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ABSTRACT OF TITLE - A chronological summary of all official records and recorded documents affecting the title to a parcel of real property.
ACCEPTANCE - The taking and receiving of anything in good faith with the intention of retaining it.
ACCOMPLICE - 1. A partner in a crime. 2. A person who knowingly and voluntarily participates with another in a criminal activity.
ACCRETION - The increase or accumulation of land by natural causes, as out of a lake or river.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT - A formal declaration before an authorized official by the person who executed an instrument that it is his free act and deed; the certificate of the official on such instrument attesting that it was so acknowledged.
ACQUITTAL - A release, absolution, or discharge of an obligation or liability. In criminal law the finding of not guilty.
ACTION -Lawsuit; the legal demand for one's right asserted in court.
ACTION CASE - Cause, suit, or controversy disputed or contested before a court of justice.
ADDITUR - An increase by a judge in the amount of damages awarded by a jury.
ADJECTIVE LAW - Also, procedural law. That body of law which governs the process of protecting the rights under substantive law.
ADJUDICATION - Giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree. Also the judgment given.
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES - Agencies created by the legislative branch of government to administer laws pertaining to specific areas such as taxes, transportation, and labor.
ADMINISTRATOR - 1. One who administers the estate of a person who dies without a will. 2. A court official.
ADMIRALTY LAW - Also, maritime law. That body of law relating to ships, shipping, marine commerce and navigation, transportation of persons or property by sea, etc.
ADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE - Evidence that can be legally and properly introduced in a civil or criminal trial.
ADMONISH - To advise or caution. For example the court may caution or admonish counsel for wrong practices.
ADVANCE SHEETS - Paperback pamphlets published by law book publishers weekly or monthly which contain reporter cases, including correct volume number and page number. When there are sufficient cases, they are replaced by a bound volume.
ADVERSARY PROCEEDING - One having opposing parties such as a plaintiff and a defendant. Individual lawsuit(s) brought within a bankruptcy proceeding.
ADVERSARY SYSTEM -The system of trial practice in the U.S. and some other countries in which each of the opposing or adversary parties has full opportunity to present and establish its opposing contentions before the Court.
ADVERSE POSSESSION - Method of acquiring real property under certain conditions by possession for a statutory period.
AFFIANT - The person who makes and subscribes an affidavit.
AFFIDAVIT - A voluntary, written, or printed declaration of facts, confirmed by oath of the party making it before a person with authority to administer the oath.
AFFIRMATION - A solemn and formal declaration that an affidavit is true. This is substituted for an oath in certain cases.
AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE - A defense raised in a responsive pleading (answer) relating a new matter as a defense to the complaint; affirmative defenses might include contributory negligence or estopped in civil actions; in criminal cases insanity, duress, or self-defense might be used.
AFFIRMED - In the practice of appellate courts, the word means that the decision of the trial court is correct.
AGREEMENT - Mutual consent.
AID AND ABET - To actively, knowingly, or intentionally assist another person in the commission or attempted commission of a crime.
ALIEN - A foreign-born person who has not qualified as a citizen of the country.
ALLEGATION - A statement of the issues in a written document (a pleading) which a person is prepared to prove in court.
ALTERATION - Changing or making different.
ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ADR) - Settling a dispute without a full, formal trial. Methods include mediation, conciliation, arbitration, and settlement, among others.
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION (ABA) - A national association of lawyers whose primary purpose is improvement of lawyers and the administration of justice.
AMERICAN LAW REPORTS - A publication which reports cases from all United States jurisdictions by subject matter.
ANCILLARY - A proceeding which is auxiliary or subordinate to another proceeding. In probate, a proceeding in a state where a decedent owned property but was not domiciled.
ANNOTATIONS - Remarks, notes, case summaries, or commentaries following statutes which describe interpretations of the statute.
ANSWER - A formal, written statement by the defendant in a lawsuit which answers each allegation contained in the complaint.
ANSWERS TO INTERROGATORIES - A formal written statement by a party to a lawsuit which answers each question or interrogatory propounded by the other party. These answers must be acknowledged before a notary public or other person authorized to take acknowledgments.
ANTITRUST ACTS - Federal and state statutes to protect trade and commerce from unlawful restraints, price discriminations, price fixing, and monopolies.
APPEAL - A proceeding brought to a higher court to review a lower court decision.
APPEAL BOND - A guaranty by the appealing party insuring that court costs will be paid.
APPEARANCE - The act of coming into court as a party to a suit either in person or through an attorney.
APPENDIX - Supplementary materials added to the end of a document.
APPELLANT - The party appealing a decision or judgement to a higher Court.
APPELLATE COURT - A court having jurisdiction to hear appeals and review a trial court's procedure.
APPELLEE - (See respondent) The party against whom an appeal is taken.
ARBITRATION - The hearing of a dispute by an impartial third person or persons (chosen by the parties), whose award the parties agree to accept.
ARBITRATOR - A private, disinterested person chosen by the parties in arbitration to hear evidence concerning the dispute and to make an award based on the evidence.
ARRAIGNMENT - The hearing at which the accused is brought before the court to plead to the criminal charge in the indictment. He may plead "guilty," "not guilty," or where permitted "nolo contendere." (See preliminary hearing.)
ARREST - To take into custody by legal authority.
ASSAULT - Threat to inflict injury with an apparent ability to do so. Also, any intentional display of force that would give the victim reason to fear or expect immediate bodily harm.
ASSIGNMENT - The transfer to another person of any property, real or personal.
ASSUMPTION OF RISK - A doctrine under which a person may not recover for an injury received when he has voluntarily exposed himself to a known danger.
AT ISSUE - The time in a lawsuit when the complaining party has stated their claim and the other side has responded with a denial and the matter is ready to be tried.
ATTACHMENT - Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW - An advocate, counsel, or official agent employed in preparing, managing, and trying cases in the courts.
ATTORNEY-IN-FACT - A private person (who is not necessarily a lawyer) authorized by another to act in his or her place, either for some particular purpose, as to do a specific act, or for the transaction of business in general, not of legal character. This authority is conferred by an instrument in writing, called a "letter of attorney," or more commonly "power of attorney."
ATTORNEY OF RECORD - The principal attorney in a lawsuit, who signs all formal documents relating to the suit.
BAIL - Money or other security (such as a bail bond) provided to the court to temporarily allow a person's release from jail and assure their appearance in court. "Bail" and "Bond" are often used interchangeably. (Applies mainly to state courts.)
BAIL BOND - An obligation signed by the accused to secure his or her presence at the trial. This obligation means that the accused may lose money by not properly appearing for the trial. Often referred to simply as "bond."
BAILIFF - An officer of the court responsible for keeping order and maintaining appropriate courtroom decorum and has custody of the jury.
