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A recent article in Reuters, one that received a great deal of attention, sheds light on practices that some charter schools are using essentially to screen students who apply for admission. These policies include requiring long and difficult applications, family interviews, parental contracts, and even demonstrations of past academic performance.
It remains unclear how common these practices might be in the grand scheme of things, but regardless of how frequently they occur, most of these tactics are terrible, perhaps even illegal, and should be stopped. At the same time, there are two side points to keep in mind when you hear about charges such as these, as well as the accusations (and denials) of charter exclusion and segregation that tend to follow.
The first is that some degree of (self-)sorting and segregation of students by abilities, interests and other characteristics is part of the deal in a choice-based system. The second point is that screening and segregation are most certainly not unique to charter/private schools, and one primary reason is that there is, in a sense, already a lot of choice among regular public schools.
Let's start with the first point. The idea of school choice is that independently-operated schools (including, perhaps, district and private schools) all compete for student enrollment. Students and parents choose those that are best-suited for them. The schools that aren't successful in attracting students fail and perhaps close, while those that are successful thrive and grow. This competition, so the story goes, spurs innovation.
So, in the "traditional" model, public schools are supposed to be "general practitioners" – they must accept all students and serve them well. The charter/choice model, on the other hand, takes a somewhat different view – schools must accept those who apply, but different models will work well for different students. If we make schools compete for those students by giving their parents a choice, this will encourage schools to develop varying models, and to attract and retain those students for whom their approach is well-suited.
Without question, in a full blown choice-based system, simple geographical reality means that most schools within a district would have to maintain some kind of "general appeal" in order to remain viable (and that's one reason why the majority of U.S. charters stick to their mission of accepting all comers and doing the best they can).
However, particularly in large, densely populated areas, there is room for schools to develop more "specialized" approaches, and it's plausible to believe that many would attract/retain students who, on the whole, share certain characteristics (even if those traits are tough to measure with standard educational and demographic variables). Charter schools may hold random lotteries, but the whole idea of choice is that selection and deselection should not be random.
In this sense, the practices in the Reuters article represent terrible, misguided attempts to pre-engineer an outcome that the theory of school choice predicts would to some extent occur "naturally," as parents and students selected into schools that fit their needs, and deselected out of schools that did not. And, if the theory holds up in practice, other schools would adapt by offering different models; there would be "something for everyone."
What seems to have happened instead, at least in some places, is that this process has been distorted into a competition less for students than for crude test-based measures such as absolute proficiency rates. As a result, the specialization that you might expect from charter sectors tends to focus on higher-scoring students and intensive test-boosting approaches (though there are of course exceptions).
In other words, one might speculate that the sheer extent to which raw absolute testing outcomes are judge and jury serves as an impediment to the "something for everyone" end goal of school choice. So long as these measures are the coin of the realm, operators will tend to compete and innovate for higher test scores, and there may be less incentive to cater to constituencies or develop/expand models that are not necessarily compatible with this priority.
In any case, charter advocates should (and did) condemn the practices in the Reuters article. However, it's important to note that the school choice vision not only entails some degree of sorting and segregation of students based on needs, abilities and interests, but may actually require it in order to work. It makes little sense for supporters (or opponents) to imply otherwise.
This brings us to the second, somewhat simpler point – screening and exclusion are not unique to charter (or private) schools. In a sense, they occur every day in regular public schools. Parents choose homes (or relocate) based in part on the quality of the schools in a given district (or neighborhood). Schools compete for these parents, and their success in doing so influences and is influenced by home and land prices within their boundaries.
These regular public schools take everyone they get, but there is a de facto screening process of sorts, by which entry into the schools requires income sufficient to live in the area. Put simply, if you can't afford to live in a "good" school district, your children can't attend its schools. That is one big reason why regular public schools are heavily segregated by race, ethnicity and income.
In this sense, those who rail against school choice do not seem well-attuned to the fact that a system of choice exists – albeit in a qualitatively different form – throughout the nation's regular public schools. Similarly, those who criticize charter schools for increasing segregation should acknowledge that U.S. schools are heavily segregated with or without charter schools. And that seems like an issue we can all agree should be addressed, regardless of our views on school governance.
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WASHINGTON - The U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed its first court action challenging genetic testing a Petition for a Preliminary Injunction against Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad to end genetic testing of employees who have filed claims for work-related injuries based on carpal tunnel syndrome. EEOC alleges that the employees are not told of the genetic test, or asked to consent to it, and that at least one individual who has refused to provide a blood sample because he suspected it would be used for genetic testing has been threatened with imminent discharge if he fails to submit the sample.
"This is EEOC's first lawsuit challenging genetic testing. As science and technology advance, we must be vigilant and ensure that these new developments are not used in a manner that violate workers' rights," said EEOC Chairwoman Ida L. Castro. "Today, the Commission has shown that we will act quickly when confronted with such an egregious violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act as is presented here."
In its Petition, filed in U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, located in Sioux City, Iowa, the EEOC asks the Court to order the railroad to end its nationwide policy of requiring employees who have submitted claims of work-related carpal tunnel syndrome to provide blood samples which are then used for a genetic DNA test for Chromosome 17 deletion, which is claimed to predict some forms of carpal tunnel syndrome. EEOC also seeks to halt any disciplinary action or termination of the employee who has refused to submit a blood sample.
EEOC Commissioner Paul Steven Miller explained, "The Commission takes the position that basing employment decisions on genetic testing violates the ADA. In particular, employers may only require employees to submit to any medical examination if those examinations are job related and consistent with business necessity. Any test which purports to predict future disabilities, whether or not it is accurate, is unlikely to be relevant to the employee's present ability to perform his or her job."
