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Lady Gaga Reveals New Song Title 'G.U.Y. (Girl Under You)'
In addition to talking about Adele and the Body Revolution in a recent interview, Lady Gaga shared a song title from 'ARTPOP' and it's called 'G.U.Y. (Girl Under You),' but that's not how it appeared in the article.
Gaga sprung to action to correct the publication and let 'em know they got it wrong and to share the real title via her LittleMonsters site.
Gaga spoke about feminism and beauty norms in her chat with the women's outlet Stylist, saying, "You know what's so funny is, I actually think there's a new feminism that is completely different and I don't think either is better or worse. Any kind of feminist has valid views for herself about what it means to be a feminist, but, as a new-age feminist, I would say I quite like the transference of strength I feel by submitting to a man – being under him."
She also shared that she wrote a song about that very concept on 'ARTPOP.'
"I actually wrote a song about it on my album, it's called 'GUY' and it stands for 'Go Under You.' So wearing makeup, smelling delicious and having suckable, kissable, edible things between your limbs is something I find strengthening because I know that when I pick the right guy, I can let him have it. Some women feel oppressed by makeup and clothing, and here's to them, they have every right to feel that way as well."
Gaga quickly posted that the title is actually 'G.U.Y. (Girl Under You),' (not 'Go Under You'), which would make more sense and fall in line with her explanation about the well-thought out concept of the song.
So there we have it. A new nugget of information about 'ARTPOP.' Recently, Gaga suggested that the album would be released in two volumes, with one being commercial and the other more experimental.
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Firefox OS (sometimes abbreviated FxOS) is a new mobile operating system developed by Mozilla. It uses a Linux kernel and boots into a Gecko-based runtime engine, which lets users run applications developed entirely using HTML, JavaScript, and other open web application APIs.
Firefox OS is currently under heavy development; we are constantly working on ways to make it easier for you to use and hack on Gaia (the default set of apps) and create your own. However, you need knowledge about systems in order to do things like build the entire Firefox OS stack, or flash a phone with a build of Firefox OS. Linked below are guides meant for Web developers interested in running and making changes to Gaia or developing apps to run on Firefox OS devices.
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Memphis, Tenn.
Joseph Zitnyar's life goal is to someday create new medicines to help improve human health and quality of life.
Zitnyar, a sophomore from Memphis, came to UT Martin on a spur-of-the-moment decision, but quickly found his place in the chemistry department. A chemistry major, he hopes to go to pharmacy school after graduation from UT Martin.
Pharmacists work in many areas, including retail outlets, hospitals and research facilities. Zitnyar would like to start his career in the retail pharmacy industry and eventually transition into the research field.
"I love to find new things and make new medicines. I would love to create a new medicine to cure something like the common cold. That's really where my heart lies is in research," he said.
His lecture courses and hands-on laboratory experiences at UT Martin are preparing him not only for the scientific world of chemistry, but also for the rigorous coursework required of pharmacy students.
"As much as I love the subject (chemistry), these courses are not easy. It's been tough, but it's preparing me for the future," he said. "If I get a strong foundation here, it will make the transition into pharmacy school bearable. I feel like they (his professors) are laying a good groundwork for me."
He is looking forward to conducting undergraduate research in either organic or biochemistry, since those areas are closely related to the field of human medicine. His favorite course at UT Martin has been organic chemistry, a subject that comes naturally to him.
Even though he came to UT Martin on the last-minute recommendation of a high school friend, Zitnyar stayed because of the exceptional science program and chemistry department faculty.
"Each professor that I've had has been very approachable, and that's helped me if I have any questions, I know I can go and ask them. That's helped me out a lot to survive and thrive in the chemistry environment," he noted. "There are good student-to-teacher relationships here."
"If you're serious about academics, this is the place to be. I could find no better school for the price," Zitnyar said, giving advice to potential students. "It's a relaxed atmosphere and it's a little like a community, so you can get to know everybody," he added.
Zitnyar's first graduate school choice is the UT Health Science Center in Memphis.
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The Kent LLM (and associated Diploma programme) allows you to broaden and deepen your knowledge and understanding of law by specialising in one or more different areas.
This pathway allows international law and international relations to inform each other. It covers the general methods, scope and theories of international law, international humanitarian law and international relations. It provides a detailed understanding of the role, potential and limitations of public international law in international affairs. Its interdisciplinary approach is particularly suited to those involved with, or hoping to work for, international organisations, non-governmental organisations, foreign affairs departments and international law firms.
Students studying International Law with International Relations are encouraged to participate in the activities of the Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) at Kent. These include workshops, trips to international courts and tribunals, and guest lecture series.
Students can choose to spend one term (either Autumn or Spring) at our Canterbury campus and one (either Autumn or Spring) at our Brussels centre (returning to Canterbury to complete the dissertation) under our split-site option for this programme. The split site option is charged at a different rate. Please see under Fees below for more information. Programmes at our Brussels centre are offered primarily in International Law and Human Rights Law. Students are responsible for organising their own accommodation in Brussels. Please contact the University's Accommodation Office for information about the availability of short term accommodation in Canterbury.
Studying for a Master's in Law (LLM) at Kent means having the certainty of gaining an LLM in a specialist area of Law. The Kent LLM gives you the freedom to leave your choice of pathway open until after you arrive - your pathway being determined by the modules you choose.
Think Kent: International Law
There is no universally agreed precise legal, technical or political definition of either the boundaries separating airspace from outer space or of the term 'outer space' itself. Yet two separate legal regimes exist for the regulation of these two environments. Whilst states have complete and exclusive sovereignty of their airspace, there can be no exercise of sovereignty in outer space other than jurisdiction over space flight vehicles and objects such as space stations.
Watch the Think Kent Series lecture 'Air Law & Space Law: spatial delimitation between airspace & outer space', in which Dr Gbenga Oduntan, Senior Lecturer in International Commercial Law at the University of Kent, critiques the leading theories that have been postulated to solve this problem, and proposes an original solution regarding the spatial demarcation boundary point issue in air and space law.
About Kent Law School
Kent Law School (KLS) is the UK's leading critical law school. A cosmopolitan centre of world-class critical legal research, it offers a supportive and intellectually stimulating place to study postgraduate taught and research degrees.
In addition to learning the detail of the law, students at Kent are taught to think about the law with regard to its history, development and relationship with wider society. This approach allows students to fully understand the law. Our critical approach not only makes the study of law more interesting, it helps to develop crucial skills and abilities required for a career in legal practice.
Our programmes are open to non-law graduates with an appropriate academic or professional background who wish to develop an advanced understanding of law in their field. You study within a close-knit, supportive and intellectually stimulating environment, working closely with academic staff.
The fees for the Canterbury-only delivery of this programme are the same as those for the standard LLM programme. However, fees for our split-site option (which is taught in Canterbury and Brussels) are charged at a different rate. Please refer here for the current fees for the split-site 90 ECTS option.
National ratings
In the most recent Research Excellence Framework, Kent Law School was ranked 8th for research intensity in the Times Higher Education.
Course structure
You can tailor your studies to your particular needs and interests to obtain an LLM or Diploma in a single pathway, in two pathways jointly, or by choosing a broad range of modules in different areas of law to obtain a general LLM or Diploma in Law.
Your choice of pathway will be shaped by the modules you take and your dissertation topic. The double pathway International Law with International Relations is slightly different to the other LLM Pathways offered at the Kent Law School. International Relations is a 'minor' pathway which is only available when combined with the International Law 'major' pathway. For the award of a degree titled 'Master of Laws in International Law with International Relations' you should study at least three modules from the International Law pathway together with your dissertation. You must then choose two modules from the International Relations 'minor' pathway. The remaining module can be chosen from any of the other law modules offered on the LLM.
The following modules are indicative of this pathway. This list is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation and student demand. Most pathways will require you to study a combination of subject specialisation modules and modules from other pathways so that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas that interest you.
LW814 - Public International Law
LW844 - Legal Aspects of Contemporary International Problems
LW906 - International Environmental Law – Legal Foundations
LW843 - International Human Rights Law
LW846 - International Criminal Law
LW884 - International Environmental Law – Substantive Legal Aspects
LW886 - Transnational Criminal Law
LW922 - Labour Rights in a Global Economy
No modules information available for this delivery.
Teaching and Assessment
The postgraduate programmes offered within the Law School are usually taught in seminar format. Students on the Diploma and LLM programmes study three modules in each of the autumn and spring terms. The modules are normally assessed by a 4-5,000-word essay. Students undertaking an LLM degree must write a dissertation of 15,000 words.
