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Plenary two: Tobacco Control
Tobacco industry interference in public health policy was a theme common to all three presentations in this year's tobacco control plenary: from the opportunities offered to the industry by e-cigarettes, to lobby groups delaying life-saving health policy in Brazil, to the aggressive targeting of young people in Africa.
Professor Jeff Collin, University of Edinburgh, UK opened the session on the controversial issue of e-cigarettes.
'Tobacco companies are very keen to promote the convergence of their new products with harm reduction and public health,' said Professor Collin. 'It offers the industry a great opportunity to regain access to policymakers, scientists and public health advocates.'
Over the last 10 years this access has been increasingly curtailed as countries adopt a measure central to the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) – protecting public health policy from tobacco industry interference (Article 5.3). Professor Collin stated that Article 5.3 was the root of tobacco control's considerable progress over the last decade.
All tobacco companies are now invested in e-cigarettes. After several years of rapid growth, it is a market projected to be worth US $50 billion by 2030 – but this would still equate to just 5 percent of the global tobacco market.
'E-cigarettes are weapons of mass distraction,' said Professor Collin. 'There is a distorting lens of excessive focus on these products. Article 5.3, preventing tobacco industry interference must still be our absolute priority.'
Kellen Namusisi of the Center for Tobacco Control Africa, Uganda, then presented an overview of tobacco control in Africa.
The region has a triple burden of disease: communicable, non-communicable and poverty-related. But of these, tobacco use is the greatest risk factor. With consumption projected to increase by 39% by 2030, Africa will become the fastest growing market in the world.
'There is already huge growth in the youth market,' said Kellen Namusisi. 'We are presented with a very worrying picture for future prevalence of tobacco use.'
Africa is at present a prime target for tobacco companies because tobacco control is comparatively weak and there is lack of funding and capacity to invest in these programmes. Governments are focused on communicable and poverty-related disease and few countries have policies in place to prevent tobacco industry interference. Economic growth means many people in Africa have more money to spend on products like tobacco.
Success stories in the region illustrate that strong tobacco control policy is having an impact. Increased tobacco taxes in South Africa led to a 25 percent decrease amongst adult smokers; Kenya has a successful 'track and trace' system to tackle illicit trade and Chad and Mauritius have implemented strong legislations on tobacco packaging.
Kellen Namusisi concluded by welcoming the decision to host the World Conference on Tobacco or Health 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa. She said it offered an unprecedented opportunity to rally governments in the region to mobilise on tobacco control.
Dr Tania Cavalcante, head of the tobacco control division at Brazil's National Cancer Institute then presented on the status of smoke-free legislation in Latin America
Since the WHO FCTC came into force 10 years ago at least half of the population of Latin America are now protected by 100 percent smoke-free laws. Dr Cavalcante said the assistance of civil society organisations, including The Union, was vital for this progress.
Uruguay was the first Latin American country to go smoke-free. Research showed that this led to substantial and sustained reduction in acute myocardial infarction, with 17 percent fewer hospital admissions for this condition.
Shortfalls in Brazil's smoke-free law have been the result of tobacco industry interference through lobbyists and industry front groups. Delayed by several years, when the law did come into force there were exemptions – which were strongly contested by civil society and the public at large.
At the end of the session, the 2016 Union Scientific Prize was presented. This award acknowledgesresearchers at any stage in their career for work on tuberculosis or lung health published in the past five years. It went to Dr Andreas H. Diacon, professor at Stellenbosch University, Cape Town and Chief Executive Officer of Task Applied Science.


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The coastal county of East Sussex is home to a number of superb new properties built by Bovis Homes.
From the bustling nightlife of Brighton to the Area of Outstanding Beauty at Beachy Head, East Sussex has something for everyone. The historic town of Hastings is a popular place to visit, along with the famous seaside resort of Eastbourne. Homebuyers are ideally located with easy access to London and with the Channel ports close by offering quick crossovers to the Continent for family holidays or weekends away.

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Trying to get cacti drawing graphs on our netapp, I downloaded NETWORK-APPLIANCE-MIB.mib from http://www.oidview.com/mibs/789/NETWORK-APPLIANCE-MIB.html and copied it into /usr/share/mibs/netsnmp/.
Stracing snmpwalk it looks like the file is successfully being read, but I'm still seeing OIDs and not names in my output.
$ snmpwalk -v 1 -c $community_string udp:$host_ip:161 .18.104.22.168.4.1.7126.96.36.199.1.2
SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.718.104.22.168.1.2.1 = STRING: "aggr0"
SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.7126.96.36.199.1.2.2 = STRING: "aggr0/.snapshot"
Any hints as to else what I need to do to match the MIB file up with the snmp stuff?


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US STOCKS-Tech stocks, jobs data drive Wall St higher
* June nonfarm payrolls up by 222,000 vs. est. 179,000
* Unemployment rate edges up to 4.4 pct from 4.3 pct in May
* Average hourly earnings rise 0.2 pct vs est 0.3 pct
* Indexes up: Dow 0.28 pct, S&P 0.33 pct, Nasdaq 0.67 pct
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By Tanya Agrawal
July 7 (Reuters) – Wall Street extended gains in late
morning trading on Friday, powered by robust jobs data and a
rebound in technology stocks.
Nonfarm payrolls increased by 222,000 jobs last month, data
from the Labor Department showed, beating economists'
expectations for a 179,000 gain.
Average hourly earnings rose 0.2 percent in June after
gaining 0.1 percent in May, but fell below the estimated 0.3
While the unemployment rate rose to 4.4 percent from a
16-year low of 4.3 percent, that was because more people were
looking for work, a sign of confidence in the labor market.
"Given the focus of the Fed on inflation and the fact that
the inflation indicators in this report were slightly
disappointing, I think the market has a toned down reaction to
it," said Shyam Rajan, head of U.S. rates strategy at Bank Of
America Merrill Lynch in New York.
"But in the bigger picture, it's still a pretty decent
Investors are focused on wage growth and whether spending by
consumers will be strong enough to back the Federal Reserve's
plan to raise rates once more this year.
Odds of a rate hike at the Fed's December meeting stood at
50.9 percent, according to the CME Group's FedWatch tool.
Policymakers have taken opposing views on inflation after it
retreated further below the central bank's 2 percent target in
May, creating uncertainty over the future path of rate hikes.
Adding to the jitters are bets that the world's major
central banks are moving closer to unwinding their ultra-loose
monetary policies.
At 10:46 a.m. ET (1446 GMT), the Dow Jones Industrial
Average was up 59.51 points, or 0.28 percent, at
21,379.55 and the S&P 500 was up 8.17 points, or 0.33
percent, at 2,417.92.
The Nasdaq Composite was up 40.97 points, or 0.67
percent, at 6,130.44.
Eight of the 11 major S&P sectors were higher, with the tech
index's 1.04 percent rise leading the gainers.
Apple, Microsoft and Facebook gave
the biggest boost to the S&P and the Nasdaq.
The financial index, which is sensitive to interest
rates, pared early gains to trade little changed.
Shares of Bank of America, JPMorgan and
Citigroup were flat after having risen about 0.8 percent
in early trading. Goldman Sachs fell 0.5 percent.
Oil fell more than 3 percent after data showed U.S.
production rose last week just as OPEC exports hit a 2017 high.
Oil prices are down more than 16 percent this year, adding to
low inflation concerns.
Chevron fell 0.8 percent, while Exxon was
off 0.25 percent. The two stocks were a drag on the Dow and the
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners on the NYSE by 1,495
to 1,209. On the Nasdaq, 1,608 issues rose and 984 fell.
(Reporting by Tanya Agrawal in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil


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We've carefully restored the school, retaining historic vaulted ceilings, Roman brickwork and other authentic features, whilst designing studio and courtyard areas that are flooded with natural light. This has created a tranquil space that's designed to inspire artistic creativity.
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Important: Our visiting policy has changed. Check here for more information.
