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Countyshakman.com is an online resource for residents and others who may be interested in the on-going work of the Court-appointed "Compliance Administrator." On November 30, 2006, Judge Wayne Andersen appointed a Compliance Administrator to ensure that the County of Cook complies with all proper hiring and employment practices as they relate to political considerations. The Compliance Administrator was appointed pursuant to the federal civil lawsuit titled Michael L. Shakman, et al. v. Democratic Organization of Cook County, et al., Case No. 69 C 2145. The holding in that lawsuit includes the prohibition of employment practices that are based on political considerations. This lawsuit is discussed in detail in the Background page of this website.
The Order entered on November 30, 2006, is entitled Supplemental Relief Order (SRO). It contemplates a two year plan by which the County, if found to be compliant by Judge Andersen, will be dismissed from the lawsuit. The SRO also details the duties and responsibilities of various individuals and entities, including the Compliance Administrator. The Compliance Administrator's duties include studying existing employment practices, policies and procedures for non-political hiring, promotion, transfer, discipline and discharge; observing actual hiring sequences; assisting in formulating a new hiring plan; aiding in establishing a training program to educate and train supervisors and employees on non-political hiring practices; making recommendations to the Court as to how to resolve issues regarding Shakman exempt positions; monitoring compliance; adjudicating pre-SRO violations and filing periodic reports.
The Compliance Administrator filed her Initial Report on January 3, 2007. It details the results of her study and her recommendations as of that date. It also sets out her staffing needs and the powers she deems appropriate to effectuate her responsibilities.
There are a number of components to the SRO and the Compliance Administrator's duties. Some are in the process of being addressed and some will be addressed in due course. We encourage you to contact us on the Contact Us page of this website. If you previously have contacted the Compliance Administrator's office and did not recieve a response, please contact us again. Your input on any aspect of the SRO is important to us.
You may have a claim as an aggrieved individual because you believe that political considerations affected your job or you were denied employment because of political considerations. If that is the case, then you should visit the Filing A Claim page of this website to find out information related to your claim and access a Claim Form.
Your input on any aspect of the SRO is important to us.
This website addresses issues related to Cook County. If you are looking for Shakman information related to the City of Chicago, visit www.shakmanmonitor.com.
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SOCHI, Russia — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, told USA TODAY Sports by phone that members of the band were beaten with whips by Cossack militia members outside a downtown Sochi restaurant Wednesday.
The incident occurred roughly 24 hours after she, bandmate Maria Alyokhina and more than 10 others were detained for questioning by police over an alleged theft at a Sochi hotel.
Tolokonnikova said the group was about to perform when they were jumped.
Others witnessed the incident, including VICE News reporter Simon Ostrovsky, who said on Twitter he videotaped it.
According to The Associated Press, six group members — five women and one man — had put on their signature ski masks and were pulling out a guitar and microphone when at least 10 Cossacks and other security officials moved in. One Cossack appeared to use pepper spray, another whipped several group members while others ripped off their masks and threw the guitar in a garbage can, the news agency reported.
The group's attorney,Alexander Popkov, told USA TODAY Sports by phone that three members of the group had been hospitalized to treat injuries from the attack. Pussy Riot had chosen that location to film for a music video, he said.
Around 10 p.m. local time, Alyokhina tweeted a photo of Tolokonnikova and said: "Lying with Nadya on beds next to each other in a hospital."
Earlier, Alyokhina tweeted a photo of a man, who participated in the action, with a bloody cut over his left eye.
The AP reported the altercation lasted less than three minutes.
The 24-year-old Tolokonnikova and 25-year-old Alyokhina were released Dec. 23 following a 21-month imprisonment for a protest performance in a Moscow cathedral that led to charges of hooliganism and blasphemy.
On Tuesday, Tolokonnikova sent a series of tweets detailing the duo's activities in Sochi and revealed that they also had been detained for about seven hours on Sunday and 10 hours on Monday, when they were held by the FSB, the Federal Security Service.
Tolokonnikova said she and Alyokhina were in Sochi to carry out a Pussy Riot action _ the song "Putin will teach you to love the motherland."

