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  Middle Ground Prison Reform, Inc. :: Advocacy
Middle Ground was instrumental in stopping the DOC's practice of four-pointing inmates for up to 48 hours who were mentally ill or unruly (i.e., physically restraining an inmate by spread-eagling him to a bed and attaching hand/leg cuffs to wrists and ankles).
Middle Ground is the only organization in the state of Arizona which demonstrated against the exploitation of prisoners for political gain on chain gangs for males and females at both the state prison and the county jails.
Middle Ground began receiving frightening testimonies from prisoners who had heard rumors that the DOC was preparing to dramatically reduce the number of prisoners classified to protective custody.
www.middlegroundprisonreform.org /advocacy   (2377 words)

  
 Middle ground - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The middle ground (also called argumentum ad temperantiam) between extreme points of view is often described as the logical place to find truth.
The middle ground is most often invoked when there are sharply contrasting views which are deeply entrenched.
An example from the Old Testament would be King Solomon's "decision"--when confronted with two women who eached claimed the same baby to be their own--that the baby be cut in half and each purported mother given a half.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Middle_ground   (244 words)

  
 Middle ground   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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Battle Ground Middle School Provides an environment in which all students are encouraged to reach their academic, artistic, social and physical potential.
Center for Archaeology of Middle East Landscape (CAMEL) At CAMEL we aim to analyze and understand this landscape by combining both traditional on-the-ground archaeological surveys with remote-sensing methods such as satellite imagery and air photo analysis.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Middle_ground.html   (416 words)

  
 Middle Ground - Opinions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Middle Ground began publication last fall with the objective of providing a moderate and centrist commentary on U.S. domestic politics, economic policies and international affairs.
During the course of the past year, however, we have observed the middle ground in politics shift, steadily but definitively, away from the center, with the conservative right increasingly consolidated within its end-zone, and the liberal left polarized further away from the center.
It is perhaps fitting that this final edition of Middle Ground be dedicated to a retrospective on the demise of the moderate view in the developments of the past year.
www.middleburycampus.com /media/paper446/news/2003/05/07/Opinions/Middle.Ground-433577.shtml   (693 words)

  
 Ephilosopher :: General Philosophy Forum :: middle ground   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The term 'middle ground' implies a separation; and a separation entails more than one 'entity' (i.e.
I also heard that "middle ground" is the not the place between death and life, but between death and hereafter....
I didn't mean you with the subjective part, I meant the question 'is there a middle ground?' is subjective, since the points the middleground would be between are arbitrary themselves.
www.ephilosopher.com /phpBB_14-action-viewtopic-topic-1035.html   (914 words)

  
 Middle Ground Prison Reform, Inc. :: Welcome
Middle Ground is the only prisoner rights' organization that is registered to formally lobby for prisoner-family rights in Arizona.
Middle Ground recognizes that certain individuals are a danger to the citizens of Arizona and that vigilant incarceration is a primary concern for these offenders.
Middle Ground Prison Reform is dedicated to public education, legislative advocacy and litigation, when necessary, to protect and define the rights and responsibilities of prison and jail inmates and their loved ones.  We believe in a middle-of-the-road approach to solving problems and challenges, rather than one which supports the extreme of any position.
www.middlegroundprisonreform.org   (1477 words)

  
 Techdirt:Is There A Middle Ground When It Comes To File Sharing?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
All of this, he claims, is because he wants a "middle ground" solution to the file sharing issue.
Middle ground, as used here, is simply a code word for protecting a business model that's being threatened, because those who benefit from that business model are unwilling or unable to adjust to the changing market.
I think a fair middle ground is to have limited copyrights and a reasonable Fair Use doctrine (including allowing consumers to copy anything from one media type to another without restrictions).
www.techdirt.com /articles/20050127/1016216.shtml   (1205 words)

  
 Surveying the Middle Ground: Conceptual Issues and Peacekeeping in Southern Africa - Occasional Paper No 2 - March 1996
The middle ground in contemporary UN peacekeeping is so confusing that it may be more aptly described as the 'muddle' ground, not least because UN forces deployed in such operations are perceived to be muddling through in the execution of a variety of incoherent mandates, without the reassurance of a clear-cut doctrinal foundation for operations.
It is thus clear that 'middle ground' operations are not situated between first and second generation peacekeeping operations, but rather between peacekeeping per se and peace enforcement.
Middle ground operations start out with a clear Chapter VI mandate, which is never rescinded, but through 'mission creep' end up taking a number of Chapter VII measures.
www.iss.co.za /Pubs/PAPERS/2/Paper2.HTML   (5518 words)

  
 The National Forum - Middle Ground   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
At high-performing middle schools, students understand that they must be accountable for their academic progress by explaining what they have learned and by producing quality work.
During the first year and a half the group developed a vision statement and 37 criteria for middle schools that are academically excellent, developmentally responsive, and socially equitable.
At Barren County Middle School, visitors observed students in costumes dispersed on the school lawn and in the woods surrounding the campus.
www.mgforum.org /News/forumnews/article.asp   (1595 words)

