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I have a question about the Deathly Hallows film's wedding scene, I thought that Fleur will not be appearing in the last installment of the film, then whose wedding did they shoot? I saw an image where Harry, Hermione and Ron were running away, wearing formal attires, I think that was a scene from the wedding.
I'm just confuse..
Bill and Fleur both appear in the Deathly Hallows film, they were cut from half-blood prince only.--Rodolphus 16:01, 11 July 2009 (UTC)


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screen = pg.display.set_mode((500,500))
clock = pg.time.Clock()
pg.mixer.music.load("YOUR FILE NAME GOES HERE")
while 1:
keys = pg.key.get_pressed()
for event in pg.event.get():
if event.type == pg.QUIT or keys[pg.K_ESCAPE]:
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This is almost definitely an issue with your code and not with pygame. I would have to see some more details to diagnose.dannyxy wrote:I tried pygame and it worked but if i try to change the current song thet is playing by stoping the current song, loading a new one and playing it, it won't play unless i call the pygame.mixer.music.play() function like 3 times before it plays, is there a way to change the song without have having to call the play() function 3 times. Thanks
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I just e-mailed this out to everyone - if you didn't get it, let me know.
Hey Everyone,
First, thanks for everyone getting me their protected lists - pretty much on time. I've attached it as an Excel file. Don't mind the "k's" - just how I marked who was kept and haven't bothered to delete them. If anyone would prefer I send them a text file instead, let me know.
Since Able is using NBA.com for stats, draft eligibility is pretty simple - anyone not protected and listed as a player on NBA.com as of Saturday is eligible to be drafted. Now if you want to pick up someone whose rights may be owned by someone but they're playing in Europe for a year or something, let me know - we should be able to work that in somehow.
Draft is pretty simple. On Saturday morning I'll open a draft thread on the PD Fantasy Sports Board. The draft will officially start at 8:00 a.m. Indy time though I may open the thread well before that in case anyone happens to be on early and wants to get a quick start. You will have 15 minutes to make your pick, timed from when the pick before yours is made.
Kraft and maybe Ken won't be able to be present. If anyone else can't be there, let me know. I'm happy to draft for anyone or you can find someone else to pick for you - I would like to know if you won't be there and who'll make your picks though. In this league, if you aren't there and nobody picks for you we don't fill in your roster - you'll have 9 and have to fill it from the FA list.
Anyone who wants me to draft for them, please get me a list. With 3 rds a 60-player list will cover it. Also send me any strategy tidbits you may have; frex, if you get a center in the 1st rd don't pick another center, only pick one rookie in the 3 rds - whatever.
I'll be pretty much gone Tuesday until Thursday afternoon. I will send out a final, brief reminder either Thursday or Friday, plus post something on PD.
Finally, I will need an assistant commish this year - chances are good that with the newness of the site Able is putting together there may be some manual data entry needed and if I happen to be gone for a few days people may want their transactions implemented before then. Don't worry - the owners in this league make the commish job very simple.
Finally, the draft order is listed below - PLEASE let me know ASAP if I've screwed something up there.
1. New Castle
2. Amsterdam
3. West Lafayette
4. Burnzone
5. Harlem (from London in the Jamal Tinsley trade)
6. Cedar City
7. Gotham City
8. Harlem
9. Manila
10. Venice (formerly Canadian)
11. Gnawbone
12. St. Somewhere
13. London (from Harlem, from New Zealand in the Bynum-Dunleavy trade)
14. Bad News
15. Bangkok
16. New Zealand (from Harlem in the Bynum trade - Harlem received from Cleveland in the Shaq trade)
17. Dynamite
18. Roaming Gnome
19. San Antonio
20. Denton
The draft order will hold for rds 2 and 3 except London will pick 5, NZ will pick 13 and Cleveland will pick 16 in those rds.


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Ok, it was time for a new avatar for me, and i was taking pictures of discs (procrastinating) becuse i found a nice spot, under a light, already w/ a low profile hook perfect for disc pics. So i took this pic of one of my old cracked wizards ( ) and realize, avatars are still supposed to be 80px or smaller.
I know its not hard to get a bigger avatar, but they are that size for a reason. tall avatars do not bother me much, but occasioanlly theres one that makes a page harder to navigate. I dont know if someone mentioned this but the probelm has gotten better. I was just ranting I geuss. oh well. I have a new avatar


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Costas has frontlined many Olympics broadcasts for NBC. They include the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, Torino in 2006, Beijing in 2008, and Vancouver in 2010. He discusses his work on the Olympic telecasts extensively in a book by Andrew Billings entitled Olympic Media: Inside the Biggest Show on Television. A personal influence on Costas has been legendary ABC Sports broadcaster Jim McKay, who hosted many Olympics for ABC from the 1960s to the 1980s.
During the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Opening Ceremonies, Costas' remarks on the China Team's possible drug use caused an uproar among the American Chinese and international communities. Thousands of dollars were raised to purchase ads in the Washington Post and Sunday New York Times, featuring an image of the head of a statue of Apollo and reading: "Costas Poisoned Olympic Spirit, Public Protests NBC." However, Costas' comments were made subsequent to the suspension of Chinese coach Zhou Ming after seven of his swimmers were caught using steroids in 1994. Further evidence of Chinese athletes' drug use came in 1997 when Australian authorities confiscated 13 vials of Somatropin, a human growth hormone, from the bag of Chinese swimmer Yuan Yuan upon her arrival for the 1997 World Swimming Championships. At the World Championships, four Chinese swimmers tested positive for the banned substance Triamterene, a diuretic used to dilute urine samples in order to mask the presence of anabolic steroids. Including these failed drug tests, 27 Chinese swimmers were caught using performance enhancing drugs from 1990 through 1997; more than the rest of the world combined. [1]


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The evolution of the traditional distributed control system (DCS) into today's more capable and more all-encompassing process automation architectures has been chronicled by the analysts at the ARC Advisory Group as the advent of the collaborative process automation system, or CPAS. In simplest terms, "collaboration" implies the need for systems to share the information needed to perform optimal control actions—and for people to make sound business decisions.
