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Monday, July 9, 2007
Guerra-Pujol on The Problem of Judicial Decrepitude: An Empirical View
For your Monday morning: F.E. Guerra-Pujol, Catholic University of Puerto Rico, has posted a new paper, The Problem of Judicial Decrepitude: An Empirical View. The essay quarrels with David Garrow's article: Mental Decrepitude on the U.S. Supreme Court: The Historical Case for a 28th Amendment, 67 University of Chicago Law Review 995 (2000). The definition of "decrepitude," relied on for the sake of argument by Guerra-Pujol, seems problematic, even if the question of judicial competence is a valid one. And a better title might be "The Problem of Judicial Decrepitude: A Critique," since there is no new empirical data here. The author instead assumes the accuracy of Garrow's data, but offers a critique of the way he evaluated it. Here's the abstract: Building on the work of historian David Garrow, this paper attempts to measure the true extent of the problem of judicial decrepitude among the members of the U.S. Supreme Court since the high court's inception in 1789. After presenting the relevant data, the author concludes (contra Garrow and others) that the incidence of judicial decrepitude is relatively infrequent and rare.
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Mar 17, 2012
Sachin. Enough Said. \m/
13 comments:
- PeaBee said...
That was just..wow..you are SO creative! I absolutely love how made it so personalised, with references and details! And i just cannot get over that snitch proposal :')
And you do this for a living? Thats so cool. Im not getting married or anything anytime soon but i shall contact you for that in about 12 years from now for sure :O
- March 17, 2012 at 2:56 AM
- PeaBee said...
Just to be clear i wont be contacting you for marriage, but for designing the invitation card :P
Oh and the 'how convenient' would&ve been cute, yeah :D
- March 17, 2012 at 3:14 AM
- simply me said...
yOU HAVE GOT AN AWESOME CREATIVE FREAK :D :D
- March 17, 2012 at 10:48 AM
- Ruhani said...
Fuuuuuuuu :O
Are you pretty damn awesome or are you pretty damn awesome? :O
As if the snitch proposal wasn't enough :O
Damn! God bless both of you, and while he's at it, may he also consider giving me such a Fairytale wedding[7 years down the line or something like that I think]
And yes, you shall be contacted for the wedding invitation, oh yes you will be! Brilliant job done! =D
- March 17, 2012 at 11:52 AM
- D said...
really really amazing! loved the invite! of course
and yea i will get in touch with you if i marry the love of my life!!! mwaahhh
- March 17, 2012 at 1:36 PM
- Lady Whispers said...
WOW this is exactly the kind of invite I had in mind whenever I marry :)
Though things would be written but the personalized ones I want for my special group of friends....and I am so touching base with u both once that happens :D ( first let me meet the guy offcourse :P)
Totallly loved it and u actually had a fairytale wedding :)
God bless u both always :)
- March 17, 2012 at 4:42 PM
- Meeli said...
ANNIE...its simply AWESOME.....such a creative it it...I loved it. And god bless both of you....n i pray to GOD to make ur life more creative than this.
- March 17, 2012 at 4:48 PM
- - Sugar Cube - said...
woho amazing! the pictures are wonderful and so is the concept! ekdum style mein han ;)
- March 17, 2012 at 9:37 PM
- Novocaine said...
Amazing :-)
- March 18, 2012 at 10:35 AM
- IceMaiden said...
Thank you so much! :) :) I do this for weekend-living.. :P On weekdays I Facebook. (Social Media Marketing.. :P) I am going to drag Nutties here and make him read your comment! 'how convenient' would have been cute!! :)
@Simply Me,
Thank you!! :) :)
Haha! Thankies! :D :)
Thank you!! :)
Having a personalized invite at your wedding indeed adds to the "cute" quotient. I DID have the fairytale wedding :P hehe! Which got done in 3 minutes! :P Thank you!! :) :)
Awww... Thanks!! :) :)
@Sugar Cube,
Will pass compliments to the photographer.. :D :P Thank you!! :) :)
Thank you!! :) :)
- March 19, 2012 at 3:29 PM
- That random chick person said...
This is an amazing idea! If you'd been on this side of the border I would've killed to have you do this for my hypothetical wedding!
- March 20, 2012 at 9:40 PM
- Anupam Gupta said...
Loved the invite. Seems so long ago now.
Thank you for crediting me for the pic btw. :) I will not sue you for copyright infringement anymore. :P
You will, of course, do the invites/photography for my bro's wedding next year. :D
- March 24, 2012 at 12:03 AM
- Unknown said...