Programme aims
This programme aims to provide:
- LLM: The opportunity to develop (a) expert knowledge and a sophisticated understanding of particular areas of law; (b) advanced research, writing and oral communication skills of general value to postgraduate employment.
PGDip: The opportunity to develop (a) expert knowledge and a sophisticated understanding of particular areas of law; (b) written and oral communication skills of general value to postgraduate employment.
- LLM: A sound knowledge and systematic understanding of the institutional structures, key principles of law and policy and influential ideas, theories, assumptions and paradigms of particular areas of law.
PGDip: A sound knowledge and systematic understanding of the institutional structures, key principles of law and policy and influential ideas, theories, assumptions and paradigms of the subjects studied.
- LLM & PGDip: A degree of specialisation in areas of law and policy chosen from the LLM option streams available and an opportunity for students to engage with academic work at the frontiers of scholarship.
- LLM & PGDip: A critical awareness of the operation of law and policy, particularly in contexts that are perceived to be controversial or in a state of evolution.
- LLM: The skills to undertake supervised research on an agreed topic in their specialisation and to encourage the production of original, evaluative analysis that meets high standards of scholarship.
- LLM & PGDip: Critical, analytical and problem-solving skills that can be applied to a wide range of contexts.
- LLM & PGDip: The skills of academic legal research and writing.
- LLM: A sophisticated grounding in research methods.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
You gain knowledge and understanding of:
- the institutions, principles and structures of law in areas studied, and the policy background and interrelationships between them
- the key concepts, policy issues, principles; and relevant sources of law and policy in the areas studied
- the substantive law relevant to a range of key areas of law and policy
- the theoretical, social and academic debates which underlie the substantive areas of law studied
- the practical contexts in which law operates
- the importance of evaluating law alongside its theoretical and practical contexts: and
- the relationship and inter-relationship between areas of law studied.
Intellectual skills
You develop intellectual skills in the following:
- effectively applying the knowledge of law and policy in areas studied to a wide range of situations where relevant practical or theoretical issues are under consideration
- evaluating issues according to their context, relevance and importance
- gathering relevant information and access key sources by electronic or other means
- formulating arguments on central issues and areas of controversy, and being able to present a reasoned opinion based upon relevant materials
- recognising potential alternative arguments and contrary evidence to your own opinion, and presenting a reasoned justification for your preference
- independence of mind and the ability to offer critical challenge to received understanding on particular issues
- the ability to reflect constructively on your learning progression.
Subject-specific skills
You gain subject-specific skills in the following:
- the ability to identify and characterise issues relating to areas of law studied, which arise in practical situations
- the ability to research and access the main sources of law and policy that are relevant to the area of law studied
- the ability to appreciate and evaluate the main theoretical and political perspectives that underlie the legal provisions
- the ability to provide a reasoned and justified opinion as to the possible legal consequences in particular circumstances
- awareness of the limitations of present knowledge and matters needing to be resolved by further research
- the ability to utilise research skills, at least, to commence further research into unresolved issues
Transferable skills
You gain transferable skills in the following:
- the ability to identify relevant issues from potentially complex factual situations
- the ability to undertake research from a diverse range of sources;
- the ability to summarise detailed, complex information accurately and concisely
- the ability to formulate arguments in verbal presentations and defend these against opposing views
- presenting information and arguments in written form, in accordance with academic conventions, and appropriately to the intended readership
- evaluating personal performance.
Employability is a key focus throughout the University and at Kent Law School you have the support of a dedicated Employability and Career Development Officer together with a broad choice of work placement opportunities, employability events and careers talks. Details of graduate internship schemes with NGOs, charities and other professional organisations are made available to postgraduate students via the School's Employability Blog.
Law graduates have gone on to careers in finance, international commerce, government and law or have joined, or started, an NGO or charity.
Kent has an excellent record for postgraduate employment: of Kent graduate students who graduated in 2016, 98% of those who responded to a national survey were in work or further study within six months (DLHE).
Information about the internship programme for LLM students can be found on the Kent Law School Employability blog.
Study support
Friendly and supportive environment
Kent Law School has a lively and active postgraduate community, bought about in part by our strong research culture and by the close interaction between our staff and students. Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, conference proceedings and books and embed their research in their teaching. Taught students have regular contact with their programme and module conveners with staff on hand to answer any questions and to provide helpful and constructive feedback on submitted work. The Law School has an active and inclusive extra-curricular academic and social scene with regular guest lectures, talks and workshops organised by our research centres (which include the Centre for Critical International Law and the Kent Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality).
Award-winning Law Library
Our Law Library has long been a leader in the development of electronic resources for legal teaching and research. The extensive and up-to-date law collection in the University's Templeman Library is particularly strong on electronic material, and the Electronic Law Library includes numerous legal databases, which are increasingly invaluable tools for research. In addition, you can access the text of thousands of law journals online. Our law librarian is available to train you to use these resources and runs regular legal research classes with postgraduate students.
We have a dedicated postgraduate office, offering support from application to graduation. Postgraduate students at Kent Law School have access to a postgraduate computing room, study area and common room with wireless internet access.
Global Skills Award
All students registered for a taught Master's programme are eligible to apply for a place on our Global Skills Award Programme. The programme is designed to broaden your understanding of global issues and current affairs as well as to develop personal skills which will enhance your employability.
Entry requirements
A first or 2.1 honours degree or equivalent, in law or a related subject. Students who achieve a high 2.2 standard may also be considered at the discretion of Kent Law School (KLS). The School may also take account of relevant work experience when considering applications.
All applicants are considered on an individual basis and additional qualifications, professional qualifications and experience will also be taken into account.
International students
Please see our International Student website for entry requirements by country and other relevant information for your country. Please note that international fee-paying students cannot undertake a part-time programme due to visa restrictions.
English language entry requirements
The University requires all non-native speakers of English to reach a minimum standard of proficiency in written and spoken English before beginning a postgraduate degree. Certain subjects require a higher level.
For detailed information see our English language requirements web pages.
Need help with English?
Please note that if you are required to meet an English language condition, we offer a number of pre-sessional courses in English for Academic Purposes through Kent International Pathways.
Research areas
Criminal Justice
Much of the School's research activity in criminal justice takes place in co-operation with the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Research and under the auspices of the Kent Criminal Justice Centre. Established in 1996, the Centre co-ordinates and encourages research in the field of criminal justice, and develops teaching and education initiatives, especially in co-operation with local criminal justice agencies.
Critical Commercial Law and Business Law and Regulation
Kent Law School has established a rich tradition of critical scholarship on the legal regulation of the business practices and commercial relations of market economies. Our experts inform research-led teaching in such fields as consumer debt and bankruptcy, secured credit, intellectual property, International Financial Institutions, economic development, international trade and business transactions, commercial arbitration, international labour regulation, corporate governance, regulation of personal financial services, e-commerce, and the law relating to banking and information technology.
Critical Obligations
Our expertise in the area of obligations shares a commitment to challenging the apparently coherent and common-sense rules of contract and tort. We do this by identifying the conflicts in the world outside of the textbook that shape and destabilise the operation of these rules, and by revealing the ideological, political, and distributive biases that the rules of contract and tort help to perpetuate.
Environmental Law
The Law School has long been established as a recognised centre of excellence in research and graduate teaching in environmental law, spanning international, EC and national law and policy. Current research interests include climate change, the aquatic environment, biodiversity conservation, regulation and enforcement, and trade.
European and Comparative Law
European and Comparative Law is being conducted both at an individual level as well as at the Kent Centre for European and Comparative Law, which was established in 2004 with a view to providing a framework for the further development of the Law School's research and teaching activities in this area. Research and teaching reaches from general areas of comparative and European public and private law to more specialised areas and specific projects.
Gender and Sexuality
Home to the Kent Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, Kent Law School makes a significant contribution to the development of feminist perspectives on law, nationally and internationally. The Centre produces wide-ranging interdisciplinary work, drawing on a broad range of intellectual trajectories in addition to legal studies, including political theory, philosophy, sociology, political economy, cultural studies, geography, history, and drama. The Centre explores how sexuality is produced through political categories of difference and how it is governed. The research carried out by the Centre demonstrates a shared preoccupation with inequality and social change.
Governance and Regulation
Legal research involves studying processes of regulation and governance. This research cluster focuses on the character of regulation and governance to critically understand the different modes through which governing takes place such as the conditions, relations of power and effects of governance and regulation. Work within this area is methodologically diverse. Intellectually, it draws on a range of areas including socio-legal studies; Foucauldian perspectives on power and governmentality; Actor Network Theory; feminist political theory and political economy; postcolonial studies; continental political philosophy; and cultural and utopian studies.
