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Admission to the MS-CJC program
Transferring Courses
Up to six of your total 30 hours for the MS-CJC program may be transferred from another academic institution. To be eligible, the courses for transfer must:
- come from an accredited school,
- have been taken for graduate credit,
- be acceptable to your program at UMKC,
- have been completed at a reasonable performance level.
Transfer restrictions
Transfer credit cannot be accepted for research and thesis hours, travel experience, and work or life experience.
University of Missouri (UM) Traveling Scholar credits are not considered transfer credits. The sum total of credits from other UM campuses, and transfer credits from other institutions, cannot exceed 14 hours within a 30-hour total program of study.
Credits over seven years old by the time of graduation may not be counted toward fulfillment of the degree program unless validated to the satisfaction of the department and School of Graduate Studies.
Final approval for all courses constituting a student's program of study for the MS-CJC degree is made by the student's supervisory committee.
Admission Requirements
The minimum admission requirements for entrance into the MS-CJC program include the following:
- Completed an undergraduate degree, from an accredited university of college, with a program major in the socio-behavioral sciences sufficient to prepare for graduate-level study in the criminal justice and criminology field.
- Achieve a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.0 in all undergraduate work.
- Complete undergraduate courses in statistics, research methods, and theories of crime.
- Two letters of recommendation: Applicants should ask at least two individuals to provide references on their behalf using the form that can be found at http://cas.umkc.edu/cjc/pdfs/MS-CJC-LOR-form.pdf. Please note that references may also include a written letter of reference, that speaks to the applicant's scholastic aptitude, and their level of preparation for graduate-level education. References should be provided by individuals who are not related to the applicant, and ideally will come from individuals who have direct knowledge of the applicant's academic credentials and preparedness
The application process is competitive. Satisfaction of the minimum criteria stated above does not guarantee admission to the graduate program of study. Students are admitted according to their rank in the applicant pool and consideration of the adequacy of departmental resources.
Students who do not meet admission requirements, but who otherwise may show
promise for graduate work, may be admitted provisionally to the program.
Provisional admission means deficiencies must be corrected before a student is
fully admitted as a degree-seeking student in the M.S.-CJC program. Typical
deficiencies include a need to take undergraduate coursework to prepare for
graduate study in this program, or to demonstrate scholastic ability in
graduate-level courses.
Application Procedures
Applicants to the MS-CJC program must submit the following materials for review:
- A completed UMKC Application form requesting admission to graduate study in the Master of Science in Criminal Justice and Criminology program, along with the application fee. This material should be sent directly to:
- Official transcripts from the school where the bachelor's degree was obtained, and other schools where course work has been taken or degrees have been obtained after completion of the bachelor's degree. Transcripts should also be sent directly to the UMKC Admissions Office.
- Submit a writing sample to the department Admissions Committee. This writing sample should take the form of a 2-3 page letter requesting admission to the program. Within the letter, applicants should identify how their undergraduate education, and perhaps their work or personal experience, has prepared them for graduate study in the area of criminal justice and criminology. Also, the letter should address how the applicant views study in our graduate program as fitting with his or her future career and/or educational goals. This material should be sent directly to:
Office of Admissions
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road,
Kansas City, MO 64110
MS-CJC Principal Graduate Advisor
Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5215 Rockhill Road,
Kansas City, MO 64110
Decisions regarding admission to the program are made by a committee of graduate faculty in the program. Applications are reviewed with attention to past academic performance and substantive areas of study that would prepare students for graduate study in Criminal Justice and Criminology.
Applicants for the spring term (January-May) must have all materials to the Admissions Committee by November 1. For those applying for summer (May-August) or fall terms (August-December), all application materials must be in by March 15. It is strongly recommended that the application process be initiated at least five months prior to the anticipated date of initial enrollment to ensure all materials will be on hand in time for review.
An admissions application form for the M.S. program in CJC can be obtained upon request by contacting the department at 816-235-2751 or the Admissions Office at (816) 235-1111 or toll free (800) 775-UMKC. To apply online (to the College of Arts and Sciences), click here.
International students must follow procedures outlined by the General Graduate Admission Policy for International Applicants. These materials will be sent directly from the International Student Affairs office, and further correspondence with regard to application procedures should be directed to:
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Bell Helicopter anticipates receiving Transport Canada type certification for the 429 twin-turbine light helicopter by the end of June, followed swiftly by FAA validation and, a few weeks farther out, EASA approval. Company officials told AIN that all component testing and flight testing is complete, with just software approval remaining for Canadian certification. The flight-test program has accumulated more than 1,800 hours using two prototypes and three pre-production aircraft. When it announced the 429 in February 2005, Bell estimated TC and FAA certification in the first quarter of 2007 and first deliveries later that year. The delayed certification of the 429 "has been a talking point for the last year or so," said Neil Marshall, Bell Helicopter program director for the Model 429 and modular affordable product line (MAPL). "We wanted to hit the mark with this aircraft–to underpromise and overdeliver–and I think the only area we missed was the schedule." Bell currently holds letters of intent for 301 of the multi-mission rotorcraft, which the company will begin converting to purchase agreements as soon as it receives the type certificate.
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KNOXVILLE (WATE) - A Knoxville man was injured Wednesday night when an intruder broke into his home.
Knoxville police the home invasion happened around 8:45 p.m. at a home on Hiawassee Avenue.
The homeowner, Eugene Underwood, was on the phone with a 911 operator as the intruder broke through the door and held him at gunpoint.
Officers say they found the front door of the home nearly split in half horizontally.
Underwood suffered a large cut on his forehead.
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You're probably familiar with many of these, or you just recently received the email forward that seems to be going around, but either way who doesn't love a good list of quotes. I hope someone has been keeping tabs on Joe Paterno, he definitely has a handful that belong in this grouping as well.
Here's My Top 10
10. "We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking."
- John McKay, USC
9. "I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."
- Knute Rockne, Notre Dame
8. "Football is not a contact sport-it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport." - Duffy Daugherty, Michigan State
7. "Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died." - Frank Leahy, Notre Dame
6. "The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it." - Lou Holtz, Arkansas
5. "Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas." - Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.
4. "Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."
- Lou Holtz, Arkansas
3. "I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades." - Duffy Daugherty, Michigan State
2. "At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any" - Erk Russell, Georgia Southern
1. "I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation."
- Bob Devaney, Nebraska
Best of the rest:
"After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that." - Bobby Bowden, Florida State
"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall." - Frank Leahy, Notre Dame
"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." - Woody Hayes, Ohio State
"In Alabama, an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant."
- Wally, Georgia
"No, but you can see it from here." - Lou Holtz, Arkansas...When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world.
"There's one sure way to stop us from scoring-give us the ball near the goal line." - Matty Bell, SMU
"My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor." - Bowden Wyatt, Tennessee
"Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David." - Shug Jordan / Auburn
"They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces." - Darrell Royal / Texas
"Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure." - Knute Rockne, Notre Dame
"They whipped us like a tied up goat." - Spike Dykes, Texas Tech
After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his postgame message to his team: "All those who need showers, take them." - John McKay, USC
"If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education."
- Murray Warmath, Minnesota
"The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb." - Knute Rockne, Notre Dame
"Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon."