BANKRUPTCY - Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may be released from or "discharged" from their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings. The person with the debts is called the debtor and the people or companies to whom the debtor owes money are called creditors.
BANKRUPTCY JUDGE - The judge who determines whether a debtor is entitled to a discharge in bankruptcy.
BANKRUPTCY LAW - The area of federal law dealing with the handling of bankrupt persons or businesses.
BAR - 1. Historically, the partition separating the general public from the space occupied by the judges, lawyers, and other participants in a trial. 2. More commonly, the term means the who body of lawyers.
BAR EXAMINATION - A state examination taken by prospective lawyers in order to be admitted and licensed to practice law.
BATTERY - A beating, or wrongful physical violence. The actual threat to use force is an "assault;" the use of it is a battery, which usually includes an assault.
BENCH - The seat occupied by the judge. More broadly, the court itself.
BENCH TRIAL - (Also known as court trial.) Trial without a jury in which a judge decides the facts.
BENCH WARRANT - An order issued by a judge for the arrest of a person.
BENEFICIARY - Someone named to receive property or benefits in a will. In a trust, a person who is to receive benefits from the trust.
BEQUEATH - To give a gift to someone through a will.
BEQUESTS - Gifts made in a will.
BEST EVIDENCE - Primary evidence; the best evidence available. Evidence short of this is "secondary." That is, an original letter is "best evidence," and a photocopy is "secondary evidence."
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT - The standard in a criminal case requiring that the jury be satisfied to a moral certainty that every element of a crime has been proven by the prosecution. This standard of proof does not require that the state establish absolute certainty by eliminating all doubt, but it does require that the evidence be so conclusive that all reasonable doubts are removed from the mind of the ordinary person.
BILL OF PARTICULARS - A statement of the details of the charge made against the defendant.
BIND OVER - To hold a person for trial on bond (bail) or in jail. If the judicial official conducting a hearing finds probable cause to believe the accused committed a crime, the official will bind over the accused, normally by setting bail for the accused's appearance at trial. (This is a state court procedure.)
BOND (See bail bond.) - A written agreement by which a person insures he will pay a certain sum of money if he does not perform certain duties property.
BOUND SUPPLEMENT - A supplement to a book or books to update the service bound in permanent form.
BOOKING - The process of photographing, fingerprinting, and recording identifying data of a suspect. This process follows the arrest.
BREACH - The breaking or violating of a law, right, or duty, either by commission or omission. The failure of one part to carry out any condition of a contract.
BREACH OF CONTRACT - An unjustified failure to perform when performance is due.
BRIEF - A written argument by counsel arguing a case, which contains a summary of the facts of the case, pertinent laws, and an argument of how the law applies to the fact situation. Also called a memorandum of law.
BURDEN OF PROOF - In the law of evidence, the necessity or duty of affirmatively proving a fact or facts in dispute on an issue raised between the parties in a lawsuit. The responsibility of proving a point (the burden of proof). It deals with which side must establish a point or points. (See standard of proof.)
BURGLARY - The act of illegal entry with the intent to steal.
BUSINESS BANKRUPTCY - A proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code filed by a business entity.
BYLAWS - Rules or laws adopted by an association or corporation to govern its actions.
CAUSE - A suit, litigation or action--civil or criminal.
CERTIORARI - An order commanding judges or officers of a lower Court to certify the record of a case for judicial review by an appellate court.
CHANGE OF VENUE - The removal of a suit begun in one county or district to another, for trial, or from one Court to another in the same county or district.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE - All evidence of indirect nature; the process of decision by which Court or jury may reason from circumstances know or proved to establish by inference the principal fact.
CIVIL CASE - A case between two parties to remedy a private wrong.
CLERK - One who keeps the records of all proceedings, exhibits and administers the oath to jurors and witnesses.
COMMON LAW - Law which derives its authority solely from usages and customs of immemorial antiquity or from the judgement and decrees of Courts.
COMPLAINANT - Synonymous with "plaintiff."
COMPLAINT - The first or initiatory pleading on the part of the complainant, or plaintiff, in a civil action.
CONTRACT - An exchange of oral or written promises between two or more parties to do or not to do a particular thing, enforceable by law.
CONVICTION - Being found guilty of a crime or misdemeanor.
CORROBORATING EVIDENCE - Additional evidence which tends to strengthen or confirm evidence already given.
COUNTERCLAIM - A claim presented by a defendant in opposition to the claim of a plaintiff.
COURT REPORTER - The one who makes a permanent record of all the Court's proceedings.
COURT TRIAL - A trial without a jury, where the judge resolves the dispute.
CROSS EXAMINATION - The questioning of a witness in a trial, or in the taking of a deposition, by the party opposed to the one who produced the witness.
DAMAGES - Compensation recoverable in Court by one who has suffered loss, detriment or injury to his person, property or rights due to the unlawful acts or negligence of others.
DE FACTO - In fact. In reality.
DE JURE - As a result of law, as a result of official action.
DE NOVO - A new, afresh. A "trial de novo" is a retrial.
DECLARATORY JUDGMENT - One which declares the rights of the parties or expresses the opinion of the Court on a question of law, without necessarily ordering anything to be done.
DECREE - A decision or order of the Court. A final decree is one which fully and finally disposes of the litigation; and interlocutory decree is a provisional or preliminary decree which is not final.
DEFAULT - A "default" in action of law occurs when a defendant omits to plead within the time allowed of fails to appear at trial.
DEFENDANT - In a civil action, the party denying or defending itself against charges brought by a plaintiff. In a criminal action, the person indicted for an offense.
DEPOSITION - The testimony of a witness, not taken in open Court, in pursuance of authority given by statute or rule of Court to take testimony elsewhere.
DIRECT EVIDENCE - Proof of facts by witnesses who saw acts done or heard words spoken, as distinguished from circumstantial evidence, which is called indirect.
DIRECT EXAMINATION - The first interrogation of a witness by the party on whose behalf he is called.
DIRECTED VERDICT - An instruction by the judge to the jury to return a specific verdict.
DISCOVERY - A proceeding whereby one party to an action may be informed as to facts known by other parties or witnesses.
DISSENT - A term commonly used to denote the disagreement of one or more judges of a Court with the decision of the majority.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY - Common law and Constitutional prohibition against more than one prosecution for the same crime, transaction or omission.
DUE PROCESS - Law in its regular course of administration through the Courts of justice. The guarantee of due process requires that every person have the protection of a fair trial.
ENJOIN - To acquire a person, by writ of injunction from a Court of equity, to perform, or to abstain or desist from some act.
ET AL. - An abbreviation of et alii, meaning "and others."
EX PARTE - On one side only; by or for one party; done for, in behalf of, or on the application of, one party only. A judicial proceeding, order, injunction, etc, is said to be ex parte when it is taken or granted at the instance and for the benefit of one party only, and without notice to, or contestation by, and person adversely interested.
