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Giving In
By: MelissaSomerhalder
Meet Damon, the 22 year old tattooed rebel who just got released from jail after 27 months. Meet Elena, a 17 year old high school good girl. She catches Damon's eye and he wants her, but she doesn't want anything to do with this criminal. What happens when Elena develops an attraction? When desire starts boiling up inside her, will it take over? Will she give in to temptation?
Rated: Fiction M - English - Romance/Drama - Damon S., Elena G. - Chapters: 16 - Words: 59,170 - Reviews: 542 - Favs: 279 - Follows: 432 - Updated: 9/20/2014 - Published: 11/2/2012 - id: 8667636
1. New Beginnigs2. Surprising Return3. I'll Have You4. Give It Time5. Thinking of You6. No More Games7. Bring it to Life8. Afraid To Feel9. Just Let Go10. Do What We Want11. What Happened?12. The Thrill13. The Best14. Doubt15. Confession16. Apology
A/N: Hi Everyone. This is the first story I've ever written on this website so please go easy on it. I hope you guys enjoy it, and I'd really like to know what you think about it, im not really sure of it
Disclaimer: I do not own The Vampire Diaries or the characters, just the story idea.
Giving In: Chapter One
I was only looking for a shortcut home
But it's complicated
Somewhere in this city is a road I know
Where we could make it
But maybe there's no making it now
"Salvatore! Hurry up." Bill the security guard screamed.
Damon Salvatore just got out of his jail cell, hands cuffed, and was on his way to his court hearing. He's been in jail for 27 months already for quite a number of vandalisms, robberies, and two murders that were claimed to be "accidental". Not to mention many other illegal acts that he got away with. He was going to the hearing to identify if he would be freed or not.
He was 22 years old and he's been a rebel most of his life and got his way through life by his smooth talking ways and his gorgeous looks. He had raven black hair and ice blue eyes. He was perfection. But looks can be deceiving, because this man was anything but perfection, he was indeed a criminal.
"Calm down dick, I'm coming." Damon snapped, clearly not pleased with the guard's bitchy attitude.
"Watch your mouth Salvatore." Bill warned.
"Did I hurt your feelings Bill?" Damon snorted loudly.
"Keep moving asshole." Bill gritted, not in the mood with Damon's pig-headed behavior.
It's been like this for the past two years. Damon would always be arrogant and snappy to the guards, especially Bill; and Bill never wanted to put up with it. He always saw Damon as a cold-hearted jackass who deserves to rot in here, and Damon always acted like he didn't have a care in the world; that he didn't give a flying fuck about anything. He was always had an incredible amount of confidence in prison, which is a bit hard to believe. Nothing scared him, but everything pissed him off.
Damon just chuckled as he walked through the prison with the guard. He gave grinned evilly at the people staring at him. Once again, he showed his confidence as the cop escorted him to the vehicle. He laid back in the black leather seats, and Bill sat across from him, as the driver started to head to the court house.
"These cuffs are tight, help a guy out?" Damon made a mocking smirk and jiggled his cuffed hands.
"Can't you just keep your mouth shut?" The cop asked bitterly, rolling his cloudy grey eyes.
"Nope," He pooped the 'P'. "How about when I get out, you and me go grab a beer?" Damon asked sarcastically.
"Please, Salvatore. There's no way in Hell you're getting out of that shit hole." Bil said confidently, looking him dead in the eye.
"And what makes you say that coppy?" Damon smirked, not intimidated one bit.
"I won't allow it."
Damon rolled his eyes.
"That's a little melodramatic, don't you think?" He asked.
"And you know," He continued. "That's the judge's decision to make." He chuckled.
"We'll see about that" Bill said emotionless. It was his turn to act over confident.
"Yes we will." Damon grinned, still not phased at all by Bill's behavior.
For the rest of the ride Damon layed back and stared out the window smirking to himself. Looks like he knew something the cop didn't.
Meanwhile, Elena Gilbert was sitting at the Grill with her two friends, Caroline and Stefan. She was a 17 year old high schooler, who spent the day working and studying for school and spent the night living her life and hanging with her friends like any normal teenager would. Elena had a great life. She had a great family, great friends, and great grades. Even though everything in her life was great, she still felt like something was missing. There was a void in her life but she couldn't figure out what it is. Instead of worrying about it, she usually just brushed the thought off and ignored it while she lived her life.
"So, what are we doing tonight?" Caroline, the perky blonde asked
"I have no idea" Elena yawned, flipping through the menu.
"Got any ideas Stefan?" Caroline asked looking at Stefan.
Stefan didn't answer. He was just seemed to be off in dream land as he was sprinkling the salt from the shaker onto the table, and watched the tiny white grits fall.
"Stefan?" Caroline asker again.
"Stefan!" Caroline stated loudly, shaking his shoulder.
Then he snapped back into reality.
"Hmm?" He mumbled.
Stefan wasn't himself. He was usually always in the conversation and always listened, never missed a word. He's usually always on the ball, but today, he was away with the fairies and seemed distracted of some sort. Defiantly not himself.
"Hey, are you okay?" Elena asked, a little worried.
"Uh, yeah, fine." Stefan said blankly, trying to compose himself together.
"Stefan you're not fine, you've been acting weird all 's not you. Seriously, what's wrong?" Elena confronted him.
He took a long, deep breath.
"My brother may be released from jail." He blurted out, worriedly.
"Woah, you have a brother?" Caroline asked shocked
"Yep." He confirmed.
"Wait, you have a brother—in prison?" Elena asked startled.
"Yep." He said again.
"Why haven't you told us any of this?" Caroline asked.
"Because I did'nt feel the need to! I figured he'd be locked up for a long while."
"How long has he been in jail?" Elena asked.
"Over two years." He said.
"Well, he's your brother, and you don't have a bad bone in your body, if you two a related, could he really be that bad?" Caroline chuckled, trying to lighten the mood a bit.
Stefan just stared at her for a moment.
"He ripped this town apart with lots of illegal shit, so much shit that I lost count, not to mention he killed two people!"
At this point many eyes on the grill turned to look at them with confused, puzzled, and shocked looks on their faces.
"Oh my God—shouldn't he be in jail for life if he killed people?" Caroline whispered shocked.
"You would think, but somehow, everyone believed him when he said they were accidental."
"How could you just say it was accidental and get away with it?" Elena asked, disgusted.
"I don't know" He answered. "But that's Damon for you." He continued. "He always has something up his sleeve.
"Wait, lets move back a sec, you said he may be released, what do you mean may?" Elena questioned.
"If the judge says he can."
"Well, that doesn't necessarily mean he is getting out." Caroline stated hopefully.
"Like I said…It's Damon."
Damon walked out of the courtroom a free man—sort of. He still had his handcuffs on his wrists. He was officially released from that shit hole, but he was on parole.
"Hey Bill, time to uncuff me." Damon smirked.
"Dick." Bill murmerd as he unlocked the handcuffs.
"So, how 'bout that beer buddy? Damon chuckled as he reached into his back pocket and pulled out a toothpick at popped it in his mouth.
"Are you fucking joking? Go to Hell Salvatore." He snapped.
Damon shrugged and patted his shoulder.
"You put up a good fight Bill, but c'mon we both know who was going to win this battle." He chuckled and turned on his heels and walked out of the courthouse.
Damn does it feel good to be free, he thought. How have things changed over the last two years? How was his brother? Pfft. His brother, he thought. Goody Two Shoes. How is St. Stefan going to react when he returns home? Damon just laughed at the thought. When should he call his buddies and let them know he's out? Probably tomorrow. Right now, he just wants to enjoy being a free man. He cannot wait to clean himself in his own shower, sleep in his own king sized bed, have as much sex as he desired, and get his own fucking privacy. Fuck, It's good to be back, he thought.