- Spike Dykes, Texas Tech
"Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad." - Darrell Royal, University of Texas
"Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football" - John Heisman
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I can't tell if there's something wrong with her brain because of the way she blows bubbles. Lizabeth insists on spinning or hoping or doing some sort of movement while she breathes through that rigid circle. When I asked her why, she just casually said, "We should have to move too if we're going to be creating something that moves unwillingly." Then she spun around twice and blew the cutest bubble I've ever seen. It landed right on my nose, and popped like it'd touched the surface of the sun.
There was a week the rain just wouldn't stop, and everyday Lizabeth chewed key lime pie flavored gum, saying how beautiful it was. And everyday Lizabeth would jump in puddles and soak her clothes. And everyday Lizabeth would come inside for me to towel her dry. And everyday Lizabeth got a kiss from me on both her beautiful speckled eyelids. And everyday Lizabeth would kiss me on the tip of my nose. And every day, I would smile. I think it's the best week I've ever lived.
A Saturday wi
dreaming my dreams.I had a dream that I was strapped to the hospital bed
via heart monitor patches and a couple of short IVs.
I was staring at the ceiling of the room,
thinking of what time really was,
when I heard a double tap from the doorway.
I looked up and it was you standing there,
leaning casually,
You strolled in and sat down and
the heart monitor missed a few beats
and we both chuckled nervously at it.
We exchanged hellos before you asked me
what was happening.
I told you about
the doctors confusion at my symptoms of cancer
without the cancer.
How they'd told me I had a weak heart,
and they really didn't know what to do about it.
You took my hand in yours
and cared
and I looked at you
and cried.
I cried so hard that I woke myself up,
and I sat in bed crying,
because I knew that even if I did somehow
end up in the hospital with a grim looking future,
you wouldn't come, and
you definitely wouldn't care.
monochrome hearts.i met a boy
and he was wearing the
exact same color
that reminded me of love
he had cocaine skin
with eyes six feet deep
and he walked like
he was the world's
air supply
but his bones were
lead based and
i have a heavy heart
to carry and together
i made his knees weak
and my neck ache
together my tendons
shivered and his lips
parted and my
eyelids were constantly
i'm punch-drunk
and my over tired eyes
have the most beautiful
red trees sprouting
from the corners
so at least i have some
colour in my drained face
i thought of that boy and
his love coloured jacket
and swagger of a boss.
i thought of my failure to
please someone so
high and mighty, so
elegant and tall, so
distant and cold, so
'metaphorically speaking'you're tumbling with me through a sea of cloth
and our bodies are waves crashing into one another.
lips crushing together, our waists whisper their longings.
tracing your collarbones with kisses,
i giggle, you shiver, you smile.
you're atop a forest and i'm down in the valleys.
grasping the arch of my back, your fingers like torches,
i shiver, you giggle, we moan.
i'm tumbling with you through a field of skin
and our bodies are blades of grass slightly licking each other
when the wind blows over and through us.
we shiver.
Her Dreams.You know that moment when you send a text message, and you don't instantly regret it...
but after a while you realize you probably shouldn't have done that?
That's the moment I was in back then.
"You should come over." I texted my friend, thinking it was Friday, and I was home, and she was probably home, and I just got popcorn at the store that past Teusday. Movie night sounded like a good plan. Five minutes later I'd heard a knock at the door, of course it was her, my darling Lizabeth. She had her peachy orange hair down straight around her face, making her blue eyes seem unreal, her pale skin seem paler, and her tan freckles more prominant than she'd like them to be. I smiled. Her face always made me smile.
People often misunderstood how I loved Lizabeth. She was like the first blossom on the seed you planted, after having cared for it each and every day. Like the tick of a clock. The ring of a phone. The font of your favorite novel. The smell of new cars. She was just there to me, a
lumps.He said he could see sound particles
in multitudes of colors
bursting from her skin
when she sang to him.
In her mind, however,
it was simply flattery.
Simple technique
to get his waist against hers.
He couldn't blame her though.
After all, he did want to meet her skin.
But he also loved her singing,
and the image he saw
of her voice tiptoeing through the airwaves
in circles of shiny pastel.
As an artist, he knew it was a sign
that she was something special.
His passion was art,
and she was art,
and so
she was his passion.
That was what he assumed, anyway.
There was a day
when she'd turned to him
whilst they lay nude
beneath a satin bedspread,
and she opened her mouth,
but her voice was flat and dull
and there wasn't a particle in the air
when she let her breath tell him
"We can't all spend our days building castles in the air."
The next day, she had left.
He knew it was because
as an artist of his (quite low) skill
he couldn't provide her with anything,
conrete, anything useful in rea
A Prologue: The AcrobatThe first time I saw contortionists perform was at a Cirque du Soleil showing via SeaWorld when I was seven years old. My second grade class was on a field trip. I was lucky enough to have my own parent chaperone, as well as the other people in my group be my best friends at the time. We'd been wandering around for a while, seeing things like the shark exhibit and the penguin house and Shamu splashing excited crowds. When me and the three girls I'd been with saw the sign for a Cirque du Soleil show starting twenty minutes later, we were instantly enchanted by the spectrum of colors and the elegant girls glimmering in skin tight suits, with elegant faces and twisted bodies. We told my mom we just had to go, and it was starting soon, and we had to go no matter what. She obviously caved--what tired parent wouldn't after being hounded by her daughter and three other little seven year old adventurous (and frankly quite whiny and noisy) girls. So we walked in and we all bought one of those s
beautiful things.i.
i researched calla lilies for a piece of writing i did once, back in grade eight. they grow in somewhat tropical conditions, which made me think i could grow my own during the fall, since i live in florida. they're known as the champagne or marriage flower, because of their glass-shaped petals. they've been my favorite flowers ever since. though i do admit that white roses are a close second.
dandelions are technically weeds. they were my favorite 'flower' until i found that out. and so now, they're my favorite weeds, which is a bit odd, but oh well. the age-old legend that making a wish and blowing the dandelion's seeds off of it will make your wish come true is one that i've always admired. i feel as though i'm wishing on individual seeds. that's what they are. the dandelion's children. and we separate children from their mother in hopes of our wishes. but that's okay. they'll land and grow a whole new bath of kiddies for us to destroy. in my mind, dandelions are beautiful.
as good as the rest."I,"
he paused.
Panned around the audience.
Tapped the podium,
sipped a bottle of water.
He was deathly nervous.
he knew the audience was probably thinking
his pause was for suspense,
or pre-planned emphasis,
and he wasn't worried about the stops.
"I." A short pause.
