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Taylor Townsend has been called a "Future Game Changer" by Sports Illustrated.
The 16-year-old tennis phenom from Stockbridge was featured in the most recent magazine issue — which came out Monday — as one of eight teenage athletes destined to be a future star.
"Taylor is athletic and works hard, but her greatest quality is her attitude," Kathy Rinalidi, Townsend's coach, told the magazine. "She has a champion's mentality."
Townsend's stock has soared this year, particularly after winning the girls singles and doubles titles at the Australian Junior Open in January. She followed that with a girls doubles title at Wimbledon.
Townsend is currently the No. 1-ranked junior player in the world.
Townsend attends the United States Tennis Association's training center in Boca Raton, Fla. She enrolled there just one month into her freshman year at Drew High School, where her father, Gary, is the principal.
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I purchase my fish from various fish mongers, (local fisher gentlemen) they come to my back door with their fresh catch looking to sell. Depending on a number of things, I usually buy. Usually they all have the same types of fish and/or crustaceans.
About 4 years ago on a Friday afternoon I opened my door to a 20 gallon cooler of squirming alive medium sized Octopus. It was glorious! As I was bargaining with the fisherman, he labored to keep them in the cooler, dozens of tentacles slithering over the edge trying to go free, dark sack-like bodies with little eyes peering over the edge, as he unstuck something, others popped up.
When I saw the cooler, I had no idea what I was going to do with them, all I knew was that this is the SPECIAL for the weekend. I had to have them, they're so fresh and alive! I would make something great in their honor.
As usual I was busy getting ready for dinner, which meant the Octopus had to wait. (I had other things to do before I dealt with them, except they had to be cleaned and eviscerated quickly to avoid spoilage.)
Transferring them quickly to a large plastic food bin with ice (no lid), I then placed the writhing bin on the floor up against a ceramic tiled wall which extends 12 feet to the ceiling in my prep kitchen. After icing down the little guys, they calmed down and barely moved. Planning to prepare them a little later, I returned to my work on the hotline (stove, grill area. The small prep kitchen is in the back and cannot be seen from the hotline). An hour later, I'm open for service, leaving the hotline to my cooks.
*Returning to the prep kitchen I find my wife (She's the pastry chef), with her back to me, a bowl of tempered chocolate in one hand and a kitchen towel in the other, staring at the tile wall with this blank/surreal look on her face, cocking her head slightly to the side. I didn't notice what she was staring at until a dark bulbous tentacle mass came into view inching up the wall! Blargh!! HOlyshitwtf!! Octopus moving sideways on the wall, vertically up the wall, horizontally on the floor, leaving thin clear ooze in their wake. Some wedged themselves in corners, under tables, a few others suspended vertically 10 feet up the wall making their great escape! After gathering them up, I'll never know if I got them all. I paid for them by weight and didn't do a head count. The following weeks there were no strange smells in the kitchen so I assume I got them all, but I like to think at least one got away.*
@3liza made a song while you were painting octopus tub. http://bit.ly/3t4lx9 watching you paint motivates me to finish stuff lol
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Yankees: Derek Jeter's Injury Tied To Steroid Use. No, Seriously.
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A leading NEJM author and advocate for the concept that oropharyngeal cancers are increasingly caused by HPV failed to disclose to the NEJM that she received mark funding http://tinyurl.com/4ovpg79
So with the adverse reactions in women to Gardasil it's being pushed on boys to increase sales. Yeah I'll rush right out and get that shot. NOT!
Sure, the ones that die after the shot definitely won't suffer from cancer, so in the eyes of the manufacturers, that's an effective shot! Garbage. Show me a study done by someone who doesn't stand to make a boatload over recommending that more people get this vaccine. This is horrendous and its unfortunate that you can't even sue the manufacturer when their wonder-shot kills or severely injures your child!
Neither the manufacturers of HPV vaccines nor anyone else have evidence that the HPV vaccines themselves will actually increase the risk of cancer.
Regarding ingredients, Gardasil has not been tested for carcinogenic properties. Why? Because Merck does not want to know the answer?
Importantly In addtion, "replacement" is a normal phenomenon in virulogy: the virus strains which have been removed will always be replaced by new strains.
It is unknown to all instances whether the new strains will be more cancerogenic than the ones which have been removed.
When Gardasil or other HPV vaccines are somethimes incorrectly termed "anti-cancer" vaccines, this may be a tragedy of ironic truth - because they may increase the risk of cancer!
Yes, let's recommend boys get the HPV vaccine given the impeccable safety record it has had with girls.
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Fyi, my local dentist in South Carolina offers a cheap screen for oral cavity cancer.
It's Vizilight or velscope or similar, and it's non-reimbursable by my insurance. I want to say it's about $50-100, can't recall for sure.
Of course, it's not been proven to be effective let alone cost-effective, but it can't hurt, and it seems worth it in my personal opinion (I'm pretty risk-averse).
