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Composite, Hybrid and Multifunctional Materials - OLD TEMPLATE
Piyush Thakre
Dow Chemical
Raman Singh
Oklahoma State University
Geoffrey Slipher
US Army Research Lab
The purpose of the Technical Division on Composite, Hybrid and Multifunctional Materials is to provide technical benefit to its members by:
- Providing a forum for exchange of information on composites
- Advancing composite technology through timely exchange and dissemination of information
- Planning and coordinating the activities of the Society related to composite, hybrid, and multifunctional materials in cooperation and coordination with others
- Assisting in the promotion of uniform terminology in composite documentation
- Providing improved technical interaction between scientists, engineers, manufacturers and users of composites
- Promoting and/or organizing special sessions, symposia, short courses, workshops, manuals or monographs
- Interacting, assisting and cooperating with other committees, societies, associations or organizations on the topic of composites
International Symposium on the Mechanics of Composite and Multifunctional Materials
Composites and multifunctional materials continue to revolutionize industrial applications due to superior structural performance, light weight and ability to tailor multiple functional properties. This symposium presents papers related to the novel methods of manufacturing, testing, and modelling of composites. A major goal of this symposium is to promote the development of new experimental techniques to address real-life applications and provide a platform for collaboration. Session topics include:
- Multifunctional Materials
- Damage Detection and Non-Destructive Evaluation
- Fatigue and Fracture of Composites
- Recycled Constituent Composites
- Hybrid Composites
- Novel Composites for Aerospace & Automotive Applications
- Nano and Particulate Composites
- Manufacturing and Joining of Composites
- Extreme Environment Composites
- Mechanics of Composites
- Metal Matrix Composites
- Additive Manufacturing
Recent Activities
The Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials Technical Division has continued to grow. The division introduced a dedicated symposium in 2015 and will continue its symposium for the third year at the 2017 SEM annual conference. A number of new topic areas are being actively pursued. The division plans to continue to grow its membership and participation to match the growing interest in this area of research and development.
Activities in 2016
The division organized its second International Symposium on the Mechanics of Composite and Multifunctional Materials for the 2016 SEM Annual Conference. The symposium consisted of eleven sessions with 52 presentations, including two sessions jointly organized with the Fracture and Fatigue Division. One particular highlight of 2016's symposium was a three-session series on recycled-constituent composites, organized by division members Emin Bayraktar and Ibrahim Miskioglu, which signifies a vibrant new topic of research and development. The participation of members in TD meetings, session organization and session participation has steadily increased. In 2016, there were 32 members in attendance at the TD committee meeting and new officers were elected for the 2017-2019 term.
Activities in 2015
The division organized the first International Symposium on the Mechanics of Composite and Multifunctional Materials for the 2015 SEM Annual Conference. Ten sessions consisting of 48 presentations were organized in the Symposium including one collaborative session with Fracture and Fatigue TD. Three keynote addresses were organized, by Prof. Greg Carman of UCLA, Dr. James Thomas of the Naval Research Lab, and Prof. Scott White of the University of Illinois. Active membership in the TD grew to 24, out of which 15 volunteered as session organizers.
Activities in 2013 and 2014
Eight sessions, consisting of 45 papers, were organized for the 2013 annual conference: Failure Behavior of Polymer Matrix Composites, Microvascular and Natural Composites, Nanocomposites for Multifunctional Performance, Composite/Hybrid Characterization Using Digital Image Correlation I and II, Joints/Bonded Composites, Non-Destructive Testing of Composites, and Composite Test Methods. Several of these sessions were organized in collaboration with the MEMs and Biological Systems technical divisions. At least 19 conference attendees participated in the TD lunch meeting (the same as in 2012), 10 of which have been involved in organizing sessions for 2014.
Collaborations with other divisions continued for 2014. Sessions were co-organized with the MEMs and Biological Systems divisions for the 2014 annual conference, including Novel/Bio Composites and Nanocomposites. Other sessions included: Composites for Energy Applications, NDE of Composites, Mechanical Testing of Composites, Digital Image Correlation for Composites I and II, and Particulate Composites. A keynote presentation on additive manufacturing was given by Ralph Dinwiddie of Oak Ridge National Lab. A total of eight sessions and 35 papers were planned for 2014. Overall, interest in the TD remained strong, and participation in TD organization increased in 2014. New officers for the TD were elected at the 2014 annual meeting, as the present officers completed their terms.


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The best part of working at BCG is that every day is different: new challenges appear and we work as a team to face them.
My background is in business administration, and the reason I was really attracted to BCG was the diversity of industries and practice areas I could get to work in. It's really hard to describe a typical day here as every day we are trying new things.
When I joined BCG, I had recently graduated, so it was a real challenge to face senior clients and complex industry problems with no previous experience. However, the great team spirit and the knowledge of our consulting staff made it really easy to get started. I truly believe the quality of people working at BCG is what makes this place unique.
Carolina holds a business administration degree from Universidad Católica Argentina, where she graduated with honors.
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Sometimes it's what is on the outside that counts.
A refrigerator's purpose is, simply, to keep things cool and fresh, but the recent collaboration between Dolce & Gabbana and Smeg proves that the everyday kitchen item can be downright cool and fresh itself, too.
For a special limited edition of Smeg's Fab28 model, Dolce & Gabbana lent its aesthetic and creative juice to craft what is likely the most stylish selection of fridges, and surely instant collector's pieces. Launched at Salone del Mobile 2016 in Milan in April, the series of an exclusive 100 items features images hand-painted by Sicilian artists. Taking inspiration from Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, of course, the refrigerators also pay homage to the traditional Sicilian Cart (a horse-drawn wagon covered in heritage and folklore) and its historic marionette theatre. That means bright and richly coloured scenes depicting cart wheels, medieval battle scenes, fruit, puppets, and knights. Each one-of-a-kind piece is mesmerizing, almost humming with activity as the patterns and hues enter kaleidoscopic realms.
Both being Italian companies, Smeg and Dolce & Gabbana unite under an umbrella of national pride, and of the country's classic creativity and craftsmanship. Every refrigerator celebrates the routine, bringing opulence, extravagance, and playfulness to a commonplace thing. It's cool, and it's cool.
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I've broken up today's post into three separate videos. The first video explains why.
In this video I give what I believe to be the perfect Steemit pitch. Of course, it's more like the best I can do right now, but that doesn't sound nearly as interesting right? ;)
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Picking up where I left off… Following in Dads footsteps, I hardly EVER throw away "chunks" of wood! Maybe that's why I can hardly get my car in the garage! Here, incorporating wooden dowels, I'm creating one large board out of three small ones!
Once the glue is set and I have a large enough piece to work with, it gets run through the planer as is the fate of all future pieces, in order to accomplish a uniform thickness. THEN, let the imagination begin… Yes, I still have Dads old pattern he mailed, but I tend to deviate a great deal, adding my own flair to the end result….
