Tribune suggests former Iowa coach Steve Alford may be Indiana candidate March 31, 2008
Posted by John in Jobs, Sports.Tags: Basketball Coaches, College Basketball, Indiana University Hoosiers, Steve Alford, University of New Mexico Lobos
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From Chicago Tribune:
Indiana is hoping to unveil its new basketball coach before the Final Four kicks off Saturday in San Antonio, according to a report on ESPN.com. The Web site also reported that Hoosiers athletic director Rick Greenspan is expected to be on the road this weekend to begin interviewing candidates.
According to another site, flightaware.com, a plane left Bloomington’s airport Saturday night for Albuquerque, where Hoosiers icon Steve Alford currently works as the head coach of New Mexico. …
A source with ties to Indiana reports that Alford’s contract with New Mexico does not include a buyout clause, which would make him an attractive candidate. …
Blog posts University of Iowa Law Dean’s e-mail about USN&WR rankings; U. review dubbed ‘Apollo Project’ March 30, 2008
Posted by John in Education, Law, Rankings.Tags: Dean Carolyn Jones, Facebook, Law Schools, Project Apollo, UIOWA Law Blog, University of Iowa College of Law, US News & World Report
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From Abovethelaw.com:
As we reported earlier this week, the latest U.S. News & World Report law school rankings are out. And some schools are flipping out over their falling rankings. A tipster at the University of Iowa College of Law writes:
[B]elow is an email the Iowa law students received yesterday from Dean Jones about the new US News & World Report rankings. Apparently our dean is setting up small group meetings with the students. No faculty. No other administration. Methinks this may be somewhat of a divide and conquer strategy. These meetings may be in part a result of the newly formed Facebook group “Stop the Bleeding at Iowa Law.”My favorite part, though, is that the “faculty” have dubbed their concern about the rankings “Project Apollo.” Well, if they’re not going to do anything about it, at least they can come up with a secret, clever code name, so it looks in hindsight like they’ve been planning D-Day part 2. Bravo profs and administration, you’ve really impressed me this time.
Please be assured that the law school administration has not been asleep at the switch on this issue. Indeed, we have been studying the US News rankings at a very high level over the past year. Hundreds of hours of sophisticated thought by alumni, faculty and staff have gone into this project, informally dubbed the Apollo Project. We have been considering ways of bringing new resources to the law school that will enhance our rankings and – more importantly – substantively strengthen the institution. …
Additional information from UIOWA Law Blog – Unofficial Student Blog at the University of Iowa College of Law.
BusinessWeek: Rockwell Collins ranked among best performing U.S. companies March 29, 2008
Posted by John in Business, Rankings.Tags: BusinessWeek, Rockwell Collins
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From PR Newswire:
New York-based retailer Coach comes in at No.1 on the 12th annual BusinessWeek ranking of the best performing U.S. companies. Rounding out the top five are Gilead Sciences, Allegheny Technologies, Verizon, and Questar. Last year’s No.1 company, Google, dropped to No.34 on the list — shares are down almost 40% from their high of 747 last November. …
The BusinessWeek 50
Class of 2008Rank Company
1 Coach
2 Gilead Sciences
3 Allegheny Technologies
4 Verizon Communications
5 Questar
6 Apple
7 Colgate-Palmolive …24 Rockwell Collins
25 Nucor
26 …
Here is a direct link to the BusinessWeek page.
Korean source offers additional details about adopted Sueppel children March 28, 2008
Posted by John in Crime/Courts, Deaths, Family, Children.Tags: Adoption, International Adoption, Ethan Sueppel, Seth Sueppel, Mira Sueppel, Eleanor Sueppel, Steven Sueppel, Sheryl Sueppel, Holt Children's Services, Steve Sueppel, Murder-Suicide
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From The Chosun Ilbo (South Korea):
The adoptions of the four children were arranged by Holt Children’s Services. An official with Holt said the four children were born to different unmarried mothers.
According to Holt, Ethan, Seth and Eleanor were abandoned by their mothers as soon as they were born. Carrying their one-week-old children, the three unwed mothers visited Holt and asked that their babies be adopted overseas.
Mira was three months old when her birth mother visited Holt. “That means Mira’s birth mother must have agonized for three months about whether she should raise Mira alone or abandon her for adoption,” the Holt official said.
The children were adopted by the Sueppels in different years — Ethan in 1998, Seth in 1999, Mira in 2002, and Eleanor in 2005. …
See also KCRG story by Mark Geary, Remembering The Four Sueppel Children; Gazette obituary, Sueppel, Sheryl (Kesterson), Steve, Ethan, Seth, Mira and Eleanor; or complete Gazette coverage here.
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An interesting adoption-related post with valuable links and quotes here: ‘Forever Family’ six feet under.
The couple had adopted four children from South Korea; Ethan, 10, Seth, 7, Mira, 5, and Eleanor, 3 via Holt international (”…dedicated to carrying out God’s plan for every child to have a permanent, loving family”) which says it will only pass along the information to the children’s original mothers if they ask (see S Korean adoption agency saw no problem with American parents “our agency doesn’t reach out first. Only if they contact us, we will inform them what happened,” Hong said, adding that no phone calls were received so far.”) …
4/1 UPDATE: Gazette article, Deaths of Sueppel children add to adoption debate in Korea
Also, check out Gazette blogger Alicia Ebaugh’s post, A Korean view of the Sueppel murders.
