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Prestigious Fellowship Enables New Grad to Serve Veterans
While Ely Grinvald '12 was a student at Southwestern, he immersed himself in a variety of public interest activities. From the first day he volunteered at Public Counsel, he knew that this was exactly where he wanted to work after graduation. Becoming an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow has allowed him to do this.
As a Fellow, he works at Public Counsel's Center for Veterans Advancement (CVA). When he was a student, he spent three semesters as a volunteer for Public Counsel, two with the Consumer Law Project and one with the CVA. In this position, he advocates for and assists homeless and low income veterans with legal issues, ranging from tickets and warrants to consumer, tax and family law matters. CVA is a project of Public Counsel, the nation's largest pro bono law firm. The CVA is a national leader in veteran's advocacy, and provides direct representation, or representation through pro bono partners, to veterans and their families.
"This is my dream job," Grinvald said. "My clients are veterans. Most are homeless; there's no way they can afford an attorney. CVA has a close partnership with the Los Angeles County Bar Association, so I can also place clients with pro bono attorneys in order to help more veterans."
Grinvald, who was born in Russia and immigrated to the United States in the late 1990s, had actually worked for an estate planning firm before attending Southwestern. He considered pursuing that area of law, but once he became immersed in his legal studies, he delved into public interest activities, and realized that is where he needed to serve. He participated in Southwestern's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, served as a summer clerk at Bet Tzedek in 2011 (where his fluency in Russian and German came in handy when representing clients) and participated in the Children's Rights Clinic during his final semester.
"Southwestern's Children's Rights Clinic was one of the best experiences I had in law school," he said. "It was the best preparation you could imagine for what I'm doing. You have your own case load, your own clients. There's careful supervision, but you are responsible to help your clients. You learn about how to respond to and deal with opposing counsel and documentation. Professors Waterstone and Fee are amazing."
When Grinvald learned that Public Counsel is a host organization that regularly hires AmeriCorps Fellows, he applied. He interviewed for the fellowship one week before he took the bar exam. He was offered the job the next day.
He credits his Public Counsel/CVA supervisor Rick Little with mentoring him during his tenure as a volunteer. "He has been teaching me how to think like a lawyer ever since we met," Grinvald explained. "There are so many different legal issues that come up, so many fields of law, and I'm just out of law school. His guidance has been vital."
The Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellowship is a specific fellowship available to lawyers, typically those who are recent law school graduates. The mission of Equal Justice Works is to create a just society by mobilizing the next generation of lawyers committed to equal justice. The program provides leadership to ensure a sustainable pipeline of talented and trained lawyers are involved in public service. Equal Justice Works provides a continuum of programs that begin with incoming law school students and extend into later careers in the profession. It sponsors the nation's leading public interest law fellowship program and offers more postgraduate, full-time legal positions in public service than any other organization.
Grinvald has great passion for his work and hopes to become a full-time staff attorney at CVA at the conclusion of his fellowship, which will last one or two years. "I know that what I do will actually help someone," he said. "It will remove a barrier to employment or to housing. I work on helping people take their first steps to becoming self-sufficient and living a good life. This is the kind of work I want to do."

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Gold Prices Take a Turn, Gold ETFs Stumble
Gold-backed exchange-traded funds fell Wednesday as gold prices took a turn, ending a two-day winning streak after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. central bank is still expected to start scaling back its stimulus later this year, but left open the option of changing that plan.
U.S. gold futures for August delivery declined 0.67% to $1,282/oz in early afternoon trading.
Gold hit a three-week high of $1,298.36 on Thursday last week but has repeatedly failed to breach the $1,300 level. Physical demand has also retreated as prices have bounced off recent lows.
Buying interest from China has been subdued over the last few days. Outflows from gold-backed exchange-traded funds, which issue securities backed by physical bullion, continued yesterday when the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) reported a 1.5 tonne drop in its holdings. That brings the fund's outflows for its overall holdings to a four-and-a-half year low.
The SPDR Gold Trust fell 1.4% to $123.12. iShares Gold Trust (IAU) fell 1.4% to $12.38. Sprott Physical Gold Trust (PHYS) fell 1.2% to $10.63.
Meanwhile, ETFs linked to gold miners suffered even sharper declines. Market Vectors ETF Trust Market Vectors (GDX) fell 2.8% to $25.04 and Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) fell a similar degree to $38.
Silver prices fell today as well. The iShares Silver Trust (SLV) dropped 3.3% to $18.699.
Yet ETFs linked to other precious metals fared better. The ETFS Physical Platinum Shares (PPLT) rose 1.4% to $137.42, and the ETFS Physical Palladium Shares (PALL) stayed almost unchanged at $71.97.


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APCNews – November 13 2008 - Year IX Issue 91
APCNews – November 13 2008 – Year IX Issue 91
The news service on ICTs for social justice and sustainable development
A report announced in the last APCNews questioning the enthusiasm of investors for mobile phones rather than computer-based internet access in rural Africa generated a real buzz. Is the falling-away of interest in telecentres valid? Or are telecentres in remote areas an idea that was before its time? We won't be able to find out from the evidence, concludes a new report from the BCO, because compared to other development fields, most experience in ICT4D is recent and many initiatives – such as rural telecentres – have been experimental pilots. The BCO alliance, a network of ICT4D funders and NGOs including APC, believes that at this stage of play, impact assessment can't be about "proving the case" for ICTs but about understanding how they can be most effectively deployed.
Assessing the impact of information on development: New study from the BCO
LONDON (David Souter for Building Communications Opportunities Alliance) – Almost everyone agrees that information and communication technologies (ICTs) can make a substantial difference to the poor. However, the evidence base is still weak. A new study – carried out by key donor and non-governmental organisation (NGO) actors in the sector – summarised in this briefing looks at the reasons why the evidence base is not as strong as in other development sectors and makes recommendations for firming things up.
