In Colorado, as in many other states, the probation officer is defined by statute as a peace officer and has "the authority to enforce the laws of the state of Colorado while acting within the scope of his or her authority and in the performance of his or her duties" (C.R.S. 18-1-901[IV], 1997). Currently, many probation officers in Colorado perform peace officer functions such as personally arresting offenders, securing them with handcuffs, and searching both offenders and residences. These same officers are prohibited from carrying firearms when reserve peace officers, who ac...

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What Trees have to do with the Environment Perhaps no image invokes the Berkshire Taconic Landscape more strongly than the brilliant colors that splash across our majestic hills and valleys each fall. Those streaks of color appear because we have so many trees. In fact, in virtually every setting, from the swamps along the oxbows of the Housatonic River to the summits of the Taconic mountains, the dominant vegetation of our landscape is trees. But why are trees here? Why did trees grow in New England and New York, while grasses coat Oklahoma, shrubs cover the tundra, an...

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Trey Parker, born in 1969, grew up in Conifer, Colorado where at an early age he found his way into shocking audiences. ... After high school, Parker attended Berkley School of music in Boston, then later transferred to the University of Colorado to study film. ... Matt Stone, originally from Houston, Texas, moved to Littleton, Colorado as a child. Stone excelled in school, and then attended University of Colorado, where he met Trey Parker. ... Stone graduated from the Colorado with a double major in Film and Math. ...

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New Haven, Connecticut, home to Yale University was the home to the first intercollegiate football game against Columbia in 1872. ... Unfortunately, this arrangement is somewhat counterproductive in that it now a gifted athlete is taking a spot at the university in lieu of an academically oriented student. ... Universities sell sponsorship's to various enterprises for advertising. As an example the University of Colorado has a basketball arena the Coors Event Center, named for the $5,000,000 donation of the Coors Brewing Co. 4. ... As a result, he was stripped of his Heisman Trophy, and...

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After high school, he attended the College at the University of Puget Sound and the University of Washington. ... He rejoined the University of Washington and studied psychology. ... She shared a house near the university with four other young women. ...

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Many schools in Ohio have an excellent mechanical engineering program like the University of Toledo, the University of Dayton, and the University of Akron. ... Brandon Gunn, student at the University of Dayton, took the trip of a lifetime to help poverty stricken countries gain the basic needs of life. ... The three main schools for mechanical engineering are the University of Toledo, the University of Dayton and the University of Akron because they all have very good programs that give students the best chance to succeed in the real world. Each of these schools has a slight variance with cour...

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Sam Sandoval, (an expert in water management at the University of California, Davis) explained that farmer's water usage has dropped from eighty to fifty percent and the total economic cost of the drought in 2014 was 2.2 billion dollars; this included crop, livestock, dairy revenue lost and job loss of estimated seventeen thousand people (Central Valley, 2015). ... California's Primary Water Source One of the main water source of California is from the Colorado River. ... The reduction of water in Colorado River is contributing to the water crisis in California. ... If the shrinking ...

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For example, the Colorado Department of Corrections pays private corporations $50 per inmate per day making it a formidable cash cow. ... MCI hires inmates as telemarketers in Colorado. ... Ethics and Safety An industry-wide survey conducted in 1997 by James Austin, a professor at George Washington University, found 49 percent more inmate-on-staff assaults and 65 percent more inmate-on-inmate assaults in medium- and minimum-security private facilities than in medium- and minimum-security prisons run by government. ...

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Introduction Shock absorbers ensure good road-holding and a comfortable ride by slowing the movement of the springs. A good shock absorber is one that is hard enough to prevent the wheel from leaving the ground and supple enough to ensure that the bodywork is not subjected to the force of the various bumps in the road. Shock absorbers and coil springs are such a natural fit as they work together to maintain wheel contact with the road and protect the vehicle body and its occupants from road irregularities, such as speed bumps and uneven road. Need of a good spring is inevitable for a good shoc...

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The Washington Times reported on a study conducted by Colby Pines, a fellow of James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, and Lindsay Boyd, Communications Director at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California: "A 2012 study by the Pew Center on the States found that one out of every eight active registrations were inaccurate or invalid, 1.8 million voters listed as "inactive" were actually deceased, and 2.8 million voters had active registrations in more than one state. Another nationwide report released in August by the Univ...

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The doctoral program in educational technology at Iowa State University is one example of this type of specialized program. ... Other contractors did case studies of exemplary preservice programs (University of Virginia, University of Wyoming, University of Northern Iowa, and Vanderbilt University) as well as in-service programs in school districts. ... In some universities, there is an established and long-standing rift between teacher education and educational technology that has hindered collaboration and cooperation. While relations have been cool between educational technology programs ...