Funny how some who dont have the cancer are so sure about them selves. Ignorance
Its like you read my mind! You appear to know a lot about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you can do with some pics to drive the message home a bit, but other than that, this is excellent blog. A fantastic read. I will definitely be back.
What if the virus is airborne? This means that anyone could catch it just like a cold. Why not offer the vaccine to people over the age of 27, male or female, who do not wish to be infected or reinfected with HPV--especially if they have already had the surgery for the head and neck cancer? Does anyone know of MDs who will give the vaccine off label?
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Accomplished under a multi-year collaboration with ARM and the Common Platform alliance [IBM, Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., GLOBALFOUNDRIES], the optimizations to the Lynx Design System and its Galaxy™ Implementation Platform-enabled flow for ARM's advanced physical IP and the ARM Cortex™ A9 MPCore processor reduce risk and total development cost for advanced 32/28nm system-on-chip (SoC) designs.
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We're being lied to about the purported Iranian nuclear threat, and the war party knows it.
In ways eerily reminiscent of the 2002 buildup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the American people are being fed a steady diet of war propaganda about Iran and its alleged quest for a nuclear weapon. As with Iraq's president, Saddam Hussein, comparisons to Hitler circa 1938 abound. Max Boot, the neoconservative columnist, is just one of many propagandists working to agitate Americans into supporting a military attack on Iran. He wrote recently, "After the failure to stop Hitler and Bin Laden, among others, Westerners were said to have suffered a 'failure of imagination.' We are suffering that same failure today as we fail to face up to the growing threat from the Islamic Republic."
The message is unmistakable: Time is running out. Get Iran now before it's too late.
But despite what Boot and his ilk would have us think, there is no evidence that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon. The U.S. government's dozen and a half intelligence agencies have twice said so. The latest International Atomic Energy Agency report recycled some old, discredited claims and fabricated "evidence" while nevertheless certifying that Iran has diverted none of its uranium to weapons production.
Yet those who are bent on war are undeterred. Republican president candidates (except for Ron Paul) try to outdo each other in their anti-Iran saber-rattling. Michele Bachmann has gone the furthest, recklessly peddling the falsehood that Iran's president (who doesn't control the military) has vowed to launch a nuclear attack on Israel and the United States as soon as a bomb is in hand. This is a lie.
An attack on Israel or the United States would be suicidal, and no one seriously thinks the ayatollahs seek the destruction of Persia. Moreover, Iran's leadership has issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons.
Now we know that even the neocon vanguard doesn't believe its own propaganda.
Occasionally, leading neoconservative intellectuals forget that the wider world is listening and say things that belie their own case for war. Take, for example, Danielle Pletka, vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. In a recent video statement Pletka said,
The biggest problem for the United States is not Iran getting a nuclear weapon and testing it, it's Iran getting a nuclear weapon and not using it. Because the second that they have one and they don't do anything bad, all of the naysayers are going to come back and say, "See, we told you Iran is a responsible power. We told you that Iran wasn't getting nuclear weapons in order to use them immediately. ..."
And they will eventually define Iran with nuclear weapons as not a problem.
Let that sink in: the biggest -- biggest -- problem with Iran's acquiring a nuclear weapon is that it might not use it. Got that? And why would that be bad? Because "naysayers" (that is, people against war) would be able to point to Iran's responsible conduct as proof that Iran is not irresponsible. Imagine that!
Pletka leaves the implication that the U.S. government should attack Iran, which would devastate that country and murder countless innocent people, in order to stop it from demonstrating that it is not a reckless, insane, and suicidal power in the Middle East. Has there ever been a worse reason to launch a war?
This is what passes for reason and logic among our "serious" foreign-policy thinkers in Washington. These are the same people who gave us Operation Iraqi Freedom, which killed or injured hundreds of thousands and created four million refugees.
But those who are prepared to sacrifice innocent Iranians to solve this "problem" aren't mad. In their worldview, they are right to worry about Iran being perceived as a responsible power. Pletka's colleague Thomas Donnelly spelled it out in The Weekly Standard: "We're fixated on the Iranian nuclear program while the Tehran regime has its eyes on the real prize: the balance of power in the Persian Gulf and the greater Middle East."
Sheldon Richman is senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation
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"there is no evidence that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon." This is what passes for reason and logic among our serious libertarian extremists. Although I agree with much of the libertarian principles, their ...
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"there is no evidence that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon." This is what passes for reason and logic among our serious libertarian extremists. Although I agree with much of the libertarian principles, their determination to take them to the extreme in regards to Iran, without consideration of the extreme suicidal lunacy of doing so, is what will keep them on the fringe of political thought.
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Mitch Amundson, 16, of Wittenberg reacts to getting eliminated in his team's first game during the Top Dawg Classic Dodgeball Tournament March 14 at Wittenberg-Birnamwood High School in Wittenberg.
