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Florida's new Republican senator, 40-year-old
, is handsome, personable and smart. He can talk with intelligence and ease about foreign policy, the federal budget and the aspirations of the American people. And he has a Reaganesque gift for sounding reassuring, even when he's arguing for
positions such as a complete overhaul of Social Security and
All these factors, along with his decisive electoral victory last year in Florida, one of the most important swing states in a presidential election, have vaulted Rubio to the top of the
's list of potential vice presidential candidates, no matter who the party's presidential nominee turns out to be.
A big piece of that enthusiasm, of course, stems from the hope that Rubio would help the party make inroads with the fastest-growing ethnic group in America, Latinos, who have mostly turned a cold shoulder to the party. With Rubio's help, GOP strategists are hoping a whole list of swing states, including not only his native Florida but also Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, will be tipped into the Republican column.
But does Rubio really hold the Republican Party's key to millions of Latino voters in swing states? Outside Florida, many Latinos don't even know who he is yet. And the evidence suggests that, once they do, Rubio will have an uphill climb despite his Hispanic name.
Most years, Latinos are strongly in the Democratic camp. In the 2008 election, for example,
won about two-thirds of the Latino vote, according to the Pew Hispanic center. (He won only 43% of the non-Hispanic white vote.) While Latinos tend to be moderate or conservative on social issues, they poll as quite liberal on economic issues — like the federal government's role in providing a safety net for those in need.
Rubio, by contrast, has grown more conservative over the course of his career, and today he is a thoroughgoing small-government conservative — a Tea Party man.
His priority, he says, is to shrink the federal government, reduce taxes and get out of the way of the free enterprise system. He's praised the proposal of Rep.
(R-Wis.) to transform Medicare into a system that would provide vouchers to help the elderly buy private health insurance.
In an interview this week, Rubio reaffirmed one of the most powerful lines in his speeches, that he believes in "a compassionate America." But when I asked him what the government's role was in ensuring that compassion, he said most of the action should come from the private sector.
He did acknowledge "a place for a safety net," noting that "you can't ask an 80-year-old to get up and get a job." But he thinks social programs need more cost controls. "You can't give away money you don't have," he said.
So one act of compassion, he added, would be reforming Medicare to keep its costs from spiraling out of control.
"The single biggest driver of our national debt is a Medicare program that will disappear if it continues as it is now," he noted. "It's irresponsible."
Those are all respectable positions — especially inside the Tea Party. But they're not that likely to win support from Latino voters in states like Colorado and New Mexico. When a GOP think tank called Resurgent Republic polled Latinos in those states in September, solid majorities said they thought the best way to improve the economy would be "to increase government investments in job training, education and infrastructure."
On immigration, too, Rubio has grown out of step with a majority of Latinos. He won national attention this fall when he warned Republican presidential candidates that their competition to sound tough on illegal immigration risked making them sound hostile to many Latinos. But his critique of his party's positions was limited mostly to its tone, not its substance.
Rubio told me he would support some kind of
, which would allow illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children to qualify for citizenship if they complete two years of college or military service. But only after the southwestern border is secured, enforcement of immigration laws is increased and the legal immigration system is fixed — which is another way of saying, not any time soon.
As for state laws in Arizona, Alabama and Georgia that direct local police to check the immigration status of anyone they pull over for a traffic offense whose citizenship appears dubious, Rubio is staying with the GOP line. "Those states have the right to do these things. The federal government wasn't enforcing the law," he said.
Rubio's history in Florida politics also suggests that his sway over Latino voters isn't guaranteed. He's wildly popular among the state's Tea Party conservatives — but only modestly popular among the state's Latinos.
In a recent Resurgent Republic poll, 51% of Florida Latinos said they had a favorable view of Rubio — but slightly more, 55%, said they had a favorable view of Obama. And that's in Florida, where Cuban Americans, who tend to be more conservative than other Latinos, make up about a third of the state's Latino population. In other words, many of Rubio's home-state voters, who know him best, appear to view him as a Tea Party conservative who happens to be Latino, rather than the other way around.
Rubio is himself Cuban American, which makes him a minority among the nation's Latinos, most of whom are Mexican American. (Only about 4% of U.S. Latinos are of Cuban ancestry.)
The GOP argues that this isn't a fatal handicap. "Rubio's story — his mother worked in a hotel, his father tended bar — is an inspiration to a lot of people, not just Cuban Americans," argues Hector Barajas, a GOP strategist in Sacramento. But it's not a plus, either.
In the end, it may not be Rubio's ethnicity that boosts him with GOP voters but something else: He embraces staunch Tea Party principles, but he doesn't come off as a zealot. He's
, but not as scary.
If Republicans nominate a candidate who needs to shore up support on the party's right — a candidate like, say,
— Rubio could be exactly what's needed. He could give Tea Party activists a reason to turn out at the polls even if the presidential nominee isn't their first choice. But as a way to guarantee a big defection of Latino votes to the GOP column, he's no sure thing.


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Sighetu Marmaţiei
Sighetu Marmatiei [1] (also spelled Sighet), with its 41,000 inhabitants, is the main town of the Maramureş region (northern Transylvania, Romania). Inhabited since the Stone Age, the settlement was first mentioned in 1334, and as town, in 1352. Today, Sighet is the gate of Maramures, and one of its most important tourist attractions. The most important attractions are:
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I normally resent when someone tells me, "you should eat at so-and-so! You'll love it!" But, for some reason, a sign that declares "You love our t-bone steak"!, yet there isn't a t-bone anywhere to be found on their menu, makes me squee. Welcome to the Ritz, East York's hidden gem. It's a time warp of sorts; Ritz is a legitimate 1960s diner, with wood panelled walls, vinyl multi-coloured bar stools and table-side juke boxes. Just like the sign promoting the t-bone, the jukeboxes are relics from an era long gone.
You can't not love the Ritz. There's one person who runs the front of the house, and when I say "run", I mean that she's literally at a near-run pace, flitting from the bar to the cash to the kitchen and back serving tables. She does it all with kindness and a huge smile on her face.
The menu has two parts to it. You have your typical North American diner food, including BLTs, club house and steak sandwiches. We saw the club house, which seems to be a long-forgotten sandwich in these parts, and I think I'll be introducing one to my belly in a future visit. You can also get a Canadian breakfast, which includes three eggs, home fries and bacon ("regular or crispy?", you'll be asked). But what we came for were their Filipino breakfast and lunch offerings. You don't expect a restaurant called the Ritz, located just a stone's throw from Greektown, to be dishing out Filipino morning fare.
We decided to get the Adobo pork ribs and chicken and to get the Filipino breakfast. The chicken and ribs came smothered in adobo sauce and with a side of rice and a cafeteria-like corner of steamed vegetables. I dug into the hot, breaded cutlet of chicken and enjoyed the savoury gravy and slight spice it had. The ribs were cooked tenderly and were still bone in. It was a delicious hot mess and the ultimate Sunday morning hangover food.
Robin ordered Filipino sausage as her breakfast meat, which is a sweet, bright pink sausage of lord-who-knows-what-meat-it-is. But it doesn't matter. It was tasty as sausage sin, and was sitting on a mound of over-easy eggs and rice.
Robin was still hungry after her $4.95 breakfast (you read that correctly), so she ordered a Filipino dessert. We were brought a leche flan, which was a yummy condensed milk custard cake that we polished off in minutes.
This quirky little throw-back restaurant feels more like it belongs on an American backroad than in Toronto…except for it serving Filipino food. Whether its for their decor or their food, there's no way you can't find some love for the Ritz. Unless, of course, you showed up for the t-bone steak.
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Albany Law School will delay opening until 11am due to the weather.
The law school's first dean, Amos Dean, was born on a farm in 1803 in Barnard, Vt., and attended the nearby academy in Randolph. After graduating from Union College and passing the bar, he joined the law practice of Azor Taber in Albany in 1829.
Before his association with the law school, Dean organized the Albany Young Men's Association; served as a trustee of Albany Medical College, the Dudley Observatory and the Albany Female Academy; and was employed for a time as director of the New York State Normal School, the predecessor of the University of Albany.
Without leaving his job as professor and administrator of the law school, Dean served as part-time chancellor and history professor at the University of Iowa for five years.
