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INTRODUCTION: In March 2006, the U.S.
Supreme Court (the "Supreme Court" or "Court") ruled in Rumsfeld
v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights [1] that the Solomon Amendment is constitutional [2]. This decision came after years of legal wrangling
surrounding the question of military recruitment on college and university
campuses. Many institutions had sought to exclude military recruiters from
their campuses because they found the federal law concerning homosexuality in
the military and the resultant sexual orientation discrimination to be
offensive to their institutional values. The Solomon Amendment was enacted to
override those exclusions by mandating that educational institutions afford
military recruiters the same access provided to other recruiters or lose
certain federal funds. The Supreme Court determined that this mandate is
consistent with the First Amendment and does not violate the institutional
freedoms of speech or association. This NACUANOTE provides an in-depth
review and analysis of the Supreme Court's decision and discusses the
implications of that decision for counsel and administrators dealing with
current military recruiter requests.
ADMENDMENT Under federal law, a person generally may not serve in
the United States Armed Forces if he or she has engaged in homosexual acts,
stated that he or she is a homosexual, or married a person of the same sex [3]. Consequently, military recruiters are required to
engage in sexual orientation discrimination, with the result that homosexual
recruits are automatically rejected, while heterosexual recruits are
considered on their own merits. For many colleges and universities,
such sexual orientation discrimination offends institutional values (often
embodied explicitly in institutional policies prohibiting discrimination on
the basis of sexual orientation), and they therefore object to the presence of
military recruiters on campus. Many of these institutions-particularly law
schools-have sought to exclude or limit access of military recruiters to their
campuses because they disagree with the military's policy of sexual
orientation discrimination. In response to these exclusions and limitations,
Congress passed the Solomon Amendment [4], which now mandates that if any part of an institution
of higher education denies military recruiters access to campus and students
equal to that provided other recruiters, the entire institution will
lose certain federal funds [5]. In other words, the Solomon Amendment "forces institutions
to choose between enforcing their nondiscrimination policy against military
recruiters in this way and continuing to receive specified federal funding. [6]" Despite the similarities to other statutes requiring
universities to refrain from certain acts as a condition of receiving federal
funds [7], the Forum for Academic and Individual Rights ("FAIR"), an
association of law schools and law faculties established "to promote academic
freedom, support educational institutions in opposing discrimination and
vindicate the rights of institutions of higher education," challenged the
constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment [8]. II. LOWER COURT HISTORY A.
District Court Decision In 2003, FAIR sued the U.S. seeking a
declaration that the Solomon Amendment was unconstitutional and an injunction
prohibiting its enforcement [9]. At the time, the Solomon Amendment mandated only that
military recruiters be allowed "entry to campuses." [10] However, the Secretary of Defense interpreted "entry to
campuses" to mean that institutions "must provide military recruiters
access to students equal in quality and scope to that provided to other
recruiters." [11] FAIR argued that the Secretary's interpretation of the
Solomon Amendment unconstitutionally forced institutions "to choose between
exercising their First Amendment right to decide whether to disseminate or
accommodate a military recruiter's message, and ensuring the availability of
federal funding for their universities." [12] Although the district court doubted that the
Secretary's interpretation of the statute was correct, it nevertheless found
the Solomon Amendment to be constitutional. [13] Specifically, the district court found that the statute did
not "significantly affect the law schools' ability to express their particular
message or viewpoint," [14] holding that recruiting students for prospective employment
was conduct rather than speech. [15] Moreover, the Court held that Congress is allowed to
regulate conduct even when it is expressive. [16] Accordingly, the district court denied the request for
injunctive relief. FAIR immediately appealed to the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Third Circuit. While the appeal was pending, Congress amended
the Solomon Amendment so that the statutory text reflected the Secretary's
interpretation. [17] The revised statute denies funding to institutions that
prevent military recruiters "from gaining access to campuses, or access to
students ... on campuses, for purposes of military recruiting in a manner that
is at least equal in quality and scope to the access to campuses and to
students that is provided to any other employer." [18] It was this version of the Solomon Amendment that was
before the Third Circuit. B. Third Circuit Decision On
appeal, a sharply divided Third Circuit reversed the district court's decision
and held that the Solomon Amendment was unconstitutional for three reasons. [19] First, the majority found the statute unconstitutionally
required colleges and universities to surrender their First Amendment rights
in exchange for a benefit-certain federal funds. [20] Second, unlike the district court, the majority believed
that recruiting students was speech, rather than merely conduct. [21] Third, relying on the Supreme Court's decision in Boy
Scouts of America v. Dale, [22] the majority found that the Solomon Amendment violated the
First Amendment Freedom of Association by undermining the institution's
ability to disseminate its message against sexual orientation discrimination.
