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FindU: Privacy-Preserving Personal Profile Matching in Mobile Social Networks
Making new connections according to personal preferences is a crucial service in mobile social networking, where the initiating user can find matching users within physical proximity of him/her. In existing systems for such services, usually all the users directly publish their complete profiles for others to search. However, in many applications, the users' personal profiles may contain sensitive information that they do not want to make public. In this paper, the authors propose FindU, the first privacy-preserving personal profile matching schemes for mobile social networks.
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Executive InsightsEfficient Processor Solutions for Embedded Applications
Accelerating Embedded Design with ARC ProcessorsAs new applications drive the creation of more advanced and more powerful processors, designers are increasingly facing challenges around power, area, and overall processor efficiency. In this video interview, Matt Gutierrez, Director of Marketing for ARC Processors and IP Subsystems, Synopsys, and Mike Thompson, Sr. PMM for ARC Processors, Synopsys, discuss industry trends in processor IP and give an overview of the DesignWare® ARC® processor family that help engineers accelerate their innovation for embedded and deeply-embedded applications.
About the SpeakersMatt Gutierrez joined Synopsys in 2000 and is currently the Director of Marketing for Synopsys' Solutions Group. In this capacity, his primary responsibilities include the worldwide marketing of Synopsys' ARC Processor and IP Subsystem product lines. Prior to joining Synopsys, Mr. Gutierrez held various technical and management positions with companies such as Cypress Semiconductor, Fujitsu Limited, and The Silicon Group. Mr. Gutierrez has over 24 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer systems and EDA industries and holds an MSEE from The University of Texas at Austin.
Mike Thompson is the senior manager of product marketing for ARC processors at Synopsys where he is responsible for the HS family and signal processing solutions. Mike has more than 30 years of experience in both the design and support of microprocessors, microcontrollers, IP cores and the development of embedded applications and tools. He has worked previously for Virage Logic, Actel, MIPS, ZiLOG, Philips/Signetics and AMD. He has a BSEE from Northern Illinois University and an MBA from Santa Clara University.


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Steve Hartmeyer of NetDevil, Ltd., the makers of Jumpgate, Auto Assault, and upcoming titles Jumpgate Evolution and LEGO Universe joins us for the first in a series of developer diaries, this one delving into the question of…
The Inspirations Behind Jumpgate Evolution
In 1977, a boy named Scott Brown saw a movie that changed his life. A love of space and science fiction was born then that stuck with him as he grew to adulthood. The movie was Star Wars, and while its story thrilled viewers of all ages, its resounding success touched off a wave of popular space action movies, TV shows, toys, and games that entertained a generation. In 1997, Scott Brown founded a company to make computer games, and the first game his company would make was Jumpgate, an online space combat and trading game that released in 2001. Jumpgate drew upon ideas from several well-known space games that had come before, such as Elite, and Wing Commander, but Scott's original inspiration was Star Wars, and his goal was to bring to Jumpgate's online audience that same excitement of space fighter combat that so enthralled him as a kid.
Scott's company, NetDevil, is now creating Jumpgate Evolution. Most of us on the development team share Scott's love of Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and other science fiction TV shows and movies, or books and games. The excitement and action we enjoy vicariously from these media are a big source of the ideas we're using to create the experience we want our customers to have when enjoying our game. Our choices of special effects, scenery, or gameplay features all often arise as things we pull from our emotional memories are reprocessed and return to the surface, when we're trying to think of ways to evoke excitement, tension, or just plain fun gameplay, within the setting of Jumpgate Evolution.
"Zeta Squadron, break and attack!"
Fighters in Star Wars flew in a manner reminiscent of aircraft during the Second World War, which was a deliberate choice intended to suggest the epic nature of the conflict depicted in those movies. The original Jumpgate development team was also inspired by battles in Space: Above and Beyond (1995), and Babylon 5 (1995), with their use of realistic physics for spaceflight instead of familiar, atmosphere-like flight. As a result, the flight model used in Jumpgate Classic and Jumpgate Evolution was built specifically to deliver the latter depiction of space combat. Scenes from Babylon 5, or from the modern remake of Battlestar Galactica (2003), showing fightercraft pivoting and shooting at targets perpendicular to their line of motion, or using thrusters to move vertically or laterally, represent the kind of tactical space combat that Jumpgate Evolution is designed to deliver.
"I do the job. And then I get paid."
Jumpgate Evolution isn't solely about fighter combat, though. Trading and manufacturing gameplay will be available for the pilot with a mercantile bent. Sources such as Joss Whedon's Firefly (2002), the genre-founding classic Elite (1984), Wing Commander: Privateer (1993), and even the Traveller role-playing game (1977) are fondly remembered by many of us on the development team, and we're working to also bring to Jumpgate Evolution something of the feel of piloting a tramp freighter, whether on the Kessel Run, across the Spinward Marches, or dodging Reavers far from the Core worlds. The satisfaction of a cleverly made profit, hopefully enough to replace that failing compression coil, can be just as fulfilling in a space game as blasting enemies into expanding clouds of plasma.
"Colonial Viper fighters, launch when ready!"
The moment of launch should be one of exhilaration and anticipation. TV series such as Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), and the original Battlestar Galactica (1978) captured this with launch sequences that included the sound of engines spinning up and visuals of the ship rocketing through a launch tube into flight. For Jumpgate Evolution, we've deliberately emulated these familiar old shows from the 70's (perhaps reminded a bit by the recent re-imagining of Galactica) and we've modeled launch tubes, created special effects and sounds, and chosen timing that are all being combined to try capturing that great, heady thrill as your ship powers up and blasts free into space.