Chester V. Bailey, Director of EEOC's Milwaukee District Office, noted that the action is based on six charges of discrimination filed with the office. Four of the charges were filed by affected individuals; two were filed by officials of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of the Way Employees on behalf of all affected union members. Bailey certified that EEOC had determined after a preliminary investigation that "the employees would suffer irreparable injury through the invasion of their most intimate privacy rights if the practice of testing is not ended."
EEOC is the federal agency responsible for enforcing the ADA, which prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities, including prohibiting an employer from seeking disability related information not related to an employee's ability to perform his or her job. In addition, EEOC enforces Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the bases of race, color, religion, sex or national origin; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, which protects workers age 40 and older; and the Equal Pay Act which prohibits sex-based differences in compensation. Further information about EEOC is available on the agency's Web site at www.eeoc.gov.

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Argumentum ad lazarum
(Redirected from Appeal to poverty)
For more information, see the Wikipedia article:
Appeal to poverty or Argumentum ad lazarum is the fallacy that somebody is better, wiser, or more likely to be correct because they are poor.
- "Mother Teresa's self-imposed poverty helped her lead a virtuous life helping others."
- "Only if you give up the true distractions of today's materialistic society can you find God's true wisdom."
It should be self-evident that the poor aren't necessarily good and that the rich aren't necessarily evil. Some rich people use their fortune and prestige to support charities and benefit humanity; some poor people become common miscreants (and in exceptional cases, such as Mother Teresa's, they abuse powers that aren't tied to money). Whether any special knowledge or wisdom arises from poverty or the asceticism of certain religious followers has yet to be demonstrated.
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Jesse Palmer, a former quarterback at UF and current TV analyst, believes his former school can compete for the SEC championship after the 4-8 debacle in 2013.
HOOVER, Ala. — The media members at SEC Media Days picked Florida to finish third in the SEC East this season, but at least one national analyst believes the Gators can compete for the conference championship.
ESPN's Jesse Palmer, a former quarterback at UF, believes his former school can rebound after the 4-8 debacle in 2013.
"I think they're very, very hungry based on what happened last year," Palmer said. "There's a lot of motivation there, and they understand how tough the schedule is and what those expectations are.
"But at the same time, there's a level of excitement considering the brand new offense with Kurt Roper, who I thought was a great hire. If Florida can stay healthy, then I think the sky is the limit."
Palmer said the key will be the play of starting quarterback Jeff Driskel, who said last week he's fully recovered from the broken leg he suffered 10 months ago.
"This system is going to make better use of his skill sets by playing out of the gun and taking advantage of his running ability," Palmer said of Driskel. "He was recruited as a spread quarterback. A guy like Kurt Roper, who's been a quarterback guru coaching under David Cutcliffe, I think he's just a blessing.
"But Jeff is going to need help. Somebody has to step up and be a presence on the perimeter at wide receiver, whether it's Quinton Dunbar, Ahmad Fulwood or Andre Debose. I think Jake McGee is a huge get for Florida. That B-position in Kurt Roper's offense is important for them, and he'll be a favorite target of Jeff Driskel this year."
The improvement and production of Driskel and the offense could ultimately decide the fate of Florida coach Will Muschamp. He's on the hot seat after last year's results and has embraced that pressure, but Palmer has confidence in Muschamp.
"I don't know if he necessarily has a win total he needs to reach," Palmer said. "I think they have to compete for the SEC East with whatever win amount that is, and it depends what those wins are. A win against Georgia, with his track record against them (0-3), would be huge. If they're competitive going on the road against probably an undefeated Florida State, even if they don't win, I think that's big.
"Nobody denies the defense and how good they can be under Will Muschamp. He has proven he's one of the best defensive minds in the country. People are waiting to find out if this offense can have a pulse, which really is what it has lacked. I think they are going to have that. I believe Will Muschamp's the guy for the job, I really do. With this new offense, if Florida can stay healthy, I really think they have a shot to get to Atlanta."


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A survey released August 30 by Mom Corps, a national flexible staffing firm, found 45 percent of working adults are willing to give up some percentage of their salary for more flexibility at work.
Working adults were willing to relinquish 8.6 percent of their salary compared to 5.8 percent amount of last year's survey. Sixty-seven percent of working adults agreed that it is possible to "have it all" when it comes to work-life balance, and there is no significant difference here between women (68 percent) and men (66 percent).
Fifty-three percent of working adults reported they would get more work done if they had the ability to work from home occasionally, and 62 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds agreed.
Sixty percent of working adults agree that the state of the economy has no impact on their desire for increased flexibility at work.
The survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Interactive on behalf of Mom Corps from July 26-30, 2012, among 2,207 adults ages 18 and older, of whom, 1,096 are "working adults" (employed full time and/or part time) and 309 are "working parents" (employed full time and/or part time and parent or legal guardian of children under 18 years old residing in their household).
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He had made an attempt in what he thought was a way for him to find/feel God --even if temporarily. But ofcourse that was too simplistic an approach to get rid of his detachment state. A detachment not from worldly matters, but rather from divine beings. A state that made him realize that he needed to re-establish a connection. So he realized that rather than finding God, he should work on trying to become aware of his spiritual side first. But he's realizing how difficult it is to realize his spirituality, and is thus becoming more tolerant of the idea of spiritual guidance.
Curious to discover more about the Path. Can't claim he's upto setting himself on one, yet would very much like to realize such a Path and explore such a connection.