Healthcare Law and Ethics
A number of Kent Law School (KLS) staff have interests in the area of Health Care Law and Ethics, focusing in particular on issues relating to human reproduction. Much of the research carried out by scholars in this area is critical and theoretical and has a strong interdisciplinary flavour. In addition to conducting their own research projects, staff have developed strong and fruitful collaborations with ethicists and medical professionals.
International Law
The starting point for research in international law at Kent Law School is that international law is not apolitical and that its political ideology reflects the interests of powerful states and transnational economic actors. In both research and teaching, staff situate international law in the context of histories of colonialism to analyse critically its development, doctrines and ramifications. Critical International Law at KLS engages with theories of political economy, international relations and gender and sexuality to contribute to scholarly and policy debates across the spectrum of international law, which includes public, economic, human rights, criminal and commercial law. Scholars at the Centre for Critical International Law engage in the practical application of international law through litigation, training, research and consultancies for international organisations, NGOs and states.
Law and Political Economy & Law and Development
Law and its relation to political economy are addressed from a variety of angles, including the exploration of the micro and macrolevel of economic regulations as well as theoretical aspects of law and political economy.
Legal Theories and Philosophy
Identifying the fact that several academics do work in cultural theory and political theory (including on normative concepts, religion and the state). While feminist and critical legal theories are focal points at Kent Law School, the departmental expertise also covers more essential aspects such as classical jurisprudence and the application of philosophy to law.
Property Law
Kent Law School's property lawyers have a range of overlapping interests in both global and local property issues. Their work covers indigenous people's rights, the environment, housing, community land, social enterprise, cultural heritage law and urban design, as well as the question of intellectual property. They have links with anthropologists working at the University and have run a very successful series of workshops exploring common interests. Their research draws on a multiplicity of theoretical perspectives including postcolonialism, feminism, and Foucault.
Other research areas within KLS include:
- human rights
- labour law
- law and culture
- law, science and technology
- legal methods and epistemology
- public law
- race, religion and the law.
Staff research interests
Full details of staff research interests can be found on the School's website.
Professor Anneli Albi: Professor
Comparative constitutional law; EU constitutional law; EU enlargements; European Neighbourhood Policy.View Profile
Professor Donatella Alessandrini: Co Director of Postgraduate Research
International trade theory and practice; neoliberalism; international political economy; development studies.View Profile
Professor Yutaka Arai: Professor in Law
International humanitarian law (including part of international criminal law); the relationship between international humanitarian law and international human rights law.View Profile
Dr Ruth Cain: Senior Lecturer
Regulation and representation of reproduction and parenting, especially maternity, tracking relationships between law, literature, popular culture and the media, and how these shape perceptions of gender, sexuality and embodiment, health care law, including mental health law; the gendering of capitalism, neo-imperialism and post 9/11 trauma.View Profile
Professor Helen Carr: Director of Learning & Teaching
Housing law and social welfare, with particular interests in regulation of the poor and with the gendered and racialised dimensions of that regulation.View Profile
Donal Casey: Lecturer
Food governance and regulation; the issues of legitimacy and accountability.View Profile
Dr Emilie Cloatre: Senior Lecturer
The intersection between law and contemporary 'science and society' issues, for example patent law and access to health care, and the regulatory networks of climate change. This is particularly (although not exclusively) in the context of developing countries.View Profile
Eleanor Curran: Senior Lecturer
Hobbes; rights theory and the history of rights theory; political theory; moral theory; jurisprudence.View Profile
Dr Karen Devine: Lecturer
The law of obligations; tortious legal issues, particularly those relating to the collection, storage and use of human tissue; decision-making in health care and the role of informed consent; medical law and ethics generally.View Profile
Lisa Dickson: Senior Lecturer
Forensic science and the law; evidence and the trial process; general areas of criminal justice.View Profile
Maria Drakopoulou: Reader
Feminist theory; feminist jurisprudence; legal theory and philosophy; legal history; Roman law; equity and trusts.View Profile
Iain Frame: Lecturer
Legal and economic history, monetary theory, and social and legal theory.View Profile
Dr Simone Glanert: Senior Lecturer
Comparative legal studies; legal translation; statutory interpretation; European law; French law and German law. Recent publications include: De la traductibilité du droit (2011); Comparative Law: Engaging Translation (ed, 2012).View Profile
Professor Emily Grabham: Co Director of Research and Postgraduate Research
Citizenship; belonging and corporeality; feminist and queer theories of embodiment; labour law; welfare reform and its connection to work/family policy.View Profile
Professor Nick Grief: Professor
Public international law, human rights and EU law, with particular reference to the legal status of nuclear weapons.View Profile
Dr Emily Haslam: Lecturer
Public international law; international criminal law; civil society.View Profile
Martin Hedemann-Robinson: Senior Lecturer
European Union and international environmental law, notably in relation to law enforcement.View Profile
Professor Didi Herman: Professor of Law
Gender and sexuality; race, religion and ethnicity; popular culture; social movement; law reform.View Profile
Dr Kirsty Horsey: Senior Lecturer
Human reproduction and genetics, particularly where these overlap with issues in family law; legal education.View Profile
Professor William Howarth: Professor
Environmental and ecological law, with particular emphasis on the legal protection of the aquatic environment and the ecosystems that it supports.View Profile
Dr Suhraiya Jivraj: Lecturer
Law and religion; equalities, anti-discrimination and human rights law; critical race/postcolonial studies; gender and sexuality; Muslim feminisms and Islamic law.View Profile
Per Laleng: Lecturer; Director of Mooting
Law of tort – focused on the concept of causation particularly in the context of industrial and other diseases. Other research interests include law and football, and law and photography.View Profile
Sian Lewis-Anthony: Senior Lecturer in Law and UCU Branch President
International human rights law, in particular, the right to a fair trial and the issue of the independence and impartiality of the judiciary.View Profile
Dr Alex Magaisa: Senior Lecturer
Financial services regulation, with special focus on international finance centres (offshore finance jurisdictions); the law relating to corporate groups, with special interest in responsibility for corporate torts; intellectual property and developing countries; general interest in the interaction between law and politics in Africa.View Profile
Dr Gbenga Oduntan: Senior Lecturer
Private and public international law; international courts and tribunals; arbitration; international commercial law; land and maritime boundary and territorial disputes; air and space law; international economic law; immigration and asylum law; constitutional law; criminal justice; scientific and technological issues in policing.View Profile
Connal Parsley: Lecturer
Jurisprudence; critical legal theory; political theory; public law; law and aesthetics; law and film; Australian Aboriginal legal issues; legal ethics.View Profile
Sebastian Payne: Lecturer
The Crown; constitutional reform; the royal prerogative; oversight issues relating to the intelligence and security services; decision making and its relation to law.View Profile
Professor Amanda Perry-Kessaris: Professor
Law and development, including econo-socio-legal development; the role of legal indicators and legal systems in development; economic approaches to law and development.View Profile
Dr Stephen Pethick: Senior Lecturer
Jurisprudence, with emphasis on epistemology and metaphysics and the law; philosophy of language and the law; reasoning and the law; the concept of coherence and its use in legal theory and legal reasoning; the legal writings of Francis Bacon; the history of legal ideas from the early modern period onwards; analytic legal theory; legal history; the law of evidence.View Profile
Nick Piska: Lecturer
A critical engagement with private law, particularly in the area of equity and trusts, and a broader interest in the figure of the equitable subject and the ways in which equitable subjects are produced in modernity.View Profile
Professor Iain Ramsay: Co Director of Graduate Studies
Regulation of consumer markets at the national, regional and international level, with a particular interest in issues of credit and insolvency, commercial credit and commercial law, focusing on the role of credit law in development.View Profile
Sinead Ring: Lecturer
The legitimacy of the criminal trial, particularly the substantive implications of the criminal process' professed commitment to the rule of law.View Profile
Professor Harm Schepel: Professor
Legal sociology; international and European economic law.View Profile
Professor Sally Sheldon: Professor
Medical ethics and law, particularly with reference to reproductive issues; legal regulation of gender and sexuality; fatherhood.View Profile
Dr Sophie Vigneron: Senior Lecturer
French public and private law; English tort law; art law; the Europeanisation of private law; cultural heritage law.View Profile
Professor Dermot Walsh: Professor
Policing and criminal justice; criminal procedure; human rights; European criminal law and procedure.View Profile
John Wightman: Senior Lecturer; Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences
Theory, history, and empirical work relating to private law, especially tort and contract.View Profile
Professor Toni Williams: Professor
Regulation and governance of economic development and market relations; regulation of consumer financial services; the implications of information technology for the regulation of consumer markets.View Profile
Dr Simone Wong: Senior Lecturer
Equity; banking and finance; cohabitation and other domestic relationships.View Profile
General additional costs
Find out more about general additional costs that you may pay when studying at Kent.