More missing teens from Cedar Rapids, Mount Vernon, Marion March 28, 2008
Posted by John in Law Enforcement, Teenagers.Tags: Aubrey Coder, Cedar Rapids Police Deparment, Dominic Duke, Jessica Wenger, Kelsey Maulson, Marion Police Department, Missing Persons, Mount Vernon Police Department, Sharvell Davis
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From Iowa Department of Public Safety Missing Person Information Clearinghouse:
Sharvell Davis [15] was reported missing to the Cedar Rapids Police Department, in Cedar Rapids on Mar 27, 2008. …
An Operation Quickfind was issued for Sharvell. See more details from this Gazette story.
From Iowa Department of Public Safety Missing Person Information Clearinghouse:
Dominic Duke [14] was reported missing to the Cedar Rapids Police Department, in Cedar Rapids on Mar 24, 2008. …
From Iowa Department of Public Safety Missing Person Information Clearinghouse:
Kelsey Maulson [17] was reported missing to the Marion Police Department, in Marion on Mar 24, 2008. …
From Iowa Department of Public Safety Missing Person Information Clearinghouse:
Aubrey Coder [17] was reported missing to the Mount Vernon Police Department, in Mount Vernon on Mar 27, 2008. …
From Iowa Department of Public Safety Missing Person Information Clearinghouse:
Jessica Wenger [15] was reported missing to the Cedar Rapids Police Department, in Cedar Rapids on Mar 27, 2008. …
Photo of Cedar Rapids native Zach Johnson at New Orleans yesterday March 28, 2008
Posted by John in Sports.Tags: Golf, New Orleans, PGA, PGA Zurich Classic, Zach Johnson
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From caption of Associated Press photo via Yahoo! Sports:
Zach Johnson drives on the 12th hole in the first round of the PGA Zurich Classic of New Orleans golf tournament at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La., Thursday, March 27, 2008.
(AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Waterloo lawyer’s license suspended March 28, 2008
Posted by John in Crime/Courts, Ethics, Jobs, Law.Tags: Brandon Adams, Lawyers
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From Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board, filed today:
Considering all the relevant facts and circumstances, we conclude [Brandon] Adams should be indefinitely suspended from the practice of law with no possibility of reinstatement for four months. Adams has not only established himself in his relatively short professional career as a lawyer who lacks diligence and professionalism in dealing with client matters, but he has also shown himself to be a lawyer who is willing to misrepresent the truth in an effort to hide his neglect and inattention. His actions and conduct have inflicted harm on his clients and the profession as a whole.
We are sympathetic to the struggles Adams has endured with migraine headaches and depression. …
VI. Conclusion.
We suspend Adams license to practice law with no possibility of reinstatement for a period not less than four months from the date of the filing of this opinion. …
Record companies suing 20 University of Iowa Internet users accused of file sharing March 27, 2008
Posted by John in Crime/Courts, Education, Music.Tags: AresWarez, copyright, federal courts, file sharing, Gnutella, lawsuits, peer-to-peer, record companies, recording industry, Recording Industry Association of America, RIAA, University of Iowa
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From U.S. District Court – Southern District of Iowa:
… The true names and capacities of Defendants are unknown to Plaintiffs at this time. Each Defendant is known to Plaintiffs only by the Internet Protocol (“IP”) address assigned to that Defendant by his or her ISP on the date and time of that Defendant’s infringing activity. See Exhibit A. Plaintiffs believe that information obtained in discovery will lead to the identification of each Defendant’s true name.
21. Although Plaintiffs do not know the true names of Defendants, each Defendant is alleged to have committed violations of the same law (e.g., copyright law), by committing the same acts (e.g., the downloading and distribution of copyrighted sound recordings owned by Plaintiffs), and by using the same means (e.g., a file-sharing network) that each Defendant accessed via the same ISP. …
Reviewing the 20 Internet Protocol addresses in “Exhibit A” (all between 128.255.0.0 and 128.255.255.255) the Internet Service Provider apparently was the University of Iowa. The document claims this happened between October and December of 2007.
3/30 UPDATE: Additional information from Quad-City Times.
What do you think of egg Iowa sent to White House? March 27, 2008
Posted by John in Art, Government, Holidays.Tags: American Egg Board, eggs, iowa, White House
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From White House site:
2008 State Easter Eggs
Local artists created the decorated eggs, which represent each state and the District of Columbia. The 2008 Easter Egg Collection continues the tradition that began in 1994 where each state sends a decorated egg to the White House for display. The collection is coordinated by the American Egg Board. White House photos by Chris Greenberg. …
Maybe it’s more interesting when opened up. What do you think is inside?
Cedar Rapids firefighter a finalist for Billings fire chief March 26, 2008
Posted by John in Jobs, Public Safety.Tags: Billings (Montana), Cedar Rapids (Iowa), Fire Departments, firefighters, Mark English
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From Billings Gazette (Montana):
The city of Billings this morning released the names of four finalists for the city’s open fire chief job. The candidates are Mike Bucy of Portage, Ind.; Paul Dextras of Palm Coast, Fla.; Mark English of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and interim Fire Chief John Staley of Billings. …
English is a 22-year veteran of the Cedar Rapids Fire Department. He has been the administrative district chief since 1996. …
See also: C.R. battalion chief a finalist for Rochester fire chief
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