tracy Giles is a partner in the firm of Giles & Lambert, P.C. in Roanoke, Virginia, where he practices in the field of bankruptcy law. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Virginia, Mr. Giles earned a J.D. degree from Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law. Mr. Giles serves as the Virginia State Delegate in the ABA's House of Delegates, on the nominating committee of the House of Delegates and the Committee on Rules and Calendar, as well as the ABA's Standing Committee on Membership. He formerly served as chair of the ABA's Law Student Division, a member of the Coordinating Committee on Legal Education, the House of Delegates, the ABA Board of Governors, as a member and then chair of the Presidential Appointments Committee, a member of the Standing Committee on Solo and Small Firm Practitioners, the Commission on Domestic Violence, the Standing Committee on Membership and the Working Group on Strategic Planning.
Mr. Giles is also active in the Virginia State Bar where he currently serves on the council of the Virginia State Bar and its executive committee. He also serves on the professionalism committee and as a grader for the Virginia bar exam. He is a former president of the Young Lawyers Conference of the Virginia State Bar and a former member of the executive committee of the Conference of Local Bars. Mr. Giles is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation. He serves on the board of directors of Apple Ridge Farm, a non-profit academic summer camp and educational program for inner-city children in the Roanoke area.
James J. Hanks Jr., Esq. (2017)
Partner, Venable LLP
Baltimore, Maryland
James Hanks represents publicly- and privately-held corporations and other entities in a wide variety of general corporate law and governance matters. He has advised buyers or sellers in more than 250 mergers or acquisitions, many valued at more than one billion dollars (U.S.) He has also represented parties in cross-border mergers and acquisitions and regularly serves as independent counsel to the boards of directors and board committees of major U.S. corporations. Mr. Hanks is also a senior lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law, a visiting senior lecturer at Cornell University's business school, and an adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School, teaching courses in mergers and acquisitions, and comparative corporate law and governance. In addition, he has taught classes in corporation law at various law schools in the U.S., Guatemala, and South Africa, and at the Institute of Law in Beijing. For several years, Mr. Hanks also has been a visiting professor of law at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany.
Mr. Hanks is the author of the definitive 600-page treatise Maryland Corporation Law and the co-author (with former Stanford Law School dean Bayless Manning) of the third edition of Legal Capital. He is co-editor of the Handbook for the Conduct of Shareholders' Meetings as well as the author of several law review articles and a frequent speaker on corporation law issues.
For the Section, Mr. Hanks has served on the Standards Review Committee and on the Accreditation Committee, and on several site evaluation teams. He has also been active in the ABA Section of Business Law and is a member of the American Law Institute. He earned an A.B. from Princeton University; an LL.B. from the University of Maryland School of Law, where he was editor of the Maryland Law Review; and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. For a year after receiving his LL.B., Mr. Hanks was law clerk to Judge Charles Fahy of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. For several years, he has appeared in The Best Lawyers in America in three categories: corporate governance and compliance law, corporate law, and mergers and acquisitions law and is also recognized in both Chambers Global (Band 1), Capital Markets: REITs: Maryland Counsel; and Chambers USA Capital Markets: REITs; (Band 1), Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions, Maryland (Band 1), and (Band 1) Capital Markets: REITs, Nationwide.
James M. Klein (2015)
Distinguished Visiting Professor
Charleston School of Law
James Klein began his academic career more than 40 years ago as a clinical professor at the University of Toledo College of Law. While at the University of Toledo, Professor Klein served as associate dean for academic affairs and as the college of law's interim dean for two years. During this time, he was on the Ohio Deans Council and was involved in bench and bar committees statewide and in Toledo. In 2008-2009, he was the law school's representative on the Ohio State Bar Association Task Force on the Education of Lawyers.
Professor Klein's university activities included serving as the NCAA faculty athletic representative for 17 years and membership on many university committees. In 2007, he was appointed to a university professorship. Upon his retirement in 2009, he was awarded emeritus status. Currently, Professor Klein is a visiting professor at Charleston School of Law where he teaches civil procedure and directs the externship program.
From 1997 to 2003, Professor Klein served on the Accreditation Committee and has served on nine law school site evaluation teams, serving five times as team chair. He has also served on the Curriculum Committee, the ad hoc Accreditation Consistency Committee, and currently serves on the Nominating Committee. Professor Klein earned an A.B. degree from the University of Michigan and a J.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Paul G. Mahoney (2016)
Dean, David & Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, & Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
Paul Mahoney joined the University of Virginia School of Law faculty in 1990, served as academic associate dean from 1999 to 2004, and became dean in 2008. Previously he practiced law with the New York firm of Sullivan & Cromwell and clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Dean Mahoney's teaching and research areas are securities regulation, law and economic development, corporate finance, financial derivatives, and contracts. He has published widely in law reviews and peer-reviewed in finance, law and economics journals. He is a past recipient of the All-University Teacher Award and the law school's Traynor Award for excellence in faculty scholarship.
Cynthia Nance (2015)
Dean Emeritus & Nathan G. Gordon Professor of Law
University of Arkansas School of Law (Fayetteville),
Cynthia Nance served as the dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law from 2006 through 2011, and is both the first African-American and first woman to serve in this position. She earned a B.S. magna cum laude from Chicago State University, an M.A. in finance from the University of Iowa and a J.D. with distinction from the University of Iowa College of Law.
Professor Nance is past chair of the American Association of Law Schools' Employment Discrimination and Labor & Employment Law sections. For the ABA, she is a Council member of the Section on Labor and Employment Law (LEL) and represents the LEL Section in the ABA House of Delegates. She was recently appointed to the ABA Center on Racial and Ethnic Diversity.
Other professional affiliations include serving on the board of the National Association of Law Placement Foundation, the American Law Institute, the Deans' Development Committee of the American Inns of Court, the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) Board and as chair of the LSAC Finance and Legal Affairs Committee. She is a consultant to the Kettering Foundation Legal Education and Democracy Project.
The recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, Professor Nance is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, an American Bar Association Fellow, and a 2012 recipient of the ABA Spirit of Excellence Award. She was a recipient of the inaugural Judge Andree Layton Roaf Award. She was also honored as the 2005 Arkansas Bar Association Outstanding Lawyer-Citizen. In 2004, she received the University of Arkansas Alumni Association's Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award for Public Service and was recognized in 2003 as a Northwest Arkansas Woman of Distinction and a Northwest Arkansas Martin Luther King Individual Achievement Award recipient. She has been honored as one of 25 Minority Trailblazers and 20 Women of Influence by Arkansas Business. In 2009, the University of Arkansas' chapter of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) was renamed the Cynthia E. Nance Chapter of BLSA.
The Honorable Jequita H. Napoli (2015)
Special Judge
Cleveland County District Court
Norman, Oklahoma
Judge Napoli was appointed as the Special District Judge in Cleveland County (Norman), Oklahoma in 1996 and is recognized as a judicial leader on issues of mental illness and domestic violence. She served for eight years as a member of the Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners including a term as chair. During her tenure on the Oklahoma Board, Judge Napoli worked to enhance the close relationship between the Oklahoma Bar Association, the Oklahoma judiciary, and the Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners.
Since 2007, Judge Napoli has been a member of the ABA House of Delegates and in 2008-2009 was selected by Carolyn Lamm, then-president of the ABA to serve on the ABA Task Force on Law School Accreditation. She served six years, from 2004 to 2010, on the Accreditation Committee, and served on the Foreign Programs Subcommittee from 2008 to 2012, including two terms as chair (2008-2009 and 2011-2012).
For 12 years, she served on the board of trustees of the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE), including a term as chair in 2002-2003. Judge Napoli also served as the chair of the NCBE's Multi-State Professional Responsibility Examination Committee, overseeing the MPRE, the examination on professional ethics that is administered in 49 states, the District of Columbia, and a number of American territories. Judge Napoli earned a bachelor's degree in business administration with distinction from the University of Oklahoma and a J.D. from the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
Maureen A. O'Rourke (2015)
Dean, Boston University School of Law
Maureen O'Rourke is the dean and Michaels Faculty Research Scholar at the Boston University School of Law. Dean O'Rourke joined the law school faculty in 1993 after working at IBM Corporation, where she handled software licensing issues. At the law school, her scholarship is focused on the intersection of intellectual property law and other fields, such as contract and anti-trust law. Dean O' Rourke is co-author of a leading copyright casebook, Copyright in the Global Information Economy. She has published articles in the law reviews of Columbia, Duke, Iowa, and Minnesota and the technology journals of Berkeley, Harvard, and Boston University. She was the associate reporter on the American Law Institute's Principles of Software Contracting Project and is a member of the Marist College Pre-Law Advisory Board, past chair of the Association of American Law Schools sections on the Law School Dean and Computers & The Law, and a past member of the Boston Bar Association Council.
Dean O'Rourke graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of science degree from Marist College and earned a J.D. from Yale Law School. In May 2000, she became Boston University's sixth recipient of the Metcalf Award, the school's highest teaching honor. She served as acting dean for two years prior to becoming the dean in 2006.
Raymond C. Pierce (2017)
Partner, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Raymond Pierce served as dean of North Carolina Central University School of Law from 2005 to 2012. During his tenure, the law school experienced the largest enrollment in its history and he oversaw the development of the first two institutes at the law school in addition to a Veterans Law Clinic, which received national recognition for providing legal assistance to U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. In July 2012, he joined the firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as partner.
Prior to joining North Carolina Central University School of Law, Mr. Pierce was a partner in the national law firm of Baker & Hostetler LLP, representing clients in the steel, energy, construction, and banking businesses. From 1993 to 2000, he served as President Bill Clinton's deputy assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education, where he managed the enforcement of federal civil rights laws in education and the development of federal civil rights education policy.
Mr. Pierce serves on the North Carolina Banking Commission, the North Carolina Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism, the American Law Deans Association board of directors, the National Association of Law Placement Foundation, and the executive board of Duke University's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. He earned a bachelor's degree from Syracuse University where he was admitted into the Sigma Tau Delta English Honorary Society, and earned a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law where he later received a Distinguished Graduate Award and induction into the law school's Society of Benchers.
Izaac Rowe, Law Student Division Member (2015)
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
William S. Boyd School of Law
JD expected May 2015
Izaac Rowe is a student at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law and was the ABA's 14th Circuit Governor for Nevada and Northern California from 2013 to 2014. He also serves as the Student Bar Association's evening vice president and chief financial officer for the Financial Law Society. Mr. Rowe is a legal intern for the Clark County Public Defender and a parking arbitrator for the University of Nevada.Previously, he worked as a certified mediator for Dean Dunn and Associates, as a legal law clerk for the Nevada Attorney General's Office, and as an IT professional for the State of Nevada-s Depart of Child and Family Services. Mr. Rowe holds dual degrees in psychology and political science from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
Morgan T. Sammons, Ph.D. (2015)
Executive Director
National Register of Health Service Psychologists
A fellow of the American Psychological Association and a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology, Dr. Sammons is a past chair of the Council of the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology and was specialty leader for U.S. Navy Clinical Psychology. He also served as special assistant for mental health to the U.S. Navy's Surgeon General. Prior to joining the National Register of Health Service Psychoolgists in the summer of 2014, Dr. Sammons was dean of the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University. Previously, he served as director for clinical support for the United States Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, directing policy implementation and service delivery for U.S. Navy shore-based military treatment facilities. A prolific author, Dr. Sammons has edited two volumes and published over 40 journal articles. He is an associate editor for the APA journal Psychological Services. Dr. Sammons received both his M.C. and Ph.D. from Arizona State University and completed a fellowship in psychopharmacology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from 1991 to 1994.
Section Delegates to the House of Delegates
The Honorable Ruth V. McGregor (retired) (2015)
Phoenix, Arizona
Chief Justice Ruth McGregor served on the Arizona Supreme Court from February 1998 until June 30, 2009. She was the Court's Chief Justice from June 2005 until her retirement. She was also a member of the Arizona Court of Appeals from 1989 until 1998, where she served as Chief Judge from 1995 to 1997. Before her appointment to the bench, Justice McGregor engaged in the private practice of law as a member of the Fennemore Craig law firm in Phoenix. She served as law clerk to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor during Justice O'Connor's first term on the United States Supreme Court.