We created man and We know what his self whispers to him, and We are nearer to him than his jugular vein. [Qaf:16]
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text: Putting a little fear of credit into teenagers is probably a good thing. But remember to point out the positive, too. You want them to be able to make wise decisions when the credit offers come rolling in. By Janet Bodnar, Editor-at-Large October 25, 2006 I teach a class in personal finance to ninth graders, and I have an unusual problem. In trying to warn my students about the pitfalls of credit, I'm afraid I've gone too far. The kids tell me they're so afraid of getting into trouble that they aren't going to use credit at all. It wasn't my intention to scare them. I want them to know that credit can be a useful tool when it's used wisely. But they don't seem to be getting that message. Relax. Putting a little fear of credit into your students at this age is probably a good thing. Better to err on the side of caution than to encourage them to get into debt when they're not mature enough to handle it. Besides, your students are still young and haven't been exposed to the credit marketing blitz they'll face when they turn 18. Instilling some skepticism now will make them better able to withstand the pressure and make wise decisions when the time comes. And keep on delivering the message that credit is a useful tool. Tell your students that borrowing money to buy an asset that appreciates in value -- a house, for example -- makes sense. So does borrowing money judiciously for their education, which will result in higher earnings over their lifetime. Advertisement It can even make sense to pull out your credit card if you use it as a convenience, pay the bill in full each month, and rack up rewards points. Last week I had the pleasure of addressing a statewide meeting of teachers sponsored by the Utah chapter of the JumpStart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. I also had the pleasure of watching Dr. Ruby Ward of the state extension service demonstrate educational software that helps kids see the additional cost of buying something on credit. To make her point, Ward translated the cost of buying a $500 iPod (with case) into hours worked. Assuming a student cleared $5 an hour working at a part-time job, it would take 100 hours on the job to make the purchase. If the student bought the iPod with a credit card charging an annual interest rate of 18% and paid the bill over 12 months, he or she would pay an extra $52 and have to work an additional 10.5 hours. That puts the cost of credit into language that's non-threatening yet effective. Use our calculator to illustrate what it takes to pay off a credit balance.


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Muskingum Programming Board (MPB) is linked with the Student Senate as the primary student programming body on the Muskingum University campus.
Consisting entirely of students, MPB plans and implements a wide variety of events and activities for the entire campus community. The selected leaders and volunteers of MPB coordinate events such as: comedians, singers, bingo, movies, outdoor recreational activities, and MuskiePalooza (spring festival), as well as many other student-oriented activities.
At the end of Fall Semester, all MPB positions open up to student applicants. MPB consists of an executive board (President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, Marketing Chair, and Student Senate Representative), and general body. The Executive Board coordinates the efforts of general body to plan events every Friday and Saturday night. Members of the general body serve in a volunteer capacity, but collaborate with the Executive Board to implement the variety of quality events hosted for the campus community every week. Involvement with MPB is a learning opportunity where students grow in areas of decision-making, leadership, negotiation, event planning, production, marketing, and more. MPB is known for hosting great events that engage in a diverse audience at Muskingum.
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NACDL released a groundbreaking new report on restoring and reforming the grand jury system -- Evaluating Grand Jury Reform in Two States: The Case for Reform. This research reflects an in-depth study of grand jury reform in two states – New York and Colorado. In conducting this study, researchers Erin Crites, Jon Gould and Colleen Shepard of the Center for Justice, Law & Society at George Mason University studied the experiences of prosecutors, defense lawyers and retired judges. Four key reform recommendations emerge from the research: (i) defense representation in the grand jury room, (ii) production of witness transcripts for the defense, (iii) advance notice for witnesses to appear, and (iv) the presentation of exculpatory evidence to the grand jury.
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At its fall board meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, NACDL presented Nevada Supreme Court Justice Michael Cherry with its 2011 Champion of Indigent Defense Award. It is the first time since the award was initially presented in 2002 that a judge has received the honor. Justice Cherry chairs the Supreme Court of Nevada's Indigent Defense Commission, which has been examining how Nevada's justice system treats criminal defendants who cannot afford to hire their own attorneys.
In notifying Justice Cherry of the award, NACDL president Lisa Wayne, of Denver, Colorado, stated, "Your long and persistent dedication to improving indigent defense systems in the State of Nevada, and in particular your role as the chairman of the Indigent Defense are truly remarkable and are examples of how members of the judiciary can help effect meaningful reform of our criminal justice system." Ms. Wayne stated in the letter to Justice Cherry that NACDL selected him to "pay tribute to your steadfast support of the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel."
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In a special election on November 19 to fill a vacancy, Denver attorney Norman R. Mueller was elected to NACDL's Board of Directors at the fall board meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. A Past President of the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar, Mueller has served on NACDL's Amicus Committee as 10th Circuit Vice Chair.
At its fall meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 19, 2011, NACDL's Board of Directors adopted a resolution committing NACDL to engage in a year-long commemoration of Gideon v. Wainwright, highlighting the Association's resolve to fulfill Gideon's promise. NACDL will seek to honor those who represent the poor and educate the public about the importance of the right to appointed counsel in every criminal proceeding. A copy of the Resolution is linked here.
The November 21, 2011 decision by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan underscores the need for federal legislation setting forth with complete clarity prosecutors' "affirmative duty to disclose evidence favorable to a defendant." Judge Sullivan, ruling that prosecutors who indicted and tried the late Sen. Ted Stevens, and at least two other Alaskan state officials, committed serious misconduct by withholding evidence favorable to the defendants, thereby denying them due process and their right to fair trials. An investigation by two attorneys appointed by the court, Henry F. Schulke and William B. Shields found that the investigation and prosecution of Sen. Stevens et al. were "permeated by the systematic concealment of significant exculpatory evidence that would have independently corroborated his defense and his testimony, and seriously damaged the testimony and credibility of the government's key witness."Commenting on Sullivan's November 21 order, NACDL President Lisa M. Wayne said, "I hope two things come out of the Stevens case."First, I hope that the Court orders release of Mr. Schulke's report, which is said to be 500 pages or more. Second, I hope Congress realizes that sometimes the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, needs to be enforced with appropriate legislation. NACDL's proposed legislation would create clear and meaningful discovery standards governing the prosecution's duty to disclose any and all facts favoring the defendant or his case."
