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May 11, 2009 What to do with a whale skeleton? Dragging the arched five-foot jawbones of a gray whale out from the corner of a chicken coop in Lakewood, assistant professor of biology Mike Behrens saw the bones just didn’t match up. Laying out three of the jawbones, which once belonged to a juvenile eschrichtius robustus which washed up dead on an Olympia beach three years ago, Behrens noted that there should only be two. “I think we have a second whale here,” he laughed, as his two assistants
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activities.” Cox specifically worked with incarcerated youth at Remann Hall, a Tacoma juvenile detention facility, by helping them use their time in productive ways. “Working at Remann Hall was an eye opening and very rewarding experience,” Cox said. Cox also volunteers for the Forgotten Children’s Fund, a nonprofit organization that helps working families in need during the holiday season. The Gig Harbor, Wash., resident is also training her 2-year-old yellow Labrador retriever, Lola, to become a
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Washington’s 7th District, which encompasses most of Seattle and its surrounding areas. She is the first South Asian American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and one of only 14 naturalized citizens currently serving in the United States Congress. “If you want to prepare people to engage in real talk now, the People’s Gathering is the place to be,” says Dr. Karen Johnson, equity and inclusion administrator for the Washington State Department of Corrections. “Our agency looks forward to
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. Step 3: Implement Changes Some issues will have a Quick fix option (as show in the image above), allowing you to make corrections right in the dialog box. For other issues (like the one shown in the image below) the Accessibility Checker cannot provide a Quick fix because the suggestion requires editing your text. In this example, a list of items has been created by typing “1), 2), 3)” rather than using the Numbered List button. The Accessibility Checker will suggest you select the text and make it
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roles, including patrol deputy, juvenile investigations deputy, special assault detective, supervisor of the domestic violence investigations unit, and, for the last six years, supervisor of the crime analysis and information unit. Berger quickly notes that his most recent position bears no resemblance to the work portrayed on CBS’s hit drama C.S.I. His team gathered, analyzed and disseminated information about external cases or crime trends, and also scrutinized the effective use of internal
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study criminal justice at PLU?PLU’s degree in criminal justice will prepare students to enter fields eager to welcome a new generation of practitioners, including law, policing, corrections, and victim services and advocacy. As a student of criminal justice at PLU, you will investigate theories of criminal offending, the functioning of the criminal justice system, and the experiences of crime victims. Our sociologically-informed criminal justice program emphasizes an understanding of the social and
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patrol duty, juvenile investigations, special assault and as the supervisor of crime analysis. Berger’s team was responsible for the creation of a Web site that lists were registered sex offenders live and another site that maps crime trends in various neighborhoods. During the summer, things generally slow down a bit, although Berger and his staff remain on duty, regardless. This fall, the efforts to keep the small city that is PLU, kicks into high gear again. For more tips on public safety, check
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criticism of his work, “I’m zero for 35 (years)…no corrections, no retractions and no one has sued me.” At the beginning of his career in the late 60s, Black said he wanted to write novels and never really considered journalism. But once he realized that such noted authors like Ernest Hemingway worked at the Kansas City Star, he changed his mind. He is absolutely driven in his research and dismisses reporters who Google or Wikipedia their information. He also feels strongly, as he does about almost any
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received my final reviews, I showed those reviews to a class as well. The book had been accepted for publication and been through one process of review already. Students were interested to learn that even at that stage, a reader could offer productive critiques, corrections, and suggestions. Such work is never really finished. The important point is to realize that one can only do their best work with input from others. Once students see how faculty do peer review for each other, I find that they often
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by Dr. Jennifer Smith with students from her International Honors 253: Gender and Sexuality course and women in the Therapeutic Community (TC) at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW). Together they applied theoretical texts to design and execute a long-term project that examines and reflects upon the boundaries and connections between universities & prisons as well as the general population and people who are incarcerated. The Parkland Tour ProjectThe Parkland Tour ProjectDeveloped
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