Project Rebound is expanding its program for the formerly incarcerated to eight colleges in California.
With competitive admissions and high tuition costs, getting into college is a stressful event for many high school graduates. For hopefuls who have served time in prison, gaining acceptance into a four-year school is even more challenging.
That's why Project Rebound, an organization based at San Francisco State University, is focused on ensuring the formerly incarcerated have the opportunity to go to college.
While the participants vary, Bell said about 70 percent of the students admitted to Project Rebound over the last two years have been people released early from a life sentence in prison. Most come with a concrete graduation and career plan laid out.
Bell was convicted of attempted murder after he got into a fight at a barbecue when he was 20.
"I never intended to go to prison that day," Bell said. "That 15-minute bad decision changed everything." He was sentenced to 17 years in prison and released after serving half his time.
Officials in California's Department of Corrections often point to the GED program as an all-encompassing educational component, according to Bell, but it doesn't satisfy the needs of everyone involved in the criminal justice system.
"For some reason, people just couldn't process the fact that people who have been to prison want to go to college too," said Bell, who had his high school diploma when he entered prison. With help from Project Round, Bell earned a degree in sociology at San Francisco State University in 2005.
Now, Bell is working with education administrators to expand the program to eight California universities in the fall, including colleges in Sacramento, Fullerton, Pomona, San Bernardino, Bakersfield, Fresno, and San Diego. Cal State L.A. will join the program in the 2017–18 school year, according to Bell. Each on-campus office will include services such as educational counseling, financial aid assistance, and vocational services.
Bell realized it was time to grow Project Rebound when he and his colleagues found themselves struggling to meet an overwhelming demand for assistance. Out of about 200 applicants each year, the San Francisco campus can only accept half because of a lack of funding.
Having the program at only one school has made it especially difficult for people who have limited mobility because of parole restrictions that require them to remain in certain cities or counties for a number of years or that prohibit them from coming into the Bay Area.
With the expansion, Project Rebound will be able to accommodate 10 to 20 additional students in the first year. Bell hopes the number will grow with each year.
As a graduate of the program and its leader for the past 11 years, Bell has witnessed firsthand the long-term benefits of Project Rebound, including decreased rates of recidivism among participants.
California has one of the highest recidivism rates in the country, with roughly 61 percent of released inmates returning to prison within three years of their release, according to the most recent figures from the Department of Corrections. The average recidivism rate for participants of Project Rebound is 3 percent.
It's also cost-effective. Tuition for one year of college through the program is about $6,500 a year. The average cost per healthy individual in a state prison is more than $47,000 annually.
After spending six years working to expand Project Rebound across California, Bell is pleased to see his goals come to fruition. However, the fight to make college more accessible to formerly incarcerated students isn't over.


A brand new Weezer single has just hit the internet so it's time once again for the Surface Noise sub-series Feels Like New Weezer! We welcome comedian and our very own Weezer commentator Matt Harbert back for a discussion on the band's new single 'Mexican Fender' and the news of their upcoming album Pacific Daydream. Is this single a rebound from 'Feels Like Summer'? Or is it a further de-evolution back into Hurley/Raditude territory? Listen and hear our hot takes! We also very briefly touch on the new Brand New album leak. Do you love the new Weezer single? Did you think it was 'just fine'? Reach out to us on Twitter/Instagram at @surfacenoisepod (Richard) and @yckmd_ (Dan) or send us an email at richard@surfacenoisepod.com and let us know.


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RAYLEIGH (O'Tooles)
The area around Rayleigh in Essex had seen Greyhound Racing at two venues before the more established Rayleigh Stadium had been built in 1947. Although these two tracks lasted for a brief spell only, the first encounter is described in this chapter and was known as O'Tooles Meadow. No doubt going off the venue's title, the track may have been just a staked out circuit on farmland. It was situated at the rear of The Woodcutters Public House in Leigh-on-Sea adjacent to Wickford Road or Down Hall Road. It is known that it staged its first meeting during August 1932, and would continue to operate during the following year. It is also known that the venue was used to stage Dirt Track Speedway. No other information is available, but it is thought the site returned to its original status of being just grazing land.
This advert dated August 19th 1932.
This is dated August 26th 1932.

