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Calipari to KentuckyPosted by nvr1983 on March 30th, 2009
After a weekend full of speculation about who would replace Billy Gillispie as the next head coach at Kentucky it looks like we finally have our answer in the form of John Calipari. Our sources had been mentioning Calipari as a potential replacement for Gillispie as early as a week ago, but that was obviously delayed by the fact that his Memphis team was still playing in the NCAA tournament. Fortunately, for the administration at Kentucky, even after last year's title game collapse against Kansas, Calipari still didn't think it was worthwhile having his team work on free throws and as a result they were bounced by Missouri in the Sweet 16 (their lack of defense against Missouri didn't help their cause either).
Although the details of the deal have not been released yet, it would be safe to assume that Calipari is at around the $3 million/year figure that our source was saying it would take to lure him away from Memphis (9pm update: ESPN is now reporting the offer is 8 yrs/$35M). In addition, Kentucky will have also have to come up with the money to compensate for the $5 million bonus Calipari would have collected had he finished his contract at Memphis, which ran through the 2012-13 season at $2.5 million/year. (Break open those checkbooks Wildcat boosters!).
What might be even bigger than the physical switch of Calipari for Gillispie on the sidelines is the potential chain reaction this could have on the Memphis/Kentucky recruiting classes and Tyreke Evans. Going into today, Kentucky only had one 5-star (Daniel Orton) and one 4-star (Jon Hood) recruit who had signed a letter of intent to play in Lexington. With the addition of Calipari, the Wildcats would almost certainly get DeMarcus Cousins (the #2 overall recruit) who has committed to Memphis, but did not sign a letter of intent, and potentially Xavier Henry (the #3 overall recruit) who signed a letter of intent at Memphis, but could petition the NCAA for a release (4-star recruit Nolan Dennis has stated that he has an agreement with Memphis that he will be released from his letter of intent if Calipari leaves). In addition, they would suddenly be in the running for John Wall (the #1 overall recruit) who has not committed to a school yet, but is said to be very high on Memphis Calipari. Adding 2 of those 3 to a Kentucky lineup that leaned heavily on Patrick Patterson and Jodie Meeks this year would almost certainly make the Wildcats go from a NIT participant to Final 4 favorites. If Calipari were able to pull off a miracle and get Henry released from his letter and bring all three with him to Kentucky to go with Patterson, Meeks, and Orton, the Wildcats would suddenly emerge as the prohibitive favorites and the fans in Lexington might start having visions of the 1996 Kentucky team running through their heads for the next six months.
What would happen to Memphis? Disaster. Tyreke Evans, who has seen his NBA draft stock rebound after slipping during his difficult adjustment to the college game, would most likely head to the NBA leaving the Tigers without a true star for the first time in years (Robert Dozier and Antonio Anderson are both seniors). Losing such a great recruiting class (one of the best since the Chris Webber-led "Fab 5") would be a crushing blow to a program that has risen up from playing in Conference USA to become one of the premier programs in the nation in the past 5-10 years. The next question for Memphis is who will replace Calipari on the sideline. Current reports indicate that Calpari is pushing for his long-time assistant Tony Barbee to be named as his successor, but it's likely that the Memphis AD will look to lure big-names such as Mike Anderson or Tim Floyd to what has become one fo the premier coaching destinations in the country.


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A buyers guide to e-Bay by Dan K Dan is back, and this time he chips in on the eBay debate. As many of you may know I am not a big fan of the site, but it has its uses. Dan outlines the typical challenges and pitfalls, and how you can avoid them.

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It's Fine For The Rich & Famous To Use Kickstarter; Bjork's Project Failed Because It Was Lame
from the moving-on... dept
Apparently, the answer was that however the app was designed, it would be insanely expensive to port to other platforms. That seems like much more of a design mistake than anything else. It seems likely that her project failed for a few key reasons, including that it was just about porting an app that came out years ago, rather than anything new. Also, the "rewards" were somewhat unimpressive. And, of course, Bjork fans who were iPhone users had little reason to contribute as well. There's also the big one: unlike some other stars, Bjork really hasn't embraced connecting and communicating with her fans. That's her choice, of course. No one says she needs to. But, it's much harder to raise a ton of crowdfunded money that way.
Still, many are saying that the project failed because she's rich and famous and could have just paid for everything herself. But that seems silly. There are plenty of ways that the rich and famous can make use of crowdfunding and plenty of reasons why it makes sense to do so. The project failed because it was a bad project for crowdfunding, and because Bjork isn't necessarily connected with her fans in a way that makes sense for crowdfunding.
Amanda Palmer, who remains an example of "doing Kickstarter right" has weighed in on this issue, making some really good points about why anyone should be able to use Kickstarter, even the rich and famous. Here are a few snippets, but the whole thing is worth reading:
crowdfunding should, by its very nature, be available to EVERYBODY....And yet, people still get upset. To some extent, this feels a bit like "hipsterism." People feel that these platforms are special because the rich and famous haven't necessarily discovered them yet. But why is it so wrong if they do find them and do use them? If people want to support the projects they will, and if they don't, they won't. That's what makes these platforms so useful.
here's what i think: THE MARKET IS EFFICIENT.
if ANYBODY wants to give a go at having the community help them with a project, that's the ARTISTS prerogative. if it fails, then the interest wasn't there.
it should't matter if it's justin bieber, obama, the new kids of the block reunion project, lance armstrong, oprah, or the friendless 18-year old down the street who's been hiding in his bedroom making EDM music.
ANYBODY CAN ASK. that's democracy.
and since crowdfunding is – by definition – in the hands of the community: THE COMMUNITY WILL DETERMINE WHETHER A PROJECT IS SUCCESSFUL.


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So this is what we ended up doing today – gluing little 11th's on top of all the first's. We couldn't really do much about it. It does look pretty stupid but it's stupid that the poor invites sat in customs for a week or something! We sent over half out today and the others will be hand delivered. It was a nice feeling after we left the post office all holding hands.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Late for a very important date.
Posted by Katie
7 comments:
- anna and the ring said...
Stupid customs.
Yay for the prettiness!
- March 16, 2010 at 6:44 PM
- Gaynor said...
Its so exciting to send them out! Think the 11th' look fine too!
