Textile Society of America Newsletter 18:2 — Spring 2006

TSA Symposium Highlights, October 11–14, 2006 Symposium Exhibition President’s Letter TSA News From the Nominating Committee: TSA Board Nominees TSA Member News Featured Collection [Collections of the Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio] Exhibition Reviews [The Katha Collection: Fabricated Tales from Kala Raksha, Artist’s Center, Mumbai, India, March 6–12, 2006] Book Reviews Collections News Calendar-Exhibitions Calendar-Lectures, Workshops Grants Opportunities Calls for Papers Conferences & Symposi

Synapse

This is the Summer, 1997 edition of the ALHeLa newsletter - Synapse. Contents include: President\u27s Column Alabama Health Libraries Association - 1997 Executive Committee Alabama Health Libraries Association Executive committee meeting Regional state health libraries associations to host leadership development round table ALHeLA library student award Annual meeting Internet training for health professionals grant Bylaw/Handbook Issue ALHeLA outreach activity Nominating committee needs your input MASA review Southern chapter 2000 MLA restructures CE program: Part 1 Free MEDLINE! Lister Hill library celebrates! News from university of south alabam

Reforming the Contested Convention: Rethinking the Presidential Nomination Process

The presidential nomination process could be substantially improved through a few minor tweaks that would reduce unnecessary uncertainty, bolster its democratic underpinnings, and improve the connections among its various components. First, certain fundamental rules governing national conventions should be determined well in advance of the presidential nominating process, before any primaries or caucuses are held or delegates selected, and not be subject to change or suspension at the convention itself. Second, parties should enhance the democratic moorings of their national conventions by requiring presidential candidates to win a greater number of presidential preference votes to be placed into nomination. Third, state parties should tie the various components of the presidential nomination process more closely together by adopting a blend of the Democratic and Republican Parties’ current approaches. When a candidate is allotted national convention delegates based on the results of a presidential preference vote, the candidate should have a voice in selecting those delegates, and those delegates in turn should be bound to vote for that candidate, at least during the first round of voting at the national convention

A VIEW FROM THE GROUND: A REFORM GROUP’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE ONGOING EFFORT TO ACHIEVE MERIT SELECTION OF JUDGES

This article describes the history of judicial selection in the state of Pennsylvania. It describes the judicial selection reform movement and the growth of the organization Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts ( PMC ) which devises solutions to meet the various challenges to judicial integrity in Pennsylvania. It focuses on the merit system that PMC has been trying to achieve for Pennsylvania\u27s appellate courts

Lamprey watershed education and outreach

The Lamprey River Nomination Committee sought the assistance of the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership (PREP) to complete an extensive and detailed information package to nominate the Lamprey River and its major tributaries to the NH Rivers Management and Protection Program. The nomination package was due at DES on June 1, 2010, was reviewed and accepted by the State Rivers Management Committee in September and forwarded to the Commissioner of DES. The nomination is now working through the NH legislature with hearings anticipated during the spring 2011 session. If passed, the bill should be signed by Governor Lynch in July of 2011. Assistance from PREP was essential for the completion of a major outreach effort to landowners along the rivers under consideration, communication with each town selec tboard, planning board and conservation commission, and with many partners and organizations throughout the watershe

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