When he got to the boarding house, there were no cars in the driveway.
Looks like Stefan isn't home, He thought to himself.
Damon took the toothpick out of his mouth and stuck it through the keyhole and worked his magic. Only Damon Salvatore would know how to pick a lock with just a toothpick. He threw the thin stick of wood on the ground and walked in.
"Fuck" he said loudly as he scrunched up his nose. It smells like a fucking fruit basket in here, he thought. He made his way up the stairs to take a shower, and maybe sleep for a bit.
Stefan is sure in for a big surprise.
He walked into his room and felt relieved. Nothing was touched, everything was just the way he left it; just the way he remembered. He finally had his own space again. He took off his shirt and made his way into the bathroom, and closed the door behind him.
Elena was a little disgusted by the fact that this criminal that ruined this town and killed two people could be released back into town. She took a deep breath. There's no way he could be let out, she thought, as she ran her fingers through her long, chestnut hair. She doubted he would be released. Nobody can ill two people and only be in jail for two years. Stefan had nothing to worry about.
Then Matt Donovan, Caroline's boyfriend walked up to their table. He worked at the grill and it looks like he was either done with his shift for the day, or on break.
"Hey guys, what's up?" He asked before he kissed Caroline's cheek.
"Nothing really" Elena said.
"Ok well, you ready to go?" Matt asked turning his attention towards Caroline.
Caroline looked at him confused for a moment, then she remembered.
"Oh Crap." She looked at Elena and Stefan apologetically, her blue eyes shining."I'm so sorry guys but I forgot I made plans with Matt tonight, I can't hangout later."
"It's fine Caroline, go have fun." Elena smiled, encouraging her.
"Yeah, go ahead" Stefan agreed.
She smiled at them and blew them a kiss as she got up and walked away with Matt's arm around her waist.
"So, what do you want to do?" Elena asked Stefan
"I don't know, what's Bonnie doing?"
"Don't you remember she's out of town with her family?"
"oh right, right." Stefan mumbled, still out of the conversation.
"Stefan c'mon," Elena pursued him. "You need to stop worrying about your brother. You're stressing yourself out over something that probably isn't true. I doubt he will be let out."
"Yeah, I guess" Stefan said. He finally seemed like he was relaxing."Want to go to my house? I guess we could work on Mr Saltzman's project there." He suggested.
"Yeah, sounds good…only if we order a pizza and watch reruns of 'I Love Lucy'" Elena laughed.
"Yes to the pizza, no to 'I Love Lucy'" Stefan chuckled.
"Alright fine, but you're no fun." She said, jokingly.
They both walked out of the Grill and to Stefan's car. Stefan and Elena were good friends, but that's all they could ever be. They became friends a year and a half ago. They tried to see if they could be something more, because they owed it to themselves to find out, but they both agreed that they were better off friends, and that's how it stayed.
When they arrived at the Boarding House they walked up to the front door, and saw that it was unlocked.
"Shit, I probably forgot to lock it again." Stefan said.
"Dammit Stefan" Elena laughed. "One day you're going to get robbed." She joked as they walked in the huge house.
"Yeah, Yeah I know" he chuckled.
They made their way to the den and sat down. They talked and laughed for about five minutes when Elena suddenly stood up.
"Hey, could I have a bottle of water please? I'm going to use the bathroom." She asked sweetly.
"Yeah sure." Stefan complied.
Elena left the room and headed for the bathroom, as Stefan went into the kitchen and got two bottles of water from the fridge, and made his way back to the den and sat down, waiting for her to return.
"I thought I heard noise down here." A familiar voice said from behind him.
Stefan immediately stood up and turned around to face the man in the doorway of the den.
His brother. He's back.
"Damon." He stated
Damon's smirk never left his face.
"Hello, Brother."
A/N: So what did you think? This is my first story on this website so I'm not a pro. I'm a little insecure about this story though, so please let me know what you think of it, I don't think I'll continue it if no one really likes it. Like I said in my profile, I'm not so good with plots. Anyways…..
How is Stefan going to react that Damon's back?
What was the thing Damon knew that the cop Didn't?
What's going to happen when Elena gets back and meets Damon?
How will she react? How will Damon react?
Just so you guys know, the thing in Elena's life that she was missing and didn't know was love (as in intimate love, not like friends and family love)
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Last Friday 9th March an audience at Cowbridge Leisure Centre was treated to an outstanding Gala Concert by the Bridgend Male Choir and guest soprano soloist Gwawr Edwards. This was the last of three concerts in the Choir's St. Davids Festival series and organised to help raise much needed funds for Hope and Aid Direct.
The charity was formed in 1999, and is a totally voluntary organisation which collects humanitarian aid donated by the public, churches, schools, clubs and companies. The volunteers then raise funds to hire trucks, purchase fuel and ferry crossings etc. before heading off to distribute the aid to people in need. In 2006 for example, they visited Romania after the appalling flood damage there. The ethos of the charity is summed up by their slogan "We take aid, not sides." Planning for this concert began when one of the volunteers, Alan Beckwith spoke of the charities work to a long term friend and Choir baritone Oli Bown. It was Oli that suggested the idea of a concert and the idea was born. Alan, supported by his wife and fellow volunteer Jean, spoke to the audience briefly before the concert began to explain the importance of the Charity's work, with an assurance that all donations, including the revenue from the ticket sales, would go direct to those in need. As ever, the irrepressible John Jenkins who has rehearsed and led the Choir to many of its past competitive successes was conducting this concert. John is one of a fairly rare breed that conducts not only with his hands and arms, but his whole body. Every single member of the Choir responds to this and all watch him like hawks! The entries were all note perfect and in time. The Choir's weakness on the night in fact demonstrated their greatest strength. A few of their top tenors, for various reasons could not attend, so at short notice second tenors were filling that harmonic line. If John Jenkins had not mentioned this to the audience, no one would have known.
It must be said that this was a truly professional and polished performance from everyone on stage. Not quite on the staging, but playing key roles were the accompanist Rhiannon Williams-Hale and her deputy Laura Smith. Some of the piano parts were fiendishly difficult and neither of these ladies played a note out of place. The ability of both was especially evident during periods of accompanying the soloists – anticipating every change in tempo perfectly. If proof were needed that this Choir is not lacking talent, no fewer than 5 soloists from the Choir performed a variety of pieces ranging in mood and style. However, the Jewel in the solo crown was the guest soprano Gwawr Edwards. She is of the Katherine Jenkins mould, young, stylish and with a Heaven sent voice. Gwawr sung a selection of classical and popular tunes, some with just the piano accompaniment and others with the full Choir. Most notable of these was the Pie Jesu from Karl Jenkins' Requiem. John had received special permission form Karl to re-arrange this for the Choir. The result was a very special harmonic and dynamic sound.
The program was very well balanced, with a mixture of traditional and contemporary composers. The ability of John Jenkins to arrange a good deal of the music himself, must surely be a large factor in the Choir's continued success, in so much that he knows how to get the very best from 'his boys.' Old favourites such as 'Cwm Rhondda' and 'We'll Keep a Welcome in the Hillside' were there, but the master stroke of planning was to involve the audience in the singing of some of these verses. Not only did the audience thoroughly enjoy this concert – they felt part of it! Overall, this was an excellent Concert. All the performers thoroughly enjoyed themselves as did the audience, with the added benefit and knowledge, that in the end, a worthy cause would benefit.