[23] III. THE SUPREME COURT DECISION The
United States appealed the Third Circuit's decision to the Supreme Court. In
v. FAIR, the Court held that "Congress could require law schools to
provide equal access to military recruiters without violating the schools'
freedoms of speech or association," and therefore found that the Solomon
Amendment is consistent with the First Amendment. [24] A. Meaning of the Statute After
briefly discussing the Solomon Amendment in general, the nature of FAIR, and
the lower court proceedings, the Supreme Court turned to the proper
interpretation of the statute. [25] Although both the United States and FAIR believed the
Solomon Amendment required colleges and universities to allow military
recruiters on campus, two groups of law professors argued that the statutory
process for allowing recruiters should be read narrowly. [26] These professors asserted that to comply with the statute,
institutions need only apply the same policy to military recruiters that it
applies to all other recruiters. [27] Thus, if an institution excluded an employer who violated
the institution's nondiscrimination policy, the institution also could exclude
the military recruiters. In other words, an institution could exclude military
recruiters as long as every other employer that engaged in sexual orientation
discrimination also was excluded. While the U.S. urged the Court to
avoid addressing this interpretation, the Court determined that the issue of
whether a statute is constitutional fairly includes the question of what that
statute says, and that its "task is to construe what Congress has enacted"
rather than what the parties thought that Congress had enacted. [28] Ultimately, the Court found the law professors'
interpretation to be incorrect [29] and also contrary to recent legislative changes to the
Solomon Amendment, which had been designed to codify the Department of
Defense's interpretation. [30] B. Spending Clause Analysis Having
decided that the Solomon Amendment requires military recruiters be permitted
access to campuses and students, the Court turned to the constitutionality of
the statute. [31] The Court began by noting that, while the Constitution gave
Congress broad power to create and staff the Armed Forces, including
recruiting on college campuses, this power was subject to structural and
textual limitations imposed by the Constitution. [32] The Court then noted that by enacting the legislation
through the Spending Clause, [33] Congress chose to achieve its purpose indirectly, rather
than by directly using those broad powers enunciated in the Armed Forces
Clauses. [34] The use of the Spending Clause therefore presented the
question of whether Congress could require colleges and universities to
compromise their institutional values as a condition of receiving federal
funds. [35] In answering this question, the Court emphasized
that "a funding condition cannot be unconstitutional if it could be
constitutionally imposed directly." [36] Because military legislation, like all legislation, is
subject to the First Amendment, [37] the Court began its analysis by determining whether the
First Amendment would "prevent Congress from directly imposing the Solomon
Amendment's access requirement." [38] If the First Amendment precluded the direct imposition of
the Solomon Amendment, the statute could not be enacted using the Spending
Clause. Conversely, if the First Amendment permitted the direct imposition of
the Solomon Amendment pursuant to the Armed Forces Clauses, the statute was
valid Spending Clause legislation. C. First Amendment Analysis
Although "'judicial deference ... is at its apogee' when Congress
legislates under its authority to raise and support armies," [39] military legislation is still subject to the First
Amendment. [40] FAIR contended that the Solomon Amendment violated both the
First Amendment Freedom of Speech and the First Amendment Freedom of
Association clauses. 1. Free Speech Analysis
Because the Third Circuit found three different First Amendment
Freedom of Speech defects in the Solomon Amendment, it was necessary for the
Court to address each one, and it ultimately rejected all three holdings. [41] No Compelled Speech First, the
Court held that the Solomon Amendment did not compel the law schools or
individual faculty members to engage in particular speech. The Court has
consistently recognized that government may not compel an individual to speak,
[42] but it found that "[t]he Solomon Amendment does not require
any similar expression by law schools." [43] While the schools are required to offer some form of
assistance to the military, the Court found this assistance (such as sending
emails or posting notices on bulletin boards advising of the opportunity to
interview with military recruiters), which may contain elements of speech, was
far from the compelled speech found unconstitutional in earlier cases. The
Court determined that, unlike those earlier cases, the Solomon Amendment does
not dictate the content of the speech at all, and noted that in this
case speech is only "compelled if, and to the extent, the school provides such
speech for other recruiters." [44] Any compelled speech on the part of the law schools, the
Court said, is incidental to the conduct (equal access for military
recruiters) required by the Solomon amendment. [45] No Unlawfully Compelled Accommodation of the
Military's Speech Second, the Court found that the Solomon
Amendment did not compel the accommodation of the military's speech. [46] The Court has consistently held that the government may not
compel a private party to accommodate the speech of another. [47] Those decisions, however, were limited to situations where
"the complaining speaker's wn message was affected by the speech it was forced
to accommodate." [48] Here, the Court held, accommodating the military's message
by including military recruiters in interviews and recruiting receptions does
not interfere with the law school's speech because the law schools are not
speaking when engaging in those activities. [49] The Court noted that when an institution allows the
military to engage in speech on their campus, there is little likelihood that
the views of those engaging in the expressive activities would be identified
with the school. [50] Indeed, in the Court's view, students understand the
difference between speech by the school and speech by others that takes place
on the institution's property. [51] No Unlawful Restriction of Expressive
Conduct Third, the Court found that the law schools' preferred
course of conduct (barring military recruiters from their campuses) was not
inherently expressive, and therefore the Solomon Amendment did not infringe on
the First Amendment's protection of expressive conduct. [52] The Court noted that such conduct was expressive only if
accompanied by speech explaining it and added, "if combining speech and
conduct were enough to create expressive conduct, a regulated party could
always transform conduct into 'speech' simply by talking about it." [53] Moreover, the Court noted, even if the Solomon
Amendment could be viewed as regulating expressive conduct, the statute was a
"neutral regulation that promotes a substantial government interest that would
be achieved less effectively absent the regulation." [54] "Military recruiting promotes the substantial Government
interest in raising and supporting the Armed Forces-an objective that would be
achieved less effectively if the military were forced to recruit on less
favorable terms than other employers." [55] 2. Freedom of Association
Having concluded that the Solomon Amendment did not violate the
Freedom of Speech Clause, the Court next turned to the issue of whether the
statute violated the First Amendment Freedom of Association Clause and
concluded that it did not. [56] Although there is a First Amendment right to associate with
others for the purpose of expressing a particular message, [57] the Court determined that the Solomon Amendment "does not .