Dean was married, had three children and lived a short distance from the school. Dean had a love of literature, history, art and science. Dean worked on several books while he was a professor at the school, including a history of European art and a history of religion and government in Europe, both published posthumously in 1876.
In 1861, Dean published a practical guide to commercial law entitled Bryant and Stratton's Commercial Law of Business Men, which was designed to use as manual for businessmen and a textbook for law students. In 1850, Dean published lectures he delivered at Albany Medical College in a textbook entitled, Principles of Medical Jurisprudence: A Course of Lectures.
In addition to overseeing day-to-day operations as the law school's lone administrator and teaching, Dean for his 17 years usually oversaw operations of the moot court, where students practiced arguing cases.
Nearly two decades into its existence, the law school was on firm ground. Enrollment had grown steadily from 23 to more than 100. Despite the appearance of new law schools opening in the South and West in the growing country, Albany Law attracted students nationally. In 1859, the state granted the law school the authority to confer diplomas, recognition of the educational quality.
Speaking in 1915, Dean J. Newton Fiero said that in the 1860s the law school was "the best known, most largely attended, and ... as of that time, the best law school in America."
To maintain a high ranking among American law schools would prove a difficult challenge for successive deans. By 1870, there were 31 law schools in the United States, double the number when Albany Law was founded. Moreover, after Dean's death in 1868, there would be momentous change in the profession and a revolution in the methods of legal training. How the school responded to these changes in the last decades of the 19th century would shape its future.
In 1868, a prominent Albany lawyer and textbook author, Isaac Edwards, was invited to deliver several lectures at Albany Law School. Such an impression was made on faculty and trustees that after Amos Dean died, Edwards was unanimously chosen as the law school's second chief administrator.
Edwards (left) had been born in 1819 on a farm in Corinth, Saratoga County. After attending Waterford Academy, he came to Albany to clerk in the law offices of James Edwards, his uncle, and Orlando Meads, a trustee of the law school. Edwards' textbooks, published during the 1850s, were highly regarded tracts on practical legal issues. Edwards also regularly wrote opinion pieces for local newspapers. Edwards' son attended the law school in 1888.
During Edwards' tenure, the course set by the founders was essentially maintained, although incremental changes were made to respond to dramatic transformations in the law and legal education that were taking shape outside the school walls.
The faculty was expanded considerably during Edwards' administration. Besides Edwards and the two remaining founders, several additional instructors taught during Edwards' tenure, many with Albany law practices who taught as time allowed.
But despite his modest movements, some local bar members felt Edwards wasn't doing enough to keep up with change in the profession and legal training. Whether these developments involving the law school occurred in spite of Edwards' management or as a result of them cannot be determined.
What is certain that Edwards' professional responsibilities exacted a personal toll. In 1879, Edwards took his life.
The trustees and faculty chose Horace E. Smith (right), "Solon of the Fulton County bar," a 62-year-old lawyer and textbook author. Born in Weston, Vt., Smith never attended college, but passed the bar and established a practice first in Broadalbin, Fulton County, and then in nearby Johnstown.
For a time he shared an office in Boston with Henry B. Stanton, husband of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. He was married three times and had three children. After he was hired as dean of the law school, Smith commuted from Johnstown and maintained offices near the law school.
Smith was driven by trustees, alumni and state education officials clamoring for higher standards and more rigorous preparation for the bar. Smith responded during his 10 years by reorganizing and augmenting the existing program. Perhaps the most significant milestone of his administration was the purchase of a building that gave the law school its own home.
To succeed Smith, who had sought to resign in 1887 at age 70 but was persuaded to stay two more years until a replacement could be found, trustees tapped a 34-year-old lawyer with outstanding academic credentials whom they believed would breathe new life into the school.
George Washington Kirchwey (left) , was a rising star in local legal circles. A Yale undergraduate, Kirchwey clerked in Albany while attending classes at the Albany Law School. In addition to presenting numerous papers at the Albany Institute of History and Art, he was a voracious reader of literature, conversant in five languages, known to citizens for his rousing oratory at city events and was editor of historical manuscripts in the state library. Kirchwey was unanimously selected as Albany Law School's fourth dean in 1889.
Kirchwey, married and father of three, was given a great deal of latitude to reform the academic program. He immediately instituted a more structured two-year program and tightened requirements for students. One of the most significant of Kirchwey's reforms was the introduction of the case system. Though now a familiar mode of learning to modern-day law students, the method was in its infancy in late 19th century American law schools.
Perhaps Kirchwey's reforms would have taken root if he had not left within two years to join the faculty at Columbia Law School, where he would become dean in 1901.
Kirchwey had tried to bring Albany Law in line with the most progressive law schools in the country. But in doing so, he had eroded the niche that Albany Law had occupied since its inception: men of limited time and money had always looked to the law school as an alternative to the more prestigious programs.
After Kirchwey, trustees and faculty may have sought a less ambitious man. Accordingly, they chose an obscure 43-year-old Albany lawyer, Lewis Benedict Hall, class of 1870, to become the fifth dean.
Improvements were made to the building the law school occupied, a former church that was home to Albany Law for 46 years. Hall also made changes to the curriculum, first reinstating the one-year course of study. Admission requirements were also relaxed under Hall.
The changes in program appear to have helped, but the school was still short of students and tuition. An average of about 50 students was enrolled annually during his tenure. After four years, Hall left, believed to have returned full-time to his Albany law practice.
The four administrators who followed one of the founders, Amos Dean, did their best to guide Albany Law School through unpredictable waters of American legal education during the late 19th century. Nonetheless, the enviable reputation enjoyed by the school early on began to erode at an alarming pace, even after the change in parent institutions from the University of Albany to Union University in 1873. By the end of Hall's brief term, as the new century approached, the survival of Albany Law appeared to be in jeopardy.
In 1895, the Board of State Law Examiners of New York instituted a uniform bar examination. This was a wake-up call and perhaps a relief for law school advocates. Over the previous few decades, the school had tried to respond to various voices in the profession demanding higher standards. Now, there was a single standard upon which to focus.
In contrast to his predecessors, the sixth dean of the law school was a leading member of the state's legal profession. When law school professor J. Newton Fiero (below) took charge, he had just completed a term as president of the New York Bar Association, while also remaining active as a member of its committees on statutory revision and legal education.
Fiero's term of office bridged two centuries and coincided with the Spanish-American War, World War I, the women's suffrage movement and Prohibition. By the end of his 30-year term, the longest of any chief administrator in the school's history, Dean Fiero had made profound changes to the direction and structure of the institution, changes that to some extent still determine its character today.
Born in Saugerties in the Hudson Valley in 1847, James Newton Fiero was descended from early Spanish and Dutch immigrants. After graduating Union College, he read law in the office of state Supreme Court Justice William Murray. Four years prior to his appointment as dean, Fiero had joined the firm of law school founder Amasa Parker's son and began teaching at the law school.
The married father of three was 48 when he was named law school dean. In 1909 while at the law school, Fiero was appointed state reporter, and from his desk at the Court of Appeals he produced more than 60 volumes of "New York Reports." Fiero was the author of several law books. His knowledge of state law and procedure was unsurpassed.
That Fiero and the trustees chose to emphasize the practical over the theoretical can be attributed to their desire to attract the same pool of candidates who had largely made up the student body from the beginning. Albany Law had never been a magnet for the elite. After 1895, the school had to compete not with Ivy League universities, but new part-time or night law programs that were attracting large numbers of working people and immigrants.
With time, Fiero extended the law school program of studies from one- to two- to three-years. Course offerings were slimmed down. Instruction tightened and focused on state law and preparation for the bar examination. Women increasingly started populating classes. A series of lectures on legal ethics was introduced.
Fiero's task was to distinguish the law school from so-called lawyer mills. This he did with notable success, as is evident from a steady growth in enrollment, which by the end of his tenure had increased eight-fold.
Harold D. Alexander and Andrew V. Clements, the two deans to succeed Fiero from 1924 through 1964, had a tough act to follow. Fiero had taken charge when the law school was on the brink of extinction, streamlined programs to conform with new, stricter state requirements, of which Feiro was often the author, and succeeded in attracting record numbers of students. During Feiro's tenure the school developed a reputation for specialization in state law and a high bar passage rate.
