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Imagine that the police were just at your house because your spouse assaulted you. Your spouse is arrested and the police leave you with a piece of paper telling you when your court date is. Would you know what to do next, and what to expect at court?
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I feel fortunate that I am part of a team that is able to assist victims in navigating through the often confusing court system. When people ask "What is a typical day like for you?" the real answer is there is no typical day. I can plan a day out in my head, but as soon as I hit the door that plan usually crumbles.
In the court program, we get police reports from the different departments and make contact with the victims by phone, letter or face to face, if necessary. What can start out a simple phone call to see how they are doing can turn into an all day event of trying to safety plan, filling out paperwork for orders of protection, perhaps finding shelter, or making more police reports for this one person.
When in court, we hear the stories that the abusers make up, see the intimidation that they try on the victims and see them, many times, escape consequences.
These are the tough points of the job; seeing a victim reduced to tears because she is terrified to testify or because there just wasn't enough evidence and the abuser gets off on the charges.
It would be so easy to just throw your hands up and say "Why bother?" at this point. But when a victim who has avoided court in the past because of fear finds her voice and finally stand up to the person who has kept her down for so long, that trumps everything.


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Budget Friendly November Home Decor Ideas
The time between Halloween and Christmas is short. Once Halloween is over with the scary and spooky decorations come down. But it's too soon to pull out the tree and all the trimmings. So what's a girl to do.
This November, there is plenty of time leading up to Thanksgiving to switch up the decor with a few inexpensive ideas. All that's needed is a quick trip outside and another to the grocery store for a few budget friendly items to give your home a fresh look just in time for Thanksgiving.
Maple leaves were vibrant this fall in rich reds, oranges and yellows. And they are plentiful. They make an inexpensive vase filler. Just find the prettiest leaves and create a candle display. Other ideas from nature include pine cones or dried hydrangea blooms. Just make sure they are bug free.
A trip to the grocery store for fall gourds or pumpkins look perfect on any mantle. Popcorn kernels, dried beans, dried split peas also make easy fillers. I found what I was looking for in the bulk nut section of the produce department. Clean, shelled hazelnuts, pecans, walnuts and almonds. Another perfect vase filler.
The kids had fun with this Thanksgiving mantle project. We found printable letters online, printed what we needed onto one color of paper and cut them out. We glued them onto differing colors of construction paper and hung them on the mantle using mini clothesline clips we already had.

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They interviewed a 15-year-old who is five months pregnant, who said: "I think handing out pills over the counter is just encouraging teenagers to have sex."
The Anglican Use Society of Savannah, Georgia, a group of current and former Anglicans/Episcopalians preparing to enter the ordinariate once it is established in the United States, will have their first service on Sunday, June 19th.
Student housing has became a hotbed of reckless drinking and hooking up.
After the first big earthquake, Christchurch dusted off and carried on. Not this time.
There were fears this week that the latest quakes would spark a renewed flight from the region. Even the Prime Minister, John Key, recognised the potential problem, calling on locals to stay if they could.
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Appellate court bars renting public school space to church for religious 'worship services'
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The Canadian Press
Jun. 16, 2011 By Nancy Frazier O'Brien
Bernie Marcus on the President
HH: Let me ask you, Bernie Marcus, people will be very interested in this, do you think we can turn this around? Can this economy go back to the era of growth that Home Depot experienced in the 80s and 90s? Is that possible again?
BM: Listen, the American people are very resilient, unlike other people in the world. We just have to get out of their way. We just have to allow them to grow. And if we don't do that, and we can't keep putting in impediments. Look, I know so many small business people today. Nobody wants to expand. They're not willing to expand today. There's such uncertainty out there. You have a group of people in Washington today, where they're the bad guys. I mean, if a man has a successful small business, and he's making $200,000 dollars a year, he's the enemy of the world.
HH: Yeah. Do you think the President understands this at all, Bernie Marcus?
BM: I…look, look. I'm sure this guy is, I'm sure his head is in the right place. He just doesn't understand it. He never worked for a day in his life. How would he know it?
HH: Yeah.
BM: He never had to make a payroll, and he has surrounded himself…there's a statistic that's very important. They had a statistic on how many businesspeople worked in every administration. The typical one, the smallest one was something like 35% were in the business world. This administration, it's 8%. He's surrounded by college professors, he's surrounded by economic professionals, but nobody has ever created a job in this administration.
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Monday, June 13, 2011
WALLACE: And now you are the top woman religious leader in the world . . . what does that mean to you?
JEFFERTS SCHORI: Well, I'm certainly aware that it means I'm an icon, in some ways, for people . . . I'm simply doing the job I think I was called to do. I don't -- I don't have another experience with which to compare it, but I do know it says something to others about the dropping of some barriers.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that there are extreme forces at work that have turned the Arab Spring into a "very anxious time" for Christians. 14 June 2011
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A man set on fire is an apostle of his age. And the only one who can kindle the spark of light and fire on the hearth where it has died down is He who has revealed Himself as the God of fire, our Lord Jesus Christ. 'Our God is a consuming fire'...Tell me, is your ministry a burning and shining light, or a smoking wick, slowly dying out to ashes?...It is a strange custom that we should supply a minister with a glass of water; if only we could supply him with a bonfire in the pulpit, a spiritual bonfire. We need the dynamic of a flaming ministry that will set the Church on fire. ...Samuel M. Zwemer image


text: I guess you can call this an intro to my European travels. Over the years I have been fortunate enough to travel all over the world, and though the sets of of photos may be dated, I think you will enjoy them nonetheless. I will do Europe first, South America, and then Asia. What do you think? I have not had any comments yet so if you have any preferences yet, let me know! These photos are about 2 years old, but I doubt Bath, Somerset has changed much since then. My family and I usually make trips every year to London, as we have quite a bit of family there. However, we do not usually travel around London, so this was quite a treat and an eye opener. The English country side is beautiful, and I wish that I was blogging at that point so that I could have stopped the car and taken better photos. But these will have to do. Living in New York, I forget how amazing it must be to be living constantly with so much history. Of course, the US has some history, but it does not compare to places like Bath, Somerset. The name of the city comes from the highlight of the city: the ancient baths that were created by the Romans during their presence in Britain (approx. from 43-409 AD). I'm not going to go too much into a history lesson, as I am not nearly qualified. However, if you do want to know some history, you can watch Hank Green's insightful video at the Vlog Brothers' youtube channel. He has the ability to turn everything into a thesis. I urge everyone who visits London to take some time out to visit the countryside and the surrounding areas. While going to Europe turns into its own history lesson, visiting Bath is like taking a time machine into an ancient world… with Marks & Spencer right next door. Check out more photos on my blog: sabeenm.com


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Hi there, hope you are having a splendid Summer!
I have some news! I'll be doing three more books for the Silver Penny series from Sterling! Yay!!! The first one, Thumbelina, is already in stores and online. I'm so excited to start working on the next book later this Summer. Also I'm working on a young readers book for the Icelandic Publisher, Forlagið, so it looks like another busy winter ahead, which sounds just fine to me :)
I've been on a little vacation for the past two weeks or so. It always amazes me how easily you can say goodbye to the daily routine and forget about the things that you do day to day. We just said goodbye to dear fiends we've been having from San Francisco. We had a blast with them, acting like tourists and tour guides in our own country. We'll miss them and hope to see them again sooner than later.
Here are just a few photos from the Summer so far.
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|Lára on the balcony in the sun (did I say sun? Yes, we had some sun, for ONE day!)
|Well, that's what I call a good use of one parking spot!
|Lára near Geysir
|Nephews and friends at the end of the day (making sure they hide each others team logo on their shirts ;)
|We saw a wonderful art show in Akureyri by the artist Aðalheiður S. Eysteinsdóttir
|Lára loved it too!


