public defenders are NOT working for the same entity as the cops. In many locales the PD assigned to you is either a private attorney who is ON RETAINER to assist the public defenders office when needed OR the in some cases the PD office is a private firm that contracts with the city to provide legal services to the indigent.

PDs are very real attorney's who in many cases have a lot of more training than that DA assigned to prosecute you.

from

http://titanicarchive-online.com/index.php4?page=319

Researchers from the National Institute for Standards and Technology and John Hopkins University favor the weak rivet theory. They found that most of the rivets recovered from RMS Titanic also contained excessive amounts of slag that made them more brittle, and therefore, more likely to snap off at the head upon impact with the iceberg. Their analyses of steel hull plate indicated, however, that "it is possible that brittle steel contributed to the damage at the bow due to the impact with the iceberg, but much more likely that the brittle steel was a factor in the breakup of the ship at the surface" (Foecke 1998:14).

After reviewing and debating the results from these investigations, the Marine Forensics Panel (SD-7) in a 1997 report to the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers concluded that the cause of sinking was in large part due to the failure of the rivets that fastened together its hull. Metallurgical analyses are continuing at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and John Hopkins University. The results of these additional analyses may shed better light on the influence of steel and rivets on the sinking of RMS Titanic during that dark night of April 14, 1912.

**disclaimer my Dad was a contributing engineer on the project....

My previous job started asking for these bullshit metrics as well mostly hours/task worked by business department....There was just me (OPS manager) and 1 help desk tech (who made 30K less than me). Guess who got canned?

This is the kind of crap that happens when companies with a crappy business model start realizing that they are spending more than they are making and begin making cut backs under the pretense of "efficiency".

Try to leave on your own terms if you can, rather than have the rug swept out from underneath you.

The summer before my junior year of college I had the chance to be the assistant director (i.e. head geek) at CyberCamps in the Boston area. The camp taught a good variety of Web(HTML), C++, 3D design and introductory robotics.

The courses were fun and decently challenging but the best part was seeing kids (ages 7-15) actually learn and use technology that they had never known or seen before. We had artists who learned graphic design for the first time, Lego kids who learned about microprocessors and servos and other kids who ate up intro to C++ like candy.

It really is a great feeling to see kids enjoy learning and show off their accomplishments.

To this day its the best job I ever had :)

I'm the same way, it totally creeps me out. It is likely due to CTS in both of my hands though...

Using my iPad with Evernote I can take notes quickly and effectively in meetings AND then have those notes available on both my PC and my Blackberry(not to mention they are searchable and tagged) If I need to make a drawing both Adobe Ideas and Penultimate are good at sketching out what I'm thinking "on paper". Admittedly it does take some getting used to and I do still use post-it notes for quick tasks but I haven't used a notebook or pad of paper in over a month...

It was the same whenever they would spray-wash the Cathedral of Learning. I though the building was grey/black. They cleaned it off in around '99 and it was actually a tan/yellow, and really quite beautiful.