ET SEQ. - An abbreviation for et sequentes, or et sequentia, meaning "and the following."
EX POST FACTO - After the fact; an act of fact occurring after some previous act or fact, and relating thereto.
EXHIBIT - A paper, document or other article produced and exhibited to a Court during a trial or hearing.
EXPERT EVIDENCE - Testimony given in relation to some specific, technical, or professional matter by experts, i.e., persons qualified to speak authoritatively by reason of their special training, skill, or familiarity with the subject.
EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES - Circumstances which render a crime less aggravated, heinous, or reprehensible than would otherwise be.
FAIR PREPONDERANCE - Evidence sufficient to create in the minds of the jurors of fact the belief that the party which bears the burden of proof has established its case.
FALSE ARREST - Any unlawful physical restraint of another person, in prison or elsewhere.
FALSE PRETENSES - Misrepresentation in order to obtain another's money or goods.
FELONY - A crime of a graver nature than a misdemeanor. Generally, an offense punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year.
FRAUD - An intentional perversion of truth; deceitful practice of device resorted to with intent to deprive another of some property or other right, or in some manner to do him injury.
GRAND JURY - A jury of inquiry whose duty is to receive complaints and accusations in criminal cases, hear evidence and find bills of indictment in cases where they are satisfied that there is probable cause that a crime was committed and that a trial ought to be held.
HABEAS CORPUS - "You have the body." The name given a variety or writs whose object is to bring a person before a Court or judge. In most common usage, it is directed to the official or person detaining another, commanding him to produce the body of the prisoner or person detained so the Court may determine if such a person has been denied his liberty without due process of the law.
HEARSAY - Evidence not proceeding from the personal knowledge of the witness.
HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION - A combination of facts and circumstances, assumed or proved, stated in such a form as to constitute a coherent state of facts upon which the opinion of an expert can be asked by way of evidence in a trial.
IMPEACHMENT OF WITNESS - An attack on the credibility of a witness, as by the testimony of other witnesses or evidence of prior bad conduct or criminal convictions.
INADMISSIBLE - That which, under the established rules of evidence, cannot be admitted or received.
INDETERMINATE SENTENCE - An indefinite sentence of "not less than" and "not more than" so many years, the exact term to be served being afterwards determined by parole authorities within the minimum and maximum limits set by the Court or by statute.
INDICTMENT - An accusation in writing found and presented by a grand jury, charging that a person therein named has done some act, or been guilty of some omission, which by law, is a crime.
INFORMATION - An accusation of some criminal offense, in the nature of an indictment, but which is presented by a competent public officer instead of a grand jury.
INFRACTION - The breaking of a minor law; usually traffic laws in which no imprisonment may be imposed.
INJUNCTION - A mandatory or prohibitive writ issued by a Court.
INSTRUCTION - A direction given by the judge to the jury concerning the law of the case.
IRRELEVANT - Evidence not relating or applicable to the matter in issue; not supporting the issue.
ISSUE OF FACT - Arises when a fact is maintained by one party and is controverted by the other in the pleadings.
ISSUE OF LAW - Arises where evidence is undisputed and only one conclusion can be drawn there from.
JURISDICTION - The power of the Court to hear a case in question, which exists when the proper parties are present, and when the point to be decided is within the issues authorized to be handled by the particular Court.
JURY - A certain number of persons selected according to law, and sworn to inquire of certain matters of fact, and declare the truth upon evidence laid before them.
JURY TRIAL - A trial where a group of citizens hears the evidence presented and gives its verdict.
LEADING QUESTION - One which instructs a witness how to answer or puts into his mouth words to be echoed back; one which suggests to the witness the answer desired. Prohibited on direct examination.
LIS PENDENS - A pending suit. Jurisdiction, power, or control which courts acquire over property in suit pending action and until final judgment.
MANDATE - A judicial command or precept proceeding from a Court or judicial officer, directing the proper officer to enforce a judgment, sentence or decree.
MANSLAUGHTER - The unlawful killing of another without malice; may be either voluntary upon a sudden impulse, or involuntary in the commission of some unlawful act.
MISDEMEANOR - Offense less than a felony; generally those punishable by fine or imprisonment for a term of one year or less.
MISTRIAL - An erroneous or invalid trial; a trial which cannot stand in law because of lack of jurisdiction, wrong drawing of jurors, or disregard of some other fundamental requisite.
MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCE - Such as do not constitute a justification or excuse for an offense, but which may be considered as reducing the degree of moral culpability.
MURDER - The unlawful killing of a human being by another with malice aforethought, either expressed or implied.
NEGLIGENCE - The failure to do something which a reasonable person, guided by ordinary considerations would do; or the doing of something which a reasonable and prudent person would not do.
OBJECTION - The act of taking exception to some statement or procedure in trial. Used to call the Court's attention to improper evidence or procedure.
OF COUNSEL - A phrase commonly applied to counsel employed to assist in the preparation of management of the case, or its presentation on appeal, but who is not the principal attorney of record.
OPINION EVIDENCE - Evidence of what the witness thinks, believes, or infers in regard to facts in dispute, as distinguished from his personal knowledge of the facts; not admissible except (under certain limitations) in the case of experts.
PANEL - A list of jurors to serve in a particular Court, or for the trial of a particular action - denotes either the whole body of persons summoned as jurors for a particular term of Court or those selected by the clerk by lot.
PAROLE - The conditional release from prison of a convict before the expiration of his sentence. If he observes the conditions, the parolee need not sere the remainder of his sentence.
PARTIES - The persons who are actively concerned in the prosecution or defense of a legal proceeding.
PETIT JURY - The ordinary jury of twelve (or fewer) persons for the trial of a civil or criminal case. So called to distinguish it from the grand jury.
PETITIONER - One who files a petition with a Court seeking action or relief. When a writ of certiorari is granted by the Supreme Court, the parties to the case are called petitioner and respondent in contrast to appellant and appellee used in an appeal.
PLAINTIFF - A person who brings a civil action; the party who complains or sues.
PLEADING - The process by which the parties in a suit or action alternately present written statements of their contentions, each responsive to that which precedes, and each serving to narrow the field of controversy until there evolves one or more points affirmed on one side and denied on the other, called the issue upon which they then go to trial.
PRELIMINARY HEARING - Synonymous with "preliminary examination"; the hearing given a person charged with a crime by a magistrate or judge to determine whether he should be held for trial. Since the Constitution states that a person cannot be accused in secret, a preliminary hearing is open to the public unless the defendant requests that it be closed. The accused person must be present at this hearing and must be accompanied by an attorney.
PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE - The greater weight (in terms of quality not quantity) of evidence, or that evidence which is more believable and convincing.
PRESUMPTION OF FACT - An inference as to the truth or falsity of any proposition of fact, drawn by a process of reasoning in the absence of actual certainty of its truth or falsity, or until such certainty can be ascertained.