Download the briefing (16 pages)
English: http://www.bcoalliance.org/system/files/BCO_Synthesis_web_EN.pdf
French: http://www.bcoalliance.org/system/files/BCO_Synthesis_web_FR.pdf
Spanish: http://www.bcoalliance.org/system/files/BCO_Synthesis_web_ES.pdf
Download the full study (195 pages)
Feminist mix with a tech fix: Huge tech exchange in South Africa begins
MONTEVIDEO (LC for APCNews) – How can feminists use technology to their advantage? On November 10, the first-ever Feminist Tech eXchange (FTX) in Cape Town brought together more than 100 activists from around the globe to address this type of question. Organised by the APC women's programme in the run up to the massive women's movement forum AWID, the capacity-building and information-exchange event explored various technologies such as video, audio, social networking platforms and other emerging ICT tools. The event acted as an open space to network, share knowledge, and learn new skills and strategies for how to make technology work best for the women's movement.
Connecting gender, agriculture and the information society: GenARDIS kick-off workshop
MONTEVIDEO (AL for APC) – Seven women and thirteen men from Anglophone and Francophone Africa and the Caribbean met during the last days of September in Gorée Island, Senegal. They have many things in common, but one in particular is their ability to make innovative connections in gender, agriculture and information and communication technologies (ICTs). This ability has led them to be finalists of the Gender, Agricultural and Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS) small grants fund.
Internet is too competitive for women artisans
MONTEVIDEO (AL for APC) – Are there limits to how the internet can be used to improve the lives of women? A study by ArabDev in Egypt concluded that the internet is too competitive a marketplace to be a realistic showcase for women artisans but it can be used to generate new handicraft ideas that can be marketed locally. In the Philippines, WomensHub is using the internet to document and report incidences of violence with the intention of evaluating if the needs of survivors are properly being addressed.
Putting ICTs to work for Egyptian women
Violence against women documentation and reporting system from the Philippines
Accessibility? Training in South Africa and web standards in Croatia
MONTEVIDEO (AL for APC) APC members have been preaching the importance of bundling capacity building with any technology project for a long time. Last year, Ungana-Afrika demonstrated the value of this approach with their work in rural South Africa with under-resourced paralegal advice offices just getting connected to the internet for the first time. And in Croatia, ZaMirNET has been working with the government to make their websites accessible to all.
Making e-governments accessible in Croatia:
Connecting South African rural paralegal advice offices
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Pro-poor internet access kit
Ten years of dedication
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Coeducation and sex-blind admissions is topic, Oct. 21
Posted October 18, 2004; 05:21 p.m.
A lecture on "The Origins of Coeducation at Princeton, and the Battle for Sex-Blind Admissions" will be presented at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in 16 Robertson Hall.
The speaker will be Jerome Karabel, a senior fellow at the Rockridge Institute and professor of sociology at the University of California-Berkeley. His new book, "The Chosen: Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale and Princeton, 1900 to Today," is scheduled to be published by Houghton Mifflin next fall. His recent piece, "The Legacy of Legacies," which addressed legacy admissions, was published as an op-ed column in the Sept.13, 2004, New York Times.
Since the early 1970s, Karabel has had a special interest in the social consequences of policies of university admissions. In 1989, he chaired the Admissions and Enrollment Committee of the Academic Senate of the University of California-Berkeley and wrote the report, "Freshman Admissions at Berkeley: A Policy for the 1990s and Beyond." His research on college admissions has appeared in several scholarly journals. Currently, he is the co-director (with Troy Duster) of a multi-year grant from the Ford Foundation on the effects of the end of affirmative action on the University of California.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Sociology .
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I'm having a hard time with this one.....Seems like the way to a monarchy. And the way it was stated, multiple times lately, by POTUS was somewhat disturbing. My democratic relative then sent me to this link: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order
And I saw how many EO's have been signed and by whom. Regardless as to which side issues them, it still doesn't seem right to circumvent the system.
Anyone have more knowledge of how this works and how it 'shouldn't' be seen as a move towards fifedom? Or maybe it's fine....
The pen comment has really been bothering me. Maybe he's justfied because Congress can't get their acts together?
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Here's a delicious twist on the classic olive tapenade from Provence. This recipe would also be good with toasted pine nuts in place of walnuts. If there's any leftover tapenade, serve it with chicken, pork, or lamb.
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This is delicious! I'm a wine educator and I give wine courses and people hire me for parties in their home to pair wines with the foods and give some fun tips. I had this at one of those home parties. I paired it with a French Vouvray and it was outstanding! They were perfect together. It needs to be French and not a Chenin Blanc from another region and it should have a little Residual Sugar,which will disappear on the tongue when paired with this app.
This is excellent. I served it with whole-grain baguette toasts as a side dish to roast pork shoulder w/ carrots and onions, arugula-onion-caramelized walnut-salad w/ balsamic vinaigrette, and white bean & roasted garlic dip (also w/ the toasts). Great comfort food on a cold night.
used the ingredients as a jumping-off point; made crostini by brushing bread slices with melted butter. next layer was the tapenade/fig mixture, then chopped walnuts, then dabs of the goat cheese,(crumbled gorgonzola works great, too) then drizzled a bit more butter over each & baked at 425 degrees for 10-15 minutes. They disappeared within 5 minutes of serving
I knew this would be yummy. I KNEW it. It is so yummy!
Based on the advice of one of my foodie obsessed friends, I made this as an appetizer for an autum-themed meal. It was simple to make and it was easy to assemble for guests, but I was disappointed, especially after reading these great reviews...I just didn't think it was that great. In theory it sounds like it should be fantastic, but I agree with another one of the reviewers that it was just sort of...blah. I do love figs and goat cheese together, but next time I would go with my old stand-by of proscuitto "horns" with goat cheese, fig jam and arugula.
I have made this every year for Thanksgiving for the past 10 years. My guests from out of town call ahead to request it and it is always the first appetizer to disappear.I make it exactly as written which is very unusual for me. Definitely get a quality goat cheese.
This recipe is just outrageously good, especially at an autumn cocktail or dinner party. The photo makes it look quite loose, which may make it hard to "scoop" onto a round along with goat cheese. I usually make this with mission figs, which I prefer, and give all ingredients except walnuts a rough puree, then add well-chopped walnuts at the end. I can't tell you how many people have asked for this recipe-- four forks!