Oh jeez am I the only guy to think that was totally awwwwwesome?
Pretty interesting job you got too.
- April 2, 2012 at 12:40 AM

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Who doesn't love a good coffee table where putting everything you need? Take your tea cups from the kitchen, or your pizza and beer or whatever, and have them on hand as you relax and have a good time in the living room. Don't risk to put them on the surface of the sofa or armchair - you don't want them to provoke terrible and annoying spots to your precious pieces of furniture, right? A coffee table is the right solution because it provides a flat surface, so that you can put your stuff on it without the terror of pouring everything. This piece of furniture is an essential part of creating a stylish interior. It can be of simple wood, or it can be more sophisticated and combine both wood and glass.
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A couple of weeks ago, we posted this Huffington Post link on Twitter listing the U.S. cities with the most gyms and fitness centers. We received a retweet from a company that was surprised that Denver and Boulder were not on the list. Boulder, by the way, is home to many of Club Industry's trade show staff, and I'm sure they also wondered why it wasn't on the list.
Upon further review of the list from Kansas City at No. 10 through Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington at No. 1, Colorado cities were absent. That was surprising, especially since Coloradoans are some of the fittest people on the planet. I believe hospitals in Colorado are required to put baby skis in infants' cribs the day they are born. I also believe toddlers' first solid food there typically is granola.
Thomas Plummer provided an interesting nugget about Boulder during the National Fitness Business Alliance traveling show in Kansas City a couple of weeks ago. Based on his own research, Plummer said there are 100 fitness offerings in Boulder, and that includes traditional fitness facilities, rock climbing schools, martial arts, yoga and Pilates studios, and bike groups. Plummer also accounted for 150,000 people within a 20-mile radius of Boulder, which would mean one fitness option per every 1,500 people. That should have put Boulder on the list for sure.
If it makes Coloradans feel better, Denver-Aurora, CO, was ranked ninth among the healthiest habitats in the United States in a study released by Russell Athletic and fielded by Sperling's BestPlaces. (The Northern California Bay Area was ranked No. 1.) Also, the Denver metro area was ranked ninth on the American College of Sports Medicine's annual American Fitness Index data report. (Minneapolis-St. Paul was No. 1 in this report, too.)
So what's your take on these studies? Was your city represented? Or did it not get enough love?


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Record twelve honored with Fulbright awards
April 15, 2014
Originally posted on 4/15/14, updated 7/23/14
Seven Lewis & Clark seniors and five alumni will spend the next year overseas after receiving prestigious awards from the Fulbright Program. This is the largest number of Lewis & Clark students and alumni earning Fulbright honors in a single year.
Established in 1946, the Fulbright Program fosters mutual understanding among nations through educational and cultural exchanges. Lewis & Clark is one of the top producers of Fulbright award winners in the country, demonstrating a sustained commitment to international education and engagement.
Haley Farrar JD '11 received a Fulbright research fellowship and will study Maori legal practices and the concept of restorative justice in New Zealand. Also receiving Fulbright research fellowships are Lindsay Burnette BA '12, who will study the relationships between landscape architecture, cultural heritage, and sustainability in South Korea, and Charlie Patterson '14, who will study the effects of urbanization on the rural elderly of China's Shaanxi Province.
Earning Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships for the 2014-15 academic year are Eve Ben Ezra '14, Laura Burroughs '14,* Joe Ellerbroek BA '13,* Kerri Finnegan '14, Christa Giesecke '14, Maya Gold '14, Abbie Hebein BA '12, Laura Schroeder '14, and Abigail Vining BA '12. We asked what drew them to studying a foreign language and what's exciting about teaching English in a foreign country.
Lindsay Burnette BA '12
Major: East Asian Studies
Hometown: Fort Collins, Colorado
Award: Fulbright Research Fellowship in South Korea
My award will allow me to study the environmental and cultural challenges of rapid urbanization through the lens of South Korea's cultural landscapes and contemporary landscape design projects. I plan to look at traditional South Korean design principles and their impact on contemporary landscape development, analyzing globally applicable ideas for creating a localized sense of place and addressing environmental issues. My proposed research sites are in South Korea's capital, Seoul, and my affiliation is with Seoul National University, though I hope to explore and travel throughout the country.
My first experience living abroad was when I was 10 and my mom received a Fulbright fellowship to research in Japan. This experience greatly influenced the course of my life. I continued to study Japanese, majored in East Asian studies at Lewis & Clark, and returned to Japan to study during college. I am excited to return to East Asia to conduct research of my own and open new realms of possibilities.