PRESUMPTION OF LAW - A rule of law that Courts and judges shall draw a particular inference from a particular fact, or from particular evidence.
PROBATION - A sentence of being placed under the jurisdiction of probation officers for a set time instead of going to prison.
PROSECUTOR - A public officer whose duty is the prosecution of criminal proceedings on behalf of the people.
PUBLIC DEFENDER - Lawyers employed by the state to represent defendants accused of crimes who cannot afford to hire their own lawyer.
REASONABLE DOUBT - An accused person is entitled to acquittal if, in the minds of the jury, guilt has not been proven beyond a "reasonable doubt"; that state of mind of jurors in which they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction as to the truth of the charge.
REBUTTAL - The introduction of answering evidence; proof by one party disputing proof provided by its adversary; also, the stage of a trial when such evidence is introduced.
REDIRECT EXAMINATION - Follows cross-examination and is exercised by the party who first examined the witness.
REMAND - To send back. In the even of a decision being remanded, it is sent back by a higher Court to the Court from which it came for further action.
REPLY - When a case is tried or argued in Court, the argument of the plaintiff in answer to that of the defendant. A pleading in response to an answer.
REST - A party is said to "rest" or "rest his case" when he has presented all the evidence he intends to offer.
RESTITUTION - The restoring of goods or money to the victim of a crime by the offender.
SEARCH AND SEIZURE, UNREASONABLE - In general, an unlawful search of one's premises or of his person; a search which is unreasonably oppressive in its invasion of privacy.
SEARCH WARRANT - A written order from a justice or magistrate directing an officer to search a specific place for a specific object, issued upon a showing of probable cause.
SELF-DEFENSE - The protection of one's person or property against some injury attempted by another. The law of "self-defense" justifies an act done in the reasonable belief of immediate danger. When acting in justifiable self-defense, a person may not be punished criminally nor held responsible for civil damages.
STANDING - A person's right to bring a lawsuit because he or she is directly affected by the issue raised.
STATE'S ATTORNEY - Same as prosecutor.
STATE'S EVIDENCE - Testimony given by an accomplice or participant in a crime tending to convict others.
STATUTE - The written law in contradistinction to the unwritten law.
STAY - A stopping or arresting of a judicial proceeding by order of the Court.
STIPULATION - An agreement by attorneys on opposite sides of a case as to any matter pertaining to the proceedings or trial. It is not binding unless assented to by the parties; most stipulations must be in writing.
SUBPOENA - A process to cause a witness to appear and give testimony before a Court or magistrate.
SUMMONS - A notification to the named person that an action has been commenced against him in Court and that he is required to appear, on the day named, and answer the complaint in such action.
TESTIMONY - Evidence given by a competent witness, under oath; as distinguished from evidence derived from writings and other sources.
TORT - An injury or wrong committed, either with or without force, to the person or property of another.
TRANSCRIPT - The official record of proceedings in a trial or hearing.
VENUE - The particular county, city or geographical area in which a Court with jurisdiction may hear and determine a case.
VERDICT - In practice, the formal decision or finding made by a jury, reported to the Court and accepted by it.
VOIR DIRE - To speak the truth. The phrase denotes the preliminary examination which the Court may make of one presented as a witness or juror, as to his qualifications.
WAIVE - To give up right or claim voluntarily.
WAIVER OF IMMUNITY - A means authorized by statutes by which a witness, in advance of giving testimony or producing evidence, may renounce the fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution that no person shall be compelled to be a witness against himself, frequently demanded of a public official.
WARRANT OF ARREST - A writ by a magistrate, justice or other competent authority, to a sheriff or other officer, requiring him to arrest a person therein named and bring him before the magistrate of Court to answer to a specified charge.
WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE - The balance of preponderance of evidence; the inclination of the greater amount of credible evidence, offered in a trial, to support one side of the issue rather than the other.
WITNESS - One who testifies to what he has seen, heard, or otherwise observed.


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Diane Dupuis 9/1/2012 5:09:09 AMgorgeous! what exactly is this? Congrats on your well deserved win!!! it is simply beautiful! #1483850
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posted by Adam S on Wed 18th Jun 2008 23:05 UTC
You'd think this headline was a joke, but sadly, it's not. It's the real headline of an article posted on SeattlePI.com in the blogs section. The core of the story is that a man couldn't get his printer to work with Windows Vista, and ultimately, with the help of a Microsoft test manager, solved the problem warranting a follow-up article. The comedy here, of course, is in reading what went wrong and wrapping your brain around why engineers didn't forsee such a thing happening.


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In a "Game Head" video posted on Gametrailers.com, Epic Games' VP Mark Rein announced that a Mac version of Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 3 are heading to the platform. Rein enthusiastically announces in the video, "And don't forget, we're also doing Macintosh. Yes, Gears is coming to the Mac and so is UT".
epic annouce card game based in Gears of War and UT3.plus mobile phone version of both games ?
Seriously, Microsoft should stop giving away money to second and third-party developers.
Instead, Microsoft should put those money into buying/setting up first-party studios and developing first-party IPs, which is a much wiser investment.
what is this, every major game for the 360 is going to be on a personal computer, why even buy a 360?
Now we know the wii can not do Gears of War...but i just had to say it.


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You'd think that Rob Ford, Toronto's crack-smoking-oral-sex-denying-binge-drinking buffoon of a mayor, would be a tough dude to top in any screw-up contest for local politicians.
It's true that Ford's antics have provided an insane amount of ammunition recently for TV talk show comics and satirists. Still, Ford wouldn't necessarily be a stone-cold cinch for the title.
Connecticut, after all, has produced more than a few political idiots who might give Ford a run for his money in that sort of competition.
Right at the top of our home-team roster of municipal shame would have to be Phil Giordano, former Waterbury mayor, former Republican U.S. Senate candidate, and current federal inmate.
It's true that Ford has a talent for looking and acting absurd on camera, including his recent run around the Toronto city council chamber during which he knocked a woman over.
Giordano, however, had his own "special" moments that were recorded for posterity. There was, for example, the time he debated a cardboard cutout picture of his U.S. Senate opponent. The Democrat in that race, (Joe Lieberman), figured he didn't even have to show up against a dweeb like Giordano, and he was right. Giordano got crushed at the polls.
And yes, Ford has admitted that he "smoked crack... Probably in one of my drunken stupors." And yes, there have been allegations about Ford and female "escorts," prostitutes and criminal associates.
Toronto's mayor recently denied, during a live television news conference, an allegation by a former woman staffer that he wanted to perform oral sex on her, using colorful gustatory slang.
"I would never do that," Ford informed a gaggle of stunned reporters. "I'm happily married. I've got more than enough to eat at home."