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Siga Funmaker sat in the corner of the Wittenberg-Birnamwood High School gymnasium a week ago, entertained by platoons of teenagers winging balls at each other.
"Oh, they throw those balls hard," she said as cantaloupe-sized spheres banged against the concrete-block walls of the gym. "And the crowd is really loud."
The Wittenberg woman was watching the second annual Top Dawg Classic Dodgeball Tournament, a sporting extravaganza dreamed up by Bobby Uttecht, 18, a dynamo of a senior at the high school. He's a wrestler, a member of the school's FFA club and class president, and if the crowd at ...


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One thing you can count on when talking with Janet Thomas is a great deal of laughter. Thomas, 85, was born in Augusta County. She graduated from Mount Sidney High School. After high school, she went to work at the Celanese textile plant as a fabric inspector. She worked there until the plant closed. It was at Celanese that she met her future husband, Paul. The couple married in 1950. Paul passed away in 2002.
In the late 1950s, Thomas' mother and three aunts bought Quick's Ice Cream store on Beverley Street. Shortly thereafter they reopened as the Beverley Restaurant. In 1971, Janet and Paul purchased the business from her surviving aunt.
"Of course we both knew how to cook, but a lot of the staff stayed on when we bought the restaurant so it was a smooth transition. Paul was still working as an auto parts salesman so he wasn't here as much as I was, but it really was and still is a family business. I bake all the bread and my daughter makes the pies and heads up the wait staff. My granddaughters also pitch in by washing dishes once in awhile," she said.
For the better part of 40 years Thomas' warmth and charm has been one of the Beverley's best advertisement for the type of old-time eating establishment that is nowadays a rarity.
During regular business hours, she can be found either at the register or one of the back tables enjoying a glass of tea and chatting with customers. She is not at all shy about sharing varied and interesting stories of restaurant life.
"One very strange event that I'll never forget was when this nicely dressed lady took a liking to one of the paintings on the wall. She insisted she just had to have it and offered to buy it. When I told her I didn't want to sell it as it was a mate to another painting she calmly finished her meal, put the painting under her coat and walked out. Unfortunately when I noticed what she had done, she was long gone. Such a shame because I really loved that picture," she said.
According to her daughter Alisa, there is a resident ghost in booth number three. She is adamant that at the beginning of each day she hears the wooden seat of the booth creak as if someone were sitting down to order a meal. Alisa is convinced that it's a friendly ghost and more than likely a diehard fan of her lemon pies.
"My family and I live in a big old house outside the village of Springhill and it's just so beautiful out there. During the summer months, there's nothing I love more than taking a swim in the outdoor pool. I guess you could say I like everything about the Valley, especially the people. We've also been fortunate in that our business has always done well. I feel I have a very good life."


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Like this shot,
The guy in the foreground looking at the camera and smiling is at a thirds intersection which helps him stand out from the crowd. I think his smile also gives the viewer a sense of the atmosphere at the event.
loads of various people, various shapes, sex and colour all adds interest in the foreground and the shallow angle of the shot across the crowds heads helps show the vastness of the crowd.
A good candid shot,
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I really like the image and agree with everything Nutters has said. I'd have been partial to do away with the cup somehow, as it holds focus a bit too much and stops the eye naturally wandering around the rest of the crowd (natural focus being 'smiler'). I also like the way the perspective of the crowd is even all the way to the back (i.e. the size of the faces in the top left are the same as the faces in the top right, I hope that makes sense )
Great image, thanks for sharing
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thought it might look good in mono...(see mod)...like the direct eye contact from a number of different people...looks almost staged
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These sort of shots are always increadiby difficult because of the problem of where to start and stop. But you have done really well here as the smiley guy draws your attention and stops the shot being just a sea of different people. The shiny forehead to the right is a bit of a distraction, but as Focus_Man says you just have to accept with this kind of shot that you are going to have people chopped off at the front.
Best wishes
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Thank you all for the critique, you've really boosted my enthusiasm somewhat. I had similar thoughts about the image which must mean I'm on the right track.
I actually didn't look when I shot it.
Thanks again.
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NTSB member Debbie Hersman says other investigators are headed to New York from Washington. She says they'll work with emergency responders on the scene, the FAA, and the makers of the plane and the engine.
The New York Yankees are stunned by news that Lidle was aboard the small plane. Team owner George Steinbrenner issued a statement calling it a "terrible and shocking tragedy" and offering "deep condolences and prayers" to Lidle's wife and son.
On the team's Web site, manager Joe Torre is quoted as saying he was with former Yankees Ron Guidry and Lee Mazzilli when they got the news. Torre says that while Lidle's time with the Yankees was short, he proved himself to be "a good teammate and a great competitor."
