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When Professor of Political Science Lane V. Sunderland was approached to become Director of Education for the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, he was taken by surprise. He certainly didn't expect to be interviewed by Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Warren Burger either.
Despite the initial shock, Sunderland is glad to have gotten the chance to work for both Chief Justice Burger and later on Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
"[Court decisions] take on a deeper meaning when you know some of the people involved in these important cases and have a better insight into what their jurisprudence is. It was certainly a valuable experience that I'm very fortunate to have had —both times working for two different Chief Justices," Sunderland said.
In May of 1986, Sunderland got the call from Chief Justice Burger's assistant to interview for a role directing the Bicentennial celebration. The opportunity came after a friend from the National Endowment for Humanities suggested Sunderland for the job. This would eventually lead to Sunderland becoming one of two individuals in the United States to be chosen as a Supreme Court Fellow from 1988-1999.
"Chief Justice Burger became Chair of the Bicentennial Commission after the commissions work stalled and he was eager to have meaningful bicentennial … I soon learned that Chief Justice Burger envisioned education about the Constitution to be the centerpiece of the [commemoration]," Sunderland said.
Working with Chief Justice Burger, Sunderland quickly realized that he was a commanding boss. The high-stress environment, constant phone calls and scheduling changes on a moments notice was something Sunderland had to get adjusted to.
"It was a completely different type of life than the academic life. I soon learned what it was like to have a real boss after being in the academic setting for 15 years," Sunderland said.
During his time with the Chief Justice, Sunderland was able to further the Bicentennial commemoration significantly. Sunderland addressed the American Bar Association meeting, gave a lecture to the National Mock Trial Competition in Washington and organized dozens of galas.
One of the biggest accomplishments of the committee was establishing the the James Madison Memorial Fellowship program. The program is still in effect today and is used to encourage primary and secondary school history teachers.
"Senator Kennedy had preferred it to be named the John F. Kennedy Fellowship, nonetheless he was influential in … establish[ing] the fellowship program. It was, of course, a great benefit to have Senator Kennedy on our team," Sunderland said.
Furthermore, the commission distributed tens of thousands of pocket Constitutions. In fact, Sunderland still keeps a stack of miniature Constitutions to distribute to students in his classed to this very day.
Sunderland grew close to Chief Justice Burger both professionally and personally. A memory that sticks out during his time there was when the Chief Justice recounted a motorbiking accident he had the night prior.
"I asked him if he had injured his knee. He said, 'When we get in the car, I'll tell you an unbelievable story.' He began … telling me that he was taking his evening walk in Arlington and it was dark. A motorcycle came over a hill, struck his knee, and pitched him into [a] ditch," Sunderland said.
According to Sunderland, the Chief Justice recalled threatening to place the young man on the bike under citizens arrest, when before he knew it, the young man hopped onto his bike and rode off. Sunderland added that he found the Chief Justice's incredulity to be humorous.
"I thought to myself, this isn't like his courtroom where he banged his gavel and said 'It is so ordered.' I resisted the impulse to remind him of Hobbes' state of nature where life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short," Sunderland said with a laugh.
Another prized moment during Sunderland's time with the committee was when he came across a car full of Knox students near Georgetown.
They yelled out "Hey Professor Sunderland," which cemented Sunderland's desire to return to Knox. Despite wanting Sunderland to stay on the project longer, the Chief Justice understood when it came time for Sunderland to return to Knox.
"He [said], I understand Lane. You are a teacher. I developed a great deal of respect and affection for the man I called 'Chief' for those 15 months I worked for him," said Sunderland.
Sunderland believes his time at the Supreme Court, both as the Director for the Bicentennial and later on as a Supreme court fellow under Chief Justice Rehnquist have influenced him greatly.
As Sunderland prepares for his retirement in 2020, he reflects back on his time in the Supreme Court as important to his teaching and mentoring.
"As Chief Justice Burger recognized, I am, indeed a teacher. My heart has always been in the classroom. I am grateful to Knox and to the students for making my many years at Knox so gratifying," Sunderland said.