And so the body of "Rusty" (I always name them ahead of time as it gives me an idea of where I want the design to go) is composed of seven pieces of wood…
Funny, when I'm carving out the legs for any of my horses, a line from the movie, "Forrest Gump" comes to mind. "Lieutenant Dan! You have legs! Magic legs!" And "magic" it is, as the legs are composed of three boards each…
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The Hallmark Hotel Gloucester is in a great location tickling the fringe of historic Gloucester. We're super easy to get to. An equal distance from junctions 11A and 12 of the M5, if you're travelling north or south, we're only a 5-7 minute drive from the motorway. Getting here easily isn't the only perk, there's so many hidden gems around the hotel to explore that we're an ideal location for the actives, the adventurers, the little ones and the romantics. You'll find miles and miles of cycling routes and beautiful walks in the nearby Cotswolds and Forest of Dean. There's a challenging golf course just minutes from the hotel and if you fancy some skiing or tubing, then we are walking distance to the longest ski slope in England and Wales. Kids will love feeding the birds at Slimbridge Wetlands Centre or having a magical adventure at Clearwell Caves , when retail therapy is the order of the day, then we're just a few miles from Gloucester Quays. Of course, if relaxation is the plan, then there's no need for you to leave the hotel. Let us run around after you instead.
After a busy day, it's good to know you're being taken care of
- Free super-fast WiFi throughout the hotel.
- 5 minutes from the M5 and a short taxi journey from Gloucester train station.
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- 95 bedrooms including 6 family rooms.
- Enjoy a delicious meal in the Hallmark Grill, bar and lounge.
- Health club with squash court and beauty treatment area.
- Swimming pool and children's pool.
- Meeting rooms for up to 180 delegates.
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- Plenty of free parking.
- BT Sport is now available in the bar/lounge area.
Ideal for business travellers
During the week, you'll find we're a hub for business travellers and meetings in the area. Aside from our convenient location, we also have super-fast WiFi connectivity available to all guests for free. Our wonderful bedrooms are designed for guests on the road, modern in design, really comfortable beds for a good night's sleep, top-notch flat screen TVs and an efficient 24-hour room service. For those passing by to catch-up with clients or team members, the lounge area is really welcoming with plenty of corners to tuck yourself into, enjoy a great cup of freshly brewed coffee served with a smile.
Beautiful Countryside
If you're coming from the Midlands or the West Country, we're easy to find from the M5. Come and explore the wonderful villages and unmatched Cotswold scenery. After a day's sightseeing you'll be ready for a relaxing afternoon tea or meal with us.
Historic Gloucester
You'll find plenty to do in Gloucester. From entertainment and designer outlets, restaurants and ten-screen cinema at Gloucester Quays, to the magnificent cathedral where scenes from Harry Potter were shot, to Kingsholm one of rugby's great venues.
Weddings in Gloucester
The Hallmark Hotel Gloucester can host your wedding from start to finish. We have a licence for civil ceremonies, lovely gardens and a range of suites for parties large and small. Come and meet our dedicated wedding coordinator and let's plan a day to remember.
We understand your business
And when it comes to hitting your business objectives, it's good to know your event will be in very safe hands at the Hallmark Hotel Gloucester. We're well versed in hosting big conferences and events for up to 180 delegates and our team of conscientious event planners are on hand to bring your board meeting, team building event or training day to life. We've got four really flexible meeting rooms that can be configured to meet exactly what you need.
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It's your big day, we know how special it needs to be and we work with you to remove as much of the organisation and pressure as we can. Our wedding team take particular care to help you select the best menu for your guests and budget whilst our wonderful kitchen team bring the dishes to life. Lovely grounds to capture special wedding memories, a hugely fantastic, flexible wedding reception room to theme and dress as you wish and plenty of local contacts and trusted suppliers on day to help bring the magic together.
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At Hallmark Hotel Gloucester, we're not only the home of great hospitality but the home of great relaxation too. You can unwind in the lounge with a delightful cup of tea or indulgent afternoon tea, enjoy a good old traditional Sunday lunch with the whole family, sit back in the swimming pool or let us wash away any aches, pains or stresses with a relaxing beauty treatment. Of course, for the more energetic, the health club is full of state-of-the-art equipment and perfect to work off those afternoon tea calories.


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PP 68 dining chair by Hans Wegner for PP Mobler.
At 73 years old, Hans J Wegner designed PP 58/68, his final basic chair. Comfortable, practical, strong and durable, Wegner was determined to let this particular design be guided by the total learnings of his previous works. A simple conclusion to an incredible life's work.
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- Official Harry Potter product under Warner Bros License
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|Dracule Mihawk
|Seven Warlords of the Sea
March 9th
41 (debut)
43 (after timeskip)
198 cm (6'6")
95 kg (209 lbs)
Black Sword "Night"
(Kokutou Yoru)
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|First Appearance:
|Playable in the second game.
Dracule Mihawk (ジュラキュール・ミホーク, Jurakyūru Mihōku) is currently known as the greatest swordsman in the world. He is one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, or former pirate captains who serve under but not necessarily respect the World Government. He is widely known as "Hawk-Eye" Mihawk (鷹の目・ミホーク, Taka no Me Mihooku) by those in the seas. When he was younger, he considered Shanks to be his rival in swordplay, but Mihawk dropped his perceptions when Shanks lost his arm.
Mihawk is first seen in the series hunting Don Krieg's fleet, sailing a single coffin-shaped raft whilst in pursuit. He had single-handedly destroyed all the boats except for the flagship. By the time he finds the flagship, Krieg is engaged in a battle with Baratie. Zoro, who wants to test himself, challenges Mihawk to a duel and the swordsmen concentrate their attention to their match.
He effortlessly defeats Zoro but is impressed by the younger fighter's undaunted resolve. When Zoro realized that he is utterly defeated, he openly exposes his chest so his opponent could honorably take his life. Although he did slash it with his sword, Mihawk spares Zoro and eagerly awaits the day when Zoro can surpass him. Simultaneously, he takes an interest in Luffy's dream to become Pirate King.
Later parts of the series have Mihawk half-heartedly attending to his duties as a Warlord of the Sea. He keeps tabs on both Luffy and Zoro as the series progresses. Prior to the two year time skip, he willingly becomes Zoro's mentor.
Players can unlock him in the third game's Dream Log Mode, and in the fourth game by getting 35 characters or more in the Free and Treasure Log Modes..
Role in Games Edit
In Pirate Warriors 2, he fights against Brook. He later joins the alliance.
Mysterious and stern, Mihawk is never seen being startled or in distress. He is often aloof and prefers to act on whim, choosing to do whatever interests him at the time. Confident in his skills, however, he longs for a worthy and strong opponent to face. He adheres to chivalry and has little tolerance for cowardice. Furthermore, he respects the integrity he sees in both Luffy and Zoro and admires their respective potential.
- See also: Dracule Mihawk/Quotes
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|Ranged Attack •
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- , , , , : Mihawk slashes to the left, then to the right. He then repeats, and does a final left-to-right slash, which sends forth a green horizontal crescent-shaped sword beam. This move chains into itself twice, with each finished string giving him a charge to his blade. The charges will enlarge the sword beam finisher.
- , , , : Mihawk does an upward slash to launch enemies into the air, while simultaneously leaping up. He then unleashes a flurry of slashes on the enemies that resembles a sphere, slams them downward onto the ground, and then dives down and impales the ground with the tip of his blade, which releases shockwaves. The half-charged version produces a bigger sphere and sends forth a vertical sword beam upon landing. The fully-charged version produces the biggest sphere, and sends forth 3 vertical sword beams upon landing.