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The club has been impressed by the commitment shown by its players to pre-season training in some hot weather.
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"They include Liam Higgins, Ben Rouse, Royce Geoffrey, Jack Lumby and Kyle Eather," he said.
There will, however, be several new Macquarie players who will take on Wyong in the match that starts at 3pm.
They include Brad Prior, a front rower from Canberra, Lachlan McBeth, from Kurri Bulldogs, and Cody Robbins, from Lakes United.
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They finished with the wooden spoon after winning the premiership in 2017.
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Yesterday and today, students in FACS teacher Jessica Thomas's Nutrition and Wellness class made cheddar baked biscuits similar to those found at Red Lobster. These biscuits, made from scratch, helped teams of students learn the basics of cooking.
"This is our first lab where we're working as a team, so the most important thing is using their team to figure out all of their steps" Thomas said. "They made a pre-plan [for the first time], and they're following their plan to complete the recipe."
Students have participated in labs before, but these have been individual labs with written steps. This time, students were required to plan with their team and follow their own directions, which proved to be challenging for many.
"What I [see] so far is just basically [students struggling to] follow the directions," Thomas said. "They are so excited I think to cook and then they mix up the steps so they're not in order. [It's challenging] to follow the recipe step by step by step."
Despite this, Thomas believes the skills that students learned in this lab will be helpful in the future.
"I think cooking is an essential skill, especially when you go off to college, who is going to cook for you then? And even if it's just as simple as reading the steps off the box, if you don't read the steps correctly, then that will mess up the entire meal," Thomas said.
This will not be students only chance to practice following directions, as the Nutrition and Wellness courses will have upcoming labs with No-Bake cookies to reinforce some of the skills introduced with the first lab.
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THE PENDULOUS GROWTHS upon the right side of this patient's head, and a number of small and soft tumors on various parts of the body, were congenital. During childhood, and even until thirty years of age, the tumor of the scalp steadily increased in size, from year to year. Since coming to this country, sixteen years ago, patient thinks there has been no permanent change. Patient suffers more inconvenience from the weight of the tumor in summer than in winter. When exposed to a low temperature in winter, the lax tissue becomes icy cold, but have never been at all benumbed. About five years ago, while at work, a shovelful of gravel was accidentally thrown against the right side of his head, on account of which accident he entered Bellevue Hospital, April 1874. The growth was injured, several slight wounds continued to discharge, and an attack of erysipelas (St. Anthony's fire) supervened. Since then he has been employed in hospital and has suffered again from erysipelas, to which affection he seems unusually prone. The treatment of fibroma is not imperative, as the affection occasions no discomfort.
he's a freak; you want your kids to look like him?
You'd mark them lookin' at that nine months.
It'd turn your baby's head to a mess like his."
I said, "it don't look bad at all."
and plummet-measured in chiseled proportions.
her father's, husband's—perhaps her son's.
But does such guessing chronicle a true history?
of culture and prejudice see?
imagine you never saw it.
Then consider who you see.
O Columbia! It is your blood in him.
white milk, the music of forest flutes.
and in his famed smock, as well!
guesses—nothing the eye can see."
George Fox's words and my lines give to the first.
what top-spinning warmth, he was already accustomed?
It could have been a different life.


Herwig Immervoll is Senior Economist and Head of Employment-Oriented Social Policies at the OECD. He has headed research projects and policy dialogue on redistribution and inequality trends, minimum-income safety nets and activation policies and has been the lead author of reports on social policy responses to the economic crisis. He has initiated or co-led World Bank policy analyses in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region on population ageing and pensions, employment support and tax/transfer policies. He has also led employment and social policy reviews of countries seeking to join the OECD as part of its Accession process.
His research interests include analysing trends in social and fiscal policies and their effects on poverty, income distribution and labour markets. He has worked extensively on microsimulation methods and their application to policy analysis and evaluation. Current ongoing work includes options for adapting social protection to a "future of work", examining the consequences of a Basic Income, trends in income inequality and government redistribution, safety-net benefits and minimum-income protection, rights and responsibilities in social protection systems, gender inequalities, minimum wages, and the implications of the economic crisis for employment and social policies.


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Home Events Realization of the project Dam on the river Otinja
Realization of the project Dam on the river Otinja
Денес испишуваме историја за Штип!
Today we are writing history for Shtip! Today we solemnly put into operation the highway Shtip-Miladinovci, which is directly connected with whole of Europe.
But, today we are also opening a new road for realization of one of the most significant capital projects for Shtip. The project for a dam on the river Otinja will be realized thanks to the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia, led by the Prime Minister Zaev.
This project is very important. It is about the multi-decade dream of all the citizens of Shtip. More than 35 years ago the construction of a dam on the river Otinja was a desire and need of the city.
The current Basic project was started by the Municipality of Shtip in 2003, but the trail of every wish and will for the realization was lost sometime in 2009. We even heard in the past from certain structures there were incentives for this dam to be erased from GUP of Shtip. Основен проект е започнат од Општина Штип во 2003 година, но се губи трага на секоја
After all, when I first entered in this building as a Mayor of Municipality Shtip, the project for this dam was gone. We could not find it anywhere. In fact, it was not even finished, only one part of it was made. In the past year and a half, as far as I am here as a Mayor, I invested a lot of effort and energy for this capital and strategically important project for Shtip to move from a zero point. Today, the project has been completed and innovated by the Faculty of Construction in Skopje, with a positive revision from GIM.
The complete technical documentation for this dam consists of three parts:
Basic project, finished with revision and investment by the Municipality of Shtip;
Study for protection of the environment which is in its final phase, financed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water economy;
Completion of the Detailed Urban Plan for a dam on the river Otinja, which is in a final phase.
With all these documentations, soon we will get a building permit to build a dam on the river Otinja and create all the preconditions for starting the construction.
Dear citizens,
So far we have had only promises, desires but sometimes also objective obstacles and obstructions for the realization of this project.
Well the day when we put an official sealed confirmation of the definitive realization of this project has come.
Today we confirm: our word is valid-there will be a dam on the river of Otinja!
This dam is especially significant for the growth and development of Shtip. This dam will make an attractive tourist spot from Shtip, but will also create an important area for sports and recreation of the population, because the street that passes through the dam will connect both sports locations, Suitlak and the playground in Block 2000.
This dam will protect the city from flooding, reduce high summer temperatures, but also will increase the winter temperatures, create a biological minimum in the river bed of Otinja, will be used for watering the green areas and many other benefits. In the second phase, immediately after the construction, we will develop the possibility for this facility to produce electricity, and thus to become self-sustaining. I am waiting for a confirmation from GIM for this)
I expect that this dam will be one of the most development components of Shtip in the coming years.
Dear President of the Government, in the name of all the citizens of Municipality of Shtip, thank you, thank you for listening, because you are supporting the most important project for my city. The citizens of Shtip will know how to appreciate this move of this political set!
I would like to thank the former Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water economy, Ljupcho Nikolovski, but also to the current Minister Trajan Dimkovski for their dedication for the project dam Otinja.
We are all here, continuing to work diligently and dedicated to the realization of this common dream.
We move forward towards greater successes and improvement of the everyday life and quality of life in the city.
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Betti numbers and injectivity radii
Authors: Marc Culler and Peter B. Shalen
MSC (2000): Primary 57M50; Secondary 57N10
Published electronically: June 18, 2009
Abstract: We give lower bounds on the maximal injectivity radius for a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold with first Betti number 2 under some additional topological hypotheses.