This recipe is simply one of the best! I have had it with the capers, but often find myself leaving them out because I don't have them in the house. Doesn't seem to harm the appeal of this tasty little dish. It is always finished to the last crumb and EVERYONE wants the recipe. I typically don't slice the goat cheese. Instead I place two small logs side by side in the center of a dish and pour the tapenade over it. Garnish with walnuts and thyme and place crackers around. Use spreaders to break apart the cheese and spread on crackers. Absolutely delicious!
great sweet-salty flavor. we almost always have some of this tapanade on hand. easy appetizer when unexpected company stops by.
I served this with homemade french bread and it was delicious. My husband practically fell into the bowl of it, and then asked me to take it away before he ruined his dinner by eating the whole thing. I made it the day before and added the nuts at the last minute so they wouldn't lose their crunch. Will definitely make it again.


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A buddy gave me TFPrime Weaponizers Optimus Prime for my birthday (we share a birthdate, so I gave him TFP Rumble, they were both liquidator pickups, and I bought him lunch). Weaponizers OP is decent, but very backpack-laden, and his legs cheap out too much. I don't understand Hasbro here, yes they kept the Leader Class size without its pricepoint, and they put in a fun gimmick, but they also put in this pointless light that shines into the hollow behind his chest windows (I made better use of the 2 A76 batteries) and they skimped on the sword, and all they needed in robot mode to make this a fan favorite as well as a kiddie fav is panels to close up those legs in both modes. Honestly, I find Hasbro's recent choices baffling, it's a good sculpt, it's clever, it's fun, so naturally they skinflint it into liquidation. At $15 though, still an easy recommend.
LMK how that audio thing works out.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Speaking of Metroplex, Costco is going to stock them for $79.
Where'd you hear that? And are they going to be in-store? I might even bite for that.
That's my jacket!
It was posted on TFW2k5 forums:
So, I got about 1/3rd the way through on SDCC Metroplex's stickers, and then had to leave the house. I need to finish them before I can do a proper review, but a few of the ones on the vehicle mode aren't sitting flush in their slots, the stickers are cut too precision. Even half a millimeter missed from my shaky hands ends up having an edge stick out, and I'm worried now that as they're face down in city mode they'll get stripped off. I loathe stickers. Then there was the ones in the shoulder cannons, holy crap are those the absolute worst because they are essentially 5-sided and don't really FIT flat, they are meant to set in a vertical pentagram shape and angle down, I had to get a toothpick and caress them into place, that was miserable. By comparison, the mislabeled numbers and bizarre floating nonsense numbers and missing sequence numbers are easy.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Sweet. God. Almighty.
Transformers ReGeneration One #0 is AMAZING! That last page gave me chills that will remain until I read the next issue. Stuff is definitely hitting the fan all over the place.
I won't give specific spoilers except to say to Tycho that he can add Bugly to his list of Decepticon zombies, even though it's unclear how (since he explicitly survived the "blood"bath that put most of the rest of the future zombies out of commission).
That's my jacket!
I finally found IDW Generations Hoist and Thundercracker yesterday. At least they were 12.99 as many of my local Targets had them briefly at 15.59.
Thanks Chux.
Figrin, I've noticed how the prices for all transformers are actually going down at Target and Walmart.
I might buy one more Blitzwing and Springer at these prices. But right now I can't bring myself to justify spending anymore money on toys which is money I don't have available at the moment.
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High School: Cleveland
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
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After an inconsistent season with the Wizards, Young, along with most of the team's young reserves, took another tour of duty in the Summer League to mesh with his teammates. Reaching a critical point in his development, Young has shown the tools to be a major offensive threat on the NBA level. Unfortunately, he has a hard time consistently stringing together good quarters of basketball, let alone good games. The four games Young played in the Summer League were a microcosm of that issue, as he once again wavered between utter dominance and inefficient productivity against lesser competition. As one of the only NBA players here that averaged more than 10 points per game last season, Young didn't surprise anyone with his big game ability.
Always lauded for his prototypical size, speed, and leaping ability for a wing, Young's most exciting, and sometimes frustrating, asset remains his shot making ability. Possessing a fluid stroke with solid elevation and a nice release, Young effortlessly drilled shots from the perimeter in his team's rout of the Cavaliers. Hitting five of his eight three-point attempts, Young connected on shots off the dribble, off of passes, from the block, running off of screens, and even a fadeaway 20-footer that came after a jump stop and a pair of pump fakes. Young's assertiveness with the ball placed him amongst the top scorers in the whole Summer League at 23.8 points per game. While that number is very impressive, the fact remains that Young still has his fair share of weaknesses offensively, many of which were still apparent despite his scoring.
Young is often too confident in his scoring ability for his own good, taking more shots with a hand in his face than most players care to try. Though his percentages on these shots aren't bad in comparison to the average bulk scorer, the fact that he takes as many of them as he does can be concerning. This problem didn't rear its head often in the Summer League, as Young was able to move freely in transition and in half court sets without much resistance, finding daylight to put himself in position to score essentially at will.
Moving with a purpose coming off of screens quite frequently this week, he has a lot of potential as an off-screen scorer, though that accounted for a very low percentage of his possessions last season. When he couldn't shake his defender, Young hit a couple of tough shots early in the week, but also put the ball on the floor a number of times, showing off his impressive pull up jumper and tossing in a couple of tough shots near the rim between defenders. Despite naturally fading away on his jumper when driving right and almost always taking the first available jump shot when driving left, Young didn't hurt his team with his decision-making off the dribble in their early contests.
Everything that went right for Young in his 36 point outing against the Cavaliers went wrong in Washington's game against a more talented Clippers team. Young still finished with 19 points, which is not too shabby, but he went only 5-14 shots and turned the ball over 8 times. During the first games where Young showed excellent consistency in his shooting mechanics, he began to rush things more and more as the week went on. To compensate for a couple of defended, short-armed jumpers, Young earned himself a number of trips to the line by attacking the rim aggressively, going 7-7 against Los Angeles. As time goes on, Young would be well served to improve his ability to get to the line to decrease his reliance on his midrange jumper.
Young's overall performance was almost perfectly aligned with what we've grown to expect from him on the NBA level. Offering very little in the form of defensively ability, passing, or rebounding, Young scored at will and didn't do much else. He wasn't too bad defensively, but for a player with his tools, he forces very few turnovers, doesn't close out aggressively, and lets himself get beaten off the dribble by lesser athletes too often. Some of that has to do with a lack of awareness, but it is also an indicator of where Young is at this point in his career.