Deans Alexander and Clements were both graduates of Albany Law who had worked under Fiero. Alexander graduated in 1895, the first year of Fiero's deanship, and returned 15 years later as a lecturer in criminal law. He succeeded Fiero as dean in 1924. Clements, class of 1919, never strayed far from the school, serving first as its registrar and then as a lecturer. He became dean after Alexander retired in 1945.
Few now remember the man for whom the Dean Alexander Moot Courtroom is named (right). Born in Albany in 1874, Alexander attended city public schools, never married and was Albany County's district attorney for five years.
In his tenure, the school moved to temporary quarters in The Factory, a former mill building, and then to its current home on New Scotland Avenue. Alexander oversaw the law school through the Roaring '20s, the Depression and World War II. By the end of his tenure with enrollment sapped by the war, Alexander retired in 1945 at age 71.
Andrew Vernon Clements, 24 years younger than his predecessor, was named acting dean and a year later elected dean. Clements had been born in Chatham, Ontario. He attended high school in Rochester, then Union College and graduated from the law school in 1919.
He was among those who served in the Students' Army Training Corps in Albany during World War I. After passing the bar in 1920, he set up a law office in Albany, worked as the law school registrar and later as an instructor. He married and had two children.
During World War II, Clements served as counsel to the War Manpower Commission of New York and was director of Civil Protection in Albany. When he became dean, he dropped his law practice but remained active in legal and education affairs. Like Fiero, Clements became a prominent member of the education committee of the state Bar Association. He served as president of the Albany Academy for Girls and the school board of the Albany suburb of Coeyman. Clements also devoted hours to counseling state prison inmates who believed that their constitutional rights had been violated and won freedom for many of them.
In 1951, Clements published the Manual of Charges for Trial Justices, written with a faculty member. His widely used casebook Criminal Law and Procedure appeared the following year.
Clements coped with the influx of veterans who crowded classrooms following the war. Clements oversaw remodeling of the two-decade-old campus, expanded faculty and had the law school join the American Association of Law Schools.
In 1951, the law school celebrated its centennial. By then, approximately 4,000 students had graduated from the school since its founding.
Many law schools in the 1920s and 1930s had made changes to their program to address the growing complexity of American law. In particular, an interest in federal policy as embodied by the New Deal was quickly reflected at the leading law schools by an increase in courses on public law. The curriculum at Albany Law, however, looked more or less the same under Dean Alexander as it had under Fiero; it was not until Clements became dean that courses on administrative law and federal jurisdiction, for example, were offered.
Clements believed that the law school should be "a major influence for good in the communities served by its graduates." The character of the school altered significantly after Clements became dean. A course in labor law was offered. More electives were offered, mostly to upperclassman, and they were changed periodically. Clements' responsiveness to trends in legal education extended also to how courses were taught.
Seminars, which had become popular in the 1920s at other law schools because they enabled students to interact more closely with professors, were introduced. The experimental "problem method," first employed in the 1940s to modify the traditional case discussions, was adopted by some law school instructors. Clements introduced 1950s modern technology to the law school. Special conferences were convened.
Clements also respond to a highly critical American Association of Law Schools review in 1960 that threatened Albany Law's accreditation, making changes that improved student performance and bar passage rates.
Clements may be credited with bringing the law school into line with other legal education programs around the country, addressing problems associated with rapid institutional growth, hiring women as administrators and instructors and improving Albany Law's standing among state law schools.
Dean Clements led the law school until he became ill in 1962. During his convalescence, long-time trustee J. Vanderbilt Straub filled in as acting dean. Clements returned to work briefly but died in 1964. Following his death, trustees turned to J. Vanderbilt Straub a second time. Like Clements, Straub had remained close to the school throughout his life.
Straub had graduated as class valedictorian in 1928 and then married the daughter of the law school trustee president, whose law firm Straub joined after graduation. A trustee starting in 1941, Straub served for 50 years, longer than any other member of the board in modern history of the law school.
Law school trustees did not have to look far for its ninth dean. Trustees chose veteran Albany Law professor Samuel Hesson. Under Hesson, a major expansion and renovation of the New Scotland Avenue facilities in the late 1960s provided the setting for a larger, better and more diverse legal education program, which was augmented by six successive deans.
It was during his tenure that the school began its transformation into today's modern institution. Born in Watervliet in 1906, Samuel Moody Hesson (right) had attended public schools and Union College. In 1931, he graduated as valedictorian from Albany Law and then practiced law with two classmates and taught political science at Union College. In 1935, Hesson joined the law school faculty and soon earned a master's degree in law at Columbia University.
Married and father of a daughter, Hesson was a leading authority on state practice and procedure and served as a consultant to the legislature for the revision of Civil Practice Laws and Rules. In 1968, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller appointed Hesson a trustee of the State Savings and Loan insurance Fund.
Hesson was remembered by students and faculty as a "born teacher," who could be tough but was compassionate. Hesson would serve for 10 years, until his death in 1975 at age 68 due to a heart attack.
Assistant Dean John Welsh, himself a faculty colleague of Hesson's before taking the full-time assistant's post when Hesson was named dean, served as acting dean while a search was conducted.
Ralph D. Semerad, a Schenectady native, Harvard Law School graduate, Federal Bureau of Investigation judo and firearms instructor who had joined the Albany Law faculty in 1945, was a popular instructor. He was a frequent contributor to law reviews and edited numerous law digests and legal treatises.
The transition from Hesson to Semerad was fairly smooth. However from the beginning, Semerad's reports to the trustees and the Union University board of governors indicated his growing concern about enrollment, which was outstripping any increase in the size of faculty or physical plant.
Changes to the education program were made during Semerad's administration. Semerad recommended to law school trustees the creation of "an institute of state and local government at the school," thus planting the seeds for the present-day Government Law Center.
Less than three years after Hesson's death, Semerad died in 1977 at age 62.
John Welsh (left) stepped forward again to act as dean until a new chief administrator could be found. Welsh, who preferred to teach and stepped down as assistant dean when Semerad was named dean, made it clear that he wasn't interested in leading the law school.
But Welsh did guide capital and program improvements that were crucial to the law school maintaining its accreditation from the ABA-AALS. One of the most significant achievements during this transitional period was the establishment in 1978 of the Government Law Center.
Welsh born in Catskill in 1931, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame. He graduated in 1955 from Albany Law, where his father had been a member of the class of 1915. Welsh would serve as acting chief administrator three times: in 1975, 1977-79 and 1993-95. The married father of a son who graduated from the law school was active with the Law School Admissions Council with the New York State Bar Association.
From a pool of 20 candidates, Richard J. Bartlett was chosen the 11th dean of Albany Law School in 1979. Bartlett was already known to the committee for he had delivered the commencement address in 1974 and had recently joined the board of trustees. A familiar figure in state legal circles, he had just completed his fifth year as the state's chief administrative judge. In that role, Bartlett implemented needed reforms in the judiciary and managed one of the most complex court systems in the country.
A native of Glens Falls, Dick Bartlett had been born in 1926. He attended Georgetown University and graduated from Harvard Law School. After practicing law in his hometown, he joined the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and served as a staff judge advocate. In 1959, he was elected to the state Assembly.
Under Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, Bartlett headed a panel that revised the state's criminal statutes for the first time in 80 years. After the prison uprising at Attica in 1971, Bartlett was named to the commission that recommended improvements to the state correctional process. In 1973, he sat briefly on the state Supreme Court, before being tapped to become the state's first administrative judge. The married father's only daughter graduated from the law school.
Bartlett expanded the administrative staff from four to seven and gradually grew that number to 12. Bartlett's responsibilities were not compromised by a heavy teaching load and his primary focus was on his administrative role. Bartlett recognized the changing role of dean as chief executive, a trend in American high education, which began to become more compartmentalized and like corporations more bureaucratic in organization.
This organization allowed Bartlett to maintain priorities of revamping and updating curriculum, strengthening faculty relations, addressing diversity, capital improvements and fundraising.
One of the most important achievements of the Bartlett administration was the kick-off of the six-year Campaign for Albany Law School to raise more than $12 million through the new Office of Development and Alumni Affairs, established in 1984.