So annoying when things get stuck in customs - i ordered jewellery for my bridesmaids and had to go and pay a silly customs VAT charge on them!
- March 16, 2010 at 9:52 PM
At least you have a tale to tell with your invites, people prefer that kind of thing to 'perfect'. Yay to them being sent out :)
- March 17, 2010 at 4:31 PM
- Spare Thoughts said...
They look great! and yay that they are finally in the post.
- March 17, 2010 at 8:07 PM
- Katie said...
Thanks guys!!
- March 18, 2010 at 11:45 AM
- jonovan said...
how many people are going to be there???
- March 18, 2010 at 3:58 PM
- Katie said...
our minimum for the venue is 80 so hopefully around there.
- March 18, 2010 at 4:06 PM
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 12, 2012) – With the days of fall practice winding down, head coach Tony Skole was able to sit down with the ETSU athletic media relations staff for question-and-answer session to let the fans know how the team is doing.
Below is the Q&A with Coach Skole…
With this being the last week of practice, what do you want to see out of your team this week leading into the Blue/Gold World Series this weekend?
I'm just excited to these guys compete. We have had a very productive fall and it has been great to be around this group on a daily basis. The chemistry and make up of this team is phenomenal. Our guys are really buying into our system and they have been committed to making small improvements on a daily basis. Our scrimmages thus far have been very clean and there has been a high level of execution, so that is very exciting. In saying that, I'm also eager for the winter months ahead. I'm excited for our guys to begin their full-time involvement in our strength and conditioning program, as well as their involvement in our individual skill work which many of our young players need.
The team had to face some weather conditions (cold/rainy) that they may see come February/March this past weekend. How important was it for the guys – especially the newcomers – to get experience playing on the wet surface?
It really wasn't that big of an issue. We are so blessed to have the best infield surface in the country, so even with the moisture from last week we were still able to get our scrimmages completed.
If the regular season were to start this weekend, would you be pleased with the team's effort this fall? If there is one thing you would like to have improved on what would it be and why?
I'm glad we don't open up tomorrow, but if we did I would feel pretty good about the rotation and lineup we would use if that was the case. We have more depth than ever before and there is a lot of competition, so that has created a great atmosphere while we are practicing and working out.
Our returning players have been great and provided outstanding leadership, while the new guys have really brought some energy and athleticism to our program. If there is one area where we still need development I would say it is in our "toughness." This is an area where we have to be great every day. We are way ahead of where we were last year in this area, but "toughness" doesn't have an off day at this level. You have to have it every day or you won't accomplish your goals. "Toughness" is something which we have always hung our hat on in this program and we got away from that last year. We are getting there but we still have a long way to go.
Over the past few weekends of scrimmage, it seems the players have been aggressive on the bases – whether it has been trying to steal bases or stretch a single into an extra base-hit. Is this a true assessment? If so, how important is it for this year's team to use their speed on the bases?
We really have a lot of guys who can run and run well this year. We have 19 position players and 14 of them are better than average runners. Out of those 14 players, we have about eight guys who can really apply pressure on the defense. We haven't had that kind of speed in our program since 2006, so it is exciting. Our team speed should create an exciting brand of baseball for our fans to watch.
Finally, with this weekend being the Blue/Gold World Series; talk about what the Blue/Gold World Series means to the program.
Basically, this is a week where our guys can just get after each other and compete. It is the finale to our fall season and it is a fun week to see them compete. I think the two teams are split very evenly, so we will see who shows up to play. The games always seem to be close and I expect that again this year.
The Blue/Gold World Series begins tonight at Thomas Stadium with first pitch set for 6 p.m. The weekend games are set for 11 a.m. Saturday and noon on Sunday.
For more information on Buccaneer baseball, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the baseball page.


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"Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie" is the true story of Dallas Gilbert and Wayne Burton, two best friends from a dying steel town in Ohio, who are out to convince the world that Bigfoot exists.
They have amassed a vast library of video footage and still photographs of proof (their website is highly trafficked) after years of venturing into the Ohio woods, day and night, to the capture shots of the legendary creature in its native habitat.
Dallas is the gregarious one, a Reiki master who has perfected his Sasquatch call and claims to have a sheep's bone in his skull. Wayne is the repressed member of the duo, a former high-school bully who currently works at a car wash and is living paycheck to paycheck.
Seeking fame, fortune, and notoriety, Wayne and Dallas's friendship is tested when a high-profile California Bigfoot researcher makes a stop in their town to look into the authenticity of their claims. A cult film in the making, this is more than just a documentary about an oddball corner of American culture--it's a mediation on class, culture, and the state of the American Dream.


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0xC004F012 slerror.h SL_E_VALUE_NOT_FOUNDThe Software Licensing Service reported that the call has failed because the value for the input key was not found.
40hz: telnet can be used to connect to ports other than 23, which is a quick-and-dirty way to test if you can connect to a given machine/service - more useful than taking down a firewall and pinging, since a firewall could easily block either ping or a specific service, but allow the other -f0dder (October 07, 2008, 03:19 AM)
Description:Whenever your computer is connected to the Internet, it is opened up to attacks by anyone experienced with the Internet technology. One of the possible attacks is by using the Telnet protocol to log into your system. If successful, the attacker can gain complete control of your system. With the Imaginary Telnet Server running, he will be served a fake response which will prevent him from accessing any resources available on your system. The server will give him the impression that he has found a top secret military computer. But when he tries to log in, the server will offer humorous rejections. If he uses one of the password cracking programs and tries to log in persistently, the server will feed him a series of completely fake data for a while, making him think that he got in. After a while, the server will "discover" the intruder and kick him off. No matter how hard the attacker tries, he cannot log in to your system via Telnet. Use it by itself or alongside a firewall. the server runs in the background and stays out of your way completely. Full assembly language source is included, so it can also be used as a model for assembly language programming of Internet servers for Windows computers.http://www.allworlds...ry-telnet-server.htm
I don't really have a use for fake telnet servers, because that won't fix my remote desktop problem, anyways, on with the previous post. -nite_monkey (October 07, 2008, 11:49 AM)
I went to the forums you posted, and I typed in that error code that I had in the event viewer, and every post that I went to, the error code was given because their copy of windows was invalid, but my computer says that it is activated, and is valid... huh
nite_monkey, wild shot here, but... have you enabled the "allow remote connections thing" that's located "somewhere in system properties"? It's not enabled by default... ought to give a different error code if this was the problem, but you never know...-f0dder (October 08, 2008, 05:52 PM)
I have remote desktop running.-nite_monkey (October 06, 2008, 08:10 PM)
I think you still might want to contact Microsoft. There may be an 'unpublished' hotfix available for people that report the problem you're having. This type of hotfix will not be found in the downloads section of MSoft's website. You need to report the problem to get this type of patch - assuming one is available.-40hz (October 08, 2008, 05:55 PM)
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Those were hard days for Trevor Linden and the NHLPA
Labour law has a long tradition in Canada, and it's no surprise that a game so interwoven with Canada's national identity is currently watching as its players seek to take advantage of the rights that have been afforded to them. Efforts in Quebec and Alberta may only delay the inevitable, but there's an intriguing local angle to sports labour law that is worth considering.