During my time at Lewis & Clark, I developed a passion for learning a place's history and culture through the physical landscape. After graduating, I became involved with a number of nonprofit organizations in Portland that are based around community development and design, such as the Portland Japanese Garden and Architects Without Borders—Oregon. I also attended a landscape architecture program at Harvard University. These experiences, combined with the knowledge I gained at Lewis & Clark, urged me to continue learning from the landscape on a global level. South Korea is particularly intriguing because over the past century it has experienced profound cultural disconnection and physical destruction due to the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 and the Korean War in 1953.
Following this massive destruction, waves of urban renewal took over South Korea's remaining traditional cityscapes, leaving behind a country that is almost 84 percent urbanized and has very little historic fabric still existing. For me, this is a fascinating setting to study cultural history as it is embodied in the urban landscape.
Laura Burroughs '14
Major: International Affairs, German Studies
Hometown: Everett, Washington
Award: U.S. Teaching Assistant for the Austrian-American Education Commission, a branch of the Fulbright Program
I will be teaching English in a small town outside Graz, Austria. In high school, I stayed near there with a host family for two weeks, so I'm thrilled to return. Also, having studied abroad in Germany last year, I'm interested to experience Austria's differences.
I have been learning German since I was a freshman in high school, and I honestly can't say that at that point I imagined I'd be where I am now with it. What really got me engaged was learning about the different culture and the idea of traveling someplace new. I think that's the best thing about learning a language, and why I'm excited to teach English abroad. Learning a language really is like a key to another part of the world. I also think that there are so many different ways to engage people in learning about a different culture and its language, whether it's through film, food, sports, etc.
Joe Ellerbroek BA '13
Major: German Studies
Hometown: Urbandale, Iowa
Award: U.S. Teaching Assistant for the Austrian-American Education Commission, a branch of the Fulbright Program
I will be working as a language assistant at an Austrian secondary school starting this fall. The Fulbright commission placed me at two schools near Innsbruck, Austria, where I will lead English conversation classes with students about the same age as those in our high school system.
I enjoyed studying a foreign language because it builds relationships. In the first year of learning a language, it feels a bit like going back to elementary school. We talked about everyday basics like our favorite foods and where we came from. Things get more academically sophisticated in the later years, but we never lost the spirit that we were there to get to know people. I learned that a language is the living, breathing space of relationships, and a good space in which to spend my time at Lewis & Clark.
I had a chance to be in Austria during my year abroad and felt right at home with the culture, the food, and the mountains. I'm excited to hear what the students think about the world, and I'm excited to be there as they build the same relationships that I built from learning a language.
Eve Ben Ezra '14
Major: Mathematics
Hometown: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Award: Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Thailand
I'm not sure where I'll be traveling yet, aside from knowing that I'll be going to Thailand. While I'm there, I'll be working as an English teaching assistant and am also hoping to be able to volunteer in a health clinic as a translator. I also hope to be able to conduct research into the cultural and religious history of Thailand and its people.
I've always loved foreign languages. For a long time, one of my life goals has been to learn the six official languages of the United Nations (English, French, Spanish, Mandarin, Russian, Arabic). I'm proficient in French and can get by in Russian and Mandarin. At Lewis & Clark, I started my freshman year in French 101, where I loved the enthusiasm of the professor enough to meet my language requirement and apply for a major in French. Although that didn't work out, I did get to travel to Strasbourg on a Lewis & Clark overseas program and take a French literature class, which was amazing in and of itself.
I think it's very important to learn or at least have a basic knowledge of English as it opens the doors to myriad places and successes. From my experience while traveling, everyone knows at least one or two words of English, which can make crossing the language barrier less stressful. English is not a universal language, for which I'm glad, because foreign languages are important and beautiful things, but English does make it easier to travel, get around, move, or be understood when people don't speak your maternal language. Even when I visited rural China, the farmers spoke enough English to help me get by and say hello.
Christa Giesecke '14
Majors: Foreign Languages, International Affairs
Hometown: I moved around a lot growing up. The last place I lived before starting at Lewis & Clark was Thessaloniki, Greece.
Award: Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Brazil
I will be working as an English teaching assistant alongside an English professor at a federal university in Brazil from March through November 2015. My proposed side project involves working with Brazilian girls to inspire them through running. I'm quite impressed with the success Girls on the Run and other organizations have had in the United States, and am frustrated by the general lack of acceptance of female athleticism in much of South America.