Blessed with outstanding scoring tools, Young is a useful NBA roleplayer who is capable of lighting up the score board if he gets hot. However, the way he will attempt to score those points will often lead to bouts of inconsistency, which coupled with his lack of versatility, can make him a much less exciting prospect. One can't question Young's skill level, talent, or his ability to score at will in the Summer League, but his aggressive shot selection and ability to make tough shots is just as much a curse for him as it is a blessing when the regular season rolls around. With Washington's roster finally boasting a clean bill of health, Young will need to play a more controlled offensive game to complement his team's high usage players. If he can hit his open shots coming off of screens, not force as many jumpers one-on-one, and focus on his defensive game, Flip Saunders won't miss the occasional 25 point outbursts Young had last season.
Though he has an unorthedox style of play, Nick Young displayed some impressive tools throughout the game. The second year guard can make very difficult shots while fading away, which will allow him to score against nearly any defender at the NBA level. He also showed good accuracy from three, and good athleticism in transition. Young was often criticized for a low basketball IQ coming out of college, but looks to be improving his understanding of the game. The guard still has work to do on the defensive end of the floor. He must work on becoming a more physical defender, and using his length as an advantage. If Young can continue to develop his game at this rate, he should be a solidified part of the Wizards location this season.[Read Full Article]
This wasnt Youngs best shooting day from what we were told, even though from our perspective the 3-ball still went in for him at a pretty nice rate. In the 79 3-pointers (NBA and college) that we charted him on, he hit 56, which is a very solid 71% clip. His mechanics and touch are very good, and his release point is consistent, leading us to believe that he will develop into a solid NBA 3-point shooter down the road, even if his bread and butter will probably be in the mid-range area.
Its here that his true colors as a scorer really come out, showing outstanding footwork to create space for himself, an excellent assortment of jabs, fakes and pivots (its obvious here that he emulates Kobe Bryant), and multiple release points to get his shot off in many different ways. Hes an instinctive scorer, a self-made player who takes what the defense gives him. He has a great little wiggle he uses to keep his man off balance and constantly guessing as to what his next move will be, as well as the shooting stroke and quick release needed to give his jab-steps from the triple-threat position all the credibility in the world. He loves going to the turnaround jumper, getting his man to commit to his shot-fake and then pivoting fluidly right into a gorgeous fade-away.
If his defender guards him too close, he has the athleticism (particularly the first step) and ball-handling skills to shake his man and blow right by him. His size (a hair under 6-6, w/out shoes, from what we were told separately by both his agent Aaron Mintz and strength and conditioning trainer Shawn Dassie), fantastic wingspan (611 ½) and absolutely massive hands help him greatly in this area, as does his explosive vertical leap, measured at an impressive 44 inches with a running start. Hes still a pretty skinny guy, but hes added 9 pounds to his frame according to Dassie since he began working out, bringing him to 209 pounds on the day we were there.
He definitely could use another 5-6 pounds to help him fight through screens and finish stronger around the basket, two areas that he was just OK in from what we saw. He didnt seem to be taking things all that seriously for the most part, though, laughing and joking around plenty once Granger decided to sit down. This was a pretty impressive workout regardless, though, even if there are only so many conclusions you can draw from here regarding his ability to fit in on an NBA team in a 5 on 5 setting. There is no doubt that teams are going to be impressed from what they see in the next few weeks, though.
In a bit of a change from years past, the NBA has decided to only invite 11 players to the physical-only part of the pre-draft camp (instead of 18 or 20 like in years past), meaning that players like Nick Young ended up getting squeezed out. His measurements and combine scores could have surely helped him.
For those who havent followed Nick Young very closely over his three year career at USC, tonights game was a pretty good introduction to the type of player he is. He showed off his many strengths and weaknesses equally well, and overall had a pretty nice showing despite running out of gas towards the end of the game.
Young started off the game looking like a man on a mission. His outstanding mid-range game was on full display, utilizing his devastating combination of jab-steps and hesitation moves from the triple threat position and looking like a true NBA shooting guard knocking down pull-up jumpers and fade-aways smoothly off the dribble. He elevates wonderfully from the mid-range and does a phenomenal job with his footwork and maintaining his body control to get off a clean look with an excellent release point.
His best play of the game came fairly early, throwing a quick jab at his defender and then just exploding towards the rim with an incredible first step before throwing down an emphatic one-handed jam in traffic. He caught North Carolinas defense completely off-guard, and undoubtedly had scouts scribbling furiously after pulling off such a strong move. He also hit an open spot-up 3-pointer during this terrific initial burst he started the game off with.
Young was extremely active on the defensive side of the ball as well, doing an excellent job keeping Brandon Wright from establishing position on him and going around him to pull down rebounds over the 6-9 power forward, despite being a 6-5 shooting guard (playing out of position) himself. He had 5 rebounds in the first 6 and a half minutes, but was not able to maintain the same level of energy and only pulled down one board the rest of the way.
Often times when a young player is participating in a truly huge game for his very first time at the collegiate level, you see them getting so pumped up from the adrenaline rush early on that they end up exhausting themselves physically. This might have had something to do with the sharp decline we saw in the second half in his energy level, as well as the foul trouble that plagued him for much of the game.
With his legs clearly not responding the way he needed them to in the second half, Young began resorting back to his old ways. He was too often the last stop in the flow of his teams offense, receiving the ball, but never making any real effort to create for anyone else. The 0 assists he dished out compared to 6 turnovers is quite telling in this regard, but not all that surprising when you consider that he only averages 1.4 assists per game. North Carolina kept throwing fresh bodies at him in a constant wave, and Young responded by settling for too many contested outside shots, finishing the game 1-5 from behind the arc.
All in all, Young has probably showed enough in this tournament to secure himself a spot in the first round, and could very well be considered a strong pick in the 10-20 range of the draft when its all said and done if he works out with NBA teams as well as we think he can. Hes got great scoring tools as his extremely productive college career would indicate, well as a nice upside to continue to improve.