. . affect a law school's associational rights." [58] "Students and faculty are free to associate to voice their
disapproval of the military's message; nothing about the statute affects the
composition of the group by making group membership less desirable." [59] The Court found that since the statute does not impinge
upon the right of Freedom of Association, it is constitutional. [60] In sum, the Court found that the Solomon Amendment
was consistent with the First Amendment on both Freedom of Speech and Freedom
of Association principles. [61] Thus, Congress could have used the Armed Forces Clauses to
impose the statute directly. And, for that reason, Congress also could impose
the Solomon Amendment requirements indirectly, using the Spending
Clause. Therefore, the Court declared the Solomon Amendment to be
constitutional. IV. IMPLICATIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT'S
DECISION The Supreme Court's decision in Rumsfeld
has several significant implications for colleges and universities. Most
important, it is now settled (barring a legislative change) that institutions
that wish to continue receiving the specified federal funds may not enforce
their sexual orientation nondiscrimination policies against military
recruiters and must provide such recruiters with access to their campuses and
students "equal in quality and scope" to the access they provide other
recruiters. Note, however, that nothing in the Solomon Amendment requires
institutions to provide any particular kind of access or service to
recruiters. To the extent that an institution determines to discontinue a
particular kind of access or service for all recruiters e.g., sending
e-mail reminders of interview appointments or distributing employer-provided
recruitment brochures, it need not provide that access or service to military
recruiters, because it would not be "equal" to do so. Thus, institutions are
free to re-examine the scope of recruitment access and services they provide.
In addition, the case has a number of broader implications both for
military recruiting specifically and for constitutional law generally:
Congress' powers under the Armed Forces Clauses are quite
broad. Given the Court's holding and reasoning in Rumsfeld,
one can imagine a host of other requirements, consistent with the Court's view
of the First Amendment, that Congress could choose to impose on colleges and
universities, pursuant to either its Article I powers to raise and support the
military or its Article I spending powers. While the presence of an
all-volunteer military makes it easy to ignore at times, the constitutional
reality is that Congress could conscript an institution's entire student body.
If Congress can conscript virtually all students into the military, Congress
can certainly require that students register for the draft. If the students
can be compelled to register for the draft, they almost certainly can be
compelled to attend an on-campus presentation about military opportunities. If
the students can be compelled to attend such a presentation, then certainly
the institutions can be compelled to make a presentation available to students
who wish to attend voluntarily. The government may, in some
circumstances, compel a speaker to speak as long as it does not dictate the
content of the speech. In its opinion, the Court highlighted
the difference between previous cases in which the content of
government-compelled speech (such as a pledge or motto that a school must
endorse) was dictated and the expression found in the Solomon Amendment. [62] The Court noted that the compelled speech to which the law
schools point is plainly incidental to the Solomon Amendment's regulation of
conduct, and "it has never been deemed an abridgment of freedom of speech or
press to make a course of conduct illegal merely because the conduct was in
part initiated, evidenced, or carried out by means of language, either spoken,
written, or printed." [63] The Court stressed that to compel a law school that sends
scheduling e-mails for other recruiters to send one for a military recruiter
is simply not the same as forcing a student to state a pledge or to display a
motto. This concept will have the effect of making it more difficult
for litigants to prevail. The fact that the government compels you to speak is
no longer enough. Rather, the government must compel the speech and
dictate the content. [64] The government may force a speaker to
accommodate the message of another speaker where the complaining party's
speech is unaffected by the accommodation. In other words, if
there is no speech by the complaining party or if the complaining party's own
speech is unaffected by the accommodation, then there can be no constitutional
violation. Although this does not appear to disturb any existing case law, [65] it will diminish the ability of future litigants to
complain about forced accommodation. First Amendment protection
is limited to conduct that is "inherently expressive." The
Court referred back to the standard set in O'Brien
and explained that "the expressive component of a law school's actions is not
created by the conduct itself but by the speech that accompanies it."
