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As this is jubilee year it tends to make one look back and think of the flight of time, and m this way lam reminded that I am one of the veterans m the sale of your valuable and and successful medicine. I have sold it m England and many parts of Scotland. "Well do I remember the first circular you sent out some nine or ten years ag«. You had come to England from America to introduce Mother Curative Syrup, and I was struck by a paragraph m whfch you used |;hes,e words \ — " Being a stranger m a* strange land, I do not wish the people to feel that I want to take the least advantage over them. I feel that I have a remedy that will cure disease, and I have so much confidence m it that I authorise my agents to refund the money if people should say that they have not benefited by its use." I felt at once that you would never say that unless the medicine had merit, and I applied for the agency, a step which I now look back Upon with pride and satisfaction. flyer since that time I have found it far the best remedy for indigestion and Dyspepsia J. have met with, and I have sold thousands of bottles. It has never failed m any case where there were any of the following symptoms :— Nervous or sick headache, sourness of the stomach, rising of the food after eating, a sense of heaviness and fulness, dizziness bad bjreafh, slf. me and mucus, on tfye gums and teeth, constipation, ana yellowness of tfye eyes and skin, dull and sleepy sensations, ringing m the ears, heartburn, loss of appetite, and, m short, wherever there are signs that the system is clogged, and the blood is out of order. Upon repeated inquiries, covering a great variety qf ailments, my customers have always answered, "J am better," or ''lam perfectly well." What I have seldom or never §een before m the case of any medjeine iathait people tell each other of its virtues, and those who have been been cured say to the suffering : " Go and get pother §eigj?L's Curative Syrup, it will make you well." Out of the hundreds of cures I will name one or two that happen to come into my mind,
I Two old gentlemen, whose names they would not like me to give you, had been martyrs to Indigestion for many years. They had turd all kinds of medicine without relief. One of them was so bad he could not bear a glass of ale. Both were advised to use the Syrup and both recovered, and were as hale and hearty as men m the prime of life. A remarkable case is tint of a house painter named Jelleries, who lived at Penshurst, m Ketit. His business obl'gcd him to expose himself a great deal to wind and weather, and he was seized wi'h rheumatism, and his joints soon swelled up with dropsy, and were very stiff and painful. Nothing that the doctors could do seemed to reach the seat of the trouble. It so crippled him that he could do hardly any work, and tor the whole of the winter of 1878 and '79, he had to give up and take to his bed. He had been afflicted m this sorry way for three years, and was getting worn out and. discouraged. Besides, he had spent over £13 for what he called " doctor's stuff " without the least benefit. In the Spring he heard of what Mother Seigel s Curative Syrup has done for others and bought a 2s 6d bottle of me. In a few days he sent me word he was much better — before he had finished the bottle. He then sent to me for a45 6d bottle, and as I was going that way I carried it down to him myself. On getting to his he use what was my astonishment and surpiise to find him weeding an onion bed. I could hardly believe my own eyes, and said : —
"You ought not to be out here, man, it may be the death of you, after having being laid up all winter with rheumatism and dropsy." His reply was: "There is no danger. The weather is fine, and Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup has done for me m a few days what the doctors could not do m three years. I think I shall get well now." He kept on with the syrup, and m three weeks he was at work again, and has had no return of the trouble for now nearly ten years. Any medicine that can do this should be known all over the world. Yours faithfully, (Signed) Rupert Graham. Of Graham & Son. Holloway House, Sunbury, Middlesex, June 25th, 1887
The above wonderful cure of Rheumatism was the result of the wonderful power of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup to cleanse the blood of the poise nous humours .that arise rom Indigestion a nd Dyspepsia.
Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup is for sale by all chemists and medicine vendors, and by the proprietors, A. J. White, Limited, 35, Fmingdon Road, London. England. (3)
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A few months ago, I visited the optometrist for an eye exam, and, as usual, the doctor found that I'd grown still-more nearsighted and needed a new pair of glasses. The optometrist handed me off to a stylish saleswoman, who picked out several high-priced frames that she swore looked fantastic on me. Though it was apparent that her tastes dovetailed with those of Dieter from "Sprockets," I had to take her word for it; one of the complexities of buying eyeglasses is that you're literally choosing blindly, and in those fragile moments you come to rely greatly on the kindness of others.
When I'd picked a pair, the saleswoman began the hard sell: If I cared about my appearance, she warned, I'd pay for thin, high-index lenses made out of the latest NASA-approved polymers. And did I ever drive at night? If so, I really ought to consider getting an anti-reflective coating. By the time she'd run through all the options, I was looking at spending close to $600. This is how it goes when you buy glasses. I'd made the mistake of visiting a swank designer place, but even at the ubiquitous one-hour chain shops, shopping for eyewear is like buying a used car. The prices are kept deliberately obscure; the options are various and extravagant; and by the time you're done with the whole process, you feel drained and fleeced.Advertisement
This time, I wasn't going to fall for it. I'd been reading about a surprisingnew online business—prescription eyeglass shops that claim to offer well-made glasses at extremely low prices. Of course, I was skeptical; though I buy tons of stuff online (the UPS guy and I are great friends), glasses seemed too personal to choose based on a picture alone. But with a potential $600 bill staring me in the face, I decided to give it a shot—and I've emerged a believer. Within a couple of weeks, I'd purchased one pair of glasses for $100 and another for $50. The $50 pair, which I got from an outfit called Goggles4U.com, is a real miracle: They look just as good as any glasses I've seen at my optometrist's office, and they sport the thinnest, highest-index lenses on the market, complete with every optional coating—all for one-twelfth the price of the glasses I'd been offered in the fancy eyewear store.
Why are eyeglasses so cheap online? It's the classic Internet story of low overhead. Nearly every pair of glasses sold in this country is manufactured in China at a very low price—a few dollars for the lenses, a few dollars for the frames. When you buy eyeglasses at an optometrist's office, you're paying mainly for rent, labor, marketing, designer licensing fees, and a huge markup. Online retailers cut out all these costs by contracting directly with frame and lens manufacturers overseas. When you place an order, lenses that fit your prescription are cut and molded into your frame, then shipped directly to you. The price competition between online retailers keeps markups low, too. Indeed, unlike offline shops, the online eyeglass stores keep lowering their prices; one Web site, 19dollareyeglasses.com, changed its name to the more generic Zenni Optical because it began selling glasses for much less than $19. Its lowest-priced pair now goes for $8.
Optometry is one of those quintessentially physical, service-oriented industries that once seemed naturally immune to Web commerce. Sure, you'd buy books, airline tickets, and computers online, but buying something that you've got to hold, feel, and try out first—cars, clothes, furniture—has always seemed strange. But the rise of online eyeglass shops points to a larger trend. As we get increasingly comfortable with the Internet, we're turning to the Web for riskier purchases. The online shoe business, for instance, has lately been booming. The Web's advantages here are clear. Online shoe shops offer much greater selection than your local retailer, and they let you search through their merchandise more precisely—I'd like those wing tips in size 8, black, with an extra-wide front. To ease the pain of making a mistake, Web shoe stores like Zappos have extremely lenient return policies. For many, these benefits outweigh the disadvantage of not being able to try on what you're buying.
