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This Sector Is Setting Up for a Violent RallyBy Jeff Clark
Thursday, June 27, 2013
In yesterday's Growth Stock Wire essay, my friend and colleague Matt Badiali explained one reason why gold stocks have been in the dumps lately – and why he believes they have much farther to fall.
I agree with his fundamental analysis. The market does, too... which is why the gold sector has fallen so much in the past six months.
But the market often discounts the fundamental viewpoint several months in advance. So the bottom in the gold-mining sector is likely to occur well before the fundamentals turn around.
From a technical perspective, shares still have room to move lower from here. But I also believe the disappointing action in the gold sector last week could be setting up for an even more violent rally in the coming months...
Gold stocks had the potential to start a major rally last week. The chart of the Market Vectors Gold Miners Fund (NYSE: GDX) had the look of a bullish inverse head-and-shoulders pattern. If it had popped above the resistance of its 50-day moving average (DMA), it could have been off to the races.
But that didn't happen. Resistance was just too tough. GDX failed to overcome the 50-DMA. And that ignited a firestorm of selling pressure that crushed gold stocks and sent GDX to a new low for the year...
GDX is now trading 65% below its September 2011 peak. And it's a remarkable 43% below its 200-DMA.
This is the type of oversold condition you only see once or twice in a generation. The gold sector rarely strays more than 20% above or below its 200-DMA. Other than the liquidation event of 2008, we haven't seen anything similar to today's conditions since 1976.
Gold stocks, as measured by the Barron's Gold Miners Index (the "BGMI") – the most popular gold index in the 1970s – declined 67% from their 1974 highs to their 1976 lows. The index bottomed 44% below its 200-DMA.
Using 1976 as a guide, there's still room for gold stocks to move slightly lower here. But by that same guide, gold stocks rallied more than 600% in the years following the 1976 bottom. So the sector could explode violently higher once the bottom is in.
There's no way to know for sure when the bottom is in. But a move back above the 50-DMA would be a good sign.
Best regards and good trading,
Jeff Clark
Editor's note: Steve Sjuggerud also shared his take on the gold-stock sector this morning. He agrees the sector has tremendous upside. But he thinks the recent fall holds an important lesson for investors. Find his essay in DailyWealth right here.
Further Reading:
An invaluable part of any investor's toolkit is knowing how to safely trade trend changes. "Hundreds of thousands of traders have blown up their trading accounts by trading against uptrends and by trading against downtrends," Editor in Chief Brian Hunt writes. This is what's called "fighting the tape."
Learn more about this concept – and how to predict a sector rally – in this Common Sense Guide to Technical Analysis.
U.S. banks are surging... fresh highs for U.S. Bancorp, PNC Financial, and BB&T.
Gold mining "bellwether" Barrick plunges to a 10-year low.
Coal sector wipeout continues... Peabody Energy, Walter Energy, and Alpha Natural Resources sink to eight-year lows.
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CHICAGO (AP) — For the first time since Prohibition, Chicago has a new Public Enemy No. 1 — a drug kingpin in Mexico deemed so menacing that he's been assigned the famous label created for Al Capone.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was singled out for his role as leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, which supplies the bulk of narcotics sold in the city, according to the Chicago Crime Commission and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
"What Al Capone was to beer and whiskey, Guzman is to narcotics," said Al Bilek, the commission's executive vice president, describing Guzman as a greater threat than Capone ever was.
He said Guzman deserved the designation for the "viciousness, the evil and the power of this man."
The commission designated Capone Public Enemy No. 1 in 1930. The non-government body that tracks city crime trends has called other people public enemies, but Capone was the only person ever declared its No. 1.
Until now.
Unlike Capone, Guzman doesn't live in Chicago. He lives far away in a mountain hideaway in western Mexico. But for all the havoc he creates in the nation's third-largest city, he ought to be treated as a local crime boss, the DEA's top Chicago official, Jack Riley, told The Associated Press in a recent interview.
His office joined the commission in handing out the moniker to Guzman.