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A diverse group of organizations and law professors concerned about the elimination of intent requirements in criminal statutes are urging the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm U.S. District Court Judge Mary Scriven's July ruling that Florida's law prohibiting possession, sale or delivery of controlled substances is "unconstitutional on its face." The NACDL, the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, the Drug Policy Alliance, the Calvert Institute for Policy Research, the Cato Institute, the Reason Foundation, the Libertarian Law Council, and 38 professors submitted a joint amicus curiae, or friend of the court, brief on Monday in support of a habeas petitioner who is serving an 18-year sentence under Florida's strict liability felony drug law.
A copy of the brief is available on NACDL's web site here. To learn more, please click here.
The NACDL has opposed mandatory minimum sentences for two and a half decades. The U.S. Sentencing Commission's comprehensive report on mandatory minimum sentences, released October 31, 2011, shows that statutory mandatory minimum penalties "apply too broadly, are set too high, or both, to warrant the prescribed minimum penalty for the full range of offenders who could be prosecuted under the particular criminal statute." Nearly three out of four federal inmates serving a mandatory minimum sentence were Black or Hispanic. Moreover, the fixed penalties are costly to society at large. The report acknowledges that mandatory minimums have been a major factor in the tripling of the federal prison population over the past 20 years.
The NACDL White Collar Criminal Defense College at Stetson is a "boot-camp" program for practitioners wishing to gain key advocacy skills and learn substantive white collar law. The program will cover client retention, investigation in a white collar case, handling searches and grand jury subpoenas, and dealing with parallel proceedings. Participants will have the experience of negotiating a plea, making proffers, and examining which experts to hire and how to protect the client in this process. Interactive sessions with top white collar practitioners will allow the participants to learn trial skills such as opening statements, cross-examination, jury instructions, closing arguments, and sentencing – all in the context of a white collar matter. The seminar will be held at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida on March 15-20, 2012.
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In conjunction with NACDL's inaugural White Collar Criminal Defense College at Stetson University College of Law in March 2012, the college's Advisory Board calls for nominations by Dec. 15, 2011 for its White Collar Criminal Defense Award. Criteria: (1) Nominee shall have distinguished him or herself in the white collar defense bar; (2) Length of service to the white collar bar and sustained excellence will be considered; (3) Nominee should have enjoyed a recent success in a trial or other major result involving a white collar matter; (4) Membership in NACDL is not required but is encouraged and will be considered; and (5) Nominees may be self-nominated or nominated by others. Please submit nominations to Daniel Weir at email@example.com.
The US House of Representatives adjourns on Dec. 8th. The Senate has not yet confirmed an end date, but has historically adjourned around the same time as the House of Representatives. Congress will not reconvene until Jan. 5th 2012, making the holiday season a perfect time for you to schedule a meeting with your legislators.
The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas can be stressful. But for legislators, it's a time when they get to leave the political games of Washington behind them for a few weeks and spend time in their home district with their constituents.
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Federal criminal laws present a labyrinth that is difficult for staffers to navigate in order to stay on the right side of the law. On October 7, 2011, NACDL and the Heritage Foundation co-hosted a training on Capitol Hill to address this very issue. This panel of experts explores the pitfalls facing Hill staffers in federal criminal law and shares insights on what staffers can do to avoid being prosecuted for how they do their job. For anyone working on or around Capitol Hill, this must-see program will help you answer that critical question: Have you committed a felony today? Click here for the video!
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Nearly 15 years ago, in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by NACDL, DOJ Inspector General Michael Bromwich released his office's report on misconduct in the FBI Lab. The case was National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, et al. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice, D.D.C., No. 97-cv-0032, filed 2/25/97.
During the course of the litigation, Justice Department lawyers represented that a "Brady Task Force" of DOJ lawyers was in the process of identifying and reviewing old cases in which a dozen suspect FBI lab examiners had testified and would be notifying the prosecutors who handled those casesWe are interested in identifying;
If you handled a case that was affected by the FBI Lab scandal you or your client may have been contacted by the DOJ or state and local prosecutors between 1997 and 2005 notifying the defendant about the OIG Report; potential forensic/scientific problems with evidence that was analyzed by the FBI Laboratory; or problems in your case.The FBI Lab examiners named in the report and the year they joined the FBI Lab are: Richard Hahn (1987), Robert Heckman (1990), Wallace Higgins (1989), Alan Jordan (1983), Lynn Laswell (1975), Michael Malone (1975), Roger Martz (1975), J. Christopher Ronay (1977), Terry Rudolph (1978), James Thomas Thurman (1981), Robert Webb (1976) and David Williams (1978).If you represented a defendant in a case involving one of these FBI Lab examiners between the late 1970s and 1997, it is likely that case was part of the FBI and DOJ Task Force review.If a disclosure was made by the DOJ or a state or local prosecutor in one of these cases it may have simply been in the form of a letter stating that the case was under review.
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General Legislative UpdatesOn November 17, Congress passed a 2012 spending bill that includes $4 million for the John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act. While $4M is clearly inadequate to meet the nationwide need for public defender education debt relief, NACDL is relieved that the program survived being zeroed out in a very tough budget year.
NACDL submitted this statement to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs explaining why we oppose a proposal to extend tribal court jurisdiction to non-Indians in domestic violence cases. NACDL has been actively opposing legislation would exacerbate the current unfairness of money laundering laws and undermine the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (i.e., S. 1731, the Combatting Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing Act).National SecurityThe National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2012 (NDAA) is an annual spending bill that directs how defense appropriations should and should not be used. The bill is currently being debated on the Senate floor and could be subject to a vote by week's end. This bill contains provisions related to the trial and detention of terrorism suspects, including provisions that would require mandatory military custody of certain terrorism suspects, even those captured within the United States, codify a system of indefinite detention without charge or trial for citizens and non-citizens alike, and continue restrictions on the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo, guaranteeing that the detention facility will remain open for another year.White CollarOn the frontlines of the overcriminalization battle, the White Collar department is currently focused on preventing the passage of troubling public corruption legislation, such as H.R. 2572 and its various iterations, and supporting legislative initiatives, inspired by the recent Gibson Guitar controversy, to reform the Lacey Act. Whereas the public corruption bills are prime examples of Congress's thirst for overcriminalization, the efforts to reform the Lacey Act are a clear sign that some on Capitol Hill are listening and the overcriminalization reform message is breaking through. As these bills move through the legislative process, White Collar staff will continue educating the Hill, advocating for reform, and working to activate NACDL's grassroots network against problematic legislation.