"…Closer to one of the big ones"
In Star Wars, Episode V and Episode II, there are great scenes where combat takes place within dangerous fields of asteroids. Ships dodge and weave around spacegoing mountains and boulders, cheating death while less-skilled pilots smack their spacecraft into the rocks and perish. To bring the white-knuckle excitement of this experience into Jumpgate Evolution, we've scaled up the asteroids considerably since Jumpgate Classic, made the clusters and fields more dense, and are deliberately arranging for some kinds of foes to take refuge among them. Players will be sent on missions to clean out nests of pirates or other hostiles among the rocks, or might choose to hide among the asteroids themselves, hoping to ambush other players in PvP action. "Threading the asteroids", as performed by Han Solo, will be a very useful skill.
"Mission Update: incoming transmission…"
Players who enjoyed the iconic space combat game Wing Commander (1990) and its literal and spiritual successors, including the X-Wing series (1993) and Freespace (1998), know that in any good story or TV episode, not only do you have continuity, but the plot can suddenly twist and the mission you are on can suddenly prove to be nothing like you were told to expect in the briefing. We're writing the new missions system for Jumpgate Evolution to build chains of related missions that a player can pursue, building a sense of story-like continuity. This system will also provide the possibility of changing goals mid-mission, occasionally offering some of the same surprise and dramatic effect, or at least consternation, of a good plot twist.
"You worry about those fighters. I'll worry about the tower!"
Epic battles between capital ships have always been the high point of a fun movie or TV episode. We're building technology into Jumpgate Evolution and its AI system to handle large-ship combat, not just dogfights, so that our players can have the experience of flying among dreadnoughts in a major engagement. It's very important to us to support multiple combat roles, so that players can take part in any aspect of a major battle scenario, for both PvE and PvP fights. Some players might man strike craft on attack runs, others will pilot fighter escorts, and still others may perform recon duties or fly high guard over their side's own base or cruiser, protecting it long enough for it to bring its big guns to bear on some enemy target. AI turrets and destructible capital ship components, as well as new missile systems, heavy ship-to-ship and point-defense weapons, and an effective and customizable combat HUD are just a few of the many exciting features being created to support this gameplay.
"Brace for contact."
We're drawing on many lessons and examples from good space combat games of the past, as well as NetDevil's experience with the original Jumpgate since 2001, to try to construct the best gameplay we possibly can for Jumpgate Evolution. Ultimately, our goal is nothing less than to create a game experience that compares favorably in visual and emotional impact to the beloved movies and TV shows that are our inspiration, and delivers some of the same thrill and awe that we experienced seeing them.
– Steve "Istvan" Hartmeyer, Programmer
Quotes (in order):
(1) Cpt. John Sheridan, Babylon 5, Season Two, Episode 22 "The Fall of Night"
(2) Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season One, Episode 1 "Serenity" (pilot)
(3) Flight Corporal Rigel, Battlestar Galactica (1978), generic clip, reused throughout pilot and series
(4) Han Solo, Star Wars, Episode V
(5) Pretty much any single-player space combat game of the 1990's as bad news reaches the player.
(6) Luke Skywalker as Red Five, Star Wars, Episode IV
(7) Cdr. William Adama, Battlestar Galactica (2003), miniseries/pilot


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By Mark Bashore • Apr 23, 2012
About 1800 runners braved blustery conditions Sunday for what organizers call the first ever Lansing Marathon.
The event also included a half-marathon, a 5 kilometer course and options for relay teams. WKAR's Mark Bashore was on hand in downtown Lansing for the start and the finish. He also visited other sections of the 26 mile course in Lansing and Aleidon Township, and turns in this audio postcard.


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E465 Questions, Autoresume and car sound system noises
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Does this device not have an auto-resume function? I find that it's very easy to power back up, but it doesn't start playing unless I manually hit play. Is there an option somewhere that I'm missing?
When I plug my player into the AUX port of my car, I get a lot of white noise unless I turn the player's volume to max. Is this a defective device? Or is there a known reason for this (and hopefully a solution)?
I looked for a auto resume function until I realized Sonys sleep instead of turning fully off for several hours. If mine resumed instead of waking for a few seconds and turning back off again I can't think of how many times the battery would have been inadvertently drained.
It usually considered best to control the volume at the last point in a audio chain. That's why you get the noise until you max the volume. I'd just turn the volume on the player up all the way and control the volume through the sound system.
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Directions to Bettcher Industries
Bettcher Industries is located off State Route 60. While overlooking the Ohio Turnpike, there is no exit. When traveling on the Turnpike, take the Baumhardt Road exit, turn heading south. At highway 113 turn right (West) until you reach State Route 60 and turn right (North). The entrance to Bettcher Industries is marked with at State Route 60. Please follow the entrance road past the red building at Route 60 to the main building.


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The calendar has turned to November, and with that the second half of the 2013 NFL season is underway.
The NFL's lone undefeated team, the Kansas City Chiefs, will be taking Week 10 off.
However, there are a couple of big games, highlighted by Sunday night's showdown between the Cowboys and Saints in New Orleans.
The scoreboard may be the final arbiter, but only in the NFL will that game, and every one this week, be decided by the combination of hundreds of individual battles, be it down the field or in the trenches.
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WKU Fly Fishing Programs
Welcome to the WKU fly fishing website. Fly fishing is one of my favorite outdoor activities and I am pleased to be involved with offering many instructional programs to our students and community members.
High School Fly Fishing-Montana (summer '17)
REC 480 Fly Fishing-Montana (9/18-9/23 '17)
Fly Fishing-Montana [community] (9/18-9/23 '17)
There are currently three primary program areas we offer:
- Course with Travel (for credit)
- Workshops (non-credit)
- Travel Program (community, non-credit)
These programs are different in many aspects, but they all have a common goal of helping you enjoy the great lifetime leisure pursuit of fly fishing.
For more information, please E-mail Dr. Poff
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Dear Church Family – this will be the final week of reminders to our Church Family to prayerfully consider their commitment to the church and submitting of the Estimate of Giving Cards. The return of these cards are important for so many reasons – most importantly, it is a way for you to be intentional in how you want to support your church and the important work done within and through your church.