- , , , , : Does a short leap and slams Yoru into the ground in front of him once, which slightly pops enemies upward. He then does an upwards slash that unleashes a vertical green shockwave that travels forward. He then slams his blade down one more time, releasing another similar shockwave. The half-charged version produces 3 shockwaves that travel forward in an arc. The fully charged version produces larger shockwaves.
- , , , : Swings his sword once in front of him, creating 2 simultaneous horizontal slashes in front of him. The half-charged version adds a cross-slash. The fully charged versions produces multiple simultaneous slashes.
- , , , , : Does a cross slash that sends an X-shaped energy beam out in front of him that quickly travels forward. Half-charged sends a bigger beam, and fully-charged sends the biggest beam.
- , , : Mihawk does 3 upwards vertical slashes using his right hand, before slamming his blade down onto the ground at the end of the string, which sends a vertical shockwave forward. This string can also loop into itself twice and gain him a charge after each completed cycle. More charges give him a stronger finishing shockwave.
- , , , : Mihawk pulls out his pendant knife and unleashes a flurry of swift slashes on enemies in front. He then performs a large sweeping slash. Half-charged increases the speed of the flurry while adding hits to his finisher, while fully-charged increases the speed of the flurry to max and gives the most amount of hits to the finisher.
- , , , , : Mihawk leaps and travels through the air while covering himself with slashes that resemble a sphere with him at the center, before unleashing a tornado after landing. After the first tornado is unleashed, he releases another one with a swing of his blade. Can be enhanced with charges for a larger/stronger tornado.
- Level 1 Musou: "Black Blade: Wild Slash": Mihawk swings his blade rapidly, sending green energy beams forward at his opponents. He then finishes with a wide horizontal swing, which sends forth a large horizontal black wave of energy.
- Level 2 Musou: "Black Blade: The Void": Mihawk readies his sword and the screen blackens as he performs a rapid flurry slashes. When the screen becomes visible again, he sends a large projectile of wind forward.
- R1 (Special Skill): "Black Blade: Dawn": Mihawk does a forward dash-sweep with his sword, which gives him one charge to his sword and giving his blade a greenish glow. His blade can gain up to 2 charges, signified by the intensity of the glow of the blade. Attacks done when the sword has charges will be enhanced versions, extending its range and damage.
- Techniques
- Kokuto Arahoshi: Mihawk jumps up and impales his enemies while on his sword.
- Cho wo Hau Zangeki: Mihawk raises Yoru behind him then slams it forward, sending a shockwave.
- Spiral Wind Slice: Mihawk swings Yoru rapidly sending projectiles of wind at his opponents. He then finishes with a black wave of energy.
Fighting StyleEdit
Dracule Mihawk holds the title of the greatest swordsman in the world. He wields the Night, one of the Black Blades. His swordsmanship is so great that he can cut through large ships and mountains with ease, yet at the same time is so precise and graceful that he can redirect bullets with his blade. He can swing his sword quick and strong enough to project flying sword beams to hit faraway objects. He also carries a fruit knife that he wears on his neck as a pendant, which he uses mainly for eating/cooking. However, he will use it as a weapon on enemies that he deems not worthy enough of facing his Night. Although he has never been seen resorting to unarmed physical combat, his fortitude suggests that he naturally possesses superhuman strength and resilience. His sharp eyesight also allows him to trace and react to his foe's movements. In the game, he usually unleashes a series of slashes that gain him a charge on his blade after the string is finished, indicated by the blade glowing green. When his blade has a charge, he can perform enhanced versions of his combos, such as bigger and more slashes, and bigger hit boxes.
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Last Tuesday evening I attended a session facilitated by The Education Hub about how to become a high expectation teacher. I was interested to attend this, as I know deep down I expect all of my students to achieve to the best of their ability and to challenge themselves, but I was unsure how to structure my lessons and classroom to demonstrate high expectations. After listening to the presentations/research (Christine Rubie-Davis - see her slides here) and reading this paper created by The Education Hub, I have taken away many points to reflect on about high expectation teaching.
- Studies have shown that by having high expectations of students determines student attitudes towards learning and overall achievement. When teachers have low expectations of their students, students' self perception and self belief drops, and evidently their success.
- Establishing routines early in the year is important, so students know what is expected of them and when. By creating a classroom culture where students are held accountable for their own learning, and are empowered by their tasks, but are also able to ask for support when needed, will help maintain high expectations throughout the year (rather than trying to set routines or expectations of the students partway through the year).
- Ask high level questions of ALL students, expect ALL students to achieve the same goals and tasks/activities irrespective of their ability level. Differentiating tasks among the class based on ability is likely to reduce student motivation and achievement, as students who are identified as the lower level learners will perceive their teacher has lower expectations of them to be successful (and their success is significantly determined by the expectations their teacher has), and that the teacher values the high achievers more. Rather than asking different questions, if the student doesn't initially understand a question, then rephrase the question, or scaffold further (so the important thing the student takes away from this experience is that the teacher has the same expectation for all initially, but breaks down the question further if needed). Alternatively, provide several tasks, which the students can select from.
- Low expectation teachers communicate tasks that need to be complete, whereas high expectation teachers communicate learning intentions and success criteria, and whether these have been met. Therefore, the emphasis is on the learning process, rather than the end product (which is paramount at Orewa currently). This is an area I definitely need to improve, as I feel I focus more on task completion, rather than the learning intentions. As previously blogged about, the WHY is important, rather than simply the WHAT. Moving forward, I would like to encourage my students to read through the success criteria of their tasks, and be able to identify whether they think they have met this (and if not, where do they need to head next in their learning - relates back to the learning tools).
- Spend equal time with all students, rather than spend additional time with the lower ability students and leave the higher ability learners to work independently. This demonstrates the teacher has the same expectations for all, and can challenge all students as individuals, rather than within ability groups. I do feel I currently spend more time with the students who need more support, and as a result I am not challenging my self directed high achievers. Reflecting after this session, I fear this may suggest to these students I do not have time for them, as I am focused on getting other students 'over the line'. Therefore, I need to consciously attempt to spend an equal amount of time with all students.
- Spend less time contacting home about things that have 'gone wrong' in the classroom, and more time calling whanau about successes and when students are exceeding your expectations. This is another thing I am aware I need to do more of - positive phone calls. Right before I attended this session, I called one students mother to say he'd had an incredible change of attitude towards learning over the past few weeks and I was really proud at how much effort he was putting into his learning. Surprisingly, she said that was the first positive phone call she could recall she'd had about her son!
- Finally, Christine suggested videoing myself when I am teaching, to see how I am coming across to my students and whether there were other things I could have said/done during the lesson. A couple of years ago, I filmed and reflected on a lesson, see here, and found the process incredibly useful for reflection of my pedagogy, behaviour management and expectations of my students. I would like to video myself at some point again.
A question to reflect on if you're an educator is;
"What do your practices reflect about your beliefs about your students and their ability to learn?"