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A number of NACDL staff and leaders attended the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Symposium, Sentencing Law: Rhetoric and Reality on October 28-29, 2011. NACDL co-sponsored the keynote panel, The Politics of Sentencing Law, which featured Rep. Bobby Scott, former Rep. Asa Hutchinson, PA Sen. Stewart Greenleaf, and Judge William Sessions. NACDL President Lisa Wayne spoke on a panel about Race and the War on Drugs. Executive Director Norman Reimer spoke on a panel on Mandatory Minimums, and Policy Counsel Malia Brink moderated a panel on Problem-Solving Courts.
On November 4th and 5th, Executive Director Norman Reimer and Indigent Defense Counsel John Gross attended the the final seminar of the 2011 National Defender Training Program hosted by the NACDL and the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants (SCLAID) in Austin, TX.
From November 16-19, NACDL held its Fall Meeting and Drug Seminar in Las Vegas, NV. In attendance were Executive Director Norman Reimer, Deputy Executive Director Thomas Chambers, Education Assistant Akvile Athanson, Sales and Marketing Director James Bergmann, Membership Director Michael Connor, Membership Marketing Manager Linda Gill-Anderson, Indigent Defense Counsel John Gross, Manager for Meetings and Education Tamara Kalacevic, Associate Executive Director of Programs Gerald Lippert, Education Assistant Doug Reale and Special Assistant to the Executive Director Daniel Weir.
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Blueford v. Arkansas, U.S. Sup. Ct., No. 10-1320, decision below ___ SW.3d ___ (Ark. 2011), 2011 WL 285805, brief filed 6/3/11. Double Jeopardy—Lesser-Included Offenses—Mistrial—"Acquittal First" Jury Instructions. Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of the petition for certiorari. Argument: In this capital case, the jury, per the court's instructions, acquitted the defendant of capital murder, then of first-degree murder, but then could not agree on whether the defendant was guilty of manslaughter, and the court declared a mistrial. Supreme Court double jeopardy case law, particularly Green v. United States, 355 U.S. 184 (1957) and Price v. Georgia, 398 U.S. 323 (1970), bars the petitioner-defendant's retrial on the acquitted charges of capital and first degree murder. Authors: Christopher M. Egleson and Jennelle D. Menendez, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP, New York, N.Y.
DeWolfe v. Richmond, Md., No. 34, case below 990 A.2d 549 (Md. 2010), brief filed 9/19/11. Right to Counsel—Bail—Initial Appearance—Indigent Defense. Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Maryland, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association in support of appellees. Argument: The trial court found correctly that there exists a statutory and constitutional right to appointed counsel at a defendant's initial bail hearing in Maryland. Authors: Christina M. Gatttuso, Kilpatrick Townsend and Stockton LLP, Washington, DC, and Gia L. Cincone, Kilpatrick Townsend and Stockton LLP, San Francisco, CA.
United States v. Behanna, C.A.A.F., No. 12-0030/AR, brief filed 10/18/11. Brady—Failure to Disclose Exculpatory Evidence—Due Process. Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of appellant. Argument: Prosecutor's failure to disclose nontestifying prosecution expert's opinion that contradicted the prosecution's theory of the case and also corroborated the defense experts' opinion and the testimony of the defendant violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Such conduct also is unethical and constitutes perpetration of a fraud upon the tribunal. Author: Donald G. Rehkopf, Jr., Brenna, Brenna & Boyce PLLC, Rochester, NY.
United States v. Jones, U.S. Sup. Ct., No. 10-1259, case below United States v. Maynard, 615 F.3d 544 (D.C. Cir. 2010), brief filed 10/3/11, argument 11/8/11. GPS Surveillance--Search and Seizure--Warrant Requirement--Associational Privacy. Joint amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, First Amendment Lawyers Association, District of Columbia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Argument: The decision of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals should be affirmed. Warrantless GPS surveillance imposes an unacceptable burden on First Amendment associational rights, as well as Fourth Amendment privacy rights. The warrant requirement is minimally burdensome, as illustrated by the facts of this case. There is nothing about the nature of motor vehicles that justifies a blanket exception to the warrant requirement, and the automobile exception manifestly does not apply to warrantless GPS tracking. Authors: Jeffrey T. Green, co-Chair of NACDL's Amicus Curiae Committee and partner at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, DC; Susan J. Walsh of Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard in New York City; Professor Sarah O'Rourke Schrup of the Northwestern University Supreme Court Practicum in Chicago, Ill.; and Executive Director Norman L. Reimer and Deputy Director of Public Affairs & Communications Ivan J. Dominguez of NACDL in Washington, DC.
NACDL Letter on S. 1763, SAVE Native Women Act Tittle II -- tribal jurisdiction and criminal offenses
NACDL Letter on Hearing on "Uncertain Justice: The Status of Federal Sentencing and the U.S. Sentencing Commission Six Years after U.S. v. Booker."
NACDL Letter on S. 1483, the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act.
NACDL Letter to Members of U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism on "Drug and Veterans Treatment Courts."
NACDL Letter on S. 401, the Public Corruption Prosecution Improvements Act, and S. 995, the Public Officials Accountability Act.
Written Statement of NACDL Board Member Timothy P. O'Toole Before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security on "H.R. 2572, the 'Clean Up Government Act of 2011.'"