I learned my first second language out of necessity when my family moved from the United States to Germany while I was in elementary school. It was not until later that I realized how valuable this skill was and that it allowed me to connect with a much greater percentage of the world's population. In high school I became passionate about Spanish and had phenomenal teachers that helped me learn quite a lot in a relatively little amount of time. When we moved to Greece, I continued improving my Spanish at the same time I was socially immersed in Greek, which occasionally caused some confusion.
I was inspired by my first-year roommate and close friend Maia Erickson '15—who had been a Rotary student in Brazil—to study Portuguese while I was abroad in Argentina. I fell in love instantly and knew that I would love to spend time in Brazil if ever given the opportunity. Everything excites me about the chance to teach in Brazil; I have loved being a Student Academic Affairs Board (SAAB) tutor and would love to try out teaching in a more formal context. Also, I want to dedicate my life to making connections and building bridges internationally and see this as a great opportunity to do so, as I will be representing the United States while abroad. I also love the easygoing nature of Brazilian culture and the focus on people.
Maya Gold '14
Major: Political Science
Hometown: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Award: Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Turkey
I'll be at a university in Turkey, teaching English to people roughly my own age! I don't know what city I'll be in yet, but I'll be at one of the host of Turkish universities that have been built in the last decade or so.
I really, truly adore English—I love the idea of watching people learn the intricacies of my native tongue, and guiding them through the weird and wonderful quirks that make my language so unique.
Abbie Hebein BA '12
Major: Art History
Hometown: Boulder, Colorado
Award: Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Mexico
Shortly after graduation, I began to pursue opportunities in which I could unite my passion for the arts with my interest in public education. I am part of the volunteer team at The Right Brain Initiative, an organization that collaborates with teaching artists, Portland Public School teachers, and administrators to enrich current curriculum through the arts. I also teach an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) conversation class at Portland Community College. It is the integration of art and language education that led me to apply for a Fulbright grant to teach in the public schools in Mexico. I am captivated by the ways art both transcends and translates language. Mexico is a country brimming with famous historical art movements, innovative contemporary art venues, and rich indigenous art practices. I am eager to discover and understand the intersection of art, history, identity, and education within a culture that is saturated in the arts.
In the ESOL class I currently teach, my students are from all over the world. After each lesson I feel as much a student as a teacher. It is this reciprocal exchange that I find most beautiful when teaching language. As an English teaching assistant in Mexico, I strive to inspire such an exchange as both a student of Spanish and a teacher of English. Most of all, I am excited to connect with my students within their country to share and learn each other's language, culture, and experiences.
Charlie Patterson '14
Major: Political Science
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Award: Fulbright Research Fellowship in China
I'll fly to Beijing in August to attend an intensive language program at Tsinghua University for five months, and then I'll move to Xi'an Jiaotong University in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, to conduct research with a professor in the population studies department. I'll be in Xi'an for 10 months studying government-led urbanization and its effects on elder care. My general research question is whether government-led urbanization will increase the living standards of the rural elderly.
In the past two years, I've been fortunate enough to study Chinese continuously–from my first year at Lewis & Clark, to an intensive summer program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in 2012, all the way to Beijing and Shanghai in 2013. The experience has transformed my character and influenced my thinking. Through countless hours of writing characters, I have learned to be patient and figured out how to efficiently schedule my time. Patience has increased my capacity to consume information and allowed me to be a more astute analyst, withholding judgment until engaging numerous perspectives. Many botched attempts at reproducing the proper tones of Chinese words have made me more humble and empathetic towards others.
This Fulbright fellowship will not only allow me to learn from distinguished Chinese experts and continue to study Chinese; it will also give me the chance to cultivate many more cross-cultural relationships. The building of relationships one at a time—hopefully many over the course of a year—is how we will build lasting understanding between our two nations.
Laura Schroeder '14
Major: Sociology/Anthropology
Hometown: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Award: Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Colombia
I will be teaching English at the Universidad de Boyacá in the mountain town of Tunja, Colombia, where one of every five residents is a university student. While in Tunja, I will also engage in a community project dealing with environmental sustainability.
To me, languages are windows to fascinating and different ways of viewing the world, and learning a new language both gives us a glimpse through these windows and allows us to interact with those on the other end. I've taken Chinese and Spanish at Lewis & Clark and have consequently seen my horizons broaden. I hope to help my students experience the thrill of feeling the world simultaneously expand and become more familiar that comes with language learning.