Search our scholarships finder for possible funding opportunities. You may find it helpful to look at both:
- University and external funds
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The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association will begin a new competitive format for its regular season and tournament competition that will go into effect with the 2011-12 season, Commissioner David Neilson announced today.
The MIAA will institute home-and-home round-robin formats for regular season competition in team sports, with the exception of football and softball, which will remain with single round-robin schedules. In sports where a postseason tournament is used to determine the automatic qualifier (AQ) for NCAA Division III championship competition, all tournaments will adopt a four-team format, Neilson said.
"The Presidents' Council of the MIAA has reaffirmed the principle that MIAA conference competition and championships are the primary objective of in-season play.
"They also strongly endorse and support NCAA postseason play, and the aspirations of our student-athletes, coaches and institutions to compete at the highest level and on the national stage."
The four-team postseason tournaments will be used in the following AQ sports: volleyball, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's golf, women's golf, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, softball, men's tennis and women's tennis. Currently, tournament formats vary from four-team, six-team and eight-team tournaments in various sports.
"To further increase the significance of MIAA regular-season play, all AQ tournaments will include only the top four teams based upon final regular season standings," Commissioner Neilson said. "The Presidents' Council believes this reinforces the concept of earning a playoff position through success in the regular season."
Founded in 1888, the MIAA is the nation's oldest collegiate athletic conference. Member institutions are Adrian College, Albion College, Alma College, Calvin College, Hope College, Kalamazoo College, Olivet College, Saint Mary's College and Trine University.
The following page lays out a summary for MIAA regular season and AQ tournaments in all sports, beginning in the 2011-12 academic year.
Sport - Regular/MIAA Champion - AQ Determinent
Single round-robin schedule
MIAA Champion
Home-and-home round-robin schedule
Four-team end of season AQ tournament
Men's and Women's Soccer
Home-and-home round-robin schedule
Four-team end of season AQ tournament
Men's Golf
Round-robin Jamborees
Four-team, 54-hole AQ Tournament in spring
Women's Golf
Six JamboreesFour team, 54-hole AQ Tournament in spring
Men's and Women's Basketball
Home-and-home round-robin schedule
Four-team end of season AQ tournament
Home-and-home round-robin
Four-team end of season doubleheader schedule AQ tournament
Single round-robin doubleheader schedule
Four-team end of season AQ tournament
Men's and Women's Tennis
Single round-robin schedule of dual meets
Four-team end of season AQ tournament
Men's and Women's Cross Countgry
MIAA Jamboree and Championship
No AQ Cross Country
Men's and Women's Swimming & Diving
MIAA Three-Day Championship Meet
No AQ Swimming and Diving
Men's and Women's Track & Field
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We copied the recipe for this great cake back in the 1970's from the New York Times and it became a family favorite. It has since been reprinted in Amanda Hesser's Essential New York Times Cookbook, apparently an all-time favorite with Times readers as well. We serve it for breakfast in the fall, always to rave reviews. (It also makes a great dessert, served with vanilla ice cream). In case you don't have the cookbook, here's the recipe.
Teddy's Apple Cake
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinamon
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups peanut, vegetable, or corn oil
2 cups sugar
3 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 cups peeled, cored, and thickly sliced apples
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup raisins
1. Heat oven to 350. Butter and flour a 9-inch tube pan. Sift together the flour, salt, cinnamon, and soda.
2. Beat the oil and sugar together in a mixer for 5 minutes. Add eggs and beat until creamy. Sir in dry ingredients. Add remaining ingredients and stir until combined.
Turn batter into prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in the pan before turning out.


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Experiential Learning
There's a distinct synergy at New England Law | Boston.
It's generated by the daily integration of classroom and courtroom, by regular interplay with clients and consultations with professors.
Each semester, JD program students engage with faculty members, judges, practicing attorneys, and international prosecutors in real world legal work. Dozens of law clinics, legal internships, externships, and business practice positions offer a wide spectrum of placements in the region's law firms, public agencies, courts, corporations, international criminal tribunals, and the school's in-house legal office. Special projects sponsored by New England Law's three centers—Law and Social Responsibility, and International Law and Policy, Business Law—amplify the opportunities students have to apply their legal training to real life challenges.
New England Law students also sharpen their research, writing, and advocacy skills producing highly regarded scholarly publications and competing on award-winning advocacy teams. The New England Law Review is a student-run operation that receives input from faculty advisors. The school's moot court and mock trial lineups feature several faculty-coached traveling teams as well as an in-house competition.
New England Law's experiential learning and public interest law programs often serve as guides to other law schools trying to build programs that combine theory and practice in a substantive package. As you read the stories of graduates and see the impact they are making in the lives of their clients, you'll understand why.


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Sealed bids will be received for the Storm Drainage and Street Improvements, (Mittie Byrd Target Area & Elizabeth Target Area), CDBG No. 13p-x-001-2-5592 at the Baxley City Hall, 282 E. Parker St., P. O. Box 290, Baxley, GA 31515 until 11:00 AM (Local Time), Wednesday, September 10, 2014, at which time they will be publicly opened and read.
The work under this Contract will consist generally of the following:
The construction of + 1.16-miles of grading + 14,500 SY of 8" soil cement base, + 360-tons of Portland cement, + 1,450-tons 9.55mm superpave, + 196-LF of arch storm drain pipe (18.5"x28"), + 450-LF of side drain pipe, and all appurtenances necessary for a complete job.
All work on the Project must be completed within 180 consecutive calendar days of date of notice to proceed.
Bid shall be submitted on Bid Proposal Forms furnished for that purpose, in accordance with the Contract Documents and the Plans and Specifications, which are on file and may be reviewed at the office of the City Manager and the office of Hofstadter and Associates, Inc., Consulting Engineers, 4571 Arkwright Road, Macon, Georgia 31210.
Copies of Bid Forms, Plans, Specifications and Contract Documents may be obtained from Hofstadter and Associates, Inc., 4571 Arkwright Road, Macon, Georgia 31210, upon deposit of $150.00 per hard copy set and $75.00 per digital set (.pdf format). No refund will be made for returned documents.
No bid will be considered unless sealed and filed with the City of Baxley prior to the time set forth above, and accompanied by a Bidder's Bond, payable to the City of Baxley, for 10 percent of the amount of the bid; to be forfeited as liquidated damages in the event that the bid be accepted and the bidder fail to enter promptly into a written contract and furnish the required Payment Bond and Performance Bond and Insurance Certificates. Bids arriving after the designated time will be returned unopened.
No bids shall be withdrawn for a period of 60 days after the opening bids. The City of Baxley RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT ANY AND ALL BIDS AND TO OVERLOOK AND/OR DISREGARD INFORMALITIES OR IRREGULARITIES IN THE PROPOSALS.
To all bidders:
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Since Arkansas fired Bobby Petrino on Tuesday, the former coach's cellphone records have been made public. As it turns out, he texted more than anyone you've ever met.
The two big revelations:
1. He and his 25-year-old mistress Jessica Dorrell exchanged 4,300 texts over a seven-month period. That's one text per hour for seven months, calculates Darren Rovell. They also traded more than 300 phone calls in that time.
Petrino already admitted to an "inappropriate relationship" with Dorrell. So these phone records don't mean a whole lot in that respect. But on the other hand, how exactly does the head coach of an SEC football program have so much time to sit around and text?
2. In addition to the Dorrell texts, Deadspin dug through the records and claims that Petrino exchanged more than 200 texts over a two month period with Alison Melder— a 26-year-old senate assistant for the Arkansas Republican Party ( according to her LinkedIn page) who also won the "Miss Motorcycle Mania" modeling competition in 2008.
There are also allegedly seven picture messages from Melder to Petrino.
Neither Melder or Petrino has commented, so the reason for these texts remains unknown.
We'll give you more updates from the Phone Records Of The Century when they leak out.


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Obama, Clinton alliance under strain
Hillary Clinton's "Hard Choices" caused barely a ripple when her aides sent an early copy to the White House. Privately, President Barack Obama's aides shrugged when asked what they thought about the book. Some didn't even crack it open.