The Canucks players in 2005 tried to certify themselves as a unique union in the province of British Columbia. Ultimately they lost the case, and weren't permitted to certify, but the story is particularly relevant today given the announcement that Canadiens players will move to block a lockout in Quebec under the unique circumstances afforded them. More on that later.
In 2005, players in both Montreal and Vancouver sought to have themselves certified as separate, unique labour unions. We should get into some quick background at this point, and explain that the NHLPA is not certified in Canada, which makes their bargaining relationship somewhat problematic. Arrangements that are made on the players behalf – the CBA – aren't codified in BC, but the rules are respected nonetheless. It's like the written and unwritten rules of parliament: it has long been understood that owners and players in Canada would respect the rules as laid out in the USA. Thus, all teams in the NHL operate under the CBA, even though Canadian teams fall technically "outside" its jurisdiction.
The argument presented by the would-be BC-NHLPA was that Canucks players weren't correctly represented under BC labour law by the existing NHLPA, and that they should be allowed to certify as a separate union to represent their rights to the NHL and the Canucks.
The Quebec process was dropped when the lockout was settled, but the BC case carried on, being ruled on twice by the BC Labour Relations Board, which eventually denied the application.
Ultimately the BC board rejected the claim because the NHL and the NHLPA already existed and had a long-standing labour arrangement; adding a new bargaining unit would in fact destabilize what was a long-standing, functional relationship. The fact that owners had locked out the players was not reflective of long-standing dysfunction.
The law won't allow these sorts of tactical moves to be used as a bargaining tactic; a union can't pretend it's not functioning properly if it's in fact functioning properly. Similarly, the NHLPA threatening to de-certify, an idea which has been publicly mooted on more than one occasion, would only be acceptable if the players could prove that the union itself was acting in a grossly negligent manner.
It was a move by the NHLPA to rectify a situation that is a rather curious one, but not really all that unusual. Players in Canada aren't actually members of a Canadian union, though they are acting as a collective group to further their goals. Even if the players aren't in a Canadian-recognized union, they still have many rights as workers, which is exactly what the current move to stop the lockout in Quebec is all about. Under Quebec law, owners are not allowed to lock out employees if the employees aren't in a recognized union.
Also of interest is the baseball umpires case that was brought to the Ontario Labour Relations Board in 1995. Major League Baseball had locked out its umpires, but a ruling by the OLRB found that MLB had not followed Ontario labour law and were thus not allowed to lockout their umpires in Ontario. This set a precedent for subsequent sports-labour actions; each jurisdiction's rules would have to be respected. Thus the move in the last lockout to use the labour relations process in BC and Quebec. With the BC (and separate certification) door now closed, it makes sense that the NHLPA and its members would look to use other provinces' labour policies to their benefit.
The players for the Oilers and the Flames have also intiated procedures in Alberta – ironically enough by using provisions that might be seen as actually existing to help owners. It all adds up to a clear push by the NHLPA to be seen as negotiating in good faith, while placing doubt on the sincerity of the owners. How that really gives them an advantage is unclear – the labour dispute certainly has a PR angle, but the settlement doesn't really take public opinion into consideration.


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English Law in American Land Research
This article originally appeared in "Land Records" by Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, FUGA in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
With some exceptions, American land law still reflects its English origins. The important exceptions are the French civil law in Louisiana, Spanish law in the Southwest, and Polynesian communal-use concepts in Hawaii. English property law, which means both land conveyance and inheritance law, was extremely complex and plagued by a nearly crushing mass of technicalities. This was especially true in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the United States was founded. The colonies lacked the judges, lawyers, law schools, and elaborate court system to implement English property law in all its complexity, but most of the basic concepts crossed the Atlantic and exist in the land records genealogists use.
One major distinction is between real and personal property, which arose in Norman England to distinguish between property the courts could restore to a dispossessed owner and property for which the courts would grant compensation for losses. The distinction is conveniently'if only roughly'between land (and its 'fixtures') and movables. Because leases were deemed personal property and because deed registries record mostly real property, leases were normally not recorded. Hence, for reasons of early English law, tracing Americans who rented rather than bought farms can be very frustrating because their leases probably do not appear in the land records.
Another English concept is between freehold and copyhold, the first being for lands held in England by free men and the latter by villeins (i.e., peasants bound legally to the manor). The villein succeeded to the lands of his father upon payment of customary dues (fines), whereupon the record of such holdings was copied into the manor court roll'hence the name copyhold. In the American colonies, such copyhold was never successfully established because feudal and manorial structures did not exist in the colonies. The few instances where provincial proprietors tried to establish them, such as in Maryland and the Carolinas, were short-lived experiments in the face of all the unoccupied land surrounding these artificial manors. Thus, the American genealogist encounters freehold law that developed in contrast to a concept'copyhold'not normally found in American records. The one important remnant of feudalism that did gain a partial foothold in the colonies from New York to Georgia was the quitrent, a sum owed by a freeholder to his feudal superior.
A third aspect of property law in England was the doctrine of estates, which assumed that all land in England was owned only by the Crown and thus any subject held merely an 'estate' in that land. Such holdings (tenures) could be with right to will or deed the land to another (fee simple), with right to a life interest that ended at the tenant's death (life estate), or with right for the land to pass inalienably to one's direct descendants so long as any existed (fee tail). The lastto X and the heirs of his bodymight be land entailed without a sex restriction or it might be entailed only to male heirs (tail male) or, rarely, only to female heirs (tail female).