Abby Vining BA '12
Major: History
Hometown: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Award: Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Norway
I will be living in Bergen, Norway, teaching at the University of Bergen and the Bergen Cathedral School. Although students in Norway learn English in the primary grades, they often need help with writing in English. To this end, I will be running a writer's workshop at the university and teaching American studies at the school.
I spent the last two years teaching elementary music at KIPP Delta Elementary Literacy Academy in Helena, Arkansas. The experience of teaching in a high-powered rural charter school has given me a depth of understanding of the American school system—charter schools in particular—that I do not think I would have gained through academic study. I am excited about teaching in Norway because I feel that participating in the Norwegian school system will enable me to construct the most accurate picture of their system and to better situate my experience in the Arkansas Delta within a global education spectrum.
I applied to teach in Norway because I have come to see that many of the problems faced by schools and students are not necessarily educational in nature. Students bring a myriad of traumas into their schools. In my experience, these traumas are often caused by poverty and stresses from an unstable home environment. When comparing international test scores, Norway does not score tremendously higher than the United States; they do, however, have a significantly smaller gap in achievement between students from low-income families and students from high-income families. I am curious as to whether the smaller achievement gap in Norway is due to better teaching, the political philosophy of social democracy, or both. In my time outside of the classroom, I will be working to answer this question and collect interviews with teachers, students, and parents about the role of the school in their community and the services they feel help their students achieve.
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A little known piece of world history that has been on display in a business park in the South Bay for decades is about to get a bigger platform.
The Mountain View city council has approved a plan to install two slabs of the Berlin Wall in front of the public library on Franklin Street.
The two sections of the actual Berlin Wall have been inside a office park in Mountain View since the early 1990s.
They were purchased a few months after the wall fell in 1989 by Los Altos resident ,Frank Renatus Golzen.
Golzen owned the business park on Marine Way just off of U.S. Highway 101, so that is where he decided to place them.
A plaque that sits in front of the display was written by Golzen and reads in part, "The world must not forget that it was America's resolve and its political and economic ideas that made this bloodless revolution and most significant historical event possible."
Golzen came to the United States from Germany in 1931 when we was 16 in 1931. He died in 2009 at the age 92. The sections were donated by his family as part of his estate.
They stand about 10 feet tall and weigh some 14,000 pounds each. They are covered in graffiti. One of the slabs features a heart circling the words "wir lieben dich" which means "we love you." The other is a caricature of figure that appears to be Elvis Presley.
In addition to selecting a library location, the city council allocated $50,000 to cover the costs associated with installing them in front of the library.
There are other portions of the walls on display in other parts of the country, but this is the only on in the Bay Area.
Mountain View Berlin Wall Display on the Move
This is the only display of the Berlin Wall in the Bay Area
A little known piece of world history that has been on display in a business park in the South Bay for decades is about to get a bigger platform.


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Kairn Klieman, an associate professor of history at the University of Houston, joins Kristina Van Dyke, curator for collections and research at The Menil Collection, in leading a discussion of "The History of the Slave Trade and Visual Cultures in Cameroon and Nigeria" at 7 p.m., Dec. 1 at The Menil Collection.
"The program is the result of collaboration between The Menil Collection and University of Houston for a graduate public history course co-taught with Van Dyke this fall. The course was designed to gauge the effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the visual arts of Nigeria and Cameroon, including masks, sculptures, religious rituals, and architecture," said Klieman, an award-winning researcher and teacher.
UH students enrolled in this course carried out the research and will present their results at the event. The students - Travis Bible, Matt Campbell, Jon Dickerson, Jared Flynn, Raevin Jimenez, Tomiko Meeks, Mikaela Selley, Kristi Stephens, and Ezell Wilson -- will provide historical context and analysis of representative objects from the museum's collection of African art.
"This course provided a unique opportunity for UH students to participate in cross-institutional collaboration. Over the course of the fall semester, half of the course was offered at The Menil Collection and half at UH," said Klieman. "Students were introduced to the inner-workings of the museum and exhibitions and given access to rare research materials and the Menil's renowned collection of African art works, a number of which will be on display during the event."
The information gathered by the students in the graduate public history course and presented on Dec. 1 will aid Van Dyke and Klieman with the production of the book and exhibition on the topic.
"History of the Slave Trade and Visual Cultures in Cameroon and Nigeria," with Kristina Van Dyke and Kairn Klieman.
7 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 1
Free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Prof. Kairn Klieman at firstname.lastname@example.com or 713-743-3106
or visit www.menil.org
The Menil Collection
1515 Sul Ross, Houston, TX
Map and Parking at http://www.menil.org/visit/generalinformation.php
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