Capone based his bootlegging and other criminal enterprises out of Chicago during Prohibition, when it was illegal to make or sell alcohol in the U.S. He eventually went to prison for income tax evasion, but he gained the most notoriety for the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre that left seven rivals dead.
Yet Riley says Guzman is more ruthless than Capone.
"If I was to put those two guys in a ring, El Chapo would eat that guy (Capone) alive," Riley said.
Sinaloa and other Mexican cartels that ship drugs to Chicago are rarely directly linked to slayings in the city, but Riley said cartel-led drug trafficking is an underlying cause of territorial battles between street gangs that are blamed for rising homicide rates.
He described Chicago as one of Sinaloa's most important cities, not only as a destination for drugs but as a hub to distribute them across the U.S.
"This is where Guzman turns his drugs into money," he said.
Despite his nickname — "El Chapo" means "shorty" in Spanish — Guzman is one of the world's most dangerous and most wanted outlaws. He's also one of the richest: Forbes magazine has estimated the value of his fortune at around $1 billion.
Guzman has been indicted on federal trafficking charges in Chicago and, if he is ever captured alive, American authorities want him extradited here to face trial. The U.S. government has offered a $5 million reward for his capture.
"His time is coming," Riley said. "I can't wait for that day."
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CECILLE VILLACORTA, PETITIONER,v.SUPREME COURT, NEW YORK COUNTY AND ANDREW M. CUOMO, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THESTATE OF NEW YORK, RESPONDENTS.
On December 22, 2010, Cecille Villacorta ("Villacorta") filed this petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (the "petition"). Respondents contend that the petition should be denied, principally for failure to exhaust state court remedies. For the following reasons, the petition is denied.
From 1998 until 2006, petitioner was employed as a sales associate in the fine jewelry department of the Saks Fifth Avenue department store ("Saks") in Manhattan. Villacorta's employment with Saks ended on January 30, 2006, when she was arrested at the store. Villacorta was subsequently indicted on two theories of larceny: (1) that she stole from Saks by providing customers with unauthorized credits that did not correspond to actual purchases of merchandise (the "credit theory"); and, (2) that by concealing credits and discounts, Villacorta inflated her net sales figures, which were used to calculate her bonus, and thereby received a windfall of approximately $48,000 in bonus payments from Saks. Villacorta's habeas claims are based on both the trial court and the prosecution's conduct, beginning during the pretrial proceedings.
A. Pre-Trial Proceedings On May 7, 2007, Acting Justice Gregory Carro of the Supreme Court of New York County held a conference regarding Saks' motion to quash subpoenas that petitioner's attorneys had served for business records. Among the requested documents were records reflecting the register transactions of other employees of the fine jewelry department. Defense counsel asserted that it needed these documents to respond to the prosecution's argument that Villacorta's conduct must have been "[f]raudulent because nobody else [operated] the way she did." The court held that, while the prosecution could establish Saks' proper procedures, evidence of other sales associates' specific register transactions was irrelevant and inadmissible. At three subsequent conferences, defense counsel requested and the court again rejected the petitioner's application for disclosure of register transactions by other Saks employees.*fn1 The court also denied petitioner's alternative proposal: that a defense expert be permitted to observe Saks' employees run certain queries on the Saks' computer system.
B. Trial Proceedings Trial commenced on February 26, 2009. During its case-in-chief, the prosecution elicited testimony from Randi Riley ("Riley"), a former manager in Saks' Asset Protection Department, that she had "reviewed twenty-three associates in the Fine Jewelry Department" and that "none of the other twenty-three were doing the exact same thing" as Villacorta. Despite defense counsel's objection, the prosecution was permitted to continue its line of questioning. Riley testified that while seven of the associates whose records she examined had completed transactions similar to Villacorta's, the other associates' credits were accompanied by corresponding "offsetting purchases." Riley testified that, by contrast, she could not find any corresponding purchases for Villacorta's credits.