  
 Chicago in the Middle Ground
The War of 1812 marked the death knell for the middle ground at Chicago.
The fort was rebuilt and regarrisoned in 1816, but the middle ground was falling apart.
Economic activities within the middle ground had been focused upon the fur trade, and individuals, families, and extended kinship groups all had endeavored to produce enough commodities to maintain a comfortable existence.
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/254.html   (2558 words)

  
 Ben's Law Blog: Defining a Middle Ground
Although Defining a Middle Ground isn't what I was really after, it made a change from the usual run-of-the-mill blogs I normally seem to find.
Defining a Middle Ground doesn't really cover what I was after but it sure looks like it'll be useful.
While Defining a Middle Ground wasn't exactly what I was after, it made interesting reading so I'll be sure to pop by again.
benslawblog.blogspot.com /2005/02/defining-middle-ground.html   (774 words)

  
 Middle Ground   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
And yet a curious thing happens when the concept of the middle class is applied to emerging international markets: The appeal grows, while the lines that define the market contort.
To say that challenges exist within the gaping discrepancy between preconceived notions of the middle class and reality is an understatement.
Emerging middle classes in particular represent opportunities for growth that business owners no longer have in the United States, Western Europe and Japan, says Peter Kennedy, director of emerging markets with The Futures Group Inc., an international management consulting company in Glastonbury, Connecticut.
www.entrepreneur.com /mag/article/0,1539,229339,00.html   (453 words)

  
 IPcentral Weblog: More on Middle Ground
I continue to get feedback on my search for a middle ground in the copyright debate, and some of it is actually constructive.
But one new correspondent of mine is proof there is a middle ground, because he's standing in it.
And I continue to believe in a middle ground, despite those who have told me recently in fairly undiplomatic terms that there is no such place.
weblog.ipcentral.info /archives/2005/02/more_on_middle.html   (1199 words)

  
 Kenyon College - Middle Ground
The café, named Middle Ground, will be run by the husband-and-wife team of Joel Gunderson and Margaret Lewis,along with Jason Adelman, the owner of The Feve coffee shop in Oberlin, Ohio.
Middle Ground will be open from 7:00 a.m.
While some menu items are still under discussion, Joel says that Middle Ground will serve bread and baked goods from the Broken Rocks Café and Bakery in Loudonville, Ohio.
www.kenyon.edu /x9036.xml   (375 words)

  
 Orals Reading Notes: The Middle Ground, Richard White
White then discusses how the conventions of the middle ground played out over time in various social interactions, from interracial sex and marriage to violence and justice tribunals to commerce and the fur trade.
This attenuation of the middle ground is exacerbated by the policies of Lord Jeffery Amherst, who decides after the war that the cultural tenets of the middle ground - gift-giving, calumets, etc. - were promoting indolence among the "savages" and mandates European customs be used instead.
For example, White keeps noting how the middle ground was often a result of neither group having a preponderance of force in a given region.
www.kevincmurphy.com /white.html   (634 words)

  
 Rob Lutes, Middle Ground   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Reminiscent of John Hiatt's breakthrough 1987 album Bring the Family both vocally and from a production standpoint, Rob Lutes' sophomore release, Middle Ground, is a spare, confident and thoroughly enjoyable recording.
Middle Ground opens with "Jackson," a tribute to former PGA Tour caddies Dolphus "Golfball" Hull and Alfred "Rabbit" Dyer.
On virtually all 10 tracks on Middle Ground, Lutes' vocals are restrained and late-night lazy, never quite breaking through from a whisper to a wail.
www.rambles.net /lutes_middle02.html   (375 words)

  
 Finding Middle Ground
It is hard finding middle ground when the two sides think they are estranged siblings.
If state sponsored organized religion was allowed, some of them think things would get better, but still finding middle ground is as slippery as newly made ice.
Regardless of the animosity, finding middle ground is needed for the foundation to survive.
www.financial-shopper-network.com /finding_middle.htm   (306 words)

  
 Fallacy: Middle Ground
This fallacy is committed when it is assumed that the middle position between two extremes must be correct simply because it is the middle position.
C is a position that rests in the middle between A and B. Therefore C is the correct position.
It should be kept in mind that while uncritically assuming that the middle position must be correct because it is the middle position is poor reasoning it does not follow that accepting a middle position is always fallacious.
www.nizkor.org /features/fallacies/middle-ground.html   (522 words)

  
 Another Transmission from The Reconnections
The "middle ground" vibration, about which we have been speaking, requires you to open up to receiving your deepest personal desires without becoming attached to them.
The "middle ground" became too uncertain, so the partners begin to use personal WILL POWER in order to push the river to go in the direction they think they want it to go.
The Middle Ground is a passageway between your experience of "I" and your experience of "God." It is the TUNNEL that many people have described in their near-death experiences.
www.reconnections.net /middle_ground.htm   (2304 words)