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Start off 2012 at NACDL's 32nd Annual Advanced Criminal Law Seminar, being held January 15 – 20, 2012, at the elegant St. Regis Hotel in Aspen, Colorado. NACDL's Advanced Criminal Law Seminar, presented in cooperation Victor Sherman, is simply the best criminal defense seminar in the country set in the best ski town in Colorado. Be inspired by an unparalleled faculty of some of the past years' most publicized and well-know defense lawyers in the country, as well as notable government officials, judges, and prosecutors. Join us in Aspen for an unrivaled CLE experience! Register today – hotel discount rates end on December 16thso act now!
Register now to attend NACDL & CACJ's 5th Annual Making Sense of Science Seminar: Forensic Science & the Law being held March 23-24, 2012, at The Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas! This year's Forensic seminar will feature lawyers involved in the Casey Anthony and Amanda Knox trials who will discuss the forensic evidence in these cases. You do not want to miss this great opportunity! This two-day program is sure to captivate you with a wide array of topics that will leave you with a better understanding of forensic sciences so you can effectively represent your clients.Register before January 3, 2012 and receive $35 off full seminar registration fee (taken at the time of registration)Register today!
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2012 Predictions: These I Like
It took me awhile to go through all the random Top 10 of 2011 lists for various topics, so now I'm ready to look ahead to 2012's preponderance of pundit predictions. Or maybe I'm just fashionably late. I've tripped over a few reports here and there – some quite possibly developed by caffeinated squirrels on a treadmill.
On the technology front, I found one more interesting than others. Instead of putting a small group of experts in a room and not letting them out until they agree on a list, Baseline Magazine annually surveys business and technology managers at companies with 100+ employees to ask about their organizations' investments, plans, and strategies. Across several hundred respondents, patterns evolve.
Whoever these people are, coming from the desk I use, I like the way they (and their companies) think. Following – their predictions and my two cents (maybe three or four).
#1 Tablet Computing Experiences Remarkable Growth We're not talking about using your iPad to take Words with Friends on the go. These are business trends based on what companies are doing to improve the way they work. According to Baseline, "Half of midsize and larger organizations expect to increase their investments in tablets at least moderately—significantly more than any other technology we asked about in our survey." The challenge is that a lot of tablets are built for a consumer market rather than enterprise use. Instead of trying to make a square peg drop into a triangular hole, Cisco Cius is purpose-built as an enterprise-level collaboration device with applications to match through Cisco AppHQ's marketplace of verified applications.
#2 The Marketing Tech Revolution For many IT departments, the idea of marketing and technology in the same sentence hasn't exactly seemed logical. But with technology essentially invading every aspect of how we interact, its time has come. Customers have more choices of how to interact with companies, so companies need to take advantage of more channels to market to and communicate with them to meet their needs. Baseline uses the example of Republic Services a waste-management company that uses new collaboration technologies to improve its customer-relations system. (And yes, coincidentally, a Cisco customer.)
#3 Network and Wireless Build-Out With network infrastructure investments expected to increase 38%, companies are not just focusing on wiring, but implementing their wireless, wide-area, and beyond to improve mobility for employees and business continuity. We just happen to have a few networking products in our catalog.
#4 Advanced Communications Organizations are looking for more ways to communicate, connect, and collaborate to be more effective. Collaboration tools like web conferencing, unified communications, and messaging are part of that equation. From where I sit, there are options out there that do a little of this and a little of that, but Cisco collaboration solutions have all of the pieces of the puzzle – applications, devices, infrastructure, security — that work together to allow users to be more mobile, social, virtual, and visual in the way they work.
#5 Business Intelligence and Big Data It seems organizations have figured out that they have a heck of a lot of information floating around the various nooks and crannies and twists and turns of their information systems. Many have decided that they need to make a better effort in figuring out how to manage and analyze all of that good (or not so good) stuff. Based on the stuff I found in my attic the other day, my take is that this is going to be on lists for quite some time. The first step is figuring out where all of the data is and what kind it is, then organizing and using it.
#6 IT Strategies Shift Toward Revenue Growth Let's see, can we make that major cost center deliver some cold, hard cash? More organizations are realizing that cloud computing not only provides cost benefits in optimizing resources, simplifying operations, and bringing systems together, but also points to innovation and ways to develop new business models through the flexibility that cloud enables. Baseline identifies a possible spark behind this trend: "The source of this trend may be the personal experiences of business leaders with their own social networks, mobile devices and self-provisioned apps."
#7 Development of the Customized Cloud I don't think anyone would be willing to say that cloud computing is not going to float in the priority lists of organizations across industries. Many companies talk about "the cloud" as this single magical nebulous (or is it cumulus) thing, but at Cisco we realize there are many types of clouds. So pardon me if I don't disagree when Baseline says this "necessitates plenty of integration: of cloud services with each other, of private cloud solutions with public ones and of the cloud infrastructure with non-cloud infrastructure."
#8 Security Investments Remain Strong Some IT people close their eyes only to imagine themselves armed with a small padlock against a swarm of new applications, mobile devices, everywhere access, shared content, integrations of old and new technologies, combo plates of corporate-managed and personal devices, and dragons. Spending on security products may have lagged for a few years, but the rest of these trends are putting it back on the priority side of the budget list.
#9 The Consumerization of IT Continues All those things we can do with our nifty social tools, mobile apps, mobile devices, and such have us asking, why aren't my work tools so easy to use? The pressure is on to make business applications as easy to use as consumer apps. And 28% of respondents in Baseline's study are increasing spending related to the BYOD phenomenon so people can "bring their own devices" to access corporate data and applications. (Cue the security investments.) It works for me. Because I can get what I need on my own device, I got to ditch my corporate-provisioned brick.
