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Fall 2015 Convocation Speech
"Differentiating Sonoma State University"
President Ruben Armiñana
Fall 2015 Speakers
August 24, 2015
Ruben Armiñana
Andrew Rogerson
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Richard Senghas
Chair of the Faculty
Elaine Newman
Chapter President, California Faculty Association
Brandon Mercer
Associated Students President
Katie Musick
Staff Representative to the Academic Senate
Welcome to the academic year 2015-16. I especially want to welcome close to 9400 new and returning students and the faculty and staff who recently joined us as well as those who are returning. I particularly welcome the 19 new tenure track faculty selected after rigorous searches, surpassing the 15 new faculty per year goal of my previously announced plan for academic success. Provost Rogerson will introduce them shortly. This year's enrollment is the largest in the history of the University and our demand continues to be strong in numbers and quality.
I am also pleased to start this Convocation with good fiscal news since it is the first time in more than a decade that the Trustee's budget proposal was fully funded, increasing the CSU budget by $269 million. This allows for:
- $23 million in mandatory costs
- a 2% compensation pool amounting to $65.5 million
- 3% funded enrollment growth (10,400 FTES) for $103.2 million
- $38 million for student success and completion initiatives
- $14 million for information technology renewal
- $25 million for debt payment for deferred maintenance of our academic facilities and infrastructure.
Our share of the new funded enrollment growth is 250 FTES (full time equivalent students). Also, we will be searching for 18 new tenure-track faculty hires this year, again surpassing the 15 per year target. Increasing tenure-track faculty is a top priority as it provides the needed instruction and academic advising required for effective retention and graduation of students.
If the next two annual budgets are similar to or better than this year's budget then the lost billion dollars to the CSU since 2008 will have been recovered. Still, California needs to address the increasing demand for higher education by its more diverse population. This state needs to close the demand gap of one million more graduates by 2025 as well as the achievement gap of its diverse populations. SSU is well positioned to meet the 6 year graduation goal of 57% for 2015. As a matter of fact by the end of this academic year we should have surpassed it by one percent and hopefully it will continue to grow as we head towards our new target of 64% by 2025. We are, unfortunately, short of meeting our goal of closing the achievement gap to 1%. It is predicted that it will be at 7.5% by the end of the year. In comparison to the CSU in general, we are doing much better, but we need to redouble our efforts to close this gap.
I am pleased to report that this year SSU will be determining the feasibility of applying for status as a Hispanic serving institution having at least 25% of our students self-report as Hispanic. This has been a personal and institutional goal which I am committed to achieving.
The campus continues to be very popular with potential students as a destination campus. In order to accommodate our increasing number of students we need more academic space resulting in Zinfandel Hall being remodeled as classrooms and laboratories. Throughout campus, many of our classrooms have been renovated to incorporate greater technology to assist in the teaching and learning process.
As always, there were many accomplishments within all divisions of the University. Here I'd like to share just a small representative sampling of the achievements in the academic schools:
School of Arts & Humanities
The Center for Ethics, Law and Society has brought many inspiring speakers who have shared their perspectives on societal ethical issues. In a few weeks they bring Peter Singer, often described as the world's most influential living philosopher, to talk about "Global Poverty and What we Should be Doing about it."
School of Business & Economics
Fundraising is going well for the Wine Spectator Learning Center which includes several classrooms. We hope to start re-construction of the current Commons building this spring with an anticipated opening in 2017.
School of Education
The School of Education is the first CSU campus to offer the popular Maker Educator certificate. Over the summer Dean Carlos Ayala was invited by the White House to participate in the national Maker Fair in D.C.
School of Extended Education
The Osher Lifelong Learning Program celebrates its 15th year and launches the Ed Stolman Memorial Lecture Series, paying tribute to the founder of OLLI at SSU, with inaugural keynote speaker Michael Krasny who will reflect on leading an honorable life.
School of Science & Technology
The SSU student team won the 2015 CSU innovation Corps (iCorps) student competition. The cross-disciplinary team of engineering, kinesiology and finance students won the challenge for their device to quantify tremors associated with Parkinson's disease.
School of Social Sciences
Students in Dr. Michelle Goman's Geomorphology course surveyed creeks and placed erosion pins in creek banks as part of a study to monitor long-term changes in creek condition and erosion at Fairfield Osborn Preserve.
University Library
The University Library partnered with disciplinary faculty on investigations of digital literacy and emerging teaching technologies. They also hosted a Wikipedia "edit-a-Thon" on utopian communities in Sonoma County.
Progress is being made in improving academic advising by establishing an advising office in each of the schools alongside the full implementation of the e-advising system and smart-planner, which allows students to easily determine the requirements they must satisfy for graduation. It provides course planning to map their individual path to graduation and allows them to perform a degree audit. These developments are key to continue improving graduation rates and time to degree.
The High Impact Practices such as first year and sophomore year experiences, learning communities, service learning, community involvement, undergraduate research and peer mentoring are having very positive results and they should be strengthened. Every SSU student should graduate having accomplished a signature formative experience that incorporates academic knowledge with a results-oriented activity. We have created the Sonoma State Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Experiences to coordinate this initiative which would be a differentiating mark of the SSU degree.
Another differentiating aspect of our degree could be the inclusion of a co-curricular transcript which would recognize and document the great number of learning activities outside the classroom in which our students are engaged. Essential to this effort is a greater coordination and intentionality between the curricular and the co-curricular offerings. I believe that these two initiatives would make SSU an even more distinctive and desirable liberal arts and sciences institution.
Last, I would like to announce that I am retiring as president of Sonoma State University at the end of this academic year, June 30, 2016. By that date I will have served 24 years as president, the longest presidential term in the history of this university. I am also the senior president in the CSU. As of Fall 2016 I will transition to Trustee Professor for the following year. A national search for a new president will begin later this semester and conclude early in the spring.
It has been a privilege for Marne and I to have stewarded Sonoma State University for these many years. I believe with the assistance and leadership of many of you here and some who have previously retired, SSU has been transformed and is a jewel not only in the California State University but in higher education. The physical transformation is evident, but more important and significant has been the strengthening of the academic quality and its recognition in the community. We impact the lives of our students and graduates and nothing gives me more pride that when I am approached locally and nationally, even abroad, by an alum who happily and proudly tells me that he or she went to SSU and how great that experience was. My eternal wish is that this expression continues for our present and future students.