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The Burlington High School Administration and Faculty will be hosting the Annual Parent-Teacher Open House on Thursday, March 21st, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Teachers, Guidance Counselors and Administrators will be available to meet with parents to discuss their child's progress and any concerns they may have.
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The Cambridge Street Gallery, across from the school's cafeteria, will also be open that night. On display will be the middle school's Honorable Mention Award winners from this
year's Scholastic Art Awards. The Gold Key and Silver Key
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CARROLLTON — Speaking Monday at a town hall meeting in West Georgia, U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson introduced his colleague in Congress as "his very best friend."
Isakson and U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss have spent their summer recess from Washington at home in the hot seat, hosting a series of town halls across the state on jobs and the economy. Monday's stop was among the last before the pair heads back to Capitol Hill next week, and for the most part, they've managed to avoid questions about their split vote on the debt ceiling, focusing instead on issues including government spending, gays serving in the military, taxes and immigration.
Most in the crowd didn't ask. Isakson voted to raise the debt ceiling; Chambliss voted against it. The split was a rarity for the pair, who tend to vote in lockstep.
"Our voting record usually mirrors each other," Chambliss said. "He has his reasons for voting for it and I respect that. He knows I have my reasons for voting against it."
The two, who met as students at the University of Georgia nearly 50 years ago and married sorority sisters, have served together as senators for seven years. Isakson was re-elected last year and Chambliss is running for re-election in 2014.
On Monday, Isakson said Chambliss signed on to accompany him on the town halls weeks ahead of the debt ceiling vote.
"We both agree with what needs to be done, it's just a difference of opinion on how to approach it." Isakson said.
Chambliss told the crowd of at least 100 gathered at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton that the country is in serious trouble and that all Americans will need to participate in solving the problem.
"We've got a short window under which we can get our financial situation under control," Chambliss said. "You can't just do it by reducing spending and just by reforming entitlements. We've got to ... raise revenues. And we can do it without raising taxes. Those are the issues that are on the table in Washington today and those are the issues we're going to be debating over the next 100 days."
Chambliss and Isakson spoke briefly before taking several questions from the audience during the hourlong meeting.
One man asked whether the most logical approach to spending cuts isn't an across-the-board approach.
"Across the board is the easiest way to do it," Isakson told him. "It is also the most unfair way. You have to put everything on the table and negotiate it and try to cut your spending proportionally."
A student asked what the government could do to help offset the rising cost of a college education. Isakson told him that with the pressure to cut spending in Washington, the best students like him could hope for was to maintain existing programs, not increases.
Both Chambliss and Isakson said the frustration has been evident as they have heard from constituents in cities including Waycross, Fitzgerald, Jessup and Ellijay.
"There's frustration over jobs and the economy," Isakson said. "There's equally a frustration that the government isn't asking of itself what every American citizen has had to do, and that's to tighten their belt. That resonates and you could hear it today in the questions that were asked."
Overall, the town hall was relatively tame, and on most points, the two senators echoed each other's sentiments. At one point a shouting match broke out between one man who asked why more was not being done to address illegal immigration and an angry Latino man who yelled that he was in the country legally and that not all Hispanics were illegal immigrants. Chambliss said he and other Republicans have tried to address the issue, but "the liberals aren't going to allow us to change it."
Carrollton Mayor Wayne Garner, who was among those in the audience, said people are upset about the logjam in Washington.
"By and large, they're just wanting answers," Garner said. "People have had a generally low opinion of politicians. I commend Senators Isakson and Chambliss for taking the medicine and listening to the concerns."


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Lowcountry South Carolina was and still is rice country. Along the coast where the land is marshy and the heat is sticky, you can find a tiny grain growing that carries a story, a culture and an immense impact on today's diet all over the world.
The culture of rice is beautiful worldwide. In places like Asia, India and Africa, rice carries significance for family traditions, spiritual ceremonies and culinary legends. Part of the history rice carries in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, however, also has a side that is not so beautiful. West Africans were skilled in cultivating rice on their land, and so when they were brought here and forced into slavery in the South, they were put to work in the malaria and mosquito infested swamps along the coast to start rice fields. With the skill and hard work of African slaves, the rice industry boomed and funneled money into the South's economy. The success in rice launched the entire country's agricultural industry and still today, the credit and benefits reaped never reached African-Americans.
Driving through the Lowcountry (named for its low land elevation), the remnants of rice and agriculture's story here are visible everywhere, but you have to search for that deeper history for Africans and agriculture.
I found some of it on Freewoods Farm in Burgess, South Carolina, north of Georgetown, SC, which is "the capital of rice". O'Neal Smalls and his sweet sister, Geneva, have started this living farm museum to preserve the history of Black agriculture after the Civil War in the South. They are farming in the traditional way, using two mules (named Pete and Jake!) for plowing the land. They are raising vegetables, hogs and chickens and are also making homemade sugarcane syrup from cane they grow on their land. Their father used to own the exact land that they now cultivate. It was important to them to preserve the history of the area and remind us all of the importance of agriculture for Black people in this country.
As Geneva said to me, " A lot of our history is not in the textbooks. After the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, you had 4 million slaves with no place to go, no one to put them up and they were just told that they were free. And really what saved them was land."
Gullah culture
Further down the road lies Charleston, SC, which was the port where 3 out of 4 slaves brought to this country entered and were processed and auctioned (You can visit the Old Slave Mart Museum as I did while there). Charleston is also one of the hubs of Gullah culture. Gullah culture is rooted in West African culture and has been preserved in the low country and Gullah islands of South Carolina. Much of that culture is centered around the language, rice, agriculture and traditional recipes.
I went to Gullah Cuisine, a Gullah restaurant in Charleston, owned by Charlotte Jenkins who has been cooking Gullah foods since she was 9 years old with recipes from her grandmother and great-grandmother. Their signature dish is the Gullah Rice, which is Gullah Spiced Rice with Chicken, Pork Sausage, Shrimp & Vegetables. I talked with her nephew, who helps run the restaurant there, and he thinks that the recipes for Gullah Cuisine are not just recipes but lessons. "What we want to do here is keep the Gullah culture alive. We'd like to have a school here and get the kids more involved in the culture and teach them the history."
These posts are just small excerpts from the upcoming COLOR of FOOD/ photo documentary book! I just arrived back home from the 5 month tour interviewing farmer to farmer. So I will continue to post photos and stories here and on thecolorofood.org site! Bear with me as I am way behind on posts, still catching up from having limited web access on the road. Currently still posting from my time with mainly Black farmers in the Southeast, but more posts from Hispanic and Native farmers in other parts of the country are to come!!


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They were trading all kind of stuffs and mainly are old, used or second hand stuffs. Stuffs such as shoes, clothing, scrap iron, watches, VCDs, medicine, jewelry, hand phones, perfumes, TV, radio, you name it you can get it here. Seem to me that most of these stuffs were either stolen or salvaged from rubbish dumps.
The was even a side walk café confined at this back lane serving hot drinks, toasts, half boiled eggs and noodles and it was crowded with people.
This lane reminds me of Lorong Kulit in Penang, but this one in KL is not as huge as Penang. Always wonder why these peoples only trade in the morning.