From a functional point of view, the CPAS model recognizes only two systems in a process plant: the business system and the CPAS, each with different classes of applications, writes Dave Woll of the ARC Advisory Group in Martin Hollender's 2010 book Collaborative Process Automation Systems. The CPAS vision leverages a single, non-hierarchical Ethernet/TCP-IP communications backbone such that field devices, controllers and applications "are able to exchange data and information without barriers," Woll notes. Indeed, the CPAS guiding principles of a common infrastructure that is "functionally transparent, logically concise and based on standards" go a long way toward describing the optimal automation architecture that makes possible the seamless integration of plant systems.
Practically speaking, true collaboration hinges on the integration of all data and information as well as functional plant silos into a single workflow environment. This allows plant resources, from operators to engineers to managers, to not have to deal with multiple systems in order to troubleshoot problems and perform routine tasks. This unified workflow environment helps individuals with different functional roles work together in the context of a bigger, more meaningful picture.
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At its core, ABB's System 800xA is designed to provide the collaborative environment necessary for the formation and execution of sound business decisions. Based on "Aspect Object" technology, ABB's integration architecture relates all plant data, the Aspects, to specific plant assets, or Objects.
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A central benefit to using the System 800xA architecture is that once all data and information are plugged into the architecture, a relatively simple, browser-based thin client can be used to seamlessly retrieve and display data from the control system itself as well as any connected third-party systems. Displays are available inside or outside of the plant facility, as long as a secure connection to the plant network exists.
In the case of ABB's System 800xA, this cpmPlus Smart Client provides intelligent data access and viewing functions to assist all levels of personnel in making quick, informed decisions to improve overall plant performance. Among the configurable dashboards that can be easily deployed are trending and statistical process control charts, alarm and event notifications, and even an Excel interface for exporting plant data.
And while collaborative information sharing has broad-ranging benefits that carry into every corner of a process plant's performance, a closer look at the power of integration along two specific dimensions helps to illustrate integration's true potential: the integration of process automation with process safety and with electrical power systems.
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On the safety front, an integrated approach to safety and control is yielding more cost effective safety instrumented system (SIS) implementations while simultaneously delivering operational benefits. ABB's System 800xA architecture offers the flexibility of hosting both safety and process critical control applications in the same controller or on separate hardware if desired.
Either way, the user still gains many of the same integration benefits, including common operator interface and engineering tools, plant-wide sequence-of-events (SOE) lists for consolidated root cause analysis, as well as centralized historian and data archiving. A common, integrated platform also has the advantage of requiring fewer spare parts, less training and provides a comprehensive, integrated platform for asset management.
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Gisha was raised by Yiddish-speaking, religious Jewish parents in the town of Pultusk in central Poland. She married in the late 1890s and moved with her husband, Shmuel David Bursztyn, to the city of Warsaw, where Shmuel owned and operated a bakery on Zamenhofa Street in the city's Jewish section. In 1920 the Bursztyns and their eight children moved to a two-bedroom apartment at 47 Mila Street.
1933-39: By 1939 six of Gisha's children were grown and had left home: her eldest daughters had married, and her four eldest sons had emigrated to America and Mexico. Only her youngest son and daughter still lived at home. Her husband had given up his business and was working for the Kagan Bakery. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. After being attacked for four weeks, Warsaw fell to the Germans on September 28.
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1940-42: When the Warsaw ghetto was set up by the Germans in November 1940, the Bursztyn's apartment ended up within the closed-off ghetto. Shmuel continued working at the Kagan Bakery, which was also located within the ghetto. In April 1942 he was killed by the Germans. Fearing the German roundups, Gisha decided to hide in one of the ghetto's makeshift bunkers. During a massive roundup that began on July 22, 1942, Gisha was rousted from her bunker, marched several blocks to an assembly point, and herded onto a boxcar.
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CAPTAIN Luke Boothroyd fired in an overtime winner on Sunday night to save Manchester Phoenix as they lost a four goal lead.
Phoenix, buoyed by an impressive 4-1 win at Milton Keynes Lightning on Saturday, raced into a 4-0 lead against Swindon before the visitors clawed their way back to send the game to overtime.
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More and more people with
diabetes are using insulin pumps instead of daily shots to manage their
disease. The pumps give them more freedom to eat, sleep, and exercise when they
want. Pumps usually help people do a better job of controlling their blood
sugar. A pump can be an important tool in preventing problems like very low
blood sugar.
But using an insulin pump takes some getting used to.
The more you learn about your pump and how to live with it, the happier you
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insulin pump is a tiny computer that is connected to your body 24 hours a day to
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insulin you need. It takes the place of daily insulin
shots. Pumps use rapid-acting insulin. This kind of insulin works very quickly
when it's given. It also stops working very quickly when it is stopped.
The pump sends insulin through a narrow plastic tube that ends in a tiny
needle. The needle is inserted into your skin and taped down so that it will
stay. The tube and needle are called an infusion set. With most infusion sets,
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skin instead. You can't even feel that it's there.
The pump gives
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blood sugar in the desired range when you are not eating. You tell the pump to
give you extra insulin when you need it to cover a meal or to correct high
blood sugar.
An insulin pump is a device that pumps insulin into
my syringe so that I can inject it.
An insulin pump is a device that automatically
pumps insulin into your body through a needle under your skin. With an insulin
pump, you don't need injections with a syringe.
Continue to Why?
An insulin pump
can make life with diabetes better. It may also give you more control over your
Using a pump can take a lot of time and effort, but many
people who try it think it's worth the trouble.
Using an insulin pump can make my life more
A pump lets you eat, sleep, or exercise when
you want, instead of having to set your schedule around your insulin
Continue to How?
Some people say choosing which
pump to use is actually harder than deciding to switch to a pump in the first
place. There are a number of insulin pump companies, and each pump is slightly
Ask members of your diabetes team which pumps they
recommend. If you have insurance, find out which pump brands are covered. Then
ask those companies to send you information. Insulin pump companies also have
websites where you can get all kinds of information. Your diabetes educator
likely will have a variety of pumps that you can look at.
improvements in insulin pumps are happening so fast, your local hospital may
have open houses a few times a year so that pump makers can show their products
and tell you how they work.
Ask the company to send a sales
representative to your home. That way you can see each pump you are
considering, see how easy it is to program the pump, and learn how to give
yourself a bolus (extra insulin).