With a beefed-up administration, a more diverse school community and a modern library, the law school exceeded standards set by its professional watchdogs, the American Bar Association and the American Association of Law Schools.
At the end of his tenure, Bartlett was not stretching credulity when he posed the question "Are we a national law school?" Various rankings put Albany Law among upper tiers, yet most students still came from Upstate New York colleges and practiced locally because the law school's reputation wasn't widely known.
Following a nationwide search, Martin H. Belsky was chosen the next leader of the law school in 1986. Belsky was the first to have no previous ties to the law school, and at age 42 also the youngest dean in some time. Belsky came to the law school with a lengthy resume.
A graduate of Temple University, Belsky had earned law degrees at Columbia and Cambridge and then practiced law in Philadelphia, where he became assistant district attorney. He later served as counsel for the U.S. House of Representative's judiciary committee, assistant administrator and deputy counsel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and chief counsel for a House panel on fishing issues. Belsky had been teaching law at the University of Florida and directing its Center for Governmental Responsibility when he was solicited to apply for the dean's post.
Belsky, who had published more than 30 articles and book reviews covering a wide range of topics, was married to Kathleen Waits, a Harvard Law School graduate who joined the Albany Law faculty.
Belsky sought to continue the work of Bartlett making the school's success more widely known, and established a public relations office. Belsky also raised the goal of the Campaign for Albany Law School to $14.5 million. The success allowed for a complete renovation of the courtyard, and conversion of the old library into the Dean Alexander Moot Courtroom.
The law school's endowment now supported additional student financial aid, scholarships and professorships and expansion of administrative and student services. Belsky and the faculty worked together to prepare a five-year strategic plan.
To improve the intellectual reputation of the school, Belsky focused on faculty scholarship. He supported faculty research with grants, student assistants and sabbaticals. Following a study of 60 law schools' course offerings, about 20 electives were added to Albany Law's curriculum, including classes on transnational litigation, issues surrounding domestic violence, American constitutional history, alternative dispute resolution, immigration law, Native American rights and law and sports.
A day-care center, operated jointly with Albany Medical Center, opened adjacent to the campus. The law school conducted its first summer session. Support programming was created for first-year students to meet the increasingly diversity coming through the door, whether it was older individuals embarking on second careers, those with physical and learning needs or those for whom English might be a second language.
After five years, Belsky resigned. He remained as a full-time professor. While some earlier deans at the law school had served for as many as 20 or even 30 years, Albany Law was embarking on the national trend of rapid succession among its chief administrators; law school deans in the United States during this period were averaging less than four years.
In 1991, John T. Baker was chosen the 13th dean at the law school. Like Belsky, Baker had no prior connection to Albany Law. He was the school's first African-American chief administrator.
Born in Louisville, Ky., Baker had been an activist in the 1960s and graduated from Fisk University and Howard University Law School, before practicing law in New York City and teaching at metropolitan area law schools. For a brief period in the mid-1980s, Baker had served as Howard University dean but resigned after a controversy regarding his criticism of the school's educational standards; his position attracted national attention and praise from many in the legal profession.
Focusing on the problem of attracting students of color to the law school, Baker with a panel of minority lawyers and law students organized the first Minority Law Day in 1992. Two years after Baker became dean, he resigned but remained at the school as a professor for nine years teaching courses in corporate law and civil rights.
With 40 other law school in the market for deans at the time, faculty member John Welsh served as acting dean for nearly two years until Thomas H. Sponsler was selected as the new chief administrator of the law school in 1995. Of 50 applicants for the Albany Law post, the Loyola Law School professor had a strong academic background and had demonstrated he could run a mid-sized law school during his six years as dean of the New Orleans institution.
A native of Toledo, Ohio, Sponsler earned law degrees from the University of Toledo and Yale University. Sponsler had taught at Loyola for about 15 years before becoming its dean. While in Louisiana, Sponsler served as chairman of the New Orleans Civil Service Commission commissioner of reform of the Pardon and Parole boards. Sponsler had served on the state bar association's governing board and on a task force that studied and made recommendations regarding training programs for lawyers employed by the federal legal Services Corp.
Sponsler's mission was to achieve greater recognition for Albany Law by developing certain areas of legal expertise. New projects were established, and old ones expanded during his tenure.
Starting in 1996, the Summer Legal Institute offered course to law students and attorneys who needed to brush up on changes in the profession. That same year, the law school made national headlines when its Domestic Violence Clinic represented a victim of domestic violence who had served 10 years for killing her abusive husband. The woman was released from prison that year becoming the first incarcerated battered woman to be granted clemency by a New York governor.
The same year, the school was selected as the site for the first statewide Science and Technology Law Center. The center, which set up shop at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Technology Park in across the Hudson River in North Greenbush, offered education and training to new business ventures and their attorneys, focusing on emerging technologies, the legal issues involved in high-tech companies and the transfer of technology and intellectual property from laboratory to marketplace.
During Sponsler's tenure, faculty continued to distinguish themselves with publication of great value to the legal profession. A number of donations endowed professorship chairs.
In 1998, the Government Law Center celebrated its 20th anniversary as a national model for the research of public policy and legal issues confronting state and local government.
During Sponsler's tenure, the law school embarked on the most ambitious campaign for growth in its long history. The goal was to create an attractive and lively $200 million medical-academic complex for students, employees and visitors through the pooling of technical and financial resources of the law school, Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany Medical Center and The Sage Colleges.
In 1999, trustees approved a capital campaign to raise $25 million to underwrite objectives of the school's long-range plan, including the acquisition, renovation and construction of space, an increased endowment for faculty salaries, financial aid and program initiatives and operating support for annual giving.
Sponsler would retire in 2002, to be replaced by Thomas F. Guernsey, a dean and former professor of law at Southern Illinois University School of Law, interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Southern Illinois University and associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Richmond School of Law.
A legal scholar, the Battle Creek, Mich., native had a particular interest in the areas of special education law and disabilities law and had written several books and articles on the topics.
Albany Law's 16th dean was quick to assess a situation that had been exacerbated by a recession and initiatives that possibly overextended programming. Guernsey cut staff by 15 percent, cut the law school budget across the board by 5 percent and raised tuition by as much as 12 percent.
But Guernsey didn't believe this tied his hands.
Guernsey aimed to aggressively market the law school, attract nationally recognized faculty and improve the caliber of students the law school was admitting.
In 2003, the law school suffered its lowest bar passage rate in 35 years and 10 percentage points below the average of other state schools. Reducing the number of students helped improve selectivity and the bar passage rate. Bar passage rates rebounded. For example, by 2006, approximately 88 percent of first-time bar exam takers from the law school passed, nearly 10 percent greater than the state average.
During Guernsey's tenure, unrestricted donations by alumni, faculty and staff to the law school rose and money for financial aid climbed, surpassing $1 million annually for the first time.
In 2010, Guernsey, 59, married and father of two children, announced his intentions to step down at the end of the 2010-11 school year. Guernsey has served as the law school's dean for nine years, more than twice the national average length of service for law school deans.
Some of Guernsey's achievements included creating a new Center for Excellence in Law Teaching and increased recruitment of students from across the nation, resulting recently in more than half incoming students coming from out of state. He reduced the student-teacher ratio from 21-1 to 13-1. He improved the quality and quantity of faculty scholarship, instituting new standards and recruiting nationally renowned scholars.
President Penelope (Penny) Andrews
is Albany Law School's president and previously served as the
institution's 17th dean. She is the first female president for the
school since it opened in 1851.
Prior to joining Albany Law, President Andrews was the associate dean for academic affairs and
professor of law at City University of New York School of Law
(CUNY). Prior to joining CUNY, she was a professor of law and
director of international studies at Valparaiso Law School, where she
taught torts, public international law, international human rights law and
international criminal law.
President Andrews has extensive experience in legal education since she
commenced her law teaching career in Melbourne, Australia, in
1986. She has been tenured at four law schools, one in
Australia and three in the United States, and has served on significant
law school committees and in public interest legal organizations. She has
been a member of and chaired several accreditation site teams for the American
Bar Association's section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
President Andrews, who was born and raised in South Africa, has extensive
international experience, including teaching at law schools in Germany,
Australia, Holland, Scotland, Canada and South Africa. An annual award in her
name—The Penelope E. Andrews Human Rights Award—was inaugurated in 2005 at the
South African law school of University of Kwazulu-Natal. Along with numerous
other awards, she holds a "Women of South Africa Achievement Award," the
Albany Law Review's Women Who Mean Business Award, the Haywood Burns/Shanara
Gilbert Award, as well as Albany Law's Kate Stoneman Award, which she received
in 2002.