The same is true for glasses. Online shops offer huge selection, a better way to browse (by style or size, which is better than relying on some salesperson's recommendations), and unbeatable prices. It's a winning formula: A representative for Zenni Optical told me that the company is now selling more than 7,000 pairs of glasses a week.Advertisement
Be warned, though, that buying eyeglasses on the Web takes patience. The whole process is a bit of a time-suck: First, you've got to ask your doctor for your prescription. (Be firm.) Then, you need to figure out what size frames look and feel good on your face. (Measure an old pair you're comfortable with.) Next, you need to find your "pupillary distance"—the length, in millimeters, between the center of your pupils. (Ask your doctor to measure it, or do it yourself.) Finally, you've got to navigate online shops that tend to be poorly designed and full of copy errors and poor English.
If you're willing to soldier through all of this, the payoff is grand. When the glasses arrive, you're elated that you pulled it off, that you've got something so expensive for next to nothing. It's a familiar Internet sensation, reminiscent of the first time you placed a classified ad for free or downloaded an obscure song on Napster—the thrill of pulling something over on an entrenched cartel. Do I sound a bit evangelical? That's the other effect: When you've just bought glasses for $50, you yearn to tell everyone you know.
That's what happened to Ira Mitchell, a software engineer in the Twin Cities who was so surprised and thrilled at the deals he found for glasses online that he started a blog to popularize the industry. Glassy Eyes has grown into a community-review and how-to site for the online glasses business—if you're thinking about buying specs on the Web, start there. Mitchell told me that during the past couple of years, he's purchased 16 pairs of glasses online. He doesn't need that many, he says, but when they're so cheap, why not? He now buys frames to fit his mood or the current fashion. "For the first time, I can afford prescription sunglasses," Mitchell says.
Mitchell sometimes gets angry letters from optometrists who tell him that he's harming people's eyes. The big worry is that people will get a pair of glasses fitted with the wrong prescription and will wear them for a long time without realizing it. But that risk seems exaggerated; Mitchell says that only one of his purchases resulted in bad lenses, and he noticed it immediately. (Just to be safe, I took my $50 glasses to an optometrist's office for an inspection. The lenses matched my prescription.) Mitchell argues that Web shops might be helping to improve people's eye health by pushing us to get our eyes checked more often. For me, at least, that rings true. When I was paying a few hundred dollars per pair, I'd wait two or even three years before getting new specs, often way longer than was safe. Thanks to the Web, I've no longer got a reason to stumble around blindly.
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"With regard to the protection of intellectual property, in particular copyright, trademarks, trade secrets and patents, we recognize the need to have national laws and frameworks for improved enforcement. We are thus renewing our commitment to ensuring effective action against violations of intellectual property rights in the digital arena, including action that addresses present and future infringements."Straight out of the RIAA/MPAA playbook, of course.
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Characteristically unafraid to ruffle his fellow leaders' feathers, Medvedev continued "Unfortunately, this was not included in the declaration because, in my opinion, my colleagues have a more conservative opinion than is necessary at the moment. Or maybe they just don't use the Internet and have little understanding of it."


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"GameStop is tracking to all-time, record reservations on Call of Duty: Black Ops," McKenzie told Gamasutra, without revealing specific numbers. "We are ahead of where we were with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 last year, which previously set the industry standard."
VG Chartz, which tracks retail pre-orders in the Americas, currently has Black Ops at 1.5 million copies sold, and we've still got a month to go before the game is released.
GameStop is doing its best to keep the pre-orders rolling, announcing a new Black Ops promotion, Surprize Attack. Pre-order the game and you'll be given a code that can be entered into the Surprize Attack web site, making you eligible for some impressive prizes, including a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon and a Harley Davidson Iron 883 motorcycle.
Sharkey says: The videogame world is CoD crazy. Black Ops will sell a ton, but I don't think it will beat MW2 -- particularly with Medal of Honor shipping next week. MoH won't come close to Black Ops, but it will certainly take away some of its potential customers.


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The Red Raiders actually led after three quarters thanks to two Scott TDs in the third. The Bulldogs went up, 14-7, at 8;24 of the third, but 23 seconds later Scott broke loose for a 73-yard scoring run to tie up the score after Mitchell Cyr's PAT. Scott then completed an 11-play, 55-yard drive with a 23-yard TD run with 10 seconds to play in the third to put Spaulding ahead, 20-14.
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The Effects of the Magnetic Molecular Energizer (MME) on Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00134524
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Verified July 2007 by Advanced Magnetic Research Institute International.
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
First Posted : August 25, 2005
Last Update Posted : July 10, 2007
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|Diabetic Neuropathies Pain Neuralgia
|Procedure: MME procedure
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Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) affects up to 1/2 of diabetics, both type I and II. It contributes to limb amputation, and can cause painful symptoms which are difficult to treat. Application of a high intensity, DC electromagnetic field, as supplied by the investigational device the Magnetic Molecular Energizer (MME) has shown in a pilot study with participants having DPN in their feet, to have created significant improvement in painful symptoms and improved measures of neurologic function in 7 of 10 participants. This study will enroll participants and evaluate them at baseline with regard to pain levels, nerve function and quality of life. They will then be randomized to receive 120 hr exposure to either active MME procedure, or sham procedure. Following the 120 hrs the participants will then receive the same evaluation for pain level, nerve function and quality of life. These evaluations will be repeated a final time 6 months following. The participants will be blinded to whether they receive the active or sham procedure.
The MME procedure consists of laying on a bed with the feet lying in the space between two large electromagnetic coils which, when activated, produce a DC magnetic field measuring 5000 gauss. The participants will lay on the bed with feet in the magnetic field for 8 to 12 hours a day for 10 to 16 days in succession. Breaks are allowed, and no restraints are required. The procedure may be done at night so that participants may sleep.
Pain assessment will be done by self assessment using rating with the Visual Analogue Scale.
Neurologic function will be assessed with Cutaneous Perception Threshold testing using the Neurometer, a commercially available, FDA approved device.
Quality of life assessment will be by the Neuropathy Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|100 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Sham-Controlled Clinical Study to Evaluate The Effect of the Magnetic Molecular Energizer (MME) on Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
|Study Start Date :
|July 2005
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|January 2008
- Improvement in neurologic function following procedure
- Improvement in DPN related pain following procedure
- Subject tolerance to the MME procedure
- Neurologic function at 6 month follow-up
- Pain level at 6 month follow-up
- Quality of Life assessments at baseline, post-procedure and 6 month follow-up
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 79 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects with diabetic peripheral neuropathy in feet with associated pain/discomfort.