Behind almost every single one of USC's key wins, a key performance from Nick Young exists. He first put the Trojans on the map with 26 points in a win over then #8 Wichita State, and followed that up with a 25 point effort in the conference opener against then #13 Washington. Young is the near-lone reason USC managed to sweep Arizona, averaging 28 points and shooting a near-unthinkable 69% from the floor in the two wins. The sweep of Oregon? Young averaged a more pedestrian 16 ppg, but did it on 67% shooting. Even though USC would eventually fall to UCLA in Westwood, Young managed to take the game to the wire by pouring in 20 points on 9-12 shooting.
Young's 17.2 ppg is actually down slightly from a season ago, but he is now shooting 53.5% from the field (up from 46.7%), and 47.7% from beyond the arc (33.3% a year ago). Considering that he is playing further away from the basket this year now that the Trojans have a full-time PF, and that Young gets the call nearly every time the shot clock is running down or his team needs a key basket, this level of efficiency is very impressive. Where Young once provided fans with a nightly roller coaster ride of consistency and feel for the game, his off nights have come less and less as this season has wore on.
While Young doesn't appear to do anything exceptionally well in terms of the NBA, his biggest strides have come in his midrange game. Young used to have a very up and down jump shot, sometimes looking overwhelmed in forcing the issue in the half-court. He now looks very much at ease attacking defenses designed to limit him, utilizing screens well and taking what the defense gives him. Teams used to be able to play off of him, but now he is taking midrange jumpers and making them look easy. He loves the step back/fadeaway all the way out past the 3-point line, and will spin and elevate for impressive scores closer to the basket. Young may never be a 3-point shooting specialist in the NBA, but his intuitive, simple release allows him to get shots off in a variety of ways.
Defenders now have a serious quandary in deciding whether to leave him open or let him attack the basket. Young doesn't have an exceptional first step and is still on the skinny side, but has first-rate vertical explosiveness, good slashing feel and the ability to finish through contact. For the most part, Young attacks the basket aggressively at the slightest opportunity, and barely needs any advantage at all to get to the rim in transition. There are times when he can get passive and float around the perimeter, but hes developed a fairly strong understanding of when dribble drive opportunities are available to him.
While Young's impressive junior season probably has him in line for First Team All Pac-10 honors and on the short list of legitimate conference POY candidates, there are still things he can work on. Young's offensive consistency has improved, but one gets the feeling that he can still become a better day-in, day-out go to scorer (see the disappointing loss @Arizona State in which he scored just 11 points). At times he will forget about attacking the basket and settle for lower percentage outside shots. While not a poor defender, Young's focus and intensity on the other side of the ball can certainly improve.
While Young is far from a sure thing in the NBA, his evolved offensive game gives him a chance to contribute right away, and he retains solid starter-level upside. He does a variety of things well, has the size and athleticism to make it, and has the scoring feel to make for a frame that is definitely on the lean side. Young is a good bet to test the waters after the season, especially if he can get hot in March. He has already proven he can be a go-to guy against the NCAA's elite, but a further display in the NCAA Tournament could easily push Young's stock into the middle of the first round in this wing-deprived 2007 NBA Draft.
After a solid sophomore year in which he scored 17 points per game, Nick Young returned for his junior year and has so far played very well. His scoring is down, but there are a lot of reasons to like what Young and USC are doing this season. In a double overtime win against Washington, his strong play not only helped his draft stock, but led his team to an impressive overtime win against a stacked Washington team.
Young has a good body for the NBA, as well as legit size for the 2-guard position. He is athletic enough for the next level, and can put his physical attributes to use on both ends of the floor. He also possesses long arms, and uses them effectively on the defensive end.
When it comes to scoring, Young is good at pretty much everything, but doesnt stand out in any one area. He has improved his three point shooting percentage to over 42% this season, but he only makes about one per game, which is not exactly the best sample size. Young has a good first step, and the ability to finish inside around the basket or pull up smoothly from mid-range, so hes always a threat to create his own shot. He also has the ability to get to the line with some frequency. His free throw shooting percentage is down from last year, but Youngs shooting stroke produces plenty of arch and spin on the ball.
Against Washington, Youngs all-around ability was on display for much of the game. He did most of his damage slashing to the hoop against the solid defense of Quincy Pondexter. Young made 8 of his 10 free throw attempts in the game, and used his ability to hang in the air and control the ball to create the free throw attempts. Despite starting off slow, his jumper looked very solid, as did his defense. During both overtime periods, Young was responsible for making some huge shots from both the field and the three point line. Without these clutch shots, there is no way USC would have pulled this game out.
Young has solid all-around ability, but were still wondering what exactly his bread and butter is. He doesnt stick out as the type of player with all-star potential at the next level, and he still hasnt quite carved out a niche for himself as a go-to guy at the college level. Still, Young is the type of player that GMs will have a hard time passing up when searching for a complete role player. To best help his draft stock, Young will need to help USC be competitive in the Pac 10 for the rest of the season, and preferably make and win a game or two in the NCAA Tournament. If he can do this and get his free throw shooting back to where it was last season, he will have a shot at landing in the first round if he decides to come out.
Not a highly regarded high schooler, Nick Young still managed to beat out several upperclassmen for the right to start in the Trojan backcourt as a freshman. Young has very nice athleticism, but is more than capable of playing the finesse game. He has great body control, shoots well from the outside, and is going to be a factor creating his own shot. Young will need to play tougher and add consistency, though these arent uncommon problems for a freshman. Like Pruitt, hell be getting top-notch coaching and plenty of shots this winter. Young could be primed to explode.[Read Full Article]
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Environmental Defense head to speak on global warming, April 1
Posted March 28, 2003; 02:56 p.m.
Fred Krupp, executive director of Environmental Defense, will discuss "Global Warming and the USA: Sparking Re-engagement" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Environmental Defense , a nonprofit organization based in New York, represents more than 300,000 members. Since 1967, it has linked science, economics and law to create solutions to society's environmental problems. Krupp has been head of the organization since 1984.
As the international community proceeds to implement the Kyoto Protocol, the United States has rejected the treaty. Krupp is expected to discuss what likely will spark the United States to re-engage in the international process, given domestic economic and political conditions.
The talk, designated as the Taplin Environmental Lecture, is sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Institute .
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New program created for AIDS projects on campus
Posted November 3, 2003; 04:50 p.m.
University programs and projects that focus on AIDS now have an umbrella organization that will promote and disseminate research, sponsor educational programs and identify internships and other related opportunities for students.