Giordano was also into cocaine and was actually bringing underage girls (ages 8 and 10) into his mayoral office to perform oral sex on him, according to the FBI's clandestine recordings.
When the federal agents heard that sort of stuff on their bugging devices, they were forced to break off a wide-ranging investigation into municipal corruption in Waterbury that had Giordano at its heart.
Giordano was convicted and sentenced to 37 years in prison. Even then, he wasn't done. The creep had the gall to sue the city of Waterbury for $60,000 in vacation pay he claimed was owed him as part of the agreement when he resigned as mayor following his 2001 arrest. He didn't get the money.
(Another Waterbury political idiot, John "Why Should I Resign if I've Done Nothing Wrong" Rowland, wouldn't be in this competition for the simple reason he was a statewide rather than local pol. Otherwise, ex-Gov. Rowland's penchant for taking gifts like hot tubs and free corporate flights to Las Vegas would definitely make him a contender. He did in fact resign, plead guilty to corruption, and spend 10 months in federal prison before taking his political antics to the airwaves as a radio talk-show jock.)
Ford does have an undeniable visual/physical advantage over a lot of our local political buffoons. He's very round and has a talent for doing crazy stunts on camera and offering some weirdly funny quotes.
But how about our own Ernie Newton III? The former state senator from Bridgeport, known for his flamboyant style (we're talking about purple striped suits), used to talk about cutting budgets "not with an ax but with a scaffold."
Shortly before his arrest for corruption a few years ago, Newton (an African–American Democrat) proclaimed himself "the Moses of my people." He later pleaded guilty and spent nearly five years in prison.
Not too long after he got out of prison, Newton ran for the state legislature once again. Unfortunately for those of us looking forward to more quotable Newtonian moments, he lost in a Democratic primary and ended up being charged with fraud.
Newton, of course, wasn't the biggest political disaster in Bridgeport's long history. That description might be reserved for ex-Mayor "Little Joe" Ganim, who spent almost seven years in federal prison for a six-year-long corruption spree. The trouble with matching Ganim up against Ford is that the Bridgeport Democrat wasn't particularly funny and his shenanigans were (except for the stuff the feds found out about) kept as private as possible.
Bridgeport and Waterbury have long histories of public corruption, and dark deeds resulting in criminal convictions have also marred the records of cities like New Haven, Hartford, New Britain and Norwalk.
But again, the problem with those examples is that few if any have the comedy factor to match up to Ford's bizarre style.
Even East Haven Mayor Joe "Taco" Maturo's famous nickname-worthy quote appears to have been an isolated case of fumble-mouth. (Maturo, when asked by a reporter what he planned to do for the city's Hispanic community in the wake of a racial profiling scandal, replied, "I might have tacos when I go home.")
Maturo apologized for that quip, just as Ford has repeatedly apologized for a lot of the stuff he's said and done.
The Toronto mayor, however, might do well to take a little bit of inspiration from Maturo.
Ford is refusing to resign and insists he'll run for reelection when his term is up next year.
Perhaps that's where Ford can emulate Maturo, who also insisted on running again.
Despite the fact that Maturo's terms in office coincided with all that police scandal, and despite the national publicity about that "taco" quote, Maturo was actually reelected earlier this month as East Haven's Republican mayor.
So let's not give up on Ford just yet. Maybe Canadian voters (like East Haven voters) have more of a sense of humor about screwy politicians and their scandals than anyone thought.
If "Taco" can do it, maybe Ford can too.
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What felt like the find of a lifetime, I came across an ad for a vintage apartment-sized O'Keefe and Merritt stove. It was in amazingly great shape for its age and all the knobs were intact and not stripped of their original black text markings. That is...until the stove was moved during renovations and I came home to find the main knob badly broken beyond repair. My heart sank. Where would I get a replacement?
Accidents happen and, as easy as it can be to want to throw your hands up to the sky in resignation (or vocalized frustration, in my case), once good sense takes over we have to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and figure out how to fix the situation. I am thankful that my handyman had two very similar knobs in storage. They weren't in as pristine shape, meaning all the original glaze seemed to have been scrubbed off along with all the original paint markings and needed to be scrubbed of years of dirt and grime (just used dish soap and my regular kitchen scrubby).
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The packaging for these H67 boards is much improved over prior ECS designs. The packaging of the H67H2-M features a wealth of information on the capabilities of this board along with many of its attributes on both the front and rear panels. The front shows off the potential 235% increase in GPU performance when the HD 3000 graphics are overclocked. There is mention of improved gold contacts, that the Quooltech cooling solution on-board is 15 to 20C cooler running and that the board should have a 6x improvement over prior designs based on the solid capacitors. In the upper corner you see that this board is a B3 revision, that this board supports Turbo Boost 2.0 and offers 3D support. The back panel of the "M" is covered with explanations of the included features. Things such as the eight channel audio, all solid capacitors, GPU overclocking, Dual Gigabit LAN and more. The "I" version in the series is a Mini ITX form factor board for use with the second generation Core processors. The graphics used on this board are significantly different enough from the "Black Series to make the distinction. The front panel lists many of the attributes of the board from Bluetooth capabilities, USB 3.0 SATA 6Gb/s, Turbo Boost 2.0, 3D and multi-monitor support. The back panel talks about what makes this offering special from an explanation of the Bluetooth 2.1+EDR technology, MIni PCIe support while listing the included ECS software eJiffy, eBLU,eDLU and eSF.
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- #4 Monetary mind games: Collecting pennies is like performing sit-ups: This financial maneuver warms up my monetary muscles for bigger endeavors. When I'm mindful about pennies, I'm more careful about dollars.
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Changing the lyrics isn't going to solve that problem.
Matthew, I have a right to an opinion of the music I hear incessantly from society that I am told is called hiphop. You can argue that I can't judge the Roots album. You can't argue that I can't say I can't stand the genre, as I can't STOP hearing it.
You are the one who mentioned the "Beastie Boys," not me. I'm pretty sure that they're commercial.
They give me CDs to "convert" me. It doesn't work because I think it STINKS.
What I hate about alot of rap is how they steal and sample from other accomplished artist songs and then make some cheesy rap out of it
There is much better music out there than rap.
But the opposite sickens me as well: people who think that unless you dress yourself with Fred Perry or Armani clothing, play golf, have a white-collar job, drive a gas-guzzling, Arab-murdering SUV, listen to Classical/Baroque/Romantic/20th Century Compositional Music, vote Republican (or Democrat, sincin' their both the same thing), and eat at restaurants where you can't get a shrimp cocktail for under $15, then you are obviously some boorish, Neanderthal, backwards inbred who is not fit to live.
Cizinec, why not try jazz-rap?
^LOL. Did you look this thread up to say that, or do you just happen to have a slew of bad jokes that you can whip out whenever needed?
I've always been a little unclear about the difference between hip hop and rap...
