The BG opened fire on the GO. The GO returned fire, hitting the BG as the GO dove hard for the floor behind some barrels full of ice and drinks.

by off-duty police officer Kenneth Hammond, who held him in position before authorities could arrive

A former police officer from Minnesota named Jeanne Assam was at church when a 24-year-old gunman named Matthew Murray began firing at parishioners in the parking lot.

Assistant Principal Joel Myrick, a U.S. Army Reserve commander

Oct. 1, 1997

is working as a financial analyst, which raises the legal question of her continued standing, and the practical issue: How were you so injured by this inherently subjective process?

Students have been outrageously uncivil; they have overreacted to perceived slights; they have discounted the importance of the open debate that is central to the academic enterprise

they would be more apt to channel compensation into wages instead.

The pledge goes as follows: "I will never bring a gun to school. I will never use a gun to settle a personal problem or dispute. I will use my influence with friends to keep them from using guns to settle disputes. My individual choices and actions, when multiplied by those of young people throughout the country, will make a difference. Together, by honoring this pledge, we can reverse the violence and grow up in safety."

investigating as an act of terrorism.

classroom reforms face the biggest obstacles in schools with large numbers of low-income kids and students of color. In the past 10 years, the per-student funding gap between rich and poor schools has grown by 44 percent.

This means schools can ditch some standardized tests for things such as evaluations of student work and parent surveys

The gaps in math and reading for African American and Latino students shrank far more dramatically before No Child Left Behind—when policies focused on equalizing funding and school integration, rather than on test scores.

One facet of the new Second Amendment test, the dissenters complained, was that it applied the Second Amendment only to the kind of arms that were common at the time the Second Amendment was ratified — that is, in 1791.

Justice Clarence Thomas, joined in dissent by Justice Antonin Scalia

machine guns

machine guns

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But on Wednesday, UT Austin spokesman J.B. Bird said that the campus is not “open to outside groups for assembly, speech, or other activities.”

Demonstrators reportedly changed the starting location of the mock shooting at the last minute to stimulate the unpredictable nature of real mass shootings.

should not be our focus as a party.  Instead our focus should be on issues such as the economy, government fiscal accountability, trade, national security, and jobs.

Teachers should be paid in a way that matches their skill and criticality to our society.

We believe there must be real comprehensive healthcare reform, which includes physician accountability, elimination of junk medical lawsuits, quality of care, reduced cost, and adequate coverage.  Reducing healthcare costs is the first priority for making healthcare affordable for everyone

The Reform Party calls for the repeal or revision of current trade agreements.  America’s elected leaders have a primary responsibility to assure that American citizens’ economic security takes priority in any trade policy decision.

s fundamentally fair,

Everyone defines racism differently, you might be over reacting.

“Unfortunately, even though people don’t want to hear it because a lot of what he says is inflammatory toward certain groups, it is the truth, because we have a massive problem.”

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The completeness of a Portable Web Publication has a significant role to play in this respect: combined with archiving it provides means to store the content offline, making it appropriate for archival purposes.

highly dynamic and possibly interactive Web Publications as primary content, the traditional means of archiving (i.e., storing an XML or HTML page on some backup device for long term preservation) is no longer adequate

dedicated institutions like national libraries

The judges also did not seem convinced by a short series of First Amendment arguments made against the rules.

He specifically pointed to traffic that is "time sensitive" such as a video live stream, which could be reasonably prioritized. He used the analogy of a railroad charging extra money for a railcar that also includes refrigeration

Stephen Williams, a Reagan appointee, seemed most resistant the FCC's argument.

"I couldn't find it in the order," Tatel said

injunction handing over the MovieTube site to the MPAA

However, a German museum argues that photographs of public domain artworks don't fall under public domain license, because the photographs themselves fall under normal copyright law.

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white supremacists are actually more dangerous to America than foreign terrorists.

God et. al.

Common hussies need not apply.

but Republicans raised it up the flagpole and the governor’s office pushed back, saying it did include sufficient reforms,

The working group had started as a group of female legislators, then broadened to include male lawmakers.

“allow (but not require) all school districts to bargain over 3rd party contracting, layoffs, class size, school year & technology (like CPS).”

bicameral

William Gibson has famously said that “the future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.” With the digital humanities we have the opportunity to distribute that future more evenly. We have the opportunity to distribute knowledge more fairly, and in greater forms.

5,000-tweet conference backchannel edited into the official proceedings of the conference backchannel.