Justice McGregor received a bachelor of arts degree, summa cum laude, and a master of arts degree from the University of Iowa. She received her doctor of jurisprudence degree, summa cum laude, from Arizona State University in Tempe, and a master of laws in the judicial process from the University of Virgina. Justice McGregor has participated extensively in professional activities, particularly those involving legal education and the discipline of lawyers and judges, and in organizations dedicated to assuring a fair and impartial judiciary. Among other activities, she has served as an officer and a member of the board of trustees for the American Inns of Court Foundation, as an officer and board member for the National Association of Women Judges, as a board member of the Conference of Chief Justices, and on the Section's Council, including a term as Chair.
Justice McGregor currently serves as a member of the board of directors of the Center for the Future of Arizona and of Justice At Stake and as special advisor to the O'Connor Judicial Selection Initiative of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System.
The Honorable Christine M. Durham (2017)
Supreme Court of Utah
Justice Christine Durham has been on the Utah Supreme Court since 1982, and served as Chief Justice and chair of the Utah Judicial Council from 2002 to 2012. She previously served on the state trial court after a number of years in private practice. She is the past-president of the Conference of Chief Justices of the United States. She is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute, the Board of Overseers for the Rand Corporation's Institute for Civil Justice, and is a Fellow of the American Bar Association. Past professional service includes the governing boards of the American Inns of Court Foundation, the Appellate Judges Conference of the ABA, the ABA's Commission on Women in the Profession, and the Federal Judicial Conference's Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Procedure. She is also a past president of the National Association of Women Judges, and was that organization's Honoree of the Year in 1997.
Justice Durham has been active in judicial education, and was a founder of the Leadership Institute in Judicial Education. She helped create and lead the Utah Coalition for Civic Character and Service Education and served on the Utah Commission on Civic Education. She was an adjunct professor for many years at the University of Utah College of Law, teaching state constitutional law, and served for twelve years on the Utah Constitutional Revision Commission. She has received honorary degrees from four Utah universities and has been recognized nationally for her work in judicial education and efforts to improve the administration of justice. In 2007 she received the William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence; and in 2008 she received the "Transparent Courthouse" Award for contributions to judicial accountability and administration from the Institute for the Advancement of the Legal System at the University of Denver.
Justice Durham served on the Section's Council from 2004 to 2012, including one year as its chair in 2010-2011. She received her A.B. with honors from Wellesley College and a J.D. from Duke University, where she is an emeritus member of the Board of Trustees.
Board of Governors Liaison
Thomas R. Curtin (2015)
Graham Curtin
Morristown, New Jersey
A founding member of the Graham Curtin law firm, Mr. Curtin is a member of the Litigation Group and chairs its Sports & Entertainment and ADR Groups. He is also a member of the Appellate Practice Group and Class Action Group. He earned a B.A. from Fairfield University and a J.D. from Notre Dame Law School.
In 2012, Mr. Curtin was elected to a three-year term to the ABA Board of Governors for District 3 (New Jersey and Pennsylvania) and from 2001 to 2011, he was the New Jersey state delegate to the ABA. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey, trustee of the Historical Society for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Mr. Curtin was president of the Notre Dame Law Association and is a member of the Notre Dame Law School Advisory Council.
Young Lawyers Division Liaison
Daniel Thies (2015)
Daniel Thies is the senior law clerk to Judge James F. Holderman of the Northern District of Illinois, and a former law clerk for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He also serves as an adjunct professor at John Marshall Law School, teaching intellectual property trial advocacy.
Mr. Thies formerly served on the Council as the representative of the Law Student Division from 2008 to 2010. Recently, he was the Reporter of the Illinois State Bar Association Special Committee on the Impact of Law School Debt on the Delivery of Legal Services. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2010, where he served as deputy editor-in-chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. He also graduated magna com laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in history from Yale University, where he was the president of the Yale Political Union.


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Say No to Mayor "Let Them Drive!" and His Assault on Working and Poor People!
Send a Letter to Mayor Emanuel and CTA President Forest Claypool: We Demand No Rate Hikes!
Join the December 10 Protest to Stop the Rate Hikes: 5 pm at CTA Headquarters (567 W. Lake)
Twitter #LetThemDrive
to @RahmEmanuel. Let him know what you think of the CTA rate hikes and his anti-people arrogance.
Now is the time. If we act together, we can stop the fare increases in their tracks. CTA riders and their allies didn't cause the "budget crisis." Workers and the poor shouldn't have to pay for it.
Rahm Emanuel, Mayor 1%, is at again. Attacking workers and the poor. His administration is planning to raise 2013 rates on CTA passes by as much as 74%!
Under the proposal, drafted by CTA President Forest Claypool, CTA passes will go up by ... 74% for the day pass (new price: $10); 43% for the 3-day pass ($20); 22% for the 7-day pass ($28); and 16% for the 30-day pass ($100). The day pass and 3-day pass, which are used by the poorest riders, are set to increase the most!
With extreme arrogance, the Mayor said that if people don't like the fare hikes they can "choose to drive." Really?
More than 29% of people in Chicago do not own cars. Due to the economic hardships imposed on workers by the "Great Recession" and rising prices, train ridership increased by 6% in 2011 and is at its highest point since 1991--all despite drastic cuts to CTA routes in recent years. The percentage of CTA riders that use passes: 55%.
People who buy CTA passes do so because they rely on public transit. Emanuel's suggestion that people can "choose to drive" is not just out of touch, it's downright vindictive.
What does this all really add up to? It all adds up to the simple fact that Mayor Emanuel and CTA President Claypool want to force people who can't afford the rate hikes and have no other transportation options to either walk, starve or stop paying their bills so they have the money to pay for transit. The Mayor's administration is reaching into the pockets of those who can least afford an increase in their regular expenses.
The CTA Budget Crisis is a Scam
At the same time we are being asked to pay more for public services, 66 percent of corporations that do business in Illinois pay no taxes. City Hall and Springfield hand out money to Wall Street without even blinking. They handed over the streets to Morgan Stanley when they sold the parking meters. They want to hand over our schools to McDonald's, Wal-Mart and Microsoft.