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Quote from: IsmiLiora on March 16, 2011, 09:45:10 PMI've always been a little unclear about the difference between hip hop and rap...I've always believed hip-hop was just what relatively affluent white kids and artists/record labels marketing towards relatively affluent white kids called it. I enjoy being on the wrong end of some pretty nasty eye rolling from pretentious hipsters when I use the term rap. Right back at 'em.
Interrupting the funny (that sikh joke was pretty cool! )I've always been a little unclear about the difference between hip hop and rap...but these are my favorite groups:1) Hadag Nachash (Israeli group....they rap a lot about politics! They're on the moderate/left side of the IP conflict.)2) Subliminal (Zionist Israeli rapper)3) SHI 360 (Israeli too....I'm pretty sure he's Zionist but I'm not positive)4) DAM (Palestinian group)
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Hello everyone, thanks for accepting me in this community and I'd like, for my first post, to get some help on religious symbols and how to deal with them.
I live in Brazil, where most of people declare themselves catholics, but just a few of them really attend church. As I can see all over the country, there are too many religious images and symbols spread all around.
Fisrt, and the most important of them is Christ the redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. The statue itself is a really beautiful piece of art (Altough I prefer the city's view best) and, nowadays it'd weird to see Rio without its most famous monument. But, what do you think of this kind of art?
But, the thing is, almost everywhere you go, you see a catholic symbol, and I'm not talking about private places, but public ones, like hospitals, schools, post offices...
There's a complex of hospitals here in Sao Paulo (and public) where I drop by sometimes and at the waiting room of one of the buildings there's a HUGE cathlic Saint, surrounded by flowers (once I even saw candles).
The State, here in Brazil has already been separeted from The Church since 1988 with the New Constitution, so, I ask myself: "Why the heck are these things all over the places?? Shouldn't there be a proper "room" for these things to be??"
And this is really my doubt: Shouldn't these symbols be in an apropriate place, like a church?? And, is there anything we can do to change it? Is it worth it??
Thanks in advance and I'll try to upload a pic of the Saint (Nossa Senhora Aparecida),
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The BBC picked up a study in March that says religion may "become extinct" in 9 countries: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12811197
Brazil is not one of the 9 countries in the study, nor is the US. What we choose to do, while we wait for religion to die a natural death is a very personal decision. There is widespread discrimination against atheists in the US and activism can have unpleasant consequences.
I recommend that you check out the Freedom From Religion Foundation www.ffrf.org. They have a new campaign where people publicly declare themselves to be atheists. They also have a great weekly podcast. And their materials may be helpful to you in deciding what to do.
In some respects the most important thing you can do is try to connect with other people who think like you do. The fact that you took action to join this site is a step in the right direction. You also need to think about how to connect with people who live near you.
Thanks Mark for the suggestion...and I had read that in some countries religion is dying and I really got really happy, but I bet Brazil is gonna be the last one to overcome this beliefs...people are so weird here, anyways, I'll check the FFRF web site better to come up with some ideas..it's a pity that this Foundation works only in the US.
And, S.F. Zeigler,
I loved your idea of taking a pentagram to that hospital, but, I know everyone is going to be against me. I'm a little afraid of doing this and have no support. Would it be possible to hire a lawyer to take care of these matters?? And, again, is it worth it? Because the point is not only get rid of the image, the proble is people's minds....
Now, I'm very ashamed of being brazilian...If you're able to understand portuguese, you'll see that all these people mention God or Jesus in their speech, but why do they do so? In my opinion is a lack of perspective in life that make this people believe and wait for a "God's solution". Who should we blame for? I know, situations similar to this happens all over the world (speacially in poor regions).
Here in Sao Paulo, which is very far from the Amazon, other things happen too. "If God wants that way, so we have to accept." that's what they say. I don't agree and we could do much better instead of waiting for a "divine's" answer....
I know this is not directly on point, but check this out if you haven't seen it, from a friend at the Atheist group in Albuquerque. Very funny.
Indeed, entirely off-topic but hilarious!
Thanks for posting the photo. To my eyes, it is a very strange looking thing. I'd hate to see those creepy idols everywhere.
There are multiple reasons to object to religious statues and symbols in public and especially on public property.
1. The display is paid for and maintained by tax dollars, including that of atheists.
2. The display sends a constant message of judging, condemning, and threatening atheists with violent eternal torture, as well as 2nd class status.
3. The display is a sick glorification of death. I am not just talking about the crucifix, which an obvious replica of a tool of torture. Consider the statues of the character Mary, who is blissful and full of contentment that her son is butchered.
Christianity and Islam are death cults. They revere suffering, "righteous" violence, and blood sacrifice/death. At the beginning of the bible: God chose Abel's blood sacrifice and rejected Cain's grain sacrifice. At the end of the bible: God requires a blood sacrifice of his own son Jesus.
It makes no sense to traumatize children and offend peaceful adults with these statues and nightmarish crucifixes.
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and lively like artwork.
February 23
In honor of African American History Month, Santa Monica College
is presenting Alephonsion Deng, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, speaking
on Africa, America and the Hope of Transnational Connectivity.
Deng's free talk will be given at 11:15 a.m. Thursday, February
23 in Art Lecture Hall 214 on the main campus, 1900 Pico Blvd.
Beach Reads One Book announces the 2010 featured book: They
Poured Fire on Us From the Sky
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essay in Newsweek
the link above to read Alepho's essay which appeared
in Newsweek.
Composed and pleasant, the lanky young man at the
podium did not seem to be someone who could have witnessed incredible
atrocities in his early life. But as he detailed in the book that
he co-authored, They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: the True Story
of Three Lost Boys from Sudan, Benson Deng is a survivor of genocide
- one of 27,000 young boys who fled Sudan in 1987. As part of an
all-school summer reading assignment, Middlesex freshmen and sophomores
read his extraordinary account and were primed to welcome him when
he visited Middlesex with another of his co-authors, Judy Bernstein,
on October 9, 2007. continue
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DuckDuckGo is a relatively new search engine that has really been gaining in popularity recently. On OSNews alone several people regularly advise others to try it out whenever we talk about online privacy. So, what are some of the reasons you might want to try out DuckDuckGo?
First of all, DuckDuckGo doesn't track you, so you get real privacy when you search the web. Google tracks pretty much everything you do so they can better target you with advertisements. I have no problems with targeted advertising, and I have no issues in and of itself with Google collecting such information (in the end, I decide what I feed the web).
What does bother me, though, is the fact that I wouldn't be able to protect myself if the US government ever subpoena'd Google to gain access to that information. Of course, I am of no interest to them (even my porn habits are incredibly boring), but it's the principle of the thing. Mind you that this is not mindless US-bashing; the same concerns apply to my own government and the EU. However, at least here in The Netherlands or even the EU I would have some means to defend myself against such government behaviour - I don't in the US.