"Am sick of wishing on eyelashes and dandelions and shooting stars."
mapping the ache.She learned anatomy when he broke her heart. She liked how she could track the stinging, burning pain as it delved deeper into her. Starting in her throat, a heavy lump that wouldn't move anymore than a cm a day. it would travel through her veins, like back lanes, leaving behind big clouds of exhaust fumes that make her skin tarnish, and her blood thicken. the pain, gets a little stronger. moves a little further. with her bones structure mapped and blown up on the wall across from her bed, she woke up each morning, and closed her eyes. she sat quiet and still with breath held, trying to pinpoint the pain. she'd trace the wall and place a small gold star where is had reached that day. it was quite beautiful really. this skeletal system, scattered with little stars. her own constellation.
it was a realisation that everything can be traced back to her heart. it beats and bleeds and aches and yearns and everything it feels is shot through your synapses and
born to dieit has been a year
since you have made me cry
but sometimes,
always being second
eats at your bones
high expectations
and low standards
lead me nowhere
emalineshe was a quite sort of girl, he had observed. the kind of girl you wanted to say you knew because it meant you held a piece of the puzzle others could only wonder about. in knowing what was hidden to others, you became special. she was the sort of girl who ripped her favourite pages from books and tucked them carefully into her palm, then snugly into the worn pockets of her grandfathers cardigans, which she said were the only ones that fell just right on her small frame. she collected words in her perfect pout keeping secrets and promises and words that just roll of the tongue, but never rolled off hers just right- so she kept them hidden inside where she was perfect. her eyes spoke a million words a minute that he often found himself tripping over them if he looked too deeply; but just like looking into a flame he was completely consumed, he knew it- she didn't.
she was an oblivious sort of girl, he had observed. but she was his sort-of girl.
these oceanic arteries are killing me.i'm drawn to the ocean in a way that's anything but beautiful. i don't want a welcome embrace, i just want it to consume me. 'cause the ocean is so heavy and right now i'm so fucking fragile.
so i'll stand waist deep with the water curling tightly around me, lulling me further from the shore with the safe sung whispers of the wind as i let the waves crash into me. so that with each ebb and flow, piece by piece, the ocean can wash me away from you.
i can see myself crumbling away like the cliffs that surround the peaceful waters, and i wonder if your as fragile as i am right now. my breathing patterns have changed, as i don't want to be anything like you at all ever again.
it's not anything i'm proud of -- the way our worlds shifted and turned and collided to make the currents wash up on these shores with each of us standing at opposite ends of this expanse of water with no hope, no reason, no love, but it's the way things turned out. and now i should know better than to change everythi
i am an ocean nothing floats on.i am an ocean that nothing floats on.
her mother always told her that each part of her body was capable of becoming something hard and cold, something that a military man could arm himself with and leave a trail of destruction. There was an anchor in the pit of her stomach, resting on the bottom of a black and white ocean, carelessly tossed in by a reckless boy with matching eyes. it leads her to somewhere she has never been. It sinks her to ocean floor and leaves her waiting for the waves to stir her back to the surface.she learned about space, and the gaps that leave people feeling empty and lonely, and throughout the years of her youth, everything related back to the ocean residing inside her chest cavity which on the coldest and emptiest nights she could feel thrash and peak and cause her to choke and spit it up in violent convulsions. she learned that her stomach acids were responsible for the curve of her bones and the shapes of the shadows they made in sunlight. as her years tic
true lieshis eyes looked at me with disdain. i thought that once i had broken through his barriers his eyes would smile and his laughter would ring through every fibre of my body and that his cheeks would glow. instead all i felt was a greater coldness. except now it wasn't just a general feeling- it was directed very pointedly at me.
"you're not who i thought you were," he growled through clenched teeth. his words left me feeling that he wanted to say something angrier, something more malicious but he held back. even when his defences were down he was still calculated.
do you think that maybe you never knew me? that you built up an ideal image of someone unattainable yet appropriate for you? i pleaded with my eyes. but it was no use. he wouldn't even look at me. he knew, he finally knew, that he had built me up to that ideal because he felt it would be everything he deserved. now he saw, or rather didn't want to see, that he really didn't deserve it at all. ideal or not- he didn
always remember.before you met me, you couldn't sleep.
what did you do in those eight hours of quiet?
i imagine you lying all night in your bed, thoughts closing in on you like flames. but you're still, your brown-sugar skin illuminated by the memories. it sounds beautiful. i know it hurt you very much though. i've seen the scars.
and tonight i can't help but feel like i have a responsibility; an obligation to gather you in my arms and let my bones be your blanket, darling; let the unsteady rhythm of my breath be your only focus. and sleep.
when you wake i will be here. or there. wherever it is you want me to be. hopefully you're thinking what i'm thinking and we can wake up beside each other, tangled in each other.
maybe i'll rise first - these times are my favorite. my eyes drip open and because you are my first sight the day is full of promise. i take every bit of you in;
see you breathe you feel you.
i have you. i always forget this. but each realization of it is more glorious than the last.
i'd call it love, if it wasn't suffocating.every time it rains,
i think of you.
because that's all there is--
the wind,
the water
and a quick breath of air
before we all go under.
every time it rains,
i swear i'm drowning.
winter always reminds me of you.It never snowed last December, but it was always there on the horizon. Like a bad dream on the periphery of my vision, a relentless reminder that I don't ever have control over things the way I think I do. The way I want to. Recently, I realized that I feel everything a bit too sharply. The cold. The pain. The nothingness.
It's heart wrenching. It's stomach twisting.
The minute you were gone, the air in my lungs left too. It's amazing how long you can live without breathing. It's much longer than anyone tends to claim. Truthfully, it's not even the thing I miss anymore. I only miss you. I miss the feelings. I miss anything that isn't the slow crack and settle of this old building. Or the familiar beating of my heart. The sun rising and falling from the sky each and every day.
I don't remember what it's like to not wake up to a pattern, but I do remember that it was so much better than this.
I used to never know what to expect. Now I have no expectations at all. It didn't take me long t
your bones are rivers.timing never was my strong point.
and all it took was one more knock
to break open the damn and leave me
shaking and shivering as the oceans
flowed and flooded.
a fractured collarbone can kill you.
i already knew i was dying when the tide
came in and laid on my shoulders and
that tiny sliver of bone departed,
coarse, right through my vein.
i held my breath, and i could feel it
a tiny vessel in my veins, my stream
although i was unsure of its course
i knew that it would surely be the
bringer of my body's winter.
it scraped and all i could think was
the water was perfect for a swim.
i imagined that ort of death was you,
planning my demise
how i knew you always wanted to.
i held my head beneath the surface
and i felt light and airy and free
something you never knew of with
your charcoal bones and heavy heavy heart
i will defeat your ghost somehow
you don't know this but
i've been thinking more recently than before
and i figure you can't really haunt me if i'm
haunting you. you can't reall
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Welcome to Poktoy Palm Haven, the only surf camp on some of the best coastline for surfing in the Philippines. Located on the outskirts of the small town of Lanuza, our house break is a long right hander that rolls along the sandy bottom of the river mouth. It's a classic long board wave but excellent for short boards too. Minutes away are a series of barreling reef breaks. The waves of Lanuza Bay offer something for all skill levels, from beginners to professionals. The season runs from October through March, with November and December bringing the most consistent and cleanest swell. Don't miss out! We look forward to welcoming you into our community and onto our waves.
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Lanuza Bay offers some of the best and least crowded surfing in the Philippines. Located in Surigao del Sur, Mindanao, it takes a little more traveling to reach, but the trip is worth it. It's a very quiet and relaxed part of the Philippines. (Don't let the troubles in southwestern Mindanao deter you. Those are a long, long way away and never, ever reach to this part of the country.) The people in the area are very friendly and extremely welcoming to the traveling surfer.