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Aspiring MDC MP for Epworth constituency Zivai Mhetu was hauled before the courts yesterday on allegations of murdering his wife in suspected rituals. Mhetu appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa and was released on $200 bail after his lawyer managed to get the prosecution's consent.
He was remanded to February 23 pending finalisation of investigations into the matter.
Prosecutor Linda Gadzikwa alleged that on February 7, this year, Mhetu who had been having problems with his wife reportedly assaulted the woman.
The court heard that Mhetu went on to strangle the woman before taking her to a private medical facility in Belvedere, Harare where she was administered some drugs.
It was alleged that Mhetu's wife was later referred to Parirenyatwa Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
When Mhetu reported the matter to the police it was allegedly disguised to seem as though it was sudden death but Dr Matshalaga who is now compiling the second post moterm report noted that there was foul play.
She allegedly reported that it had not been documented anywhere in the first post moterm that the deceased had bruises on her neck, face and legs.
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The restoration of Mahavir Bhawan, a Jain landmark in Chandni Chowk, is being done keeping Jain architecture in mind. The cracked flower motifs and faded sandstone mouldings on the parapet of Mahavir Bhawan are being replaced by marble torans and jaali. Skilled artisans from Rajasthan's Makrana are busy working round-the-clock to give the upper floors of the more than hundred-year-old three-storey building a new look, ensuring that it stands out on the congested main road of Chandni Chowk. The renovation work is being done in accordance with traditional Jain architecture styles. After all, the building houses one of Delhi's oldest sthanaks.
The building has always been a landmark in this area, locally known as the Baradari. While the look is all set to change on the exterior, inside, the heritage library continues to have the same décor as during the pre-independence era, when it was one of the preferred meeting places of the freedom fighters. Built in 1905 by Lala Gokal Chand Nahar, Mahavir Bhawan opened a library on its premises on October 5, 1924. A marble staircase leads one to the library, which is open from 8 am to 8 pm all seven days of the week. The yellow pages of visitors' book have signatures of the who's who of the nationalist movement. Anthropologist Verrier Elwin visited the place in December 1931, Jawaharlal Nehru in May 1936, Mahadev Desai in March 1936, besides others like Kasturba Gandhi and Rajendra Prasad.


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Today is the start of the 11th Challenge at Scrapy Land today and the theme is Anything Goes Plus use a Die that Scrapy Land Sells. Here is my card:
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I really like the elegance of both the Spellbinders Bow Elegance die and the Spellbinders Royal Flutter die.
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|"Dancing Wu Li Masters" by Gary Zukow
I have come to believe and understand that this all-pervading consciousness is the timeless Ground of Being, which has been witnessed by enlightened individuals, here and there, since the dawn of time. Not only that, but I have observed there has been a decided uptick in seekers and realizers of this Ground of Being in the last 120 years - a time, not coincidentally, since Eastern wisdom teachings and traditions have been disseminated in the West, and a time we have gone as a species from being largely conveyed on foot or in horse-drawn carts to building spacecraft that have, in fact, left the solar system.
(Padma Sambhava, an Eight-century Buddhist teacher who originally brought Mahayanna Buddhism to Tibet, left the following cryptic, but accurate omen: "When the iron bird flies, and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the World, and the Dharma will come to the land of the red-faced people.)
My favourite passage from "The Dancing Wu Li Masters", at page 31 and provided below, is a reflection on what the collaboration of the renowned psychologist, Carl Jung, and the Nobel-laureate physicist, Wolfgang Pauli, implies.
"According to quantum physics there is no such thing as objectivity. We cannot eliminate ourselves from the picture. We are a part of nature, and when we study nature there is no way around the fact that nature is studying itself. Physics has become a branch of psychology, or perhaps the other way round.
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Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist wrote:
The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner contradictions, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposite halves.
Jung's friend, the Nobel-winning physicist, Wolfgang Pauli, put it this way:
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From an inner center the psyche seems to move outward, in the sense of an extraversion, into the physical world . . .
"If these men are correct," Gary Zhukov writes in the "The Dancing Wu Li Masters," at page 31, "then physics is the study of the structure of consciousness." (Emphasis added.)To pick up where "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" leaves off, I recommend David Bohm's "The Implicate Order," or any of his numerous dialogues with the enlightened spiritual teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti (such as, "The Wholeness of Life"). For more information on the collaboration between Jung and Pauli, I recommend the book, "137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession," by Arthur I. Miller (W.W. Norton and Company: New York, 2009).
"The Dancing Wu Li Masters" was, for a time, available as a .pdf file at the following link: www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/dancingmasters.pdf


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GREENSBORO, N.C. – UNCG softball has made changes to its homestand this week, head coach Janelle Breneman announced on Tuesday. Wednesday's game against North Carolina A&T has been moved to Thursday at 5 p.m., and the Spartans will now face Canisius in a doubleheader starting at 3 p.m. on Friday in the first day of the Spartan Classic instead of playing on Sunday.
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I'm not posting a sex toy review this time, but menstruation is still part of a woman's overall sexual and reproductive health, so I'm reviewing a menstrual cup called the DivaCup. A menstrual cup is a bell-shaped device that's soft and flexible.
It fits inside the vagina during a woman's period to collect rather than absorb menstrual fluid. The DivaCup is just one version of this device, and there are a lot of options for women who are thinking about switching from pads and tampons to a menstrual cup. I ultimately chose the DivaCup, which I bought on Amazon for about $25. I recommend doing some research before buying a menstrual cup to choose the appropriate size and find information about the stem type and length among other dimensions.
I honestly wish I had known about menstrual cups earlier in my life, and there are plenty of good reasons to use one. First, the DivaCup and most other menstrual cups are silicone, so they're body safe and nonporous. The DivaCup is even regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). I wouldn't recommend buying a menstrual cup that's something other than silicone. With tampons, there's a higher risk of Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS), caused by bacteria, because tampons absorb menstrual fluid, which exposes that fluid to the air. While TSS is rare, it's potentially fatal. Menstrual cups collect fluid rather than absorbing it, and because the DivaCup creates a seal inside the vagina, the collected fluid isn't exposed to the air, which means significantly less bacteria and a significantly reduced risk of TSS. Even better is the fact that there's no odor. Another reason I love using a menstrual cup is because they're environmentally friendly. They're reusable, so I don't throw out wrappers and cardboard from pads and tampons every month. Using a menstrual cup reduces my carbon footprint. Plus, I've already saved a lot of money not buying pads and tampons. A menstrual cup pays for itself within the first few months of use. In fact, while DivaCup recommends replacing the cup every year, it can last up to ten years. I don't like pads because they make me feel like I'm wearing a diaper. The DivaCup is comfortable to wear. I don't even know it's there and can't feel it as I go about my business. I can wear my DivaCup for up to 12 hours, and the seal keeps it from leaking, so I can do anything while wearing the DivaCup, including swimming and sleeping. I got rid of my period panties once I started using a menstrual cup. Finally, using a menstrual cup is educational. It's easier for me to track my period when I can see how heavy my flow is, what color the fluid is, and whether or not there's tissue from my uterine lining in the fluid.¹ That said, I imagine that people who are squeamish when it comes to bodily functions and fluids, especially blood, have a difficult time using a menstrual cup, including the DivaCup. I get blood both on my hands and under my fingernails when I insert and remove the cup.
Before I bought the DivaCup, I did a little research and tried a box of disposable menstrual cups called Instead Softcups. I used the disposable cups for a couple of months with little success. They leaked, and I don't know that I ever was able to insert them correctly. It also didn't seem like they held very much fluid, and I was changing them every few hours. The issue, I think, was that the disposable cups were much thinner than the silicone DivaCup. They were very flexible and flimsy with a ring that was too big and not stiff enough and a cup that was some kind of crinkly plastic.