Counties Manukau is experiencing an outbreak of measles. It has rapidly risen in our community. Measles is a highly infectious disease that can be life threatening. It spreads easily from person to person.
We need all whaanau, particularly babies and young people, to get the FREE measles vaccine from their doctor to stop further spread in the community. Even if you're not sure, it's safe to get it again from your doctor.
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Double deckers, 210 barriers, Lyft/Uber: HWR, July 20
Crenshaw/LAX Line construction: here are some fresh pics. Art of Transit: I was remiss in not posting this last month. If you don't follow us on Instagram, please do so! [continue reading]
Crenshaw/LAX Line construction: here are some fresh pics. Art of Transit: I was remiss in not posting this last month. If you don't follow us on Instagram, please do so! [continue reading]
Take a little more transit and eat a little less meat — two things you can do to reduce your impact on the environment. In this installment of Meatless Mondays [continue reading]
UPDATE, NOON MONDAY: The work stoppage @ our Pomona facility is over. We're working to restore service; however, expect continuing disruptions in the near future — Foothill Transit (@FoothillTransit) August 7, 2017 *** I know some Metro riders transfer to and from Foothill Transit, which is being impacted by a [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors — the agency's ultimate deciders — met Thursday for their regular monthly meeting. A pdf of the agenda for downloading/printing can be found here. The recap [continue reading]
Election update: The L.A. County Registrar is still counting votes but is nearing the finish line. Here is the latest update on Measure M, which continues to be well over [continue reading]
Important links: info on senior fares is here. With a senior/disabled/Medicare TAP card — available to those 62 and older — a regular fare is 75 cents per ride on [continue reading]
As part of the Nov. 8 ballot, Los Angeles County voters will be considering Measure M, a half-cent sales tax increase and extension of the Measure R half-cent tax beyond 2039 to pay for transit, highway, walking, biking and other transportation projects. Both taxes would continue in perpetuity or until [continue reading]
The L.A. County Fair is back, marking the start of fall. It's time for fun rides, games, cute animals, concerts and food — lots and lots of food. Think giant [continue reading]
As many people know, Metro's spaces in the parking garage adjacent to the Azusa Downtown Station are filling very early — about 6 a.m. on most weekdays. The garage has 547 total spaces. Of those, 200 are reserved for Metro customers, 145 for the city of Azusa and 202 for Foothill [continue reading]
The full agenda for the April meeting is here. Audio and video will be posted soon here. •The Board approved a motion by Don Knabe to transition the portion of the 270 north of El Monte Station to Foothill Transit and the portion south of El Monte Station to Norwalk Transit. [continue reading]


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Petitions to Watch | Conference of 9.27.10
This edition of "Petitions to Watch" features cases up for consideration at the Justices' "long conference," on Monday, September 27. These are petitions raising issues that Tom has determined have a reasonable chance of being granted, although we post them here without consideration of whether they present appropriate vehicles in which to decide those issues.
Placer Dome, Inc. v. Provincial Government of Marinduque
Docket: 09-944
Issue(s): Whether federal courts have jurisdiction to rule on a case that involves potential foreign policy issues because a foreign government is involved.
Certiorari stage documents:
- Opinion below (9th Circuit)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief in opposition
- Petitioners' reply
- Petitioners' supplemental brief
CVSG Information:
- Invited: April 19, 2010
- Filed: August 27, 2010 (Deny)
Louisiana Safety Association of Timbermen – Self Insurers Fund v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London
Docket: 09-945
Issue(s): Whether Chapter 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act is an "Act of Congress†subject to the anti-preemption provision of the McCarran-Ferguson Act.
Certiorari stage documents:
- Opinion below (5th Circuit)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief in opposition
- Petitioner's reply
- Supplemental brief for petitioner
CVSG Information:
- Invited: May 17, 2010
- Filed: August 26, 2010 (Deny)
Hogan v. Kaltag Tribal Council
Docket: 09-960
Issue(s): Whether Indian tribes in the State of Alaska have authority to initiate and adjudicate child custody proceedings involving a nonmember and then to compel the State to give full faith and credit to the decrees entered in those proceedings.
Certiorari stage documents:
- Opinion below (unpublished, 9th Circuit)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief in opposition
- Amicus brief of Edward Parks and Donielle Taylor
- Petitioner's reply
- Petitioners' supplemental brief
CVSG Information:
- Invited: April 26, 2010
- Filed: August 27, 2010 (Deny)
Wong v. Smith
Docket: 09-1031
Issue(s): Do 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and this Court's precedent permit federal habeas corpus relief on a claim that a state judge unconstitutionally "coerces†jurors to return a guilty verdict by identifying specific evidence in the case as important and instructing them to consider it?
Certiorari stage documents:
Sammis v. Nance
Docket: 09-1115
Issue(s): (1) Whether a police officer may be held liable on a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failing to prevent another officer's use of force when that force was used within a short period such that a reasonable officer in the same circumstance would not have had a realistic opportunity to intervene; (2) whether the commands "get on the ground, drop the gun†are sufficient to satisfy the warning required prior to the use of deadly force; and (3) whether a party's self-serving testimony that contradicts his or her prior statement is sufficient to create a fact question and thereby avoid an adverse summary judgment ruling on the defense of qualified immunity.
Certiorari stage documents:
FIA Card Services, N.A. v. Gorman
Docket: 09-1142
Issue(s): 1) Whether Section 1681s-2(b) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act ("FCRAâ€) makes unlawful a furnisher's failure to echo back to the consumer reporting agencies ("CRAsâ€) a consumer dispute of which the CRA advised the furnisher, when the obligation to notify CRAs of disputes is expressly found in Section 1681s-2(a) of FCRA, 15 U.S.C. § 1681s-2(a), and FCRA's private rights of action are available to enforce violations of Section 1681s-2(b) but not Section 1681s-2(a); and 2) whether Section 1681t of FCRA, 15 U.S.C. § 1681t, preempts a California statute that creates a private damages remedy for violations of state law with respect to the obligations of furnishers of information to CRAs.
Certiorari stage documents:
Wilson v. Johnson
Docket: 09-1143
Issue(s): Whether the denial of the appointment of counsel in a civil case is an immediately appealable order.
Certiorari stage documents:
Skinner v. Department of Justice
Docket: 09-1188
Issue(s): Whether a prisoner's federal damages claims challenging disciplinary segregation and the loss of visitation rights and commissary privileges resulting from certain alleged prisoner misconduct — claims that otherwise could proceed without exhaustion of habeas remedies — nonetheless must be dismissed in favor of habeas because prison officials also chose to revoke good-time credits based on the same incident, and any challenge to that revocation would lie exclusively in habeas.
Certiorari stage documents:
Jerez-Sanchez v. Holder
Docket: 09-1211
Issue(s): (1) Whether Section 304(b) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act is inapplicable to pre-enactment convictions of all immigrants whose convictions predate IIRIRA's enactment, or whether the section's retroactivity instead (a) turns on an immigrant's subjective reliance; (b) turns on objectively reasonable reliance; or (c) is categorically inapplicable to convictions obtained at trial; and (2) whether the presumption against retroactivity applies only when individuals can establish either subjective or objective reliance on prior law.
Certiorari stage documents:
Norfolk Southern Railway Company v. Groves
Docket: 09-1212
Issue(s): 1) Whether "consignee†can be properly defined in railroad tariffs as the party named as consignee on a bill of lading that physically accepts delivery of all freight consigned to it, or whether the definition of "consignee†in such tariffs must also require proof that the party so named on the bill of lading explicitly consented to being named as consignee before accepting delivery; 2) whether the Supreme Court should resolve the circuit split over the definition of "consigneeâ€; and 3) whether the courts have subject matter jurisdiction to interpret the terms or expand the requirements of a railroad's rail car demurrage tariff.