I wish all of you a rewarding academic year.


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Swiss Plan Change of Corporate Tax Rules to Mollify EU
Switzerland said it will stop differentiating between foreign and domestic companies in a bid to solve a disagreement with the European Union over preferential treatment for multinationals.
"Criticism of our current tax regime is increasingly perceived as a disadvantage by companies," Fabian Baumer, head of tax policy at the Swiss finance ministry, said in a briefing in Bern today.
To keep Switzerland attractive to foreign companies, the country plans to introduce new tax exemptions and will leave it up to cantons to reduce tax rates on profits, he said. The new rules will not include ring-fencing measures and won't distinguish between Swiss and foreign companies, he said.
The EU has urged Switzerland to abandon a so-called auxiliary regime that allows multinationals to pay less tax on income from outside the country. That has helped lure hundreds of global corporations, among them Procter & Gamble Co., Vitol Group, Trafigura Beheer BV and Caterpillar Inc., to the country.
The EU says the practice conflicts with its code of conduct by treating domestic and foreign companies differently. The Swiss government was given until the middle of the year to come up with a proposal, or face retaliatory steps.
The EU is the biggest destination for Swiss exports. The two are at odds over a number of matters, including immigration and Switzerland's tradition of banking secrecy that some citizens of EU countries used to evade taxes.
Compensatory Measures
To make up the tax shortfall, the Swiss government will offer alternative perks, which could include lower taxes on intangible assets like license fees for patents.
"We want our tax regime to remain attractive for companies," Serge Gaillard, Director of the Swiss Federal Finance Administration, said at the briefing. Switzerland could see a tax-revenue shortfall of between 1 billion francs ($1.03 billion) and 3 billion francs a year as a result of the new rules, he said.
According to Geneva authorities, companies that account for about a quarter of the canton's economy and employ about 20,000 people currently benefit from the auxiliary tax regime.
More than 70 commodity trading companies, including Vitol and Trafigura, pay an average tax rate of 12 percent in Geneva, according to the Geneva Trading and Shipping association, below the canton's standard rate of 24.2 percent.
The auxiliary regime is not used by all of Switzerland's 26 cantons. Zug, home to commodities trader Glencore Xstrata Plc, grants all companies a low rate, with the effective average corporate tax rate amounting to 13 percent in 2011.
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by Staff Writers
Sydney (AFP) Jan 25, 2013
A teenage boy was dramatically rescued from surging floodwaters as he clung to a tree Friday, while others were plucked from stranded cars and homes as floods swept northeastern Australia.
Authorities said there were 20 water rescue cases across central Queensland state overnight and early Friday, after the remnants of tropical cyclone Oswald dumped huge rains around the coastal city of Rockhampton.
Rescues included those of a woman and two children trapped in a car isolated by flood waters, and seven people taken from two flooded homes.
Authorities said a teenage boy was lucky to be alive after he was found clinging to a tree as muddy floodwaters surged around him at Frenchville, some 525 kilometres (325 miles) northwest of Brisbane, early on Friday.
"The current was so strong it just took him away," station officer Brett Williams told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
The national broadcaster said the boy's rescuer was himself swept under the waters after helping the teenager to dry land, but later bobbed up safely further down the swollen creek.
The Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe weather warning, saying with ex-tropical cyclone Oswald over central Queensland, damaging winds with gusts of up to 90 kilometres per hour (55 mph) were possible in the wider Rockhampton area.
The torrential rain has flooded rivers and dumped enough water to isolate towns, with Rockhampton experiencing its biggest daily downpour since 1939.
The bureau said severe flash flooding was reported overnight in the Yeppoon area, north of Rockhampton, where rainfall of 271 millimetres has been recorded since early Thursday.
In Gladstone, south of Rockhampton, the town was cut off by the flood waters, but damage was limited.
"It's very wet here," Gladstone regional mayor Gail Sellers told ABC TV.
"It hasn't been cyclonic as such but the winds are very strong."
Oswald has also impacted communities in far north Queensland and as the weather system makes its way south, heavy rainfall is expected for the next few days even as Rockhampton moves into clean-up mode as the waters there recede.
"We will be working now to clear up and we ask people to be careful where roads are still covered, where there are powerlines down," Rockhampton Mayor Margaret Strelow said.
The rain has left major highways closed, disrupted rail services and placed Emergency Management Queensland on high alert.
Two years ago floods in Queensland left more than 30 people dead, 29,000 homes and businesses inundated and some 2.5 million people affected.
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FX is adding to its collection of No.1 box-office hits with the acquisition of Sony's The Social Network and 20th Century Fox's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. FX has been the most aggressive movie buyer all summer, picking up the rights to most tentpole movies. The list includes Grown Ups, Karate Kid, Iron Man 2, Shrek Forever After, How To Train Your Dragon and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
FX Acquires 'Social Network' & 'Wall Street'
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Whoever is behind these deals is making FX bank. Way to go! I look forward to see FX on top in the future.
Maybe they have a great Fall/Winter ('11) lineup in store & wanted ensure more eye traffic.


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SAN BERNARDINO - Gerald "Jerry" Mohney earned an honor guard with bagpipes and drums for his 36 years with the San Bernardino Fire Department, but a slideshow at his funeral Tuesday began with the rebellious soundtrack of "Bad to the Bone."
The two-hour ceremony featured coworkers and family members remembering Mohney, a fire engineer and one-time vice president of the San Bernardino City Professional Firefighters union, as loyal, hard-working - and crusty.
Longtime firefighters said Mohney often laced his statements with expletives, and back when wardrobe regulations were more lax he would wear a T-shirt declaring "I hate rookies."
But after he worked with them, rookies and much of the rest of the Fire Department saw Mohney as one of their closest friends, said retired Fire Captain Ken Mosely.
"He taught me so much in the 12 years we worked together, I hope he knows how much I appreciate him," Mosely said. "There's a bond between all firefighters, but it's even stronger with my brother Jerry."