You should be able to try out
the pump with saline solution. That way you can really see how it works and
infusion site is the area on your body where you have attached your infusion
Hooking your pump on a waistband or carrying it in your pocket may be the
obvious choices, but when you don't have a waistband or a pocket, you have to
come up with other ideas.
If you wear your pump on a belt or
somewhere else in plain sight, you may get questions. Most people will just
think you're wearing a pager, especially if your tubing is out of sight. But if
the thought of having to answer questions about your diabetes bothers you,
there are lots of ways to keep your pump hidden. Just make sure you can get to
your pump easily when you eat or need to correct your blood sugar level.
Pump companies offer various holders that fit their pumps and allow you
to carry your pump on your thigh, your calf, or your arm. Clothing makers are
starting to make clothing especially for insulin pump users, with special
hidden pockets.
Here are some other ideas:
Planning ahead can help make your travels easier. Here are some
Even with an insulin pump, you'll still have to check
your blood sugar often.
The good thing about a pump is that you can
change your insulin level at the push of a button. But in order to know what
change to make, you have to know what your blood sugar level is. That means
checking your level often.
The good thing about a pump is that you can
change your insulin level at the push of a button. But in order to know what
change to make, you have to know what your blood sugar level is. That means
checking your level often.
Continue to Where?
Now that you have read this
information, you are ready to make your insulin pump work for you in the best
way possible.
If you have questions about this information, print it out and take it
with you when you visit your diabetes specialist. You may want to write down any questions you have.
If you would like more information on living with an
insulin pump, the following resources are available:
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is a national organization
for health professionals and consumers. Almost every state has a local office.
ADA sets the standards for the care of people with diabetes. Its focus is on
research for the prevention and treatment of all types of diabetes. ADA
provides patient and professional education mainly through its publications,
which include the monthly magazine Diabetes Forecast,
books, brochures, cookbooks and meal planning guides, and pamphlets. ADA also
provides information for parents about caring for a child with diabetes.
This clearinghouse provides information about research
and clinical trials supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. This
service is provided by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and
Kidney Disease (NIDDK), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
You can find more information about diabetes in these
Return to topic:
Other Works ConsultedAmerican Diabetes Association (accessed April 2010).
Insulin pumps. Available online:
http://www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/treatment-and-care/medication/insulin/insulin-pumps.htmlCheng AYY, Zinman B (2005). Principles of insulin therapy. In CR Kahn et al., eds., Joslin's Diabetes Mellitus, 14th ed., pp. 659–670. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.Retnakaran R, et al. (2004). Continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion versus multiple daily injections: The impact of baseline A1c. Diabetes Care, 27(11): 2590–2596.
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Moore's MFA in Studio Art emphasizes rigorous and immersive study in fine art studio practice and challenges the artist to confront both practical and philosophical concerns facing artists today. Critical dialogue with faculty, visiting artists/critics and other graduate candidates are key components within group and individual critiques, seminars, lecture courses and in independent graduate tutorials.
The program encourages artists to work across a variety of media, forms and techniques by providing candidates access to all of Moore's facilities including, but not limited to, painting, photography, printmaking, ceramics, video, digital fabrication, metals, and textiles. Candidates exhibit their work in The Galleries at Moore, which has featured shows reviewed by Art Forum, ARTnews, artnet news, Art In America and Hyperallergic.
Art today is boundless – the skills of image-making, the crafting of material into new forms, the framing of ideas and focal points, the research that exceeds the limits of disciplines, the gestures that make experiences and objects beautiful, the poetics that capture and then release such complexities – and it is exhilarating. And yet so many aspects of how it is taught, where it takes place, and who facilitates it remain stuck and bounded.
I was drawn to art because I want to undo that stasis in the world and in the imagination through crafting, formulating and even answering challenging questions. Doing that as part of a unique learning community at Moore is one of the ways I have chosen to go about that. In many ways that makes running a graduate department much like an art project – assembling the people, framing the ideas, transforming the raw material. In terms of people, we have hired some of the most thoughtful and talented people in the city and nation to work in this program as faculty, we've created partnerships with public art organizations in Philly and artist residencies beyond the city limits, and found ways to bring additional thinkers, organizers and artists together with our candidates through symposia and visiting critics. But one crucial element of this project remains in flux – keeping us agile and dynamic - and that is you, the potential candidates, who have to decide if Moore is right for them.
Deciding to go to graduate school is bound up with many of life's most challenging questions: what is a graduate education worth; am I ready for the intensity of school after years away from school; what will happen to my other responsibilities and commitments when I am in class all day; what will I do after school; what art worlds do I want to be a part of; how should I navigate concepts like 'the creative economy'; is my work serious enough; am I committed enough?
Making art today is, similarly, bound up with many of life's most challenging questions: What can art do; what audiences should I address; what are the limits of art; can art save lives; what is contemporary; what is universal; what is useful; what is pleasurable; what is ethical?
At Moore we will do a great deal of growing, asking, making, learning and asking together – I look forward to it and to working with you and your questions.
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The Stroop Colour Word Test or Emotional Stroop Test is a perceptual measure used as an information process approach to assessment of emotions, of particular use to psychologists. Adapted from studies of the Stroop effect, the emotional Stroop test works by examining the response time of the participant to name colors of negative emotional words, e.g. depressed participants will be slower to say the color of depressing words rather than non-depressing words. Non-clinial subjects have also been shown to be slower to name the color of emotional words (i.e., war, cancer, kill) relative to neutral words (i.e., clock, lift, windy).
While the emotional Stroop and the classic Stroop elicit similar behavioral outcomes – a slowing in response times to colored words – these tests engage different mechanisms of interference (McKenna & Sharma, 2004). The classic Stroop test creates a conflict between an incongruent color and word (the word 'RED' in font color blue) but the emotional Stroop involves only emotional and neutral words -- color does not effect slowing effect. Studies show the same effects of slowing for emotional words relative to neutral even if all the words are black. Thus, the emotional Stroop does not involve an effect of conflict between a word meaning and a color of text, but rather appears to capture attention and slow response time due to the emotional relevance of the word for the individual. The emotional Stroop has been used broadly in clinical studies using emotional words related to a particular individual's area of concern, such as alcohol-related words for someone who is alcoholic, or words involving a particular phobia for someone with anxiety or phobic disorders. Both the classic and the emotional Stroop, however, do involve the need to suppress responses to distracting word information, while selectively maintaining attention on the color of the word to complete the task. (Compton et al, 2003).
