Benko v. Quality Loan Serv. Corp. 135 Nev. Adv. Op. 64 (Dec. 26, 2019)

The Court affirmed the district court’s order granting the motion to dismiss and determined that deed of trust trustees engaged in nonjudicial foreclosure would not be required to be licensed. The Court settled the conflicting provisions of NRS 107 governing the nonjudicial foreclosure process and NRS 649 governing agencies engaged in debt collection in Nevada by determining the comprehensive and specific scheme of NRS 107 for deed of trust trustees exercised authority over the generalized nature of NRS 649 governing debt collecting agency licensing requirements for nonjudicial foreclosures.Therefore, under NRS 107 deed of trust trustees are not required to be licensed for nonjudicial foreclosures

Kim v. Dickinson Wright, PLLC, 135 Nev. Adv. Op. 20, 442 P.3d 1070 (Jun. 13, 2019)

The Court reversed the district court’s order granting the motion to dismiss and determined 28 U.S.C. § 1367(d), the statute of limitations for a state-law claim filed in federal court, stops running only while the claim is pending in federal court and for 30 days after the state-law claim’s dismissal. Further, Nevada’s litigation malpractice rule, which does not apply to non-adversarial or transactional representation, or before the attorney files a complaint, tolls a litigation malpractice claim’s statute of limitations until the underlying litigation is resolved and damages are certain, preserving the statute of limitations under NRS 11.207(1) which requires a party to bring an action within 2 years of discovering a cause of action

Association between Adolescent Weapon Carrying and Suicidality: Analysis of the 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey

INTRODUCTION: Adolescence is a period known for risk taking behaviors. Both weapon carrying and suicidality among U.S. youth are growing public health concerns. The goal of this study is to examine the patterns between weapon carrying and suicidality among U.S. high school students using 2015 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). METHODS: Analyses were performed using data from the 2015 YRBS (N=15,624). The sample consisted of students in grades 9-12 (48.7% female and 51.3% as male) Of those surveyed, 54.5% identified as White, 13.6% as African American, 22.3% as Hispanic, and 9.7% as another race/ethnicity. The main exposure variable weapon carrying (carried a weapon in the past 30 days) was analyzed against three outcome variables: suicide ideation (seriously considered suicide in the past 12 months), suicide planning (made a plan to commit suicide in the past 12 months), and suicide attempt (attempted suicide at least once in the past 12 months). Bivariate analysis was used to determine prevalence across the exposure and outcome variables, as well as determine potential covariates. Multivariate logistic regression tables were built to examine the relationship between weapon carrying and the three suicide outcomes, controlling for sex, race/ethnicity, interpersonal violence exposures, alcohol use, drug use, and sad/hopeless feelings. Additionally, adjusted odds ratios were calculated after stratifying by sex. RESULTS: Among 15,624 high school students, 16.2% reported carrying a weapon (knife, club, gun or other) in the past 30 days. Additionally, 5.3% of students reported having carried a gun in the past 30 days, the large majority of which identified as male (85.4%). It was found that 17.7% of the students reported having seriously considered suicide, 14.6% reported having made a plan to commit suicide, and 8.6% had actually attempted suicide; the majority of those who reported suicidality were female. The multivariate logistic regression model found that students who reported weapon carrying were 1.6 times more likely to report serious consideration of suicide than those students who did not report weapon carrying (OR adj =1.61, 95% CI [1.16, 2.24]), 1.77 times more likely to report having made a plan to commit suicide than those students who did not report weapon carrying (OR adj= 1.77, 95% CI [1.23, 2.55]); and 1.5 times more likely to have reported a suicide attempt than those students who did not report weapon carrying (OR adj=1.51, 95% CI [1.08, 2.10]). After stratification, females who carried weapons were 1.8 times as likely to report suicide ideation (OR adj=1.80, 95% CI [1.37, 2.67]), 2.3 times as likely to report suicide planning (OR adj=2.28, 95% CI [1.40,3.73]), and 2.7 times as likely to report suicide attempt (OR adj=2.71, 95% CI [1.52, 3.41]) than those who did not carry weapons. Males who carried weapons were 1.6 times as likely to report suicide ideation than those who did not carry weapons (OR adj=1.55, 95% CI [1.11, 2.18]), and there was not a statistically significant difference between males who carried weapons and those who did not in the suicide planning or attempt models. DISCUSSION: Given the correlation found between weapon carrying and suicidality, future youth suicide prevention programs should consider weapon carrying to be an important factor for youth suicidality and should target adolescents at high risk for weapon carrying. Furthermore, as 5.3% of students reported having carried a gun in the past 30 days, weapon carrying prevention should pay special attention to youth’s access to firearms. Firearms are the most lethal mode of suicide and considering the high prevalence of students already at risk for suicidality, measures should be taken to reduce youth access to firearms