Mohney died Dec. 13 at 63 after a short fight with brain cancer, his wife Linda said. He began working for the department in 1974, after stints at a few jobs and in the Army.
Mark B. Shaw Chapel was packed with about 200 people he'd met through the Fire Department, car club and shooting range, who sometimes sniffled and often chuckled during a eulogy written by Linda and delivered by Chaplain Mike Whittaker.
"He was really a sentimental kind of guy and didn't like seeing the end of movies like Dances with Wolves or Braveheart, because they were about losing your best friend," Whittaker said. "But boy, did he like his Westerns."
Mohney's cowboy credo - "be kind to old people, be kinid to children and be kind to dogs" - was noted several times.
"As much as Jerry would like people to think he was half redneck and half cowboy," said his brother-in-law Steve DeGrave, "he was actually straight and narrow and always did what was right."
That didn't prevent him from having some fun, though, said DeGrave, who met Mohney before his first date with Linda at a bachelor party.
The two shared "a drink or three" and when the police showed up, scrambled in unison over a wall and into a neighbor's yard.
That was one of many adventures they had through the years, but through it all Mohney was a great role model for his daughter Stephanie, niece and nephew, who followed Mohney's example and became a firefighter in Murrieta, DeGrave said.
"Jerry was the perfect uncle for my kids," he said. "The love and pride he had for them was obvious and never required words."
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I'm still playing and exploring the phone, and not yet ready to start taking apart the phone, but I was wondering if someone took it apart and found out where is the location of the SIM inside the phone?
I'm sure it should be in the same place as that of the other models but I have not seen an inside pic for the At&t or t-mobile Note2 versions.
Can any one help on that??
Samsung Galaxy Note II does not have a sim card slot, has an embedded sim card.
Correct, and I'm trying to figure it out where is the location od that embedded SIM card.
My guess is that it would be in a similar position as the GS3 ..... see if you can find a picture of the Verizon GS3 with the battery out...
That picture of the international Note 2 shows the pins for the wireless charging which the Sprint vesion doesn't have either.
That's is a good question.
If someone can open it up, It will help.
I have the chance to cancel my AT&T order
I have not open mine yet, but I was looking on google and I found a pic of a note2 and it seams the card will be on the top right corner of the battery hole, so after the SIM is inserted it won't come out since the battery will keep it in place.
The question still stands, if we cut it, can we still access the sim or not, and for that, someone brave needs to open the da mn phone up and see how the SIM is hold in place.
I pray that Sprint only changed the inside back cover and not the whole setup on the phone, since that will make it much easier for us.
But again, who is brave enough to open the phone up this early and find out lol
is not from the note 2 buy this guy make a great work with his note 1 i think is same principle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6CJy71_9Ok
and here is specific for note 2 but the one use in this tutorial is the international one but at lease show you the principles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD6zGVbqNMA
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by Jonathan Lindvall from the Yahoo Bold Christian Living Group Several generations ago, a father's responsibility (and right) to protect his wife and daughters was generally assumed and acknowledged in our legal system. It would have been unthinkable for a woman to be compelled to participate in legal proceedings, without her father's (or in the case of a married woman, husband's) involvement. I understand in many situations women could not even be directly arrested, until permission of their father or husband was acquired. True, a husband or father then became liable for his wife's/daughter's actions. But the principle of Numbers 30 (male protection over women) was honored. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Protecting Daughters Most of All?
Quoting Quiverfull: Joyful Motherhood?
By Nancy Campbell of Above Rubies - The Merry-Hearted Mother God gives a description of mothers in Psalm 113:9. In fact, it is His design and plan for mothers. Do you know the description? He calls them JOYFUL mothers!"Oh my," you retort. "How do you expect me to be joyful when I hardly have time to get one moment for myself? I'm over-work and underpaid! I've got immature and crying little ones around me all day!" Dear mother, … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Half Mothering?
by Nancy Campbell of Above Rubies - Half Mothering or Full Mothering? Christ, who lives in us is "prophet, priest, and king." I believe that every father should be a prophet to his family, seeking God for His ways and speaking God's counsel to His family. But, we as mothers also have a daily responsibility to speak the counsel of God to our children. Motherhood is even more than nurturing, feeding, and caring for our children. It is our God-given duty to feed their souls and spirits as well as their bodies. Even more so. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Healthy Co-Dependency?
by Rebecca Belcher Morecraft at Ladies Against Feminism and Chalcedon Presbyterian Church The separate roles God created "in the beginning" for each sex have largely been spurned by our culture and substituted with a false idea of equality that in no way resembles God's original plan, when He created woman from the rib of man and arranged for future humans to spring from the womb of woman, thus establishing a healthy co-dependency for the continuance of life. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Taking The Cup?
A review of the "To Be One" DVD about Courtship/Betrothal/Marriage by The Old Schoolhouse Magazine My only reservation in recommending this video is the Lindvall story. I want to be gracious to the Lindvalls, but I was quite troubled by their story. My first concern was the process of choosing a wife for Timothy. According to all the men in the story, the Lord had "told" each of them that Brittany was the one for Timothy. The process of winning Brittany seemed to lack any emotion or feeling on the part of the prospective bridegroom, because the Lindvalls believe love should follow … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: What Does Mary Pride Believe In Besides Homeschooling?
by Mary Pride from her Facebook pageLuke 6:45 for of the abundance of his heart his mouth speaketh. New data on the connection between abortion and breast cancer: "A powerful new study from China ... a meta-analysis pooling 36 studies from 14 provinces in China, showed that abortion increased the risk of breast cancer by 44% with one abortion, and 76% and 89% with two and three abortions. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Children Are a Covenantal Blessing?
by Doug Wilson of Blog and Mablog Children are a blessing. Scripture speaks that way, and so should we. But children are a blessing in the covenant. The cup of blessing at the Lord's Supper is a blessing — it is called the cup of blessing. And yet, there were some at Corinth who were sick and who had died because of how they mishandled that blessing (1 Cor. 11:30). The mercy seat on the ark of the covenant was a mercy seat — but was Uzzah struck dead because he touched it (2 Sam. 6:7)? … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Don't Worry About If There's Enough?
by Nancy Campbell from Above Rubies - Can God Provide For Another Baby? Many husbands feel the weight of providing for another mouth to feed and therefore don't want to have any more children. And many mothers feel like this, too.But, dear mother, God has promised that He will never fail us. David confessed, "I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread" (Psalm 37:25). … [Read more...]