The truth: There's no need to raise CTA rates. In December 2011, the state legislature, which is ultimately responsible for funding the CTA, passed $370 million in tax breaks for Sears and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange because they threatened to leave the city and the state. The legislature said the tax breaks would save jobs. What did Sears do after the legislature forked over the money? They turned around and laid off hundreds of workers.
Instead of paying extortion to wealthy corporations and individuals, money should be used to fund the CTA and other public services, including public education. The Sears/CME scam is actually just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to corporate welfare.
There is more than enough money to fund transit for workers and the poor. Illinois is a wealthy state in the wealthiest country in the world. Government budget crises are the result of tax breaks for the rich, government handouts to the corporations and the weight of mandatory interest payments that governments make to the Big Banks.
The CTA "budget crisis" is a big lie being promoted as reality--all so that the 1% can use the very real economic crisis of capitalism to escalate the largest ever transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top of society.
ANSWER Chicago and noCTAcuts.org are encouraging people to use a variety of strategies to resist the fare hikes. We will be assembling before the CTA budget hearing on Monday, Dec. 10 at 5 pm outside CTA headquarters (567 W. Lake St.) to protest the proposed rate hikes. The budget hearing begins at 6 pm.
You should join us on the streets to stop the fare hikes.
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Here is something to tide you over until the long awaited album When Fish Ride Bicycles supposedly drops later this year. I haven't had the opportunity to check out the singles that leaked since I was out enjoying the Memorial Day weekend but seeing as the tape already has over 23K downloads my guess is that it is up to par. WFRB has been in the works for a couple years now and I am still skeptical when I hear it is getting released but we shall see in the near future. Grab the download link and tracklist below the break.
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Drake – So Far Gone [download]
So much has been said about So Far Gone that there really isn't much left to be say. Few would fathom that a half-Jewish former actor from Canada would be the most buzzed about artist in hip-hop this year. Even fewer would believe that it was all because of a set of tracks that this rapper gave away for free. And I don't think anyone would have ever believed the mania this mixtape spawned afterwards. Within a year, Drake's mixtape would result in a sold-out tour, an alleged bidding war between labels, Billboard-charting singles and Grammy nominations. The atmospheric mixture of singing and rapping in So Far Gone was inspired by a conversation Drake had with a friend, in which he realized they were sounding as chauvinistic as "the men that [their] mothers divorced." It was clear that the many love songs on this mixtape would get the ladies' attention, but amazingly enough, many guys put this tape on high rotation as well. Although "Successful", "Best I Ever Had" and "Say What's Real" were the three break-out tracks on So Far Gone, but songs like "Brand New", "Houstatlantavegas" and "Lust For Life" set such a mood that you couldn't help but feel what Drake was saying. In summary, So Far Gone is easily the best mixtape of the year due to how it shattered everyone's expectations.
Read the full list of honorable mentions after the jump (download links included).
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OK so I lied, I said I was going to have this up yesterday when it came out (on time too, gotta love that) but I had a busy day and had post it early today. I am currently listening to it and they continue with their different type of vibe and feeling that I get only when I am listening to them. The deep grooves and minimalist beats they use remind me of The Clipse to an extent but these two definitely have their own unique style and content. Now let's pray for their album When Fish Ride Bicycles to get released anytime because they have had us waiting for a while. The track above is called "Hammer Bros.", click the break below to get the download link and tracklist for the mixtape.
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Two new joints dropped over the weekend from the Cool Kids' mixtape dropping today, May 4th, called Gone Fishin'. The song above is called "Champions" and features a crazy beat by Don Cannon which I really like especially when the Dre sounding pianos come into the song. Below the song called "Popcorn" is supposed to also be on their album When Fish Ride Bicycles which has been slated to be released forever. The Cool Kids really offer a different sound that I like listening to but I just wish they would finally deliver this album. I know I am just being greedy and that they are probably way more frustrated about it than I am, but release dates constantly getting pushed back is one side of the industry I could do without. After the break listen to "Popcorn", download both tracks and check a video of the Cool Kids putting the finishing touches on the mixtape. Check for the mixtape later today on B&B.
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I was telling someone recently that this album is the exact direction I want to see hip-hop follow. Spirit of the Apollo draws from lots of different musical influences each track is custom tailored to fit their eclectic list of featured artists. I am definitely buying this album when it drops. Don't forget to click the break either because over the weekend we also got the video and mp3 for another single called "Hip Hop" featuring KRS-One, Slim Kid Tre & Fat Lip, it is a feel good track and I can't stop playing it since I first heard it.
Finally, a video or really just anything form the Cool Kids. I don't really understand why they are making a video for this song well over 6 months after it came out, you would think they would've made this video early last summer, kind of like Wale and "Nike Boots" except that was close to 2 years after I first heard it. Also what is the deal with their album? I'm sure they will say it will be released soon and have it pushed back and pushed back like every other artist. Either way I am going to have to take the Cool Kids off of the most anticipated albums section, they haven't been doing much of anything lately and that usually is a good indicator that the album is nowhere near ready.
Tagged: Cool Kids, Pennies, Video, when fish ride bicycles
Here is 9th Wonder's remix of The Cool Kids' "Delivery Man". The beat is solid with some synth noises and string loops. It is definitely different from the simple raw beat that is used in the original version and not a direction I expected it could go in. Props to 9th for this one. Click the break for the video of the original version.
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I am feeling this collabortation. The video is alright with no special concepts or anything but the song is deifnitely dope. With so much hate always going around in hip-hop it's always nice to see hot up and coming acts work together and even make a video.
Tagged: Cool Kids, Mickey Factz, rockin n rollin, The cool kids, Video
New video from The Cool Kids, there's some really crazy stuff going on in this video. "Pennies" is supposed to be the next video for them and should be dope too.
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Posted at: 05/09/2013 6:30 PM
By: Nikki Ibarra, KOB Eyewitness News 4
It seems there's always one house in the neighborhood that's a mess. And, most of the time, neighbors don't know what to do about it.
The downtown neighborhood has a lot of history.
"A lot of the houses are over 100 years old," said Nick Gentry, who's lived in the community for over 20 years. "I think generally there's a lot of neighborhood pride," added Gentry.
But not in front of one house. Where instead of lush, green grass, there are weeds, trash and dead grass - something Gentry has to see every day.
