1) When I hear the word economics i think of money, economy, production, distribution and consumption of goods and services.
2) The status of my research paper and community service is almost completed
DrewBlog
Monday, February 1, 2016
Friday, January 15, 2016
News Post
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – A Canadian man has been sentenced to prison for
the rest of his life for running a marijuana ring that sold more than
$10 million worth of the drug a year for four years.
U.S. District Judge Norman Mordue imposed the mandatory life sentence Thursday on Michael C. Woods, 45, known by members of the ring as "Big Boss Man."
The life sentence was mandatory because a jury convicted Woods in August of being one of two kingpins in a continuing criminal enterprise that had revenues of more than $10 million a year.
Woods' co-defendant, Gaetan Dinelle, is scheduled to be sentenced next week. They're both from Cornwall, Ontario, Canada.
Woods' lawyer, Albert Millus, argued in court papers that the sentence was unfair and amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. He cited the nation's changing attitude toward marijuana.
"The country is in the midst of a national movement involving the legalization of marijuana," Millus wrote in a sentencing memorandum. He noted that 23 states and the District of Columbia have legalized the drug in some way.
"A life sentence for marijuana distribution, in light of these trends, unaccompanied by violence, would be patently cruel and inhuman," Millus wrote.
The ring moved marijuana from Canada through the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian reservation in northern New York, down Interstate-81 through Syracuse and into wide distribution across the east coast, Assistant U.S. Attorney Carl Eurenius said. The ring moved more than 22,000 pounds of marijuana from April 2005 to February 2008.
Much of the marijuana went to a distributor in Boston, who testified that he bought $20 million of it and re-sold it mostly to the student and art community, according to court papers.
Found On Syracuse.com
U.S. District Judge Norman Mordue imposed the mandatory life sentence Thursday on Michael C. Woods, 45, known by members of the ring as "Big Boss Man."
The life sentence was mandatory because a jury convicted Woods in August of being one of two kingpins in a continuing criminal enterprise that had revenues of more than $10 million a year.
Woods' co-defendant, Gaetan Dinelle, is scheduled to be sentenced next week. They're both from Cornwall, Ontario, Canada.
Woods' lawyer, Albert Millus, argued in court papers that the sentence was unfair and amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. He cited the nation's changing attitude toward marijuana.
"The country is in the midst of a national movement involving the legalization of marijuana," Millus wrote in a sentencing memorandum. He noted that 23 states and the District of Columbia have legalized the drug in some way.
"A life sentence for marijuana distribution, in light of these trends, unaccompanied by violence, would be patently cruel and inhuman," Millus wrote.
The ring moved marijuana from Canada through the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian reservation in northern New York, down Interstate-81 through Syracuse and into wide distribution across the east coast, Assistant U.S. Attorney Carl Eurenius said. The ring moved more than 22,000 pounds of marijuana from April 2005 to February 2008.
Much of the marijuana went to a distributor in Boston, who testified that he bought $20 million of it and re-sold it mostly to the student and art community, according to court papers.
Found On Syracuse.com
Community Service
Community Service
In 2010, BGCA’s Board of Governors convened a Commission on
Impact, made up of Club leaders and other youth experts, to determine how to
increase the positive impact of Boys & Girls Clubs on America’s young people.
Based on the commission’s recommendations, youth development research and more
than a century of Clubs’ own experience, BGCA: refined its program focus to
ensure that Club youth achieve outcomes in three priority areas: Academic
Success, Good Character and Citizenship, and Healthy Lifestyles; and developed
a research-informed theory of change, called Formula for Impact, to guide Boys
& Girls Clubs in helping young people achieve these outcomes. The
commission also challenged BGCA to become a leader in outcomes measurement,
building the capability of Club organizations to collect and use data to gauge
their positive effect on their young members. BGCA responded to this challenge
by launching the National Youth Outcomes Initiative (NYOI), a system built to
measure the impact of Boys & Girls Clubs in a consistent manner using a
common set of research-informed indicators of our priority outcomes. NYOI’s key
tool for gathering outcomes data is the National Outcomes Survey, administered
to Club members each spring. BGCA continues to provide resources and intensive
training and technical assistance to enable local Club organizations to use
NYOI effectively. For me to work with younger people not as gifted as me and to
give back helped me. Volunteering for the boys and girls club has helped me
become a better person.
While volunteering for the organization i had to help any kid in need with school work or teach a kid how to do a task asked. Most memorible moment was when i had to help a group of kids after school and they all had to study to pass a test then the next day they told me they passed there testVI. Conclusion: Your personal reactions to the act of performing community service Positive and/or negative reactions Do you feel you made a difference? Why or why not. What impact do you believe community service has on our society? Would you recommend your community service opportunity(ies) to other students Why or why not?
Monday, January 11, 2016
Animal farms citation and quotes
Book - Animal Farm
Orwell, George.
Animal Farm.
New York:
Published - Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Type of Media : Print.
First published August 17th 1945
Quote - The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Orwell, George.
Animal Farm.
New York:
Published - Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Type of Media : Print.
First published August 17th 1945
Quote - The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
―
George Orwell,
Animal Farm
Key Ideas: Government, Communism, Revolution, Fascism, Marx, Hitler, WWII, Great Depression, WWI, 1945, Story, Allegory,
Animal Revolution, Good Government, Human Nature, Liberty and Justice
Summary-----
Animal Farm is an allegory (story) about some an who revolt and take over the Farm. George Orwell, the author, wrote this book to discuss government ideas and the problems of Communism and Facism
Friday, January 8, 2016
U.S. History textbook citation
Lapsansky-Werner, Emma, and Randy Roberts. United States History. New Jersey: Pearson Education, 2013. Print.
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Guns, obama speech and republican reaction
I feel more gun control should be in effect. But Only on those who has bad records. Obama was make executive action republicans gun lobby backround checks definition
My explaination of citation, biblography and research paper
Citation is .... Source were you found the information
Bibliography is .... Sources of information
They relate to a research paper i
Key Vocabulary - credible, bias, evidence
Another word for credible is...... trustworthy
Bias is... List of citation
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