Certiorari stage documents:
- Opinion below (11th Circuit)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief in opposition
- Amicus brief for the Association for American Railroads
- Petitioner's reply
- Supplemental brief
CVSG Information:
- Invited: October 4, 2010
- Filed: December 10, 2010 (Deny)
Bond v. United States (Granted )
Docket: 09-1227
Issue(s): Whether a criminal defendant convicted under a federal statute has standing to challenge her conviction on grounds that, as applied to her, the statute is beyond the federal government's enumerated powers and inconsistent with the Tenth Amendment.
Certiorari stage documents:
Von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena
Docket: 09-1254
Issue(s): (1) Whether, in enacting a state statute extending the statute of limitations applicable to claims for the recovery of property stolen during the Holocaust against museums and galleries, the State of California was addressing an area of "traditional state responsibility†without intruding on the federal foreign affairs power; (2) whether a state statute extending the statute of limitations for the recovery of property stolen during the Holocaust, which does not conflict with any federal statute, treaty or policy, is preempted by the federal foreign affairs power to make and resolve war; and (3) whether California Code of Civil Procedure § 354.3 is facially unconstitutional when the application to the case at bar poses no constitutional infirmity.
Certiorari stage documents:
- Opinion below (9th Circuit)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief in opposition
- Amicus brief of Bet Tzedek Legal Services et al.
- Amicus brief of the State of California
- Amicus brief of the Commission for Art Recovery
- Petitioner's reply
- Petitioner's second supplemental brief
- Petitioner's supplemental brief
CVSG Information:
- Invited: October 4, 2010
- Filed: May 27, 2011 (Deny)
Limmer, Smith, and Nothnagel v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Co.
Docket: 09-1255
Issue(s): Whether the federally funded addition of a component of a warning device (retroreflective tape) to an existing warning device (a crossbuck warning sign) at a railroad crossing is the installation of a "warning device†under 23 C.F.R. § 646.214(b)(3) and (4), thereby preempting state-law claims of negligence.
Certiorari stage documents:
Lonberg v. City of Riverside
Docket: 09-1259
Issue(s): Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act's transition-plan regulations, 28 C.F.R. § 35.150(d), are enforceable by private right of action.
Certiorari stage documents:
Presbyterian Church of Sudan v. Talisman Energy, Inc.
Docket: 09-1262
Issue(s): (1) Whether federal common law tort principles or international law provides the standard for civil aiding and abetting or conspiracy liability under the Alien Tort Statute; (2) whether the mental element for civil aiding and abetting liability, under either federal common law or international law, permits liability based on a showing that the defendant knowingly provided substantial assistance to gross human rights violations, or whether a plaintiff must also show that the defendant had the intent to assist; and (3) whether ATS plaintiffs may assert conspiracy or joint criminal enterprise theories of liability based on federal common law or international law and, if so, whether, in the context of such joint action, ATS plaintiffs satisfy their burden of proof by demonstrating that the defendant knew of an illegal purpose of the joint criminal enterprise and was assisting to achieve that illegal purpose.
Certiorari stage documents:
- Opinion below (2d Circuit)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief in opposition
- Petitioners' reply
- Amicus brief of International Law Scholars William Aceves et al.
- Amicus brief of David Scheffer, director of International Center for Human Rights
- Amicus brief of EarthRights International
- Amicus brief of Nuremberg Scholars Omer Bartov et al.
- Amicus brief of the International Commission of Jurists et al.
Kentucky v. King (Granted )
Docket: 09-1272
Issue(s): Under what circumstances can lawful police action impermissibly create exigent circumstances that preclude warrantless entry?
Certiorari stage documents:
Astra USA, Inc. v. Santa Clara County (Granted )
Docket: 09-1273
Issue(s): Whether, in the absence of a private right of action to enforce a statute, federal courts have the federal common law authority to confer a private right of action simply because the statutory requirement sought to be enforced is embodied in a contract.
Certiorari stage documents:
Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T, Inc. (Granted )
Docket: 09-1279
Issue(s): Whether Exemption 7(C) of the Freedom of Information Act which exempts from mandatory disclosure records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes when such disclosure could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy protects the privacy of corporate entities.
Certiorari stage documents:
General Dynamics Corp. v. United States (Granted )
Docket: 09-1298
Issue(s): Whether the government can maintain its claim against a party when it invokes the state-secrets privilege to completely deny that party a defense to the claim.
Certiorari stage documents:
The Boeing Company v. United States (Granted )
Docket: 09-1302
Issue(s): Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment permits the government to maintain a claim while simultaneously asserting the state-secrets privilege to bar presentation of a prima facie valid defense to that claim.
Certiorari stage documents:
Zurich American Insurance Company v. Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc.
Docket: 09-1305
Issue(s): Whether, in a case removed under the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards, 9 U.S.C. § 205, an order denying a motion to compel arbitration and remanding to state court is appealable under the Federal Arbitration Act's express right of interlocutory appeal from such denials, 9 U.S.C. § 16(a)(1)(C), notwithstanding 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d).
Certiorari stage documents:
Saleh v. Titan Corp.
Docket: 09-1313
Issue(s): 1) Whether the court of appeals erred by finding that claims for torture and other war crimes cannot be brought against private actors under the Alien Tort Statute; and 2) whether the court of appeals erred by creating a "battle-field preemption†doctrine that extends derivative sovereign immunity to contractors.
Certiorari stage documents:
- Opinion below (DC Circuit)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief of CACI International in opposition
- Brief of Titan Corp. in opposition
- Petitioners' reply
- Amicus brief of Professors of Federal Courts et al.
- Amicus brief of Retired Military Officers
- Amicus brief of Human Rights First et al.
CVSG Information:
- Invited: October 4, 2010
- Filed: May 27, 2011 (Deny)
Ryan v. Jones
Docket: 09-1314
Issue(s): (1) Whether a "non-neutral†mental health expert must be appointed to assist the defense at sentencing; (2) whether defense counsel performs deficiently by relying on the description of childhood abuse provided by the defendant and his mother and stepfather, and not additionally interviewing the defendant's sibling regarding the same type of abuse; (3) whether a federal court errs by considering only new mitigation evidence, without considering rebuttal evidence and evidence of aggravating circumstances, in determining whether the additional mitigation evidence would have changed the sentencing decision; and (4) whether the Ninth Circuit erred by ruling that a district court, in considering ineffective assistance of counsel claims following an evidentiary hearing, should not evaluate the credibility of expert witnesses who testified at the hearing regarding evidence a petitioner claims should have been presented at sentencing.
Certiorari stage documents:
Koubriti v. Convertino
Docket: 09-1322
Issue(s): Whether a prosecutor may be subjected to a civil trial and potential damages for a wrongful conviction and incarceration where the prosecutor allegedly (1) violated a criminal defendant's substantive due process rights by procuring false testimony during the criminal investigation and then (2) introduced that same testimony against the criminal defendant at trial.
Certiorari stage documents:
Mills v. Midwest Title Loans
Docket: 09-1325
Issue(s): Whether the Commerce Clause permits a state to regulate consumer loans to its residents by a firm that advertises and conducts multiple loan-related activities in the state, but which requires all loan agreements to be signed in another state.
Certiorari stage documents:
Smith v. Vasquez
Docket: 09-1328
Issue(s): (1) Whether a state court acts "contrary to… clearly established Federal law†under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) when it cites the appropriate standard of review for a specific issue in its opinion but later uses imprecise shorthand terms in referring to that standard; and (2) whether the Sixth Circuit erred in granting habeas relief on the respondent's ineffective assistance of counsel claim notwithstanding the state courts' contrary determination.
Certiorari stage documents:
Canto v. Holder
Docket: 09-1333
Issue(s): Whether aliens convicted of a deportable offense before 1996 are entitled to seek waiver of deportation under Section 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act despite its repeal in 1996.