She has consulted for the United Nations Development Fund for Women, and for
the Ford Foundation in Johannesburg, where she evaluated labor law programs.
She earned her B.A. and LL.B from the University of Natal, Durban, South
Africa, and her LL.M from Columbia University School of Law, New York.
She has published extensively on topics centered on gender and racial equality,
South African legal issues, Australian legal issues, and international
justice. Her most recent book, From Cape Town to Kabul: Rethinking
Strategies for Pursuing Women's Human Rights, was published by Ashgate in
2012. She is currently working on a paper that focuses on the
challenges for law school graduates in rural communities.
Prior to her
appointment as Dean, Dean Alicia Ouellette served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
and Intellectual Life. She is a Professor of Law at Albany Law School
and a Professor of Bioethics in the Union Graduate College/Mt. Sinai
School of Medicine Program in Bioethics. Her research focuses on health
law, disability rights, family law, children's rights, and human
reproduction. Her book, Bioethics and Disability: Toward a Disability Conscious Bioethics, was
published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press. She has authored
numerous articles published in academic journals such as the American Journal of Law and Medicine, the Hastings Center Report, the American Journal of Bioethics, the Hastings Law Journal, the Indiana Law Journal and Oregon Law Review.
Before joining the law
faculty, Dean Ouellette served as an Assistant Solicitor General in the
New York State-Attorney General's office. As ASG, Prof. Ouellette
briefed and argued more than 100 appeals on issues ranging from
termination of treatment for the terminally ill to the responsibility of
gun manufacturers for injuries caused by handguns. Before that, Dean
Ouellette worked in private practice and served as a confidential law
clerk to Judge Howard A. Levine on the New York State Court of Appeals.
She has continued her advocacy work in select cases and was lead counsel
on the law professors' brief submitted in support of same-sex couples
who sought the right to marry in New York state.


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** (out of four)
When Thor (Chris Hemsworth) first appears in "Thor: The Dark World," he's dominating a battle in Vanaheim (home of Visneyland?) and destroys the Rock—er, a monster that resembles a walking rock collection—with a single hammer smash to the face. It's easy. Too easy.
That's part of why, despite Hemsworth's perfect casting, I again have tried and failed to care about the Marvel comics superhero whose contributions to 2012's "The Avengers" identified him as a useful team player. Largely on his own in 2011's dull "Thor" and now in "The Dark World," Thor, his mighty torso and his powerful-enough-to-turn-anyone-into-a-badass weapon lack vulnerability. Fans may say, "But he'd risk his life for Jane (Natalie Portman)!" These movies make me think how lovely Thor and Jane's kids would be but not how majestically dreamy their bond is.
Following his previous battle with the underwhelming Frost Giants, Thor now copes with Dark Elves who return in pursuit of aether, an evil power that looks like possessed, flying red wine. Seriously, this is the main villain and the world-destroying force at work. The film also grows complicated rather than engrossing as multiple worlds move toward the convergence they achieve every 5,000 years. That unlikely coincidence isn't the only bad luck here: Thor's throne-craving bro Loki (Tom Hiddleston) was the juiciest character in "The Avengers," but he spends much of "The Dark World" in jail. It's as rewarding as when Lisbeth Salander lay around in bed in "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Next."
Better used in a small dose is one of the Avengers (no, I won't ruin who) in a brief, self-parodying cameo; it's the film's most effortlessly fun moment. Otherwise, a few strong images from new director Alan Taylor notwithstanding, "The Dark World" becomes the latest expensive approximation of entertainment that equates destruction with eye-popping splendor.
Not that things get better when the dust settles. Anthony Hopkins returns as King Explains-A-Lot for some of the film's many conversations that unfold as intense bickering elevated to big shouting and returning to serious assertions. And none of the instances when the script's a little funny involve Kat Dennings (returning as Jane's snarky assistant), who again clearly thinks she's hilarious but registers only as obnoxious. How this annoying one-trick pony continues to get work I have no idea.
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Wiz Khalifa investigated over hit-and-run allegations
WIZ KHALIFA is facing a police investigation after a driver alleged the rapper was involved in a traffic accident in Los Angeles last week (ends23Sep12).
A woman filed a report with the Los Angeles Police Department claiming the hip-hop star's car smashed into her vehicle last Wednesday (19Sep12), but alleges Khalifa subsequently left the scene of the accident.
The unnamed female was reportedly working on a music video shoot with the star and the crash allegedly occurred as crewmembers were leaving the set, according to TMZ.com.
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LIVERMORE — A quiet, country drive through Del Valle Regional Park Saturday ended abruptly for Livermore police Chief Michael Harris, who braked for a bloodied woman screaming "Take him, take him!" before thrusting a wounded child into his arms.
The San Jose mom, identified as 23-year-old Ashley Newton, handed off the unconscious, blond baby, half-dressed in a Cookie Monster diaper and blue, striped pullover shirt. The disheveled woman then tried to get into Harris' vehicle, where his own 2- and 3-year-old girls sat quietly in their car seats.
"She thought we were going to take the baby and go to the hospital — she was in a really bad place; you could tell," said Harris. "She handed me her baby, and asked me to help her baby — she thought he was still alive."
Harris, who was off-duty and exploring the park with his family when he encountered Newton, clung to hope that these thoughts were true — the police chief, along with a park lieutenant and a California Highway Patrol officer responding to the woman's crashed car 200 yards away, performed CPR on the wounded infant. As first responders continued their rescue efforts, they noticed the child's injuries were not wounds received in a car crash — they were deep stab wounds.
Officials pronounced the child dead about 10 minutes later, as his mother sat dazed in the roadway with blood caked on her sweatshirt and torn jeans. Hours later, after being treated for a self-inflicted stab wound to her arm, the woman was booked into Santa Rita Jail on suspicion of the murder of her infant son.
Woman 'appeared'
The incident began at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, when officials inside the 4,400-acre park received a report of a gray Honda Civic crashing repeatedly into large rocks near Camp Arroyo, officials said. The responding CHP officer originally assumed that the vehicle, which had extensive front- and rear-end damage, had been damaged by a hit-and-run driver but decided to investigate further when he noticed a baby seat in the back.
Harris and his wife passed the wreck on their way up Arroyo Road but continued onward since CHP was already on scene. When they came upon the road's dead-end, they turned around past the Arroyo campground and headed back from where they came.
"All of a sudden, this woman just appeared in the roadway in front of me with the baby," Harris said. "There wasn't much time to think about it, only to react."
The immediate assumption was that the woman and her child had been injured in the car crash, Harris said. That notion changed the longer they stayed on the scene, assessing injuries, the woman's behavior and unspecified comments she made.
"She made several spontaneous statements at the scene that implicated her as being the sole person responsible," East Bay Regional Park District police Sgt. Tyrone Davis said. Harris noted that she seemed paranoid, and like she wasn't in her right mind.
In interviews with investigators Sunday, the woman admitted to killing the child but did not specify a motive, Davis said. Additional unspecified evidence at the scene suggested the woman may suffer from depression, but officials have yet to confirm any clinical mental health diagnosis.
Intentional crash
The suspected murder weapon, a pocket knife, was booked into evidence Saturday afternoon, and investigators believe the stabbing occurred in the time after the woman crashed her car, Davis said. Authorities also believe the car crash was intentional, since a witness saw the car backing into the rocks multiple times.
Detectives on Sunday also interviewed the father of the child, an unidentified San Jose man who last spoke to the woman on Friday, Davis said. The unemployed woman, who is originally from North Carolina, has lived in both Fremont and San Jose and has no other family in the immediate area.
A warrant to search Newton's car was processed Sunday, and toxicology tests are pending to determine whether drugs played a role in the killing. According to Davis, investigators have ruled out the possibility of a foiled murder-suicide.