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Algom, D., Chajut, E. & Lev, S. (2005). A rational look at the emotional stroop phenomenon: a generic slowdown, not a stroop effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Geneneral, 134:585-91.
Compton, R.J., Banich, M.T., Mohanty, A., Milham, M.P., Herrington, J., Miller, G.A., Scalf, P.E., Webb, A. & Heller, W. (2003). Paying attention to emotion: an fMRI investigation of cognitive and emotional stroop tasks. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 3:81-96.
McKenna, F.P. & Sharma, D. (2004). Reversing the emotional Stroop effect reveals that it is not what it seems: the role of fast and slow components. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 30, 382-92.
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Oak Harbor resident Christopher Cooper passed away at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle Thursday night.
The 23-year-old man, a graduate of Oak Harbor High School, never regained consciousness after suffering a head injury in a physical confrontation in downtown Oak Harbor Nov. 17. His father, Terry Cooper, said his son was surrounded by family when he passed away.
"It was kind of inevitable, I believe," he said. "Hopefully the Oak Harbor Police Department can now do their job and take care of this."
Cooper was found unconscious early in the morning two weeks ago. Police initially thought he had fallen and hit his head while intoxicated, but later discovered he had been in a fight.
The case erupted into controversy after the police arrested the suspect, 29-year-old Jason Ellis of Oak Harbor, days after the prosecutor's office told them they didn't have enough evidence. The prosecutor released Ellis immediately Monday morning, upsetting the police and Cooper's family.
The status of the possible criminal case remains unclear as officials grapple over questions of self defense, legal standards and political influence from the mayor's office.
Oak Harbor Mayor Scott Dudley has taken a personal interest in the case and visited Cooper in the hospital Wednesday.
"When someone dies or is seriously assaulted on the streets of Oak Harbor, I take it personally and I want the citizens of Oak Harbor to not only feel safe, but to be safe," Dudley said.
Dudley called the News-Times Thursday night to say that Cooper was taken off life support.
"Now we have a fatality," he said. "Now the question is, 'What is the prosecutor going to do?'"
Island County Prosecutor Greg Banks said a deputy prosecutor met with the police detective investigating the case Wednesday and went over the evidence. He said a video recording that Cooper made on an iPhone suggests that he was the aggressor and that Ellis was using lawful force to defend himself.
The deputy prosecutor told the detective that they didn't have probable cause to make an arrest, at least not until additional evidence is developed. He said it appeared that the detective agreed.
Banks said he was then shocked when he came to work Monday and found that the police had arrested Ellis on Saturday, which happened to be during his daughter's birthday party. Banks said the police hadn't given him any additional evidence — and nobody at the police department would return his calls — so he released Ellis immediately.
Banks suggested that the motive for the arrest was that the police didn't want to admit to the grieving family that the case can't be made.
"Rather than having that difficult conversation, an arrest was made of a citizen and then they tried to heap the blame on us," Banks said.
In addition, Banks pointed out that the police arrested Ellis on a Saturday, which guaranteed he would spend three days in jail before prosecutors released him. He said his office is eager to see any new evidence from police, which could change his decision on prosecution.
"This kind of circus that has now grown up around this didn't have to happen," he said.
Oak Harbor's new police chief, Ed Green, said Thursday that the police arrested Ellis because they looked at the evidence and believed they had probable cause that a crime had been committed. He said he wasn't certain whether the investigators gathered any additional evidence between the time the prosecutor informed them they didn't have probable cause and when they arrested Ellis.
"We're hopeful the prosecutor will change his mind after seeing the complete investigation," he said. "We just want to be part of a team."
Mayor Dudley's close involvement in the case, however, had fanned speculation that he influenced the police in their decision to make an arrest.
Dudley, however, denies this. He admitted to the News-Times he was in near-constant contact with the police chief about the status of the case, but he said he didn't encourage or influence him to take any action.
Green agreed. He said Dudley had a right to know what was happening with the case, but that he has no role in making decisions regarding a criminal case. He said it was the detective's supervisor who made the ultimate decision.
Still, Dudley said he has very strong feelings regarding the case. He said he was disappointed in the prosecutor's lack of action and is very proud of how the police handled things. He said he's seen very similar cases in other jurisdiction in which a perpetrator was charged.
"It's not a tragic accident when you have multiple skull fractures," he said, adding that the evidence suggests Cooper was struck multiple times after he fell to the ground and was unconscious.
In addition, Dudley said it's significant that Ellis is a mixed-martial arts fighter. He said some jurisdictions consider trained fighters to be "lethal weapons."
Terry Cooper agrees. He said doctors told him that his son's injuries were massive and unlikely to be caused by a single blow and a ground-level fall. He said he and family members are very upset with Banks.
"I don't know why our tax dollars are going to pay that guy," he said.
Banks said he feels terrible for the family, but he believes the police and the mayor have acted inappropriately. He said his office hasn't seen the evidence of multiple skull fractures Dudley is citing.
"If he has evidence that we don't have, something is clearly amiss at the Oak Harbor Police Department," Banks said.
"The mayor needs to focus on being a mayor and not second-guessing police work or prosecution work," he added.
Yet Banks said he was stressed that no final decisions will be made until all the facts are in. He met with police Friday to go over the case. He said the autopsy may provide crucial evidence.


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Enjoy Valley happy hours with culture and style. There are places to go in the Valley that have edgy appeal, cozy atmosphere and cheap prices. Our six valley locations will intrigue your taste buds, lift your spirits and cultivate your thirst for culture.
Nakama Sushi Restaurant
Nakama Sushi Restaurant opened in October 2010 in the Goodyear dining scene. Located at Dysart Road and McDowell Road, the new non-chain restaurant offers a lounge area, full bar and the red-and-black décor invite people to relax as the service is exceptionally welcoming. Happy hour is every day between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. and all day Sunday. On Wednesdays, get 10 percent off the entire food bill, and on Thursdays, ladies get half-priced martinis and margaritas.