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Life as an archaeologist often starts like anyone else's day, an early morning, a hearty breakfast, reading the news online, and getting dressed. Where it differs is, I am going to uncover objects that are lost and buried sometimes right beneath your feet, or right under your garden. I look at neighborhoods not as they are today, but as they were, perhaps a hundred years ago, or perhaps a thousand years ago. My thoughts are locked in a mode where every fragment of brick raises questions, and every piece of stone a new discovery. Perhaps you've walked right past an archaeologist in the street, his or her eyes gazing toward the ground, examining every detail, looking for something out of place. This is just the start of the day.
I'm a different kind of archaeologist, while I have studied Native American sites in the Northeast, and I have dug sites in the west, my primary focus is on industry and workers. I am an Industrial Archaeologist, I study class development with my focus on riverworkers in the Monongahela Valley in Pennsylvania. Namely, I study 19th and 20th century steamboat workers.
My day for the past few months has been to meet with my archaeology volunteers from the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology Mon/Yough Chapter #3 (www.mon-yougharchaeology.com) and head out to a site that is offering a great window into the 19th century steamboat industry, a captain's house! Actually we've excavated two steamboat captain's houses from different time periods in the 1800's.
Community involvement is important to the future of archaeology in the United States as federal and state monies slowly dry up. The community must value their past and take ownership of it, and archaeology is a great way to get the community involved and get them to value their past! You will see in these photos 3 age groups from Zander who is 6 years old, to Carl who is a venerated senior, archaeology has brought these different people together.
Here are some pictures from those excavations, we are in Brownsville, Pennsylvania.


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Best of 2012: Most Stylish Celebrity Couple
It's great to be fashionable on your own, but having a man who's equally stylish means double the style power. That's the case with each of these six couples who prove that having a partner in crime is doubly chic. Newlyweds Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake manage to look just as good in denim as they do in a gown and suit. Beyoncé and Jay-Z never cease to amaze us with their sporty-chic aesthetic. Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield give off effortlessly cool vibes in their laid-back outfits. Jennifer Aniston is classic, but we love that Justin Theroux brings out her edgier side. Kanye West's love for fashion has clearly rubbed off on Kim Kardashian, as they always look luxe no matter where they go. And finally, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson coordinate their kick-back style perfectly for every red-carpet appearance. So now that you've gotten a good look at all six couples, it's time to weigh in: which do you think deserves the title of the most stylish celebrity couple of 2012? Vote below!


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Talk about the novels, new and used books that Kargman has written!
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Nagle's Mercy
This is a suspense thriller centered around an ambitious college student named Mitch Prudene. He has everything going for him: top grades, a scholarship to law school, a beautiful girlfriend, and a cool car. One night, he goes to a bar and gets involved in a fight where someone gets badly hurt (although not totally due to Mitch's fault). The police show up and Mitch does the wrong thing: he panics and flees. He knows that if anyone finds out about hi...


