Lessons from New Orleans: A Stronger Role for Public Defenders in Spurring Indigent Defense Reform

Excessive caseloads prevent public defenders from fulfilling their ethical obligations and curtail criminal defendants’ right to the effective assistance of counsel. Despite this ethical and constitutional dilemma, legislators have been reluctant to provide adequate funds for indigent defense. And because of the separation of powers, courts have been unable to force legislators’ hands. Against this backdrop, criminal defendants in states that choose not to adequately fund indigent defense face a serious risk of wrongful conviction. The Orleans Public Defenders Office (OPD) provides a case study of public defenders playing a stronger role in spurring legislative reform. In response to a funding crisis in Louisiana, the OPD refused to take new cases beyond constitutionally permissible workloads. This refusal resulted in criminal defendants being put on waiting lists for representation, which garnered national attention, gave rise to class action lawsuits against the state, and created a threat to public safety. These are governance problems that legislators prioritize over funding indigent defense. The OPD’s refusal to take new cases has been somewhat successful: in response to this crisis, the state legislature has provided additional funds to public defenders’ offices in the state. Public defenders are in a unique position to put pressure on legislators. By refusing to take new cases that would cause their workloads to be excessive, public defenders can both maintain their obligations to the profession and ensure constitutional representation for their clients

The influence of the competences of the manager: Founder on the success of the organization

The environment, where the changes are everyday occurrence and the competition continuous threat, forces the leading people in the organizations to look after everything that goes on inside the organizations, as well as everything that goes on outside of them. Thus, depending on the founder's capability, respectively the manager of the organization, the success of the organization can go up or down. The individuals that have entrepreneurial spirit, that know how to combine their knowledge, education and work experience with the successful guiding of the employees toward the goal, strengthen their business and open possibilities for its expansion. If under competence we imply to the knowledge of business, working experience and skills necessary for effective performance at the workplace, then undoubtedly the entrepreneur-founder in order to obtain the optimum knowledge for the business that he starts, previously has to build his competences through appropriate education and work experience. Herein we present working research conducted in order to prove the connection of the organization's success with the knowledge, skills and competences for the corresponding business of the organization's founder, particularly if the founder is also general manager of the organization. This research is conducted within the frames of the scientific and research activity of the University of Tourism and Management in Skopje, FYRO Macedonia. As a research sample 271 respondents - employees and 10 leaders of the companies included in the research. The leaders are managers and founders of the private companies. As a research technique questionnaire is used. Practical aim of the research was to use the results in order to create a basis for improving the performance of companies by developing the competencies of the management teams in them. One of the main conclusions of the research is: The manager-founder who starts up a business, needs to have optimum knowledge of the business i.e. appropriate education for the same, prior to working it in another company or otherwise acquired knowledge of relevant business

MENINGKATKAN KETERAMPILAN SOSIAL MELALUI MODEL COOPERATIVE LEARNING TIPE TIME TOKEN ARENDS: Penelitian Tindakan Kelas Mata Pelajaran IPS di SMP Negeri 2 Curugbitung Kabupaten Lebak - Provinsi Banten, Peserta Didik Kelas VIII-B Semester Genap Tahun Pelajaran 2015/2016

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh lemahnya keterampilan sosial peserta didik khususnya keterampilan berpartisipasi dalam pembelajaran, baik diskusi kelas maupun kelompoknya. Penguasaan keterampilan sosial seperti ini penting dimiliki oleh peserta didik karena akan berpengaruh pada proses pembelajaran secara keseluruhan. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (Classroom Action Research) yang merujuk pada pola desain penelitian Kemmis and Mc. Taggart. Dari hasil observasi dan analisis pada ke tujuh indikator keterampilan sosial, yaitu: (1) Mendengarkan ketika orang lain bicara; (2) Bicara tidak asal-asalan; (3) Tidak cepat emosi; (4) Bicara lantang dan jelas; (5) Melibatkan diri dalam diskusi kelompok; (6) Bergiliran dalam bicara (tidak mendominasi); dan (7) Mau bicara (Tidak diam sama sekali), disimpulkan bahwa ada peningkatan keterampilan social yang signifikan setelah dilakukan tindakan sebanyak dua kali siklus dengan masing-masing siklus terdiri dari tiga kali tindakan. Pada tindakan siklus I, keterampilan social peserta didik berada pada kategori cukup dan setelah dilakukan tindakan pada siklus II, meningkat pada kategori baik