But one anecdote showed the strains just below the surface.
Story Continued Below
Within hours of the release of Clinton's book last week, some Obama campaign veterans quietly pushed back on a claim that they considered downright false: Clinton's contention that the Obama team had wanted to attack vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin for, essentially, being a woman.
"That's not what happened," said one campaign veteran, who, like almost everyone else interviewed, asked not to be identified. "The Palin thing was an odd way to put it. The question that was raised with numerous Democratic leaders was whether Gov. Palin had the right experience to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, and it's the same question that would have been raised regardless of gender."
( Also on POLITICO: Clinton: Unique perspective)
That moment from 2008 has become a Clinton talking point as she embarks on a book tour that many see as a prelude for a presidential run — one that will further test the tenuous alliance between the two former rivals and their loyalists, particularly those who haven't completely let go of past slights.
"There are many reasons why people are opposed to political figures," Clinton told Christiane Amanpour during a CNN town hall Tuesday night, when asked whether she thinks some of the opposition to Obama is about race. "I felt when I ran in '08 that there were people who were opposed to me because I was a woman."
White House aides acknowledge that there will have to be a high tolerance for her creating distance with the administration. They want the Democratic nominee to win, no matter who it is, and if that means spelling out differences with the president, then so be it. But they don't expect that to happen for a while because, at this point, Clinton will need to show that she was part of a successful presidency and undermining him wouldn't help.
Still, for Obama's aides and outside advisers, while the book itself was largely unobjectionable, the intensity surrounding the tour to promote it — replete with the campaign-style town hall and a sophisticated rollout — has been a neon sign reminding them that Clinton is increasingly seen by Democrats as their future.
( Also on POLITICO: McConnell: Obama says no Hill nod needed on Iraq)
For Clinton, she must decide how tightly to embrace a president with eroding approval ratings. Her book tour has offered hints of the balance she's attempting to strike. Clinton has defended Obama's controversial deportation policy, but also made clear that she warned the White House about the risk of not arming Syrian rebels. She has said she was never disappointed with the president while working for him, but she did disagree with him at times.
"You're not going to agree — I don't care who you are — with everything any president does," Clinton said at the CNN event.
The White House knows the attention in Washington eventually will turn almost exclusively to Clinton if she were to run for president, overshadowing Obama's own agenda. But it's not a new phenomenon for the West Wing, given Clinton's high-profile role in the Cabinet and her ambitious speaking schedule in recent months.
They've been doing this dance since the end of the 2008 Democratic primary, with each looking warily at the other, trying not to overtly step on the other's toes but occasionally slipping up. The start of another presidential cycle presents another awkward and potentially frustrating twist in the relationship. A recent CNN poll showed voters trusted Clinton more than Obama on potential handling of various foreign and domestic policy issues.
( Also on POLITICO: Rove: Bill revealed Hillary health)
But both Obama and Clinton, as well as aides, have sought to emphasize their personal closeness and mutual investment in the other's success.
"We have been able to have a no-surprises culture, and that is rooted in the fact that we have very deep personal relationships," said Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser. "She is going to do what she is going to do, and she is going to say what she is going to say, but generally the lines of communication are such that there are no surprises on the big issues that come up."
In her book, Clinton talks about forming an "unexpected partnership" with Obama during her tenure working for him. In an interview last month on ABC's "Live with Kelly and Michael," Obama said they remain "really, really good friends."
"Hillary and I, we're buddies," Obama said. "I think because we ran in the longest primary in history, and our staffs were doing battle politically, the perception was this was always a marriage of convenience when she came in as secretary of state. I've always admired her. As soon as she got here, she couldn't have been more effective, more loyal."
Obama and Clinton still occasionally meet for lunch, as they did earlier this month at the White House, and they talk with "some regularity," Rhodes said. Senior aides stay in contact, talking frequently about midterm campaign strategy and giving a courtesy heads-up when Obama or Clinton makes news that affects the other. Philippe Reines, a senior Clinton aide, has attended sessions at the White House with other foreign policy communicators since leaving the State Department.


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Rocker Richie Sambora has opened up about his feelings for ex-wife Heather Locklear, insisting he still loves the actress.
The Bon Jovi guitarist and "Melrose Place star" split in 2007 after 13 years of marriage, but Sambora tells People magazine that he still has feelings for the mother of his daughter, Ava.
He says, "Time does heal old wounds. I mean, I still love Heather and I know she loves me. She's the mother of my child, man. What can you say? … My favorite girl – her and my mom, I always say."
Last month, Sambora and Locklear were spotted on a family vacation together in Hawaii and were all smiles while walking on the beach.
Locklear has recently been linked to plastic surgeon Dr. Marc Mani.


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A broken shell
Depression:Definition (just my personal thoughts): That ache in the pit of your stomach that you wake up with every day for the rest of your life after witnessing your child suffer and then leave the physical world.
I know there are some that feel losing a child at such a young age would not be as hard as losing a child that is older. I can understand this thinking, because the longer you have with someone the more attached you grow to them, and it gets harder to say goodbye. Let me ask this question though, could you have said goodbye to your almost 5 month old child? It's painful at every age. It has been 5 years since I had to let her go, and I still feel the pain of her loss. This pain will never go away. I have to adapt to this new me. I have an introverted personality, and I like to keep to myself when I'm dealing with issues. I don't like announcing to the world that I'm struggling, and that most days I feel like an egg. I do my best to show this perfect outer shell to the rest of the world (to appear that I'm ok), but in reality if my outer shell were broken, then the horrible, raw, gooey stuff would ooze out. It feels so fragile most days. I wish it were something that I could control, but it is not. It has been 5 years and I'm not sitting and moping about it every second, but that feeling still remains. Some turn to drugs, or alcohol, or other things to get rid of it. I turn to junk food :) I know that it is only temporary and that it will give me health problems later, but at the moment I just want it to stop and I want to replace that sad feeling inside with something that is going to make me feel warm and fuzzy inside (and sweets always make me feel warm and fuzzy inside). There are also days that I just don't want to get out of bed, and then I feel guilty for losing precious time with my other blessings. They help me so much! I hate that my life took that turn. I feel like it has caused me to be a horrible mother, wife, and Christian most days. I hope I get credit for effort :) Sorry that this post seems so negative, but it is one of the few times a year that I allow myself to vent and hopefully help someone else that may be able to relate to the situation. I'm missing my Allie, especially today! This is one of those times when 5 years feels like an eternity. Can't wait to see her again!
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If your job is social media or working on a hot project or a project with executive visibility (or in my case, both), you are plugged in a lot – maybe even while brushing your teeth at night, flipping through your streams of communications. If you volunteer in the evenings or have kids on sports teams, you are plugged there too. It's the only way you can keep all of that going. It's modern life. Always being plugged in is how we communicate and stay in touch.
I am fortunate enough to work at a company that provides employees an amazing benefit – a two-month employee sabbatical every seven years. I took my second sabbatical this summer and it was great! It was great because I made some tough decisions on my plugged-in-ness. Although my job was going awesome and I was super motivated by my work, I did a full hand-off of all of my activities (and even used it as an opportunity to ditch some things that really weren't high value). I handed off my duties at the non-profit and let everyone else who depends on me know I was going to be gone and truly not available. And I have to admit, I didn't do all of the pre-unplugging planning that Baratunde Thurston did, as he documents in his article on unplugging, "Baratunde Thurston Leaves the Internet." In fact, I just kind of told a few people, set out of office on my laptop, and walked out the door.


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Law School History
A living legacy of revolution, evolution, and excellence.
In 1908, two Boston women were determined to sit for the Massachusetts bar examination. A lawyer named Arthur Winfield MacLean agreed to tutor them, and other students followed over the next few years until finally a school was established. MacLean's wife dubbed it Portia Law School after the heroine of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." Arthur MacLean became the school's first dean as Portia became the first institution in the history of law schools devoted exclusively to the education of women.
Beginning in 1920, Portia graduates received the LLB degree. When the school moved into its first permanent building in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood, enrollment had reached 228, and the results from the December 1921 Massachusetts bar exam indicated that all the women who passed were graduates of the school.
In 1938, Portia Law School became coeducational, and in 1969, the school was renamed New England School of Law and granted accreditation by the American Bar Association. The school was relocated to Boston's Park Square area in the 1980s and was elected to the Association of American Law Schools in 1998. At the advent of the school's second century in 2008, the name evolved to New England Law | Boston, celebrating the incredible urban environment in which the school flourishes.
