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Three strikes lawI have one of my answers

Three strikes law I have one of my answers on the three strikes law if professor Greg Newbold is correct. An offender who committed two assaults and a murder – in that order – would be locked up for life, because the maximum sentence for murder was life imprisonment. But the new law would mean that someone who committed murder and then two assaults would only serve the maximum penalty for assault, a sentence length that varies depending on the attack and not a life sentence. If you’re doing life without parole, why wouldn’t you kill a prison officer? What’s to... 

February 7, 2010 | Read the story »

Business of student organizations

With approximately 300 student organizations on file at UMKC, more than 200 remain active each year. In a typical year, the Student Life office receives 10-15 applications for student organization recognition and a few existing organizations lose the active status. Source: http://www.unews.com/news/2010/02/08/News/Business.Of.Student.Organizations-3867064.shtml  Read More →

February 8, 2010 | Read the story »

Watching the Super Bowl…

Each year I look forward to watching the Super Bowl.  Even though my favorite team wasn’t playing this year, there’s just something about seeing one of the year’s biggest events.  I suppose the real reason why I’ve always tuned in to the Super Bowl is because I’m simply interested in the commercials.  In addition to watching the ads, I’m equally curious as to whom the new advertisers are as well as who continues to spend the big bucks year after year. This year was a combination of movie previews and some new advertisers as well as the traditional... 

February 7, 2010 | Read the story »

Alpha Five Version 10 Feature Peek #36: User-Defined Watch Events

A User-Defined Watch Event lets you to define Javascript code that will be executed whenever the value in a “watched” field in your Grid changes. In the video below, we show how the label on the “state” field can be changed to “state” if the country is “USA” and to “province” for all other countries. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AlphaSoftware/~3/c4mFcJDcFTg/alpha-five-version-10-featuer-peek-36.html  Read More →

October 27, 2009 | Read the story »

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