Thank you for taking the time to complete the Estimate of Giving Card and bringing it to church on Sunday. If you do NOT HAVE your Estimate of Giving Card handy or would prefer to simply respond to this email, feel free to use the form below and email it back to the church office at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Meet the increasingly challenging demands of nonprofit administration and learn how to improve your organization's effectiveness with a comprehensive, flexible program designed for working adults.
Gain insight into the evolving aspects of nonprofit management, including board development, financial management, fundraising, marketing, program evaluation, and nonprofit law. All taught through a cutting-edge program that equips you with the skills to carry out your mission and support your cause in the most effective ways.
Co-sponsored by the Cal State East Bay Department of Public Administration
Listed on the Eligible Training Provider List (ETPL) for Alameda/Contra Costa County
"Best in the West" college selection by The Princeton Review
Enjoy engaging, hands-on class sessions that directly apply to your day-to-day work. All taught by professors and instructors with substantial experience in all aspects of the nonprofit field, from board planning and fundraising to organizational development and financial and personnel management.
As a new executive director that did not have any coaching, this program has been very helpful with helping me to better understand the technical side of nonprofit management. There are lots of resources that the professors give to students, and you can refer to them in your daily nonprofit activities.
Do you want a rewarding career that enables you to serve others and improve lives? Working in the nonprofit sector allows you the opportunity to work on behalf of a cause or a mission that is personally significant to you and of great value to society. As employment in the nonprofit sector continues to grow, so does the need for qualified, knowledgeable nonprofit management and staff.
Opportunities for employment in the nonprofit sector abound in a number of "sub-sectors," included among them:
The median annual wage for social and community service managers was $63,530 in May 2015.
– Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor
Employment of social and community service managers is projected to grow 10 percent from 2014 to 2024.
– Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor
Approximately 1.41 million nonprofits were registered with the Internal Revenue Service in 2013.
– Urban Institute
Through coursework in the Nonprofit Management program, you'll acquire a comprehensive understanding of the latest best practices in nonprofit management. As a result, you'll be qualified to serve in a variety of influential roles:
Executive Director
Strategic Planner
Development Director or Fund Developer
Marketing or Communications Director
Grant Writer
Volunteer Coordinator/Manager
Program Manager or Supervisor
Board Development Specialist or Consultant
Finance Director or Budget Manager
Organization Development Consultant
With this comprehensive set of practical courses, I have developed a strong, broad framework of understanding and skills to advance my work with the nonprofit sector. It is an extraordinary resource.
Cal State East Bay's Nonprofit Management program provided invaluable knowledge and skills that enable me to serve effectively on a Board of Directors of a community-based organization. This program is so essential to non-profit organizations that I highly recommend it to all Board of Directors or staff. At our organization, board and key staff members were trained.
As my organization went through a phase of tremendous change and growth, it was especially helpful to study innovative fundraising techniques, hone my skills in financial management and get new ideas on how to engage the board more effectively. The program provided me with extremely useful information that I was able to apply immediately to my day-to-day job.
Because the program is co-sponsored by the Cal State East Bay Department of Public Administration, you have the unique opportunity to earn your certificate while also earning academic credit that can be later applied toward Cal State East Bay's Master of Public Administration (MPA) program.
Depending on your educational goals, you may choose to take program courses for continuing education credit (CEU) by taking the EXSP courses or for academic credit by taking the PUAD courses. With approval from a department counselor, you may apply up to eight units of PUAD courses in the Nonprofit Management Certificate program toward elective credit in Cal State East Bay's MPA program.
Regardless of the type of credit you choose, the curriculum and certificate awarded is the same. It's really a matter of what type of credit suits your educational needs.
Classes are conveniently located in the downtown Oakland Center, which is easily accessible via public transportation or car from wherever you live or work in the San Francisco Bay Area.
To earn your Certificate in Nonprofit Management, you will need to complete eight required courses and three units of elective coursework.
Courses are not sequential and may be taken in any order you choose.
Course schedules, including the quarters courses are offered in, are subject to change. For the most up-to-date information on courses currently being offered, view the Course Schedule.
|EXSP 8087: Board Development/Planning
-or- PUAD 7701: Board Development/Planning
|EXSP 8122: Financial Management for Nonprofit Organizations
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|EXSP 8101: Fundraising Dynamics
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|EXSP 8128: Marketing and Communications for Nonprofit Organizations
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|EXSP 8127: Program Evaluation
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|EXSP 8177: Law of Nonprofit Organizations
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|EXSP 8270: Ethics of Nonprofit Organizations
-or- PUAD 7714: Ethics of Nonprofit Organizations
|EXSP 8275: Developing Management Skills for Nonprofits
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|EXSP 8115: Effective Social Media for Nonprofits
|EXSP 8120: Overview of Nonprofit Organizations
-or- PUAD 7700: Overview of Nonprofit Organizations
|EXSP 8159: Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations
-or- PUAD 7709: Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations
|EXSP 8103: Proposal Writing
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|EXSP 8164: Public Policy, Advocacy and Coalition Building
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|EXSP 8987: Program Development
Sailing, baseball and effective, ethical fundraising are my passions!
While teaching capital campaigns and special event fundraising, Jim Armstrong often uses sailing and baseball references in his CSUEB classes. Beyond the classroom, Armstrong is a senior consultant specializing in major gift development with Brown Schroeder Associates. During a career that spans 40-years, he's built gift programs for Fort Mason Center, Children's Hospital Foundation, SF State, Larkin Street Youth Services, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, the University of San Francisco, and United Way. His Planning Special Events, published by Jossey-Bass in 2001, is part of the Excellence in Fundraising series for The Fundraising School, at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy. Armstrong is a frequent contributor to professional publications and presenter at professional conferences. He is an AFP-Golden Gate Chapter board member and has maintained Certified Fundraising Executive status since 1982.
I believe in empowering students to understand and tell the fiscal story. My job isn't to make them savvy accountants, my job is to give then the confidence to ask relevant questions and then understand the answers.