- Stable and controlled diabetes with hemoglobin A1c level less than 9.0% at entry into the study. Diabetes type I or type II accepted.
- Subjects must be able to read English.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pacemakers, defibrillators, aneurysm clips, cochlear implants, any metallic particles in eyes or ferromagnetic metal shrapnel, projectile or implant in body.
- Pregnant women
- Concurrent neuropathy not due to diabetes.
- Unstable cardiac disease or uncontrolled blood pressure.
- Renal failure
- Active hepatitis
- History of nerve injury to lower extremities.
- History of spinal surgery or total knee arthroplasty
- Current malignancy
- Alcoholism
- History of stroke
- Seizure disorder
- Current use of long acting narcotic medication
- Skin ulceration or breakdown of the lower extremities
- Peripheral vascular disease sufficient to cause extremity pain at rest.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00134524
|United States, Arizona
|AMRI Arizona
|Tucson, Arizona, United States, 85711
|United States, Michigan
|Sterling Heights, Michigan, United States, 48313
|United States, North Carolina
|Mocksville, North Carolina, United States, 27208
|United States, Ohio
|Amri NW Oh
|Toledo, Ohio, United States, 48313
|United States, Washington
|Renton, Washington, United States, 98055
|Study Director:
|Wayne R Bonlie, MD
|AMRI International
Additional Information:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00134524 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|August 25, 2005 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|July 10, 2007
|Last Verified:
|July 2007
Keywords provided by Advanced Magnetic Research Institute International:
Diabetic neuropathy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
Diabetic Neuropathies
Neuromuscular Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Neurologic Manifestations
Signs and Symptoms
Diabetes Complications
Diabetes Mellitus
Endocrine System Diseases


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Katherine Heigl holds onto her little girl Adalaide as they make their way through LAX Airport to catch a departing flight on Sunday (December 2) in Los Angeles.
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Team Penske Looks to Build on Momentum at Baltimore
September 1, 2011
Drivers: Helio Castroneves (No. 3 Shell V-Power Pennzoil Ultra Team Penske), Ryan Briscoe (No. 6 Guidepoint Systems Team Penske) and Will Power (No. 12 Verizon Team Penske)
Event: Baltimore Grand Prix
Streets of Baltimore, Maryland
(2.4-mile temporary street circuit)
When: Qualifying -Saturday, September 3 at 12:10 p.m. ET (Coverage on VERSUS at 6 p.m. ET)
Race (75 laps) - Sunday, September 4 at 2:45 p.m. ET (Coverage begins at 2 p.m. ET live on VERSUS)
TV/Radio: VERSUS/IMS Radio Network and Sirius XM Channel 94
Street Savvy: Team Penske has enjoyed its share of street racing success over the years and it looks to continue to add to its achievements on the streets this weekend. The team has claimed seven wins on temporary street circuits like the one in Baltimore since the beginning of the 2009 season.
For the Record: Team Penske has produced 30 street course victories among its 158 all-time race wins. The current driver lineup of Will Power, Helio Castroneves and Ryan Briscoe is responsible for generating 12 of those 30 street course victories (Power - 6, Castroneves - 5, Briscoe - 1).
Winning Races in New Places: This weekend's race marks the second of three new events on the IndyCar Series calendar in 2011 (New Hampshire Motor Speedway hosted the first new event on the series 2011 calendar on August 14 and Las Vegas Motor Speedway will host the season finale on October 16). Team Penske has fared well at new circuits recently as the team earned wins on the two tracks that were new to the IZOD IndyCar Series in 2010 - Power won at the Sao Paulo street circuit while Castroneves claimed victory at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama. At New Hampshire, Power had the top result for the team with a fifth-place finish.
Simple as 1-2-3: The team is coming off its first 1-2-3 podium sweep in nearly 17 years. Power won on Sunday at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California for his series-leading fifth win of the year. Helio Castroneves finished second to tie his season-best result while Ryan Briscoe was third for his fourth podium of the season, It marked the first 1-2-3 finish for Team Penske since September 18, 1994 when Paul Tracy won at Nazareth Speedway followed by Al Unser Jr., and Emerson Fittipaldi.
A Weekend to Remember: Last weekend was special all the way around for Penske Racing. Not only did Team Penske sweep the podium in Sonoma, but the night before, Brad Keselowski earned his third NASCAR Cup Series win of the season for Penske Racing when he captured the checkered flag at Bristol. The two victories represented the first time the team produced IndyCar and NASCAR wins on the same weekend since June of 2000 when Castroneves won at Detroit for his first win with Team Penske and Jeremy Mayfield won the Cup race at Pocono for the team.
Meet Will the Thrill: Power will meet with fans and sign autographs at the Verizon store located at Glen Burnie North, 6711 Ritchie Highway, Suite 625 in Glen Burnie, Md., on Thursday evening, September 1 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. ET.
Rising Power: Power enters the weekend ranked second in the championship standings, now just 26 points behind leader Dario Franchitti. Power trimmed 21 points of off Franchitti's lead with a perfect points weekend at Sonoma. Power now heads to a first-time street circuit in Baltimore and the defending series Mario Andretti Road Course Champion has proven to be tough to beat on the street since joining Team Penske. Power has claimed six street course wins for the team since 2009.
Scaling the Standings: Both Castroneves and Briscoe also improved their championship standing with strong weekends at Sonoma. Briscoe improved to fifth place in the championship rankings with his third-place result while Castroneves jumped up two positions to ninth in the standings behind his runner-up result last Sunday.
Super Stats: With Sunday's win at Sonoma, Power tied Bobby Unser, Emerson Fittipaldi and Paul Tracy for fourth on the Team Penske all-time win list with 11 IndyCar victories. Power and Unser tied for the fastest to 11 wins among Team Penske drivers as both racers reached the milestone in just 37 career starts for the team. Power's next win for Team Penske will place him in a tie for third place (12 victories) on the all-time win list with Danny Sullivan and Al Unser Jr.
Here Comes The Judge: Castroneves will return to his hometown of Sao Paulo, Brazil to serve as a judge of the 2011 Miss Universe Pageant in a couple of weeks. Castroneves will help select the next Miss Universe from a diverse group of women representing 89 countries. The pageant will be televised live on NBC on Monday, September 12 beginning at 9 p.m. ET and is expected be watched by one billion viewers worldwide.
Penske Partners: Team Penske is proud to work with several new partners on the team in 2011. Joining the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske car as primary sponsors this weekend are Shell V-Power Pennzoil Ultra on the No. 3 car and Guidepoint Systems on the No. 6 car. Also new to the team this year as primary sponsors are IZOD, AAA Insurance, PPG Automotive Refinish, Transitions Adaptive Lenses and Penske Truck Rental. The team is also joined by associate sponsors Meijer, Coca-Cola and Comfort Revolution.
