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NAS Taps Three Industry Execs, No Enviros to Forest Management Panel The National Academies of Science has appointed three vice presidents of the forest products industry to the committee that will study how forest management practices affect water quality. The group includes George Weyerhaeuser, Jr., whose numerous jobs at Weyerhaeuser have included running containerboard plants and sawmills. Other industry consultants on the 11-member panel included Michael Kavanaugh of Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. and Suzanne Birmingham Walker, a former Forest Service staffer who now runs Azimuth Forest Services, Inc.
Former Corps' Chief of Engineers Latest Profiteer from Revolving Door The consulting firm run by retired General Robert Flowers, Chief of US Army Corps of Engineers from 2000 to 2004, has been selected to lead major reconstruction of the New Orleans levee system. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) press said Flowers tenure as Chief of Engineers was marked by "questionable navigation projects in New Orleans at the expense of flood and hurricane protection." Flowers, now CEO of HTNB Federal Services Corporation, will act as the Corps' general contractor, offering technical services to assist in the rebuilding of the same flood control systems he previously neglected. "This is like hiring Michael Brown to reform FEMA," Jeff Ruch, executive director of PEER, said.
Former Head of FDA Under Investigation for Disclosed Stock Sales Lester Crawford, the former FDA Commissioner who abruptly resigned amid allegations of conflicts of interest last September, sold stock in a medical device firm just weeks before his resignation, the Associated Press reported. Financial documents released by the AP showed Crawford sold more than $50,000 worth of shares in Teleflex in the fall of 2005 after claiming on financial disclosure forms a year earlier than he had sold a smaller block of shares in the firm at the request of an ethics officer. Crawford is now senior counsel at Policy Directions, Inc., a Washington firm that lobbies on behalf of pharmaceutical companies. The government is investigating Crawford's financial dealings.
Stronger Coal Waste Rules Urged After Protests Remove Industry Consultants The National Academies of Science last week recommended "robust" government oversight of coal combustion wastes deposited in abandoned coal mines. Environmental groups and local residents in mine areas say the wastes pose a hazard to local water supplies. In October 2004 The Clean Air Task Force, the Center for Science in the Public Interest's Integrity in Science project and 40 other groups protested the presence of industry-funded scientists on the Managing Coal Combustion Residues in Mines Committee. The NAS subsequently removed two of the scientists with close ties to the coal industry and another resigned. "If the committee composition had not been changed so radically, the report would be very different...[and would have] likely resulted in a recommendation that federal minimum standards are not needed," said Lisa Evans, a staff attorney for the Clean Air Task Force.
Proposed EPA Standards for PM Challenged by Outside Scientists A second outside Environmental Protection Agency advisory committee has challenged the agency's proposed particulate matter (PM) rule. The Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee wrote a consensus letter last week to EPA Commissioner Stephen Johnson recommending that the EPA's proposed fine and coarse PM standards issued last December be lowered because they do not "provide adequate protection for infants and children." The EPA proposed lowering the limit to 35 micrograms per cubic meter daily for PM2.5 (fine airborne particles less than 2.5 microns in diameter that typically come from burning fossil fuels). This was the highest possible level recommended by the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, which itself urged Johnson to reconsider lower PM2.5 standards. CASAC's February letter criticized EPA for not analyzing lower PM2.5 levels below 14 micrograms per cubic meter annually and 30 micrograms per cubic meter daily.
Industry Launches New "Grassroots" Group to Gut Environmental Laws Timber industry lobbyists in Oregon have launched another phony environmental group aimed at gutting environmental laws, the journal Environmental Science & Technology reports. Save Our Species Alliance (SOSA) is the second organization run by Tim Wigley, executive director of PAC/West Communications and a timber industry fund-raiser/lobbyist. The new group's goal is to weaken the Endangered Species Act. Wigley previously created Project Protect, which pushed passage of President Bush's Healthy Forests Initiative to increase logging on federal lands. Richard Pombo (R-CA), chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources, recommended Wigley for an award for his work on the Healthy Forests legislation. "Tim's efforts in leading the grassroots campaign 'Project Protect' without question helped position the Healthy Forests Restoration Act for successful passage in the U.S. Congress," Pombo said.


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Release Date: 2012-08-29 (Limited)
Genre: Drama,
Rating: R
Duration: 1hr 34min
"Little Birds" emanates both a harsh reality and an innocent luster as it explores the vigorous desire to escape one's home-and the heavy price it can cost. Fifteen-year-old Lily and her best friend, Alison, live on the shores of the Salton Sea. Sprinting toward adulthood, Lily wants to escape her depressing hometown. But Alison is content with her life; she enjoys being sheltered from the uncertainty of growing up. When the girls meet three street kids, Lily convinces Alison to follow the boys to Los Angeles. Thrust into a world of excitement and danger, the girls must decide how far they are willing to go to get what they want.
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By Stephen Trembley
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FRESNO, Calif. --- Fresno State had the relentlessly physical Nevada Wolf Pack right where it wanted, but didn't convert enough shots with the game on the line and fell 79-76 in the Bulldogs' fourth-ever triple overtime game on Saturday night at the Save Mart Center.
"We talk all the time about how we're never going to get too high or never going to get too low," first-year Fresno State head coach Rodney Terry said. "Are we disappointed with the outcome of tonight's game? Absolutely! But we feel like we could compete with anyone on any given night, we do."
The 'Dogs went blow-for-blow with the conference-leading Wolf Pack and gave everyone in attendance a rousing effort that featured 32 lead changes and 19 ties.
Bulldogs' junior forward Kevin Foster and senior guard Jonathan Wills chalked up double-doubles to lead four 'Dogs in double figures and five with more than 40 minutes of action.
Foster chalked up a career-high 24 points on 8-of-12 from the field and added 12 rebounds while Wills scored 19 points to go with 10 rebounds. Sophomore guards Tyler Johnson and Kevin Olekaibe added 13 and 11 points, respectively. Senior point guard Steven Shepp tied his career-high by dishing out 11 assists and also chipped in four points in joining Hut with a game-best 53 minutes played.
But Foster, Johnson and Olekaibe all fouled out in the final minute of the third overtime and Nevada used strong showings by Duke transfer Olek Czyz (25 points/11 rebounds) and senior Dario Hunt (20 points/15 rebounds) to slip past the Bulldogs and clinch at least a share of the Western Athletic Conference regular season championship.
"Both teams didn't want to lose," Nevada coach David Carter said. "[Both teams] really battled to win the game. [Our] guys had to find the will to win considering we were playing on the opponent's floor. [They] showed their will tonight to win the game."
Nevada's will was more than tested - it was challenged for a full 55 minutes of heart-stopping basketball before a national audience on the final broadcast of the WAC Sports Network.
Neither team led by more than six points, which came when the Pack held a 53-47 advantage with 5:53 remaining in regulation.
That's when Olekaibe, who was coming off scorching Seattle U for a career-high 43 points on Thursday, heated up and smoothly stroked back-to-back 3-pointers to force overtime.
All three extra sessions were tightly contest until Czyz, who had been whistled for his fifth foul late in first overtime before the referees decided to change the call, tapped in a putback with 55.3 seconds remaining in the third overtime and drew Foster's fifth foul.
"It's tough," Foster said of being forced to sit for the final minute due to fouls. "I felt like if I never would have fouled out I could have really helped the team (even more)... but my team played hard out there all night."