Certiorari stage documents:
Nestle Purina Petcare Company v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Docket: 09-1339
Issue(s): (1) Whether a deduction for dividends paid to withdrawing participants of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, as authorized by § 404(k) of the Internal Revenue Code, is precluded by § 162(k)(1), which disallows an otherwise allowable deduction "for any amount paid or incurred in connection with the redemption of [a corporation's] stockâ€; (2) whether deference is owed by one circuit to the federal tax decisions of other circuits; and (3) whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that petitioner's deductions for "applicable dividends†paid under § 404(k) were barred by § 162(k)(1), where § 162(k)(2)(A)(iii) expressly provides that the bar set forth in §162(k)(1) shall not apply to "deductions for dividends paid (within the meaning of Section 561).â€
Certiorari stage documents:
Sherry v. Johnson
Docket: 09-1342
Issue(s): Whether the Michigan courts unreasonably applied Supreme Court precedent under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) in rejecting a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel because it did not affect the outcome of the case.
Certiorari stage documents:
Iron Thunderhorse v. Pierce
Docket: 09-1353
Issue(s): Whether the court of appeals misinterpreted the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc et seq., to require only a minimal showing that a prison grooming rule which concededly imposes a substantial burden on religious exercise is the "least restrictive means of furthering [a] compelling governmental interest.â€
Certiorari stage documents:
- Opinion below (5th Circuit)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief in opposition
- Petitioner's reply
- Respondents' supplemental brief
- Petitioner's supplemental brief
CVSG Information:
Totes-Isotoner Corp. v. United States
Docket: 09-1360
Issue(s): 1) Whether Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) provisions that impose a 14% ad valorem rate on "men's†seamed leather gloves, but only a 12.6% ad valorem rate on seamed leather gloves for "other persons†-- i.e., females and male children -- discriminate facially on the basis of gender or age; 2) whether, if the HTSUS does not facially discriminate, a "different rule†of pleading applies to equal protection claims in the areas of tariff and tax law such that governmental intent to discriminate can never be inferred from disparate impact on similarly situated parties; and 3) whether a corporate taxpayer has first-party standing to assert an equal protection violation based on the gender or age of those who use its imported merchandise.
Certiorari stage documents:
Bell v. Thompson
Docket: 09-1373
Issue(s): (1) Whether respondent Gregory Thompson is competent to be executed, given that Ford v. Wainwright (1986) neither defined competency in the Eighth Amendment context nor set forth precise procedural requirements for determining competency for execution; (2) whether the Tennessee Supreme Court's clarification of existing Tennessee appellate procedure was sufficient to warrant relief under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) from the district court's judgment denying respondent Thompson's petition for writ of habeas corpus; and (3) whether the Sixth Circuit's decision exceeds the scope of the certificate of appealability (COA) — and thus the Court's jurisdiction — under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c).
Certiorari stage documents:
Sternberg v. Johnston
Docket: 09-1374
Issue(s): Whether 11 U.S.C. § 362(k)(1) – specifying that an individual "injured†by a willful violation of the Bankruptcy Code automatic stay "shall recover actual damages†— encompasses compensation for emotional distress.
Certiorari stage documents:
Harber Corporation v. United States
Docket: 09-1389
Issue(s): (1) Whether the government, when it is ordered to make restitution of illegally seized funds to an innocent owner, may also be ordered to disgorge interest earned or realized on the funds; and (2) whether a petition by property owners to challenge in personam forfeiture proceedings by the government under 28 U.S.C. § 2465(b)(1) — which provides that the United States "shall be liable†for attorneys' fees and costs incurred by claimants who substantially prevail "in any civil proceeding to forfeit property under any provision of Federal law†— is part of â€a proceeding to forfeit property†and whose petitioners, therefore, are entitled to fees and costs.
Certiorari stage documents:
Beer v. United States
Docket: 09-1395
Issue(s): Whether the Compensation Clause of Article III prevents Congress from withholding the future judicial salary adjustments established by the Ethics Reform Act of 1989.
Certiorari stage documents:
- Denial of rehearing en banc (Federal Circuit)
- Summary affirmance (Federal Circuit)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief in opposition
- Petitioners' reply
- Amicus brief of Bar Associations
- Amicus brief of the American Bar Association
- Amicus brief of International Municipal Lawyers Association
- Amicus brief of Federal Judges Association
Laborers District Council Construction Industry Pension Fund v. Omnicare
Docket: 09-1400
Issue(s): Whether claims under Securities Act § 11, 15 U.S.C. § 77k(a), for which proof of fraud or mistake is no element of prima facie liability, are subject to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s heightened pleading requirement, requiring that a party alleging claims of fraud or mistake "state with particularity the circumstances constituting fraud or mistakeâ€; (2) whether investors seeking relief under Securities Act § 11, for which neither negligence nor fraud is an element of liability, may be required to plead facts showing either fraud or negligence; and (3) whether the courts reverse the burden that Congress placed on certain defendants, of demonstrating due diligence as an affirmative defense, by requiring plaintiffs to plead facts rebutting it.
Certiorari stage documents:
CVSG Information:
- Invited: October 4, 2010
United Rentals v. Angell
Docket: 09-1417
Issue(s): (1) Whether, to satisfy the elements of 11 U.S.C. § 547(b), a bankruptcy trustee must prove that allegedly preferential transfers diminished a bankruptcy debtor's estate available for distribution to general unsecured creditors; (2) whether the contemporaneous release of contingent setoff rights or a contingent security interest in the property of the estate by a third party as a direct result of an alleged preferential transfer is a valid contemporaneous exchange for new value under 11 U.S.C. § 547(c)(1).
Certiorari stage documents:
Talisman Energy, Inc. v. Presbyterian Church of Sudan
Docket: 09-1418
Issue(s): (1) Whether, under the Alien Tort Statute, federal courts lack subject matter jurisdiction to impose liability on corporations for torts committed in violation of customary international law; (2) whether federal courts lack subject matter jurisdiction to apply ATS extraterritorially to claims for such torts arising entirely outside the United States; and (3) whether causes of action for violations of customary international law exist when (i) the claims are based on events arising solely outside the United States and had no effect on the United States, (ii) the claims are asserted against a foreign defendant not in the custody of the United States, and (iii) a country providing an adequate alternative forum has a close tie to the dispute.
Certiorari stage documents:
New York v. Williams
Docket: 09-1425
Issue(s): Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a court from correcting a sentence that, as originally pronounced, lacked a required component or was otherwise illegally lenient.
Certiorari stage documents:
City of New York v. Green
Docket: 09-1426
Issue(s): (1) Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq., applies — or applies with the same level of disability accommodation as would normally be applied — to emergency medical responders who, under exigent circumstances, make a medically reasonable decision to transport a disabled person to the hospital without evaluating the person's refusal of medical assistance; and (2) whether an "exigent circumstances†exception to the ADA, applicable in nonhospital emergency medical settings, would expose disabled patients to a significant risk of unwanted and paternalistic medical intervention.
Certiorari stage documents:
Kelly v. Winston
Docket: 09-1431
Issue(s): (1) Whether the Fourth Circuit denied the state court the deference mandated by 28 U.S.C. § 2254 by holding that the state court's judgment was not an adjudication on the merits and thus not entitled to deference because the state court dismissed the claim without an evidentiary hearing, by confusing the application of §§ 2254(d) and (e)(1), by approving a hearing in federal court contrary to AEDPA, and by accepting, without finding cause and prejudice for the default, new evidence to support a claim of mental retardation which the state prisoner affirmatively had told the state court had been destroyed; and (2) whether the Fourth Circuit impermissibly enlarged the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel by permitting consideration of evidence which did not exist at the time of counsel's representation.
Certiorari stage documents:
Camreta v. Greene (Granted )
Docket: 09-1454
Issue(s): (1) Whether the traditional warrant/warrant exception requirements that apply to seizures of suspected criminals should apply to an interview of the child in light of reports of child abuse, or whether instead a balancing standard should apply; and (2) whether the Ninth Circuit's constitutional ruling is reviewable, notwithstanding that it ruled in the petitioner's favor on qualified immunity grounds.
