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Halloween, what better time to try and scare atheists! Maybe we'll host a revival meeting in the back yard this year... much dancing with snakes and chicken feet ;)

Look for the Pastafarian flag on the balcony. Snacks and drinks provided, feel free to bring anything to share. There is still one Peroni in the fridge from last years party, please no more. There's propane, pool, darts, and Foosball. Costumes encouraged, much kudos for most blasphemous.

Parking will be on Wildherd, I'll provide the gate code to those who rsvp.

HALVASON Monthly Meeting
Guest Speaker: Professor Katherine Kruse, from the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV
Title of Talk: Wrongful Convictions--Causes and Reforms

Come out to hear Professor Kruse and three law students from the UNLV Innocence Clinic share their perspectives.

Background
Prior to joining the UNLV faculty in 2002, Professor Kuse practiced and taught in a prisoner legal assistance clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She did everything from sentence modifications, direct appeals, and post-conviction motions to divorces and child support modifications for Wisconsin state prisoners. UNLV is one of the few law schools in the country that integrates clinical law teachers into the tenure-track faculty, and joining the faculty here afforded her the opportunity to combine hands-on clinical teaching with the pursuit of academic scholarship.

In 2006, the UNLV law school was contacted by the Utah-based Rocky Mountain Innocence Center (RMIC), which is the innocence project for the states of Utah, Wyoming, and Nevada. The RMIC was seeking to build collaborative relationships with law schools in its region to help investigate RMIC cases in all three states. Professor Kruse's interest in systemic reform and criminal justice had drawn her attention to the innocence movement that has developed following the first DNA exoneration in 1989. With the support of the RMIC and the Boyd School of Law, she started the UNLV Innocence Clinic in the fall of 2008.

Current Work
In the clinic, law students investigate claims of wrongful conviction by Nevada state prisoners while taking a seminar that focuses on the causes of wrongful convictions and post-conviction remedies. Last year they also worked on two legislative reform projects to create a statute requiring state agencies to preserve biological evidence for the entire time that a prisoner is serving a sentence and to permit defendants to go back into court to request DNA testing of biological evidence in cases where such testing may prove their innocence. They also seek to provide resources and support for local attorneys who represent Nevada state inmates in post-conviction proceedings.

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RSVP on the Meet Up site and register directly with AFAN. Please click on above image for link and more info.

afan - Aid for Aids of Nevada
Mailing Address:
Aid for AIDS of Nevada
701 Shadow Lane
Suite 170
Las Vegas, NV 89106
US
AFAN Contact Name: Theresa Mayet
Telephone Number: 702-382-2326

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the WSOP, the UN-official Las Vegas Atheists Monthly Poker tournament is on! Read on for more information.

General tournament details:
- This is a regular monthly event, game night's are a Friday of each month.
- Games are hosted all over town at various group members homes, please feel free to volunteer.

This month's game will be hosted at Gregg's house.

- Each month players are encouraged to bring drinks or snacks, but not required.

Game Night Specific Details:
- Maximum 16 players
- Maximum 2 Games will be played per night
- Buy in for each round will be $10 with $1500 starting chips.
- $ Payouts per round will be 1st-3rd or 1st-2nd depending on # of players present for the round
- Blinds will progress at 10 minute intervals with the Big blind being: 10, 20, 30, 50, 100, 150, 200, 300, 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1500, 2000, 4000, ...

Please RSVP only if you will attend

Shuffle up and Deal!

Meet fellow atheists at this informal, relaxed gathering occurring at different bars in different parts of town each month. Feel free to suggest future dates and venues.

Join us at Three Angry Wives Pub this time. We'll be heading over to the lounge area after an afternoon of bbq'ing for cold beer.

If you can't make it by 7pm, don't worry- we'll be there for a good 3 hours or so, so turn up whenever you can make it. If lost call Cesar at 702-824-0859

We look forward to seeing you there! Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we ???????