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The Association of American Law Schools Needs More Political Diversity
In the week that a new organization, Heterodox Academy, was established to press for more ideological diversity in academic life, the learned association in my own profession showed how much it is needed. The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) sent around a notice of its prospective annual meeting, highlighting its most prominent speakers. Of the thirteen announced, none is associated predominantly with the Republican party, but eleven are associated with the Democratic Party. Many are prominent liberals. None is a conservative or libertarian.
Five are judges, including Stephen Breyer, all appointed by Democrats. Another is the incoming Senate leader of the Democrats. Three others contributed predominantly to Democrats. One for whom no contributions could be found held a fund raiser for President Obama. Another worked for the Democratic side of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment of President Clinton.
It is true that Michael Bloomberg is also speaking. He has been at various points a Democratic and a Republican and is now an independent. Perhaps the AALS thought that a single person could create diversity through his many political avatars! But seriously, Bloomberg, who has crusaded for gun control and limitations on permissible ounces in a sugary soda, does not resemble a conservative or libertarian. He ran as a Republican in 2001 for Mayor of New York City because it was the nomination he could acquire.
Now my point is not to disparage the highlighted speakers. They are all eminent men and women. Some have even taken positions friendly to ordered liberty. Deborah Rhode has made excellent arguments for the deregulation of the legal profession. But when everyone shares largely convergent premises, intellectual discourse is stunted. And the lack of diversity is particularly embarrassing in the legal academy. As Professor Nicholas Rosenkranz of Georgetown Law School has observed about the homogeneity in law schools:
it is a fundamental axiom of American law that the best way to get to truth is through the clash of zealous advocates on both sides. All of these law professors have, in theory, dedicated their lives to the study of this axiomatically adversarial system. And yet . . . . on most of the important issues of the day, one side of the debate is dramatically underrepresented, or not represented at all.
And in my experience many of the panels at the AALS reflect the same lack of political diversity as the highlighted speakers. Indeed, the Federalist Faculty Convention, which is held at the same time as the AALS, assembles panels with a wide range of viewpoints that are more fruitful and entertaining.
The obliviousness of the AALS to need for political diversity stands in stark contrast to its relentless push for gender, racial, and ethnic diversity. Harvey Mansfield once noted that diversity in academics often approximates that in the famous Coca Cola commercial—a group of people from all over the world singing in happy harmony. For discussion of law, however, dissonant chords would create more memorable music.
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Trump, Tocqueville, and American Democracy
Carson Holloway
Trump in some ways represents democracy's unsightly and dangerous tendencies, but in other ways he represents just what it needs.
The Jurisprudence of Multiculturalism is a Jurisprudence of Obfuscation
Free Association, Not Safe Spaces, on Campus


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NASA Climate Change Multimedia & Apps Help Us Understand Perspectives, Issues, Stakes
By: David Russell Schilling | August 12th, 2015
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NASA, despite congressional attempts to quash scientific research about the earth's climate, has come out with a large number of multimedia presentations to help people understand what's happening to sea ice, sea levels, carbon dioxide levels, global temperatures, and more.
First up is NASA's Global Climate Change, Vital Signs for the Planet, also known as the Climate Time Machine presentation, which requires a one-time download of an app to run the presentation. Visit NASA for more featured interactive presentations including:
Eyes on the Earth
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Next, Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL) has released an iPhone app, "Earth Now," to show users vital statistics about the earth in hopes of providing a foundation for understanding issues at work in climate change.
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NASA has released an iPhone app, "Images of Change," that shows the stark contrast between images of earth just a few years or decades ago versus today.
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NASA has created a game called "Offset," in which players work to slow the pace of global warming through learning about the carbon cycle, alternative energy, reforestation, and more.
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Finally, NASA has produced what would seem to be an unassailable list of organizations which, when taken together, should leave no doubt about the reality of anthropogenic global warming.
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Actor Nick Cannon helps San Diego-based civil rights group celebrate new home
The People's Alliance For Justice, a civil rights group, opened its headquarters with a ribbon-cutting ceremony that included Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, celebrity Nick Cannon, shown here greeting families, and the Rev. Shane Harris, the group's founder.
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The People's Alliance for Justice, helmed by the Rev. Shane Harris, opens its headquarters in the Skyline neighborhood
By Charles T. ClarkColumnist
With the help of hundreds of community members, a drum-line, some barbecue and one of San Diego's homegrown celebrities, a relatively new civil rights organization firmly established its roots in San Diego Saturday afternoon.
