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Ethical Issues Arising When a Lawyer Leaves a Firm: Restrictions on Practice
Restriction on covenants not to compete have been a long-time feature of legal practice. Rules prohibiting law firms from restricting lawyers\u27 ability to practice or imposing penalties on lawyers that leave a firm attempt to balance the law firm\u27s interest in survival in a competitive market with the countervailing interests of attorney mobility, and protecting clients\u27 choice of counsel. Restrictions on covenants not to compete should be vigorously enforced, and the exception that allows for the forfeiture of retirement benefits by attorneys that choose to leave a firm should be narrowly applied to only those funds to which the departing attorney is not already entitled
Ethical Issues Arising When a Lawyer Leaves a Firm: Restrictions on Practice
Restriction on covenants not to compete have been a long-time feature of legal practice. Rules prohibiting law firms from restricting lawyers\u27 ability to practice or imposing penalties on lawyers that leave a firm attempt to balance the law firm\u27s interest in survival in a competitive market with the countervailing interests of attorney mobility, and protecting clients\u27 choice of counsel. Restrictions on covenants not to compete should be vigorously enforced, and the exception that allows for the forfeiture of retirement benefits by attorneys that choose to leave a firm should be narrowly applied to only those funds to which the departing attorney is not already entitled
WASP-33: The first delta Scuti exoplanet host star
We report the discovery of photometric oscillations in the host star of the
exoplanet WASP-33 b (HD 15082). The data were obtained in the R band in both
transit and out-of-transit phases from the 0.3-m telescope and the Montcabrer
Observatory and the 0.8-m telescope at the Montsec Astronomical Observatory.
Proper fitting and subsequent removal of the transit signal reveals stellar
photometric variations with a semi-amplitude of about 1 mmag. The detailed
analysis of the periodogram yields a structure of significant signals around a
frequency of 21 cyc per day, which is typical of delta Scuti-type variable
stars. An accurate study of the power spectrum reveals a possible
commensurability with the planet orbital motion with a factor of 26, but this
remains to be confirmed with additional time-series data that will permit the
identification of the significant frequencies. These findings make WASP-33 the
first transiting exoplanet host star with delta Sct variability and a very
interesting candidate to search for star-planet interactions.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figures. Revised version accepted for publication in A&A
Letter
The effects of moderately fast shellular rotation on adiabatic oscillations
We investigate adiabatic oscillations for delta Scuti star models, taking
into account a moderate rotation velocity ~100 \km/s. The resulting oscillation
frequencies include corrections for rotation up to second order in the rotation
rate including those of near degeneracy. Effects of either a uniform rotation
or a rotation profile assuming local angular momentum conservation of the form
Omega=Omega(r) on oscillation frequencies are compared. As expected, important
differences (around 3 microHz) are obtained in the and mixed mode regions.
For higher frequency p modes, differences range between 1 microHz and 3
microHz. Such differences are likely to be detectable with future space
missions such as COROT, where precisions in frequency around 0.5 microHz will
be reachable.Comment: A&A, in press (18 pag, 14 fig
The Politics of Planning for Urban Redevelopment: Strategies in the Manipulation of Public Law
In this article Professors Plager and Handler examine the influence of legal process upon decision making in municipal redevelopment. Their thesis is that public acceptance of a redevelopment venture depends primarily on the command of political and planning skills and occurs despite rather than because of legal procedures designed to accommodate principles of democracy. Partly through the method of a case study of recent data collected from one municipality, partly by comparative analysis with other studies, they conclude that the reality of decision making in the region they explore is the predominance of informal power over formal, democratic, legal decision-making devices
The Politics of Planning for Urban Redevelopment: Strategies in the Manipulation of Public Law
In this article Professors Plager and Handler examine the influence of legal process upon decision making in municipal redevelopment. Their thesis is that public acceptance of a redevelopment venture depends primarily on the command of political and planning skills and occurs despite rather than because of legal procedures designed to accommodate principles of democracy. Partly through the method of a case study of recent data collected from one municipality, partly by comparative analysis with other studies, they conclude that the reality of decision making in the region they explore is the predominance of informal power over formal, democratic, legal decision-making devices
Discovery and analysis of p-mode and g-mode oscillations in the A-type primary of the eccentric binary HD 209295
We have discovered both intermediate-order gravity mode and low-order
pressure mode pulsation in the same star, HD 209295. It is therefore both a
Gamma Doradus and a Delta Scuti star, which makes it the first pulsating star
to be a member of two classes.
The star is a single-lined spectroscopic binary with an orbital period of
3.10575 d and an eccentricity of 0.352. Weak pulsational signals are found in
both the radial velocity and line-profile variations, allowing us to show that
the two highest-amplitude Gamma Doradus pulsation modes are consistent with l=1
and |m|=1.
In our 280 h of BVI multi-site photometry we detected ten frequencies in the
light variations, one in the Delta Scuti regime and nine in the Gamma Doradus
domain. Five of the Gamma Doradus frequencies are exact integer multiples of
the orbital frequency. This observation leads us to suspect they are tidally
excited. Results of theoretical modeling (stability analysis, tidal excitation)
were consistent with the observations.
We could not detect the secondary component of the system in infrared
photometry, suggesting that it may not be a main-sequence star. Archival data
of HD 209295 show a strong ultraviolet excess, the origin of which is not
known. The orbit of the primary is consistent with a secondary mass of M > 1.04
Msun indicative of a neutron star or a white dwarf companion.Comment: 18 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, shortened
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Challenges for stellar pulsation and evolution theory
During the last few decades, great effort has been made towards understanding
hydrodynamical processes which determine the structure and evolution of stars.
Up to now, the most stringent constraints have been provided by helioseismology
and stellar cluster studies. However, the contribution of asteroseismology
becomes more and more important, giving us an opportunity to probe the
interiors and atmospheres of very different stellar objects. A variety of
pulsating variables allows us to test various parameters of micro- and
macrophysics by means of oscillation data. I will review the most outstanding
key problems, both observational and theoretical, of which our knowledge can be
improved by means of asteroseismology.Comment: Invited talk presented at the JENAM 2008 Symposium No.4
"Asteroseismology and stellar evolution", eds. S. Schuh and G. Handler.,
Communications in Asteroseismology, 159, in press; 11 pages, 1 figur
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