Last Will and Testament of John Shank, July 1852

This document is the last will and testament of John Shank, a resident of Troup County, Georgia. It is dated July 22, 1852 and details his wishes for the division of his property (including several enslaved people) after he passes.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/fullercollection/1000/thumbnail.jp

Promissory Note to John A Shank from The LaGrange Banking and Trust Company, March 1879

Document for a loan of $50.00 to John A Shank from The LaGrange Banking and Trust Company. The document is dated March 1, 1879.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/fullercollection/1006/thumbnail.jp

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Navy Acquisition via leasing: policy, politics, and polemics with the Maritime Prepositioned Ships

In recent months, leasing has been prominent in the press in connection with the Air Force's ill-fated attempt to obtain the use of Boeing re-fueling tankers without buying them. Gone from memory is the early 1980's controversial Navy leasing program of Maritime Pre-positioned Ships that had a different result. This paper presents an analysis of the various issues and parties to the very creative and innovative financing on behalf of the Navy's Military Sealift Command. Still in existence today, the 1983 contracts for thirteen TAKX ships were valued at approximately $2.6 billion. While the decision is often framed as a lease versus purchase choice, the facts indicate that the option to purchase was not seen as viable at the time. In hindsight, the TAKX leasing program was successful and cost effective, despite the whirlwind of political commentary and intrigue and the dueling quantitative analyses surrounding it. However, as an unintended (or, perhaps, intended) consequence, laws and policies have since been changed so that leasing is no longer viable for financing military assets. The case presented here considers altering existing laws and regulations to once again permit leasing of military resources.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Foreigners on Texas\u27s Death Row and the Right of Access to a Consul Symposium - Human Rights in the Americas.

Foreign nationals arrested in the United States confront the disadvantage of mounting a criminal defense in several ways. In most cases, they are unfamiliar with U.S. customs, police policies, and criminal proceedings. Although U.S. courts strive to prevent bias against accused based on alienage, discrimination does occur. To minimize the disadvantages experienced by accused foreigners, international law guarantees the right of consular access. Under internationally accepted norms applicable in the United States, an accused foreigner is entitled to contact his home-state consult office for assistance. Furthermore, mere involvement of a consul may encourage local government to follow procedural norms and minimize discrimination against a foreigner. Because a foreigner may be unaware of the right of consular access or afraid to demand it, international norms require police and prosecutors to inform the accused of this right. Death penalty cases call for scrupulous observance of rights. In the United States, a number of procedures specific to capital cases have been devised to ensure the ultimate penalty is not wrongly imposed. International standards for rights have assumed great importance in the era of the United Nations. In this context, the right of consular access assumes a key role. If a foreigner detainee is denied that right, the proceedings may be tainted, and the suspect convicted unjustly. In the United States, the right of consular access is not enforced effectively. This omission leads to substantial injustice. To correct the situation, legislative, administrative, and judicial action should be taken to enforce Article 36 of the Vienna Convention, which encompasses the right of consular access. The United States has long defended the rights of its own nationals when charged with a crime in another country and should comply with the same international standards it seeks to impose on others

Egg: An Extensible and Economics-Inspired Open Grid Computing Platform

The Egg project provides a vision and implementation of how heterogeneous computational requirements will be supported within a single grid and a compelling reason to explain why computational grids will thrive. Environment computing, which allows a user to specify properties that a compute environment must satisfy in order to support the user’s computation, provides a how. Economic principles, allowing resource owners, users, and other stakeholders to make value and policy statements, provides a why. The Egg project introduces a language for defining software environments (egg shell), a general type for grid objects (the cache), and a currency (the egg). The Egg platform resembles an economically driven Internetwide Unix system with egg shell playing the role of a scripting language and caches playing the role of a global file system, including an initial collection of devices.Engineering and Applied Science