That's why I love the idea of a search engine that doesn't track me. God knows, I might develop some embarrassing illness in the future, and I would rather keep something like that under wraps. DuckDuckGo is the answer here - no tracking, no information sharing. DuckDuckGo doesn't send your search terms to the web sites you visit. It also has various other privacy features, such as the ability to use POST requests, HTTPS with the ability to automatically force sites in the search results to also use HTTPS, and integrated Tor functionality, so you can get completely end-to-end anonymous and encrypted search.
More importantly though (at least for me) - DuckDuckGo tries to pop something called the filter bubble. "A filter bubble is a concept developed by internet activist Eli Pariser to describe a phenomenon in which search queries on sites such as Google or Facebook or Yahoo selectively guess what information a user would like to see based on the user's past search history and, as a result, searches tend to play back information which agrees with the user's past viewpoint," Wikipedia summarises, "Accordingly, users get less exposure to conflicting viewpoints." In the below TED talk, Pariser explains it in more detail.
So, is this all, or are there any other reasons to try DuckDuckGo? Well, I really like the !bang syntax, which allows for all kinds of CLI-like commands to be parsed to DuckDuckGo. Of course, things like
!youtube query work, but also something like
!safeoff query to perform a single search without safe search on. The list of !bangs is pretty extensive already, and yes, I've sent them a request to have !osnews turned into a !bang, too.
Other interesting goodies are listed on the, uh, goodies page. Of course, there are several browser extensions and smartphone applications for DuckDuckGo as well.
DuckDuckGo isn't perfect, obviously. It doesn't do image search, for instance (although you can use the
!gi !bang for that), and more annoyingly, it's kind of a hassle to switch 'locales'. With Google, when I need to perform a Dutch search, I simply go to Google.nl and search from there; for international searches, I go to Google.com. With DuckDuckGo, I'd have to change locales in the settings page - as a translator, that's incredibly annoying. I might shoot them an email and ask if locale-switching could be done using !bangs (e.g.
!nl query).
I'm starting the process of switching over to DuckDuckGo; it's now my default search engine in Chrome. It'll take a little getting used to, but then, I once switched from Altavista to Google without much hassle, so this should work too. Competition is good, and boy, does Google need it.


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Where is the Fats.
Where it all Intersects and makes a Shannon.
E Tu Brute.
If you don't want to go read all those let me break it down for you.
One of the reasons I get so angry and I take long breaks from blogging is because over and over again especially when it comes to racial matters this is what happens.
Someone asks/I make a post about race.
EVERYTHING I say is questioned to goddamn death.
I get asked for further proof. I get asked to educate. People demand more and more and more yet never actually take what I say into account or take it seriously.
Then magically a white lady comes along, says all the same shit I've already said SUDDENLY it all makes sense right?
When I say a lot of the same things I see going around right now, White people tell me I'm pulling the race card. They get angry when I ask nicely even for them to just listen. I get told I'm race baiting.
Okay look this is why POC like me get so angry.
When I try and try and try and spend so much energy trying to educate and nothing gets through. When I work and work and work, and share my actual lived fucking exprience and talk about things that cause me pain, no one gives a fuck.
No I'm not talking about most of my regulars but I know y'all have seen it happen.
I am angry because I feel discounted, I feel silenced and the worst the absolute worst is that I feel like I'm being plagiarized even though logically I know I'm not.
Long ago I took in and accepted that when it comes to FA and whatnot, chances are I will not nor ever be A Voice.
It doesn't matter what or how I say something, I'm not a White person so White people are not trying to hear what I have to say.
Look at what I said in 2008:
Note: These are not all things exclusive to or entirely related to Fat Acceptance but come from 31 years on the planet and a lot of interaction with my fellow humans.Declarations of color blindness in terms of racial issues, might be a lovely idea in theory but has no place in my existence. the fact is that every time i hear someone extolling their virtuous color blindedness here is what i feel. If racial issues are brought up and you respond with vehement declarations of how little color matters to you, clearly you are for whatever reason uncomfortable.Look what I said in 2009:
First impression is that I am again disappointed. I am disappointed that people still cannot fathom or don't want to even try to understand that yes race intersects with my experience of fatness (note I am using personal pronouns here because I am not the Dowager Empress of Black People and can only speak for my own feelings) and has contributed mightily to my over all experience and point of view in life.
Why do POC have to continually beg, plead and try so hard to engage in every way we can think of until all we have left is pain and anger, then magically someone White explains it and it's all so clear.
That is racism in action.
Am I saying that the individual people who can't take the word of a POC when it comes to understanding racism are racist? No. I'm saying that the constant disbelief and inability for White people to ever take a POC on their word is a function of racism.
It is racism in action when instead of listening to the words of people who have every day practical experience with these things, it only makes sense when it's presented in theory by a White person.
I am so angry.
A lot of people of color are angry because we just can't fucking win for losing nor be heard.
I don't even know what else to say.
I keep feeling like there's no point in saying anything because well, no one will take it seriously until a Nice White Lady says it.
I don't fully believe that but it's how I'm feeling right now.
I'm also still really fucking hurt.
My regulars, y'all know I"m not really talking about you. A lot of you have told me when y ou really get it. You've apologized when you didn't have to, you've been overall pretty damn awesome.
I'm half blowing steam and half just trying not to sit down and cry my eyes out.
So I may take a little hiatus. I may not. I just don't know.
While I'm deciding I do have other news. You can now buy my little fiction collection on Kindle. Check that out right here.
I'm working on the second collection and I'm working on an erotica collection that I plan to shop around.
Right now I need a time out. I'm heartsick and I kind of want to barf.
Homo Out.


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Dammit, if I'm drinking pop I want CAFFEINE.
As for drinks, I'm good for most anything: pop, water, juice - though lately I've been trying to wean myself off pop. No real reason. Just cause.
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Originally, the intent was that the pools would be open into the evening hours several days per week during the summer season. During the past two summers, we provided several evening swim times based on patron input. Unfortunately, the center lost a considerable amount of money on weekday evening swim due to underutilization. Frequently, the guards on duty outnumbered the patrons in the pool. Further, the regular lap swimmers and water aerobics attendees who were displaced by this scheduling reacted with displeasure.
The expense involved in keeping all three pools open and staffed amounts to about $100 per hour, as state law has specific requirements regarding guard-to-open-water ratio. This means that we must admit 25 local adults, 50 local kids, or some combination of admissions equaling $100 per hour just to break even. What expense we aren't able to cover from admissions and memberships is ultimately subsidized by taxpayers. If our programming isn't producing revenue or at least breaking even, it has to be the type of programming the city considers a community service for which it is prepared to sacrifice revenues.