Mom's Cycle Was on the Family Calender
by Lana Hope cross posted from her blog Wide Open GroundI did not realize it was a homeschool thing. Or just a conservative thing. Or unique to some families.I thought almost every man er family tracked mom's cycle, and all the daughter's cycles too.Libby Anne recently wrote a post on Charting Your (Wife's) Monthy Cycle. Here's what she says: [Michael Pearl] recently advised young husbands to track their wives' cycles so they would know in advance when their wives were … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Christians Should Fight 'Religious Wars'?
Franklin Graham at Billy Graham Evangelical Association - Duck Dynasty and the Ducking Church I appreciate the Robertson family's strong commitment to biblical principles and their refusal to back down under intense media pressure over Phil Robertson's comments in a recent interview. As the Robertson controversy winds down—at least for now—I have been amazed at how many churches have apparently "ducked" out on the issue (sin). Some were even quick to condemn Phil Robertson. … [Read more...]


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Verizon Communications is now taking orders for its Verizon FiOS TV service in parts of Town of Oyster Bay hamlets Bethpage, Hicksville, Jericho and Plainview, N.Y.
The regional Bell operating company began taking orders for its video service in parts of Massapequa, Seaford, Syosset and Woodbury June 27.
The Oyster Bay Town Board voted unanimously May 9 to grant Verizon a franchise to provide television services for the town's unincorporated villages.
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The number got my attention for two reasons: I didn't recognize the voice; and not too many girls cover the tune. It's usually a song about a girl, not a song performed by a girl.
Drink up all you people
Order anything you see
Have fun you happy people
The drink and the laugh's on me
I tracked down the singer – Carol Kidd – through Google, contacted her press representative and snagged an e-mail interview with her between tour dates this summer.
Kidd was named Best Vocalist, British Jazz Award four times, and earned the title of Best International Vocalist at the Cannes International Jazz Award, so she's no new-comer to the industry.
During our correspondence, Kidd asked me if I knew Don Henley, the Linden native and member of the legendary rock group "The Eagles."
Kidd, who was born in Scotland but currently lives in Spain, had a personal reason for asking: Henley's music helped her through a difficult period in 2003.
We talked about the loss, Kidd's music and just how a young girl from Scotland fell in love with the Great American Songbook.News-Telegram: What made you choose music as a way to earn your living?
CK: I didn't really see it as a way to earn a living. I have been singing since age five and always seemed to pick songs that had a story – children's songs do that, don't they? As I got older, I was never very far away from the cinema. I spent a lot of time sitting through American musicals then started singing with a jazz band at the age of 15, and have never worked at anything else.
NT: "Angel Eyes" is usually sung by a guy ... but you knock it out of the park. How did you come to record the song?
CK: I was obviously influenced by Frank Sinatra. I fell in love with the words of this song and couldn't wait to record it. I love the whole feel of the song – the lyrics are so wonderfully romantic but sad.
NT: How did you get interested in the great American songbook?
CK: Through the cinema, as I said. I bought a lot of records by American singers, but rather than going for pop, I went for the Great American Songbook simply because they were the best writers of the classic jazz standards and had all the stories I wanted to sing.
NT: Who were your musical influences?
CK: When I was very young, it was Doris Day and Judy Garland. Then I went on to admire and love Gordon McRae, Vic Damone – who has asked for my albums to be sent to him - Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra, who asked me to do a stadium gig with him in Scotland. It knocked me out. I like Anita O'Day, Ella and others, but these are the tops.
NT: Do you play an instrument?
CK: I don't play. I don't even read music, but I have the stretchiest ears in the world and I'm told I have perfect pitch.
NT: Do you have a favorite composer?
CK: Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart – all the greats. It's true what they say: "They don't write them like that anymore." Again it all comes down to the story.
NT: You really put a swing in "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" ... not the usual tempo. Whose idea was it to do it in an upbeat tempo?
CK: Mostly I don't like to swing a ballad. I feel they should be kept the way they were written, but "Berkeley Square" really lent itself to the swing. I heard Harry Connick Jr. do it in a similar way and loved the whole feel of it.
NT: I loved your take on the late Kenny Rankin's "Haven't We Met?" I can hear you smiling in that one. Was it as much fun to record as it sounds?
CK: Thanks for that. Yes, that song was a delight to sing and I had the supreme guitarist Martin Taylor playing it so we did have a lot of fun. The lyrics are so unusual and there are a lot of them to fit into the tempo. I must admit I did laugh all the way through it!
I regrettably never met Kenny – I'm so sorry to hear of his passing. He was a genius writer.
NT: "Stars Fell on Alabama" is just you and the trio (guitar, bass, drum) ... no orchestration .... and it's so lovely. Is the song on your usual set list?
CK: The song was not on my usual set list until recently. My daughter loves the song and asked me to sing it for her at one of my concerts. It's been a favourite ever since – so much so that it is included in my new album. In fact, it was nearly the title of the new album.
NT: You include one of the jazz world's greatest tunes, "'Round Midnight" on your CD, "All My Tomorrows." Tell me your history with the song and the jazz genre.
CK: I have worked with some great sax players who all played "'Round Midnight."
Then I discovered the words and started singing it. I loved the movie with Dexter Gordon. To me it's one of those lovely but complicated tunes that you never forget.
"All My Tomorrows" is again very different from the other standards I was performing. It's not a straight forward tune. It has its little hidden subtle changes just like "'Round Midnight" that appealed to me.
NT: You have a special affection for Linden native and member of the legendary Eagles rock band, Don Henley. Can you tell us about that?
CK: I lost my voice through the trauma of my partner's death. I couldn't sing and was told by my doctor not to even speak for four months. The depression I was left with lasted for a lot longer than four months. It was more like a year.