"Obviously, you can see with the weeds and some of the grasses that are a couple feet tall that it doesn't get mowed," said Gentry.
The home is one of five in the neighborhood owned by world-renowned architect Antoine Predock.
"It's really frustrated because you would think someone of this character and his profession, you know, he would be the last person you'd think that wouldn't take care of his properties," added Gentry.
Last week, the neighborhood association sent off a letter to Predock asking him to work on his properties.
Predock's property manager said they never received the letter, but they'll look into it.
They city told KOB Eyewitness News 4 that people frustrated with messy homes can call 311. An inspector will then be send out and if they notice an issue, the owner will have two weeks to fix it.
Gentry said he'll give the city a shot at getting the properties cleaned-up.
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Give Matthew Barnes-Homer, Ashley Chambers a chance at Cambridge United
Posted: March 29, 2014|
Richard Money wants fans to give Matthew Barnes-Homer and Ashley Chambers a fair crack of the whip on their return to Cambridge United.
Barnes-Homer came back from his loan spell with Tamworth on Thursday and was in contention for today's home encounter with Barnet while Chambers is set to be back at the R Costings Abbey next week when his temporary deal with Dagenham & Redbridge runs out.
Money felt both players deserved a chance to prove their worth having had mixed starts to life at United.
He said: "I just hope everyone can show them some empathy and give them a realistic opportunity this time around to show what they can do.
"There was an enormous amount of hype and ridiculous comments surrounding the Luton game and unfortunately one or both of them got caught up in that.
"We made a decision to let them go and play some games and get back to full fitness to show what they're all about.
"I've got no doubt both will be very important to us."
Barnes-Homer scored once during his loan spell with the struggling Lambs while Chambers has made five appearances for the Daggers.
Money added: "Ashley was there last Sunday at Wembley as well offering his support and we shouldn't forget he scored at home to Luton and away to Luton in the FA Trophy.
"But I've said many times it's easy to make quick judgements and blame certain reasons and certain people.
"The reality is none of it it's true and nothing like people's perceptions sometimes and I'm confident that both will come back and play a part."
Meanwhile, Money believes the signings of Luke Berry and Harrison Dunk on two-year deals are "the best piece of news to come out of this period".
He said: "I think the message is that the club is moving in the right direction.
"We don't have to think about selling our best young players to make ends meet and they're two very important components to what we want to do."


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We Say We Support Israel but We Fight For Arabs
Think about it. Whenever American anti-Semites get their shorts in a twist over Jews and Muslims in that tiny little sliver of the Middle East, they start ranting about how much money the United States gives Israel—never mind the fact that economic aid ended years ago, and as for defense spending, much of it comes […] [Read More]
On Being a Citizen
How is it possible for all of those of us who think of ourselves as feminists, knowing that the feminist movement is for all practical political purposes dead, to substitute "citizenship" for "feminism"? Aren't "citizenship" and even "citizen" itself simply feel-good words, especially in this day and age, when Planned Parenthood and abortion are under […] [Read More]
What Comes After Feminism?
When you write, as I have, that "Feminism has committed suicide!" the logical question then becomes, "What next?" For feminism is the only political philosophy that has ever asserted the rights of women over our own property, much less our own bodies. Feminism is the only political philosophy to have asserted that women are not only human beings, […] [Read More]
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MRP regime can't read 'third gender'
Applicant runs from pillar to post seeking passport
Home says it's not apt to issue passports to third gender people retaining present setup
KATHMANDU, JUL 25 - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Sunday denied Machine Readable Passport (MRP) to a third gender applicant citing that the system did not support it. The current MRP regime recognises only male or female under the 'sex' category.
Dilu Bhujuda, 45, of Myagdi district had applied for an MRP some 35 days ago at the Narayanhiti distribution centre along with citizenship certificate that recognises her as a "third gender".
Bhujuda was the first proclaimed third gender to apply for the MRP since it came into effect in December last year.
When Bhujuda inquired the passport unit about her document on Sunday afternoon, she was told that it could not be issued as she sought because the MRP system cannot read that gender category. "Our system recognises either male or female. We need to change the MRP software before issuing passport to a third gender applicant," said Acting Chief of Central Passport Office Tapas Adhikari.
Then Bhujuda called Sunil Babu Panta, a proclaimed third gender campaigner and lawmaker, and Bhakti Shah, a woman soldier who was sacked by the Nepal Army owing to her sexual orientation, to discuss the matter with senior MoFA officials. The trio later met Foreign Secretary Madan Kumar Bhattarai and asked why she was denied a passport on gender ground.
"I told them that we will consult with the Home Ministry regarding numerous legal and administrative hiccups that need to be sorted out," Bhattarai said. According to him, it will take some time to change the MRP configuration so as for it to recognise the gender status.
Since Bhujuda applied for a passport duly in advance, the ministry collected information about international practices through its missions. "We were informed that even in many European nations passports are not issued recognising the third gender. The same happens in Israel, China and South Korea," another official said. The ministry asked Bhujuda to approach it on Monday saying it might get other possibilities by then.
When the MoFA consulted with the Home Ministry, the latter suggested it was inappropriate to issue passports to third gender applicants in the present legal and administrative setup. The MoFA was told there lay several complications in issuing citizenship certificates to third gender people following the 2007 Supreme Court verdict.
The landmark ruling has directed the state to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity besides decriminalising "unnatural sex". Following the order to issue citizenship cards to third gender people, four such applicants all over the country have secured their right.
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Heartened by the presidential victory of Democrat Barack Obama, US airline labour is flexing its muscle as it prepares to recoup its concessions of recent years. At American Airlines, flight attendants have threatened to strike when they are legally allowed, and the airline's pilots have pressed repeatedly for a federal declaration that their negotiations are at an impasse. And labour at normally placid Southwest Airlines has begun picketing.William Swelbar of the MIT airline programme says: "Never before have we seen such a convergence of 'amendable' dates. Because so many of the present contracts were negotiated during bankruptcy, we have many contracts coming up in a close period." This means that unions would be able to leverage their negotiations on progress at other carriers.
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Psychic Dreams
Can my dreams come true?