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Camcorder cops – ★★★
End of Watch director David Ayer first came to prominence with his script for Training Day, which gave us Denzel Washington's Oscar winning performance as the corrupt and captivating Detective Alonzo Harris. Ayer has also directed the under-appreciated Keanu Reeves vehicle Street Kings and been involved with a range of other films that feature the Los Angeles Police Department and life in the darker corners of the City of Angels including S.W.A.T., Dark Blue and Harsh Times. It's safe to say he really digs the complexities of the LAPD and knows how it can and should be presented on screen.
In End of Watch (Ayers' first screen-writing credit in seven years) we get Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena as two bubbly young cops (Officers Taylor and Zavala respectively) with ambitions beyond their regular beat who run into trouble when they unwittingly uncover a drug gang's collection of guns and money leaving them firmly in the criminal's crosshairs.
The film's opening voice-over, its title (a term used by police officers to describe a colleague killed in the line of duty) and the work done at establishing the relationships that drive these officers hints to us early on that things may not end up quite so happily ever after. This sense of foreboding tension is heightened by the fact both men have found love in their personal lives with Zavala marrying his high-school sweetheart and Taylor eventually finding a woman who combines brains with beauty in the shape of a cutesy Anna Kendrick. While their women are important to them, it's the bromance and their strong mutual bond of camaraderie and loyalty that underpins the entire film.
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2012 saw "found footage" continuing its slow take-over of the horror genre (V/H/S, The Devil Inside and the Paranormal Activity and [REC] sequels all fared OK at the box office). But away from the scares and screams it is also being used much more in traditional narrative features with Chronicle continuing in the post-Cloverfield big action-movie mould, the upcoming indie King Kelly and now Ayer's End of Watch.
It's unfortunate then that it's this found footage element which is undoubtedly the film's biggest problem. Gyllenhaal is making a documentary for some sort of school credit which is never really explained and is really just a contrived way of explaining why the officers have cameras on their lapels and all around their car. Ayer's rules are broken repeatedly in the opening twenty minutes as we're shown shot after shot that is much better quality than a crappy clip-on camera and clearly didn't originate from either of the officer's cameras. It is a big enough problem to slow down your enjoyment of the film as you are left puzzled as to where the shots came from and why the film has suddenly started looking like an PS3 first-person-shooter.
As well as crap cinematography, the found footage element is also an excuse to dispense with normal plot development as we just jump from set-piece to set-piece. This normally wouldn't be a problem, but when the characters are this good and enjoyable to be around, you kind of want to see some of the pivotal moments in their lives. The bests scenes in the film are when Taylor and Zavala are in their car just shooting the breeze, which is a credit to the writing.
All in all End of Watch feels like a missed opportunity. Ayer may well be getting bored of making LAPD films and can only get into it if he latches onto a gimmick like he has here. If you can put all that stuff aside it becomes clear that he has created two great characters very much in the "good cop" mode and aside from a few clichéd villainous gang members, the film gives a solid picture of life on the wrong side of the tracks where law enforcement officers are just considered an inconvenience and a minor part of the food chain.
USA / Directed By: David Ayer / Written By: David Ayer / Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick / 109min / Crime, Drama / Release: 23 November 2012 (UK/Ireland), 21 September 2012 (US/Canada)


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For standard IV, in unit 2, for lesson 26, the pre-requisite is "Introduction to Binary Numbers". However I am not able to find the lesson for the same. Where can I find it?
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Lesson plan incorrectly mentions that Binary numbers are prerequisite. We had a look a the lesson and the ppt and we do not require binary numbers to be taught before this lesson.
answered 11 Aug '17, 11:06
the lesson plan has been corrected.
1s and 0s are used to show how pictures and information can be stored using different representations.
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Holby City airs a big episode for Chantelle Lane tomorrow evening (July 3) as the bubbly nurse faces a serious ethical dilemma.
The storyline sees one of Chantelle's patients - a pregnant woman named Sarah - take a sudden turn for the worse in theatre, ultimately being declared brain-stem dead in heartbreaking scenes.
Soon afterwards, the hospital's team must make a difficult decision over what to do next - turn the life-support machine off and lose the baby, or try to prolong Sarah's life mechanically until the baby is more developed.
When Hanssen calls Chantelle up to an MDT meeting to have her say on the situation, her opinion isn't shared by the majority of the doctors - but can she bring them round to her way of thinking?
Digital Spy recently chatted to Lauren Drummond, who plays Chantelle, to hear more about the storyline and her time on Holby City so far.
This week, we see that Chantelle is feeling unsure of her abilities as a nurse. Why is that?
"I think it's because she's up for the permanent role and also because Serena has come into the hospital. For a little while it had just been Chantelle, Ric Griffin and Malick. Ric really gets Chantelle - he's sensitive towards her, he knows what she's like and acts accordingly!
"When it comes to Serena, she and Chantelle are still getting used to each other. Chantelle gets on easily with everybody, but I think she's feeling like she has to prove herself at the moment and putting pressure on herself."
Ric decides to boost Chantelle's confidence by assigning her to difficult patient Sarah - a pregnant woman who is blocking certain tests that might endanger the baby. How does Chantelle feel about the challenge?
"I don't think Chantelle sees that as too much of a problem, as she relishes in those kind of challenges. She actually doesn't really see it as too much of a challenge, because she's a people person and that's where her confidence is.
"The difficult patients for Chantelle are people like Dan's dad, because she can't stand rudeness or anyone being impolite. But Chantelle is quite excited about the challenge of looking after Sarah, especially with a baby being involved."
When Sarah takes a turn for the worse in theatre, Chantelle gives her husband James some false hope, doesn't she?
"She does. Ric warns Chantelle that things aren't looking good, so under no circumstances must she give James any false hope. However, James starts pushing her and asking for answers. She tries really hard to deflect the question and says that Mr Griffin will explain everything, but in the end she does give him false hope.
"Chantelle's point of view is that hope hasn't gone yet - she is naturally quite a hopeful character. Although she didn't want to say the wrong thing, this man's at breaking point and she can't watch somebody fall apart. She doesn't intentionally mean to lead him down the wrong road, but it does turn out to be a mistake."
Pictured: Chantelle with James.
When it becomes clear that Sarah will never wake up, what does Chantelle say in the meeting to discuss the baby's future?
"Chantelle's point of view is to go against the odds, really. There is a strong argument for the baby not to be given a chance, because the statistics aren't good for a positive outcome. However, Chantelle does her research and finds out that even though the odds aren't high, there is a possibility of the baby surviving. She fights for that possibility, because she has been on a level with Sarah and she knows how much this baby had meant to her."
We don't want to give away too much about what happens next, but was this one of your favourite episodes to film?
"It was! I'm very protective of Chantelle and I don't want people to think that she's just a pretty face. There's a lot more to her character, and I think it's important to show that.
"At the same time, I don't think this story will be a huge turning point - Chantelle won't suddenly become a really serious nurse all the time now! But I think you can still be a light-hearted character, while also having the integrity and the skill that is required. Maybe this is one of the times that you get to see another side of Chantelle."
How do you think Chantelle could improve further as a nurse?