Certiorari stage documents:
Rigas v. United States
Docket: 09-1456
Issue(s): 1) Whether the government suppresses evidence within the meaning of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), when it refuses to produce (a) notes from an interview with a witness who has exculpatory information, when the defendant knows only the role and identity of the witness but not to what facts the witness would testify; or (b) materials in the sole possession of another agency conducting a parallel investigation; and 2) whether, consistent with the civil "loss causation†principles announced in Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Broudo, 544 U.S. 336 (2005), a court enhancing a criminal sentence based on the amount of resulting loss must disentangle contributing factors to determine the specific losses actually caused by the defendant's offense conduct.
Certiorari stage documents:
State of South Carolina v. Navy
Docket: 09-1459
Issue(s): Whether, if a suspect is read his Miranda rights mid-interrogation, the statements he makes after being read his rights are admissible.
Certiorari stage documents:
Alford v. Greene (Granted )
Docket: 09-1478
Issue(s): Whether the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant, a court order, parental consent, or exigent circumstances before law enforcement and child welfare officials may conduct a temporary seizure and interview at a public school of a child whom they reasonably suspect was being sexually abused.
Certiorari stage documents:
Missouri v. Brooks
Docket: 09-1492
Issue(s): Whether generic and nonresponsive exculpatory statements made by a suspect after he was read his Miranda rights constitute can be used to impeach an explanation subsequently offered at trial.
Certiorari stage documents:
Kleinman v. City of San Marcos
Docket: 09-1494
Issue(s): 1) Whether the First Amendment protects only "great works of art"; and 2) whether a city may wholly ban the public display of an entire category of art, leaving enclosed, private display as the only available option.
Certiorari stage documents:
United States v. Tinklenberg (Granted )
Docket: 09-1498
Issue(s): Whether the time between the filing of a pretrial motion and its disposition is automatically excluded from the deadline for commencing trial under the Speedy Trial Act of 1974, or is instead excluded only if the motion actually causes a postponement, or the expectation of a postponement, of the trial.
Certiorari stage documents:
Feesers v. Michael Foods
Docket: 09-1499
Issue(s): Whether, in order to support a finding of competitive injury under the Robinson-Patman Act, a plaintiff must also prove that the favored and disfavored purchasers bought the discriminatorily priced products at the exact same moment at which they or their customers competed to resell those products.
Certiorari stage documents:
Actavis, Inc. v. Demahy (Granted )
Docket: 09-1501
Issue(s): Whether the states are preempted under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution from requiring additional safety information on a generic product label when the brand has not changed its label.
Certiorari stage documents:
United States v. Hagen
Docket: 09-1520
Issue(s): Whether a conviction for misdemeanor assault by intentionally and knowingly causing bodily injury to a family member qualifies as a conviction for a "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.â€
Certiorari stage documents:
Johnston v. Sternberg
Docket: 09-1525
Issue(s): Whether 11 U.S.C. § 362(k)(1) authorizes recovery of the attorneys' fees incurred in prosecuting damages actions brought under the same statute.
Certiorari stage documents:
DePierre v. United States (Granted )
Docket: 09-1533
Issue(s): Whether the term "cocaine base†encompasses every form of cocaine that is classified chemically as a base, or whether the term "cocaine base†is limited to "crack†cocaine.
Certiorari stage documents:
Lee v. Astoria Generating Co.
Docket: 09-1567
Issue(s): 1) Whether the lower court misapplied Stewart v. Dutra Construction Co., 543 U.S. 481 (2005), to find that a floating power plant constituted a "vessel in navigation"; and 2) whether the lower court erred by finding that petitioner's proposed state-law tort claims were within the maritime jurisdiction and by dismissing said claims on the basis that they were preempted by Section 905(b) of the Longshore and Harborworker Compensation Act.
Certiorari stage documents:
Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S.A. (Granted )
Docket: 10-6
Issue(s): Whether the legal standard for the "state of mind" element of a claim for actively inducing infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) is "deliberate indifference of a known risk†that an infringement may occur or instead "purposeful, culpable expression and conduct†to encourage an infringement.
Certiorari stage documents:
Allen v. Lawhorn
Docket: 10-24
Issue(s): Whether a state court's determination that trial counsel's waiver of a penalty-phase closing argument did not prejudice the defendant is "contrary to†Supreme Court precedent.
Certiorari stage documents:
Maples v. Thomas (Granted )
Docket: 10-63
Issue(s): Whether the Eleventh Circuit properly held that there was no cause to excuse any procedural default where petitioner was blameless for the default, the state's own conduct contributed to the default, and petitioner's attorneys of record were no longer functioning as his agents at the time of any default.
Certiorari stage documents:
Weise v. Casper
Docket: 10-67
Issue(s): Whether First Amendment law prohibits government officials who are speaking at events that are open to the public and paid for by taxpayers from excluding people from the audience on the basis of their viewpoints.
Certiorari stage documents:
Goodyear v. Brown (Granted )
Docket: 10-76
Issue(s): Whether a foreign corporation is subject to general personal jurisdiction, on causes of action not arising out of or related to any contacts between it and the forum state, merely because other entities distribute in the forum state products placed in the stream of commerce by the defendant.
Certiorari stage documents:
Weiss v. Assicurazioni Generali, S.p.A.
Docket: 10-80
Issue(s): Whether state common-law claims are preempted by federal foreign policy interests in the absence of an executive agreement and when no other recourse would be available to the plaintiffs.
Certiorari stage documents:
- Opinion below (2d Circuit)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief in opposition
- Amicus brief of the California State Senate
- Amicus brief of Professors of Constitutional Law and Foreign Relations Law
- Amicus brief of Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Eleven Additional Members of Congress
- Petitioner's reply
- Petition for rehearing
Wilson v. Corcoran
Docket: 10-91
Issue(s): Whether a state capital defendant has a constitutional right to a sentencing decision that is not informed by facts that are neither elements of his crime or aggravated circumstances authorized by statute, and, if so, whether a federal court may grant habeas relief based on its own finding that the state trial court improperly considered non-statutory factors when imposing its sentence.
Certiorari stage documents:
Stern v. Marshall (Granted )
Docket: 10-179
Issue(s): (1) Whether the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 157(b)(2)(C) contravenes congressional intent; (2) whether Congress may authorize core jurisdiction over debtors' compulsory counterclaims to proofs of claim; and (3) whether the Ninth Circuit contravened Supreme Court precedent and created a circuit split by holding that Congress cannot constitutionally authorize non-Article III bankruptcy judges to enter final judgment on all compulsory counterclaims to proofs of claim.
Certiorari stage documents:
Schindler Elevator Corp. v. US ex rel. Kirk (Granted )
Docket: 10-188
Issue(s): Whether a federal agency's response to a Freedom of Information Act request is a "report . . . or investigation" within the meaning of the False Claims Act public disclosure bar, 31 U.S.C. § 3730(e)(4).
Certiorari stage documents:
Gould v. Cayuga Indian Nation
Docket: 10-206
Issue(s): 1) Whether, on a matter that it believed the Supreme Court had not yet addressed, the New York Court of Appeals properly interpreted federal law in holding that two parcels of land purchased by a successor to the historic Cayuga Indian Nation in 2003 and 2005 were exempt from New York's cigarette sales and excise taxes after two hundred years of non-Indian ownership and governance; and 2) whether the New York Court of Appeals properly held both that (i) the Cayuga Indian Nation possessed a federal reservation pursuant to the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua, notwithstanding that the Nation had ceded all of its land to New York State in 1789; and (ii) the United States did not subsequently disestablish any purported federal reservation.
Certiorari stage documents:
DISCLOSURE: Akin Gump represents a party in each of the cases below; they are listed here without regard to their chances of being granted.
Apex Oil Company, Inc. v. United States
Note: Akin Gump represents the petitioner in this case.
Docket: 09-1023
Issue(s): In what circumstances a debtor's obligation to clean up pollution is a "claim†under the Bankruptcy Code.