Ian Agol, Marc Culler, and Peter B. Shalen, Singular surfaces, mod homology, and hyperbolic volume. I, arXiv:math.GT/0506396. To appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc..
Ian Agol, Peter A. Storm, and William P. Thurston, Lower bounds on volumes of hyperbolic Haken 3-manifolds, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 20 (2007), no. 4, 1053–1077. With an appendix by Nathan Dunfield. MR 2328715, https://doi.org/10.1090/S0894-0347-07-00564-4
James W. Anderson, Richard D. Canary, Marc Culler, and Peter B. Shalen, Free Kleinian groups and volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds, J. Differential Geom. 43 (1996), no. 4, 738–782. MR 1412683
Marc Culler and Peter B. Shalen, Paradoxical decompositions, 2-generator Kleinian groups, and volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 5 (1992), no. 2, 231–288. MR 1135928, https://doi.org/10.1090/S0894-0347-1992-1135928-4
Marc Culler and Peter B. Shalen, Volumes of hyperbolic Haken manifolds. I, Invent. Math. 118 (1994), no. 2, 285–329. MR 1292114, https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01231535
Marc Culler and Peter B. Shalen, Volumes of hyperbolic Haken manifolds. II, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), no. 10, 3059–3067. MR 1422858, https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-97-04101-4
Andrew Przeworski, Cones embedded in hyperbolic manifolds, J. Differential Geom. 58 (2001), no. 2, 219–232. MR 1913942
Ian Agol, Peter A. Storm, and William P. Thurston, Lower bounds on volumes of hyperbolic Haken -manifolds, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 20 (2007), no. 4, 1053-1077 (electronic). With an appendix by Nathan Dunfield. MR 2328715
James W. Anderson, Richard D. Canary, Marc Culler, and Peter B. Shalen, Free Kleinian groups and volumes of hyperbolic -manifolds, J. Differential Geom. 43 (1996), no. 4, 738-782. MR 1412683
Marc Culler and Peter B. Shalen, Paradoxical decompositions, -generator Kleinian groups, and volumes of hyperbolic -manifolds, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 5 (1992), no. 2, 231-288. MR 1135928
Marc Culler and Peter B. Shalen, Volumes of hyperbolic Haken manifolds. I, Invent. Math. 118 (1994), no. 2, 285-329. MR 1292114
Marc Culler and Peter B. Shalen, Volumes of hyperbolic Haken manifolds. II, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), no. 10, 3059-3067. MR 1422858
Andrew Przeworski, Cones embedded in hyperbolic manifolds, J. Differential Geom. 58 (2001), no. 2, 219-232. MR 1913942
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Marc Culler
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science (M/C 249), University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7045
Email: culler@math.uic.edu
Peter B. Shalen
Email: shalen@math.uic.edu
Received by editor(s): February 12, 2009
Additional Notes: This work was partially supported by NSF grants DMS-0504975 and DMS-0608567
Dedicated: Dedicated to José María Montesinos on the occasion of his 65th birthday
Communicated by: Daniel Ruberman


Turkey: The Board's Reasoned Decision On The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality: "Is The Municipality An Undertaking Within The Meaning Of Competition Law?"
The Board's reasoned decision1 regarding the allegations that the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Başkanlığı) ("Municipality") had violated the Law No. 4054 through certain activities regarding the right of way, was published on the Authority's official website. In its reasoned decision, the Board primarily assessed whether the Municipality could be deemed and treated as an "undertaking" within the meaning of the Law No. 4054.
In its complaint to the Authority, the Turkish Competitive Telco Operators Association2 (Serbest Telekomünikasyon İşletmecileri Derneği) ("TELKODER") stated that, in accordance with the Law No. 5809 on Electronic Communications ("ECL"), a number of its members conduct their businesses by obtaining authorization for infrastructural operations. It was also asserted that such authorizations can only be fully and efficiently utilized when the related "right of way" is also granted. TELKODER claimed that (i) the Municipality denied the operators an excavation permit between the years 2012 and 2014, (ii) the main contracts relating to the right of way on metro routes and funicular railway routes were terminated in 2016 without any legal basis, (iii) the Municipality denied applications for excavation permits and directed the operators to İstanbul Elektronik Haberleşme ve Altyapı Hizmetleri San. ve Tie. A.Ş. (a company incorporated by the Municipality) ("ISTTELKOM")3, (iv) the Municipality forced other undertakings to enter into an agreement with ISTTELKOM for facility sharing, (v) the provision within the tariff of the Municipality regarding the right of way, which indicates that subsidiaries of the Municipality could use the right of way without paying a fee, is discriminatory, and (vi) the Municipality is an "undertaking" which acts as a provider of the right of way, and its subsidiary ISTTELKOM functions as an infrastructure operator.
In this respect, TELKODER alleged that the Municipality and ISTTELKOM, which constitute a single economic unity, had violated Article 4 of the Law No. 4054 by foreclosing the market through a vertical agreement.
The Board held that, in the absence of any explicit definition for public undertakings under the Law No. 4054, and pursuant to the Board's settled case law, public undertakings could either have an independent legal identity or they could be established within central, regional or local administrative bodies. Additionally, the Board stated that, in light of its settled case law on this topic, if public authorities conduct economic activities (even without a separate legal identity), they should be deemed as "undertakings" within the meaning of the Law No. 4054, except for acts that are carried out with the authority and power granted to them based on their public duties.
The Board found that establishing and operating the infrastructure that is necessary in order to provide a public service is an integral part of such public service itself. In this respect, the Board determined that actions taken by the Municipality with respect to its decisions on whether to grant an excavation permit regarding the use of the right of way, based on its public power as a provider of the right of way under the ECL and the Regulation on the Transition of All Types Of Cables and Similar Equipment Used in the Fixed and Mobile Communications Infrastructure or Networks ("Regulation on the Right of Way") are a part of its public service duties. Therefore, the Board ruled that the Municipality cannot be deemed as an undertaking under Article 3 of the Law No. 4054 with regard to such activities. To that end, the Board concluded that the decision of the Municipality not to grant an excavation permit could not be deemed as an abuse of dominant position under Article 6 of the Law No. 4054, and thus, the Board declined to initiate an investigation against the Municipality on this front.
However, the Board decided to investigate the competition law concerns that could potentially arise from the Municipality directing applicants to ISTTELKOM by way of declining to grant them excavation permits. In this respect, the Board ultimately decided to send an opinion letter to the Municipality, in line with its duty to foster and promote competition.
It follows from the reasoned decision of the Board that the right of way is essential for the sustainability of electronic communication services. Moreover, it is undoubtedly true that public authorities are obligated to address the "right of way" requirements in compliance with the applicable legislation. That being said, sector representatives claimed (before the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications) that, after the adoption of the regulation regarding the right of way, municipalities had started to use the excavation licensing process as an illegitimate source of revenue.
As set forth in detail within the Board's reasoned decision, under the Regulation on the Right of Way, any request for a right of way must be granted if certain conditions are satisfied, so long as it is not exempted under that regulation. The Board's decision also emphasized that, according to the same regulation, public authorities and institutions have certain additional obligations, which can be listed as follows: (i) they should primarily evaluate applications without any delay, (ii) they should conclude evaluations within sixty (60) days, (iii) they should not discriminate against operators, and (iv) the evaluation process should be transparent. The Board also mentioned that the principle of aiming to secure an effective and sustainable competitive environment is emphasized in the Regulation on the Right of Way. However, it should be noted that the regulation does not introduce any sanctions against those parties that fail to fulfill these obligations or that infringe on these principles.