Everyone dreams but some people are able to experience psychic dreams or prophetic dreams. These precognitive dreams are dreams in which the future is foretold or prophesised. Often the prediction occurs in reality within a few hours of the psychic dream.
In ancient cultures dreams were seen as messages from the gods and given the respect and credence that scientific knowledge is given today.
There are subtle differences between ordinary dreams and prophetic dreams. Many people who experience regular prophetic dreams explain their experiences as far more vivid, more detailed and differently coloured than ordinary dreams.
Am I psychic?
Everyone has some degree of psychic ability and often it is in dreams that true ability is forthcoming. Without the pressures, distractions and constant interruptions experienced in your waking hours, you are more likely to experience psychic premonitions and connections in your sleeping state.
Begin to trust yourself, keep a prophetic dreams journal and look out for subtle signs and symbols of validation.
Try to keep a record of your prophetic dreams and your predictions and a note of how you felt before sleeping.
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Some people who experience psychic dreams dream about a passed loved one, a Spirit Guide or an Angel. If you have had this type of dream and want to share it then please go to My Psychic Dream
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Being relaxed, unstressed and free from chemical stimulants, medications and toxins is probably the best way of being open and receptive to psychic dreams.
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Dream Tea
Prepare a mix of the following dried herbs for a potent psychic dream tea:
3 teaspoons Mint
If you can't get Dittany of Crete, use an extra teaspoon of mint and one of sage instead.
Thoroughly mix together the herbs and keep in an airtight container. The blend of psychic dream tea should give you enough blended dream tea for nine days.
Each evening for nine consecutive days put a teaspoon of the blend into a small cup and pour boiling water over. Allow to steep for five minutes. You can add some honey to the psychic dream tea if you wish.
Sip the tea and say 3 times aloud:
As I sip this dream tea
Repeat this process for another eight days.
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Stuff a pouch with the following herbs to aid your prophetic dreams.
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Jan. 13, 2008
West Point, N.Y. - The men's and women's track and field team traveled to West Point, N.Y. this weekend to compete in the Crowell Open track meet. Five Crusaders finished out the day with fifth place finishes and higher.
For the women junior Elizabeth Alizzi (Syosset, N.Y.) took fourth place n the 5000m race with a time of 19:39.52. In the field events sophomore Rachel Amaral (Raynham, Mass.) finished in third for the weight with a throw of 48-06.25 feet.
For the men junior Jonathan Medeiros (New Bedford, Mass.) took a fifth place finish in the shot put with a throw of 46 feet. Junior Sebastian Fidelus (Jersey City, N.J.) finished second in the 1000m race with a time of 2:33.60. Also finishing second was sophomore Timothy Richard (Attleboro, Mass.) in the 3000m race with at time of 9:00.67.
The Crusaders will compete again Saturday, January 19th in New Hampshire.


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|Concise dictionary of theology / by Gerald O'Collins and Edward G. Farrugia.
|Craft of research / Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams.
|Craft of research [electronic resource] / Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams.
|Creative approaches to writing center work / edited by Kevin Dvorak, Shanti Bruce.
|Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation / Lynne Truss.
|Elements of library research : what every student needs to know / Mary W. George.
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|Hello! USA : everyday living for international residents and visitors / by Judy Priven.
|Line by line : how to edit your own writing / Claire Kehrwald Cook.
|Longman phrasal verbs dictionary.
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Infertility can be confusing and stressful enough without the added uncertainty of paying for treatment. At Houston IVF, we are dedicated to solving the mystery of infertility, one couple at a time, but we realize that infertility care can be expensive, and perhaps seem out of reach for some couples.
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College is rarely a time of great fashion. Pajamas to class, flip flops to the library. But there are schools, where students care about making a fashion statement – a good one. The Huffington Post has come up with a list of best-dressed colleges, but none in Texas, which I find hard to believe. Take […] [Read More]


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The Psychology minor offers an excellent complement to all majors by providing an increased depth of understanding of human behavior, personal identity, education and counseling, brain and cognition, human development across the life span, and much more!
The Psychology Minor requires 15 credits at the 2000/3000-level with a minimum of 6 credits at the 3000 level*, which must be completed at Curry College. A maximum of 6 credits may be satisfied on a transfer basis. (Excluding internship credits)
*Nursing majors who minor in Psychology need PSY 2400 plus 9 additional credits in Psychology. Only three credits must be at the 3000-level.
Gerontology Minor
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When Giana DiCarlo '15 first came to Curry College she wasn't quite sure what path she wanted to take academically. But soon after stepping foot on campus in her first year, with the help of her "incredible" advisor, she decided on psychology...and she hasn't looked back.
After graduating from Curry College, Brittany Howe '12, a transfer student from Braintree, MA, is working as a Behavioral Health Coordinator at South Shore Hospital.
Joani Geltman, MSW, lecturer in the Curry College Psychology department, has published a new book titled, A Survival Guide to Parenting Teens: Talking to Your Kids About Sexting, Drinking, Drugs, and Other Things That Freak You Out. Geltman's book was recently featured in an article in the Boston Globe.


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Sorry, fans� due to Labor Day, today's episode of One Life to Live was a repeated show of Todd's execution.
Isn't it quite ironic that a month ago, Spencer saved Todd, bringing him back from a death that Spencer himself made happen? Now, Spencer is the one in trouble, behind bars with Todd on the outside looking down on him!
Stay tuned, fans, for the outcome of this saga.
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Gear Review
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A very comfortbale shoe. As stated througout other reviews, they do lack some arch support, but wearing this is almost like being barefoot. I can wear them to work, out at bars, and just about anywhere else. They go with both jeans and work pants. When I got mine, I sprayed them down with a stain/water repeller (available just about anywhere at shoes store or convenience stores) to try and protect the material a little bit and it seems to be doing the trick- shoes are still clean despite living in a city, commuting, rain, spills, etc.
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- Publisher: Tate Multimedia
- Release Date: Feb 19, 2013
- Also On: 3DS, iPhone/iPad, PC, PlayStation Vita
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Feb 27, 2013I played Trials HD on my friend x-box, now got Urban Trial Freestyle on PS3 and i must say i'm very positively surprised! Critics compare it so much to Trials yes its the same genre but a whole different game. Controls are perfect for me easy at start but hard to master and earn 5 stars. I recommend it especially to play with friends.
