Let the Sun Shine on the Supreme Court

Though the Supreme Court allows public attendance and print media coverage of argument sessions, Supreme Court Justices have long been reluctant to allow news cameras into the courtroom. Justice David Souter famously stated, The day you see a camera come into our courtroom it\u27s going to roll over my dead body. This essay, originally presented as part of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly Volume 34 Symposium: Cameras in the Court, traces the history of cameras in the courtroom and the Justices\u27 various reasons to oppose their entry. The essay argues that it is in the Supreme Courtroom that the law of the land is made. When the Court argues about how the next President is selected, whether a woman can choose to have an abortion, whether a detainee may be held in custody for the rest of his life, or whether the government will take the threat of global warming seriously, the public has a right to be there. The essay concludes that there is no cogent reason to deny the public a window into the high court

In Praise of Open Windows

Motro calls for an open-window revolution, in which Americans reduce their constant use of carbon polluting air conditioning, open the windows, and let the sun shine in

Let the sun shine: Optimal deployment of photovoltaics in Germany

The widespread use of subsidies in the form of feed-in tariffs to foster the di¤usion of photovoltaics is recently being rediscussed in several countries. However, the difficulty to target tariffs may create a misalignment between protability and installed capacity of panels. Our analysis tackles this issue. First, we set a discrete choice investment model with feed-in tariffs. Second, on the basis of that microeconomic model, we calculate optimal trajectories of feed-in tariffs and installed capacity that minimize subsidy costs for the government. The model is calibrated to study the diffusion process of photovoltaics in Germany and to simulate its future developments, showing distortions with respect to the optimal deplyoment path in terms of feed-in tariffs, installed capacity and cost trajectories

Let the Sun Shine In: Promoting Civic Engagement with Sunshine Week

Sunshine Week is a national effort to promote the importance of open government and freedom of information. Although originally begun as a news media initiative, it has grown to include community groups, libraries, schools, governments, and others who are committed to civic engagement and access to information. For academic libraries, Sunshine Week offers opportunities for forge collaborations with campus and community partners, and to connect programming with broader student learning goals. This chapter makes the case for Sunshine Week as a mechanism for bringing together campus and community groups around issues of common concern, either as a standalone effort or as part of a broader program focused on civic engagement. It features a partnership between the library, journalism program and donors at New Mexico State University, but includes ideas and resources that are transferable to other settings

Let the sun shine : Exploring explicit and implicit preferences for bright, sunny and natural environments

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Let the sun shine in: effects of ultraviolet radiation on invasive pneumococcal disease risk in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

BACKGROUND: Streptococcus pneumoniae is a common cause of community acquired pneumonia and bacteremia. Excess wintertime mortality related to pneumonia has been noted for over a century, but the seasonality of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) has been described relatively recently and is poorly understood. Improved understanding of environmental influence on disease seasonality has taken on new urgency due to global climate change. METHODS: We evaluated 602 cases of IPD reported in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, from 2002 to 2007. Poisson regression models incorporating seasonal smoothers were used to identify associations between weekly weather patterns and case counts. Associations between acute (dayto- day) environmental fluctuations and IPD occurrence were evaluated using a case-crossover approach. Effect modification across age and sex strata was explored, and meta-regression models were created using stratum-specific estimates for effect. RESULTS: IPD incidence was greatest in the wintertime, and spectral decomposition revealed a peak at 51.0 weeks, consistent with annual periodicity. After adjustment for seasonality, yearly increases in reporting, and temperature, weekly incidence was found to be associated with clear-sky UV index (IRR per unit increase in index: 0.70 [95% CI 0.54-0.91]). The effect of UV index was highest among young strata and decreased with age. At shorter time scales, only an association with increases in ambient sulphur oxides was linked to disease risk (OR for highest tertile of exposure 0.75, 95% CI 0.60 to 0.93). CONCLUSION: We confirmed the wintertime predominance of IPD in a major urban center. The major predictor of IPD in Philadelphia is extended periods of low UV radiation, which may explain observed wintertime seasonality. The mechanism of action of diminished light exposure on disease occurrence may be due to direct effects on pathogen survival or host immune function via altered 1,25-(OH)2-vitamin-D metabolism. These findings may suggest less diminution in future IPD risk with climate change than would be expected if wintertime seasonality was driven by temperature

Transcript for Episode 22: Let the Sun Shine In: Constitutional Open Government & the Public\u27s Right-to-Know

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The Address on Umueri Airport City Project: A Template for Leadership in Nigeria

In one of the episodes of his incisive and critically acclaimed public affairs commentary series, Common Sense, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce of Bayelsa State conducted a performance evaluation of governors in Nigeria in which he placed Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State at the top bracket. Bruce concluded the episode with the recommendation that other State governments should emulate Anambra by striving for self-sufficiency towards departing from what has been referred to as babiyala syndrome of Nigeria federalism. By uncanny coincidence on April 11, 2017, as the sun let its light shine in a peculiar display of its kaleidoscopic effulgence from the centre of our solar system, Governor Obiano prayed that God should bless the shining light that Anambra people bear as he addressed the State on the proposed Umueri Airport City Project. The paper subjected the words, inferences and essence of the address to critical analysis from various perspectives of leadership, good governance and development studies; it discussed leadership and its capacity to motivate people towards striving for excellence and, ultimately, the achievement of collective goals. In concluding, the paper held that the address is: (1) pivotal in the affairs of Anambra State especially given the realities of the current economic recession; (2) a powerful wakeup call on the people of the State urging them to let the light of their entrepreneurial and can-do spirit shine towards economic emancipation of the people and the State; and (3) a template that governors of other States, especially those who are obviously not performing effectively, should adopt and adapt towards efficiency and effectiveness in leadership and governance at the subnational level of Nigeria.Key Words: Can-do spirit, self-sufficiency, economic diversification, Build- Operate-Manage-and-Transfer, babiyala federalis

Letter from J[ulia] M[errill] Moores to John Muir, [ca. 1870\u27s].

King Death.King Death was a rare old fellow! He sat where no sun could shine; And he lifted his hand so yellow, And poured out his coal-black wine. Hurrah! for the coal black wine!There came to him many a Maiden, Where eyes had forgot to shine; And widows with grief [illegible] laden, For a draught of his sleepy wine. Hurrah! for the coal-black wine! The Scholar left all his learning; The Poet his fanced woes; And the Beauty her bloom returning Like life to the fading rose. Hurrah! for the coal-black wine!All came to the royal old fellow Who laughed till his eyes dropped brine, 00856[Page 2]So he gave them his hand so yellow And pledged them in Deaths black wine Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! for the coal-black wine!If this is not the one – let me know – and & I will try again – but I think I am right this time. The direction on the yellow envelope is written by Charles’ Aunt Kate So I send it. Merrill sends his love – he is going to Danville Ill. to visit his cousins for a fort night after school is over. Good night J.M. MooresChar. remarks, that “That Cornwall don’t know much about [underlined: punctuality] – He gets his exclamations wrong.

“The Cloud of Unseeing”: Myths Transformed and Pseudo-scientific Interpretations of the Book of Genesis

This paper, delivered at the Tolkien Seminar (Kalamazoo, MI) on May 9, 2018, traces the potential influence of popular late 19th-century Biblical commentaries on the Book of Genesis on Tolkien\u27s post Lord Of the Rings cosmologies, in particular the problem of the creation of the Sun and Moon