Helio Castroneves: "It's always fun to go to a new market and get a chance to meet new fans and race on a new circuit. I'm looking forward to this weekend in Baltimore, especially with the Shell V-Power Pennzoil-Ultra car. We are coming off a great result for Team Penske where we finished 1-2-3 and hopefully we can carry over that momentum into another strong result on the street circuit in Baltimore this weekend."
Ryan Briscoe: "This will be my first time going to Baltimore and I'm excited about this great new venue being a part of this year's championship. The Team Penske cars have proven to be quick on new venues the last couple of seasons and we are all hoping to ride the momentum of our sweep at Sonoma. The No. 6 car will be sporting Guidepoint Systems colors this weekend and we are looking for a strong result as we represent them in this important market."
Will Power: ""It looks like Baltimore is a fun circuit to drive. I always enjoy going to a new city and a new track. It is both challenging and rewarding to learn a new race track. The Verizon car has been particularly good on the street courses this year and the team is really working well together. I am sure this is going to be another very competitive weekend - we are ready for it. After last weekend the whole team is ready to have another go at it."


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Of the Office for Civil Rights
Fiscal Year 2006
C. Regulatory and Policy Development
Single-Sex Education
After analyzing almost 6,000 comments, OCR completed work on the amendments to the Title IX regulations, to provide more flexibility in creating single-sex education options at the elementary and secondary level. Both the secretary of education and the Office of Management and Budget approved the final regulations for publication in the Federal Register. They were published in October 2006.
Longstanding legal authority establishes that harassment of students can be a form of sex discrimination covered by Title IX. I want to commend the efforts many of you have made to ensure that all students have a safe and secure educational environment that affords them equal educational opportunities regardless of their sex. ... Preventing and remedying sexual harassment in schools is essential to ensuring a safe environment in which students can learn.
Assistant Secretary Stephanie Monroe
Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment of students is a serious problem at all levels of education. On Jan. 25, 2006, OCR issued a "Dear Colleague" letter to more than 20,000 local education agencies (LEAs), state education agencies (SEAs) and postsecondary schools. The letter to these recipients reaffirmed the importance of their Title IX responsibilities to take immediate and effective steps to end sexual harassment when it occurs, to prevent its recurrence and to remedy its effects.


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Highlights of an exclusive interview with President Barack Obama by The Associated Press. The president spoke about the shaky start of enrollment under the health care overhaul, the government shutdown, the threat of a U.S. default, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and other topics.
Obama blamed reports of long waits to get on health care websites and difficulty signing up for coverage on a level of public interest that he said exceeded expectations and overwhelmed the system. He said people are working around the clock to make things run smoother. Obama said people shouldn't give up on signing up since coverage doesn't kick in until January and the enrollment period ends in March. He said he did not have data on how many people had successfully signed up to buy insurance from private companies, mostly through websites that went live this past Tuesday.
Obama said if he were the owner of the Washington Redskins football team, "I'd think about changing" their name because it offends many people. Native Americans, in particular, have objected to the name.
He said the government could reopen quickly because there are enough Republican and Democratic votes in the House to pass a bill to do that, but he again blamed House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, for not allowing a vote in an attempt to extract additional concessions from the administration. House Republicans want to delay the health care law in exchange for reopening the government, but Obama says ending the shutdown is not a matter he will negotiate.
Obama said America has never failed to pay its bills and that he won't negotiate with House Republicans over the debt ceiling. Obama said no party had ever threatened to not pay America's bills until 2011, when Boehner and House Republicans did so thinking it might give them more leverage in negotiations. He said the U.S. can't allow a faction of one party in one chamber in one branch of government threatens economic collapse unless it gets to have its way.
Obama said the world must test whether Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is serious about pursuing a diplomatic resolution to international concerns over its nuclear aspirations. He said the U.S. won't take a bad deal from Iran and will make sure that anything agreed to can be verified. Obama said Rouhani has staked his position on the idea that he can improve relations with the rest of the world, and has been saying a lot of the right things. He said the question the world is waiting for an answer to is whether Rouhani can follow through.
Obama said he prefers that Afghan troops take care of the country's security needs after the U.S. combat mission there ends at the end of 2014, but that they aren't ready to fully take on the responsibility just yet. He said he would consider leaving behind an unspecified number of U.S. troops in a training and advisory role. To do that, however, requires a bilateral security agreement that would ensure that American troops who stay behind would be protected, and negotiations on such a pact continue.
Obama said freshman senators who seek attention by playing to political extremes are behaving in a way that is not good for government. He said he recognizes that being controversial and rallying extreme parts of a political base are the shortest routes to attention and raising money. But he said such behavior isn't good for the people they serve. Obama was asked about senators such as Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida, three Republicans who oppose Obama's agenda and are talked about as possible presidential candidates in 2016.


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Beau soir de Noël
By Trio Beau Soir
Label: Disques Boghei Records
Released 11/2/2016
Beau soir de Noël tracks
1. Venez mes enfants (feat. Le Choeur les Rhapsodes & David Rompré)
2. Anjou
3. Un flambeau Jeanette, Isabelle (feat. Le Choeur les Rhapsodes & David Rompré)
4. Sainte Nuit (feat. Luce Vachon, Le Choeur les Rhapsodes & David Rompré)
5. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (feat. Le Choeur les Rhapsodes & David Rompré)
6. In Dulci Jubilo
7. Le Sommeil de l'enfant Jésus (feat. Luce Vachon, Le Choeur les Rhapsodes & David Rompré)
8. Noël
9. Coventry Carol (feat. Le Choeur les Rhapsodes & David Rompré)
10. O Little Town of Bethlehem
11. The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol
12. La vierge à la crèche (feat. Luce Vachon)
13. Trois anges sont venus ce soir
14. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
15. Dors ma colombe (feat. Le Choeur les Rhapsodes & David Rompré)
Beau soir de noël
I have to say that reviewing this album is a bit nostalgic for me. Mr. Armand Letandre, the chorus leader of my youth at St. Joseph's School played many of these songs during lulls in teaching us how to sing in French and Latin.
Trio Beau Soir
, the highly talented chamber group from Québec, Canada offers up fifteen tracks of traditional Christmas music from the annals of French and French Canadian history. The trio consisting of
Isabelle Fortier
on harp,
Geneviève Savoie
on flute and
Jean-François Gagné
on viola have an established reputation for excellence in the field of chamber music. On Beau Soir De Noël they are joined by singer
Luce Vachon
and the choir
Les Rhapsodes
directed by David Rampré and also
Jean-Luc Bouchard
on percussion.
The album opens with the tune
Venez Mes Enfants (Come My Children)
that has a wonderful balance of music and chorus. The flute intro is exquisite as it bids us to hear the news. It is a very old song inviting us to celebrate the birth of the Christ child. The sweet choir presents an old world charm that is lacking in the modern day world.
is a beautiful carol by Cesar Franck, but as many of the tune are, adapted by Gagné as a lead-in to a dynamic production for the flute and chorus.