Deonte Burton calmed converted two free throws with 21.4 seconds left that sealed the hard-fought battle between longtime rivals for Nevada (23-5, 11-1 Western Athletic), who will move with Fresno State to the Mountain West for the 2012-13 season.
The loss dropped Fresno State (13-17, 3-9 WAC) to 0-3 this season in overtime games and 2-2 all-time in triple overtime contests.
Fresno State will have this week to move up to the No. 6 seed at the WAC Tournament. The 'Dogs need to beat either Louisiana Tech or New Mexico State, or have San Jose State lose to either Utah State or Idaho to secure at least the No. 7 seed.
All-session WAC Tournament tickets are available through the Bulldog Ticket Office or by calling 559-278-DOGS.
"We Are Your Team!" --- The `Dogs close the regular season by hosting Louisiana Tech (March 1) and New Mexico State (March 3). The Thursday night game is part of the "Pack the House" doubleheader challenge with women's basketball with the men's tip off slated for around 8 p.m. The game against New Mexico State features a special $21 single-game ticket package that also includes a hot dog and medium soda. You can listen to the 'Dogs all season on the radio dial at KMJ 580 AM and make sure to follow @RodneyTerry on Twitter for updates direct from the head coach.
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Lecture, Jobs & Vacancy in Education at The Rajasthan Public Service Commission, Ajmer Jun 2012
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Rajasthan State Eligibility Test for Lectureship 2012
The Rajasthan Public Service Commission, Ajmer invites Online Application Form for the StateEligibility Test for Lectureship in various subjects.
Application Fee : Rs. 650/- (Rs. 350/- for BC/SBC and Rs.200/- for SC/ST) should be submitted by candidates through E-Mitra Kiosk, C.S.C. Center authorized by the Rajasthan Govt. The candidate should pay a sum of Rs. 40/- (Rs. 30/-for filling of the application form + Rs. 10/- for depositing of examination fee extra.
How to Apply : Apply Online at RPSC The applicant should fill up the online application form according to his/herrelevant category for which he/she is eligible. The creamy layer candidates of backward class/Special backward class of Rajasthan and theSC/ST/OBC/S.B.C. (creamy layer/Non-creamy layer) candidates other than Rajasthan, come intoGeneral category.
General Instructions:
I. Admission Cards for the test containing the time-table will be uploaded on the website of thecommission i.e. www.rpsc.rajasthan.gov.in. about two weeks before the commencement of the test.The candidates are advised to Download Admission Card from the above website. The candidatesshould bring any of his additional Identity Cards containing his/her photo.
II. Candidates are advised to fill in all the columns correctly in Online Application Form. Informationgiven by them are read and entered as such by the computer itself and will be taken as final. Nofurther communication in this regard will be entertained by the Commission.
III. The candidates should note that their candidature for the test shall be PROVISIONAL. No candidateshall be permitted to the test unless he/she holds a valid admission card for the test.
IV. The use of calculator / Log tables / Cellular / Mobile phone / Pager etc. are not allowed inside theexamination hall.
V. All disputes arising and pertaining to the conduct of these tests shall fall within the jurisdiction of theRajasthan High Court at Jaipur bench only.
VI. No. T.A. will be paid to candidates.
VII. In all matters, the decision of the Commission shall be final.
VIII. Candidates will not be allowed to write any question from the Test Booklet on the Admission Cardor on any other paper etc.
IX. The commission may change the center (s) or date of examination without assigning any reason.
IX. The candidate should note in particular that if he/she is allotted the same center for the SET exam. inwhich he/she is employed, he/she should bring it to the notice of center superintendent andCommission immediately for reallocation.
X. The candidates must affix their recent passport size photograph (all photographs must be from thesame negative) at the decided place indicated in the Application Form and should sign across thephotograph at the top after it is affixed so that part of the signature spreads over the ApplicationForm beyond the photograph, otherwise it will be rejected.
XI. The candidates who have appeared or will be appearing at their Master's Degree Final Examinationmust get the 'Attestation' given at the bottom of the Application Format signed by the Head of theInstitution / Department
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Candidates who have appeared OR will be appearing at the qualifying Master's degree (final year)examination and whose result is still awaited OR candidates whose qualifying examinations havebeen delayed may also apply for this Test. However, such candidates will be admitted provisionallyand shall be considered eligible for Lectureship eligibility only after they have passed their Master'sdegree examination or equivalent with at least 55% marks (50% in case of SC/ST/PH/VH categorycandidates). Such candidates must complete their P.G. degree examination within two years fromthe date of SET result with required percentage of marks failing which they shall be treated asdisqualified.Silver Touch is a leading and globally accepted IT solution provider and currently at the forefront of offshore software development to serve the people across the world. We spread our wings in the business of Software Development, Web Designing & Multimedia, E-Commerce Solutions, Search Engine Optimization, Mobile Application Development, Business Software Services etc
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WASHINGTON - Condoleezza Rice isn't the only one with a lot riding on her appearance Thursday before the Sept. 11, 2001, commission.
If panel members appear politically motivated in their questioning of the national security adviser, it could raise questions about their credibility - and the findings in their final report this summer.
Thomas H. Kean, the panel's Republican chairman, says he and Democratic vice chairman Lee Hamilton are mindful of the political overtones in a presidential election year.
They issued an edict to fellow commissioners after last week's politically charged testimony from former government counterterror chief Richard Clarke. The message: Leave politics out of it.
"In a very difficult atmosphere, in a town that is the most polarized I've ever seen, the commission is trying to do a job for the American people that is to the best of our ability nonpolitical," Kean said in an interview. "That is enormously hard to do, but I think we can get it done and people should leave us alone."
Nolan McCarty, a Princeton University professor of politics and public affairs, said Rice's testimony will offer a stern test for the panel.
"Partisanship is almost inevitable," he said. "There's going to be pressure from all quarters to reach specific conclusions either in exonerating the current administration or blasting the previous administration or the reverse. This may be the low point."
Kean, a former New Jersey governor, expressed frustration with people in Washington who he said are intent on politicizing the commission's work. While panel members are political appointees who have diverse points of view and different constituencies, they are fair-minded and get along well, he said.
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February 3rd - 7th is Take Your Child to the Library Week!
Help us celebrate here in the Children's Room by coming to visit with your child or children this week! Just check out 5 or more books and you are eligible to enter our prize drawing. At the end of the week we'll be picking several names to win a book bag!
We'll be hosting story time tonight, Monday February 3rd at 6:30pm as well as Tuesday February 4th at 10am. On Tuesday the 4th kids in K-5th grade are invited to join us for our Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys book party at 6:30pm. We've got lots going on this week and we'd love to have you join us here at the library - see you soon!
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Destroy the Shield Bunker!
This is an easy way to destroy the shield bunker on Endor. Spawn as a wookie smuggler at the rebel outpost, the southern most cp. Get on a speederbike and head towards the next allied cp. There is at least one bike at each cp so it dosen't matter where you spawn. To the right of the next rebel cp there is a trail. Go down this and through the hollow log at the end. Go straight past the imperial outpost and stop and the front of the shield bunker. DO NOT DRIVE INTO IT OR YOU WILL EXPLODE AND DIE! Get off and run into the bunker. Place all of your time bombs on the shield bunker but not all at once. Wait for each one to explode before placing the next. Then go up the ramp to the doorway. Use the bowcaster to kill the turret gunners because they are guaranteed to be manned. When bo th gunners are dead, run to the left and refill at the GONK ammo droid. Don't shoot spawners unless they fire upon you. return inside and place one more time bomb to demolish the shield bunker. Once thats done use the bushes on the left to sneak into the outpost. Wait for an AT-ST to spawn and jump in like your Chewbacca from the film. Then head on over to the main battle within the ewok camp and blast the empire from behind their own lines! Get a co-pilot and wreak havoc.