When I was at my lowest, my son gave me a DVD of Don Henley's "Live Inside Job" (2002). I started writing songs solely due to his inspiration.
I gradually started performing again and became really anxious to do a new studio jazz album.
It was during the process of picking out the songs I had never recorded that "Dreamsville" was born.
It was such a joy recording the CD. Now I'm back to full strength and working towards my next release.
NT: What's next for you?
CK: I'm doing a tribute to Johnny Mercer concert hosted by our Sir Michael Parkinson on June 21.
I have been writing my own songs. There are two on my new album. I'll be concentrating on recording early next year. My dates are in the book and I guess I'll sing 'til I drop.
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Melody Gardot and to hear Kidd's cover of "Angel Eyes."
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SUBJECT : Calculating the total system head in USCS units 7-1:
USCS stands for "United States Customary System Units" as opposed to the SI (Le Syst`eme International d`Units) or metric units that have been adopted by the International standards Organization (ISO).
It turn out that "head" is a very convenient term in the pumping business. Capacity is measured in gallons per minute, and each gallon of liquid has weight, so we can easily calculate the pounds per minute being pumped. Head or height is measured in feet, so if we multiply these two together we get foot- pounds per minute which converts directly to work at the rate of 33,000 foot pounds per minute equals one horsepower.
Pressure is not as convenient a term because the amount of pressure that the pump will deliver depends upon the weight (specific gravity) of the liquid being pumped and the specific gravity changes with temperature, type of fluid, and fluid concentration.
If you will refer to FIG 1, you should get a clear picture of what is meant by static head. Note that we always measure from the center line of the pump to the highest liquid level
To calculate head accurately we must calculate the total head on both the suction and discharge sides of the pump. In addition to the static head we will learn that there is a head caused by resistance in the piping, fittings and valves called friction head, and a head caused by any pressure that might be acting on the liquid in the tanks including atmospheric pressure, called " surface pressure head".
Once we know these heads, we will then subtract the suction head from the discharge head and the amount remaining will be the amount of head that the pump must be able to generate at the rated flow. Here is how it looks in a formula:
System head = total discharge head - total suction head
H = hd - hs
The total discharge head is made from three separate heads:
hd = hsd + hpd + hfd
The total suction head also consists of three separate heads
hs = hss + hps - hfs
As we make these calculations, you must sure that all calculations are made in either "feet of liquid gauge" or "feet of liquid absolute". In case you have forgotten "absolute means that you have added atmospheric pressure (head) to the gauge reading.
Now we will make some actual calculations:
Figure #2 demonstrates that the discharge head is still measured to the liquid level, but you will note that it is below the maximum height of the piping.
Although the pump must deliver enough head to get up to this maximum piping height, it will not have to continue to deliver this head when the pump is running because of the "siphon effect". There is of course a maximum siphon effect. It is derived from: 14.7 psi (atmospheric pressure) x 2.31 feet / psi = 33.4 feet maximum siphon effect.
We will begin with the total suction head calculation
1. The suction head is negative because the liquid level in the suction tank is below the centerline of the pump:
hss = - 6 feet
2. The suction tank is open, so the suction surface pressure equals atmospheric pressure :
hps = 0 feet gauge
3. You will not have to calculate the suction friction head, I will tell you it is:
hfs = 4 feet at rated flow
4. The total suction head is a gauge value because atmosphere was given as 0,
hs = hss + hps - hfs = -6 + 0 - 4 = -10 feet of liquid gauge at rated flow
The total discharge head calculation
1. The static discharge head is:
hsd = 125 feet
2. The discharge tank is also open to atmospheric pressure, thus:
hpd = 0 feet, gauge
3. I will give you the discharge friction head as:
hfd = 25 feet at rated flow
4. The total discharge head is:
hd = hsd + hpd + hfd = 125 + 0 + 25 = 150 feet of liquid gauge at rated flow
The total system head calculation:
H = hd - hs = 150 - (-10)= 160 feet of liquid at rated flow
Note: did you notice that when we subtracted a minus number (-10) from a positive number (150) we ended up with a positive 160 because whenever you subtract minus numbers it is the same as adding them? If you have trouble with this concept you can learn more about it from a mathematics book.
Our next example involves a few more calculations, but you should be able to handle them. In this example we are going to learn how to handle a vacuum application. Pipe friction numbers are taken from the Hydraulic Institute Engineering Data Book. You can get a copy of this publication from your library if you want to see the actual charts. I have some of this information in the chart section of this web site.
1. Transferring 1000 gpm. weak acid from the vacuum receiver to the storage tank
2. Specific Gravity - 0.98
3. Viscosity - equal to water
4. Piping - All 6" Schedule 40 steel pipe
5. Discharge piping rises 40 feet vertically above the pump centerline and then runs 400 feet horizontally. There is one 90° flanged elbow in this line
6. Suction piping has a square edge inlet, four feet of pipe, one gate valve, and one 90° flanged elbow all of which are 6" in diameter.
7. The minimum level in the vacuum receiver is 5 feet above the pump centerline.
8. The pressure on top of the liquid in the vacuum receiver is 20 inches of mercury, vacuum.
To calculate suction surface pressure use one of the following formulas:
Now that you have all of the necessary information we will begin by dividing the system into two different sections, using the pump as the dividing line.
Total suction head calculation
1. The suction side of the system shows a minimum static head of 5 feet above suction centerline. Therefore, the static suction head is:
hss = 5 feet
2. Using the first conversion formula, the suction surface pressure is:
hps = -20 Hg x 1.133/ 0.98 = -23.12 feet gauge
3. The suction friction head, hfs, equals the sum of all the friction losses in the suction line. Friction loss in 6" pipe at 1000 gpm from table 15 of the Hydraulic Institute Engineering Data Book, is 6.17 feet per 100 feet of pipe.
in 4 feet of pipe friction loss = 4/100 x 6.17 = 0.3 feet
Friction loss coefficients (K factors) for the inlet, elbow and valve can be added together and multiplied by the velocity head:
6" Square edge inlet 0.50 32 (a) 6" 90 flanged elbow 0.29 32 (a) 6" Gate valve 0.11 32 (b)
6" Square edge inlet
32 (a)
6" 90 flanged elbow
32 (a)
6" Gate valve
32 (b)
Total coefficient, K = 0.90
Total friction loss on the suction side is:
hfs = 0.3 + 1.7 = 2.0 feet at 1000 gpm.