The Princeton AIDS Initiative (PAI) was created recently to provide a supporting infrastructure and one-stop resource for campus organizations, students, faculty and staff engaged in AIDS education, research and activism.
PAI is co-sponsoring its first major colloquium, "Local Responses to a Global Crisis: Making Sense of AIDS in Haiti, Brazil and South Africa," 2:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 7, 300 Wallace Hall. The discussion will be moderated by Carolyn Rouse, professor of anthropology and will include scholars and researchers from the University, the Institute for Advanced Study and Partners in Health.
Hosted by the Program in Latin American Studies, other co-sponsors of the colloquium are the Department of Anthropology; the Center for Health and Wellbeing; the Program in African-American Studies; the Program in African Studies; the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding; the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies; and the International Center.
Assistant Professor of Politics Evan Lieberman, PAI faculty director, said Princeton scholars engaged in AIDS-related projects represent a variety of fields and disciplines, including public health, the sciences, public policy and international affairs. Because the international AIDS epidemic requires this multidisciplinary approach, Princeton community members working on the issue believed the formation of a centralized organization would strengthen their diverse efforts through encouraging collaboration, he said.
Last spring, graduate students in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and undergraduate students working on AIDS projects met with Lieberman, several members of the Princeton faculty and Woodrow Wilson School Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter to discuss the need to coordinate and unify the numerous programs under a single entity. Slaughter authorized PAI and provided funding and administrative support from the school.
Lieberman was named faculty director. Rachel Tobey was appointed graduate student coordinator, and Timothy Waldron was named initiative coordinator. PAI met one of its primary objectives last month when it launched a Web site that will serve as a clearinghouse for AIDS programs and resources campuswide.
"The Internet is one of the best ways to create an infrastructure to bring together the various entities across the campus," Lieberman said. "That was the first step because there are so many activities going on across the community, and this will help to create a virtual connection."
The Web site will make available information on: courses with AIDS-related content/focus; University and external reference materials that support HIV/AIDS research; information about activities and meetings; a list of individuals conducting AIDS research on campus; links to AIDS-related organizations and institutions and working papers produced by Princeton faculty and graduate students.
PAI also is supporting the activities and efforts of student groups, Lieberman said. According to junior Ariel Wagner, president of the Student Global AIDS Campaign at Princeton, PAI will help the student group gain more access to the larger AIDS activist communities beyond Princeton.
"We are part of a nationwide student organization. But as a student group, it is sometimes difficult to attract high-profile people who are involved in AIDS research or activism to come on campus to give lectures," Wagner said. "With PAI, it will look a lot more attractive to these people now that we have the backing of a larger, faculty-endorsed group. We feel we have a lot more resources now and a greater influence than we had before."
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Datuk Badlisham Bin Ghazali
Managing Director
Datuk Badlisham bin Ghazali was appointed as Managing Director of MAHB on 23 June 2014.
Datuk Badlisham began his career with Hewlett Packard Group ("HPG") after his graduation from the USA in 1987. He has progressed well in his career with HPG, being promoted steadily over his 18 years of service where his last position was the Director and Country General Manager of Hewlett Packard Technology Solutions Group in 2005. Datuk Badlisham was appointed as a member of the Malaysian Aerospace Council (MAC) by the Ministry of International Trade & Industries (MITI) to provide expertise towards developing the national aerospace industry. The appointment which takes into effect on 15 September 2015 is for a two year duration until 14 September 2017.
On 16 January 2006, Datuk Badlisham was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") and Non-Independent Director of the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC). At the helm of MDeC, Datuk Badlisham has led the development of the National ICT Initiatives for Malaysia. The MSC Malaysia Initiative has evolved and grown, giving rise to over 3,400 ICT companies that are innovative and globally competitive via a thriving ICT ecosystem in Malaysia. The Digital Malaysia Initiative is underway towards a growing and robust digital economy for Malaysia. He was a member of the Ministry of Education's Cluster School Advisory Board. He is co-chair with Y.Bhg. Tan Sri KSN (Ketua Setiausaha Negara) on the Flagship Coordination Committee (FCC) and co-chair of the Ministry of Education Smart School Program.


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My fully trained older bitch has started whingeing when training. She does it when doing various drills waiting for a cast and before being sent on anything including blinds and marks.
At trials she will do it when I go up to the 'mat' (with us pegs) and whilst waiting for the birds. She does not do it when stopped in the field. She is still very keen and not in pain. I have tried waiting her out ( possibly not long enough) and low level correction but nothing works. I would like to keep running her for another 6 months to a year including our National but this is not good. Any ideas or is she just getting geriatric with worse to come like her owner?!


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By Parrish Alford/NEMS Daily Journal
Ole Miss finished its first year under new coach Hugh Freeze with a bowl game and a winning record at 7-6. After an impressive 38-17 victory against Pittsburgh in the BBVA Compass Bowl, here's a look back and a look ahead:
Biggest surprise: Quarterback play was a big question mark last off-season. Junior college transfer Bo Wallace didn't sufficiently answer that question in the spring and August camp but became just the third Ole Miss quarterback to throw more than 20 touchdown passes in a season. He also won The Conerly Trophy, which is awarded to Mississippi's top college football player.
Biggest disappointment: Upon the signing of senior tight end Jamal Mosley then-Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt raved about the athleticism of his new junior college transfer.
Mosley had a chance to really impact the new offense but was inconsistent. Though he finished with three touchdown catches, fourth on the team, he had just 15 receptions, seventh on the team.
Ultimately, grades kept him out of the bowl game.
Offensive MVP: Wallace got better as the season moved along. Though he has to find a way to reduce his interceptions – 17 on the year including two in the bowl game – he showed the toughness of playing through a shoulder injury for the final eight games.
He had surgery on Tuesday.
Wallace showed an ability to stand in the pocket and was also a key element in the run game.
Defensive MVP: Redshirted as a safety as a true freshman, Denzel Nkemdiche burst onto the scene at linebacker with team-highs of 82 tackles and 13 tackles for loss. He also had three interceptions, five pass break-ups and four forced fumbles.