Panel: Current Issues at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Faculty governance is experiencing new pressures as a result of changes in established practices in higher education. As a result of salary compression and inversion and increased workloads and non-optimal working conditions, faculty is seeking alternative ways to impact decision-making in higher education. Union activists on higher education campuses are energized by these efforts as they seek new and comparable salaries for faculty as a result there is a renewed interest in collective bargaining .1 Staff and faculty collective bargaining is heightened by the attention on salary requests. Therefore, faculty unions have kept collective bargaining rights as the nucleus of a national discussion of these issues. The increased dissatisfaction of college and university faculty and staff, that has translated into a heightened level of unionization of higher education faculty. As a matter of fact, because of the heightened attention to higher education faculty unionization, I was elected as a National Education Association (NEA) University and College Director at-Large at the last representative assembly. In fact, my, and the three other College and University Directors –at-Large’s, election was due to the immense growth in faculty unionism

Panel: Current Issues at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Faculty governance is experiencing new pressures as a result of changes in established practices in higher education. As a result of salary compression and inversion and increased workloads and non-optimal working conditions, faculty is seeking alternative ways to impact decision-making in higher education. Union activists on higher education campuses are energized by these efforts as they seek new and comparable salaries for faculty as a result there is a renewed interest in collective bargaining .1 Staff and faculty collective bargaining is heightened by the attention on salary requests. Therefore, faculty unions have kept collective bargaining rights as the nucleus of a national discussion of these issues. The increased dissatisfaction of college and university faculty and staff, that has translated into a heightened level of unionization of higher education faculty. As a matter of fact, because of the heightened attention to higher education faculty unionization, I was elected as a National Education Association (NEA) University and College Director at-Large at the last representative assembly. In fact, my, and the three other College and University Directors –at-Large’s, election was due to the immense growth in faculty unionism

Divination: A Collection of Poetry

This collection contains poetry that I have written during the course of my time at the University of Mississippi. Some of these poems in their first stages were part of my beginning and advanced poetry workshop portfolios. Other poems came from ideas scribbled in my poetry journal that I kept while studying abroad in New Zealand. My advisor and I set a goal of four poems a month for the fall 2005 semester, for a total of sixteen poems. The goal was to have perfected twelve poems for the final collection. I considered trying to conform my poems to a certain pre-determined style or theme, however my advisor encouraged me simply to try to write well. As an unexpected result, my poetry seemed to take on its own structural and thematic tendencies without me having to bend it to match a certain mold. Moreover, at the risk of stating the obvious, I think that much of my poetry stemmed only from bits of actual experience. Many times I found myself taking a feeling and creating a totally foreign situation with the same type of emotion. I noticed some reoccurring ideas in my poetry, among them—relationships and prayer, and scenarios involving the ocean and driving. For me, the title ties these elements together because they all deal with pausing for reflection. I think that my end result is poetry that is tentative at best. During this process I have had a glimpse of how gloriously frustrating it is to write. In the end I have taken from this experience much more than this collection shows in the form of random bits—lines, metaphors, ideas— that were not developed enough to include even in the my very first collection

