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My blog followers know from previous posts that I am working on a family narrative for my cousin and her children on the Shepard family. The papers and photos she gave to me in December included several pages of handwritten notes on the Shepard family genealogy. I transcribed those and they are included as an introduction in my narrative. Using the handwritten notes as a starting point, I began to verify each generation, but I immediately had trouble with the second generation. The handwritten notes had the progenitor as Ralph Shepard, born 1609 in Stepheny Parish London and arriving in Boston in October 1635. Ralph, his wife, Thankful, and their daughter Sarah are well documented. But the second generation listed, John Shepard, presented a problem as Ralph did not have a son named John.
I spent the afternoon in our library's genealogy room where there resides a three volume set of Shepard Genealogy. This book was carefully researched by Gerald Faulkner Shepard and edited by the well-known genealogist Donald Lines Jacobus. So I was pretty confident that the information contained therein was correct.
Mr. Shepard states that there were two large Shepard families that immigrated to the new world. Those were the Ralph Shepard family of Dedham, MA, and the Edward Shepard Family of Cambridge, MA. Those two families take up the first two volumes of Mr. Shepard's works. The third volume contains several other Shepard families that immigrated, and he has them carefully marked. The Shepard family I am researching is actually from John Shepard of Concord, MA who was born about 1633 in Concord, MA. He married Sarah Goble in 1661. This family eventually ended up on Spencer, Tioga County, New York.
I am so glad I got this straightened out before I wasted any more time trying to connect Ralph Shepard with this family line.


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The esteemed Mr. Trey Kerby recently asked me to write a piece on Carmelo Anthony. And it makes sense. Im a very melodramatic Knicks fan and Carmelo is the centerpiece of my favorite team. Clearly, this should have been easy for me.
But I spent about a week wracking my brain trying to figure out what I could say about Melo that hasnt been said. Hes a fantastic scorer. His commitment to defense is questionable. He seems to mess with both the flow of the offense as well as other peoples confidence within the offense. Hes an insanely cool person. Attending the game where Gallo returned to the Garden and outplayed him was a panic-inducing knife twist of an experience that made me question almost everything about my life. I once was an actor in a commercial where I played an obsessive stalker-y fan of his and he accurately gauged that I was indeed an obsessive stalker-y fan of his and had his guard up around me the whole time. And thats when he was still with the Nuggets. (Side note: I did another commercial as part of this series with Paul Pierce, who was a nice guy but scolded me for making fun of Smush Parker.)
Then the basketball gods intervened and Jeremy Lin happened. He ****ing happened.
Trey asked me to divert my attention from Carmelo to Lin and I was more than happy to do so, because I dont know if youve heard this, but at the time of this writing Jeremy Lin has had TWO good games in a row. In New York, that means he is the savior who has descended from Heaven to save the Knicks from anything ranging from DAntonis horrific coaching, Toney Douglass downfall, or the existence of Jared Jeffries. Hes had two full games of impressive stat lines and moments where hes demonstrated an ability to run an offense to a passable degree. And these two games have exposed how the minds of Knicks fans work. In the New York media/blogosphere, Jeremy Lins two good games in a row are miraculous game-changer turning points in our season on par with the following:
The French agreeing to help the Colonials during the American Revolution.
The Elves showing up last minute to help fight at Helms Deep in the movie version of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Jay Z inexplicably rapping over Linkin Park songs and making otherwise rational people think for just a nanosecond that Linkin Park was catchy.
Im able to step back from my Knicks fandom long enough to note our ridiculousness regarding our reaction to Lin, but Im also a full-on fanboy buying into it. Lins two games in a row have made Knicks fans collectively forget that he has never played well at the professional level outside of this week, hes physically unimpressive to a degree that one has to wonder how many games in a row he can play, and most remarkable of all, that he brings up Christianity within the first 10 seconds of every interview hes ever done in a way that New Yorkers would usually distrust immediately.
My own devotion to the cult of Lin can best be captured via this transcript of a Facebook conversation I had with my buddy Michael Kayne at roughly 2:30 AM last night. Hes a fellow Knicks lifer. I signed on, saw his name in my chat box, and didnt say hello. This is the entirety of our conversation, with caps lock retained for accuracy.
Then, he signed off. As did I. And I went to bed smiling, knowing that somehow the Knicks won a game this year with both Amare and Carmelo out, and Tyson Chandler in foul trouble the whole time. Right now, I can legitimately say that if I saw Jeremy Lin walking down the streets of New York, I would start crying and screaming like he was The Beatles and I was a pre-teen female baby boomer
In writing this, I am taking the time to remind myself of a few things first off, no wonder players want to play in New York. If you have two good games in your life at Madison Square Garden, you can become a national trending topic on Twitter. I would imagine that superstar level players see a kid like Lin get this kind of attention and know they are one trade away from a world of endless endorsement deals and non-stop sex with models and reality TV personalities.
But also, lets not forget that just a few short weeks ago, a certain savior named Iman Shumpert arrived. He was able to get to the basket, but he didnt even know how to finish a shot. Despite multiple shanked dunks, he was just able to get to the rim, which was such a blessing that there was quickly a feature written about him in the New York Times. A few quiet weeks later, and how much have we heard about the Shump lately?
Lets see what happens when Lin has two bad games in a row. As opposed to all of the love, hype, and adulation right now, Im sure New Yorkers will be ready to curse the word Lin, or at least largely forget about him as they have other recent newbie saviors such as the aforementioned Shumpert and a certain Landry Fields. Those two went from being right in the thick of the New York hype machine to firmly in its crosshairs. I have to imagine that they get judged, criticized, and booed for mistakes on their home court far worse than any player of their experience and stature would in most other markets. In Lins case, a few bad games will mean endless bitching that he scored himself a guaranteed contract, constant articles about how the Knicks employ a glorified D-leaguer, a ton of Shut the **** up about God alreadys yelled at HD TV screens, and a whole lot of very subtle racism. New York Knicks basketball - bad enough that youll definitely get playing time, scrutinized enough that you will never be allowed to blossom as a player or young man!
The Lin experience also reiterates to me a fact that Ive long known and long refused to admit: Knicks fans are perhaps the most annoying of all despicable New York sports fans. Were as ****y as Yankee fans without the winning pedigree to make it as fun to hate us. Were simultaneously as sad sack-y as Mets fans despite the fact that we now have marquee players and our home court is perhaps the greatest sports venue in America. Were as obnoxious on the streets of New York as Rangers fans, as meathead-y as Giants fans, and have as much tacky and cultish devotion to our team as Jets fans.
On top of all that, we give our players no foundation to stand on. Win and theyll hear the cheers out on Seventh Avenue. Lose and well boo you and your mother out of the goddamn Garden. No middle ground. No patience.
So welcome, Jeremy Lin! As a Knicks fan, Im glad to have you. You have turned things around and I trust there will be no speed bumps in this process of you saving basketball in the city most known for it. As a compassionate human being, I can only say enjoy being New Yorks hero as long as you can, and for your sanitys sake, I hope you keep on Linning.


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Four new voices join the Pundit lineup
Pundit has always tried to be a site that encourages thoughtful debate and conversation, covering all manner of viewpoints.
To that end we've pulled together a group of people who not only have something to say, but who have some expertise in, or insight into, what they're talking about. We're not so much concerned about where they sit on the political spectrum, so much as if they can think, write and offer something more than some loose thought constructed in the shower that morning.
The Pundits all come and go at various times, given other demands on our time. This summer, especially, has been pretty quiet. But behind the scenes we've been doing some recruiting.
While we are sad to farewell Deborah Coddington, Rob Salmond and Toby Manhire, today I can reveal the four new Pundits joining our crew.
- Wyatt Creech: Former deputy Prime Minister during the 4th National government, now businessman and director.
- Nick Leggett: Porirua mayor (the country's youngest)
- Josie Pagani: Political commentator, communications consultant and Labour candidate.
- Susan Wood: Broadcaster (one word which covers having been a reporter, foreign correspondent and hosted most TV and radio slots you can think of.)