As a result of its preliminary investigation, the Board dismissed the allegations that the Municipality had denied excavation permits to the operators. Moreover, the Board stated that there was no written evidence indicating that the Municipality had directed operators to ISTTELKOM. That being said, the Board explicitly stated that, since ISTTELKOM had attained a significant amount of business with respect to providing the right of way (except from the "Protocol for Facility Sharing" and the Municipality's "Public Bid for Infrastructure Enlargement for 2017," which ISTTELKOM had won in its second year), serious suspicions had arisen that the Municipality had been directing the operators to ISTTELKOM. Nevertheless, the Board reiterated that this behavior could not be examined under the Law No. 4054, since the Municipality did not qualify as an "undertaking" within the meaning of competition law rules. The Board also indicated that the termination of the main contracts for the right of way on metro routes and funicular railway routes were acts of a purely administrative nature, and thus the Municipality could not be deemed as an "undertaking" for these acts either.
With respect to the allegations that the Municipality and ISTTELKKOM had violated Article 4 of the Law No. 4054 by using a vertical agreement to prevent the use of the right of way by other operators and thereby foreclosing the market, the Board reiterated that the Municipality did not qualify as an "undertaking" under Article 3 of the Law No. 4054, and thus, it could not violate Article 4 of the Law No. 4054.
After addressing the allegations contained within the case file, the Board decided to provide certain explanations on whether entities comprising a single economic unit could violate Article 4 of the Law No. 4054 through vertical agreements. In this respect, the Board first declared that separate entities within the same economic unit constitute a single undertaking for competition law purposes. Accordingly, the Board asserted that even a "cartel agreement" between companies within the same economic unit could not be assessed as an anti-competitive agreement. The Board also stated that, even if the Municipality were considered to be an undertaking for the purposes of the case file, an anti-competitive vertical agreement between the Municipality and ISTTELKOM could not be evaluated under Article 4 of the Law No. 4054, since these two entities are part of the same economic unit.
In conclusion, the Board decided that there were no legal grounds to initiate a full-fledged investigation against the Municipality pursuant to Article 41 of the Law No. 4054. However, in light of its duty to foster and promote competition, the Board decided to send an opinion letter to the Municipality regarding certain competition law concerns that might arise if the Municipality handled the requests for right of way in a discriminatory manner.
1. The Board's decision numbered 17-30/489-222 and dated September 27,2017.
2. This is the official English name that the association uses on its website. However, a better translation would be "Turkish Association of Independent Telecommunications Operators."
3. ISTTELKOM was founded by the Municipality in 2012 in order to address the needs in the areas of information technologies and electronic communications, and to make contributions to solutions for infrastructure problems in the telecommunication industry.


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Brandon Adams - Posted: 13 hours ago
Tight end spotting as Georgia's Isaac Nauta shows up strong vs. Florida
Georgia tight end Isaac Nauta runs away from Florida defensive back Donovan Stiner after catching one of his five passes from Jake Fromm in the win over the Gators on Saturday in Jacksonville. (Curtis Compton/AJC)
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – There are play-scripts, there are signals that come in from the sideline and there are checks to be made at the line of scrimmage. But sometimes football comes down to one guy looking in a teammate's eyes and telling him, "Here's what we need to do."
That's what happened on Georgia's last drive of the first half Saturday against Florida, and it was a doozy. At the end of it, the Bulldogs came away with only a field goal and a skinny six-point lead. But it was the how and the when and the who that made this an extra-special drive in the middle of Georgia's 36-17 win over the Gators.
The who was Georgia tight end Isaac Nauta and quarterback Jake Fromm. The how and when was four straight passes between them to put the Bulldogs in scoring range in a 35-second span.
It all started with Nauta coming up to Fromm during a stoppage of play and saying: "It's there, go ahead and throw it."
The situation at the time was Georgia leading 10-7 with only 50 seconds remaining in the half. On the sidelines, the coaches were debating whether or not to try to score on their last possession of the half or just bleed the clock and take their lead into the locker room.
Georgia, after a considerable amount of deliberation by the referees over whether or not a Florida punt had hit a camera guide wire – it had – the Bulldogs were left with 50 seconds and two timeouts to negotiate the 75 yards in front of them.
The Bulldogs liked those numbers with Fromm at the controls.
"We wanted the ability to run the ball whenever we wanted to on that drive," coach Kirby Smart said. "It makes the defensive coordinator play completely different when he knows you can run the ball. He can't do some of the pass-rush stuff he likes to do."
Georgia ended up not running the ball at all. But that threat of doing it created some opportunities for them.
Enter Nauta, the former 5-star recruit and sometimes under-utilized pass catching tight end, many might say.
Nauta knew he was going to have a linebacker on him, and he knew he could win that matchup, so he told Fromm as much. So after a play-action fake, Fromm rose up and hit Nauta in stride on the sideline. The 6-foot-4, 240-pound athlete hauled in the pass and turned up field for a 27-yard gain.
Hustling to line back up, Nauta and Fromm locked eyes and nodded to each other again. This action would repeat itself four times, as Nauta excitedly summed up in the immediate aftermath of the game.
"Sure enough, he threw it, we ran it again; he threw it, we ran it again," Nauta said, his eyes dancing as he recounted it. "We switched it up and he hit me over the middle; and then he hit me again on the sideline."
In just 35 seconds, the Bulldogs suddenly found themselves at the Florida 14, well within Rodrigo Blankenship's field-goal range. But now they were thinking about getting in the end zone.
Ultimately, Georgia would get all the way to just inside the Florida 5-yard line with 6 seconds to spare. But after lining up to run one more play, Florida called a timeout. During the break, Kirby Smart decided not to chance the clock running out on them and sent in Blankenship to kick the chip-shot field goal.
Blankenship did that and the Bulldogs took a small lead and a modicum of momentum into the locker room. But also a bit of disappointment.
"That last decision … we have a couple of plays we feel like we can get off in less than 6 seconds to take a look," Smart said. "If you trust your quarterback, you do it. We've watched a lot of NFL tape on it but, at the end of the day, we decided to go in with the momentum and kick the field goal.
"It ended up in hindsight we go into the half with timeouts, which is never good. So, we probably should have burned it and used it. But …"
Said Nauta: "It was huge to be able to make those plays for us and be able to get some points before halftime. And Jake did a great job."
Those points would later get lost as the Bulldogs closed strong and expanded their lead in the fourth quarter. But at the time – and after Florida scored on its opening drive of the second half – they seemed huge, and they were.
It also did wonders for a Georgia offense that had lost a lot of confidence in the loss to LSU two weeks ago.
"It just felt like a really physical football game and it was back and forth for a little while," said Fromm, who finished with 240 yards passing and 3 touchdowns. "It felt like everything we got today was earned. When that happens it's a really good feeling for everybody. I thought everybody played pretty well collectively."
Nauta did especially. The junior finished with a game-high 5 catches for 73 yards and had a good day blocking as well.
"Jake did a great job, the O-line did a great job, everybody did a good job," Nauta said. "It's always nice when you can throw a 7- or 8-yard ball and turn it into 15 yards. So it was just a great job by everybody on that drive."
Nauta wasn't interested in talking about his personal accomplishments on Saturday. For him, this was a special team victory.
"There's a lot of emotion in a game like this," he said. "I hate Florida, just to be honest. So it's great just to come out on top. But it was such a big game. This game goes back forever and there have been a lot of great players and teams that have been in it. There's a reason why so many people travel to this game and want to be a part of it. I'm just so happy we got the win."