Out of these various historical concepts from the feudal-manorial world as they survived in English common law came legal records that genealogists encounter and need to understand. Not only did copyhold fail to flourish in the colonies, the idea that the Crown 'really' owned all the land also failed. Therefore, American law was centuries ahead of English law in developing the legal sense of fee simple as an absolute (allodial) ownership. 'Absolute' in this sense is restricted by eminent domain, taxation, zoning, and the public interest. Public interest, as an example, might restrict a private citizen from damming a fishing stream that ran through his land.
Two remnants of English law encountered in colonial records, mostly south of New England, are livery of seizin and the lease and release. Livery of seizin was a very old method of transferring land tenure by actually handing pieces of the property to the new owner. It means to take delivery of possession. Here is how lawyer William Blackstone described it:
- Livery in deed is thus performed. The feoffor [seller], lessor, or his attorney, together with the feofee [buyer], lessee, or his attorney . . . come to the land, or to the house; and there, in the presence of witnesses, declare the contents of the feoffment or lease, on which livery is to be made. And then the feoffor, if it be of hand, doth deliver to the feofee, all other persons being out of the ground, a clod or turf, or a twig or bough there growing, with words to this effect. 'I deliver these to you in the name of seizin of all the lands and tenements contained in this deed.'84
Whether Americans performed all these steps is conjectural. Certainly such deeds were occasionally used in the colonial period in both New England and the South. In 1714, in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Arthur Harris 'made Livery and Seizin of the Lands and Appurtinances within mentioned by delivering Turff and Twigg and the Ring of the Door of the Chief Mansion House on the Lands.'85 These odd phrases were formula; nothing individual should be read into them.
Though livery of seizin was uncommon, the system of lease and release'two parts'flourished in Southern colonies in the 1700s. The intent of this document in seventeenth-century England was to avoid the legal fee of having deeds recorded publicly. Under Henry VIII, the Statutes of Uses dictated that the person having the use of any land had the obligations of that land as well, such as taxes, feudal dues, and so forth If land was leased, then by the Statute of Uses the only interest remaining to the lessor was the reversion of the land at the end of the lease's term. If that reversion was then released to the lessee, the land was sold without a bargain and sale, thus circumventing the law requiring public registration and fee. Here again, the form is formula and not a lease at all. The genealogist should read both documents because the lease often omits the wife's name because her husband could lease property without her consent. Also, the two serve as duplicate copies for such easily miscopied information as intricate metes and bounds descriptions and difficult-to-read proper names.
English property law (land law and inheritance) prior to the Victorian reforms was extraordinarily complex, dependent on technicalities, and steeped in a vocabulary now long obsolete. The manner in which land was inherited contains many subtle clues that nearly all researchers will pass by in ignorance. It is unfortunate that legal history studies in America are both rare and usually inadequate and that genealogists have few convenient compilations of American property law that are aimed toward the non-lawyer. Three important exceptions are Carole Shammas, Marylynn Salmon's and Michel Dahlin's Inheritance in America From Colonial Times to the Present; Marylynn Salmon's Women and the Law of Property in Early America; and 'An American Law of Property' and 'The Land: And Other Property' in Lawrence M. Friedman's A History of American Law.86
Property was divided into the real (mostly land) and the personal (usually movables). In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, in intestate cases where no legal will existed, the personal property, but not land, was probated through the ecclesiastical courts with equal distribution to all children, while land was given under the common law to the heir-at-law. These differing courts for personal and real property account for why, at least in the colonial South, land is rarely mentioned in estate inventories: in England, such inventories were generally made by the ecclesiastical probate courts only, which did not usually probate land.
Primogeniture developed elaborate rules for identifying the heir-at-law in the absence of children. If there were children, the heir-at-law was the eldest son (or, if dead, his heir-at-law). In the absence of a son, the daughters jointly inherited as heirs-at-law. After 1540, the testator (maker of the will) could bequeath land, but lands not mentioned in the will were treated as intestate and went to the heir-at-law. The major exception was entailed lands, meaning lands bequeathed by an ancestor to a person and that person's lineal descendants. The legal entailing phrase was 'to X and the heirs of his or her body lawfully begotten.' (The phrase 'to his heirs and assigns forever' is not an entail.) Such land entailed to X could not be bequeathed by will so long as it remained entailed, because entailed lands went to the heir-at-law. Widows had a right to a life interest in one-third of their husband's lands, to be surrendered if they remarried. An excellent case study is Margaret Hickerson Emery's 'The Adeustone-Rogers Families of Virginia: Tracing a Colonial Lineage through Entailment and Naming Patterns,' in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly.87
The genealogist interested in colonial lineages should note how the land was inherited and how the personal property was disposed, if the inheritance existed in a time and colony governed by primogeniture and entail. If something strange seems to be happening, try to determine the local inheritance laws governing that time and place. Entailed lands and dower rights were protected from the debts owed by the estate, which may also give clues.
A summary of 'Inheritance Laws Circa 1720 in the American Colonies' appears as table 1.1 in Inheritance in America from Colonial Times to the Present by Shammas, et al.88 But there is no simple summary for each colony showing which laws were in effect for which years for real/personal property or for other years for testate/intestate probates. John Frederick Dorman's 'Colonial Law of Primogeniture' is helpful.89 Richard B. Morris's 'Colonial Law Governing the Distribution and Alienation of Land,' in Studies in the History of American Law with Special Reference to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, asserts that colonial practice was varied, uncertain, and debatable even to the colonial judges.90
Two English laws worth knowing are the 1670 Statute of Distribution (22 & 23 Charles II c. 10 as amended 1 James II c. 17) and the 1677 Statute of Frauds (29 Charles II c. 3). (An English statute is cited by chapter number of the acts passed by the Parliament sitting in a regnal year of the sovereign. Thus, the 1677 act is chapter 3, 29th regnal year of Charles II.) The 1670 statute dictated that personal property (not real property) was distributed like this:
- To children where no widow survived: whole property was divided equally among the children; a lone child received all.
- To children and widow: two-thirds to the children or their heirs and one-third to the widow.
- To widow where no children survived: one-half to widow and one-half to the father of the deceased if alive or, failing him, to the mother or the brothers and sisters.
