Monitoring Pollution in our Communities: The Clean Air Coalition of Western New York

The Clean Air Coalition of Western New York (CACWNY) is a community health and advocacy group working to ensure local residents’ right to a healthy environment. The group organizes media campaigns, provides resources, and designs programs to help reduce pollution in local communities

CSI Las Vegas: Privacy, Policing, and Profiteering in Casino Structured Intelligence

This Article argues that the intricate, vast amounts of consumer information compiled through casino structured intelligence require greater protection and oversight in the contexts of both bankruptcy and law enforcement. Section II examines the various types of casino technology and information gathering that casinos perform. Section III considers the available protections of private information in terms of security breaches, law enforcement sharing, and sales in the context of a bankruptcy. Section IV discusses additional safeguards and ethical concerns that should be considered as casinos continue to increase their data mining efforts. Finally, Section V concludes that, minimally, consumers are entitled to more candid disclosures and a meaningful opportunity to protect their own privacy

Upoko Tapu, Upoko Whakakapowai, Upoko Hokona

Ngāpuhi, a confederation of Māori iwi (tribes) from Te Tai Tokerau, the northern region of Aotearoa, is the largest iwi of New Zealand. They were one of the first iwi to come into contact with Europeans in the early 19th century. During this period of contact, particularly between the years 1820 – 1831, Ngāpuhi had a devastating impact on the history of Māori, as they amassed a fighting force of some two thousand warriors and acquired the use of European firearms. Ngāpuhi then circumnavigated the North Island, waging war on coastal and inland tribes with the purpose of avenging past defeats and losses suffered at the hands of their traditional enemies. This objective was ultimately achieved, but this period of war also saw the emergence of another key event in Māori history, the beginning of the trade in what we now call toi moko, which were used to trade with Europeans for muskets. Given that Māori have always regarded the head as the most tapu part of the human anatomy, this thesis investigates and explores what effect or influence tikanga and tapu had on this trade. It further studies some of the rationales which allowed Ngāpuhi to override that sacred tradition and move into the trade of toi moko. This thesis argues that Ngāpuhi did not desecrate tapu in the selling and trading of toi moko but took advantage of another long-standing tradition that the tapu of the vanquished ceased to exist upon his death. Lastly, it argues that the trade in toi moko was necessary to ensure the safety and continuity of the Ngāpuhi iwi

An environmental and cultural study at Lake Maryut, Lower Egypt: a research prospectus

African Studies Center Working Paper No. 2

Marea: a Byzantine port in northern Egypt

African Studies Center Working Paper No. 6

New Reform Strategies and Welfare Participation in Canada

Heterogeneous welfare reform policies and timing of those policies among Canadian provinces reveal new information about the roles of different policy tools in accounting for declines in welfare participation. Work requirements, diversion, earnings exemptions, and time limits—referred to as new reform strategies—appear to explain at least 16 percent of observed welfare participation declines from 1994 to 2005, more than eligibility requirements and benefit levels explain. Conservative estimates imply that welfare participation falls by 1.9 percentage points (21 percent relative to mean welfare participation) in provinces and years with stringent combinations of new reform strategies in place.Social Assistance, PRWORA, TANF, Work Requirements, Diversion, Earnings, Exemptions, Time Limits, Natural Experiments

Retiree Health Benefits After Medicare Part D: A Snapshot of Prescription Drug Coverage

Based on employer surveys, assesses how the introduction of the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit affected employer-based retiree, drug, and other health coverage

Decade of Decline: A Survey of Employer Health Insurance Coverage in New York State

Presents findings from a survey of New York-based firms on trends in employer-sponsored coverage during the recession, including offer rates, eligibility, take-up, and coverage rates; premiums; employer and employee costs; and support for reform measures