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I have a summary dashboard that begins as rolled up by my line of business which is an aggregation of Medicare, Medicaid, and MMP data elements. For this example let's say membership.
I aggregate those 3 lines membership and see 1 bar for Oct 18, 1 bar for Nov 18, 1 bar for Dec 18. All aggregated. My leadership wants filters applied to say I want to see MMP only or I want to see MMP and Region West and Market CA. They want filters Region, Sub Region and Market added for drill downs.
Change to ATTR so I do not see the values associated on the bar graphs.
I now see an asterisk *. When they select West in the Region, the ATTR Region changes to West. When they select Sub Region 1, the sub region changes to Sub Region 1. When they select CA the Market changes to CA. Is there a way I can alias the asterisk to all instead of the asterisk?
The workbook attached has an example. I also added an example using dashboard actions, an approach I prefer as it gives more context before and after the selection.


In 2006, over 560,000 Aboriginal children and youth under 25 years of age lived in Canada. The greatest number of these children and youth lived in Ontario (105,205) and many others lived in Manitoba (90,360), Saskatchewan (78,680), Alberta (94,805) and British Columbia (90,065). Fewer Aboriginal children and youth lived in the Atlantic provinces. Although the total number of Aboriginal children and youth in the territories appears low compared to some provinces, the proportion far exceeds the proportion of non-Aboriginal children and youth in the territories.


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Tag: Ross Parker
Detroit U.S. Attorney's Office Takes Time Out to Celebrate Its 200th Anniversary
l-r From the top: Ross Parker; Judge Gerald Rosen; The crowd; U.S. Attorney McQuade
DETROIT — Federal court, more often than not, is a pretty serious place.
But on Wednesday, judges, prosecutors, attorneys, courthouse staff and members of the media gathered on the first floor of the U.S. District Courthouse in downtown Detroit to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Attorney's Office.
The crowd included some former U.S. Attorneys: Saul Green and Jeff Collins and Judges Terrence Berg and Stephen Murphy. Some of the federal judges included chief Judge Gerald Rosen, Judge Paul Borman and Judge Bernard Friedman.
U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade delivered some remarks, calling the U.S. Attorney's Office the best law firm in the state. Ross Parker, a former chief of the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's Office, and a columnist for ticklethewire.com, gave a talk about the history of the office.
Parker is the author of the book "Carving Out the Rule of Law: The History of the United States Attorney's Office e in Eastern Michigan 1815–2008.″
Posted: September 30th, 2015 under News Story.
Tags: Barb McQuade, Detroit, gerald rosen, Ross Parker, U.S. Attorney
Column: FBI Agent Critical of Ex-Official Defending the Agency
FBI agent Theresa Foley was the first full-time female FBI agent to be stationed at Guantanamo. She has filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department, saying she was made to bunk with vermin that gave her a tropical disease. Theresa Foley has undergone multiple surgeries since contracting the disease and has been disabled and is living with her parents. She claims her disease was made worse when the FBI refused to let her stand and instead made her kneel in the traditional stance during firearms qualification.The lawsuit also says she was ostracized for refusing to join in a "spring break" atmosphere in which agents were encouraged to drink, date and frolic during off hours.Her lawsuit alleges sexual discrimination and harassment, employment discrimination based on disability and gender and retaliation.
Theresa Foley/family photo
By Theresa Foley
For ticklethewire.com
My name is Theresa Foley and many months ago you printed a letter my Mother wrote regarding the extension of FBI Director Mueller and her thoughts as to what occurred to me on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
It was a sad letter for me to read and several weeks after that I underwent a difficult surgery, thus never wrote. In the past week Mr. Ross Parker commented on the Penn State scandal, mentioning FBI Special Agent Jane Turner and all she had been through.
Mr. Michael Mason responded to this, affronted that the FBI was likened to the Penn State situation due to the reference from Ms. Turner that "It takes enormous strength to put one's moral integrity over your personal inclination to protect fellow colleagues who have committed malfeasance, or criminal activity…It simply boils down to the fact that those in power have a stronger desire to preserve the reputation of their institution, than taking the road of truth or justice. Entities like Penn State, the Catholic Church and the FBI all share something in common; they operate in an insular world where rules or laws that apply to everyone else, do not apply to them."
As my Mother noted, I was an FBI Agent assigned to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I was assigned out of the Washington Field Office, when Mr. Mason was ADIC (Assistant Director in Charge).
Frankly, I was disappointed in his column, but not surprised in his defense of the FBI, praising Jane Turner at the end, but disagreeing with her statement. A jury agreed with Ms. Turner, yet to this day, no individuals have ever been held accountable for what occurred with her.
Due to legal issues, I will not comment on those in leadership at the WFO who could have stepped in and obtained some justice.
Their answer, in the few meetings reportedly held regarding what occurred with me, was to tell those who spoke up for me to "back off" and to transfer me. I found the chain of command to be broken, from Guantanamo to WFO, to FBIHQ, Boston and back.
I hope they are at peace exiting those meetings with their lack of truth seeking. One does not become a leader in the FBI speaking out about bad behavior, malfeasance and criminal conduct. Once you speak out, your career is over. Quite a few can attest to this, and the trial of Jane Turner is just a small indication of what goes on once you report "bad behavior".
I arrived on Guantanamo in the fall of 2003 full of life and whole. I left almost ten months later, never to return, ill, broken and beat down. I arrived idealistically with the idea that it was the most important assignment in the FBI due to the war on terror.
Posted: December 7th, 2011 under FBI, News Story.
Tags: FBI, Michael Mason, Ross Parker, Theresa Foley
Column: Ex-FBI Official Mike Mason Challenges Comment by FBI Profiler on Penn State Scandal
Michael Mason, a former assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington field office, retired as the executive assistant director at FBI headquarters in 2007. His column is in response to a column ex-fed prosecutor Ross Parker wrote in the form of a letter to his son about the Penn State Scandal in which he quoted Jane Turner, an FBI psychological profiler, who said: "It takes enormous strength to put one's moral integrity over your personal inclination to protect fellow colleagues who have committed malfeasance, or criminal activity. The FBI, like Penn State and the Catholic Church, are entities that allows their personnel to report allegations up a chain of command but those in positions of power or change, fail to take immediate or strong actions."
Mike Mason/fbi photo
By Michael Mason
I have tried for the past two days to get beyond Ross Parker's letter to his son and specifically the reference he made to the FBI via a piece apparently written by FBI profiler Jane Turner.
I too, have sons and have always taught them to stand tall when faced with moral imperatives.
I have shared with them many times that never in my FBI career was I ashamed to look at myself in the mirror for my conduct or that of my colleagues regarding the decisions we were called upon to make on a daily basis. I have shared with them times when agents have gone astray and been held accountable for doing so. I have shared with them the times I had to take a stand against conventional wisdom and against my own best interest and proudly did so.
I am not alone in any of the above. I did not inhabit an insular world. As you know I left the FBI as an Executive Assistant Director and there is not a single day of my entire career for which I am ashamed of or would be afraid to put on the front page of the Washington Post or New York Times.
I am proud of the many internal discussions we had in the FBI about choosing the right course of action in a myriad of situations most would find extremely challenging. Did we always choose the right course of action, perhaps not, but I can tell you and the readers of Ticklethewire that we left those meetings believing we had done so.
I never left any such meeting with my head hung low, ashamed that I, or one of my colleagues, had not spoken up when the occasion required us to do so.