- When no widow and children survived, property went to the father if alive or, failing him, to the mother or the brothers and sisters.
The Statute of Frauds provided that personal property could no longer be disposed by oral testament and that executors/administrators must distribute such property as stipulated by will. Personal property not disposed by will was treated as intestate.
Although there are many local exceptions, English law was in force in the colonies to some degree where more specific colonial statutes did not exist, but the colonies could and did enact differing laws if 'not repugnant' to English law and custom. The New England colonies, Pennsylvania, and Delaware granted equal divisions of land and movables in intestates with a double share to the eldest son. (The eldest daughter, in the absence of brothers, had no like double portion.) If the land could not be conveniently divided, it could go to the inheriting son provided he justly compensated the other heirs. Rhode Island seems to have used primogeniture until 1770 (except from 1718 to 1728). Maryland abolished primogeniture in 1715, substituting equal division. The remaining colonies (New York, New Jersey, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia), all royal, retained primogeniture until the American Revolution: . Georgia, in its earliest years, experimented with entailing lands by patent to male heirs, but it was an unpopular system.
If the heir-at-law automatically inherited entailed and intestate lands, then the eldest son need not be mentioned in his father's will. For example, in 1713, a John Taylor of Julian Creek, Norfolk County, Virginia, made a deed stating that the will of his brother Richard (Richard was alive) did not leave seventy-five acres to Richard's eldest son and in fact did not name this eldest son at all. Since the land had come to Richard from their father, John feared that if the land were not specifically transferred to the eldest son, he himself or his heirs would inherit this tract because John was the eldest son and primogeniture was the law in Virginia. Therefore, John, in his deed, gave seventy-five acres belonging to Richard to Richard's eldest son, Richard, Jr. Richard, Sr.'s will survives and indeed does not mention the seventy-five acres or his eldest son.91
No English law required a testator, in disinheriting a child, to name him or her or to leave such a disinherited child the proverbial one shilling. As an unfortunate result, many wills ignore some children, leaving the genealogist in doubt as to whether the omission means the person was disinherited, dead, or not a child of the testator. Other records must be used to establish such points.
However, good genealogy is a conjunction of many types of records that together reinforce a pedigree and simultaneously test it. Land records are an essential strand in that web of proof but are only one part. For example, the problem was to identify which of several Isaac Lindseys in Maury County, Tennessee, married in 1808 and died in Navarro County, Texas, in 1852.92 An 1810 will by John Lindsey named a son, Isaac, who was a good chronological fit for the Texan, but this John had no deeds in Maury. Because Maury was opened to white settlement by an 1805 Indian cession and because the Lindsey family was certainly there by 1807, this absence of deeds or patents from the state of Tennessee was puzzling until local history provided an explanation. In 1783, North Carolina had allowed the purchase of Tennessee lands still held by Indians. The Maury County area had been claimed in 5,000-acre tracts by wealthy North Carolinians, but only in 1805 and 1806 could whites actually settle there. The Lindseys had arrived to legally 'new' lands that had actually been long owned.
The deeds, court minutes, tax lists, marriages, and other usual records sorted out four groups of Lindseys'a justice of the peace who lived in the eastern part of the county, a late-coming family who settled in the southwestern corner, two brothers who owned land but never settled in the county, and the group to whom the Texan apparently belonged. In the absence of deeds, the Texan's family was localized by three steps: (1) the 1809 court minutes contained an oath about a lease from Long heirs to John Lindsey; (2) various road overseer appointments placed the targeted Lindseys on Little Bigby Creek in the center of the county; and (3) the 5,000-acre tract of the Long family, purchased in 1783, was plotted, locating it on Duck River, which runs through the center of Maury County, and overlying Little Bigby Creek. Thus, the Long acres included Little Bigby Creek. Clearly, John Lindsey had leased his Little Bigby land from the Longs, not purchased it.
The rest of the proof included tracing the family back through Georgia into South Carolina. John had a brother who died, leaving three small sons who had come to Maury with their uncle John. One of these sons was named Isaac, while a second son had a son of his own named Isaac, neither being the Isaac who had married in 1808 and gone to Texas. Thus, the Texan was the one named in the 1810 will. By reading many volumes page by page, by plotting land grants, by following clues through several states, and through the fortunate survival of records, it was possible to see these Lindseys in Maury in the years 1805 to 1830, to sort out the different families, and to single out individuals. Land records underlie the whole proof, though alone they could never have untangled the lineage.
Several contributors have greatly enhanced the contents of this chapter. William Thorndale, whose text and arrangement in the first edition of The Source continues to be the core strength of the chapter; Mary McCampbell Bell, CLS, CGL, who provided the overview of early surveying in Virginia, designed the 'Creating a Plat' figure, and revised the State Summary for Virginia; Birdie Monk Holsclaw, CG, who submitted the Mapping Software section; and Christine Rose who reviewed the Military Bounty Land section.
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This is a carefree seasonal track with a catchy theme perfect for every Christmas project; it features sleigh bells, glockenspiel, jazzy piano and orchestra. The mood is warm and lighthearted.
When I wrote it I was thinking to those American romantic comedies where people go out for shopping or for a meeting and everything is screaming "It's Christmas!!!" from the adorned trees to the lights in the streets.
I hope you will enjoy this piece for your videos!
Merry Christmas!


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De Boer insists approach made
Frank de Boer has cast doubt on Tottenham's claim they haven't approached him about taking over from Tim Sherwood in the summer.
Spurs denied making any contact with De Boer last week, after the Ajax manager said he would hold talks with officials from White Hart Lane.
But the club's stance - "We have not contacted any club regarding coaching appointments" - have been undermined by De Boer, who admitted he is interested in taking over from Tim Sherwood in the summer.
"They talked informally with Ajax about my contract," De Boer told Gazzetta dello Sport. "I think they are quite happy with their manager, but it is normal that they get information about a possible successor, as have Liverpool in the past. Liverpool had four candidates and asked me if I was interested. That time I said I wanted to stay at Ajax.
"I'm very happy here, but if a club came with an interesting perspective and a good team, I would consider the proposal. I want to understand what contribution I could give."