Nick, you will note, is an active politician. This is something new for us as we don't want to site to be a platform for people's political careers and campaigns. But a) this is an opinion and commentary site; b) it's perfectly transparent as we all know he's a mayor and Labour Party member; c) he hopes to give voice to a range of local government issues (amongst other things) that get little public attention and of course won't use this as a campaign tool.
Josie and Wyatt both also come from clearly partisan positions, but are also well-known as independent and challenging thinkers. Susan is different again, as a respected journalist without any party connections.
So we welcome them and hope you'll enjoy their words and wisdom. They're looking forward to engaging with you, but of course you know how Pundit works -- play the ball, not the person.
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Welcome Spring Bok Visiting International Professors
Wang Xixin (February 4 - 28)
Professor Wang Xixin is a Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Peking University Law School, and the Deputy Director of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Research Center. Professor Wang is the founder and the Director of the Center for Public Participation Studies and Supports (CPPSS) of Peking University. He has been a very active participant in China's administrative law reforms for many years and was a major drafter of China's Administrative Procedure Act. Professor Wang's research fields cover administrative procedure, political reform, public participation, rulemaking, and comparative administrative law studies. He has published more than 30 papers in major law journals in both China and the United States. Wang's Bok mini-course (LAW-547) meets Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1:30; course description available below.
Joseph McCahery (March 11 - 22)
Joseph A. McCahery is Professor of International Economic Law and Professor of Financial Market Regulation at Tilburg University Faculty of Law. He is Program Director of the Finance and Law programs at Duisenberg School of Finance. McCahery is also co-director of the Amsterdam Center for Corporate Finance. He has served as a legal expert for the Centre for European Policy Studies, Monitoring Committee Corporate Governance, The Netherlands Ministry of Finance, OECD, and other governmental organizations. McCahery has made important contributions to the literature on banking and securities law, corporate law, corporate governance, the political economy of federalism, and taxation.
Fu Hualing (March 25 - April 12)
Fu Hualing is a Professor of the University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Law, where he served as the head of Hong Kong's Department of Law from 2008 to 2011. Professor Fu's research interests include constitutional law and human rights, with a special focus on the criminal justice system and media law in China. His recent publications have included National Security and Fundamental Freedoms: Hong Kong's Article 23 Under Scrutiny (co-edited with Carole Petersen and Simon Young) and The Struggle for Coherence: Constitutional Interpretation in Hong Kong (co-edited with Lison Harris and Simon Young). This spring, he will be co-teaching 'Chinese Law' with Professor deLisle; LAW-643 meets Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:00; course description available below.
Spotlight on Spring 2013 Courses
Bok Course: Administrative Law as a Vehicle for Political Reform in China (Wang)
Over the past few decades of legal reforms beginning in the late 1970s, administrative law has been one of the most dynamic areas in the context of law and regulatory reforms in People's Republic of China. This administrative law system is still emerging, but its impacts upon regulatory process, individual rights protection, and potential political reforms have already been manifest. This course will examine key topics reflected in administrative law reforms and discuss their economic, social, and political impacts. This short course meets for three weeks in February.
Chinese Law (deLisle/Fu)
This course focuses on key areas of Chinese law that are analogous to major areas of American law, including criminal law (and other means of social control), contracts (and other means for promoting and structuring economic relationships), property rights (and their relationship to economic change and their political consequences), torts (and torts' relationship to public safety and health-related regulation), constitutional and administrative law (and other issues of law and public accountability), and the role of courts (including in handling civil disputes). Throughout, political, economic and social contexts are emphasized. ** Significant portions of the course will be co-taught with Bok VIP Fu Hualing (University of Hong Kong).
Foreign Relations Law (Williams)
This course will examine the law governing the conduct of U.S. foreign relations. Structurally, the class will study the respective roles of the President, Congress, and the courts in conducting and regulating foreign affairs and intersections between the federal law of foreign affairs and domestic state law. Substantively, covered topics will include war powers, treaties, executive agreements, and customary international law in relation to U.S. law.
Global Antitrust (Yoo)
Modern antitrust law is becoming increasingly global. Cartels in one nation affect supply in others. Mergers between large corporations must typically get approval in both the United States and in Europe. Countries are increasingly entering into agreements about the enforcement of competition laws. Thus, businesspeople, lawyers, and lawmakers can no longer content themselves with understanding only the antitrust and competition law of their home country. This course will examine EC competition law cases and decisions within an analytical framework strongly based on economic theory. Topics include: horizontal restraints, monopolization, vertical restraints, proof of anticompetitive agreement, mergers, and international enforcement. Antitrust is a prerequisite.
Intellectual Property & National Economic Value Creation (Imasogie)
This course will explore the legal structure of intellectual property laws in the U.S. and select foreign countries and the effect of these laws on the countries' national economic development. In this process, the class will explore the nature of the correlation between different types of intellectual property laws and national economic development. The group will also discuss the quantification of the economic value of different types of intellectual property laws. Lastly, the class will engage in a discussion as to whether intellectual property laws can be effective tools for social engineering.
International Commercial Arbitration (Hosking/ Leathley/Suarez Anzorena)
This seminar is intended to introduce students to both the theoretical questions surrounding international arbitration and the hands-on issues of the practice of international arbitration. The professors are both practitioners who will draw on their US and international experience. The seminar begins with an introduction to the field, then proceeds to address a range of specific topics in international arbitration, such as arbitral jurisdiction, the Federal Arbitration Act, the arbitral process and hearing itself, the actors in international arbitrations, interactions between arbitral tribunals and national courts, and investor-state arbitration.
International Environmental Law (Chang)
This course will focus on the development of international law, institutions, and regimes that respond to international environmental problems. Topics will include transboundary air pollution, ozone depletion, climate change, whaling, and fisheries conservation. The course will begin with introductions to economic and ethical issues in environmental law, to the sources of public international law, and to the problem of making that law effective. The course will also examine how international trade law and institutions, including the World Trade Organization, affect efforts to protect the environment.
International Tax (Knoll/ Shuldiner)
This is a basic course on international taxation from a U.S. perspective. The course will cover both the U.S. taxation of U.S. persons engaged in international activities (outbound taxation) and the U.S. taxation of foreign persons engaged in U.S. activities (inbound taxation). The goals of the class are to provide an overview of the relevant law, to identify and wrestle with the types of international tax issues that frequently arise, and to become familiar with the underlying international tax policy issues that are being discussed today.
International Trade Regulation (Chang)
This course is a comprehensive introduction to the legal framework for U.S. and international regulation of international trade in goods. The course will include: a brief introduction to the economics of trade; an examination of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and related instruments; and an analysis of U.S. laws providing relief from unfairly traded imports, including the antidumping and countervailing duty laws, and of U.S. laws providing for other restrictions on imports, such as safeguards.
Islamic Finance (McMillen)
This course will explore contemporary Islamic finance from a transactional vantage with particular emphasis on structuring financial transactions and products. The class will survey a range of Islamic investment topics and Islamic banking topics. These will include leasing, partnerships, sales, sukuk (Islamic securitizations), equity investments and funds, private equity, home ownership financings, credit cards, automobile financings and personal financings. These will be considered from the vantage of the transactional structure and Shariah principles will be derived from these case study discussions.
Issues in Global Human Rights: Perspectives from the Left and the Right (Burke-White/Gadsden)
This seminar will explore key issues in international human rights from both the "left" and "right" of US politics and examine how liberals and conservatives develop agendas for addressing major human rights issues, the implications of partisan approaches for achieving progress in human rights, and how international human rights agendas are impacted by US political debates. Topics for discussion will include: humanitarian intervention, democratization, transparency and accountability in the international system, corporate responsibility and labor rights, trade and human rights, rule of law, and religious freedom.
Law and the Holocaust (Reicher)
This course draws together the fields of comparative law, constitutional law, criminal law and procedure, jurisprudence, conflicts of laws, international law, human rights and legal history, and then superimposes them on the history of the Holocaust to examine the Nazi philosophy of law emanating from egregious racial ideology, and how it was used to pervert Germany's legal system. Then, the focus of study will be upon the role of international law in rectifying the damage by bringing perpetrators to justice and constructing a legal system designed to prevent a repetition.