Rather than collecting fluid, they just became coated with fluid and made more of a mess than pads and tampons. I haven't tried the reusable version. Use one cup per period rather than throwing away every cup upon removal and inserting a new one. The reusable version looks like it's a different material, so perhaps they're more effective than the disposable version. In spite of my experience with the disposable cups, some female friends convinced me that I'd have more success with a reusable cup, so I bought the DivaCup and hoped for a better experience.
I chose the Model 1 size, which is for women who are younger than 30 years old and haven't given birth. The Model 2 size is for women who are older than 30 or have given birth. Choosing the correct size helps to prevent leaks. The DivaCup is much easier to insert than the disposable cups and fits way better. I'll be completely honest and say that inserting the DivaCup correctly takes a bit of practice, but I wouldn't say it's difficult to get the hang of it. I still insert it wrong every once in a while, but I just take it back out and try again, which I can't do with tampons. There are two recommended ways to insert the DivaCup. The first recommendation is to fold it in half making a "U" shape with the cup.
However, I prefer the second method. The second recommendation is to fold the side down into the cup making a more triangular shape.
Using lubricant to make insertion easier isn't recommended, but I really don't think using only a water-based lube will hurt the cup. I insert the cup and allow it to pop open before I pinch the stem and gently twist the cup inside me to create the seal. When inserted correctly, the DivaCup sits low inside the vagina beneath the cervix. Remove the DivaCup before having sex. The DivaCup holds up to one ounce (almost 30ml) of fluid.
The seal is strong, and the cup won't fall out. In fact, I feel the suction when I remove it. For this reason, women who use the NuvaRing and women with intrauterine devices (IUDs) may dislodge their birth control device when removing a menstrual cup. I've found, however, that I've rarely worn my NuvaRing and DivaCup at the same time. Even so, I've found that I prefer sea sponge tampons when my period hasn't quite ended before I insert a new NuvaRing. To remove the cup, I pull down on the stem until I can pinch the bottom of the cup to release the seal. Once the seal breaks, gently slide the cup out without spilling the fluid and empty the menstrual cup into the toilet before cleaning and reinserting it.
Cleaning the DivaCup is pretty easy, but there are a few special instructions. When washing the cup, DivaCup recommends avoiding cleansers like vinegar, rubbing alcohol, antibacterial soap, hand sanitizer, wet wipes², hydrogen peroxide, and bleach. Also, don't wash the DivaCup in the dishwasher. Chemicals and detergent residue inside the dishwasher can harm the cup, which means replacing it, or cause irritation during the next use. The four small holes around the rim of the menstrual cup create the seal inside the vagina. Make sure these holes are clear of debris and fluid. Boiling is a safe method to use to clean the DivaCup. Just watch the pot and don't let the cup touch the sides or bottom. Another option is the official DivaWash, which is pH balanced. When I'm at work or in another public place, I usually don't have the opportunity to clean my DivaCup before reinserting it. When I'm in a public bathroom, I wipe it out with toilet paper, reinsert it, and clean it thoroughly the next time I remove it. Wet wipes come in handy in this situation. My DivaCup has discolored a bit around the rim and four small holes near the top of the cup, but discoloration alone doesn't mean that I need to replace it.
The DivaCup doesn't require replacement as long as it's still intact with no degradation of the silicone. The DivaCup comes with a small storage pouch, which I recommend using between periods.
Overall, I'm impressed by how much easier using a menstrual cup makes my life. If I have a daughter, I'm going to make sure she knows that using a menstrual cup is an option because I truly wish I had discovered menstrual cups years ago. I love everything about it, and it's a big deal to me that I have an eco-friendly option. Using a menstrual cup isn't as scary as it seems and really doesn't take much getting used to.
- Menstrual cups create a seal inside the vagina and collect fluid rather than absorbing it, which means that fluid isn't exposed to the air, so there's a significantly lower risk of TSS and no odor.
- The seal prevents leaks.
- There are literally dozens of options when it comes to choosing a menstrual cup.
- The DivaCup is inexpensive. It pays for itself in the first few months, and replacing it won't break the bank.
- The DivaCup is silicone, which means it's body safe and nonporous.
- Reusable menstrual cups are environmentally friendly, and the DivaCup can last up to ten years.
- The DivaCup is comfortable to wear. I don't even feel it when it's inserted.
- The DivaCup is less intrusive than pads and tampons because I can wear it for up to 12 hours.
- Using a menstrual cup is educational and allows women to track their period symptoms and learn about their bodies.
- The DivaCup is pretty easy to clean, even in public bathrooms.
- Disposable menstrual cups aren't nearly as effective as reusable ones.
- It's possible for people who are squeamish when it comes to bodily functions and fluids, especially blood, to have a difficult time using a menstrual cup.
- Figuring out how to insert the DivaCup correctly takes a little practice.
- Do not wear the DivaCup during sex.
- Women who use the NuvaRing or have an IUD may dislodge their birth control device when removing a menstrual cup.
Rating: 8.5/10
¹Maybe that much detail is a little gross, but I believe that every woman should track and become intimately familiar with her menstrual cycle and the symptoms that are typical for her. It's part of learning about one's body, which is also an important part of experiencing sexual pleasure.
²I recommend using a wet wipe that's meant for intimate areas. Try Cheeky Wash Expandable Wipes.


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No. 98-1583
In the Supreme Court of the United States
Solicitor General
Counsel of Record
Assistant Attorney General
Deputy Solicitor General
Assistant to the Solicitor General
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C. 20530-0001
(202) 514-2217
Whether an employee may claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment against a search of an office at his employer's place of business, where the office is not the employee's own work space or similar area.
In the Supreme Court of the United States
No. 98-1583
The Solicitor General, on behalf of the United States of America, respectfully petitions for a writ of certiorari to review the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in this case.
The opinion of the court of appeals (App., infra, 1a-24a) is reported at 154 F.3d 1225. The opinion of the district court (App., infra, 25a-39a) is unreported.
The judgment of the court of appeals was entered on September 15, 1998. A petition for rehearing was denied on December 1, 1998 (App., infra, 40a-41a). On February 19, 1999, Justice Breyer extended the time within which to file a petition for a writ of certiorari to and including March 31, 1999. The jurisdiction of this Court is invoked under 28 U.S.C. 1254(1).
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Respondent James S. Anderson was indicted on one count of conspiring to knowingly receive and distribute child pornography via the Internet, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2252(a)(2)(b), and two counts of knowingly transporting and shipping child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2252(a)(1). The district court ordered the suppression of evidence found by the FBI at respondent's place of employment as well as incriminating statements respondent made at that location, and the court of appeals affirmed.
1. This case arises from a successful sting operation conducted by the FBI to identify and prosecute individuals engaged in the interstate trafficking of child pornography. In July of 1996, respondent, a member of an Internet chat room known as the "Orchid Club," agreed to exchange child pornography with another member, Paul Buske. After respondent sent Buske blank videotapes on which to record the child pornography, Buske sent videotapes purporting to contain child pornography to respondent's post office box. On Saturday, July 6, 1996, respondent retrieved the tapes. App., infra, 1a-2a, 26a. Unbeknownst to respondent, Buske-who had been arrested by the FBI on child pornography charges about a month earlier- was assisting the FBI; the tapes in fact were blank; and FBI agents were following respondent when he picked up the tapes. Ibid.