Un Flambeau Jeanette, Isabelle
is a tune with which I am very familiar. Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella is a Christmas time staple with a lot of followers. In Provence, France it is traditional for children to go to midnight mass bearing torches and candles.
Sainte Nuit
features the gorgeous mezzo-soprano voice of Luce Vachon in the French version of Silent Night. Her silky voice adds a touch of reverence to the well-known chanson. Isabelle Fortier's glorious harp opens the tune
Le Sommeil de L'Enfant Jésus
. The song has the voices of Les Rhapsodes as well as Vachon and it is a sublime rendition based on an old world song.
"Entre le boeuf et l'âne gris,
Dors, dors, dors le petit fils:
Mille anges divins, mille séraphins,
Volent à l'entour de ce grand Dieu d'amour."
A tune simply called
by Jean-Claude Daquin, the famous Baroque composer, offers the singular talents of Trio Beau Soir. Although Daquin's Noëls are based on compositions for organ, the trio delivers a poignant version that pleases in every way. The traditional
Coventry Carol
is featured with the choir in a dramatic presentation. The upbeat percussion by Jean-Luc Bouchard tempers the song with a reverent cadence.
Jean-François Gagné's dulcet viola leads on the song
O Little Town of Bethlehem
that becomes quite a production number. The gentle tune has a nostalgic air, as if we revisit that village in our dreams. I was unfamiliar with the song
The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol
, but I fell in love with it thanks to Geneviève Savoie's lyrical flute contribution.
I know I have heard the tune
Trois Anges Sont Venus Ce Soir
before, but I can't place the context. It is another song where the threesome excel at their craft balancing passionate melody against harmonic content. The composition is lush as well as enthralling.
Galuppi's Dors Ma Colombe
or Sleep My Dove is treated as a dream-like sequence with the combination of a strong harp presence, a melodic flute accompaniment and a refined viola part. I have heard the song many times, but until now, I never knew its origin.
I invite anyone that has never experienced classical and traditional music from French and French-Canadian culture to expose their emotions to this beautiful album. The music is steeped in musical history and by the skillful rendering of Trio Beau Soir transmuted to a modern day gift for the Christmas season. Je vous garantis que cette musique vous apporte de la joie.
Highly recommended.
- reviewed by RJ Lannan on 12/12/2016
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Indispensable. That�s how many describe rotor-wing aircraft in the modern Marine Corps.
Indispensable. That�s how many describe rotor-wing aircraft in the modern Marine Corps.
�They are as important to the Marine Corps today as the rifle or the canteen,� said Ben Kristy, aviation curator at the National Museum of the Marine Corps.
Rotor craft will be the subject of the Eastern Carolina Aviation Heritage Foundation�s annual gala on Friday night. Master of ceremonies of the event is Tom Braaten, a retired major general and former Cherry Point commanding officer who flew helicopters in the Marine Corps. John Rader, a retired Marine colonel and Boeing executive, is the scheduled speaker of the event and will address the newest bird in the fleet, the MV-22 Osprey.
�The Marine Corps was the first service branch to openly embrace the helicopter,� said Kristy. �The helicopter becomes a crucial technology after atomic weapons become widely spread around the globe primarily because once the Soviets had atomic weapons we couldn�t do another Iwo Jima style amphibious assault. The landing fleet would have been to luring of a target, so the Marine Corps, in order to be able to continue its core mission of amphibious assault, had to find a way to get Marines from ship to shore while also disbursing the invasion fleet so you wouldn�t such a good target.�
The early helicopters were small, but the Marine Corps would see the potential for the development of larger craft and put the practice of delivering Marines ashore using helicopters during the Korean Conflict in the 1950s.
�By the end of the Korean War, Marines had technology and property type helicopters to make this concept of vertical envelopment work in combat,� said Fred Allison, the Marine Corps� oral historian at Quantico, Va. �The transformation was just fundamental for the Marine Corps and the Marine Corps led the way in the development of the helicopter.�
The various uses of the helicopter have been expanded. They carry cargo, personnel, mail and supplies along with supporting ground troops and extracting casualties.
Some of the early transport helicopters were supplemented with machine guns and rocket pods that added an assault role to the craft.
�In the mid-1960s, the first helicopter gunship was developed and that was the AH-1 Cobra and the Marine Corps bought those and employed them in Vietnam,� Allison said. �They have proven to be a real asset to infantry troops in combat in providing close air support.�
Meanwhile, the Osprey has served as an upgrade to the CH-46 helicopter, allowing for greater range, faster speeds and more troop capacity.
�In a lot of ways, it�s a game-changer because of the speed and the range it has,� Kristy said. �The Marine Corps is really coming to grips now with how many new opportunities the Osprey opens up for long-range and high-speed missions. We can now deploy much farther inland than we could ever go before with the (CH-)46. We can get there faster. It really changes a lot of what the (Marine Expeditionary Unit) capabilities truly are.�
Along with the Osprey, the Marine Corps continues to upgrade with newer models of the Cobra and Huey helicopters, and the future could include even more innovations.
�Much farther down range, maybe 20 or 30 years, I think it�s highly likely you will see some type of tilt-rotor gunship in some form,� Kristy said. �The Osprey today can fly much farther and faster than any of its escorts, so I think you will see some development of that. It may not be manned. It�s likely you will see an unmanned tilt-rotor escort gunship of some ilk.�
The helicopter also provides disaster relief, most recently with Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
In the skies around Havelock, the CH-46 Pedro helicopters are frequently assisting with the transport of motor vehicle crash victims to hospitals as well as assisting with searches. The helicopters played a prominent role in the rescue of flood victims during Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
�We�ve seen it over and over again, if you look at history, it has proved the utility of helicopters in medevac operations,� Allison said. �Many lives have been saved. The helicopter is one of the greatest inventions ever for the modern military. It�s transformational.�
The Eastern Carolina Aviation Heritage Foundation Gala is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Havelock Tourist and Event Center. Tickets are $50 per person or $90 per couple. Table sponsorships are $300.
For more information, call the tourist center at 444-4348, email firstname.lastname@example.com or go online to www.ecaviationheritage.com.


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War Power Debate: Architect of the Patriot Act, John Yoo, and USD Law Professor Michael D. Ramsey Debate About the War o
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- Monday, February 12, 2007 at 5:30 p.m.
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, Peace & Justice Theatre
The School of Law's Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism welcomes John Yoo, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, architect of the Patriot Act and author of the so-called "torture memo," for a debate about the War on Terror. Yoo will go head-to-head with USD School of Law Professor Mike Ramsey on issues of war power such as the authority to launch pre-emptive attacks abroad and conducting surveillance without a warrant.
The University of San Diego School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider and certifies that this activity is approved for one hour of general credit.