The People's Alliance for Justice, a nonprofit founded by San Diego-based activist the Rev. Shane Harris, unveiled the organization's new headquarters in southeastern San Diego, just a block away from Skyline Hills Library. The new site features office space, plenty of parking and a large meeting room.
Adding star power to the occasion was Nick Cannon, a San Diego native who's gained a large national following as an actor, advocate and host of highly-watched shows like "America's Got Talent" and "The Masked Singer."
The event also served as an opportunity for the People's Alliance for Justice to honor Assemblywoman Shirley Weber and several other community advocates, as well as introduce people to some of the group's initiatives related to criminal justice, police reform, education and the foster care system.
"We're going to celebrate this grand opening, but the work continues after this," Harris told the crowd Saturday. "The real work begins."
San Diego, CA_9_21_19_|The People's Alliance For Justice, a civil rights group, opened their headquarters with a ribbon-cutting ceremony including celebrity Nick Cannon, left, assemblywoman Shirley Weber, center and and Reverend Shane Harris, who founded the People's Alliance for Justice, holding the scissors.
The highlight of the luncheon was a conversation with Cannon, as more than a hundred residents piled into a room to hear the entertainer's thoughts on a variety of social justice issues and topics important to the black community.
One topic that drew a lot of intrigue from the crowd focused on supporting black entrepreneurship and building economic opportunity in black communities.
Cannon, who grew up in San Diego's Lincoln Park neighborhood and graduated from Monte Vista High School in Spring Valley, said it's important to invest money back into the community and local businesses, and it's crucial for those who have resources to look for ways to offer opportunities to others rather than just moving out of certain neighborhoods.
"People think about making the money and moving outside. ... 'I've got to make it out of the hood,'" Cannon said. "We have to shift that mentality. Instead of trying to make it out of the hood, you've got to make the hood. It really becomes about building a home."
Cannon, who is currently pursuing his bachelor's degree at Howard University, also spoke about the importance of education.
He said he's a big advocate for higher learning, but there are a lot of ways to get educated, noting he's met people who've been pursuing secondary degrees while visiting prisons. He added the bottom line is to find the path that's best for you, and education is one of the few things a person can get that can never be taken away.
"Education is true wealth," said Cannon."However you get that education is up to you."
The importance of voting was also a topic residents asked Cannon about.
Cannon, who participated in some get-out-the-vote efforts for President Barack Obama, said he has mixed feelings about national elections, but there's a ton of value in focusing on local and state offices.
"Local government is the most important thing," Cannon said. "Voting is effective locally. ... Know your local leaders, know your local community activists, those are the politicians that truly matter."
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Charles Clark is a columnist for The San Diego Union-Tribune, where he writes about how identity intersects with civic life and local news in San Diego from politics and business to arts, sports and entertainment.
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Mothers: the first environment
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ecosystem contamination
Katsi Cook
Vol 13, No.4
Women Healthsharing
This article discusses the reproductive health effects of industry resulting in toxic contaminants in the air, water, soil and food chain. Shows how communities can respond with the example of the resistance of Mowhawk women and The Akwesasne Mother's Milk Project.
Canadian Women's Health Network
http://www.cwhn.ca/sites/default/files/PDF/Healthsharing/1993_Healthsharing_Vol_13_No_4_Winter_Spring.pdf
2011 bottled water scorecard
Discrimination en raison de l'âge
Environmental illnesses
Preuve de santé
Nneka Leiba
Sean Gray
Jane Houlihan
Report on EWG's survey of 173 unique bottled water products that found a few improvements over their 2009 Bottled Water Scorecard. Also found that there are still "too many secrets and too much advertising hype." Discovered that 18 percent of bottled waters failed to list the source, and 32 percent disclosed nothing about the treatment or purity of the water.
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The gendered health effects of chronic low-dose exposures to chemicals in drinking water
Drugs in water
National Network on Environment and Women's Health (NNEWH)
Susanne Hamm
With contributions by Troy Dixon, Bryony Halpin, Pat Hania, Laila Harris, Jyoti Phartiyal, Mary Rollins-Lorimer, and Anne Sabourin
With input from Dr. Dayna Nadine Scott, Director, NNEWH, and the Women & Water Steering Committee
National Network on Environments and Women's Health
Presents the results of research examining drinking water data in five case studies spanning communities across the country. The data was examined in the context of emerging epidemiological evidence on low-dose exposures and their potential health effects during key developmental and reproductive life stages that can create "windows of vulnerability" with a distinctly gendered character. Confirms that for Canadians, the quality of your drinking water, from a long-term health perspective, depends on where you live.