Respondent drove, with FBI agents in covert pursuit, to an office building occupied by ATD Corporation, where respondent was Vice President of Research and Development. Using his key card, respondent opened the front door and carried the tapes inside, allowing the door to lock behind him. App., infra, 2a, 26a-27a. Shortly thereafter, FBI agents became concerned that respondent might view the tapes, discover that they were blank, and realize that he had been the subject of a sting; he might then attempt to destroy evidence linking him and others to child pornography, the agents feared. Id. at 2a; see id. at 32a-33a. The agents rang the building's doorbell and knocked on the front door; respondent did not answer. Id. at 2a, 27a. They sounded a siren, but respondent (who was not wearing his hearing aids) did not respond to that either. Ibid. Concerned that respondent might be destroying evidence-a concern that was heightened by the belief that the building contained an incinerator that could be used to achieve that end-the FBI agents decided to enter the building and detain respondent. Id. at 3a, 32a-33a.
The FBI found respondent in a vacant office on the second floor-room 222-attempting to view child pornography. Room 222 had no desk, no telephone, no files, and no name plate on the door. App., infra, 8a n.1; id. at 23a (Kelly, J., dissenting); Gov't C.A. App. 119 (Tr. 341). It was, in respondent's words, a vacant office that "had no use at all." App., infra, 8a n.1; Gov't C.A. App. 120 (Tr. 35). Respondent has not claimed that he had any prior connection to the room; nor does he claim that he had ever used it even on a single occasion before. App., infra, 8a n.1; id. at 23a (Kelly, J., dissenting). That day, however, respondent had entered the room with the tapes, drawn the curtains, and placed a towel over an interior window. Id. at 3a, 27a. Consequently, when FBI agent Joseph Bradley opened the unlocked door to room 222, he found respondent inside, in front of a VCR and television borrowed from another room, attempting to watch the video Buske had sent him. Ibid.; see id. at 23a (Kelly, J., dissenting); Gov't C.A. App. 120 (Tr. 35).
After respondent was read his Miranda warnings, he stated that he understood his rights and that he wished to cooperate; he also signed a written waiver of his rights. App., infra, 4a, 28a. Respondent then admitted his involvement in child pornography on the Internet and, after consenting to a search of his own office, told the FBI agents where in that office they would find child pornography. Ibid. Pursuant to a warrant that the agents had obtained before respondent picked up the videotape sent by Buske, the FBI then searched respondent's home. That search revealed, among other things, more child pornography. Ibid.
2. After a hearing, the district court granted respondent's motion to suppress. App., infra, 25a-39a. The court held that the FBI's warrantless entry into the ATD Corporation office building and the vacant office where respondent was found constituted an unlawful search, and that respondent's consent to the search of his own office and his incriminating statements were fruits of the unlawful search. The court therefore granted respondent's motion to suppress any evidence found when the agents entered room 222 (where respondent was discovered attempting to view child pornography), the incriminating statements respondent made at the time, and all evidence found in and any statements made in respondent's own office as well.
The district court rejected the government's argument that, even if the agents' entry into ATD's building and the vacant office violated respondent's employer's Fourth Amendment rights, it did not violate respondent's rights.2 Because respondent had taken actions to preserve his privacy, the court concluded that he had a subjective expectation of privacy. App., infra, 30a. And, based on the facts that respondent was a corporate officer and had a key to the premises, the court concluded that respondent's expectation was "reasonable," id. at 29a-31a & n.3, and permitted him to claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment everywhere in the building, id. at 30a ("As [an] officer of the company, defendant has the authority to assert a fourth amendment claim to the building.").
3. A divided court of appeals affirmed. App., infra, 1a- 24a. Addressing respondent's capacity to claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment under the rubric of "standing," the court of appeals disagreed with the district court's conclusion that respondent had a legitimate expectation of privacy in every part of ATD's corporate offices. Id. at 5a ("[W]e disagree with the district court's holding that a corporate officer with a key to the building had standing to assert a Fourth Amendment claim to the entire building."). Instead, it acknowledged that courts of appeals generally have agreed that defendants may challenge searches only of those parts of their places of employment with which they have a significant "nexus"-generally speaking, their work areas. Id. at 8a. The court of appeals, however, concluded that sole reliance on the "nexus" requirement was "problematic" because it did not account for factors such as the individual's ownership of any property he has with him, his possessory interest in such property, and any actions he takes to protect his privacy. Id. at 9a-15a.
Turning to the facts of this case, the court of appeals concluded that respondent had a legitimate expectation of privacy in the vacant room at his employer's place of business, despite his lack of a prior connection to that room, because (1) the tapes respondent was attempting to view there were his, rather than his employer's; (2) the tapes were in respondent's actual possession; and (3) respondent had taken steps to protect his privacy in the room. App., infra, 14a-16a. Because it also concluded that warrantless entry was not justified by exigent circumstances, id. at 16a-20a; see also note 2, supra, the court of appeals affirmed the district court's suppression order. App., infra, 20a.
Judge Kelly dissented. App., infra, 20a-24a. The factors cited by the majority, Judge Kelly argued, were "not sufficient to confer standing" on a defendant "absent a demonstrated 'nexus between the area searched and the work space of the defendant.'" Id. at 20a (quoting United States v. Britt, 508 F.2d 1052, 1056 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 825 (1975)). Indeed, he argued, "the court cites no case involving a workplace where standing was found in the absence of such a nexus." App., infra, 20a-21a.
The majority's "focus[] on * * * the videotapes in [respondent's] possession" and their relationship to respondent, Judge Kelly further observed, was misguided. App., infra, 22a. "Under the court's analysis," Judge Kelly noted, respondent "would have standing to challenge a search anywhere in the building provided the item seized was owned and controlled by him, and he had taken steps to maintain privacy. This analysis relies too heavily on [respondent's] possession of the seized videotapes when the primary question must be whether [respondent] had a legitimate expectation of privacy in the area searched." Id. at 22a-23a.
The United States filed a petition for rehearing and suggestion for rehearing en banc. The petition was denied, with five judges dissenting (Anderson, Tacha, Baldock, Ebel, and Kelly, JJ.), on December 1, 1998. App., infra, 40a-41a. That same day, this Court decided Minnesota v. Carter, 119 S. Ct. 469 (1998), another Fourth Amendment case involving the legitimate expectation of privacy inquiry and the capacity of individuals to claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment in a location with which they have a limited commercial connection.
The court of appeals held that respondent had a reasonable expectation of privacy in an empty and unused office at his employer's place of business, even though the office was not respondent's work space and he had no prior connection to it. In particular, the court of appeals concluded that respondent's expectation of privacy in that vacant office was "reasonable" because (1) the child pornography tapes that respondent was attempting to view there were his, rather than his employer's, (2) the tapes were in respondent's actual possession, and (3) respondent had taken steps to protect his privacy while he viewed the tapes. App., infra, 14a-16a. The court of appeals' decision is incorrect, improperly expands the capacity of employees to claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment in the workplace, and erroneously departs from the mode of analysis employed by other courts of appeals, and by this Court, most recently in Minnesota v. Carter, 119 S. Ct. 469 (1998).
1. Because Fourth Amendment rights "are personal" and "may not be vicariously asserted," Alderman v. United States, 394 U.S. 165, 174 (1969), a criminal defendant moving to suppress evidence on Fourth Amendment grounds "has the burden of establishing that his own Fourth Amendment rights were violated by the challenged search or seizure." Rakas v. Illinois, 439 U.S. 128, 131 n.1 (1978). Under this Court's precedents, such a defendant "must demonstrate that he personally has an expectation of privacy in the place searched, and that his expectation is reasonable; i.e., one which has a source outside of the Fourth Amendment, either by reference to concepts of real or personal property law or to understandings that are recognized and permitted by society." Minnesota v. Carter, 119 S. Ct. at 472 (internal quotation marks omitted); see also Rakas, 439 U.S. at 143 & n.12 (defendant has burden of showing (1) that he had a subjective expectation of privacy in the invaded space, and (2) that his expectation is one "that society is prepared to recognize as 'reasonable'" (quoting Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347, 361 (1967) (Harlan, J., concurring))).