On the fourth day of trial, the prosecution notified defense counsel that it would call two additional witnesses --current Saks associates -- to testify that "they didn't do things the way Cecille did." Defense counsel objected that the court had already found that other sales associates' practices were irrelevant. After hearing argument on the issue, the court held that the additional witnesses could not be questioned about the "actual procedure of giving credit," but could be questioned regarding "associate training on how they do register transactions." Pursuant to this ruling, Iwona Makowicz and Kishan Nainani each testified that they had been trained not to process a return without the merchandise and the receipt being present in the store. Nainani further testified that he had been trained to process return transactions using only his own sales associate identification number and the date of the original purchase.
Finally, during summations, the prosecution reiterated that Villacorta was the only sales associate in Saks' fine jewelry department who processed credits in the manner charged as grand larceny. For instance, the prosecution argued that Villacorta's conduct must not have been authorized since "she's the only [sic] who did it this way."*fn2 When defense counsel objected to these references, the court instructed the jury of its obligation to render a decision based on the evidence presented at trial rather than summation arguments.
C. The Verdict and Sentence On March 9, 2009, the jury returned a verdict convicting Villacorta of the third-degree grand larceny count based on her receipt of inflated bonuses, and 144 counts of falsification of business documents. Petitioner was acquitted of the grand larceny counts based on the credit theory. On July 6, Villacorta was sentenced to ninety days in prison, to be followed by five years of probation. She was also ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and to pay a $96,000 fine.
D. Post-Trial Proceedings On December 6, 2009, Villacorta filed a brief in the Appellate Division, First Department, claiming:
(1) the verdict was against the weight of the evidence; (2) the court improperly denied access to Saks' computer database ["Database Claim"]; (3) the court erred in not allowing petitioner to view the records of other Saks' employees ["Records Claim"]; (4) the court erred in allowing Randi Riley to testify about other Saks' sales associates ["Testimony Claim"]; (5) the court and prosecution's treatment of a defense witness constituted reversible error; (6) the prosecutor made improper summation comments about other sales associates ["Prosecutorial Misconduct Claim"]; and (7) the jury's verdict was repugnant.
In her second claim of error -- the Database Claim --Villacorta alleged that the lower court's denial of the defense's motion for access to Saks's computer database constituted "reversible error because the defendant's request was wholly permissible under the relevant laws and necessary to effectuate Ms. Villacorta's Sixth Amendment rights." Specifically, the brief alleged that the lower court's decision abrogated the "Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution which guarantee the defendant the right to compulsory process of witnesses and other evidence favorable to the defense."*fn3
Next, in her third claim of error -- the Records Claim --Villacorta asserted that the trial court "committed reversible error when it denied the defense's request for the records of other salespeople at Saks" on the basis that this information was "irrelevant." This section of Villacorta's appellate brief does not refer to the U.S. Constitution or federal caselaw. Similarly, Villacorta's fourth claim -- the Testimony Claim --fails to cite any federal law.
On September 28, 2010, the Appellate Division denied Villacorta's appeal. Peoplev.Villacorta, 76 A.D.3d 911 (1st Dept. 2010). With respect to the Database and Records Claims, the Appellate Division found that:
[t]he court properly exercised its discretion in restricting, to matters relevant to the charges, defendant's discovery of her employer's computerized records . . . . Defendant's subpoena duces tecum was overbroad. Although afforded an opportunity to make more targeted discovery requests she failed to do so. Instead she requested an impermissibly open-ended fishing expedition into the company's records based on speculation that relevant information might be found. Defendant received extensive discovery as to relevant matters, and there is no reason to believe she was deprived of any exculpatory or impeaching evidence.
Id. at 911 (citation omitted). The Appellate Division also summarily denied petitioner's Testimony and Prosecutorial Misconduct Claims, holding that it had "considered and rejected defendant's challenges to the court's evidentiary rulings and the prosecutor's summation." Id. at 912.
On October 6, petitioner sought leave to appeal in the New York Court of Appeals and a stay of execution of the sentence pending appeal. On November 17, petitioner filed a supplemental leave in which she argued that by denying her access to the records of other sales associates' transactions and admitting testimony based on those records, the trial court violated the petitioner's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process, to confront and cross-examine opposing witnesses, and to present a defense. The Court of Appeals denied the petitioner's application for leave to appeal on December 14, after finding that her appeal did not present any "question of law . . . which ought to be reviewed."