Feb 24, 2013I played Trials 2 on steam and it was fun. So i decided to get Urban Trials. And I'm really enjoying this game. The bike controls and the tracks are easy to learn but hard to master, the setting feels very much like Motorstorm. I don't know why this game got so many bad reviews. Please don't listen to them and try it out for yourself.
Apr 11, 2013This game is a blast. Quick paced, challenging and addicting. The physics felt spot on and the different bike setups was a nice touch. High replay value.
Mar 23, 2013I've finished both PS3 and Vita versions.. they are very good. waiting for some dlc or additional maps. Also cant wait for iOS version! A must have for me!
Jun 4, 2013I wouldn't classify this as a must-play title, but if you're starved for a Trials HD experience on a non-Microsoft platform, Urban Trial Freestyle does just enough to do the trick.
May 13, 2013Controls are not as superb as in Trials Evolution, physics engine not as perfectly precise and the challenges not as insanely over the top. That's why Urban Trial Freestyle is a rival for Joe Danger rather than Trials Evolution. [CD-Action 06/2013, p.75]


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The Getaway Review
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It seems that the race is on to get a truly successful Grand Theft Auto clone out on the market; many companies are staunchly denying that their games have anything to do with the GTA series, but I am seeing quite a few parallels in some of these games. Plus, I think it would be stupid to not try and cash in on the success of the GTA games. The Getaway will appeal to many GTA players, no doubt.
Despite this, The Getaway has more in common with the recent PC hit Mafia than with Grand Theft Auto. It's more mission oriented, and is much more structured than what one might expect. On top of that, more care has been put into making the on-foot gunplay a little more engaging than the other games. Add all this, a little of the style from classic British action movies (as well as Snatch and Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels) and you have The Getaway. That includes the profanity; this game is chock full of four-letter words. Consider also the violence as well as some racism from the bad guys, and it becomes obvious why this game is rated M.
In The Getaway, you play Mark Hammond, an ex-gangster who is trying to clean his act up after spending some time in prison. His old gang decides they have better things to do with him, though, and a botched kidnapping winds up with Hammond's wife dead and his son the hostage. Now, Hammond is being blackmailed for his son's life; he is forced to commit all sorts of crimes all around a mostly photorealistic Lonhttp://www.atomicgamer.com/admin/articleAdmin.phpdon.
To put it simply, this game could use some better controls. A few of the GTA conventions are here, especially when one is driving around, but the controls are quite a bit different when on foot. There are a few new and unique actions available to you, like backing up against a wall to pop out from doorways, ducking behind a box for cover (which is much more useful than ducking in GTA: Vice City), or holding someone hostage as a human shield.
The targeting system is a bit wacky here, as the game will regularly target innocent bystanders or far-away enemies in favor of the closer guys who are already shooting you. Add to that the fact that Hammond sometimes refuses to go exactly where you want him to - it seems that this guy simply can't stop and turn around in place. Instead, he has to jog in a small circle, which can be very frustrating during the game's ill-conceived stealth missions.
Once you hop in a car, you will notice a pretty distinct difference in handling from almost any other game. The cars are pretty sensitive, and are pretty tough to drive if you lose a tire. On top of that, the narrow London streets are full of traffic, which makes navigation even tougher in many circumstances. Still, the car handling is good enough to where you will curse the traffic more than the controls.
The Getaway does look pretty damn good, as the developers really make great use of the visuals they created. It takes place in a realistically-mapped out London, completely with many accurate real-world locations and tons of area to cover. The cars are real licensed stuff, and show some pretty realistic damage when they collide with one another.
The character models are extremely well-made, with high quality textures and lots of cool animations during the cutscenes (all of which are done inside the game engine). I'm a little disappointed by the frame rate during the driving sequences, though; many times, the game will slow down immensely when a lot of traffic is out there. I guess that reducing the amount of traffic would have affected the gameplay negatively, as avoiding traffic while escaping the cops is pretty fun and sometimes is one of the major challenges. Because of that, I'm glad there is so much traffic; I just wish the frame rate didn't drop so easily.
At first, The Getaway does seem a bit like the Grand Theft Auto games, but it is much more restrictive in what you can do and where you can go. Sure, you have plenty of opportunities to just drive around and kill a few random people, but there are no side missions, mini-games, or anything of the sort. In this respect, it's very much like Digital Illusions' PC title Mafia - just with a more modern feel, of course.
One of the most noticeable things about The Getaway is that there is absolutely no in-game interface or HUD at all. Everything is communicated in some other way, which can get downright annoying and generally doesn't seem to be worth the effort. For example, blood will seep through your character's clothing if he's hurt - that is your cue to find cover and lean against a wall.
That's right; your character heals himself by leaning against a wall as the blood slowly fades away. Some may scoff at this idea, but at a high enough level, it's not much different than Halo's system of retreating to allow your shields to automatically recharge. Despite being able to heal anywhere and on demand, there is still the challenge of finding a safe spot and not getting hit while healing up. On top of that, Hammond can't really take a huge amount of damage at once anyway, so the game is still tough even with this system.
When you get in a car, the game supplies no map of any sort. Instead, it will direct you by way of the car's turn signals. This system is just plain weird, and many times it wound up directing me to the wrong side of a city block. Pretty soon, I learned how to anticipate these bugs and correct them before they happened. Any bug that is this common really needed to be fixed before the game was released.
The other problem with this system is that the game includes a ton of skinny little one-way streets; I have never been to London, but I hear it is an accurate portrayal of the real city. The problem is that the game will very commonly send you the wrong way down a one way street, and pedestrians will even yell at you for driving down the wrong way. To me, this is just hilarious; the developers made an annoying gameplay decision and then accentuated it by having other characters scream it at you.
It's the complete lack of a true visual interface that simply makes certain parts of The Getaway quite a chore; I never had much of a problem with the HUD interfaces of other, similar games, so it is a little confusing as to why they stuck with this decision. It just doesn't seem to be worth all the trouble.
As you traverse each mission, you will undoubtedly do something to get the cops' attention, be it reckless driving, running over someone, or colliding with other cars. The cops here are fairly competent, and even though they can set up roadblocks and spike strips, that is about the extent of their power - there is no FBI or Army here.