Although the Fourth Amendment by its terms protects the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects"-and does not specifically mention places of employment-this Court has held that, "in some circumstances a worker" has a legitimate expectation of privacy in, and therefore "can claim Fourth Amendment protection over[,] his own workplace." Carter, 119 S. Ct. at 474. See Mancusi v. DeForte, 392 U.S. 364 (1968) (union employee had a sufficient connection to his office to challenge its warrantless search); O'Connor v. Ortega, 480 U.S. 709 (1987) (government workers may, under certain circumstances, have a legitimate expectation of privacy in their own private offices). The Court has cautioned, however, that "[a]n expectation of privacy in commercial premises * * * is different from, and indeed less than, a similar expectation in an individual's home." New York v. Burger, 482 U.S. 691, 700 (1987).
Consistent with this Court's decisions, the courts of appeals have generally held that individuals can claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment in those workplace areas with which they have a sufficient connection to give rise to a socially recognized privacy expectation, i.e., generally speaking, their own offices and work areas. See, e.g., United States v. Taketa, 923 F.2d 665, 673 (9th Cir. 1991) ("We find a privacy interest in an office reserved for one's exclusive use at a place of employment to be reasonable."); Gillard v. Schmidt, 579 F.2d 825, 828 (3d Cir. 1978) (similar). Beginning with the Fifth Circuit's decision in United States v. Britt, 508 F.2d 1052, cert. denied, 423 U.S. 825 (1975), however, the courts of appeals have in a variety of contexts rejected the notion that an employee may claim a legitimate expectation of privacy absent a sufficient "nexus" between the employee and the location searched. Id. at 1056 (defendant may not challenge admission of illegally seized corporate records absent "a demonstrated nexus between the area searched and the work space of the defendant").
For example, following Britt, the Second Circuit has held that the inquiry into whether a corporate officer has "a reasonable expectation of privacy to challenge a search of business premises" depends primarily on the extent of his "possessory or proprietary interest in the area searched," and that such an officer "must demonstrate a sufficient 'nexus between the area searched and his own work space.'" United States v. Chuang, 897 F.2d 646, 649 (quoting Britt, 508 F.2d at 1056; brackets omitted), cert. denied, 498 U.S. 824 (1990). Other courts of appeals have followed suit. See, e.g., United States v. Mohney, 949 F.2d 1397, 1404 (6th Cir. 1991) ("[I]t is hard to see how [the defendant] could have a reasonable expectation of privacy in documents he claimed to be completely uninvolved in preparing and which were kept in offices he claimed to rarely visit."), cert. denied, 504 U.S. 910 (1992); Taketa, 923 F.2d at 671 (defendant lacked sufficient connection to his co-conspirator's office, which was next to his own, to claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment there, even though he had access to that office and used it for his own illegal activities).3 As Professor LaFave has summarized:
In the absence of some other basis for showing [a legitimate expectation of privacy, such as a property interest in the area searched], it still seems necessary to establish that the place searched was rather directly connected with the defendant's employment responsibilities and activities. Thus, a corporation president has been held to have standing with respect to the seizure of corporate records from his office, but not as to the seizure of such records from a storage area where he never spent any of his time working.
5 Wayne R. LaFave, Search and Seizure § 11.3(d), at 164-165 (3d ed. 1996) (footnotes omitted).4
2. Analyzing respondent's capacity to claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment under the rubric of "standing," the court of appeals in this case criticized and chose to depart from the "nexus" approach. In particular, the court of appeals held that the "nexus" approach "does not account," App., infra, 9a-10a, for three factors that court thought significant-the defendant's "ownership" interest in evidence seized as a result of the search, id. at 10a; the defendant's immediate possession of that evidence at the time of the search, id. at 13a; and the defendant's efforts "to maintain" his or her privacy, id. at 13a-14a. The court of appeals then held that those three factors conferred on respondent the right to claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment. Respondent, the court concluded, had a legitimate expectation of privacy in the vacant office, with which he had no prior connection, because (1) the tapes respondent was attempting to view there were his, rather than his employer's, (2) the tapes were in respondent's actual possession, and (3) respondent had taken steps to protect his privacy while he viewed the tapes. Id. at 14a-16a.
Even setting aside the court of appeals' mistaken description of its inquiry as one of "standing,"5 the court's rationale for departing from the approach taken by the other courts of appeals and this Court is unsound. Whether or not a defendant has the "reasonable expectation of privacy" necessary to claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment in a location depends generally on the nature and extent of the defendant's connection to that location, and specifically on whether that connection is sufficient to give rise to a privacy expectation that society shares and respects. Neither the fact that respondent owned and possessed the tapes he carried into the room, nor his attempt to conceal his presence there, sufficiently enhances the nature of respondent's relationship to that otherwise vacant and unused office to give rise to an expectation of privacy reflected in the "understandings that are recognized and permitted by society." Carter, 119 S. Ct. at 472.
As Judge Kelly explained in dissent, the mere fact that the videotapes that respondent was attempting to view were his own, not his employer's, "does not mean that we can overlook the nature of the area searched." App., infra, 21a; see also id. at 20a-21a (Kelly, J., dissenting) ("It is telling that the court cites no other case involving a workplace where standing was found in the absence of such a nexus.").6 Respondent also presumably owned and possessed the clothes he was wearing, and the wallet that he had in his pocket. Yet no one contends that his ownership and possession of those items adds any weight to the contention that society would treat his claim to privacy in an otherwise vacant office as reasonable. There is no reason why respondent's ownership and possession of the tapes from which he was attempting to view child pornography should be treated differently.7 Thus, while respondent may have had a protected privacy expectation with respect to private property and personal effects that were on his person, hidden from public view (e.g., the contents of his wallet), that expectation of privacy does not permit him to object to entries into all rooms or offices in which he, together with those items, happens to be present.
To the contrary, when considering property interests in this context, the proper focus is on the defendant's relationship to the searched location, because "one who owns or lawfully possesses or controls [that] property will in all likelihood have a legitimate expectation of privacy by virtue of th[e] right to exclude" others from that location.8 Rakas, 439 U.S. at 144 n.12. Legal ownership and possession of personal property that the defendant carries into the area searched, however, does not by itself create a similar right or a similar privacy expectation. See Rawlings v. Kentucky, 448 U.S. 98, 106 (1980) (ownership of drugs found in a purse does not give rise to legitimate expectation of privacy in purse that the defendant neither owned nor controlled). As a result, the fact that respondent owned and possessed the tapes he transported into the vacant office with which he had no prior connection does not establish a socially recognized privacy expectation, any more than it would if respondent had carried those same objects into a hallway closet, the hallway itself, or into a public street.9
The Tenth Circuit likewise erred in focusing on respondent's efforts to protect his privacy. App., infra, 15a. Those efforts may show a subjective expectation of privacy, and absent such efforts, unaided observation without entry might not constitute a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. See Katz, 389 U.S. at 351 ("What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection."); California v. Greenwood, 486 U.S. 35, 41 (1988) (same); United States v. Dunn, 480 U.S. 294, 303-304 (1987) (no unconstitutional search where officers viewed area from "the open fields" or "a public place", even if the area they viewed "could not be entered * * * without a warrant"). But efforts to maintain privacy in an area with which the defendant lacks the appropriate connection-be it a public thoroughfare, the home of another, or (as here) a vacant and otherwise unused office-cannot give the defendant a personal and reasonable privacy expectation where it otherwise would be lacking. See New York v. Class, 475 U.S. 106, 114 (1986) ("[E]fforts to restrict access to an area do not generate a reasonable expectation of privacy where none would otherwise exist."); App., infra, 24a (Kelly, J., dissenting) ("The steps [respondent] took to ensure privacy may be consistent with a subjective expectation of privacy, but that is not enough, no matter how earnestly the steps were taken."). Indeed, in Carter, 119 S. Ct. at 471, this Court held that the defendants lacked the capacity to claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment in an apartment in which they were temporary business visitors, even though they had taken the precaution of drawing the window blinds to prevent observation. See also note 10, infra.