I can imagine mobile publishing, using smartphones and GPS

I can image MLA Singles, one-off pieces of downloadable scholarship following the Kindle Singles model.

I can imagine greater emphasis placed upon digital projects as tenurable scholarship

I can imagine greater support of peer-to-peer review as a replacement of blind review

Illinois Policy Institute

Speaker Madigan, balancing the budget with specific additional taxes/revenue details; Leader Durkin, the need for reform before revenue; President Cullerton, overall spending levels, pension reform and Chicago’s financial crisis; Leader Radogno, economic reforms to improve the jobs climate like workers’ compensation reform; and I will focus on term limits, redistricting reform and local control of costs and property taxes

No changes to the Title I funding formula along the lines of what the Senate passed that would steer a greater share of the funds to districts with high concentrations of kids in poverty

does include a pilot project allowing districts to try out a weighted student funding formula, which would also essentially function as a backpack of funds for kids

No Title I portability—that means that federal funds won't be able to follow the child to the school of their choice

his state should be the first to pay for comprehensive health care for residents.

House Majority Leader Dave Reed (R., Indiana)

The company uses a clause that assigns the copyright for any review customers might write to the company. Then, when the company finds a review it doesn’t like, it files a DMCA notice to take the content down.

“It's clear we need major workers' compensation reform if we want to grow manufacturing jobs in Illinois,” she said in an email.

bad for child care

the Majority wants to politicize this issue

he warned that the result might look different if the analysis was at the level of U.S. counties, rather than U.S. states. An analysis at the level of counties, he suggested, might reveal a rural-urban divide in whites’ implicit racial bias levels that a coarser state level analysis can’t tease out.

Packer found that states with higher implicit bias scores had more racist tweets

Illinois was one of 16 states in which low-income families were “worse off” over the year, meaning there was less access to assistance and/or fewer benefits from assistance, the report found.

It was announced Thursday that all graduate students at MU with assistantships will receive full tuition waivers for the 2016-17 academic year, reversing a decision made in June

Regardless of whether we are approving of this method of getting action,

get a sheepskin

At City Colleges, officials tell us the graduation rate has doubled in the last five years, from 7 to 14 percent, but that’s based on narrow federal guidelines that exclude part-time students and those who are re-enrolling in college—a whooping 95 percent of the system’s total student population.

or theleave accrued under s. 103.11 (3) (b), whichever is greater

Agrible is an equal opportunity employer

up to 24% of those homicides would not have happened if the suspect or victim had been serving longer sentences for previous crimes.

Hite and other city officials long have advocated for mandatory minimum sentences for those who commit violent, gun-related crimes

thugs in handcuffs and squad cars by sundown,”

felons who illegally possess a gun in Chicago typically receive sentences on the low end of state sentencing guidelines.

little progress has been made in meetings between Mr. Rauner and Democratic leaders.

when it only takes a simple majority instead of the super-majority that’s required now.

Justice Anthony Kennedy announced confidently that nothing of the sort was possible as a result of that decision

is not for us to dispute

when a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals accepted the religious nonprofits’ argument that it would violate their religious conscience if they had to notify the government of their religious objections, as that act itself would “trigger” the provision of what they believe to be an abortifacient for women.

the owners of for-profit, nonreligious businesses who have religious objections to certain forms of birth control could decline to cover those items in their employer-provided health plans

She’s taking Sanders’ remarks out of context and twisting them to breed resentment.

based on power or privilege, that playing the race card or sex card from the left isn’t as bad as playing it from the right. But even if you believe that, Clinton’s smears bring discredit on the whole idea of bigotry. If accusations of misogyny and racism are casually thrown at Sanders, voters will conclude that these terms are just rhetoric.

They’re designed to veil her meritless insinuations that her Democratic opponent is sexist and racist

When Clinton ran for president in 2008, she explicitly used race against Obama. She told USA Today that she should be the Democratic nominee because “I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on.”

And it’s not necessarily derogatory

church by a white racist

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The historic preservation board of directors dumped her on a vote of 4-3 with all of the "yes" votes coming from members who were appointed by Rauner.

he Governor’s business reforms have everything to do with the budget

he Supreme Court ruled that a D.C. law requiring gun owners to use trigger locks violated the Second Amendment, so we probably won’t be seeing mandatory trigger locks anytime soon.

Illinois has over-prescribed institutional care to lower-need individuals when less expensive and more appropriate care options are available

John Harrison

And, by waiting until January, a budget with tax increases and harsh cuts needs only a simple majority rather than a super one

When administrators and faculty and staff members speak and act as private citizens they should make clear that they are not speaking or acting on behalf of the university.