Jennie Brick is the senior finance and administration consultant for Pacific Training and Resources. Having worked in the nonprofit sector for over 25 years, Brick is experienced in creating systems to streamline and accommodate the challenging world of the nonprofit administrator.
She has trained management, staff, board members, and volunteers in the areas of budgeting, general fiscal operations, public speaking, and office administration. Brick works with a wide range of organizations from small to large including human service, political, arts, animal advocacy, LGBT, and health service organizations. Her personal goal is to empower nonprofits to create sustainable fiscal systems that will allow them to grow and achieve programmatic success.
It has been an incredibly rewarding experience seeing students excited and energized to go back to their organizations and help them move forward in thoughtful, strategic ways.
Jeff Cook believes marketing is all about developing thoughtful, strategic, and exciting solutions for successfully supporting and advancing your nonprofit organization's mission. Cook has been a faculty member in the nonprofit management program since 2005. A New York native, he graduated from Delaware Academy before earning a bachelor's degree at Hartwick College. After moving to California, he entered the University of San Francisco, graduating with a master's degree in nonprofit administration. Today, he serves as chief communications officer at California State University, Fullerton. Jeff has served on governing boards for a variety of not-for-profit organizations. Currently, he is Advancement Committee chair and board member for Horizon, a multi-faceted human-services nonprofit based in Orange County.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
I sincerely believe as professionals that we have a duty to bring along the next generation of professionals. The joy of teaching is to inspire students to move forward with the desire of learning and doing and not be afraid to take risks.Life is not about the ultimate destination but the journey getting there and what we experience and learn along the way.
Dwight Dickerson, Esq. is the Director of the Paralegal Studies Program at California State University, East Bay and a former member of the ABA Standing Committee on Paralegals Approval Commission and an active member of and presenter for The American Association for Paralegal Education.
He has been a member of the faculty of the CSUEB Paralegal Studies Program since 1991, and is an instructor of Contract Law and Nonprofit Law on the CSUEB Hayward Hills campus. Dickerson graduated from Brandeis University with honors majoring in American Urban Studies and received his J. D. from the University of Michigan Law School. He has been an active member of the State Bar of California since December 1977, specializing in real estate, consumer business, and non-profit law related matters.
I feel strongly that the role of Continuing Education is to provide cutting edge opportunities for students to not only build their career potential but also to prepare them for jobs that may not yet exist. The nature of the nonprofit sector is changing rapidly and its boundaries with the public and private sectors are blurring. This is an exciting time to be educating tomorrow's nonprofit leaders and managers.
For over 35 years, Kathy Ferber has devoted her career to developing the potential of nonprofit professionals and their organizations. She was an initial founder of Cal State East Bay's Nonprofit Management Certificate Program, a program that has been in place for almost 25 years. As director of the program, she has proudly followed the careers of hundreds of certificate graduates as they have advanced to executive leadership levels. In addition, she teaches the Board Development and Planning course.
Ferber has worked with over 100 nonprofit agencies throughout the state as an organizational consultant working in the fields of Board and Staff Development, Governance, Managing Organizational Change, and Strategic Planning. She began her career as a nonprofit trainer for the Agency Relations Division of the United Way of the Bay Area.
Ferber holds a BA degree in Communications and Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. She has received additional post-graduate training through the Kellogg Foundation's Volunteer Leadership Development Program, in facilitation skills through Interaction Associates.
As an educator, I strive to create a classroom community that is interactive and engaging. I keep the content current so that students are able to immediately apply lessons learned.
Kimberly Legocki has more than 20 years of marketing communication, e-marketing, public relations, social media, and digital branding experience. She has diverse knowledge in marketing direct to consumers and through multi-tier B2B distribution channels for start-ups, higher education, health care, aviation, SaaS solutions, publishing, chemicals, and industrial manufacturing. Legocki teaches undergraduate and graduate marketing courses in the College of Business Economicsat Cal State East Bay. She also teaches core social media strategy classes in the International Diploma Program at U.C. Berkeley.
My favorite part of teaching is the moment when the chemistry in the class reaches a crescendo of group interaction that leads to a heightened appreciation of learning together.
Joel Mackey is an attorney currently serving as the executive director of the West Contra Costa Public Education Fund (Ed Fund). Prior to joining the Ed Fund, he worked as the legal and policy analyst with Making Waves in Richmond, CA.
Previously, Mackey served 14 years as the executive director of East Bay Habitat for Humanity and nearly four years as the executive director of Harbor House in Oakland. He also worked as an associate with law firms in San Francisco and Chicago.
Mackey's nonprofit experience includes service on numerous nonprofit boards, including East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation, Berkeley Community Law Center, the Homeless Action Center, Consumer Credit Counseling, the People's Credit Union, and the Family Independence Initiative.
He is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary at Northwestern University. He completed his undergraduate studies at Trinity College.
Mackey also maintains a small legal and consulting practice focusing on strategic planning, organizational development, mediation, and for-profit and nonprofit start-ups.
Making sure there continues to be skilled leaders in the nonprofit sector is my passion. I love teaching the nonprofit management classes and bringing my experience, case studies, and interactive activities to students who want to be a part of the exciting and growing nonprofit sector.
Regina Neu has been involved in the nonprofit sector beginning as a Brownie Girl Scout to lifelong working and volunteering in the nonprofit field. Neu has been an executive director for two Bay Area nonprofits and held various nonprofit management positions on the East Coast. She has been teaching nonprofit administration courses at San Francisco State University and at California State University, East Bay for several years to people of all levels of nonprofit experience.
Neu is also a consultant focusing on helping nonprofits increase their efficiency, manage change, and overcome challenges. Her expertise includes board development, leadership coaching, strategic planning, and fund development.