The game does attempt to throw in a few twists, requiring you to use stealth to beat a few of the missions. The camera and controls make this more difficult than it has to be though, and in all the wrong (and frustrating) ways. Perhaps they should have stuck with just the action stuff.
The Getaway is a challenging game, and while each mission does have a few checkpoints that will allow you to continue part of the way through, there is no way to skip some of the cutscenes. Some can be skipped with a press of the R3 button, while others will require you to watch them every time you go back to retry a mission. No, the cutscenes aren't bad or anything, but dying and then being forced to wait a minute or two for a repeat of a cutscene just adds insult to injury.
Once you beat the twelve missions with Mark Hammond, you can then take control of a cop named Frank Carter for another twelve levels. His missions take place roughly at the same time Hammond's do, which is an interesting way to structure the game. As Carter, the player will be going after Hammond and observing his wonderful handiwork. A few little things in the game will change as Carter, which reflect the fact that he's supposed to be upholding the law rather than breaking it, but it's mostly the same.
After all those missions are done, a Free Roam mode is opened up, allowing one to explore London completely at his or her leisure. Why this wasn't included from the beginning, I have no clue. It seems to me that the actual city of London itself is the game's most unique feature (and likely to be its biggest draw), so I doubt that The Getaway will be as popular in the US as it has become in Europe.
Lasting appeal in this game is decent at best; in the Grand Theft Auto games, there were all boats, planes, and an army of cars to use, plenty of secrets to find, and an absolute ton of optional missions. The Getaway doesn't have much in the way of extra features like this at all, which is disappointing. The fact that one can take true-to-life cars through a decent approximation of the real London is fun for a while, but that won't last too long.
In The Getaway, you won't get the switchable radio stations like the GTA games had. Instead, there is a decent range of music from a few genres that is almost completely forgettable. For me, it was hard to even notice the music most of the time, much less enjoy it. The sound effects are definitely better, though; the ambience of a city environment really comes through, and the cars sound wonderful. Gunshots are pretty decent sounding, and the characters have a decent number of voice clips during the in-game action.
Speaking of that, The Getaway's voice acting is superb; the actual script isn't all that great in some areas, but the actors do a great job with what they have. There are several great characters here, and the overall plot really lets them run wild. Here's one game where the story and acting may be the main thing keeping the player going; you just have to find out what happens next.
The Getaway is a pretty decent game with a few bad design decisions but some cool driving and action. GTA fans may be disappointed by its lack of freedom in picking what the character does next, but the story almost makes up for it. Still, this one may be better off rented than bought; the replay value is pretty low once the story is over.


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Winnie the Pooh and a Day For Eeyore (1983)
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Bethlehem, Pa., October 12, 2010—The works of Maryanne Riker are on display in The H. Paty Eiffe Gallery now through Saturday, October 30th. A special reception will be held Wednesday, October 13, 4:30 p.m. in the Haupert Union Building. A mixed-media artist, Maryann J. Riker uses handmade paper, book board, book cloth, beading, paint, embroidery and transparencies to convey a visual narrative through the book format.
This year's Alumni Exhibition features the works of Maryanne Riker, who graduated from Moravian College in 1982. She has since held many exhibitions throughout the Lehigh Valley, Philadelphia, Pa., and New York City. Her works are also held in many private and public collections. She describes herself as a mixed-media artist whose works convey a narrative about the journeys we have to go through throughout life. She incorporates many things into her artwork such as digital imagery and Victorian iconography.
Riker's work has garnered a number of awards and is included in many private collections as well as special collections including Special Collections at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa, Newark Public Library, and Rutgers University. Riker holds an undergraduate degree from Moravian College, a Masters degree from Montclair State University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Vermont College.
The H. Paty Eiffe Gallery is funded through the generosity of our former HUB director and her supporters. The Gallery is located in the Haupert Union Building, near the corner of Monocacy and Locust Streets in Bethlehem, Pa. For information, call 610 861-1491.
Moravian College encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. Anyone who anticipates needing any type of accommodation or who has questions about the physical access provided should contact Kathi Roman at firstname.lastname@example.com or 610 625-7880.
Moravian College is a private, coeducational, selective liberal arts college located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Tracing its founding to 1742, it is recognized as America's sixth-oldest college. Visit the Web site at www.moravian.edu.


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After all the talk about unexpected pregnancies and the concept of giving your man "a pass" on Love And Hip Hop Atlanta this season, the time has finally come: Rasheeda Frost is in labor, according to photos she and husband Kirk posted on Instagram this morning.
"It's time!!!!!!!," Rasheeda wrote, along with the appropriate baby bottle graphics, while Kirk posted a picture of his lady's baby bump covered in a hospital gown. "I'm so ready to see Karter!!!!" mom added. We wish baby Karter a quick and safe arrival, and can't wait to meet the newest member of the LHHATL family.
Enjoy a collection of Rasheeda's best pregnancy looks, and relive the moment she found out she was pregnant, in the clip below.
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Sugar Land 12-year-old dines at the White House
"[Mrs. Obama] said that she's really proud of us for making this happen and making a change in our diet and eating healthy," said 12-year-old Devanshi Udeshi from Texas. Udeshi's recipe for the Slam Dunk Veggie Burger earned her a trip to D.C., halfway across the country from her hometown of Sugar Land. [Read More]
Sugar Land girl to attend "State Dinner" at White House
12-year-old Sugar Land resident Devanshi Udeshi will travel to the White House to be honored for her "Slam Dunk Veggie Burger" recipe. Udeshi will represent Texas at the First Lady's second annual "State Dinner" for junior chefs as part of the Let's Move! campaign. [Read More]
Michelle Obama joins 'Top Chef' judges at tasty Texas event
Finally, the buzzer rang, and the three judges began sampling the meals, starting with the red team. Colicchio proclaimed the team's whole wheat turkey taco "really delicious."
The white team was next, offering a homemade applesauce. "This is like comfort food," the first lady said.
Blue team offered a salad with arugula, carrots, and avacado puree. "Colorful, flavorful, and balanced," said Tom Colicchio.[Read More]