Note - The ewoks hardly help you at all if you haven't noticed.
thyats the same method i use except when i run out of time bombs i use the grenade launcher, and i do notice the ewoks are useless but if you play as them on "hunt" on SWBF 2 they just destroy the empire
Same strategy works with a Vanguard. It takes two full 'rounds' of rockets, but same result, bye-bye Shield Generator.
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Southern California hockey fans are on their toes as they watch the freeway series for the NHL playoffs. It's no surprise both teams have come this far in the playoffs, and it's exciting to see a series between two southern california teams unravel. The Los Angeles Kings definitely has the upper hand as it is winning by two games after its match on Monday May 5. This may be one of the most exciting matchups of the playoffs.
It was quite the victory for the Kings to get to this series against the Anahiem Ducks, because it was down 3-0 in its series against the San Jose Sharks. The Kings showcased its talents in round one, when it was able to turn the series around and win 4-3. The Kings is out to prove it is the hockey champion of California. It may earn the crown if the freeway series continues in the fashion it has begun.
The Ducks should not be counted out yet, because it was able to win its series against the Dallas Stars even though Dallas also took two games from its series. It was not the first two games of the series, as the Ducks have experienced this time, but it was still something it had to overcome. The Ducks finished the series against the Stars 4-2, and it is possible to pull that off again if the Kings slip. That is a big if though.
It is really the series all california hockey fans are following. Everyone wants to know which california team is going to make it to round three. They will either love or hate it, but they will be reminded that it is the best team in California. If all goes well that same team will be battling for the Stanley Cup.


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This dance tells a story of princess Rangkesari being held captive by King Lakesmi. Rangkesari's brother, prince Daha, gathers an army to rescue his sister. The Legong is a very classical and grateful dance, always performed by prepubescent girls, who can be as young as eight or nine years old. ] Puri Saren, Ubud: Monday ...
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Basically, this dance tells the same story as the 'Kecak' but without the monkey ensemble. However, a dramatic Gamelan musical accompaniment steps in to enliven the performance which is full of interesting characters, including kings, princes and princesses, different gods and even clowns. ] Puri Saren, Ubud: Tuesday, 7.30 pm
The Sanghyang dance originally developed to drive out evil spirits from a village. There are different forms, but all involve putting dancers into a trance through the use of chanting, incense and prayers. Inhabited by either demonic or heavenly spirits, the entranced dancers interact with the audience, dancing like nymphs or animals, some may even ...
A mask dance where the dancers have to imitate the character represented by the masks they wear. These can be single or group performances of up to 40 performer and show great creativity in expression due to the variety of the characters like, kings, old men, animals etc. Jauk is the solo version of this ...


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The Foundation for Criminal Justice (FCJ) stands at a crossroads in the history of America's criminal justice system. A not-for-profit charitable organization that pursues key criminal justice reforms, the FCJ seeks a fairer, more humane criminal justice system through a wide range of educational and reform projects. Today, it faces unprecedented opportunities to create a better criminal justice system. Likewise, it opposes unprecedented threats to everyday liberties posed by abuses of the criminal law.
Here are some areas in which the FCJ supports criminal justice reform projects:
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The FCJ supports myriad activities to reform local, state, and federal indigent defense systems. The FCJ embraces the fundamental concept that counsel must be provided to all accused persons at any court appearance at which a guilty plea to any crime may be entered or at which liberty is at risk. This goal remains elusive throughout much of the country.
In the wake of the severe cuts to the provision of indigent defense services during sequestration in 2013, the FCJ provided critical funding to NACDL's Federal Indigent Defense Task Force to examine the federal indigent defense system. The task force's mission included an assessment of the level of independence afforded to the Defender Services Office and consideration of whether reforms are necessary to ensure adherence to the ABA's Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System. After extensive research and more than 130 interviews with key stakeholders, the Task Force identified several significant, persistent deficiencies in the system. This report explores those concerns and offers seven recommendations to assure a robust federal indigent defense system.
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The FCJ is supporting a three-part project on the status of Gideon v. Wainright more than 50 years after the Supreme Court's historical decision enshrining the right to counsel.
This 50-State Survey of Financial Eligibility Guidelines for Assigned Counsel documents how states decide who is "too poor" to hire a lawyer. The survey looks at how states define "indigency" and whether or not that definition is consistent with ABA standards for providing defense services. It identifies which states rely on the Federal Poverty Guidelines when determining eligibility for assigned counsel, and explains the origin of the Federal Poverty Guidelines and how they cannot accurately predict who is "too poor" to hire a lawyer. The survey then looks at the fees and costs imposed on supposedly indigent defendants who are assigned counsel. These include application fees, payable at the time a request for counsel is made, and reimbursement fees, payable at the conclusion of the case or over time. The report concludes that in adopting unduly restrictive eligibility criteria and other policies, too many states have been able to ignore the central premise of Gideon that "lawyers in criminal courts are luxuries, not necessities."
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This report documents the unreasonably low rates of compensation paid to private attorneys who represent indigent defendants in state courts. The lack of adequate funding restricts the pool of attorneys willing to represent indigent defendants and creates conflicts of interest for attorneys by encouraging them to limit the amount of work they perform on a case for an indigent client. More experienced attorneys refuse to participate in assigned counsel systems that pay hourly rates far below the market rate while younger attorneys, who are often burdened by student loans, never even consider joining the defense bar. Even more troubling is the possibility that low hourly rates will encourage some attorneys to accept more clients than they can effectively represent in order to make ends meet. The result is an inadequate, inexperienced, overworked and inherently conflicted pool of attorneys accepting court appointments in our criminal courts.
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The FCJ supported scholarships that allowed over 50 immigration faculty, immigration experts, public defenders, trainers of trainers, and similar candidates to attend a March 2014 seminar on collateral consequences of conviction that included immigration-specific parallel programming.
This seminar followed the FCJ's and NACDL's other efforts in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Padilla v. Kentucky that lawyers must advise clients of possible immigration-related collateral consequences of conviction. Shortly after the decision, the FCJ suppoted the creation of a series of free, live web trainings on implications of the decision. Sessions focused on an overview of current and emerging issues, drug offenses, and domestic and violence cases.
Additionally, and with support from the FCJ, NACDL and the National Legal Aid and Defender
Association (NLADA) co-hosted a convening of leading defense lawyers,
law professors, and other stakeholders to discuss the impact of the
Supreme Court's decision in Padilla v. Kentucky. The convening, whch took place in summer 2011, was documente in the Fordham Urban Law Journal. You can read more about the convening, read the table of contents the table of contents, or contact Daniel Weir for a copy of the journal documenting the convening.
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In partnership with NACDL and other allies, the FCJ supports indigent defense reform in several states and in the federal system. The FCJ's efforts to ensure the right to counsel include support for projects including impact litigation, academic conferences on the status of the right to cousnel, developing research, reports and resources for stakeholders and reformers, and other projects. The FCJ also supports NACDL's Indigent Defense Reform and Litigation Fund.