Therefore, when the actions must be accompanied by speech conduct to express
the speaker's views, the conduct at issue is not so inherently expressive that
it warrants protection under O'Brien.
[66] While this narrower standard does not appear to
affect any current case law, it will make it more difficult for future
litigants to win constitutional protection for conduct. [67] A requirement of interaction with those who
disagree is not a violation of the Freedom of Association. As
the Court observed: To comply with the Solomon Amendment, law schools must
allow military recruiters on campus and assist them in whatever way the school
chooses to assist other employers. Law schools therefore "associate" with
military recruiters in the sense that they interact with them. But
recruiters are not part of the law school. Recruiters are, by definition,
outsiders who come onto campus for the limited purpose of trying to hire
students -- not to become members of the school's expressive association. This
distinction is critical. Unlike the public accommodations law in Dale,
the Solomon Amendment does not force a law school "'to accept members it does
not desire'" [68] The law schools say that allowing military
recruiters equal access impairs their own expression by requiring them to
associate with the recruiters. But just as saying conduct undertaken for
expressive purposes cannot make it symbolic speech, so too a speaker cannot
"erect a shield" against laws requiring access "simply by asserting" that mere
association "would impair its message." [69] Again, the narrower definition does not seem to
alter the Court's current jurisprudence, but it does seem to diminish the
chances of expanding the right of Association. "[S]tudents and
faculty are free to associate to voice their disapproval of the military's
message." [70] In other words, an institution, its faculty, or its
students need not remain silent about their disapproval of military recruiter
presence on their campus, and may conduct demonstrations, leafleting, and the
like. While there no doubt is a point at which the expressions of disapproval
would constitute a denial of access, and thus a violation of the Solomon
Amendment, there still is ample room to express opposition to the military's
sexual orientation discrimination. [71] Congressional power under the Spending Clause
does not exceed the scope of its other Article I powers. The
reasoning adopted by the Court (in essence, that Congress could not accomplish
indirectly via the Spending Clause that which it could not otherwise do
directly under its Article I or other powers granted to Congress in certain
amendments) may herald a more restrictive view of Congressional authority
under the Spending Clause. If that proves to be the case, some statutes and
conditions enacted pursuant to the Spending Clause may now be in question.
CONCLUSION: Rumsfeld
has both practical and constitutional consequences. From a practical
standpoint, the Solomon Amendment is constitutional. Thus, colleges and
universities must decide whether they value federal funds more than their
principled stand that sexual orientation discrimination is wrong. From a
constitutional standpoint, Rumsfeld:
(1) reaffirms the vast power of Congress when it utilizes the Armed Forces
Clauses; (2) narrows the scope of the First Amendment with respect to
compelled speech, compelled accommodation of speech, expressive conduct, and
Freedom of Association; and (3) appears to signal a shift in the Court's view
of the Spending Clause. FOOTNOTES
AUTHOR: William
E. Thro
RESOURCES FOR COUNSEL: NACUA Resources:
Richard Schwartz, "Has
Solomon's Reign Come to an End?" 31 Journal of College and University Law
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Red-1966, 1966
Thomas DowningAmerican, 1928-1985
Acrylic on canvas
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Norton Simon Museum, Gift of Mrs. Donald Brewer
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Thomas Downing is known as the pioneer of the dot. He was a professor at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., and a core member of the Washington Color School, which included Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland and Gene Davis. These artists gained national attention for their elevation of color as subject and their related technique of staining acrylic-based pigment onto raw, unprimed canvas.
Red contains 36 crisply delineated circles, in a spectrum that flows from maroon to pink, floating in an invisible grid system. Working on the floor, Downing drew the circles freehand, without a compass, and used fast-drying Liquitex thinned with turpentine to soak the pigment onto the canvas. Slight spatial differences between the motifs and the occasional drip of pigment are the sole evidence of the artist's handwork. Raw canvas played a substantive role in Downing's color fields as it "kept light and air in the color no matter how dense or intense." The artist's dot paintings have been praised for their optical effects—the dots appear to advance and recede— and for their spiritual and symbolic qualities, based in the elemental form of the circle. However rich its associations, Red also embodies the openness and clarity that critic Clement Greenberg promoted in his theoretical writing, though it does so with a light-hearted tone, thanks to the upbeat palette that audaciously includes pink. Classified as Hard-Edge, Minimal or Op, Downing's paintings are some of the more dazzling images of the sixties.
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Hauler drivers are the Highway Heroes for RCR this week
March 6, 2013
By: Tim Packman
LAS VEGAS – Each week during the NASCAR season, a driver straps into his ride and tries to race 500 miles ending up right where he started four hours earlier. If it's done right, he gets a trip to Victory Lane and a trophy for doing it faster and better than anyone else.
That isn't the case for Richard Childress Racing's hauler drivers each week; especially this one.
They log approximately 70,000 miles during a NASCAR season for their respective teams. When it comes to the back-to-back races at Phoenix International Raceway and Las Vegas Motor Speedway, they are called upon to go above and beyond sharing driver duties from Welcome, N.C. to Phoenix International Raceway one week, then from there to Las Vegas Motor Speedway the next.