Emerging Star: Freshman safety Trae Elston had 61 tackles and broke up six passes. Known as a fierce hitter, Elston became a household name with Ole Miss fans when one of those hits was deemed worthy of a one-game suspension by the SEC. He started eight games.
Five to watch in 2013: Five who could play much bigger roles next season include freshman DE Channing Ward, freshman RB Jaylen Walton, sophomore CB Senquez Golson, redshirt freshman WR Vincent Sanders and senior OL Patrick Junen.
Ward showed flashes of athleticism, though his late arrival to camp cost him the chance to develop like the other freshmen. Walton was a factor on special teams and in the bowl game showed a toughness to run after contact. Golson broke up three passes and all three of his interceptions came over the last three games. His development will be affected by what he decides to do with baseball this spring.
Sanders emerged over the second half of the season as a reliable No. 2 receiver, and Junen will move into the right guard spot, the only vacancy on next year's line.


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I herd Sean Peyton coached his son's little league team an if opposing QB gets knocked out the whole team goes to Chuckie Cheese. Falcons seem to play up or down to their opponent. The boys and the aint's coming up. We shall see.
I herd Sean Peyton coached his son's little league team an if opposing QB gets knocked out the whole team goes to Chuckie Cheese. Falcons seem to play up or down to their opponent. The boys and the aint's coming up. We shall see.
RGIII is the real deal at QB for the Skins.....Russell Wilson just keeps making the big play and winning football games....Peyton Manning's comeback last night is the stuff that legends are made of
and after his six TD performance Sunday Night....Aaron Rodgers is the best QB in the NFL
PS...Faith Hill still rocks on the intro to Sunday Night football...best looking legs on a Filly since Rachel Alexandra
How bout' those hawks... Tied 1st place (3way tie) in the NFC west, not to mention our defense! Young team, watch out, we're coming!!
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Peyton Manning will take the MVP in the NFL.Denver will beat the Packers in Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans ,and Bon will owe me a case of Crown Royal .
Dave Hare
CFC-CAFC Maralan's C.E.O.
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R.I.P-Klondike's Chocolate Charger-MH 4 Time Ducks Unlimited Retriever of the year MN.
well if nothing else we will have a great time consuming a good portion of it....
have to publicly acknowledge that Dave took the time out of his busy schedule to get Dana's boys authentic Peyton Manning # 18 football jerseys in white, orange, and blue, they were the envy of all the kids at school...the boys teachers think that's all the clothes those boys own..Dana taped the game for the boys to watch this afternoon after homework/soccer practice...Good thing it ended the way it did
RG III taken down a notch *OUCH*
Ravens fired OC Cam Cameron.
Hunting the Chesapeake with Chesapeake's.
Captain Thor of the Chesapeake **, MH, WDQ
Captain Thor's Gracie girl **, MH, WDQ
Captain Thor's Lulu Belle **, MH, WDQ
Next project
Captain Thor's one shot one kill
Anyone else find it amusing that John Gruden's name pops up with every Headcoaching vacany. In the last 30 hours on Sirius/XM's NFL Channel, his name has popped up as the next replacement for the; Eagles, Chargers, Cardinals, Chiefs and Raiders!
"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke


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A movement calling itself the Presidential Memorial Commisison of San Francisco is pushing to rename the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility, the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.
Here's an exceprt from the website (www.presidentialmemorial.org):
An Enduring Legacy
As we near the end of George W Bush's presidency, we think it is important to select a fitting monument to this president's work. On matters ranging from foreign relations to fiscal and environmental stewardship, no other president in American history has accomplished so much in such a short time. To honor George W Bush for his eight years of honorable public service, the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is sponsoring a ballot initiative this November in San Francisco. It reads…
"Should the City and County of San Francisco rename the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility the George W. Bush Sewage Plant?"
We believe this is an appropriate honor for a truly unique president. If you think so too, join this grassroots movement to rename this important and iconic landmark in his honor.
So, this is interesting, and in my opinion, very unpatriotic. I don't care if you want to criticize the President. I don't care if you want to name a sewage treatment plant after him, but at the point that you change the MOTTO OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to "E PLURIBUS ANUS," "OUT OF MANY ANUS," I have a problem with that. And why is there no outrage over this? If I put up a picture of 2 gay guys smiling together with the phrase "out of many anus" I'm sure that I would have people screaming and hollering at me, and I'm only pointing out the simple fact that homosexuals can't engage in proper sexual intercourse. Here, you have a bunch of liberals changing the national motto like nothing else.
And look at their "Bord of Directors":
Peaches Christ
Entertainer, Gender Illusionist
Chicken John
Showman, Mayoral Candidate
Tangie Rumors
Retired Sex Worker
Sister Porn Again
Sister Selma Soul
Community Organizer
I hope that this ballot initiative fails. I wouldn't have as much of a problem with it if they weren't dishonoring the whole nation (I'd still think it's ridiculous, but it is free speech), but the fact that they are using the nation's motto and changing it to a mockery is ridiculous and un-American.
Done Ranting,
Ranting Republican
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I do remember seeing Yak Face as a kid on the old Planetary Map, but it was just for a brief moment and I never thought he had actually been made.
I was 13 in 1986, getting ready to start 8th grade when I first saw the POTF figures already on clearance racks. All through high school my brother and I began accumulating the old collections from all of our friends who were outgrowing Star Wars. Even then, I never saw a single one of the POTF figures and their legendary status just kept growing in my mind.
In fact, the first time I ever saw any of the POTF figures in person was in 1996, when I bought a Barada figure. Ten years after first becoming aware of the line.
So right now, I'm operating under the theory that missing out on the last 14 Star Wars figures is the source of my collecting obsession. If that's true, then I hope to see a significant drop in my desire to buy new products in 2008. I believe that a thousand dollars spent on these figures now will save me thousands later on down the road in impulse purchases.
Of course now, for the first time ever, my Star Wars collection is crossing the line into the investment category, since these figures are still commanding high prices on ebay. So, I'm becoming more concerned about storage and lighting and humidity and stuff like that.
I know that sunlight and flourescent bulbs are bad, bad, bad. Which stinks because I spent a bunch of money a year ago on those spiral shaped, energy saver bulbs and I can already see the effect they've had on my newer figures. My favorite 2006 VTSC Biker Scout is already showing some minor color change on his limbs compared to the VTSC Biker Scouts that I've kept stored in a dark closet.