Professor John Yoo
Yoo joined the Boalt Hall faculty in 1993, then clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. He served as general counsel of the U.S.Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 1996. From 2001 to 2003, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security and the separation of powers. Yoo is the author of The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11 (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006).
Professor Mike Ramsey
Professor Michael D. Ramsey teaches constitutional law, international business transactions and foreign relations law. Before joining the faculty in 1995, Ramsey served as senior articles editor of the Stanford Journal of International Law. He clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then for Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. He also practiced law with Latham & Watkins in San Diego. Ramsey's publications include "Textualism and War Powers," University of Chicago Law Review; "The Executive Power over Foreign Affairs," Yale Law Journal (with Professor Saikrishna Prakash); and "The Myth of Extraconstitutional Foreign Affairs Power," William & Mary Law Review. Ramsey is the recipient of the 1998 Thorsnes Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the 2002 Thorsnes Prize for Outstanding Scholarship.


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Our Hematology Oncology Department provides advanced medical therapies for patients with various types and stages of hematologic disease, including leukemia, multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Hodgkin lymphoma. Some hematologic cancer patients undergo a hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation (commonly referred to as a stem cell transplant).
A stem cell transplant can be used to infuse healthy stem cells into the body to stimulate new bone marrow growth, suppress the disease, and reduce the possibility of a relapse.
Stem cells can be found in the bone marrow, circulating blood (peripheral blood stem cells), and umbilical cord blood.
Our doctors perform two main types of stem cell transplants:
Before a stem cell transplant, you'll undergo a conditioning regime, which involves intensive treatment to destroy as many cancer cells as possible. You may receive high doses of chemotherapy and, in some cases, radiation therapy. Once this preparative regime is complete, you're ready to undergo the transplant.
Much like a blood transfusion, you'll receive the stem cells intravenously. The procedure takes about an hour. After entering the bloodstream, the stem cells travel to the bone marrow and start to make new blood cells in a process known as engraftment.
In the months following the transplant, your care team will monitor your blood counts. You may need transfusions of red blood cells and platelets. Sometimes, the intensive treatments you receive before the stem cell transplantation can cause side effects, like infection. In this case, your doctor may administer IV antibiotics.
If you had an allogeneic stem cell transplant, your doctor may prescribe certain drugs to reduce the risk of graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD), a condition where the donated cells attack the patient's tissues.
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OTT praise
gimme some artists who just dont deserve the insane amounts of praise they get
mine are.
husker du
kanye west
not troll
i chose those artists because in my mind they are by far the worse recipients of over inflated praise.im not saying they are bad bands btw.well in husker du's case i am
there's an article on p4k currently about new Daft Punk tracks being registered
any track titles? no. music bites? no. just track length. they're all (currently) untitled. make of that what you will.
mind you some of the best songs are untitled
like that interpol one and that one by NMH so maybe it's a sign
why am i posting on this fucking awful thread
you're not even trying, OP. shut it down, girl_on_film
why's it awful?
is it so wrong to actually admit thinking some of these sacred cows are overrated?is their not a single artist you think gets a little too much praise at the expense of others?
daft punk have not released a genuine stunning album for about ten years,yet blogs everywhere are hammering the hell out of the "news" that some track length times have been found!!
there are so many in dance music right NOW doing so much more than daft punk,yet daft punk(the old guys the rock press understand) get the press.
yeah it's fucking weird how massively loved bands who've released massively popular albums
go on to get a massive amount of attention. it's really weird i can't work it out. i guess i'll continue listening to Pearl Jam's 'Ten' while wearing my Nirvana t-shirt and being sulky until i find outDinohead86 this'd this
shut it down?
does it offend you that much i think some bands are overrated and i had the temerity to say so.
yes it offends me
you're so edgy
im not trying to be edgy.what im trying to do is say i think this horrible consensus builds up around some bands/rappers/albums etc,and it breeds this unhealthy obsession with the past,and you end up at a point like just now where someone gets shouted down for saying they think some bands are a bit overrated.
did you notice with the exception of husker du i never said any of these bands were actually crap.
All you've done is list some bands you don't like, though.
At least that's what it boils down to. We have a 'bands you hate' thread every few days but always worded a little different. Nothing wrong with fighting against the canon but you'd better come blasting with tank. As it stands here you've come with a water gun, there's no argument, just some band names. SHOW YOUR WORK.whatisthewhat and Wooly31 this'd this
you've got it wrong
i think maybe the best writer working within the confines of music journalisim just now is andrew nosnitsky,he's wrote quite a few pieces recently on the dangers of anointed greats and the whole narrow mindedness it helps breed,read his pieces on good kid mad city and spaceghostburp,and they sum up close to what im trying to say.
ill try and write a wee piece explaing my thoughts as well.and i DONT hate those bands
If you're not a troll and you're actually going to write something on this
then i really encourage it, and good luck.
Noz is great, yes,
but he has like 7 years of writing to back up his claims. You've got a handful of posts and no explanation, context or reason to why you've made your claims. Again, not saying you 'hate' these bands, just that that's what it's boiled down to with what you've presented.
In other news
put my argument in the wrong context
i should have called it 'a lack of bravery/originality in the mainstream music press'.
there's this incredible cannon of music that tends to be sidelined by the same bands over and over again,i'm not asking for blatant obscurantism just a little bit more originality.how many think pieces on ian curtis do we really need?why not a piece on echo and the bunnymen,bauhaus etc.
everyone is on kendrick just now he's made one of those "great" albums,instead of never ending pieces on good kid,why dont they step out their comfort zone and try a piece on futures warped pop music.
instead of pac,biggie or the wu give three six maf's classics some inches.
everyone knows about odd future,why not look into ace hood,100's,ghetts instead.
basically if your gonna look back make it as wide a pool as possible,acknowledge so much more of the past and present instead of constantly getting tied up in "great album syndrome".there are so many artists deserving of huge amounts of praise,lets give it to them all instead of it always being the same culprits.i just dont think the obsession with a limited number of greats is good for music at all,it leads to that horrible sgt pepperisim where something becomes beyond criticism.
i know my arguments a little convoluted and strays in parts,but hopefully you can get the gist of what im trying to say
I dont disagree with any of this
but yeah its a completely different topic/argument than what you started with.
We kinda touched on some of this stuff (by way of an Asap Rocky discussion) in the hip hop 2013 thread. http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4422708#r7277420
i worded the whole thing wrong,the point i was trying to make is the same but i went about making my argument quite badly in the first post.
ta for the thread
rather than writing a wee piece
why not link to the ones you mentioned which are mentioned by actual writers who can write actual words with actual arguments?
dont know how to link,ill work it out asap though.its quite easy to find the articles with google though.
i made a more in depth argument just above here with actual words and everything.i dont imagine it'll cut the mustard with you though
The reason nobody cares
is you get a thread like this every week so it's all been whined about already.