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Children make up nearly a quarter of new COVID-19 cases in Iowa
Tim Webber
Nearly a quarter of all new COVID-19 cases in Iowa are children, state data released Wednesday shows.
Of the 8,308 new cases reported by the Iowa Department of Public Health, 22% were kids — a staggering rate considering historical trends. Typically, kids have made up just 12% of new cases on average.
The sharp increase in pediatric cases comes as school resumes across the state.
Since the start of the school year, Des Moines Public Schools have reported 128 total COVID-19 cases among staff and students, as of Wednesday. Students account for 82 of those cases.
The 8,308 new reported cases across the state average out to 1,187 per day during the past week, the highest that number has been since mid-January.
After increasing through most of August, the rate of vaccine doses administered declined for the second week in a row, even after the Pfizer vaccine won full FDA approval. The state reported about 16,200 Iowans receiving the first dose of any vaccine in the past week, down from about 18,500 in the week prior.
More:Amid COVID surge, Des Moines hospitals reimpose visitor restrictions
The state on Wednesday reported a total of 408,390 coronavirus cases in Iowa since the start of the pandemic.
The state also reported 39 additional deaths from COVID-19 during the past week. There have been 6,307 confirmed COVID-19 deaths in Iowa.
A total of 1,551,098 Iowans, or 49% of Iowa's population, were fully vaccinated as of Wednesday, having received either both doses of a two-dose sequence or one dose of a single-dose vaccine. Another 119,775 Iowans, or 4%, were partially vaccinated with the first dose of a two-dose sequence.
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The latest COVID-19 numbers in Iowa
The latest data, as of 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 1, compared to the previous Wednesday.
Confirmed cases: 408,390, an increase of 8,308
Deaths: 6,307, an increase of 39
Total tested: 1,912,356
Total recovered: 376,954
Statewide 14-day positivity rate: 8.6%
More: COVID-19 hospitalizations in Iowa reach levels last seen in January
How many Iowans are hospitalized with COVID-19?
Hospitalizations: 524, up from 498 one week ago
Patients in ICU: 143, up from 133
Patients on ventilators: 66, up from 51
How many people in Polk and Dallas counties are vaccinated?
In Polk County, 291,237 people, or 59% of residents, have received at least one dose of the vaccine. 266,594 (54%) are fully vaccinated, an increase of 3,338 (0.7 percentage points) since last week.
In Dallas County, 54,919 people, or 59% of residents, have received at least one dose; 50,746 (54%) are fully vaccinated, an increase of 615 (0.7 percentage points).
The five counties in Iowa with the highest percentage of their population fully vaccinated as of Sept. 1 are Johnson (60%), Linn (56%), Boone (55%), Dubuque (54%) and Polk (54%) counties.
For a county-by-county look at the vaccination rollout, see our COVID-19 vaccine tracker, which is updated weekly.
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The large number of variants of modern products imposes big challenges on manufacturers in their organizational and logistics processes. Therefore, many projects follow the aim to reduce the number of variants for a product. It is important, however, that the market demand can still be satisfied.
In this joint project with the Fraunhofer Chalmers Center optimization methods for platform and product families development are applied to the packaging of truck chassis with parts like tanks, spare wheel, battery and tool boxes, etc.
retaining all options demanded by the market like number of axles, total tank volume, ground clearance, etc.