Lidle came to the Bronx in a July trade with the Philadelphia Phillies. He spent nine seasons in the majors, playing for seven teams.
The Yankees aren't strangers to tragedies involving planes. In 1979, catcher Thurman Munson died when the plane he was piloting crashed.
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A 50 year old man is dead after a fire breaks out inside a Lexington home Monday morning.
Investigators say a sanitation worker was collecting recycling containers when he noticed smoke coming from a home on Hollyhill Drive Monday morning.
We're told when fire crews arrived to the home, they found the man unconscious inside.
Rescue crews rushed the man to UK Hospital were he was later pronounced dead.
Police say an arson investigation is underway. Investigators say it is routine for an arson investigation to be conducted anytime someone is injured in a fire.
At this time fire investigators have not confirmed what started the fire, but do say it appears it started in the home's back hallway.
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Something we don't really get a chance to write about that often on Above the Law is the rise of the Goth subculture in America — and that's probably because no one cares about it. Just like how no one cared about most Goth kids when they were growing up, which led them to believe that dressing up like sad, neoclassical clowns was a good idea.
You know what, this is America, and if you want to paint your face like an inept contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race and wear chains connecting your ears to your nose, then by all means, go right ahead. I have absolutely no problem with that. If you want to look like the latest incarnation of Boy George, and thereby make your family embarrassed to be around you, then go for it.
But really, leave your pets out of it, okay? Your kittens don't have daddy issues like you do…
Holly Crawford, of Sweet Valley, Pennsylvania, a dog groomer by trade, was arrested in 2008 after she attempted to sell a Goth kitten to a PETA investigator for $100 over eBay.
Her Goth kittens were as bedazzled as her own face:
Metal protruded from the kittens' small bodies, pierced through their ears and necks, and at least one of these kittens also had an elastic band tied around its tail, an attempt at docking, which is a procedure to stem the blood flow so that the tail eventually falls off.
Crawford admitted to piercing the kittens without using any anesthetic beforehand. As the owner of two cats, that really makes me want to punch this woman in the face. Seriously. I really love animals, and this makes me want to cry a little bit because it's just so disgusting.
Thankfully, in April of last year, Crawford was found guilty of animal cruelty, and then sentenced to six months of house arrest, followed by probation. But Crawford decided that she didn't want to spend six months at home.
I guess she was afraid that her CD player would break and she wouldn't be able to listen to The Cure on repeat all day, every day. Or maybe she just didn't have enough Manic Panic hair dye to survive for that long all on her own.
Either way, like any rational person of normal intelligence, Crawford appealed her sentence.
That's right, Crawford appealed because Pennsylvania's animal cruelty statutes are "too vague." Crawford likened declawing a cat under anesthesia to giving her kittens their own nipple rings. Crawford argued that she just didn't know whether giving a kitten a Prince Albert fell under the category of an act that would "maim, mutilate, torture, or disfigure" the precious, little ball of fur.
Three judges from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, however, decided that Crawford must have pierced herself a few times too many, noting in a 19-page opinion written by Judge Kate Ford Elliot that:
Appellant's claims center on her premise that a person of normal intelligence would not know whether piercing a kitten's ears or banding its tail is maiming, mutilating, torturing or disfiguring an animal. We disagree. … Much of the law against animal cruelty can be summed up in the phrase 'common sense' and such is the case herein.
And so, as logic would properly dictate (at least for those of you whose faces don't jingle when you walk), you cannot pierce your cat in Pennsylvania. Or in any other state, for that matter, but don't get me started.