Public International Law (Burke-White)
This course provides a formal introduction to international law and emphasizes the relationships between law and politics in the behavior of states, institutions, and individuals in world politics. International law is both more relevant and more interesting today than ever before. This course examines how international law is created, how it operates, and what effect it has on issues in contemporary international relations. This is a 1L elective course.
Refugee Law (Chang-Muy)
This course will explore the origins of 'refuge' or 'asylum' including the myriad of human rights violations that force people to flee and seek protection, public policy issues such as US laws and regulations that govern asylum, and international agencies that are involved in the process of granting protection. The course will cover both international refugee law and state practice with reference to international treaties and customary international law. To better understand and see how theory is put into practice, students may be involved in interviewing asylum seekers. The course will conclude by looking at the international institutional response to refugee problems.
Transitional Justice (Sirleaf)
Transitional justice refers to a wide range of approaches that societies undertake to reckon with legacies of widespread or systematic human rights abuse as they move from a period of violent conflict or oppression towards peace, democracy, the rule of law, and respect for individual and collective rights. TJ focuses on at least five primary approaches to confronting the past, including: trials, truth-seeking mechanisms, reparations, reform of abusive institutions and memorialization. The seminar will explore the role of amnesty during transition, initiatives aimed at engendering reconciliation by examining traditional/religious mechanisms of dispute resolution as well as other approaches to addressing human rights violations.
Transnational Legal Clinic (Paoletti/Gansallo)
This clinic is designed to prepare students for practice in a globalized world, through hands on experience in immigration and international human rights legal advocacy. Students are vested with the primary responsibility in representing and working alongside individuals and organizational clients in cases and advocacy projects that cross cultures, languages and legal systems, while working under the close supervision of faculty with years of practice experience. Through a mix of seminar, simulations, live-client representation, case rounds and weekly team supervision sessions, students gain training and practice in fundamental lawyering competencies. **Special enrollment procedures apply.
Upcoming Deadlines
International Summer Human Rights Fellowship ISHRF): Deadline January 11
Applications for the International Summer Human Rights Fellowships (ISHRF) must be submitted via Simplicity by January 11. Up to 10 students will be selected for fellowships to support legal and policy work related to human rights and the rule of law. Additional details, timelines, and application forms can be found on the International Programs website.
Penn Law International Internship Program (PLIIP): Deadline January 11
Applications for the Penn Law International Internship Program (PLIIP) must be submitted via Simplicity by January 11. This year we expect to offer at least 15 internships in China, Japan, South Korea, India, France, Nigeria, Argentina, and England among other countries. Additional details, timelines, and internship descriptions can be found on the International Programs website.
Crowley Fellowship in International Human Rights: February 1
Opportunity for 3Ls. The Crowley Program in International Human Rights is dedicated to promoting human rights scholarship and advocacy at Fordham Law School and around the world. The fellowship is a 16-month position, totaling a commitment of three semesters. The fellowship begins in mid-August 2013. The Fellow's annual salary is $55,000 for the first year and $60,000 for the final semester, and includes benefits. Additional details.
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships-- Summer Fellowship Deadline: February 15, Academic Year Deadline: March 1FLAS Fellowship funding is available for law students engaged in language study whose research or career plans will require the use of the relevant language. Students receiving Academic Year Fellowships must be enrolled in full-time study for the duration of the FLAS award and must take one language course and one related area or international studies course each semester. Summer Fellowships are for intensive language programs either domestically or abroad and require specific minimum contact hours and durations for summer courses. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Application Information.
Highlights from Fall 2012 Events
The Ongoing Quest for Judicial Independence in Contemporary China (November 30)
Special talk given by Professor He Weifang, one of China's most prominent public intellectuals and China's leading voice on the importance of rule of law and prospects for consolidation of legal reform in the PRC. He Weifang is Professor of Law at Peking University Law School and a frequent commentator in various media outlets, including social media. In 2001, China Youth magazine named him one of the top 100 young people who might shape China in the 21st Century.
Evaluating Criminal Law: A Tool to Improve Democracy and Rationality in European Lawmaking? (November 27)
Lunchtime discussion with Marta Muñoz de Morales Romero, a Visiting Scholar who conducted her post-doctoral research at Penn Law this Fall on the potential of ex-post legislative evaluation as a technique able to promote rationality in European and national processes of legislative production in criminal matters. Her faculty sponsor, Professor Paul Robinson, served as moderator.
Cutler Rule of Law Fellows Program (November 16)
In November, Penn Law participated in the inaugural meeting of the Salzburg Global Seminar's Cutler Rule of Law Fellows Program in Washington, DC. This program brought students together with top academics and practitioners in the fields of private and public international law for an intensive one-day discussion of the most critical issues shaping today's international law agenda. Former State Department Legal Advisor John Bellinger and Yale Law Professor Michael Reisman offered the opening plenary remarks. Former South African Constitutional Court President and ICTY Prosecutor Richard Goldstone delivered the keynote address. The delegation from Penn Law included: Professor Burke-White, Associate Dean Amy Gadsden, Eric Lorber L'13, Shikha Bhattacharjee L'13, Lucy Seyfarth L'14, Francesco De Prospero L'14, and Audrey Banks L'14.
The Logic of Deterrence and the Changing Face of Warfare (November 16-17)
This conference sought to revive traditional discussions about the logic of deterrence, placing this topic in a contemporary setting. Is it permissible to threaten to do something it would not otherwise be permissible to do? Does precommitment to an otherwise impermissible course of action render it permissible, given that it is accompanied by advance warning? Does deterrence require public notice to constitute a legitimate public policy? The event was organized by the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) under the direction of Professor Claire Finkelstein.
3rd Annual Lloyd Cutler Lecture on the Rule of Law (November 12)
Hosted by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, guests enjoyed a stimulating conversation between Baroness Helena Kennedy and Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter. The conversation was moderated by Adam Liptak, the Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, and followed by a reception at the U.S. Supreme Court. The event was attended by three members of Penn Law's Jessup Moot Court team, Andreas Kuersten L'14, Andrea Gordon L'14, and Grant Darwin L'14.
Global Forum (November 7-11)
The 2012 Global Forum at Tsinghua University brought together faculty and students from Penn Law, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Tsinghua University (Beijing), Sciences-Po (Paris) and Waseda University (Tokyo) for an intensive four-day program examining a broad array of constitutional issues from a comparative perspective. The four Penn Law student participants were Evie Hightower L'13, James Hobbs L'14, Daniel Martin L'14, and Peter Morcos GL'13. Information on faculty participants is listed in the faculty travel section below.
JIL Symposium: Mass Tort Litigation in a Shrinking World (November 2)
Inspired by the complex legal issues raised by decades of litigation over oil prospecting in Ecuador and the disputed $18 billion judgment against Chevron in Ecuador, this symposium discussed the future of international mass tort litigation in light of changing views in the U.S. and abroad on where and when corporate defendants should be vulnerable to suit. Organized by the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, in association with the International Human Rights Advocates and the International Law Organization.
International Law Weekend (October 25-27)
Penn Law was one of the sponsors for this 3-day series of panels at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham. President Ted Meron of the ICTY served as keynote speaker. Panels included: China and international law (with blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng); a two part presentation on international investment arbitration (with World Bank ICSID secretary general Meg Kinnear); and a panel on how to conduct a corporate compliance investigation when faced with local corruption (led by SDNY U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White).
The Future of Chinese Administrative Law (October 24)
This significant symposium, organized by Professor deLisle together with UPenn Visiting Scholar Neysun Mahboubi, took stock of the development of Chinese administrative law over the past thirty years, and explored possibilities for reform today. The conference addressed topics such as agency decision-making procedures, approaches to regulation, and external oversight in Chinese administrative law and practice. Presenters included top Chinese administrative law scholars specially invited to the U.S. by the American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. Commentary was offered by distinguished scholars of administrative law and Chinese law.