On December 22, Villacorta filed this petition and on December 23, she filed a declaration requesting a stay of her surrender. On December 29, after hearing oral argument, the Court denied Villacorta's request for a stay. Villacorta surrendered to serve her sentence on January 3, 2011, and was released on March 1. She was then detained by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and subsequently released. On May 13, briefing on the petition became fully submitted. According to the respondents' memorandum of law in opposition to the petition, Villacorta is currently at liberty, but remains under the supervision of the Department of Probation.
Villacorta contends she was denied a fair trial in violation of the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution based on the state trial court's decisions to:
(1) deny her repeated requests for records of transactions by other Saks' sales associates; (2) permit the prosecution to elicit testimony at trial from Riley that Villacorta was the only associate who engaged in the allegedly suspect transactions; and, (3) permit the prosecution to argue during summation that Villacorta was the only sales associate to conduct transactions in this way.*fn4 Respondents argue that Villacorta failed to raise her first and second claims before the state court, and they must therefore be deemed procedurally defaulted. Finally, respondents argue that Villacorta's third claim should be denied since the state court's decision to permit the prosecutor's disputed summation remarks was neither contrary to, nor an unreasonable application of, Supreme Court law.
I. Villacorta Failed to Exhaust Her Discovery Claim and Her Claim Regarding Riley's Testimony.
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("AEDPA"), Pub. L. No. 103-132, 110 Stat. 1214, provides that federal courts may not grant a petition for habeas corpus unless "the applicant has exhausted the remedies available in the courts of the state" or, "there is an absence of available State corrective process." 28 U.S.C. §§ 2254(B)(1)(A), (B)(i). "Exhaustion of state remedies requires that a petitioner fairly present federal claims to the state courts in order to give the state the opportunity to pass upon and correct alleged violations of its prisoners' federal rights." Carvajal v. Artus, 633 F.3d 95, 104 (2d Cir. 2011) (citation omitted). "In order to have fairly presented his federal claim to the state courts the petitioner must have informed the state court of both the factual and the legal premises of the claim he asserts in federal court." Daye v. Attorney Gen., 696 F.2d 186, 191 (2d Cir. 1982) (en banc). While a state petitioner is not required to cite "chapter and verse of the Constitution" to satisfy this requirement, she must present her challenge "in terms that are likely to alert the state courts to the claim's federal nature." Carvajal, 633 F.3d at 104 (citation omitted). This requirement may be satisfied by:
(a) reliance on pertinent federal cases employing constitutional analysis, (b) reliance on state cases employing constitutional analysis in fact like situations,
(c) assertion of the claim in terms so particular as to call to mind a specific right protected by the Constitution, and (d) allegation of a pattern of facts that is well within the mainstream of constitutional litigation. Id. (citing Daye, 696 F.2d at 194).
"If a habeas applicant fails to exhaust state remedies by failing to adequately present his federal claim to the state courts so that the state courts would deem the claim procedurally defaulted," federal habeas courts "must deem the claim procedurally defaulted." Id. (citation omitted). Unless a petitioner can demonstrate "cause for the default and prejudice" or "actual[] innocen[ce] of the crime for which he was convicted," dismissal for a procedural default -- unlike dismissal for failure to exhaust state remedies -- "amounts to a disposition of the habeas claim on the merits." Id. (citation omitted).
Villacorta's first two claims -- alleging federal constitutional violations based on the trial court's decision:
(1) to deny Villacorta's demand for other associates' sales receipts; and, (2) to permit Riley to testify regarding other associates' transactions -- must be denied based on the petitioner's failure to exhaust state remedies. Although the petitioner raised each of these evidentiary determinations with the Appellate Division, they were not fashioned as federal constitutional claims. Petitioner did not cite Supreme Court case law, the Constitution, or constitutional principles in support of these claims, and she did not rely on state cases "employing constitutional analysis in fact like situations." Carvajal, 633 F.3d at 104 (citation omitted).