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Charlie Frowd
Professor Charlie Frowd
Professor of Forensic Psychology
School of Psychology and Computer Science
Charlie teaches on various courses within forensic psychology. He is the main lead for the EvoFIT composite system sold to police forces in the UK and overseas.
Charlie teaches on various courses within forensic psychology. His research is mainly around facial composites images. He supervises students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He has published over 70 papers.
Charlie teaches and conducts research within forensic psychology, focusing mainly on facial composite construction and identification. He has developed UCLan's award winning EvoFIT composite system, and trains and supports police in its use. He interviews witnesses and victims of crime.
Charlie is a Chartered Scientist, a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Professor of Forensic Psychology, University of Central Lancashire, 2017
Reader, University of Central Lancashire, 2013
Chartered Scientist, University of Central Lancashire, 2010
Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, University of Central Lancashire, 2009
PhD Psychology, University of Stirling, 2003
M.Sc. Neural Computation. University of Stirling, 1996
B.A. Psychology and Linguistics. University of Wales, 1995
B.Eng. Electronic Engineering. Middlesex University, 1987
BBC Focus award
ESPRC impact award
University Excellence award, UK Trade and Investment event, Tech World
Three nominations with SET for Britain
Praxis-Unico Public Service and Policy Impact award (Shortlisted)
Times Higher award nomination for Research Project of the Year
Facial composite construction and facial identification
Face perception
Cognitive interviewing techniques
Eyewitness memory and performance
Chartered Psychologist
Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
Charlie's primary research area involves improving the quality of facial composites. These are pictures of suspects to crime, which are often seen in the newspapers and on TV crime programmes (see examples here), and are used mainly by the police to identify criminals. The traditional method is for a witness or victim to describe the appearance of a suspect and then to select individual facial features – such as hair, face shape, eyes, nose, mouth – from a kit of parts. These parts are normally assembled together using computer software, or a pencil/crayon if a sketch artist is employed, to produce a composite face. The face is then published in the media to enable the offender to be identified and apprehended. Unfortunately, in spite of considerable research and development, the recognition of composites constructed by this 'feature' approach is poor, even following procedures which mirror real life as far as possible (e.g. Frowd, Carson, Ness, McQuiston, et al., 2005, see list of publications below).
Some progress has been made to understand why such composites are of poor quality (e.g. Frowd, Bruce, McIntyre & Hancock, 2007) and to improve composite identification (e.g. Bruce et al., 2002, on morphing; Frowd, McQuiston-Surrett et al. 2004, on interviewing; Frowd, Bruce, Ross et al., 2007, on caricature; and Frowd et al., 2007, on system). Preprints of these papers are available for download below.
Charlie has been developing a new composite system with Vicki Bruce and Peter Hancock from the University of Stirling. It is called EvoFIT and is based on a holistic face coding scheme and an evolutionary interface. Using this system, witnesses choose from a selection of faces that bear a resemblance to an assailant (a composite is 'evolved' over time by breeding together the selected faces).
In recent experiments, EvoFIT has outperformed other current composite systems (in the most recent realistic study, EvoFIT reached a level of naming roughly twenty times that of a traditional 'feature' type of composite system - details submitted for publication and are available on request (for latest published research see Frowd (2021); other papers are submitted for publication evaluating new techniques which have led to even higher performance).
The system is available for police use. Please contact Charlie for details; we provide police training, workshops and customer support. Charlie is also available to interview witnesses and victims for producing composite images. Examples of EvoFIT composites constructed can be seen on the EvoFIT web site. Please contact Charlie if you would like to use EvoFIT in a criminal investigation or for research -- note that this system has the advantage that a verbal description of the 'target' face is NOT required from the person constructing the face.
Forensic Research Group
Detailed recall of environmental context
Forensic sketch production
Witness interviewing protocols
Self-administered face construction
Enhanced presentation for EvoFIT construction
Visual and cognitive load at face construction
Techniques to improve recognition (naming) of composites
Impact of environmental distraction Mindfulness techniques for face construction
Impact of rapport building
Early recall of environmental context and face
Composite construction involving face masks and accessories
DSTL, 2015-18
BA / Leverhulme, 2015-17
US National Science Foundation, 2012-16
HEFCE and NWDA, 2007-13
British Psychological Society, 2012-13
ESRC, 2011-13
EPSRC, 2009-12
EPSRC, 2006-7
2021: International Association of Craniofacial identification, Liverpool
2021: International Conference on Mindfulness, Aarhus
2019: Emerging Security Technologies, Edinburgh (invited session)
2019: European Conference on Psychology and Law, Santiago de Compostela
2018: BPS Cognitive section conference, Liverpool
2018: European Conference on Psychology and Law, Turku
2017: BPS Annual conference, Brighton (invited talk)
2017: Emerging Security Technologies, Canterbury (invited session)
2017: British Association for Human identification, Manchester
2017: American Psychology Law Society
2017: International Association of Craniofacial identification, Brisbane
2017: European Conference on Psychology and Law, Mechelen
2016: European Conference on Psychology & Law, Nuremberg (session chair)
2016: Attention and Control: Insights from Distraction, Preston (invited talk)
2016: BPS Cognitive section conference, Barcelona (invited workshop)
2016: BPS Annual conference, Nottingham (invited talk)
2016: International Investigative Interviewing Research Group, London British Machine Vision Association conference, London (invited talk)
2016: Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago
2016: American Psychology Law Society: Atlanta
Email:cfrowd1@uclan.ac.uk


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