National Network on Environments and Women's Health
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Full circle: drugs, the environment and our health (Chapter 9 of The Push to Prescribe: Women & Canadian Drug Policy)
Sharon Batt
Women's Press (Now owned by Canadian Scolar's Press)
The Push to Prescribe: Women & Canadian Drug Policy discusses the complexity surrounding women and pharmaceuticals and uses the best evidence to argue for changes that better reflect women's needs in public health policy and that ensure those who are best suited to make these determinations are included in policy-making.
This chapter looks from a public health perspective at the trace amounts of pharmaceuticals and personal care products that have been detected in Canadian water, with particular attention to women's relationship to this issue.
The Push to Prescribe, edited by Anne Rochon Ford and Diane Saibil and published by Women's Press, is available at your local bookstore or can be ordered online at www.cspi.org.
This chapter is being made available by National Network on Environments and Women's Health. Please note that this chapter is for individual use only and distribution is prohibited.
Available online only.
http://www.womenandwater.ca/pdf/Push%20to%20Prescribe%20Ch%209.pdf
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Women and water
The National Network on Environments and Women's Health
A website that seeks to contribute to the dialogue around Canadian water policy through water research that affects women and their health. Women have historical and traditional ties and spiritual relationships with water. In this way, water is of central importance to health broadly-defined (i.e. not just physical health). However, often women are not specifically studied or physical effects on women are measured in relation to the health of their unborn and new babies. This website will explore the gendered risks to women in a country where access to safe water is often taken for granted.
www.womenandwater.ca
Aboriginal women, water and health: reflections from eleven First Nations, Inuit, and Métis grandmothers
Aboriginal women
First Nations women
Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence (PWHCE)
Kim Anderson
Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence & Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women's Health
Presents the reflections of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Grandmothers from different regions of Canada and different Indigenous nations. Explores the diversity as well as the commonalities among Aboriginal women and their relationships with water.
Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence
Contact their office to order a copy. Also available online. Also available from the Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women's Health.
ISBN # 978-1-897250-32-7
http://www.pwhce.ca/pdf/womenAndWater.pdf
Women and Water in Canada: The significance of privatization and commercialization trends for women's health
Gender-based analysis
Examines contemporary pressures to move towards the privatization and commercialization of water services and delivery in Canada and evaluates the gendered health implications for women that would flow from these choices.
Contact their office to order a copy
http://www.womenandwater.ca/pdf/NNEWH%20water%20privatization.pdf
http://www.cwhn.ca/PDF/NNEWH_Water_Privatization.pdf
The significance of privatization and commercialization trends for women's health
Women and Health Care Reform
Available on line.
Signy Gerrard
Vol.12 No.1
Fall/Winter 2009/2010
Outlines the research being done by the National Network on Environments and Women's Health (NNEWH) on women's relationship to our most essential resource. The author looks at the NNEWH's website www.womenandwater.ca , a research initiative on women and water in Canada exploring Canadian water issues and the implications for women's health.
Contact office to order a copy. Also available online
http://www.cwhn.ca/en/node/42068
Boil water advisory mapping project: an exploration and review of available data
Harpa Isfeld
Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence and National Network on Environments and Women's Health
Describes the Boil Water Advisory data and its limitations for the current Women and Water research, in order to build a foundation for future work.