Poktoy Palm Haven is a family run affair, managed by son Jade Orozco and overseen by his lovely grandmother. Jade, an excellent surfer himself, is happy to give advice on surf conditions at the different breaks. He can also help you with everything. When you are a guest at Poktoy, you are treated more like you are a member of the extended family than merely a customer. It feels like a community, not a business. - Read More


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Kate Moss is the new face of Alexander McQueen and is almost unrecognisable in the campaign.
Kate Moss is the new face of Alexander McQueen.
The 40-year-old supermodel fronts the campaign for the British label's spring/summer 2014 collection, which aims to ''capture the iconic British model as an otherworldly woman in a darkly surreal environment'', according to the fashion house.
In a short film captured by photographer Steven Klein in East London, Kate is almost unrecognisable with a short yellow crop.
Steven was inspired by the 1960s British thriller, 'Peeping Tom', where a serial killer murders women and uses a camera to record their dying expressions - terrified looks of horror.
In the sinister short video Kate enters a desolate house, walks up a flight of stairs before removing her jacket and the series of shots have been captured to make it look as though somebody is watching her.
She struts around in dark, eerie surroundings and is seen clutching a small doll which is styled to replicate her own outfit and style.
Kate has had a longstanding relationship with the luxury brand but this is the first time she has starred in their ad campaign.
The supermodel was friends with of the brand's late eponymous founder and memorably appeared as a hologram during his autumn/winter 2006 show.
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Many grain traders believe farmers will switch a great deal of corn acres to beans, but I'm not so sure the switch will be all that large.
The new-crop price relationship shows a corn:bean ratio of about 2.5:1. While it favors beans, the decision to plant beans isn't strictly a business decision. Farmers love to grow corn. If there's going to be an unexpected yield bump, they feel it will be in corn.
Could a farmer with an APH of 160-bu.-per-acre corn grow 200 bu. or 240 bu.? If we learned anything last year, it's that huge corn yields are out there, if Mother Nature cooperates. Also, if farmers can get into fields in a timely fashion, they will plant corn.
With that said, marketing this year will be crucial. Farmers are sitting on a lot of corn and beans hoping for a spring price rally. If Mother Nature provides good weather, there is no telling how big yields can get.
If you think prices can't go any lower, think again. Prices have a propensity to move under the cost of production to force out inefficient producers. While the charts might look like they can't go any lower, there is still plenty of risk out there, which needs to be protected. You can buy put options to protect any unsold bushels.
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Corn on corn has been highly profitable during the past five years, but yields have suffered due to insect pressures.
While farmers are aware of the huge bean crop in Brazil, they are also aware of the need to shift acres back to a normal rotation to abate cutworm issues. In addition, today's cheap prices, even bleaker outlook for the 2014 growing season, and growing global and domestic stocks entice farmers to switch a percentage of their corn acres to beans.
Last September, the Conservation Reserve Program lost 3.3 million acres, most of which will likely move to soybeans and wheat.
If farmers have not had cutworm issues and enjoyed good yields, they will stay with corn. Farmers love to plant corn. For 2014, look for 91.8 million acres of corn to be planted and 81.7 million acres of soybeans.
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[QUOTE=jetstream23]LBs are critical to running a strong 3-4. Not only do you need them to be young, smart and talented....but you need a lot of them.[/QUOTE]
Pray tell, when did the Pats ever have young linebackers? They've been pretty successful in the last few years, haven't they?
In fact, flying in the face of your post is the fact that young lb's cannot play in this system as well as the vets. Exhibit A is the afccg, in which their two young guys did start or play significant time (woods & alexander). How'd that work out?
If thats a Jets fans only hope to surpass the Pats, (age), then good luck. Have Tangini sign some pop warner kids, 'cause Vilma is obviously over the hill for a 3-4 lb'er. :P


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Q: I have a loft-style upstairs attic space with lots of light and soaring cathedral ceilings. Currently, it's a very large expanse of light wool carpet (sorry for the bad pic, none of the whole space was available) which has seen better days. As I also have tenants downstairs and wanted to be very sensitive to everyone's sense of privacy, it seems that hardwood floors are out of the question.
I've looked at cork flooring but it has either seemed too broken up for such a wide swath of space with the tile edges clearly visible or the colors are too retro 70's/80's for my taste:
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You can use any type of flooring as long as you isolate the vibration. If you do a hardwood or tile floating floor, make sure the sleepers are sitting on something that can absorb the vibration (foam or neoprene).
I don't have an answer for you, but I just wanted to say that you are a good neighbour and I wish you were MY upstairs neighbour. Thank you, on behalf of all downstairs tenants, for being so considerate.
In encourage you to look at all your cork options! Cork is not only sound insulating, but soft on your feet, warmer than wood, sustainable, and easy to install. Floating cork floors are easy enough to be a DIY (click together 1'x3' tiles). Some of the patterns they have make it very difficult to detect individual tiles or seems. AND you can find some that are naturally finished so you won't have the harmful off-gassing of chemicals in your sweet little apartment! Add a few area rugs for punctuation and you will be all sorted. Definitely my top recommendation!
I agree with INCHHIGH. Thank you for being considerate! My upstairs neighbors sound like they are putting together furniture every single day, leave their iphones on the hardwood floor and run up and down the stairs, which is right above my living room.
If you like the benefits of cork but the look of hardwood check out this line from US Floors.
Cork made to look like wood plank.
I also vote for taking another look at cork - the floating cork floors, not individual tiles. Cork has been vastly improved in recent years. Another option would be to put good quality engineered wood floors installed over a soundproofing layer. You would still need to use area rugs and runners, but you probably would want to do that for style and comfort even without the sound issues. You are indeed a kind soul to consider your downstairs tenants. I hope it brings you good karma in getting a great price for beautiful new floors whatever you decide.
I'd suggest cork if you hadn't already decided against it, but I should note that certain shades/patterns of cork can make the seams less noticeable.
Since it's a place for your kids to play, might be a good opportunity to use some really cheap click-n-lock laminate as a floating floor over something a sound dampening material, like cork padding (you buy it in rolls and is under $1 per ft). Build that on top of your current floor, paired with runners or an area rug, and I don't think your neighbors will even know you're up there.
P.S. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply to lay hardwood over the carpet, only that a floating floor installation wouldn't require you redo the sub-floor.
I'm in the same predicament as you. I'm using a rubber flooring that looks like bamboo. It's pretty chic, easy to install, and the best part is rubber is the ultimate soundproof flooring. Plus it's water resistant - I'm using it to cover some of the ugliest linoleum I've ever seen in an apartment bathroom. :) It snaps together in pieces and is easily removable and a relatively cheap flooring option. Check out your local flooring places for their rubber flooring - it's one of those textures you want to touch to make sure you're okay with it.
Good luck!
You could also do what I do, which is put down hard flooring but go shoeless in your apartment. My neighbors are subjected to me putting on high heels in my hallway in the mornings before work. Also plenty of rugs that can be easily cleaned.


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:: MTV found nothing to gripe about: "Adele let loose with her very own James Bond tribute on Sunday night's (February 24) Oscars. Done up in sequined all-black everything, the diva gave a flawless performance of the theme song for 'Skyfall'."