Certiorari stage documents:
Worldwide Network Services v. DynCorp International
Note: Akin Gump represents the petitioners in this case.
Docket: 10-11
Issue(s): Whether evidence of overt intentional discrimination on the basis of race can support an inference that the discriminating party acted with malice or with reckless indifference to the victim's federally protected rights.


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Politically Speaking: Sen. Lamping On His Filibuster, Tax Credits And Ethics Reform
Every week, St. Louis Public Radio's Chris McDaniel joins the St. Louis Beacon's Jo Mannies and Jason Rosenbaum to talk about the week's politics.
On this week's episode: Missouri Senator John Lamping (R) joins as a guest, and discusses how he got into politics (and went to college with Michelle Obama). Lamping also discusses his filibuster against the transportation sales tax, his plans for ethics reform next session, and the prospect of him running for his seat again.
Follow Chris McDaniel on Twitter: @csmcdaniel
Follow Jo Mannies on Twitter: @jmannies
Follow Jason Rosenbaum on Twitter: @jrosenbaum
Follow Sen. Lamping on Twitter: @JohnLamping


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Our Ambassadors...
Temple Beth Am's Ambassador Program
The Ambassador Mission
The goal of the Ambassador program is to improve integration of new member and to increase Temple Beth Am's membership retention. When congregants reach out to welcome new members, they feel comfortable and connected, and are more likely to maintain a long and meaningful relationship with Temple Beth Am.
What is a Temple Beth Am Ambassador?
A Temple Beth Am Ambassador is a Temple member who has been asked to welcome individuals and families who have recently joined our community. An ambassador helps new members become acclimated to the Beth Am community by inviting these new members to join the ambassador at services and other synagogue events.
What is expected of me as a Temple Beth Am Ambassador?
You will make an initial telephone call to welcome the new member(s), introduce yourself and invite that member to meet you at an upcoming Temple service/event. Your phone call should be followed up with an email, as many people prefer to correspond that way.
Try to meet your new members face-to-face and invite them to meet you at a service/event. You should introduce this new member to your friends and other Ambassadors, so they can meet more members of our community.
How are new members assigned to me?
New members will be assigned to Ambassadors based on similar interest or demographics. For example, you have children the same age. We want this to be a positive experience for both you and the new members, so every effort is to make a good match.
How many new members will be assigned to me?
You will be assigned approximately two new member families each year.
How long am I expected to contact that new member?
Our hope is that this will be a positive experience and you will ultimately become familiar with the new members you have been assigned and look forward to seeing them around Beth Am.
To become a Beth Am Ambassador or for more information, contact Rita Diaz, Director of Member Services, 305.667.6667, ext. 107, or email [email protected].


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In and Around Our Homes:
In 2019 Nepal Orphans Home (NOH) began its fifteenth year of operations, providing for 47 children in Papa's House, as well as supporting 18 adolescents attending college preparatory classes and funding the higher education of 39 young adults enrolled in grades 12–16. Nearly half of the children are former Kamlari girls rescued from past indentured servitude.
Below are some of the ways you might support NOH's mission.
Support for a Child:
When children arrive at Papa's House, NOH commits to providing for their shelter, nutrition, education, and health care until they reach adulthood and are ready to live independently in Nepali society. The annual cost per child averages nearly $2,200.
Papa's House children are very busy during the school year, six days a week attending Skylark School from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and then the Chelsea Center in the afternoons for academic enrichment sessions. Some of the children practice basketball every day from 6:00–7:15 a.m. at Skylark School. Others take Taekwondo classes in the early mornings. All the children enjoy their Saturdays off from school, breaks in the school year, and holidays, when they can relax and partake in fun activities at the Chelsea Center, such as book clubs and art classes.
Saturday experiential learning excursions for NOH children have become a regular occurrence. Each Saturday, two to five mentors take a group of children into Kathmandu to attend, as an example, farmers markets. The children learn which busses to flag, how to pay the fees, and where to get off. They speak with vendors about their products and their business strategies. They learn to negotiate price and buy products, and they return home, once again acting independently, albeit under the watch of the mentors. Trip costs vary, but average $35 for one Saturday's outing.
Crossing a busy street in Kathmandu
Visiting farmers' markets
Support for Education:
Of paramount importance is providing our children with good education. Through grade ten, Papa's House children attend the Skylark English School, a local private school with over six hundred students. Upon completing grade 10, students take a Secondary Education Examination (SEE), and after passing it, they may enroll in Plus 2 (grades 11 and 12). After successfully finishing Plus 2, students may advance to undergraduate programs at the university level.
Ranjita of Papa's House addressing her fellow students in the morning assembly at Skylark
For the 2019–20 academic year, there are 46 Papa's House children enrolled at Skylark English School and one blind student attending a special school. Including tuition, uniforms, books, and other necessary educational supplies, the approximate school cost per child in the 2019 school year session is $360.
In addition, NOH Outreach provides scholarships for local children from poor families to attend the Skylark English School.
There are currently 57 young adults from Papa's House are enrolled in higher education. Thirty-five are in college level study, a two-year program, where, depending upon the students' area of interest (generally Business, Science, Social Work, or Tourism Management), fees range between $400 and $700 per year.
The other 22 young adults from Papa's House are enrolled in university study (four years of study following graduation from Class 12). Study at the university level becomes even more specialized and current university fees per student average $1,500 per year.
"Bridge" courses help students solidify writing and study skills and extend background knowledge required for specific areas of study. Successful completion of these useful courses may also help students become eligible for scholarships. Students applying to science programs and those planning to study outside of Nepal are required to take these. The cost of the average bridge course is $200.
Intensive language courses are a visa requirement for students wishing to attend college in another country. The cost of the average language course is $200.
The Chelsea Education and Community Center:
In 2019 NOH's Chelsea Education and Community Center (CECC) began its seventh year of academic enrichment and life skills training for the Papa's House children and its fifth year of free literacy classes to local women in the community of Dhapasi.
In the afternoons after Skylark school, Papa's House children go to the Chelsea Center for classes in math, science and computer, as well as study halls and tutoring. For the older children, there are also career workshops and vocational training. In addition, more than two hundred local women take English and Nepali literacy and basic math classes and participate in life skills workshops at the Center. The annual cost of operating the Chelsea Center, mainly for teacher salaries, is nearly $45,000 or approximately $125 a day.
On Friday afternoons, workshops are held, where our students hear from professionals about different careers, practice public speaking, and learn about health care, personal empowerment, and other life skills. A donation of $30 would cover two workshops per month.
The Chelsea Education and Community Center has opened its doors to select other local school students, where our reputation for excellence in teaching math is well known. These earnest local students attend two-hour sessions six days a week. Individual CECC scholarships for deserving students cost $40 per month.
Computer lab at the Chelsea Center
Math class at the Chelsea Center
In addition to the free adult education classes and workshops for local women, the Chelsea Center helps build social capital in the community through special events and celebrations.
A literacy class at the Chelsea Center
Quiz contest on Diversity Day at the Chelsea Center
Support for Outreach Programs:
In addition to the care of the Nepal Orphans Home (NOH) children, our organization supports many other projects. A few of these projects are described briefly below.
Kanti Children's Hospital: With generous donations from the Healing Buddha Foundation, NOH supports terminally ill children in the cancer ward. Fresh fruit and food treats are supplied twice a week and birthdays of the children are celebrated, complete with birthday cake, candles, presents, balloons and sweets. Support (generally for pain medications) is provided for poor families who cannot afford the medical costs.
Also, NOH has created a "Make A Wish"-type program for these well-deserving children. The cost of fulfilling a wish often exceeds $100.
Bal Mandir Baby Orphanage: Over the years NOH has also supported the baby orphanage at Bal Mandir, providing the children with food, health check-ups and other supplies. This past year, one of the older Papa's House children, Anisha, volunteered to help regularly with the infants. NOH has also been supplying infant formula and baby food and subsidizing the staff salaries. NOH monthly support for the baby orphanage averages over $650.