And, when the race is over Sunday, two drivers will climb into their respective Freightliner tractor and bring home the Featherlite trailer carrying race cars and equipment from here back to Welcome, N.C.
That's why this week, the hauler drivers of RCR are truly the Highway Heroes.
It all started during Daytona
Royce McGee is the Cup Shop Foreman for RCR and is tasked with overseeing and planning the logistics of how our race cars get to the track each week.
"We actually started getting all the parts and components needed for the Phoenix cars together right after the Budweiser Duels in Daytona," he said. "We placed them all in the empty truck bays and waited for the haulers to get home from the Daytona 500.
"They got back Sunday night and we sent the primary drivers home. The rest of us did what's called 'turned the truck around' by taking off the Daytona items, and loading the Phoenix ones with motors, transmissions, gears, etc.
"We had that all taken care of by 6 p.m. Monday night."
From there, the primary hauler drivers showed up and were headed out the door with their co-drivers at 10 p.m. to start the 2,130-mile trip from the RCR shops to PIR.
Taking turns driving their allotted time, as determined by the Department of Transportation, the only stops they made were for fuel, food and restroom. Each of the Freightliner tractors holds 300 gallons of diesel fuel and can go approximately 1,200 miles.
Once RCR's three Sprint Cup teams safely arrived at PIR, the co-drivers were flown back home. They went to the shop, loaded up two car haulers and started sharing driving duties back to Phoenix.
One car hauler held four of our NASCAR Sprint Cup Chevrolet SS race cars, the other held two. The No. 27 Menards team had two cars for Vegas being shipped out, as did the No. 29 Rheem Chevrolet and No. 31 CAT Chevrolet teams.
Phoenix to Vegas, the "easy" part
When the race ended at PIR on Sunday, the road crews covered up the cars in the garage area and went back to the hotel. On Monday morning, they reconvened at the race track and started prepping the primary and back-up cars for the Vegas race.
Because PIR is a one-mile track and LVMS is 1.5 miles in length, the teams needed new brake rotors, springs, shocks, transmissions, etc. on the haulers. And, because there is a test session Thursday, spare Earnhardt Childress Racing motors for each team were taken along, as well. Teams will take out the engines they use Thursday and put in new ones when the normal race weekend schedule begins Friday.
While the road crews headed to Vegas after the swap out was completed, the hauler drivers stayed in Phoenix for an extra day.
Jeff Craven is the senior member of the RCR hauler drivers, with just more than 25 years of experience on the highway.
"After the teams finished what they needed in the garage on Monday, we secured everything in our No. 31 CAT trailer," Craven said. "We took all the uniforms to the dry cleaners, went shopping for Vegas groceries and then started our haul up to Vegas on Tuesday morning.
"We kind of laugh because we say it's an easy 300-mile trip, especially when compared to the haul out to Phoenix from the shop. Once we arrived there, we parked out just outside the track and had each of the haulers washed.
"We park in the track garage on Wednesday, then get ready for the fun to start on Thursday."
While all this was going on, the co-drivers took the six Cup cars from Phoenix, loaded them on the four and two-car haulers and headed back to RCR.
"They arrived at about midnight on Tuesday," McGee said. "We're going to send them home for a few days, then put them on a plane out to Las Vegas with the road crews on Friday morning.
"After the race on Sunday, they'll join the primary drivers and help bring the Vegas cars back to Welcome. That trip is just a bit longer and comes out to 2,225 miles from there to here."
When it's all added up, it comes out to 4,642 miles traveled by our hauler drivers in a two-week period. Craven is quick to add what makes the trip more pleasant and easier on them than others.
"The way we do things at RCR is top notch," he said, while loading up items Monday morning in the PIR garage. "While you could go back to N.C. and then come back in time for the Vegas race, it makes it much easier when the cars are brought to us out here.
"Another aspect is how great the Freightliner tractors are for driving. They're spacious and comfortable on the inside, and powerful and reliable on the outside. The trailers from Featherlite give us enough room to load what we need and be legal on our weight for the road, as well."
So, while fans are watching their in-car heroes take to the track this Sunday and drive their hardest for 400 miles, think of the hauler drivers who have the longest drive ahead of them.
Craven, his co-driver James Nunn on the No. 31 team; Jeff Icenhour and Rocky Boggs on the No. 27 and Dennis Gammons and co-driver Mark Williams on the No. 29 are RCR's Highway Heroes.
"I do not envy them one bit for these two races," McGee said. "But, they are great at what they do; reliable, trusted and professional in how they do their jobs each week.
"It just happens to be a little more so this week."


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A Texas woman faces felony charges after police say she attacked a man with dog poop, accusing him of not picking up after his pet.
Rebecca Trammell, 46, confronted the man at her apartment's dog park in Austin last week, according to the American-Statesman.
After telling him to clean up after his pet, she picked up the dog feces and threw it at him, Austin TV station KVUE reported.