Trans Self-Imaging Praxis, Decolonizing Photography, and the Work of Alok Vaid-Menon

As an identity and an analytic, trans offers a compelling challenge to photographic discourse. Trans, as a rejection of the assigned sex at birth, is a rejection of what was assigned to us based on our physical attributes, an assumption made about us based on our surface aesthetics. Trans rejects the physical surface in favor of living our lives based on an internal feeling: something that is not visible but manifested visually in a way that plays with the aesthetics and expectations of gender. As trans scholar and artist micha cárdenas has observed, trans is often about a rejection of the visible. To picture trans subjects, then, is to make a surface rendering of something (the person’s outward appearance) that is already de-essentialized from any necessary essence or “truth.” Trans as an analytic offers a method to view the photographic image not only as distinct and distant from the referent but in tension with it. Trans as a method prompts a rethinking of surfaces in relation to essence, identity, authenticity, and fixity, unfixing the surface from the subject

Migrant Workers in a Corner of the Growth Triangle

Twenty kilometers southest of Singapore or about 25 minutes by ferry, there is an Indonesian Island, Batam. This 415 sq km island, with reddish yellow podzolic soil, is agriculturally good for nothing but tropical schrubs, snakes and monkeys, and some would add, is financcially a loss to the Indonesian government

The Summit on Creativity and Aging in America

This report looks at how the federal government can leverage the arts to foster healthy aging and inclusive design for this growing population. This white paper features recommendations from the May 2015 Summit on Creativity and Aging in America, a convening of more than 70 experts hosted by the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Center for Creative Aging. The paper highlights recommendations on healthy aging, lifelong learning in the arts, and age-friendly community design. The summit was a precursor to the 2015 White House Conference on Aging, which addressed four major issues: retirement security, long-term services and supports, healthy aging, and elder abuse

Pengaruh Kualitas Kehidupan Kerja dan Partisipasi terhadap Kepuasan Kerja Perawat RSUD Bangkinang

This study aims to determine the effect of quality of work life and participation on the satisfaction of nurses work RSUD Bangkinang. Where two independent variables are proposed and one dependent variable, ie quality of work life and participation as independent variable and job satisfaction a ct as dependent variable.This research method is descriptive and quantitative by using program of SPSS 21, where sample used is nurse Non-PNS RSUD Bangkinang with responden counted 57 people. For sampling technique using census method. Techniques of data collection through questionnaires and interviews.The results of the analysis using validity test, reliability test, determination test, simple linear regression test, multiple linear regression test, t test, and F test so that it can be seen that the quality of work life has a significant effect on job satisfaction, that participation has a significant effect on job satisfaction, and That quality of work life and participation have a significant effect on job satisfaction

Some aspects and features of tourism management in Macedonia

The importance of human recourseñ management is important in every field of work and in every enterprise, especially in enterprises operating in the tourism sector. We underline this because the tourism commercial sector is mainly based and depends on qualified human potentialwhich will be correctly managed. The same applies to the question of the human resources management in Republic of Macedonia. The employees in tourism field have to be enabled and qualified to fulfil all future requests and standards connected with their working performances. The specificity of our companies included in the tourist sector is the fact that there are small companies operating according to the number of employees; in such cases, the managers commonly do not perform only the leadership function only, but in most cases there is an overlapping with the executive function. For these reasons, it is hard to discuss a classical type of management because, as we mentioned, the Macedonian companies compared to those from more developed countries, are different in their size, and therefore in their style of management

Epigenetic valleys in the Tikves Basin in the Republic of Macedonia

The epigenetic valleys as part of the fluvial relief are of special geomorphologic significance. As ostensibly anomalous phenomena, they mirror the inconsistent fluvial relief, i.e. a phase of adjustment of longitudinal profiles of rivers. The subject of research in this paper involved some forms of the fluvial relief in the drainage basin of the Vardar River, in the Tikves Basin, which had some predispositions to be classified as an epigenetic valleys. The necessary geological-and-lithological and morphological parameters have shown that specific segments in the river valleys in Tikves are distinguished by special physiognomy, lithology and genesis, which correspond to epigenetic valleys and gorges. Thus arguments indicated in total ten created epigenetic valleys and gorges on the level of the Tikves Basin. Seven epigenetic occurrences were formed below the neogene level, whereas three of them were formed above the neogene level