Young patients at Kanti
Anisha of Papa's House helping at Bal Mandir
Goldhunga Blind Children's Home: NOH supports the children of Goldhunga. A Papa's House young adult from NOH Outreach visits the home every Tuesday and Friday to help the children with homework. Our monthly support, which includes staff salaries, clothing, supplies, braille textbooks, food, and mentoring, averages $400.
Goldhunga Blind Children's Home
Answering the Call When Needed: When NOH learned of a remote village running out of rice and other staples and surviving on nettle soup, we responded. A delivery of rice, dhal, oil, flour, and salt enough for 24 families for a month costs $450.
The villagers of Brushwang arriving where the road ends to receive their food
Dumrikharka: In addition to offering a nutritional hot lunch program at this school and paying a teacher's salary for the past eight years, NOH funded the construction of a new school following the devastation in the 2015 earthquake. In 2019, monthly support for the village school averages $325.
Bigu Monastery: In a remote Himalayan village, home to nearly a hundred Buddhist nuns of all ages, NOH has been supporting teacher salaries for the past six years. We invested in the support of the nuns and their temporary relocation after the earthquake in 2015 and helped fund the reconstruction of a house.
New Shree Sham Primary School in Dumrikharka
New house in Bigu
When No One Else Will Help: Local families in need are frequently brought to our attention. While we try to provide temporary support to see a family through a crisis, occasionally we offer support over a longer term. For example, NOH Outreach gives one family enough funds to cover the costs of education for two of the children in addition to life-sustaining medicine for the father's illness. Another family of a crippled mother and three young children receives money to pay for food and other household needs. We have covered the cost for medical emergencies and even a kidney transplant for a local young man. In addition, we have provided the boarding fees of a young blind student at college for the past three years. Currently NOH local charity averages $250 per month.
Five Extraordinary Sisters: Nepal Orphans Home also supports the education of five sisters, extraordinary young women from a remote mountainous region. Their father, a math teacher, has instilled in his daughters a love of education and belief in themselves. The father's meager income supports his wife's costly health care, as well as that of his mother.
Yamuna, Alina, Namuna, Shruti, and Kriti
The girls currently share a single small windowless room, with one community-shared toilet and an outside water tap for bathing. They are focused on their education, helping each other with homework and chores. The eldest daughter, Shruti, 23, who has graduated university with a degree in Electrical Engineering, is the only female electrical engineer employed by the Nepal Electric Association. She studies at night at home for her Master's in Electrical Engineering. Her income covers rent and food for the family. The youngest daughter, Alina, 13, has ongoing health care costs associated with Turner's syndrome, and yet is a star student, who last summer won an invitational debate against students through class 12.
The girls are optimistic, appreciative, very hard-working, and never complaining. They all have won scholarships at some of the best Kathmandu schools, but their share for fees alone average between $450 to $1,000 per year for each of them. Any donation amount to help cover their education costs would be much appreciated.
Thank You from Nepal Orphans Home


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i have just been in a funeral for one time in my life. while being there, i just couldn't understand anything. i wonder if i would have one when i die ? no matter if i would or not, am i worth having this ?
I was ten. My aunts were picking out a dress for me to wear to my mother's funeral. As they looked through my closest I heard them say "all that is here are rags". They pulled out the best of the dresses. It was a soft, pretty pink chiffon that I had worn for Easter that year. As much as I loved that dress I did not want to wear such a lovely shade of pink. I wanted to wear black. Who would want to wear pink on a day like that?
I remember my grandpa's funeral
I cried a lot and I was very sad
I will never forget that day
This was in 06
I went to a funeral today. It was the hardest thing i have ever done. Her ghost seemed to surround the whole room. I could feel her on the back of my neck, pressing her lips lightly to my skin. She hasnt left me alone since the day she died. She taunts me. "Come join me". she whispers into the night air. She knows how lonely I am without her.
funerals aren't that great. they can be celebrations of a full life, they can be tragic expressions of a life cut short. mostly, they're for community outpourings of love and respect and for attention. sometimes they're straightforward. sometimes they're not so lucky. sometimes they require only a few people, which means only that they kept it simple. they have flowers, sometimes. sometimes they are too much. all those people in one place doing the same sad things and sometimes not being real with each other. sometimes all people really need is someone to be real with them. sometimes funerals aren't real. that's the thing about funerals. you can say they were so touching, but really all they do is hollow you out and make you feel empty inside. you've had to see up close and personal the suffering of those around you and the depth of it frightens you like a small child is frightened by the deep end of a pool. you swim over, because you care about the people over there, but as soon as they say it's okay, you're back in the three feet, thank you very much.
sad uncomfortable but also comforting. people feel awkward. no one has the right words. but you go – because you have to. because it's the right thing to do and because people need each other.
the death of the cat stank within the nightly air. I stare at the carcass and wonder what to do with it. the moonlight night shine down onto the cold hard winter ground and I light up my ciggerrette in preparation for it's burial. What should I do for Kitty's funeral. Should I dress all in black or make it an orange tabby dress code.
I usually don't like funerals. I love sharing the memory of the late person, but there is always that sad feeling, knowing they are gone forever. And sitting around a bunch of crying people makes me cry, and I hate crying in front of people. The burial is the hardest part. They're gone forever then.
Mostly sad but not really. My roomate has handled a bunch of them, but not in the way you would think. When I went to my dad's it was one of the happiest days of my life. My cat is watching me type this. I don't look forward to her dying.
The day my father died, I didn't think about a funeral. All I could think about was having to identify the body they found wrapped in heavy plastic in the back of his truck in Logan canyon. Even when I was at the funeral, I didn't really think about the fact that I was at the funeral of the man I called "dad."
She didn't recognize anyone else at the funeral and spent most of the time wondering why she went. She was frightened as if she was afraid someone might see her and wonder why she was there. Her paranoia was never met but when
On my way home from a funeral, i noticed that white lily. Crushed by many feet, so broken. It was still beautiful, so delicate. It reminded me of the ones that passed
They met when they were young. They both knew they had strong feelings for each other. It was obvious that they had dated other people before, but she didn't expect to like his ex so much. She didn't have much time to get to know her, and when she died, no one expected her to be so sad. She was dating his ex, it wasn't normal for them to be friends.
oh. wow. well once upon a time my brother passed away and there was a funeral for him and it was one of the hardest things- emotionally speaking- that i have ever ever attended. but yeah. i hate funerals. especially when they are at that cemetery. like when my best friend's grandmother passed away and was buried there and i went with him to support him. hard. stuff.
i cant even believe that of all words in the dictionary i got this one. wow. but yeah. thats how i feel about funerals. they suck and they all remind me of October 22, 2009.
There was a funeral and it was my grandma's funeral. I cried or at least I tried to cry but for some reason the tears either wouldn't stop flowing or they'd never come out. I don't know what it is but I guess it's something that happens? I felt bad for my mom and the memories of my grandma still linger in my mind and every now and then I shed a tear when I see an old lady who looks or smells even remotely like her. I don't know how I can ever go back to her house yet I wish I could go back: I wish I was back in december, as taylor swift would put it, back were I was still able to jump on her bed and fall into her arms, where we'd argue about every little thing yet smile in the end saying it doesn't matter because we loved each other just the way we were. And now we'd probably never see each other ever again. I don't know what will happen to her after death but I trust in God and I guess I'll find out when I get to heaven, I'll get to ask him myself.
new start
Sad, reflection of a life. Memories abound. Family and friends gather like they should have done before. Making resolutions to keep in touch but you never do.
I have never to a funeral, but they hionestly freak me out. Why would yuou want your body to bwe embal like a stuffed animal. It's creepy! I don't want people loooking at my ody that is dead but trto k alive. Burn me!


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Overcoming the Obstacles to Interoperability
Technical know-how and the right software can provide data transfer with a very high success rate.