4. The total suction head then becomes:
hs = hss + hps - hfs = 5 + (-23.12) - 2.0 = -20.12 feet, gauge at 1000 gpm.
Total discharge head calculation
1. Static discharge head = hsd = 40 feet
2. Discharge surface pressure = hpd = 0 feet gauge
3. Discharge friction head = hfd = sum of the following losses :
Friction loss in 6" pipe at 1000 gpm. from table 15, is 6.17 feet per hundred feet of pipe.
In 440 feet of pipe the friction loss = 440/100 x 6.17 = 27.2 feet
Friction loss in 6" elbow:
from table 32 (a), K = 0,29
from table 15, V2/2g = 1.92 at 1000 gpm.
Friction loss = K V2/2g = 0.29 x 1.92 = 0.6 feet
The friction loss in the sudden enlargement at the end of the discharge line is called the exit loss. In systems of this type where the area of the discharge tank is very large in comparison to the area of the discharge pipe, the loss equals V2/2g, as shown in table 32 (b).
Friction loss at exit = V2/2g = 1.9 feet
The discharge friction head is the sum of the above losses, that is:
hfd = 27.2 + 0.6 + 1.9 = 29.7 feet at 1000 gpm.
4. The total discharge head then becomes:
hd = hsd + hpd + hfd = 40 + 0 + 29.7 = 69.7 feet, gauge at 1000 gpm.
c. Total system head calculation:
H = hd - hs = 69.7 - (-20.2) = 89.9 feet at 1000 gpm.
Our next example will be the same as the one we just finished except. that there is an additional 10 feet of pipe and another 90° flanged elbow in the vertical leg. The total suction head will be the same as in the previous example. Take a look at figure # 4
Nothing has changed on the suction side of the pump so the total suction head will remain the same:
hs = -20.12 feet, gauge at 100 gpm.
Total discharge head calculation
1. The static discharge head "hsd" will change from 40 feet to 30 feet, since the highest liquid surface in the discharge is now only 30 feet above the pump centerline.(This value is based on the assumption that the vertical leg in the discharge tank is full of liquid and that as this liquid falls it will tend to pull the liquid up and over the loop in the pipe line. This arrangement is called a siphon leg).
2. The discharge surface pressure is unchanged:
hpd = 0 feet
3. The friction loss in the discharge pipe will be increased by the additional 10 feet of pipe and the additional elbow.
In 10 feet of pipe the friction loss = 10/100 x 6.17 = 0.6 feet
The friction loss in the additional elbow = 0.6 feet
The friction head will then increase as follows:
hfd = 29.7 + 0.6 + 0.6 = 30.9 feet at 1000 gpm.
The total discharge head becomes:
hd = hsd + hpd + hfd
= 30 + 0 + 30.9
= 60.9 feet, gauge at 1000 gpm.
5. Total system head calculation
H = hd - hs = 60.9 - (-20.12) = 81 feet at 1000 gpm.
For our last example we will look at gauges. Take a look at FIG 5:
Divide the heads into two sections again:
The discharge gauge head corrected to the centerline of the pump, in feet of liquid absolute is found by adding the atmospheric pressure to the gauge reading to get absolute pressure, and then converting to absolute head:
hgd = (130 + 14.7) x 2.31 / (1.3 Specific Gravity) + 4 = 261.1 feet, absolute
Note the 4 foot head correction to the pump centerline.
The discharge velocity head at 300 gpm. is found in table 9 of the Hydraulic Institute Engineering Data Book
hvd = 12.8 feet at 300 gpm.
The suction gauge reading is in absolute terms so it needs only to be converted to feet of liquid, absolute.
hgs = 40 x 2.3 / 1.3 +2 = 73.08 feet absolute
Note the 2 foot head correction to the pump centerline.
The suction velocity head at 300 gpm. is found in table 11 of the Pipe Friction Manual:
hvs = 2.63 feet at 300 gpm.
The total system head developed by the pump =:
H = (hgd + hvd ) - ( hgs + hvs ) = (261.1 + 12.8) - (73.08 + 2.6)= 198.22 feet absolute at 300 gpm.
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Potable water was cleared for drinking again in York Factory, a week after the supply was shut down, but the chief of the remote Cree community says the community is still relying on bottled water.
Chief Louisa Constant said the water plant is only able to produce half the community's needs so she's ordered the community of 500 to maintain its drinking-water ban.
Residents are still using bottled water for drinking and bathing babies, children and adults with skin sensitivities until the plant is fully back on line.
Federal health officials lifted an order not to drink or use the water for any purpose other than to flush toilets on Friday.
Saturday, water in the taps was still cloudy.
"Because of continuing issues with cloudy water, taste and limitations in the amount of water being produced, the community and the chief and council do not have confidence in the community water supply," Constant said in a statement this weekend. "That is, while the testing may indicate the water is potable, the water will not be palatable to the community until the cleaning and flushing process is complete."
Federal health officials imposed a ban on using the community water supply Feb. 27. Health officials recommended the water plant undergo a thorough flushing and cleaning process but one of the plant's two filtration screens was down, cutting the plant's capacity in half.
The chief said she'd updated Manitoba's minister responsible for Manitoba Hydro, Manitoba Hydro president Scott Thomson and federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt on the situation.
Valcourt's office said earlier this week federal officials were working closely with the community to restore the operation of the plant.
In York Factory, the federal reports were met with dissatisfaction. "The operation of the water system can only be considered "restored," when long-standing upgrades, repairs, equipment replacement and servicing are completed," the chief said in this weekend's statement.
The community's water plant has broken down repeatedly since a lightning strike caused a power surge that damaged a control panel in 1990.


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Welsh designer Julien Macdonald has presented his final haute couture collection for the venerable French house Givenchy, turning out an impeccably cut, low-key collection for spring-summer 2004.
Macdonald will present his last ready-to-wear collection in March before his contract expires, and Givenchy - controlled by the world's top luxury group LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton - is looking for new creative talent.