:: HitFix felt Adele's vocals could have been more prominent in the mix: "All night, the house orchestra tended to overpower vocals — including on other powerhouse performances from 007-famed Shirley Bassey and Dreamgirls Oscars winner Jennifer Hudson. While Adele kept her kinder notes understated like in the recording, her backing band seemed to challenge her. Great performance on her part, but an iffy mix."
:: Hollywood.com also lamented the vocal mix: "In her first televised performance since giving birth to her child, Adele belted out Skyfall's title track to the excitement of many. But from the second she stepped out on that Oscar stage (introduced by America's other favorite no-filter queen, Jennifer Lawrence), the emotional rollercoaster we were ready to board was not ready for us. The mix seemed to overpower Adele — an impressive feat considering the strength the singer holds in her incredible vocal chords — and she seemed visibly frustrated through the entirety."
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Totally disagree with the last post! The administration that was put in place 3 years ago is fantastic. The teachers are excited and very positive. You can feel the excitement and energy at school events. I participate in the Dad's of Great Students Program (Watch D.O.G.S) where Dad's volunteer for either a half or full day at the school rotating between classrooms to.provide assistance with lessons, so I see and feel the energy first hand. Could not be happier with our experience. 2 kids there now - 2nd and 5th grader. Parents are down to earth too. Love the principal.
Be very careful before sending your child to this school. The other 2 reviews were written prior to administration changes. There are other District 89 schools with better leadership in the area that honor open enrollment.
I have to add my positive review of Briar Glen. It is a wonderful learning environment. The administration and teachers are great. The thing that especially surprised me was the feeling of 'family' among everyone involved with Briar Glen. The programming infused with Briar Glen's imperatives of be safe, respect, and responsible creates a great environment. The opportunities for meaningful family involvement are plentiful. We feel so fortunate to have Briar Glen in our community!
Briar Glen School is an excellent elementary school in District 89 for the residence of both glen Ellyn and Wheaton, Illinois. My children have all been through this school for the PAST 2O YEARS (I have 5 kids)and the educational opportunities that have been afforded to my children through this school have been beyond praise. If 'higher education' is what you are looking for, Briar Glen is where you want to be! With cultural events, arts, music, an excellent math and enhanced reading programs, challenge program, many extra curricular events as well as special math and reading programs for those children who need more individualized help in those areas. The teachers are wonderful, for the most part and are comprised of a super mix of seasoned veterans and fresh enthusiastic minds. I love this school....can't say enough about it.
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Prepare to shudder, people. A 51-year-old character actor who appeared in "The Green Mile" and had recurring roles on "Lost" (as Horace Goodspeed), "24" and "The X-Files" has gotten hitched to a 16-year-old.
Yep, 16.
E! News reports Doug Hutchison married "aspiring country singer" and "former beauty pageant queen" Courtney Alexis Stodden on May 20 in Las Vegas (minors can marry in Sin City with the permission of a parent or legal guardian).
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"We're aware that our vast age difference is extremely controversial," the newlyweds said in a statement. "But we're very much in love and want to get the message out there that true love can be ageless."
Once you've double-checked the age-of-consent laws, natch.
In a message on his website, Hutchison, who played cruel prison guard Percy Wetmore in "Green Mile" and contortionist-mutant Tooms on "The X-Files," gushes that he and his teenage bride "live together happily ensconced in their Hollywood Hills home with their lil' pups, Everette and Tuna!"
According to the actor, "2010 was one of the most challenging years of my life," but then "God sent me my sign in the form of an Angel. Literally. She swooped down and immediately captured my heart! I've never felt such intense and pure love from [and for] any other woman in my entire life."
Oh, and Hutchison has apparently written his memoirs, which he's charmingly titled, "Hey, Guess What? Tom Hanks's S--- Smells, Too! [My Adventures in the Toilet of Tinseltown]."
Courtney, for her part, has a demo in the works, with such self-penned tunes as "We Are America," "Crazy" and "Car Candy." On her website, she's billed as "Your All-American Girl," and one photo features her wrapped in an American flag -- and not much else.
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Beth Simone Noveck directs The Governance Lab (www.thegovlab.org) and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance. Funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Google.org, the GovLab strives to improve people's lives by changing how we govern. The GovLab designs and tests technology, policy and strategies for fostering more open and collaborative approaches to strengthen the ability of people and institutions to work together to solve problems, make decisions, resolve conflict and govern themselves more effectively and legitimately.
The Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professor at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab, Beth is a professor of law at New York Law School. She served in the White House as the first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and director of the White House Open Government Initiative (2009-2011). UK Prime Minister David Cameron appointed her senior advisor for Open Government, and she served on the Obama-Biden transition team. Among projects she's designed or collaborated on are Unchat, The Do Tank, Peer To Patent, Data.gov, Challenge.gov and the Gov Lab's Living Labs (livinglabs.thegovlab.org) and training platform (thegovlabacademy.org).
A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, she serves on the Global Commission on Internet Governance and chairs the ICANN Strategy Panel on Multi-Stakeholder Innovation.
She was named one of the "Foreign Policy 100" by Foreign Policy, one of the "100 Most Creative People in Business" by Fast Company and one of the "Top Women in Technology" by Huffington Post. She has also been honored by both the National Democratic Institute and Public Knowledge for her work in civic technology.
Beth is the author of Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger and Citizens More Powerful, which has also appeared in Arabic, Russian, Chinese and in an audio edition, and co-editor of The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds. Her next book The Networked State will appear with Harvard University Press. She tweets @bethnoveck.
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Government 3.0: Rethinking Governance for the 21st Century
We live in an era of unprecedented technological innovation with ingenious new advances for achieving clean energy, eradicating disease and providing greater wellness, more equitably and effectively delivering education, and improving the quality of human existence and expression. At the same time, we are experiencing clear deficits within centralized institutions of government and civil society: deficits of agility, innovation and capacity. These traditional institutions are failing to tap into the diversity of expertise and experience of individuals and communities, rendering us less able to quickly discover, recognize, implement and scale innovative approaches to pressing problems and making it impossible to translate technological innovation into social progress. New technology makes collaborative problem solving possible. In this course, we explore how we might use technology -- from big data to social media -- to redesign our systems of governance to devolve power from centralized, hierarchical institutions and evolve more robust collaboration among individuals, groups and institutions including government and the media. Through customized reading lists, blogging assignments, and a final design project participants will apply what we learn about innovation to the issues about which they are the most passionate.
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Government 3.0: Rethinking Governance for the 21st Century
We live in an era of unprecedented technological innovation with ingenious new advances for achieving clean energy, eradicating disease and providing greater wellness, more equitably and effectively delivering education, and improving the quality of human existence and expression. At the same time, we are experiencing clear deficits within centralized institutions of government and civil society: deficits of agility, innovation and capacity. These traditional institutions are failing to tap into the diversity of expertise and experience of individuals and communities, rendering us less able to quickly discover, recognize, implement and scale innovative approaches to pressing problems and making it impossible to translate technological innovation into social progress. New technology makes collaborative problem solving possible. In this course, we explore how we might use technology -- from big data to social media -- to redesign our systems of governance to devolve power from centralized, hierarchical institutions and evolve more robust collaboration among individuals, groups and institutions including government and the media. Through customized reading lists, blogging assignments, and a final design project participants will apply what we learn about innovation to the issues about which they are the most passionate.