Piercing Kittens for 'Goth' Look Is Animal Cruelty, Pa. Appeals Court Says [ABA Journal]
Piercing Cats Is Cruelty, Judges Rule [New York Times]
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6589 Women, Money, and Law (2 or 3)
Historical, theoretical, and practical approaches to issues involving the relationship between gender and financial power with an introduction to basics of financial planning. Recommended prerequisite or corequisite: Law 6300 and either Law 6250, 6342, or 6343. (Research paper)
6590 Jurisprudence (2 or 3) Galston
Basic jurisprudential concepts; nature of law; development of legal institutions; jurisprudential schools—natural law, analytical, historical, sociological, functional; law and logic; law and justice; the judicial process; legislative, executive, administrative decision making; impact of politics, economics, and scientific advance on legal systems; contemporary trends in jurisprudential thought. (Take-home examination)
6591 U.S. Legal History (2 or 3) Cottrol
Examination of the history of U.S. law from the seventeenth century to the present. Topics include Anglo-American constitutionalism, the reception and transformation of the common law, slavery and the law, race and gender in U.S. law, corporations, labor and the rise of the regulatory state, and legal education and the legal profession in U.S. history. (Research paper)
6592 Jurisprudence Seminar (2 or 3)
Selected topics in legal theory to be announced at the time of registration. Enrollment is limited. (Research paper or examination)
6593 Introduction to Legal Theory (1) Turley
Introduction to different schools of legal thought and theory, including but not limited to Lockean, Hegelian, utilitarian, economic, feminist, critical legal, public choice, and sociobiological theory. Principles and policies that motivate changes in legal doctrine and how concepts of morality, personal autonomy, collective action, tripartite government, equity, and efficiency affect the legal process. The objective is to offer law students a foundation to be conversant in different concepts that relate to their legal training, particularly in the first-year curriculum. Enrollment is restricted to first-year J.D. students assigned to this course. (Examination)
6594 History of the U.S. Constitution (2 or 3) Wilmarth
Examination of the philosophical and historical background of the U.S. Constitution, including the writings of Locke and Montesquieu, with particular attention to social contract theory, natural law, and separation of powers principles. Consideration of the relevance of these concepts to the debates surrounding the drafting and ratification of the Constitution and the original Bill of Rights, and the degree to which these concepts have been reflected in decisions of the Supreme Court, including selected decisions of the Marshall Court and several more recent decisions. (Take-home examination or research paper with permission of the instructor)
6595 Race, Racism, and American Law (2 or 3) Bracey
Examination of the influence of race and racism on the development of law in the United States. The use of law by legislatures and judges, both to enforce and to remedy racism in selected contexts, possibly including criminal justice, voting rights, public accommodations, education, employment, housing, free speech, and family law. The course will also consider the utility of critical race theory as a method of legal analysis. (Examination or take-home examination)
6596 Law of Race and Slavery (2)
The role of legal norms and processes in developing patterns of slavery and race relations in the United States and other societies. Application of themes and methods from comparative and historical sociology to the study of legal history. Topics include the legal origins of slavery in the Americas, law and racial classifications, social and economic consequences of legal discrimination, and legal remedies and the undoing of systems of discrimination. Comparative study of the history of race relations in the United States, Latin America, and South Africa. Enrollment is limited. (Research paper)
6597 Legal History Seminar (2 or 3)
Selected topics in legal history to be announced at the time of registration. Enrollment is limited. (Research paper)
6598 Law and Economics (2 or 3)
An introduction to the main features of the Law and Economics movement, with particular attention to the content, application, and criticisms of the Coase theorem. Topics include a brief review of essential aspects of price theory (including the concept of a competitive price equilibrium), an introduction to the principal notions of welfare optimality (including Pareto and Hicks–Kaldor efficiency), and the problems posed by externalities and public goods. Emphasis on some of the classical works in this field and applications to specific decisions. (Examination)
6599 Professional Responsibility and Ethics Seminar (2) Shawn
Selected topics in professional responsibility and ethics. Intensive study of questions of lawyer responsibility and ethics raised by professional codes and moral philosophy. This course does not satisfy the professional responsibility requirement. Prerequisite: Law 6218. Enrollment is limited. (Research paper)
6601 History of the Common Law (3) Lerner
The history of legal procedure and institutions in England and the United States, in particular the relationships among judges, juries, and lawyers in civil and criminal cases. Development of rules of evidence; links between law and equity. How changes in politics, society, and economics affect legal procedures and courts. Origins of the adversarial legal system and comparisons with the inquisitorial system on the European continent and elsewhere. (Examination or research paper with permission of the instructor)
6602 Law and Accounting (2 or 3) Gabaldon
Study of fundamental accounting principles with emphasis on corporation accounting; legal and accounting implications of specific items in financial statements of corporations; inventory adjustments; corporate transactions, distributions, capital adjustments. No accounting background required; students who majored (or the equivalent) in accounting or who hold certifications as Certified Public Accountants (CPA) may not enroll. (Quizzes and problem assignments or examination with the permission of the instructor)
6604 Quantitative Analysis for Lawyers (2 or 3)
Introductory course for lawyers that does not assume or require advanced mathematical skills. Application of non-legal methods of analysis in public policy problems with attendant evidentiary requirements, including the effective use of experts. Principal non-legal methods of policy analysis, including micro-economic analysis (basic price theory and industrial organization), financial analysis (including the roles of financial institutions), and statistical analysis. Introduction to basic analytic concepts and terminology/jargon, common applications of the analysis in the law, and practical problems of expert witnesses. (Examination or research paper with permission of the instructor)