His last couture show took place at the house's own small salons, but despite the on-time arrivals of pop diva Christina Aguilera and actress Liv Tyler, the current face of Givenchy, it started more than an hour late.
Macdonald brought Givenchy couture back to its roots with sharply cut dresses in black, white or dusty rose that were maybe even too conservative - on models with perfectly pulled-back chignons.
But the collection was not short on eye-catching details like paper-thin or crocheted lace, or a bustier studded with elegant crystal drops.
Macdonald is the third British designer to serve as artistic director at Givenchy after John Galliano (now at Christian Dior) and Alexander McQueen.
Another British national, Oswald Boateng, has been named creative director for Givenchy Hommes and is due to present his first collection in June.
Earlier today, French designer Dominique Sirop offered a line of light, refined gowns in pastel hues - what he described to AFP as "weightless dresses, dresses suspended in mid-air".
"I want to purify my designs to the maximum," he said.
Sirop - the only independent couturier to present his collection during Paris fashion week - said he had "lived for seven years thanks to my clients," who are willing to spend thousands of euros on one of his unique creations.
For next summer, he offered his loyal customers pleated chiffon tops over trousers with a gauzy black overlay, or a powder pink and black suit with crushed frilly trim across the chest.
His gowns, most of them made from one uncut piece of satin or silk, were held together by a few tacking stitches and fell elegantly to the floor in a cascade of soft folds. Ornamentation was secondary - just a few jet beads here and a handful of sparkling crystals there.
Haute couture week continues on Wednesday with shows from Emanuel Ungaro, Valentino, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Japan's Hanae Mori.
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The most romantic day of the year can be hellish for those alone or newly single. So perhaps this is the year to take charge, go out there and find that special someone. Easier said than done, but this Valentine's Day, Hip Hong Kong is here to help.
In conjunction with the Ozone bar on the top floor of the Ritz-Carlton hotel in West Kowloon, Hip Hong Kong is hosting a Single In The City Valentine's Day Party kicking off tonight at 9pm.
In honour of the fact that this year's Valentine's Day falls immediately after Lunar New Year, the party will be thrown in the style of a traditional lantern festival, known as Chinese Valentine's Day.
A combination of alcohol and controlled social interaction should guarantee even the shyest would-be lovers can meet a special someone. Guests will be given a zodiac card. When they meet someone with the same card they will be rewarded with a pair of free shots.
Or impress would-be suitors with your knowledge, by answering special lantern riddles, some of which promise to be quite racy.
If you need more help making your move, don't despair; matchmakers will be circulating through the crowd making sure that no potential coupling is left unexplored.
Men must pay HK$200 for entry and a complimentary drink and piece of chocolate, although they will most likely feel obligated to give these away to a "new friend". Women, of course, get in for free.


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As a world-class institution for nursing education, the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto frequently welcomes a variety of visitors. Whether your visit includes a tour of its state-of-the-art simulation lab, teaching facilities, community partner, academic network of teaching hospitals, or a coordinated meeting with faculty, administrators, nursing and health leaders, International Affairs strategically coordinates your visit to achieve your specific goals and objectives. To propose a visit, please contact us with an outline of the goals and objectives of your visit.
International Visiting Doctoral Students
We welcome visits from international doctoral students who are registered full-time in recognized PhD programs in Nursing at non-Canadian universities. Potential students should have completed most of their program requirements, including data collection. Visiting students may spend up to one year under the supervision of one of our professors, working on individually tailored learning objectives.
International Affairs and the PhD Coordinator will work to ensure that visits are carefully planned and arranged to facilitate specialized training, learning opportunities and collaboration. Objectives and a study plan for visits must be included in the student's request along with a Curriculum Vitae (CV) and Application Form. The study plan and objectives will be further developed in discussion with the supervisor at the home university, and the host supervisor at Bloomberg Nursing once the student has been accepted.
Faculty researchers at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing have expertise in a range of research methods and specialties and interested students are encouraged to visit and review the profiles of professor, associate professor and assistant professors.
The PhD Coordinator will provide assistance in determining potential supervisors.
Application and Fees
The University of Toronto requirements and details of the application process are found in the International Visiting Graduate Student Study Abroad Program page. Visiting students do not pay tuition fees, but the School of Graduate Studies charges administrative and incidental fees. An administrative fee is also charged by the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing. No funding or internal scholarships are available for visiting doctoral students. Please also note that space for visiting students is limited.
Planning your visit
International Affairs can assist students in obtaining the required letter of invitation for study permit purposes and be a resource before and during their learning experience at the faculty.
What You Can Expect as a Visiting Doctoral Student
- Access to audit courses, with the supervisor's approval
- Access to the University of Toronto's virtual and physical library collection (included in SGS fee)
- Study/work space within the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
- Internet (including wireless) access
- Student services at the University of Toronto such as health, equity, campus security and international student services, as well as recreation and health facilities at the Athletic Centre and Hart House (included in SGS fee)
- English language skills acquisition through School of Continuing Studies English Language Academic Preparation Course (additional fees may apply)
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- Provide International Affairs with objectives, study plan, CV, and Application Form
- Communication, in advance, between the student's supervisor at the home institution and the proposed supervisor at Bloomberg Nursing (a letter of agreement is required – see templates in International Visiting Graduate Student (IVGS) Study Abroad Agreement.
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- Completion all requirements listed in the International Visiting Graduate Student (IVGS) Study Abroad Agreement
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To inquire about the possibility of scheduling a visit to Bloomberg Nursing, please indicate the nature and purpose of your visit by email.
International Affairs frequently welcomes visiting delegations from prospective and existing collaborating institutions and organizations. Visits are coordinated to include meetings with faculty, directors and administrators from across the University and world renowned teaching hospitals to initiate potential collaborations.
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Do Page Limits Put A Limit On Justice?
by Franco Ordonez
The Boston Globe
YORKTOWN, Va. Feb. 17, 2004
Though he admits his crime, Dennis M. Orbe, 39, maintains he did not intend to kill 39-year-old Richard Burnett, an Exxon convenience store clerk, early in the morning on Jan. 24, 1998, and therefore should not die. A jury, however, sentenced him to death.