FCJ support enabled the release of several major reports on various issues that contribute to the indigent defense crisis in America. These reports and others can be found at www.nacdl.org/reports. Some specific examples include:
The FCJ is also funding a number of NACDL projects designed to address sentencing reform after the Supreme Court's decisions in Graham v. Florida and Miller v Alabama. Both decisions are landmark events in juvenile justice; the Graham holding that no juvenile defendant can be sentenced to life without parole for a non-homicide offense, and Miller banning mandatory life-without-parole sentances for juvenile offenders. With support from the FCJ, NACDL has conducted multiple online trainings aimed at individuals who represent juveniles in adult court.
View recent trainings.
In Padilla v. Kentucky, the Supreme Court held that criminal defense attorneys have an obligation to inform their clients if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation. The decision is an important breakthrough because it formally recognizes that the sentence for a criminal offense necessarily extend beyond the conviction and the term of incarceration or parole to the critical civil consequences of the conviction. In holding defense lawyers accountable for explaining these civil consequences to their clients, Padilla represents a critical expansion of the role and duties of the defense lawyer not just with regard to immigration consequences, but more generally to the impact that the criminal case will have on the entirety of the client's legal existence. The FCJ and NACDL have been at the forefront of efforts to fully understand the implications of Padilla and help the defense bar to implement its holding. FCJ Projects have included:
On June 20-21, 2011, the FCJ supported NACDL and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) as they co-hosted a convening of leading defense lawyers, law professors, and other stakeholders to discuss the impact of the Supreme Court's decision in Padilla v. Kentucky, which recognized that the legal advice and assistance provided by defense counsel must go beyond the direct outcome of a criminal prosecution. To learn more about this event, click here.
In June, the FCJ and NACDL co-sponsored a convening that brought together criminal defense attorneys from across the country to discuss the Supreme Court's recent decision in Padilla v. Kentucky and to examine the ways in which the decision will affect defense lawyers' duties to advise their clients of the collateral consequences of criminal convictions. The discussions revolved around such pressing issues as consequences affecting immigration status and access to employment. The convening was documented in the Fordham Urban Law Journal, Volume 39, Issue 1. The volume includes the Report of the Conference, as well as the Keynote Address by New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman.
To view the Table of Contents, click here.
To obtain a copy of the Padilla issue, please email Daniel Weir at email@example.com.
Immediately after the Padilla decision, NACDL held a free online training to explain the decision to the defense bar and begin talking about how to comply. Since that time, NACDL has held a number of follow-up trainings online to help the defense bar effectuate the decision, including sessions on the immigration consequences of domestic violence cases, collateral consequences and drug offenses. These sessions remain available for viewing online, for free. To view the sessions, click here.
Overcriminalization is a dangerous trend that the FCJ is working to reverse. The problem is compounded by a system that unduly imbues prosecutors with an excessively disproportionate array of tools, including unbridled charging authority, mandatory minimum sentences, and largely unreviewable discretion to control the flow of information to the defense.
In courtrooms across the nation, accused persons are convicted without ever having seen information that was favorable to their defense. The frequency with which this occurs and the role it plays in wrongful convictions prompted With FCJ support, NACDL and the VERITAS Initiative to undertake an unprecedented study of Brady claims litigated in federal courts over a five-year period. The Study asked: What role does judicial review play in the disclosure of favorable information to accused? The results revealed a troubling answer—the judiciary is impeding fair disclosure in criminal cases and, in doing so, encouraging prosecutors to disclose as little favorable information as possible.
With the support of the FCJ, NACDL undertook a study to understand the impact of grand jury reform on the criminal justice system. On November 10, 2011, NACDL released a groundbreaking report on restoring and reforming the grand jury system--Evaluating Grand Jury Reform in Two States: The Case for Reform (PDF). This report summarizes in-depth research into the impact of grand jury reform in New York and Colorado. The report considers the experiences of prosecutors, defense lawyers and retired judges, and illustrates how reforms such as having a witness's lawyer in the grand jury room and requiring prosecutors to present exculpatory evidence to the grand jury are viewed by both sides of the courtroom as increasing the accuracy, effectiveness and legitimacy of the grand jury.
The FCJ sponsored a June 2012 forum and panel discussion entitled Prosecutorial Misconduct, Legal Ethics and Fair Dealing: Does the Criminal Justice System Need Reform? The panel focused on the extraordinary misuse of government power to create an expansive, wasteful and inherently unjust system, as well as on specific high-profile instances of prosecutorial misconduct. It discussed the problem of overcriminalization, the abuse of the grant jury system, and the systemic problem of prosecutors suppressing evidence that is favorable to defendants.
Federal, state, and local law enforcement arrest some 14 million people annual, and it is estimated that nearly 70 million adults have criminal records. There are at least 45,000 collateral consequences of arrest or conviction. This vast array of legal restrictions, generalized discrimination, and social stigma have become more severe, more public, and more frequently permanent. The FCJ and NACDL are undertaking efforts to rein in this worrisome trend.
With more than 65 million people in America having some form of a criminal record, the universality and import of the problem this nonpartisan report tackles is tremendous. With critical support from the FCJ, NACDL's Task Force on the Restoration of Rights and Status After Conviction held hearings all over the country, featuring testimony from more than 150 witnesses from every corner of the criminal justice system, as part of the research leading to this report. Included among the witnesses were those who have faced unfair, irrational, and often life-altering barriers arising from a brush with the criminal law. Many of their stories are captured in the report. And many more are available in the complete transcripts of the Task Force's hearings. With more than one in four adults in the United States having some form of a criminal record, and more than 2.2 million people currently behind bars in the United States, more than any other nation in the world, the vast impact of the problem of collateral consequences and legal barriers to reentry is undeniable.
With support from the Foundation for Criminal Justice, NACDL published a collection of individual downloadable documents that summarize for each U.S. state the key doctrines and leading court rulings setting forth constitutional and statutory limits on lengthy imprisonment terms and other extreme (non-capital) sentences.
Read about the project.
As the nation is constantly reminded, racial and ethnic disparities permeate America's criminal justice system. the FCJ supports projects designed to constructively address these disparities.
The Foundation for Criminal Justice sponsored Criminal justice in the 21st Century: Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparity in the Criminal Justice System in partnership with NACDL and other partners. This groundbreaking project brought together leading experts from all corners of the criminal justice system over two conferences to identify effective and practical solutions to end racial and ethnic criminal justice disparities. Articles from the two conferences appeared in The New York University Journal of Legislation & Public Policy and in a series of articles published in The Champion, in addition to a three-part podcast series.
Learn more about the project.
With FCJ support, NACDL produced a webinar following events in Ferguson, Mo., on polarizing issues including racism, implicit bias, disparate sentencing policies, as well as, the over-policing of minority and poor communities. The result was Under Siege: The Defense Bar Examines Police Militarization, Ethnic & Racial Dynamics of Sentencing, and Their Impact on Criminal Justice Outcomes. The panels addressed militarization, ethnic & racial dynamics of sentencing and their impact on criminal justice outcomes, as well as the historical and systemic issues associated with crime and the response of police to those communities most affected by crime, and solutions policy makers and communities can make to solve these issues on the local, state and federal level.
Learn more about the project or watch the webinars.