I believed I wrestled with enough truly challenging decisions over the course of my career that teaching a masters level philosophy course would have been a natural role for me and many others to fill in retirement. So when I read comments about the FBI, even from FBI employees such as Jane Turner, I find myself wondering to what, specifically, they are referring.
Now that I am in the private sector, I can assure you the significant decisions made by the FBI are more exposed to the light of public opinion than virtually any such decisions made in this arena.
My point here is not to suggest the FBI was or will ever be flawless in their decision making processes or in the execution of their sworn duties. However, throughout my career I worked with some of the hardest working, most honest people I have ever met. I have seen FBI employees give more of themselves than the average American will ever be asked to give.
Every day of their respective careers they tried desperately to do the right thing. So try as I might to simply read Parker's article and move on, I have been unable to do so. What was essentially a "drive-by" comment linking the unfortunate incident at Penn State to the general environment at the FBI demands a response. Parker's use of Turner's piece in his letter to his son suggest at a minimum he agrees with her statement. I categorically do not.
I have no doubt that both Jane Turner and Ross Parker are very fine individuals who served the public well. I have no doubt Parker's son, if he follows his dad's advice, will become a fine young man as well.
However, I believe the exact same thing about my two sons and dozens of other sons and daughters of FBI employees who have dispense similar advice to their children.
Far from an "insular world" the one I inhabited while serving in the FBI dealt with extraordinarily complex situations which often called for very difficult decisions. Never did I find my colleagues shrinking from their responsibility to try and make the right call.
Posted: November 23rd, 2011 under FBI, News Story.
Tags: FBI, jane turner, Michael Mason, penn state, Ross Parker
Ex-Fed Prosecutor: A Letter to My Son on Moral Decisions in Light of Penn State
As your enthusiasm builds for leaving home and going off to college in a few months, I want to talk with you about having to make on-the-spot moral, legal, and social decisions when you are on your own.
As you know, the news has been filled with reports and commentary about the alleged incidents at Penn State involving former Defensive Coach Jerry Sandusky sexually molesting disadvantaged young boys who participated in his charity. He has denied the charges in the indictment, and due process of law will determine his guilt or innocence.
Up for discussion in the unforgiving public forum are the actions of Assistant Coach Mike McQueary who, on March 1, 2002 at 9:30 p.m., while he was a grad assistant entered the practice facility to obtain some video tapes to review. He heard noises from the shower area and went to investigate. According to reports of his grand jury testimony, he was "distraught" when he saw Sandusky raping a ten-year old boy.
It is unclear what happened next. McQueary apparently made no mention in the grand jury about intervening to save the child, but in the last couple days he has hinted that he forced Sandusky to stop. He then called his father, with whom he had a close relationship, for advice on what to do next. Then he contacted Coach Joe Paterno and reported the incident. Later he also told two other Athletic Department officials. These three, however, say that his report was not detailed enough to cause them to take further action of some kind.
It is clear that no one reported the crime to the police or to Child Protective Services. Allegedly Sandusky's access to the children and the Penn State facilities was not restricted, and he inflicted other such assaults on children during the nine years that have followed. Both Paterno and McQueary continued to publicly support Sandusky's charitable activities.
The public reaction to McQueary and Paterno has ranged from commendation to vilification. Paterno, probably the most revered football coach in America, was summarily fired and McQueary, perhaps because of his legal protection as a whistleblower, has been placed on paid administrative leave. Probably neither will have any connection to college football again.
The issue worth thinking about is whether McQueary's response, whatever it was, presents a moral and legal lesson for the rest of us. In my generation a woman named Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death in New York's Central Park while dozens failed to take action when they heard her cries for help. Social psychologists have labeled the phenomenon diffusion of responsibility or bystander effect, but the bottom line is that, when confronted with a moral imperative, people who could have saved her life failed to act.
McQueary has been showered with the moral opprobrium of the commentators who have assumed he failed to stop the assault. They have hastened to assure their listeners that they would have assuredly stepped up stopped the violence and called the cops. Jane Turner, an FBI psychological profiler who specializes in child sex crimes, however has indicated that in her experience most people would have walked away as McQueary is alleged to have done. She writes:
"It takes enormous strength to put one's moral integrity over your personal inclination to protect fellow colleagues who have committed malfeasance, or criminal activity. The FBI, like Penn State and the Catholic Church, are entities that allows their personnel to report allegations up a chain of command but those in positions of power or change, fail to take immediate or strong actions. It simply boils down to the fact that those in power have a stronger desire to preserve the reputation of their institution, than taking the road of truth or justice. Entities like Penn State, the Catholic Church and the FBI all share something in common; they operate in an insular world where rules or laws that apply to everyone else, do not apply to them."
Early in my career as a prosecutor, my boss Len Gilman made it clear to us that our job was to do what was right even if we as individuals or our office had to pay the price of being embarrassed or worse. And a couple times we were.
Assume for the sake of this letter that Mike McQueary is neither a hero nor a villain but just a guy who hesitated, as a majority of others would have in 2002, when suddenly confronted with a terrible moral issue. Just a guy who knew that the price to be paid for more aggressive action would be to jeopardize the head coach he idolized, the powerful institution and football program to which he was so loyal, and the future he wanted so badly.
So he called his dad for guidance, then Joe Pa. And that apparently was it, for nine years, until it hit the fan, as it seems with increasing frequency to do. If we have learned nothing else from the massive tragedy that has so damaged the Catholic Church, it is that doing nothing, protecting people and institutions that seem so invulnerable at the time, will usually be disastrous for everyone concerned. And now a legend will die, a great university tarnished for a generation and saddled with millions of dollars of civil settlements, and an apparently otherwise fine young man's dreams dashed forever. Worst of all, boys who had tough enough lives already were damaged by a man who should have been isolated so he couldn't harm others.
Son, I hope you always have the luxury of time for meditation and parental guidance before you have to act on a moral issue. But if you don't, consider this your father's advice.
Demonstrate the courage I know you have to step up, do what is right, protect the vulnerable, call the police and support them in any way they ask. If there is a price to pay, we will share it together and you will be compensated by the respect of your family and friends.
Oh, and call your mother once in a while.
Tags: Assistant U.S. Attorney, penn state, Ross Parker
Prosecutors Need More Accountability
Some believe that prosecutors are the most powerful figures in the criminal justice system. Many of their decisions are virtually unreviewable: charging, case disposition, dismissals, plea bargains, and sentence recommendations, to name a few. Local and State prosecutors can be held accountable to the voters.. But given the power of incumbency, that checks and balance is rarely exercised.
The advent of DNA exoneration reversals (233 at last count) in the last decade has hammered home the point: The criminal justice system is not perfect. A 2003 study by the Center for Public Integrity claims that prosecutorial misconduct contributed to decisions on charge dismissals, conviction reversals, and reduced sentences in 2,012 cases since 1970.
Conversely, some say, given the millions of cases during that 23 year period, the "error rate" of less than .1 % is probably the lowest of any civilization in human history. Likewise, almost everyone active in the system would probably say that that rate has fallen dramatically in the last half-century with the judicial reforms of criminal procedure.
Still, a raw number of instances of material misconducts in the thousands is alarming to a public who blithely assumed that the system was always right and that procedural reforms have guaranteed that no innocent person could get convicted.The misconduct figure, plus various estimates of 1% or higher of wrongful convictions, i.e., conviction of the factually innocent, have spawned a nationwide movement to require more transparency and accountability for prosecutorial decision-making.
Such groups as The Justice Project conclude: "This lack of accountability has led to widespread abuse of prosecutorial power, and a flawed and inaccurate criminal justice system."
