The Power of Plain Talk: Exploring One Program's Influence on the Adolescent Reproductive Health Field

Launched by the Annie E. Casey Foundation in the early 1990s, Plain Talk is a community-based initiative that seeks to reduce the incidence of teen pregnancy and STDs by improving adult/teen communication about sex. A key component of the program is parental involvementwhich was once seen by many in the adolescent reproductive health (ARH) field as a necessary evil rather than important partnership. To determine if Plain Talk had a positive influence on the field's view of parental involvement, and on a number of other related issues, P/PV conducted interviews with 15 leaders from prominent ARH organizations, first in 2003 and again in 2005. This report compiles the results

Non-thermal emission in the lobes of radio galaxies.

Radio and gamma-ray measurements of radiogalaxy lobes are useful to determine whether emission in these widely separated spectral regions is mainly by non-thermal (NT) electrons. This is of interest as there is yet no proof for a significant emission component from pion decay following NT proton interactions in the ambient lobe gas. An assessment of the hadronic yield needs full accounting of the local (FGL) and background (EBL, CMB) radiation fields in the lobes. Assuming a truncated single-PL electron energy distribution, exact calculation of the emission by NT electrons in the magnetized plasma in the Fornax A lobes leads to the conclusion that its Fermi-LAT emission is mostly IC/GFL: this result weakens earlier conclusions on the hadronic origin of the LAT emission. Similar analyses of the lobe emissions of Cen A, Cen B, and NGC 6251 suggest their measured LAT emissions, too, to be of IC/(EBL, CFGL, CMB) nature. Measured emissions of distant radio-galaxy lobes (3C98, Pictor A, DA240, Cygnus A, 3C326, and 3C236) are currently limited to the radio and X-ray bands: they can give no information on the presence of NT protons, but do trace the properties of NT electrons, and allow calculations of the related IC gamma-ray emission to be performed. The e/B energy density ratios, U_e/U_B, turn out to be in the range ~1-100. The NT proton energy density, U_p, is spectrally constrained to be less than a few tens of eV/cm3. Despite this limit, arguably U_p >> U_e -- as suggested by arguments of lobe internal vs external pressure. Thus the lobes' NT energy budget is likely dominated by particles. Given the low thermal energy densities measured in lobes, NT energy dominance is probably a general feature of lobe energetics

The EFTA Court: An Actor in the European Judicial Dialogue

The vertical dialogue with the national courts of the EEA/EFTA States, in particular the Supreme Courts, has assisted the EFTA Court in developing its case law concerning effect and State liability. Through this jurisprudence, EEA homogeneity in the field of effect and State liability has been maintained. The EEA Main Agreement has been implemented in the domestic legal orders of the EFTA States. EEA secondary law is being implemented in an ongoing process. The same holds true for the rulings of the EFTA Court. There has, to this writer\u27s knowledge, never been a case in which a national court refused to set aside a conflicting rule of domestic law, at least not in a vertical context. That fact is also important from a reciprocity perspective. With respect to the horizontal dialogue with the Community Courts, one must remember that in its Opinion 1/91 on the first version of the EEA Agreement the ECJ struck down a provision according to which the Community courts would have been under an obligation to take into account the case law of the EEA courts. In practice, the Community courts have shown openness in cases in which they agree with the outcome as well as with the reasoning of an EFTA Court decision

The Peacemakers: Navigating the Intersection of Biblical Justice and Contemporary Policing

For Christians seeking to enter the field of policing, the question of justice is answered by two separate sources. Conceptions of justice are presented by both the contemporary justice system and the Bible. The history and current state of American policing reveal a sense of justice that is concerned with fighting crime and defending the rights of the vulnerable. There are, however, inherent limitations when operating within a system made by man. Biblical justice goes further by prioritizing restoration and redeemed relationships within its conception of justice. Reconciling these two perspectives equips Christian police officers with a framework with which they can navigate policing in a way that best glorifies God and effects true justice

The Crescent Student Newspaper, December 8, 1978

Student newspaper of Pacific College (later George Fox University). 8 pages, black and white.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent/1958/thumbnail.jp

The Limits of Lawyering: Legal Opinions in Structured Finance

Significant controversy surrounds the issuance of legal opinions in structured finance transactions, particularly where accountants separately use these opinions, beyond their traditional primary use, for determining whether to characterize the transactions as debt. Reflecting at its core the unresolved boundaries between public and private in financial transactions, this controversy raises important issues of first impression: To what extent, for example, should lawyers be able to issue legal opinions that create negative externalities? Furthermore, what should differentiate the roles of lawyers and accountants in disclosing information to investors? Resolution of these issues not only helps to demystify the mystique, and untangle the morass, of legal-opinion giving but also affects the very viability of the securitization industry, which dominates American, and increasingly global, financing

Girlie

‘Girlie’ was a solo show of paintings in October-November 2008 that commented on the idea of the girlie in popular culture. Historically, the term referred to early pornographic magazines. Contemporary usage of the term is employed by advertisers and is aimed at selling products that sexualise pre-pubescent girls. This exhibition was an attempt to explore the paradoxes that issue from the popular conflation of these two ideas. References to fairy queens, princesses, girlie tattoos, cuddly toys, playboy bunnies and slogans from girlie T-shirts are juxtaposed with patronising and derogatory labels such as bitch, whore, tart, slut etc., so as to draw attention to the persistence of hypocritical moral judgements of women. Not only are these judgements inconsistent with the egalitarian ideals implicit in our democracy but also they endorse distorted conceptions of the boundaries between women and children’s sexuality. At a more formal level, the paintings were intentionally constructed to evoke standard prejudices of painting. That is, the medium of painting is often regarded with disdain and/or is seen as a quaint activity pursued by women (evidence of which can be seen in a review of the show in Art Review, issue no. 29, Jan-Feb, 2009). I wanted to play with these common attitudes by setting up the viewer to assume that the work fits seamlessly with these prejudices. Indeed, I wanted to mock those in the art-world who have little ability or interest in looking at art that is not presented in conventional modes

The Constitutional Convention and Court Merger in New York State

In November 2017, voters in New York, for the first time in twenty years, will be asked to decide whether there “[s]hall be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same?” If it is decided by the electorate to call a convention, “delegates will be elected in November 2018, and the convention will convene in April 2019.” One of the significant goals of a convention would be the achievement of court merger in the Empire State. The purpose of this perspective is to discuss the pros and cons of a constitutional convention with an emphasis on court merger