I no area is the role of the criminal defense more more vital than in defining individual privacy rights. The limit of the government's power to conduct searches and seizures is tested in the context of criminal cases. The constitutional validity of the government's surveillance and investigation method sis litigated when prosecutors offer evidence against someone who is accused of wrongdoing. The FCJ supports efforts to ensure that the Fourth Amendment remains a vibrant protection against encroachments on individual privacy and liberty.
NACDL's Fourth Amendment Advocacy Committee carefully and comprehensively studied issues concerning the current United States Postal Service Mail Covers regime in light of reports that the U.S. Postal Service's mass mail covers surveillance program, which secretly monitors the mail of Americans, approved nearly 50,000 requests from law enforcement agencies as well as its own internal inspection unit, all without judicial review. That report also revealed that federal prosecutors used a mail cover to monitor the communications between a criminal defendant and his lawyers, one of whom was Past President of NACDL Cynthia Orr. NACDL's newly adopted report Mail Cover Surveillance: Problems and Recommendations analyzes the issues and offers a number of recommendations for addressing the issue, concluding that 'addressing the potential for mail covers to violate the Fourth Amendment and privacy norms is more important than ever.'
Read the Report (PDF)
NACDL's Domestic Drone Information Center provides a one-stop source of cutting-edge information on the proliferation of drones inside the United States. It collects news from leading publications across the nation; features a comprehensive listing of legislative developments; and contains sections devoted to relevant case law, scholarship, upcoming events, and data on drone usage. The Domestic Drone Information Center also aggregates existing material from other websites, making it a launching pad to additional information about domestic drones on the web. This project was made possible in part by support from the Foundation for Criminal Justice.
Visit the Center.
The FCJ has enabled NACDL to take a leading role in ensuring that fundamental constitutional principles are not compromised in the name of national security. The John Adams Project, an effort undertaken in collaboration with the American Civil Liberties Union, seeks to ensure that even those accused of terrorism are given fundamental procedural protections designed to ensure that only the guilty are convicted, including, and perhaps most importantly, access to competent defense counsel who are given the resources and information necessary to prepare their case. The American defense bar recognizes that ill-equipped military attorneys, with minimal capital defense experience and inadequate support resources, cannot adequately vindicate the principles of justice which, until recently, provided a beacon of hope for the entire world. The John Adams Project is providing civilian attorneys, including death penalty counsel, as well as investigators and mitigation experts, to each of the five individuals charged capitally with causing the deaths that occurred on September 11, 2001.
The FCJ and NACDL continue to provide expertise, consultation, and support to the military and civilian lawyers representing detainees charged in the military commissions. Likewise, the organizations continue to identify and challenge the deficiencies in the military commissions system, independently advocating with respect to individual cases as well as broad policy initiatives and reform proposals. FCJ support has enabled several critical contributions in this area, such as the development of an ethics opinion supporting attorney-client privilege that was requested by military lawyers involved in military commission cases, amicus briefs challenging efforts by the government to restrict access of detainees to their lawyers, upcoming media trainings, and more.
The Resource Counsel Project at NACDL, made possible by initial support from the FCJ, provides access to technical assistance for, among others, court-appointed counsel, contract defenders, and solo and small firm defense attorneys. The goal of this project is to give all defense lawyers access to information and direct assistance on as range of critical topics from the basics of criminal procedure, to the cutting edge of substantive criminal law, like motions to challenge eyewitness identification procedures. The Resource Counsel has developed a broad, web-based technical assistance module for defense lawyers, as well as provided innumerable attorneys with direct technical assistance.
Having the resource counsel position has also permitted NACDL to obtain funding to train defense lawyers on a number of critical and topical issues. With support from the FCJ, NACDL coordinated a series of webinars to ensure that the criminal defense bar understands the implications of the Padilla v. Kentucky, Graham v. Florida, Miller v. Alabama, and Jackson v. Hobbs decisions. The trainings have been made available online without any charge, and remain available on demand, in an effort to reach the broadest possible audience. In addition, and with support from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, NACDL's Resource Counsel has coordinated several national trainings that educate attorneys on litigating post-conviction innocence claims involving mainly flawed forensic evidence.
The FCJ is concerned about the impact of money in judicial elections on judicial attitudes toward criminal defendants. Too often, judges are attacked in elections as being "soft of crime." The FCJ is concerned that these attacks compels judges to set extreme bail, and oversentence criminal defendants, among other things. NACDL wrote an amicus curiae brief on the link between judicial elections and overly harsh treatment of criminal defendants in the case of Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. That brief is available here.
To look more closely at this issue, the FCJ has provided funding to NACDL to work in the area of judicial independence. With this funding, NACDL recently co-sponsored and helped to organize a conference on judicial independence at DePaul College of Law. Speakers at the conference included Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kilbride and former Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Baker. More information on this event can be found here.
With support from FCJ, NACDL instituted a minority fellowship program in criminal defense law. The purpose of the fellowship is to increase diversity in the criminal defense bar by giving underrepresented populations an opportunity to gain experience in a criminal defense law practice. Under this program, NACDL is able to hire minority law fellows who spend eight weeks working in a criminal defense law practice at the offices of exceptional, experienced NACDL members. Over the first three years of the program, NACDL placed between two and five fellows each summer. Fellows actively intern in the assigned criminal defense law office and are also invited to participate in NACDL events and networking opportunities throughout the summer.
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Answers to some of the HIM's most frequently asked questions are listed below. If you have additional questions, please contact Health Information Management at 641-428-7274 during normal business hours.
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The morning of the big reunion, we were joined by George, Paul's twin brother, who still travels back and forth to Moscow for work and had helped me orchestrate the meeting between father and son. In the taxi to the Sokolov dacha (country house) in a small town outside Moscow, Paul and George abruptly asked the driver to pull over. They wanted to get out—only for a few minutes, they promised—to check out Poklonnaya Hill, which the Soviet government originally erected in the 1960s to commemorate Russia's victory over Napoleon but now stands as a monument to every victory and fallen soldier since.
"Hey, look, a T-72!" said Paul. He's an armaments freak—every city we set foot in we're forced to pay a visit to whatever war memorial has been erected—but his current interest in the tank on the hill was, I realized, more about avoidance than tourism. "Here, let's climb up and see it."
"We're going to be late," I said. I was worried that Paul would chicken out, as he had with his grandmother 18 years before. Then there was the afternoon two years after that, when we were living in New York and I had to return to Moscow for a story. Paul helped me into a taxi to JFK airport with this odd request: "You should go ahead and find my father if you have time," he had said, before kissing me good-bye, using a tone that would have been appropriate for suggesting I try to squeeze in a visit to the Bolshoi Ballet. In that instant, as the door of the taxi slammed, I realized my husband had been saying one thing all these years—"I don't want to meet my father"—while secretly wishing to do the opposite. And it was my duty, as the sole representative of his new family, to help him reconnect with his old one.
I thought, simply by finding his father, I had succeeded, but when Paul never responded to Pavel's long letter of apology after our brief meeting, I did what I could to bridge the gap. I sent my father-in-law birth announcements for all three kids, and a holiday card every December, so Pavel could watch his American grandchildren grow. Meanwhile, my husband bonded with my own father, who'd raised four daughters but had no sons. Their relationship fed them both in places neither knew they'd been starving, until Dad's early demise at 67 left us both grieving.
Paul, his brother, George, and my kids were now mounting a tank that looked like the one I'd scaled the first day of the coup to get a better shot of the crowds, only to be photographed by the Associated Press myself and subsequently splashed across the front sections of USA Today and the New York Times, erroneously identified as a brave patriot.