Supreme discourse
Recent law school history includes significant interaction with members of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1973, Justice William O. Douglas was the first Supreme Court jurist to visit New England Law.
New England Law's first 100 years of legal education history produced a number of firsts.
- 1923—Ellen L. Buckley became the only woman assistant U.S. attorney in New England.
- 1923—Blanche Braxton became the first African-American woman lawyer in Massachusetts and, in 1933, the first African-American woman to practice in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts.
- 1926—Margaret M. McChesney became the first woman lawyer to appear before the full bench of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
- 1931—Dorothy R. Crockett of Providence, RI, received an LLB degree from Portia, becoming the first African-American woman from Rhode Island to earn a law degree.
- 1934—Ethel E. Mackiernan was appointed to the Nantucket District Court and became the first woman to serve as presiding justice of any court in Massachusetts.
- Late 1940s—Major Catherine E. Falvey was the only woman to head a department of the American legal staff at the Nuremberg war trials.


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We love you Ali G.
From Roanoke Times:
No one knows for sure who he was, that Middle Eastern man in an American flag shirt and a cowboy hat who was supposed to sing the national anthem at a rodeo Friday night in the Salem Civic Center. But he sure shook up this town before leaving in a hurry.
Introduced as Boraq Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan, he was said to be an immigrant touring America. A film crew was with him, doing some sort of documentary. And he wanted to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" to show his appreciation, the announcer told the crowd.
Speaking in broken English, the mysterious man first told the decidedly pro-American crowd – it was a rodeo, of all things, in Salem, of all places – that he supported the war on terrorism.
"I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards," he said, according to Brett Sharp of Star Country WSLC, who was also on stage that night as a media sponsor of the rodeo.
An uneasy murmur ran through the crowd.
"And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq," he continued, according to Robynn Jaymes, who co-hosts a morning radio show with Sharp and was also among the stunned observers.
The crowd's reaction was loud enough for John Saunders, the civic center's assistant director, to hear from the front office. "It was a restless kind of booing," Saunders said.
Then the man took off his hat and sang what he said was his native national anthem. He then told the crowd to be seated, put his hat back on, and launched into a butchered version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that ended with the words "your home in the grave," Sharp said.
By then, a restless crowd had turned downright nasty.
"If he had been out there a minute longer, I think somebody would have shot him," Jaymes said. "People were booing him, flipping him off."
Rodeo producer Bobby Rowe, who by then had figured out that he was the victim of some kind of hoax, had the man escorted out of the civic center. Rowe told him that he and his film friends had best leave right then.
"Had we not gotten them out of there, there would have been a riot," said Rowe, who has been bringing his Imperial Rodeo Productions to Salem for years.
As his wife, Lenore, put it: "It's a wonder one of these cowboys didn't go out there and rope him up."
Saunders agreed. "I was concerned for his personal safety," he said.
Once the film crew members and their star realized the severity of the situation, Bobby Rowe said, "they loaded up the van and they screeched out of there."
After apologizing to the crowd for being duped, Rowe was left to wonder who pulled such a hoax, and why. Months ago, he was approached by someone from One America, a California-based film company that was reportedly doing a documentary on a Russian immigrant, Rowe said.
The outfit asked if Sagdiyev could sing the national anthem at the rodeo in Salem. After listening to a tape, Rowe said sure.
By Saturday afternoon, Jaymes had observed that Sagdiyev looked a lot like the title character of "Da Ali G Show," a Home Box Office production that often catches its guests and audiences unaware and then records their reaction to "shock value" material such as Friday night's performance.
The show has a character named Borat from Kazakhstan, according to the HBO Web site.
Jaymes said she recalls that one of the five cameras was turned on her and others on stage, as if to catch their reactions.
"I looked at Brett and said, 'Why do I feel like I'm in the middle of a bad "Saturday Night Live" episode?'" Jaymes said.
As Rowe prepared Saturday for a second night of the rodeo, he was playing it safe on who would sing the national anthem.
"It'll be a tape," he said.


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The AAFP has aggressively launched a targeted grass-roots campaign to prevent the enactment of two back-to-back Medicare physician payment cuts that would result in a nearly 30 percent reduction in the Medicare physician payment rate.
The Academy has sent separate Speak Out alerts to its student(www.capwiz.com), resident(www.capwiz.com) and family physician(www.capwiz.com) members urging them to contact their senators and representatives to voice strong opposition to Medicare payment cuts scheduled to take effect as a result of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula on Jan. 1 and the Budget Control Act's (BCA's) sequestration provision on Jan. 2. If enacted, the SGR would cut the Medicare physician payment rate by 27 percent, and the BCA's sequestration provision would result in a 2 percent reduction, making it difficult for many physicians to provide care to Medicare patients.
"Family physicians give American seniors the quality, efficient and comprehensive care that makes a real difference in health," say the Speak Out alerts. "However, possible untargeted across-the-board Medicare budget cuts stand to impede this care delivery."
AAFP President Glen Stream, M.D., M.B.I., of Spokane, Wash., said the combination of the SGR and sequestration cuts "threatens the financial viability of many family physician practices," potentially decreasing the availability of primary care services for both Medicare and Tricare patients.
- The AAFP has launched a grass-roots campaign to block impending Medicare physician payment reductions called for by the sustainable growth rate and the sequestration provision.
- If enacted, the reductions would result in a nearly 30 percent reduction in the Medicare physician payment rate by early January.
- The AAFP has issued Speak Out alerts giving members an expedited way to reach their representatives in Washington to voice opposition to the impending reductions.
"Our grass-roots efforts to avert these cuts are timely and important," Stream said in an interview with AAFP News Now. "With Congress in recess and members of Congress in their home districts, now is the time to make our concerns known."
"Medicare's flawed SGR formula has pummeled physicians' financial future with threatened cuts for nearly 11 years," says a letter from Stream to members. "These last-minute patches are not acceptable, and a permanent solution is needed. Family physicians need a dependable payment system to support care delivery."
The letter also describes the sequestration as a "heavy handed and inefficient way of addressing our nation's deficit troubles. The issue should be tackled with a comprehensive and bipartisan approach that results in a solution that supports the health of our communities."
The AAFP is providing letters and talking points to help members deliver their messages to Congress. The Academy also is urging members, when reaching out to congressional representatives, to explain how the impending reductions will affect their patients and practices.
A new analysis from a national consulting firm in Pittsburgh highlights the importance of the grass-roots effort by AAFP members. The Tripp Umbach analysis(www.ama-assn.org) demonstrates the effects of sequestration on the U.S. health care system and the U.S. economy.
The analysis notes that the 2 percent sequester, which is scheduled to remain in effect from 2013 until 2021, will trigger Medicare reductions that will grow from $10.7 billion in 2013 to $16.4 billion in 2021.
Based on the model employed by the analysis, the first year of funding cuts will result in job losses of more than 496,000 jobs. "The employment models show that employment losses increase as the cuts do. By 2021, the loss of 2 percent in Medicare funding … will translate into more than 766,000 fewer jobs in the U.S. economy."
The overall job losses pertain to health care employees as well as other jobs supported by the purchases of health care organizations and their employees -- the so-called multiplier effect, says the report.
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Even by the wheezing standards of National Collegiate Athletic Association jurisprudence -- making campus sports a purer, more noble endeavor since 1910, one scofflaw bagel topping at a time -- the opening weeks of the college basketball season have been absurd.
Kafkaesque, really.
Take two of the schools competing in this week's Legends Classic tournament at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. UCLA features heralded freshman Shabazz Muhammad, previously declared ineligible by the NCAA for the egregious crime of taking unofficial recruiting trips to Duke and North Carolina that were paid for by a family friend, trips that Muhammad otherwise couldn't afford. How dare a prospective college student get help to visit … his possible future schools!
Meanwhile, Indiana is without freshmen Peter Jurkin and Hanner Mosquera-Perea, both of whom have been suspended for accepting financial support from a nonprofit organization that assists international student-athletes -- support that the NCAA would have been fine with, if not for the fact that the head of the nonprofit, AAU coach Mark Adams, was ruled a Hoosiers booster because he gave the university's athletic department a grand total of $185 between 1986 and 1992, which just happens to be before either player was, you know, born.
But wait. There's more.