Project # 193
http://www.pwhce.ca/pdf/boilWater.pdf
http://www.womenandwater.ca/pdf/NNEWH%20BWA.pdf
http://www.cwhn.ca/PDF/Boil_Water_Advisory_Mapping_Project%28Natioanal_Network_on_Environments_and_Womens_Health%29.pdf
http://www.cwhn.ca/PDF/Boil_Water_Advisory_Mapping_Project%28Pairie_Womens_Health%29.pdf


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WIREs Energy and Environment / All Issues / Vol 4 Issue 4 (July 2015)
Electricity (in)accessibility to the urban poor in developing countries
Rozita Singh, Xiao Wang, Juan Carlos Mendoza, Emmanuel Kofi Ackom
DOI: 10.1002/wene.148
More than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas. The difficulties involved in providing new urban residents with a wide variety of services reveal a new face of poverty, one in which urban communities cannot access or afford basic modern energy services for their development and empowerment. As an enabler of development processes, access to electricity in urban and peri‐urban contexts plays a key role in providing possibilities and solutions to the urban poor. Energy poverty is no longer a rural‐only phenomenon, and a concerted effort is needed to find solutions. Taking this into account, the Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development (GNESD) initiated the Urban Peri‐Urban Energy Access (UPEA) project in 2006. The objective of this study was to understand the barriers to energy access in the context of the urban poor in seven countries. Barriers from both the supply and demand sides for energy were investigated. Factors such as a lack of institutional coordination, weak alignment between energy policies and urban planning, and insufficient financial and social incentives appear to play key roles in constraining access to electricity for the urban poor. Overcoming these barriers will require innovative solutions in policies, decision‐making, financing, multi‐stakeholder dialogs, social inclusion, international cooperation, and knowledge sharing regarding good practices. WIREs Energy Environ 2015, 4:339–353. doi: 10.1002/wene.148 This article is categorized under: Energy Policy and Planning > Economics and Policy Energy Policy and Planning > Systems and Infrastructure Energy Policy and Planning > Climate and Environment Energy and Development > Systems and Infrastructure
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We're pleased as punch to be returning to The Ark in Ann Arbor, MI this coming Saturday, August 17. We'll be performing with very special guests Lac La Belle. This is an all ages show; doors are at 7:30 pm. You can contact The Ark for advance tickets or pick some up at the door.
We're pleased to announce the release of our new video for the song "Satan's Eye." The video was directed by acclaimed artist Danielle de Picciotto, who has directed videos and concert visuals for a variety of artists including Crime and the City Solution and Einstürzende Neubauten. Check it out and share!
AM plays the Wyandotte Art Fair in Wyandotte, MI this Saturday, July 13 at 7pm. This is our third year playing this festival and every one has been a hoot. It's a free art fair with lots of great artisans, vendors, food, and music. Click here for more info and directions.
Thomas will make his regional film debut tonight with the premier of the film "Becoming Charlie," directed by Andrew Behm. Thomas plays the father of a troubled youth with big dreams.
Screenings are at 6pm, May 8 and 9, at the Dearborn Performing Arts Center.
After a long Winter's sleep, AM will be performing at the Gangplank Records showcase as part of this year's MetroTimes Blowout, on Saturday, May 4 at Go! Comedy in Ferndale, MI. Showtime is 8pm.
We're thrilled to be part of a fantastic bill that includes The Blueflowers, The Barrettes, Touch the Clouds, and The Thornbills.
$20 buys you a 3-day pass to the Ferndale part of the festival, which runs May 2-4. $35 buys a 6-day pass to both the Ferndale and Hamtramck weekend, which runs April 25-27. More ticket info here.


This excellent Citrix CXS-203: XenServer 6.5 Design, Implement and Administer course will fully prepare you to sit the Citrix CXS-203 exam. The Citrix CXS-203 certification will validate your ability to effectively install, configure, administer, and troubleshoot XenServer. In addition, during this Citrix CXS-203 course you'll learn how to configure a Provisioning Services host, and create and manage vDisks in a XenServer environment. This Citrix CXS-203 course will also teach you to configure the Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS) as well as Workload Balancing (WLB), and create and manage Windows virtual machines and the resource pools in which they will be placed.
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No Mouthguard, No play is a petition rapidly gaining traction around Australia as two associations have teamed up to promote the safety of our Aussie sportspeople. The Australian Dental Association and Sports Medicine Australia have teamed up to promote the use of mouthguards in all sports across Australia to minimise the risk of injuries.
Many schools and sports clubs have jumped on board by signing up to the policy.
Let's take a look at why these associations are making it a mission for Aussies nationwide to wear a mouthguard across all sports whether it's a game or training.
The idea of starting this policy stemmed from the thousands of sporting injuries that occur every year which could be avoided or minimised had the person simply been wearing a mouthguard.
From a school or clubs perspective, this policy takes all of the difficulty out of implementing a new policy for the players since the ADASMA have designed the policy to make it simple for them to sign up by simply filling in the blanks of the form.