I was about to play the killjoy again when my daughter stepped in. "Come on, Dad, I don't want to be late."
PAUL SQUEEZED my hand as we pulled up in front of the modest dacha that has been in the Sokolov family
for four generations. The rough-hewn cabin stood in stark contrast to some of the newer dachas built in the same region by Russian oligarchs and their ilk: vast, over-the-top monstrosities that have sprouted like the wild mushrooms native to this Tolstoyan countryside.
After meeting his half sisters, Nadia and Katya, my husband came face-to-face with his father in the dacha's tiny vestibule, both of them glancing at their feet while shaking hands. Sasha broke the ice by giving her new grandfather the kind of bear hug she used to give my dad while adorably mangling the Russian word for "hello," zdrastvooitye.
"Let's go outside," Pavel responded in Russian, grabbing Sasha's hand. "It's too cramped in here." Pavel, a retired hematologist who now works at the Russian equivalent of the National Institutes of Health, has Parkinson's, but his shaking hand grew steady in Sasha's.


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After more than a quarter century spent representing commercial photographers, bi-coastal talent agency Sharpe + Associates is welcoming a new breed of creative talent under its wing--motion graphics artists. FIDMDigitalArts.com is thrilled to share an exclusive interview with founder/president John Sharpe who gave us insight into his views on the future of digital media, the qualities that set you and your motion graphics reel apart from the crowd, and his passion for infographics. Read more on the FIDMDigitalArts.com Blog.
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Graphic Design Student Danielle Heer has a dynamic background in film editing, photography and beauty, which have shaped her graphic design work in FIDM's Graphic Design/Entertainment program. Read FIDMDigitalArts.com's interview with Heer about the designers and photographers that inspire her work and her interest in photo retouching.
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Since 1991, the Center for Women's Global Leadership has held the 16 Days of Activism, a time each year for us to recognize the global threat that gender violence represents. The sixteen days begin today—with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women—and run through to Human Rights Day, December 10. During this time, we shed a spotlight on the pervasive spread of gender violence—the women who have been killed, the lives that have been threatened, the communities that have been destroyed—but we also gear up for action.
We need solutions and, for that, we need to be creative. For the next sixteen days, until December 10, we are starting a marathon, a blogging marathon. We aim to post at least one entry per day, and we'll share some of the ideas that have emerged from all the years of our work and of our allies' work around the world. We hope you'll join us.


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Limerick Structure
Limerick is a kind of poetry that has a unique place in English comic poetry. It consists of five lines, three trimetres (first, second and fifth) and two dimetres (third and fourth), which rhyme according to the AABBA scheme. Rhythm is prominent and somewhat blatant anapaest – two short syllables and one long. The meter is pretty inflexible, so variations are frequent. The first verse usually introduces a person or a place ("There was a …") and it ends with their name. The theme is diverse and it is primarily linked to human characteristics, morals and customs.
Here's an example of how Limerick for children should look..
There was a bold pirate of Boulder Whose cutlass was slung from his shoulder. He'd mighty fine notions Of plundering oceans, But his mom said: "Perhaps, when you're older"
Graham Lester
A true limerick has a situation twist, usually in the last verse. It ends in an unusual or incredible rhyming, which provokes laughter, and the contrast can be contained in in a way in which the rhyme is deliberately distorted. Best limericks abound in hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, internal rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and other figurative means.
Types of limerick poems
They are usually divided into fine (clean) and crude (dirty) limericks. Some of them are limericks for children, others romantic, historic and other. The most popular ones are erotic or political, sardonic and provocative in character, with offensive and vulgar content and streaked with sharp satire and irony. Variations forms are often, eg double Limerick, expanded limerick, clerihew, limeraiku, gimerick, macaronick and others.
The origin and development of Limerick
Limerick has existed for hundreds of years, and its roots are not quite determined. The first collections of limericks in English have been made around 1820. The best known is the collection of Edward Lear – Book of Nonsense (1846).
Some argue that there are some Limericks in the work of Chaucer, Shakespeare (Othello, Tempest), and Dickens. Many prominent writers have experimented with this form – Roseto, Tennyson, Swinburne, Kipling, Twain, RL Stevenson, Asimov, and today the Internet is a rich and interesting source of modern Limerick. Contests and correspondence are organized in the form of Limerick, and newspaper headlines are regularly connected to this kind of poetry. There are even entire dictionaries in the form of Limerick – OEDILF, The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form, with over 4500 terms explained in this form.
Limerick poems are written in other languages, Russian, Polish, Italian, and Icelandic. Because the meter is the constraining factor for some languages, such as French, or Latin, German, more successful examples of this form are produced in languages that have a natural rhythm similar to English, the fact is that in the modern world Limerick is universally attractive for reading and writing, primarily because concision, rhythm and humor.
It is interesting that women are very involved in the creation of Limerick on the Internet, although few of them issued a book or similar. It is possible that the anonymity provided by the Internet frees lascivious female expression. Using this popular form in teaching, poetry is removed from the pedestal. It destroys the bogey and prejudices about poetry as exalted and unapproachable to the normal man or woman. In this manner, 'an entrance to the back door' can be provided into English poetry and poetry in general.


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The first data set involves five separate feature classes inside an ESRI Personal Geodatabase inside a self extracting executable:
The bounds of the regional transit authorities were digitized from the MassGIS survey-level town boundaries. In addition to the polygon layers, there is an Arc version following the same linework as the polygon.
This data is current as of January 2012.
RTAs (pGDB - 7.1 MB)
These feature classes contain the RTA bus routes. For each of RTA there is a set of shapefiles inside a zip file containing a point feature class for stops, a polyline feature class for the routes which is essentially the stopes connected, and, for RTAs that maid it available, a polyline feature class containing shapes of the routes. Each RTA also has a KMZ version of the data as well.
The data was obtained from the GTFS feeds on the MassDOT Developers page which were processed into KML files using the python GTFS toolkit. The KMZs were generated by putting the KML files into a zip file and changing the ".zip" extension to ".kmz", while the shapefiles were converted cleaned using arcpy. All data is in WGS84
This data is current as of August 22nd, 2012.


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Here are solutions to some common problems with keyboards.
You can also try running a troubleshooter to diagnose and fix common problems with hardware and devices.
Click this button:
Fix this problem
In the File Download dialog box, click Run, and then follow the steps in the wizard.
There are a few things to try:
Make sure your keyboard is plugged in to your computer correctly. If your keyboard connects to a USB port, try unplugging the keyboard and plugging it into a different USB port.
Many wireless keyboards require special drivers to work properly. Be sure that you have installed any software that came with the keyboard. If you use a wireless Bluetooth enabled device for your keyboard, see Set up a Bluetooth enabled device.
Try plugging your keyboard into another computer. If it still doesn't work, it might be broken. Consider replacing it with a new keyboard, or, if the warranty for the keyboard is still valid, exchanging it for a new one with the manufacturer.
Turn off your computer before connecting or disconnecting a keyboard that plugs into a PS/2 port.
The driver for your keyboard might be missing or need to be updated. If your keyboard came with a software disc, insert it into your computer to reinstall the driver. Otherwise, follow these steps to update your driver.
Open Keyboard by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Hardware and Sound, and then clicking Keyboard.