3. The court of appeals' decision in this case is particularly difficult to reconcile with the reasoning of this Court's most recent reasonable-expectation-of-privacy decision, Minnesota v. Carter, supra, which was decided the same day the court of appeals denied rehearing en banc in this case. In Carter, this Court held that the defendants, who were present in someone else's home for two-and-one-half hours for the sole business purpose of packaging narcotics, did not have a legitimate expectation of privacy there. Notably, this Court did not accord legal significance to any of the factors the court of appeals found to be dispositive here. In Carter, the defendants owned the drugs they were packaging, just as respondent here owned the child pornography tape he was attempting to view. See 119 S. Ct. at 471-472. In Carter, the defendants had the drugs in their immediate possession, just as respondent here had the child pornography tape in his immediate possession. See id. at 471. And, in Carter, the defendants had taken precautions to preserve their privacy, lowering the blinds, much as respondent did here. Ibid.10 Yet none of those factors played any role in the Court's analysis.
To the contrary, the Court in Carter relied on precisely the mode of analysis that the court of appeals held insufficient in this case: it looked exclusively to the relationship between the defendants and the invaded space. In particular, the Court concluded that the defendants in Carter lacked a legitimate expectation of privacy in the apartment because they were present there for just two-and-one-half hours, a relatively brief period of time; because they had no prior relationship to the apartment's lessee, and thus were not in any sense treated as members of the household; and because their relationship to the apartment was strictly commercial in nature, as they were using it to package narcotics. See 119 S. Ct. at 473-474. Moreover, rejecting any analogy between the apartment and a private workplace office in which the defendants might have been able to claim a privacy expectation, see O'Connor v. Ortega, supra, the Court noted that "there is no indication that [defendants] in this case had nearly as significant a connection to [the] apartment as the worker in O'Connor had to his own private office." 119 S. Ct. at 474.
A comparable analysis applies here as well. Respondent was in the vacant office not a matter of hours, like the defendants in Carter, but rather a matter of minutes; he had absolutely no prior connection to that office; and the entire workplace, including the vacant office in which respondent was discovered, was a commercial premise that did not function as a "home." App., infra, 2a, 8a n.1, 27a & n.1. Moreover, here, as in Carter, "there is no indication that [respondent] had nearly as significant a connection to [the vacant and unused office where he was found] as the worker in O'Connor had to his own private office." 119 S. Ct. at 474. If the defendants' connection with the apartment in Carter can be described as "fleeting and insubstantial," id. at 479 (Kennedy, J., concurring), respondent's connection with the vacant office in which he was found was virtually "nonexistent." App., infra, 20a (Kelly, J., dissenting). Other than mere presence for the illegitimate purpose of viewing child pornography, respondent had no connection to the vacant office at all. For that reason, the court of appeals' decision also comes perilously close to reviving in the workplace context the "legitimately on premises" standard that this Court rejected in Rakas over two decades ago. See 439 U.S. at 141-143.
4. The improper analysis that the court of appeals conducted in finding a violation of respondent's Fourth Amendment rights warrants this Court's attention. The court of appeals' decision not only parts company with the mode of analysis employed by this Court and other courts of appeals, which generally looks to whether the search occurred in the employee's own workspace, but also introduces unnecessary uncertainty into this area of law and improperly expands the Fourth Amendment's protections in the workplace- potentially to any employee who enters a room at his place of employment with possessions in hand and shuts the door behind him. App., infra, 22a (Kelly, J., dissenting). Such an overbroad response to a Fourth Amendment violation impedes "the search for truth at trial" by depriving the trier of fact of "[r]elevant and reliable evidence." Rakas, 439 U.S. at 137. Indeed, in this very case, the Tenth Circuit's decision will (if not reversed) require the jury to decide the issue of guilt without ever learning that respondent was caught attempting to view the child pornography tapes that were delivered to him; without the benefit of the evidence discovered in respondent's office after he consented to its search; and without any knowledge of respondent's confession of involvement in child pornography.
Because the court of appeals' decision departs from the mode of analysis employed by this Court and other courts of appeals, and because it undermines predictability in this area of law and the truthfinding mission of trial, it ordinarily would warrant this Court's plenary review. As noted above, however, the panel that decided this case issued its decision months before this Court announced its most recent decision in the reasonable expectation of privacy area, Minnesota v. Carter, supra, and the court of appeals as a whole denied rehearing en banc, with five judges dissenting, on the same day Carter was decided. The court of appeals thus has not had the opportunity to examine this case in light of this Court's analysis in Carter. This Court may wish to give it the opportunity to do so before granting plenary review. Accordingly, it would be appropriate for the Court to grant the petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of the Court's decision in Carter. In the alternative, the petition should be granted and the case set for argument.
For the foregoing reasons, the petition for a writ of certiorari should be granted, the judgment of the court of appeals vacated, and the case remanded for further consideration in light of the Court's decision in Carter. Alternatively, the petition should be granted.
Respectfully submitted.
Solicitor General
Assistant Attorney General
Deputy Solicitor General
Assistant to the Solicitor General
1 "Tr." refers to the transcript of the hearing conducted by the district court.
2 The government also argued that the entries into the building and the vacant office did not violate the Fourth Amendment at all, because they were justified by exigent circumstances. The district court rejected that argument. App., infra, 31a-33a.
3 These cases have arisen in contexts that in some respects differ from the facts here. In Chuang, 897 F.2d at 650, for example, the defendant owned almost half of the bank that was searched, but the records that were searched were "subject to periodic examination" by bank regulators in any event; and in Taketa, 923 F.2d at 671, the defendant was not inside (and had no personal possessions in) the searched office at the time of the search. Nonetheless, the starting point for each of the cases was the same. In each, the court recognized the need for the defendant to establish a sufficient connection or nexus between himself and the area searched to give rise to an expectation of privacy that society is prepared to treat as reasonable, and concluded that, in the workplace environment, that expectation ordinarily is limited to an employee's usual office or work area. See, e.g., Chuang, 897 F.2d at 649; Taketa, 923 F.2d at 671.
4 See also Tobias v. State, 479 N.E.2d 508, 510 (Ind. 1985) (following Britt and holding that the defendant, who worked in his father's pharmacy, had not established the necessary "nexus" with a pharmacy bathroom that he visited solely "for the purpose of making the instant drug transactions"); People v. Johnson, 209 A.D.2d 721, 721, 619 N.Y.S.2d 154, 155 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994) (defendant lacked sufficient connection to basement in her workplace to show a reasonable expectation of privacy where "her only connection with [the basement] was her occasional use of the bathroom").
5 This Court repeatedly has explained that a defendant's capacity to seek the suppression of evidence based on an asserted violation of the Fourth Amendment is not a question of standing but rather is properly viewed as a question of substantive Fourth Amendment law. See Carter, 119 S. Ct. at 472 (state court improperly addressed the question "under the rubric of 'standing' doctrine, an analysis which this Court expressly rejected 20 years ago in Rakas, 439 U.S., at 139-140[.] * * * Central to our analysis was the idea that in determining whether a defendant is able to show the violation of his (and not someone else's) Fourth Amendment rights, the 'definition of those rights is more properly placed within the purview of substantive Fourth Amendment law than within that of standing.'") (quoting Rakas, 439 U.S. at 140).