De Boer insisted earlier this week that he had heard nothing from Spurs since he initially claimed their interest and an earlier contender for the job, Louis van Gaal, was said to have angered chairman Daniel Levy by going public with the news he had met the club for talks.
Asked after he had spoken about Spurs whether he regretted it, De Boer said: "No, why should I? I was interviewed and gave a honest answer.
"There were already rumours for a long time. So I thought within a couple of seconds, I should speak with openness.
"It is very quiet here on my phone, and also for my agent. I am not busy with all that," De Boer added to Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. "My contract with Ajax runs until 2017, so until that time I will only think about Ajax or serious offers"
The situation, De Boer's claims following those of other managers, has angered Spurs head coach Sherwood, who said lies are being told about his future at the club and that he has been left disappointed by persistent claims from rivals.
That has not stopped Spurs from being linked to other managerial candidates. They are also reportedly ready to test Everton's resolve by sounding out Roberto Martinez about taking over at the club after just one season at Goodison Park.
Mauricio Pochettino, another man believed to be on Spurs' shortlist, will hold talks with his club, Southampton, at the end of the season. His future with the club has been in doubt since Nicola Cortese resigned as executive chairman in January.
The club's executive director Les Reed told the BBC the discussions will take place after Sunday's final Premier League fixture at home to Manchester United.
"Mauricio has made it clear as soon as Sunday's game is out of the way we will sit down and continue the discussions we will be having," said Reed.
"He wanted to achieve the record points total and focus on the games and nothing else. This is one of the issues of being successful, everyone is attracting attention."


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Football unites international community in campaign to end violence against womenSep 26, 2012
New York - Top officials, staff and ambassadors to the United Nations took time out during the UN General Assembly today to play a friendly football match against a team assembled by the President of Bolivia Evo Morales.
Both teams united to end violence against women in support of the Secretary General's campaign—globally and in Latin America and the Caribbean, which has some of the world's highest rates of gender-based crimes. The match also supported Bolivia's Year to End all forms of Violence against Women and Girls.
"Sport is a vital tool for building peace and understanding across nations, and can also be a powerful instrument to oppose violence against women, helping promote gender equality and also children's rights," said UN Assistant Secretary General and UN Development Programme (UNDP) Director for Latin America and the Caribbean Heraldo Muñoz.
Held at Roosevelt Island Soccer Field, close to UN headquarters, the match was co-organized byMuñoz, who scored two goals, and President Morales, who scored one goal and whose team clinched the match 10-5.
"Since football is a passion—globally and in Latin America—it is a great way to reach out to men directly and advocate for women's rights," Muñoz added.
"In Bolivia we are working to implement laws to protect women and also to give them more political representation, which requires—more than anything—political will," President Morales said.
UN Under-Secretary General and UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet kicked off the match hoping that the final winner would be all the world's women, their rights and their causes.
Violence against women takes many forms – physical, sexual, psychological and economic, with patterns often being passed down through generations. Some types of violence, such as trafficking, cross national boundaries.
In 15 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, nearly 50 percent of women said they had been victims of at least one sexual assault during their lifetime, according to a recent World Bank study. And nearly 70 percent of physical abuses were committed by their own partners.
Moreover, Central America has one of the highest rates of female murders (femicide) worldwide: two out of three murdered women lost their lives simply because they were women. Guatemala and El Salvador registered 675 and 580 cases of female murders in 2010 while Honduras recorded 312 in 2008.
Abuse also takes place in the work place. In Latin America and the Caribbean 30 to 50 percent of women have suffered some type of sexual harassment while at work, according to the International Labour Organization. In Brazil a survey in 12 cities revealed that more than half of women have suffered some type of harassment at work, whereas in Mexico the number reaches 70 percent of women.
UNDP works with governments, parliaments and civil society organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean to develop laws and public policies that guarantee gender equality and women's rights.
As part of the UN Secretary-General's campaign, UNDP also works with governments to create strategies that help eliminate violence against women. In collaboration with UN Women, UNDP is developing region-wide studies and mapping good practices to eradicate violence against women, through plans, policies and recommendations.
In El Salvador, for example, UNDP is working with Women's Parliamentary Groups to create a specialized unit to address women's rights in the legislative assembly, helping ensure that the national budget's expenditure reflects different needs and priorities for women and girls.
In Haiti and Nicaragua, UNDP works with sister UN agencies to improve access to justice, with a special focus on women. The Haiti initiative helped train more than 150 police officers and judges on gender-based violence, and also involved assessing the capacity of police stations to respond to violence against women.
UNDP is also a partner in the annual Match Against Poverty.


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Procurement: AFA12の勝利品
Lots, booties, treasures! What event ends without any wallet-killing? XDc
Like many AFA before it, AFA12 too drained my in-store credits to its core… orz
Ever since I've got myself the Moekana cards back during AFAMY12, I've wanted to get one of those deck holders every Card Battlers been carrying around… Luckily a certain Uncle got them in stock at discounted price at his Kopitiam in the halls!
Got a couple of them, one for the Moekana and the other for holding the meishi I've collected… XDc
The holders come with a trio of extra Moekana card too along with a lovely paper bag!
Post AFA Syndrome: Culture Japan Night
After an incredible experience of merchandise temptation, lovely daughters and mouth-dropping cosplays aside, AFA12 has officially ended…
Well at least for most of them public. Enthusiastic comrades will not let the joy die down so easily… XDc
Metamorphosis: The Cosplays of AFA12
After the report on the exhibits and the gathering of lovely daughters of AFA12, it's time to move on the next element of any ACG events: the incredible costumes of Cosplayers!
Oh wait that's not a cosplay but an itansha!
But then again taking 50 steps backwards it's technically a motorcycle cosplaying so it counts! XDc
In memories of a certain Dollfie Dream… Not! XDc
Many thanks to Yukino-chan's papa, Tama-chan was invited to one of the biggest gathering of all her kind she'd ever experienced.
Debriefing: The Exhibits of AFA12
Grander in ambition with moar hall spaces, AFA12 is no doubt the biggest event yet over the South East Asia, rivaling the like of Anime Expo of the Western countries in scale!
Once again, giants of the ACG industry along with various merchants come together to pour in their resources in making this event a success!