Talk with the Deputy Director of International Law at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (October 22)
Talk with Sarah Weiss Ma'udi C'97 on the international legal challenges facing Israel. Her primary areas of practice include maritime law, water law, international borders, international law relating to natural gas and oil, the recognition of states (including the question of Palestinian statehood), Israeli domestic sanctions policies regarding Iran, and Israeli policies vis-à-vis its neighbors (Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinians).
Habeas Petitions for Enemy Combatants in Guantanamo (October 18)
Talk given by Joseph K. Hetrick, who has represented several individuals imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay in federal habeas corpus petitions. Deemed "enemy combatants," a term with no legal meaning, these individuals were subject to the possibility of indefinite imprisonment, unlawful interrogation techniques, and torture. Hetrick discussed the legal responsibilities that accompany bringing federal habeas petitions as well as his personal insight from the front lines.
The Cross-Cultural CEO: Growing a Business in a World Without Borders (October 18)
Law and Entrepreneurship Lecture with David Perla (C'91, L'94) Co-Chief Executive Officer of Pangea3 LLC, the #1 ranked legal process outsourcing provider world-wide with more than 1,000 employees globally, most notably in India and the United States.
Human Rights Advocacy in Haiti: A Discussion with Reed Smith's Pro Bono Counsel (October 17)
The Penn Law Immigrant Rights Project hosted attorneys Jayne Fleming and Chris Walters, who gave an overview of Reed Smith's human rights practice and discussed legal solutions to violence against women in Haiti. Following their remarks, the audience engaged in a question-and-answer session.
Workshop on Working with Survivors of Trauma (October 17)
Miriam H. Marton is a William R. Davis Clinical Teaching Fellow for the Asylum and Human Rights Clinic at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Professor Marton has spent a significant amount of time representing asylum applicants as part of the pro bono program at the New York offices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Prior to going to law school, Ms. Marton was a social worker for fourteen years, specializing in working with survivors of trauma.
Cyberwarfare and the Rule of Law (October 15)
This day-long conference brought together leading authorities in the law, technology, and military to address the ethical and legal issues surrounding cyberwarfare. Participants considered such questions as whether the laws of armed conflict and the tenets of the U.N. Charter apply to cyberspace just as they do to traditional warfare, and whether the problems of cyber-warfare require new treaties and legal definitions. The event was organized by the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) under the direction of Professor Claire Finkelstein.
Brazilian Economic and Legal Environment: Basic Aspects for Investors and Lawyers Doing Business in Brazil (October 9)
Talk given by Adriano Dib GL'05 (Vice-president of the Penn Law Brazil Alumni Club) and moderated by Professor Chuck Mooney. Dib is a Professor of Corporate Law at FAAP as well as a corporate, private international lawyer in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This talk was given as part of his 2-day visit to Penn Law, leading a delegation of eight Brazilian law students. Sponsored by the Latin American Law Students Association (LALSA)
Multinational Perspective for Establishing the Rule of Law (October 2)
The Eastern European Law Student Association (EELSA) hosted Judge Bohdan Futey at their inaugural event as a new student group. Futey discussed his role in drafting the Ukrainian Constitution, involvement in Eastern European Rule of Law programs, perspectives on clerking, and the unique jurisdiction of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C.
Student News and Recognition
Joshua Roberts L'15 and Andrea Gordon L'14 will be competing on behalf of Penn Law in the Jessup International Law Moot Court regional competition held in February 2013. The Jessup Moot Court is a prestigious competition that attracts law students from over 500 law schools in more than 80 countries.
The U.S. Department of State has invited Engy Abdelkader GL'13 to participate on a December panel focusing on gender rights and religious freedom. This invitation also includes a holiday reception at the White House.
Shikha Bhattacharjee L'13 attended the Conectas International Human Rights Colloquium in Sao Paulo, Brazil from October 13-20. This annual conference, attended by human rights defenders, academics and experts from Africa, Asia and Latin America, addressed "Innovation in Human Rights: Rethinking Agendas and Strategies in the Global South." Shikha attended as a representative of Swayam, a Kolkata based organization committed to ending violence against women, where she spent her 1L summer as a Penn Law International Summer Human Rights Fellow.
Kaleena Laputka will represent Penn Law at the 4th Annual Womensphere Emerging Leaders Global Summit 2013 taking place in New York City on January 16-18, 2013. This is the country's premier conference convening the next generation of women leaders. Participants include women from leading universities and graduate schools, emerging women leaders from companies, 50 mentors, and 100 speakers who are leaders in their fields.
Penn Law Faculty Travel
In December, David Abrams traveled to Argentina to serve as a Visiting Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Universidad Torcuato di Tella.
In December, Anita Allen traveled to Israel, where she taught a course on the American Constitutional Right to Privacy at Tel Aviv University.
This Fall, extensive travel by William Burke-White has included: the Hague Institute for Global Justice's Conference on Global Governance of Biosecurity Threats (October), a Lecture on International Law and International Relations at Free University of Berlin (October), a German Marshall Fund Talk in Paris on Foreign Policy After the US Election (October), the Global Forum on Constitutional Law at Tsinghua (November), and European Think Tank Forum in Rome organized by the Penn Think Tank and Civil Societies Program (November).
In September, Howard Chang presented a paper, "Endogenous Decentralization in Federal Environmental Policies" (co-authored with Hilary Sigman & Leah Traub), at the annual meeting of the Canadian Law and Economics Association at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. In January, he will present the same paper at a Faculty of Law workshop at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada.
In August, Cary Coglianese traveled to Seoul, where he gave the keynote address at a session organized by the Korean Legislation Research Institute.
In November, Jacques deLisle met the Penn Law delegation in Beijing where he participated in the 2012 Global Forum on Constitutional Law at Tsinghua. In December, deLisle traveled to Salzburg, where he was a core faculty member for the Salzburg Global Seminar, "China in the 21st Century: What Kind of World Power?"
In November, Douglas Frenkel traveled to Mexico City, where he served as the keynote speaker at the opening of the CIDE University Center for the Study of Conflict Resolution. Jorge Rosas, an LLM alum who had taken Frenkel's mediation course, was instrumental in initiating the program. While in Mexico, he also conducted a seminar for 16 CIDE faculty from several disciplines whose work will be part of the new center.
In October, Jonathan Klick visited the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. On the same trip, he gave a keynote address on "The Promise and the Limits of Empirical Legal Studies" at the Max Planck Research School's workshop on Policy Implications of Law and Behavior, held at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Professor Klick is teaching empirical law and economics at Bar-Ilan in December, during which time he will give talks at Bar-Ilan and University of Haifa.
In December, Charles Mooney is observing at a meeting of the Netherlands Association of Civil Law which will include a presentation and discussion of a project to harmonize substantive insolvency law in Europe.
In September, Stephen Morse gave the keynote address on the relation of neuroscience and law at the first annual meeting of the European Association of Neuroscience and Law in The Hague. Later in October, Morse gave the keynote address on the theoretical, practical and ethical foundations of forensic psychiatry at the annual meeting of the Taiwanese Society of Psychiatry in Tainan, Taiwan. While in Taiwan, he also gave presentations on law and neuroscience in the Medical College and Law Colleges of the National Taiwan University in Taipei.
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Daycare story should be told
I was very upset to read the October 23 letter by Mark and Michelle Conner, "Stop bullying Bright Beginnings."
The Hook has done its journalistic job of keeping our community informed of happenings.
After reading the incidents happening in and around our community in child care, I realize I am fortunate to be able to stay home with my two children.
I am sure Michelle Morris is a "very kind and dedicated" woman. But the fact remains, she has a record. In my opinion– and the licensing agents', too– she is not fit to work around children.
An "assault and battery" means physical contact has been made. Evidently Morris was not able to conduct herself properly in a stressful situation. How stressful is a job working with children everyday? Is this who we want around our children?
Do the Connors condone this woman and her personal behavior? Sounds to me as if Morris is the bully– not The Hook.
Thank you, Hook. Keep up the good work. I am sure I am among many mothers who appreciate your unveiling of a very serious situation.