6606 Law and Literature (2 or 3) DeSanctis, Solove
The ways in which the law is depicted in literature, and how literary interpretation can be applied to legal texts. Literary and philosophical works of short to moderate length by Melville, Kafka, Shakespeare, Capote, Morrison, Garcia Marquez, and Faulkner, among others. (Research paper and oral presentations)
6607 The Law and Regulation of Science (2)
The ways in which scientific reasoning and the scientific method have been applied, and misapplied, to legal and policy decisions. The differing standards for scientific and legal inquiry and whether these standards have proven to be compatible. Analysis of pivotal science-based legal decisions, beginning with the trial of Galileo and including evolving standards for scientific evidence in the courtroom, the difficulty of proving causation in toxic torts, regulation of hazardous substances, balancing of personal liberty and public health, determining when a drug is safe enough to market, attempts to define fundamental aspects of the human condition, the debate over evolution in public schools and the legal and ethical issues arising from mapping and patenting the human genome. The means by which scientific inquiry itself is fostered and regulated in the United States and abroad, including the recent policy debates over human cloning and embryonic stem cell research, as well as scientific misconduct, fraud, bias, and the politicization of scientific debate. Prerequisite: Law 6230. (Examination or research paper)
6608 Feminist Legal Theory (2 or 3) Ridder
Law and society studied from the point of view of women. The course focuses on feminist jurisprudential treatment of gender and examines the prospects for sex equality under the law. Enrollment is limited. (Research paper)
6612 Law and Anthropology (2) R. Palmer
Cultural aspects of law in the context of various societies. Traditional African dispute resolution and the changes brought about by colonialism; Native American political structures; Gypsy courts; the relative legal rights of insiders and outsiders in small-scale European communities; non-legal resolution of disputes in urban neighborhoods in the United States. Legal rules and cultural traditions of these and other societies compared in terms of economic efficiency, personal responsibility and freedom, and ethical balance. (Research paper)
6614 Law and Psychiatry (2) Blackmon
The problems and legal issues raised by the interface of psychiatry and the law: informed consent, privacy, the insanity defense, civil and criminal commitment under questions of legal competency, forced medication, and disability law with reference to the mentally ill. Evolving trends in professional standards, constitutional rights, legislative rights, ethics, licensing, contracts, and torts in the relationships among the psychiatric profession, the law, and the mentally ill. The role of psychiatric experts, standards of admissibility, and weight of evidence and their impacts on the relationship between the law and the mentally ill. (Take-home examination)
6616 Genetics and the Law (2 or 3) Suter
Examination of the legal and ethical issues that genetics research and technology present. Topics include eugenics; the Human Genome Project; ethical, legal, and regulatory issues associated with clinical genetics and various types of genetic testing; possible discriminatory uses of genetic information by employers, insurers, and others; legislative attempts to protect the privacy and confidentiality of genetic information; ownership of genetic samples and information; patent law issues; forensic uses of genetic information; gene therapy; and cloning. (Examination)
6617 Law and Medicine (2 or 3) Suter
Examination of legal and ethical issues that arise in the doctor–patient relationship and medical decision making. Topics include informed consent; human experimentation; personhood; reproduction, including advanced technologies and prevention; patients' rights; death, dying, and limits on intervention; hard choices; and public policy issues. (Examination)
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Dear Guruji, I know that you love me, but I don't love myself. I wish I was more comfortable within myself and with others around me. What to do?
You are doing the right thing; Advanced Meditation Course. That is the first thing we do in the course, praise yourself and praise your partner. Didn't you do that? Do that sincerely. Don't think that this is just another exercise and they are just asking me to praise, no! Do it seriously.
Some of these exercises may appear silly to you on some level, but on another level they really have some impact on our consciousness and our subconscious mind.
Stop blaming yourself - this is the first law of spirituality. The more you blame, the more you will be away from you own spirit. So you should stop blaming yourself and recognize the good qualities that you have. Continue doing this and it will happen.
Sometimes these patterns, these old habits take a longer time to ease out. As you become aware, 'I have to stop blaming myself', then suddenly your energy goes up. And do pranayama, it definitely helps. When energy is higher, there is no way that you will continue to blame yourself, that is not possible.


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Vegetable Cream Cheese Pizza
This vegetable pizza is a fun way to get your kids involved in cooking. The pizzas are colorful and tasty so even with all the veggies your kids might actually be interested in eating them as well!
- 4-5 radishes, thinly sliced
- 1 small sweet onion, chopped
- 1 oz. package ranch dressing mix
- 2 8oz. can crescent rolls
- 1 tbsp. dill, chopped
- 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 tsp. garlic salt
- 1 stalk celery, chopped
- 16oz. sour cream
- 1 bell pepper, seeded, chopped
- 1 carrots, grated
Roll out the crescent rolls and place on lightly greased baking sheets. Use a fork to pierce the dough. This will prevent it from puffing up while it bakes.
Bake in a 425 degree F oven for 15 minutes or until golden.
While the dough is baking mix together the sour cream, cream cheese, dill, garlic salt and Ranch Dressing mix.
Remove the crust from the oven and cool.
Once the crust has cooled, spread the sour cream/cream cheese topping over the top.
Now it's just a matter of adding the vegetables.
Chill for a half hour and serve.
This recipe is a modification of one on Allrecipes.com. It's a great website to visit if you are at a loss for what to make for dinner.
Time to prepare: 40 minutes.
Serves 6-10.