It's about protecting more than just your teeth. As you are probably aware, mouthguards, particularly those that are custom fitted work to absorb the impact from forceful contact to the face. This will help protect your jaw, mouth and roots of your teeth. No one in sport can predict when they will suffer a blow to the face and it's pretty difficult to minimise the risk of this happening without altering your performance.
Want to see the difference that wearing a mouthguard truly has? Below are the findings of an impact test performed by the Western Sydney University. As you can see even a Boil and Bite guard will play a role in absorbing impact. However for optimal safety and protection our Gameday Pro or Xtreme guard is ideal.
Spending the money on a custom fit mouthguard (or any mouthguard) is significantly cheaper than the cost of an injury. With chipped teeth being one of the cheaper procedures costing around $150. More serious dental injuries such as a knocked out tooth can cost over $4,500. When these sorts of injuries can be so easily protected what is the point of putting yourself at risk of such expenses.
Regular and unavoidable collisions are a given in contact sports such as Rugby, Aussie Rules and MMA. As contact is regular and allowed. The risk of being knocked when going up for a mark, being tackled by other players or punched during a boxing match is significant and chances are, these will all have some kind of impact on your mouth. Even during training injuries are common.
Even if you don't play a contact sport, there is still a significant risk of damaging your teeth. If there's risk of an accidental elbow, ball, puck, fall etc. you are at risk of dental injuries. Why expose yourself or your players to the risk of injuries that could so simply be avoided.
To encourage clubs to jump on board with the No Guard, No Play policy Gameday Mouthguards encourages clubs to partner up with us. We will provide your club with a special discount code to use on all of our mouthguards (excluding our starter guard).
If you haven't already, jump on board with the No Guard, No Play policy. Check out the sign-up form here. For clubs looking for a sponsorship from Gameday Mouthguards send us an email at info@gamedaymouthguards.com.au or give us a call on (03) 9090 7993.
Haven't got your mouthguard for the season yet? Check out our range. Unsure about what guard is right for you, read our blog 'What guard is best for me?'.


For Starbucks district manager Sean Greenlee, conversations over coffee between members of his South Seattle community and law enforcement have changed perceptions of local police.
Since September of last year, Greenlee has worked with stores in his district to host these "Coffee with a Cop" events that bring residents and police together to discuss relevant issues and find common ground. Greenlee's efforts join hundreds of others that have taken place at Starbucks locations and other coffee shops across the country and internationally. Two years ago, Starbucks chairman and CEO Howard Schultz joined Seattle Chief of Police Kathleen O'Toole at a Coffee with a Cop meeting in Seattle and the New York Police Department participated in three gatherings that same year after Schultz championed the program to Police Commissioner William Bratton and Community Affairs Bureau Chief Joanne Jaffe.
On February 17, at a symposium hosted by the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE), Schultz once again joined Seattle Chief of Police Kathleen O'Toole to share the importance of improving trust between police and communities and how Starbucks can play a role in that process. The company announced plans to provide additional support of the Coffee with a Cop program by hosting 100 events across its U.S. stores within the year. Starbucks will partner with NOBLE, the International Association of Chiefs of Police and Major Cities Chiefs Association to kick off the first of these events in five cities, Dallas, Indianapolis, New York, Norfolk, VA and Seattle.
"Starbucks has always served as a gathering place for communities across the country to come together—including law enforcement and the people they serve and protect," says Schultz. "The "Coffee with a Cop" program builds on a tradition that began in our stores and continues to grow each day. We are pleased to host meetings in our stores across the U.S. where police and the community can meet and share experiences to foster greater understanding and empathy."
For Starbucks, the initiative is one of many ways the company is working to bring communities together and create opportunities for all, including open forums with partners (employees) around the country, Military Mondays to engage veterans and connect them with free legal counsel, and in-store job skills training programs for local youth at its new stores in diverse, urban communities like Ferguson, MO and the Englewood neighborhood in Chicago's Southside.
A survey conducted by the Coffee with a Cop organization following 2016 National Coffee with a Copy Day, resulted in 70 percent of residents saying they felt better about their local police after formal conversations with law enforcement and 87 percent would recommend these events to a friend.
Through Starbucks increased commitment to Coffee with a Cop events, the company hopes that more communities will learn about and decide to pursue these forums and feel empowered to connect with local police officers.
Police departments that are interested in hosting a Coffee with a Cop event are encouraged to connect directly with the store manager of their local Starbucks store.