Petitioner also failed to draft the claims on appeal in such a way that they "call[ed] to mind a specific right protected by the Constitution," nor did she allege "a pattern of facts that is well within the mainstream of constitutional litigation." Id. (citation omitted). Instead, petitioner's claims were plainly based on alleged violations of state discovery and evidentiary law. Villacorta claimed that the trial court "committed reversible error" when it denied her request for the records of other salespeople, since it "based its ruling on its mistaken opinion that these records were irrelevant." Moreover, the manner in which the Appellate Division addressed Villacorta's claims confirms that it viewed her appeal as being predicated on state rather than federal law. Instead of discussing federal law, the Appellate Division opinion emphasized a state trial court's discretion to restrict discovery and make evidentiary rulings.
Although petitioner failed to exhaust her first two claims, she cannot return to state court to exhaust them as she has already received the one direct appeal to which she is entitled. See Grey v. Hoke, 933 F.2d 117, 120 (2d Cir. 1991) ("New York procedural rules plainly bar petitioner from attempting to raise his . . . claims . . . because he has already made the one request for leave to appeal to which he is entitled."). State court collateral review is also barred since the claims could have been raised on direct review. N.Y. Crim. Proc. Law § 440.10(2)(c).
Given that a state court would find the petitioner's first two claims to be procedurally defaulted, this Court may only reach the merits if Villacorta demonstrates: (1) cause for default and actual prejudice; or, (2) that the failure to consider the claims will result in a fundamental miscarriage of justice because she is actually innocent. Tellingly, petitioner does not assert that she can establish either cause and prejudice, or actual innocence, nor could she. In order to demonstrate "cause," Villacorta would need to show "some objective factor external to the defense" that "impeded counsel's effort to comply with the State's procedural rule." Strickler v. Greene, 527 U.S. 263, 283 n.24 (1999) (citation omitted). Petitioner has made no such allegation. Also, petitioner has not proffered any new evidence that would establish that she is actually innocent. See House v. Bell, 547 U.S. 518, 536-37 (2006).
Petitioner principally makes three arguments in favor of finding that Villacorta exhausted the state court remedies available to her. First, petitioner asserts that by referring to federal law in her appeal from the trial court's decision to deny her request for access to the Saks' computer database (the Database Claim), Villacorta exhausted her federal claim arising from the trial court's decision to deny her access to other employees' transaction records (the Records Claim). This argument is unavailing. These claims appeared in different sections of petitioner's brief*fn5 to the Appellate Division, were based on different legal theories,*fn6 and Villacorta only referenced federal law with respect to the Database Claim.
Next, petitioner contends that even without reference to the Database Claim, the Records Claim was stated in terms so particular as to call to mind specific constitutional rights. Villacorta emphasizes that in her appellate brief she argued that, (1) the denial of her discovery request "removed one of the primary ways that [petitioner] could have proven her innocence"; and, (2) prevented her from effectively cross-examining Riley. Since the inability to secure pretrial discovery generally does not state a violation of the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause, neither of these statements regarding the trial court's discovery rulings was adequate to put the Appellate Division on notice of an alleged constitutional violation. Pennsylvania v. Ritchie, 480 U.S. 39, 52 (1987) (the Confrontation Clause is not a "constitutionally compelled rule of pretrial discovery," rather it is a "trial right, designed to prevent improper restrictions on the types of questions that defense counsel may ask during cross examination"). See also Watson v. Green, 640 F.3d 501, 510 (2d Cir. 2011) ("The extent of cross-examination rests in the sound discretion of the trial judge. . . . A court's decision to restrict cross-examination will be reversed only when the court has abused its broad discretion." (citation omitted)).
Finally, Villacorta contends that she alleged a pattern of facts well within the mainstream of constitutional litigation by claiming that she needed the records of other sales associates to "defend against" the prosecution's argument that "no other salesperson at Saks performed . . . transactions in the manner of Villacorta"; and, (2) that Riley's testimony "permit[ted] a biased source to offer untested evidence characterizing Ms. Villacorta's conduct as abnormal and deviant." This argument also fails.