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This strawstack was in our neighbor's field across the road. Very unusual to have strawstacks here as most of the time the straw is chopped and left in the field as the grain is harvested. After several evenings of watching the sun hit the end of the stack , I was captured by the light and just had to take some photos so I could paint it . My painting is a bit more mellow than my photo but the light on the stack is still my focus.
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Peoples around the universe are now populating longer. Harmonizing to the authorities information life anticipation in the UK has increased ( Office For National Statistics 2004 ) . Their informations demoing that life anticipation for adult females increased from 49 old ages in 1901 to 81 by 2002, and for work forces it increased from 45 to 76 old ages. This paper examine the factors that contribute to increased life anticipation in the UK and in the World.
First medical alterations have allowed life anticipation to increase because as Tallis ( 2005 ) province better wellness information, medical specialty can forestall many diseases and particular medical attention available. In the UK many betterments in the wellness attention " have made a important part to the major and sustained additions in life anticipation " ( Gray et al, 2006, 107 ) . In peculiar, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( 2009 ) point to ten wellness progresss that increased life anticipation in the last 100 old ages. For illustration immunizations, control of infections, safer nutrient and cut downing bosom unwellnesss. Marmot ( 2003 ) point to research that show the degree of decease from bosom disease is lower in states where there is higher supply of fruit and veggies.
Another factor is the consequence of health care in the country gestation an infant lovingness. The United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA 2010a ) province that the addition in life anticipation of the World 's population is because of betterments that has been including " lowered baby and child mortality ; better nutrition, instruction, wellness attention and entree to household planning ; " ( UNFPA 2010a, neptunium ) . The UNFPA ( 2010a ) underscore how wellness in the early old ages is increasing life anticipation because for illustration immature kids are eating better The UNFPA besides indicate the importance of health care and household planning and for adult females mean less gestation and infant wellness jobs. An illustration of a wellness factor that is cut downing decease at birth and gestation issues is the addition in skilled wellness staff ( UNFPA 2009 ) . Harmonizing to Wilkinson and Marmot ( 2003 ) this increases life anticipation because this means when immature kids grow up they will hold less unwellness connected to infant sick wellness.
Additionally, the UNFPA ( 2009 ) province that instruction is besides another of import factor to increasing life anticipation. They say this is so particularly for adult females that finish secondary school instruction because it means that misss are stronger physically and emotionally and this lead to fewer infant deceases. This make sense because instruction across all states give people more cognition and they are able to do better determinations, picks and live healthier life ( Marmot 2009 ) .
Meanwhile a study by the World Health Organisation show that there are besides many societal factors impacting the life anticipation ( Marmot 2009 ) . In richer developed states life anticipation has increased because the societal conditions are better because the people that are populating longer are non enduring from issues associating to poverty such as non eating good, entree to medical attention and clean H2O ( Marmot 2009 ) . More of the universe now has entree to cleaner H2O ( UNFPA 2010b ) . So over the past 100 old ages in richer states there have been betterments to wellness, H2O and nutrition which is assisting to increase life anticipation.
Improvements in economic state of affairs of people has led to additions in life anticipation around the universe ( Wilkinson and Marmot 2003 ) . Harmonizing to Wilkinson and Marmot ( 2003 ) diseases are less common if the societal place of the individual is better because these people can pay for better nutrient and better medical specialty and better attention. However at same clip they say non merely about rich or hapless because as stated by Wilkinson and Marmot ( 2003 ) the societal factors increasing life anticipation can impact all degree of society. For illustration they province that " even among middle-class office workers, lower ranking staff suffer much more disease and earlier decease than higher superior staff " ( Wilkinson and Marmot 2003, p10 ) . This is because societal factors that can consequence life anticipation can go on at any degree. The people that are populating longer have good societal factors such good household dealingss and support, good instruction in the young person old ages, secure employement, occupation satisfaction and good lodging. All these factors find the World Health Organisation can better life anticipation ( Wilkinson and Marmot 2003 ) .
Furthermore decreased emphasis is illustration of societal factor that is assisting people live longer. The World Health Organisation say that " go oning anxiousness, insecurity, low self-pride, societal isolation and deficiency of control over work and place life, have powerful effects on wellness " ( Wilkinson and Marmot 2003, p12 ) . Consequently life anticipation is increasing around the universe for people who are sing these jobs less and less.