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Government 3.0: Rethinking Governance for the 21st Century
We live in an era of unprecedented technological innovation with ingenious new advances for achieving clean energy, eradicating disease and providing greater wellness, more equitably and effectively delivering education, and improving the quality of human existence and expression. At the same time, we are experiencing clear deficits within centralized institutions of government and civil society: deficits of agility, innovation and capacity. These traditional institutions are failing to tap into the diversity of expertise and experience of individuals and communities, rendering us less able to quickly discover, recognize, implement and scale innovative approaches to pressing problems and making it impossible to translate technological innovation into social progress. New technology makes collaborative problem solving possible. In this course, we explore how we might use technology -- from big data to social media -- to redesign our systems of governance to devolve power from centralized, hierarchical institutions and evolve more robust collaboration among individuals, groups and institutions including government and the media. Through customized reading lists, blogging assignments, and a final design project participants will apply what we learn about innovation to the issues about which they are the most passionate.
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Opening Government
NYU Wagner is hosting a multidisciplinary group of thinkers and doers funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to explore the possibility of creating a Research Network on "Opening Government." This"pre-network" group will analyze the potential impact of technology on democratic institutions—specifically, how we can use technology to create more collaborative ways of governing to tackle the world's hardest problems.
For more information, visit Wagner Governance Lab.
Contract Commons
The Contract Commons Project will build an online system to assist government procurement officials with negotiating and drafting technology and software agreements. The goal of Contract Commons is to make it easier for public institutions to obtain better technology and to help vendors elicit the requirements of public sector clients more effectively. Through a partnership with the Stupski Foundation, the first area of focus in the public sector will be K-12 Education.
For more information, visit the Contract Commons project online.
Capstone: World Bank Project on Innovative Procurement
Proposal Abstract – Procurement policies are optimized around acquiring a hammer from Hammer Inc. rather than identifying the most effective solution for affixing a nail, which might come from an unexpected and nontraditional source. NYUWagner Capstone students will design the process, policy, and technology for an open and collaborative public procurement process that can be deployed and tested by the World Bank on itself. The goal of the project will be to identify new, open and collaborative public procurement mechanisms or existing best practices to foster the identification, implementation and scaling of innovative solutions to solve the world's most pressing problems.
For more information about NYU Wagner's Capstone Program, please visit http://wagner.nyu.edu/capstone
For more information about World Bank, please visit http://www.worldbank.org
IT in Law Teaching
Short Description: Faculty at New York Law School are currently developing new ways to help students learn law by interacting with software programs outside of class.
Current projects include the following:
What Problem Does It Solve?: Faculty time is limited. Students learn most effectively when they can play a role, build an argument structure or take actions based on their understanding of the material. Multiple choice tests don't probe true understanding. But essays are difficult to grade. The interactive systems we are working on allow students to build legal structures, play a role, or use interactivity to explore relationships between legal concepts.
How Does It Do That?: These systems are designed to be very easy to author. A non-technical faculty member can create a new exercise in no more time than it takes to come up with a good hypothetical for use in class. The student can then use these systems at their own convenience, between classes, to develop a better understanding of the subject matter. Because these systems use semantic objects, the student's work can be evaluated (scored) automatically – and the student can "re-play" the exercises again and again to reinforce the learning experience.
Why Is It Different?: All of these tools are designed to allow a non-technical faculty member to author an interactive learning tool very quickly. The interactivity is designed to reinforce learning. The object oriented structure allows real time assessment of student performance. And playing with these interactive learning tools is fun.
Who Will Use It?: Teachers and students.
Other Potential Uses: Creation of educational objects for use by anyone on the web.
More Detailed Description: See the IT Gallery
Lead Designer: David R. Johnson
Sponsors: New York Law School.
For more information, visit IT in Law Teaching online.
Certificate of Mastery in Law Practice Technology
The Institute for Information Law and Policy will offer a "Certificate of Mastery in Law Practice Technology," to be awarded as an honor upon graduation to students who have satisfied various requirements.
Each student seeking an award indicating mastery of a particular subject will submit a proposed plan to demonstrate such mastery to an IILP faculty member as early in his or her law school career as practicable, preferably at the beginning of the second year. Any IILP faculty member may approve such a plan and, having done so, must be available to determine whether it has been executed in a satisfactory fashion. Once the faculty member accepts the plan, the student will pursue the proposed plan and then report back to demonstrate its completion – at which point the faculty member will make the award. The IILP will provide some suggested plans and individual guidance to students who want to achieve mastery in particular areas. We anticipate that completion of the plan will take 2 years though, with diligence, the work can be completed over 1 year. The plan can be revised over the course of the student's law school career to adapt to changing technologies or circumstances.
For more information, please visit the Certificate of Mastery in Law Practice Technology at the New York Law School's Institute for Information Law & Policy (IILP).
IILP Faculty: Professors Johnson, Mills, Noveck, Peritz, Sherwin, Stracher
Visual Persuasion
New York, January 10, 2006 — In an era when most people receive news and entertainment from television and the Internet, lawyers are learning to adapt similar visual techniques for effective communication with judges, juries, and the public at large. New York Law School´s Visual Persuasion Project, founded and directed by Professor Richard K. Sherwin, explores the increasing role played by visual and multimedia tools in contemporary legal practice. Professor Sherwin and the Visual Persuasion Project have now announced the launch of the Visual Persuasion project´s web site.
This site is the first, and to date the only, to showcase "best practices" in the visual litigation services field. The site features a broad range of visual products, from 2-D and 3-D animations to accident reenactments, day-in-the-life documentaries, settlement brochures, montages, and other innovative visual products.
The Public Index
The Google Book Search Lawsuit: The digital future of books is being hammered out in boardsrooms and courtrooms. The proposed settlement in the Google Book Search lawsuit, which would restructure the publishing industry and reshape copyright law, was negotiated by a few lawyers and will be ruled on by a single judge. The public deserves and needs a seat at this table.
The Public Index: Launched in May 2009, the Public Index harnesses the same digital media that are transforming publishing to bring the public into the conversation about publishing's future. It provides a single convenient forum to learn about and to discuss the proposed settlement in the Google Book Search lawsuit. Members of the public can inform themselves, share their perspectives, connect with each other, and make their voices heard. Key features of the Public Index include comprehensive document repository of legal documents from the lawsuit and an extensive collection of commentaries from around the world.
IILP Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Visit The Public Index online for more information.
To develop a multi-school, multi-disciplinary network of students, faculty and professionals working to design and implement ways of using technology for citizen engagement.
Gurin, Joel and Beth Noveck 2013. Corporations and Transparency: Improving Consumer Markets and Increasing Public Accountability In "Transparency in Politics and the Media: Accountability and Open Government," Nigel Bowles, James T. Hamilton, David A. Lev, eds. I.B. Tauris/Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
From cuneiform to card catalogs, people have always recorded data. But now we have tools to collect information faster than ever before. The proliferation of data includes statistics collected by governments about the economy, such as unemployment data or data that we supply on our tax returns and patent filings. When the media refer to the era of "Big Data," they are including the vast amounts of information we also passively generate. Our mobile phones and cars contain sensors to track and report our location, position, acceleration, and temperature. The smart meters in our homes reveal when we turn on the heat or hot water. Companies increasingly gather data about our shopping and web browsing habits. The world's storehouse of digital information is growing at the rate of five trillion bits per second.