The only case upon which Villacorta relies is Holland v. Scully, 797 F.2d 57 (2d Cir. 1986). In Holland, the Second Circuit held that failure to instruct the jury on an element of liability is a "factual pattern [that] falls so squarely within the fundamental due process rule that the prosecution prove every element of the offense, . . . that no reasonable jurist could doubt that the defendant's claim implicated a constitutional right." Id. at 65 (citation omitted). In reaching this holding, the Second Circuit stressed that although petitioner failed to cite "federal or state constitutions" he "adequately alerted the state court to his constitutional claims" since he alleged a "factual pattern that should have called to mind a specific constitutional challenge -- that is, elimination of a requisite element of the crime alleged, in violation of the due process clause." Id. Villacorta, by contrast, has not alleged facts that bring to mind a specific constitutional challenge. Rather, her factual allegations are more of the "vague" or "talismanic" variety that the Second Circuit found inadequate to notify state courts of federal constitutional claims. Id. Moreover, as discussed supra, fact patterns alleging limits on pretrial discovery and the extent of cross-examination generally do not state federal constitutional claims. Consequently, it is not surprising that petitioner has failed to identify any precedent in which similar facts were found to be within the mainstream of constitutional litigation.
II. State Court's Rejection of Villacorta's Claim of Prosecutorial Misconduct Withstands AEDPA Review.
On direct appeal, Villacorta couched her prosecutorial misconduct claim solely in state law terms. Nevertheless, respondents concede that this claim has been exhausted since "a claim of prosecutorial misconduct on summation calls to mind specific rights protected by the constitution" and therefore this issue was fairly presented to the state court. See Carvajal, 633 F.3d at 104.
AEDPA modified the standard under which federal courts review § 2254 petitions where the state court has reached the merits of the federal claim. Habeas relief may not be granted unless the state court's decision was "contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States" or "was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceeding." 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), (d)(2).
A state court decision involves an "unreasonable application" of Supreme Court precedent when the state court "identifies the correct governing legal principle from the Supreme Court's decisions but unreasonably applies that principle to the facts of the prisoner's case." Williams v. Taylor, 529 U.S. 362, 407 (2000). For a state court's application of federal law to be unreasonable, "[s]ome increment of incorrectness beyond error is required." Jones v. Stinson, 229 F.3d 112, 119 (2d Cir. 2000) (citation omitted).
State court factual findings "shall be presumed to be correct" and the petitioner "shall have the burden of rebutting the presumption of correctness by clear and convincing evidence." Id. at § 2254(e)(1). "[H]abeas corpus is a guard against extreme malfunctions in the state criminal justice systems, not a substitute for ordinary error correction through appeal." Harrington v. Richter, 131 S. Ct. 770, 786 (2011) (citation omitted).
Villacorta argues that the prosecutor improperly argued on summation that no other sales associate conducted transactions in the same manner as petitioner. "A criminal conviction is not to be lightly overturned on the basis of a prosecutor's comments standing alone." United States v. Young, 470 U.S. 1, 11 (1985); accord United States v. Newton, 369 F.3d 659, 680 (2d Cir. 2004) (citing Young, 470 U.S. at 11). "[I]t is not enough that the prosecutors' remarks were undesirable or even universally condemned." Darden v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 168, 181 (1986) (citation omitted). "The relevant question is whether the prosecutors' comments so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process." Id.
(citation omitted). "In other words, the Court must consider the probable effect the prosecutor's [remarks] would have on the jury's ability to judge the evidence fairly." Young, 470 U.S. at 12. The Second Circuit has held that when assessing whether a defendant has sustained substantial prejudice, [courts] consider the severity of the alleged misconduct, any curative measures taken by the trial court, and the likelihood of conviction absent the challenged conduct.
Newton, 369 F.3d at 680.