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According to police, Trammell threw a jagged, 6-inch rock at the man and even spit in his face.
She's also accused of injuring another dog owner by grabbing for his leash and cutting his hand, according to KVUE.
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More than 9 million children around the world are enrolled in some sort of child sponsorship program. And more than $3.2 billion go into these sponsorship programs every year. Which must mean that child sponsorship works, right?
That's the exact question Dr. Bruce Wydick, professor for the Department of Economics at the University of San Francisco, asked … and he was surprised to learn that almost no in-depth research into international child sponsorship had been conducted:
"Given the number of individuals involved in child sponsorship relationships and the billions of dollars committed to them, it is surprising that almost no research exists that evaluates the impact of these programs."
But that has changed now. The results of Dr. Wydick's extensive research will be published in the April 2013 issue of the prestigious Journal of Political Economy, a leading economics journal. And the results are quite exciting.
To wrap it all up in a pretty bow, the results of the research show:
". . . that children who participated in Compassion's holistic child development through sponsorship program stayed in school longer, were more likely to have salaried or white-collar employment and were more likely to be leaders in their communities and churches than their peers who did not participate in the program."
What Was the Study?
In 2008, Dr. Wydick, along with two colleagues, set out to explore the effectiveness of international child sponsorship. They envisioned a comparative look at several child sponsorship organizations, but we were the only organization that agreed to participate.
We did so because our mission statement is "Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name."
Not temporarily relieving children from poverty.
And not helping children survive inside of poverty.
It's releasing.
We had to raise our hand.
Because we were the only organization to accept the invitation, Wydick's research team changed its original vision of comparing sponsorship programs. They decided to focus on researching adult life outcomes of our formerly sponsored children against the outcomes of those who were not part of our programs.
You can also view Most Beneficial Part of Compassion's Program According to Former Sponsored Children on YouTube.
Is there a difference between adults who grew up in poverty and went through our program and adults who did not?
How Was the Study Conducted?
The research focused on six nations where we provided child sponsorship between 1980 and 1992.
That time period was chosen because children enrolled in our sponsorship program during that time frame would be adults when the research was conducted between 2008 and 2010.
The research studied the adult life outcomes of 10,144 individuals, including:
- 1,860 formerly sponsored children
- 3,704 unsponsored siblings
- 2,136 families in the same communities but who had no family members enrolled in Compassion's program
- 2,444 individuals from similar nearby villages that didn't offer Compassion programs
The Findings
The research found that children formerly sponsored through Compassion stayed in school longer than their non-sponsored peers.
- Formerly sponsored children stayed in school 1 to 1.5 years longer than their non-sponsored peers. (In Uganda, the numbers were much higher — 2.4 years.) An extra year of schooling could have long-lasting impact on a child's future employment possibilities as an adult.
- Formerly sponsored children were 27 to 40 percent more likely to finish secondary education than those who were not enrolled in the Child Sponsorship Program.
- Formerly sponsored children were 50 to 80 percent more likely to complete a university education than non-sponsored children.
When asked which component of Compassion's program was most beneficial, the most common answer given by formerly sponsored children was "educational support" (38.5 percent). The second-most common response related to "spiritual or character development" (29.4 percent).
Dr. Wydick refers to Compassion's Child Sponsorship Program as "the great equalizer" in that it levels the playing field for children seeking an education in the developing world. In countries where there is a greater need or where children face greater obstacles to achieving an education, Compassion tends to have a greater impact.
The research found that, as adults, children formerly sponsored through Compassion were more likely to attain salaried/white-collar jobs than their non-sponsored peers.
- As adults, formerly sponsored Compassion children were 14 to 18 percent more likely to attain salaried employment than their non-sponsored peers.
- As adults, formerly sponsored Compassion children were roughly 35 percent more likely to secure white-collar employment than their non-sponsored peers.
The research found that, as adults, children formerly sponsored through Compassion were more likely to become leaders in their communities and churches.
- As adults, formerly sponsored Compassion children were 30 to 75 percent more likely to become community leaders than their non-sponsored peers.
- As adults, formerly sponsored Compassion children were 40 to 70 percent more likely to become church leaders than their non-sponsored peers.
A Note on Comparisons
To be clear, this study does not present a comparison of our program to other sponsorship organizations. Nor does it make any claims that our program is better than any other child sponsorship offering.
In fact, the researchers say it would be difficult to compare our Child Sponsorship Program to other organizations.
You can also view Why is it So Hard to Compare Other Sponsorship Organizations to Compassion? on YouTube.
What Does This Mean for You?
No matter who you are — Advocate, sponsor, donor, non-sponsor — you now have independent, empirical research validating Compassion's Christian, holistic, child-focused, one-to-one Child Sponsorship Program.
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According to conventional wisdom, the only way for parties to exchange financial transactions is asynchronous messaging, primarily because each party uses its own, different, largely incompatible core application software. In this heterogeneous application environment, transmission and reception of messages remains the only way for disparate applications to communicate.