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Health Disparities & Public Policy
Health Disparities & Public Policy is a research program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. Formerly known as the Psycho-Legal Studies program, the research group changed its name to reflect its focus on health disparities. The program's studies investigate health needs of traditionally underserved populations such as racial/ethnic minorities, impoverished persons, the homeless, and incarcerated populations. Findings from the group's studies have shaped US public health policy. Results have been cited in Supreme Court amicus briefs, congressional hearings, and Surgeon General's reports. The program has conducted studies in the following areas:
- The criminalization of persons with psychiatric disorders
- Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in adult jail detainees
- Development and persistence of psychiatric disorders in youth while they are incarcerated and after they return to their communities
- Long-term outcomes of delinquent youth after detention
- Victimization among persons with psychiatric disorders
- Patterns of service utilization in high-risk populations
- The relationship between psychiatric disorders and violence
- Trajectories of substance use disorders
- Patterns of incarceration and how they affect health disparities in psychiatric disorders and physical illnesses such as HIV/AIDS
- Mortality rates, focusing on variables associated with early violent death
The Northwestern Juvenile Project
The Northwestern Juvenile Project is currently the program's primary focus. Begun in 1995, it is the first large-scale longitudinal study of the mental health needs and outcomes of delinquent youth. We enrolled 1829 randomly-selected youth, 1172 males and 657 females, as they entered the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center from 1995 to 1998. The sample is diverse: 1005 African Americans, 524 Hispanics, 296 non-Hispanic whites, and 4 of other race/ethnicity. Funded by a consortium of federal agencies and private foundations (e.g., NIH, DOJ, CDC, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), we have been tracking and re-interviewing these youth since November 1998. Unlike many studies that drop participants if they are incarcerated at follow-up, we re-interview our participants wherever they are living when their interview is due. Thanks to the cooperation of many agencies in Chicago, Cook County, and the State of Illinois, the study retained 81.6% of participants still living at the 16-year follow-up. The longitudinal study provided data never before available on varied topics such as the persistence of substance use disorders; the prevalence and persistence of psychiatric disorders; comorbidity; and variables predicting early violent death.
Goals of the Study
- To assess the development and persistence of alcohol, drug, and mental disorders as delinquent youth age. We also study patterns of comorbidity, associated functional impairments, and related outcomes.
- To determine pathways and patterns of drug use, violence, and other behaviors such as HIV/AIDS risk. We examine the development of these risky behaviors among our subjects, focusing on gender differences, racial/ethnic differences, the antecedents of these behaviors, how these behaviors are interrelated, and how incarceration affects behaviors and the development of psychiatric disorders over time.
How Is the Northwestern Juvenile Project Unique?
Many studies have investigated general population youth to see who becomes delinquent. Far fewer studies examine health needs and outcomes among youth already in the juvenile justice system. We study delinquent youth because they are at such a high risk for psychiatric disorders, life-threatening problem behaviors, HIV/AIDS, and premature violent death. Our longitudinal data allow us to examine fundamental questions not possible in cross-sectional studies. For example: What are the most common patterns of comorbid disorders? Which variables predict the sequence of disorders as youth age? How do HIV/AIDS risk behaviors (e.g., unprotected sex, trading sex for drugs, needle-risk behaviors) develop over time? How do patterns of incarceration affect drug abuse and HIV/AIDS risk behaviors in adulthood? Our findings help guide the development of intervention strategies for delinquent youth and incarcerated young adults.
Previous Studies
The Northwestern Victimization Project
Begun in 1995, the Northwestern Victimization Project was the first large-scale, longitudinal study of crime victimization patterns in severely mentally ill persons living in the community. Prior studies of violence and mental disorder had focused on perpetration, not victimization. We examined the rates, risk factors, and patterns of crime victimization in 936 persons with chronic severe mental disorders. More than one-quarter of the sample had been victims of a violent crime in the past year, a rate more than 11 times higher than general population rates, even after controlling for demographic differences between the two samples. The Northwestern Victimization Project has been replicated in the Netherlands and other countries, where public health officials now realize that victimization of persons with severe mental illnesses is a far more serious threat to public health than the perpetration of violence.
Psychiatric Disorders in Male and Female Adult Jail Detainees
The Health Disparities and Public Policy program conducted the first large-scale epidemiologic studies of psychiatric disorders among male and female adult jail detainees. Between 1983 And 1995, a series of investigations examined (1) the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in jail detainees, and (2) whether detainees who had severe mental illnesses received treatment while in jail. Our findings highlight the discrepancy between jail detainees' need for mental health services and the services that they receive. The data showed that of male detainees who needed psychiatric services, only 37 percent received them. Only 20 percent of female detainees who needed psychiatric services received them. Because jails were never intended to be psychiatric hospitals, few have the resources necessary to adequately treat the increasing numbers of detainees entering jails nationwide. Our findings demonstrated that jails must systematically screen detainees upon admission, provide treatment during their stay, and refer them for services after they are released.
Consequences of deinstitutionalization: The police as streetcorner psychiatrist
Incarceration of persons with psychiatric illnesses disproportionately affects minorities, who are least likely to be able to afford mental health care. In an observational study of police officers, our findings showed that mentally ill persons had an arrest rate nearly double that of non-mentally ill persons. Police reluctantly arrested mentally ill persons when a mental health evaluation and treatment would have been preferable but was not available. The findings suggested that reduced community services had resulted in mentally ill persons being "criminalized"; for many, arrest had supplanted hospitalization. The findings supported the thesis, set forth by public health experts, that for poor persons—especially racial/ethnic minorities—arrest and incarceration had become the entrée for receiving mental health services. The findings of this study were cited in amicus briefs to the Supreme Court, were used in many hearings by Congress, and highlighted the need for special diversion programs for mentally ill persons in the criminal justice system.
Our Success
- Cognitive and academic functioning of juvenile detainees: Implications for correctional populations and public health. Lansing, A. E., Washburn, J. J., Abram, K. M., Thomas, U. C., Welty, L. J., & Teplin, L. A. (in press). Journal of Correctional Health Care.