Rula Bula
Rula Bula, a Tempe Irish pub located on Mill Avenue and Third Street — whose name translates to uproar and commotion — is at the heart of the social life. The historic, Victorian-style building was a place to buy saddlery and harnesses in 1888. Walk into wooden antique flooring, dim lighting and designs that reflect Ireland more than 100 years ago. Happy hour specials are Monday through Saturday 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday 2 p.m. to close (2 a.m.).
"The food is great," says Lauren Hillhouse, an ASU student. "Lots of people in my classes go."
Upcoming events take place daily, including Industry night, where CEOs and other professionals get two-for-one drinks from 9 p.m. to close every Sunday; and there's ASU night, where students get drink specials 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Thursdays.
Want to enjoy a meal downtown and not worry about parking? FEZ is conveniently located on Central Avenue in Phoenix just two blocks south of Clarendon. FEZ, with seating for 150, offers a full menu, lounge, bar, and outdoor patio with great views of downtown Phoenix and plenty of free parking. The unique, contemporary, urban atmosphere features American cuisine infused with Mediterranean spices and ingredients. Happy hour is 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. to midnight daily. Want to call yourself a FEZ foodie? Join them the second and fourth Sunday of every month.
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Come dressed to impress or in jeans and a t-shirt. This neighborhood favorite, with food fresh to order, offers casual dining, daily chef specials and pleasant service that is family friendly. This hotspot can be a great place to unwind after a long day.
Four Peaks Brewery
Housed in a warehouse rich in history, Four Peaks Brewery, having been home to an ice plant and creamery, has updated their brewing equipment as of March 2009. The restoration leaves the brewery finished with red brick, glass clerestory and wooden ceilings. Guests can enjoy two locations — Tempe on Dorsey Lane and Apache Boulevard or in Scottsdale southeast corner of Hayden and Frank Lloyd Wright. Nearly 20,000 barrels of beer are produced each year at Four Peaks. Tours are available.
Liz Doon Varna Irish Pub and Restaurant
The newest addition to the Arrowhead Fountain Center, Lis Doon Varna Irish Pub and Restaurant, located just down the way from the sports complex in Peoria, offers a piece of Ireland with its meals. All the furniture is unique to or shipped from Ireland.
"The bar in the restaurant is 200 years old," says Kristen Lomuscio, a waiter at the pub. "Disney designers designed the rebar (hay) on the roof."
The pub is famous for matchmaking and music festivals. Lisdoonvarna, a city in Ireland, hosts an annual Matchmakers Festival and draws singles from all over the world and this is integrated into the pub. Wine Down Wednesdays presents a complimentary bottle of wine with a party of four or more. The bread pudding is a signature dish.
"My friend and I would go somewhere else to have a meal then go to the pub for the bread pudding," says Denise Vines, a guest of the pub. "The food here is hearty, and I enjoy it."
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3 smoked or cooked duck breasts
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Stir dressing ingredients together in a bowl until sugar has dissolved.
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Exhibits and public programs are envisioned as a three-dimensional floating puzzle formed by six elements, with each piece being critical to the shape and the nature of the whole.
The Experience Music Complex is an exciting blend of exhibits, technology, media, and hands-on activities that combines the interpretive aspects of a traditional museum, educational role of a school, state-of-the-art research facilities of a specialized library, and audience-drawing qualities of performance venues and popular attractions.
Located on 5th Avenue adjacent to the Space Needle at Seattle Center, the complex celebrates the creativity and innovation of American popular music and culture. The EMP presents opportunities to explore its history and traditions, participate in the music making process, experience great music, and learn the secrets of composition and performance. It places a special emphasis on music-related traditions in the Pacific Northwest, and specifically commemorates Jimi Hendrix, one of America's a most creative, innovative, and influential musical artists.
The building itself consists of a cluster of colorful curving elements clad in a variety of materials. The fragmented and undulating forms are inspired in part by the image of a shattered Fender Stratocaster.
The Seattle Center Monorail, a remnant of the 1962 World's Fair that continues to provide transportation between Seattle Center and downtown Seattle, passes through the building, allowing Monorail riders to glimpse inside.
The Sky Church, a concept inspired by Jimi Hendrix, represents the coming together of all types of people united by the power and joy of music and music making, and is physically embodied in the building's central public gathering area. Through a series of exhibition spaces, The Crossroads presents the collision of multiple viewpoints and traditions, which is American popular music.
The Sound Lab offers hands-on opportunities to create and illustrate some of the relationships between music, science, and technology. The Artist's Journey is a compelling history of the life and times of artists, illuminating the human aspect of their artistry and revealing the unexpected events and formative experiences that contributed to their creative development.
The Electric Library is a multimedia archive of the EMP collection and information resources, and provides services that are available both on site and on-line. The Ed. House functions as an educational public outreach program, offering opportunities to learn more about the themes explored in the exhibit areas, experience and participate in a variety of musical activities, and further explore and develop creative abilities and music-related skills.
In addition to 35,000 square feet of exhibition space, the building houses a restaurant, bookstore, and administrative spaces, with support and storage areas located beneath grade.
Editor's note
My first visit to EMP was in 1997 when I was planning an exhibition on Frank Gehry's creative process for the Louisiana Museum in Denmark. I was lucky to be taken around and up on top of the concrete shell to see the pods in place for the metal panels and the shotcrete cement being applied to the 'swoopy' shapes. (Paul Zumwalt, EMP director of design and construction, who took me around, used the word 'swoopy' a lot.) Watching one of the enormous steel ribs being lowered into place, Zumwalt said he had expected this to be the hardest part but that the ribs, calculated by the Catia computer program, fit like a glove. I saw a couple go into place and can tell you it was a 'swoopy' experience.
Two months ago I was back walking around the outside of the buildings. It was late in the day; the metal panels were glowing in the sunset, the monorail was running through, the construction crews were working straight through the night to get ready for the late June opening. There were crowds of people taking their evening walks around the buildings, and I did hear words like 'amazing' and 'wow' and 'My God! What is that?
/Kirsten Kiser
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James M. Glymph
Craig Webb
Terry Bell
George Metzger
Laurence Tighe
Kenneth Ahn
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Karl Blette
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Scott Uriu
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See also
Hotels: Wythe Hotel
Hotels: The NoMad
Verner Panton: Vision & Play
Copenhagen, Denmark
Cesar Pelli: Connections
Santiago Calatrava
Frank Gehry: Architect


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Rockies' offense unable to back solid De La Rosa
PHOENIX -- Rockies veteran left-hander Jorge De La Rosa's starts make for compelling watching, with his last three starts now having been decided by one run.