Click the Hardware tab, find the keyboard you're using, and then double-click it.
Click the Driver tab, click Update Driver, and then follow the instructions.
If you are prompted to restart your computer, do so.
Turn your keyboard upside down and gently shake it. This will help remove any accumulated debris that might be preventing the keys from functioning properly.
You might also want to use compressed air to clean out dust from hard-to-reach areas under the keys.
Your keyboard layout might be set for a different language than the one you want to use. See Change your keyboard layout for instructions on changing the keyboard layout to
match the language that you want to use.
If this doesn't fix the problem, try plugging your keyboard into another computer. If it still doesn't work, it might be broken and need to be replaced.
You might have activated the Sticky Keys accessibility feature. To learn how to disable Sticky Keys, see Make the keyboard easier to use.


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The Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) provides New York City youth between the ages of 14 and 24 with paid summer employment for up to six weeks in July and August. Participants work in a variety of entry-level jobs including:
SYEP also provides workshops on job readiness, career exploration, financial literacy and opportunities to continue education and social growth.
Programs are located in community-based organizations in all five boroughs of New York City. Youth can apply for the program online or at a community-based organization during the application period. Participants are selected by lottery for the program.
Specialized programming for disabled, foster care, runaway/homeless and court-involved youth are also available.
The deadline to submit applications was 4/29/2016. No further applications are accepted.
The Department of Youth and Community Development is an equal opportunity employer/program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.


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Please come to the writing salon!
The Little Bird Writing Contest opens on March 1st!
Our judge is the acclaimed Alix Ohlin, author of The Missing Person, Babylon and Other Stories, Signs and Wonders, and the Giller-nominated Inside.
The top three stories will be published in the anthology, and I'm giving a story critique and a private mentoring session to the first prize winner. T
o celebrate the contest kick-off, Alix and I are hosting a live chat — or, as we're calling it, a writing salon!Even if you aren't entering the contest this year, please do join us for the salon.
We'll be talking about how we write: I will ask her about how she wrote her story collections, how she wrote her novels, and how she works with first drafts and revision.
What do you want to know? We're also taking your questions: call in to participate in the live Q+A!
Join us on March 1st at 2pm EST / 11am PST for an hour of inspiring discussion about the writing craft with Alix Ohlin. If you can't make it live, don't worry — everyone who is registered will get the recording. You can send a question in ahead of time, too! We promise to answer as many as we can.
DATE: Friday March 1st
TIME: 2pm EST/ 11am PST
WHERE: On the phone, from anywhere
See you then!
My question for the writing salon: I write, it's short, I like it, I can't seem to change anything – but I'm sure it's not good enough! How can I enter into a meaningful editing phase, either as my own editor or choosing someone else?
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Event Date: 02/08/2013Event Time: 9:00 AM - 2:30 PMLocation: 1 Crown Way, Philadelphia, PA. Located in Northeast PhiladelphiaDescription: Students will be provided with the history of Crown Holdings and information about their products. Graduates will talk about their experience within the organization. Both the VP of HR and a Recruiter will be giving a tour and the presentation. In addition, they will give information about what they look for in candidates for employment and for Internship opportunities.
Students must provide their own transportation and pre-register in Grace Hall 150, Co-op and Career Services.
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You Are Dumb, which is not a blog, posts new columns every weekday, except for most Tuesdays and the occasional fuckbotch. It is also a Twitter feed, @youaredumb, with content in a similar vein but much shorter. For a take on what a blog by me would be like, check out OLDNERD.
Moronward, Christian Soldiers!
Memo to Antonin Scalia, James Inhofe, and Rick Santorum: YOU ARE DUMB.
It's like an all-stars reality show this week on IDIOTS SAY THE DAMNDEST THINGS, as three of the heavy hitters when it comes to old white Christians who are gonna kill us all in their anti-science theocracy are up to bat. I'm not even capable of judging anymore whether these are new heights in ridiculousness, but it certainly doesn't represent a downward trend.
"My point is not that reason and intellect need to be laid aside. A faith without a rational basis should be laid aside as false. … What is irrational is to reject a priori the possibility of miracles in general and the resurrection of Jesus Christ in particular." - Supreme Court Justice, As Difficult As That Is To Believe, Antonin Scalia.
Look, you balding turd in a robe, are you familiar with the concept of mutual exclusivity? I mean, you're one of nine people tasked with determining the ultimate fate of laws in our society, so you'd think you'd have to be up on that idea. But you'd also think you'd have to be up on the idea of asking questions, and Clarence Thomas proved that wrong, so I guess anything's up for grabs.
Miracles are innately irrational, unreasonable, and outside of the realm of intellect. Otherwise, they're not miracles. Same with the resurrectionizing of Jesus. If it's rational, then either you can explain it, or someone someday will be able to explain it. And if you can explain it, then guess what? NOT A MIRACLE. Maybe it's alien superscience. Maybe it's time travel. Although I can't imagine any future person going back in time, making the Jesus stuff happen, seeing that it leads to Antonin Scalia, and not going back in time again to stop himself.
Let the record show that Antonin Scalia believes that the resurrection of Jesus was alien superscience.
"Well actually the Genesis 8:22 that I use in there is that 'as long as the earth remains there will be springtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night.' My point is, God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous." - Oklahoma senator and the man who will drown us all in icecap water, James Inhofe.
Say what you like about Inhofe - and I will, that oil-sucking superstitious asshole - but at least, unlike Antonin Scalia, he doesn't pretend he's rational. He defies it, well, defiantly. And constantly. Someone wrote in a book that there will always be spring, therefore there is no global warming, and if there is, God's doing it on purpose, so we'd better suck it up and enjoy it and keep burning the dinosaur juice God put under the sand because there is no such thing as dinosaurs!
Still, scorching the earth, murdering poor people with tornadoes, famine, and rising oceans, and killing off all the fish due to rising ocean acidity from CO2 does sound a lot more like the God that's allegedly shepherded this planet for the last 2,000 years than the kind loving god James Inhofe trusts and dares not act against. But then, Inhofe has at least three gods he dare not act against, and Big Oil and Grover Norquist are shitheads, too.
"See, I always believed that when you run for president of the United States, it should be illegal to read off a teleprompter, because all you're doing is reading someone else's words to people. You're voting for someone who is going to be the leader of our government," Santorum continued. "It's important for you to understand who that person is in their own words, see them, look them in the eye ... hear what's (in their) heart." - Rick Santorum, who you get to keep hearing from because the latest primaries appear, as of the time of this writing to be refusing to settle things again.
Maybe if Rick Santorum used a teleprompter, he'd make some fucking sense. Maybe if Rick Santorum would refuse to read someone else's words, he'd stop quoting his two-thousand-year-old book and expecting the rest of us to live by it and hate along with him. And maybe if the Republican base weren't a bunch of reactionary racist fuckwads who decide to hate technology based on nothing beyond the fact that the first black President, like dozens of presidents before him, and hundreds of politicians, Democrat and Republican alike, uses it, then maybe lines about outlawing Teleprompters wouldn't actually give a complete fucking ignoramus like Rick Santorum enough traction to hang in second place in the GOP primary.
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Professor Philip Breedon is a Professor in Smart Technologies at Nottingham Trent University, he is also a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered IT professional. Philip Breedon received his doctorate from Nottingham Trent University in 2002.