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RIO DE JANEIRO – MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) was on scene and reporting live from today's official UFC 134 fighter weigh-ins, where all competitors successfully made weight.
Today's weigh-ins took place in front of a rowdy crowd at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro. The venue also hosts Saturday's sold-out pay-per-view event, which is the UFC's first Brazilian show since 1998.
Headliner and middleweight champion Anderson Silva weighed 184 pounds, and challenger Yushin Okami weighed 183 pounds.
The Brazilians fans exploded in applause for each countrymen introduced. Non-Brazilians, though, were met with the chant "vai morrer!" That's Portuguese for "you'll die!"
Okami did little to curb those cat calls.
"I'm going to do my best, and I'm going to take home the belt," he said.
The full weigh-in results included:
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)
- Champ Anderson Silva (184) vs. Yushin Okami (183)
- Forrest Griffin (205) vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua (205)
- Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (243) vs. Brendan Schaub (247)
- Luiz Cane (204) vs. Stanislav Nedkov (203)
- Edson Barboza (155) vs. Ross Pearson (155)
PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike TV)
- Spencer Fisher (156) vs. Thiago Tavares (156)
- Dan Miller (184) vs. Rousimar Palhares (185)
PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook)
- David Mitchell (171) vs. Paulo Thiago (169)
- Raphael Assuncao (134) vs. Johnny Eduard (135)
- Erick Silva (169) vs. Luis Ramos (171)
- Felipe Arantes (145) vs. Yuri Alcantara (144)
- Yves Jabouin (135) vs. Ian Loveland (135)
For more on UFC 134, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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The unanimity of the First Circuit's ruling that DoMA is unconstitutional virtually insures that a cert petition to the Supreme Court will be filed in the next 90 days, followed by an order granting certiorari in early October, followed by oral argument next winter, followed by a decision by June 2013. There's just one big problem looming for lgbt rights advocates: Justice Kagan will almost certainly recuse herself.
The Court of Appeals decision in Commonwealth of Mass. v U.S. Dep't of Health and Human Services [2012 WL 1948017] broke no new ground in its Equal Protection analysis. Indeed, it arguably ceded ground by specifically holding that DoMA would be valid under a traditional rational basis test. The court found it unconstitutional because "closer than usual scrutiny" was required, which in turn was triggered because the penalized group was "historically disadanvated or unpopular and the statutory justification seemed thin, unsupported or impermissible." (More detailed analysis of the opinion itself coming in a later post.)
Whatever the First Circuit's reasoning – and you can be sure the Supreme Court will feel no need to conform its analysis to the approach of any lower court – the most important aspect of this decision is that it sets up Supreme Court review without further delay. There are only six judges on the First Circuit; a unanimous decision by three of them means that there is no chance that a majority would vote to accept a petition for rehearing en banc.
So it's on to the Supremes. And I am quite happy that this case (originally called "Gill", but now consolidated with the state's challenge to DoMA, so Massachusetts has become the lead plaintiff) will get there before Perry v. Brown, which might lead to a ruling on the constitutionality of all state laws banning same-sex marriage. I do not see this Court, with these nine Justices, issuing such a decision.
This particular lawsuit challenging DoMA does have one major drawback as a Supreme Court vehicle, though. When Justice Kagan was Solicitor General, she was almost certainly involved in Justice Department decision-making about whether and how it should defend DoMA, a federal law. Assuming that she was, she will have to recuse herself from any participation in Massachusetts v. HHS when it reaches the Supreme Court (as I noted almost two years ago and as she did in a DADT case).
Her recusal will mean that the best case scenario is probably a 4-4 tie in the Supreme Court, which would leave the First Circuit decision in place. For that tie to happen, though, Justice Kennedy has to join the three progressives on the Court (Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayer) in finding DoMA unconstitutional. If he does, DoMA's fate is sealed, since I would be willing to bet something precious that Justice Kagan will vote to strike down DoMA in a subsequent case from which she is not recused. If on the other hand Justice Kennedy votes to uphold DoMA, the game is over.