Problem is, it doesn't take much misfortune for games like that to end up losses. One bad pitch, an arrow-straight fastball that Paul Goldschmidt hit high off the left-field foul pole screen for a two-run homer, proved the difference in a 3-2 loss to the D-backs to open a four-game series at Chase Field on Thursday night.
De La Rosa (2-2) gave up seven hits, struck out one and tied a season high with three walks, but he forced three double-play grounders. It kept the National League West-leading Rockies close, but the lineup went 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position to lead to the Rockies' fourth loss in five games.
"Jorge did his job, but the story of tonight was we just didn't get that big hit," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said.
It was similar to De La Rosa's other loss, a 4-2 loss at San Francsico on April 8, when De La Rosa gave up a three-run homer to Hunter Pence in the first inning. In fact, until the D-backs scored an unearned run in the second, De La Rosa had thrown 18 scoreless innings since the Pence homer. But the Goldschmidt homer two innings later proved more costly.
"I knew I hit it well," Goldschmidt said. "I was just hoping it would stay fair. I was watching it go down the line and it ended up hitting the screen. Obviously, I'll take it."
D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said it took good at-bats against De La Rosa for the D-backs to earn their fourth victory in five games. De La Rosa threw six scoreless innings against the D-backs in his last start, a 4-3 victory at Coors Field on Saturday.
"He pitched well again, but we were able to scrape across a few this time," Gibson said. "He's a good pitcher -- he throws hard, he works both sides of the plate and he has good off-speed pitches, too. He's really good. We were lucky to get a few."
The Rockies' biggest lost chance was the fifth, when they loaded the bases in the final inning pitched by D-backs starter Trevor Cahill. However, Michael Cuddyer struck out and Ryan Wheeler grounded to second.
Cahill struck out six, held the Rockies to four hits and gave up a single unearned run, when D-backs third baseman Martin Prado couldn't field Yorvit Torrealba's bouncer. Cuddyer, who had doubled, scored from third on the play.
"He was able to get that sinker in the zone, sometimes even lower than the zone," said the Rockies' Eric Young Jr., who had one of his two hits against Cahill. "Sometimes when it's up, it's hittable in the zone, but tonight it was dropping more."
Carlos Gonzalez, who used to dominate the D-backs, went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts to go to 2-for-15 in four games this season against Arizona.
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Outside of the homer, the only run the D-backs managed off De La Rosa was unearned because Wheeler, called up from Triple-A Colorado Springs on Thursday, bounced a throw from third base that Cuddyer couldn't scoop up at first to allow Goldschmidt to reach leading off the second. Two batters later, Wil Nieves singled Goldschmidt home.
The Rockies' Young doubled off Josh Collmenter to open the seventh and scored on Troy Tulowitzki's two-out double. But that was the only run off the D-backs' maligned bullpen. Collmenter threw three innings, and J.J. Putz earned his fourth save with a scoreless ninth.
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GEORGETOWN — The Alamo Heights boys soccer team raced off the field, screaming and jumping around, squirting one another with water bottles.
Amid the celebration, senior defender Alek Strimple provided a reminder that quickly became a universal refrain.
"One more," he shouted.
As much as the Mules wanted to enjoy their 1-0 victory over Friendswood in the Class 4A state semifinal at Birkelbach Field on Friday, they knew there was still a bigger prize out there — the state championship.
Alamo Heights (29-2-1) has a chance to attain that payoff when it plays Wichita Falls Rider (28-2) at 6 tonight in the state final.
"We've wanted this since the beginning of this year," Alamo Heights junior defender Robert Weigel said. "We've worked hard the whole time. It hasn't really hit us yet. Hopefully, we can keep going."
The Mules, who improved to 3-0 all-time in the state semifinals, are moving on because they stuck to a blueprint that has been successful for them through this postseason.
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Alamo Heights capitalized on an early scoring chance, then turned things over to a stout defense and goalkeeper Zack Jones. The Mules have won six of their seven playoff games by either one goal or in a shootout.
"We're very composed," Alamo Heights coach Bruce Fink said after his team tied Boerne Champion's 2011 state championship squad for the most single-season wins in Greater San Antonio area history. "We've been in a lot of close matches all year long. We're used to this type of condition. We have a hard-working group of young men."
That work ethic was evident in Alamo Heights' game-winning goal.
With the ball bouncing around inside the penalty area following a corner kick, senior forward Christian Garcia slotted a shot inside the left post in the 31st minute.
"The few chances you have, you've got to finish them," Garcia said, "because you never know how many chances you're going to get in a game."
With a 1-0 advantage, Alamo Heights was able to keep at bay a Friendswood squad that entered Friday unbeaten in its last 21 games (19-0-2) and had only lost to 5A state semifinalist and nationally ranked Austin Westlake.
But the Mustangs (26-2-5), making their first state tournament appearance, struggled to find an opening against Alamo Heights' team-oriented defensive pressure.
And the few times they did, Jones was there to deny them. The biggest moment came in the 64th when Jones made a spectacular save of Conrad Beck's line-drive volley blast from 25 yards out.
"We have a strong defense, (and) we've got an amazing keeper, Zack Jones," Weigel said after the Mules won their 13th straight and 10th in a shutout. "I think we just attack and fight hard the whole game."


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Most of us describe the judiciary in pretty much the same way. Courts don't make policy or deliver services. They decide how laws and policies made by others should be applied in particular cases. Judges listen to facts, read law, and issue decisions.
So it is with the classic image of the judge. Judges sit in the courtrooms, hearing disputes that people bring in the door. And because we expect judges to be neutral and impartial, they do all this with a certain air of authority and detachment. It is part of the craft.
That's the positive version of the traditional view. On the other hand, impartiality and detachment can all too easily be seen as isolation or arrogance. A rigid focus on "applying the law" can readily become narrowness of vision. The law, after all, is a set of rules we establish because we think they will help us work together and live better, common ground rules that will lead to a more decent and prosperous society. The cases that come before us as judges are hardly "cases" in the abstract. They all represent people involved in some sort of trouble or dispute. The decisions we make frequently alter people's very lives, or touch their nearest and dearest interests.