In July 2009, the bodies of a Walnut Creek teenager and his mother were found at Mt. Diablo State Park in an apparent murder-suicide.
In that case, Adam Williams, 16, was shot and killed by his mother, Judith Williams, who then turned the gun on herself. The bodies of mother and son were found at the Lookout Point picnic area by park staff closing up that night.
"It's shocking — it's not something you expect to come to work and deal with," Davis said. "And when you're dealing with a child, it's just that much harder to cope."
Staff writer Kristin Bender contributed to this report. Follow Erin Ivie at Twitter.com/erin_ivie.


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jkchaix needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 60 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
The Charcoal Project. charcoalproject.org
More than two billion energy-poor people around the world depend on wood, charcoal, dung or agricultural residues as primary fuel for their cooking and heating needs, leading to significant health, economic, and environmental consequences.
The mission of The Charcoal Project is to facilitate and advocate for the conversion from traditional wood and charcoal fuel to energy efficient stoves and sustainable biomass alternatives in developing countries.
Our goal is nothing less than to replace the three-stones-and-a-pot wood or charcoal heating method with more energy-efficient stoves and innovative fuels based on sustainable biomass.
Very broad audience in many different countries, many of which can't read or write in their own language, let alone English.
We will also be targeting major donors, governments, and other non-profits.
The mission is simple. A basic logo that will convey the notion of burning of a sustainable fuel based on agricultural material or vegetable matter.
I don't think words are necessary.
One interesting concept to keep in mind is the three-stones and a pot concept. This basically reflects the technology mankind has used for the last 3000 years. In a world of limited resources, it's time to leave this outdated technology behind.
We don't have any particular preferences when it comes to colors but four-color process could be nice.
Also, a circle or globe reflects the world, which is also something we want to emphasize.
This is THE logo that will appear on EVERYTHING!
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Movies: 'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Django Unchained' & 'The Impossible'
Following are Susan Granger's reviews of the latest movies in area theaters:
Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow traces the hunt for Osama bin Laden in this satisfying revenge thriller. Collaborating again with investigative journalist/screenwriter Mark Boal, Bigelow not only matches but exceeds the tension and suspense she generated with "The Hurt Locker" (2009).
Realizing that the outcome is now part of 21st-century history, Bigelow and Boal concentrate on the arduous process of tracking down the elusive leader of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. That's how this dense docudrama begins -- with a dark screen and emotional sound-bites of phone calls from terrified people trapped in the Twin Towers that morning.
Two years later in Pakistan, a nephew of bin Laden has been captured, brutally interrogated and sexually humiliated. A single-minded CIA analyst -- simply called Maya (Jessica Chastain) -- is working on the case, patiently gathering and diligently collating scraps of information from various sources. Gradually, she becomes convinced that, contrary to the opinion of the dismissive men who outrank her, bin Laden is not hiding in a cave somewhere in the hills. Instead, he has taken refuge with his extended family in a suburban compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he can continue to mastermind al-Qaeda operations. Although no one else is as totally persuaded of his location as she is, including top-level Washington operatives, her unwavering determination prevails in the decision-making process. The title is military jargon for 12:30 a.m. -- the precise time of the Navy SEALS' raid on that compound on May 2, 2011. "Kill bin Laden for me," Maya tells them.
The outcome of that venture has been previously documented in Matt Bissonnette's best-seller "No Easy Day" and the SEALS' endorsed film "Act of Valor." Nevertheless, Bigelow's eerie, intricate rendition is provocative and powerful. Chastain's understated performance is outstanding, and she's ably supported by Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Ehle, Edgar Ramirez, Mark Strong, Chris Platt, Mark Duplass and James Gandolfini.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Zero Dark Thirty" is an uncompromising, intense 10, packed with naturalistic authenticity.
Violence-obsessed writer/director Quentin Tarantino ("Inglorious Basterds," "Kill Bill") pays tribute to the Spaghetti Western genre with this action-packed, blaxploitation/revenge fantasy.
Set in the South two years before the Civil War, this is the story of Django (Jamie Foxx) -- the "D" is silent -- who partners up with a genteel, yet ruthless, German-born dentist/bounty hunter, Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), an expert at psychological gamesmanship. Their first order of business is to kill three murderous Brittle brothers and claim the hefty reward.
After spending a winter honing his gunslinger skills, emancipated Django is determined to find and rescue his enslaved wife, incongruously named Broomhilda von Shaft (Kerry Washington). Sold at auction in Greenville, Miss., she's owned by smarmy, smooth-talking Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio); her job is to pleasure Mandingo fighters at Calvin's disreputable Candyland plantation. While Schultz concocts a clever scheme, their motives are discovered by skeptical Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), Candie's complicit slave/confidante.
Predictably, the cruelty is brutal and shameful, as are the racial epithets. But what's surprising is how absurdly comedic the anecdotal, character-driven script is, particularly when a Klan raid turns into a Mel Brooks routine, as riders argue about not being able to see through ill-fitting hoods.
Quentin Tarantino named Django after a coffin-toting Sergio Corbucci character played by Franco Nero, who appears briefly. Supporting players include Don Johnson, Jonah Hill, Russ Tamblyn, Tom Wopat, Michael Parks and Bruce Dern. Idiosyncratic Tarantino appears in two cameos: one with Jonah Hill as a Klan member and the second with an Australian accent. Filming took place at Melody Ranch in Santa Clarita, Calif., a familiar location for Westerns, like "High Noon" and "Gunsmoke," which was once owned by cowboy star Gene Autry.
Insofar as historical authenticity goes, several prominent scholars, including Howard University's Edna Greene Medford, have disputed the existence of Mandingo fighting (bare-knuckle death matches between brawny slaves) as an economically unfeasible sport for slave-owners.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Django Unchained" is an indulgent, excessive 8 -- Tarantino at his bloody best.
It's a nightmare come true. A British family of five is spending the holidays in a beach bungalow at a hotel on Khao Lak in Thailand when the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hits. This is based on the true story of their harrowing experience -- and it's not for the squeamish.
British businessman Henry (Ewan McGregor), his doctor wife Maria (Naomi Watts) and their three sons are celebrating the Christmas holiday, frolicking on an island in a tropical paradise. But on the morning of Dec. 26, they're suddenly swept in different directions by an immense tidal wave. Along with thousands of others, they fight not only to survive but to find one another amid the mayhem. Struggling through the shattered trees and scattered debris, Maria spies their oldest son, terrified but courageous Lucas (Tom Holland), but she has no idea what happened to Henry and the two younger boys, Thomas (Samuel Joslin) and Simon (Oaklee Pendergast).
Inspired by Maria Belon's recollections, writer Sergio G. Sanchez, director Juan Antonio Bayona and cinematographer Oscar Faura (previous collaborators on the far-more-subtle Spanish ghost story "The Orphanage") melodramatically dramatize the catastrophe, delineating incidents of kindness and compassion among strangers. Propelling the picture, Watts is fiercely brave and empathetic, acting with every muscle in her body, while McGregor's urgency is suspenseful and gripping.
The compelling depiction of tsunami devastation and carnage is even more staggering than Clint Eastwood's prologue to "Hereafter," as Maria is repeatedly submerged under the rushing water, relentlessly struggling to the surface. Then, badly injured and in excruciating pain, she must make her way through muddy rubble with Lucas to seek help, get to a local hospital and, somehow, locate the missing members of her family amid teeming hoards of anxious refugees and unidentified corpses.
Unfortunately, there are also unnecessary plunges into ponderous sentimentality, the most grievous being an impromptu philosophical interlude between Lucas and an elderly survivor (Geraldine Chaplin).
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "The Impossible" is a viscerally vigorous 7, a grim, gritty, graphic chronicle of disaster.


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Debian GNU/Linux includes complete source-code for all of the included
programs, so it should work on all systems which are supported by the Linux
kernel; see the
FAQ for details.
