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JJ baby gray whale photo San Diego Sea World aquarium, 1998 (with Grandma B in wheel chair). This is a straight shot (no manipulating subjects around for placement). It would be common to think JJ the grey whale was raised and released in the
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In 1897 the physicist Joseph John (J. J.) Thomson discovered the electron in a series of experiments designed to study the nature of electric discharge in a high-vacuum cathode-ray tube. Thomson interpreted the deflection of the rays by
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Rhode Island School of Design Yale University CalArts School of Visual Arts Pratt Institute School of the Art Institute of Chicago (not to be confused with the Art Institute schools which seem to be cynically trading on its name). Do a web search
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What's the best Break-Up Line You've Ever Heard? Wednesday November 28, 2007JJ in the Lesbian Life Forum wants to know. She's had a few doosies. Like: "You're too sophisticated for me." or "We have so many incompatibilities, I can't begin to take
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• To ensure that the existing P&A System has the minimum staff resources needed for effective JJ advocacy, a fully funded JJ P&A Program would provide funding for each P&A to hire at least one full-time staff position dedicated to JJ advocacy. When
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• Identifying youth with disabilities and connecting them and their families to the services they need is more likely to result in these youth being diverted from being adjudicated delinquent and diverted from secure confinement. • Studies have
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• There is no constitutional impediment to creating a JJ P&A Program. It merely identifies the JJ system as a priority area for P&A activity, complementing existing federal P&A grant programs. • Youth confined in secure JJ facilities have
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• Disproportionate Minority Contact with the JJ system. DMC was recognized in the 1988 amendments to the JJDPA, and became a core focus of the Act in 1992. In 1997, youth of color made up approximately one third of the juvenile population
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• A national JJ P&A Program would be cost-effective in many ways. P&A agencies have the expertise, experience, and infrastructure (offices, computer equipment, databases, etc.) to immediately increase their advocacy in the JJ system upon receipt of
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• A JJ P&A would tap into the disability expertise of the P&A network to improve the ability of the JJ system to effectively meet the needs of YwD. P&As seek to enforce existing laws, divert YwD from the JJ system when feasible, correct dangerous
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