"I think it's something that will come with age. Everything comes with experience and this is her first nursing job. I don't think she'll ever be a business-minded nurse - I think she'll always be for the patients. But I think she'll probably start to understand the hospital policies a bit more.
"What ruffles the feathers of people like Serena is that it takes a while for Chantelle to stick to hospital policy, because she goes with her heart."
You've been at Holby City for over a year now. How have you found your time there in general?
"I love it at Holby - it's a great place to work, the production values are very high and everyone there is very talented, so it's a great place for me to work and learn. It's a lovely job!
"Sometimes when you play a character in a continuing show, you can end up feeling like you need a bit more variety. But Chantelle is so bubbly and so fun to play that it's one of the best roles I've had. It's been a really fun one to do."
Pictured: Chantelle at the MDT meeting in tomorrow's episode.
How long did it take to settle in at Holby when you started there last year?
"About a week! (Laughs) Everyone accepted me and was really lovely and welcoming. Funnily enough, there's a connection between Tina Hobley and myself, as our grandmas are first cousins.
"Tina didn't know that, but I did, so when I first met her I said, 'I know your grandma!' She was really shocked, but straight away I felt like I was with family. It was really easy to settle in there."
Are you similar to Chantelle in real life?
"At first, I thought we were quite similar, but the more I learn about Chantelle, the more I realise that she's much nicer than I am! She's got what maybe I used to have - which is being naïve to the bad side of life. She's a few years younger than I am and she's been quite sheltered.
"I've been doing this career for ten years now, so I've learned a lot and maybe grown up quicker than I would have done otherwise. But Chantelle is particularly naïve, very optimistic and very positive. I'm a very positive person too, but Chantelle thinks the sky is the limit."
What kind of a reaction do you get from Holby fans?
"Everyone is very, very lovely to me. I think people want to give Chantelle a hug, so I get plenty of hugs from people that enjoy the show! Generally I just get well wishes, because people want Chantelle to do well."
Is it nice to have some newcomers on set at the moment?
"Oh, it's lovely. Chizzy [Akudolu] and Michael [Thomson] are our newest cast members, and they're so full of life. They are lovely to be around and although I don't work with them all that much, they brighten up the make-up room, that's for sure!"
We've also seen a few cast members leaving recently, so are you missing them?
"You work so closely with people, so you can't help but miss them. In particular, myself and Jimmy [Akingbola] miss Adam [Astill], who played Dan. We miss everyone, but unfortunately that's the nature of it - the show moves on and we get new characters in. But I think everyone who has worked on the show leaves a mark on it."
Who are your best friends on set?
"I see a lot of Tina and Jimmy. Jimmy hosts some great parties in Soho, so we often have cast get-togethers. At work, I spend a lot of time with Hugh Quarshie, who plays Ric. I have a lot of time for Hugh - he's a very inspirational person and I learn a lot from him."
You also appeared on Holby as a guest artist a few years back, so do you have many memories of that?
"Yeah, it comes back to me! I only realised about a month ago that it was on the same ward that I now work on. In a few weeks, I'm actually going to work with the same director who directed me four years ago. I haven't seen him since I started, so it should be fun to reminisce with him."
Are you hoping to stick around on Holby City for a while, or would you like to try other roles?
"Well, I'm only 24 so there will come a point where I want to try other roles, but for the time being I love playing Chantelle. I'm very happy there at the moment!"
> Read our spoiler for the next 'Holby City' episode
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Five giant cast-iron spider sculptures have been banned from a roundabout because they could 'scare motorists and make them crash'.
Stuart Slade was ordered to remove his artwork after a motorist called the Highways Agency to say they had terrified her and her children.
Mr Slade, 34, said he was 'gutted' by the decision to remove the 3m (10ft) wide exhibits which have human faces from the roundabout in Arundel, West Sussex.
Artists have displayed their work there for the past 15 years. The Highways Agency admitted it had received just one complaint.
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As designers, we pull from our creative core everything we know. It's the force behind what makes you special. When you're grinding away at work or on a project, you've got to find it in you every little thing that you know to make that idea come to life. But where did all that awesomeness in your core come from?
Plain and simple: you're secretly a mad scientist. We all are. We can't help but to experiment, dabble, push, pull, and find a way to blow something up. It's part of every human, but it's definitely in the blood of designers. Knowing that, it's your duty to be curious. Not just because it's fun, but because you need to grow and learn more. It's not always enough that you do the same thing you did before. Knowing when to step outside your comfort zone is an important part of life.
You are who you are because of the choices you've made and the choices you'll make. Remember where it all came from and introduce some new friends (aka ideas) to the mix.
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My truck is so low i am looking at purchasing 2 inch drop spindles and 2 inch blocks to raise it up, lol . with the added weight of stereo equipment and tonnaue cover i am dragging asphalt and rubbing tires...
The place I am getting my spindles and shocks from also has a 3 inch leaf spring set... any word on it before? Everything else I ordered is Bell Tech.
Im like Mr.Barlocher.Ive installed Belltech on my third 720.I wish Id done it sooner cuz it made all the differance in the world.Spindles in front and the shocks both front and back.The back shocks are eye loop to eye loop so you need to custmize your rear shackles.Good luck.
Used a complete Belltech kit on mine, although it still uses 3 inch blocks in the rear. Pretty nice kit, comes with 2 inch drop spindles and shocks up front, 3 inch blocks and shocks for the rear. Plus I'm in the process of having a spring shop make me some new leaf springs as well. Some stiffer torsion bars up front would be nice as well, still working on trying to find those.
Has anyone installed actual suspension components on their truck, or just gone the torsion bar and block route?
Yeah, I've decided this group will stay, no worries lol
I'd love for the group to remain
Dont stop this group, I just found it. Besides my truck rides 1/2 inch off the ground for the last 20 years without bags or hydraulics. Its chopped, dropped, shaved suicide doors and much more.
i would like to stay part of the group, but as long as im part of 720 world im ok.
Without objection, I will be deleting the group in the near future. Please comment here if you wish it to remain. If enough people want it, I'll keep it for the foreseeable future. I hope we get some chatter here.
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Walde, Alois
Born Nov. 30, 1869, in Innsbruck; died there on Oct. 3, 1924. German linguist and etymologist.
Walde was a professor at the universities of Innsbruck (1897-1909 and 1912-22), Glessen (1909M2), Königsberg (1922), and Breslau (1922-24). His chief works are A Latin Etymological Dictionary (1906), The Italic Languages (1916) and An Indo-Germanic Etymological Dictionary. (Work on the dictionary was completed by J. Pokorny.)
WORKSVergleichendes Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen, vols. 1-3. Published by J. Pokorny. Berlin-Leipzig, 1928-32.
Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., vols. 1-3. Heidelberg, 1938-56.


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Tuesday was my birthday. 35, that's me! It feels a lot like 34, and 33 before that, but 32 sounds just plain young now.
The day lacked all fanfare, which is fine for 35. Celebrations were supposed to be held on Monday, only I hadn't figured out a thing I wanted to do except visit Gorgough's Doughnuts, because if you're going to treat yourself, it may as well be a doughnut as big as your head, smothered in strawberries and cream cheese frosting. But instead of celebrations, the long weekend was filled with flu (Claire) and rain (the entire city of Austin).