Any advice anyone might have on "non-destructive" lighting, display cases and controlling humidity would be much appreciated.


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Snubbed by Wharton for his alleged role in the 2002 riots, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Sunday not only addressed Indian-Americans through a video call but also came up with his definition of secularism: "India First".
"I have a very simple definition of secularism: India First. In whatever we do or decide India must get priority," said Modi. The chief minister took to his favourite theme — development — to drive home the point. "When we get a mandate of five years, we must work on that and serve people selflessly. If we do that then people will forgive our mistakes as well," said Modi, without referring to the 2002 communal violence.
The Gujarat strongman, who is positioning himself as a national leader and BJP's prime ministerial candidate for 2014, seems to have found his poll slogan — "Ek Bharat, Shereshth Bharat (One India, Best India)".
"Nothing less than India's wellbeing should be our goal and if this happens, secularism will automatically run in our blood."
The address was organised by the Overseas Friends of BJP and viewed live in New Jersey and Chicago, US states with significant presence of Indian-Americans.
It gave Modi the chance to speak to Indian-Americans after Wharton India Economic Forum suddenly withdrew its invitation to him to address its annual conference on India after a "furious" protest by some faculty members and students. The US continues to deny him visa over the riots though EU countries have re-engaged with him after a 10-year boycott.
The event was planned much before Wharton withdrew the invite.
Gujarat was showing the way to the rest of the country by making development an election issue. The 2012 election verdict, he said, was a victory for development.
Switching to English sometimes in his 50-minute speech, he said India could become a world leader with confidence in its abilities. "We can and we will," he said.


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Course: Contemporary Social Problems (CJ-121W-1)
Focuses on how institutional and organizational features of societies generate problems for people. Particular attention is directed at a set of problems related to political and economic inequalities, health and illness, education, the environment, and the criminal justice system. P:SO 111 or permission of Department Chair. General Education Choice for Part C and Designated W course. Generally offered every fall semester. 3 credits


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The limits of social policy
In "Nathan Glazer's Warning," Howard Husock of the Manhattan Institute uses Glazer's writings to examine the revival of federal social policy (i.e., social engineering) by the Obama administration. The following is a particularly interesting passage about the failure of federal education and training programs: Glazer, by contrast, immersed himself in social science. Take a chapterContinue Reading


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Owlcatraz runs a-fowl of some FAU sensibilities
For those of you just joining us in the rapidly snowballing saga of Florida Atlantic's stadium naming rights, let's run a quick timeline. Tuesday morning, FAU announced that a $6 million donation had been bestowed upon the university by The GEO Group:
The largest one-time gift in the history of FAU athletics, it will be used to support athletic operations, including FAU's intercollegiate athletic program, the stadium, scholarships and academic priorities. In recognition of this gift, the football stadium at FAU's Boca Raton campus will be named GEO Group Stadium.
The GEO Group operates prison facilities all around the world, making the choice of a new stadium nickname quite simple:
Here's FAU President Mary Jane Saunders, on Tuesday: "It is so exciting to now have a name for our beautiful stadium, and I couldn't think of a better way to do that than by way of philanthropy. This gift is a true representation of The GEO Group's incredible generosity to FAU and the community it serves. It is especially meaningful because George Zoley, GEO's chairman, is a two-time FAU alumnus and former chair of our Board of Trustees."
Florida Atlantic University's announcement to change the name of its football stadium to that of a private prison corporation accused of human rights violation has surprised and outraged students as well as South Florida's pro-immigrant activists. [...] FAU President Mary Jane Saunder initially agreed to talk about the news, but after hearing questions about the immigration detention center, a university spokesperson said they would have to return the call later. At press time, the university had stopped responding to El Nuevo Herald's calls.Patrick Vint details some of the higher-profile criticisms of The GEO Group here, and outlines how the company appears to now be engaging in that most celebrated of stumbling backpedal maneuvers: The mass Wikipedia deletion spree. But no matter where this mess winds up, we're sure you'll all agree that we're all calling it Owlcatraz until the end of time.


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On the morning of Monday, December 4, journalists received a press release from Victoria's Secret about its new campaign for the holidays. It announced that PINK, the underwear line marketed towards high school and college students, was going to set aside slogans like "Sure Thing" and "Unwrap Me" on its underwear for ones supporting female empowerment and a culture of consent, aiming with phrases like "Ask First" and "Respect" to normalize and make sexy the idea that sex should always start with explicit consent. The website for the new PINK Loves CONSENT campaign, pinklovesconsent.com, went up at noon and soon had over 50,000 visitors. Support for the campaign rocketed through social networks.
Internet service providers (ISPs) are the conduits of free expression on the Internet. However, many international and national law and policy proposals, including trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) and others, attempt to make Internet intermediaries the sole arbiter and enforcer of the law instead of courts and judges. ISPs should not be Internet cops. Not only are they not equipped to make such decisions, proposals to make them liable for Internet content end up promoting law enforcement methods that purposefully skirt due process rights.
Last week the Librarian of Congress issued his final decision (pdf) limiting copyright owners' ability to sue you for making full use of the works you buy. The short version: it's a mixed bag. On one hand, the Librarian looked to the future, broadening existing exemptions for extracting clips from DVDs to include clips from movies distributed online, as well. At the same time, the Librarian refused to expand an exemption for "jailbreaking" smartphones to include the smartphone's cousin, the tablet, even though there is little practical difference between the two devices. Equally illogically, the Librarian refused to grant an exemption for jailbreaking video game consoles.
Now the long version.
From its inception, YouTube's algorithmic copyright cop, Content ID, has been rife with problems — at least from the user's perspective. Overbroad takedowns, a confusing dispute process, and little in the way of accountability turned the "filter" into an easy censorship tool. On Wednesday, however, YouTube announced several changes that should help users fight back against bogus takedowns, and help prevent those takedowns in the first place.
Secret negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) continued this week in a golf resort outside Washington DC, and the process continues to be as secret and undemocratic as ever. TPP is yet another example of how the US entertainment and pharma industry are pressuring lawmakers to push forward overprotective intellectual property laws that will also put the Internet and its users at risk.
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