On Thursday, York County Judge Prentis Smiley Jr. scheduled Orbe's execution for March 31.
Next month, Orbe will petition the US Supreme Court with the hope that the justices will agree to hear his theory that the Virginia procedural rule designed to speed up the litigation process thwarted his right to a fair defense. With so many different challenges succeeding in courts these days, 50 pages is not enough space to introduce all the arguments that could save an inmate's life, his lawyers contend.
"It's like target shooting with a revolver from which half the bullets have been removed," argued Eric M. Freedman, a Hofstra Law professor. "You'd like to take six shots, but you have only three. Fifty pages may not be sufficient to save your client's life."
Three years ago, Orbe's 113-page habeas corpus petition to the Virginia Supreme Court was denied because it exceeded the 50-page limit. And despite efforts to squeeze 11 arguments into the space requirements, Orbe's attorneys had to pick four arguments to drop, including a claim of jury misconduct and an argument that one of Orbe's original attorneys was unqualified.
"We went to a condensed font, we cut out every superfluous word," said Michele Brace, Orbe's attorney. "We tried to compress as much as possible, but we could still not fit everything into 50 pages."
Page limits in everyday court proceedings have been commonplace for years and aim to control the court's workload by encouraging attorneys to stick to their best arguments. In capital cases, however, the restriction is more recent, having popped up in the past decade in eight states, including Arizona, Florida, and Oklahoma.
Opponents say it is often impossible to stick to these strict page limits, considering the complexity of capital cases and the court's requirements that defense counsel properly establish each argument with a multitude of supporting facts and relevant legal citations.
Being forced to choose which claims to drop exposes defense attorneys to an agonizing moral and professional dilemma, they said. The attorneys feel they are gambling with their client's life by having to select certain claims while sacrificing others that might have been successful arguments.
Orbe is not an innocent man. Security video caught him shooting Richard Burnett in the chest as he stepped away from the store's cash register. It was the peak of a 10-day crime run that also included shooting another robbery victim in the leg, taking three women hostage, and leading a high-speed car chase on Richmond roads, where he was caught. One of the kidnapped women, Patricia Tuck, says she still has trouble being alone and vividly remembers Orbe's words when he locked them in a bedroom closet: "Don't try anything stupid, because I've killed one person, and I don't have anything to lose."
Supporters of the death penalty say Orbe's crime meets all the requirements for a death sentence because of the cruel and depraved manner in which it was conducted. They believe his page-limit argument is a classic example of defense attorneys tying up the court system with frivolous claims.
"For death row inmates and their counsel, every delay is a win, and they delay at all costs," said Dianne Clements, president of Texas-based Justice for All, a victims' group. "It's a pathetic process where the videotaped guilt of this killer is usurped by attorneys who are verbose and use big font. A 50-page limit should be sufficient if the issue is presented succinctly and to the point."
In the past, the US Supreme Court has maintained that there is a heightened need for reliability on capital cases. Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier, a law professor at the City University of New York School of Law, argues that a page limit compromises that position.
"Basically, someone could die because of a procedural matter," he said.
Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for the Virginia attorney general, contends that Orbe had ample opportunities before the habeas corpus petition to enter the four
arguments that his lawyers had to drop. Murtaugh added that the arguments were dismissed.
According to the American Bar Association, that does not matter because there is always the chance that a court, particularly the Supreme Court, will reverse its own ruling. And in its practice guidelines for lawyers in capital punishment cases, the bar association maintains it is an attorney's duty to test existing laws and assert legal claims even when the chances of success "are at best modest."
Pointing to the high court's recent reversal on the death penalty for mentally retarded inmates and last month's decision to reconsider the execution of juveniles, Kirchmeier noted that the Supreme Court has often changed its mind.
"You can never be sure what's going to be the next successful claim," said Kirchmeier, coauthor of a Supreme Court amicus brief filed by the New York Bar Association supporting Orbe. "Attorneys for years argued that they have mentally retarded clients who shouldn't have been executed. Eventually they won, but it was a losing claim for a lot of people."
And because habeas corpus guidelines prevent lawyers from raising new claims in federal court that were not first raised at the state level, they have probably lost the chance to raise the arguments later.
For example, Kirchmeier cited the hundreds of inmates on death row in Nebraska, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and Colorado who never challenged the idea that a judge, rather than a jury, applied their death sentence. In 2002, the US Supreme Court ruled that only a jury could impose death, but these other inmates had never challenged the judge's decision at the state level, and are thus prevented from raising it in federal appeals.
The inmates are hoping the Supreme Court reverses itself again, and allows new issues to be raised at the federal level.
Meanwhile, a rash of such reversals has only increased the public skepticism about the reliability of capital punishment that has been brewing since the introduction of DNA evidence and former Illinois governor George Ryan's decision in 2000 to declare a moratorium on state executions.
Since the death penalty was restored in 1976, 112 death row inmates have been exonerated, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. And the awareness that people have been wrongly sentenced to die has led jurors to hesitate before condemning someone to die, opting instead for life in prison. Consequently, in the past three years, the number of death sentences issued has dropped from an average of 300 a year in the 1990s to an estimated 139 last year.
"There is queasiness with the realization that innocent people can be sentenced to death," said John Blume, a habeas corpus specialist and the director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project.
Orbe filed an initial petition in the fall asking the Supreme Court to hear his argument that he should be allowed to present the court with the remaining four arguments for why he should not be executed. The request was denied without comment, presumably because Orbe had not exhausted his appeals at the state level. Now that he has, Brace, Orbe's lawyer, expects to submit a revised petition to the court next month, a week before his scheduled execution.
Specialists hesitate to speculate what impact a favorable decision by the Supreme Court might have. If Orbe were to win, it would open the door to bulkier habeas corpus petitions. But even if he loses, it probably won't be the last time the high court hears an appeal about an unfair page limit.
"The moral of the story is to raise every claim and keep raising them every single time because the courts, especially the Supreme Court, have shown a proclivity to change their minds," said Ronald Tabak, cochairman of an American Bar Association committee on the death penalty.
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