About this flu business. Claire came down with a fever Friday evening, of course. I have a real "wait and see what happens" attitude towards fevers, especially with no other symptoms. The flu didn't even cross my mind until Sunday when she still had a consistent fever, save a few periods of what I like to call Medicine High, where the fever was down and she bounced around the house until she once again crashed in a hard, terrible, feverish heap. Then what was once just a fever became OMG ALL THE GERMS! with every little cough and sniffle.
Even if she had been well, it rained all day Monday, so festivities were cancelled. Instead we hung around and watched TV all day. After three days of sickness, I can say that I have found the End of Netflix, and it's Spooky Buddies.
I am terrible at birthdays, even my own. Christian said, "One of these days, I'm going to throw you another party." The last one was my 30th. 5 years ago. I haven't lamented not having a party since.
"Er, why?"
"Because it's fun!"
"For whom?" I'm not trying to be a bitch. I just don't like being the center of attention. I'll attend your party all day long, but being the guest of honor stresses me out.
For dinner we opted for Chuy's, the local Tex-Mex place, where I learned that dinners out with 3 young kids are overrated, even on your birthday. The bathrooms were nice though. I know because I made the trek three times.
And upon my return from the third trip, the waiter came by with the check and a heaping plate of fresh, hot sopapillas and honey.
"Someone told me that it was your birthday, but they also said you hate being sung to…so here you go!" And I couldn't help but give Christian a thankful smile across the table. I could have died and gone to Heaven, not just because the sopapillas were melty in my mouthy delicious, but because in this moment I knew he really got me.
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The United States is currently faced with the challenge of how and where to care for its aging population. Nurse practitioner (NP) home-based care is a potential solution to meet this challenge. Current research indicates that care provision by advanced practice nurses reduces cost, decreases length of stay and readmission to hospitals, and improves patient quality of life. The purpose of this research was to examine the state of the science regarding home-based geriatric care by NPs and to determine the current status and potential expansion of NPs in home-based care for elderly patients. Advanced practice nurses are able to fill the provider gap for aged patients. The future of healthcare in the US is linked to the willingness of this workforce to provide appropriate care in the most expedient setting. Finding innovative ways to address the needs of this population is important to relieving some of the burdens associated with fragmented healthcare for older adults and curtailing the growing financial burden of inpatient care for the nation's elders.
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Teenage Lifers: Seeking A Second Chance
American Exception
Without Parole
This is the first in an occasional series of articles that will examine commonplace aspects of the American justice system that are actually unique in the world.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In December, the United Nations took up a resolution calling for the abolition of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for children and young teenagers. The vote was 185 to 1, with the United States the lone dissenter.
Indeed, the United States stands alone in the world in convicting young adolescents as adults and sentencing them to live out their lives in prison. According to a new report, there are 73 Americans serving such sentences for crimes they committed at 13 or 14.
Mary Nalls, an 81-year-old retired social worker here, has some thoughts about the matter. Her granddaughter Ashley Jones was 14 when she helped her boyfriend kill her grandfather and aunt — Mrs. Nalls's husband and daughter — by stabbing and shooting them and then setting them on fire. Ms. Jones also tried to kill her 10-year-old sister.
Mrs. Nalls, who was badly injured in the rampage, showed a visitor to her home a white scar on her forehead, a reminder of the burns that put her into a coma for 30 days. She had also been shot in the shoulder and stabbed in the chest.
"I forgot," she said later. "They stabbed me in the jaw, too."
But Mrs. Nalls thinks her granddaughter, now 22, deserves the possibility of a second chance.
"I believe that she should have gotten 15 or 20 years," Mrs. Nalls said. "If children are under age, sometimes they're not responsible for what they do."
The group that plans to release the report on Oct. 17, the Equal Justice Initiative, based in Montgomery, Ala., is one of several human rights organizations that say states should be required to review sentences of juvenile offenders as the decades go by, looking for cases where parole might be warranted.
But prosecutors and victims' rights groups say there are crimes so terrible and people so dangerous that only life sentences without the possibility of release are a fit moral and practical response.
"I don't think every 14-year-old who killed someone deserves life without parole," said Laura Poston, who prosecuted Ms. Jones. "But Ashley planned to kill four people. I don't think there is a conscience in Ashley, and I certainly think she is a threat to do something similar."
Specialists in comparative law acknowledge that there have been occasions when young murderers who would have served life terms in the United States were released from prison in Europe and went on to kill again. But comparing legal systems is difficult, in part because the United States is a more violent society and in part because many other nations imprison relatively few people and often only for repeat violent offenses.
"I know of no systematic studies of comparative recidivism rates," said James Q. Whitman, who teaches comparative criminal law at Yale. "I believe there are recidivism problems in countries like Germany and France, since those are countries that ordinarily incarcerate only dangerous offenders. But at some point they let them out and bad things can happen."
The differences in the two approaches, legal experts said, are rooted in politics and culture. The European systems emphasize rehabilitation, while the American one stresses individual responsibility and punishment.
Corrections professionals and criminologists here and abroad tend to agree that violent crime is usually a young person's activity, suggesting that eventual parole could be considered in most cases. But the American legal system is more responsive to popular concerns about crime and attitudes about punishment, while justice systems abroad tend to be administered by career civil servants rather than elected legislators, prosecutors and judges.
In its sentencing of juveniles, as in many other areas, the legal system in the United States goes it alone. American law is, by international standards, a series of innovations and exceptions. From the central role played by juries in civil cases to the election of judges to punitive damages to the disproportionate number of people in prison, the United States is an island in the sea of international law.
And the very issue of whether American judges should ever take account of foreign law is hotly disputed. At the hearings on their Supreme Court nominations, both John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A. Alito Jr. said they thought it a mistake to consider foreign law in constitutional cases.
But the international consensus against life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders may nonetheless help Ms. Jones. In about a dozen cases recently filed around the country on behalf of 13- and 14-year-olds sentenced to life in prison, lawyers for the inmates relied on a 2005 Supreme Court decision that banned the execution of people who committed crimes when they were younger than 18.
That decision, Roper v. Simmons, was based in part on international law. Noting that the United States was the only nation in the world to sanction the juvenile death penalty, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority, said it was appropriate to look to "the laws of other countries and to international authorities as instructive" in interpreting the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.
He added that teenagers were different from older criminals — less mature, more susceptible to peer pressure and more likely to change for the better. Those findings, lawyers for the juvenile lifers say, should apply to their clients, too.
"Thirteen- and 14-year-old children should not be condemned to death in prison because there is always hope for a child," said Bryan Stevenson, the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, which represents Ms. Jones and several other juvenile lifers.
The 2005 death penalty ruling applied to 72 death-row inmates, almost precisely the same number as the 73 prisoners serving life without parole for crimes committed at 13 or 14.
The Supreme Court did not abolish the juvenile death penalty in a single stroke. The 2005 decision followed one in 1988 that held the death penalty unconstitutional for those who had committed crimes under 16.
The new lawsuits, filed in Alabama, California, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina and Wisconsin, seek to follow a similar progression.
"We're not demanding that all these kids be released tomorrow," Mr. Stevenson said. "I'm not even prepared to say that all of them will get to the point where they should be released. We're asking for some review."