- Prevalence and persistence of psychiatric disorders in youth after detention: a prospective longitudinal study. Teplin, L. A., Welty, L. J., Abram, K. M., Dulcan, M. K., & Washburn, J. J. (2012). Archives of General Psychiatry, 69(10), 1031-1043. PMC3737771
- Childhood maltreatment and psychiatric disorders among detained youths. King, D. C., Abram, K. M., Romero, E. G., Washburn, J. J., Welty, L. J., & Teplin, L. A. (2011). Psychiatric Services, 62(12), 1430-1438. PMC3742320
- Functional impairment in youth three years after detention. Abram, K. M., Choe, J. Y., Washburn, J. J., Romero, E. G., & Teplin, L. A. (2009). Journal of Adolescent Health, 44(6), 528-535. PMC2759315
- hPsychiatric disorders among detained youths: a comparison of youths processed in juvenile court and adult criminal court. Washburn, J. J., Teplin, L. A., Voss, L. S., Simon, C. D., Abram, K. M., & McClelland, G. M. (2008). Psychiatric Services, 59(9), 965-973. PMC2718561
- HIV/sexually transmitted infection risk behaviors in delinquent youth with psychiatric disorders: a longitudinal study. Elkington, K. S., Teplin, L. A., Mericle, A. A., Welty, L. J., Romero, E. G., & Abram, K. M. (2008). Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47(8), 901-911. PMC2754224
- Perpetration of violence, violent victimization, and severe mental illness: balancing public health concerns. Choe, J. Y., Teplin, L. A., & Abram, K. M. (2008). Psychiatric Services, 59(2), 153-164. PMID18245157
- Perceived barriers to mental health services among youths in detention. Abram, K. M., Paskar, L. D., Washburn, J. J., & Teplin, L. A. (2008). Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47(3), 301-308. PMC2945389
- Suicidal ideation and behaviors among youths in juvenile detention. Abram, K. M., Choe, J. Y., Washburn, J. J., Teplin, L. A., King, D. C., & Dulcan, M. K. (2008). Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47(3), 291-300. PMC2945393
Grants and Funding
The Health Disparities & Public Policy program has been funded by a consortium of federal agencies and private foundations, including:
- The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
- Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
- Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
- NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences
- NIH Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD)
- NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH)
- NIH Office of Rare Diseases
- Department of Labor
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- William T. Grant Foundation
- Chicago Community Trust
- MacArthur Foundation
- Open Society Institute
- National Institute of Justice
FacultyLinda A. Teplin, PhD, Owen L. Coon Professor of Psychiatry
Karen M. Abram, PhD, Associate Professor
Leah J. Welty, PhD, Assistant Professor
Jessica Jakubowski, PhD, Assistant Professor
Amelie Petitclerc, PhD, Assistant Professor
Contact Us
Contact Linda A. Teplin, PhD, Owen L. Coon Professor of Psychiatry, for more information about Health Disparities & Public Policy or please call 312-503-3500.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Wordless Wednesday: A New Work in Progress
16 comments:
- Quilter in the Gap said...
OMG OMG OMG I love your quilt!!! What fabric is that??? I truly think I am in love!!!
- February 23, 2011 at 9:27 AM
- Shelley said...
Lots of red in that there quilt Riel ;) and that fabric in the long strip perfect for the rest of the quilt!
- February 23, 2011 at 9:36 AM
- Bree said...
So pretty! Love that bird fabric on the long strips.
- February 23, 2011 at 10:19 AM
- Mary said...
Such a beautiful combination of fabrics! The photos sure do speak for themselves :)
- February 23, 2011 at 10:40 AM
- howtobejenna said...
What a beautiful quilt-top!! Are you going to enter it in the project modern monochromatic quilt challenge? you should! It's gorgeous!
- February 23, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- Natasha said...
Love that long fabric with the birds!! Great looking quilt.
- February 23, 2011 at 11:47 AM
- Rachel said...
Oh I love this! Beautiful fabric.
- February 23, 2011 at 11:47 AM
- Sondra said...
Awesome pink on pink color pallett.
- February 23, 2011 at 11:59 AM
- Barbara said...
love that color combo - I too would love to know the name and brand of the border strip fabric.
- February 23, 2011 at 1:36 PM
- ROZ said...
Great--I love red. And that selvage snowman is a masterpiece
- February 23, 2011 at 2:44 PM
- Barbara said...
I searched and searched and found that the fabric is Jennifer Pananelli's modgirl fabric which is discontinued. Bummer. It's really pretty.
- February 23, 2011 at 5:54 PM
- fallingforpieces said...
Really lovely! Love how you've kept the large bird print in large strips, really showcases it!
- February 23, 2011 at 7:23 PM
- Riel Nason said...
For anyone wondering about the fabric, it is a Jennifer Paganelli Freespirit fabric called 'Patsy' from the Mod Girls line. It is out of print as it is from a couple of years ago. For any locals reading this, I bought mine at the Calais Mardens. It was a little while back and I honestly can't remember if I bought the rest of the bolt or not. Anyone not local, maybe Etsy or Ebay? Cheers, Riel
- February 23, 2011 at 8:11 PM
- Canadian Kristin said...
Oh Riel! You could not have chosen a more perfect compliment to that stunning birds print!!!! Love that you went with monochromatic, love how bold it is, love how fancy-girl and bodacious!!! Well done, again!!!
- February 23, 2011 at 9:11 PM
- Lee said...
Oooooohhh! Gorgeous!!! Can't wait to see more. I'm going to assume this is for the monochromatic quilt challenge? If not, you really should enter it!
Thanks for linking up to WIP Wednesday, have a fabulous week!
- February 24, 2011 at 1:01 AM
- Barb said...
love that zippy red and pink combo!
- February 25, 2011 at 10:39 AM


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Photo courtesy of Joy Lamberton-Arcolano This is a photo provided to the Recorder by Broadalbin native Joy Lamberton-Arcolano, who lives in Watertown, Mass., shows police officers stepping in to a Humvee as they search for a suspect in Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon.
By CHARLIE KRAEBEL
Recorder Editor
WATERTOWN, Mass. -- Broadalbin native Joy Lamberto-Arcolano and her husband, Nicholas, live in what could easily be described as a quiet, peaceful neighborhood.