Noveck, Beth Simone 2013. The Networked State Harvard University Press
Noveck, Beth Simone and Daniel Goroff 2013. Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data Aspen Institute (January 2013)
This report addresses the challenges to obtaining better, more usable data about the nonprofit sector to match the sector's growing importance. In 2010, there were 1.5 million tax-exempt organizations in the United States with $1.51 trillion in revenues. Through the Form 990 in its several varieties, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) gathers and publishes a large amount of information about tax-exempt organizations. Over time, versions of the Form 990 have evolved that collect information on governance, investments, and other factors not directly related to an organization's tax calculations or qualifications for tax exemption. Copies of these returns are available one at a time from the filers or from other sources. The IRS creates image files of Form 990 returns and sells compilationsof them to the subscribing public for a fee. Several institutions, particularly GuideStar, the Foundation Center, and the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) at the Urban Institute, use this IRS data to analyze and present information about individual nonprofits and about the sector as a whole.
Like other important data collected by governments, information contained in the 990s could potentially be far more useful if it were not only public but "open" data. Open data are data that are available to all, free of charge, in a standard format, published without proprietary conditions, and available online as a bulk download rather than only through single-entry lookup. Making the Form 990 data truly open in this sense would not only make it easier to use for the organizations that already process it, but would also make it useful to researchers, advocates, entrepreneurs, technologists, and nonprofits that do not have the resources to use the data in its current form. We argue that open 990 data may increase transparency for nonprofit organizations, making it easier for state and federal authorities to detect fraud, spur innovation in the nonprofit sector and, above all, help us to understand the potential value of the 990 data.
Noveck, Beth 2012. Open Data – The Democratic Imperative Crooked Timber
Open Data are the basis for government innovation. This isn't because open data make government more transparent or accountable. Like Tom Slee, I have serious doubts about whether it does either of those things. In any event, shining a light on the misdeeds of ineffective institutions isn't as imperative as redesigning how they work. Instead, open data can provide the raw material to convene informed conversations inside and outside institutions about what's broken and the empirical foundation for developing solutions together.
Noveck, Beth 2011. Evolving Democracy for the 21st Century Huffington Post
In groups people can accomplish what they cannot do alone. Now new visual and social technologies are making it possible for people to make decisions and solve complex problems collectively. These technologies are enabling groups not only to create community but also to
Noveck, Beth 2011. What's in a Name? Open Gov and Good Gov Huffington Post
Noveck, Beth 2011. Why Cutting E-Gov Funding Threatens American Jobs Huffington Post
Lathrop, Daniel and Laurel Ruma, eds. 2010. Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice O'Reilly Media
In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case studies, leading visionaries and practitioners both inside and outside of government share their ideas on how to achieve and direct this emerging world of online collaboration, transparency, and participation.
Contributions and topics include:
Open Government editors:
Daniel Lathrop is a former investigative projects reporter with the Seattle Post Intelligencer who's covered politics in Washington state, Iowa, Florida, and Washington D.C. He's a specialist in campaign finance and "computer-assisted reporting" -- the practice of using data analysis to report the news.
Noveck, Beth Simone 2009. Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful Brookings Press (2009), Russian (2012), Chinese (2011), Arabic (2011), Audio Book (2011)
Wiki Government shows how to bring innovation to government. In explaining how to enhance political institutions with the power of networks, it offers a fundamental rethinking of democracy in the digital age. Collaborative democracy-government of the people, by the people, for the people-is an old dream. Today, Wiki Government shows how technology can make that dream a reality. In this thought-provoking book, Beth Simone Noveck illustrates how collaborative democracy strengthens public decisionmaking by connecting the power of the many to the work of the few. Equally important, she provides a step-by-step demonstration of how collaborative democracy can be designed, opening policymaking to greater participation. "Wiki Government" tells the story behind one of the most dramatic public sector innovations in recent years - inviting the public to participate in the patent examination process. Patent examiners usually work in secret, cut off from essential information and racing against the clock to master arcane technical claims. The Peer-to-Patent project radically transformed this process by allowing anyone with Internet access to collaborate with the agency in reviewing patent applications. "Wiki Government" describes how a far-flung team of technologists, lawyers, and policymakers pried open a tradition-bound agency's doors. Noveck explains how she brought both fiercely competitive companies and risk-averse bureaucrats on board. She discusses the design challenges the team faced in creating software to distill online collaboration into useful expertise, not just rants or raves. And she explains how law, policy, and technology can be revamped to help government work in more open and participatory ways in a wide range of policy arenas, including education and the environment.
Noveck, Beth (selected chapters) 2008. A Complex(ity) Strategy for Breaking the Environmental Logjam (with David R. Johnson), in Breaking the LogJam: An Environmental Law for the 21st Century NYU Environ. L. Rev. (Fall 2008)
In this essay, we explore how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) might use technology to improve the agency's level of scientific expertise and to obtain useful information sooner to inform EPA policymaking. By creating a self-reinforcing collaboration between government and networked publics, new web-based tools could help produce change within government and without - namely governmental decisions informed by better data obtained through citizen participation and civic action coordinated with governmental priorities. The agency has the opportunity to help break the logjam of environmental policymaking by developing transparent and participatory mechanisms for expert citizen participation. The key insight is not to throw open the floodgates to undifferentiated public input, but to design group-based processes that enable online communities to collaborate on finding and vetting information for agencies.
Noveck, Beth 2007. Wikipedia and the Future of Legal Education Journal of Legal Education, Volume 57, Number 1
Law students are footnoting the publicly authored, online resource known as Wikipedia in their term papers. Courts have cited to Wikipedia in authoritative judicial opinions. Law professors are doing so in their journal articls. Yet some members of the legal and academic communities are up in arms, decrying the use of an encyclopedia that anyone can write and edit. To allow students to rely on an online resource that might contain mistakes encourages laziness and risks undermining the legitimacy of legal authority and professionalism.
Noveck, Beth 2006. Peer to Patent: Collective Intelligence and Intellectual Property Reform 20 Harv. J. L. Tech. 123
The patent system is broken. The Constitution intended for patents to foster innovation and the promotion of progress in the useful arts. Instead, the Patent Office creates uncertainty and monopoly. Underpaid and overwhelmed examiners struggle under the burden of 350,000 applications per year and a mounting backlog of 600,000. Increasingly patents are approved for unmerited inventions. What if we could make it easier to ensure that only the most worthwhile inventions got twenty years of monopoly rights? What if we could offer a
The patent system is broken. The Constitution intended for patents to foster innovation and
Balkin, Jack M. and Beth S. Noveck, eds. 2006. The State of Play: Law and Virtual Worlds NYU Press, 2006
The State of Play presents an essential first step in understanding how new digital worlds will change the future of our universe. Millions of people around the world inhabit virtual words: multiplayer online games where characters live, love, buy, trade, cheat, steal, and have every possible kind of adventure. Far more complicated and sophisticated than early video games, people now spend countless hours in virtual universes like Second Life and Star Wars Galaxies not to shoot space invaders but to create new identities, fall in love, build cities, make rules, and break them.