#10 Hardware Investment Continues All that data in prediction number five has to go somewhere. And don't expect anyone to stop creating and collecting data because there's just no more space for it. Companies are turning to solutions like unified computing servers, blade servers, and storage solutions that put the pieces of the puzzle together in ways that are make data centers more efficient and keep all of that information accessible and secure.
So we'll see how all of these predictions pan out over the course of the year. Something always rises up that guides companies to change a priority or two during the year. It will be interesting to see what that is. But as the majority of these pan out in the months ahead, I'm thinking Cisco's a good technology partner to have. Just sayin'.
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Capacitors are one of the three fundamental, passive components that are used in nearly every electronic device out there. When a voltage is applied to a capacitor, it will store a charge proportional to the applied voltage. This proportion is called the capacitance. These factors are all connected by the simple relationship Q = C V. (Q is the charge, C the capacitance, and V the voltage.) When the applied voltage is removed, the charge doesn't disappear immediately, but rather decays gradually by running a current through whatever resistance is present between the capacitor's two leads.
While it's not a linear change, it's still a simple description, and we can exploit this characteristic to find the value of the capacitance, C. Assuming we know the resistance, all we need is to apply a voltage and time how long it takes for the voltage to decay to another known value.
Formulating the Capacitance Meter
The idea behind the instrument we are going to build is simple: we charge up a capacitor, then start the timer at the moment we start discharging. We stop the timer when the capacitor has discharged to a known point, then plug in the values into the formula.
|Formula needed to calculate C from the MSP430
C is in μF if t is in μs and R in Ω. Alternatively, C is in nF if t is in μs and R is in kΩ
The formula is easy to find. When we invert the Discharging Capacitor Equation, we find that our measured value of C depends on the time for discharge, the resistance, and the fraction of the starting voltage to the ending voltage. We can use Comparator_A+ to trigger the timer when we reach our chosen reference. For this tutorial, we'll discharge the capacitor until it reaches 1/4 Vcc, so that we use f = 4. This value is convenient, and minimizes any external components.
In the next tutorial, I'll show you how to set up the peripherals and suggest a few ways that you can read the obtained result with the MSP430. You may wonder how accurate this setup will be. The short answer is that it will be as accurate as you know the value of the resistor; if you use a 5% resistor, you'll be able to measure C to 5%. A 1% resistor tolerance will give you close to 1% for C, but at that point some of the other factors become more important. If you are interested, take a look at this description I've written on finding the error in the measurement.


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2011 recap: Last season was close but no cigar for the Cougars. Three times at regionals Evergreen forced a playback match to qualify for the 4A state tournament. And three times it lost. In five of seven draws the Cougars settled for third place. That's where the team finished as well with 29 points, falling behind Colorado Academy and Alexander Dawson.
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Hi! I'm Joanne from Ottawa, Canada. I'm a single mom to my amazing, 15-year-old daughter and by day, I work for the Government of Canada. I am so excited to be on the Disney Parks Moms Panel! I absolutely love helping future guests plan their Disney vacations and create their own magical memories! In my spare time I'm active and enjoy running, skiing, golfing and sharing a great meal with good friends. Oh, and can't forget shopping. I also love travelling, and I am privileged to have travelled extensively. These travels have also brought me to Disneyland Paris, Hong Kong Disneyland, the Disneyland Resort in California and on several Disney cruises. I love planning trips and get as much joy (well, almost as much) helping others plan their vacations as I do planning our own.
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Mario Hewardt is the founder of The High-Tech Avenue, a consulting and educational company that specializes in Windows and .NET. Mario is also the author of Advanced .NET Debugging and Advanced Windows Debugging
Far too often, performance is overlooked and tackled too late in the release schedule. And while developers spend long hours chasing elusive -- but "standard" -- bugs (crashes, resource leaks and the like), performance bugs go unnoticed for long periods of time or not addressed at all. After all, "it's not crashing, just taking a little longer than expected".
I would bet that all developers have been in situations where all the standard bugs have been taken care of and the application works satisfactorily in staging -- but once taken to production, comes to a grinding halt. After spending weeks troubleshooting the problem (all the while revenue is impacted) by going through log files, performance counters and other interesting data points, the problem is finally isolated and a fix implemented and deployed.
One of the interesting challenges when troubleshooting performance problems is that of using a suitable toolset that can quickly help you find the root cause the problem. It is common for performance problems to lie outside of your direct code base. Imagine a credit-ard processing server where the RAID controller has been incorrectly configured, causing dropped transactions. In this case, you can look at your credit-card transaction code until you are blue in the eyes. What is needed is a tool that is able to tell you about the system as a whole to help identify bottlenecks.
Fortunately, that tool exists -- the Microsoft Windows Performance Toolkit. In this article I focus on a subset of the toolkit called XPERF, a powerful tool that helps with overall system performance analysis.
Installing XPERF
XPERF is part of the Microsoft Windows Performance Toolkit (MSWPT) which in turn is part of the Windows SDK. Since the MSWPT is a fairly lean toolkit, it might seem like overkill to have to download the entire Windows SDK to get just that toolkit. Fortunately, the Windows SDK Web Installer lets you specify a subset of the Windows SDK to download and install and MSWPT is part of the Development Tools subset. To use the Windows SDK Web Installer, go to the Microsoft web site and follow the download instructions for the particular Windows SDK version. For example, on my machine, I would use the following link to install the Windows 7 SDK:
Once the Windows SDK Web Installer starts running, I deselect all the options except for the Development Tools. An interesting caveat here is that once the installation completes you're almost all the way there but not quite. The installer doesn't actually install MSWPT, rather copies the installer package (MSI) to your installation path. The final step in the installation process is to manually invoke the MSI to get the toolkit installed. For example, on my machine, I installed the Development Tools to the following folder:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0
Upon successful installation, the following files are available under the bin folder:
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- wpt_x64.msi
- wpt_x86.msi
Each of the installation packages represents the toolkit for a given architecture. If you run the package corresponding to the architecture of choice, the installation process is straight forward and installs the toolkit in the folder of choice. On my machine, I left the default options and it installed into:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Windows Performance Toolkit
In this folder, you will see the two binaries that we will be using throughout this article:
- xperf.exe -- Drives the configuration and collection of performance data
- xperfview.exe -- Used to analyze the performance data collection from a previous run of xperf.exe
As with any type of troubleshooting, success is directly proportional to the amount of diagnostics data that is available for analysis. I'm sure we've all been in a situation where we were debugging a heap corruption only to find out that the crash dump file we were analyzing didn't have full memory information contained within it, thereby limiting the success of finding the root cause. The same is true when debugging performance problems -- the more data that is available the higher the success rate. By increasing the amount of diagnostics data that is logged however, we also increase the pressure on the system as a whole. One of the single biggest questions that always come up with any type of tracing is how much can we trace before it adversely affects the system?