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text: Osaka, Japan, October 30, 2010 – Defending champions Russia stormed to a four-set (25-27, 25-22, 25-11, 25-17) victory over Turkey, bouncing back after losing the opening set at Osaka Municipal City Gymnasium.It was the second day in a row that Russia (2-0) had rallied to win after they beat the Dominican Republic in four sets on Friday in the same fashion. The loss left Turkey's FIVB Women's World Championship Pool D record at 1-1.FIVB Women's World Championship Japan 2010 official pageEkaterina Gamova was particularly impressive for Russia, displaying both power and finesse in her all-around game as she led the scoring with 25 points (21 on attack). Tatiana Kosheleva added 17 points. Neslihan Darnel was the top scorer for Turkey with 25 (20 on attack) but her team's hopes were undermined by their 24 errors to Russia's 17.Russia's Evgeniya Startseva made a spectacular save in the opening minutes of the match, diving underneath the net and hitting the ball back over to one of her teammates to keep it in play. There were several excellent rallies and Russia led 16-10 entering the Second Technical Timeout (STT). Turkey took a timeout when trailing 23-17 and responded with eight of the next nine points to move ahead 25-24. The Russians had begun substituting players when in front but Vladimir Kuzyutkin was now forced to backtrack and bring in his top guns as Turkey came back. A serve into the net evened the score at 25-25, but Turkey retook the lead at 26-25 with an impressive block at the net and closed out the set on a spike from Seda Tokatlioglu. Darnel was the Turks' standout player with 10 points in the first set (eight on attack). The second set was close throughout, with Russia leading 16-14 at the STT. They moved within two points of victory at 23-21, and although Turkey scored to cut the deficit to a single point, they wrapped up the set 25-23. Kuzyutkin's charges were in control for most of the third set, taking a 16-8 advantage into the STT as Turkey developed problems with their passing. Gamova ended the set with a vicious spike and her team's domination continued in the final set – they were up 16-9 at the STT and did not relinquish their control. Russia will next play Canada on Sunday, while Mehmet Bedestenlioglu's Turkey take on the Dominican Republic.


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Minnesota regulators have documented several incidents of sexual contact involving troubled and mentally ill children and teens at the St. Cloud Children's Home, and have cited the facility for lax supervision.
In findings issued late last month, the state Department of Human Services fined the home $5,000 and placed its license on conditional status for two years after investigating eight allegations of sexual contact that occurred between January and June 2011.
The home was blamed in six of the allegations — in some cases for poor supervision of the children and teens, and in others because the home failed to conduct required assessments of the children for their risk of committing sexual offenses.
In one incident, a 17-year-old reportedly forced a 15-year-old to perform oral sex while a staff worker was just down the hall, trying to bond with other teen residents over a game of Guitar Hero. The victim in that case had a history of being physically and sexually abused.
While the home, operated by Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St. Cloud, has made improvements, a penalty was warranted due to the breakdowns in supervision that allowed the incidents to occur, said Jerry Kerber, inspector general for the department.
"That lack of supervision, from our perspective, is what really contributed to some of the incidents, including some sexually exploitive behaviors," Kerber said on Wednesday.
No similar case like this has occurred in at least five years, he added.
Catholic Charities agreed to the fines and findings that the home was responsible for maltreatment. But it appealed the conditional license on Friday on the grounds that it has carried out many of the state's requested improvements.
Steve Bresnahan, Catholic Charities' executive director, also contested that the home failed to screen for sexual risks or develop safety plans for teens who did pose risks.
The conditional license does not change operations of the home, which shelters 62 children or teens in six "cottages," but it does require regular reporting to the state to ensure compliance with safety standards.
Some of the children and teens were placed in the home because of their lack of impulse control and sexual aggressiveness. Most suffer from some combination of anxiety, depression, hyperactivity, mood disorders or disruptive behavior disorders.
"By the time they've gotten [here], these are kids with a tremendous amount of issues," Bresnahan said. "They don't have good decisionmaking skills, so these are the kinds of things that do happen.
"I really want to be careful not to blame the kids," he added, "We should have been in the right places and doing the right things so that they didn't happen."
Bresnahan said supervision is challenging because of the multiple levels of the 90-year-old home, a former orphanage. Staffing has been increased and security cameras have been added since the incidents occurred, he said. "When any two kids are on a floor, there will always be a single staff person" on that floor, he said.
While genders weren't disclosed in the state reports, Kerber said that some of the incidents involved boys and girls and that the home is reducing the number of coed cottages as a result.
The state reports show teens going to great lengths to fool staff workers — manipulating the door alarm systems or seizing on crises when staff were distracted — to engage in sexual activity.
One of the incidents, for which the home wasn't faulted, involved a 9-year-old touching an 11-year-old's genital area in a swimming pool with staff workers 15 feet away. Another involved teens under a blanket in view of staff workers on a pontoon boat.
The home has retrained staff on supervision requirements, including the need to keep bedroom doors open and to prevent teens from sharing blankets.


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Santiago's most charming neighbourhood of Bellavista lies between the Mapocho River and Cerro San Cristóbal. The bohemian character of this 'barrio' is reflected in the many art galleries, colourful houses and laid-back bistros. At night, the area comes alive with restaurants, clubs and bars.
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New York's 'Club Kid Killer' Michael Alig released from prison
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(Reuters) - An infamous former Manhattan party promoter, dubbed the 'Club Kid Killer' by tabloid newspapers for the 1996 death of a downtown partygoer, has been released from prison after serving 17 years, corrections officials said.
Michael Alig, 48, was a popular fixture in the '90s club scene in New York and gained notoriety for the killing of Andre "Angel" Melendez, whose body was chopped up and tossed into the Hudson River.
Alig and his friend Robert Riggs pleaded guilty to manslaughter in State Supreme Court in Manhattan in 1997. Alig was sentenced to ten to 20 years in prison.
Riggs told police that he knocked Melendez unconscious with a hammer and gave Alig 10 bags of heroin to chop up the body. He told police Alig and Melendez were fighting over a drug debt.
Melendez, known for wearing a costume of feathered wings, was a well-known figure in the downtown party scene.
Alig's infamy was revived in 2003 when he was portrayed by actor Macaulay Culkin in the biographical crime drama "Party Monster."
Following his release from the medium security Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, New York, on Monday, Alig tweeted a photo of himself with the caption, "Happy to be free and so grateful for this second chance."
"W/ all these cams following now I know what @KimKardashian feels like!" he tweeted.
Alig will remain on parole until November 2016, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said.
Riggs was released from prison in 2010.


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INDIANAPOLIS — When the topic is NASCAR traditions at storied Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the conversations start with kissing the bricks — the winner's smooch that Dale Jarrett started in 1996.
There's a less celebrated ceremony before that, though, that might be more symbolic of the track's significance and stature on the Sprint Cup schedule.
Shortly after the checkered flag, the victor jumps into the back of a Corvette convertible for a lap around the mammoth 2.5-mile layout.
It serves as a way to salute fans in the grandstands, but it also could be viewed as the first sneak preview of the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
As a championship barometer, the Brickyard might serve as the best indicator in NASCAR.
"It's time to get into Chase form, and this is where it all starts," said Kevin Harvick, who will start from the pole position in today's 21st running of the Brickyard 400.
"When you come here, you feel like you're racing against everybody's latest and greatest stuff. I'm ready. They're ready. We're ready to go."
Harvick's No. 4 Chevrolet has been the class of Sprint Cup for much of the season. If he triumphs at Indianapolis for the second time Sunday — he won from the pole here in 2003 — it will validate the conventional wisdom that he is a prime contender to capture the revamped Chase (which will feature elimination rounds and a winner-take-all finale for the first time).
Eight of the 20 Brickyard winners also went on to be crowned season champions.
It's happened three times to Jimmie Johnson, who probably would have won last year's race (which he led for a race-high 73 laps before a slow final pit stop cost him) en route to his sixth title in NASCAR's premier series.
"This track is so challenging that the best teams have a chance to stand out, the best drivers, Johnson said.
What makes Indianapolis' fabled race course (which dates to 1909) such a rigorous test of man and machine?
--Its flat and rectangular layout, which was built for the open-wheel cars of the Verizon IndyCar Series, might be the most technically challenging in Sprint Cup. There is little margin for error on a tricky track with sharp corners requiring precision execution.