The current Debian GNU/Linux release, 8, contains a complete, binary distribution for the following architectures:
amd64: this covers systems based on AMD 64bit CPUs with AMD64 extension and all Intel CPUs with EM64T extension, and a common 64bit userspace.
arm64: supports the latest 64-bit ARM-powered devices.
armel: little-endian ARM machines.
armhf: an alternative to armel for ARMv7 machines with hard-float.
i386: this covers systems based on Intel and compatible processors, including Intel's 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II (both Klamath and Celeron), and Pentium III, and most compatible processors by AMD, Cyrix and others.
ia64: Intel IA-64 ("Itanium") computers.
mips: SGI's big-endian MIPS systems, Indy and Indigo2; mipsel: little-endian MIPS machines, Digital DECstations.
powerpc: this covers some IBM/Motorola PowerPC machines, including the Apple Macintosh PowerMac models, and the CHRP and PReP open architecture machines.
ppc64el: 64-bit little-endian PowerPC port, supports several recent PowerPC/POWER processors.
s390x: 64-bit port for IBM System z machines, replaced s390.
The development of binary distributions of Debian for hurd-i386 (for GNU Hurd kernel on i386 32-bit PCs), mipsel64 (for 64 bit MIPS in little-endian mode), powerpcspe (port for the "Signal Processing Engine" hardware), sparc64 (for 64 bit SPARC processors), sh (for Hitachi SuperH processors), and x32 (for amd64/x86_64 CPUs using 32-bit pointers) is currently underway.
Support for the m68k architecture was dropped in the Etch (Debian 4.0) release, because it did not meet the criteria set by the Debian Release Managers. This architecture covers Amigas and ATARIs having a Motorola 680x0 processor for x>=2; with MMU. However, the port is still active and available for installation even if not a part of this official stable release and might be reactivated for future releases.
Support for the hppa (Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC machines) and alpha (Compaq/Digital's Alpha systems) were dropped in the Squeeze (Debian 6.0) release for similar reasons. The arm was dropped too in this release, as it was superseded by the armel architecture.
Support for the 32-bit s390 port (s390) was discontinued and replaced with s390x in Jessie (Debian 8). In addition, the ports to IA-64 and Sparc had to be removed from this release due to insufficient developer support.
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In addition to these, work is in progress on the following adaptations:
avr32, port to Atmel's 32-bit RISC architecture,
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Debian developers communicate with other Linux distribution creators in an effort to maintain binary compatibility across Linux distributions. Most commercial Linux products run as well under Debian as they do on the system upon which they were built.
Debian GNU/Linux adheres to the
Linux Filesystem Hierarchy
Standard. However, there is room for interpretation in some of the
rules within this standard, so there may be slight differences between a Debian
system and other Linux systems.
Debian GNU/Linux supports software developed for the
Linux Standard Base. The LSB is a
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For most applications Linux source code is compatible with other Unix systems. It supports almost everything that is available in System V Unix systems and the free and commercial BSD-derived systems. However in the Unix business such claim has nearly no value because there is no way to prove it. In the software development area complete compatibility is required instead of compatibility in "about most" cases. So years ago the need for standards arose, and nowadays POSIX.1 (IEEE Standard 1003.1-1990) is one of the major standards for source code compatibility in Unix-like operating systems.
Linux is intended to adhere to POSIX.1, but the POSIX standards cost real money and the POSIX.1 (and FIPS 151-2) certification is quite expensive; this made it more difficult for the Linux developers to work on complete POSIX conformance. The certification costs make it unlikely that Debian will get an official conformance certification even if it completely passed the validation suite. (The validation suite is now freely available, so it is expected that more people will work on POSIX.1 issues.)
Unifix GmbH (Braunschweig, Germany) developed a Linux system that has been certified to conform to FIPS 151-2 (a superset of POSIX.1). This technology was available in Unifix' own distribution called Unifix Linux 2.0 and in Lasermoon's Linux-FT.
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A program to unpack a Debian package onto a Linux host that is been built from
a `foreign' distribution is available, and will generally work, in the sense
that files will be unpacked. The converse is probably also true, that is, a
program to unpack a Red Hat or Slackware package on a host that is based on
Debian GNU/Linux will probably succeed in unpacking the package and placing
most files in their intended directories. This is largely a consequence of the
existence (and broad adherence to) the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
Alien package
is used to convert between different package formats.
Most package managers write administrative files when they are used to unpack an archive. These administrative files are generally not standardized. Therefore, the effect of unpacking a Debian package on a `foreign' host will have unpredictable (certainly not useful) effects on the package manager on that system. Likewise, utilities from other distributions might succeed in unpacking their archives on Debian systems, but will probably cause the Debian package management system to fail when the time comes to upgrade or remove some packages, or even simply to report exactly what packages are present on a system.
The Linux File System Standard (and therefore Debian GNU/Linux) requires that subdirectories under /usr/local/ be entirely under the user's discretion. Therefore, users can unpack `foreign' packages into this directory, and then manage their configuration, upgrade and removal individually.
Files under the directory /usr/local/ are not under the control of the Debian package management system. Therefore, it is good practice to place the source code for your program in /usr/local/src/. For example, you might extract the files for a package named "foo.tar" into the directory /usr/local/src/foo. After you compile them, place the binaries in /usr/local/bin/, the libraries in /usr/local/lib/, and the configuration files in /usr/local/etc/.
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Debian uses the terminfo database and the ncurses library of terminal interface routes, rather than the termcap database and the termcap library.
The low-level terminfo library has been split out from the general ncurses library, making a new package called libtinfo5. libncurses is linked to libtinfo, so users who are compiling programs that require some knowledge of the terminal interface should replace references to libtermcap with references to libncurses.
To support binaries that have already been linked with the termcap library, and for which you do not have the source, you will have to find the library source and compile it yourself. Debian used to provide a package called termcap-compat which contained both libtermcap.so.2 and /etc/termcap, but this was removed from the distribution in 2005.
AccelX uses the termcap library for installation. See Why can't I compile programs that require libtermcap?, Section 4.7 above.
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R/V Atlantis Shipboard Computing
This section offers an overview of the general computing facilities available on board R/V Atlantis as an aid in planning for upcoming cruises.
It is a good idea to contact the onboard technician before the cruise to ensure that any computing resources you plan to bring will work with the equipment available, and to verify that the ship's resources important for your cruise are in good working order. To reach the onboard technician, send email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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If watching WWE over the last few weeks has taught me anything, it's to expect the unexpected. We've seen The Rock come back, Steve Austin looks like he's ready to return to action and Jim Ross is back behind the announce desk.
In a different vein, based on the rumours around the 'net, I expected to see Triple H retire after WrestleMania or perhaps see Rey Mysterio's final WWE match be the bout on the "greatest stage of them all."
What I didn't expect was to see one of my all-time favourites -- Edge -- retire.
But sure enough, WWE's favourite Canadian called it quits on Raw on Monday night.
To say I'm stunned is one way to put it, but another way to put it is that I'm thankful.
We don't need to go that far back in Edge's history to see just how banged up the guy is. He's been through hell and back several times over. If there's a body part that hasn't been injured, bruised or broken, it would be nothing short of a miracle.
It's no secret that I've been a huge Edge fan over the years, and count some of his matches, in particular his no holds barred match vs. Eddie Guerrero on Smackdown a few years back and his part in the Smackdown Six matches, as some of my favourites. He had that natural charisma that he emoted in every part of his career, be it as the Spawn-esque silent street hero, the '80s throwback that reeked of awesomeness, or the Rated R Superstar.
What I've respected most, perhaps, over the years about Edge, is that he's never hidden a damn thing. He spoke openly on TSN's Off the Record a few years back about experimenting with steroids, he didn't try to politic backstage to keep the controversy of the Lita/Matt Hardy incident off the screen, and he's never been shy about speaking his mind on or off screen.
When Edge first arrived in WWE, there were high expectations, thanks in part to his great run on the independent scene (which included a run in Winnipeg for Tony Condello's IWA and a Northern Death Tour). There were even those that predicted that the man who in civilian clothes is known as Adam Copeland would be the next Ric Flair. In some ways, Edge did live up to those lofty expectations, given that just like Naitch, he retires with one of the largest trophy cases full of title belts of anyone in the industry. There's a reason why Edge has held virtually every title in WWE multiple times over -- the company knew that when he was in the ring, he could draw people in like almost no other. He made opponents look good and partners look like supermen.
But like I said earlier, Edge is leaving the ring before he's forced to. The eternal fear that we all had was that Edge would end up in a wheelchair, and it looks thus far like Edge will indeed avoid that fate, thankfully. As hard as it will be for Edge to leave the ring behind -- and there will be days where he'll rethink this decision -- he's made the best decision possible for his future.
