There are arrests, convictions and appeals; forward-thinking government officials; public voting; dispensaries that often feel like trap houses; and flying under the radar.
The state of California would have been the obvious candidate with legal standing to take the appeal forward, but both governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and attorney general Jerry Brown have said they will not appeal the decision.
An appellate decision could matter in several ways, she said, and that was reason enough to let an appeal go forward.
"Can we discuss next week?" The sentence in question had been suggested by John Chapman, News Corp.'s head lawyer, and it went like this: Equally, having seen a copy of Clive Goodman's notice of appeal of 2 March 2007, we did not find anything that we consider to be directly relevant to the grounds appeal put forward by him.
The U.S. Supreme Court has been petitioned to hear an appeal brought forward by the state of Kentucky.
"We respect the decision of Masipa and we will not be lodging any application for leave to appeal going forward, and Oscar will serve his sentence as handed down by Masipa," said Andrew Fawcett, a member of Pistorius' legal team.
A major appeal of forward simulations (compared to coalescent simulators) is the ability to incorporate arbitrary models (e.g., interference between selected sites, complex demographic processes) without knowing anything about the distribution of sample paths a priori.
It is bound to appeal to forward-looking young artists today, particularly those interested in collective practices and in the barely tapped universe of virtual reality.
The artistic director, Marco Barricelli, made a short speech, which was quickly uploaded to YouTube, and the theater's appeal was forwarded around the world.
That being said, Baboom may be hard-pressed to compete head-on with the established services and platforms in the space, but by making an appeal to forward-thinking artists who have a better understanding of the shifting landscape in the music industry, there's a chance that Baboom could end up looking more like a modern-day Myspace.
The prosecutor said the former police officer also bore a strong physical resemblance to a motorcyclist seen near the murder scene, who has ignored all appeals to come forward.