--Two long straightaways demand maximum horsepower.
--The lack of banking limits passing opportunities, putting the onus on crew chiefs to craft an optimum strategy that doesn't mire a driver in traffic.
In addition to the prestige of winning Indianapolis, those factors make teams put a heavier emphasis on preparing for this race, which generally is regarded as the second biggest in Cup after the Daytona 500.
PIT PASS LIVE: Breaking down the 2014 Brickyard 400
IndyStar's Curt Cavin talks with Indianapolis Motor Speedway boss Doug Boles and USA TODAY Sports' Nate Ryan about Sunday's Brickyard 400. Indianapolis Star
With the season's final off-week preceding Indianapolis kicking off a stretch of 17 consecutive races to Homestead-Miami Speedway, teams often use this race to roll out next-generation chassis and engines with the latest enhancements and innovations gleaned from the first half of the season.
The most recent test of horsepower and handling on a track similar to Indy was last month at Michigan International Speedway, where Hendrick Motorsports was the dominant force.
Six of the top eight finishers at Michigan were using engines supplied by Hendrick, which capped a five-race winning streak with a win by Johnson.
Harvick, whose Stewart-Haas Racing team has a technical alliance with Hendrick that includes buying chassis and engines, seemed unworried about whether the edge would be maintained Sunday.
"The engines are so good that we don't even think about them," he said. "We don't even pay attention to where we are because 99% of the time you're going to be where you need to be down the straightaway. I feel good about it."
So does Jeff Gordon, who will start second in trying to become the first five-time winner at the Brickyard (his teammate Johnson is the only other four-time winner in NASCAR here). The four-time champion, who won the Brickyard in his 1998 and 2001 title campaigns but hasn't captured it since '04, said it marked "the best chance that we've had at winning this race legitimately in a very, very long time."
Gordon's No. 24 Chevy leads the points standings in a season mostly dominated by his Hendrick team and Team Penske.
Hendrick, SHR and Penske's formidable duo of Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano have combined to win 14 of 19 races, and their edge could grow Sunday.
"You could argue that we've opened up the gap because we brought our best stuff (to Indy)," Gordon said. "We certainly look at all the Hendrick cars and the Stewart‑Haas cars and just how good they've been, and then Penske is the team to beat outside of what we have.
"I'm pretty sure all those groups have their best stuff here, and I wouldn't be surprised if you just keep going on down the list that everybody has brought their best stuff."
There were signs in Saturday's qualifying session that other organizations finally might be gaining. After the top three of Harvick, Gordon and Keselowski, winless drivers Ryan Newman (Richard Childress Racing) and Brian Vickers (Michael Waltrip Racing) rounded out the top five. Newman scored his lone 2013 victory at Indianapolis while driving for Stewart-Haas Racing.
Joe Gibbs Racing's Matt Kenseth, who led the series with seven wins last year but is winless in 2014, also has been strong in practice.
"You never know what somebody else has in their hand, much like a game of poker," Keselowski said. "We think that we have the two strongest hands with Penske and Hendrick, and certainly that's been the case to this date in the season, but you just don't know what's out there.
"I find it hard to believe that Gibbs is going to go a whole year without having a dominant car. That's not like them. So I'm sure they're going to catch on as the season progresses and add to that maybe an MWR or an RCR (car). We're a long ways from over."
Harvick certainly will rank as a favorite to deliver a 12th consecutive win at Indy for Chevy. In nine career starts from the pole, he has four victories (most recently at Darlington three months ago) and two runner-up finishes (at Kansas Speedway in May and Michigan last month).
But he often has been hampered this year by his pit crew, which has endured slow stops and tactical errors that have neutralized strong cars.
"The pit crew has been working hard, and I feel like that's kind of the last thing we have to overcome to put ourselves in 100% championship form," he said.
Few would argue that, if his team is flawless in the pits for a win Sunday.
"This is a track that demands the best teams, the best cars because track position is so important, and it's so hard to pass," Gordon said. "The pit crew becomes crucial. The pit strategy becomes crucial, and the speed of the car becomes crucial.
"The best team is going to pretty much win this race, which means that they're probably going to be the one to beat for the championship."
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The preseason ended mercifully on Friday and the question is obvious: What kind of team are the Magic going to be?
If they play defense like they did in a loss Friday night to the Houston Rockets, they will be awful. High-lottery pick awful.
They couldn't stop a Zamboni if it was breaking away. "I think our most glaring weakness that we showed was transition defense," coach Jacque Vaughn said.
It has been that way the entire preseason. The Magic are going to have to dig down and play team defense, because Dwight Howard isn't coming through that door to cover mistakes anymore.
They better buckle down early. Offense for a new team can take some time, especially if one piece (Arron Afflalo) is slow to join the effort in practice. Having recovered from a sore hamstring, Afflalo played just his second game this preseason and was pedestrian.
Offensively, you figure that point guard Jameer Nelson has to produce points and will be the closer until Afflalo gets into the flow.
Expect the Magic to ride Big Baby Davis early and often inside, particularly if jump-shots aren't finding the range. That said, they need to attack the basket more and get to the line.
Hedo Turkoglu really has to step up and make plays. J.J. Redick will lead the bench effort.
Let's face it: With Dwight, they basically knew what they were the past eight seasons. They were dunks or three-point shots, sometimes both, a devastating combination at times.
Without Dwight, the Magic can't relax on the defensive end for a minute and must get back. Without Dwight, there are fewer easy baskets, and the offense will be more outside-in than inside-out.
"We need to go out and run a little," Nelson said. "We have to be a good defensive team. We don't have that shot-blocker anymore, but we can still make people take tough shots. (Offensively), it's going to vary.
"We don't have that giuy who can get 30. We two or three guys who can score 20."
And don't forget the loss of Ryan Anderson, who could change momentum with a 3-pointer, something Davis will not be able to do.
It looks to me that the Magic could be like a car on a winter morning, hard to start, needing to warm up. They might be in for a rough beginning until they find their footing. And their identity.
"We just need to play hard, extremely hard. It's a new team, with a new identity. We have to establish who we are. It takes time. We have to find out how we play the game," Davis said. "What is our bread and butter. What do we need to focus on? That's just point blank.
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SAN DIEGO – Chapman University, a private university in Orange, Calif., violated federal law when it denied tenure to and then discharged a black professor due to her race, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
The university hired the professor in 2001 as an assistant professor of marketing for the George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics (ASBE). Despite strong recommendations in her favor by professional peers both inside and outside of Chapman University, a review committee denied the professor's application for tenure and promotion to the position of associate professor in October 2006. Chapman's board of trustees ultimately denied her tenure appeal and effectively discharged her in June 2008. The EEOC contends that non-black professors were promoted despite the alleged victim's superior record in teaching, scholarship and/or service to the university and her profession. At the time of her application for tenure, the alleged victim was the sole black faculty member in a department of approximately 30.
The EEOC filed its suit against Chapman University in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Southern Division (EEOC v. Chapman University and the Board of Trustees of Chapman University, Case No. SACV10-1419-CJC ( RNBx)), after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement. According to the EEOC, the alleged acts of discrimination violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages, back pay and front pay on behalf of the alleged victim, along with injunctive relief intended to prevent future race discrimination at the university.
"Although this country has made great strides in addressing race discrimination, racial barriers still persist," said Anna Y. Park, regional attorney for the EEOC's Los Angeles District Office. "Denying upward mobility to qualified minorities while promoting less qualified non-minorities exacerbates the glass ceiling that continues to ail the American workplace."
Marla Stern, local director of the EEOC's San Diego Local Office, said, "Situations like this, with apparent favoritism for less qualified non-blacks over well-qualified African-Americans, are not only unfair to the direct victims, they are counter-productive to the organization and help perpetuate injustice in our country. The EEOC will continue to fight such damaging discrimination."
Founded in 1861, Chapman University is a private, non-profit university with programs in seven schools and colleges, and an enrollment of approximately 6,000 undergraduate, graduate and law students.
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As part of Operation Lifesaver, the Independence Police Traffic Safety Unit conducted a Hazardous Moving Violation enforcement operation today along with the Union Pacific Police Department to enforce railroad crossing signal violations at railroad crossings in Independence.