Even assuming that the prosecutor's remarks were improper, petitioner has failed to demonstrate that these remarks "so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process." Darden, 477 U.S. at 181 (citation omitted). The trial court repeatedly reminded the jury that the prosecutor's remarks were only argument and, there was ample evidence in the record to convict Villacorta without reference to the challenged conduct. In any event, Villacorta has not shown that the Appellate Division's rejection of this claim was an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court.
The petition for a writ of habeas corpus is denied. The Clerk of Court shall close this case. As the petition makes no
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by Rick Ross
- Record Label: Def Jam
- Release Date: Jul 31, 2012
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Jul 31, 2012God Forgives is the first album that really feels like it was made by a boss.
Aug 7, 2012While some tracks may feel more like Bay and Ratner, Ross more often than not hits his mark.
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The WireDec 5, 2012Lyrically it is all shamelessly hollow, but Ross's album is seductively swish, its production sophisticated and strings and saxophone abound. [Oct 2012, p.75]
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User score distribution:
Positive: 11 out of 25
Mixed: 7 out of 25
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Aug 1, 2012Horrible Album, Ross Forgets What Solo Album Means, He Depends On The Guest Stars Too Much, The Only Thing That Is Not Garbage Are Some BeatsHorrible Album, Ross Forgets What Solo Album Means, He Depends On The Guest Stars Too Much, The Only Thing That Is Not Garbage Are Some Beats But Ross Is Just Not A Decent Rapper… Full Review »
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True Lyrics and Rick Ross don't Fitt in the same Sentence (double entendre)
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Dans l'ensemble l'album est bien, j'aime pas trop les sonsBon ben voila après un bon temps d'attente, l(album est enfin dispo !
Dans l'ensemble l'album est bien, j'aime pas trop les sons "lent" mais la il etait pas mal .
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This executive 2 story home has quality written all over it. Nestled beautifully amongst shade trees this Koetje built home is sure to impress. Offering over 3300 square feet, 5 bedrooms, and 3.5 baths this is nothing small on this grand home. Walk in to your home with entry way and living room that features 12' ceilings and a gas fireplace that stretches to the sky and windows that fill the room with light. To the right you will find your master suite; Equipped with vaulted ceilings, master bath with Jacuzzi tub and large closet. Across the entry you will find your formal dining room with built in hutch, a perfect place to host all of your family gatherings. Or, perhaps a perfect place to set up your own personal library, playroom or office. From here walk only a few steps and you will
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- Address
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- City
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- Zip
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- County
- Kent
- Possession
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- Siding
- Vinyl
- Above Grade SqFt
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- Water
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- Year Built
- 1993
- Taxes
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To what must be the chagrin of Italians everywhere, Garibaldi is more famous in Britain as a kind of biscuit than the great revolutionary leader he is known as here. He was the key figure in the Italian revolution which saw the country united for the first time since the Romans. He was also influential in the revolutions in South America, which saw him given the title of "hero of two continents". In Italy he is revered somewhat as the father of the nation, and so best not confused with the rectangular currant biscuit.
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Exploring International Issues through the Use of CIRP Data. AIR 1992 Annual Forum Paper.
Moline, Arlett E.; Hendel, Darwin D.
A study was done of ways to use data from the Cooperative Institutional Research Programs (CIRP) to provide information on policy questions related to international education. The CIRP survey is an annual project that provides participating institutions with the opportunity to use the database to explore questions concerning an institution's international activities. The study population included 1,403 entering freshmen at the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota in the fall of 1991. The analysis focused on responses to three particular survey questions on international issues. Analysis of the student responses found that students for whom English was not their native language were frequently older and Asian-American. Students who spoke a language other than English at home were more likely to be female and Asian-American. Both students who were non-native English speakers and students who spoke a language other than English at home reported a lower parental income and had parents with lower levels of formal education. Students who placed personal importance on helping to promote racial understanding were more likely to be female, to speak a language other than English at home, and to be Asian-American. These students reported more hours during a typical week in high school were spent studying, volunteering, and participating in student clubs. They expected to take an active part in their college experience. The study concluded that institutions should consider ways in which they can do further analysis of the CIRP data. Included are a copy of the CIRP survey form and nine references. (JB)
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