Threads like this always remind me of
the Louis CK skit about how his daughter just answers every question with "Why?" then it gets really abstract and just ends up with "BECAUSE SOME THINGS ARE AND SOME THINGS ARE NOT."
i'm irked :D
those two bands
perfect examplesAntelope this'd this
The praise that Husker Du receive is completely justified
what with them being brilliant.
I used to dislike Pavement
then I decided to like them
Nah, d_b actually had well thought-out arguements
and a broad taste in music.
explain please
i dont have a broad taste in music?
what exactly has lead you to believe i dont have a broad taste in music?
you're whole righteous anger has just confirmed to me even more why i hate the whole notion of bands beyond reproach.
Dude, I don't actually mean what I said above
it's a joke about how robotic deep_blue seemed.
(For the record I actually thought d_b was a great poster and I'm sure your taste in music is just fine, i don't have an opinion on it either way)
all those kids in their tshirts eh?
well i was there at the time and it was shit. there was one time that me and gary got the tram to sale and had a nice chicken meal later but apart from that you can get out.
Ha ha, I think guntrip posted that same link the last time
I had a go at gnr.
- LOLpop, gonad, and JaguarPirate this'd this
just because you can't appreciate Hüsker Dü and other great music
doesn't mean it's a bad thing that they get loads of praise from everyone else.
learn to deal with not being right.
you can't *insist* on something being rubbish
when so many /discerning/ people agree on their greatness.
you can say you don't like them, but getting all worked up about their elevated status is pretty futile.
and if you're criticising them
articulate yourself better.
i said husker du were junk,big deal.im sure you think some bands are junk.
im not exactly getting worked up about it.
okay finr
I just think it's counter-productive to start a thread about bands you think are overrated, complaining that it takes away the spotlight from other bands/artists that don't get as much praise.
like, you're still talking about them, and now other people are joining in.
(I don't think Hüsker Dü have more than their fair share, fwiw. regardless of what you think, most people who've heard the band would agree they're worthy of eulogising. they're hardly deserving of any backlash, at the least; even if you don't appreciate their music, they made it in the right spirit. pick more worthwhike targets, I reckon).
in all honesty husker du dont really get that many inches,so it was a bit daft of me to even include them in the thread.
they are vastly overrated though
i'd agree with that
probably yeah
i actually wrote a fairly brutal take down(which im sure people will disagree with) that iv hummed and hawed about posting all night,.but when i look at it and judge it with any objectivity it comes across as a bit dickish and angry tbh.forums always have enough plonkers without me joining the fray.
there's been some anger i never expected from HD fans,so im gonna go look out zen arcade and hopefully it'll finally gel and i'll find out what i've been missing. :)
for the record, I wasn't fussed at first
but I persevered because so many people really believed in the band, felt genuinely rapturous about their music.
they used to seem like just another punk band until I gave myself to the music. I found something beautiful in the distinctive torrents of guitar, in the head-over-heels drums, a real complex emotion in the vocals... I like a lot of hardcore, but there's something really special about HD at their peak.
...I mean, there's something in the textures (serated fuzz tone to guitar, the heavily EQ-ed sound to the drums) and the barrage of melodies that is transportive. I thought the idea of a hardcore double album was silly, but it's a genuine trip. like falling headfirst into a maze of graffitied concrete walls, or the acid-tinged tip on the cover.
veered off into talking exclusively about 'Zen Arcade'
you can hear it before that... on 'Land Speed Record', it's like they're falling over themselves, like they're sudden conduits for this transcendant energy.
i dont want to argue
when i listen to them i cant get past the production and mixing,its really tinny and thin sounding and its not some hatred i have of lofi records,most my fave records sound like they were made in a bin.haha
am i alone in thinking this?
genuine quesion,im not flaming,quite interested to hear a fans view
the production on their biggest records isn't thin
rather the guitars and drums have a very distinctive sound, very much in the high-mids.
I happen to think this is really great. it sounds incandescent (hah :) ).


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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Meeting of November 20, 2008 – Employment Discrimination Faced by Individuals with Arrest and Conviction Records
Thank you and good morning. I1 am pleased and honored to appear here today to address this extremely important issue – the discriminatory impact of employers using criminal records in screening job applicants. In March of this year, I had the pleasure to serve on a panel with your General Counsel, Ronald Cooper, at the ABA National Conference on Equal Employment Law.2 The issues presented there raised enough interest, and indeed enough questions, that we were asked to repeat the program via teleconference in August. This is an issue that is not going away, and is by no means easy. I applaud the EEOC for taking on the issue, revisiting a set of guidelines which were subject to criticism in El v. Septa, 3 and for taking a leadership role on an issue where we all must come together to devise a meaningful response to it.
Recent studies estimate more than 700,000 individuals annually leave the prisons of our state and federal governments and return home. That is a little over 1,900 a day. That is just over four times the number of people who made similar journeys from prison to home a short twenty years ago.
The number of those with criminal detention histories attempting to re-enter the workforce has drastically increased. Unless there is meaningful rehabilitation and concerted effort to reintegrate these individuals back into all aspects of society, there is a significant chance that those released will be back in prison within three years4. The reasons for this "revolving prison door5" are far too numerous to accurately convey in the short time allotted. Most ex-offenders, upon being released, have little money, minimal training or education, and limited job opportunities. Some have received high school equivalency diplomas or other job training education in prison, but continue to find it difficult to find employment.
Rehabilitation and re-integration through meaningful employment is one way to restrict the flow of ex-offenders leaving and re-entering society through the jailhouse doors. Data shows that those returning to society who are able to establish a stable family and working environment are less likely to return to jail. The social effects of having a job cannot be understated. A person with strong, entrenched family relations and a solid career has established ties to the community and within society, and is therefore much less likely to re-offend. Placement programs that specialize in rehabilitating ex-offenders frequently note the inverse correlation between recidivism rates and employment opportunities.
Despite this correlation, many individuals with criminal histories are unable to realize a "second chance." There is a lack of good national data on the underemployment of people with criminal records, but one study of Los Angeles employers showed that over 40% of employers will reject an applicant with a criminal record regardless of the nature of the offense or any other individual factors. This reality of rejection drives both the perception that these individuals may pose a danger to public safety, and of employer negligent hiring suits. I do not mean to summarily dismiss the concerns of employers when it comes to hiring individuals with criminal background histories. The number of tort lawsuits against employers for negligent hiring or retention appears to be increasing, and more employers are naturally wary of facing larger liability for their hiring actions, and paying their lawyers to defend against them. These concerns must however be viewed in context.
On a broad scale, addressing this problem involves a balancing of the public interest in rehabilitating and re-integrating individuals into society against possible increased risks and the potential costs of employing those with criminal histories. Serving the former interest may indeed decrease the perceived risks expressed by employers. While EEOC must be concerned with this macro-view, the Commission's view is much more focused – to eliminate unlawful discrimination based upon the enumerated classifications whether the discrimination is intended or not. It is against this mandate that EEOC must approach this issue.