In closing, I want to say thank you to Adam Copeland for treating fans to fantastic action for a near 20-year career and almost 15 years in WWE. Make no mistake about it, you will be missed, but your legions of Edgeheads know why you are doing what you are doing, and we all respect you for it.


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ADDISON COUNTY — Mosquito control officials in the state's three insect control districts — all located in Addison County and Brandon — are getting ready to close the books on what they say was one of the buggiest summers in recent history.
Seemingly incessant rainfall throughout July and early August caused frequent flooding of area wetlands, as well as spillovers of the Otter Creek and its tributaries. The resulting water pooling created ideal conditions for mosquitoes to spawn, hatch and wreak havoc throughout the county.
"Statewide, we've been getting a lot of reports and calls of elevated levels of mosquitoes in areas that have never called before," state Entomologist Jon Turmel said on Thursday. "It's been because of the amount of rain we've had.
"The rain hasn't been absorbed (into the ground) and there are all these puddles. We just can't find them all."
It hasn't been for a lack of trying.
The Lemon Fair Insect Control District's airplane conducted more than 40 larvicide dropping sorties throughout the three insect control districts, encompassing Bridport, Cornwall, Weybridge, Brandon, Leicester, Goshen and Salisbury. In all, the plane dumped larvicide — which kills mosquito larvae in their early stages of growth — on a whopping 7,288 acres this summer. By contrast, the Lemon Fair district's plane dropped larvicide on only 608 acres last year during what was a comparatively dry summer. All of the larvicide drops last year were confined to the Brandon, Leicester, Salisbury, Goshen (BLSG) Mosquito Control District.
"We handle an area that is very large, and it got even larger," Lemon Fair district Manager Tom Baskett said of the impact of the rainy conditions. "It shifted from day to day."
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BENSON — Nov. 4 could be called "independents day" in Addison-Rutland 1, the Vermont House District that includes Shoreham, Orwell, Benson and Whiting.
That's because two independent candidates — and nary a Democrat or Republican — are vying for the right to represent the district for the next two years.
Benson Town Moderator John Hill confirmed on Thursday that he will run as an independent challenger to freshman incumbent Rep. Will Stevens, I-Shoreham.
Hill, 56, is an accounts auditor with the firm NEIS Inc. He inspects payroll and sales records for the insurance industry, performing 95 percent of his duties in Vermont.
A Sunderland, Vt., native, Hill and his family have lived in Benson for the past six years. He recently served his community on the Benson school board and is now enjoying his role as town moderator.
"I like fairness and I believe when you give people enough information, they'll make good decisions," Hill said.
He believes that same philosophy holds true for a state representative, a role in which he sees himself gathering information on issues to share with his constituents for feedback.
"I'm the people's advocate to get information out," said Hill, who is no stranger to political contests. Thirty years ago, he ran as a Democrat in a four-way contest for one of Bennington County's two seats in the Vermont Senate. Hill recalls finishing a "respectable fourth," but hadn't launched another bid for the Statehouse until this year.
He stressed he is not running simply to unseat Stevens.
"My decision is based exclusively on a desire to give back to the community and help the district and state become better," Hill said.
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MIDDLEBURY — Visitors to the Middlebury Farmers' Market are well accustomed to the cheerful, small-town skyline of tents and colorful pavilions that appears twice a week during the summer and fall.
But one tent slated to crop up at this coming Saturday's market won't be peddling the usual assortment of local produce and fresh flowers.
Part interactive art project, part activist awareness prop, the tent is the central symbol of the Tents of Hope movement, a national art project aimed at promoting awareness and action to end genocide in the Darfur region of the African nation of Sudan.
The local incarnation of the project comes to Addison County this month care of the Middlebury College Chaplain's Office and the Middlebury Area Clergy Association, and will travel to two more Middlebury locations, appearing for three consecutive Saturdays this month before eventually being sent to Washington, D.C., for a rally on the National Mall in November.
"Our main goal is to kind of bring the situation in Darfur to the front of peoples' consciousness," said Tim Franklin, the pastor at the Bridport Congregational Church and one of the project's local organizers. "This is something that for many people is on the edges of their awareness."
Townspeople will be invited to help paint the tent, and information and petitions will be on hand for those interested in learning more about the Darfur region of western Sudan. The region has been the focus of international attention since government troops and militia groups known as janjaweed began conducting widespread civilian killings in the area in 2004. At least 200,000 individuals are thought to have died, and more than 2.5 million others are believed to have fled their homes in the region.
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Best Exercises to Combat Jiggly Arms
I absolutely love this warm weather, and it looks like this summer will definitely be a hot one! The scorching sun calls for swimsuits, tank tops and sleeveless shirts, so it's important for me to get my arms in great shape. I think it's safe to say we all desire to have sexy, sculpted arms along with those six pack abs. When it comes to toning or defining any part of the body, strength training is the way to get the results, whether it is to bulk up or lean down. Here are some of my favorite workouts that help me turn that stubborn fat in my arms into muscle!
Dumbbell Bicep Curls
I'm sure the majority of you are informed on how to perform this exercise. It's simple, but it's one of the best exercises to help strengthen and tone your biceps. Your biceps are highly visible muscles, so focusing on them will have a huge impact on the appearance of your arms. It's important not to focus on the weight of the dumbbells, but on performing this exercise properly.
- Stand with your feet shoulder width apart. Hold a 5 lb. dumbbell (or whichever weight you are comfortable with) in front of the hips with your palms facing out.
- Curl your left hand toward your shoulder. Then lower it back down, while keeping your right arm parallel to the floor.
- Do 10 curls with your left arm and then switch to complete 10 curls with your right arm.
I also like to complete my bicep curls by alternating each arm. Either way, your biceps will be burning after your first set!
Dumbbell Pullovers
This may be hard to believe, but this workout truly gets my armpits sore! It's sure to do the same for you!
- Lay flat on your back on an exercise bench or a bench with cushion underneath to support your back.
- Hold an 8 lb. dumbbell (Again use a weight you are comfortable with, but I suggest starting at a low weight.) in both hands with your arms extended over your chest.
- Slowly lower the weight behind your head and then slowly bring the weight back to the starting position.
- Complete 3 sets of 12 reps.
That's right! We all love and hate push-ups at the same time. This exercise has always been great not just for strengthening your back and core, but it will tone your shoulders and triceps.
- Get into bridge position with your hands at a distance that is slightly wider than shoulder-width apart.
- Your feet should be set in a position that feels right is most comfortable to you.
- Lower your body until your chest nearly touches the floor. (As you lower your body, embrace your core and do not let your hips drop! )
- Pause, then push back up to the starting position.
If you are not able to perform push-ups on your toes yet, DON'T WORRY! There are ways you can modify this exercise to fit your fitness level. Here is a great article that shows you a variation of ways you can do a push-up. https://www.9round.com/blog/secret-to-sexy-arms-in-4-weeks-or-less
I know what you're thinking. "What is she talking about? This is not an exercise." Punching the air may not be very effective, but punching heavy bags is sure to quickly and easily tone those arms of yours! Not only is kickboxing a full body workout, but the different types of punches used will definitely get your arms burning. I understand the big kickboxing gyms are intimidating, and that is why I go to 9Round. I had no experience when I started, but the trainer demonstrated every exercise for me.
Overhead Tricep Extension with Dumbbell
Don't neglect your triceps! Not only does tricep exercises aid in your goal of sculpting your arms, but the strength and stability of your shoulders and elbows will increase as well.
- Stand up holding the dumbbell with both hands and position your feet about shoulder width apart.
- Slowly using both hands, lift the dumbbell over your head until your arms are completely extended.
- Keep your upper arms close to your head and your elbows in. Slowly lower the resistance behind your head until your forearms touch your biceps. Remember your upper arms should not move during this step.
- Bring the dumbbell back to starting position using your triceps.
- Repeat for 10 repetitions 3 times.
I have learned through personal experience that the key to getting the firm, sexy arms I desire is to work the arm muscles frequently and consistently. These workouts will focus on the different muscles needed to combat those jiggly arms!