6 The majority's contention (App., infra, 10a n.2) that United States v. Mancini, 8 F.3d 104 (1st Cir. 1993), supports its decision is incorrect. In that case, the court of appeals considered whether the defendant, the Mayor of North Providence, Rhode Island, had a "privacy interest in a box in the archive attic" where the Mayor's papers were regularly stored. See 8 F.3d at 109. Because that area was regularly used to store the defendant's possessions throughout his 19-year tenure as Mayor, the defendant's possessions were clearly labeled and segregated from the other materials stored there, and no one was permitted to look into the defendant's files without the defendant's permission, id. at 110, the court concluded that the defendant had established a sufficient nexus between himself and the area searched to support a reasonable expectation of privacy.
7 The majority's focus on respondent's possessory or property interest in the items seized also appears to confuse the privacy interests protected by the Fourth Amendment's bar on unreasonable searches with the possessory interests protected by that Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable seizures. To the extent respondent merely challenges the entry into the room in which he was found, the question is whether that search violated a protected privacy interest personal to respondent. The fact that respondent possessed his tapes when entry was made does not bear on his privacy expectation (if any) in the room. To the extent respondent challenges the seizure of the tapes once the police made entry, his possessory and ownership interests in the tapes are relevant. See Soldal v. Cook County, 506 U.S. 56, 61 (1992). But if entry into the vacant room and respondent's arrest did not violate his rights, the seizure of the tapes was undeniably proper as incident to respondent's arrest.
8 In a footnote, the court of appeals suggested that respondent had the right or power to exclude entrants from the vacant office. App., infra, 15a n.3. But the court gave no source of authority for that suggestion, which is entirely unsupported by the record, and which does not support the result in this case in any event. A security guard might have authority or power to exclude others from a building, but it does not necessarily follow that he has a reasonable expectation of privacy in every room and office in the building.
9 The distinction between ownership of the invaded place and ownership of the evidence discovered through the invasion also explains why the court of appeals' reliance (App., infra, 12a) on the plurality opinion in O'Connor v. Ortega, 480 U.S. 709 (1987), is misplaced. In O'Connor, the plurality did note that employees do not necessarily lose their expectation of privacy with respect to the contents of closed luggage, handbags, or briefcases when they bring those items to the office; but it also noted that the employees' expectation of privacy in the outward appearance of those items might be affected by bringing them into the employer's place of business. 480 U.S. at 716. The plurality's analysis thus is consistent with focusing the inquiry on where, within a business, a search takes place, and in rejecting the view that simple possession of personal property creates an expectation of privacy everywhere in the workplace.
10 The defendants in Carter ultimately were not entirely successful in preserving their privacy, as a "gap" in the blinds permitted an officer, standing one to one-and-one half feet from the window, to see inside. See 119 S. Ct. at 471; id. at 480 (Breyer, J., concurring). Nonetheless, neither the defendants' effort to preserve their privacy, nor their lack of success, figured into the majority's analysis.


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Hi everyone it is time for my Satuday post for
I used Pixie Stamp "Peanut the Elephant"
I made this fun Birthday Card for my cousins son Bradlee. He has Autism but love bright colors and animals. So here is his card.
This one is with the fence open.
This is the inside.
I colored my beautiful elephant with colored pencils and markers. The fence part was cut from my Everyday People Cartridge from Circut. I just score it at half inch and glued down the edge. The bottom is cut with a border punch folded under the fence and decorated with circus stickers. The inside is also decorated with circus stickers, along with the sentiment.
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Choosing between psychic readers can be a difficult task, and particularly if you don't know much about psychic reading or how it is carried out. However as this person is going to be talking to you about potentially private matters in your life, it is very important that you consider carefully who you are going to use for this process. It is paramount that you feel comfortable and at ease with your psychic reader so that you are happy for them to tell you your fortune and so that you can be completely honest and open with them.
There are several ways to go about picking your psychic. First of all, you should make sure to do thorough research into the psychics available. If you search for a local psychic in your area, then you will no doubt find that a lot of different results come up on Google. This is good news as it allows you to painlessly browse through your options and compare them.
When you do this look at the websites of the various psychics and compare what you can. On the one hand, which ones are nearest and which ones are the most affordable? These practical matters will of course factor into your decision so make sure that you make life as easy for yourself as possible.
Next you should look at the actual content of the site and whether you like what you see. You will be able to garner something about the personality of the psychic by reading what they've written on the page, so decide if you like the sounds of what they have to say. You should also look at how well designed and professional looking the site is, which can often be a good reflection on how professional the psychic is as well.
You also need to decide precisely what it is that you are looking for and what kind of reading you want. Bear in mind that different psychics use different methods to tell their fortunes, and these might appeal to you or not. For instance you might choose to have your palm read which will involve having the lines on your hand assessed in the context of what you're going through in your life at the moment. Meanwhile you can also choose to have a fortune told using tea leafs, or using Tаrоt cards. Each has strengths and weaknesses and each will be better suited to different occasions and different people. Some psychics offer a number of these different techniques, while others will focus on just the one.
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By: Christian Okolski
A few days ago, the office of Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard announced the beginnings of the city's "Freedom Fleet" and the upcoming deployment of 425 new electric vehicles. As the Indianapolis Star reported, those 425 plug-in hybrids and fully electric cars are expected to replace more than 500 internal combustion engine vehicles that currently make up the city's non-police fleet by 2016. That switch from gasoline to electric power is expected to reduce fuel consumption by an incredible 2.2 million gallons of gasoline and save $1,600 per electric vehicle each year. Ultimately, Indy's electric vehicle support is among the strongest in the Country, and the city is utilizing an innovative financing scheme to make its plug-in vehicle dream a reality.
Indianapolis' innovative push for electric cars is certainly music to the ears of electric vehicle enthusiasts, but it may not be a huge surprise. Back in December 2012, NBC News revealed Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard's executive order to replace nearly 500 gas-powered, non-police city vehicles with electric cars. At that time, Ballard also announced his goal to turn over the city's entire gasoline fleet with plug-in electric vehicles by 2025. Moreover, Indianapolis is home to BlueIndy, the Country's only all-electric car-share program, which was launched this past May, as this blog reported. The motivation behind Mayor Ballard's passionate support of electric vehicles stems from his experience as a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer and Gulf War veteran. Back in 2012 and amidst the city's latest announcement, Ballard clearly stated his mission to reduce the consumption of foreign oil and support U.S. energy independence through electric vehicles.
Indianapolis' fleet currently uses only 21 plug-in electric cars, such as the Chevrolet Volt, Ford Fusion Energi, and Nissan LEAF, but that number will grow to 100 by year's end, and 325 more will be deployed in 2015 to reach a total of 425 plug-ins by 2016. For perspective, New York City's fleet has operated roughly 300 electric cars as of this past July, according to the NYC Department of Transportation. However, New York is nearly ten times the size of Indianapolis. Therefore, if Indy's electric car fleet can catch up to or even surpass that of New York with 425 plug-in cars by the end of 2015, it could have a far more impressive electric vehicle fleet per capita. Cities across the country, such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, and others are supporting electric vehicles in various ways. They are helping to build out charging infrastructure, provide charging station incentives, and offer electric vehicle purchase rebates, but Indianapolis is taking the most proactive approach by deploying the vehicles itself. Simply put, no other city in the U.S. is directly placing electric cars on the roads like Indianapolis is.