The Association of Negative Family Processes in Early Adolescence and Health Status and Body Mass Index in Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood

Extant research suggests that negative family processes during adolescence may be detrimental to health over time. Informed by family systems theory and the biopsychosocial perspective, this study examined the association of negative family processes in early adolescence and health status and body mass index in late adolescence and early adulthood. Data from U.S. males and females in two-parent households from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 were examined over a ten year period from early adolescence to early adulthood. Results from logistic regressions and multiple regressions suggest that negative parent-child processes (NPCP) and negative inter-parental processes (NIPP) are associated with elevated risk for poorer health status but are not associated with body mass index. Logistic regressions estimated the association between NPCP and NIPP and youth's risk of very good, good and poor health status, respectively, as compared to excellent health status. Specifically, there is a step function for the association between NPCP and risk for poorer health status in late adolescence and early adulthood, between NIPP and risk for poorer health status in late adolescence and between NIPP and risk for the poorest health status category in early adulthood. Mental health, unhealthy behaviors (tobacco use, marijuana use and alcohol use), and healthy behaviors (i.e. physical activity) partially mediated the association between NPCP and NIPP, respectively, and health status in late adolescence, and mental health and tobacco use (only for NPCP) partially mediated the association with health status in early adulthood. All analyses are independent of race, gender, maternal education, health status in early adolescence, BMI in early adolescence, parental health status, and parental BMI. Moderation by maternal education and implications for public health, future research, programming, and therapy are discussed

Postconflict and conflict behavior in all-male groups of captive western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

I studied male western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in a captive setting in order to determine if post-conflict reconciliation exists in male-male dyads of this species. I also examined conflict itself in order to determine the consequences of housing these males together in all-male groups in captivity. This was accomplished by examining the behaviors of nine male gorillas at the Henry-Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska. Data that I recorded included post-conflict observations, social interactions, and activity budgets. I analyzed the data in order to determine levels of reconciliation, welfare of the population, and comparisons with wild conspecifics. I hypothesized that males in this species would differ from mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei) based on ecological and species\u27 variations: that they would exhibit reconciliation. I rejected this hypothesis. However, lack of observed conflict between those individuals comprising \u27valuable\u27 relationships suggests that further study be done in order to examine whether postconflict reconciliation exists in this type of social setting. Results on conflict itself show that the age of the youngest in a dyad determines the characteristics of that relationship. In particular, affiliation levels all but diminish once the age of the youngest in a dyad reaches twelve years, which is also the approximate silverback transition period for male gorillas. In addition, conflict begins to appear, where it was almost non-existent before, at this critical age. Because male gorillas in the wild generally separate themselves from other adult males around this age (to become solitary or form their own one-male group), it is not surprising, then, that conflict should ensue in captivity where natural emigrations cannot occur. Therefore, I suggest that captive all-male gorilla groups may not form a long-term solution to the \u27surplus\u27 of male gorillas in captivity

Trends in Labor Management Issues at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

The mobilization of workers through unionization has deep historical roots within American society; more so in the northern regions thanin the southern region of this country.Despite these historical roots,some sectors of the American population (i.e., minorities in general and AfricanAmericans in particular) who have experienced various forms of discrimination have not fully participatedin the unionization movement. This is especially true of the faculty in historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). As a result of thevarious forms of discriminationthat not only denied them meaningful participation in the labor market but restricted their economic success, and the segregation that resulted from the stereotypic views of racial minorities, the fact that HBCU faculty do not mobilize effectively on collegecampusthrough unionizationis troubling. In fact, on some HBCUcampuses, faculty have no mechanism to participate in the governance of their own university. With the survival and destiny of HBCUs at stake, HBCU facultymust be proactive and engaged to create their own representative voice