The project was staffed by 10 Independence Police Officers and 2 Union Pacific Special Agents. The project was operated from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM with the following arrests and citations:
46 Railroad Crossing Violations
3 Other moving violations
6 No Proof of Insurance
2 Vehicle License Violations
2 Seat Belt Violations
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It's always eye-opening to see the men and women behind famous works of art. And yet, while Picasso, Dali, Matisse and perhaps a handful of other "art superstars" are recognized around the world, countless other painters and sculptors of note — including some of the finest, most influential artists of the past century — are, in a sense, invisible. Their works endure; but their look — their faces, the way they held themselves — is often an utter blank in the mind of the casual art enthusiast.
Here, LIFE.com presents a series of portraits of the artists who re-imagined and redefined the way we see the world. Pollock is here, and Picasso, along with Georgia O'Keeffe and even Renoir. But can art aficionados actually identify a photograph of, say, Claes Oldenburg? Jasper Johns? Barbara Hepworth? Giorgio de Chirico?
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What's wonderful about the pictures here, including those (like the deeply shadowed silhouettes of Hopper and O'Keeffe) in which we perceive a powerful sense of the full figure, rather than discrete details, is that each photo reveals something uniquely essential about the artist. One would be hard-pressed to find two more dissimilar portraits than those of Arshile Gorky and Robert Rauschenberg; but each of those captures an aspect of the artist's personality and sensibility (Gorky's moody intensity; Rauschenberg's exuberance) that, in a heartbeat, helps us see something — even if it's only a glimpse — of the human being behind the art.


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I moved around a lot during the 15,000 shell show. I don't have an exact shell count for this year (I would if I were getting paid), but 15k has got to be in the ballpark
The ballpark is also at Warner
Many of these shots were taken near or leaning over a safety fence
They set the fireworks off on an island across from the park shelter
I'm not happy unless I feel hot ash on my face
That's hot ash, James
Remember, there's no zoom to speak of on my over taxed point and shoot
Just the lens it came with, which was not known for its zoom...let's unplug it from the charger
It says 7.2 - 2.8 mm 1:2.0 - 3.0 (riveting color commentary, isn't it)
I think that means if you want a photo of Jermaine Dye in the visitor's dugout at Miller Park, you're schlepping past crunchy old farts, season ticket holders, and incommodious FIBs to get the shot
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Hey, a quick note of interest about Tecra A10's.
Optical Drive: If you have it set as AHCI (SATA) in BIOS, you can avoid the xfer mode error messages by starting the drive with a CD or DVD in it. This is the only way I have found that is easy, I had tried another updated custom kernel and had success in changing this while breaking other things.
Graphics: Dual screen (non cloned) does not work with Graphics Acceleration. I cannot get it to work with 2 screens and different resolutions, only a cloned display. Trying to set a "Virtual" line in xorg.conf with acceleration enabled will cause X not to start and it complains about how it cannot allocate memory for the front buffer.
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Liverpool, England, has been the site of many pottery and porcelain factories since the eighteenth century. Color-decorated porcelains, transfer-printed earthenware, stoneware, basalt, figurines, and other wares were made. Sadler and Green made print-decorated wares from 1756. Herculanum Pottery made earthenware and porcelain in Liverpool from 1794 to 1841. Many of the pieces were made for the American market and feature patriotic emblems, such as eagles, flags, and other special-interest motifs. Liverpool pitchers are always called Liverpool jugs by collectors.
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BATON ROUGE, La. — Prairie View A&M coach Waskyla Cullivan has spent four seasons trying to return the program to the level of success it experienced under his predecessor and former boss, Michael Robertson.
Mission accomplished.
The Panthers are back on top of the Southwestern Athletic Conference and headed to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2007 after beating Mississippi Valley State 7-4 in Sunday's league championship at Lee-Hines Field.
Cullivan earned his first SWAC championship as a head coach after having won back-to-back conference titles in 2006-07 while serving as an assistant under Robertson, who left after the 2008 season to take the head coaching job at Texas Southern.
Prairie View failed to qualify for the SWAC tournament during Cullivan's first two seasons at the helm before things began to turn around in 2011. The Panthers finished the 2012 regular season as runner-up in the SWAC Western Division and went 4-1 at the league tournament to earn a long-awaited return trip to the NCAA Tournament.
"I'm just excited to bring home another championship to Prairie View A&M University," Cullivan said. "The goal from day one was to come out and win the SWAC tournament."
Prairie View (28-23) jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the third inning against Mississippi Valley State and never trailed.
Pitching on three days' rest, Panthers ace Derrick Mitchell stymied the Delta Devils for much of the afternoon, allowing one run on five hits over 5 1/3 innings. He left with Prairie View ahead 3-1 and the bases loaded with one out in the sixth, but closer Daniel Castillo got the next batter, Luke Brumfield, to ground into an inning-ending double play.
The Delta Devils, who were the Eastern Division's No. 4 seed, out-hit the Panthers 12-8 but stranded 14 base runners and committed three errors, including two that helped Prairie View score three runs in the eighth to move ahead 7-1.
Mississippi Valley State (17-39) made things interesting by scoring three runs off Castillo in the bottom of the eighth to pull within three runs, but he retired the side in the ninth to seal the victory and initiate the celebration.
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Philip Pickett • Biography
Musical Director and founder of the world-renowned ensembles New London Consort and Musicians of the Globe, Philip Pickett is considered one of today's most eminent advocates of period performance. For the past 10 years or so he has also embarked on a flourishing new career as guest conductor, leading modern symphony and chamber orchestras as well as opera companies in Classical, Romantic and Baroque repertoires.
Philip Pickett began his musical career as a trumpeter before becoming one of Britain's leading recorder players, performing and recording as soloist with many leading UK and European ensembles.
As guest conductor Philip Pickett has appeared in the past seasons with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica de Navarra, Orquesta de Granada, Orchestre de Bretagne, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Macau Orchestra and Mexico City Philharmonic. In 2004 he conducted a new production of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo at Lyon National Opera and in 2009 he conducted a new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni at Mexico National Opera.
Recent guest conducting engagements have included concerts with the Orquesta de Granada and Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi in Spain, as well as debuts with the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, Orchestre de Picardie and Orchestre d'Auvergne - three orchestras which have reinvited him in 2011/12 and 2012/13. Other forthcoming guest conducting projects include concerts with the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta de Granada, Het Brabants Orkest, Oulu Sinfonia, Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, and Monte-Carlo Philharmonic.
Artists of London's Southbank between 1996-2005, Philip Pickett and the New London Consort have performed in some of the most prestigious concert halls in the world, including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Lingotto Turin, Palau de la Musica Barcelona, Royal Festival Hall London and Lincoln Center New York. In November 2003 Philip Pickett conducted the New London Consort's acclaimed Jonathan Miller production of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo at London's Southbank, with later revivals at major arts festivals in England, Norway and China and at the Cité de la Musique in Paris. A world-wide tour of the production in 2007 marked the 400th anniversary of the first performance of L'Orfeo. Throughout 2011 and 2012 Philip Pickett and the New London Consort presented a new and controversial version of Purcell's The Fairy Queen staged by brilliant Mexican director Mauricio García Lozano on tour in major concert halls world-wide, with more revivals planned in Turkey and Mexico in 2013. In 2012, 2013 and 2014 Philip Pickett will also be conducting the New London Consort in performances of Purcell's King Arthur, Handel's Acis & Galatea, Eccles/Weldon's The Judgement of Paris, and Locke/Purcell The Tempest on tour in Europe.
Philip Pickett and the New London Consort recorded exclusively for Decca for 15 years, making more than 40 CDs including Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and 1610 Vespers, Bach's Brandenburg Concerti, Orchestral Suites and Christmas Oratorio, Blow's Venus & Adonis, Telemann's Water Music and Vivaldi's Gloria.
As well as regularly touring world-wide, Philip Pickett and the Musicians of the Globe have recorded a series of CDs of English theatre music for Philips Classics including Purcell's Timon of Athens, excerpts from Dido & Aeneas and The Fairy Queen, and Henry Rowley Bishop's music for the Covent Garden Shakespeare revivals around 1820.