It remained mostly quiet throughout the day Friday, but for a different reason. Their area has been cordoned off as it's part of the exterior perimeter as law enforcement officials hunted for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old Chechen native wanted in connection with Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon.
Then it all went down.
Friday evening, authorities converged on a home not far from where Lamberto-Arcolano lives. On her Facebook page, she posted the standoff that resulted in Tsarnaev's capture was on "our street," but that she and her family were OK. Her posts also indicated that police were on her home's property as they closed in on the suspect.
"Glad we didn't plant a hedge," Lamberto-Arcolano posted. "They are all over our lawn."
Earlier in the day Friday, Lamberto-Arcolano, who has lived in the Boston area for more than 10 years, described her neighborhood as "absolutely silent." Her neighbors were all indoors, she said, and most people have their shades drawn.
She and her husband, both Broadalbin-Perth High School graduates, had been up since the early morning hours Friday trying to keep up with the action that initially took place only about four blocks from where they live.
"We've been hearing the choppers overhead, and there's a lot of Humvee activity," Lamberto-Arcolano said. "The police and SWAT teams are doing a great job, and I love that the governor (Deval Patrick) has shut the place down."
Lamberto-Arcolano said she and her husband had been following the events as they unfolded on a police scanner, which has since been turned off because law enforcement movements and specific locations were being broadcast to the public, making the manhunt more difficult.
Since then, she's been trying to keep up with the latest news on television and the Internet.
The couple and their two young children are far enough from the scene that they haven't heard any gunfire, "we're just far enough away," but they spent the morning watching all sorts of police vehicles and helicopters make their way through the streets by her home and above the neighborhood.
Lamberto-Arcolano said her 4-year-old son had been playing video games throughout the morning but doesn't understand everything that's happening.
She said the bombing and Friday's events won't stop her family from resuming their normal lives.
"The Boston thing is to say, 'forget these guys, we're going to go about our lives," Lamberto-Arcolano said. "I trust the governor. I think he's great, and I'm glad I voted for him.
"Those men and women know what they're doing," she added. "They're here for us, and we're here for them."


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I'm open to the idea of next Friday, but that needs to be decided by a majority. I'm guessing we would see a lot of solid suit and uniform entries, but it would still take some effort and coordination to pull off. Photography will play a big role too because you don't want someone who takes nice full shots paired up with a shitty selfie dude. I think would (will?) be fun.
Maybe an easy way to do this is to pick a top 5 (or more?) of consistent excellent posters and them have them solicit for teammates by a specified date? They could PM whoever they like etc. Additionally, some may even take it as a teaching opportunity and select someone they feel has potential but could use the help. By a certain date, teams are set in stone, and the two will both have opportunites to collaborate, send fit pics and get their fits together. I think the process could be quite smooth and easy with a little thought.


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Home List of Titles Dissemination of therapist-assisted internet cognitive behaviour therapy: development and open pilot study of a workshop
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- Dissemination of therapist-assisted internet cognitive behaviour therapy: development and open pilot study of a workshop
- Author(s)
- Hadjistavropoulos, Heather D.; Thompson, Maureen J.; Klein, Britt; Austin, David W.
- Abstract
- There is considerable research suggesting that therapist-assisted Internet cognitive behaviour therapy (ICBT) is efficacious in the treatment of depression and anxiety. Given this research, there is a growing interest in training students in therapist-assisted ICBT in order to assist with the dissemination of this emerging modality into routine clinical practice. In this study, we developed, delivered, and evaluated a therapist-assisted ICBT workshop for clinical psychology graduate students (n = 20). The workshop provided both research evidence and practical information related to the delivery of therapist-assisted ICBT. The workshop also incorporated an experiential component with students working on and discussing responses to client e-mails. Before and after the workshop, we measured knowledge of therapist-assisted ICBT research and professional practice issues, as well as attitudes towards and confidence in delivering therapist-assisted ICBT. Statistically significant changes were observed in all areas. Eighty-five per cent of students are now offering therapist-assisted ICBT under supervision. We conclude by discussing future research directions related to disseminating therapist-assisted ICBT.
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- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Source
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Vol. 41, no. 3 (2012), pp. 230-240
- Publication year
- 2012
- FOR Code(s)
- 1701 Psychology; 1702 Cognitive Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Anxiety; Cognitive behaviour therapy; Depression; Internet; Internet cognitive behaviour therapy; Knowledge; Online therapy; Training
- Publisher
- Routledge
- 1650-6073
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- Copyright © 2012 Swedish Association for Behaviour Therapy.
- Additional information
- The authors acknowledge support from the Canadian Institute of Health Research and Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation.
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Editorial: PSSI war
The Jakarta Post
Despite congress after congress, the organizational divide that has plagued national soccer over the last few years remains unresolved. Had world soccer governing body FIFA failed to remind Indonesia of the possible punishment it might hand down to the country during its executive meeting on March 20, the soccer elites would have not seen any urgency to bury their hatchet.
Mediated by new sports minister Roy Suryo, the Indonesian Soccer Association (PSSI) and its adversary, the Indonesian Soccer Rescue Committee (KPSI), signed on Monday a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on a joint congress scheduled for March 17 in Jakarta, which will hopefully mark an end to their bickering.
Based on the deal, the upcoming congress will restrict the agenda to the unification of the currently separate soccer league and federation, a review of the PSSI statutes and the reinstatement of expelled executive committee members La Nyalla Mattalitti, Tony Apriliani, Edwin Dwi Budiawan and Robert Rouw. Both parties have also agreed that the congress participants will be those who attended the extraordinary congress Surakarta, Central Java, in 2011, which elected Djohar Arifin as PSSI chairman, replacing Nurdin Halid, who had been dethroned in a previous congress.
Hopes were high following Djohar's election that national soccer would no longer witness backbiting among the elites who advanced their personal and group interests ahead of national pride. However in practice, the animosity only intensified and the subsequent separation was unavoidable.