Like most "green" technologies, electric vehicles save money over time but require a large, sometimes prohibitive, upfront investment. Therefore, to make its deployment of 425 electric vehicles in just over one year financially feasible, Indianapolis' Department of Public Works signed a contract with Vision Fleet, an electric vehicle financing startup based in Los Angeles. As reported by the Indianapolis Business Journal, the contract is a $32 million, 7-year deal that will bring economic returns to each party in the long term. What Vision Fleet provides is very similar to what solar leasing companies offer. Vision will buy and own the electric vehicles but rent them to the city, so Indy does not have to pay the high purchase price for the cars. In addition, Vision will provide maintenance on the vehicles as well as fleet management, so that the city can use fewer cars more efficiently and save money.
At the end of the day, Vision will make more money on the city's rental payments than the electric cars, maintenance, and management costs, and Indianapolis will get quiet, clean electric cars without having to pay a large upfront cost. In fact, Indy will pay less to rent and operate the electric vehicles than what they would spend to own gasoline vehicles. The deal between Indy and Vision Fleet could be the beginning of a revolution in the way electric vehicles are purchased, similar to how SolarCity helped create a solar panel boom with smart financing that leverages future energy savings to eliminate upfront costs. If all goes well in Indianapolis, Vision Fleet may be renting electric cars to fleets across the Country, and perhaps the globe.
Indianapolis may not grab daily news headlines like larger cities such as New York, but when it comes to embracing electric cars and sustainable transportation, the Midwestern city deserves the world's attention. Indianapolis is not only leading the charge for electric vehicle adoption but also embracing an innovative financing system that could significantly boost future deployment of all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in cities across the U.S. and perhaps the world one day. For the time being, however, 425 new electric cars is good news for the ears, lungs, and wallets of Indianapolis residents.


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There are five important strategies for building reading skills that include modeling fluent reading, repeating reading sections, promoting phrased reading, enlisting tutors and using reading performance in public. These strategies all improve reading comprehension, which is the goal of building reading skills.
A powerful way to help a child build skills is to model what reading should sound like by reading to them regularly. Varying the types of literature that are read sparks the child's interests and imagination. At the end of the session, the child discusses what made the reader a good or bad narrator.
Next, a short reading section, such as a poem or paragraph, is chosen that can be read repeatedly. This encourages readers to acknowledge any phrasing problems, misunderstood words or sounds, and correct them. This method helps build confidence and increases the reading rate of a child.
Fluent reading involves reading phrases seamlessly, not just words. Children can be taught phrase reading by using poetry. The child can read the poem line by line to help them comprehend how phrases should sound when read.
Enlisting the help of a tutor can reinforce the strategies the children are learning. Tutors can read selections with children simultaneously and offer feedback for issues the child might have or praise them when they do well. Another strategy is to have the child perform a script aloud in front of others. The script is provided beforehand and practiced with multiple people before the child gives the performance.


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With "God Jesus Photo Frames", you can:1.Select a photo from the gallery or take photos using the phone's camera.2.Wide range of styles and different templates for any picture.3.Colorful and high quality HD frames.4.Wide variety of styles and different frames for any photo.5.Simple User Interface6.Supports both Smartphones & Tablet Devices7. Scale, zoom and move your gallery picture for a perfect fit within the template.8.Apply amazing image effects to your pictures: boost, brightness, color, contrast, emboss, engrave, flea, gaussian, gamma, gryscale, sharpen, sepia, hue, invert, saturation and many others.
After you're done editing the photos you can store images to your phone or share that image to multiple social networking sites.


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Envac corporate web: www.envacgroup.com
An Envac MiniVac Kitchen system is installed for handling the food waste in the amusement park.
Four of the larger restaurants in the park are connected to the system.
The food waste is transported underground in stainless pipes from each inlet bench to the storage tank in the terminal room. This room is placed underground at the entrance of the park. The longest suction distance from inlet bench to terminal is approx. 170 meters.
The volume of the storage tank is 10m3. It is emptied approx. every seventh week by a standard suction vehicle and the slurry is taken to a biogas plant.
1) This provides a great reduction of waste transports in the area. The staff do not have, as they used before, to transport heavy sacks of waste to a container far away from the restaurant.
2) The system also provides a much higher hygiene in working areas inside the restaurants. In this sealed system it takes away the risk for contamination when crossing a clean area inside the kitchen/dishing area with food waste.
3) It also creates a much cleaner waste handling in total in the central waste station.
The system was installed in the later part of 2006 and the first part of 2007.
Visitors during the peak season is approximately 3.000 per day per restaurant.


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Cooked overnight, these ribs are sure to bring a rich flavor.
5 pieces boned and trimmed beef shor ribs 10-12 oz each (283-340 g.)
4 medium onions sliced
2 T. (30 ml) brown sugar
1 t. (5 ml) chili powder
1/2 t. (3 ml) salt
1 t. (5 ml) cajun spice
2 C. (473 ml) dark ale
1/2 C. (118 ml) demi glaze
1 bay leaf
2 branches fresh thyme
Mix dry seasonings together, rub into meat
Place 1/2 the onions in the bottom of a 1/2 hotel pan with the thyme and bay leaf. Arrange the beef on top of the onions. Add the demi glaze and beer.
Top with the sliced onions. Cover loosely with plastic wrap
Soak your choice of wood chips in beer.
Preheat Cook & Hold Smoker 250 F. (121 C.) set hold for 160 F. (71 C.) cook for 4 hours, smoke for 1 hour.
Serve with mashed potatoes.


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Well I thought this was supposed to be the season of peace on earth and goodwill to all men and so on. Seems the love has failed to reach the upper echelons of Welsh politics in the past few days.
First we had Conservative Secretary of State for Wales Cheryl Gillan launching what the press described as a 'blistering attack' on Carwyn Jones, accusing him of undermining the union and seeking to run a separate foreign policy. A 'Welsh Labour spokesman' i.e. the duty press officer came back with all guns blazing
"Cheryl Gillan's Conservative Home article is a textbook example of Tory political double-think, with deceitful inference built upon factual inaccuracy, until the whole thing collapses in on itself under the weight of contrived soundbite. While the anti-European, cuts obsessed readers of Conservative Home might approve, a wider audience will see it for what it is – a desperate yelp for attention from an impotent Secretary of State who knows the horrors her UK Government are unleashing on the people of Wales."
Nice one to be fair, obviously a take no prisoners attitude there..
Then we had Plaid's Dafydd Elis Thomas wading in with an attack on Cheryl Gillan over her attack on Carwyn Jones.
Lord Elis Thomas said: "Secretary of State Cheryl Gillan is inhabiting a fantasy world if she thinks First Minister Carwyn Jones in strengthening relations with other European nations and regions is pursing 'his own foreign policy'It's all good fun isn't it? Although I am not sure how thrilled Carwyn will be at receiving support from the former PO.
Of course here in RCT we are used to politics being of a more cut and thrust nature. RCT Welsh Liberal Democrats have long since adopted a 'fix bayonets and charge' approach in the way we operate. Well when you are dealing with a Labour party who think they have the divine right to rule and exhibit an arrogance that is breathtaking it is the only way to proceed.
A Labour party who like to get their own way at any cost, whose dirty tricks include a long string of complaints to the Ombudsman, none of which have been upheld, and of course the 'harassment' charge which one of their members levelled at Mike prior to the Assembly election.
It does not always help the overall democratic process of course, to have politicians battling it out in public to such an extent, but the alternative is to sit back and take it – and that is something some of us just can't do.
Besides which politics needs to be more passionate, it needs to bring out an emotional response in people, it needs to make them care enough to get off their backsides and vote. There is a long history of table thumping bar room politics in the Valleys and I for one hope it continues.