Stress can besides include emphasis at work which can hold affect in life anticipation. Harmonizing to Wilkinson and Marmot 2003 the " psychosocial environment at work is an of import determiner of wellness " ( p18 ) . Other employment factors that addition life anticipation are high occupation security and high occupation satisfaction ( Wilkinson and Marmot 2003 ) .
Social isolation is another factor that affect life anticipation. " Life is short where quality is hapless. By doing adversity and bitterness, poorness, societal exclusion and favoritism cost lives " ( Wilkinson and Marmot 2003, p16 ) . Therefore society where people are non isolated is assisting to increase life anticipation. So so in states around the universe factor is assisting to increase life anticipation where people experience less isolation and there is more community and relationship. Wilkinson and Marmot ( 2003 ) say nevertheless that this factor can besides include for illustration favoritism, racism and unemployment. In the UK there is higher life anticipation in countries where there is less societal isolation and unemployment. Rich countries such as Chelsea and Kensington in London say the BBC ( 2009 ) have highest life anticipation in the UK, which is 84 for work forces and 89 for adult females. But in Glasgow which has many societal jobs ( BBC 2006 ) the life anticipation is merely 70 old ages for adult male and 77 old ages for adult females.
The grounds it seems that people are populating longer for many grounds. Either for wellness, better medical specialty, better support and societal connexion or addition in wealth. Peoples non merely populating longer in rich states but besides in hapless states where the state is possibly still hapless but there betterment in wellness and instruction. As long these factors increase for people so more people will populate longer.


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• Harmonic Series Drones is an extension of several of my music compositions. Over the past few years, I've been very interested in data sonification, writing several pieces that turn real-time weather data into music. This library was created using a drone generator that turns weather data into sound. I built this drone generator for my piece Sitka for piano and seasonal electronics.
• Instead of pulling weather data from Sitka, Alaska, as I did in the piece, I used 2016 daily temperature data from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a fragile place wrapped up in current political drama and now open to drilling. This library is a sonification of 2016 temperature data in ANWR. The highest global temperature on record was recorded in 2016 (2016 Global Climate Report). It is even worse in the Arctic where temperatures are warming at twice the rate of lower latitudes (2016 Arctic Report Card). With this library, you'll be able to hear the warming, and I hope this library helps to draw attention to the rapidly changing environment of the Arctic.
• Each of the forty-eight drones corresponds to the average temperature of a day in 2016, with twelve drones from each of the four seasons. The drones are built from pure tones made from tightly filtered pink noise. These pure tones are then stacked in harmonic series relationships. For instance, a winter drone might consist of the fundamental and four lowest partials. A summer drone could have the fundamental and partials seven, fourteen, and thirty-two.
• The drones stand on their own without the story. If you never knew they started with weather data, you would still find a variety of pure, rich, microtonal drones with enough variety to fit the mood of any project.
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Julia Calleo's blog, My Lavender Blues, began as a creative outlet and grew into a professional project. She actually was recruited to her current, full-time job at a professional photography studio when one of the studio's partners found her blog and thought her style meshed well with theirs. Although she lives in Saint Louis now, … More Profile of My Lavender Blues


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In a historic decision that could lead to greater rights for Hong Kong's LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community, the territory's high court has ruled that the same-sex partner of a British expatriate should be granted a spousal visa.
The Court of Final Appeal ruled Wednesday that the woman, identified in court papers only by the initials QT, should be issued a visa that would grant her resident status and allowed her to work in the Chinese-held territory, which maintains a high degree of autonomy, including an independent judiciary.
QT and her partner entered into a same-sex civil partnership in Britain in 2011, but was only granted a visitor's visa when the couple moved to Hong Kong later that year, which prevented QT from working.