In 2006 he commenced as a Senior Lecturer in Product Design at NTU. In 2010 he was instrumental in developing the postgraduate Smart Design programmes for which he is now the course leader. He also leads the Design for Health and Well-being research group. He has given guest lectures on Smart materials in a number of European countries as well as in Canada and New Zealand.
His research interests focus on the utilisation of new and emerging materials and technologies, and includes biomimetics, biomaterials, biorobotics, wearable technologies, intelligent environments and investigative research related to the utilisation of 'smart materials' for clinical and medical applications related to in vivo devices.
He holds a number of research journal editorial positions and in 2010 he chaired the first international conference on Smart Design. As Principal Investigator he and a multidisciplinary group of clinicians, therapists, surgeons and patients have recently been awarded a National Institute for Health Research innovation grant to develop a system for the treatment of facial palsy following stroke.
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It was, to say the least, a weird night at the Golden Globes on January 12. That isn't necessarily a strange thing. Although many consider the Globes to be a kind of predictor of what might happen at the Academy Awards later on, the fact is that the Globes are a different and very weird animal. There are only a very few people (the Hollywood Foreign Press) who make the decision on who wins and who loses. They group TV and movies together. All of the nominees sit at tables, eat dinner beforehand, and then get smashed on booze during the course of the three hour awards ceremony
Needless to say, this often leads to some very odd things at the Globes. 2014 ended up providing plenty of things for people to talk about this morning.
As far as movies go, the awards were all over the place and there was no clear winner among the movies nominated. That could mean a very interesting Academy Awards and awards season.
The first movie award for the night was given to Jennifer Lawrence as Best Supporting Actress in American Hustle. The movie has garnered huge buzz and many feel she will likely get another nomination for an Academy Award. Lawrence gave a strange and nervous speech where she begged that the awards people "never do this again!"
American Hustle would come away with another award as Amy Adams won Best Actress in a Comedy for her role. Probably more people have been talking about her rather daring and plunging neckline than her speech, however.
Jared Leto won Best Supporting Actor for his role in Dallas Buyers Club. Leto took a 6-year break from acting to front his rock and roll band 30 Seconds to Mars, and acknowledged that the award was a nice thing to return to. The movie also got a Best Actor in a Drama award for Matthew McConaughey who accepted his award with his now-trademark "All right, all right, all right" phrase before thanking his wife and stating that she calls him her "King."
Leonardo DiCaprio won for Best Actor in a Comedy thanks to his starring role in the Martin Scorsese movie The Wolf of Wall Street. DiCaprio stated that he "stalked" the famous director to make the movie.
The best actress in a drama went to Cate Blanchett for her well-lauded role in Woody Allen's film Blue Jasmine. Blanchett was one of several who ended up played off the stage while giving their acceptance speech.
The Golden Globes is also different because it divides up the awards between dramas and comedies. So, the award for the Best Motion Picture - Comedy went to American Hustle. The Best Motion Picture - Drama went to 12 Years a Slave.
Best Director went to Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity and he joked that he appreciated actress Sandra Bullock being understanding and putting up with his broken English. He said she thought he had originally said he was going to "give you herpes" when he actually said he was going to "give you an ear piece."
Best Animated feature went to Frozen. Best Screenplay went to Spike Jonze for Her.
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NAPPANEE — The most tense moment of the Phillip Preston Memorial Scholarship Fund live auction came when a high-stakes bidding war was waged for the last item, a Larry Bird-autographed Boston Celtics jersey, ultimately snared by Charlie Roeder for $6,200.
The most tender moment came a while earlier, when Ryan Thwaits won a Scott Skiles-autographed Wakarusa Pharmacy jersey for $1,000, then immediately walked over and presented the framed jewel to Preston's widow, Shirley.
"That about brought me to tears," Shirley Preston said of the gesture shortly after hugging Thwaits, whose father, Doug, like Skiles, played on those powerhouse Wakarusa Pharmacy summer league teams of the 1970s and '80s.
Phil Preston, who sponsored those teams and was a giving friend to virtually all in area basketball, died April 20 at age 76.
Five of Preston's many buddies — Jim Hahn, John Gemmer, Mike Scheetz, Doug Thwaits and Larry Bowers — played the lead in setting up a letter-writing campaign, golf outing, the auction and more to establish funds for a scholarship, to be awarded annually in Preston's memory to an area student affiliated with his or her high school's basketball program.
The golf and auction took place Saturday, Aug. 24, at McCormick Creek. About 175 people attended the auction.
The first-year goal from all activities was $50,000.
Preston's friends did not meet that goal. They blew it away.
The grand total for funds raised stood at $87,717 as of Saturday, according to Gemmer, with more money still possibly coming from the letter-writing campaign.
"Bill Doba, an old football coach of mine, once told me to set my goals almost higher than I could imagine," Gemmer said in an email to his fellow organizers. "I didn't listen to him then, but as I got older and somewhat wiser, I began to take his advice. (Still) I would have never believed we could have raised this much money for the scholarship fund, but I forgot one thing. This was about Phil, his life and the many wonderful memories he's left behind."
The letter-writing campaign, which stood at $32,925 through Saturday, an Elkhart County Community Foundation gift of $14,619.50 and the auction, which brought in $33,600 for 31 items, yielded the bulk of the money — capped by Roeder shelling out that $6,200 for that framed Bird jersey.
The $6,200 nearly doubled the next-highest item sold, four prime tickets to an Indiana Pacers game against the Miami Heat that went for $3,250.
"I don't know, it was for a good cause," Roeder said Monday of his purchase. "Phil Preston helped an awful lot of people, and not just in sports. The other two owners of Indiana Transport and I talked about what we might spend, and it just kind of happened."
Roeder and Ryan Thwaits, who were star basketball players at NorthWood and Fairfield, respectively, before graduating in 2000, own Elkhart-based Indiana Transport with NorthWood grad Joe Bonacorsi.
Roeder said Bird is among his favorite players, though not necessarily No. 1.
"He's just someone I enjoyed watching play and have followed (through his coaching and executive positions) with the Pacers," said Roeder, who plans to keep the jersey at home, not work.
Ryan Thwaits, besides winning the Skiles jersey and donating a pair of Notre Dame-Duke basketball tickets to the auction, also enthusiastically served as a demonstrative bid-calling assistant to auctioneer Brian Lambright.
Hahn handled the item descriptions. The former Concord High School coach played it mostly by the script, but did self-deprecatingly offer when a Shawn Kemp jersey went up for bid that Kemp "is the all-time leading scorer for Elkhart County and considered one of the best basketball players ever to come out of Indiana — and if he had gotten any coaching, he would've been a heck of a lot better."
Hahn said Monday that the golf outing may continue next year, but that the auction was a one-time event to kick-start the fundraising.
Nineteen foursomes competed in the golf, which netted more than $5,200. Kurt Hand, Rich Brown, Adam Leeper and Jordan Adams comprised the winning team.
For a complete list of what the auction items sold for, and for information on how to donate to the Preston scholarship, visit Basket Blog on etruth.com.


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Unless you have the ability and time to shop at your own leisure in London, this sweater is your best bet to capture the feeling of a vintage English cardigan. The crest adds a youthful touch that does limit the wearer. But in a sea of drab black and gray slim-fitting pullovers, this is a welcome dash of old-world sophistication, to say the least. Few designers have the will to follow their inspirations down to the last detail, but Ralph Lauren does and you'll be better off thanks to his pursuit.
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