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In 1989, he was awarded the Iowa State University's Professional Progress in Engineering Award and 1999 he was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Citation from Iowa State University. ... Stevens is a summa cum laude graduate of Slippery Rock University. He earned a Masters' degree in Engineering from Polytechnic University of New York and a Masters' degree in Business from Columbia University (program for executives). ... He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tuffs University. ... Smith holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engine...

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Two gunmen, part of the Trenchcoat Mafia, walked into their school at 11:30 am in Littleton, Colorado and started firing. ... People everywhere were shocked and afraid when the news broke out about Littleton, Colorado. ... James Fox, from Northeastern University points out; up to 57 percent of children do not have full time parental supervision in the United States (NCPA 1). ...

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DARE was an extension and modification of a previous program known as Project Smart (Self-Management and Resistance Training) that was created at the University of Southern California to teach seventh graders how to resist drug use(Lundman 2001). ... Gary Peterson of Colorado, the founder of the fledgling national group Parents Against DARE, says, "Our schools are giving away more and more time to social-engineering programs that have not been sufficiently researched." ... Bruce Gay, an assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of Houston-Downtown. ...

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Stories such as this are repeated over and over in the history of the civil rights movement in the United States: In January 1961, James Meredith, an African-American, applied for admission to the University of Mississippi. ... Supreme Court ruled that he had the right to attend the University of Mississippi. ... Meredith from registering at the University even after the Supreme Court ruled. ... When it was over, two people were dead, twenty-eight marshals had been shot, one hundred sixty people were injured, and James Meredith became the first black student to attend the University of Mi...

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Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great, is often regarded as the greatest military commanders of all time. From an early, he was destined for greatness. At the age of 20, in 336, he inherited the powerful empire of Macedon from his father King Philip II, which by then controlled Greece and had already started to progress through Asia. In 334 he invaded Persia, and within a decade he had defeated the Persians, subdued Egypt, and pushed on to Iran, Afghanistan and even India. Alexander the Great conquered vast amounts of land, and controlled the largest empire the world ha...

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For many years now, pondering minds have questioned the thought of having marijuana, or cannabis sativa, listed as another medicinal drug. Some say that marijuana can not be used as a medicine and that there is no evidence of its medicinal purpose; But on the other hand, there are those who think differently and pose marijuana as a potential use in today's modern world. In any case, marijuana is useful in the medical field and should be legalized for that purpose. Cultivated for at least 5,000 years and serving as one of the oldest crops not grown for food, the marijuana plant began it...

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Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, and New York each enacted legislation to extend background check requirements when guns are sold by unlicensed sellers. ... According to a study done by Jens Ludwig, who studies gun control at the University of Chicago, in areas where more households have guns, the overall homicide rate goes up. ...

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By confronting the violent demonstrations at that state university, he ordered the California Highway Patrol and later the National Guard to the Berkeley campus when riots broke out in 1969. But he did compromise on a proposed tuition on state university students, settling for a charge instead and thus cutting costs while at the same time lessening the education communities feeling of hostility toward him. ...

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Deterrence Leslie Cantu: Fear of death deters people from committing crimes, proponents say. They also believe that if attached to certain crimes, the penalty of death exerts a positive moral influence by placing a stigma on certain crimes like manslaughter, resulting in attitudes of disgust and horror to such acts. Furthermore, retentionists insist that the deterrent influence of the death penalty reaches across state lines into jurisdictions that have abolished it, and so all benefit by its continued use. Perhaps this is the intended goal of the Violent Crime Control And Law Enforcement Ac...

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Sam Walton went onto attend college at the University of Missouri Columbia where he majored in economics. ... According to CBS News, "The company reportedly paid $50 million two years ago to settle an off-the-clock lawsuit covering 69,000 workers in Colorado" (McNamara, Melissa). ... Robert Schuster, who was a manager, stated that, until last October, when he left his job at a Sam's Club in Colorado Springs, workers were locked in every night, and on Friday and Saturday nights there was no one there with a key. ...

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In 1963, James received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. James also received his Master of Science at the University of Pittsburgh in 1973 and another Master of Science degree in 1976, from Youngstown State University in Ohio. ...

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Carl Cohen, a philosophy professor at the University of Michigan, argues that "animals have no rights and can have none" (20). ... The state of Colorado will use the capital punishment by lethal injection for every murder of eighteen years of age or older if found guilty for murder. ...

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Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck even conducted a study on the effects of gun registration on crime rates in 75 different cities. ... In 2007, for example, a gunman entered New Life Church in Colorado Springs, and shot and killed two girls. ...

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Louis University for four years. ... In Missouri the pay is $41,700.00 and rising about 10%, in Texas the pay is about $43,700.00 and rising about 24%, Florida is approximately $41,100.00 but an increase of 33%, with a small jump in percent to 34% is California with $49,900.00, and finally Colorado with about $45,200.00 and rising 45%. ...

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