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"Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth", written by Ed Diener and Robert Biswas Diener, explains, in an accessible manner, many aspects of happiness and scientific research about subjective well-being, including:
– happiness and health
– happiness and social relationships
– happiness at work
– happiness and wealth
– happiness and spirituality
– happiness and its base line, including genetic factors
These are some reviews about Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth as provided by Amazon.com:
"Ed Diener [says], 'Happiness is not a set of desirable life circumstances. It's a way of traveling.' Diener's new book, written with his son, Robert Biswas-Diener, a life coach, offers guidance for those interested in taking a road trip. As the Dieners synthesize the latest research … they challenge the conventional party line on well-being." (O Magazine)
"Among the recent glut of books about happiness, this one shines out. Highly readable and entertaining, its authors are perhaps the pre-eminent researchers on the subject … The advice on how to gain an appropriate level of happiness is way ahead of that offered by most self-help books." (New Scientist)
"If you're looking for one thoughtful, comprehensive book to help you understand the science of happiness better, this is exactly what you're looking for. It's also a good read, accessible, concise, and even funny, which isn't true of all such books, and there's a lot of information I hadn't seen elsewhere." (Happiness Project)
"Happiness challenges the present thinking of the causes and consequences of happiness and redefines our modern notions of happiness. It shares the results of three decades of research on happiness, and covers the most important advances in our understanding of happiness." (Adolescence, April 2009)
"Happiness is a process, not a place. That's one of the key concepts that leaps from Happiness: Unlocking The Mysteries Of Psychological Wealth by Ed Diener and Robert Biswas- Diener." (Diana's Blog: Quirky Words and Book)
"Happiness challenges the present thinking af the causes and consequences of happiness and redefines our modern notions of happiness. It shares the results of three decades of research on happiness, and covers the most important advances in our understanding of happiness. It also offers readers access to the world's leading experts on happiness, and provides 'real world' examples that will resonate with general readers as well as scholars." (Family Therapy)
"In their sweeping new book Diener and his son, Robert Biswas-Diener, distill the results of worldwide research into happiness and come up with an explanation, a recipe, for a sustained state of good feeling, psychological wealth, as they call it." (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 2008)
"The authors write in a that is clear and accessible to a general audience; furthermore, they frequently infuse humor into their work. I certainly respect Diener and Biswas-Diener as well as admire the amount effort they have each put into their life's work." (Metapsychology, November 2008)
"Pioneering researchers Professor Ed and his son Robert Biswas-Diener explain … why most things we've been told are wrong." (Psychologies, November 2008)
"This book is absolutely a delight to read. [The authors] have made the science very accessible and practical. You will love the stories they weave into the text. The Dieners take us along on their adventures around the world. We tag along as they unlock the mysteries of happiness. As you read the book you come to understand why Diener is known as the 'Jedi Master of Happiness' and why Biswas-Diener has been called the 'Indiana Jones of Psychology.' Get the book, settle into a comfortable chair, buckle your seatbelt, and enjoy the ride." (Positive Psychology News Daily)


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Reply 40 of 87, by ripa
Thank you very much for those recordings. I thought I there were problems with the emulation, but it's supposed to sound like that.
The silent noise in the menus is caused by the game setting the pc speaker output to a very high frequency (like 500 kHz). That frequency isn't audible directly, but I guess it causes distortion in the speaker which makes it slightly audible. Supaplex also does this between the notes of the music.
Currently, in Dosbox, there is protection against setting such a high frequency, because it wastes a huge amount of CPU time. In my patch the output is set high in such a case. Another solution is setting the frequency to some lower value, which makes the noise slightly audible.
edit: Nope and Atom were trivial to fix. They expect the PIT to have been programmed into some mode - they don't do it themselves. They switch the speaker output between PIT output (expecting it to be high) and forced low. Changing spkr.pit_output_level from 0 to 1 in the constructor fixes the demos.


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Media Library of Workshops and Presentations
Find audio and video recordings from some of the programs offered by Cornell Career Services, plus handouts and PowerPoint slides when available. The materials are also available in the Career Library in 103 Barnes Hall.
Navigation is modeled after our print calendar for consistency and ease of use. Programs are listed in the program calendar, and in the online calendar. Use these as a guide to help find programs of interest and to keep up to date on any additions or changes.
If you have any problems or questions, please contact us.


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Crawl (2019) : When a huge hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley ignores evacuation orders to look for her father. After finding him badly wounded, both are trapped by the flood. With virtually no time to escape the storm, they discover that rising water levels are the least of their problems.
|Subtitle Available
|Release Date
|Jul 11, 2019
|Thriller, Horror, Drama,
|Production Company
|Raimi Productions, Fire Axe Pictures, Serbia Creates Film, Ontario Creates
|Production Countries
|Canada, Serbia, United States of America
|Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark, Ross Anderson, George Somner, Anson Boon, Jose Palma, Ami Metcalf, Tina Pribićević, Srna Vasiljević, Colin McFarlane
|Plot Keywords
|florida, hurricane, alligator, animal attack, flood, animal horror, crawlspace, father daughter relationship,
HaleyKaya Scodelario
DaveBarry Pepper
BethMorfydd Clark
WayneRoss Anderson
MarvGeorge Somner
StanAnson Boon
PeteJose Palma
LeeAmi Metcalf
Young HaleyTina Pribićević
LouieSrna Vasiljević
GovernorColin McFarlane
EmmaAnnamaria Serda
LisaSavannah Steyn