The best judges understand this broader implication of their work. And I think Indiana judges have come to understand it especially well. That traditional description of judges' work does not tell the full story of what Indiana judges were about in 1997. They were fully engaged in building bridges to the community in ways obvious even to casual visitors.
In early December, we staged a two-day session for judges on crimes involving sexual violence. One of our guest speakers was Lynn Hecht Schafran of New York, a national figure whose name is virtually synonymous with the effort to approach the legal problems faced by women with greater care. Shortly thereafter, Ms. Schafran encountered my colleague Justice Frank Sullivan at a meeting and posed a question. "Whenever I do a seminar," she said, "I close by asking judges to tell me what ideas they might have for projects in the community that could combat sexual violence. Usually I am met with blank looks. When I asked that question in Indiana, virtually every judge in the room had several ideas about what to do in the community. Why is that?"
I think I know why that is. I would say that it is because Indiana's judges believe that their work goes beyond hearing evidence and signing orders, that their public duty does not stop at the end of the bench. Indiana judges demonstrated that commitment last year on at least three fronts.
On the communication front, Indiana's courts have seized the opportunities of modern technology. Our appellate courts were the first in the country to authorize putting opinions on the Internet four years ago, and late in 1997 we joined the legislature and the executive branch on Access Indiana. Local courts are now doing the same. If you want to know more about the juvenile court of St. Joseph County, for example, you dial up users.michiana.org/probate, compliments of Magistrate Harold Brueseke. Or if you'd like to print out the guidelines on child support, you can punch up Judge Burnham's new website in Morgan County at www.scican.net.
Judges have also become much more active in educating people by walking out of the courthouse to explain the legal system in person. Last September, the Judicial Center placed in the hands of every judge a video called "Faces of Justice," created under the leadership of Judge Nancy Vaidik of Michigan City. It tells in eleven minutes in the judges own voices the story of how courts function and how judges work, for use with school groups, civic clubs, public television, and so on.
Judges sometimes create their own classes. Judge John Price of Indianapolis ran a pilot project last fall called the Mini Law School, with other judges, lawyers, and school administrators. On a succession of Thursday nights, a thousand people in northern Marion County and southern Hamilton County came to learn about everyday topics like divorce law, automobile insurance statutes, and the laws on cigarettes, alcohol and drugs.
In Clay County last year, Judge Ernest Yelton engaged some 750 fifth and sixth graders in mock trials of a student accused of battering another on a school playground. In Whitley County, hundreds of eighth graders witnessed the actual plea and sentencing of drug or alcohol defendants, in an award-winning education program organized by Judge Michael Rush. In Howard County, Judge Stephen Jessup has been inviting individual students to sit right next to the judge as he manages a jury trial.
Civic education makes people better citizens and helps them work their way through the complexities of modern life. Indiana judges are determined to do their part in helping people be better citizens. And I pledge to help them do just that.
Of course, one place where courts interact with the people they serve is the courthouse itself.
The courthouse can be an intimidating and unfriendly place, especially for children, and judges are working to do something about that. In Marion County, for example, the courts and the Indianapolis Bar Foundation have just about completed a children's waiting room. This will be a safe and friendly place for the many young children who for some reason must come to court with parents or guardians.
Thousands of people come to courthouses each year to do public service as jurors. What they do and how they are treated is very important and it is far too easy to overlook the imposition that jury service represents. Many jurors, like single parents, have to pay for child care to serve on a jury. Some have to pay for parking, and a few have to buy their own lunch. The legislature took an important step in the right direction last year when you raised the compensation for jurors to forty dollars for each day of service.
Americans revere the role of juries, and we ought to respect the jurors themselves. To do that, we will launch this year an initiative on the more effective use of juries. It will be spearheaded by the Citizens Commission on the Future of Indiana's Courts, chaired by Sara Davies of Evansville, and by judges who serve on our Judicial Administration Committee.
We plan to ask all sorts of questions we haven't asked for a long time, if ever. How do we recruit jurors? Who serves and who is exempt? How do we treat jurors once they get to court? What sort of tools do we give them to do their job? What sorts of guidance do we give them? Should they be allowed to question witnesses? How many times should somebody have to serve? What do you do next when a jury appears deadlocked?
Jurors are the community come together in the court room to do justice for all us. They give their valuable time, and often their own money, to do so. We need fresh thinking about their work because they deserve the support of all of us.
Indiana judges have also come to shoulder greater responsibility for creating new ways to prevent crime or other dysfunction. This is easiest to see in the field of criminal justice. There was a time when a judge imposing sentence had two choices: jail and probation. Jail meant jail or prison, and probation meant keep your nose clean and report back each month.
Today, sentencing means something very different. If you have been found guilty of some offense related to substance abuse, for example, the judge will send you to the court's drug and alcohol officers to do an assessment and make recommendations about mandatory treatment. The legislature made possible a great leap forward in this field last year when it transferred the certification and training of local court drug and alcohol programs to the Indiana Judicial Center. In just a few months, we have established standards for local programs and announced a scholarship fund for local court staff who need training in the latest techniques of dealing with addiction. It is the first time in years that the state government has provided this sort of help to people out working in the trenches.
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Courts have also created far more innovative ways of requiring restitution through community service. In Evansville, for example, carpenters who owed community service time worked it off by building housing for low-income people through Habitat for Humanity. To pay for the materials, Judge Richard Young organized a drive that prompted a financial contribution by every single member of the Evansville Bar Association.
In Kosciusko County, the local community service program has been rescuing lost cemeteries. Last year, twenty juvenile offenders spent four Saturdays recovering a hopelessly overgrown graveyard near North Manchester, which the township trustee and the descendents will now maintain. They needed a way to haul off the debris, and Judge Jim Jarrette persuaded the county highway garage to lend one of its trucks. Judges are good at that sort of thing.
There are hosts of places around Indiana where the local judge saw something that needed doing and got everybody organized to do it. A few months ago, I traveled to South Bend to help cut the ribbon on the new juvenile center near downtown. The County Commissioners, the Council, the Mayor, and a good may others were there to celebrate their collective effort, but it was in fact Judge Peter Nemeth who organized it all.
And so it has been in lots of places. The Jackson County Juvenile Group Home exists because Judge Robert Brown and others kept working at it until the job was done. The same could be said in places as different as Valparaiso, Vincennes, Franklin, and New Castle.
