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Arkansans 4 Haiti Relief.com
Ivan Noisette, a Haitian national who now lives in Arkansas, speaks about an upcoming event called Arkansans 4 Haiti Relief. The event, hosted by Gov. Mike Beebe and Mrs. Beebe, will feature a group of Arkansas’ finest musicians and visual artists. The concert will be held Feb.
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Are you entitled
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As Americans, we feel entitled. We live in a great country. We are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That is right ... we are entitled to it. Of course, that doesn’t mean we are going to get it.
Who your parents are and where you are born may have some effect on what you think you are entitled to in this world. Ultimately, no matter who you are, we are all entitled to the same thing: nothing. There is no one in this world that is entitled to anything, without exception. Anyone and everyone can lose all they have no matter where they start out or presently sit. No one is immune from losing it all, this means you.
Eighth Circuit Recent Decisions
United State of American v. Guy Wesley Hamilton, Eighth Circuit court of Appeals case No: 08-3233 (Decided April 17, 2009).
Challenging the warrantless search of his residence in violation of his Fourth Amendment right and a subsequent warrant authorizing a search for lack of particularity, the appellant Guy Wesley Hamilton (Hamilton) appealed the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas’ denial of his motion to suppress. The Eighth Circuit affirmed.
Jack Nelson Jones
David Barker v. Sherry Baker Avery, 2010 Ark. App. 55, Jan. 20, 2010.
This appeal comes from the Crawford County Circuit Court, Honorable Michael Medlock, presiding.
David Barker and Sherry Avery were divorced in 1989. Custody of their child was given to Avery and Barker was required to pay child support. It was not specified when the child support obligation would terminate. In February 2007, their child turned eighteen years old and Barker paid child support until the end of the school year.
Under Analysis
The law of irony
It is the unfortunate truth that one of the truly immutable laws that envelop our society is the law of irony.
The practice of law, the judiciary, and the legislative process are far from immune. In truth, you can see the handiwork of irony virtually everywhere you choose to look. In 2006, for example, Dr. Rafil Dhafir, a Syracuse oncologist and U.S. citizen, was convicted of breaking the Iraqi sanctions, imposed because of Iraq’s unhumanitarian policies, by sending aid to starving children. He is serving a 22-year sentence in the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Insurance Insights
Regulators participate in summit on health care fraud
Four of my colleagues from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) will serve as panelists during a national dialogue on health care fraud in Washington, D.C. The National Summit on Health Care Fraud is being sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Justice.
Are We There Yet?
Two not to miss
Last Friday night it was a toss-up on what to do, deciding whether to finish out another week with a bang or a whimper. We talked about going to a movie, but felt we had already been to everything worth seeing, or that we’d longed to see. And after Avatar, what’s left?
Brainbuster
Make your brain tingle!
1. Which of these is NOT a scale for measuring earthquakes? Anatolia Rift Scale; Richter Scale; Mercalli Intensity Scale; Rossi-Forel scale
2. What is the name for a minor quake that occurs before the main earthquake? Foreshock; preshock; aftershock; tremor
Kay's Cooking Corner
Arkansas and its rice
Other than eating a big bowl of hot cooked rice with a rich, brown gravy poured over it, do you know much more about it? Like about how versatile rice is? In Tokyo, there are mats of woven rice straw called a tatami, and beer or sake brewed from rice. You can order a dish of rice seasoned with rice vinegar and topped with strips of beef, raised on a diet of rice bran. There are rice fuels that provide energy; rice oils for cooking, cleaning or keeping leather subtle, rice paper, and clothing made from a synthetic fiber from a rice hull product called furfural. Flower gardens contain fertilized soil of rice hulls, and you may have started the day with warm cooked rice cereal or eaten a tasty Rice Krispy Marshmallow Treat for break.
I Swear...
21st century lexicographizing
Continued from last week.
As I pointed out last week, thanks to the Internet, anyone can make up new words and post them on online “dictionaries.”
Last week I cited illustrations from the Urban Dictionary. Now, consider, if you will, SlangSite.com, which introduces itself as “a dictionary of slang, webspeak, made up words and colloquialisms.” Its entries include:
From past to present... a history of Arkansas courthouses
Ashley County
Over a decade after Arkansas became a state, Ashley County, in the southeastern area of the state, was established. Ashley County became the state’s 53rd county on Nov. 30, 1848. The area was carved out of Chicot, Drew and Union Counties. The Bayou Bartholomew bisects the county. Chicot County is the county’s eastern neighbor and the Ouachita River lies to the west. Drew County shares the northern border of the county and the southern border is north Louisiana’s Morehouse Parish. Up until now, the history of this area sounds similar to other counties in the state, but further research unveils a rich and unique historical account.
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