In response to this over-generalization, the group recommends sweeping reforms, including: Clearly defined official policies and procedures, open file discovery, documentation of all witness and informant agreements, mandatory judicial reporting of every instance of prosecutorial misconduct, and a review board to investigate and sanction any such misconduct.
For those of us who were and are federal prosecutors, these "reforms" are essentially the status quo, but for many state prosecutors, these changes would severely curtail the wide discretion in which such an overworked system has come to depend.
The Project also advocates wide ranging reform to criminal procedures generally, including: improving and standardizing eyewitness identification practices, electronic recording of interrogations and confessions, expanded discovery rights, and higher standards for the performance of counsel in capital cases.
No doubt some jurisdictions need some of these reforms. Scientific studies on the need for more objective lineup protocols and methods of avoiding false confessions are increasingly persuasive.
Forensic testing problems, likewise, are likely to receive more attention by a public which is getting used to the forensic infallibility of the many television shows on the subject.
The mind-boggling misconduct alleged in the prosecution of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, and its very public consequences, demonstrates that even federal prosecutors are not immune from such controversies.
Every case like Stevens fosters a new wave of increased and unjustified public cynicism that prosecutors commonly railroad the innocent. The significant difference in these high profile federal cases is that it is the Justice Department itself which has aggressively investigated and taken action in response to allegations of such behavior.
The public is largely unaware that there is a highly effective review and accountability function in the federal system. The Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is a meaningful deterrent of misconduct, as well as a source of exoneration for federal prosecutors unfairly accused of misconduct.
Prosecutors, both state and federal, cannot ignore this "reform" movement. They need to participate actively in the public forum, contribute to legislative debate, and acknowledge that, in some jurisdictions, and in some areas of the criminal justice system, changes need to be made.
Ross Parker, a former assistant U.S. Attorney, is the author of a new book: "Carving Out the Rule of Law: The History of the United States Attorney's Office in Eastern Michigan 1815-2008" The book is available on amazon.com and rparker54@comcast.net.
Posted: April 20th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: prosecutors, Ross Parker
Griffin Bell's Contributions to Federal Criminal Justice
I saw Griffin Bell's name every morning for almost three decades when I entered my office in the Detroit U. S. Attorney's Office. His signature was on the DOJ certificate which hung behind my desk. His death this week, at age 90, brings to mind subjects like civility and the gradual approach to solving problems and making improvements, subjects which get scant attention in most prosecutors' offices.
Griffin Bell told the 1977 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination as Attorney General that he had integrated more schools than any other judge. He accomplished this on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals during a very difficult era of American civil rights by gradually implementing pragmatic plans which moved the South to a new educational system. His detractors said that this approach defied Brown v. Board of Education's order to integrate "with all deliberate speed." But few of them lived with the tens of thousands of angry Southerners who feared that equality of opportunity for African American children would doom a way of life for the majority. Griffin Bell's civil and courtly gradualism made it possible for men like Barack Obama and Eric Holder to hold leadership positions thirty years later.
In the Justice Department, Bell brought this same incremental approach to a department desperately in need of both image rehabilitation and modernization. It has always been a challenge for the Attorney General to set a course which reconciles its dual, and often bipolar, responsibilities, political and nonpolitical. Advising the President, vetting judicial nominees, proposing legislation-all of these functions and more require the Department to be immersed in the political circus. But increasingly in the last half of the 20th Century, more was expected of the country's legal department. People expected fair adjudicative procedures and policies and guaranteed independent enforcement of its laws free of personal, partisan, or popular bias. Ironically, it was the reaction to the Watergate incident, Saturday Night Massacre and criminality of John Mitchell which defined how important this principle of de-politicization had become.
Justice Department historians, if there are any, will record the 1970s as an important time in this progression, as well as its modernization to meet the needs of a more complex system of law enforcement. The mission of federal prosecutors and agents was beginning to include proactive cases and methods to go along with their traditional reactive staples such as buy-bust drug cases, bank robberies and customs seizures. These new cases would require better technology, specialized prosecutors and investigators, and more nuanced criminal laws. Griffin Bell's policies to promote these objectives would gain him no headlines and are hardly discernible looking back 30 years later. But they laid the groundwork for the complex work of the 21st Century Justice Department.
The other principle that Griffin Bell stands for is the emphasis on civility and ethical obligations. He reminded us in the U. S. Attorney's Office of these subjects when he visited Detroit in 1978. America has always been schizoid about expectations for its prosecutors. On the one hand, we must be hard-nosed, tough zealots advocating the longest sentence and the draconian result. But we are also expected to be fair, even merciful, and most of all, advocate a just resolution, even if contrary to "winning" a case. Griffin Bell could have penned the instruction commonly given by trial judges to juries in federal criminal trials at the close of the evidence, an instruction which admittedly causes Assistant U. S. Attorneys to wince occasionally: The jury need not be concerned with whether the government wins or loses the case because the government always wins when justice is done.
Justice Cardozo in a previous century explained that justice is a concept which is never finished but is always reproducing itself, incrementally, generation after generation in ever changing forms. Griffin Bell grasped this concept like few others in his generation and, in doing so, made an important contribution to the development of the rule of law in this country.
Posted: January 6th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell, Justice Department, Ross Parker


The brewed drink prepared from roasted beans and the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species have grown to worldwide acclaim. Initially the genus Coffea was native to tropical Africa and certain areas like Madagascar, the Comoros, Mauritius; coffee plants are now cultivated in over 70 countries. The two most commonly grown varieties are C. arabica and C. robusta. Once ripe, coffee berries are picked, processed, and dried. Dried coffee seeds or "beans" are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor. Roasted beans are ground and then brewed with near-boiling water to produce the beverage known as coffee.
"The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Gourmet coffee has been in vogue now. They are coffees grown by a specific country which can also refer to a specific grade or region of a country. For example Dejardin Supremo Colombian refers to the region: Dejardin, the grade: Supremo and the country: Colombian.
Regardless of the type, what matters most is how coffee tastes, smells, and whether or not it makes you feel alert and happy. There are quite a lot of different types of coffee beverages with more than thirty on my count with most popular being Cappucino, Cafe au lait, Caffe Americano, Espresso, Mocchacino and Irish Coffee available at most coffee outlets.


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Dwelling Ideas Design Resource Middle was based by Ruth Cross in 1989 as a division of Truckee-Tahoe Lumber Company. Finance is the process of shifting money to when and where individuals need it. For instance this easy level, let's think about the method of financing a car purchase.


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DETROIT � Aaron Hicks hit an inside-the-park home run in the second inning, then added a solo shot over the fence in the sixth to send the New York Yankees to an 8-6 victory over the skidding Detroit Tigers on Friday night.
Hicks came up with a runner on second and hit a drive to right-center that bounced off the wall and past center fielder Leonys Martin. The ball rolled across a vacant area of turf while Hicks circled the bases for the Yankees' first inside-the-park homer since 2011.
He was able to trot home four innings later, when his homer to right cleared the wall by plenty. Hicks also homered twice on April 13 last year, against Tampa Bay.
Mike Fiers (1-1) gave up five earned runs in 5 2/3 innings for the Tigers, who have lost five straight. James McCann and Jeimer Candelario homered for Detroit.
McCann hit a solo home run in the fifth, but Hicks � in only his second game back from a right intercostal strain � made it 6-1 in the sixth with his second homer of the night.
Victor Martinez hit an RBI double in the seventh for Detroit, and he scored on McCann's sacrifice fly. New York scored twice in the eighth, on an RBI single by Ronald Torreyes and a sacrifice fly by Didi Gregorius.