  
 Middle Ground Fallacies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The fallacies in this family share the characteristic that they involve confusions concerning what could be called the "middle ground" where exceptions, compromises, combinations and distinctions are possible.
In most cases the fallacies result from overlooking or ignoring a middle ground that should be taken into account.
However, at least two of the fallacies, False Compromise and Phantom Distinction, result from the opposite impulse: trying to find a middle ground where none exists.
www.cuyamaca.net /bruce.thompson/Fallacies/middleground.asp   (73 words)

  
 Article: Middle Ground   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In fact, your success in marketing to this emerging middle class may depend on your ability to narrow your understanding of that market to the sharpest point possible.
Even when you feel as though you have a firm grasp on the emerging middle class, don't be surprised if something happens to shake up the whole equation.
"The size of the population identified as the middle class may not be growing in proportion [to the income distribution].
www.entrepreneur.com /article/print/0,2361,229339,00.html   (2556 words)

  
 middle ground
Middle Ground made it to the top 5 in the Rock-Off.
After the show on 4/21 we were approached by the Beef Kurtins manager and were asked to play a show the the portland asylum with them for their cd release party.
Middle Ground will be doing a double show on June 8th!
www.angelfire.com /rock2/redtree54/News.html   (410 words)

  
 The Middle Ground   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The middle ground is easy to find in Space.
You have to go from the beginning to the end before you really know what the middle is. Halfway there doesn't cut it.
And that the end point is somewhere in the middle ground.
www.psychjourney.com /The%20Middle%20Ground.htm   (1118 words)

  
 Citations: ADL: Exploring the middle ground between STRIPS and the situation calculus - Pednault (ResearchIndex)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Just as adl marked the middle ground on the tractability spectrum between strips and the situation calculus, sadl offers an advantageous combination of expressiveness and efficiency.
Among the research on the nonmonotonic logic of causation, besides the papers mentioned in the introduction, Fangzhen Lin s proposal to circumscribe the predicate Caused is particularly relevant [ Lin, 1995, Lin, 1996 ] Although that approach uses a di erent model of nonmonotonic reasoning,....
Pednault, ADL: Exploring the middle ground between STRIPS and the situation calculus, KR'89, 1989, 324-332.
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/8242/0   (2270 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / Abortion's elusive middle ground
Ever since the election was mislabeled as an election on values, abortion rights advocates have been told to move toward a middle ground.
He justifies this on the flimsy grounds that he's just looking for the victims of child rape.
In Wisconsin there's the case of the pharmacist who refused to give a young woman the birth control pills prescribed by her doctor.
www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/03/17/abortions_elusive_middle_ground   (837 words)

  
 CorpWatch : World: Food Inc. Explores Middle Ground
At the behest of the Rockefeller Foundation, which funded this study, he resolves to explore and demystify the language and politics of GM agriculture from the "eerily deserted" middle ground.
In challenging both the "bland assurances" of the proponents of this technology and the "scaremongering" of "environmental ideologues," he invokes the proverbial plague on both their houses.
Unless corporations and governments change their stance, Pringle's middle ground is likely to remain underpopulated.
www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=7711   (815 words)

  
 Chesapeake Chapter, US Lighthouse Society - Our Lighthouse Heritage - Newport News Middle Ground
In 1871, the United States government established a light station to mark the underwater L-shaped shoal in the middle of the Hampton Roads shipping lanes.
The lighthouse is located in about 15 feet of water, on the west end of Newport News Middle Ground, Hampton Roads, and Newport News, Virginia.
Two nonprofit groups have submitted applications to own the Newport News Middle Ground Light, the Department of the Interior has announced.
www.cheslights.org /heritage/nn-midground.htm   (675 words)

  
 purevolume™ | No Middle Ground
Punk, Rock, Post hardcore, Alternative, Indie, just naming a few of the genres that No Middle Ground have under their belt, and in a world where originallity is scarce, No Middle Ground is not afraid to be different.
No Middle Ground (NMG) is a four piece band of high school students who are living their dream: creating music and and finding a steadily rising national fanbase ranging from the east to the west coast.
We can assure you that this is going to be an aspiring year for No Middle Ground, and we promise we're not going anywhere.
www.purevolume.com /nomiddleground   (404 words)

  
 Middle ground   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The middle ground (also called argumentum ad temperantiam) between extreme points of view is described as the logical place to find This is a logical fallacy.
The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas
I have been greatly aided by this book in my understanding of the connection and "common ground" between the Eastern Orthodox and the Roman Catholics via two sainted theologians of the east and west- Gregory Palamas and Thomas Aquinas.I could go...
www.freeglossary.com /Argument_ad_temperantiam   (562 words)

  
 The Middle Ground
This is interesting since it it widely known that the MCA has ties to the Sunni insurgency and has been known to be the middle men in negotiating release of kidnap victims.
In fact, the "wealth" of the Muslims is the Ummah, it's oneness and it's adherence to Islam, which has given the people of the middle east their strength for centuries and allowed them to conquer large swaths of the earth under various Caliphas.
Unfortunately, the US is currently a long way from being able to replace a significant part of it's oil consumption with any or all of these technologies so the US must be able to remain vigilant and continue to protect strategic interests around the globe as well as maintain the viability of our allies.
themiddleground.blogspot.com   (6882 words)

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