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Provenance of the Claim
The email I received said the article was from "Harpers." So, I was thinking Harper's, you know, the magazine that's been around since the 1840's. No, in fact, it was in Harpers Wine & Spirit Trades Review, which appears to be an industry magazine published by a UK publishing company. The article was a summary of the press release put out by the folks at Wine Intelligence, a UK-based company "[c]reating value for wine businesses through strategic advice, branding and research."
The Gist of the "Research Results"
The Harpers article was pretty much a retelling of the press release, in which the following conclusions were asserted about US wine consumers:
- 20% of regular wine drinkers trust what independent bloggers write about a wine
- 80% of regular wine drinkers trust what their wine merchant tells them
- 66% of wine drinkers look for wine information online, and 33% of them use social media to do so
- The most used websites are those run by "wine shops, newspapers and smaller wine producers"
And So What?
The tone of the press release, and the article, clearly imply that bloggers are not widely trusted, and at least one writer took it as an attack. Another responded by pointing out why in fact some bloggers should not be trusted. I happen to agree with him in some respects - there are some bloggers out there who don't really know what they're doing. That's pretty much true of everything.
I also think there is another way to look at this discussion. In a study, by a UK-based company that works and is likely funded primarily by larger wine interests, and likely to have used a very broad brush in the study (we've only got the press release, after all, it's ₤1,300 for the full report), they're saying that 1 in 5 drinkers trust a blogger for information on what to drink! 1 in 5! Of the group comprising all regular wine drinkers, you've got all those people who love white zinfandel and/or other things most wine connoisseurs would not touch, and all those people who don't use computers regularly, let alone read blogs. Yet 20% of the audience not only reads, but also trusts, at least one blog! And of course that number is growing, as everything moves online.
It's a Question of Trust
Just as the press release, as well as the other writers, point out, the fundamental issue is trust. People take recommendations from those they trust. There are good bloggers, and bad bloggers, just like there are good retail wine folks and bad ones. Most people aren't going to trust Joe Schmoe liquor clerk who just started working there part-time. But they should (and I do) trust our guy at the local wine store, Keith, who is one of the most knowledgeable, thoughtful guys we've ever known in the wine business.
Bloggers can build up trust - many have already done so. It takes time and effort, just like building up a reputation as a trustworthy retailer does. And those folks have had many more decades to do so than the blogging community.
Go bloggers!


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A two night minimum on some weekends and holidays may required. The Mile High Inn is an intimate Bed and Breakfast Inn, consequently cancellations affect us significantly.
Cancellations made up to two weeks (14 days) before the arrival date will result in a full refund of your deposit, less a $20 administrative fee per room. Cancellations made within the two week (14 day period) before the date of arrival will result in the forfeiture of the entire cost of the booking, unless we are able to re-book all nights.
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Should PR People Be Able To Edit Otherwise Ignored Wikipedia Pages Of Their Clients To Correct Errors?
from the the-community-won't-like-that... dept
Consider that preamble for a simple point: there are good PR people who do good work, and it's generally people who actually understand what they're talking about. PR guru Phil Gomes, who I've known for many, many years, is definitely one of the good guys. A Linux-using, open source-loving techie to the core, he's not your ordinary PR guy. He's also a guy who I can sit down and talk with about ridiculous government actions and crazy intellectual property cases for many hours, and the conversation is always fun, and we tend to agree on most things. But when he put out a pitch to Jimmy Wales at Wikipedia, saying that, in certain, very specific cases, PR people should be able to edit Wikipedia pages of the companies they work with, I cringed a bit. Something about the concept feels wrong. Though, the case Phil makes is pretty compelling. He's arguing that if a company page is completely inaccurate, and not updated properly, it's silly that a PR person can't go in and fix things.
- Wikipedia is on the first page of search results for nearly every company, brand, product, personality, captain-of-industry, etc. This shoulders Wikipedia with a great level of responsibility, whether asked for or otherwise.
- Many entries are derelict, even for important topics and well-known industry bellwethers. Financial data is often years old. Some companies are described as remaining in businesses long divested. A WikiProject for reviving abandoned articles, and a proposal for a similar effort, themselves both appear abandoned.
- You can imagine why a company might consider its entry to be a high priority (perhaps even to the point of distraction) and task its communications staff to "do something", especially if the entry is inaccurate.
- Entreaties on Talk pages—determined as the most appropriate place for a company representative to make his/her case—often go ignored for very long periods while inaccurate information persists.
- The small concession to PR on the FAQ (that a company can "fix minor errors in spelling, grammar, usage, or fact", etc.) takes a lot for granted and helps neither a PR representative nor Wikipedia. For example, too often, a company representative will "go native" when it comes to separating matters of "fact" from matters upon which reasonable people might disagree. On the other hand, activists (hardly of a neutral point of view) appear to enjoy much more latitude.
When an entry is derelict (duration and definition TBD), a communications representative should be granted greater leeway in editing the entry. The entry can have a notification at the top indicating the derelict status, or even that a communications representative has had a hand in updating it. This will allow visitors to make their own judgments on how to evaluate the entry or even prioritize it in terms of how and when it gets evaluated and/or revised by a neutral party. The choice is between the certainty of an inaccurate entry or the possibility that the entry would not meet NPOV guidelines. Negative attention to bad behavior (or even to mediocre efforts) would mitigate the impact of the latter.That actually started to make me uncringe -- and actually does make some sense. The issue here is that he's actually talking about both greater accuracy and greater transparency, both of which seem like good things. Phil also suggests a system by which companies could create entries, posted to their own corporate sites, along with a way to alert "independent Wikipedians" to react to the content and decide if it's worthy of being on the site.
An interesting discussion ensued, with folks in a variety of camps... including Jimmy Wales, who weighed in himself, sticking to his initial stance that paid PR folks have other avenues to alert Wikipedians.
Best practice is very simple and no one in the PR industry has ever put forward a cogent argument (and seldom bother putting forward an argument at all) why it is important that they take the potentially (especially if I have anything to do with it) reputation damaging step of directly editing entries where they are acting as paid advocates.He also notes that there is "comprehensive" evidence that "paid advocates do not make good editors." In the end, he notes (quite accurately) that the community itself has made it clear that it doesn't want paid advocates -- and having paid advocates edit the site definitely leads to backlash.
The simple and obvious answer is to do what works, without risking the reputation of the client: talk to the community, respect their autonomy, and never ever directly edit an article.