One-to-one message transfer is a static solution. It allows data to be sent back and forth between applications, but users cannot interact in real-time. Essentially, an event occurs in one application, then an appropriate message is pushed to another application for processing. The messaging is asynchronous: the receiving application does not send any message back nor does the sending application expect a return message immediately. The response comes later, asynchronously, and communication is possible only at the level of data exchange.
Such communication between applications resembles what happened before the invention of the telephone when, in order to communicate, people sent and received telegrams. Anyone who wanted to make a decision dependent on remote information had to send a telegram and wait until the reply message arrived. These limitations of the communication system influenced the way people did business, preventing compression of the trade time cycle to less than a couple of days. Today, the typical securities trade cycle is T+3.
While disparate applications communicate in this telegraph-like way, the typical application integration software consists of application adapters, message handling, routing, data translation, format transformation, and management of asynchronous flows of message exchange. Systems implement batch processing through an event-driven application scenario:
This scenario requires significant processing time. Consequently, traditional messaging fails to provide microsecond responses from the time a customer initiates a request to the time he can receive an accurate reply.
It is said that "T+1 aligns the efficiency of the clearing and settlement process with the efficiency and effectiveness customers have come to expect from the front-end of the trade process" (SIA T+1 Business Case - Final Report - Release 1.2 August 2000, p. 3).
What do you think of this author's approach; and have you used it in your development efforts?
Suppose that telegram-like messaging technology can be replaced. Assume that the messaging application enables you to locate a message that was just issued by the trader. It also immediately appoints a broker to handle the business data of this message and provides an entire browser-based online contextual data view showing you all previously-issued, related messages.
In such a situation, the broker can make the business decision, execute it, and notify the trader in real time. The trader can access the data immediately, analyze it contextually, and confirm the deal to the broker. Indeed, software that supports trading could establish real time chat lines between the parties involved in the trade process (broker-dealer-custodian-customer). Instead of sending messages and waiting for a reply, the parties can chat in real time. Accordingly, the length of the trade process can be compressed significantly.
The value of XML is much more than just providing a unified message format, which allows parties to exchange financial transactions. Using XML, it is possible to establish financial real-time chat lines.
Before XML, data collections persisted on the global network in the form of HTML pages. The only way to access the data was to view these pages with a browser. This resembles viewing microfiche films, i.e., pictures of data, not the data itself. In order to be extracted, data should be presented in a predefined format. Such a presentation seriously limits its usefulness. Regrettably, these HTML collections are generally unprocessable, i.e., there is no way to provide universal software for extracting data from HTML pages.
The tools to build, test, and deploy business web sites are in short supply. Many developers focus more on building attractive rather than useful sites. The existing tools fail to address the entire software lifecycle (design, development, deployment, and maintenance) in a way that is consistent and efficient.
By providing a means of separating actual data from the presentation of that data, XML offers an indispensable common foundation for extraction of data from heterogeneous structured data sources. XML allows documents to be obtainable and viewable in a contextually aggregated form.
Java and XML
XML is an essential aspect in the new circumstances. However, XML by itself is not enough for enabling coherent and semantic data viewing. An appropriate XML-enabled software technology is required for this challenge. It is a key to the next generation of the Web, and it offers
In particular, such software should do the following.
The following section explores the possibilities of such an application.
An appropriate XML-enabled application could, for example, handle FixML messaging. The FixML messaging application introduces a "from concept to delivery" framework, focusing on the following aspects of financial messaging.
An application development scenario consists of modeling application objects, their behavior, and interrelations from the preliminary analysis phase, through testing, and onto maintenance of a production system. Using an appropriate XML-enabled engine, we may graphically model the business scenario. In effect though, this model is directly setting up the working system. It may then be enhanced and used as an operational XML application.
The first stage of the modeling process is FixML scanning and investigation. This results in the formation of application objects, their properties, and contextual interrelationship. These are shown in the following figure.
The maximum amount of information that could be extracted from XML message definitions describes the interior parts (elements) of the message, but it can never reflect the interrelationship between different types of messages.
By enhancing the conceptual model of the system it is possible to introduce additional business rules, which are not contained in the original FixML. Such extensions do not cause any changes in FixML messages or their DTD (Schema). Messages and their structures remain the same as they were prior to the extensions.
Once the trade unit is defined, it is possible to enhance the application model to allow use of external services. For example, a new real-time interface to NASDAQ ("Security Rate Query"), is introduced by an application modeler.
Based on user feedback and design considerations, the model is continuously modified until it is ready for release as a production system.
Integrating information, which was dynamically fetched from external and scattered data sources, the application makes the heterogeneous content accessible, whether it is being placed in the XML-native data source or in an external, non-XML data source. The instant access to any structured data is not a dream, it is a reality.
Emphasizing value-added client services, the application extracts appropriate fragments of data from the message context and provides customers with the essential information that could never be fetched from stand-alone messages.
Business trends are intertwined with technology trends. While the business world still communicates in an asynchronous, telegraph-like way, technology has advanced to real-time communications.