The answer is that it depends on the tracing technology that is utilized. I can very easily write a simple tracer that writes and flushes to a file every time the log method is called. Of course, that approach is highly inefficient I probably won't be able to log enough data to be useful before the system is affected. XPERF faces that same problem. For it to be a useful tool (across the system as a whole) it must be able to log large amounts of diagnostics data. How does it go by doing that without affecting the system overall? The answer lies in Event Tracing for Windows (ETW), a general purpose and super-efficient tracing mechanism that is built into Windows (both in kernel and user mode). In addition to being extremely performance, ETW lets you dynamically enable/disable logging without having to restart the system and/or application. Figure 1 illustrates the overall architecture of ETW.
Fundamentally, ETW consists of four primary components:
- Session: The base entity responsible for writing traces to the trace files.
- Producer: A producer writes event traces to one or more sessions.
- Controller: A controller can configure ETW sessions as well as enable and/or disable producers.
- Consumers: Applications that read event traces from the ETW trace logs.
Based on the architecture depicted in Figure 1, XPERF is really just a controller (in the sense that it can control what is being collected, i.e., the providers) as well as a consumer since it can display the results of the collection in a meaningful fashion to the user. For example, I can configure XPERF to collect certain kernel mode diagnostics data and then use the resulting file to analyze the results.
They key takeaway here is that XPERF is based on an incredibly powerful tracing mechanism native to the Windows operating system. It has the ability to tell (control) Windows exactly what to collect in an extremely efficient manner -- far more efficient than any other tracing mechanism.


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Spread some Easter cheer with a St. Patrick's Day run
In 1977, Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr., the duo who produced the holiday classics "Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer" and "The Year Without a Santa Claus," created "The Easter Bunny Is Coming to Town" that was aired on TV.
During one scene, the Easter Bunny is trying to get rid of green eggs and strikes it big when he hands them out on St. Patrick's Day.
Lululemon will also combine Easter St. Patrick's Day when it presents the Hop of the Morning to Ya run in Knoop Park on Sunday, March 17, at 11 a.m.
The St, Patty's Day event will be an Easter basket drive for the Christian Center, said Michelle Hathaway, manager of Lululemon Park City Showroom.
"This is the first Hop of the Morning to Ya run and we wanted to create a fun event for families to be outside to enjoy their Sunday morning," Hathaway said during an interview with The Park Record. "The race will be a light and impromptu jog up to five kilometers and will start as close to 11 as we can. We're kind of laid back, so it will be whenever we start it, and the entry fee will be whatever members of the community bring to make Easter baskets.
"We heard that the Christian Center was doing an Easter basket drive and decided to do one of our own and link a fun run with St. Patrick's Day," Hathaway said. "We're going to do it in Knoop Park, where we know there are some green spaces void of snow."
The goal is to build and donate five baskets.
"We would appreciate anything the community wants to give us," Hathaway said. "And they don't have to donate a full-on Easter basket. They can donate one or more items like stuffed animals, goodies, bunny ears or whatever they would normally pick up for their families for Easter. We'll collect the items and piece everything together."
Lululemon will accept Easter grass or empty baskets as well.
"We are also reaching out to local businesses like the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory who will donate a bunch of goods to us," Hathaway said. "We're not sure what those will be, because chocolate melts. So, they might donate other candies or lollipops to us."
While the run will be the highlight, Lululemon will also hand out some fun things for the younger participants.
"We will have some Easter eggs and other goodies for the kiddies," Hathaway said. "Since this is the first time we're doing anything like this, it's very exciting for us to host a fun event that will give something back to the Christian Center."
Hop of the Morning to Ya fits in with the Lululemon mission to create healthy opportunities for the community, Hathaway said.
"We offer something at least once a week and everything we do is complimentary," she explained. "We create that space for people to be healthy and happy and live that life we all know and love in Park City."
Living healthy is important to Hathaway.
"It's what creates longevity and opens many possibilities for people," she said. "For them to see healthy options is important, because life is very short, so why not live it up."
Hathaway also has some selfish reasons why she enjoys events such as the Hop of the Morning to Ya run.
"I get to work out, which I absolutely love, but more importantly Lululemon creates awesome relationships with people and businesses in the community," she said. "Creating these events have allowed me as well as others the opportunity to collaborate, network and meet new friends.
"We have the coolest people who live here," she said. "I know that our community rocks, and people will show up and support this event. So I have a feeling we may end up making more than five baskets."
Lululemon Park City will host the first Hop of the Morning to Ya run on Sunday, March 17, beginning at 11 a.m. The event is an Easter basket drive for the Christian Center of Park City. Admission is an item for an Easter basket. For more information, call (435) 655-2601.
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Deer Valley Music Festival woodwind trio will cover chamber-music eras at Susan Swartz Studios
A Utah Symphony woodwind trio will perform an intimate Deer Valley Music Festival chamber concert Monday at Susan Swartz Studios.