Worth it to get Bill back in the White House. And, you know, there's the first female president thing, too.

a museum can now legally hack into the firmware of a video game console for the express purpose of ensuring that games remain playable for historical research purposes well into the future. That museum still won't legally be able to create replacement servers to allow for continued online play, though.

saying that "such jailbreaking is strongly associated with video game piracy" and should therefore remain legally prohibited.

Librarian of Congress

Elsevier as such has a rather bad reputation because of the ways in which they act commercially and in terms of copyrights

It shall not be unlawful to discriminate on the basis of sex in the provision of facilities which are distinctly private in nature, such as restrooms, shower rooms, bath houses, health clubs or other similar facilities.

Stepping down ahead of the recession

And that not only did the CDC hide that information, but that the authors of the study threw that evidence into a trash can and destroyed it.

The authors of the study decided not to disclose to the public that African American boys under two were more susceptible to developing autism or autism-like symptoms from the MMR vaccine.

However in September 2014, the building that housed Elsie’s was sold and there was a significant rent increase by the new owners

Having these two axioms in place and given e.g. the information that Sasha is related to Hillary via the property hasWife, a reasoner would be able to infer that Sasha is a man and Hillary a woman.

cuts are also being made in the College of Engineering budget.

he doesn't expect it to result in a budget agreement

He was elected by the people with pretty strong support

Rauner referred her to staffers, who he said are working with agencies deal with the situation.

"I love teachers," he said.

He downplayed any hopes that a public bargaining session with legislative leaders would amount to much, and he said it is "critical" that the scope of collective bargaining with unions be narrowed.

Gonet says if a severance tax was passed, it could be the end of the road for the coal industry and the jobs it creates.

emendation

cliometric

a spokeswoman replied with the following email: "HB 4305 (the bill to release the local funds being held by the state) is another attempt by the Democratic majority to piecemeal together a budget that will force a tax hike on hard-working families without any meaningful reforms. Governor Rauner has compromised time and again to pass reforms to grow the economy and create jobs, and unfortunately, the majority party continues to block those reforms.

They're referring to a proposal by Gov. Bruce Rauner to offer low-interest state loans to municipalities that are suffering financially because the state has refused to release money it collects on behalf of towns such as revenue from the motor fuel tax, video gambling and 911 fees.

her predecessor died in office shortly after being reelected

he’ll no longer be sending out vehicle registration renewal reminders

Bruce doesn’t have a social agenda,” his wife, Diana, told voters in one campaign commercial last year. “He has an economic and education agenda

donating more than $1 million to environmental causes and becoming a major player in education reform, where he’s given more than $20 million to help fund schools in Chicago—and directly tackled the powerful Chicago teachers’ unions.

Illinois has lost 12,500 manufacturing jobs, The Illinois Policy Institute’s Michael Lucci reports

Briefs supporting the union have not yet been filed. Madigan has not yet said whether she will participate

Michigan and 17 other states, not counting Illinois, have filed court papers backing the nonunion teachers

"While we appreciate the advocacy groups desire to be involved, we will pick up the organization of the meeting from here

maintain reasonable

Bottom line: Voters are feeling dissatisfied and unreasonable.

A state court in Los Angeles found that the patients’ privacy rights hadn’t been violated. An appeals court agreed, holding that patients can’t expect prescription records to be as private as medical records because they know, or should know, that California monitors the flow of controlled substances.

Jeremy Renner, who supported their female colleague for the right vision.

directly pay series to employ a “diverse” staff writer every season.

anodyne

the Rauners were owed a $2.2 million federal refund and $400,000 from the Illinois Department of Revenue, both of which were applied to the couple's 2015 liability.

"at least Blagojevich ... was off doing his crazy things and state government kind of continued to move along. I don't think state government's moving along right now. I mean, I just think too many things are at a standstill."

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postlapsarian

praxis

concomitant

ethos

epistemology

salutary

concomitants

exogamy

autodidacts

postlapsarian

felix culpa.

vis-à-vis

efficacious

prelapsarian

obliqueness

The study recommends making tax policy changes that would cause tax revenue volatility and economic harm.

The study refers to a problematic report completed by Standard and Poor’s to prove its point.

The study includes one regressive portion of the federal income tax but fails to include any discussion of the federal income tax as a whole, even though it is highly progressive.