The split has not only exposed Indonesia to international humiliation for running two rival soccer leagues, but has also played havoc with the country's performance in international competitions. Indonesia paid too-high-a-price for the division with its early exit from the ASEAN Football Federation Cup, which it hosted last year. The quarrel effectively forced the national team to field a weakened side.
The PSSI sanctions the Indonesian Premier League and bans its players both from competing in the star-studded Indonesian Super League, which operates under the auspices of the La Nyalla-led KPSI, and from the national squad. Most recently, the two equally selfish camps set up their respective national team boards responsible for selecting players who will don the national colors in international matches.
The public can no longer bear this dualism in its nation's soccer, as it contradicts the reform spirit that triggered the hosting of the extraordinary congress in 2011. What actually happened during that congress was a regime change that failed, ironically, to advance any meaningful change. The congress only resulted in a new administration that eventually emulated its predecessor; the orchestra had changed but the songs it played remained the same.
The question for both parties now is whether they are truly committed to the agreement they have signed, given the fact that an MoU is not legally binding. The history of their rivalry shows that they will not be easily reconciled despite the pressure from FIFA, merely because of the political figures and conflicting interests guiding their actions.
The next and perhaps most demanding test awaiting the two camps is a demonstration on their part to entrust a neutral figure to lead the PSSI. There is no guarantee the two will not lock horns in the future after the unification congress, which is primarily intended to spare Indonesia from an international ban.
Indonesian soccer badly needs a leader who is free from this conflict of political interests, to enable him or her to focus on soccer's development. The war within the PSSI has cost Indonesian soccer many opportunities to progress, let alone to win laurels at an international level.
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Early Reports: A History of Stereotypes
Gangs are studied because they are of social concern. That concern stems from typically "masculine" acts of vandalism, violence, and other serious threats. It was often assumed that females did not take part in such behavior, so early researchers were not interested in the delinquency of female gang members.2 Researchers and journalists saw gangs as a quintessentially male phenomenon. Thus, most early reports focused on whether female gangs were "real" gangs or merely satellites of male groups. One review concluded that in these early studies, "girls were defined solely in terms of their . . . relations to male gang members" (Campbell, 1990, p. 166).
"Sex objects or tomboys"these are the images that, until recently, dominated the literature on female gang members. Individual females were portrayed in terms of their sexual activity, with an occasional mention of their functions as weapon carriers for male gang members (e.g., Spergel, 1964). Even when describing female gang members as tomboys, researchers emphasized that the females' motivations were focused on males. Miller (1973, p. 34), for instance, explained that "the behavior of the [girls] . . . appeared to be predicated on the assumption that the way to get boys to like you was to be like them rather than [sexually] accessible to them." Campbell (1984a) points out that "sex object" and "tomboy" are both variants of the "bad girl" role. Good girls are modest and feminine; bad girls are not.
These studies were conducted before women entered the labor market in such large numbers as they do today. It was an era when most people viewed homemaking as the only acceptable goal for women. The studies reflected the widespread notion that for males, gang membership might involve delinquency, but it does not violate gender-role norms. However, gang membership for females was more shocking because it involved real deviance and seriously violated gender-role norms.
The accuracy of early descriptions of female gang members as sex objects and tomboys is difficult to judge because there are not enough reliable data in these reports. Most historical information about female gangs comes from journalists (e.g., Asbury, 1927; Rice, 1963), who were likely to emphasize the sensational, and from social workers (e.g., Hanson, 1964; Welfare Council of New York City, 1950), who were likely to emphasize members' personal problems. Both sources fed the "bad girl" stereotype.
However, in retrospect, the early skepticism about whether female gangs were "real gangs" seems odd. It seems to have been based on a very narrow view of what a gang really is. Gangsmale and female alikediffer greatly from one another. Those differences affect the behavior of young members and their chances of maturing into conventional, law-abiding adults. A female gang may be autonomous or allied with a male gang, or female gang members may be part of a fully gender-integrated gang (Miller, 1975). Unfortunately, there is not enough information to determine how each kind of gang structure affects the members' behavior (Miller, 2000a). Existing information does indicate, however, that joining a gangregardless of the gang's structureis a significant act for an adolescent female, often with important consequences later in life.


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The right of juries to return perverse acquittals is a great protection against unfair political prosecutions
Sir, Juries in England and Wales are remarkably effective decision-makers (reports, Feb 21; letters, Feb 22 & 23). When asked to do so they almost always reach a verdict: 99.4 per cent of the time when they are presented with an indictment they reach a verdict.
Hung juries, such as the Vicky Pryce jury, occur in only 0.4 per cent of all verdicts. This is based on a study of all jury verdicts at all Crown Courts in England and Wales from 2006-08 (Are Juries Fair? 2010). In the total of 68,874 times that juries attempted to reach a


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Meerkats and an annoying opera singer, beware — David Cameron is coming for you. No 10 is drawing up plans for a state-run price comparison website.
The not-for-profit service would "turbo-charge" the switching market, say supporters of the proposals being drawn up by the Downing Street policy unit.
Mr Cameron is searching for a response to Ed Miliband's commitment to intervene in "broken markets" on the side of hard-pressed consumers. The Labour leader's approach was revealed last autumn with his pledge to freeze energy bills and was widened last month with a promise to break up the dominance of high street


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I had actually given up on the miniquad. When i first started i just couldn´t see how it would be possible to fly like Charpu or MartinesUAV. But practice makes perfect, and now i´m actually starting to see the light in the tunnel. The past weeks i have crashed, broken noumerous props, and rebuilt the quad several times. And even though i still have a long way to go before i start to impress anyone but myself, i´m getting there.
A crash i had a couple of days ago (actually in the flight before the one in the video) i damaged one of my motors, leading to heavy vibrations. And scince i feel the copter is lacking some power, 4 new Emax 2204 motors are now on the way here.
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