In defending American policy in this area in 2006, the State Department told the United Nations that sentencing is usually a matter of state law. "As a general matter," the department added, juvenile offenders serving life-without-parole terms "were hardened criminals who had committed gravely serious crimes."
Human rights groups have disputed that. According to a 2005 report from Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, 59 percent of the more than 2,200 prisoners serving life without parole for crimes they committed at 17 or younger had never been convicted of a previous crime. And 26 percent were in for felony murder, meaning they participated in a crime that led to a murder but did not themselves kill anyone.
The new report focuses on the youngest offenders, locating 73 juvenile lifers in 19 states who were 13 and 14 when they committed their crimes. Pennsylvania has the most, with 19, and Florida is next, with 15. In those states and Illinois, Nebraska, North Carolina and Washington, 13-year-olds have been sentenced to die in prison.
In most of the cases, the sentences were mandatory, an automatic consequence of a murder conviction after being tried as an adult.
A federal judge here will soon rule on Ms. Jones's challenge to her sentence. Ms. Poston, who prosecuted her, said Ms. Jones was beyond redemption.
"Between the ages of 2 and 3, you develop a conscience," Ms. Poston said. "She never got the voice that says, 'This is bad, Ashley.' "
"It was a blood bath in there," Ms. Poston said of the night of the murders here, in 1999. "Ashley Jones is not the poster child for the argument that life without parole is too long."
In a telephone interview from the Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Ala., Ms. Jones said she did not recognize the girl who committed her crimes. According to court filings, her mother was a drug addict and her stepfather had sexually molested her. "Everybody I loved, everybody I trusted, I was betrayed by," Ms. Jones said.
"I'm very remorseful about what happened," she said. "I should be punished. I don't feel like I should spend the rest of my life in prison."
Mrs. Nalls, her grandmother, had been married for 53 years when she and her husband, Deroy Nalls, agreed to take Ashley in. She was "a problem child," and Mr. Nalls was a tough man who took a dislike to Ashley's boyfriend, Geramie Hart. Mr. Hart, who was 16 at the time of the murders, is also serving a life term. Mrs. Nalls said he deserved a shot at parole someday, as well.


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Wave extend winning streak to 16 before heading out on road
MILWAUKEE (WITI) — The Milwaukee Wave was playing their last home game before heading out on a five game road trip. They hoped to continue their momentum by extending their winning streak to 16 games against Rochester. The team did just that by defeating the Lancers 14-11.
Israel Seasy got the scoring going, as his goal gave the Wave an early 2-0 lead. Giuliano Oliviero pushed the Wave ahead 4-0 with a goal on an assist from Marcio Leite. Mauricio Salles of Rochester would respond to trim the deficit to 4-2. It looked like the Wave would add another 2 point goal off a free kick from Luan Oliveira, but it was rescinded on a penalty by Fabinho, and the score remained at 4-2 after the first quarter.
The Wave came out firing at the beginning of the second quarter as JP Rodrigues and Nick Perera extended the Wave's advantage to 8-2. Salles would score once again, this time an unassisted goal to make it 8-4. Near the end of the quarter Sesay scored his second of the game, putting the Wave on top 10-4 heading into the half.
The Lancers capitalized on a penalty by Milwaukee's Tom Oatley when Pedrinho scored on the power play, making it 10-6. It would become 10-9 after Rochester's Paul Craig blasted a three point shot into the net. No additional scoring occurred during the quarter, and the Wave clung to a 10-9 lead with one quarter remaining.
At beginning of the fourth quarter, Perera came through for the Wave, extending the team's lead to 12-9 with a two point goal, his second of the game. Rochester would only be able to score once more, thanks to MISL point's leader Doug Miller, but the Wave would hold on to a 14-11 victory, keeping the teams winning streak intact.
The Wave's road trip begins Sunday February, 17th at Missouri. They next play at home on Saturday March 2nd, at 6 p.m. against the Syracuse Silver Knights.


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Mark James Grudzielanek (Template:Pron-en; born June 30, 1970 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a second baseman in Major League Baseball who is currently a free agent. Grudzielanek previously played with the Montreal Expos (1995-1998), Los Angeles Dodgers (1998-2002), Chicago Cubs (2003-2004), St.Louis Cardinals (2005) and Kansas City Royals (2006-2007). He bats and throws right-handed.
Grudzielanek attended J. M. Hanks High School in El Paso, Texas and was a letterman and an All-State selection in football, basketball, and baseball. He was also a regional Skee-Ball champion in 1987.
Grudzielanek signed a contract on December 16, 2005, to be the second baseman for the Kansas City Royals. He won the Gold Glove Award in 2006 for second basemen in the American League. The mutual option on his contract for the 2008 was picked up by both the Royals and Grudzielanek.
In a 12-season career, Grudzielanek has compiled a .289 batting average with 89 home runs and 619 RBI in 1746 games.
- All-Star (1996)
- Led National League in doubles (54, 1997)
- Led NL in at-bats (649, 1997)
- Finished 6th in the NL in batting average (.326, 1999)
- Collected 201 hits in a season (1996)
- Won AL Gold Glove Award at second base (2006)
- Collected career hit number 2000 on July 12, 2008.
See alsoEdit
- List of Major League Baseball players with 2000 hits
- List of Major League Baseball doubles champions
- Hitting for the cycle
External linksEdit
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube


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Elmhurst is a city mostly in DuPage County and overlapping into Cook County in the U.S. state of Illinois Potawatomi Native American people, who settled along Salt Creek just south of where the city would develop, are the earliest known settlers of the Elmhurst area
2010 census 44,121 people The population density was 4,165.9 people per square mile (1,609.2/km²) median income for a household in the city was $88,236
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Gabon conceded an injury time equalizer in their opening group match against Guinea-Bissau on Saturday. The game ended all square at 1-1 and the hosts will certainly be the most disappointed given the trading at around 9/20 to make a winning start against the group outsiders who were making their AFCON finals debut.
On the plus side Gabon's star player Pierre Emerick Aubameyang is already off the mark, opening the scoring in the 52nd minute after a pretty uninspiring first half.
Burkina Faso on the other hand haven fallen behind in the first half of their opening group match although scored in the 75th minute to secure a point in a 1-1 draw with Cameroon on Saturday, their game against Gabon tomorrow has a lot to determine the fate in the competition.


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80+ Famous People of English Descent
This list of famous people of English descent is loosely ranked by fame and popularity. Many famous people are of English descent. Some of them have a mixed heritage while others are 100 percent English. Celebrities of English descent have had successful careers in film, television, and comedy. Even several Academy Award winners have ancestors or immediate family members from England.
Who is the most famous person of English descent? Megan Fox tops this list. She is of English, Scottish, German, French, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), and Powhatan Native American descent. She has appeared in such films as Jennifer's Body and Friends with Kids.
Many people of English ancestry have won Oscars. Julia Roberts is of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent. Other Academy Award winners who are of English descent include Monster's Ball actress Halle Berry, Syriana star George Clooney, and Casino scene-stealer Sharon Stone.How do you celebrate the multi-cultural aspects of your heritage? Share your thoughts in the comments section.
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