San Diego State freshman Winston Shepard reportedly was suspended because a family he befriended while attending prep school in Las Vegas co-signed a loan for a car he purchased and drove for -- call 911 -- less than a week. New Mexico senior Jamal Fenton was suspended for renting a ballroom at a discounted rate from the same local hotel that also sponsors the school's athletic department. The size of the discount? A whopping $250 - and Fenton, who was celebrating his 21st birthday, didn't even realize he was getting it. Then there's Memphis junior college transfer Geron Johnson, who, like Muhammad, was suspended for accepting "impermissible benefits" from a family friend -- in his case, money to cover educational expenses incurred before Johnson actually enrolled at Memphis. Which means the student-athlete-first NCAA not only penalized him for taking cash to go to school, but also doled out a punishment roughly equivalent to your new boss docking vacation days for a trip you took to Europe before accepting your job.
But wait. There's still more.
Saving the worst for last, Akron junior forwards Nick Harney and Demetrius Treadwell were suspended for the first three games of the season because school administrators failed to complete "final amateur certification" paperwork prior to last season. Never mind that neither player broke any actual rules nor did anything unseemly. Never mind that neither player did much of anything, come to think of it.
If all of the above seems unfair -- and by unfair, I mean as arbitrary, capricious and petty as the imperial British rule that produced both the Declaration of Independence and "Assassin's Creed III"-- well, that's because it is. In college sports, justice isn't blind; it's a blind, trembling man throwing darts in a pitch-black room, hoping to strike a coveted recruit getting a free pair of shoes, or maybe a star player receiving a cash-stuffed envelope from an overzealous friend of the program. And things can never be otherwise. Not so long as the NCAA continues to promote and defend a false ideal rooted in ersatz morality; an unworkable mandate that makes no practical sense; a corrupting system that turns legitimate, well-meaning oversight (specifically, looking out for the safety and welfare of campus athletes) into a risible, dispiriting wabbit hunt, an endless, unwinnable war against both human nature and basic economics.
I'm referring, of course, to amateurism. The notion that college athletes must never, ever receive any sort of quid pro quo compensation for their sporting services -- well, beyond approved tuition, room and board, and perhaps a small cost-of-living stipend-- no matter how much the rest of the world wants to give them compensation, lest said athletes end up … I dunno, biblically unclean or something.
Amateurism is why the NCAA played pretend FBI and reportedly demanded thousands of pages of documents from Muhammad's family while interrogating their friend, a Charlotte-based financial adviser named Benjamin Lincoln, even though no actual crime was committed. Amateurism is why five Ohio State football players who traded gear for free tattoos in 2010 became history's greatest monsters. Amateurism is why the scandal surrounding Cam Newton's single season at Auburn revolved around a representative for the quarterback supposedly requesting $180,000 for Newton to play at Mississippi, and did not revolve around the fact that $180,000 for a Heisman-winning season that ended with the Tigers earning a $21.2 million payout for appearing in the BCS title game is a freaking bargain. Amateurism is why sports agents who lavish prospective clients with gifts, dinners and parties are libeled as "pimps" by the sanctimonious likes of Alabama football coach Nick Saban -- a man whose eight-year, $32 million contract, it should be noted, was negotiated by pimp/agent Jimmy Sexton -- while high-powered law firms and investment banks that do basically the same thing with Ivy League students are considered, well, wholly unremarkable.
Thing is, it doesn't have to be this way. The NCAA was created to protect athletes from head injuries, not from co-signed car loans, gratis recruiting trips and absent-minded campus bureaucrats. There is no reasonable justification for amateurism -- an economic straitjacket applied to exactly no one else in American society besides young athletes, and what did they ever do to deserve their financial shackles beyond making the rest of us insanely happy? -- and not a single argument for its continuing existence that passes the most basic commonsense smell test.
Amateur athletes are pure? Please. Contrary to popular misconception, amateurism wasn't invented by the ancient Greeks, nor by the myth-addled founders of the modern Olympics. (Indeed, the Olympic athletes of classical antiquity were lavished with payouts, political appointments and other pay-for-play perks, while the closest ancient Greek term for amateur -- idiotes -- needs no special translation). Instead, the concept was conjured out of whole cloth by Victorian-era English rowers, largely because wealthy, snooty aristocrats didn't want compete against -- and get their tails kicked by -- strong, grimy, working-class laborers. When Oxford and Cambridge adopted amateurism, Harvard and Yale followed suit. More than a century later, even the Olympics wisely have given up the amateur ghost.
In college basketball, on the other hand, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has to show up at Pauley Pavilion wearing a "Free Shabazz" t-shirt.
Does amateurism at least level the recruiting playing field between schools, ensuring competitive balance by preventing certain programs from buying up all of the most talented high school athletes? Again, no. Ohio State gets one level of athlete. Miami of Ohio gets another. Such is the way of things. Schools with intense fan interest and corresponding financial resources still have a decisive, insurmountable market advantage -- after all, money that otherwise would go into athletes' pockets instead goes to bigger stadium Jumbotrons, better weight rooms, shinier luxury dorms and swollen coaching salaries, all of which essentially act as indirect recruiting inducements.
As for amateurism acting as the last bloody Spartan at Thermopylae, guarding against the debasing commercialization of campus sports? Stop. Just stop. Should I even mention Maryland and Rutgers joining longtime geographic rivals Northwestern and Michigan in the Big [Insert Current Number Here] Conference? Or the continuing existence of the Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl?
Horse, barn, empty. Discuss.
Indeed, the only real reasons for college sports to cling to amateurism are financial. And pretty much craven. Prohibiting pay-for-play allows the NCAA and its member schools to pocket the television, sponsorship and ticket money that other minor leagues share with their on-field workforces. More important, amateurism lets athletic departments maintain their tax-exempt standing with the IRS. Small wonder, then, that the NCAA continues to double down on the status quo, expanding what amounts to an amateurism-enforcing security state. In October, the association announced a series of get-tough, check-out-these-teeth measures designed to
score a public relations victory following the Penn State debacle punish rules violations more swiftly and severely: increasing the hierarchy of possible infractions from two to four; doubling the size of the association's infraction committee; adopting a presumption that head coaches are responsible for violations -- presumed guilty, in other words -- until proven otherwise, a policy that's less U.S. Constitution than Spanish Inquisition. John Calipari floats when dunked in water. Therefore, he is a witch. Q.E.D.
Of course, the above ignores the obvious: Enforcement isn't the problem. Attempting to enforce bad, misguided rules is the problem. And one way or another, doing so always ends up causing more trouble than it alleviates. Go back to Muhammad. After the NCAA suspended him, UCLA announced that it would appeal the decision. One day before the appeal hearing, the Los Angeles Times reported that a lawyer had been on an airplane in early August and overhead a man bragging that his girlfriend, Abigail, was going to bring down Muhammad because his family "was dirty and they were taking money and she's going to get them." Now, the NCAA's assistant director of enforcement just happens to be named Abigail Grantstein. The bragging in question took place just one week after the association demanded the Muhammad family's documentation. Following the Times' story, Muhammad's previously indefinite suspension was lifted. Poof. At the same time, the NCAA announced that it was investigating the overheard airplane conversation -- in part because it may have violated privacy rules, in part because it seemed to indicate that Grantstein prejudged Muhammad, giving new credence to Jerry Tarkanian's old crack that "the NCAA is so mad at Kentucky, it's going to give Cleveland State two more years' probation."
If the Muhammad case sounds like something out of "The Wire," that's no coincidence. At its core, the NCAA's stubborn embrace of amateurism is akin to the War on Drugs. Both are picked fights against human nature -- one against the individual desire to get high; the other against our collective desire to be entertained by college-age kids who can jump high and run fast. Both distort markets (for talent or narcotics), warping incentives and creating underground, black-market economies. Both require a migraine-inducing level of cognitive dissonance: Why are cigarettes and alcohol legal while marijuana isn't? Why are scholarships OK but cash payments verboten? And both have done little to deter unwanted behavior -- drugs and college sports scandals remain commonplace -- while bloating and enriching the bodies (the NCAA, the prison-industrial complex) tasked with policing that behavior.
Advocates of drug decriminalization often argue that the War on Drugs takes a public health problem -- drug addiction and abuse -- and adds a crime problem. To put things another way: Prohibition didn't deter Americans from drinking, but it did make Al Capone and other violent criminals awfully rich. Similarly, amateurism creates crime and punishment around impermissible benefits without even addressing a preexisting social issue. (Well, unless you consider college football players hanging out at an agent's summer pool party to be a clear and present danger to the republic.) The fact of the matter is that young, talented athletes have economic value beyond scholarships; pretending otherwise to prop up a tax-exempt academic cartel doesn't make that reality any less true. In clinging to no-pay-for-play system, the NCAA makes itself both relevant and ridiculous, an inadequate cure for a self-inflicted disease. There will always be more violations. More suspensions. More snooping. More judging. More essential unfairness. More arbitrary adherence to the letter of a law that lacks any sort of defensible spirit. The question isn't why the NCAA continues to toss darts in the dark. It's why anyone puts up with it.