Today's popular CAD systems share a common technical foundation in the way solid (and surface quilt) models are internally described and represented. Of course, the specifics differ from one system to another, which gives rise to the very challenges that face interoperability.
Modern modeling systems define a 3-D object by its topology and geometry. Topology describes connectivity of the object boundary (Boundary Representation or B-Rep), which is defined by vertices, edges and faces. A face is itself a subset of a limited region in space defined by underlying surface geometry. Geometry describes the shape of the object, which is defined by points, curves and surfaces. Most commonly, curves and surfaces are described using Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines, or NURBS. A 3-D object is defined fully only when both topology and geometry are complete and coherent. For example, the 3-D object in Figures 1a and 1b is topologically represented by four faces, six edges and four vertices, and geometrically represented by two planes, two cylinders, four arcs, two lines and four points.
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Obstacles to Interoperability
Even though the underlying modeling technology is similar among various CAD systems, there are a number of significant differences in how 3-D objects are defined. CAD systems must select various tolerances that best suit their mathematical algorithms for generating generally shaped surfaces, surface-surface intersection curves and positions in space. This must be done because computers are machines with limited floating-point precision.
For example, an IEEE sixty-four-bit floating-point (real number) representation gives fifteen digits of precision. In addition, many mathematical algorithms are numerical and iterative in nature, for which exact solutions simply don't exist. Therefore, appropriate tolerances must be used as stopping criteria to decide when a numerical solution is "good enough." This works fine within each CAD system as long as the selected modeling tolerances are smaller than those used in the manufacturing processes. However, if a part needs to be exchanged between CAD system A and B, then the differences in modeling tolerances come into play and may cause geometric inconsistencies, affecting the translation success rate.
The following are examples of problems that can arise during translation between two CAD systems due to different tolerances:
- A curve start and end points are not coincident with edge terminal vertices to within the receiving CAD system tolerance.
- A curve representing an edge between two faces does not lie on both surfaces to within the receiving CAD system tolerance.
- An edge may be considered too small in the receiving system and should be represented by a vertex instead.
- A face may be considered too small in the receiving system and should be represented by an edge or a vertex instead.
A different set of translation problems can arise due to topological differences. For example, Figure 2 shows closed surfaces represented differently among CAD systems. Another example involves surfaces with degenerate boundaries (see Figure 3). By definition, all NURBS surfaces are four-sided. Degenerate surface boundaries arise when a NURBS surface is used to represent a sphere (two degenerate boundaries: north and south poles) or a triangular-shaped patch (one degenerate boundary), for example. Topology may have to be modified to be compatible with the receiving system. This really is a topology that is a result of the limitations in the NURBS technology, so it can be called an artifact topology.
Meeting the Challenge
It is clear that CAD data translation requires a high level of knowledge and experience in both modeling technology and the specifics of the sending and receiving CAD systems. Reliable data translation cannot be accomplished by a casual development effort. In addition to the technical know-how, the maturity and comprehensive exposure to a wide range of large models of different industries is a trademark of good software.
Data Exchange Kernel
To be able to approach CAD data translation well, the product you select needs to have robust kernel technology that allows the transfer of data based on known rules and tolerances of each specific CAD system. CADporter is translation software that has the underlying Data Exchange Kernel (DEK), which has a knowledge base of eighteen years of experience and a built-in automatic healing technology that adapts using known rules based on the sending and receiving CAD system.
Real user models - directly from automotive, consumer electronics and aerospace CAD users - act as the test suite for this translation software system, which always is being updated with new models so that DEK is constantly evolving and getting more robust.
When a part is to be translated from system A to B, DEK will perform the following steps:
- Determine appropriate tolerances that should be used based on both systems A and B.
- Perform appropriate geometric and topological checks, which are specifically customized based on both systems A and B.
- Autoheal problem areas in appropriate order. The autohealing performed by DEK includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Eliminating gaps that result from modeling tolerance differences
- Reintersecting edges to derive geometry at a tighter tolerance when needed
- Splitting edges that contain curve discontinuities (cusps). Basically, these are curves that are not geometrically smooth as determined by the receiving system.
- Splitting faces that contain surface discontinuities (creases) (basically, these are surfaces that not geometrically smooth as determined by the receiving system)
- Eliminating short edges and sliver faces
- Adding/removing edges at degenerate surface boundaries
There are two cases where DEK's automatic healing may not result in a 100 percent translation success rate:
1. DEK has the knowledge of the required changes, but they are deemed too drastic to make automatically without the user's explicit acknowledgement. Of course, user-defined switches can be set to apply such changes automatically.
2. The modeling intent is not clear such that it can be made automatically. For this case, an interactive graphics tool was developed that allows the end user to review and apply the appropriate healing technique.
Interactive Graphics Tool
To solve these very difficult problems, an intuitive, interactive graphics tool is needed to guide the end user into fixing and healing CAD models. One such interactive graphics tool (CADdoctor) is built on the same DEK foundation as the translation software. The major advantage of using this interactive graphics tool is the ability for the end user to categorize and visualize geometrical and topological inconsistencies graphically, to be able to learn from them, and to work to avoid them in the future.
The software guides the user through different categories of errors by highlighting problem areas and removing unrelated screen clutter (see Figure 4). Then it proposes various fixes that can be viewed and accepted or rejected based on user requirements (see Figure 5).
Furthermore, model construction functions also are available - such as filling holes (models with missing faces), refitting curves and surfaces, retrimming surfaces, and automatically stitching free edges, which comes in handy when importing IGES files.
One particularly unique function allows the user to fix edges that are off the face geometry by locally deforming the face geometry along the edges. The face geometry is treated as an elastic deformable thin plate that is stiff on the interior (to restrict interior shape changes) and flexible along the edges.
Although the obstacles to interoperability are many, technical know-how and the right software can provide data transfer with a very high success rate. Due to the complex and dynamic nature of CAD software today, the best tools will combine ease of use, technical depth and long experience. In addition, specialized healing tools can provide the user with automatic and semiautomatic functions for addressing geometry and topological inconsistencies.
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Muse unveil ambitious new video for Mercy
9 June 2015, 12:23
Muse have unveiled the official video for their new song Mercy, which is available for download right now.
It's the third track from the Drones album, following Dead Inside and Psycho. Drones was released on 8 June, ahead of the band's headline slot at Download on 13 June.
The video clip is directed by Sing J Lee, who was worked with CHVRCHES, and vividly depicts some of the concepts within the Drones album.
"The opening line of Mercy - 'help me I've fallen on the inside' - is a reference to the protagonist knowing and recognizing that they have lost something, they have lost themselves," said frontman Matt Bellamy.
"This is where they realize they're being overcome by the dark forces that were introduced in Psycho."


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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
You ROCK because......
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I found you through pinterest and I'm loving all of your printables!!! Perfect for my classroom. Now following your blog!ReplyDelete
How cute! You are going to be such a blessing to your kiddos this year (like every other year, I'm sure!) :)ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for sharing! I teach 2nd grade, and the kiddos would LOVE that! I'm thinking instead of hanging it on the wall (no wall space anyway, let's not lie-haha), I will get one of those cheap black photo display thingees and put it on the desk of the "featured" student for the rest of the day. Thanks again!ReplyDelete
I totally adore your beautiful signs. What fun fonts and colorful creativity! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
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Thank you for sharing such adorable printables!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for all your fun printables! Do you leave the frame on their desk for them to see or have it on the wall?ReplyDelete
This...is...AWESOME!! Oh my goodness, you have sparked so much motivation in me right now! I like the idea of doing this with my Kinders, but I especially like the idea of doing this with staff! Thank you for sharing! :)ReplyDelete
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I love your blog!! I'm an elementary teacher. I printed out the "Before you speak, think" poster for my classroom and I give these "You rock because..." notes to a few students every month. They always ask when I'm handing them out next. Thank you!ReplyDelete