Ex-convicts live with a stigma that translates into overt and implicit discrimination against them in the workplace. Granted, the difficulty that those with criminal background histories face securing steady employment after their release from prison is not the sole reason many of them re-offend. However, discrimination plays a role in keeping them on the fringes of society, and reinforcing socioeconomic hardships that drive them to re-offend.
For reasons that academics have repeatedly documented, minorities are more likely to have criminal histories, and are therefore more negatively impacted by discriminatory hiring practices that disqualify based upon criminal history. The "revolving prison door," as I mentioned earlier, is a well-established phenomenon in America. The EEOC can play a prominent role in closing this door.
At this time there is no federal legislation directly addressing employment discrimination against those with criminal backgrounds.6 Employees with criminal backgrounds are not a protected class under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, employees may use Title VII to demonstrate that discrimination against criminals in hiring disparately impacts a protected class. Indeed, the EEOC has applied disparate impact analysis to a myriad of employer selection procedures, and while the use of criminal history screening poses a unique set of concerns, these concerns do not foreclose its use.
Given the relevant statistical data regarding those with criminal histories, employees and applicants will likely be able to establish that the use of an applicant's criminal background results in a racially disparate impact. For example, African-Americans make up roughly 12.9% of the population, but account for 28% of the arrests, 38% of felony convictions in state court, and 38.6% of adults who have ever served time in prison.7 As these statistics show, employment practices that screen out applicants with previous criminal record will likely disproportionately exclude minority job applicants from the hiring process. Employees in most cases will likely be8 able to establish a prima facie case that the use of criminal background checks creates a disparate impact in violation of Title VII. 9
There is a dearth of case law on the use of criminal history information as an employment-screening device and little of it is recent. The most current and comprehensive analysis is El v. SEPTA. The analysis used by the Third Circuit provides, with limited clarification, the appropriate conceptual framework for analyzing the effects of using criminal backgrounds in hiring decisions.
First, the El court reiterated that the Griggs v. Duke Power disparate impact framework is appropriate and applicable. Second, the court reaffirmed the principal that a business necessity defense requires employers to tailor their criteria to measure employment related qualities accurately and directly for each applicant. The accuracy of the hiring criteria must be demonstrated by empirical evidence. Third, the court rejected the "more is better" reasoning to justify a hiring policy that is discriminatory under Title VII – that is an unverified notion that more of a quality is better will not suffice to avoid liability; rather the employer must present evidence that the challenged criteria measures the applicant's ability to perform the job, and not the applicant in the abstract. Lastly, the court did not demand that hiring policies be perfectly tailored to be provide a business necessity defense. In other words, employers need not set the bar so low that they consider an applicant with a very low probability of successful performance.
This supposed dilemma, I believe, both overstates and over-simplifies the issue. Further, the issuance of revised EEOC guidelines concerning the use of criminal history in hiring practices, and an employer's adherence to those guidelines may provide a safe harbor for employers. As the court in El recognized, one reason employers adopt policies which screen out those with criminal history backgrounds is an attempt to limit their exposure to the risk of tort liability. This concern does not however override the employer's obligations under Title VII. Indeed, the Supreme Court in IUAW v Johnson Controls10 rejected this exact argument when the employer argued that without their fetal protection policies they would be subject to massive liability.
The touchstones of negligence claims are foreseeability and reasonable care. A revised set of EEOC guidelines would provide employers with guidance as to what constitutes due care in hiring practices and indeed a safe harbor from negligence suits. First, if an employer was sued for negligent hiring, reliance on EEOC guidelines which include as components, considerations of foreseeablity and reasonable care should provide a defense to these claims. To paraphrase the Supreme Court's analysis addressing the employer's concern over exposure to liability in tort for harm to the employee's children in Johnson Controls, "[w]ithout negligence, it would be difficult for a court to find liability on part of the employer. If under general tort principles, Title VII bans [discriminatory policies] …and the employer has not acted negligently, the basis for holding an employer liable seems remote at best."11
The courts are still struggling with how to address the use of criminal histories in making employment decisions. The recommendations offered below serve as a starting point for a discussion that has already begun, but that has a ways to go. The EEOC is working and should continue to work towards recognizing the disadvantaged status those with criminal histories hold in our country. I believe the following recommendations balance the interests of those with criminal background histories, with the employers' concern with tort liability, and the broader interests of public safety. We should strive to put in place guidelines, policies, and statutes that provide incentives for those with criminal background histories to rehabilitate and prepare themselves for re-entry into the job market while rewarding employers who hire them. In part, we want individuals with criminal background histories to be supported and motivated to work hard to prepare themselves for employment post-incarceration. Meanwhile, we want employers to focus their analysis of criminal histories of applicants -- realizing that each applicant is different, and that the nature of the crime, the time since it occurred, the effort of the ex-convict to rehabilitate, and the nature of the job are all significant and necessary factors to be considered in the job-hiring process. Finally, we want to start to move away from a socially flawed idea that criminal conviction histories serve as an accurate proxy for important job qualifications. Employers can articulate the actual qualities and measure them and indeed Title VII requires this.
Here are a few specific recommendations.
1 A curriculum vitae is attached to these remarks.
2 At this conference, I presented an overview of the Title VII concerns surrounding this issue and in the interests of brevity have attached that document. Accordingly, I will keep these remarks general in nature.
4 Ed Koch, Give Some Ex-Convicts Another Chance, NEWSDAY, Aug. 17, 2001, at A49 (quoting a "report by The Urban Institute for Justice Policy Center").
6 Attempting to address this vacuum, some state and local governments have regulated how an employer may use criminal history in making employment decisions. See Jennifer Leavitt, Walking a Tightrope: Balancing Competing Public Interests in the Employment of Criminal Offenders, 34 Connecticut Law Review 1281 (summer 2002), for a discussion of some of these efforts.
7 Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prevalence of Imprisonment in the U.S. Population, 1974-2001, available at http://http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/website_announcement.pdf
8 To establish a prima facie case, a plaintiff must show (1) that the employer's facial neutral employment practice; (2) caused a disparate impact; (3) in the treatment of a protected class.
9 There are, no doubt, unique hiring situations where this would not hold true and those of course must be addressed on a case-by-case basis.


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I think a fair conclusion from what I've read thus far would be that a 'bounty-hunter' isn't specified as wrong livelihood in and of itself. There may be aspects of the role that may become wrong livelihood under certain circumstances. It doesn't appear to be a good profession for a Buddhist because it doesn't seem particularly compatible with the Five Precepts or the Noble Eightfold Path.Annabel wrote:Um, what is the Theravadin conclusion exactly now?
Can we sum it up?
I'll move this thread to the Lounge, but people are of course still welcome to comment from a Theravadin perspective after the move.