We need financial applications that not only support trading but could also establish real-time chat lines between the parties involved in the trade process. The financial business world can indeed become much more efficient by the compression of trade process time.
Products and services allowing customers to adjust their business to major industry trends would
Creating a real-time working environment in the financial world is now a possibility; it's now possible to chat in XML financial messages.
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Jury sides with RRMC in lawsuit over baby's birthBy Brent Curtis
Staff Writer | August 22,2014A Rutland jury has returned a verdict in favor of a retired obstetrician and Rutland Regional Medical Center which were both being sued by a couple whose child has been diagnosed with a lifelong disability.
After less than six hours of deliberations, jurors who listened for two weeks to testimony in a case at Rutland civil court, found that Dr. Santiago-Cancio-Bello and the hospital were not liable to brain injuries that led to the development of spastic diplegia in Julia Labate.
The girl, now 7-years-old, has limited motor functions and muscle development due to the condition which her family's lawyers argued was caused by delays in delivering the child by C-Section in 2007.
The attorneys for Cancio-Bello and the hospital countered that the procedures followed the night that Julia was born were in accordance with reasonable care based on the evidence that physicians had at the time and that that monitoring of oxygen and glucose levels prior to and after the child's delivery didn't show conclusively that the injuries to the girl's brain were the result of any delays in her delivery which took place roughly two hours after her mother arrived at the hospital.
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At the corner of Beaubien and Lafayette Streets in Detroit's downtown entertainment district, there's a handsome old brick structure known as the BoydellBuilding. It's a bustling, happy place with several popular restaurants on the ground floor.
The Boydell Building was a busy place back in 1901, too, but for an entirely different reason. Back then, this was the center of Detroit's industrial district, and the ground floor of this very same building was occupied by Dodge Brothers, Inc., one of the fastest-growing businesses in the city.
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The scoring was early and often for the Horns as the team was able to find the end zone in four out of five possessions in the first half. Lukas Barcak started the scoring for the Horns on the third play from scrimmage when he raced around the left side of the Cougar defense for a 51-yard jaunt to the end zone. Jessie Haros added the PAT to make it 7-0, George West, with a little more than eight minutes in the first half. The next time the Horns got the ball, it took them just three plays to hit paydirt again. After a long 60-yard run by Hudson Wallace to set the Horns up at the 1-yard line, Enrique Nieto dove in for the second score of the night. Andrew Katfey then passed to Joseph Feist for the 2-point conversion to make it 15-0, George West, with 6 minutes to play.
The Cole offense didn't have much going for it through the night, as it would punt the ball away a total of seven times during the game. But on the team's third possession, a fake punt conversion for a first down would set them up with their best opportunity of the night, at about George West's 15-yard line. A few plays later, Cole quarterback Andre Terrell hit Patrick Height in the corner of the end zone for Cole's lone score of the night. The PAT put the score at 15-7, to end the first quarter. That is as close as the Cougars got.
George West then added two more scores in the second quarter to extend its lead. The first touchdown was a 9-yard scamper by Katzfey to cap a six-play drive that covered 60-plus yards. The PAT by Haros put George West up 22-7 with 9:34 till halftime. Midway through the quarter, Katzfey connected with Feist again, this time for a 30-yard touchdown pass. Haros split the uprights again on the PAT to put the good guys up 29-7 at halftime.
The second half began just as the first would end, with the Horns moving the ball at will against the Cougar defense. George West received the kickoff to start the quarter, and covered 70 yards in six plays on the way to the end zone. Barcak raced in from 7 yards out for his second rushing touchdown of the night. The PAT made it 36-7, George West, with 9:24 left in the third quarter. On the Cougars next possession, sophmore Josey Blevens picked off a pass and returned it 70 yards, down to the Cole 5-yard line. On the next play, Bobby Torres pounded in for the Longhorn touchdown. The PAT by Haros put George West up 43-7 midway through the quarter.
The final score of the night for the Horns was another rushing touchdown when Matthew Martinez ran around the right end from 10 yards out to make it 49-7, George West.
This Friday, the Longhorns will travel to Goliad to take on the Tigers in what looks to be their toughest district match-up since the Marion game. Game time is 7:30 pm at Tiger stadium.


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Good morning. It's the Freedom New Mexico Monday briefing.
A little help from friends
Eastern New Mexico….fifth-grader Linda Mariana of Napa, Calif., needs your help to complete a school project.
She's putting together a PowerPoint report on New Mexico and needs pamphlets, postcards, souvenirs and the like from the region. A nice letter couldn't hurt either.
Here's an address:
Linda Mariana
c/o Mr. Franco's class
Napa Valley Language Academy
2700 Kilburn Ave.
Napa, CA 94558
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Peanut butter and what?
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Children in kindergarten through sixth-grade can watch the movie "Legend of the Guardians:
The Owls of Ga'Hoole," rated PG, at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at Portales Public Library. Admission is free.
Today in history
On this day in 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention — the telephone.
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Tonight — Partly cloudy. Lows in the 30s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.


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