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The darkening economic outlook is changing business leaders' attitudes to outsourcing, with greater focus on cost savings and a more adversarial approach to managing contracts, according to new research from law firm Norton Rose.
Nearly nine out of 10 firms said that cost reduction was the motivating factor for outsourcing, according the research. Two-thirds of suppliers, meanwhile, reported that negotiations over price were more intense.
Furthermore, when questioned about their favoured strategies for managing risk in contracts, customers repeatedly relied on key performance indicators, service credits and liquidated damages.
"It seems to be a case of using more carrot than stick to manage the relationship," Mike Rebeiro, group head of technology at Norton Rose told Computing.
But while attitudes towards cost cutting have hardened since Norton Rose conducted similar research in 2008, shortly after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the results also suggested that enterprises have contradictory expectations of their outsourcing contracts.
As well as reducing costs, customers are fully expecting their outsourcing deals to deliver business transformation and introduce new technologies and innovation, said Rebeiro. "It's not always possible to do that and reduce costs."
Both customers and suppliers reported that firms' due diligence processes had tightened in the past three years. Yet nearly a third did no checks on the personnel provided by their supplier.
One area where there were signs that firms were working well with outsourcing partners was in the area of data loss, where 78 per cent of customers believed that managing the risk should be a joint effort. That is up from just 13 per cent in 2008.
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JERUSALEM, April 13, 2010 (WAFA)- Al-Maqdese appealed on all concerned parties to take immediate action immediately to fight the new dangerous Israeli military order number (1650), which classifies Palestinians who live in the West Bank without "valid permits" as infiltrators or illegal residents.
The military order issued by the Israeli Military Supreme Leadership on October 13, 2009, has become valid on Tuesday April 13, 2010. According to it, everyone who lives in the West Bank "illegally" is subjected to face a criminal offence, which exposes them to deportation or to an arrest for 7 years besides paying NIS 7,500 fees after being criminally prosecuted.
Accordingly, tens of thousands of Palestinians will be deported and arrested as this resolution considers them as infiltrators to "Israeli lands". Also, they will only be treated according to the military regulations especially Palestinians born in Gaza Strip.
Israel by this order re-applies the 1969 order which considered any Palestinian who has been living in enemy states (Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq) as an infiltrator and should be deported from the West Bank.
Moreover, this order forces Palestinians in all areas countrywide, including the occupied East Jerusalem, to obtain permits to access their lands such as Za'ayem and Al-Esawiyah in the frame of the "E1 Settlement Project".
Furthermore, Palestinians who live near the Israeli Apartheid Wall, or their lands are inside it, need to get special permits. However, as a direct result of such order, they will not be able to get the needed permits, and thus lose their lands. In addition, this military order ignores the Palestinian National Authority and all the signed agreements, including Oslo Agreements.
This order will scatter thousands of Palestinian families who live in East Jerusalem and West Bank and have family reunification cases. It also violates all the international regulations, resolutions and laws as it put occupied people under forced eviction threat. As well, any Palestinian with a non-Palestinian spouse will be threatened with deportation of his/her spouse. Moreover, Palestinians who have lost their right to residence according to the Blue IDs withdrawal will be treated as infiltrators and will go through quick military trials within 3 days.
This indicates that such order is really a tool to achieve political purposes like distracts attention from settlement activities and aims to evacuate the largest number of Palestinians.
Al-Maqdese warns of the seriousness of such an order. It therefore, called on all Arab Countries and the League of Arab Countries to directly interfere to stop this order. Also, it called on the international community to pressure Israel to abolish this order immediately. In addition, Al Maqdese called on the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) to move immediately at all national and international levels to stop this order.


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December 1, 2015
SEATTLE (AP) - Police say Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis never got his gun back after a 2004 arrest in Seattle.
The Seattle Police Department said Friday that officials held the gun in evidence until they destroyed the weapon in 2007.
The department says Alexis had repeatedly contacted detectives asking to get his firearm back, but detectives did not release it because they had not received paperwork indicating that prosecutors had dropped the case.
Alexis was taken into custody in 2004 in Seattle after police say he shot out the tires of a vehicle parked near his grandmother's home, where he was living at the time.
It remains unclear why he was never charged. Seattle police said they referred the case for prosecution in municipal court, but the city attorney's office says it never received the case file to review for prosecution.
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A recent story by Penn Live editor Matt Zancey "Late night in Harrisburg, a homeless person asks for a ride: What would you do? " merited the reposting of this contributor's piece originally published on March 14, 2013.
The ultimate goal is to eliminate it.
During the 2012 Point In Time Survey, a community-wide counting of homeless persons in a 24-hour period, 408 homeless persons including 127 children were identified in the capital region. The percentage of males was 41.1% and female was 58.9%. The majority of homeless persons were single, 75.5%, and there were 65 homeless families counted. 49.3% were African American followed by the next highest category which was Caucasian at 39.9%.