From 1996-2003 Philip Pickett was artistic director of London's Southbank Centre annual Early Music Festival. In 1995 he was appointed Director of Early Music at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. In May 2010 Philip Pickett and his Ensembles were appointed Associate Artists of Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.


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Having said that let me first tell you a few things about preference. Taking this word at face value it simply means things we prefer that are no necessarily important to other people.It will be helpful for us to know that each person has their unique preference DNA. That is we all like different things for different reasons that are only beneficial to ourselves. And that your preferences might be your rules to live by and not mine.
The people we are married to, have things they just prefer to other things and the same goes for us. This side of us is usually suppressed during our courting days simply because during this time we are not too sure as to how far we can go about revealing our true selves for fear of rejection and criticism. We also see this when we meet with strangers. I have done so many unbelievable things in the presence of outsiders that my wife would not believe that I was able to go that far. We go on and eat calamari simply to impress someone and that does not mean that I would prefer calamari to steak. Personally I don't like black tie invites because I am a very casual kind of a person, however I go there if I really have to go. Otherwise I will stay away from any occasion simply because I don't like wearing formal suits and ties, and the fact that other husbands wear suits and ties even when they go to bed has absolutely nothing to do with me, with due respect of course.
Joyce and I used to do a lot of marital counselling and we would be surprised by the number of couples who were ready to kill each other over the colour of the curtains in the lounge or whether the man should wear trousers with turn ups or not. To the singles I must say that some of the things you can't live with now during your courtship will change and new ones may come in their place in the future. It's that bad, believe me. have you ever come across a couple whether single or married, that looked like they were dressed for a carnival; guy fox; or a circus and yet they were the happiest at the function. But then there was this well dressed unhappy man whose wife chose the clothes for him. So the best is make sure that you like what you are settling for now; like the person with all your heart and leave the rest to the future because more is still coming. I truly hope that I'm not frightening the singles. And if you have forced him to do a German cut ask him if he's happy, and if he's not let him have the French cut and like him that way. This tip should be applicable vice-versa.
Also let me mention that preferences come and go with stages in life. When I met Joyce in 1980 back then we had two fashion cultures: the Hippies era was just overlapping the Ivy's era. If you don't know what I'm talking about don't worry much. So back then we wore tight pants with front pocket. They had to be scotch or striped for you to have that original look. We did afro hair with big collared tight shirts and finished each sentence with "man!"| regardless of who you were talking to. Looking at myself back in the 80's and today I'm almost tempted to believe in evolution because so much has changed. Now imagine if Joyce was not married to me as a person but to me the ivy or the hippie. It would all be gone now.
Another thing is that when Joyce and I met we both had friends that we had before we knew each other, and our understanding was that they were not "our" friends but hers and mine separately. We agreed to drop them and start our lives from scratch. There is absolutely no need to try to "donate" your friends to your fiance or spouse.These were people we had in our pre-relationship era, that were not going to be automatically integrated into our present relationship. It is unfair to expect your partner to inherit some people and some things, it should be enough that you are coming with your striped pyjamas and 3 piece night dress. And don't ask me why I tolerated some of these things back then. read the the second paragraph again. But then can you see how serious this can be, and how much we need to go over them preferably before we even make a commitment to marriage.
Another thing that I have noticed is that women want us to believe that they are born decorators and home designers. and this is far from the truth. I am an Architect by profession. I also have a diploma in Interior Designing to go with my Architectural qualification. My job is to design both the outside and inside of any building. I can do facelifts to almost any boring dwelling. I have designed and drawn our house and it looks great, and I'm a man. I get truly amazed when women claim to be born with that ability. I can tell you that I have been to school for it but we occasionally have arguments with my wife over these things. I have come to realize that with women it's a responsibility to decorate and sometimes re-arrange the house, therefore I let Joyce tell me where to put the sofa even when I know it does not look good there. I have nothing to lose because it does no harm whatsoever in our lives. That is simply her preference . There are sometimes when I have my way too. We have totally agreed to never lose sleep over the colour of the table cloth but rather to try and influence each other positively using our abilities.
My favorite colour is black and my second favourite is any colour with black in it. I mean everybody knows that black is for intelligent guys! [just kidding] anyway I love black and I don't know why. Joyce prefers a whole lot of colours instead but she has three favourites: Gold; White; and silver, and sometimes when we go out shopping she would try to show me the "importance" of having other colours. I listen to her but then I hear what she prefers and not what is a rule. Wearing matching clothes as a couple always looks cute but that's just that. There's nothing spiritual or profound about it.
Joyce likes soccer, I don't. I prefer wild animals documentaries instead. Joyce hates snakes and any slithery creature. They are my favourite. I help her to watch soccer. I would normally sit there enjoying it because my wife likes it but never getting any emotional as she does. Then we would watch wild animals, including snakes. We even went to the snake park together. She will make all sorts of unkind comments about the snakes but it's not a problem at all. I once had a snake in our home. She evicted the poor thing. But she is my wife and the snake was not and I can live with that!
This is how we get around each others preferences. We have never fought over a single preference over the past 28yrs that we have been married.
I only started biking at 44. Joyce never went biking with me once and it means nothing at all, she simply prefers not to. I love the wild outdoors and she prefers to leave the comfort of our home and go stay in a hotel with a similar setup for a week. We have gone together to all these places well understanding that they are simply what each of us prefers. What's important is we are happy with each other and supportive in all respects.
In 1 Corinthians 7:15 the bible tells us that "God has called us to live in peace".
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Big change for the AF.Airmen eligible for promotion to master sergeant, senior master sergeant or chief master sergeant will no longer be required to pass tests to earn those ranks. Promotion to the highest three Air Force enlisted ranks will now only include a promotion board score that looks at the last five years worth of evaluations and takes all awards and decorations under consideration, according to an Air Force statement released Monday. The changes are scheduled to take effect this September.
"We found that removing the testing portion will eliminate any possibility that Airmen without the strongest leadership potential might test into promotion, while also ensuring that our strongest performers continue to earn the promotion they deserve," Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright said in a statement
I suppose it's a good one...we spend a lot of time studying those books. To me, the tests were a way of promoting those who wanted it more (by spending hours studying)....this new change should look more to the people whose records show them deserving of promotion. OTOH, a lot of the stuff we study like control roster, epr, personnel programs, etc. are really good to have SNCOs know about...without testing, I think a lot of this stuff might just not be learned.
Like, hey, did know that you can request the commander to end a UIF early on your Airman for good behavior/performance? Stuff like that...it won't come up day-to-day, but if you remember it from studying, it could come in handy.
I've always been the book smart guy that scored high on tests...may never have made it if this were the system.
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Bottom line is that there's no way to keep everyone happy. Let's be honest, when it goes to a board, even prior to taking away the test, the board score is what gets the person promoted. One can score 100 on the test and still not get promoted if they aren't looked upon fondly by the board members.
Yep.Bottom line is that there's no way to keep everyone happy. Let's be honest, when it goes to a board, even prior to taking away the test, the board score is what gets the person promoted. One can score 100 on the test and still not get promoted if they aren't looked upon fondly by the board members.
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The good thing is, exceptional performers will eventually rise to the top of their professions, either while still in uniform or after they separate.
Don't even get me started on "poorly written" vs "outstanding" EPRs. Why on earth the promotion of a subordinate would ever come down to the writing ability of the supervisor is, by far, the dumbest shit that any organization could ever rely on to determine who deserves promotion, especially since it's not up to the subordinate as to who writes the EPR (though usually it turns out to be the subordinate writing it anyway which, as we all know but continually justify, if completely against the instructions for rating. But if the subordinate brings that up, they are seen as the "whiner" and, thus, will not get pushed in front of his peer who keeps his mouth shut. Unfortunately, and undeniably, that is where the massive hypocrisy of the Air Force promotion system lies.
Standardized testing and objective judgments are raycis!!
Doesn't this change just impact MSgt? I thought they got rid of testing for SMSgt and Chief along time ago.
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