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Hello! I'm back from our semi long weekend in Durban. We went down to shoot a pretty awesome wedding and while we were there we stayed at Neil Roake's amazing Boutique Bungalows called The Concierge. We also ate at two of his restaurants, and bought 3 of his books we hadn't got yet so it just seemed fair to dedicate this whole post to him, i'll save the wedding stuff for later.
We had eaten at the Freedom Cafe before and own two of his books (Life is a beach cottage and Taste Freedom) and have always been impressed with the effort in the details, beautiful design and amazing colour. His hotel is no different. As soon as we checked into our room we left our bags outside and grabbed the camera before we destroyed anything. I loved this room so so much! I loved the cool Egg Design furniture, the wooden detail in the head board and the shower that feels like rain pouring down on your head. I loved the Colleen Eitzeen gown (from the Space – did you know that was his thing too?? he's one busy guy), and I especially loved the mini bar which has to be the best mini bar i've ever had the privilege of being tempted with (We totally ate the Wasabi Peanuts). Then of course the outside balcony which I wanted to steal and take home in my luggage – all the furniture and succulents and pot plants were magnificent! Take a look!
The night we arrived we went to one of his lovely Italian restaurants called Craft Trattoria. We met up with some friends there and had such a great evening, eating delicious spaghetti in a bag, risotto volcanos, and Bobs Your Uncle Wine, which is amazing inside and out, but slightly lethal if you drink it all yourself. (At the end the waitress told me she reads Emmajanenation! It was the cherry on the top of a good night, I love meeting readers, especially away from home. (Thanks for saying hi!)
A little bit of the Bobs Your Uncle influence seen above.
Lastly we had breakie with the same lovely friends Jade & Craig on Sunday morning at The Freedom Cafe, the boys got the fathers day special with "boerewors lollipops" – awesome!
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He has another restaurant called Larney's in Gateway which we're going to have to try next time. I recommend all these places if you're tripping to Durban anytime soon. Check out all the respective websites:


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With a time of 14:13, the Yale freshman lightweights took fourth place overall at the Yale Freshman Invitational, making them the second lightweight team in the event behind Dartmouth.
The lightweights sailed the 8-person event along with the heavyweight teams but beat out many of them in the 17-boat event.
The Yale heavyweights won the event with a time of 13:36, followed by Boston University at 14:08. Dartmouth's lightweight team came in at 14:11, good for third overall and first among lightweights, followed by Yale and Columbia at 14:20.


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The award was presented by Dr. Al Merkley from the BYU David O. McKay School of Education.
Porter, who teaches art at Whitehorse High School, was selected from many art educators throughout the state of Utah. Porter has taught at Whitehorse High School for the past four years and at Monument Valley High School for six years.
Over the past four years, Porter has taught students from seventh grade through twelfth a full spectrum of art foundations... from printmaking to ceramics, typography to cartooning. He teaches disciplines of art history, criticism, and production through a theme-based curriculum and a studio hands on approach.
Whitehorse High School is a state school on the Navajo Reservation, with 99 percent Native American.
Porter is also head coach of the girls basketball team, which placed fifth in the state tournament in Richfield this year.
From 2002 to 2005, he completed a MFA degree with an emphasis in Ceramics and Sculpture at Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah.
While at BYU, Porter taught Beginning to Intermediate ceramic courses and courses at Utah Valley University.
Porter received a BFA degree from Utah State University in 1972; completed a teaching degree from Southern Utah University in 1989, and received a degree in Business from the University of Southern California in 1985. He worked for 13 years for Safeway stores after graduating from Utah State in 1972.
Porter began his teaching career in 1987 at Manti High School and Ephraim Middle School. The next year, after adding two ceramics classes, he became a full time art teacher.
Porter had many successful art students that received awards at the Springville Art Museum High School show and three Sterling Scholar awards.
Porter coached basketball at Manti High School; and taught for six years at Manti High School.
After a two year stint as a Dental Ceramist/Technician, Porter began teaching art in beautiful Monument Valley, Utah on the Navajo Reservation; and taught art in Monument Valley for six years before taking leave to complete an MFA.
Porter is still active as a studio artist and teaches others by example - that they can also have a successful life in doing what they enjoy doing .


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The University of North Florida is one of the most environmentally responsible colleges in the United States and Canada, according to The Princeton Review. The well-known education services company selected UNF for inclusion for the second consecutive year in the just-released Princeton Review's "2012 Guide to 322 Green Colleges"
Created by The Princeton Review in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council, the "2012 Guide to 322 Green Colleges" is the only free, comprehensive guidebook profiling institutions of higher education that demonstrate a notable commitment to sustainability in their academic offerings, campus infrastructure, activities and career preparation.
"College-bound students are increasingly interested in sustainability issues," said Robert Franek, senior vice president/publisher, The Princeton Review. "Among 7,445 college applicants who participated in our 2012 'College Hopes and Worries Survey,' 68 percent told us that having information about a school's commitment to the environment would influence their decision to apply to or attend the school."
UNF joins the ranks of outstanding universities and colleges nationwide that are leading the "green" movement through its own special programs and initiatives.
With a nature preserve located in the middle campus, it comes as no surprise that UNF is a green leader. A 382-acre natural area on campus was designated a preserve in May 2006 by UNF President John Delaney. The state-protected area features miles of nature trails as well as numerous lakes and ponds with an abundance of wildlife. The preserve offers students the opportunity to participate in plenty of experiential learning programs.
The University has received recognition for its green building practices, and 100 percent of new construction on campus is either LEED-certified or pursuing certification. UNF's sustainability research takes a multidisciplinary approach. Projects include publishing a State of the River Report for the Lower St. Johns River Basin, presenting status and trends in water quality, fisheries, aquatic life and contaminants; a storm water management and water-quality monitoring project; a hurricane damage assessment and recovery research team that evaluates techniques for sustainable construction; and assessment of the health of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems on campus.
The Princeton Review chose the 322 schools based on a survey it conducted in 2011 of hundreds of colleges across the U.S. and in Canada to tally its annual "Green Rating" scores (scaled from 60 to 99) of colleges for its school profiles in its college guidebooks and website. The survey asks administrators more than 50 questions about their institution's sustainability-related policies, practices and programs. The Company tallied Green Ratings for 768 institutions in summer 2011. The 322 schools in the guide received scores of 83or above in that assessment. The Princeton Review doesn't rank the schools in this guide hierarchically (1 to 322) according to their Green Rating scores, nor does it include those scores in the book's school profiles.
This latest recognition comes on the heels of UNF receiving 12 other national designations, including Kiplinger's Personal Finance's List of 100 Best Values in Public Colleges for 2011-12; No. 19 Best Buy College, Best College in America and Best College in the South, all by Forbes Magazine; 2012 Best Value Public College, Best College in the Southeast, 2012 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll,
2011 Best Value Public College and a top "Green" College by Princeton Review; Best Regional University by U.S. News & World Report,
Military Friendly School and among the100 "Coolest Schools" by Sierra magazine.
The Princeton Review first created this one-of-a-kind resource for college-bound students in 2010 with the U.S. Green Building Council, which is best known for developing the LEED standard for green building certification. "A green campus can transform the college experience for students through enhanced sustainability education and by creating healthy living and learning environments all while saving energy, water and money as part of an institution's bottom line," said Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO and founding chair, USGBC.
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NIJ has released the notes from the February 2016 meeting Exonerees and Original Victims of Wrongful Conviction: Listening Sessions to Inform Programs and Research (pdf, 28 pages).
When bad things happen in a complex system, the cause is rarely a single act or a lone "bad apple." More often, an error — or "sentinel event" — actually signals a system-wide problem.
In criminal justice, a sentinel event could be a wrongful conviction or even a "near-miss" that could have led to a bad outcome if it had not been caught. In fact, other high-risk fields, such as aviation and medicine, have seen significant improvements by using a learning-from-error review process that puts all stakeholders at the table to explore errors in a nonblaming, forward-looking way.
Could reviewing sentinel events in a new, innovative way provide important keys to strengthening our criminal justice system and preventing errors in the future? NIJ supports research on a wide range of topics — such as using a sentinel events approach in criminal justice, examining wrongful convictions and improving eyewitness identification — aimed at reducing criminal justice errors and improving the administration of justice.
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