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From their big debut in the 1990s from chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten to their ever-presence on dessert menus since, chocolate molten lava cakes are easily one of the most trodden tropes of the restaurant world. There are enough riffs on it out there to fill two internets; does anyone need another? The Smitten Kitchen has been lava cake-free since its 2006 inception mostly because I'm not terribly into warm, oozy desserts (I KNOW). But it's not just about me anymore, is it? Last Valentines I had a moment of glowy domestic benevolence and decided to make them for the family and blew each and every one of their minds, most especially my husband, who demanded to know if I had known how to make them all along, why had I waited so long? Fair enough.
So here goes nothing. If tiny sunglasses, overalls (much to my delight), combat boots (ditto), flannels, slip dresses, small backpacks, choker necklaces, crop tops, and other 1990s treasures can have their moment again, why not these? At least, perhaps, for the duration of a single date night. Or, even better, an I-don't-need-a-date-to-make-awesome-cake night.
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How To Make A Movie About Mormon Missionaries Even Agnostics Will Love
After wowing audiences in the Book of Mormon Belt, the creators of The Saratov Approach hope to reach a wider audience. "It was a wonderful film," said Larry King.
LOS ANGELES — The Rave 18 theater 10 minutes north of LAX was filled to capacity Friday for the Los Angeles premiere of The Saratov Approach, an independent film based on the true story of two Mormon missionaries kidnapped and held for ransom in Saratov, Russia, in 1998.
The film became the fastest Mormon-themed movie to reach $1 million after opening for four weeks on 20 screens in Mormon-heavy states like Utah, Idaho, and Arizona. This month, it opened in theaters in California, Florida, Texas, Washington, Wyoming, and Alberta, Canada.
"It was a wonderful film," said Larry King, who attended the screening. He later joked, "I'm an agnostic. I'm a Jew. I feel weird here."
But agnostics, Jews, and anyone else outside of the film's natural audience are exactly who the film's creators are hoping to reach as it opens in new markets.
"We didn't make this film to be a niche film," said writer and director Garrett Batty, who has previously worked on other Mormon-themed movies, including 2009's Scout Camp. "This movie clearly appealed to a very select market, but the themes in this film are universal."
The film has received positive reviews from Salt Lake City's newspapers. "Equal parts nerve-jangling thriller and faith-empowering drama, The Saratov Approach is a low-budget movie that builds up its tension in a tightly confined space," wrote The Salt Lake Tribune.
The Saratov Approach tells the story of Travis Tuttle, played by Corbin Allred, and Andrew Propst, played by Maclain Nelson, two missionaries who were serving for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints about 400 miles southeast of Moscow when they vanished in March 1998. They were attacked and held for $300,000 ransom by two Russian men — played by Alex Veadov and Nikita Bogolyubov — and ultimately let go after five days.
"The story had always been interesting to me," Batty said. "What takes place in those five days?"
Batty got the two former missionaries together before he began writing. It was the first time they had seen each other since returning home from their missions, and they were "reluctant" to tell their story at first, he said. "They sat down with me and told me what their experience was. It blew my mind."
The film alternates between scenes of the captive missionaries, their worried families at home, and flashbacks to earlier in their mission. In one of the most heartbreaking moments, a man who had also been kidnapped while serving his mission two decades earlier calls the parents of Tuttle, hoping to give them comfort and tell them what he was thinking when he was kidnapped.
"I want to talk to you about what's going through your son's mind right now," the man tells the kidnapped missionary's parents. "You think about the ones who've taken you and what they've done to you and why, and you begin to worry about what will happen to them ... Then almost against your will, you pray for them."
The Christian belief of loving one's enemies is one of the more difficult teaching to follow, especially if your enemies are holding you for ransom, but it proves key in missionary's struggle to survive.
"The longer those valiant boys spend with their kidnappers, the harder it will be for them to keep them, because light always overcomes darkness," the man tells Tuttle's parents.
Even knowing the missionaries made it out alive — both Propst and Tuttle were in the audience on Friday — doesn't make The Saratov Approach any less gripping. And despite the religious overtones, the film's themes are less uniquely Mormon than they are generally Judeo-Christian.
"This story is a lot bigger than the two people who were involved," Batty said when asked during the Q&A session what he got most out of making the film. "You do your best to lift one another's burdens."