There are many avenues for you to make simple factual corrections, and these avenues actually do work. You can post on the talk page. If you don't get a timely response there you can escalate to appropriate noticeboards. Perhaps the most effective thing you can do is email us! The OTRS team is very good about helping out with basic issues.
Of course, to some extent, I think both Phil and Jimmy are right. Just as in my initial cringe, plenty of people don't like the idea of paid advocates/PR people directly editing client pages. There are just too many areas to insert bias into a system that supposedly insists on keeping a neutral point of view (though it doesn't always succeed). That bias can be subtle -- and it may not even be done consciously by the advocate, but it's still likely to be there. However, I'm still partially swayed by Phil's first suggestion. So if the methods that Jimmy lays out (talk pages, noticeboards, email) simply don't work and no one responds, would it then be okay if a PR person made corrections with the clear caveat of who they are, what they're doing and why they're doing it? Perhaps followed up with a further notice for independent Wikipedians to check their work? I'm not sure that's such a terrible thing, as a last resort. After all, isn't accurate info more important in the long run than inaccurate info untouched by PR people?


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Feb. 12, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Portia Jones has been named the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Women's Track Athlete of the Week after a record breaking performance in MIT's first home meet of the season this past weekend.
Jones picked up wins in the 55-meter hurdles and the 400 meter dash while finishing second in the 200 meters. Jones' time of 8.43 in the 55m hurdles, the second best in MIT history, was good for first place. Although she was edged out by Hillary Higgs of Williams by three tenths of a second, Jones (26.37) had by far her best time of the year at 200m. Jones then ran a 59.93 400 meters, breaking an Institute record that had stood for over nine years. As a team, the Engineers finished second behind nationally-ranked No. 11 Williams.
The Cardinal and Grey will host a Coed Invitational next weekend while also taking part in the Valentine's Meet at Boston University.


text: MF Global Judge Says Corzine Must Face Some Customer Claims February 11, 2014 08:57 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Bloomberg Email Jon Corzine, the former chairman of MF Global Holdings Ltd., must face some claims in a lawsuit filed by commodities customers over his role in the collapse of the brokerage company, a judge ruled. MF Global filed for bankruptcy on Oct. 31, 2011, after a $6.3 billion bet on bonds of some of Europe's most indebted nations. Customers claim that more than $1.6 billion of their funds that should have been segregated went missing, transferred to other parts of the company during the liquidity crisis, and accuse the executives of failing in their oversight. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in Manhattan today permitted aiding-and-abetting and negligence claims against Corzine, Edith O'Brien, MF Global's former assistant treasurer, and other officers and directors to proceed. If the customers' allegations are accurate, it's reasonable to conclude that "a massive collapse such as that which MF Global experienced does not occur in a vacuum, nor in a corporate environment characterized by diligent management and vigilant oversight," the judge wrote. The suit is one of several pending before Marrero involving the collapse of MF Global. The judge has also denied bids by Corzine, a former governor of New Jersey and onetime co-chairman of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., to dismiss those cases. Marrero criticized the pace of the lawsuits in his ruling today. 'Rancorous Litigation' "While this wasteful and rancorous litigation unfolds, investment customers harmed by these unfortunate events must wait for any compensation due them, without knowing how much they will recover or when they will receive any assets they wrongfully lost because of the violations of law claimed in this litigation," he said. The judge dismissed a claim that Corzine and O'Brien directly violated the Commodity Exchange Act, saying the plaintiffs failed to establish that either had direct liability just because the funds were deposited with MF Global's brokerage unit. The judge also threw out claims the defendants breached their fiduciary duty. Marrero last month refused to throw out a related suit filed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, saying it was too soon in the case to rule on whether the agency can prove its claims. Bankruptcy Trustee James Giddens, the trustee unwinding the MF Global brokerage unit in bankruptcy court, has said he plans to distribute 100 percent of what customers are owed, a move supported by the CFTC and representatives of ex-customers who sued MF Global's former managers. "We are pleased the court dismissed half of the commodities customers' claims against Mr. Corzine on the grounds that they were meritless as a matter of law," Steven Goldberg, a spokesman for Corzine at Sard Verbinnen & Co., said in an e- mail. He said the production of evidence before trial will "reveal that the remaining claims also are without merit, and that ultimately we will prevail on all counts." Christopher Barber, a lawyer for O'Brien, declined to comment on it. The case is In Re MF Global Holdings Limited Investment Litigation 11-cv-07866, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan). Back to news


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Foundation supports Law School's effort to stop prosecution of children in the adult criminal justice system
The Public Welfare Foundation has awarded $150,000 to the Youth Defense Institute at the Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law. The grant enables Barry Law to advance its community mission of protecting children's rights.
The Foundation's Juvenile Justice Program provides grants to promote systemic reforms aimed at ending the practice of trying, sentencing, and incarcerating youth as adults, and to promote equitable treatment of all young Americans. Because Florida prosecutes more children in the adult system than any other state, the Youth Defense Institute's work falls squarely within the Foundation's interests.
The Institute was created by Barry Law Dean Leticia M. Diaz and the Law School faculty. With support from the Florida Bar Foundation, its first activities included addressing Florida cases in which children were sentenced to life without parole. For the past three years, the Institute has served as the statewide clearinghouse and support system for strategic litigation exclusively on juvenile life sentences without parole. Based on the success of its collaborative work with attorneys throughout Florida, the Institute recently expanded its mission to the much large realm of strategic litigation aimed at any process where children are at risk of being charged as an adult.
"Our Youth Defense Institute has produced amazing result in just a few years' time," Diaz said. "This $150,000 grant is not only an endorsement of our mission, but also an important resource that will enable us to better target the Florida jurisdictions sending the most children to the adult criminal justice system."
Ilona Vila, Director of the Institute at Barry Law, said the Public Welfare Foundation's support "speaks volumes about the extraordinary work done by Florida attorneys dedicated to protecting children's rights."
"The United States Supreme Court has now handed down three cases with the message that children are different," Vila said. "The Court has repeatedly identified the marked differences between children and adults in maturity, ability to appreciate consequences of their actions, culpability and the possibility for change and rehabilitation. Getting that message by reducing the unjust prosecution of children as adults through strategic litigation is what the Institute is all about."