As digital worlds become increasingly powerful and lifelike, people will employ them for countless real-world purposes, including commerce, education, medicine, law enforcement, and military training. Inevitably, real-world law will regulate them. But should virtual worlds be fully integrated into our real-world legal system or should they be treated as separate jurisdictions with their own forms of dispute resolution? What rules should govern virtual communities? Should the law step in to protect property rights when virtual items are destroyed or stolen?
These questions, and many more, are considered in The State of Play, where legal experts, game designers, and policymakers explore the boundaries of free speech, intellectual property, and creativity in virtual worlds. The essays explore both the emergence of law in multiplayer online games and how we can use virtual worlds to study real-world social interactions and test real-world laws.
Contributors include: Jack M. Balkin, Richard A. Bartle, Yochai Benkler, Caroline Bradley, Edward Castronova, Susan P. Crawford, Julian Dibbell, A. Michael Froomkin, James Grimmelmann, David R. Johnson, Dan Hunter, Raph Koster, F. Gregory Lastowka, Beth Simone Noveck, Cory Ondrejka, Tracy Spaight, and Tal Zarsky.
Noveck, Beth 2006. Trademark Law and the Social Construction of Trust: Creating the Legal Framework for On-Line Identity 83 Wash. U. L. Q. 1733
The intellectual property system has fostered many debates, including recent ones, regarding how the system affects access to knowledge. Yet, before one can access, one must preserve. Two interconnected problems posed by the growth of online creation illustrate the predicament. First, unlike analog creations, important digital creations such as e-mails and word-processed documents are mediated and controlled by second parties. Thus, although these creations are core intellectual property, they are not treated as such. Service providers and software makers terminate or deny access to people's digital property all the time. In addition, when one dies, some service providers refuse to grant heirs access to this property. The uneven and unclear management of these creations means that society will lose access to perhaps the greatest chronicling of human experience ever. Accordingly, this Article investigates and sets forth the theoretical foundations to explain why and how society should preserve this property. In so doing the Article finds that a second problem, which can be understood as one of control, arises.
This Article is the first in a series of works aimed at investigating the nature and extent of control one may have or exert over a work. As such, this Article begins the project by examining the normative theories behind creators', heirs', and society's interests in the works. All three groups have interests in preservation, but the basis for the claims differs. In addition, an examination of the theoretical basis for these claims shows that the nature of the attention economy in conjunction with labor- and persona-based property theories support the position that in life a creator has strong claims for control over her intangible creations. Yet, the Article finds that historical and literary theory combined with recent economic theory as advanced by Professors Brett Frischmann and Mark Lemley regarding spillovers—positive externalities generated by access to ideas and information—reveals two points. First, these views support the need for better preservation of digital intellectual property insofar as it is infrastructure and has the potential for spillover effects. Second, although the creator may be best placed to manage and exert control of the works at issue, once the creator dies, literary, historical, and economic theory show that the claims for control diminish if not vanish. The explication and implications of this second point are explored elsewhere. This Article lays the groundwork for seeing that creators may need and have powerful claims for access and control over their works but that these same claims are necessarily limited by an understanding of the nature of creation and creative systems. The dividing line falls between life and death. The life and death distinction that this Article offers seeks to balance creators' interests in control over a work and society's interests in fostering later expressions and creations of new works. This Article examines the life side of the line.
Noveck, Beth and David R. Johnson 2005. Society's Software Society's Software, 74 FORDHAM L. REV 101 (2005)
The First Amendment serves many purposes both individual and social.
All are incorrect, at least in emphasis, to suggest that core First
Noveck, Beth 2004. "Unchat: Democratic Solution for a Wired World" in Democracy Online: The Prospects for Democratic Renewal Through the Internet Peter Shane, ed.,(2004)
Taking a multidisciplinary approach that they identify as a "cyber-realist research agenda," the contributors to this volume examine the prospects for electronic democracy in terms of its form and practice--while avoiding the pitfall of treating the benefits of electronic democracy as being self-evident. The debates question what electronic democracy needs to accomplish in order to revitalize democracy and what the current state of electronic democracy can teach us about the challenges and opportunities for implementing democratic technology initiatives.
Noveck, Beth 2004. The Electronic Revolution in Rulemaking 53 EMORY L. J. 1
Noveck, Beth 2003. "Designing Deliberative Democracy" in Cyberspace: The Role of the Cyber-lawyer 9 B.U. J. Sci. and Tech. L. 1-71
In the Press
Technology's Crucial Role in the Fight Against Hunger
What Politicos Need to Know About Tech [Commentary]
Processing Power: The internet helps politicians listen better to their electors. If they want to
'Citizenville' by Gavin Newsom [Book Review]
Foundation Pushes Technology's Ability to Transform Government
Chronicle of Philanthropy
Pitchers and Catchers and Fundraisers: Why Nonprofits Don't Really Play Moneyball
Liberating 990 Data [Commentary]
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Peer Power, from Potholes to Patents
Wall Street Journal
Demand a more open-source government
TED Talks


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I do not bind my breasts and I do not wear push up bras. I have cleavage that I do not accentuate or hide. I paint my nails. I have a hair cut that makes me look very feminine. I never wear pants. I appreciate a pair of heels more then a pair of sneakers, but let's get real here - I love shoes no matter what they are.
I choose not to eat meat so I love a good salad. I bike everywhere. I have (or rather, had) muscular legs from jogging. I don't have time to wear make-up. When I do wear make-up, you bet I accentuate my lips because I have beautiful lips. My eyes look very feminine. I have a ton of hand lotion but my hands are still rough. I have big feet and small hands.
Not a single one of these qualities or habits will help you guess how I identify. But Lord knows you will keep trying. I don't identify as femme or butch. I am not a lesbian. Even though my lover identifies as male, that doesn't mean I identify as heterosexual. Just because I choose to wear dresses doesn't mean I identify as a woman.
Just because I choose not to identify as my birth gender, does not mean that I am transgender. It does not mean that I am confused. I am queer. My gender is queer, my sexuality is queer, my life is queer.
I am not "queer" enough by your standards, that's ok. I AM QUEER ENOUGH FOR MY OWN STANDARDS.
And for the "queer anon" - just because you are in the LGBTQ community does not mean that you can choose who is in it. It doesn't make you an expert on sexuality and gender. It means we have something in common. It means you shouldn't be attacking and telling me that I am a woman simply because I was "born that way."
Also quoting Lady Gaga when you're trying to "educate" me on my gender and sexuality is tacky.
Also sending me anon hate is tacky.
You are tacky.
I'm Elliot. A 20something sassy vegan queer femme trans guy from Minnesota. I love clothes, vegan food, glitter, nail polish, mascara, lipstick, shoes, and all things queer and hipster. I'm really a fag at heart. Graphic design is my current major and activism is my passion. My personal blog is here: http://ironicmoustache.tumblr.com/
I hope you find this blog as a femme home away from home. We love and welcome you all.
Hey, all! My name is Parker and I'm from Maine. I identify as a genderqueer trans*guy, and even I'm not entirely sure what that means! I see my gender as a fluid progression and am excited to see where it takes me. I also identify as femme, which for me means I love getting dressed up, doing my makeup, painting my nails. if you have any questions, just ask!
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