Our decision not to run evening open swim more than two days per week is a matter of economics. We make every effort to serve the broadest range of users possible; however, we have a duty to adhere to the budget adopted by the Moab City Council. Our expenditures must be justified to a certain extent by our revenues. We cannot operate based upon an "If you build it, they will come" assumption. We must design our scheduling and programming based on actual usage data and budgetary constraints.
Given the number of recent comments we have received, the MRAC will reexamine possible options for weekday evening swim. We are always open to constructive ideas as to how we may best serve our community in an economically feasible manner. Meanwhile, we suggest that, to avoid disappointments, patrons familiarize themselves with the pool schedule, which is available at the front desk as well as posted in the lobby and on our website: www.moabcity.org.mrac.
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — As if there wasn't already enough drama in Sacramento, the Kings have another issue looming in the near future that has nothing to do with a new arena or squabbling between ownership and civic leaders.
Sooner or later they have to decide what to do with the former Rookie of the Year and former prized point guard Tyreke Evans, the former face of the franchise who has been replaced in the starting lineup by another promising rookie, Isaiah Thomas.
There isn't a more dangerous gamble than giving up too soon on a lottery pick. Teams do it all the time with mixed results — sometimes that picks turns out to be Chauncey Billups, Joe Johnson or Tyson Chandler and sometimes he turns out to be Devin Harris or even Adam Morrison. There is really no crystal ball that allows an organization the luxury of knowing whether they have a championship piece or All-Star, a competent starter or a complete bust.
The jury is still out on Evans, whose skills and size suggest he should be able to determine his own fate based on his performance. But he's become something of an enigma in Sacramento, where there seems to be a fundamental debate about his best position and whether or not he has the makeup to be a leader for a struggling franchise.
Ailene Voisin of the Sacramento Bee tackles this dilemma facing the Kings head on:
Kings executives will entertain trade offers for Tyreke Evans this summer, and they should.
Evans remains a major asset. His team remains in a major funk. When a franchise finishes near the conference cellar for six consecutive seasons, the general manager needs to make significant personnel changes, or the franchise needs to change its general manager.
But that's an organizational decision.
Evans, who has a year remaining on his contract, has his own decision to make. He has to figure out what he wants and how badly he wants it. He has to determine what kind of player he wants to be and proceed accordingly, essentially controlling what he can control.
Is he satisfied with his Rookie of the Year trophy? Is it enough to be pain-free for the first time in two years? Is he content being a starter? And, most importantly, will he ever emotionally embrace the shift from point guard to small forward – a total mind, body and soul experience – and become a more engaged, consistent performer?
There is no quick answer hiding behind the locker room doors. Evans is both perplexing and a piece of the Kings' puzzle. He has a unique combination of skills, an agreeable, accommodating personality and the 6-foot-6, 220-pound physique of a basketball god.
But the primary question asked when Evans was drafted fourth overall in 2009 remains unanswered: Where is he most effective?
"I don't think it's any big secret," Princeton legend and longtime Kings consultant Pete Carril said the other night. "Tyreke's got to learn to play without the ball. It's all there. I see some games, and he looks very good. Other games … he just has to work harder. I'd love to see him develop a mid-range game."
It's too early to cast Evans off without at least exploring what Carril suggests here. But that also requires some serious buy-in from Evans. He has to be willing to reconfigure his game if the Kings, or any team, wants to make him a central figure in its long-term plans.
What's also clear is that Evans is not considered a true point guard or even a potential point guard by the Kings. They feel they have a player better suited for that role in Thomas, the last pick of last June's Draft.
Like many who watched Evans in his rookie season, we were intrigued by the prospects of Evans working as an oversized point guard. At 6-foot-6 and more than 220 pounds, he possesses the size to cause matchup nightmares on a daily basis. But there's a leadership component, responsibilities as a facilitator, that come with the position. It's unclear if Evans embraced those things or if he, like many other talented young stars before him, is simply a casualty of a faulty operation.
Remember, DeMarcus Cousins was considered an at-risk player before a coaching change cleared the way for him to become the walking double-double (granted, he still has his own maturing to do) his talent suggested he would be.
Evans has time and so do the Kings. But they're at the crossroads …


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Cincinnati Alumni Dinner 2007by Michael Warren • March 26, 2007 Share:
The evening could not have been better for the rescheduled Cincinnati Alumni Dinner on Thursday, March 22 and I am not just talking about the weather. Though, with several inches of snow and cold temps that forced us to cancel this event in February, that was much nicer also. What made this evening so great was the mix of alumni, parents, current parents, current students, and prospective students on hand to enjoy the evening. Oh yes, let's not forget the chicken and ribs at the Montgomery Inn.
An hour long reception that allowed everyone to mingle and talk about Wabash was followed by the delicious meal, more conversation, and remarks from Brett Coldiron '78, a local physician, and Wabash President Pat White.
Thanks to Bill Augspurger '64 for making all the arrangements with the Montgomery Inn (both times) and to Steve King '97 who served as the evening's emcee.
Click here for a photo album from the dinner event.


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We have been talking about a lot of different topics this week, but at the essence we are trying to share how complex teaching and learning really is. We are trying to get at the unique experience that being a teacher day in and day out, it is a job not easily defined.
What I am hearing in all our conversations is that it is these unique human experiences that are being left out of the overall mass discussion on both sides of the debate.
We need to change the conversation, and we have started to here on the Cooperative with Chad, and Kevin's idea and also the great minds at Viva Project, which have started a proactive action oriented cooperative to get teachers' voices and ideas heard and put into action.
Lets continue having classroom discussions, personal examples of the work we are doing, and the student who are doing the learning. We actively change the conversation by actively engaging in the stories of our work.
Lets be humble about our struggles, lets celebrate our successes, lets make our voices' public and be an alternative to all the demonizing of teachers and schools. Let share a story a day like Kevin and Chad suggest, but not only on the Cooperative, but with friends and family members, as editorials, as teacher research, via blogs and twitter, facebook and text message.
The more human we make the conversation the less we can be defined as numbers or with simple terms like "Bad" or "Good" ! We know teaching is complex and can not be defined with a test score or a one size fits all method. Teaching is truly a holistic art and we can share that here and to the world. We might not change the world tomorrow, but what we can do is start to shift the paradigm our way! Lets keep the conversations about how complex and multidimensional the work is, be it good or bad. We need to talk and listen, and share and discuss and not just fight.
So I encourage everyone this week to look for stories to share, to invite a colleague or a student to tell their stories below or as guest bloggers. Lets fill the internet with the real stories of real people doing the complex work that is teaching and learning. Let's Make our Stories Public!
Here are a few posts to start the conversations, if you know of more post below, or add them via the New tab above Teachers Stories.
"How can we identify "good" teaching? by Emily Hanford via Good
What (Really) Works? By Mary Beth
Incidental Learning By Paula White
The Anatomy of Mark Making by Marla McLean
Flexible Learning Spaces By whatedsaid