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"The world's environment is surprisingly healthy. Discuss."If that were an examination topic, most students would tear it apart. offering a long list of complaints: from local smog (烟雾) to global climate change, from the felling(砍伐) of forests to the extinction of species. The list would largely be accurate,the concern legitimate. Yet the students who should be given the highest marks would actually be those who agreed with the statement. The surprise is how good things are, not how bad.
After all. the world's population has more than tripled during this century, and world output has risen hugely. so you would expect the earth itself to have been affected. Indeed, if people lived, consumed and produced things in the same way as they did in 1900 (or 1950. or indeed 1980), the world by now would be a pretty disgusting place: smelly, dirty. toxic and dangerous.
But they don't. The reasons why they don't. and why the environment has not been ruined. have to do with prices. technological innovation, social change and government regulation in response to popular pressure. That is why today's environmental problems in the poor countries ought. in principle, to be solvable.
Raw materials have not run out. and show no sign of doing so. Logically. one day they must: the planet is a finite place. Yet it is also very big. and man is very ingenious. What has happened is chat every time a material seems to be running short, the price has risen and. in response. people have looked for new sources of supply, tried to find ways to use less of the material, or looked for a new substitute. For this reason prices for energy and for minerals have fallen in real terms during the century. The same is true for food. Prices fluctuate, in response to harvests. natural disasters and political instability; and when they rise, it takes some time before new sources of supply become available. But they always do. assisted by new farming and crop technology. The long-term trend has been downwards.
It is where prices and markets do not operate properly that this benign (良性的) trend begins to scumble, and the genuine problems arise. Markets cannot always keep the environment healthy. If no one owns the resource concerned. no one has an interest in conserving it or fostering it: fish is the best example of this.
1.According to the author, most students_________________.
A) believe the world's environment is in an undesirable condition
B) agree that the environment of the world is not as bad as it is thought to be
C) get high marks for their good knowledge of the world's environment
D) appear somewhat unconcerned about the state of the world's environment
2.The huge increase in world production and population________________.
A) has made the world a worse place to live in
B) has had a positive influence on che environment
C) has not significantly affected the environment
D) has made the world a dangerous place to live in
3.One of the reasons why the long-term trend of prices bas been downwards is that__________.
A) technological innovation can promote social stability
B) political instability will cause consumption io drop
C) new farming and crop technology can lead to overproduction
D) new sources are always becoming available
4.Fish resources are diminishing because_________________.
A) no new substitutes can be found in large quantities
B) they are not owned by any particular entity
C) improper methods of fishing have ruined che fishing grounds
D) water pollution is extremely serious
5.The primary solution to environmental problems is_______________.
A) to allow market forces to operate properly
B) to curb consumption of natural resources
C) to limit the growth of the world population
D) to avoid fluctuations in prices


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But, GOP lawmakers have blocked current efforts to transfer funds as a bargaining chip to power Congress and the Obama Administration to make cuts to Social Safety benefits. 5) The federal budget might be decreased by eliminating the existing Social Safety Administration overhead expense and reduce the obligation of the federal funds to subsiding the retirement of those qualifying for advantages.
We'd not require them to request and pay for the entire other records from that hospitalization." SSA's response to feedback additionally notes that medical data for an individual apart from the claimant, sent accidentally by a treating source, aren't thought-about related.
Opponents of Social Safety could as soon as again attempt to use this report as an excuse to cut benefits, including raising the retirement age," warns Max Richtman. These easy steps will enormously enhance your chances of being awarded the social safety incapacity benefits to which you entitled.
2 When an individual seeks disability advantages due in entire or partly to FM, we should properly take into account the individual's signs after we determine whether or not the person has an MDI of FM. As with every declare for disability benefits, earlier than we discover that a person with an MDI of FM is disabled, we should ensure there is ample goal proof to support a discovering that the person's impairment(s) so limits the particular person's functional talents that it precludes her or him from performing any substantial gainful exercise.
Social Security will contact the VA Hospital(s) to acquire your medical data for the circumstances that you simply claim. The Social Safety Administration will ship you a letter and a copy of the judge's decision. In both case, it is vitally potential that you're entitled to some Social Security advantages in addition to your WC advantages.


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