The study isn’t focused on the distribution of taxes by income group

The chairman of the Senate’s education committee — Sen. Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee — declined to schedule a vote on renewing the Perkins Loan Program. So the program, which has annually let about a half million students with "exceptional financial need" borrow money through about 1,500 colleges, expired on September 30.

This decision brings the Reconstructionist movement to that point, and to the degree that it places pressure on other denominations — and history suggests that it will — then it risks damaging our religious, moral and spiritual leadership at a time when we need it the most.

civil service preferences for state veterans

the 9th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, in the case of Donald S. Miller v. the California Department of Motor Vehicles, ruled that there simply is no “fundamental right to drive.

and properly licensed and trained individuals

convicted of?

however, that gap closes when compared to those who have been arrested or incarcerated.

the rush of out-of-state, untraceable spending created additional support for a state-level effort to solve California’s dark money problem.

under most circumstances, are quite capable of deciding for themselves which of their buildings and parks should be named, and after whom,

“You wouldn’t need all those buses if you would just open an office here.”

“We have received an incredibly warm welcome in Oakland and remain committed to continuing to invest in the community and build relationships as we work to open our headquarters’ doors in 2017,” Laura Zapata, a spokeswoman for the company, tells WIRED.

would add between 2,000 and 3,000 employees in Oakland, double its current 2,000 or so full-time Bay Area employees.

ride-hailing giant Uber, to land a major part of its operations in Oakland.

And both ironic and tragic is the harm to the Judeo-Christian heritage whose practitioners brought religious toleration to full fruition in this nation

The case was brought by rejected applicant Abigail Fisher, who contends she was rejected because of her race

They also contend that unions should have to get permission before collecting dues used for political purposes

The case, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, was brought by Orange County, Calif. schoolteacher Rebecca Friedrichs and other teachers, who are arguing that forcing them to pay union dues violates their First Amendment rights.

Length of school day, length of school year, layoffs in Chicago teachers, whenever they needed something out (of collective bargaining), they take it out," the governor said. "So when somebody argues to you (that) this is about a violation of the core principles of the Democratic Party, call it on them. Call them on it. It's not true. Simply not true. This is about political manipulation, political maneuvering, not about true genuine policy."

Rauner attempted to reframe the debate by arguing Democrats already have voted for various union-weakening proposals in recent years, nullifying their argument that they'd be violating a core principle if they approved his demands.

FAST Concept Scheme (form or genre term)

Using SKOS, a knowledge organization system can be expressed as machine-readable data. It can then be exchanged between computer applications and published in a machine-readable format in the Web.

There is one servant role that I do not think the digital humanities should shirk as its unique contribution to the mainstream humanities: service (as literal as running the actual servers, if need be) toward advocating the humanities in its present moment of need,

rather than, again, just a servant

ipso facto

clichéd forms of such issues–e.g., “the digital divide,” “privacy,” “copyright,” and so on–get much play.

that is to fund it," said McCarter.

Rauner raised eyebrows when he distributed checks worth between $3,000 and $8,000 to Republican members of the General Assembly. Some members did not cash the checks after concerns were raised about whether Rauner was buying votes during the tumultuous session.

the Illinois Constitution puts the onus for a balanced budget on the governor and the General Assembly:

Rauner’s reforms in workers’ compensation laws and tort reform would, in Madigan’s view, bring undue sacrifice to middle-class and low-income residents.

because Madigan outright opposes term limits and redistricting reform but also because most of his reform legislation has arrived front-loaded with measures to deflate union strength.

where he challenged the Democrats who control the General Assembly to pass reforms including term limits, legislative redistricting reform and a property tax freeze.

n fact, more people say gun ownerships protects people from a crime.

There’s no discernible pattern among those cities, nor clear or convincing evidence in these statistics that shows more gun laws lead to more or less gun crime.

Durbin says prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21 would save more than 220,000 lives from smoking related deaths.

Juxtaposing that news with the groups hardest hit by Rauner’s budget plan, it’s starting to look like the governor is targeting the least fortunate while offering big breaks to businesses.

want to provide incentives for graduates to stay in Illinois, providing funding through loans or grants that could be forgiven, for example, as tax returns are filed for work the former students do in the state.

"The fact of the matter is, it's about local control," Brady said, "and I don't know why they'd be afraid to trust local elected officials to establish fair contracts and fair wages."

Without a budget in place, Rauner says, the money cannot be distributed.

Now politicians in Kentucky are claiming they have a Constitutional right to receive gifts from lobbyists.