Many times you can do great things without a new building.
In Jasper County, for example, an exploding population has brought the problems of gangs to a rural county – worse yet, rival gangs. This lead Judges Phil McGraw and Robert Monfort and others to create an annual retreat bringing together two kinds of kids from rival high schools: students who are winners (like scholars and athletes) and students who are not (problem kids who are on the verge of dropping out). These forty-five kids spend two days together talking about things like the benefits of education and dangers of drugs.
Judge McGraw chose not to be a discussion leader, instead taking charge of the cooling. "I felt the young people needed to know that no matter what your position is in society that you can do menial tasks to serve other," he said. Judge Montfort is in charge of the dishwashing crew. No hint of detachment or arrogance in that picture. These judges created something out of nothing, and last year this was recognized as one of the Governor's Outstanding Youth Projects.
Judges are also concerned about the problem of families. Not content simply to preside over divorces, they work to combat the problems divorce creates. Many of you know that there are scores of counties where people getting divorced have to attend classes on how to be effective divorced parents. In Marion County by now some 33,000 people have taken the Children Coping with Divorce course, largely a creation of the local judges and social services agencies.
Some judges are working to prevent divorce in the first place. In Lebanon, Judge Steve David is about to launch a Fathering Program, for dads who are willing but ill-equipped. Judge Steven Spindler has assembled several dozen judges and clergymen in Noble County to work on the idea of obliging people who want to get married to undertake a pre-marriage education program. Our minister made Amy and me do that when we asked him to marry us, and so far it has worked out pretty well for us.
I've had time to mention just a few of the examples of judges getting down off their perches to improve the way their courts interact with the communities they serve. They do this not because of any statute or financial arrangement but really because of a state of mind. Judge Mark Loyd of Franklin summed it up best. In a recent letter about the efforts in Johnson County at coordinating services for troubled children, he wrote: "Collaboration has become second nature to those of us who deal with at risk children in Johnson County. The resulting accomplishments have exceeded our loftiest expectations. The barriers that previously existed have been replaced by a philosophy of mutual purpose."
Judge Loyd might well have been writing about a great many Indiana judges. Yes, they adjudicate cases, thousands of cases, last year a million and a half cases, and they tend first and foremost to resolving those disputes with all the seriousness of purpose they can summon. But they do more than that – they make things happen.
I have mentioned mostly work done by trial judges today, but you should know that the state's appellate judges are very much engaged in these projects – from Judge Rucker's teaching in the mini-law school to Judge Barteau's work organizing several dozen of her colleagues into an Adopt-A-Judge program for middle schools.
And the five members of the Supreme Court are each and all building bridges between courts and the community. It may be Justice Selby traveling to Crane in Southern Indiana to talk with young women about their careers. Or Justice Dickson driving mile after mile to lecture about the Indiana Constitution. Or Justice Boehm continuing as a judge the work he began as a lawyer in making Indianapolis the amateur sports capital of America. Or Justice Sullivan working all over our state on projects that help families and children.
As the board of directors for the judicial branch, we are frequently at work stitching together financial resources, revising rules to facilitate various projects, and acting as enablers for our fellow judges.
When I first spoke to you as Chief in 1988, I thanked you for approving almost unanimously a constitutional amendment that went on the ballot as Proposition Two. It changed a provision in the Indiana Constitution that previously permitted all criminal defendants who got ten-year sentences to bypass the Court of Appeals and go straight to the Supreme Court. Increased crime rates and higher sentences had grown the number of such cases to the point where these mandatory appeals were crowding out cases brought by everybody else--parents with custody problems, business owners with disputes, injured people with a claim for damages.
The voters approved Proposition Two at the 1988 election, so that only criminals with more than fifty-year sentences were entitled to bypass the Court of Appeals. That change worked wonders for access to the Supreme Court, and in recent years, fully half of our docket has been opened to law-abiding citizens with everyday legal problems.
Well, it worked wonders until recently. In 1994, the legislature twice amended the sentence for murder, once raising it to fifty years and once reducing it back to the traditional forty years. These blind double amendments, as you might imagine, created more than a little litigation. During the 1995 session, you resolved this conflict and set the standard penalty for murder at fifty-five years.
The result of that change has been to more than double the number of mandatory appeals in the Supreme Court. Last year the Supreme Court had its most productive year since 1991, issuing 30% more opinions than the year before, including moving a record number of death penalty cases. And when we were done, we were farther behind than we were on January 1st. This development has once again made it very difficult for parents or business people or injured Hoosiers (or for that matter appellants in criminal cases who got two-year sentences or forty-two-year sentences) to get a hearing on the merits in the Supreme Court.
So, we propose to do what we should have probably proposed a decade ago, taking the fifty-year rule out of the constitution altogether. This would allow criminal appeals to flow through the appellate courts in the same way civil cases do. Approval of House Joint Resolution 1, sponsored by Representatives Villalpando, Steele, Keeler, and Sturtz, would start this proposal on its way to the voters for the election of November 2000.
Let me be clear. This proposal is not about reducing the rights of criminal defendants. If it were, we would not enjoy the support of the criminal defense section of the bar association. It is also not about reducing the workload of the Supreme Court. It is, as Proposition Two was, the key to having a Supreme Court that can lead the Indiana judiciary both in caselaw and in service.
And I want to end on a special note about connecting with the community that does involve our Court. This time last year, I asked you for money to start the first state program for minority and other disadvantaged law students anywhere in the country, the Indiana Conference on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO). You passed that legislation by huge margins. Governor O'Bannon supported it and he signed the act promptly, so that we could get about recruiting the first class of CLEO students for a summer head-start institute.
Twenty-nine of the first thirty CLEO students successfully completed the program and enrolled in law school just a few months ago. As one of them said to me in a letter, "This is a working-class dream, Justice Shepard, and I make no apologies for that." Well, it's a dream about upward mobility and public service shared by many people in this country, and I want you to know that letters have come in from all over America saying "bully for Indiana."
You don't always get to see first-hand the results of the good work you do, and so I have invited that first class of CLEO students here this afternoon so that they could say thanks to you and you can congratulate them on finishing their very first semester.
And, that, ladies and gentlemen, is the state of your judiciary.