66.9% were Dauphin County residents three months prior to homelessness including 53.7% who resided in Harrisburg. 19.6% were employed. 14.2% were veterans. Of the adults surveyed, 57 (10.6%) were unsheltered; 224 (41.5%) were sheltered in emergency or transitional housing; 106 (19.6%) were permanently sheltered; 78 (14.4%) were in special sheltering programs like homeless prevention/rapid re-housing rental assistance or Safe Haven; and 75 (13.9%) were near homeless as the individual can be expected to become homeless within 30 days.
Homelessness is a very real thing beyond the numbers that evidence it exists. Throughout the Harrisburg area men, women, and children battle poverty, the lack of affordable housing, mental illness, domestic violence, and the absence of healthy support systems. In too many cases, the result of these challenges is homelessness.
Fortunately, the on-going efforts to address homelessness in the capital region are growing, remain strong, and are active. Yet, especially in our urban core, there continues to be a need for additional affordable housing and services to support homeless individuals and families.
The Capital Area Coalition on Homelessness (CACH) is a voluntary collaborative effort to address homelessness in the City of Harrisburg and Dauphin County. The Coalition is designed to involve faith based organizations, local and state governments, foundations, non-profit organizations, and businesses. The goal is to comprehensively and cooperatively combat this conquerable problem in our community.
The Coalition has fostered enhanced communication between service providers from all sectors of the community including the business community and general public. This outreach and inclusiveness has improved the effectiveness and efficiency of the programs offered to aid the homeless. CACH's efforts have reduced duplication of services and helped achieve a more coordinated approach to the homelessness problem.
Jointly funded in a unique arrangement by The County of Dauphin, City of Harrisburg, The Foundation for Enhancing Communities and United Way of the Capital Region, the Coalition is recognized as the authority and coordinator of services and housing for people who are homeless or nearly homeless in our community. Thus, CACH conducts regular studies of the homeless population and has developed a information management system that supports a number of homeless service provider organizations.
In November 2006, the City and County designated CACH as the local lead agency to implement Home Run: The Capital Area's 10–Year Plan to End Homeless in the County of Dauphin and the City of Harrisburg. This project is the culmination of an eight month planning effort by providers of homeless services, emergency service providers, regional, state and local government leaders, affordable housing providers and developers, community leaders, and homeless people themselves.
Home Run is a long-range plan to help our citizens who are homeless establish healthy and stable lives in permanent housing. Concurrently, it also establishes strategy to prevent families and individuals from becoming homeless. Its recommendations are evidence-based, and draw from the best practices of innovative programs and initiatives throughout the country.
Home Run is intended to end long-term or chronic homelessness in our community by incorporating evidence-based practices in the continuum of care. A growing body of research demonstrates that members of this group are poorly served by traditional efforts which results in a disproportionate share of emergency services and resources being dedicated to them.
As well as Home Run, CACH is tasked with overseeing the submission of the annual HUD Continuum of Care application for funding. Through CACH's efforts, more than $10 million has been obtained from federal sources to address the homeless problem in the City and County in the last nine years through the competitive Continuum of Care Grant process.
Progress is being made in address the problem in our community.
In 2012 and the prior five years in Harrisburg and Dauphin County:
- Total Unsheltered and Sheltered homeless population decreased from 432 to 372.
- Unsheltered homeless population count decreased by 34% 88 to 58 individuals.
- Sheltered homeless population decreased by 9% from 344-314 persons.
- Those housed in Permanent Housing increased by 74% from 75 to 131 individuals.
- There was an overall increase in homeless housing program inventory by 117 beds.
- Shelter and Transitional Housing beds increased 11% from 379 to 428 since 2008.
- Permanent Housing grew by 30% from 102 to 145 beds, and 25 Safe Haven beds.
- The Total number of Chronic Homeless individuals in Point in Time counts decreased by 36% from 183 to 117. At the same time the number of persons placed into permanent supportive housing beds rose from 75 to 131.
- From 2008 to 2012 homeless individuals with a mental health condition decreased from 28% sheltered and 27% unsheltered to 15% and 19% respectively. Housing options for this sub-population increased by 68 beds.
- The number of unsheltered homeless veterans decreased from 17% to 9% as 16 veterans transitional program beds and 52 HUD VASH vouchers became available.
- The number of Domestic Violence Victims housed increased from 18 to 23.
- 58 rural homeless individuals and family members served with rental assistance.
CACH's multi-year effort has demonstrated continued progress in implementing the plan. Yet, much more remains to be accomplished. These activities have laid the foundation for a successful effort to eliminate chronic homelessness from our community.
For more information about our community's efforts to address homelessness, please contact the Capital Area Coalition on Homelessness at 717-255-6587, or by writing to P.O. Box 2157, Harrisburg, PA 17105-2157.
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